Just some warning. Since English is totally not my first language;
-the grammar might be all over the place -There might be mixed ups on UK ans US's spelling
-My vocabs were limited
The decision had been made.
She could do it!
She's Ladybug!
"Marinette…"
She's the embodiment of good luck!
"Marinette…"
She could do it!
"Earth to Marinette…"
Tonight is the night!
"Snap out of it MARINETTE!"
Marinette's imagination bubble snapped, bringing her to her current situation.
In the library, with everyone looking at her. Or basically Lila looking at her irritated.
"Ops, sorry Lila. Are you done doing your part with the assignment?" She said innocently, guiltless of her daydreaming.
Lila huffed, "I had twisted my wrist remember? I couldn't do my assignment."
Unperturbed, Marinette replied, "In that case, have you compiled any information for the assignment?"
"No! My wrist twisted! It's hard to do anything," Lila smirked victoriously.
Marinette sighed, "One wrist is enough to collect information though. If you don't want to contribute anything in this assignment, suit yourself. I will finish this paper as individual assignment. If Miss Bustier wanted to say something about that, let her say it to my face."
The noirette immediately prepared to leave the library, leaving the gobsmacked Lila.
She feel light-hearted for once. It only fortnight ago that she decided to stop taking everything 'Lila' as a grain of salt. Given that would not jeopardize other people's emotions. She would not let Lila played with her emotions and reputations. She will not fight anything and just treat Lila as some wind passed by. If Lila lied about her, she would tell the truth. And if she got expelled, grounded or even lost her integrity, so be it. Screw the people who trust Lila.
If someone ask why, she simply said; Bearing the title of the guardian of the miraculous, she couldn't let all those things to deter her.
The most important thing is to confess to Cat Noir. That's important.
And if anyone ask why the change of heart? She would say, getting rejected by the one and only Adrien Agreste two month ago did that. Or that one particular sentence that he said;
"If it's up to me, I would accept you and choose you Marinette."
Nope, not that one.
"There's another girl that I love that I can't help loving her even though she didn't give me any time of the day."
Also, not that one. And on the side notes, boo that other girl. Who's on her right mind rejected the one and only Adrien Agreste right?
"I want to be her shield if she's in danger, I will be by her side when the world turned against her, I want to be the strongest support should she fall and I will do anything for her happiness although I'm still suck doing any of those, but the motivation is there."
It's lengthy but YES. That's the one.
"I wish you could find someone that could love you like that Marinette, and not someone like me who probably use you as the second choice."
Ok, and that too.
The last sentence was actually the trigger for her to realize that she was, indeed, had someone like that in her life.
Thus, she comforted herself with the idea of loving Cat Noir.
And surprisingly, she actually did with great ease.
So, we're back to her plan to confess to Cat Noir.
The plan is; she said she loves him. And then he admitted he loves her back. And they will go to Tibet to meet the order of the guardians. And then, they kick Hawkmoth's arse. And revealed their identities. And getting married. And have three kids and a hamster…. Or should they have more kids and cat instead? Cat Noir always seemed lonely after all.
It was nerve-breaking waiting at the Eiffel Tower for her partner. She had been pacing back and forth while clenching and unclenching her palms for a while.
"Ladybug?"
"EEEPPPP!!!" Damn that cat. She knew that stealth was his strength, but could he have the decency to make his presence known?
"Are you okay? You didn't even realize that I'd arrived. I've been making so much noise," Cat Noir said, somehow carefully walked towards her.
Did he now? Whatever it is. The time has come.
"Hi Cat - ," she cleared her throat when she realized that her voice is too pitchy, "- Cat. Long time no see…"
Cat Noir looked incredulous.
"We just together fighting the akuma yesterday? But if you consider 20 hours and 18 minutes as long, it's okay. Hi Ladybug," he jested smirking and she returned the smirk nervously.
"But on serious note, what's wrong? You look so jumpy."
She flinched, oh gosh, she did look jumpy.
"Hey, are you okay Ladybug? You're starting to worry me," he held her shoulders and tried to level his eyes to hers, considering she looked down a lot.
Oh boy, what if he didn't love her anymore? He had stopped calling her My Lady, or Bugaboo for a while now. It's just Ladybug here and Ladybug there. She kind of hated the name Ladybug that come from his mouth already.
Looking back at Cat Noir with determination, she steps toward him and rest her palm on his chest. Wow, would you feel that toned chest. Ops, she's getting distracted.
She could feel his body went rigid.
Snapping her eyes towards his, she was close to yelling, but managed with small breathy tone, "I love you!"
In a split second, there's light in his eyes but as sudden as it came, the light vanished. His eyes suddenly darken that made her blood run cold. His hand on her shoulders made a good leverage of distancing himself from her. But the good thing, he still didn't let off his palms from her shoulders.
"Wait…wait…did I hear this right? Wasn't there someone else?" He looked pensive. His hands fall to his sides.
She tried again, which unfortunately become a series of rambles,
"It…it's over with him. I…I just can't…I wanted to tell you how I feel about you…," wait, why he's stepping back.
"Wait…Cat…I'm sorry…It's just after all this time….I…I.. just realized…that…that..you always here for me..even…even when I kept… ," she stepped closer, too desperate for his body warmth, his acceptance, "when I kept…rejecting you…and my feelings…had gotten stronger….every day…. I..just hope..your feeling are still the same."
She panicked. Like totally panicked. Why was that with every word that she said, Cat Noir become more and more withdrawn. Now, his eyes glint dangerously several feet away from her, eyes narrowed and why on earth he fished his baton out.
Suddenly he laughed. A full-blown laugh but without any mirth in it. Now Ladybug was confused. Is it funny? Was her confession being too disastrous that her perfect image in his eyes shattered and he found himself stupid for loving her? Wow, that stings a lot and if she's still in the phase of rejecting Cat Noir, she would dance happily with this development. What a conundrum.
Cat Noir finished his laugh with a breathy sigh…(That was hot…wait..wait..it's not the time)
"That's a good one Mayura."
Wait what?! That's definitely not what she expected him to say.
"You couldn't fool me…," he laugh ironically, "Although you almost had me there when your Ladybug is being endearingly adorable while confessing."
Your Ladybug? Wait, did he think what she thought he think? That she was a sentimonster?!
"No…no…listen here Cat Noir! There's no Mayura….wait did you just called me adorable?" That slacking his battle stand a bit, "Listen here. I'm the real Ladybug. I'm really just…eekkk!"
Ladybug immediately jumped when Cat Noir's baton smashing the spot that she had been standing a second before. He looked dangerous and definitely willing to fight to death.
"So, Mayura is in her evil cage…heh," Cat Noir smirked dangerously. "I need to find your affected item. Be a good girl and give me the item!"
Aww…he called her a good girl. Dang it! Stop getting swooned by his words Ladybug! And here he come!
"Stop it Cat Noir! I'm not a sentimonster!"
"LIAR!"
Dodging Cat Noir's attacks were not that hard, it was laughable. But if he summoned his cataclysm, she would not be laughing anymore.
"You know that I hate liars!" She said desperately.
He hesitated, and she immediately threw her yoyo for attack. He was thrown back and smashed the tower's higher beam.
On the bright side, at least everything that happened still didn't get the attention of the people's below and Ladybug was not going to change that.
I mean, wasn't it lame that you got attacked when you confessed? That would make a hilarious headline.
She landed on the beam across the crouching Cat Noir.
"Chaton…"
"STOP CALLING ME THAT!" He seethed.
"Only Ladybug could call me that!" His voice broke a little.
For a while he seemed to break down, but she immediately taken aback when Cat Noir's baton met her abdomen, resulting her colliding with the beam that sat behind her.
It's frustrating and saddening when the people you love didn't believe your confession. And Ladybug showed her frustration by screaming and punching the floor (beam?) in frustration. That at least stopped Cat Noir in his track, frown marring his face.
Ladybug looked at him in anger and finally managed to describe his expressions. He was in attacking stance, but his face looked hurt. As if he tried to believe her but didn't want to do it. Finally, he spoke,
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me but fool me thrice?" He laughed in demeaning manner, "You can't use the exact same words like the last time you fooled me though…"
Ladybug's eyes widen in horror. Did he just said what she think he said? And the implications behind those words. Oh no!
No no no….that would be too cruel. And when she came later that day -the day the sentimonster and Mayura attacked -, she had said something about loving another boy and admonished him for his supposed foolishness…what did Cat Noir feel that day? There's no wonder he closed himself from the confession (and there's also the detail that he might not feeling the same way anymore but let's ignore that).
This was going nowhere, Ladybug decided. She needed to prove that she's the real deal.
"FINE!" She got back on her feet.
"Call me from your catphone! Both akuma and sentimonster could not copy that right?!"
Cat Noir straighten. He look doubtful.
For a while, he looked like he wanted to follow her instruction, but at the last minute, he held his baton tight and slid it to its handle.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Ladybug jaw dropped.
"There's no assurance that calling Ladybug will prove you right. And it's late at night, she should be sleeping, and I hate to wake her. She had a lot on her plate already." Cat Noir nonchalantly said. He still had the guarded aura around him.
Damn the cat and his kindness.
And he charged again, ignoring Ladybug's soft looks.
He barely hit her when she jumped away. But somehow the dam kind of broke when he spouted words with venom.
"I had enough of you guys used my feeling towards my lady against me - " air hit, " - and I had enough of that being my biggest weakness!" hit, crash.
She got to admit that Cat Noir like to leave remarks and punning (gosh the puns) while fighting, and that was one of his charms. But she hated this….he spoke with such forlorn that shattered her heart.
" - and I highly suspect even Ladybug will use this tactic if there's a chance I got akumatized."
Ok, that hit right to her gut while immense guilt flashed over her. She definitely did that.
She tried to tie him with her string so that he stopped moving already but somehow, her luck deserted her at the moment because he grabbed her yoyo and made her hit the beam between them, face first and fall two beams below.
Not only that, it got worst. Cat Noir used her yoyo to tie her and hang her on one of the beams. Practically speaking, it happened so fast, that she couldn't even manage a squeak. But looking the at the soil hundreds meter below her, she might finally squeaked a little.
"Have you calm down now?" Ladybug asked, still hanging by her own weapon. Her pride hurts. Meanwhile, Cat Noir sat on the nearby beam and refused to look at her.
"Are you going to tell me the truth now?" He responded.
"Touché."
Ladybug looked at Cat Noir again. He looked desolate and she was totally sure he's doing that on purpose. The things she wanted to do just to be by his side and hug him.
"I love you Cat Noir," she finally said. He immediately flinched. "That's the absolute truth."
"No. There's someone else," he whispered but she still could hear him.
"No. It's only you now." She hopefully supplied.
"Stop it! We all know that Ladybug would never love me romantically" He's still whispering, not because he wanted to but because if he talked louder, he would cry. At the very least, that was what Ladybug saw when he finally turned towards her.
What had she done to this man? She had rejected him several times (ok a lot of times) through no fault of her own (she's in love with another man! Sue her! But she still hold some of the blame with their current predicament), and both Hawkass and Damnyura had used his feelings against him. No wonder he was adamant that his feeling would not be reciprocated.
And she used the same words as the Sentimonster Ladybug?! Just her luck.
She felt like crying when she saw his expression. He still looked hopeful, but at the same time hurt and finally withdrawn. He looked away again
"The other boy rejected me," she confessed, her tone sad ensuing the jerk of his shoulders.
"But he said something that made me think of you. And from then on, I kept thinking of you and I finally admitted that I had fallen for you."
Wow, she could say all these things fluently. Those fights surely managed to quell her nervousness down to negative. That was an optimistic way to see it.
She saw him shaking his head vigorously, denying his acceptance to the truth in front of him. Or in this case on his back (that was dangerous if she was a sentimonster though).
Speaking of truth. There's one other way to prove herself. But she might want to adjust her future plan –
"Cat Noir, I will release my transformation and you could talk to Tikki so that she could prove that I'm real,"
- the identity reveal needed to be done sooner before defeating Hawkmoth.
"But you need to catch me because if I detransformed, my yoyo will vanish and I will probably fall to my death," she coaxed him. And based on his twitching ears, he's listening.
"Spots Off."
Just to straight some things out:
-Since Nino could use Cat Noir's baton, I'm under the impression that people could also wield Ladybug's yoyo freely. And since Cat Noir used to be MisterBug, he had mastered the art of the yoyo.
- I kind of unsatisfied that Ladybug used Cat Blanc's affection for her to defeat him. Although to her defense, that was her last options.
- I had this idea since Ladybug episode. Because what Senti Ladybug said aligned with various fanfic out there haha.-This is supposed to be oneshot but I'm getting annoyed uploading via apps...sorry about that
-This supposed to be angsty, but it become..less angsty (maybe because I just watched Frozen Fever, so the feeling wasn't there)
- I have no idea why Lila even made a cameo here
On different notes: I would like to apologize because this turned out trashy than the one in my head. Although to be fair, the idea in my head is like this:
Ladybug confessed Cat Noir didn't believe her Cat Noir attacked Ladybug thinking she's a sentimonster/villain Cat Noir broke down telling Ladybug that he's done hoping for the better