Hey guys, I tried to get chapter 5 up as soon as possible as I made you wait so long for chapter 4. And I know I only just got back, but this time I am going on holiday with my family for a few days as the last trip was with friends. I shouldn't be gone long and will be able to use my phones hotspot once a day so I shouldn't vanish completely this time. Hopefully I can get chapter 6 up while I'm away. Enough of me talking, go and read the next chapter!

P.S – You should go read Flicka7's next chapter, it's really good ;)

Identity Isn't Everything

Chapter 5

I looked over Chat's shoulders at the people behind me. They were all running or already akumatised. There were still purple butterflies raining down from the sky, akumatising anyone who felt scared, even if it was only for a moment. Hawk Moth must have been growing more powerful, as I thought he could only akumatise one person at a time and surely they would need more negative emotions than fear. 'This is definitely not good.' I thought to myself as Chat made sure we weren't being followed before entering our little hideout.

"That cut doesn't look good M'Lady," he said while putting me down on the couch. He wasted no time in getting a wet cloth to clean it.

"I can do it myself Chat," I said, trying to grab the cloth but he was too fast. He simply pushed me backwards and washed the blood away.

"Let me M'Lady, you won't be able to see it properly." Even if I didn't really want him to, I let him anyway. When I was sure he wasn't looking, I smiled at the feeling of his fingers, gently washing over the wound. Just the slight brush of a finger felt nice, he was just so careful, so loving…

"Sorry M'Lady," he said as I winced when he put pressure on it, "I need to stop the bleeding." I just nodded as he kept talking. "What happened anyway?"

"Well that girl, Chloé, blew a fuse and shouted at anyone in sight. Hawk Moth must be more powerful as he started akumatising almost everyone. Then as I was trying to fight one of them, his blade went right through my suit."

"I thought nothing could go through them?"

"Well, now we know some things can." He looked down at my leg and what ever he saw, didn't look good.

"Do you think it will heal if you transform? Once I had a sprained ankle as Chat Noir, but once I changed back, it was fine."

"What about when you changed back again, into Chat Noir?" I said, hoping that it would work. It was hurting like hell.

"Nothing, it was all fine."

"That might be our only option, there will be an army of akumas out there by now, all of them looking for us."

"I'll go and access the situation for a bit, as my other identity, and come back in an hour. Will that be enough time?" I looked at him. I saw his caring eyes, the eyes that wanted to see who I really was, but knew that I didn't want him to know. Not yet.

"Yeah," I said with a small nod, "That will be plenty." I winced as Chat took the pressure off the wound and put the towel in the sink.

"I'll see you soon M'Lady." With that, he went out the door. He looked back at me, a small smile on his face, before jumping off the roof of the building below our hideout and running of out of site. Quickly, I transformed, not wanting to have that awful pain in my leg a second longer.

"Marinette! Are you alright!" Tikki screamed, flying down to my leg.

"I'm fine now Tikki, everything is fine."

"Just let me look?" Tikki said, her eyes filled with worry.

"Of course," I smiled at her while rolling up my trousers.

"Oh… Marinette!" Tikki flew down to my calf, where a huge white scar spread across my skin.

"It's only a scar Tikki," I said, not really caring about it much but still not that happy about it either.

"I know, I know. It must have hurt a lot."

"It hurt heaps." I didn't bother elaborating, I was exhausted. "Tikki, can you watch for when Chat comes back? So I can get some sleep?"

"Of course Marinette, rest well, you will need your energy." I nodded and lay down, trying to ignore the screams coming from the other side of town.

Ô-Ô

I walked along the streets as Adrien Agreste, keeping to the shadows. I tried to pay attention to what was happening around me but I couldn't get the image of Ladybug, back up against the wall, her face pale. Her bleeding leg in my lap, her face covered in pain and exhaustion. I still couldn't forget the panic I had when I couldn't stop the bleeding. I hoped that she hadn't seen that on my face, it wouldn't have made her feel any better. I snuck around the corner, still keeping to the shadows when I saw a few akumatised victims. They all looked the same, tough purple skin, large black eyes. A few had purple wings and the clothes they were wearing reminded him of Hawk Moth. It was definitely unsettling. After walking through the entire city, I had found that almost everyone had been akumatised. That was about 100 000 people from our suburb to two. How on earth were we supposed to win? I checked my watch and saw that it had been over an hour since I said I would be back; I had lost track of time. I ran as fast as I could back to Ladybug, I hoped she hadn't gone looking for me. When I walked through the door, I saw that Ladybug had found some food and it was sitting on the bench.

"Take some," she suggested, nodding towards the plate of pastries, "I found them in that Marinette girl's bakery."

"Oh, she has the best food!" I said, heading for the plate. Once we were both sitting side by side, eating, I asked her about her leg.

"Oh, it's fine. It left a scar though." Shocked at the logic of the healing, I looked at her.

"Oh, sorry about that."

"It wasn't your fault."

"I know, doesn't mean it shouldn't have happened." She shrugged lackadaisically and took another bite of her food.

"Find anything interesting?" she asked.

"Yeah, that all the victims look the same, and it looks like they are all being controlled by Hawk Moth as one, like a robot army."

"So we are outnumbered about 50,000 to one."

"Yep." She sighed and leaned back against the wall. She put the plate beside her and leant into me, her head resting gently on my shoulder. Surprised, I wrapped my arm around her shoulder.

"Sometimes it feels like it's us against the world Chat."

"But it's not. It's us against Hawk Moth." I looked down at her and she looked up at me. I watched as her eyes grew wide and she jumped up from the bed.

"But that's it!" she cried. "All we have to do is take Hawk Moth's Miraculous, like he has been trying to do for what seems like forever." I smiled at her thinking as I jumped up too.

"And once we take it, everything will return to normal!" We both smiled at our plan before Ladybug sat back down on the bed.

"But this isn't going to be a short mission Chat." The smile in her eyes changed, like they always do when she is making an important decision.

"And…" I said, not quite knowing what she was getting at.

"We can't stay in these forms forever, Chat." I knew where she was heading now.

"Surely we can make this work, I know how much your identity means to you." I sat back down next to her as my arm went back around her, pulling her close.

"Eventually I will have to tell you."

"I know, but eventually doesn't have to be now, we can fig-" My words were cut off as I felt Ladybugs lips press on mine. I couldn't believe it. After all this time, she was the one kissing me? I didn't care though. I smiled and kissed her back as she wrapped her arms around my neck. My heart was going crazy, the love of my life was right here in my arms. I put one hand as gently as I can on her cheek and the other on her hip as I pulled her closer. I could feel my pulse against my lips, hard and fast. I wondered if she could feel it too.

Ô-Ô

I don't know what made me do it, I don't know why I didn't stop but all I knew was that it felt good. I couldn't stop my smile as he kissed me back, his hand around my waist pulling me closer. Now, even if he does reject me when I show him who I really am, I will still know what it felt like to kiss him. I can feel his pulse jump the moment he decided to kiss me back and it excited me. To think that I could ellicit such a response. Now I'm sure. After all this time, my mind has finally gotten over Adrien. I had found someone who I loved, and they loved me back.