Don't Go (5)
"Girl, where were you?" The reddish brown-haired girl had asked with her hands on her hips.
"Sorry Alya, I ran into Nathaniel and we got caught up discussing… Things…" Marinette knew she had chosen a poor choice of words when she saw the smirk that her friend had when she had finished her sentence. Marinette sighed as she knew what Alya was going to ask next.
"So what kind of things where you talking about?" Alya wiggled her eyebrow as she said this, causing Marinette to laugh slightly before responding,
"He wanted to…" Marinette paused before thinking of the right words, problem was, there were none. Alya jumped in before Marinette could think of the right words, asking her,
"What did he want?" Alya asked in a high-pitched voice as she was getting excited, causing Marinette to raise an eyebrow at her behaviour. Marinette nervously looked around the café as she wanted to desperately change the subject. Alyas eyes boring into Marinette intensively as she was determined on getting her answer.
"Marinette! Girl, come on! You've got to tell me." Marinette sighed in defeat as Alya clapped her hands victoriously and whisper yelled,
"Tell me the deets!" Marinette laughed, finally giving in as she explained everything that had happened about Nathaniel that morning. Marinette considered asking her friend what she thought Adrien could have been doing when she heard him talking, but decided against it. She might as well ask him herself.
Once the two had finished their coffees, they decided to head back to Marinettes place and talk more there. Once they arrived at her place, they greeted Marinettes parents before rushing upstairs to avoid further questioning from her parents.
"So, are you going to text him?" Alya asked, now in a somewhat serious tone. Marinette played the events of this morning back through her head as she tried to figure out what her friend had meant by that until it finally clicked.
"Oh, um… Maybe, i-if I need to, or if I change my m-mind. But I doubt I will…" Alya nodded in understanding, Alya opened her phone and then hurriedly jumped of her bead, causing Marinette to as well.
"What's wrong?" Marinette asked, puzzled as to why her friend was acting the way she was.
"There's an akuma attacking people down on Fourth street, I gotta go and cover this for the Ladyblog. Sorry to cut this short, Mari." Marinette nodded in understanding as she hugged her friend and they said their goodbyes before Alya sprinted out the door to fourth street. If only she knew… Marinette laughed slightly and then transformed before jumping from rooftop to rooftop till she reached Fourth Street.
Ladybug saw Chat Noir and hurriedly rushed to his side,
"What'd I miss?" Ladybug asked as she looked around for the villain.
"You weren't the only one that was late…." Chat responded. A couple seconds later he was thrown metres away from where he was standing, Ladybug looked around to see if there was anyone around who could have possibly done that. When she could see no one there, she rushed to his side, helping him up. Once they were both back on their feet they saw a little girl walking up to them, they rushed to her side as they told her to get to safety, what they except was that she would have been hiding from herself.
The little girl started to make Ladybug float up in the air before making her spin like crazy. Once the girl wasn't paying any attention to Chat was when he decided to gracefully attack her. If that is even possible.
He quickly pressed the button on his staff as he used it to lunge higher and then grabbed Ladybug before putting her back on the ground. The little girl wasn't happy about this as her hair began to turn red with what they could only presume as anger and float above her head. The girl used her wand that the two had only noticed now to make them both start flying in the air, they both looked at each other nervously as they tried to get back on the ground. Chat started to start doing breaststroke mid-air. Ladybug thought that this was a bad idea before she realized that it might just be the best thing. Chat was so close to the girl when she dropped the spell making Chat drop on his face.
Ladybug helped him up before grabbing the girls' wand and breaking it in half. Chat dusted himself off before Ladybug fixed everything.
The little girl looked around in confusion now, wondering where she might be. Being able to see her clearly now made it easy to tell she was around the age of five or six. She had blonde hair and blue eyes that looked beautiful, she looked like him other than the fact she was a girl and had blue eyes. She was wearing a light pink jacket that was noticeably big on her that had five petals on it and a pearl in the centre. I swear I've seen that jacket before, but where? Underneath the pink jacket she was wearing a red dress with a small bow at the front and a mesh like fabric at the neck of the dress. At her waist the dress seems to poof out, the dress she was wearing reminded Chat of the one that Marinette had worn on their first date. Underneath the dress the girl wore white stockings with white buckle up shoes with bows at the front. The girls' hair was in a side plait with loose hair at the top, a red headband completing the look.
Ladybug walked over, once she reached the two she squatted down to her level,
"My names Ladybug, what's your name?" Ladybug had asked with the nicest smile on her face as she handed the little girl her wand. The little girl smiled proudly when she said,
"My names Alice, and I have magic powers! This guy I met even told me, I think his name was Fu and he had a flying turtle as a pet!" Ladybug and Chat Noir gave each other a questioning look as well as one filled with curiosity before Chat jumped in,
"Well, I'd love to see them. My names Chat Noir." Alice thought about this for a moment before replying with,
"As in cat black? And ladybug as in the insect?" They both couldn't help but agree that they weren't the most enticing nor creative names ever, but they still had to focus on the current situation.
"Yeah, they're not the most creative names but they're still ours." Alice looked up at them both as she stated with a serious look on her face,
"Your parents mustn't have had the most creative minds there are. Unlike my Daddy who's a fashion designer, have you met him before? My mummy told me we were going here to meet him for the first time… But I can't remember his name. I do remember where he lives, my mummy made a song about it!" Both Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at each other once more, knowing they had to help the girl,
"Alright, but we have to be quick. Ladybug is in a rush.' Ladybug looked at him appreciatively and Chat gave her a look that said it was okay,
"Are you two okay? You keep looking at each other like," Alice starting to make faces that Chat was guessing was her impression of the two of them. Ladybug and Chat Noir started to laugh at her and soon enough Alice joined in as well. Alice only stopped when she saw Ladybugs earrings, one of the dots had disappeared and only one remained. Ladybug caught her looking and looked around to see if she was looking behind her or at her until she spoke,
"There were two dots on your earring, but now there's only one, why is that?" Ladybug looked a little sad as she realised she had to go, so she said,
"That means I have to go, bye Alice!" Ladybug gave Alice a big hug and then said goodbye once more to Chat Noir and to Alice before saying,
"Wanna sing that song now?" Alice vigorously nodded a yes as she started to sing her song, it didn't rhyme what so ever, and Chat didn't think she knew what a song was because she started to imitate what he could only assume to be her mother's voice.
Once they had reached the building, Chat looked up to see his house in front of them. Had she made a wrong turn? Was she just wondering around? Or could this truly be his sister? No way, father would have told me if it was. Plus, my mother's been gone for a while now, she wouldn't just drop her daughter of here, would she?
"Hey, Alice?" Alice looked at Chat Noir attentively as she wondered what he wanted to know,
"Are you sure this is your house?" Alice thought about this for a second, placing her hand on her chin, it looked like she had an idea as she pointed her finger to the sky as she responded,
"How about I re-sing the song!" Chat Noir face palmed himself as he knew he had just walked into this. Chat Noir rang the doorbell to get out of the mess he had just dragged himself into. Nathalie answered and after telling her it was Chat Noir and regarded Gabriels family she let him in. While Chat walked in Alice skipped in with a smile evident on her face. Once they reached the door Nathalie opened it and allowed them to come inside. Once they were inside, Chat told Alice,
"Stay close, okay?" Alice nodded and grabbed his hand, Alice started to tug on his hand to get him to follow her in the living room where Gabriel sat looking at them with his usual stern look on his face.
"What exactly is the issue regarding my family and why is there a little girl in my house?" Chat took a deep breath as he was about to explain what had happened until Alice interrupted him stating,
"My name is Alice." Gabriel looked at her for a moment as she buffed her chest out, as if trying to look tougher, and pouted her lips. Gabriel returned his gaze back to Chat Noir as he began explaining,
"She had been akumatized and once we changed her back, she said she didn't know where her mum was but did remember this song that will help find her dads house, even though she had never met him before. And that led us here, she did also say he was a fashion designer, could she by any chance be your daughter?" Gabriel thought about this for a moment, responding,
"No, my wife disappeared many years ago, around six now." Chat turned to Alice and asked her,
"How old are you, Alice?" Alice thought about this for a moment before responding,
"I'm five this year, and I'll be turning six next year." Alice proudly stated as she, once again, buffed out her chest. Chat had to hold back his laugh as she did so. Gabriel pondered on this for a moment before responding,
"I guess it could be possible then… But we would need to find her mother first before finalising anything." Chat nodded at this as he then asked,
"For the meantime as she has no home, can you look after her?" Gabriel looked at him intensively, obviously not wanting to, so he answers with,
"And why must I look after the child?" Chat sighed as he knew he would react this way, causing Chat Noir to explain himself,
"I cannot look after her as it would jeopardize my identity to her, and she believes that you are her father, she might as well be with someone she feels comfortable with." Gabriel nods at this and then grudgingly responds,
"I guess I can have Nathalie arrange a room for the guest to stay in…" Chat Noir smile at this as he looks down at his ring, only one flickering light remained on his watch, he had to go. Chat Noir said his goodbyes before sprinting out the door and finding a corner with little people watching and transformed, hoping no one had seen. Adrien appeared from outside of the tree and walked away casually back to his house with Plagg in his shirt pocket.
Once Adrien climbed in through his window and walked downstairs he had to remind himself to look surprised, so as he neared the bottom of the stairs he decided to go into the kitchen instead. To his surprise Alice was in there instead, so it made faking to be surprised that little bit easier,
"Wait… Who are you?" Adrien asked questioningly, Alice responded with,
"I'm Alice, and you're Adrien! Gabriel told me a lot about you! Okay, that's a lie, he only told me your name and which room you're in… But it's a start!" Adrien laughed lightly at her rambling but soon responded with,
"Yes, I am, and it's nice to meet you, Alice." Alice nodded,
"Yeah, it is." Adrien couldn't help but laugh once more with Alice joining in, he was going to enjoy her staying here, at least then he would have someone he could talk to and hopefully she felt the same way.
(A/N)
Okay. So, I have no clue what you guys want to happen for the Christmas special and thought that if I released another chapter maybe you guys could help me think of something? And if you have any ideas that would be good for this story that would be good. Also, I was wondering if you guys wanted the story to start having a specific day that it would come out? If so leave a review or PM me. Now, for this chapter I planned it, well kind of, I wrote down some ideas and stuff so I want to know if you like the story any better or if you think it just makes it seem like it's all just fluff. If you have any responses to any of that, please leave a PM or review and I will respond to you. Also, I started to watch this show called Brooklyn Nine-Nine, do any of you guys watch it? If so, I LOVE IT SO FREAKING MUCH! IT'S CRAZY GOOD, NO, SCRAP THAT, IT'S CRAZY AMZING! I ship Amy and Jake, SO FREAKING HARD! Okay, let me just calm down… One breath in, one breath out… Alright, anyway, love you so much and sorry I was rambling so much, byyyeee!
-eellawalker xxxooo