Disclaimer: I do not own a miraculous ladybug but if I did Adrien and Marinette would have gotten together about 6 centuries before now.
When Lila messed with Alya, Marinette was fine. When Lila messed with class, Marinette was fine. When Lila messed up her life, and Adrien, Marreinette was ready to kill her. You don't go and mess up someone's life, especially Marinettes. Lila was in trouble.
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It was a cloudless night in Paris when Ladybug was on the edge of a breakdown. Akuma, after Akuma, after Akuma. Hawk Moth was sending them off one after another, and chat was out of town somewhere in America. Ladybug was dying.
It was Akuma, School, Lila, and Chloe, Homework, Jagged Stone, Akuma, Akuma, Akuma, Sleep for less than an hour when another Akuma came out. One did not mess with Marinette when she looked tired.
Lila said lie after lie. Alya started to ditch her and she was all alone at the top of the Eiffel Tower. The day Chat was going to meet her there, and all she wanted to do was sleep.
"Ladybug." A voice came from somewhere above her, but she was too tired to look up.
"Mmmm." She murmured in reply
"Are you ok, m'lady." Chat asked concerned
She yawned in response.
"Oh god, how many akumas have come since I've been gone?"
Marinette looked up at him, and he saw the dark bags and her tired face stare into his soul. " 39." She said with a glare. "You've only been gone for 3 days and there have been 13, 13 akumas daily. I haven't been sleeping because I have a bully, no, I have two. And I have school. Which gives like 3 hours' worth of homework because finals are coming up and speaking of finals I have to study for those. Everyone expects me to do all the slack of a girl who says she'll do those things and then she doesn't, so yes I'm tired."
Chat's jaw dropped," Marinette?" He asks hoping he was wrong.
"Well great." Ladybug said, slamming her head down on the rim of the gate.
" Oh, god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god," Chat chanted, "Ok, we are going to do something about this ok."
"Like what, for all, I know you're a middle-aged man," Marinette replied with a groan.
"Nope, I'm, I'm Adrien." He stuttered out.
"WHAT!" She screeched jumping up but she swayed and fell. Right into Chat's arms. "Well that makes sense"
"Yep, Plague claws off." Chat said detransforming
"Tikki," She yawned, "Spots off." Marinette de transformed. "I'm going to take a nap right here, and I'm not going to school for 3 years."
"We graduate in 2 years." He says confused
"Exactly." She says trailing off into sleep, and suddenly she was asleep. Adrien sat down slowly and snuggled up into her.
"Tikki or Plague. Wake us up when it's time for school please."
"Sounds good," Tikki replies.
"Thanks." But Adrien still had one thing to send. A message to his father. About how he was sleeping over at a friend's house and thanking him for allowing him to sleep over there. This would make him think he allowed him to stay over with friends.
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"It's time for school you two." A voice cut through Adrien's dream and he yawned.
"Marinette, we have to wake up," Adrien said, pushing her up.
"Mmmmm." She replied and sat up and fell back down." I can't move." She said from her spot on the ground.
"Ok, M'lady. I shall carry you to school and you shall not have to walk." Adrien said, swooping Marinette up into his arms, "Plague, Claws out!" He yelled.
"Tikki, Spots on." The familiar fabric of Ladybug's suit traveled up Adrien's arms.
"Forward my knight." Ladybug yelled pointed towards the general direction of the school.``
"Yes, Ma'am." Chat Noir said, saluting to the lady in his arms. Pushing the baton down he swung to the school. "What about school supplies?" Adrien asks the realization he had none of his things.
"I don't know and don't care." Marinette said her eyes were already closed again.
"I'm going to sit in the back with you and if anyone asks why you're sleeping I'll glare at them." Chat said with a creepy grin plaguing his usually nice face.
Marinette yawned in response. The school came into view 2 minutes after leaving the Eiffel Tower. Adrien batoned into an alley as close as he could to school without suspicion.
"Plague, claws off." Adrien's suit fell off his body and was replaced by his normal clothes. "Tikki, um if you can hear me can you transform Marri?" The ladybug suit came off the body of Marinette.
"Mmm, I'm awake." She said, raising her head.
"Great now you just have to walk to school, I can't carry you up the steps without drawing suspicion."
"M'kay." Adrien pushed Marinette on her feet and she slowly walked up to the school being partially supported by Adrien. They slowly walked to the school and into their class. Which luckily held either Chloe or Lila and her goonies. Only Mrs. Bustier sat at her desk.
"Oh, dear." Mrs. Bustier exclaimed in anguish, " Marinette are you ok. You look very tired."
"Mmmm," Marinette responded.
"She is so I was wondering if I could sit in the back with her so she could sleep for the first time in a week if that's ok with you Mrs. Bustier."
"Oh, yes of course." The understanding teacher nodded her head automatically.
"Thank You." Adrien said already moving towards the back
Marinette was asleep when the rest of the class came into the room.
"Oh, you know the famous new brand MDC." Lila came into the class with a lie
"Yeah, I heard they were raising the fashion parts of Paris." Alya
replied, already riding on Lila's lies.
"I know him," Lila said with a grin.
"Is it him?" Alya asked as though she was sure it was a girl.
"Yep, and he's really cute," Lila said, moving towards the spot.
"What does he look like?" Alya was jumping up and down like an excited puppy dog.
"Ooh, he has bright green eyes and this amazing red hair that has highlights of brown in it, and he's ripped." Lila said, whispering the last part almost like it was a secret.
Alya giggled," Can I meet him?"
"Probably not. He's trying to be secretive." Lila said, putting a finger to her lips.
"Oh, Ok," Alya said dejectedly
The rest of the class walked in and Mrs. Bustier started the lesson when Lila raised her hand.
"Where are Adrien and Marinette?" Asked Lila in what would sound like an innocent voice to an untrained ear.
"They're in the back, Lila." Mrs. Bustier said with pinched lips, angry at someone who was interrupting her lesson.
"Oh, I have a hard time upfront. I'm farsighted so it's easier for me to see things farther away." Lila said with a sad nod of her head.
The class was all like, "Yeah Mrs. Bustier ``'' You should let her sit in the back ``'' We can rearrange the class so she can sit back there." "Please Mrs. Bustier."
"I'm sorry but no. You can't, If you are farsighted you should have glasses. I'm sorry but Adrien asked for that seat when he came into class early today." Mrs. Bustier said getting a lot of complaints about it.
"But Marinette won't focus back there. Look, she's already asleep." Lila said with a frown.
"We asked if she could sleep for your information. I'm copying down the notes while she takes a nap." Adrien said, piping up.
"Why does she get to take a nap. I'm tired all the time, I deserve the same rights as the rest of the class." Lila says.
'I'm sorry, but do you know what Marinette does?" Mrs. Bustier asks.
"She hangs out with the rest of us, and is nice," Lila asks skeptically.
"Marinette plans all the school events. She makes you all nice gifts. She helps every single one of us while running about six different things outside of school including, more charities than you help, and you Lila help a lot of charities." Mrs. Bustier says with a glare.
"But still I want to take a nap too," Lila says with a stomp of her foot.
"You can but you still have to copy down all the notes and do all the homework, and tests that a normal student does." Mrs. Bustier says.
"Well, that's unfair to Lila, Mrs. Bustier." Alya replies with a frown,"
Adrien's copying down all of Marinette's notes and Lila doesn't have someone to do that for her."
"Well, that's life." Mrs. Bustier says and returns to the lesson, ignoring the crocodile tears flowing down Lila's face.
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At the end of class, Adrien woke Marinette up and helped her to her next class. Science, was hard as the teacher was very strict about people not sleeping in her class but the bags under Marinette's eyes were troubling to look at.
The woman was dead on her feet and Adrien was practically dragging her around with him.
"What's wrong with her?" Mrs. Mulestien asked, looking disgusted with the way she looked.
"She was planning into the night, and she hasn't gotten enough sleep." Adrien said with a groan
"Ah, well she's a good student, straight A's and she works hard, we are only having a lecture today so if you sit at the back of the room she can sleep because she looks dead on her feet. Mrs. Mulestien said sympathetically.
"Thank you so much," Adrien said with a grin and led a tired Marinette to the back of the room.
When Alya walked in she took one glance at the group at the back and went to tattle to the teacher like a toddler when he or she doesn't get what he or she wants right when he or she wants it.
"I don't care about Ms. Alya. They asked for permission and Ms. Dupain-Cheng looked just horrible with the giant bags under her eyes I let them sit in the back of the class so Ms. Dupain-Cheng can sleep." Mrs. Mulestein says her voice gets louder with every word she says.
"Sorry Mrs. Mulestien." Alya says unapologetically.
"Now go to your seat so I may start class." She replied, pointing to Alya's seat in the front of the room.
That was what it was like for the rest of the day until they got to P.E. Marinette slept through most of the day.
P.E. was their problem. Marinette was dead on her feet and P.E. was a running class, and their gym teacher was strict about how they had to run. It didn't matter how they ran they just needed to finish 30 laps through the course of the class and sign a sheet saying that they did them at the end.
That wouldn't have been a problem if Marinette was alive. She was asleep or at least getting the rest she deserved. Adrien picked her up and swung her arm over her body. Then he partially dragged her out of Art.
"Nino," Adrien groaned in the direction of his friend, " I need some help please."
"Dude is Marinette ok," Nino asked, automatically grabbing the blue note's other arm.
"Sleep-deprived, like I haven't slept for a week, sleep deprived." Adrien said, hoisting the arm back onto his neck.
"Oof." Nino replied." I can help, you both have a gym next, right?"
"Yeah."
"Ok, I can grab her legs like this." Nino goes and puts Marinette's legs on his hips.
"Oh, and then I hold her under her armpits," Adrien said with a nod of his head.
They marched off to the gym and luckily Mari didn't weigh too much otherwise this wouldn't have been possible.
"You know the drill. 30 laps or detention, sign the sheet when done and then I don't care what you do." The gym teacher Mrs. Grahl yelled out.
"One, Two, Three." The two boys yell together and set off running with the small girl in their arms.
"What," gasp, "In the world," gasp "Are you doing?" gasp. Marc asked, trying to keep up with the athletic boys.
"Sorry, sorry." Nino said slowing down their pace to a walk, " Ms. Dupain-Chang is sleep-deprived and we are letting her sleep."
"I can help." Marc says with a smile, " Marinette helped me meet Nathaniel, speaking of him. NATHANIEL GETS OVER HERE!" Then the red-headed boy ran over.
"Is Marinette dead?" Was the first question out of his mouth.
"Nope just sleep-deprived and she needs sleep and also needs to pass gym class." Adrien says with a pant.
"Oh. Can I help?" Nate asks.
"Yes please." Nino almost begs. They were nearing their 10th lap and he was tired.
"Ok, I'm going to grab one leg and you grab an arm, you grab an arm and you grab a leg." Adrien said, directing the group.
Once the boys were lined up, Nino yelled," Left, Right. Left, Right. Left, Right." Chanting it over and over again and they got such strange looks from the rest of their gym class.
When Lila ran up to them she asked, "Why are you treating Marinette like a princess when all she is an obsessed little girl."
"What's she obsessed with?" Adrien asks with a slight crackle of his forehead. Nino was glaring at the ice queen.
"You." She says and walks away with a smirk
Adrien's mouth dropped and he looked towards Nino who couldn't meet his best bro's eyes. "Nino," Adrien whispered.
"Y… Yes." Nino said, cursing himself for stuttering.
"Oh, oh god," Adrien said looking faint.
"Are you ok Adrien?" Marc asked
"Oh, Oh my god." Adrien's eyes were still widening and you could see the whites on all sides of his iris.
"Adrien." Nino asks warningly
"Ladybug has a crush on me."Adrien blurted out and closed his hand around his mouth just as quickly
"She's ladybug." Marc said no louder than a whisper
"That makes sense," Nino said, nodding his head.
"Yeah, she's always late when there's an Akuma attack, and oh dear." Nathaneal said looking in horror at the young lady in their hands.
Nino seemed to have caught onto what Nate was thinking, "40, there have been like 40 akumas these past few days."
"No wonder she's tired, Chat seemed to have disappeared or left town for something," Marc says with a nod of his head.
"Um… Guys as much as I want to return to this conversation. She's getting a little heavy and we still have like 20 laps to run. Plus there are only 30 minutes of gym left." Adrien said with a pant. He may be Chat Noir but his arms were getting tired.
"OK, ready boys" and they sprinted, and got some really strange looks from the rest of the rooms in their loud laughter.
"And. We. Are. Done." Marc cheered, setting Marinette down on a bench close to the finish line and walking over to the signing checkerboard, where he signed his name and Marinette's name too as she didn't look as if she would be waking up within the next century or so.
"Yeah." Adrien said unetherstuactly his hand doing a shaking motion.
no fell on the floor and looked as though he was dead, he didn't say anything.
Then Marinette sat up and looked at the four boys who looked as though they were dead on the floor.
"Hi," Mari said moodily as she staggered over to her backpack and picked it up shakily. "Gym is over, we have to go back to homeroom now." She says already walking to the door
All she got was a groan and the shuffling of feet as they tried to briskly walk with her.
"Okey Dokey." Nino says, "Let's go toward the room we call a home of a sort."
"Sounds good." Adrien and Marc say dragging a partially dead Nathanael along with them.
They walked into Mrs. Bustier's room and was met with glares (Class) and a pitied look, (Mrs. Bustier)
The second they sat down Lila started talking and despite Marinette being half-asleep, she came up with a response.
"I freaking know Jagged Stone and he has a gator or file or whatever the heck of a reptile he has." Marinette was looked at from all angles of the room.
"Yes, he does," Lila says with a wrinkle of her nose. "You're just a liar." Lila says with a pout.
Again she was met with the half-assed questions of her classmates, but only this time they didn't seem so sure of those questions they were asking.
"No, I'm not. Just look it up." Several of her classmates took out their phones and looked it up. "Achu doesn't run a charity for lost dogs. You haven't taught dance moves to Clara Nightingale, you are a liar Lila." Marinette said without her head moving off of its spot on her desk.
Lila's mouth gaped. Opening and closing much like a fish's mouth do.
"For god's sake Lila you've been traumatized like 20 times and if you were Ladybug's best friend you would have known where to go to catch her civilian form off guard because best friends usually share private information, right?" Marinette was on a roll and she wasn't stopping anytime soon.
"Um… Uh… Arm…" Lila couldn't come up with a response to any of that information.
Marinette slammed her head down onto her desk and was asleep before her head was even halfway down.
"None of that is true," Lila says with tears in her eyes. "She's lying just to…" The most unlikely person to tackle someone tackled Lila, hard. Rose went and football tackled Lila and knocked her to the ground.
