A/N: Hello dear readers! I'm so sorry for not updating! I've been travelling between three countries and I couldn't bring my laptop with me so I had to make due with updating this via my phone! I hope the format stays the same . So...I've thought up of a very,very sad scene for this. Yes,the idea is overused but I just couldn't help it ^^ Hope you enjoy!

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Prompt: Ladybug had always been first to defeat an akuma and save Paris. But this time, she wasn't meant to be first.

Mix of LadyNoir and Marichat

WARNING: Mentions of death. Minors beware and don't read for those weak of heart!

First

Her eyes grew impossibly wide in horror, her battle weary muscles locking down and her heart seemingly stopped beating in her chest.

All she could focus on was the sight before her.

Chat Noir's staff had slammed against the akuma's head, making the dark themed knight dizzy and disorientated.

The large dark sword of the knight, jagged and massive just like its wielder, was deeply imbedded within Chat's abdomen, the tip of the blade sticking out, coated in sickly brugundy liquid.

It made her sick.

Slowly, Chat Noir turned his head to look back at her, eyes slightly glazed over and a small, relieved smile on his bloody lips, did she finally move.

She threw her yoyo at the akuma, effectively wrapping it within the durable string before falling to her knees in time to catch her partner, who had swayed on the spot and collapsed.

The blood, his blood, was warm as it ran between her fingers and she felt like his life seeped like that too, right from between her fingertips.

Frantically,she tried to cast Lucky Charm but she got a magnet instead, not something that could save her kitty.

She threw it away and instead summoned Lucky Charm and cleansed the akuma. It repaired the damage to the city, it cleansed the akuma from the citizen, but her kitty still remained where he was: dying.

She fell to her knees and cupped Chat's face in her hands,"Chat Noir! Kitty! P-please look at me!" Her lips were trembling and even thought she was the one uninjured she felt it hard to breathe.

His eyes,his impossibly green eyes, focused on her and he smiled.

It looked painful.

"Milady..." he winced and coughed, more blood gushing from his lips and Ladybug desperately pressed her hands against his wound to try and still the bleeding.

She knew it was futile. She knew her hands couldn't stop or heal his wound. She knew she couldn't stop him from-

She quickly shook her head, fingers reaching for the earring before a black gloved hand stopped her firmly.

Despite his strength and energy leaving him rapidly, he found the last remaining strength to stop his lady from making a stupid decision, like now, "D-d-don't," Damn, he was finding it hard to speak, "I-I-I'm n-n-not-"

He couldn't speak anymore and instead his shook his head, the action making him spin.

Her eyes, so broken and helpless, hardened and her hands were gently cupping his face with a desperation he hand't experienced from her,"Stupid cat! You are worth it! More than Ladybug will ever be!" She didn't remember when the tears fell from her cheeks but she was sure she must have been crying for longer, because her eyes had started to hurt sooner,"Y-You can-t-you can't just leave me! Who will help me fight akumas?! Who will help me defeat Hawkmoth? We said we'd do it together partner! Who will bombard me with all those impressive puns? Nobody could think of so many puns like you kitty!" She smiled but it was wobbly and teary.

He released what was supposed to be a chuckle, but came out as a shaky cough instead, "Y-you...t-t-t-think m-my puns... are im-mm-impressive?"

Despite the situation she laughed, a nervous broken sound,"S-silly kitty...of course that's the only t-thing you'd hear,"

She closed her eyes when his hand reached out to touch her face and she nuzzled her cheek into it,sighing when he carefully ran his fingers along her cheek, mindful of his claws.

And when he saw the affectionate look on her face he gathered the last ounces of his strength,"Y-you know...P-Paris will be fine w-without me..."he shook his head when she wanted to protest, shakily he continued,"As will you bugaboo. T-take care of my kwami for me...P-Plagg will be a-angry a-and miss his c-cheese." He smiled, expression softening as he gased at her meaningfully,"...The girl behind... the mask, I always... loved her princess," he smiled when her eyes widened in realization.

His hand tightly grasped onto hers and caressed her cheek one more time, before a bright light nearly blinded her. The hand on her cheek fell to the ground like heavy lead and remained motionless, the hand that had been holding hers so tightly slackened.

A black blur zipped past her vision and let out the most broken cries of agony Marinette had ever heard.

"You stupid fool! Adrien get up! Come on get up! Tikki will fix everything,she has to know a way! Adrien!" The kwami,his kwami,cried helplessly into his charges chest, "Not more kittens...I can't lose more kittens...not you Adrien..." he curled up on Adrien's chest, sobbing.

She barely registered that in place of her beloved kitty's place,it was Adrien Agreste,laying in a pool of his own blood.

Ladybug quickly turned away to empty the contents of her stomach, body trembling as her emotions assaulted her like a truck.

Adrien...he was Chat Noir after all. He was her kitty after all.

Deep down, she had often thought about the possibility but she never...

She looked back at his body and shakily reached out to touch the shivering,small black ball curled up on his chest.

Plagg reacted on instinct, miniature but sharp claws swiping at her hand and she drew back. She had never experienced a kwami being aggressive, but this was also a situation she never accounted for.

"Don't touch him! He...h-he'll be fine! Tikki could help him! He..." Plagg's ears dropped to his head, claws retracting as he helplessly floated down to Adrien's hand, "He...can't leave..."

Marinette barely registered her transformation releasing, she barely registered the two kwamis bickering and crying and consoling each-other. She didn't even hear Tikki's attempts at comforting her, all her senses were focused on was Adrien, Chat Noir.

Dead.

Died protecting her.

Her hand almost moved robotically up to her face and when she touched her cheek, she realized her tears had never stopped falling.

She didn't know how,but she had managed to drag herself home, barely.

The police, the media, Gabriel Agreste, everyone were there.

She sobbed, dropping her transformation.

She felt out of place now in her room.

She couldn't wait anymore for any visits from her favorite kitty.

She couldn't wait for one of his cheesy but funny puns.

She couldn't wait for any of his warm smiles or cocky grins anymore.

Robotically, she moved toward her bed until a sheet of white paper caught her eye on her desk.

She made her way towards it,not remembering placing anything on it before.

She froze.

It was a letter.

And as Ladybug,as Marinette, lifted the letter from her desk, she felt the tattered remains of her heart shatter at last.

Dear princess/milady,

I know you were usually always first when fighting akumas and saving Paris.

But this time, I'm first.

Take care.

Love,
CN/AA

T_T Well, what did you think? I just had to write this, which is most likely a really overused idea anyway but...argh I just had to write it!