Misery - A random drabble I wrote during my flight to Porto.
In the evening of a Thursday, the Japanese fencing student Kagami and a two year older guitarist named Luka Couffaine were walking together on the streets of Paris chatting with each other.
"Marinette had been talking about Adrien lately and I've suggested her to go talk to him," The raven-haired boy said to the blue-haired, who walked beside him.
"I don't know about Adrien. He keeps saying Marinette is just a friend to him, but I think he still has a crush on her, he just doesn't really realize it"
"He maybe doesn't ever had any lot of knowledge. His dad keeps him a lot inside the house and probably Adrien never questioned his dad anything about it due to the disappearance of his mother"
"Just like my mother does to me"
"What...happened to your father? I never heard you talking about him?" "I don't remember him much, I was still a baby when he passed away"
"My dad really never cared about my family. He had been fighting a lot with my mom until she asked him for the divorce"
"Where are we actually going?" Asked Kagami.
"To a pub" Responded Luka.
"What? That's your plan to take care of lovesickness?"
"Why not?" Replied Luka. "It helps"
"It does, but that's only for a short time"
"Just let's try it out. If you don't like it, we can always avoid it" Suggested Luka.
"Alright, just a little bit. My mother had forbidden me to drink and smoke until I'm 18"
"My mom told me to do whatever I want"
"Lucky you"
"I know," Luka said walking with Kagami into the pub walking at the barista, who served another man a beer.
"Good evening, two Rum please"
"Two Rum coming up," Said the barista, then Luka looked at Kagami, then placed his hand on her shoulder assuring her everything would be fine.
On another part of the same arrondissement Cat Noir and Ladybug stood on the top of the Arc de triumph looking down at the streets connected to the roundabout under them.
Cat Noir glanced down on the driving cars along with his partner with a neutral expression on their faces.
"You're kind of down today Ladybug" Mentioned Cat Noir looking at the red-dressed heroine.
"I don't know it's just some problems in the civilian life of mine"
"Is it because of that other person you like?" Asked the blonde cat miraculous holder, after his question Ladybug shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know, they're...kind of two guys I like. The one loves me and doesn't mind showing it to me, that he does, the other one I do love him, but he doesn't seem to look at me the same way I do at him. I don't know if I should keep trying to tell my crush that I like him or if try it out with the boy, who's really in love with me and appreciates everything of me"
"In going steady...see if it works?" Asked the black leather hero.
"Yeah"
"Well if you think it won't work out with the guy you really want to be together, maybe it doesn't matter if you give that second guy a chance. The question just is, if you do love that guy"
"I don't know, I've never been in a relationship before with anyone. That would be like my first time."
"Neither was I in one. My da...my parents rarely let me out to hang up with friends"
"Oh the same is with my crush"
"Oh poor guy then...and well, of course, I never had the chance to ask out a girl on a date...well besides you"
"I know you still like me that way, but you know we can't reveal each other's the identity"
"I know, but I mean there's no rule, that forbids us to not date each other, right?"
"Cat..." Ladybug said at Cat, which sighed.
"Right sorry...I do respect your privacy and your preferences. I just sometimes forget about our civilian identities"
"Come there must be some other girl in real life, that you're interested in?"
"To be honest, I was trying to move on and befriended a new girl, that moved to Paris for about a month ago."
"And did it work out?"
"I don't know, she knows that I have a crush, but I couldn't tell her it was you. She keeps thinking it's the girl, that designed Adrien Agreste's hat for Gabriel's new collection"
"Really?" Asked Ladybug excited, then turned shocked as she nearly hinted to Cat her identity. " Arg I mean, really?"
"I don't know, what else to do. She's a really great person, I don't want her to suffer, just because of my insecurities about my double life. She deserves someone better than that"
"You're are much better than that Cat. I know you"
"Shall I talk to her about my insecurity? Without mentioning my life as a superhero?"
"I would say talk would always be the better option for you two." Suggested the red spandex wearing girl the friend. "Maybe you two have to wait a little more until you're ready or she's ready to start something"
"Maybe that's the best solution"
"There are many girls out there waiting for their Prince Charming to appear, who knows, maybe she's the one."
"I'm still fifteen, maybe I might come along the way more girls, until I find my soulmate"
"Yeah, who knows" Ladybug said with a chuckle, then they heard a car crash and looked down at the streets to see at the entrance of the roundabout , where the road heads to the highways a red car lying upside down with a second white one, who was supposed to enter into the roundabout, but was standing next to the red car with the front damaged. Behind on the street, the traffic jam grew bigger due to the blocked road and far on the back was an ambulance with turned sirens one, who wanted to pass by, but couldn't.
"There's an ambulance, that needs to pass by the traffic" Mentioned Cat Noir.
"Go met the paramedic and ask them, if you should bring their patient to the hospital and they stay here to take care of then two from the car accident" Ordered Ladybug. " I go up at the accident local help them out of the car"
"Alright see you then," Cat Noir said jumping down while extending his baton to swing down at the top of a bus, then jumped down on the sidewalk running across the ambulance on his hands and feet like a cat. From the left side of the ambulance, the paramedic came out to Cat Noir, who came up at his feet after the run.
"Cat Noir can you help us? It's urgent"
"Sure, shall I bring your patient to the hospital?" Offered Cat Noir following the man quickly at the back of the ambulance.
"She has to get to the hospital very quick, she had a drink before alcohol at a bar and she reacted allergic to a substance of it and she's in danger."
"What hospital, where you heading to?"
"At the Hugo Victor Boulevard" Responded the man opening the door, then Cat Noir shrieked as he recognized the person lying on the bed.
"You can make this Cat Noir If you jump with her over those buildings right on the other side of the road." The paramedic said to the black cat hero, which nodded serious at the man.
"She will be fine," Cat Noir said getting into the ambulance, then the paramedic removed the mask from the girl.
"Short info you gotta tell the nurses when you arrive there at the hospital. Her name is Kagami Tsurugi, she's 15 years old and she had recently drunk before a Rum, later her breath got weaker and they called us"
"Okay I'll bring her up to the hospital safe and sound" Cat Noir promised taking the girl on his arms, then looked at her face, noting her low breathing, making Cat anxious at the sight of it.
"Cat Noir?" The Japanese girl whispered at the black-dressed hero.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine," Said Cat Noir taking his staff out to extend it while catapulting him up at the first building and landing on the top of it. Cat observed from the roof the surroundings and recognized a rescue helicopter from an hospital, then smiled gladly and ran on the roof towards the building and jumped down on the ground with Kagami on his arms, then made his way towards the entrance, where there were two nurses guiding an ambulance bed, then Cat Noir called them.
"Hey! I've got an emergency!" Shouted Cat Noir running while carrying Kagami to the two staff members, which came closer to Cat with the bed, then he placed her on the bed and followed the women into the building.
"What's her emergency?" Asked the shorter nurse.
"Allergy to any substance from an alcoholic drink. Her name is Kagami Tsurugi, she's fifteen. An ambulance was bringing her here, but they got stuck in traffic due to an accident"
"Alright we take care of her"
"I'll be back later, I need to assist Ladybug" Cat Noir said stepping back and observing the nurses leaving with the patient.
The next morning at the hospital Kagami was interned in a private patient room sleeping on the bed. Into the room entered Cat Noir looking at the girl, that still was asleep, then he got closer to her to check her health state out. Cat Noir walked at the window next to her bed to look out at the view to the Arc de Triomphe, where he was last night with Ladybug managing the traffic along with the police.
"Good morning," A voice said quietly behind Cat Noir's back, then he looked back at the girl, which stretched her arms up from having rest the night long.
"Good morning" Greeted Cat Noir gazing at Kagami getting rid of her tension. "How are you feeling today?"
"Much better" Responded the blue-haired girl. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I wanted to check out, how you're doing" Responded Cat Noir. " I thought maybe you would like to talk with somebody after, what happened last night"
"I didn't really know I was allergic to sugarcane which was in the drink, I just got offered from a friend"
"He doesn't seem to be a good friend to offer you a drink, that's for over 18. How did he even get the drinks, if he's also under 18?"
"I don't know you gotta ask that him"
"Okay it's fine, we don't need to do a judgment here. You're here to get well"
"Before the bar, I just wanted to clear my mind, then Luka had offered me to go with him, cause he wanted to do the same."
"Did anything happen, that you wanted to forget?" Asked Cat Noir looking at Kagami and sighed at the annoying Cat miraculous holder.
"There is this one boy, that I met nearly a month ago in my fencing class. We befriended each other and he was kind of fed up with that her crush wouldn't like him back, he spoke to me and I tried to help him. He had gotten better over the next days and offered me to ride me home, as Mr. D'Argencourt couldn't be present at the fencing academy"
"Did you fell in love with him?" Asked Cat Noir interested in the conversation of the patient.
"Sadly I couldn't control myself in not to do so," Kagami said making Cat chuckle.
"What happened then?"
"He sometimes talked about his crush, usually it seemed like he didn't realize he was talking about her"
"Did you ask him about that?"
"Yes, I did. He said he sees her as a friend only. It didn't look like he wanted to have anything to do with me besides being friends...I've suggested him to talk to the girl again and that just gave me a bad feeling to me. I do want him to be happy, but on the other hand, I feel he's doing it wrong, or he doesn't exactly know, what he's doing or wants to do. Maybe I suggested him to do the wrong thing and this could hurt him more than it did before"
"That sounds complicated"
"I think I'm going to talk to him when I see him again. We will solve it together"
"Sounds like a good idea," Said Cat Noir watching Kagami picking up from the night table her smartphone looking for something on the device.
"I better get going, in case there's an emergency," Cat Noir said at the blue-haired girl, which nodded at him.
"Sure no problem"
"See you someday," Cat Noir said leaving the room, then looked around the corridor and entered two doors left into the spout.
"Kagami is probably going to call me, I better transform back into me again." Cat Noir said looking around the room m, see if the coast was clear.
"Plagg, Claws in" Emphasized Cat Noir turning back into the citizen Adrien Agreste, while next to him appeared his kwami Plagg.
"I know there are vending machines or cafeterias in this place you better get me a bit of Camembert. I'm starving"
"Adrien?" Asked a familiar voice shrieking Adrien and Plagg to the same time, then they looked back to see Kagami standing barefoot and in the nightgown gazing surprised at the blonde. "You're Cat Noir?"
"...Yeah..." Responded Adrien turning around to the girl, that stepped back at the corridor.
"Why were you there before talking to me about you?" Asked Kagami glancing at the blonde.
"I c...can explain. I uhm..." Adrien replied looking at his cat kwami.
"You two want to talk alone, alright," Plagg said leaving through the walls, leaving the two alone in the room.
"Why did you do that Adrien? I thought I could trust Cat Noir with this...You..."
"I saw you yesterday lying in that ambulance between life or death. I felt so bad, that you lied there just because of me...I didn't want to hurt you like that. Please Kagami, let's talk about it. If we do that, we can fix everything that we need to" Adrien said watching Kagami get back into her room. "Kagami!" Adrien shouted following her back, then observed her leaning with her hands on the hospital bed looking irritated with him.
"Look I didn't want to hurt you, now that you also know about my other identity, we should really have a talk. I need to explain to you everything. You need to understand all this you couldn't probably understand before"
"Get out of here. I need to be alone"
"I cannot leave you now, an Akuma could show up and akumatize you," Adrien said placing his right arm behind her back. "I'm sorry about all this confusion, you know it's hard to keep two different identities off from all the citizens here in Paris" Adrien explained the Japanese patient, then got scared as he saw an akuma entering between the rills of the window, then Adrien picked the pillow of Kagami's bed and jumped on it trying to shoo the dark butterfly away.
"Kagami please leave the room, he can't get you" Demanded Adrien keeping to wave the pillow in front of the akuma to fight the little insect off, then the akuma passed beside Adrien's pillow dodging it and flew at his ring, shrieking him as the animal disappeared into his silver ring.
"No!" Shouted Adrien grabbing his head.
"Adrien no!" Shouted Kagami shocked as he got infected by the akuma.
Seconds later Adrien dropped his hands off his head doing a smirk, then he disappeared in dark smoke while Kagami stepped away from the boy and after that smoke was gone, he was dressed all in a black spandex suit with a light gray symbol on his chest with a heart shape and the right part of the heart was broken in smaller pieces demonstrating the starting disappearance of the symbol. The akumatized boy grinned evilly staring with his fiery red eyes at Kagami making her gulp and walk back towards the wall.
"Adrien, it's me Kagami, can you hear me?" Asked Kagami in awe, then the akuma laughed shrieking the Japanese descendant girl.
"Adrien is gone, now you see Misery in front of you," The villain said making Kagami afraid, which then tried to ran beside him, but he catches her and took her on his arms.
"Help!" Yelled Kagami making Misery laugh, then at the entrance of the room appeared a doctor looking into the room to see the akuma holding the patient in his arms.
"L...leave the girl down" Demanded the doctor a bit anxious. "Sh...she needs to do some analysis"
"Later maybe, first this room needs a new touch" Said Misery holding his ring closer to his other hand to spin the cap of it, which had several options he could choose and picked a symbol with a wrecking ball on it and smashed his fist on the wall causing the whole room to get destroyed and Misery broke the wall near the window and jumped out with Kagami on his arms escaping from the clinic with the patient, leaving a surprised doctor gazing at the mess he had caused.