A/N So this is going to be a very Chloe centric chapter. As a direct result of what happened last chapter Annette is grounded, so... she's not featuring much.

Disclaimer: I don't own Miraculous Ladybug

Chloe part 1

"How long are you grounded for" Chloé whined. "I'm so bored without your calls."

"We did stay out most of the night" Annette reasoned. "Despite my anger, at Uncle Gabriel right now, he is in the right"

Chloé pouted. "Who's going to be my shopping buddy then?"

"You could ask Sabrina?" I said motioning to Sabrina who was calmly sitting in the front row, studiously revising her homework from the night before.

Chloé shook her head. "She's made it clear more then once, that she wants nothing to do with me."

"Sounds like Sabrina finally grew a back bone" Alya muttered under her breath.

"Hey Cesaire, unless I'm actually talking to you- keep your opinions to yourself" I said as Chloé's eyes dimmed.

I walked Chloé to her seat, before heading to Marinette.

"I've been grounded from now until further notice" I told Marinette "Would there be anyway you can deliver the dress to my house? Or I can
ask Adrien- wait hold on!" I stepped down to speak to Adrien.

"Can you pick up my mother's dress up after school today?" I asked Adrien.

Adrien raised an eyebrow at me. "What if I have plans?"

I pouted and gave him the best puppy dog eyes I could.

Adrien sighed. "You owe me"

"Yay!" I said clapping. Adrien had also been grounded for what happened during the whole 'Rogercop' incident but he only had a few days where as I was more indefinite.

"Adrien's going to pick it up after school, would umm-" I turned to Adrien to explain what time would be

"I'll try to get my bodyguard to stop by around 7" Adrien said as Nino stared at him wide eyed. "Would that be ok?' The second I returned my attention back to Adrien out of the corner of my eye I could see Nino pounce on Adrien.

Marinette looked wide-eyed at both of us her head turning several times in the direction of both Adrien and me. Before nodding vigorously.

"Yeah sure that would be great!" She said laughing nervously.

I nodded. "Just remember to give him the dress ok?"

Marinette nodded as Alya beside her tried not to laugh.

I walked up to my seat and sat beside Nathanael. "Hey" Nathanael said to me.

I tried to act casual. "H-hey!"

He looked as though he wanted to say something but was interrupted by Chloe texting me.

You could have asked me! Chloé had texted.

You hate Marinette. I reasoned. And Marinette isn't too fond of you either, I just wanted to get this over and done with as minimal fighting as possible. I told her.

I could see Chloé out in the front row looking away from her phone angrily.

I turned to Nathanael but was a little disheartened to see that he had gone back to drawing in his notebook.

"Dude, why didn't you refer me to picking up your cousin's dress!" I over heard Nino say.

"Because it would make less the no sense" Adrien said exasperated. "Look, if you want to get to know her why don't you just, you know, ask her out?"

"You have a crush on Marinette?" I said wide eyed. "Oh, I'm sorry, but she's interested in someone else"

Nino seemed to deflate.

"Who?" Adrien asked me both suspiciously and confused.

I looked between the pair of them surprised. "Are you serious? It's like the worse kept secret in the entire school, literally everyone knows"

"Annette-"

I started to laugh. "Oh, this is priceless, if you two don't know than I'm not going to tell you." I said backing away chuckling.

"What's so funny"

I whispered into Chloé's ear. She started to chuckle. "Really? I mean I knew Adrien was dense, but Nino?"

I could see Adrien and Nino glaring at us as we walked away giggling.

"What are you two laughing at?"

Chloé immediately sobered when we turned to see Marinette walking toward us.

"The absolute denseness of some of our male classmates, speaking of, Nino, has a crush, expect a declaration of love at some point from him"

Marinette crossed her arms. "Ha-ha very funny"

"No, I'm serious, I just overheard Adrien and Nino talking about it"

Marinette rolled her eyes. "The pair of you are setting someone up to be hurt" Marinette said.

Chloé scoffed. "Please, if either of us hurt or embarrassed Nino, Adrien would cut the pair of us out of his life."

I nudged Chloé in the arm. "Don't be mean"

Chloé looked away before her eyes lit up at seeing Kim. "Kim!" She shouted running up to him.

I rolled my eyes and stared at my watch.

"How long has that been going on?" Marinette said watching Chloé attempting to talk to Kim.

"Valentines day" I said.

"Wait, didn't she turn him down?" Marinette asked confused.

I nodded "Yep,"

Marinette looked at the pair confused. "Then why is she going after him"

"She's… interested" I said. "Personally, I don't understand the attraction, but I'm not inside Chloé's head. All I know was that the mission started as a way to explain why she couldn't date him, and slowly, it just developed into something more.

"But I thought she was interested in Adrien" Marinette said looking between Adrien and Kim confused.

I scoffed "She gave up on Adrien, months ago,"

"Then why does she still hang around him?"

"Does the word friendship mean something to you?" I said.

Marinette looked away. "Look I get that for the longest time, Chloé was Adrien's only friend but…"

I cut Marinette off. "But nothing, Chloé is Adrien's friend, get over it"

Marinette looked at me scandalized. "But Chloé"

"Tell me something, when was the last time she degraded, or called someone names?" I asked.

"She called me a thief" Marinette argued/

"Which she then dropped two minutes later" I reminded her.

Marinette scoffed. "To call someone else a thief no doubt"

"Oh yeah?" I said crossing my arms. "Who'd she name?" I looked at her expectantly.

Marinette looked at me confused. "What?"

"Who had she named as the perpetrator?"

Marinette turned away. "She publicly called me a thief, instead of talking to me privately"

"Her very expensive bracelet, that probably cost more then what your parents make in a year, had just gone missing, she panicked. Wouldn't you?"

Marinette just glared at me. "I wouldn't have jumped to conclusions so easily" She uttered.

I pursed my lips and nodded. Ok fair point.

I pulled out my wallet. "Want the money I owe you now or when Adrien comes by?" changing the subject quickly.

Marinette looked at the money in surprise. "Umm, I'll wait, I'd rather know you were happy with what I did, could you have A-Adrien take pictures of the dress when he comes by?"

I shrugged before putting the money back in my wallet. "Whatever works for you" I said. I looked up and was pleasantly surprised to see that she and Kim were still talking.

"Huh, would you look at that" I said staring at Chloé and Kim. "They're still talking."

"What could they be talking about?"

I shrugged. "As long it's peaceful and they're not at each other's throats, they could be talking about the pro's and cons of eating pizza for all I care."

Marinette looked at me in confusion. "Chloé hate's pizza, where as it's Kim's lifeblood"

Chloé chuckled at something Kim said.

The conversation lasted for a moment longer before Chloé left him. She grasped my arm tightly and pulled me away from Marinette. I waved at Marinette not even really surprised.

"Help me" Chloé hissed once we were out of hearing range. "Kim just invited me to hangout with him and Max after school, and see the new exhibit at the zoo."

"And?" I said. "If it's a choice about clothes, what your wearing is fine."

Chloé glared at me. "Of course, I know that, I'm Chloé Bourgeois, everything I wear is amazing."

I chuckled and shook my head. Same old Chloé. "Then what's the problem"
Chloé looked down. "What if it goes bad? What if it get's awkward cause neither of us know what to talk about?"

"You can let conversation's lull" I said. "It won't be the end of the world if you do"

"Can you come with me? Just so it doesn't get too awkward?"

I shook my head. "I'm grounded remember?"

Chloé pouted,but I shook my head. "I'm already on thin ice, can we please wait for the ice to harden a little before I go back out skating?" I insisted.

Chloé shook her head with a laugh. "You have the weirdest analogies"

I chuckled along with her. "I'm still standing by what I said. I can't go."

Chloé slouched sadly. "Ok, ok" She said sadly. "I guess, you just don't care about me enough too-"

"Want to go there, Bourgeois?" I asked crossing my arms. "Do you really want to go there?"

Chloé chuckled. "Ok, Ok fair enough"

"Ugh" I said as I hurried down the stairs to my car. Adrien was hanging out with Nino after school today meaning that I was heading home by myself. "Why couldn't I have had, Gymnastics, Or Swimming, or heck I'd even take Martial Arts right now." Those were the only things that would have allowed me to stay away from home.

"You could call and say you had some last-minute gymnastics meet?" Chloé sang.

"No" I said seriously. "Talk to you later, Chloé"

"Bye" Chloé already heading off where Kim was waiting for her.

"Hey Marinette!" Chloé turned her head, as Kim shouted at the pigtailed, raven-haired girl.

Marinette jumped before her face broke out relieved, then wary at seeing, Kim, Max and Chloé walking toward her.

"Hey Kim, Hey Max" Marinette said her face sobered a bit when she addressed Chloé. "Chloé"

"Marinette"

Chloé took a deep breath. If Annette was here, she would have been civil. She would have told Chloé, to be civil. She would have encouraged Chloé to say something nice.

Chloé swallowed. "What are you doing here?" She said in an attempt to be civil. She hadn't noticed that while she was trying to be civil, her tone was anything but.

Marinette's eyes narrowed. "I'm waiting for someone"

Chloé nodded. "Who?"

"Why do you want to know?" Marinette said defensively.

"Just making small talk" Chloé defended her hands fisting. She wasn't used to having her walls down this far down without Annette, Adrien or, even Sabrina to an extent, by her side.

Marinette looked suspiciously at Chloé but thankfully Kim cut in. "We're going to see the new Panther exhibit" Kim said excitedly. "Maybe you could join us, when that person your meeting show's up."

Marinette nodded. "Maybe" Though to Chloé that sounded unlikely.

Together all three of them turned and left to enter the zoo.

Chloé put a hand to her head as Kim tried to brag about how fast he was, unaware that he was making the park owner angry.

"Kim…" Chloé said with a smile. "Come on let's go find something else." She wrapped her arms around his own and began pulling him away, her trademark pout on her lips.

Kim looked vaguely disoriented at seeing Chloé draped on him like that but nodded. "S-sure, Chloé what ever you say, this guy was getting on my nerves anyway."

The zookeeper, sputtered at that but Chloé was already attempting to pull him away.

"Was showing off really necessary?" Chloé asked.

Kim looked offended. "I was just having a bit of fun Chloé"

"Yeah I know" Chloé said. "But you heard the zookeeper, it was upsetting the panther."

Kim rolled his eyes. "Why do you care?" He asked "This is right up your alley."

Chloé blinked. "Because, what you could have done was start an akuma, something no one here needs" Chloé said arms crossed.

Kim scoffed. "That's rich coming from you"

Chloé's eyes widened at the insult before they narrowed. "I was the direct cause of one" Chloé hissed. "And that was because you couldn't handle the fact that I turned you down – I didn't deride you, I didn't take pictures, I politely turned you down"

"You laughed!"

Chloé blinked. "I giggled" She said. "And more over I apologized for that"

Max looked beyond us. "Uh guys!" He said. "You guys may want to stop your bickering right now"

Chloé paused and both Kim and She turned to see several animals such as a

Chloé cursed. "What are the chances, that's not an akumatization?" She asked as it slowly stalked in their direction.

Kim slowly backed away his eyes wide and solely trained on the giant feline in front of him.

Chloé pulled out a switch blade from her purse, but made no move to attack.

"What are you going to do?" Kim asked.

Chloé put a hand on Kim's shoulder. "We are going to back away as slowly as possible"

Kim scoffed. "Oh please, I can out run this."

Chloé shook her head. "Max, tell us again what the likelihood of that is."

"0.1%" Max responded automatically.

I could really use some help, Ladybug, Cat Noir anyone Chloé thought.

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty" Chloé said. "We won't hurt you."

The panther laughed at her. "Believe me, that's not what you should be worried about."

Akuma, that is an akuma. Chloé thought to herself. Panthers can't talk.

She clutched at her knife but refused to throw it. Ladybug's words still loudly ringing in her ears.

"What do you think your doing!" Ladybug yelled. "You could have hurt him!"

Chloé took a deep breath. Ok, how do I handle a giant panther.

The panther ignored her and turned to Kim. "You want to race now?" The panther said.

Behind her Kim's panic got the best of him and he started to run and the panther leapt. Chloé jumped in front of the panther. The both fell to the ground in a mess of claws and teeth. The Panthers class dug deeply into her shoulder leaving a large gash.

Chloé bit back a scream, as she tried to stop the panther from attacking Kim. Giving both Max and Kim time to get away.

Suddenly she felt the animal being pulled violently from her.

"Chloe!" Adrien – no Cat Noir said. "Oh my…"

She stood shakily as soon as she could. "I'm fine" Chloé waved him off. "How's Kim"

"He's should be fine for now, we have the panther under control – for now anyway. You're the one I'm worried about."

Chloé looked at him surprised her hand on her shoulder. "Oh, come on it can't be…" She pulled her hand away from the wound and looked at it in surprise. Her hand was covered in blood.

"Oh" She said. The light-headedness she was feeling was starting to make a bit more sense. "Oh" She said. "Oh, that's not good." Chloé said.

"CAT!" Ladybug yelled. "Look out!"

Chloé stood hesitantly but Cat Noir just picked her up and started to run. "Handle this Ladybug, I'm going to get her to safety"

"It will be ok" Cat Noir insisted to her. "It will be ok"

"Of course, it will" Chloé said dazed. "You and Ladybug will capture the akuma, and then she'll use the cure and I will be healed in no time, you worry too much." Or at least that's what she thought she said. Truth was she was slurry every other word.

Cat Noir didn't say anything.

"Where's Kim" Chloé asked changing the subject. "Is he alright?"

"Yeah" Cat Noir said with barely concealed anger. "He's fine."

Chloé laughed. "Jealous?"

"He left you alone!" Cat Noir hissed. "To be attacked by a panther. I'm not jealous I'm furious."

Chloé blinked before leaning against his chest.

"There" Cat Noir said as he carried her into the patisserie.

Chloé sighed. "I doubt Marinette will like that" She said.

"She'll deal" Cat Noir said. As they entered the patisserie.

"Oh, my gosh what happened?" Mrs. Dupain Cheng asked staring wide eyed at the gash on Chloe's right shoulder and chest.

"I'm fine" Chloé said. "Just a scratch"

Cat asked "Do you have a first aid kit"

"Is she alright?" Kim asked stepping up. Chloé turned her head in surprise she hadn't realized Kim had run into the patisserie for safety too.

Cat Noir ignored him. "First. Aid. Now." Cat Noir hissed. He slowly peeled away the jacket and carefully pulled off her shirt.

"I'm fine" Chloé answered. "It looks worse then it is" She finished before hissing as Cat Noir applied some antiseptic. "ouch, Cat that stings!"

"Would you rather be in the hospital?" Cat Noir his hands shaking.

"No, but Cat I'm sure the grownups can handle this, Ladybug need your help defeating the akuma." Chloé said softly.

When it looked like Cat was going to argue Chloe took hold of Cat's hands and said "I'll be fine, go"

Cat Noir looked her in the eyes before nodding. "Fine" Cat Noir said standing.

Just as he passed Kim he stopped and glared at him.

"You better pray, the miraculous cure heals her" Cat Noir said to Kim, "Other wise you are a dead man, Understood?"

Kim swallowed and nodded.

Cat Noir hurried back to the zoo, to see Ladybug staring at her yo-yo in surprise.

"What is it?" Cat Noir asked. "Something wrong Ladybug?"

"The panther somehow escaped" Ladybug said confused. "But my Yo-yo isn't even broken."

"That's strange" Cat Noir said. "But something we can figure out later, we have a panther to deal with."

Ladybug nodded before the starting running. Ladybug swung on her yoyo while Cat Noir ran across the rooftops. "Where'd you put Chloé?"

"Nearest place I could think of, she's in the Dupain-Cheng patisserie" Cat Noir said. "She should be fine, Kim is there as well" Cat Noir said anger unintentionally steeped into his voice as he said Kim's name. "What did you do with the others, Nino and uhh… Alya?"

Ladybug blinked, at Cat's momentary hostility. But she answered his question none the less. "Those two I trapped in a cage somewhere, should be safe until I can get this whole mess taken care of."

Cat Noir chuckled though it sounded a little strained. "I doubt either of them will see it that way."

"Best I could do on a time crunch" Ladybug said, she pursed her lips. "Surprised, little miss In-The-Way, isn't here yet."

"She's heavily grounded, and possibly under the careful supervision, under a couple of bodyguards" Cat Noir said automatically. "She'd be here if she could."

Ladybug hummed. "Better that she isn't wouldn't want her getting hurt" Ladybug said.

"You're not too fond of her, are you?" Cat Noir said.

"That's not it exactly," Ladybug said. "It's more a case of, I don't want her getting hurt."
"Why?" Cat Noir said. "Do you know her? Outside of the mask I mean."

Ladybug sighed. "Only in passing." Ladybug said. "There he is." Ladybug pointed to just outside the Dupain-Cheng patisserie where the Panther could be scene pacing around.

"He can smell Kim" Cat Noir said. "But I doubt-" His eyes widened as he saw the panther morph into a rat

"Well that explains how he got free of, your, yo-yo my lady" Cat noir said before jumping down to stop the rat from entering the bakery.
Ladybug followed down after him.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you that's it's not nice to hurt little girls?" Cat Noir said standing in front of the rat.

"She was in my way" The rat said. "It's only the boy I want, give him to me and I will leave you unharmed."

Cat Noir's eyes turned dark, he pulled his baton out from his back. "Liar"

The rat morphed again into a giant panther again and growled.

A red yoyo with black polka dots seemed to almost come out of no where and wrapped tightly around the Panther's legs, causing him to fall.
Ladybug pulled him inside the Patisserie. "We need a plan" She said.

"I am so sorry" Kim said as he stared at Chloé her jacket and black and white stripped shirt was off, so she was lying on a couch in her bra.
Bloodied bandages covered her shoulder and chest. "I shouldn't have run"

Chloé shook her head. "We all run at some point" Chloé said.

"Annette doesn't, you didn't"

"I did my first few times handling an akuma" Chloé said. "And Annette is a freak" Chloé said with a laugh. "She never has a proper response to anything."

Kim chuckled. "How are you so calm about this?"
"I don't know," Chloé said softly. "I guess the shock hasn't set in yet? Or I know that everything is going to set straight soon, so I'm just waiting for that to happen."

Kim clutched her hand. Chloé stared at it confused. "Why did you do it?"

Chloé shrugged. "Cause it's what everyone I look up to would have done" She said. "And I want to be a better person, and the only way I know how to be better, is by emulating their actions."

"I doubt Annette would want you risking your life like this" Kim said.

"She got hurt, saving ladybug during the whole mime incident, she has no room to talk." Chloé said crossing her arms and looking away.

"Wasn't that just a graze though?" Kim said.

Chloé sighed. "I suppose" She said, before ladybugs surrounded her form healing the scars that had been left by Animan.

"I feel better" Chloé said. Slowly peeling away the bandages to reveal three long pink scars from her shoulder that a few moments before had been thick red bleeding gashes.

"They must be done" Chloé said standing, pulling on her black and white stripped shirt that had been cleaned and repaired thanks to the ladybug cure, as had her yellow jacket.

The thundering sound of a person running could be heard before Cat Noir appeared in the living room entryway.

"Hey Chloé" Cat Noir said. "You ok?"

Chloé pulled her jacket away and pulled the neck of her shirt down so he could see the pinkish scar. "I'm fine" She said. "Seriously, you didn't act this way when Annette was hurt"

"First, Annette's wound was a lot less severe then yours was, second, Ladybug was the one handling her wounds, and third yes I did." Cat Noir said. "You just didn't see it, because I was focused on bringing the bastard down, but I was just as angry then as I am now."

Chloé rolled her eyes. "You're being a tad irrational don't you think?"

"No"

"Well you are" Chloé said haughtily. "I'm fine"

"You got hurt, run away next time, if you don't want to fight"

"Had I not done that Kim would have gotten hurt."

Cat Noir put a hand to his head. "Chloé just… go home"

"Actually, I was…."
"I swear if you don't head home right now, I will tell your father everything" Cat Noir warned. "Get. Home. Now."

Chloé looked at him wide eyed before turning to Kim. "See you around Kim" She said she turned to Mr. and Mrs. Dupain Cheng. "Thanks for the couch, and letting me stay until I was healed." She gave Cat a scathing glare before walking out of the room.

Kim looked as though he wanted to say something, but the angry aura that seemed to emanating from Cat Noir, stopped him and he waved goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Dupain Cheng before leaving.

"Chloé!" Kim said once he was outside. "How about I walk you?"

Chloé smiled her eyes lit up. "Sure Kim, that would be lovely."

It was still a couple of hours before seven so he did, what any other sane person did when he felt out of control. He ran across town in his cat suit. Enjoying the freedom that it gave him.

"You ok?" Cat Noir jumped. He was on top of the Eifel tower taking in the view. When he turned to see, Ladybug standing behind him.

"Ladybug" Cat Noir said. "I wasn't expecting to see you."

"You seemed agitated, when I left" Ladybug said. "I wanted to make sure you were ok."

Cat Noir bit his cheek. "I'm fine" He said. "Just… thinking"

Ladybug went silent.

"You don't much care for Chloé" Cat Noir said. "Your wondering why, I was so angry and worried about her."

"She's not my favorite person" Ladybug admitted. "And her reputation has even hit my ears. Annette try to sell you on a different side?"

Cat Noir bowed his head. "Why don't you like Annette?"

Ladybug shrugged. "I don't understand her" she admitted. "She risks her neck to fight villains, and yet is friends with…" Ladybug looked away.

"Annette and Chloé have a past" Cat Noir said. "They both understand each other, and from what I gather, Chloé is at least trying to change" Cat Noir said.

"How do you know?" Ladybug said. "I mean what makes Annette's testitmony more valid that anyone elses?"

Cat Noir smiled. "Annette knows Chloe better than anyone else" Cat said. "That much I know your aware of."

Ladybug went silent.

"I may not be dating Annette, but I still care about Annette, and to an extension Chloe, if something were to happen to her, it would crush Annette." Cat Noir said. "And more then that, she is trying to change. I've seen myself, and so have you, sure she's made mistakes but so have we, and I was angry, because even though she can be mean and selfish there are still people out there who love her, and want to see her safely home at the end of the day. LAdybug I know, you see it too, otherwise you wouldn't be pulling her out of danger when she finds herself inside it."

Ladybug just stared at him wide eyed.

Cat looked away and shook his head. "I got to go I promised a friend I would run an errand for them" He said before jumping away.

"Hey Adrien" Marinette said looking kind of dazed and worried. "You're here for the dress, right?" She said heading to her closet.

Adrien nodded tensely. "Yeah, thanks Marinette, Annette's been really eager to get her hands on this."

Marinette pulled the dress bag out of her closet. "You may want to send her a couple of pictures before paying me the other fifty."

Adrien unzipped the bag and looked at it. Snapping pictures here and there, and sending them off to Annette.

"Are you ok Adrien?" Marinette asked, as they waited for Annette's message. "You seem tense."

Adrien looked at her tired. "I heard what happened with Chloé" He said.

Marinette stilled a moment before nodding. "The attack at the zoo, she was caught up in it."

Adrien nodded. "Yeah, the conversation I had with her about it, was not exactly cheerful" Adrien said. "I was a little stern, perhaps a little more then I should have been."

"Well Chloé sometimes needs a stern voice, telling she's being an idiot" Marinette supplied. "It would do her a lot of good, I'd think."
Adrien shook his head. "When she does something wrong yeah, but she was trying to protect someone, and I yell at her."

Marinette hesitated. "You really care about her, do you?" Marinette asked.

Adrien put a hand to his neck. "Not like I would a girlfriend, but yeah, she and I have been through a lot." Adrien admitted. "I mean I wouldn't slap a person, like Annette did Alya, for calling Chloe a bitch, cause even I can admit that she can be at times, but I still don't want anything to happen to her."

Marinette nodded. "That's quite amazing of you actually" Marinette said. "To not be blinded but someone's true nature, but still see something worth protecting, when you see it""Annette's the same" Adrien added. "And I mean this honestly, Chloé isn't so bad once you've learned to tear down her walls, she's quite loyal when she feels you've earned it." Adrien said. "But until then, sometimes you have to put up with her bitchiness to get to the insecure lonely girl underneath."

"But that's no excuse"

Adrien sighed as his phone buzzed signalling that he'd gotten a text. The dress is fine.

"No, it isn't" Adrien said, as another text came his way. "But most of the Class has something she could never have and that makes her lash out, and cling to Annette and me."

Chloé is here, and ready to yell at you when you get home.

"A happy family." Adrien said.

Marinette went silent.

The second Adrien walked through the door. Chloé jumped up and stalked toward him.

"WAIT!" Annette yelled Chloé paused as Annette stood plucked the garment bag from Adrien's hands and quickly hid it in her closet.

Adrien leaned sideways to get a better look at Annette "Really?"

"Well there's always a chance that neither of you will take the sensible option" Annette defended. "So, I'm getting my desirables out of the way first, namely the dress I just spent 100 bucks getting repaired."

Chloé scoffed. "I don't understand why you don't just by a new one"

"Cause, I don't want to" Annette said. "This dress has been handed down from Ladybug to Ladybug for at least 3 generations and I think it's appropriate that I carryon that tradition" Annette said. She eyed her cousin. "I have your suit too, it's in my closet."

"Did my mother have one?" Chloé asked suddenly sounding small, and unsure. "A bee themed dress I mean"

Annette nodded slowly her expression immediately a lot more sober. "Yeah, but if anyone knows it's location it would be either your dad, or Master Fu."

Chloé folded her arms. "O-oh"

Adrien caught on to her melancholy answer. "You ok Chlo?" He said wrapping a hand around.

She shrugged out of his grip. "Shut up I'm still mad at you."

"I know" Adrien said. "I'm sorry I snapped at you" Adrien said. "That was the last thing you deserved"

Chloé relaxed her stature slightly. "Everyone I know risks their life on a daily business, even my father was a part time hero when he was needed, and your asking me to run, when someone I care about is in danger?" Chloé shook her head, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I can't."

Adrien hugged Chloé. "Shh" Adrien said. "I'm sorry"

Annette just watched on as two best friends clutched tightly to each other.

A/N Hope you enjoyed that.