"Hey, you realize that we might actually know each other in normal life?"
That was the second time Chat had asked that question to Ladybug. This time they weren't in the middle of an akuma attack, this time they weren't rushed without time to think of the what if's. It was just a ladybug and a cat, staring at each other as the world moved around them.
A feeling clutched at Ladybug's heart like a million memories wanting to resurface from inside of her, ready to combust against the cage that held them. Almost like black and white images that she couldn't make out.
There wasn't a doubt that at one point already she had seen his alter ego. But the suffocating, the absolutely restricting feeling tearing at her heart wasn't going away. The option to always just ask him or even tell him who she was was there. Relatively, in thought and principle, it was easy, but…
She wouldn't take that risk for a possibility.
Marinette, after all, knew exactly how fragile a heart could be.
"I doubt it."