A/N Copy Cat! And then after this is the episode I've been looking forward to the most. Evilustrator. Hope you enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own miraculous ladybug

Jealousy part 1

"Excited?" Annette said curiously.

Adrien shook his head just a little too fast. "Nope nuh-uh, not me, why would that be the case?"

Annette crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. "Yeah… cause that was believable."

Adrien ducked his head and laughed. "Ok yeah, I'm excited"

"You should be, since the unveiling is all about you and Ladybug" Annette said.

Adrien sighed. "You and Chloé deserve praise too"

"Yeah, and if either one of us were donning a costume, we would get it, but alas that is not the case" Annette said the back of her hand to her hand to her forehead and she bent slightly backwards, in an attempt to be dramatic. "Tis the curse of the friends of the heroes, to never be acknowledged by the public, even when they really should."

Adrien poked her in the side and Annette fell to the ground laughing.

"Oh, hush your acknowledged" Adrien said. "Perhaps not city wide but…"

"It's a joke" Annette said. "And I don't really care either way" Annette shrugged. "Yeah, would it be nice, but that's not the reason I run into Akuma battles. It never was."

Annette chuckled as both she and Adrien entered the classroom, to see a group of teens surrounding Alya and Marinette's desk.

"Oh, come on Alya!" Kim begged. "One more time!"

"You can see it later, on the Ladyblog!" Alya chuckled. "Class is going to start soon!" She chuckled.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Annette asked as both Adrien and she walked up.

Nathanael was the one who answered. "Last night a new costumed person was spotted, we think it might be new superhero."

"New Superhero huh?" Annette asked. "What'd he or she look like?"

"I couldn't see much because it was dark" Alya admitted. "But she was flying, somewhat clumsily around town last night. Look!" She showed Annette her camera and showed a darkened silhouette of a girl, by the looks of her long-haired ponytail and covers to be flying around somewhat clumsily.

Annette's eyebrows rose. "Wow"

"Did you see anything else about her?" Adrien asked.

"She could be another akuma" Marinette said. "I mean that would suck of curse, but we can't rule it out – not yet anyway."

"I don't know Marinette, she's seems legit, and what kind of Akuma doesn't go around attacking everything in sight, she seemed allot more concentrated on just staying in the air than attacking regular civilians." Alya said with a grin.

"Why do we have another hero?" Adrien asked. "I mean we're doing fine with the four we already have."

"There's only two" Alya cut in. "Ladybug and Cat Noir, you need help with math, Adrien?"

Annette rolled her eyes. "How many fights have you actually seen?" Annette asked. "Two humans have been in a lot of recent battles."

"Yeah, and where were you during Animan?" Alya said.

"Grounded" Annette said. "But that doesn't mean, that I haven't been helpful."

"It's true, both she and Chloé have both been helpful" Adrien said.

"Ok, Annette fine, she was helpful sometimes, but Chloé when was she ever helpful?"

"Dark Cupid, The Mime, she saved Kim from being mauled by Animan…" Annette said. "What was your camera off all those times?"

"It's true" Kim cut in "Chloé totally saved my life during the Animan attack"

"Did someone say my name?" Chloé asked breezing into the class room, hiding something in her purse quickly.

"Hey Chlo" Annette said. "Hear about the new possible superhero? Alya's been showing people all morning."

"No, I haven't" Alya said. "Not all morning anyway."

"Oh yeah?" Chloé said. "No, I hadn't heard, what's she like?"

"Slightly clumsy" Alya said. "But that could be because she's new to her powers, I can't wait to see her in battle."

"She could be an Akuma" Marinette whispered. "Don't get so hyped up Alya." She finished.

"She's right" Annette said. "Wait until we have the official ok, from Ladybug and Cat Noir. Right Adrien?" Annette turned to Adrien. Adrien looked surprised that he was being asked but nodded nonetheless.

"Well I doubt we have to worry about that" Chloé hurried in. "I mean, she might late to the party, but that doesn't mean she's bad. I mean can Hawkmoth even mimic another hero's powers?"

Annette kept quiet saying too much at this moment would have given away just how much she knew about the miraculouses.

"He hasn't before" Alya said.

"We don't even if this is a miraculous power" Marinette said. "Just wait until Ladybug and Cat Noir have looked into it" She said. "I'm not trying to be mean but…"

"But we have nothing on this person, except a darkened video" Annette finished. "It's ok, you have a right to be skeptical, but we also have a right to be hopeful, a new hero in Paris would be exceedingly cool don't you think?"

"What's wrong with ones we have?"

"Nothing, but having another could take a load off are recent superheroes, right?"

"All right class head to your seats" Madam Bustier said as she entered class.

I hurried up the stairs to my seat next to Nathanael and behind Myléné"

"What do you guys think?" I whispered. "About this new potential hero?"

"Could be a good thing, I agree that we should wait and see what happens." Nathanael jumped in.

Beside me Nicholas Croix chuckled. "It might be too late by then if it turns out she is an enemy"

"Yeah but if we attack her and she isn't an enemy, an ally could be turned against us." Annette said. "Better to wait and see than jump in with assumptions made."

Nicholas shook his head. "You are all hopeless"

"No, we're Optimists" Annette cut in. "You should try it sometime."

"If I said I would try, would you give me another date."

Nathanael's pencil broke behind her.

Annette did not acknowledge the pencil breaking. "No"

"Then I see no point"

"You're an ass"

"Aww, you flatter me"

"And you disgust me."

"Mademoiselle Agreste and Monsieur Croix do you have something to share with class"

"No Madam" Nicholas and Annette said at the same time.

"So, Annette, are you going to the unveiling un after school?" Nathanael asked shyly.

"That is the plan" I said. "Unless something comes up, I should be ok."

Nathanael nodded. "Maybe I'll see you there?"

Annette smiled shyly. "Yeah, maybe you-uh- will."

Nathanael waved and walked off. Annette watched as she leaned against his locker.

"Nathanael, and Annette sitting in a tree" Annette spun around to see Adrien and Chloe chuckling slightly.

"Hey Adrien ask out your crush yet?" Annette said.

Adrien glared at me.

Chloé looped her arm around Adrien's. "Maybe this new superhero will make her formal debut at the ceremony. "

"That'd be kind of arrogant, wouldn't it?" Annette frowned. "Appearing right when Ladybug and Cat Noir were being celebrated? It would be like she's being celebrated for something she hasn't even done yet."

Chloé hesitated then nodded. "Yeah, it would be bad form, the very last thing needed for him or her is a bad reputation."

"Excited to see her huh?"

Chloé's eyes widened. "Yeah!" Chloé said. "Yeah, I am, I mean depending on if she's a miraculous holder or not, personally I'm hoping she's bee, and maybe if I'm lucky enough…"

"Kwamis don't reveal concrete things about past miraculouses, especially in regards to how they died, or left the superhero business no matter who it is that's asking, cause depending on who the villain is it could real personal real fast." Annette said. "Sorry"

Chloé sighed. "Yeah, I figured, Dad keeps his office locked up tight, and ever since the Rogercop incident he's added new security measures, what ever happened to my mom he's taking extreme care to make sure that I don't find out."

"That's weird." Annette admitted.

Chloé sighed. "I just want answers"

Annette and Adrien nodded. "I understand" Adrien said.

"But like I keep telling you, tread cautiously" Annette said. "You may not be happy with what you find."

-
After a gruelling lunch time Gymnastics practice, several other classes, and a notice being sent around that swimming practice was going to be sometime next week, School finally let out.

Myléné, Ivan and Nathanael met me at the steps of the school and together we walked to the park, to wait for the unveiling to start.
It wasn't supposed to start for another hour or so, but this at least gave us a chance to find a good spot to stand so our view wouldn't be blocked by anyone in front of us.

A few reporters were already there setting up, and I smiled and waved at Theo. Theo was looking around nervously, but when he saw me he froze momentarily before walking over.

"Annette" He said. "How, are you?"

I tilted my head to the side. "Better." I said. "Nice to see you here though, I see your sculpting has taken off"

Theo wrung his hands together nervously. "I just hope I did her justice"

"Them"

"What?" Theo asked me his brow furrowed in confusion.

"Them, you hope you did them justice, right?"

Theo paused. "Oh right, Ladybug and Cat Noir"

Nathanael coughed and I turned as I realised that I was ignoring my other three friends. "Oh right, Theo, this is Nathanael, Myléné and Ivan" I said pointing to each of my friends in turn. Friends of mine from school."

"How do you do" Theo said shaking each of there hands. "Where's Chloé weren't you two once thick as thieves?"

I shrugged. "She went home after class, there are some things she needed to do."

Theo nodded.

"How exactly do you know, Annette" Nathanael asked him curiously.

"Oh, I was her mother's apprentice" Theo said. "Her mother took me under her wing, and taught me a lot, sometimes Annette would be there to watch her mom work."

"Right!" Nathanael laughed. "Your mom was Bridgette Dupont the sculptor."

"Yeah." I said. My mom had changed her name when she married my father, but so as not to confuse her clients, signed her work Bridgette Dupont.

"I heard about your parents" Theo said. "I'm sorry about what happened."

I stilled. "It was a couple years ago, Theo, forget about it."

Theo looked like he wanted to press a bit more, but the look on my face must have convinced him otherwise.

Theo looked around.

"Waiting for someone?" Annette asked.

"Yeah Ladybug" Theo said holding up a newspaper clipping of Ladybug. "I wanted her to sign this, she's just a huge inspiration for me you know?"

I did. I smiled.

"Hey, your friends with Cat Noir" Theo asked. "Could you, maybe…?"

I stilled. "Theo you're 23"

"Yeah?"

"And you have no idea how old Ladybug is" I said.

"Neither do you." Theo shot back.

Actually, I did. Generally, Miraculous Holders, were usually chosen around teenage years, so that it was easier to mold them into the heroes they could be, and on top of that the Cat Noirs and Ladybugs were always around the same age.
I sighed and looked down I didn't want a fight. "Maybe your right" I conceded. "But just don't put out much hope she may turn you down."
Theo nodded and turned away putting a lollipop stick into his mouth.

I lowered my head. "He does have a point you know" Nathanael said. "I mean, you have no idea how old Ladybug is."

I coughed. "Yeah, I know, I don't know what I was thinking."

"I do" My head whipped around to look at Myléné.

"Oh yeah? What's that?"

"Your friends with Cat Noir" Myléné said. "And he's obviously told you of his little crush on Ladybug"

"Caught on that, have you?"

"When you're not in battle, his actions toward Ladybug become very flirtatious" Myléné said with a giggle. "A little hard to miss, how do you?"

"I don't watch news?" I said flippantly. "I just don't much care for it"

"Well that explains it" Myléné said. "Start watching the news you'll see."

The crowd around us was starting to get restless and out of the corner of my eye I could see Alya in the crowd.

The Mayor was talking to Theo I could that he seemed impatient, and annoyed.

Shortly afterword. The Mayor gave his speech and unveiled the statue.

The Statue itself was amazing. Both Ladybug and Cat Noir were very well done, you could see the hours that Theo put into the statue.

I just did not like the over all message.

Cat Noir was crouched down, with Ladybug standing over him getting ready to throw her yo-yo.

The implication (to me anyway) being that Cat Noir was beneath Ladybug, when in truth they were partners. Yin and Yang. Creation and Destruction. You couldn't have one without the other. Cat Noir was the muscle. Cat Noir was often the one who fought to toe where Ladybug snuck around. Cat Noir was the one who gave Ladybug the time to come up with a plan.

Cat Noir was equal to Ladybug, not beneath her.

"What do you think?" Nathanael asked me.

"It looks spectacular" I said. "They look so good, and his time and dedication really show"

Nathanael waited patiently. "But…"

I looked to see Theo looking at the statue and lowered my voice.

"Cat Noir beneath Ladybug? Really?" I said. "They're partners, shouldn't he be y'know at her height?"

"He is always crouching" Myléné said. "I doubt there was much thought into implication, and this also shows his feline side too"

I looked to the statue and sighed. "Fair enough, I guess but…"

"How do you think it should have been done?" Nathanael cut in. He didn't look angry, or conceited just genuinely curious.

"Keep Ladybug the same" I said. "But have Cat Noir upright, in one of his battle poses"

Nathanael tilted his head slightly. "Yeah that could work…" He said to himself his fingers twitching as they did when he wanted to draw.

"With him holding his staff?"

"Yeah him holding it to his side but raised slightly like he's about to do battle?" I demonstrated the pose I meant for him.

Nathanael nodded. "I like that" He said.

I giggled. Myléné and Ivan looked at us and shook their heads.

"You guys are such dorks."

"Oh… hush" I said. "You don't know anything"

I felt someone bump into my shoulder. "OW!" I turned around to see Theo walking away angrily.

"The heck's that all about?" I asked angrily. I caught Cat Noir's eye and he was looking at me guiltily.

"You did what!" I asked him. "What the hell possessed you?"

"I don't know he was talking about Ladybug, and how he was so sure that if they talked they would get together, and I don't know what happened."

"I do" Plagg said eating a wheel of camembert. "You got jealous."

"I was stupid" Adrien said clearly just saying it so that I wouldn't continue yelling at him. "Ok?"

"Plagg" I asked.

"Should I tell him how much of moron he was?" I asked him. "I mean he is your chosen after all."

"Have at it" Plagg said. "Please"

I smiled. "First, Ladybug is most likely the same age as you, meaning that any legal relationship is probably not going to happen, second Ladybug is allowed to have other men in her life, men that aren't you, and third Ladybug can tell Theo herself that she and him aren't going to happen, and fourth what you did could have started an Akuma."

Adrien sighed. "Ok!" He said. "I get it I am a horrible human being. Who shouldn't even wear a miraculous"

I looked at him unimpressed. "The guilt trip really?" I said. "That wasn't what I was getting at and you know it."

Adrien sighed. "I know" He said. "I'm sorry. I was wrong."

I sighed and sat down beside him. "No, just a teenager" I said. "A stupid jealous teenager."

"Does this mean, that if you ever act stupidly…"

I rolled my eyes. "Like you haven't already"

Adrien laughed. "Pass me my bag will you, I want to call Nino"

I tossed it to him. He started rummaging through my bag quickly before frowning. "Where is it?" He asked.

He tipped his bag upside down. "My phone's missing" He told me.

Adrien sighed and walked out of the room. "Nathalie! I need a favor!"

"Why are you coming?"

"Cause the other option is boring"

Adrien leaned against his seat. "How was your 'date'?" Adrien said.

"Wasn't much of a date, I hung out with a few friends, that's all." I said. "We talked to Theo, and made remarks on how to make the statue better" I shrugged no better.

"What's wrong with the statue?"

"Nothing!" I said quickly. "I just thought it could look better."

"How?"

"Cat Noir standing for one thing," I said knowing that now I opened that can of worms Adrien wouldn't stop. "And your staff in hand in one of your battle poses. I didn't like that Cat Noir seemed beneath Ladybug."

Adrien sighed "You know I don't care about that" Just as his bodyguard turned on the radio.

"Breaking news, the Mona Lisa was just stolen by the Superhero Cat Noir."

I looked at Adrien in surprise and he turned on the TV. To show a news report of a person who looked extraordinarily like Cat Noir stealing the Mona Lisa.

What the…?

"This painting is the cat's meow"

I looked at Adrien in shock. The car stopped in front of the school and Adrien and I ran out of the car.

"I guess that answer's the question about whether or not Hawk Moth can copy powers." Adrien said. "And not only is he a fake he's a terrible one" Adrien said heading straight for the locker room. He paused and stared at me. "Is there any hope that your going to be a good little girl, and do as I ask?"

I raised my eyebrow.

Adrien sighed. "Yeah, I thought so, ok stay on my tail, and do as I say."

I nodded

Adrien nodded. "ready Plagg?" He asked. At Plagg's approval, he shouted "Claw's Out!" and Transformed.

He looked at me and for a moment I was afraid he was going to run off, but instead he picked me up and carried me out. I buried my face in his neck to hide my identity as he and I ran through the night. He and I stopped just before the louvre.

"Wait!" I whispered and pulled him down so the police wouldn't see us. "They think you're a thief, strolling in without a plan could lead to you using your powers before it's necessary"

"But I'm the real Cat Noir"

"They don't know that Hawkmoth can recreate miraculous powers, you trying to explain may make you look guiltier."

"Then what do you suggest?"

"Sneak in through the back" Annette said. "And be very careful, rely more on your weapon and your natural abilities then your power."

Cat Noir sighed. "Alright, fine, stay here" He said before jumping off.

I rolled my eyes before he jumped off.

Shortly after that Ladybug swung in. "You hear?" She asked me.

"It's not him" I said automatically.

"Had a feeling" Ladybug said. "Know where he is?"

I nodded. "Sneaking in, trying to get clues, as to who the fake is" I said. I watched as an alarm went off. "And there's the alarm."

Ladybug sighed and swung down. "Hey don't!" I sighed. I could have attempted to get down on my own but it was much more likely the fight would end before I did.

Before long Cat Noir jumped back to my side and sighed. "Ok, I-" Cat Noir pulled me down "Shoot!" He hissed as sirens started blaring.

He pulled out his baton and called Ladybug. "Cat Noir what's going on?" Ladybug said.

"You know I'm innocent, don't you, bugaboo?"

I raised my eye brows at the pet name.

"Stop fooling around and calling me bugaboo" Ladybug said exasperated. "This is really serious."

"I'm going to find the real culprit and save my tail, I'll get back to" We both froze as the police helicopter flew overhead.

"Shoot!" Cat Noir said. "Any ideas?"

"Get to the nearest place where you can de-transform, call me and I'll meet you"

Cat Noir nodded. "Ok, Ok, fine"

Cat Noir stood, and ran, the police immediately on his tail.

I waited for a moment or two before standing and walking across the bridge. A moment later I got a phone call.

"Where are you"

"Outside the subway entrance closest to the louvre."

"I'm on my way" I said.

"What'd you find?" I asked pulling a box of Camembert that I made a habit of carrying on me in instances like this.

Adrien looked at me worriedly. "If I show you promise not say I told you so?"

"No"

Adrien sighed and pulled out a lollipop stick.

"Theo" I said. "Ok, that's step one,"

Adrien looked at me in surprise, that I wasn't telling him off but the moment past. "Let's get going."

I looked down at the warehouse, that was Theo's workshop.

"Let me go in first" I said. "Theo knows me, he has a deep respect for my mother, maybe I can talk to him?"

Cat Noir paused. "Annette-"

"Ten minutes" I implored. "If I'm not out in ten minutes come find me. Just give me one chance."

"He's dangerous"

"I can handle myself" I implored. "Please, just one chance."

Cat Noir shook his head. "It could go wrong"

"You're the reason he's an Akuma" I said. "I don't know if you've noticed, but handing people the reason they've been akumatized is a very bad idea."

Adrien glared at me. I gave him my best deadpan stare.

"At the very least I'll be able to distract him while you come up with a plan. I at least know him" I said.

Cat Noir sighed. "I'll be on the roof ready to intervene if I see things getting hairy." He said. "Please don't be stupid."

"I think your confusing me with you" I said. Cat Noir extended his baton so that I could use it to slide down. I entered it cautiously.

"Theo?" I called. "Are you here?" I asked. "Can we talk? Please?"

Silence answered back.

"Look I know Cat Noir hurt you, but is ruining his reputation really a good idea?" I asked to the air. "I mean, despite your personal gripes against him he has saved Paris."

"How could she love him?" Theo said though he sounded like Cat Noir Annette turned around but Theo was no where to be scene. "He doesn't even know what he has!"

"That's not for you to decide" I answered making a snap decision not to mention that Theo had been lied to. I didn't know what Theo's reaction would be, and I didn't want to risk it backfiring.

"He called it a thing!" Theo cried. "He called what he had with Ladybug a thing! He doesn't deserve her"

"And you do?" Annette said. "Ladybug isn't some object to be taken from someone, she has to choose you, do you honestly think she's going to choose you, after you tried to ruin her partner's reputation?"

"You do not know anything" Theo hissed.

"She was never yours Theo" I said softly. "Let her go"

"I can't"

"Would my mother have liked this?" Annette said using what she new of Theo's admiration for her mother as leverage. "You always looked up to her, didn't you?"

"Your mother is dead" Theo said. "So, I suppose it doesn't matter"

I went cold at the reminder. "No" I said softly. "I suppose to you it doesn't, but I can't let you hurt him."

I turned around to see Cat Noir standing behind me in his hand a purple sheet of paper. His calm expression shifted into something dark and ugly.

"And just how are you going to stop me?" Theo said hiding the sheet in his pocket before lunging at me, pulling out his baton.

A golden knife whizzed past narrowly missing the both of us as it smack straight into a wooden beam right beside us. We both turned our head to stare at the knife, but before either of us could react a black gloved clawed hand jumped between me and the baton and stopped the baton from hitting me. "Cataclysm" Cat Noir said. The Baton turned to dust in front of him.

Theo looked at Cat Noir in anger.

"Let me make one thing abundantly clear," Cat Noir said his voice dark. "You can attack me, you can hurt me, you can ruin my reputation, but she is off limits." Cat Noir said. "Is that understood?" His ring started to beep in warning.

Theo looked at Cat Noir wide eyed as he realized that he may have just stepped out of line.

Cat Noir took that opportunity to flip him on to his back and pushed the tip of his baton on his chest.

"Now, where's the akuma?" Cat Noir asked.

"Cataclysm!" Theo hissed touching the baton destroying it.

Cat Noir dropped the baton as it splintered and broke apart.

"No power, no baton, and your about to de-transform. What do you have now?" Theo mocked kicking Cat Noir out of the way and standing. His own ring started to beep in warning.

A yoyo shot out and wrapped tightly around his torso and yanked him away.

"His team" Ladybug said. "What do you have?"

"Ladybug!" Theo exclaimed. "I'm the real Cat Noir!"

Ladybug in a moment of insecurity retracted her yo-yo freeing Theo.

"No!" I called. "He's lying, you had the right one!" I yelled.

Ladybug's eyes widened.

"Don't listen to her she's just confused." Theo said. "It's been a long hard battle"

"How many pads you got." I said. "I know the real Cat Noir used his cataclysm first"

The real Cat Noir smiled and showed his ring. I raised an eyebrow at Theo who clutched his ring hand and took a step back.

"Cat Noir! Scratch attack!" Ladybug yelled.

Chat Noir curled his fingers and grinned. "With pleasure my Lady." He said before attacking Theo.

"Lucky Charm!" Ladybug cried and a fishing wrong came down on her hand.

"Uh- Ok?" I could see Ladybug raising an eyebrow at me through my peripheral. "This seems pretty straight forward."

I nodded to Ladybug not taking my eyes off the fight so I could tell who was who.

Ladybug jumped onto the rafters, just as Cat Noir had Theo onto of him. He tilted his head even farther back saw what Ladybug was doing and smiled. Thinking quickly, he opened both of Theo's pockets just as the fishing hook caught on to his belt and lifted him into the air. The thin sheet of paper falling to the ground.

I took the paper and marveled for a moment at the look of Ladybug, her stance in the clipping was the exact same as the one on the statue.

I shared I contact with ladybug who pulled out her yoyo and nodded. I ripped it in half and the akuma appeared.

"It's time to de-evilize!" Ladybug shouted ensnaring the akuma in her Yoyo, before releasing it.

Ladybug then took the fishing rod and through it into the air and it dissolved into ladybugs fixing everything that had been destroyed. Up to and including the newspaper clipping at Cat Noir's baton.

"I should probably get going, I'm about to de-transform" Cat Noir said. I glared at him but he jumped away before I could stop him.

I pulled the knife out of the wall and stared at it. The blade itself was golden, but now that I was looking at It much more closely, I could see that the handle was black and gold. It was small and light. It couldn't do too much damage if someone was hit with it – depending where they were hit of course. But it could still easily distract and pull someone out of the fight for a few moments. The knife twitched in my hand and shrunk a little before flying out of my hand and out of the workshop.

"Huh" I said.

I turned around and was surprised that Ladybug was talking to Theo. They seemd to end on amicable terms before she turned to face me.

"Hello" I said. "The dress is ready if you want to pick it up" I said. "Come by the Agreste Mansion tonight at around 10pm, I can hand it to you then."

Ladybug looked like there were manythings she wanted to say to me, a bunch of them probably in the 'you're an idiot, stay home next time variety' but she seemed to decide against all of them and sighed. "Sure" She said softly. "I'll see you then"

"I'll leave a window open" I said. Her earrings beeped again and she with a nod left the warehouse and jumped away.

I waited for a few more moments as Cat Noir came back this time recharged. I looked at him surprised as he talked to Theo. He looked young, shy, worried, as he told Theo the truth ad that he was sorry it had gotten out of hand.

Theo eyed him for a moment before shaking his hand.

I left the warehouse quietly and waited for Cat Noir to come by. He said nothing just picked me and carried me back to the school.

"Never again" Adrien said when we were back in his room, after being unable to find him phone – not that he cared about that anymore.

"That nearly gave me a heart attack"

"It could have been worse"

"Yeah, you could be dead" Adrien glared at me. "It was a stupid idea and I should have never left you alone"

"Oh please" I said rolling me eyes. "I doubt Theo could have done anything like that" I said. "Bruise me maybe, but kill?" I shook my head.

"Nah"

Adrien glared at me, and I quickly changed the topic.

"You think it was the newbie that through the knife?" I asked softly.

Adrien looked surprised. "Um yeah, good thing they did too, it gave me time to intervene" He said. "Why do you think she didn't introduce herself"

I shrugged. "Self conscious, a need for a dramatic reveal, they thought you had it handled, wanting to wait and see, fear that she would be turned away…" I said. "Could be anything really" I said.

"I'm here" I blinked as I realised that Ladybug was in my room. Holding up the sign that I had placed outside my window. It read "Annette's Room" I blushed at the sign.

"Ok" I said standing. I moved to my closet and pulled out the dress bag and held it out for her. "Here it is - oh wait hold on" I said pulling out a chair so I could reach the shelf above. I pulled out a small red box that held the red and black mask that went with the dress.

"Here" I said smiling. "It's supposed to go with the dress." She said. "If you change your mine, just... bring it back, I'll ... find some other use for it."

Ladybug nodded. "Does your cousin approve?" She asked "About you attempting to fight akuma's"

I rolled my eyes. Adrien had tried this technique too. "No, but he knows better then to stop me"

"You could die"

"Or I could protect someone important to me" I stated. "Look, I get that your afraid that you'll be blamed if I die or whatever, but..."

"You're not a hero" Ladybug interrupted me, I pursed my lips and attempted to remind myself that this girl was still fourteen - possibly fifteen, and not my mother, despite looking almost exactly like her. Needless to say though, it still hurt. "You have no powers, no training, nothing that makes you an asset to the team." She said. "All your doing is getting us in trouble, and now your influence has gone and put someone in jeapordy"

"Wow now your blaming me for Chloe's accident?" I said in shock. I mean I would allow blaming for many things, but Chloe getting injured when I wasn't anywhere near the akuma? Really?

"Clearly she's emulating you" Ladybug said. "Look I get that when you see your all time favorite heroes fighting you want to be like us but..."

"You're not my all time favorite super heroes" I said deadpan cutting this off before she could make it seem like some kind of hero worship thing (seriously spend five minutes alone in Adrien's room, right after a anime marathon, and the hero worship, declines to like -5). "I fight because I like protecting people, that's it no more no less, it has nothing to do with you" I said. Though that was only partially true. It did in a way of have something to do with Ladybug just not this one.

Ladybug looked as though she had the wind knocked out of her. "Oh" She said.

"I mean" I said. "I appreciate you, but I don't want to be you, I just want to keep Paris safe, - like you. And I'm not about to stop a girl who wants to be better from doing the same." Annette said. "So are you going to take the dress or not"

Ladybug nodded hesitantly and took the dress folding it awkwardly against her chest. "Then why?"

I sighed. "I want to make my parents proud" I said. "I already failed them once, I can't fail they're beloved city too."

"That sucks man, but maybe someone found it" Nino asked as we walked into class.

"Unless they found it in the boys' locker room" Adrien said.

"You'll find it. Your luck isn't that bad" I said with a laugh. "Not yet anyway"

Adrien glared at me. "Shut up" He hissed.

I backed away and raised my hands. "Ok, ok" He said. "Yeesh, Adrien your angry face is starting rival that of my father's."

I could see his face morph slightly into one of curiosity before I turned and headed to my seat.

"Hey Nathanael!" I said. "How's was you're weekend?"

Nathanael turned. "You went after Copycat, didn't you?"

I tilted my head. "Yeah, I helped Cat Noir." I said confused.

"Any more scars added to that collection"

I looked at him wide eyed. "Umm No…?" I asked. "He and I talked, and when that didn't work Cat Noir took over, no scars to be seen."
Nathanael sat still, before shaking his head. "I need to go get a drink" He said hurrying downstairs leaving his notebook behind.
I sat still for a moment feeling highly confused.

"Looks like someone can't handle, your superhero-ing" I turned to look at Nicholas.

"Go away Nick, I told you I wasn't interested."

Nick smiled a little too mockingly. "You'll come around Raven" He said. "Just a matter of time."

I glared at him and turned around to ignore him. When I did I found something interesting.

His notebook was open. Two pictures were on it side by side. One of the Ladybug and Cat Noir statue except this time Cat Noir was in the position I had suggested staff in hand slightly raised as though getting ready to fight. I was touched that he thought my idea was worth drawing, but what really caught my eye was the picture beside it.

The second picture was of me fencing sword in hand slightly raised in front of me beside me his back to mine was a boy with red hair wearing a purple beret, a white shirt with black stripes all over, in the center of the shirt was a circle with smaller circles of red, blue and yellow. On his arm was a tablet, and in his other hand was a tablet pen.

I quickly looked away as Nathanael came back, and looked down my face entirely red.

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