Short.. quick.. had this idea while working on the next, longer chapter! A nice AU! Btw I am SO SO SO SORRY Ivette ! I didn't know there was supposed to be emoji lol. I let my saltiness get the best of me.. heh..

Anyways yeah have this! :D It was inspired by that one scene in Guitar Villain when Marinette can't "handle the pressure" and Tikki gives her a little speech.

~Marinette, defender of the weak, heroine of Paris!~

"I'm gonna do it!"

"You're gonna do it!"

"This is it!"

"This is it, Marinette!"

"Here I go!"

"Go for it!"

Marinette pursued in her advance, her shaky index finger going closer to the green call button on her screen, and when she was finally a millimeter away she dropped her arm and groaned.

"No, Marinette!" Tikki jumped up from her spot on Marinette's work table and zoomed close to Marinette's face. "You were so close! Next time for sure!"

Marinette groaned again, dragging a hand up her face and flopping back onto her chaise. "We said that last time! What am I supposed to say to him, anyways?! This is too much pressure for me!"

Marinette didn't notice that her thumb brushed the screen of her phone.

"Come on, Marinette!" Tikki earnestly said. "You can't give up! You're Ladybug, fighter of rights, defender of the weak, heroine of Paris! This should be a piece of cake!"

"Agh, but it isn't!" Marinette said. "Not when I become a tongue-tied mess around Adrien, anyways! He has tons of fangirls. What's someone like me supposed to say?"

"Not just anyone can save Paris every day," Tikki reminded. "Use that Ladybug courage and try again!"

"Ah… fine… this time for sure!"

"That's the spiri-… oh…"

"Huh? What's wrong Tikki?" Marinette's expression grew worried as she saw Tikki's face go from cheerful to dumbstruck in a matter of seconds. Her eyes were wide open much like her mouth. "Tikki?"

Tikki pointed one of her little arms at Marinette's hand holding her phone and mouthed 'take a look'.

Painstakingly, almost in slow motion like in one of those dramatic movies, Marinette gulped and looked at her phone.

Ongoing call with 'ADRIEN THE BEST PERFECTEST GUY EVER 3'. 00:03:12

No. No. Nonononono…. This could not be happening…!

Maybe Adrien hadn't picked up and heard all of it? Maybe it was another case, and nobody had heard it at all, and Adrien would come back a few moments later and look at the miscall confused and creeped out, and while that was definitely horrible, it wasn't as bad as him finding out that she, Marinette, was the one in charge of saving everyone's butts on a daily basis-

"…hello?"

Marinette didn't know what to say. She numbly hit the 'end call' button and fell back on her chaise. Her eyes open, but unseeing. Her mind was racing so fast that it was suddenly just a blank slate. (it was very dramatic)

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"A call?" Plagg zipped forward to Adrien's phone before Adrien could accept it. It was from Marinette.

"Ooh, your girlfriend? Pick it up!" Plagg teased, perching himself on Adrien's head.

"She's not my girlfriend," Adrien lightly snapped even as he tapped the accept button. He put it against his ear and was confused when there was no greeting. He was about to call out hello, when muffled voices suddenly came into focus. There was a high-pitched, sweet sounding voice that he couldn't recognize which was previously muffled.

"…Marinette! You can't give up! You're Ladybug-"

This was the part where Adrien's heart skipped a beat and his body went rigid, causing Plagg to confusedly hop off of his head and put one of his big ears against the phone as well.

"-fighter of rights, defender of the weak, heroine of Paris! This should be a piece of cake!"

At hearing Tikki's voice, Plagg went rigid and dropped out of the air, hitting the ground like a plush toy with a creepy smile plastered to his face much like Tikki when she was seen by Chloe.

"Agh, but it isn't! Not when I become a tongue-tied mess around Adrien, anyways!"

Tied tongue… she gets a tongue tied… wait-

"He has tons of fangirls. What's someone like me supposed to say?"

Evidently what Marinette was already saying, was more than enough. It resulted in a numb, blond part-time-hero with his mouth opening and closing like a fish and a magical, powerful sprite immobilized on the ground. Ah, the great power of true Ladybugs.

"Not just anyone can save Paris every day," the high-pitched voice said again. Plagg twitched on the ground. "Use that Ladybug courage and try again!"

"Ah…fine…this time for sure!" Adrien's mind suddenly screamed at him. She was going to try and call again, then realize he was listening in on her like a creep! Albeit unintentionally, but he could have hung up, and she would hate him forever and- why wasn't he able to move anyways- he could hang up now, if only he could move his hand-

"That's the spiri-…oh…" Nonononononono-

"Huh? What's wrong Tikki?" Marinette's sweet, soothing, melodic (what was wrong with him?!) voice took on a worried tone as evidently her kwami named "Tikki" must have realized that Adrien was being a total and complete creep.

After that it was completely silent. A few more moments and Adrien decided to speak up… stupidly…

"…hello?"

A moment later and there was a beep. Hello. I actually said hello after she revealed a secret identity to me accidentally. Hello.

…Adrien's phone was lucky that Plagg was there as a cushion to when it fell from his hand, otherwise it would have shattered into too many pieces to count. Plagg had no reaction to when the smartphone larger than him smacked on his face, which sounded rather painful.

The things girls did to boys.

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