Alright guys, here we go. I present to you the awaited chapter, Oblivio. I hope you are ready for fluff and angst because that is all this is at this point. The first image is something I made back when I first started the story and the second image a made a few days ago. It is interesting to see the change but both represent two specific moments in the chapter, Im sure you'll know when you read them.
"I'm not a fan of this by the way," Lucy said waving her hand in a circular motion in front of her, gesturing at Adrien's phone that was currently recording. The two teenagers sat together in the school music room at the piano near the center of the room. For the past several months, Adrien had been giving Lucy small piano lessons when they both had free time after school. Due to Adrien's busy schedule and his father's dislike for guests, the two found it a way to spend what little time they could together in a somewhat productive manner. After all, Lucy had wanted to learn.
"It's to record your progress," Adrien explained with a smile. "You'll be able to see how far you've come from the first time and continue to do so each time after that." Adrien didn't record every time they practiced piano, but he did make a point to the first time and now that she would be attempting a full song, it felt more than appropriate to do so again.
Lucy cringed at the thought. "Yeah, rewatching myself learn piano...can't wait to not do that." Adrien let out a small chuckle and rolled his eyes.
"You might think so now, but I think it is important to be able look back and see how far we've come. From anything really." Lucy smirked and nudged him with her elbow.
"Look at you getting all-wise."
"Yeah I guess you're rubbing off on me, now come on," He told her. "You brought the sheet music for the song you wanna play?" Lucy nodded and pulled the paper out of her bag, stacking them on the ledge made to hold them. She got her fingers in place and let out a small shaky breath.
"Gah, I'm nervous." She admitted with a smile. "Why am I nervous?" Adrien smiled back and shrugged his shoulders.
"I have no idea, but you have no reason to be. It's just the two of us. I'll pick up anywhere you seem to struggle and we'll harmonize. You got this." He encouraged and with one last outward breath, Lucy carefully began to hit the keys.
A, E , G, D Dm, A,
B7 , E7, A
Although slow at first, Lucy had practiced these chords on more than one occasion at home on the small electric piano she had purchased. It soon began to feel as all her hard work had begun to pay off as Adrien fell into a synchronized key on the other end. She cleared her throat quietly singing the song lyrics.
When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love
When it came to singing, Lucy wasn't terrible. She was no 'X Factor star nor did she ever plan on auditioning for 'Paris' Got Talent' but she could hold a soft slow tune so long as there weren't too many high notes. Adrien glances over to Lucy, enjoying her soft melodic voice as he carefully keeps her pace.
When the evening shadows and the stars appear'
And there is no one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love...
Seafoam Green eyes shoot open as the iris adjusts to the newfound light. Where was she? Looking around what seemed to be a stairwell, Lucy groaned as her head seemed to palpitate. Something felt off. She tried to remember why she was in a stairwell, or better yet what stairwell she was in but the more she tried to remember the less she realized she knew.
"Okay," She breathed out. "Start small. My name is..." Rubbing her eyes with her palms Lucy growled in frustration. "My name is...?!" She couldn't remember. Why couldn't she remember? Sitting up, Lucy felt something in her back pocket and adjusted herself, finding a cell phone that she could only assume was hers. Her lock screen was a photo of a girl she assumed was her as well as an older woman who looked very similar that gave her the assumption that was her mother. Sliding the screen Lucy sighed. Of course, it was locked. Examining it further, she found slots in the back of the phone case and pulled out a few cards, one of which was an ID card.
"Lucy Shepherd." She spoke softly to herself. Her name was Lucy. That's one mystery solved. The sound of thumping coming from the vent startled Lucy slightly as she shoved her phone back in her pocket and yanked a nearby fire extinguisher off the wall preparing to use it as a weapon if needed. The vent cover rattled and Lucy aimed the hose toward it with a steady glare.
"Whoa! Hey! Don't shoot!" A male voice came out. Lucy lowered her weapon slightly as a head of blonde hair poked out of the vent. He jumped out of the vent and a girl with blackish-blue hair in pigtails appeared behind him. (I know her hair appears very blue in the show but I read somewhere that her description reads black hair with a blue hue. This is why her mother as well as Kagami and her mom have basically that same hair color. Technically, they all have black hair. It's a cartoon though. They jazz it up and make it bluer.)
Adrien held up his hands to show he meant the girl no harm, causing her to lower the fire extinguisher and place it on the ground. It was now that Adrien could get a clear good look at the girl in front of him. Her dark blonde hair flowed to the middle of her back as stands of her side part fell in front of her face. Her greenish-blue eyes looked both him and Marinette up and down cautiously before her shoulders relaxed.
"Do either of you know what's going on?" She asked.
"Sorry, but no," Adrien answered.
"We woke up in the elevator with no memories. And then that thing came..." Marinette trailed off in thought.
"Thing? What thing?" Lucy asked with a concerned eyebrow raise.
"We're not sure yet, but it probably has to do with what is happening to us," Adrien explained. "Speaking of which, we shouldn't stand around here any longer, lets go upstairs."
Suddenly two tiny creatures floated beside them. One was red and looked kind of like a bug of some sort with a black dot on its head, the other resembling a tiny black cat. Lucy stared at them wide-eyed.
"Are those Pokemon?" She asked pointing, but the blonde boy grabbed her hand and dragged her up the steps.
"Later! Come on!" He said sprinting.
"But there's no way up there. We're gonna get trapped again!" Marinette argues, though following Adrien up the steps. Neither teen took note of the way he automatically went for the blonde girl's hand out of pure instinct. The trio peeked inside an empty office space and hid there, hoping they would have some time to figure things out and hopefully signal for help. They raced to the windows only to realize they were too high up and the windows were tinted, so no matter what, the odds of someone seeing them were slim to none. Adrien attempted the phones but got no dial tone.
"The phone lines are down." He told the girls who sigh. Lucy blinks in remeberence.
"Oh, Um, I'm Lucy by the way. At least, that's what my ID says."
"Right! Of course. I'm Marinette."
"Adrien." The boy, now known as Adrien pulls out his phone and sighs. "If only I could unlock it." A lightbulb seemed to go off in Marinette's head as she then takes Adrien's phone and breaths on it, revealing streaks left behind from when he last unlocked his phone.
"Clever girl," Lucy states, mimicking the action on her own phone to reveal her code. (Though honestly, I feel like if their phones were in their pocket that really wouldn't work but I have to remind myself it's a kids cartoon, and it's not that serious.)
"My phone is almost dead," Adrien says to which Marinette confirms her battery is low as well. Lucy looks to see her phone's battery still at fifty-six percent.
"It's not great, but I'm not worried about it dying on us if we needed it," Lucy tells them. "Let's try calling our parents."
"Gabriel Agreste." She heard Adrien say. "That must be my father." Lucy scrunched her nose at the boy.
"Why would you have your dad's full name in there like that? What not just make the contact dad?" Adrien blinked at her before looking back down at his phone in thought.
"I have no idea actually." He hits the call button but the phone almost automatically is sent to voice mail making the boy frown. "Well, so much for that. Next."
Lucy scrolls through her phone and finds the contact 'Birth Giver'.
"Umkay. So I'm weird I guess. Not parents full name weird, but...a little weird." She hits dial, the phone rings several times but ends up at voice mail. A woman's raspy voice came through the speakers "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you leave me a voicemail now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will call you." Lucy's eye twitched.
"Well, that explains it." She deadpanned before looking to Marinette. "Your turn."
Marinette scrolls through her phone. "Agreste, Césaire, Couffaine, Dupain-Cheng Sabine!" She smiles, hitting the call button.
"You too with the full name as a parent contact...am I the odd one?" Lucy muttered. Marinette's mother answered the phone. Adrien and Lucy couldn't hear what the woman on the other line was saying but they did give Marinette confused looks when she didn't bother to explain their predicament.
"Why didn't you ask her for help?" Adrien asked. Marinette gave them a nervous smile.
"I have both good news and bad news. The good news is: there are superheroes in the tower that will stop that supervillain. The bad news is: we're the superheroes! And the thing that's chasing us is the supervillain! And we're supposed to be defeating it with superpowers we no longer have!"
"Superheroes? Are you sure? I don't think I'm the type." Marinette shook her head.
"No, not you." She then flushed slightly, not wanting to have offended the blonde girl. "Not that you couldn't be of course! When Adrien and I woke up in the elevator, we had these weird costumes on. His ring and my earrings started beeping and the costumes went away. When they did, those creatures that were with us appeared."
"Where are those guys anyway?" Lucy asked looking around, making the other two do so as well.
"Good question," Adrien said, scratching the back of his head, catching a glimpse of them out of the corner of his eye. "Ah, over by the window."
The three took a seat on the floor in the corner of the office. "If my own mother doesn't know I'm a hero, maybe nobody does." Marinette thought allowed.
"Do you think we know?" Adrien asked. "Eachother I mean."
"Maybe we can figure out some more information about ourselves if we look through our phones," Lucy suggested with a small shrug. The other two teens nodded and unlocked their phones. Adrien shifted through his photos and felt a slight flush hit his cheeks. In it were a number of photos, many of which included the blonde girl in front of him. A video from the day before appeared of the two of them sitting together at a piano. His finger went to click on it when Lucy's voice stopped him.
"Odd." She spoke. "I have a "Mari" in my contacts but no Adrien. Maybe we don't-" She paused and Adrien raised an eyebrow at her.
"What is it?" A grin crept its way onto Lucy's face as a giggle left her lips.
"I found your contact. I don't have you as Adrien."
"Well, what is it?" Adrien asked and Lucy showed the boy her phone. Adrien blinked at the sight of his contact photo, which happened to be of him sitting at some table with his chin rested in his palm, looking to be in thought. Under it was the contact name accompanied with a wink face and crown emoji. His eye twitched as he read "Princess".
"Why?!" He asked while Lucy tried to contain a wheeze.
"I don't know!" Lucy wiped a tear from her eye, only being more amused by Adrien's pout. "What is my contact in yours?" She asks. Adrien scrolls down the list and shows his screen to her. The contact photo is a picture of her smiling with her eyes crossed with the name listed as "LuLu" with a purple heart.
"Cute." She said, sending him a wink before bringing her eyes back to her photos.
Mixed in with random selfies and pictures of food, Lucy found photos of herself with a number of people, Marinette and Adrien included. However, she did notice Adrien's face pop up more often than most others, but that wasn't what really caught her attention. Amongst the photos down several lines dated a few months prior was a single photo of her and a boy in a catsuit. Her grin faded as she tilted her head to the side and clicked on the photo. It was a simple picture. The cat-like hero and she were looking at one another with their tongues out in a childish manner. She automatically showed Adrien and Marinette her phone screen.
"I think I knew about you guys." She says as the two looks at her screen slightly taken back.
"I think that maybe you and I..." He trailed off. He presented the phone screen to the two girls, hitting the play button on the video he had found.
"Gah, I'm nervous." She admitted with a smile. "Why am I nervous?" Adrien smiled back and shrugged his shoulders.
"I have no idea, but you have no reason to be. It's just the two of us. I'll pick up anywhere you seem to struggle and we'll harmonize. You got this." He encouraged and with one last outward breath, Lucy carefully began to hit the keys.
A, E , G, D Dm, A,
B7 , E7, A
Although slow at first, Lucy had practiced these chords on more than one occasion at home on the small electric piano she had purchased. It soon began to feel as all her hard work had begun to pay off as Adrien fell into a synchronized key on the other end. She cleared her throat quietly singing the song lyrics.
When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love
Lucy bit her lip and smiled while wiggling her eyebrows at him. "Then we must have told each other everything. I couldn't hide my identity from the girl I love." He says, placing his hand on top of her free one.
Marinette gave a small smile as she looked between the two that didn't quite reach her eyes. Her own phone had Adrien as her background and considering that they happened to be superhero partners, she thought maybe they were also...more. An uncomfortable feeling settled at the pit of her stomach. Based on the information on their phones it was clear they all knew one another and were friends of sorts, but if Lucy and Adrien were in fact in a relationship, why did she have Adrien as her background? As well as the ones she found in her gallery. Although there were a few select photos where she and Adrien were both in the photo, most of them were just of him, and a good portion of those looked like photos from Instagram or online ads.
"Maybe I'm like your guys Alfred!" Lucy said, taking Marinette from her thoughts. "Some kinda sidekick you guys have when things get hairy!"
"Maybe," Marinette muttered. "But if we are the superheroes, then what are they?" She said, gesturing to the two floating creatures by the window. Lucy pondered the question.
"You said they appeared when your costumes went away right? She asked, earning a nod from the two. "Perhaps they are where you get your power from. They obviously have some kind of magical properties to them, and if they came out of your costume accessories, then it's a possibility that they power them."
"That sounds like a logical explanation." Marinette agreed. "Or at least as logical as any of this can be."
"Beauty and brains," Adrien added. "It's no wonder I fell in love with you." Lucy rolled her eyes and smiled, nudging the boy with her elbow.
The tiny creatures across the room looked like they were arguing, causing the three teens to get up from their spots and walk over to see what the problem was, only to watch the black cat-like creature faze through the window and leave.
"Is he going to get help?" Adrien asked to which the little red creature frowned. "I don't think we should hold our breath."
The sound of the elevator approaching made the trio run behind a nearby deal and hide as the villain that had made them this was entered the office.
"Ladybug, Cat Noir, we know you're in here. You won't get away this time." It spoke. They all peak to see a purple shadowy figure with a white blaster for a left hand and a grey glove for a right hand. "You remember your BFF Oblivio, don't you? Don't tell us you've forgotten us. Ha ha ha ha!"
Lucy squints as she listens to Oblivio. "It almost sounds like two voices." She whispers.
"Either way, I'm not convinced that this monster is really our best friend," Adrien says quietly. Marinette nodded.
"One thing's for sure, if we're superheroes, he can't find out about our secret identities."
"How about some kind of diversion? We get out of here and take the emergency stairs."
Marinette looks around before grabbing a sticky note, pen, and tape. She handed Lucy the note and pen.
"Leave our friend a little message would ya?" She says slyly before taking Adrien's phone. "I'm going to call your phone and use the tape to pull it back." She explains.
"Good quick thinking." Adrien praised, earning a small smile from the pigtailed girl. She looked to Lucy. "Ready?" Lucy gave a small nod and stuck the sticky note along the side of the desk. The other two teens looked at the message and back at Lucy who gave them a cheeky grin. She had drawn a stupid-looking donkey. Dumbass.
The three, well four if you counted the creature, backed up slowly around the desk and Marinette called Adrien's phone. Oblivio quickly went towards the sound only to find nothing but the note behind. The teens ran for the exit door, snagging up a coffee cup along the way. The tiny creature would drip the coffee down the stairs to leave a fake trail for Oblivio to follow while Lucy, Marinette, and Adrien went upstairs instead. Oblivio almost didn't fall for the trick, which honestly didn't surprise Lucy. After all. why would any of them leave coffee drops behind? Luckily the tiny creature pushed open the door on the floor below, convincing Oblivio that they were in fact down there. The three teens let out the breath they had been holding. Lucy touched her forehead to the tip of Adrien's shoulder as she relaxed. Adrien took Lucy's hand and stood, offering the other to Marinette and helping her up as well.
"Let's go back to where we were. It will be the last place it looks."
Once back in the office the three found themselves in the same spot they had been earlier. Marinette removes the tape from Adrien's phone and hands it to him. "Sorry, it's out of juice."
"No worries." He tells her. "We're doing pretty well, even without powers, don't you think?"
The tiny pink creature floats around them. "It's true, you all make a very effective team." The trio share smiles and Adrien gently gives a squeeze to Lucy's hand.
"Yes, but if we want a real shot at defeating this villain, we're gonna have to become Ladybug and Cat Noir again."
Lucy pulls out her phone and shows it to Adrien and Marinette. "Maybe we can gather some hints by watching some news footage to see what happened before he erased our memories." She suggested. Looking up some news footage it had become clear they were not the only ones Oblivio had managed to erase the memories of as they watched an officer standing in the middle of traffic, unaware that he was even an officer to begin with. The news anchor also came across confused, though her coworkers were not.
"Uh, don't be bemused, it's just the news. Since early this afternoon, a supervillain by the name of Oblivio has been erasing the memories of everyone he comes across. Ladybug and Cat Noir are tracking him down inside Montparnasse Tower." She spoke showing a clip of the two of them in their costumes.
"Looks like Ladybug and Cat Noir are struggling today." Ladybug is rapidly spinning her yo-yo to deflect Oblivio's blasts while Cat Noir sits down casually.
"And stop calling me bugaboo!" Ladybug shouts earning Adrien an eyebrow raise from Lucy.
"Bugaboo?"
Adrien scratched the back of his neck nervously. "I uh...I don't have an explanation." He quickly lifts her hand to his lips and kisses her knuckles. "Don't worry, in most duos, there is the serious one and the carefree funny one. Given her annoyance. I'd say I'm the funny one." Lucy smirked and let out a hum in response.
"The battle against Oblivio continues." Chat Noir is hit by Oblivio's shooter. "Oh, oh no! Cat Noir has been hit, but Ladybug pulls him out of danger. Ladybug throws him into the elevator. She and pulls out what looks like some kind of pen and draws something on the wall. "What's she doing now?" Ladybug is then hit as the doors close causing her to fall to the floor "Ladybug is down, too!"
"The drawing! There was a drawing on the elevator wall! I remember now. It was a turtle. I saw it earlier when I was looking for my mom's number." Marinette says as she scrolls through her contacts. "There it is!" She shows Adrien and Lucy the contact with a turtle phot and the name Fu.
"You left yourself a message! So smart." Adrien said and Lucy nodded in agreement. Marinette dialed the number. An older male voice came out of her phone.
"Hello?"
"Mr. Turtle?" Marinette responded, earning a nudge from Lucy.
"The name was listed as Fu ya goof!"
"Marinette, is there a problem?"
"Listen. I can't remember who I am or who you are. Oblivio has erased my memory. But I think I'm supposed to call you."
"You did the right thing. Is Cat Noir with you?" Fu asked.
"Yeah, well Adrien, actually." She laughs. "And Lucy."
"Lucy?" He asked, to which Lucy piped in.
"That would me! Or, do we not know one another?"
"Eh, we have never met, but I am familiar with who you are. It seems you know their identities, and they know as well." The trio looks at one another confused.
"We're not supposed to?" Adrien asks, but Fu seems unconcerned.
"That's okay, the Miraculous ladybugs will repair everything anyway." Neither of them knew what that meant but shrugged and let the man continue explaining.
"We figured out we're superheroes, but we don't know how to make ourselves Ladybug and Cat Noir again." Marinette's phone flashes a low battery warning. "Mr. Turtle, you'll have to tell us quick, I'm almost out of battery."
"Are your kwamis with you?" He asks and the teens look to the tiny red creature, assuming that was what he was talking about.
" Uh, if you mean the flying creatures, then, one of them. The red one is with us."
"Okay. Listen carefully, the red kwami's name is Tikki." He tells them and Tikki flies closer to them. "She gives you your powers. Say, "Tikki, spots on," and you'll transform into Ladybug. You'll find an emergency user's guide in your Bug Phone. Adrien, your kwami's the black one. His name is Plagg. Tell him, "Plagg, claws out," and you'll become Chat Noir again. The rest is in your Chat Phone."
"But, my kwami took off," Adrien explained
"You won't be able to transform without him— " The phone cut off and the trio looked at one another.
"I don't have a Fu or turtle in my phone so it doesn't look like we can call him back," Lucy said.
"Looks like we will have to make due," Marinette said. "It's time to bring Ladybug back! Tikki spots on!" Adrien and Lucy watched as Marinette transformed into Ladybug in slight amazement.
"That was awesome!" Lucy said.
"Thanks, but I don't feel any different or at all like a hero," Marinette admits, or well, Ladybug.
"You've already proven that you are one, with or without a costume," Adrien tells her confidently. Ladybug scrolls through her user guide.
"Yo-yo's features, capturing the Akuma, one-time power, Lucky Charm…" At the sound of her words, her yo-yo lights up and a red and black spotted teapot appears in the air. Ladybug catches it and looks confused.
"What the heck am I supposed to do with this, make tea?!"
"Maybe it's part of a puzzle or a riddle?" Lucy suggested and Ladybug's eyes widened at realization.
"You're right, it must just be one part of the solution, but, how am I gonna find the solution?"
"Don't worry, you always have the right idea at the right time, you got this!" Adrien cheered, wanting his partner to have the confidence in herself that she needed.
"Mm-hm." She nods and jogs in place with an inhale. "Hoo. It's time for action!"
"Marinette," Adrien calls out. "I want to fight beside you." He picks up a white pipe. "If we're a team, then we'll be stronger together."
"But you don't have your kwami or your superpowers. And without your costume, the villain would know your true identity." Ladybug reasons. Ladybug looks past Adrien and over to Lucy who seems to be watching them nervously. "But most of all, I don't want anything to happen to you or Lucy. You need to protect each other and I need to protect you. I need you to let me do that." Adrien looks at her sadly but nods in understanding. The uncomfortable feeling came back to Ladybug's stomach as she watched Adrien go back to Lucy, who then took his hand in comfort. She still didn't understand any of this, and could only hope when things were back to normal she wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.
After Ladybug left, Lucy stood with Adrien alone. She felt bad for the boy.
"It's strange." She spoke, gaining a pair of green eyes' attention. "I wouldn't even know my own name if I didn't have an ID card with me. I don't know my mother's name or my favorite color. Yet from the moment we met there has been this instinctive pull. I don't remember the heroes Ladybug and Chat Noir but I still feel this intense faith in the fact that everything will be okay. Faith in her...faith in you." She took the palm of her hand and placed it on Adrien's cheek. He leaned into it, enjoying the feeling of her warmth upon his face. "Even with everything else being lost in fog there is something about the way you look at me. There is somehow a constant with you. Believing in you...loving you...its muscle memory."
Being with her, Adrien could feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in his chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is he is thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and his very existence are one. The pain is an anchor, mooring him here. Her touch made his body ache in both the most pleasant and horrible of ways. As if his very essence was tied to her but he knew it wouldn't last. Muscle memory she had called it. A fitting explanation for the way his body and soul seemed to yearn for her.
"I don't need to remember a single thing about my life to know I love you." He admitted. Lucy brought her lips to Adrien's and when her lips met his, he knew that he could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when he first kissed the girl of his dreams and knew that his love would last forever.
I know you haven't made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I've known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong
I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling down the avenue
No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love
The sound of Ladybug yelping, made the couple pull apart in time to see her swinging past the window clearly struggling.
"I need to help her," Adrien said and Lucy looked around and grabbed some cardboard boxes and a box cutter, placing them on a nearby desk.
"Looks like you're gonna need a superhero costume then."
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Ladybug falls to the ground as she trips over her yo-yo barely catching the teapot her lucky charm had created. Oblivio jumps down and mocks her for forgetting her reflexes before aiming his blaster at her. Before he could shoot, a roll of tape flew at him and Cardboard Chat revealed himself.
"Attacking a Lady on the ground, did you forget your manners?" He jokes, his body covered head to toe in cardboard and paper in a make-shift Chat Noir costume. From the sidelines, Lucy poked her head from behind a nearby pillar. Adrien had tried to convince her to stay in the office where it was safe until everything was over.
"Are you kidding?" She had asked. "We're BoxChat and Robin."
Of course, she wasn't an idiot. With nothing but some office supplies to use to defend herself, Lucy knew she would really just be hanging back as a cheerleader more than anything. Perhaps if she had her memory she would be more useful. Then again if Turtle man Fu who seemed to be the boss man when it came to this superhero stuff was surprised that she knew Chat Noir and Ladybug's identities, then perhaps her knowledge was simply due to her relationship with the blonde boy. Maybe her knowing was a secret, or maybe she never knew in the first place. She watched as Ladybug and Chat appeared again, this time Chat Noir was in his actual superhero form and Lucy couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the sight. The photo she had of them made her aware of what he looked like transformed but there was something about seeing it in person.
Out of the corner of his eye, Chat saw Lucy watching him curiously and sent her a wink. A smirk grew on her face as she returned the wink. Oblivio chases Chat with his blaster as Ladybug comes up behind him and wraps her yo-yo around his hand and traps it inside her teapot and Chat uses his power to destroy the blaster, releasing a back butterfly. Ladybug catches the butterfly in her yo-yo and purifies it. Oblivio becomes two teenagers and Lucy finds herself running up to the heroes.
"You guys did it!" She cheered as Chat picked her up and spun her around. The two stopped and looked to the sky, seeing the large purple bubble still in the sky.
"What are we supposed to do about that?" Chat asked as Ladybug approached with her teapot.
"This is where my other power comes in." She tells them. "It fixes everything back to how it was originally." She goes to toss the teapot into the air when Chat grabs her wrist to stop her.
"Wait. Do you think we'll remember all this… afterward?"
"Apparently, my Miraculous Ladybug reverts everything, so I'm guessing we won't." Ladybug said with a small shrug.
Chat Noir looked at Lucy who gave him a weak smile as he squeezed her hand.
"Maybe we can do something to remember." He suggested. "Write it down or-"
"No." Lucy stopped him softly. "We don't need to do that."
Chat frowned at her, bringing his hand to her face. "But...what if you don't know? Wha-what if we forget...?" Lucy took his hand and placed it on her chest and over her heart.
"Do you feel that?" She asks. "Somehow, someway, even with our very existence in question, my heart beats for you. Ladybug's power won't change that."
"What if you're wrong?" His voice was barely above a whisper.
Lucy smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced or seemed to face the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on Chat with an irresistible prejudice in his favor. It understood him just as far as he wanted to be understood, believed in him as he would like to believe in himself, and assured him that it had precisely the impression of him that, at his best, he hoped to convey.
"I'm not." She spoke and her eyes began to gloss over as she did.
"Then why are you crying?" He asked with a weak laugh, wiping away a stray tear with his thumb.
"I just didn't think we would be saying goodbye so soon."
"It's not goodbye.. it's..."
"See you later...alligator. She joked and watched Chat make a face at her. "That's when you say after awhile crocodile."
"After a while crocodile..." He repeated. Lucy took one last look at him before running her hands up to his neck and pressing her lips against his. Chat didn't hesitate to kiss her back as he wrapped one arm around her back and brought the other up the back of her head, his fingers entangling in her hair.
Ladybug frowned at the couple's display of affection. Earlier she had felt unsettled and maybe even a bit jealous of the relationship they all seemed time to have. Yet now, watching the two embrace as if they might never do so again, all she could feel was pity. Mr. Turtle or Fu, seemed surprised to find out their identities had been out in the open, so it was probably safe to say that when everything returned to normal, their relationship would in fact be different. The photos that they had together were all in Chat's civilian form except for the single one in Lucy's phone. It was a possibility they were together, but that Adrien had to hide his superhero persona from Lucy. The picture she had of her and Chat was friendly at best. Ladybug thought that maybe Chat befriended Lucy as a way to stay close to her in his hero persona. It was foolish. Reckless. Selfish even. But looking at the two together, Ladybug couldn't help but give them her sympathy. She didn't understand her place between the two, but she hoped that in the long run, it would work out...for all of them.
Ladybug tossed her lucky charm into the air and watched in amazement as hundreds of little ladybugs swarmed around. In an instant, everything came back to them. Chat and Lucy's eyes opened and pulled away from another confused. How did they get there...why were they..? Chat's eyes widened as he looked around to see Alya and Nino looking at them sheepishly.
"Guys, you haven't seen a supervillain named Oblivio, have you?" He asked.
"You've defeated it already, dude." Nino told them, followed by Alya.
"Actually, he was… us." Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at one another in surprise.
"Oh, okay. Pound it? Pound it!"
"Lucy girl," Alya called out to a dazed-looking Lucy. "You got something you want to tell me?" She then asked holding out her phone. On the screen was a photo she had taken of Lucy and Chat Noir after she and Nino came to. The photo was of them sharing a very heated-looking kiss, a kiss neither party could remember. Ladybug's eyes widened while Chat couldn't help but grin at the image.
"Send that to me, would ya?" He asked with a wink. His smile fell however when he glanced toward Lucy and found her looking less than happy. The sound of their miraculous beeping alerted everyone that Chat and Ladybug needed to make their leave. Chat sent Lucy one last glance before vaulting away. Alya walks towards Lucy and turns off her phone screen.
"You okay Lucy?" She asked, knitting her eyebrows together. Lucy looked at the ground a moment before rubbing her hand over her face and bringing her eyes back to Alya.
"Delete that please." She said quietly before turning away and heading for the roof exit door. Alya brought her eyes to Nino who shared her frown and gave a small shrug.
OoOoOoOoo
That evening Lucy sat on her bed in her room with a book in her hand. She had been re-reading the same three sentences for the past twenty minutes. Her mind kept trying to go back and fill in the missing pieces of the day with no luck. A tap on her window drew her attention. A sigh escaped her lips as Chat poked his head through window. He slowly came into the room and stood awkwardly at the foot of Lucy's bed.
"Sooo," he drawled. "Crazy day, right?"
"So it would seem," Lucy replied evenly. Chat let out a light chuckle before moving to sit on the bed in front of Lucy.
"Listen, about that picture..." He trailed but Lucy raised a hand to stop him.
"Don't worry about it." She told him.
"I'm gonna worry about it." He reached for her hand but Lucy pulled away before he could take it. A sting of rejection coursed through Chat at her recoil. "And it looks like I'm right too."
Lucy brought her knees to her chest and leaned her head back against the back of her bed frame, closing her eyes.
"I'm sorry," She apologizes.
Chat shakes his head. "You don't have anything to apologize for. I don't know how we ended up like that but-"
"Because we always end up like that," Lucy told him. "I suppose it's because I love you." She then admitted. "I love you so much it hurts."
He didn't like the way Lucy seemed to refused to look at him. She had admitted she loved him and she wouldn't even meet his eyes.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." He attempted a joke. It was then her glossy eyes met his and Chat could feel his heart begin to rip.
"It is a bad thing Chat. It hurts to love you."
He didn't know what to do with that. How to take the information being given or even how to respond to it. There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
"Sorry to inconvenience you with my affections." He replied, and it came out sounding more bitter than he planned it to.
"You should be," Lucy replied. "It's all your fault." The smallest of smirks threatened to lift from her lips. Chat could tell Lucy was trying to be more light-hearted. The heaviness of her words seeming to be more than either of them could bear.
"What do you need?" He asked. He needed to know what she wanted from him. What he could do to soften the blow. To ease the pain.
"I need you to go."
"Lucy..." A single tear rolled down the blonde girl's cheek as he said her name. "Not because I want you to." She then told him. "Because I don't. But if you stay I will keep coming back to you."
Gripping the sheets Chat struggled to control his breathing as a whirlwind of emotions flowed through him. Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.
"No." He told her.
"No?"
"We tried that remember? The space? It didn't work then and it won't work now. And even if it would I wouldn't let it." His eyes shot up to meet hers and Lucy was almost taken back by the pure determination in them.
"I'm sorry you are hurting, but I am too. Being near you without being able to be with you hurts. But you know what hurts more? Being without you. So you're gonna have to bite the bullet with this and so am I. We will get through it. Together. It's the only way. And one day, I promise you, it won't hurt anymore. Okay?"
He held out his hand for her to take. Though hesitant, Lucy lifted up her hand and placed it in Chats.
"Okay."
The storms are raging on the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
Though winds of change are throwing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing like me yet
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the Earth for you
To make you feel my love
To make you feel my love
Lucy stopped playing the keys and let out a breath before looking to Adrien with a small smile.
"How was that? Good right?" She said proudly. She scrunched her nose at Adrien's lazy smile. "What's with the face?"
"You're perfect..." He muttered out before clearing his throat. "I mean, you did perfectly. Amazing. You've made a lot of progress." Lucy flushed slightly at his praise.
"Well, I have an amazing teacher."
There was a strange thickness in the air as the two teens smiled at one another. Adrien could almost feel himself drawing closer to the bright-eyed girl beside him. It was a trance that they both almost fell victim to until..
Buzz buzz buzz
Lucy and Adrien readjusted their bodies as Adrien's phone went off and the video stop recording.
Adrien laid in bed and tossed his phone to the side, with a heaviness in his heart. Two steps forward, one step back. He wondered what would have been if Nathalie had not called him at that moment. He supposed it didn't matter. The could have, should have, would have never did. He would figure things out with Lucy. He had to.
I had a few different ways I had planned this to go. Im pretty satisfied with this one. I hope you all liked it as well and I cant wait to read your comment and thoughts on the chapter! I really need to update more often so people can find this story easier haha. Anyway, ain't wait to here from you, I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well as the story as a whole! I will see you in the next chapter!