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Réunion
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Adrien laid on a nice patch of freshly cut grass. He didn't expect to find a roof with a small garden but it was a nice change. If only he knew of this place before when he'd have his passionate nights with his Lady.
How he'd give anything in the world to just have her in his arms again. To run his fingers through her hair. To playfully trickle his fingers down her spine and kiss every scar she has on her back. To just touch her. He wanted nothing more than her here with him. Just her smiling face would suffice.
Humming to himself, some random tune he had heard on the radio while he drove. Yes, thee Adrien Agreste actually drove himself somewhere for once. It was a long battle with his father but he won his argument by stating that he was eighteen and wanted at least this bit of freedom whenever he wasn't busy running a tight schedule. Of course he was always busy so he hardly had any time to take a leisure cruise around the city. He knew that, his dad knew that, Nathalie his dad's personal assistant knew that and thus - he hardly had time to even drive. It was a small victory even if it felt like it wasn't.
Chat Noir closed his eyes and continued to hum his tune as he took a moment to enjoy the silence. He had been patrolling since 7pm and at currently 1:30 am, there still wasn't much happening. Around 9pm-ish, he had stopped a would-be mugging from happening and then by 11:11pm he made a wish upon a star to see his girlfriend again and also helped to escort a girl home from the pub she had been drinking her sorrows away at.
It felt like it would be an easy night for once. Adrien didn't want to jinx it as he thought about that momentary relaxation. He was beyond exhausted and knew that he wasn't giving it his all when actually facing an akuma. His personal life and his secret one were melding together too close for comfort especially when he currently has a very observant and snobby cousin staying with him at the manor.
Felix was exciting as watching wet paint dry on the wall. That's how Adrien described him all the time to everyone he knew. Felix was exactly what he feared of becoming - an exact replica of his father.
Felix idolized his Uncle Gabriel and some days Adrien would have gladly traded him.
"-MORT À LA COCCINELLE ET LE CHAT NOIR!" Chat Noir caught part of someone's rant as both his cat ears and normal ears perked up. Getting up from his comfortable spot on the ground, he quickly ran to the ledge of the building to take a look. Running down the streets was what appeared to be a metalsmith wearing a dark brown leather apron with a welder's mask on. In one hand he held a hammer and in the other he had a steel ring mandrel.
Chat Noir smirked. "This'll be easy" he thought.
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Wrong. It wasn't easy at all.
"Aaagh!" Chat's blood curling scream echoed throughout the chilly air. A piece of metal had impaled itself into his thigh. The night's moon illuminated his path as he stationed himself on the same roof he was on before. His blood highlighted itself against the black of his leather. The warmth rapidly turned chilled in the air.
Out of everyone that could be turned - out of everyone it just had to be a freaking metalsmith that had been turned into an akuma and as such kept throwing sharp objects and pieces of metal at Chat. He managed to dodge most of them except one that successfully had managed to impale itself into his right thigh and another that sliced right into his left shoulder blade.
Adrien was grateful for Plagg's ability to keep the pain at bay. The suit absorbed most of the shock and would keep him feeling mostly-numb for longer while his own natural adrenaline would kick in. "C'mon! Get out!" he howled as he heard a gushing sound come from the impaled piece when he moved it an inch out.
Releasing it for a second, he took a deep breath as he braced himself for the full-on extraction. "AAAAAGH!" Adrien wanted the pain to go away as he clenched his teeth and shut his eyes tight as he pulled the metal piece out as fast as possible. His clawed hands were stained in his blood as he slowly took the jammed piece invading his body out.
He felt light and weightless as his head hit the ground of the roof he was sitting at. He wasn't sure what happened after he heard the clank of metal hit the floor. He was only sure that he had lost a lot of blood and would be limping for a couple of days.
"Hang on, Chaton" a sweet voice as sweet as warm French vanilla embraced him as he felt warm hands touch his lips and cheeks. "Hang on" the voice repeated itself as Chat tried his hardest to not pass out in the middle of nowhere in the heart of the city.
Squinting his eyes, green met blue as he momentarily turned wide eyed and speechless.
"My L-L-Lady?" he hoarsely called out as she kept gently shushing him and caressing his cheeks, leaning down she softly kissed his lips and smiled. "I'm back. Thank you for protecting the city in my absence. Now sleep" she lightly tapped his nose as a small chuckle rumbled in his throat followed by a small cough.
Adrien / Chat was exhausted. He couldn't have gone on alone for any longer.
Closing his eyes, sleep took him. A sleep that he had longed for, for over a month now.
It felt like the world was at peace and right with itself.
Marinette / Ladybug had her work cut out for her.
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Something didn't feel right that night as Marinette had bore her blank stare into the chilly and silent starry night. She shivered as the breeze danced around her body coming through her opened window but that wasn't what had her uneasy.
"Tikki, he needs my help"
Tikki grew accustomed to the silence that hearing Marinette speak a full sentence for once had admittedly, taken her by surprise. Tikki looked down from Marinette's bed to where she stood by the window. "H-How do you know?" she cautiously asked.
Marinette briefly closed her eyes and reopened them a second later. "I don't know how to explain it. It's just this feeling that I have. He needs me, he needs us, he needs Ladybug"
Tikki flew down near Marinette's face, her face was still puffy and red - tense and streaked with dried tears but Tikki could see the fire burning in her eyes, that determination and want to help others was back. Even if it were temporary, Tikki would take anything to get her charge out of her stuffy room.
Nodding, Tikki wordlessly transformed Marinette as she swung her yoyo and with her instincts she had found her Kitty in a matter of minutes.
Seeing him in the state he was currently in made Marinette feel incredibly guilty but she knew knowing him that he would never blame her for anything. He was sure that she had her own reasons for being gone. Marinette couldn't afford to wallow in her own pity party anymore, what had happened, happened already.
A small dark hole had been created in her heart and she knew that she'd always carry that guilt - the heavy burden of losing her unborn child but she couldn't let that affect her life anymore. She wouldn't allow it to consume her whole and make her weak enough to where Hawkmoth could easily come after her.
She had wanted to tell her Kitty about the baby but how could she now? He got physically injured because of her. She vowed that she'd never tell him about the baby, to never tell him of something that was made temporary because of her carelessness.
She wouldn't know how to handle it if Hawkmoth ever caught him in a moment of weakness. They just had to learn to move on with their lives, even if one of them didn't particularly know what that meant.
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Ladybug placed Chat against the wall of the building as he slept and spent the rest of the night capturing escaped butterflies and purifying them. She fought and released as many akumas as she could for the night. The rest would have to wait and she'd have to ask Chat Noir about all of them.
Marinette's hair was disheveled and she was sporting a couple of nips and bruises of her own but nothing nearly as bad as Chat's. Swinging her way to him, she saw a flash of green light at the corner of the building covering the one she was heading for. She figured that his kwami probably took a small break to refuel as her Kitty slept against the wall of the roof.
Luckily the roof had a small garden with a patch of grass she hadn't noticed before. Landing on the rooftop, she found Chat sound asleep as the blood surrounding his wound dried up and tried to heal itself. The sun was slowly rising in the horizon which meant that in a short few hours all of Paris would be waking up or getting back from graveyard shifts to sleep.
Marinette didn't know her Kitty's civilian identity; she only knew that he was a fellow student at her high school. She would have to figure it out later as she bent down and wrapped her arm around his waist. She needed to treat his wounds and get him to her place first.
Somehow managing to slowly swing herself and his limp body to her home, it took her nearly an hour to but she had managed. Marinette let go of her transformation as she laid him gently on her cushioned bed.
Stepping down her ladder she quickly tried to find her first-aid and a scarf she had lying around as a makeshift blindfold. Returning to his side she placed the blindfold on him and signed, "I'm not sure if you can hear me but please, Chat's kwami, I beg of you to release his transformation. I need to treat his wounds before they get really infected" she begged as she and Tikki waited.
Plagg released the transformation and quickly hid as Tikki went to go chase after him. "Thank you" Marinette whispered as her Kitty's civilian form was right in front of her. He was wearing dark navy blue Armani jeans with a Gabriel original black v-neck shirt with two simple green stripes on the neck area with black Valentino high-tops.
If they didn't have such a secretive relationship, then she would've admired her boyfriend's taste in fashion.
Even in his civilian form, he still had that same messy hair that she loved so much. Did he always style his hair this way?
Shaking her thoughts away, she knew that they had all the time in the world. The day that they'd come clean with each other would come someday. She was sure of it.
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Gently holding onto his shoulders, she leaned him forward into her as she took his bloodied and dirt stained shirt off, she couldn't help but to take a moment to appreciate his back muscles. They had grown so much in her absence, if she had left for any longer, she was pretty sure they would have grown too broad for her arms to hold onto.
Running her smooth lean fingers against the nasty gash he received, he momentarily winced against her ear. Marinette knew she had to lay him down on her bed but she was also worried of causing him any more discomfort to his leg wound.
Sighing, she opted for his back first. "Sorry, Chaton" she whispered her apology as she lovingly kissed his cheek and turned him around. It was no easy task but she was a pretty strong girl.
She admits that it probably wasn't the smartest way to go about cleaning a wound but a strong need to touch him, to feel his skin drew her to straddling his back. She made sure to not put much pressure on his wounded leg or to sit close to the back wound.
Splashing alcohol onto the deep cut, Chat moaned in pain as he writhed underneath her. "Shh… It's ok" she soothed his back by rubbing slow circular motions into his skin which helped to calm him back down.
She really wasn't a doctor or had any medical expertise but she knew her way around a piece of thread and a sewing needle. Marinette sanitized everything and tried her best to close the deep gash on his back. Luckily it wasn't that deep to the point where he'd need serious stitches or maybe he did, she sure as hell didn't know but she couldn't afford to just gauze it up and hope for the best. Splashing a bit more of alcohol once she was done with her sewing, she placed a gauze patch on top and some medical tape to hold everything in place.
Getting off him, she slowly turned him around and unbuckled his jeans. Biting her lip, she couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed. If someone walked in on them, it'd look like she was practicing on her bdsm skills. With her unconscious injured hot boyfriend on her bed while being blindfolded. Emphasis on the hot part, his body felt like molten lava. All she was missing was the ropes, handcuffs, and thermometer, she was pretty sure he was running a high fever by now.
Taking care of his leg was a lot easier than his back. The wound was covered in blood and dirt. It looked a lot worse than it really was to Marinette's relief as she cleaned it up and only had to do a small patch work on it.
Keeping him only in his black boxers that had Clavin Klein in red letters on it - really? Black and red boxers? She couldn't help but crack a smile at that.
By now it was nearly 6:45am and Marinette wasn't nearly done with her nursing. The bakery would be opened in fifteen minutes as she heard her parents already scrambling about down there.
Quickly she descended down to the kitchen to get a bowl filled with water and ice and a kitchen towel. She still had a fever to break down and a cute patient that needed all of her undivided attention upstairs.
"Marinette? Sweetheart, are you up?" Sabine called from the bakery section of their home. The main entrance door to their home area was wide opened.
"Yeah, mom! Just getting something to drink!" she yelled back towards the opened entrance door and was about to head back into her room when Sabine entered.
Marinette's tone sounded different… It sounded happier. Sabine had to make sure that everything was okay as she entered the living room and rushed into the kitchen to find her daughter glowing with a brighter mood around her.
"Are you going to school today?" Sabine cautiously asked, testing out the waters.
Marinette was hoping to go today. Tikki had reasoned with her that missing more than a month of school would put her way behind on her studies but with Chat's recent akuma incident she couldn't bring herself to think of school.
"I'm still… not feeling well. I promise that I'll go tomorrow, for sure!" Marinette gave a white lie. The partial truth would have to do for now as Sabine tightly hugged her and let her go back into her room.
It looked like things were finally looking up in the Dupain-Cheng household. Sabine exhaled, letting out a breath that she didn't realize she had held. With a sigh of relief and a feeling of a weight being lifted off her shoulders - Sabine excitedly rushed back to their bakery to tell her husband Tom about the good news.
"Tom! Tom! My daughter is back. Our daughter is back!"
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Upstairs, Chat was still sound asleep with a small snore here and there. His breathing was deep and profound with a wince contouring his angelic face. To Marinette, her Kitty looked like a fallen angel.
She desired closeness and physical contact with him but did she even deserve it? She had abandoned him after their last akuma encounter. Biting her lip, she shook her head and tried not to think like a pessimist anymore.
Sitting at the edge of her bed, she took her bowl filled with icy cold water with the soaked kitchen towel. Straining the wet towel from excess water dripping, she began to wipe his face. Dirt and ash with small particles of metal dirtied his cheeks and forehead.
"Mmm…" Chat's throat rumbled as he titled his head to the left.
By now Marinette was biting the inside of her cheek hard. She was ready to pounce him but she wouldn't, because he was injured and what kind of girlfriend would she be if she did?
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"Marinette! Honey, we'll be leaving now! Marinette?"
"Tom, I'll meet you outside. I'll go check if she's asleep"
"You worry too much, Sabine. I'm sure she'll be fine. We really need to go now"
"Okay… I guess she'll call us if anything. See you soon Marinette! Love you!"
"Don't worry, Love. I made sure to leave her a note, besides she knew this day would come eventually"
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Seconds. Minutes. Hours had passed.
Marinette felt warmth radiating right next to her. Remembering the day's events, she kept her hand on her Kitty's chest for a moment longer. His muscles were strong and broad, and lack of a shirt were all enticing.
Kissing his cheek, she got up from his side to head downstairs to her living room. She knew her parents would be gone for the night. For weeks now they've been telling her about their day trip to Rouen to visit her grandmother on her dad's side. Grand-Mère Dupain wasn't in the best health and the family, especially her dad was worried about her. They had been reluctant to go and were altogether going to postpone their trip until Marinette got better but Marinette herself wouldn't allow them to do that just for her sake. She told her parents to wish Grand-Mère Dupain a speedy recovery on her behalf.
Quickly reading their note to her, she left it on the kitchen counter and grabbed a glass of water. Returning to her room with her glass of water, she took a sip and then set it down on her desk and smiled when she heard a deep voice.
"Am I at Heaven's gates or is my beautiful Lady right before my very eyes?" Chat spoke, his voice slightly quivered in pain but he tried to hide it as best as he could.
He stared down right at her as her back faced him. He was aware that he had some sort of blindfold on and was thankful that she didn't forget the eye holes.
Marinette smiled and opened a drawer where she had placed her masquerade mask. Putting it on, she turned around to show him her bright smile.
Marinette climbed up her ladder and pounced on him. She was sure that he wouldn't mind as her arms wrapped around his neck and kissed the corner of his lips.
"You're finally awake" she breathed as her boyfriend returned the affection and then groaned in pain.
Moving away from him, she put her hands up as if surrendering. "I'm sorry!" she bowed her head and fiddled with the hem of her shirt. "You need rest and look at me - here I am not being able to control myself"
Chat softly chuckled at that and lifted her chin up with a finger.
Green met blue.
Her eyes were shimmering, her lips plump, her cheeks tinted a rosy red.
She was real. She was here. She was back.
Ignoring his pain and discomfort for a moment, he lowly growled and pulled her closer to him. Chat Noir kissed her hungrily causing Marinette to moan into his mouth. Melting completely to his touch, she leaned closer and closer until she was straddling his waist on her bed.
Separating for a mere second, masked faces stared at each other with such fever - a fire that couldn't be extinguished that easily.
"I want you, My Lady. Make love to me" Chat breathlessly pleaded.
Normally she was the one taking him by surprise and asking but this time it was his turn.
Marinette was mesmerized, in a dreamlike trance where nothing else mattered but just just the two of them. She spent so long wallowing in her own pain and self suffering that she had forgotten what love like this felt like.
She was about to say yes until she snapped out of it and remembered his back and leg injuries. Marinette was about to jump off of him when Chat tightly held onto her hips.
"I'll be fine" he reassured her and then smirked, a devious thought came to mind, "Besides I'm practically already naked on your bed. I'm sorry I won't be able to do most of the work this time"
At that thought, a bright red blush pooled in Marinette's cheeks.
What a sneaky, sneaky cat he is.
"You know I never back down from a challenge, Chaton" she shot him back a devious smirk of her own. Taking off her shirt, she trailed two fingers up his abdomen, "Game on"
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"Where have you been?" a monotone voice asked as Adrien returned limping into the main hall, the tall and heavy door echoed as it closed behind him.
Clenching his teeth, Adrien tried to ignore the constant deep throbbing from his leg and searing discomfort from his back. Looking up, he saw Felix standing at the foot of the stairs with his arms crossed over his chest and looking unamused.
"What does it matter where I've been? It's not like my own dad would notice. Thanks for asking though" Adrien replied back with a bit of sarcasm and hopped to the stairs, trying to brush right past Felix when all it took was for Felix to hold up his hand and hold onto Adrien's shoulder.
Gritting his teeth in pain, Adrien glared at Felix and tried his best to brush him off but all his nerves felt like they were on fire.
"Let me go. I need to get ready for school"
"You're already fifteen minutes late. Surely your father already knows"
"Like I give a rat's ass. I'll deal with him later" Adrien seethed.
For a brief moment Felix was taken aback by Adrien's sour attitude. As hard as it would probably be for Adrien to believe, he himself rebelled as a teenager. At twenty-three, Felix felt like he had outgrown those troublesome years and had gained a new perspective in life.
"What happened to you? Why are you limping? Uncle Gabriel will not be pleased"
"Don't worry about it. As long as I'm not shooting any shorts or underwear ads anytime soon, I'll be fine"
"Adrien, please. Tell me what happened so that I can help" Felix lightly squeezed Adrien's shoulder causing him to still. Feeling an electric shock coursing through his veins, Adrien bit his tongue to not howl in agony.
"I tripped and fell, okay! Is that what you wanted to hear?! I spent the night at Noémie's, call her if you don't believe me!" Adrien rushed his words and forcefully shoved Felix out of the way. He knew that if Felix even had the guts to call Noémie to verify his story – she would go with the flow. Save Adrien's ass now and ask questions later was their motto.
Finally, inside the private comfort of his room, Adrien quickly plopped down on his bed. He groaned but was soon being healed by the coolness of his pillows and comforter. He felt sticky and dirty, and not just because of his akuma fight.
"Next time you plan on getting injured, passing out, and then waking up only to have sex with Ladybug, please do let me know. I didn't need to hear you guys!" Plagg zoomed out of Adrien's hair complaining, normally he'd hide in Adrien's shirts but the one he chose to wear yesterday didn't have any pockets on it.
Remembering the night's events, Adrien blushed a deep red. He couldn't believe that he was bold enough to ask his girlfriend for that. He was content with getting his bones jumped by her from time to time but to ask her himself? Smothering his face deeper into his soft cool pillow, Adrien hummed in embarrassment.
He had gotten desperate. A month away from his Lady felt like an eternity.
"Please, Plagg. Not now" Adrien begged as he slowly got up from his bed and headed for his bathroom.
He had woken up just as the sun rose into the horizon, his beautiful Lady was clinging onto his chest as her blanket barely covered her. He knew he had to leave her but it was incredibly hard to. Everything happened so fast that it almost felt like a dream to him.
Leaving her a note on her desk, he called for Plagg and made his way home very, very slowly. The suit helped him to not feel much of the pain and to block out the booming throbbing that pounded in his head from it. Slipping once or twice on a roof ledge as he vaulted and leaped between buildings, he miraculously made it back in one piece and only a couple of minutes late to school. He could see Gorilla already waiting for him outside the mansion from the view top of the roof
Turning the knob, the hot water poured down like small soothing droplets of rain. He was now able to see just how bad his wounds were and the makeshift job that his Lady did in her attempt to nurse him back to health. His body was cleansed from both his nightly sin and incident as he finished as fast as his body would allow him to and got ready for school.
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During his Lady's absence Adrien decided to style his hair similar to Chat's. He figured that no one would suspect that he was even a superhero. A part time model and full time high schooler like himself, especially with his background could never be the real Chat Noir.
The media and paparazzi alike would have a field day if they ever found out.
Thirty minutes late to school and a sure enough lecture from either Felix, Nathalie, or his own dad were all a small price to pay after the night he's had. Felix watched him from the dining room table as he sat in there alone, newspaper in hand and sipping on a cup of pitch black coffee. Adrien couldn't help but chuckle at that, how ironic that Felix, his beloved cousin would be drinking something as dark as his soul.
If Adrien hadn't grown up in such a refined lifestyle and way, he would've flipped his cousin off as he limped out the door. He wouldn't stoop that low but he did mumble a subtle "Prick" as he went down the stairs to the opened car door that Gorilla held for him.
Luckily everyone was in science when he arrived at school and that the class was on the first floor. Ms. Mendeleiev wasn't the nicest teacher at Françoise Dupont Lycée and more than unfocused students in class, she could not tolerate tardiness but she also liked to kiss up to both Chloe and Adrien. The mayor's daughter and Paris top fashion designer's son in the same room; with their social status and power, he had to admit it had its perks at times.
Unlike him, the next student who came rushing in through the doors wasn't as lucky.
"MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG!" Ms. Mendeleiev screeched.
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Done! To be continued.
I don't have much to say other than because Marinette isn't obsessed/in love with Adrien in this fic, he as Chat Noir doesn't suspect her of really being Marinette and since Adrien had been styling his hair closer to Chat's in his civilian life while Marinette was absent from school, she doesn't suspect him of really being Adrien.
Oh~ aren't trolling plots just wonderful.
Also Adrien is grumpy towards Felix because he's in a lot of pain. Normally he'd just ignore Felix and avoid him at all times. LOL.
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