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RogerCop
Let me guess, he's not coming I texted to my cousin, when I saw him enter the room his shoulders hunched inward on himself. He sat down I saw Nino put a hand on his shoulder and Adrien turned toward him.
Chloé had her eyes fixed on my cousin. Her fingers flying over the phones keyboard. Adrien looked down at his phone. On her desk was a bracelet that she had shown me before class started. I gazed to the desk beside her Sabrina was actively ignoring her again. Though I could see her occasionally turn to stare at Chloé when Chloé's head was turned.
My phone buzzed I looked down at my phone. Yeah, sorry Annette, he's busy. It said.
I clenched my phone tightly. Two hours you couldn't spare Two Hours for us. I thought to myself angrily.
Breath, breath, breath. I told my self, I buried my face in my arms.
I felt a hand touch my arm I turned to see Nathanael staring at calmly. I sat up straighter and smiled.
Nathanael wasn't fooled. "Are you ok?"
"Nothing I'm not used to by now" I told him with a shrug.
Nathanael nodded before catching the eye of an older man with red hair eyeing the pair of us. I looked down and blushed. Nathanael's father hadn't stopped smirking at us since he had entered the room.
Today was career day. Where parents came into class and talked to the students about what they did for a living.
Every single member of our class had brought in a parent. Every one that is except for Adrien and me.
I stared at the current parent standing. It was M. Dupain talking about running the patisserie. When he was done, Marinette walked around the class handing out croissants. I could hear M. Bourgeois telling Chloé to put the bracelet away. While Alya's mother addressed the class.
I smiled at Marinette. "Thank you" I said softly taking a bite of the croissant. "Tell your father it tastes delicious"
Marinette nodded. "Thanks" By that point Alya's mother had finished and Sabrina's father had started to talk.
That's when chaos erupted. Marinette tripped and fell over Chloé's bag.
Marinette stood and started picking up all the croissants that had fallen. When Chloé, who was grabbing her books that had fallen out, screamed.
"It's gone!" She screeched holding the currently empty bracelet contain. "My bracelet is gone!" She turned to Marinette. "You stole it!" Her eyes wild with anger.
I stood and hurried down the stairs in an attempt to diffuse the situation.. "Chloé… you have no proof of that."
Chloé glared at me. "Hush up, she purposefully tripped over my bag to steal my bracelet"
I raised an eyebrow. "Really?" I said with disbelief.
Chloé glared at me before turning to Officer Roger. "Have her arrested!"
"Chloé…"
But Chloé was beyond listening to me.
"I can't not without proof" Officer Roger said.
That single line from Officer Roger led to a fight that resulted in Officer Roger getting fired. I nudged Chloé in the arm.
"Was that necessary? You have no idea what happened."
"Who else could have done it?" Chloé asked as Adrien slowly snuck out of the room. I raised an eyebrow at Adrien's actions when it clicked.
I turned to Chloé"A small pet like creature who loves cheese and shiny things?" I whispered in Chloé's ear.
I saw the light come on behind Chloé's eyes before she cursed. "Father, never mind, Marinette didn't steal it, I know who did."
Marinette glared at Chloé. "That's hard to believe" Marinette said. "You about to blame some other poor soul?"
Chloé scoffed she gave me a glance and I slowly snuck out of the room. Adrien was right there looking over the banister at something.
"Would you by any chance know, where Chloé's bracelet is?" I asked. Adrien turned and pulled a hand to my mouth while dragging me down so he and I were both sitting on the ground.
"I sentence you to run around." A robotic voice said.
My eyes widened. Oh crap.
Adrien slowly dragged me out into a nearby locker room before letting go of my mouth.
"That necessary?" I asked him angrily rubbing my mouth. "That hurt Adrien"
Adrien glanced at me. "Sorry, I just couldn't have you being noticed" He told me. He showed Plagg to me, Chloé's bracelet wrapped around his head.
"So my hunch was right" I said my arms crossed. "Plagg when will you learn?"
"It's actually I really long story" Plagg said. "One you don't want to hear"
Adrien and I shared a glance.
"So, Annette was right" Adrien and I turned around to see Chloé standing with her arms cross leaning against the doorway. "Plagg stole my bracelet" She said.
"How'd you escape?" I asked her as she walked toward us.
"Father left the room, everyone assumed I followed him, I came here on a hunch"
That's when we heard a loud crash.
Chloé and I ran to classroom to see a robot looking man in blue scaring the students and demanding information on Mayor Bourgeois.
That's when we heard the loud voice of Mayor Bourgeois shouting at the principal Chloé and I turned to stare at each other. Chloé ran back into the locker room and pulled out a belt filled with throwing knives. I ran to my own locker and pulled out my fencing sword.
"What are you doing?" Adrien said as we ran back out of the room.
"Giving you time" We said together.
I blew the hair out of my face angrily.
"This day could have gone better" I said.
Ladybug beside me scoffed.
The fight itself had gone badly. Chloé and I had been doing well allowing her father to get away, when he had seen Chloé fighting he had insisted that Chloé return with him at once. I had jumped in front of him while I insisted that Cat Noir drive the mayor into the nearest taxi. I blocked and dodged every red and blue handcuff the was shot my way.
Chloé had gotten massively unlucky, her hands chained and she was forced into the car with Roger Cop. We tried to free her, but it was all for nothing, before we could even contemplate out next move, in an attempt to save his daughter, he turned all power over to Roger Cop. Lady Bug, Cat Noir's incarceration had been called for as well as mine and we had spent the next 5 hours hiding out on a roof near by.
"You need to stop doing this" Ladybug told us angrily. "You could have gotten hurt, and now I have to rescue Chloé again"
"Well we didn't know when you two would show up" I said. "We had to do something" I said as I sat on the roof. "And what do you know about Chloé, I mean I could understand if you were Marinette, but…" I cut off and shook my head, that kind of thinking was dangerous and I refused to let it develop into something further.
"Ladybug come on, let it go, despite what happened, they did well today" Cat Noir said.
Hearing Cat Noir saying that while the three of us were on a roof hiding from the police, and the other was being held hostage by an akumatised maniac believe it or not actually made me feel worse.
"Cat, I know your trying, please stop" I said to him. "You're not helping"
"If this is them 'doing well' I hate to see what bad is" Ladybug muttered.
I glared at Ladybug "I protected Myléné during Stoneheart" I hissed. "not to mention A group of my friends were the one's who kept Nino occupied during the whole Bubbler incident, I'm not useless."
Ladybug blinked at me. "Lady Wifi, you passed out, not to mention you were half the reason she was created."
"Dark Cupid, I broke Cat Noir out of his spell, and I entrapped you in your own Yoyo, so Cat could kiss you, not only that but Chloé was able to keep you occupied long enough so I could handle Car Noir, just because I don't have powers, does not make me useless!" I said. I blinked at the anger in my voice before I curled in on myself.
Ladybug looked at me in surprise. "You're the reason I found myself hanging upside down, on Valentine's day?"
I rolled my eyes and looked away. "I was desperate" I said. "And I do know my way around a yoyo."
Ladybug looked at me in surprise, but before anything else could be said, we heard the voices of the police officers speaking.
"I hate this" Cat Noir said standing up. "We need to defend ourselves in a court of law"
Ladybug and I glanced at each other. "While the akumatized victim is not of his right mind?" I shook my head. "You would not be getting a trial, Cat you know that."
Cat Noir sighed. "How often have we saved Paris?"
Ladybug smirked. "We're still saving Paris"
"You stay here" Ladybug turned to me as Cat Noir dove off the roof I glared at Ladybug but she just smiled as she dove off the roof and snuck inside as all the cops were focused on bringing down Cat Noir.
I pulled out my cellphone and texted Chloé.
No matter what happens say and do nothing.
I put the cell back in my pocket before I crawled over the roof being extremely careful not to lose my balance.
Come on you're a gymnastics champion, get the heck over yourself. I thought before standing and walking as carefully yet confidently as I could. I found a nearby water drain and used that to scale the side of the building.
"Hey look, it's Cat Noir's girlfriend!"
"Were we supposed to catch her too?"
"Yep"
"Freeze Annette Agreste!"
I rolled my eyes as I unhooked my fencing sword from my belt. "For the millionth time" I started swinging around as three guys came at me. "I am not" I slammed the handle of my sword into one officer's forehead. "Cat Noir's" I dropped to the ground and swung my legs through another officer's legs causing him to fall to the ground. "Girl friend" I said as I cut another guys hand with my sword, before kicking him hard in the chest.
These guys need a lot more protection and training if I could bring them down.
I looked up to see that Cat Noir was glaring at me. I looked at him innocently.
"Come on" Cat Noir told me exasperated. "Stay close on my tail".
I nodded and we both ran into the building where Chloé and Mayor Bourgeois were being held captive.
"I am so arrested" I said.
"You were helping me, I think they'll over look it" Cat Noir said. "Also, Chloé is your best friend, your fine"
We entered the mayor's office Ladybug jumped to our side.
I started to twirl my sword so that it was shielding me from the Roger Cop's attacks.
"Please tell me you have an idea?" I asked Ladybug before Cat Noir could start flirting.
"Get Ladybug, Cat Noir and their sidekick" Roger Cop said before blowing his whistle.
"Hey!" I said as Chloé and Andre ran straight for us. I stuck my foot out Chloé tripped over my foot and fell right out the door. Ladybug closed the door. Then all three of us ran and ducked under a table.
"We need to get rid of his whistle" Ladybug said.
"How?" Cat Noir and I said at the exact same time.
Roger cop jumped onto of the table and started to fire at us. I jumped out of the way before cartwheeling behind a makeshift wall.
"Whenever your ready my lady" Cat Noir said.
Ladybug looked around, using the vision that allowed her to see what would be useful to her to win the fight.
She went over my head and grabbed the belt that was hanging off a pair of pants beside Cat Noir's head.
"Ok I have an idea but I still need a ring of some kind" She said holding the belt and a red and black mitten.
"Like Chloe's bracelet?" I asked sharing a look with Cat Noir. Before a fist smashed threw the wooden boards.
We all ran out, to the nearest food cart where Ladybug grabbed another mitten.
"You still have the bracelet, right?" I whispered in Cat Noir's ear.
Cat Noir nodded. "You read my mind" He said reaching behind him and pulling out the bracelet he flicked it away.
I nudged Ladybug and motioned to the bracelet.
"That's Chloé's bracelet" Ladybug whispered to herself. "Exactly what I need."
My eyebrows furrowed before I expelled the thought. Let it go. I told myself.
"Hold off Roger cop for as long as you can" Ladybug said.
"Whatever you need my Lady" Cat Noir said jumping up.
"Cataclysm!" He shouted.
He jumped forward and touched his hand to the wooden floor. I ran toward Cat Noir just as Roger Cop held his arm out toward cat noir. Roger Cop fired and I blocked the shot just Intime. My arms caught in red and blue cuffs.
In that instant of distraction. Ladybug came out and jumped high with a pair of makeshift handcuffs in her hands landing so expertly that when she did the mittens landed perfectly on his hands. Stopping him from firing. Ladybug pulled the whistle from around his neck and broke it. The akuma flew away.
Ladybug purified the akuma and then used the miraculous ladybug cure to put everything back together.
"Pound it!" Cat Noir and Ladybug said as I ran to the office doors, and let Mayor Bourgeois and Chloé back in.
"That was terrible" Chloé said angrily. "Was tripping me necessary?"
"You were trying to attack me" I reminded her.
Chloé scrunched her nose in disgust.
Cat Noir ran passed us give the pair of us a nod as he ran by.
"Wait!" Chloé said following Cat Noir out the door.
I saw Ladybug put the bracelet in Chloé's purse. I walked up to her.
"Hey" I said to her.
"You could have gotten hurt" Ladybug admonished me. "Or worse"
I looked down at my toes. "I know,"
"Why can't you just stay out of it?" Ladybug asked. "Like a good regular civilian?"
"You will pay for what you've done tonight" I clenched my fist tightly at the memory that had resurfaced again, but desperately squashed it dowm.
"I don't need a miraculous to be a hero" I told her. "I just need to put their lives before my own" I said. "I was already to late once, I can't be late again"
Ladybug tilted her head to the side her mouth open to ask an obvious question when we were both interrupted.
"Can I have that bag please miss" I looked at officer Roger while Ladybug handed him Chloé's bag.
Ladybug's earing started to beep, she smiled a little and started to leave.
"Oh By the way" I said. "A classmate is fixing up a dress for me, that I thought might be useful to you when you need to go to functions as Ladybug but don't want to transform, do you want it?"
Ladybug's eyes widened. "Unless it has a mask…"
"Oh, I have that" I said. "It just doesn't need any repairs so I didn't hand it off"
"Then yeah! Sure, that would be great!" Ladybug said. "Thank you"
"Ooh, my bracelet" I heard Chloé scream. I jolted I hadn't realised that she had come back into the room.
"It must have fallen into a side pocket." Officer Roger said. Chloé and I shared a look.
"I'd say that was a lesson learned" Andre Bourgeois said. "Wouldn't you Chloé"
"Yes Daddy" Chloé said bored. As Ladybug snuck out of the room.
After that Roger went home while Chloé, M. Bourgeois and I stayed behind.
"Would you like one of my drivers to give you a ride home?" Andre asked.
I heard the click of the door closing with Chloé standing in front of it.
"Chloé?" I asked.
"Please, I have been asking for months" Chloé said softly. "I need to know"
"It's dangerous Chloé" Andre Bourgeois said shaking his head. "For both her and you"
"What happened" Chloé begged tears rolling down her cheeks. "Please, I won't look for her, just, please"
I cut in. "I already told her" I said. "What Auntie Isabella was, who she was, why can't you just tell Chloé what happened?"
Andre glared at me. "You, were never supposed to tell her."
I looked down. I didn't have proper response to that without giving away a lot of secrets. So I said nothing.
"Please" Chloé begged. "Daddy, I haven't seen her since she left, just… please"
Bourgeois had never been able to deny his daughter much. The information regarding her mother had indeed been the only thing he kept from her but I didn't expect his will to be so strong.
"No" Andre Bourgeois said standing. "And if you ask again, I will ground you until your graduation, no phone, no computer, no shopping, Is. That. Clear?"
Chloé and I stared at Andre Bourgeois in shock. He had never been so severe with her before.
Chloé's eyes filled with tears and she ran out of the room.
"You need to give her closure" I told him. "It's cruel to keep her hanging like this, she has the right to know what happened to her mother"
Andre sighed. "I am trying to protect your friendship"
"If you think what happened to her mother is going to destroy us, you don't know us very well" I said before turning on my heal and running out after Chloe
Chloé knew how to hide from those searching for her. She was the one who taught Adrien and I how to hide from our respective bodyguards. Very few knew how to find her, especially after I showed her my favorite spot.
I hadn't been there for over a year, but I still remembered every step on how to get to the meadow.
She sat in the middle of the meadow her legs curled up to her chest, her arms folded on top of them her face buried in her arms.
"Shh" I told Chloé patting her back. "Shh, it's okay."
"I tried Master Fu's first" Chloé admitted. "But the shop was closed."
"It's fine" I told Chloé. "Nooroo needs time to recharge after creating super powered people, you have time."
Chloé turned to me. "Do you think I'm wrong?"
I shook my head. "I think you have to be 100% understanding that you may not like what you find out."
Chloé sighed. "It can't be worse that death"
"I wouldn't be so sure of that" I told her. "There are things worse then death."
I felt my phone buzz and took it out too look at it. "Adrien's wondering why neither of us are home yet."
Chloé chuckled. "Mother Hen" She muttered. I laughed along with her.
Chloé leaned back and stared at the stars. "It is quite beautiful here" She told me. "The stars are so bright."
I smiled. "We should probably get going" I told her.
"I can see why your parents loved to bring you here" She continued as though she hadn't heard me. "It feels safe here, like I can be whoever I want, and know one will judge me, or hurt me" She lay down till she was on the grass.
I leaned back with her. "Yeah"
Chloé closed her eyes. "We have to bring Adrien here one day"
I yawned. "Totally"
I was angry. It wasn't fair. My parents, were special, they had the miraculous, whereas I was a nobody.
"I'm no one!" I screamed. "Just a regular nobody, I'm not special like you and daddy, or auntie Viv and Uncle Gabe, or Aunt Izzy and Uncle Andre, or like Auntie Lyra and Uncle Roger, or even like Miss Nathalie.
"Oh, my darling girl" I could feel my mother's fingers running through my hair. "You are precious then you realise" She told me. She put a hand to my cheek and caressed my thumb. "You are a very important girl"
I shook my head.
My mother held me tightly. "You are going to find your way, and it is going to be completely yours, whether you are chosen for this life, or you decide to take another path, whatever you do will be magnificent, you want to know how I know?"
I shook my head.
My mother kissed my forehead. "Because you are my daughter, and you don't need a miraculous, to be the most amazing woman, I know your capable of becoming."
I laughed and gave my mother a hug.
Then everything morphed around me. Black leather wrapped around my body, my haired tied back with a pony tail, behind my back was a sword. I drew it as I stared at the monsters that kidnapped my parents. On a piece of glass behind them I could just make out my reflection. The hair that was tied back with a ribbon that had it's corners poking out the top of my head. My black mask with the red scleara.
Lady Noir.
"Let them go, " She said.
The monsters who had kidnapped parents laughed. "Then perhaps you do" One of them pressed a knife against her mother's throat.
"She doesn't know" Her father said to them before turning to me. "Please, darling go"
Her father was kicked right in front of her.
She ran forward and tried to attack the person hat hurt her father. She was able to incapacitate a few quite easily, but it wasn't long before she was overwhelmed.
She was held tightly as she watched her parents being threatened knives held at their throats.
"Please don't hurt them!" I begged.
"Then tell us where it is"
"No don't!" My mother warned me.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" I screeched at them.
"Oh really!."
I could only watch as they simultaneously stabbed both my parents in the chest at the same time.
"NO!" I screamed.
I gasped as I woke my heart beating wildly. I looked around wildly confused about where I was, before the memories of the previous day flooded my mind.
I was still in the meadow, it was still dark out.
Oh, damn we never went home. I checked my phone and nearly had a hard attack when I read the time. 4:00
I turned around and shook Chloé awake. "Chloé, Chloé it's morning wake up!"
Chloé batted my arm away. "I continued. Chloé you're not in your room, you're sleeping in the middle of the meadow"
Chloé batted my arm away again, though this time she at least sat up while rubbing her eyes. "Couldn't you have given me…" She looked around surprised. "Oh"
"Yep"
"This isn't my bedroom"
"Nope"
She stared at me worriedly. "We are so dead"
Without another word, we both ran as fast as we could out of the meadow. "Well, good news it's only 4:00 AM"
"That will never be good news in any context ever" Chloé shouted at me as we ran as fast as we could to our respective homes.
I walked Chloé to her hotel, where cops were waiting, and Andre was insisting that they find his little girl. Chloé of course being well, Chloé had broken down into huge fake tears, and had apologized incessantly. Andre had been annoyed had given her a severe talking too, and had gotten her credit taken away for a day, but on the whole Chloé was let off for falling asleep in the middle of the meadow.
I on the other hand, got double the bodyguard detail. Both the Gorilla and Cynthia had come to pick me up, having to endure, the hell that was thei disapproving stare, before being escorted by Nathalie (Who did yell at me,) and when she left me in the Gabriel's office, I could still hear her muttering about who Adrien and I were going to be the death of her.
"What the hell possessed you to stay out this late?" Gabriel asked me as I sat calmly in his office.
I shrugged. I knew the danger of even referring to the fact that Chloé might be the reason so I did my self a favor and cut her out of the story all together.
"You don't know?" Gabriel said. I could tell his temper was rising.
"Yep" I said my arms crossed in my chest.
"You couldn't even call? Let us know where you were?"
"You mean like you couldn't even come in to Careers Day?" I asked angrily. "Couldn't give your own son 2 hours of your time?"
Gabriel's gaze hardened. "How dare-"
"Because, you can't see beyond your own suffering to realize how much pain, your own son is in," I said angrily. "Do you have any idea how much he wanted you there yesterday? How much we both did?"
"Do not change the subject, Annette, you had no business staying out that late, much less on a school night."
"And you have no business putting your work before your own son, you own the Agreste Line" I said calling it by the name it had gone by when my father owned half of the business. "You could have been there, you chose not too, work always ends up coming first."
"And not only that, but you then choke us, with never giving us one single solitary second of freedom, every thing we do has to be monitored, by one of your hired bodyguards."
I took a deep breath before continuing "I didn't come home last night, because I didn't want to, because I wanted to spend one lousy night where I didn't feel caged in like some kind of animal, I didn't want my bodyguard, or you or anyone telling me what to do for one lousy stinking night" I said standing.
I took a moment to catch my breath. "Now if you excuse me I have to get ready for class" I said leaving before Gabriel could say anymore.
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