Prompt: It's Not What It Looks Like

Marinette was used to being in the spotlight, especially since she had become Ladybug. Although, haviNg the attention of a group of teenagers as the girl beneath the mask, filled Marinette with fear. Especially under the conditions in which she found herself.

"This isn't what it looks like! I swear" She shouted, squirming under the boy who was moving as if Medusa had looked him straight in the eye. In the heat of the moment, all of Marinette's stutter disappeared. Her gaze turned to the boy above her, knowing the cogs within his mind were still trying to process the events that had unfolded. He still had to move. "Adrien, please get off of me."

His green eyes were staring down at her, muscles rigid with shock. Marinette couldn't blame him, but there was no time to be staring at each other in immense shock. They were surrounded by their classmates, and there was no way that they could hold their long awaited conversation in front of civilians.

"You okay, dude?" Nino asked, rushing over with Alya and pulling the blonde boy to his feet. Adrien's eyes never left Marinette's as he responded, even as the dark haired girl was helped up by Alya.

"Yeah, just a bit shaken up. I wasn't expecting that akuma to be so destructive!" He shivered, the memories of the heroes' battle still fresh in his mind. It had been a close call on both of their accounts. The event that had shaken him the most was the wound Ladybug had received from one of the akumas as she had been purifying the butterfly from their partner.

When two akumas had appeared, Adrien had paled at the thought of facing two terrors. They had enough trouble as it was fighting one enemy at a time. Battling two was just asking for trouble. The last time they had fought two akumas, there had been three of them, Chat Noir, and his two Ladybugs. Which at the time had been amazing for the black cat. Needless to say, the idea of fighting two akumas scared Chat.

They had been doing well against the enemy. Right up until Ladybug was injured by the akuma that Chat was supposed to be distracting as his Lady purified the first butterfly. Their luck seemed to be against them, not only was Ladybug now hurt, but they were both running out of time in their masks. Chat had used Cataclysm, and Lady had used her Lucky Charm, they couldn't stay as the superheroes of Paris for much longer.

In his distraction, Chat had taken his attention away from the second akuma, whose rage had increased tenfold at the loss of his brother. He ran towards them, and like many times before Chat Noir grabbed Ladybug and made sure he was the one that was going to get hurt. Instead of attacking the duet, the akuma decided last second to escape to fight another day, and blast through the roof, causing debris to fall.

Ladybug had fallen to the floor, having been pushed down by her partner who was on top of her, and she had become absolutely livid at him for it. Especially when he acted like nothing was wrong and proceeded to check her over for any more injuries she could have acquired other than the cut on her arm. Like that was possible after what Chat had just put himself through.

If anything, she was the one that should be checking him for injuries. Last time she checked, Ladybug was the one with the good luck, and the black cat on top of her had the misfortune of acquiring the bad luck. Marinette had insisted she was fine, and then progressed to grabbing the cat by his face to make sure he didn't look away from her.

"You damn cat! What if you had gotten seriously hurt!?" She said seriously, her eyebrows furrowing and lips turned down, quivering slightly. "You always say how you would put yourself in front of me, and I've seen you get do it a million times, and get hurt a million more." Her serious tone had started to waver, the horrific idea of losing her partner again terrifying the girl in red. "How do you think I would feel if I lost you?" She sobbed.

Chat lifted one of his hands off of the ground and gripped one of her hands that was still on his cheek. He leaned down and placed his forehead against hers, Ladybug's body shaking as her tears streamed down her face. Chat Noir took a huge breath, understanding exactly where his Lady was coming from. Her fears were exactly like his, and the reasons behind his repetitive actions. Jumping in front of her whenever he believed that she was in danger.

"That's exactly why I do what I do, my Lady. Because I wouldn't know what to do if I lost you." He whispered over the sound of her ever quietening sobs. Chat Noir remembered when Ladybug had become slightly more paranoid about whenever he jumped in front of her. It had been right after the incident with Alix and time travel. She hadn't discussed it with him, but he knew that something had happened to the Chat from the other timeline, he wasn't stupid.

The sounds of their miraculous' constant beeping had gone entirely unnoticed, until it was far too late. Chat Noir started to move away from Ladybug when their transformations ran out. The two teenagers stared at the other, the shock of the reveal causing both to become as rigid as stones, and tuned out of the world around them. The two kwami's sat by their sides, too exhausted to move. They knew that their charges needed some space, so Tikki and Plagg sat in silence, taking the time to recuperate.

That is until Chloe Bourgeois rounded a corner that lead straight to them, and let out a blood curdling scream that if toned down a couple of decibels, possibly resembled Adrien's name. The kwami quickly hid in their respective teen's jacket at the sound of the blonde girl's screech.

Which lead to the situation they were in currently.

"Are you both okay? What happened?" Alya asked, her voice hoarse, probably from shouting out for Marinette while the fighting was at full force, and buildings were falling apart. Marinette rubbed her eyes, knowing that there was no way she would get away without being asked if she had been crying, and what over. "You're hurt!"

Marinette looked down at the cut that was on her arm, the bleeding finally having slowed to a stop. "I'm fine, it's just a small cut." She said, putting her hand over the wound to try and hide the full length of the injury. "We just happened to be caught right in the middle of it." She whispered, afraid that at any moment she might cry again, the moment of vulnerability between the two teens still fresh in her mind's eye.

Adrien nodded in agreement to the dark haired girl's statement, eye lingering. He was still trying to wrap his head around Marinette also being Ladybug. It has crossed his mind more than once before, but he had paid no attention to it, as his Lady wanted to keep it a secret, and he wasn't going to go against her wishes.

"We must have gotten separated from you guys, because next thing I know, Marinette and I are dodging debris left and right." Adrien added, keeping as close to the truth as possible and trying to avoid the suspicious gaze from Nino. They had been found in a compromising position after all.

Just as their story was about to continue, Chloe wriggled past Alya and Marinette straight to Adrien's side, proceeding to cling to him. "Are you okay?" She cooed. "I swear, those heroes will pay for letting you get hurt!" She shouted to the roof, fist raised before returning right back to the boy's side. The sudden quick and rough movements made Adrien bump into Nino, aggravating the wounds that he had acquired on his back.

His wince went unnoticed by Chloe, and Nino who was about to let the blue eyed blonde a piece of his mind when Marinette spoke up. "Adrien, we should go visit the nurse's office, I don't think that area was damaged during the fight." She looked him straight in the eye, and saw him swallow nervously. She turned her gaze to Alya, hoping that her friend would get the message.

As she held out her hand to the green eyed boy, they were interrupted by Chloe, who didn't seem keen on letting him out of her sight. "Adrien? Where are you going?" The boy froze like a deer in headlights, the two teens really didn't need Chloe following them.

"Chloe! Let's go track down Ladybug and Chat Noir and give them a piece of our mind for hurting our friends!" Alya provided, grabbing Chloe's shoulders and pointing her towards the opposite end of the room. Nino, having caught wind of the situation, turned to the two girls.

"Right, dude? How could they? Aren't they supposed to be Paris' heroes?" Silently thanking their friends, Marinette and Adrien ran out of the room hand in hand as quickly as they could. They had a lot to discuss.

I have no idea how I got all this from that prompt tbh... But here you go! 1550 words of pure and inter fanfiction for the ML fandom!

I would have written more for things like the ML appreciation week, but I've been going through a rough spot and have only recently started to get back into my groove...

In other news; I have been working on that multi-chap doc, but it isn't even 2% completed yet... Blame that on my inexperience...

I hope you guys enjoyed it!

TheiaNeko~ (Rionydal)