Defeating Glacator had been simple after Plagg had gotten me my miraculous back. With no Adrien me to distract her, it was fairly easy to convince my partner to defeat the Akuma so 'Adrien' would stop hiding from the big, scary, ice cream man. Coaching her to call lucky charm and miraculous cure had been a breeze.
Only difficult part was keeping her away from those damn advertisements with my face on it. They were everywhere. Every time she saw one she became instantly enthralled and would lose focus, going over to hit on or snuggle my photo. Sometimes she would stand there smiling and giggling while cooing my name.
And every time I had to drag her away and get her to refocus.
"Hey, how about I take you out for a movie to celebrate our victory," I said when it was finally over and after Ladybug's and my customary fist bump.
Ladybug pursed her lips and narrowed her eyes at me.
I grinned at her pout. It was so cute and it confirmed that my bug was back to normal. I preferred my grumpy bug over an enthralled lovesick bug anyday.
Her expression turned into one of more concern as she reached out, and plucked something from my hair. "Maybe you should go take a shower instead," She held up a brown banana peel.
My eyes widened in horror and I felt my face heat up. Had that been there the whole time? Was there more? Please don't let there be more.
I shook my head and tugged through the locks to check for more things that shouldn't be there.
Shouldn't the miraculous cure fix this? The bump on my head and the road rash were gone. Why didn't it get rid of the garbage? Was that alleyway still a health hazard to Roger Cop?
"Here let me see." Ladybug said, reaching toward my hair again.
Embarrassment burned my face and ears. I lowered my head. My cat ears pressed flat, as she ran her fingers through my hair. Gently moving locks about as she checked them over. I felt her pluck something.
Ah, great, there was more. Ugh, I had the worst luck. Someone put me out of my misery.
"Poor kitty," Ladybug murmured as she continued the impromptu preening. "I am really sorry about the whole garbage bin thing. I didn't see it and I thought you'd right yourself when I threw you."
"How about you just stop throwing me?" I grumbled.
She snorted, "No way. Do you know how difficult it is to fight both you and an Akuma?" She stepped away, walking to a bin to toss whatever it was that had been in my hair.
"'Bout as difficult as stopping you from chasing a model."
"Uh?" Ladybug turned back to look at me questionly.
"When Mr. Ice Cream Man blasted you a certain Adrien model," I gestured to a random advertisement with my civilian self on it, "was in the area and you two happen to make eye contact at that moment."
Ladybug's face paled and she looked down right horrified. "Adrien Agreste," she squeaked.
Oh, was Ladybug embarrassed? Should I tease her about this? Was I going to tease her about this?
She did throw me into a garbage can.
So, yes, yes I was.
I was entitled to some teasing at Ladybug's expense.
"Yep, Adrien Agreste," I affirmed smirking, "You chased that poor boy down six blocks before losing him. Then set your sights on his advertisements. I had to practically drag you away from making love to a billboard at one point."
"What!? I was chasing Adrien!? And then I…," Eyes wide, she gasped and covered her mouth with a hand, "Oh this is a disaster! A complete and utter disaster! Why did it have to be him? Oh, no," she buried her face into her hands, "why him?"
"Hey-"
She jerked her head up, "It could've been anyone, but no.'' She gestured wildly, "It just had to be Adrien freaking Agreste."
"Ladyb-"
"That's it! I'm gonna go home." She detached her yoyo from her hip. "Crawl into bed and pretend today never happened." She tossed the yoyo and swung away, leaving me here gobsmacked at her reaction.
