"Hey there, pretty girl.", a dark voice sounded above her and Alya whirled around on her balcony, leaning against the railing to see Carapace looking down at her with bright eyes and an even broader grin.

She responded to his grin with a smile of her own and watched him slide down from the roof to come to his feet on her balcony, the shield clipped onto his back.

"Hey there, pretty boy.", she teased back, letting her hands brush over his pecs as soon as he had stepped close enough for her to reach. Her fingers wandered up his chest to his hood and she pushed it off his hair to bury her fingers in the soft brown curls.

"It's awfully late to be outside.", he quipped but she was just as fast to answer.

"I like to be awake when it's late because it means a bit of silence."

"Aren't you cold?", he now tried.

"I got my jacket and my thoughts to warm me."

A grin dominated his face now, his eyes jumping between hers.

"Thoughts like?"

She shrugged no descriptively, giggling.

"Thoughts like how adorable my boyfriend is for visiting me this late."

They both laughed as he pressed a light kiss to her forehead, letting the silence lie down on them for a while before speaking again, silently, and something in his eyes shifted.

"What's a beautiful little lady like you doing outside in the dark at this hour?", he mocked her but she still saw the cheeky and amused glimmer in his eyes.

"Oh, nothing really. I was just-… Watching, waiting…", she gave back, the smirk on her face growing as he stepped even closer to her, his legs hugging hers as he stood so close, he had to position his feet next to hers. His arms wrapped around her waist and Alya giggled, nuzzling her nose against his as he leant down.

"Waiting?", he prompted, the laughter already hidden in his voice, "Waiting for what?"

"Waiting for whom.", she corrected him, pulling him down to her. He chuckled as he placed a kiss on the corner of her mouth.

"And who is the lucky person you're waiting on?"

"… My knight in shining armor, maybe?", she gasped as he kissed down her jaw to her neck, their warm breaths coming in white clouds floating around their faces.

He merely grumbled as he kissed further down before leaning towards her and locking an arm around her thighs to lift her up and carry her back inside.

She closed the door as he kissed around the base of her neck, now slowly letting her down on her bed. Alya pulled him down with her, letting him rest on top of her and continue his ministrations while a green flash washed over them both, engulfing them for just a second before Wayzz vanished somewhere in the dark depths of her room and leaving the young couple to themselves.

Nino's voice rumbled on her neck as he hummed, now kissing to the other side of her neck before tightening his hug around her and burying his face in the crook of her neck.

Alya sighed as she cradled his head, combing with her fingers through his short, soft hair and brushing down his spine with her other hand.

"… You okay?", she finally asked into the silence, her heart still beating fast and his warm breath on her skin still making her feel shivers run down her spine.

"… Mhm…", he vaguely replied, his eyelashes lightly brushing over her neck. He breathed through a few times before finding his voice again, "I-… I've been thinking. Sorry to have jumped on you like that."

She merely hummed in understanding, closing her eyes as well as she snuggled against him.

"Does that thinking have to do with jumping on me like that?"

He grumbled and huffed for a while before answering, his words thought out and carefully phrased.

"Well… Partly. I have been thinking about how-… This hero job affects us. We're even closer to the fight than before and-… I guess I got scared. Scared for you, for us."

He lifted his head off her chest and looked at her, his golden eyes now filled with fear, fear for the future.

"Scared?", she asked, a lump building up in her throat. He merely lied his head back down on her and kissed the bit exposed skin that he found in her small cleavage.

"Scared.", he confirmed, "Because-… What if something happens to us? What if something goes wrong and-…"

Alya pulled him closer and sighed, kissing the top of his head, his fine hair tickling her upper lip.

"Nothing will go wrong. Ladybug and Chat Noir have done this job for a year now and nothing ever happened to them.", after a short pause she hurriedly added, "At least nothing that wasn't reversible. Ladybug's lucky charm and her cleansing light can fix everything."

Nino nuzzled closer and she felt him shivering. Shortly, she asked herself if the balcony door was still open but it became evident really quickly that he shivered because he suffered under his own imagination.

Alya massaged his scalp and shook her head, waiting for a moment for him to catch himself.

In the silence, she heard both their Kwamis speaking in hushed voices, in a language too old and fast for her to understand.

Her breathing was low and even while Nino's was erratic and fast but he soon found her rhythm, breathing with her as he calmed down, listening to her heart. It still thumped loudly in her chest from his sudden ministrations, since he had never gone down on her that fast, but it slowly calmed down as he did.

After a while there was just their tandem breathing, their Kwamis having quieted. After breathing together, Nino finally breathed in to speak and she encouragingly brushed through his hair.

"… I just-… Didn't wanna repeat something like what happened on heroes' day…"

"It won't…", she whispered, "It won't."