Marinette P.O.V.
"Chat... please take care of her" I manage to groan as I sink to my knees, my earrings are beeping. I don't know how much longer I can take. Chat nods to me reassuringly he grabs the victim and her hair pin and jumps off the roof.
I let out a sigh of relief as my body gives in and I fall on the hard concrete, I'm full of bruises and scratches and I'm sure I look like a mess. My body hurts and I don't know how to describe it. I'm in so much pain, my powers didn't work on me, it didn't fix my bruised body and I have a feeling I know why; I just hope everyone else is okay.
I let tears of pain come out of my eyes, I have to stay positive but my body aches and I just feel like yelling but that won't make the pain go away. I can't move, I can't even let out another word, I feel light headed while my body feels heavy. Pink light surrounds me and I transform back. My dress is torn, my hair a mess, tears streak down my face, scratches and bruises are all over my body. My body feels hot, and I can't stop panting. I feel Tikki hug my cheek.
"Marinette..." she says as she floats above me, I see her small little figure. She's tired as well, her voice is weak but she still manages to float above me, I'm glad she isn't hurt. I manage to smile at her but more tears streak down my face.
"I... I'm sorry Tikki" I muster to say, my voice sounds weak and it's very shake-y. I can feel my eyelids go heavy, my head is pounding causing me to groan.
"Marinette... Marinette! MARINETTE!" is all I hear but the world is black and I soon slip away.
Adrien P.O.V.
I kneel on the ground, Marinette lying there unconsciously, battered and bruised; her delicate features now purple and blue while there's a deep cut in side. Tikki and Plagg eat silently, i pull out my phone and text Natalie claiming I met up with a friend and I'm staying over, she refuses but after a few texts she tells me to pass by to pick up my stuff tomorrow since I am staying at Marinette's house.
I mentally thank her for not making this situation complicated, I kneel here worried, it seems like it will be an eternity before the kwamis' charge up and explain but none the less I kneel there my tears finally stopping but the heavy feeling in my heart remains as well as the uneasiness in my stomach. I see Plagg giving Tikki small pats on the back while she chews on the cookies.
Finally the kwamis' finish eating and float up again but neither talk to me but instead look at me sympathetically, afraid to tell me what's wrong. Tikki takes a deep breath and opens her mouth after what seems like forever.
"Adrien..." is all I hear her say.
"Please tell me what happened, why did she just attack females? Why is Marinette hurt like this? Shouldn't she be healed? Why won't she react?" I ask as tears brim my eyes again.
"Adrien, we need to take her home first so we can treat her wounds. Please transform and take her home and I'll explain everything back there," Tikki says, her usually cheerful voice seems gloomy and her expression sad, I just nod not trusting myself to speak.
"Plagg! Claws out!" I say as he flies into my ring, not a single voice coming out of his mouth to complain, I know he cares about Tikki and seeing her like this mustn't be easy for him. I lift Marinette's purse and put it in her pocket while Tikki flies in, I lift her up bridal style making sure to position her in a way I won't hurt her more and start jumping from roof to roof then from tree to tree, we're pretty far from Marinette's home but that won't stop me from running as fast as i can. Thirty minutes pass, Marinette hasn't shifted even once but her soft breathing is steady and reassuring. Another forty five minutes pass and finally the familiar bakery is in view. I reach her balcony and Tikki flies out with a pair of keys and opens the balcony door for us, I walk in, careful not to mess anything up and lay Marinette on her bed.
"This way," Tikki says as I de-transform and she leads me outside of the room. We walk into what I assume is the living room, she motions for me to kneel down and I do, she flies under the couch and I hear her push something so I stick my hand in and finally feel a box shaped thing and pull it out. It's a black box but once I open it I realize it's a first aid kit. Marinette must have it hidden here, I bet Alya looks through her stuff all the time and her parents wouldn't look under the couch. I walk back to her room, I notice her wall is covered with sketches, and fabrics pinned everywhere, sketches of all types of princess dresses and fabrics of all color, her rom is organized but at the same time messy to a point you can see she was busy.
I walk over to Marinette and my heart sinks deeper, her elegant and beautiful dress is now ruined, her skin which earlier glowed to show her beauty is now dirty, scratched and bruised.
"We should change her out of that and clean her up" Tikki says as she floats to Marinette, I become red, I can not do this I don't think she would like me undressing her unconscious.
"I-I... couldn't... she would kill me" I say as I look at her. Her usually stubborn self now silent.
"You don't have to look, just hold her up so I me and Plagg can do it" Tikki says. I just nod not understanding, I bend Marinette so she is now sitting on her bed and look away, I hear them struggle.
"Do you want me to help?" I ask them shyly.
"Please..." Tikki says, I turn around and open my eyes, I shift her and untie her corset, I slowly pull down the remainder of her lace sleeves. I lay her pack down and take off her shoes and then pull down her dress, closing my eyes so I don't see her.
"I'll take care of the rest, can you get me some clean clothes?" Tikki asks as I let go of Marinette my face heated up. I nod and walk towards her closet, it's full of nice clothes that doesn't seem good for sleeping.
"Um..." I say as I look through it.
"In the bottom drawer, also some underwear, and a wet towel from her bathroom so I can clean her up" Tikki orders, I open a drawer and pull out a plain white shirt and a pair of sweatpants, a bra and a pair of underwear, I blush at the sight of Marinette's lingerie even though I know it's definitely not the time. I walk towards Marinette's bathroom and grab some wipes and wet a towel. I come back out and close my eyes as I walk back to her bed and lay down the clothes, I go out to her kitchen to get her ice, Plagg coming with me and finally after a couple minutes of waiting with the ice in my hands, Tikki let's us come in.
This process is silent, and dim, it's almost as if we were scared to talk. None the less we don't break the silence and I simply start treating her wounds with help from Tikki and Plagg, her skin is no longer dirty but her bruises remain and her hair is still messy. I wrap bandages around her waist to help the wound, I rub some arnica* all over her and place ice on the bruises. I clean her wounds and remove any splinters I see, rub some antibiotic on them, and put small bandages on them. I then decide to brush her hair, I grab a hair brush and slowly tidy up her hair while brushing it.
I finally finish and we sit there, I don't know if I should talk first or I should wait but I know that i need to know why this is happening... NOW.
"Adrien... I'm going to explain but please don't interrupt okay?" Tikki says as she finally speaks, her voice is calm but gloomy.
"Okay," I say, as Plagg sits next to Tikki who takes a deep breath.
"As you know, when you two transform you receive extra human abilities, and your suits usually keep you from taking most damage" Tikki says, I simply nod.
"But there is a limit to how much damage you guys can take, and you may end up getting hurt but once everything is restored, all physical damage usually is healed as well because of Ladybug's lucky powers" Tikki says, i once again nod not speaking a word.
"But there is an exception to this rule and Marinette knows about it" Tikki says, my facial expression changes to a very confused one.
"Me and Plagg are in a way little 'gods', we can take much more than you, Marinette or any living creature on the earth; only to the exception to when we get illnesses which must be treated by healers but other than that our pain tolerance is a lot bigger than yours" Tikki explains as Plagg puts one of his tiny paws(?) on her shoulder.
"We usually absorb all the pain you guys may have so that you can keep battling and not feel tired or hurt" she says to me, her voice growing stern.
"But if you transform while hurt, we lose the ability to take away your pain. It's rather complex but I'll try to explain" she says as she clearly sees my face become very worried.
"We can take away the wounds or pain you have when you transform but that would mean we would have to feel it in your place while you are transformed, a few centuries back, a miraculous holder transformed while on the verge of death and their kwami took all the pain for them and died in their place, since that day the 'gods' which created us made sure that the accident would never repeat itself by making it so all kwami's are instantly shielded so that we can not take the pain away..." Tikki says as her voice becomes a little shake-y.
"Only a healing kwami or Ladybug's lucky charm can heal everyone once done fighting," she tells me, explaining why everyone else was healed. I'm still confused...
"I had told Marinette once before that transforming while hurt would make her take all damage, even after repairing everything, any damage she took would affect her afterwards" the small kwami says as her little eyes start brimming with tears.
"Today, when she went into battle she already had that wound on her and I got shielded from her, all the hits Destructa gave her she was able to feel yet she pretended not to and kept fighting when she should have de-transformed. She took hits for other people, and was hit with that yellow beam, I-I know she tried to hold in her screams, but she had to feel all the pain with nothing to protect her. If it weren't for Lucky Charm healing her a bit, she... she..." Tikki says as she burst into tears.
"Ladybug was supposed to die, a normal human can't take that much pain. The only reason why she could is because of her suit and even then she reached the threshold, after de-transforming she shouldn't have lived, but her lucky charm was a lot more powerful this time. Normally lucky charms are built up of two main factors one being the magical powers and the second one of the gratitude and hope people have for Ladybug and Chat Noir. She saved all of those people and they were all so grateful that it fed the Lucky Charm enough to heal her to a stable point " Plagg says as Tikki cries.
I sit there... she should died. If it weren't because of all the people she saved, for all the hope she has brought. She would be dead.
My head feels dizzy, and my heart is pounding so hard at just the thought.
"Hawkmoth has the moth Miraculous, and it has never been used for evil. Because of you and Ladybug Paris is grateful to you and have you constantly on their minds, you save Paris and with their gratitude they make you stronger" Plagg says, I look over at Marinette who is still sleeping.
Then I realize Alya is supposed to be here tomorrow and so is Nino and they can not see her in this state.
"How long do you think it will take to heal her?" I askTikki and Plagg.
"Tomorrow, we need to go to a healer. I know it sounds weird but, an you take us but not go in? It's not time for you to meet him yet" Plagg says as Tikki finally stops crying.
"A healer?" I ask, why can't I see him and how will they explain two magical fairy god things?
"He's a friend of ours so don't worry, in the future you will meet him but now is not the time, Marinette will wake up by tomorrow she just needs to sleep a lot" Tikki explains to me.
"Alya and Nino are supposed to come tomorrow though" I tell her as I remember my earlier thoughts.
"I forgot! Um... I know! Text Alya from Marinette's phone and make up some lie so she won't come until the day after tomorrow" Tikki says, the only problem with that is...
"How am I supposed to unlock her phone?" I say as I reach for her clutch bag and get her phone.
"I know the password" Tikki says, she floats to me, I look away and she slowly types in the password.
I go to her contacts and find Alya registered in as BFF, I press on the text icon on the screen and think of a lie...
'Alya, can we post pone tomorrow? Adrien invited me over to his house all day, sorry it's so short notice' I type, that way both of us are excused. It's twelve at night and I doubt she'll be awak- BEEP!
'Girl! Of course! I'll go over to Nino's then, need all the det's later! TTYL GN ILY' I read, struggling a bit to understand.
"By det's she means details, TTYL is talk to you later, GN is good night, and ILY is I love you" Tikki explains as she face palms herself, texting is not really my thing.
"Thanks" I say as I yawn.
"Why don't you sleep? Marinette won't mind if you sleep on the bed, just no funny business" Tikki says as she yawns as well.
"Okay, I mean it won't hurt, I have to leave early though, to get my stuff but I'll come back as fast as possible" I tell her as I move Marinette to one side of the bed and I lay on the other.
"Okay, Marinette will probably be asleep until around noon" Tikki tells me as she floats over to a small bed, Plagg following her.
I lay on the bed and it's not too hard to fall asleep, I'm tired and worried but my eyes soon fall heavy and my thoughts grow silent as I drift off into slumber.
A/N: So um... yeah. So before you say anything, hear me out. The idea for her not healing came to me one day during sports practice, I wear a lot of protective gear which usually protects me from all blows I take while in the game. My gear makes it so I don't feel pain in a way, and helps me a lot. But when I'm hurt before putting it on, it's a lot harder for me to play because I'm hurt under all this gear and the pain won't disappear because I have my gear on. It occurred to me that Ladybug's powers could work like that in a way, of course in a universe that isn't mine I can't claim it's true but I can put the idea out there.
Of course unlike my sports gear, I had to modify the same concept to fit Miraculous Ladybug, I'm sorry if you don't like it but it's just an idea of mine.
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