"But I can afford it!"
"I don't care!"
"It's really not even that expensive!"
"So what? Find something else!"
They're arguing around the Akuma victim, Shuteye or Sleep-a-Wink or Twenty Winks or whatever his name is, completely ignoring his tirade and drawn out monologue, and to be honest, she could really do without this. School's been hard for the past few weeks what with finals coming up and all and she has a lot of studying left to do. Especially physics.
She shuddered.
Ugh, physics.
"But-" His argument is cut off when he dashes into an alleyway, avoiding the onset of pillows coming at him.
She ducks as a miscellaneous pillow comes flying in her direction and shouts over her shoulder, "I don't care how well off you are, I don't want an expensive Christmas present!"
Chat jumps out from behind a boutique and charges towards Beauty Sleep or Sleep Tight or whatever and tries to claw at the sleeping mask over his eyes, just barely missing and quickly rolling away onto his feet before the next pillow knocks him out.
"I'm gonna lose sleep over that mistake," he says as he uses his staff to leap over Put-to-Sleep.
"That wasn't even organic," Sleep-Like-a-Rock howls with rage.
And she has to agree that it hadn't been his best work, but she defends him anyway. "Shut up!" She hollers.
Chat seems to ignore the insult and continues on with on their argument. "But I want to get you something special! We've been partners for a year now!"
She bolts for Chat and quickly yanks him away by the tail to drag him behind a building.
"Will you stop ignoring me!" Big Sleep shouts indignantly. "Sure, I want to go to sleep and ignore the rest of the world, but that doesn't mean you get to do the same to me! This is completely unfair."
He's a few buildings away, so Ladybug takes this small moment to turn towards her partner. "I understand where you're coming from, but I don't need a fancy present or anything. Being my partner is enough."
He pouts. "But I want to show you how much I appreciate you."
"And I get that, but-"
The bricks across from them explode into a pile of feathers.
"Found you!"
She hears Chat sneeze she's quickly flying up in the air and muttering angrily to herself about how stupid it was that Sleepy Head could somehow even seethem through a sleeping mask.
"Chat, get his stupid mask already!"
"Working on it!" He shouts from a few feet below her and she sees him sailing over Sleep-it-Off, arm outstretched for the item, claws only just snagging it.
He lets out a triumphant shout before his momentum pulls him back towards the ground and he hits the cobblestones with a hard thud.
"Chat?" She calls out worriedly.
He gives her a pathetic thumbs up before shakily sitting up and ripping the mask in half.
When the deed is done, he looks back up at her and shouts, "Okay, but what if I got you a pink diamond instead of a red one?"
"Chat!"
From the corner of her eye she sees Deep Sleep making a grab for Chat, so she hurriedly swings her yo-yo over to knock his hand away.
"Dammit," he curses.
"Try something else," she yells.
They both pause and look at her, then at each other, then back at her, not really sure who she had meant that for. She huffs. Shrugging, Sleeping Beauty lunges for her partner's hand again, gripping his wrist tightly. Chat easily slips out of it and leaps backwards, putting a good distance between them.
Honestly, shouldn't've Sleep In stopped trying already?
Before Sleep Off can try anything else, she throws her yo-yo at the Akuma and purifies it, letting the healing magic fix the city.
She's already jumping down from her perch on the rooftop to meet her partner with a fist bump before the magic is even finished. Her feet land softly on the road and she raises her arm to meet his. He smiles and hits her fist. "Mission accomplished," they chant together.
He grabs her wrist with a hopeful look in his eye. "What about about a ruby?"
She rolls her eyes, exasperated. "No!"
He laughs. "Sleep on it?"
"Chat-ton!"
pppppffffttt alsjdja;lskjdals i just wanted to write something silly and dumb lol but i didn't realize how similar this was to the tumblr post until after i wrote it! aaggghhhh orz;;
inspired by this post: geek-fashionista at tumblr - post/153344174229/you-know-what-else-id-love-to-randomly-see
(it's not letting me do the dot trick darnit)
