"Hey, LB! How's it going?
"Better now that you're here." She threw him a wink... Then smacked herself in the forehead. "Bc of the akuma! Yay! That you're here, not that there's an akuma. I don't want to spend time with you bc akuma are bad! I mean, I love spending time with you so we should go out sometime! I mean hang out! Hang out sometime! Only for professional reasons though! I'll bring croissants! Good bye!"
"Wait! The akuma!"
"Right, of course! Good bye the akuma! Let's get to it!"
"Are you ok?"
"Never better! Let's boogie!"
"You're crying?"
"I know right? The akuma is in the glove, here you go!" She launched him off the roof.
"Whaaaaaa!"
"LB, just hold on a little longer! I'll get the akuma so you can fix everything!"
"I'll hold on as long as you want, pretty boy... I mean yes, I am holding! It would be pretty bad if I didn't hahahaha please leave a message after the beep!"
"Plagg, it was just so weird! I don't think you understand!"
"I think all humans are weird. Guardians even more so. Who would want to do all of that work when you could sit back and eat cheese instead!"
"You're right. It's probably all the Guardian stuff she has to do now. And to be fair that last one was most likely due to hitting her head that hard. We're better get going or we'll be late for school."
"Wow, Marinette. You made that? I shouldn't be surprised, I always knew you were talented."
"Thanks! I could make you one too if you wanted." She joked.
"While I would absolutely rock a skater skirt, I don't think my father would be too excited about it."
"Well no one said he had to see it."
Adrien laughed. "Well maybe I could come over sometime and you could take measurements."
"That's ok, I still have them from last time, plus the material is stretchy. I'll have it ready for you tomorrow."
"Right..."
"Well, we don't want to be late!"
She put out her elbow for them to link arms and he gladly accepted, well as glad as he could be while ruminating his most recent loss. It wasn't direct enough, but too direct was too close to Chat Noir. Plus Marinette was finally comfortable around him! What was a boy to do? Maybe a magic girl transformation that night to see his Purrincess? Yes, that would soothe the soul.
"Tikki, you don't understand! It's awful! I can't stop flirting with him! And why won't you stop laughing! This is a disaster! We can't be together or else literally everyone will die!"
"Marinette, I don't think it's all so serious as you think it is. We don't really know what led up to Chat Blanc, so it's impossible to know if the simple act of dating is in truth what caused it, or if it was knowing identities, or if hawkmoth planned something. You also don't even know who you were with, chat or the person under the mask or who you were."
"Well it's still not going to happen until after hawkmoth is dealt with."
"If that's what you feel is best. Just try not to flirt with him when you let him in or he might connect the dots." She giggled and flew away.
"Wha-"
There was a thump on her balcony.
"Son of a- Tikki, we're having a talk later."
She literally could not stop flirting, but his flirting wasn't helping her to not flirt. This was a disaster! But maybe as long as he didn't know she was Ladybug it would be ok? RIP to her sanity, though being a single mother to all of the kwamis had kind of already put it in the ground. Now she knew why Fu never let them out of the box.