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Day 26 - Angry Kiss
Adrien stepped out of the car in unbridled anticipation. There were so many ways this could go wrong, and he knew he was bound to get caught. But he couldn't afford to let that happen. He had to free his princess from Lila's control. Failure wasn't an option.
He steeled himself as he walked into school; he had to act just like he would any other day. He said good morning to everyone who greeted him, went to his locker to grab his books, and then made his way to class. The whole time on pins and needles.
He hadn't seen Lila anywhere, or Marinette.
As he sat down, Nino held out a fist, "Sup my man."
He fist bumped Nino with a small smile, trying not to let his nerves show. "Hey. No Alya?"
"Not yet." Nino said simply before returning to his phone, scrolling through songs as though nothing was wrong. It helped him breathe a little easier. He was actually powered up right now, disguised as himself. It had taken three, very long nights, to get comfortable enough to be transformed without the transformation. The hardest thing to hide had been the change of his Miraculous back into camouflage mode while Plagg resided inside, but it was working.
His senses were heightened, his eyesight was clearer, and there was just the thinnest trace of magic around his body. He knew he was going to have to be especially careful. He was a lot stronger as Chat Noir, and if he called for his power, it would appear in his hand like it always did.
'Tread carefully.' He thought.
Lila and Marinette walked in together laughing, with a disgruntled looking Alya right behind them, rolling her eyes at their laughter.
He tried again, "Good morning Marinette."
Her bluebell eyes turned to him, her face marred by an uncharacteristic scowl, "Agreste."
He sighed, "Good morning Alya, Lila."
Alya flashed him a small smile from next to Nino, whose cheek she had just kissed. Lila told him happily, "Oh good morning Adrien."
He tried not to cringe.
The girls went to their seats and he turned around to ask her, "Hey Marinette, I was wondering,"
"Keep wondering." She said shortly, cutting him off.
Nino and Alya were shaking their heads, but he ignored it as he said it innocently, "Something seems different about you today, but I can't put my finger on it."
Marinette rolled her eyes, "Even if there is something different, it's none of your business. We aren't friends, I don't know how many times you are going to make me say it." Her voice tightened, "So leave, me, alone."
His shoulders slumped, and he turned around in silence. He put his head back, the hair that was covering his ears moving back at the move.
"DUDE YOU PIERCED YOUR EARS!"
He shot up, staring at Nino with wide eyes, "Nino!"
Nino covered his mouth, but the damage was done. Alya laughed, "Good for you Sunshine, what a rebellious teenage act. How'd you even manage it?"
He sighed, but smirked at her, "I know a guy."
Alya looked at him closer, "Nice studs. I didn't take you for a black stud kinda guy. I figured silver for sure."
Nino nodded, "Yeah dude."
He shrugged, "Honestly, I really admired Marinette's little black earrings. So when I saw these I had to get them, and to get them, I needed my ears pierced."
Marinette huffed, making no other reaction to the mention of earrings, and Alya pointed it out surprised, "Girl, where are your earrings? You and Sunshine would be matching!"
She shrugged, "They must have fallen off when I fell asleep. They were cheap little studs. I'm not surprised actually."
"Well I really liked them." Adrien said easily without turning around to face her. Before she could respond, Miss Bustier walked in to start class.
Marinette avoided him for most of the day, the way she had been, but he was determined that this wasn't going to go on any longer. During their last break before the end of the day, he finally caught her sitting on a bench away from everyone - with no Lila in sight.
He walked over to her quickly, his vision automatically adjusting to the hands she was cradling to her chest. Every piece of visible skin on her hands and her wrists were wrapped up. They were shaking so badly, he didn't know how she wasn't in tears.
He sat next to her in silence, waiting.
He knew talking to her would just make her angry and she would storm off, so it was time to see if this great idea of his worked.
Tikki thought it was a good idea, Plagg just thought it was all mushy, but he just hoped that she'd even give him a chance to test it out. One moment was all he needed.
"What do you want, Adrien?" Marinetted grumbled with a poorly concealed sigh.
"To apologize." He answered calmly, sneaking a glance at her. She was turned slightly away from him, her hand tightening around her badly shaking wrist. "I'm sorry, for whatever I did, and everything I did." He could do this. "And for what I'm about to do."
She turned to him, her eyes going wide, "what are you,"
He leaned in and kissed her straight on the lips, willing this to work. He cupped her face, deepening the kiss as she moved into him. God he had missed kissing her.
She froze and pulled back suddenly, staring at him in shock, "A-Adrien?"
Marinette doubled over before he could respond, clutching her hands to her chest. Tears streamed from her eyes as she groaned, "Wh-what, what is going on? Why do my hands feel like they are on fire, why are they wrapped up?"
He put an arm around her shoulders and helped her stand, telling her quickly, "Come on, let's get you to the nurses office."
She nodded looking up at him for the briefest second before jumping back away from him, "A-Adrien?! Where did you come from?"
He smiled at her, "Nurse first. I've been worried about your hands all week."
Her face fell, "All… week? What do you mean all week? Today is Saturday, what are we doing here at school?"
He could see the pure panic rising on her face and told her hushed, "I'll explain in a minute princess, but please, please let's go make sure your hands are okay."
He put his arm around her waist, guiding her towards the nurse's office in silence. The nurse wasn't there, but he didn't care. He made her sit down on the closest cot, going straight to the small fridge in the corner and pulling out an ice pack. He went back over to her and unwrapped her hands carefully. He could feel her eyes on him, watching his every move.
He sighed in absolute relief seeing that the angry red stars that had been on her palms were gone. He gave her the ice pack to hold onto, and her silence finally broke, "What day is it?"
"Friday." He said calmly, staying in front of her.
"Do you, know what's going on?" She asked shakily, her bluebell eyes full of worry.
He nodded, "I do. I even know what happened at the park last Saturday, after the photoshoot."
He gave her a second, watching her face scrunch before she finally remembered, "Lila. She came up to me at the park, talking about you. I didn't believe her for a second."
"I should hope not." He said happily, but Marinette kept going, "I was so annoyed at what she was saying, and upset that she was talking about you that way. I told her that I was going to ask you myself, and she grabbed my hands." She squeezed her eyes shut, "I felt this really sharp sting and then, I can't remember anything else."
Adrien put a hand on her knee, "Marinette," he heard her heart pick up speed and smiled sadly, hating that he was going to have to be the one to tell her, "I'm pretty sure Lila is akumatized, as herself. She's been having you wait on her hand and foot, and staying up late making her dresses and outfits all week," he squeezed her knee slightly, and she asked, sounding like she was holding back tears, "What else? What did she make me do?"
"She, tried to make you, hate me." He admitted.
The ice pack fell to the ground between them and she threw her arms around him instantly, "Oh Adrien I'm so sorry! I could never hate you, not ever! You are one of the most important people in my life!"
He felt his heart swell and hugged her back tightly, "Thank you. You are one of the most important people in my life too Marinette. I knew right away that something was wrong with you. You'd never treat your friends the way Lila was making you."
She pulled back and scowled, "Wait until I get a hold of that girl. She is going to wish she never,"
He put a finger to her lips to stop her rant, holding back his smirk without much success, "As much as she deserves it, and I know you have the means to follow through with, whatever was on the end of that threat. We both know that Lila isn't someone that can be taken down so easily. She is akumatized as herself, that already makes things harder."
Marinette seemed to realize it, "It will look like Ladybug and Chat Noir are fighting a civilian. You're right."
She looked straight into his eyes, "Adrien, what are we going to do?" Her head tilted slightly as she blinked a few times. Her eyes widened as she pointed at him, "YOU HAVE YOUR EARS PIERCED!"
He chuckled, "Yes, for a few days now actually. Do you think it looks weird?"
She instantly shook her head, "No, not at all! Those are cute little studs, they look just like," her hand reached up to her ear and her face turned to instant panic, "mine. My earrings, my earrings are gone, oh god, this can't be happening." She jumped down from the cot and checked the floor, "this is impossible. This can't be happening!"
"Marinette calm down it's okay." He tried, seeing tears filling her eyes.
"No you don't understand!" She was still frantically searching, "Those earrings were special. I can't have lost them I can't I," she stopped searching, the tears falling, "Oh no. If I was under Lila's control," she put her face in her hands, "Oh god what have I done?"
"Marinette it's going to be okay." He tried to reassure her.
Her voice came out muffled through her hands, "No, it's not okay."
He eased into it slowly, hoping she would understand, "It is. They were important to you, I get that. You haven't had them on in at least three days,"
"How do you know that?" She asked, confused.
"I always notice when something about you is different, princess." He said easily.
She frowned, but he kept going, "I can give you mine if that will make you feel better."
She sighed heavily, "No, that's sweet of you but my earrings were,"
"Miraculous?" He tried.
Her eyes shot to his, "What?"
"Special." He explained, seeing her relax slightly. He wanted to tell her straight out, but knew how touchy of a subject her identity was.
She grabbed his hand suddenly, a strange look in her eyes as they roamed his face, "Adrien, you are one of the only people I would ever trust with this."
His heart skipped a beat. Was she really about to do this? She hadn't even told Chat Noir, not until she absolutely had no choice.
"With, what?" He whispered shakily.
She got to her feet, a sweet smile on her face that made his nerves rise. She touched his face, staring into his eyes as she said it softly, "You've slipped one too many times Kitty."
His eyes widened and she giggled at the shock on his face, "H-How did you,"
"The camouflage around your eyes is gone. You may want to work on that." She said with a cheeky grin.
"What?!" He said far louder than he should have. He turned to the small mirror hanging on the wall and saw his usual Chat Noir sclera in his eyes.
Marinette's laugh turned his attention, "Told you so."
He smiled sheepishly before seeing the tears back in her eyes, "I'm such an idiot."
He went over to her quickly, "No, you are the smartest, bravest, most amazing girl I've ever met."
She stared at him seriously, "Adrien, I lost them. I lost the Ladybug Miraculous to Hawkmoth, all because I let Lila get to me!"
"Shh," he told her, grinning, "Didn't I tell you that you could borrow mine?"
"I can't just use any earrings Adrien, you know that." A wayward tear fell out of her eye, "Oh god. I can just imagine what he's doing to Tikki."
He sighed, but the smirk wouldn't leave his face, "Tikki is strong, I'm sure she's fine."
"How can you be this calm!? I can't help you go after Lila, or purify her akuma. You can't just go after her yourself,"
"I won't. I have you m'lady. You and me against the world, right?" He asked.
He saw her physically relax at his words, and he smiled, "Besides, Hawkmoth doesn't have your Miraculous." He gave her a flirty wink, "You gave them to your boyfriend a few days ago to keep them safe."
"My… boyfriend…" she said slowly, her eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. She pointed to him as she moved back ,"YOU! YOU, ADRIEN IS MY BOYFRIEND! OH MY GOD! I REJECTED YOU FOR YOU, AND THEN GOT OVER YOU JUST TO TURN AROUND AND DATE YOU! WHAT!?"
He blinked a few times, "Okay, so… let me get this straight. Ladybug-you, turned down Chat Noir-me, for Adrien-me."
She nodded, her face flushing a beautiful rose color.
"And, you got over Adrien-me, so that you-Marinette, could go out with Chat Noir-me?" He said, trying to make sure he understood correctly.
She nodded again and he chuckled, pulling her into a tight hug, "I promise, I did the same thing with you and Ladybug. The only difference is that, like an idiot, I ended up asking you out as Chat Noir instead of as Adrien."
"I know you think that Chat Noir is more of who you are than Adrien is, but I love everything that makes you who you are. Adrien, and Chat Noir." She said lovingly, not giving him a chance to do more than fill with joy before her lips met his.
The camouflage instantly fell as he became thoroughly focused on the feel of her kiss.
She laughed as her arms tightened around him, "Chat, someone is going to see you. Maybe you should,"
"Hmm?" He hummed happily, enjoying the simple happiness he got from seeing her eyes sparkling after they kissed.
"Put your claws away kitten." She whispered.
"Oh." He said, coming back to reality. His tail swished behind him in his embarrassment, "Claws in."
His transformation fell and Plagg floated down onto his shoulder, "Ugh, I hate camouflage mode."
Adrien was already pulling a rather large piece of camembert from his pocket for Plagg. Plagg took it happily and asked them, "So you got the bug back, now what?"
Adrien looked at Marinette and smiled, "I think you wanted your earrings back right?"
She nodded, "Please." He started removing them before asking, "Um, Adrien, where's Tikki?"
He smiled, holding open his pocket so she could peak inside. Tikki was sound asleep, curled up in a ball.
"Oh Tikki." Marinette cooed, "Is she okay?"
"She hasn't been sleeping very well." Plagg told her before Adrien could, "She missed you."
Marinette nudged her slightly, and she stirred with a wide yawn, "Adrien, do you need to switch now?"
Adrien smirked, "Actually, I don't think we have to go that far."
Tikki's eyes widened as she smiled in joy and flew out of his pocket, "Marinette! Oh Marinette I was so worried!"
Tikki crashed into her cheek, crying uncontrollably, "I'm so sorry Tikki. I'm so sorry I let you down."
Adrien held the earrings out to her and she put them on quickly, feeling as though a weight had been lifted off of her chest. Adrien was putting on another set of identical black studs, answering her unspoken question as her eyebrow rose, "Back-ups in case anything worked the way I hoped."
Tikki explained it quickly, "With the camouflage, we hoped that some part of Chat Noir's power would reach you, but he couldn't walk around school as Chat Noir so,"
"The camouflage. I can't even do it yet." She said impressed, making him blush.
"I had to do something to get you back." He admitted, "Once I knew you were under Lila's spell, I couldn't just leave you that way."
She hugged him tightly, "I know my kitty will always be there to protect me."
He buried his face in her shoulder, telling her as a promise, "Always."
She looked into his eyes, a very Ladybug look on her face, "Now, about Lila…"
...
"Lila there you are!" Marinette said excitedly, waving her newly bandaged hand at her, and the small group around her.
Lila's face lit up, "Marinette, I wondered where you had gone."
"I was thinking, trying to come up with a new design for your new dress,"
"Oh stop, you don't have to do that." Lila told her, Rose saying it excitedly from next to her, "You are designing another dress for Lila?"
Marinette nodded, "Oh yes. I'd do anything for her, and with everything she does with Prince Ali, and all of those charities, and dealing with the harsh lack of privacy because of all the famous connections she has, making a dress or two is the least I can do."
"That's really cool of you Marinette." Kim said with an approving nod.
"Marinette!" Adrien called suddenly.
She turned automatically, instantly scowling, "Ugh, what do you want Agreste!?"
Adrien hesitated, slowing down his approach, "Can I talk to you for a minute, please?"
"There is nothing to talk about." She turned away from him, planting a smile to her face as she looked at Lila, "So for your dress, I was thinking, butterflies."
Lila's smile faltered in just the slightest, "Butterflies?"
"They are so beautiful, just like you, and gentle, just like you. Oh and fragile! You have such a delicate constitution, what with all of your ailments and medical problems." Marinette ignored the way Lila's eyes tightened, keeping her voice light and happy, "Everyone loves you, and everyone loves butterflies. I think it would be perfect!"
"Marinette," Adrien whispered just behind her.
She turned and yelled as loud as she could, "GO AWAY!"
To everyone's surprise, Adrien stood his ground, "No."
"Excuse me?" Marinette said in a dangerous tone, making Adrien a bit nervous about what he was doing.
"You heard me." He managed to get out with a somewhat harsher tone. "I'm not going anywhere, not until I talk to you."
"I don't want to talk to you. I don't want anything to do with you!" She yelled, venom dripping in every word.
"Says the girl who has pictures of me plastered all over her bedroom walls." He said harshly, already hating this.
"God could you be more full of yourself!? I am a fashion designer! You are just the unfortunate model for your father's brilliance!" She said matching his tone, glad they had talked about this before. She would have never said anything like this to him otherwise.
"At least I can get out a complete sentence without finding new ways to say tophograph, oh no grotograph, oh wait," he chided mockingly. He actually loved her stutter. It was adorable.
"At least I have friends who care about me for me and not for having my face plastered all over Paris!" She screamed, knowing that one was low even for her.
The green in his eyes darkened, "You sure about that? Whenever you and Lila have a disagreement, everyone sides with her over you. Even Alya."
"I hate you!" She yelled, closing some of the distance between them.
"Hate me all you want," he told her with his own scowl, seeing the amusement in her eyes as he stood with her toe-to-toe, "but it's not going to stop me from being in love with you."
He only hesitated for a second before kissing her full on the mouth, much more passionately than they had kissed in the nurse's office. Even though they were faking their anger at each other, there was something about THIS kiss. It was burning and electric, a strong sizzle over his skin as his insides burned with the need for more.
Her tongue slipped into his mouth and he felt the growl rumbling in his chest, matching her passion as he pulled her flush up against his chest. Her hands found their way into his hair, her nails lightly scratching his scalp in a way that made him shake.
"MARINETTE STOP RIGHT NOW!" Lila screeched.
Marinette's arms tightened, deepening their already fiery kiss. This girl was going to be the death of him. He was never going to survive the hurricane of emotions she brought out of him.
He felt Marinette being suddenly jerked away from him, "I ORDER YOU TO STOP!"
Marinette instantly fell to her knees, clutching her arm where an angry red star began to bloom exactly where Lila's hand had been.
"Marinette!" He yelled breathlessly, kneeling next to her before glaring at Lila, "What did you do?"
Lila's eyes widened in horror as everyone kneeled near Marinette, Max pointing it out in shock, "That mark wasn't there before Lila touched Marinette."
"Lila, how did you," Kim started to ask, but was cut off by Alix, "You're an akuma!"
Lila stopped smiling and glared straight at Marinette, "Fight them, fight them all!"
Marinette groaned, "No, no I won't. You can't control me! I won't hurt them!"
"Yes you will!" Lila ordered angrily.
Adrien kissed the side of her head, whispering it to her, "I'm right here princess."
Marinette felt a little more control come back and told everyone, "You guys have to, get away from her, before she controls you too!"
"You, why do you have to ruin everything!" Lila yelled, a cloud of dark purple magic covering her. Her form changed, and she told them angrily, "I am Camouflage, and I'll make sure you all do exactly as I say! Starting with you, Adrien." Everyone started to scatter, trying to get some distance between them and the akuma.
Marinette told him quickly when he didn't move like everyone else, "Go."
He hated leaving her, but knew he had to get Lila away from her. He dodged the angry red star-bolt that Lila was trying to throw at him, egging her on, "I'll never do what you say. I'm not your puppet and neither is Marinette! You won't keep us apart!"
"I should have known," Lila said seething, "I should have known you had fallen for her after all! But I can fix that easily!"
She continued shooting red star-bolts at him, but he was leading her outside and away from Marinette at least. He just had to last long enough.
He made it into the park across from the school, ducking behind a bench to avoid another shot, "Come on Adrien, you can't outrun me forever!"
She gathered a rather large red star-bolt in between her hands and he heard the familiar zip of a yo-yo seconds before it wrapped around Lila's wrists, bringing them together.
"Shooting star!" Ladybug threw Lila with all of her strength with a smirk, the red star in her hand indeed looking like a shooting star streaking across Paris.
Adrien stood, smirking uncontrollably, "Did you just try to make a joke, Ladybug?"
She smirked right back, "Maybe. What's it to you handsome?"
"Have I ever told you that you are the lady of my dreams?" He said lovingly, seeing her blush, "You have actually." She teased, "Now if you don't mind, I kinda need my Kitty."
He put his hand over his heart,making a soft groaning sound, "Ugh, I'm hurt Ladybug, am I not good enough to help you vanquish this evil?"
"Not without claws." She said, tapping the end of his nose with her finger. "But if you are a good kitty, maybe Adrien can come over and watch a movie tonight."
"And thus my heart is yours yet again." He said with a dramatic bow, making her giggle as he called it, "Claws out!"
He transformed and they took off after Lila, finding her nearly on the complete other side of Paris.
Chat whistled impressed, "You've got quite the arm, m'lady."
"No one tries to hurt my kitty and gets away with it." She said seriously, scratching lightly under his chin as he melted into her hand.
"God I love you." He told her dreamily.
She giggled, "I love you too. Now let's find our akuma shall we?"
"As the Ladybug commands." He said with a flourished bow, vaulting over and using his baton as a shield to stop Lila before her star-bolts could hurt anyone.
They fought quickly, blocking most of the star-bolts that Lila tried to throw at them. It wasn't long before Chat jumped in front of her, using his baton to swat away another attack. He instantly put his arm around her waist and vaulted them up to the rooftops, his voice lowering, "Bugaboo, the bracelet she is wearing, I wore it for the photoshoot last Saturday."
"You think she took it?" She asked.
"I think that's where the akuma is." He told her.
"Think you can get to it?" She asked.
He grinned, "Challenge accepted."
She watched amused as Chat danced around Lila, making her angrier by the second with every taunt and every joke at her expense. It wasn't long before Chat had Lila pinned and was pulling the bracelet off of her. He threw it lightly over to her as she approached them, "A gift for m'lady."
"Aw you shouldn't have." She cooed, breaking the bracelet and watching the akuma fly into the air. She purified it quickly and called for her magical cure. She was surprised for a minute when the cure wrapped around her hands, Chat saying it relieved from next to her, "Thank goodness. I really was worried about you buginette."
She groaned, "Buginette? Just scream out the truth, why don't you?"
He turned around before she could stop him and took a deep breath, "I AM IN LOVE WITH LADYBUG!"
Her face turned scarlet and he turned to her with a smirk, "What, you told me to scream out the truth."
"Nice save Kitty." She said, flicking his bell lightly and glad to see him blush.
The bumped fists and Lila stormed off before either of them could say anything to her. Not that she would listen to anything they had to say anyways.
Chat told her teasing as they made their way back to school, "You know, I think we should argue more bugaboo."
She raised an eyebrow, "Why?"
He grinned, "That angry kiss earlier was,"
"Not an angry kiss." She reminded him instantly, "We knew what we had to do to bait her."
He said it unconvinced, "I don't know. You were really yelling there for a second."
"To make her believe it." Ladybug said seriously, "You can't tell me you enjoyed yelling at me THAT much."
He told her quickly, "I will never enjoy yelling at you, but if it means getting kissed like that," he trailed off when he saw a wicked glint in her eye. She stopped and he did too as a reflex.
She walked up to him, holding his eyes the entire time, "I don't have to be mad at you Kitty, to kiss you like this."
She grabbed his bell and pulled him down, fanning the flames to a sweltering inferno the moment her lips met his.
The way her soft lips moved against his this time caused every coherent thought to instantly shut down and get wiped away.
Angry kiss, any kiss, as long as he could kiss this girl every day for the rest of his life, he'd take every kiss she had to give.
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