That night, Marinette had said to her parents that she wasn't feeling well and wanted to go to bed without dinner.

"Ok sweetheart," Sabine said gently "We'll save you a portion in case you change your mind."

As Marinette thanked her and slowly walked back up the stairs, Adrien, who was still living there with his dad, asked if anyone thought something might be wrong with Marinette.

"Adrien..." Gabriel said warningly.

"I didn't mean it like that Father," Adrien said calmly "But the Marinette I know wouldn't really be all that will to not have a meal unless something really bad came up." he said looking to Tom and Sabine wanting their opinion, being Marinette's parents.

"Now that you mention it lad," Tom said thinking "She did seem a bit more quiet when she came home today."

In her room, Marinette was writing notes of apology and goodbye to her friends, Adrien, and her parents.

All which she hopped she wouldn't have to deliver, while Tikki – Alya had returned her an hour ago, watched the news.

'Our top story tonight:' the news reader said 'If witnesses are to be believed, the new villain The Hunter has injured Ladybug and has up to 24 hours left to hand over Chat Noir to him. Will she do this? We are at the park where the fight took place and asking people their opinions...'

"Tikki can you turn that off please," Marinette asked from her bed not wanting to watch or listen to it.

Quickly Tikki turned the tv off and zipped up to join Marinette.

"We will get through this Marinette," Tikki said gently smiling up to her Chosen.

Not believing her Kwami, Marinette carried on writing letters until a knock came from her door.

"Yeah?" she called out, once she checked Tikki was hiding.

Carefully it opened and in came Adrien with a plate of dinner and some cutlery.

"Hey," he said closing the door and coming over "Thought you might wasn't Dinner in Bed."

"Dinner in bed?" Marinette asked "Isn't the saying 'Breakfast in bed'?"

"Dinner, breakfast, lunch," Adrien said shrugging "As long as it's food it doesn't matter right?"

Agreeing, Marinette took the plate and tucked in.

After a bit Adrien said:

"I saw Alya with your purse earlier," he said unsure where to take this. "But she got away before I could ask her why she had it."

"She was doing something for me," Marinette said quietly "She needed the list I made for her that I placed in my purse to do it."

Just then she stared coughing hard.

Quickly Adrien tried to help but she shook him off.

After a few minutes Marinette stopped coughing and lied back against her propped up pillows.

"Marinette, are you feeling ok?" Adrien asked sounding worried.

"Yeah, I just have a very nasty cold," Marinette said avoiding his eyes my starting with the food, taking small bites not sure if she would be able to handle it all or keep it down.

"Please don't lie to me Marinette," Adrien said sitting at the end of the bed "I may not show it, but I don't like liars, especially when they're my friends."

Marinette stayed quiet rubbing the bandage on her arm trying to come up with a story.

"Adrien..." Marinette began slowly so she didn't get her words mixed up or start stuttering "If you loved someone, and tomorrow was going to be your last day to live, would you tell them how you felt?"

"Sure I would," Adrien said nodding "They would need to know."

"If I was the one who died tomorrow," Marinette asked quietly "How would you think everyone would take it? Would they be happy or sad that I'm not around anymore to keep messing everything up?"

"One, you don't keep messing everything up," Adrien began grabbing her hand to comfort her "Two, I am sure everyone who knows you will miss you, even Chloe. Hey I bet even those who don't know you will miss you because without you... Without you there would be no 'Marinette-ness' to bring joy and laughter to everyone and make them smile with creative things."

Marinette smiled and had some more dinner before saying she'll have some more later.

Nodding Adrien got up and left a concerned feeling about his friend in his mind.

At the hospital the doctors and nurses still didn't know what type of poison Hunter had stabbed Ladybug with.

But they knew they couldn't give up.

A life depended on them doing this.

And the first rule of being a doctor is to always do your best to save a life.

On the roof, Chat Noir was watching in from the windows.

"Oh this is hopeless," a man said after staring through a microscope for three hours. "By the looks of it, it's a combination of at least three ingredients, but I can't work out what they are."

"Well then give someone else a try Phil," another doctor said "You need to rest anyway."

Nodding Phil got up and the other man that spoke sat down in his place.

Up on the roof Chat Noir really wanted to kill The Hunter now, but didn't have an idea on where the monster was.

So instead, needing time before returning to the bakery, he went to Master Fu's shop to see if Master Fu or his own mother had any ideas.

"Mum? Master Fu?" Adrien called as he let himself into the old man's shop.

"Adrien? Why are you coming here so late?" his mother asked coming to meet him.

"I couldn't sleep, I kept having bad dreams about what was said to have happened to Ladybug," Adrien began, hugging her "So I went to the hospital to see if the doctors have got it sorted out, but they don't!" he cried annoyed.

"Oh Adrien..." she said hugging him and petting his hair, Plagg sitting on the kids shoulder.

"Don't worry hon, we'll get this sorted out," she said kneeling before him.

Sniffing Adrien nodded hugging her back.

"And Marinette's been acting strange too," he said "She says it's a cold, but I don't think it is. Mostly because she's been asking lots of questions about 'if someone dies'."

Master Fu had come and had heard this.

"We will worry about Ladybug first, and then Marinette," he said calmly for he knew they were one in the same person.

After a little bit more of a talk, Adrien and Plagg changed into Chat Noir again and returned to the bakery.

AN: Sorry these are getting slow to update and confusing and not really taking the story anywhere

I'm loosing track on how I want this to go so I'm running out of ideas

I'll try my best to keep it going and (hopefully) get it done

Hope everyone still loves it non-the-less