I think I should stick to a proper schedule when it comes to updating this story, I mean I have one for the other FanFic I'm working on at the moment (every Friday for that one), so maybe I should find specific days of the week in which I upload? Now, what I was thinking was Sunday and Wednesday but it's not definite, remember I upload this to deviantART as well ;)

Anyways, as I am reading through this story myself, it makes me think how clueless Adrien is not to figure out Marinette is Ladybug...you know what I mean right? Lol I feel like one of you guys XD So I already have thought as far ahead as the real big part, which I am not going to reveal, but I'm sure you guys will love it...and after 70 followers who wouldn't? Lol.

Also with the Cat Noir, Chat Noir thing...I think I might just end up using both, but I use Chat because it sounds more like a name when Ladybug calls out for him, kind of weird for her to call out 'cat', you know what I mean?

Enjoy Chapter 6 of Revelations! ^^

Miraculous Ladybug (C) Thomas Astruc/Zagtoon

Chapter 6 – A New Victim

With a flash of green light, Adrien was transformed into Cat Noir. He was determined that Plagg's plan might just work, he was betting quite a lot on it. He wanted to set things right with Marinette, but yet he hadn't thought past distracting everyone so he could talk to Marinette alone, it was because he wasn't certain his plan was going to work, yet his determination led him to taking it into action.

Chat jumped from roof to roof of the school, and then he stood tall and proud on top of the highest point as he looked down at all the students. He examined the students for Marinette and found her with Alya in their usual hang out spot on the bench. It was then that he called out for everyone's attention.

"Hey everyone! It's me Chat Noir! I'll be doing interviews with whoever's out the front of the school first!" He called out to the students, waving his arms around.

Everyone looked up; Alya looked up and gleamed with a smile when she heard him say the word 'interview'. Next to Alya, Marinette rolled her eyes as she saw the cat gloating and asking for attention, she didn't seem surprised at all that he was like this, but it did confuse her a little as to why he would do it during school hours. She raised her eyebrow slightly before turning to see Alya running after Chat who had now leapt down and started running towards the front of the school.

Chat watched Alya's every move; he knew that just out the front of the school wasn't going to be far enough. So he thought as he went along. And then, a light bulb switched in his head as he stood in front of the stairs in front of the school.

As soon as Alya was spotted, he shouted out to her and pointed to her.

"You, Alya. I heard you're the best journalist around here, how about you meet me in front of the Louvre in a few minutes? I'll be waiting!" He said, before leaping off onto another roof, making all the students sigh and walk back in, while Alya screamed loud enough to the point in which she couldn't even hear her fan girl scream anymore.

She whipped out her phone, forgetting about school and Adrien and Marinette, she ran as fast as she could out of the school and towards the Louvre.

This was his chance, Chat led Alya a few rooves down before he vanished from Alya's sight. He made sure she'd follow his path towards the Louvre so that she was convinced, and then he crept his way back to the school. He did feel really sorry for Alya though, he hated to give anyone false information. But for some reason his only concern was to help Marinette feel better and now since Plagg's idea was going well so far, he wasn't sure what he would say to her.

So he hid near the school and transformed back into Adrien and running inside, ensuring that he had enough time to speak to Marinette about how he deeply sorry he is for hurting her feelings. He felt like it was his fault when it was Nino who forced the words out of him. Perhaps it was best to tell her his true feelings towards Ladybug, yet he was sure that it would only make her feel worse, he felt so conflicted on what he was going to say.

Telling Marinette that he loved Ladybug wouldn't help the situation at all, he wished there was a simple solution to all of this, but the only thing his mind was telling him was to tell her the truth.

Adrien walked casually into the school and then found Marinette sitting by herself; he could hear her talking to herself, which was a peculiar trait that Adrien didn't know about, he raised an eyebrow in thought before he started walking towards her. As he drew nearer to her, he heard a small gasp, and then Marinette looked up with shock as her eyes widened and she clenched her teeth in deep worry and fear.

Ever since she knew, Marinette didn't know how to act around Adrien anymore, she wasn't sure whether she should be rude and protective like Alya or act like it never happened, but she didn't want to seem like that sort of person. Before she was about to speak, Adrien hushed her and gently tugged at her arm gesturing towards one of the classrooms.

Marinette simply agreed, worried as her heart began to beat out of her chest. She felt the bubbles inside her fizz brightly; she felt her crush for Adrien still lingering onto her, not giving up. She saw how softly he had grabbed her arm, so she could tell that this wasn't going to involve him getting mad at her.

When he stopped in an empty classroom, he let go of her and hung his head low with guilt. Marinette knew deep down from Alya's words that she shouldn't be with Adrien after everything that happened, but yet she was starting to think that she was making too much of a big deal about it.

"I'm sorry; I wish I knew your feelings for me." He admitted, looking up into her crystal blue eyes.

Her cheeks turned to crimson in colour, her mouth locked in an open position while her pupils shrunk to their smallest point, and nothing but the small detail of her iris and pupil were to be seen.

Before even realising what he had just said to Marinette, she responded. "H-h-how d-did you...kn-ow?" She stuttered, utterly speechless that he somehow knew.

She began to think as her heart raced and her head started to feel heavy, she tried to remember of any times that he may have figured it out, but she couldn't. All of the times when she was around him it was always the same. He would give a friendly smile and a wink while she would laugh nervously.

How could he have known? She thought in a panic as Adrien rested his hands on her extremely tense hard rock shoulders.

Adrien had realised what he just said, but showed no expression in realisation, he looked into her eyes and smiled heavenly.

"I've known for a while." He said with a smile, before backing away a little, seeing that Marinette was still traumatised.

"But...but..." She muttered, pointing a shaken finger at him before she clenched her fists.

Adrien looked away in hesitation, seeing that now would be the best time to tell her about his feelings for Ladybug, but he felt so reluctant to because of the shock he had just given her by him knowing of her feelings. Looking at her expression that was printed all over her, he could tell that she still did, he admired it for a little but he had to face the fact and tell her the truth.

With a deep sigh, he turned his back to Marinette for a moment, looking out the window before hanging his head low. "Marinette...I need to tell you something..."

She couldn't take any more shocking news, she wanted to run and scream but at the same time she wanted to bawl her eyes out since Adrien knew she liked him but he still like someone else instead of her. Her heart grew confused and hurt; she didn't know what to feel, so she stood there like a statue.

Adrien approached her, taking in another deep breath before he began to speak.

"Marinette...I-"

A loud crash was heard from outside, causing the ground to shake from beneath them, it startled both Adrien and Marinette, causing them to gasp in reaction.

"What was that!?" He exclaimed, running towards the door with Marinette following behind.

As he opened the door, he saw a floating figure in the sky, and by the looks of his mask he appeared to be akumatised. He looked like a casual man but yet his clothes were torn in such a way that made him look like he was broke and lived on the streets, yet aside from his clothes he looked well groomed.

"Oh no!" Marinette cried, clenching her hands near her mouth.

This was definitely the wrong time for him to be, he didn't want this happening now but he had no choice. Adrien left Marinette and dashed for the men's bathroom, as he ran he could hear the villain introducing himself.

"I am The Quitter! No one makes the rules but me! You will quit being scared and all will work in dangerous construction sites until you can't!" He declared.

Marinette examined the akumatised person, but could see that it must have been a local civilian. She looked around and ran back into the classroom right before a formal tie was wrapped around everyone's neck and they were all forced to obey The Quitter.

Simultaneously, Ladybug and Chat Noir showed up just as The Quitter made all the students disappear making them do work for him, rounding up more people to take control over. Some of them were suspended in mid air and floating over towards buildings that were still in construction.

"Ladybug, you're here?" Chat asked, feeling his heart beat faster in her presence.

"Yes, and so are you, what's the big deal? We're here to get the akuma. Is something wrong?" She asked, showing no amusement in her expression.

Chat bit his lower lip but then ducked as The Quitter began to throw heavy and large objects at the pair, they both split and dodged the attacks, Ladybug almost being hit but Chat saving her and resulting in him bruising his leg.

"Are you okay?" Ladybug asked, worried about his partner.

Chat hummed and nodded in reply as he got himself back up. "What do we do?"

Ladybug looked around and saw how much damage had been done to the school already; she had to find a way to stop this akumatised victim before her whole school was destroyed. And then, with a light bulb switching on inside of her she gasped with a smile as she grabbed Chat's hand and pointed towards the front door.

"Distract him and make sure he heads over towards the front of the school. I'll try and figure out where the akuma is hidden." She explained, beginning to run away.

"Wait!" Chat exclaimed reaching a hand out before ducking again. "What do I do afterwards?"

She sighed, it seemed like she was getting all sorts of different reactions to her today. She was beginning to not handle it all, but as she pressed her lips together firmly and held her tongue on saying anything insulting to him like she said to him yesterday.

"Just keep him distracted, do you cats have poor memory?" She asked as a joke before running off.

So Chat went to distract The Quitter by waving his staff around and managing to dodge his attacks. Meanwhile Ladybug was hiding away so she couldn't be seen and analysed the akumatised victim. As she looked closely, she could see that one thing was oddly coloured and was wrapped around the man's neck.

"I've never seen a worn out tie look that colour before..."

But then, The Quitter turned around and then threw a large wooden crate at her, she used her yoyo and spun it around before the fast spinning of her managed to slice through the thick wood and render her unharmed. She then swung from another building and tried to make her way to the front of him to get the akumatised object.

After much more fighting and defence, Ladybug managed to get the object and cleanse the akuma, turning everything back to normal with the school and all the students returning. By this time, the second class was over and now it was lunch break.

The heroic duo touched fists with a proud smile before running off. Marinette couldn't help but realise that yet again the akumatised victim was not attempting or mentioned anything about hers and Chat's miraculous. She couldn't help but think that Hawkmoth was playing around with them.

Not long later, Marinette was looking around for Alya but couldn't see her anywhere, but right before she saw Alya's face, Adrien called from behind and made her jump, feeling startled.

"Marinette, can I tell you the rest of what I said...?" He asked, almost shyly as his expression posed a saddened theme.

She bit her lower lip, hearing running steps from behind and knowing very well that they were Alya's.

"Back off you, you go find your girl and stop hurting this one." She warned, grabbing Marinette by the shoulders and pulling her away from Adrien.

Marinette didn't want to be pulled away from Adrien, she could see in his emerald eyes that he wanted to tell her something important, she bit her lower lip in nervousness before stopping Alya from moving her. She brushed her hands of her shoulders and looked at her with a small smile of assurance.

"Don't worry, it won't take long. And I don't think it's anything bad." She assured him, leaving Alya slightly dazed and speechless as she saw her best friend walk up to the guy that made her cry.

Alya didn't know what to say, she was only protecting her best friend from harm, and Adrien talking to her in private only spelled bad news in her books, she wanted to go with and defend her in case Adrien did anything bad to hurt Marinette, but the assurance on that girl's face made her stay where she was, until Nino approached her and then she scoffed at him before walking away.

Adrien took her to the same empty classroom; he closed the door and saw that Alya didn't follow. He sighed in relief as he turned to see a more brightened Marinette but he could still see from her eyes that she was still in shock from before. Yet Marinette had assurance that whatever he was going to tell her wasn't going to be bad.

But then, when she saw Adrien's expression turn to remorse and sadness, she immediately regretted assuming that things were going to be alright. Whenever Adrien pulled an expression like this, it meant that he had some bad news to tell her, and her assumptions were correct when he started to talk.

"Marinette...there's something you need to know..." He started to say, nervously rubbing his arms and looking down in reluctance to see her expression. "That other girl...I know of and you may know of but...it's really hard to explain."

This made Marinette's heart drop as she could feel the tears returning, realising that she may know who this girl is that he likes too. Curious, she asked him.

"Who is it? I won't hurt her or anything...I'm not that kind of person..." Marinette assured, biting her finger slightly as she rubbed her foot against the ground nervously.

Adrien looked up, seeing that Marinette was far too nice to hurt her, he knew her well enough only to say mean things when they were provoked back at her, he knew Ladybug wouldn't say anything about Marinette because she told him that she was cute. He rested his hands on Marinette's shoulders yet again and gave Marinette a heavenly expression, letting his love for Ladybug show.

"I know this may sound difficult to believe, but I have a crush on Ladybug." He admitted, looking down shyly but still resting his hands on her shoulders.

He could feel them tense up, unfortunately he was expecting this to happen, and he knew he would hurt her when she found out. He knew that telling Marinette that he had a crush on a heroine was going to make her upset, as it was cliché for girls to fall in love with him in either form, and it was the same for Ladybug, he knew that Theo had a crush on her too, but somehow Adrien's love for Ladybug felt stronger because they saw each other almost every day, he got to see her fight and that determined look on her face gave him so much confidence.

Yet the confidence was not present as he backed away from Marinette who had an expression that made Adrien raise an eyebrow and gasp in confusion.

"Are...you okay?" He asked, reaching a hand out.

Marinette backed away, her pupils almost invisible to be seen and her mouth open with shock as her astonishment reached ultra maximum levels, she bolted out of the room, giving no verbal response to Adrien.

Adrien sighed, knowing that he wouldn't receive any response that would make him feel better. So he left the room feeling heavy hearted but yet deep down proud that he told her the truth. He just hoped that after all this he and Marinette could still be friends, he know it was cliché but he would like to remain friends with Marinette, sometimes she surprised him at the most unlikely of times. He liked that about her.

So Adrien headed to find Nino, while Marinette was with Alya interrogating her every word, he knew that now word would be out. But at the same time, he was proud of his crush on Ladybug, he loved her more than anyone else. So if the whole school were to know, so be it.

I got a little lost in the middle there but I pulled through in the end. I hope all of you are managing to keep up with the storyline because I think it's jumping all over the place and missing important facts. And yes I am well aware of the obvious hints that Ladybug likes someone named Adrien then Adrien finds out Marinette likes him...I'll get around to all of that in the next Chapter or so I assure you ;)

So I'm not sure when the next Chapter will be up but expect it up before the end of the weekend. For now I have to get to work on another Chapter for my other FanFic.

See you all soon for Chapter 7! ^^