Kikkie: This is the final chapter! Were finally here!
"On a scale of one to ten, how fucked do you think we are?" Alya asked as she stares down at her mug of coffee. Three days had passed after the party, and so far none of us looked at if we were getting better. Chloe had dark circles under her eyes, Nino was developing a head-colds and Alya just didn't seem mentally right in the head...me on the other hand, I feel great!
After explaining the entire story! From me pushing Adrien down the stairs by Gabriel's orders to the existing problem and what he had done to Lila. They were pretty much caught up, well, not 100% caught up. I haven't told them about Adrien's mom's murder and us having sex in his father's office. Nor did I tell them about the...kinky outfit at the beginning...
I don't know if it is because my friends FINALLY see what I am see? Or, maybe because Lila finally out of my life for the first time in five years! True I had Adrien on my ass, but for some reason that wasn't my biggest problem right now.
"Oh, I say a high 100 percent fucked," I responded. The four of us had agreed to meet near the cafe located by the town center. Since it would be so busy, we wouldn't have to worry about Adrien strolling by to get us. Like that would happen though...to them.
"Its been three days and I still don't believe what I just saw," Nino tells me. "Like, what kind of shit is Adrien getting into?"
"Fuck Adrien, what about us?" Alya growled. "We signed contracts! We work for those people now! What the hell does that mean? Are we safe? is our family safe? Like...fuck!"
"Were in public, don't draw attention," Chloe muttered as her baby blue eyes stare at the ground, practically dead. Alya may be the one losing her mind here, but Chloe was suffering the most. To see the person you have loved since birth being an ugly monster is real mind-blowing. Very destructive to her personality...just creating a hollow shell of herself.
"I think we should stop thinking about Adrien..." I started. "And start thinking about ourselves and what we will do to survive the."
"What do you mean?" Alya asked me.
"Adrien is climbing down a rabbit hole, and he wants us to follow him into wonderland. We can't afford to go that far, but we're already in. So let's try to manipulate the situation in our favor. Make him believe were going to go deeper in with him, while in reality, we're building a ladder to climb out." I explained.
"You want us to follow him down shit creek?" Alya asked in shock. "You were the first one preaching how we can't trust him and how he's crazy!"
"And I was right." I spat right back at her. "And I am telling you this right now, this situation is both bigger and dangerous than all four of us combined! I don't care for myself, but he can hurt my parents. I will not let him hurt my parents!"
"So what do we do?" Nino asked.
"We play the game. We play his little game. We do our jobs, make money for him, then when he's at the high point of this project, we bounce! We take all the money gathered and then leave for another country. My idea is America." I explained. "If we're on that level, no one can look down at us and hurt us because we will be one of them."
"I am surprised you haven't left with all the shit that is happening." Alya chuckled.
"Oh, I was...till the ending was re-written," I muttered under my breath.
"How do we know Adrien isn't going to betray us like he did his father?" Chloe asked. "What if he's using us as pawns to dumb his load?"
"Why did that sound wrong to me?" Alya muttered under her breath as if I didn't hear her.
"Then we come with a plan in case he does. Find something dirty to use against him that would ruin his career but make us look okay." I explained.
"How are we going to get dirt on him when he holds all the cards," Alya spoke. "I mean, why show us all that shit last night if you weren't confident in your power. Adrien knows what he's doing."
"Adrien has dirt on him. Don't think otherwise, just play the game and we will win. That's all there is to it!" I tell them. Glancing over to Chloe, I saw that she nodding her head in agreement before leaning back to her seat to stare at the Eiffel Tower. What was once a strong, selfish but courageous girl was now a confused shell of questions.
"Chloe, are you okay?" I finally asked. Truth be told, I didn't think to bother these guys in the last three days. I was too busy finding the nearest pharmacy to find slut candy to make sure I didn't get pregnant. Luckily for me, I found some on the second day, today I got my period so I know it worked.
"Because I might have...kept some things from you." Chloe spo...what?
"What?" I asked.
"I knew about the weekend with you and Adrien..." She started. "I knew Gabriel was planning a trip that weekend, so he asked me what Adrien liked. And at the time, I thought it was a rumor...but I told him Adrien liked you. Next thing I remembered, Gabriel told me that I would get to go to Rio with him...if I got Adrien in trouble. Obviously, I wasn't going to do that because then I wouldn't get to go to Rio. So I went to that asshole, who always talks shit, and told him that Adrien was talking shit. And then I told him that in order to make him pay, he should lie about you and him."
"Wait...what?" Alya asked.
"The fight in the gym. It was cause of me." Chloe explained. "He fought Adrien because I told him to tell Adrien that he was Marinette's first. And it made him snap and Adrien attacked him. I didn't know it will lead to this! I swear to you, I didn't think all of this was going to happen!"
"But you never said anything till now?" I asked.
"Because...Because...There was so much at stake..." Chloe moaned as tears roll down her cheeks. Standing up from her seat, she grabbed her bag and walks away. Alya is the first one to stand up to chase after her, learning more about the truth...meanwhile I just sat there confused. Chloe was the one who set us up? That can't be right!
"I hate to be that person..." Nino started, snapping me out of my train of thought. "But one of us has to keep a close eye on Adrien somehow to warn the others."
"Meaning?" I asked, why did I get this feeling I don't like where this is heading.
(Adrien Agreste, POV)
*Bing!* *Bing!*
"Argh..."
Even with a hangover and half my body feeling like a bag of rocks thrown into the ocean...wait, where was I going with this? Ugh, I need to stop drinking myself to sleep! Those horrible pills make it hard to fall asleep! I have been keeping my so-called promise to Marinette in hopes that she will agree to move in with me.
I am getting real tired of chasing after that ass...although nice to look at! No, after the party she hasn't contacted me nor called me not once! Would it kill to send a text message!? And I am not saying send a hundred like Lila has been doing! Just one!
Plus, I need to figure out what the hell I am going to do with those men. They're expecting a lot from me, if I don't give them what they want...why am I worried, they'll be dead soon. If Nat keeps her end of the bargain, all I have to do is break my father out of jail...sounds simple enough. Hopefully I can do it without ruining Chat's image. Maybe I could lie to the media and say I was akumatized...but how.
"Adrien!" Plagg shouted at me, oh yeah, I forgot about him. "Turn your phone off, I can't sleep with that constant beeping!"
Reaching over toward my lamp desk, I picked up my phone to see that Marinette had sent me a couple of text. Suddenly, waking up wide eyes and full of energy. I clicked on the screen to see what the message was, and to my surprise, I could have sworn my life flashed before my eyes in joy!
Text from Marinette:
Dear Adrien, I have been thinking, and I have been thinking for a long time. I might...do have some sort of feelings for you, but they were hard to recognize until now. Those moments spent in the office made me think of the old feelings I had when we were younger. And it also reminded me of the fear of rejection I could get if you didn't like me. I loved our friendship more than my feelings for you, therefore I never tried to pursue a relationship with you. But now, I see that I can't ignore them anymore. I keep trying to, I do because I want to salvage what's left of friendship. But I can't anymore.
I want you to be mine and mine alone to love and hold till death do us part. And I will get on my knees in front of the whole world if it means I can have you for the rest of my life. Please come to the Elfiel Tower, I want to show you, my love.
"Holy shit!" I shouted as I stood up from my laying position to get a closer look at the text. Re-reading it, I could see that my eyes weren't lying to me! Holy crap, she wants to see me! I can't wait to jump up and scream...why do I get the feeling that she was lying to me? No, Marinette isn't a lair, even if she tells white lies. shes not that horrible...although she did push me down a fleet of stairs.
"Oh, Marinette wants to show you some love? Gonna get freaky on the tower?" Plagg asked. Oh my god he is reminding me of my wet dreams. The little dirty secret, I used to have wet dreams of Ladybug and Marinette. God my younger years were so perverted…wait…never mind!
"She's planning something!" I tell the flying fairy as I removed the covers from my bed. Hopping off the cushion, I couldn't help but groin a bit as I hopped off one leg. Months of therapy and my leg still hurt like shit. Maybe I shouldn't have had surgery and illegal injections to heal the muscle quicker, but I needed to walk dammit!
"Going to get ready for your date?" Plagg teased me as he shakes the bottle in my face. My medicine…
"I'll take one after my shower," I tell the pesky vermin. Truth is, I wasn't lying! My love asks me to take those pills, and I will take them. The more I show Marinette I am a lovely guy, the more she will fall for me. And if not, maybe I can lower her guard down a bit for me to snatch her away. But as I said before, one thing at a time.
"Hey…" Plagg started, grabbing my attention as I stripped away my bottoms. "You are not going to make me go in front of those people again, are you?"
"I would never hurt you Plagg, but I need you to understand that what we're doing, those monsters need to know you exist," I explained. "And then, when they finally realized that I have more than they do, we grab them by the neck and ring it!"
"And they figure out that your not the holder of the box?"
"We hop ship, pray to whatever god there is…"
"Tikki!"
"And take them out one by one. But until then, let us just take things nice and slow and get that fashion show on the way, yea?" I asked the black fairy before taking the pill bottle from his hands.
(Marinette, the tower)
"This is a bad idea, like really bad!" Tikki tells the blue-headed female as she looks over the blue sky that shined down on the tower. The two were calmly waiting for the blonde to arrive before while at the same time, panicking!
"It is not so bad, as long as the others are fine, we will be safe," Marinette tells the pink creature as she stares into the sky with big blue eyes. Her hands constantly rubbing against each other, as if she was nervous, or she was trying to create fire. Either way, Marinette smelled something fishy, and it wasn't the fish boats passing by.
"Are you okay?"
"No I am not okay!" The pink creature shouted before flying straight towards Marinette. "Look, I should have told you, but I couldn't, but I know I should have told the second you became the new holder of the box! But I didn't because I thought they didn't exist anymore and that we did need to worry about them. But in the end, I was wrong and I should have done something but I didn't and now it is going to slap us in the face!"
Tikki shouted the small creature was having such a meltdown that she looked like she was going to explode any minute. Marinette was both surprised and scared. She had never seen Tikki lose her mind before, especially now when she was going to make a grave choice in her life.
"Tikki?" Marinette asked.
"Look at me!" Tikki shouted before flying away from her face. Floating over the edge of the tower balcony. "Let's go home! You can pack your things and move to America! Let us get far away from here!"
"What!? A few chapters ago you told me to stay!" Marinette shouted before glancing away a bit. She then looks at the pink creature in shock.
"I didn't know what sort of shit we were getting into! Please Marinette! We need to leave right now!"
"I can't leave, I can't leave my friends in this situation! I can't leave my parents!" Marinette explained. Tikki opens her mouth to say something back to her master but just gasp before disappearing into sparkle dust before Marinette's eyes. No, she wasn't dead! She had teleported! It was a skill the kwami's used only in emergencies. Which was now since Adrien had just tackled Marinette into a bear-like hug!
"MY PRINCESS!" He shouted, hugging her so tight that she felt as though he could throw her off the balcony with ease. He wouldn't do that…no!
"Hi…" Marinette responded, still a little shaken up by Adrien's sudden appearance out of the blue.
"I can't believe the heartwarming text message you sent me. I could barely eat, let alone stop thinking about it!" Adrien shouted as he lets her go. Marinette was blushing ear to ear as Adrien held her close. Leaning forward, he closes his eyes to plant a soft kiss on her lips. Although Marinette doesn't kiss back, she doesn't shy away from it either. Tikki watches in horror as she shakes her head no at her master, giving her sign such as waving her hands in the air for her master to see. But Marinette was ignoring her on purpose, she knew what she had to do, in danger or not.
"I am so glad you came. I was getting worried that you would ignore." Marinette says as she places a hand on his cheek, messaging the soft skin.
"Are you insane, to see you text I love you just make my heartbeat. And that you wanted to show your love to me, how could I not rush over here?" He tells her as he pulls her in by the waist, holding her close. The bluenette was blushing ear to ear, not knowing exactly what to do at that moment. Ignore Tikki or do as planned?
"Adrien…" She started. "Do you…really love me?"
"What?" Adrien asked.
"Do you really, truly love me? Like, real love? You are not lying to me to get what you want, right?" Marinette asked. Adrien, after removing her hand from his face, closes his eyes for a few seconds before opening them to say:
"When we were younger, and I had just gotten out of the house…I knew about your crush on me." Adrien said, making Marinette blush.
"Oh…" She responded weakly, but that didn't stop Adrien from continuing.
"I knew about your crush, I had seen you talk to Alya so many times about confronting me…but at the same time, you encouraged me. You made me do things that I wouldn't have done under my father's watchful eye. You never put your feelings towards me like Lila and Chloe. You always tried your best to look out for me, always trying to make me happy. I loved it having someone who, even though was a huge fan of me, still cared for me more than just some object of beauty. That's why I played dumb, that's why I ignored your feelings. I didn't want our relationship as friends to ruined. I wanted you by my side for as long as possible." Adrien explained.
"Then why did you started acting out? Why did you become so cruel?" She asked.
"I wanted us to be friends so bad, that I forced myself to like Kagami. And when I started dating her, I heard you started dating Luka…and I just broke inside. You stopped coming to my shows, you stopped hanging out with me, you barely even looked at me. And then I finally realized, I had made a terrible mistake. It broke me, it broke me not having you there. It broke me so bad that I couldn't focus in school or even fix my relationship. Soon I just gave up on things, and stop caring for my molding career and even Kagami. And that ended horribly too!"
"Tell me about it," Marinette growled as the sour memories of Luka and Kagumi started to flood into her mind.
"Then I just started to get into trouble…but with all the things happening to me recently, I am starting to realize that maybe what I am doing is the right thing, you know." Adrien explained. "My father is the root of all my problems, but now that he is gone, I can finally spread my wings and fly! You and I can finally be together, and since I have the Agreste company now, I can make all your dreams come true."
"Adrien…" Marinette muttered before looking up to see Tikki giving her a no sign. The bluenette swallows the lump in her neck before looking back at Adrien.
"Will you marry me?" She asked the blonde. And just as fireworks make the sky sparkle and glow colors of the rainbow, so did Adrien's eyes when he hoisted her up in a bear hug and shouted:
"Yes! Oh my god! Yes!"
He screamed as the two hugged tightly. Tikki was rubbing her head furiously as the two humans kiss each other, not realizing the wave of horror that would soon fall upon them. Below them, a newspaper boy hands the ice cream man a newspaper with the front page title being: HAWK MOTHS ESCAPE…
Kikkie: The end! Sorry if it wasn't overdramatic, I feel like I have thrown those two into the heavy-duty comforter of a dryer machine the last 16 chapters. I wanted the ending to be both sweet whiles also head-scratching! Will there be a sequel, maybe? There is a lot of stuff I wanted to put in here, but I couldn't do it, that, and season 3 ending really is still strong on me. Plus virus crises depression is still on me, so...yea! But anyway
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