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Adrien was waiting for her when she arrived, a paper in his hand and an eager smile on his lips. Her lips curled up at his grin, a spark of competitiveness coursing through her. She was eager to see this game through, eager to see who of them was the most clever and sly, and the better thief (though Juuno personally didn't like it, Marinette imagined Vixx was all for this).
"My Bluebird," Adrien warmly greets, bending down to boop his nose against hers.
With a giggle, she returned, "My clever fox." Waving to the list, she asked, "So what do I need to snatch?"
Adrien held it out to her. "Vixx helped me plan this."
With an unsurprised snort, Marinette took it, skimming the names and the item that they were to swipe.
Alya's little cell charm.
Nino's headphones.
Chloe's sunglasses.
A pen from Nathanael's pen.
And one of Mylène's pins.
"Not a big list," Marinette notes.
"Doesn't need to be big," Adrien reasons. "Just needs to be challenging."
Marinette hums. Some were challenging, some were easy. She spared a glance at the grinning blond, considering him.
"Oh this is ridiculous," Juuno voices, popping the purse open and shooting the two a frown. To Marinette, he scolds, "You shouldn't get involved in such petty games. This is beneath a peacock!"
Vixx scoffs loudly from Adrien's pocket. "Oh yes, a fox's fun is always beneath a peacock."
"A peacock doesn't steal!" Juuno voices, "You and Plagg may be up for such selfish mischief, but it is beneath a peacock!" He stresses this by turning his disapproving stare to Marinette. "As such a regal bird, you shouldn't be lowering yourself to this." Marinette winces.
"Technically," Adrien voiced, bending towards the peacock kwami, "we're borrowing. Not stealing. We're not going to keep these."
Adrien winced when Juuno's disapproving stare turned to him.
Oh that stare hurt.
"By my fluffy tail," Vixx scoffs, diving out and snapping that purse closed, earning a surprised squawk from Juuno. "Ignore him," she declared, turning to them with a grin, "you're young, and have a right to have a fun challenge like this. Test your cunning Kits. Especially you," Vixx floats up to Marinette, tapping her nose. "If Juuni does stay with you, I'm surprised you'd be allowed to do anything fun."
"I resent that!" Juuno called from the purse.
Ignoring him, Vixx waved to two, declaring, "Let your game begin!"
With shared smiles, Adrien and Marinette spared each other a challenging glances.
They had this in the bag.
Was it cheating to take advantage of a peacock's magical charm?
Probably.
But, Marinette reasoned, Adrien was likely finding ways to cheat these items as well. He was a fox, and Juuno said that pretty much all fox vigilantes had devious ways. It wasn't uncommon for them to be thieves, even when they were heroes. It was an irresistible urge to snatch and sneak, just as it was an irresistible urge for the peacock to display and look nice.
It was an easy talent for a fox to adapt.
With that in mind, Marinette reasoned she had a right to use her own magically gained advantages as well.
With a quick, "Good morning Nath!" Marinette snatched up one of his pens while the redhead stuttered and blushed.
And he'd be none the wiser.
Turning, her blue eyes met green, and she blinked at the pout on Adrien's lips.
Thinking it was because she got to Nathanael first, she gave the pen a mocking twirl before slipping it into her bag, hunting on for the next items.
Adrien for his part was agitated.
He did not think or plan for Marinette to use her killer flirty eyes to her advantage, shooting such a charming, sultry look that even Adrien's knees could go weak and light a stirring, yearning fire in his heart.
And she was tossing it around without issue, giving others that smile.
He didn't like it.
He should've made it a rule that she couldn't charm her prey.
That was only for him.
Vixx shifted in his pocket, voicing aloud, "She'll get ahead of you Kit."
"Right," he murmurs, prowling off, looking for the remaining for targets.