Ladybug
Ladybug rushed over to Chat and broke his chains, but he remained on the table. He flashed her a soft grin.
"Babe, I think you'll have to help me up. That Pheonix chick might've been telling the truth." Chat whispered. Ladybug placed a hand on his cheek and then moved to pick him up. She lifted him up and put his arm around her shoulders. His feet hit the floor and she felt his whole weight on her, letting out a slight gasp. She wrapped her arm around his waist and eased him forward.
"Man who knew I had a thing for buff chicks?" Chat joked trying to relieve the tension as the moved toward the exit. Then he cringed at the pain it took to laugh.
"If it hurts so much to laugh, then stop joking around." Ladybug wanted to keep up the banter to keep Chat's spirits up. She had heard once that sad men die faster.
"You just can't tell a jokester to quit joking around. That like telling a dog not to bark." He leaned in real close to her pecking her on the cheek, still hobbling along, "Or like telling a certain cat not to kiss his bugaboo." He smiled at her facetiously.
They reached the steal door frame and met the top of a flight of stairs. Ladybug looked softly at Chat, her eyes asking him if he was ready. He nodded and they trudged downward. Each step seemed like a century. When they finally reached the bottom of the stairs they were greeted with a long hallway. Two doors stood symmetrically on each side of the dark wall. A single door at the end. The farthest on the right stood ajar.
Ladybug froze as she noticed a dim light that shined from the cracked door. She felt Chat tense up next to her. Suddenly a roar erupted from inside the room. Hawkmoth's voice boomed from inside, sounding angry.
"What do you mean he's gone? Well where is he? Find him this instant, if anything has happened to my son you will pay dearly." Then the shouts were followed by footsteps. Ladybug suddenly went into overdrive as she and Chat raced to the closest door on the right and jumped in. They sat in the dark room and listened. The steps were hurried, growing closer. Then they passed and disappeared.
"He must've gone upstairs." Ladybug whispered.
"Then we need to hurry up and leave," Chat whispered back shifting his weight. Suddenly the lights flicked on. They swung around to see Pheonix, sitting elegantly at a desk in the middle of the room.
"Did you know that this miraculous," she tapped at the fan shaped broach on her chest, "was originally the peacock miraculous? Belonged to Hawky's old maid. Now it's mine. It's all corrupted with my darkest emotion. I mean Hawkmoth changed his from butterfly to moth so why couldn't I change mine?"
"Are you drunk? Like seriously, who just sits in a dark empty room unless they are hungover?" Chat asked with bewilderment. She stopped and looked at the couple as if just acknowledging their existence.
"You know, with all these flames and fire, you would think my darkest emotion would be rage, or anger, or maybe even fury. But, no, it's loneliness. Because nothing burn bright and hot like loneliness. You can't touch and person on fire or you'll get hurt. And that's what a lonely person does. They push everyone away, convinced that they are two dangerous too touch."
Chat and Ladybug looked at each other, confounded by this girl.
"Well' you better leave before he comes back," Pheonix warned. "The exit is at the end of the hall. It opens to an alley way which leads to a street. At the end of that street take a right and then a left and you'll be at you parent's house Marinette." The two heroes' eye's widened.
"Why are you helping us?" Ladybug demanded.
"Because, I want you to feel my pain. You will get you boyfriend all fixed up and you will have to come up with some clever lie," She rose from her seat, "and then you will be alone.
"Because you will know I'm there, in the same halls, in the same rooms and, in the same classes. And you will feel helpless and alone, unable to tell a soul, paranoid of who to trust. You will become so desperately dependent one another and then that is when I will rip you from each other's loving embrace and you will feel truly desperate and alone. Like me."
Ladybug looked in horror at the girl across the room from them. Chat must've felt her shaking because he squeezed her tightly.
"Come on we better leave before he comes back." Chat gestured towards the door. Ladybug nodded and then peaked out the door. The hall was clear. They rushed out the door only glancing back for half a second, expecting Pheonix to stop them but she didn't. They finally made it to the end.
The door opened to a dark alley way just as Pheonix said. They followed the rest of her directions and finally found the Dupain-Cheng's bakery. It was dark outside when they crashed through the bakery doors, setting off the bakeries alarm system. The heroes were soon greeted by Marinette's parents.
Bob and Sabine stood in shock, the silence only broken by the sound of Chat collapsing to the floor of the bakery, coughing violently. Drops of blood stained his lips. Ladybug fell to her knees beside him, tears rolling down her cheek. She looked up at her frozen parents and pleaded with them.
"Mama, Papa, please help him," She cried.
The Dupain-Chang's sprang into action. Sabine moved towards the first aid kit behind the counter as Tom reached for the phone. He dialed the authorities.
"Yes sir I need an ambulance. No I don't need the Police, I need an ambulance. Ladybug and Chat Noir are here, and they're injured."
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Marinette
The ride to the hospital seemed like a nightmare to Marinette. It took every ounce of bribery in her to make the paramedics promise not to tell a soul who Chat was if he transformed back into Adrien. He would have to eventually turn back, his body and his kwami couldn't keep it up much longer.
But that wasn't why the car ride was so terrible. The car ride was terrible because Marinette had to finally explain everything to her parents.
"Honey why didn't you tell us?" Tom asked.
"You would've told me it was too dangerous, that I needed to stop. But I can't stop being Ladybug Dad. Paris needs me, the people of Paris need us. We were chosen for this, chosen to save Paris, to stop Hawkmoth to…"
"Honey, sweetie, Marinette. Calm down. We understand. We just wish you had trusted us enough to tell us." Sabine tried to calm down their frantic daughter as the pulled into the hospital parking lot. The barely got parked before Marinette jumped out of the car and ran into the building. She rushed to the front desk demanding to see Chat Noir.
"Sorry Ma'am," the nurse said and then continued in a hushed tone, "He is currently in intensive surgery. I am under very strict instructions to not let anyone see him unless authorized by Ladybug herself." Then a police officer came from across the waiting room and whispered something in the nurse's ear and her eyes went wide. "Okay Ma'am I'll let you in as soon as he can have visitor's." Marinette thanked her and went to take a seat.
And as she walked across the waiting room, every eye was on the girl who was waiting for Chat Noir.