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Timebreaker

On the steps of the Trocadéro Chat was wrapping up the most recent akuma attack. Ladybug had already left him, but it was ok. They both specialized in their own jobs. Ladybug handled the akuma catching and the press, while he used his power to help in his Lady's schemes and used his people skills to help calm down the victims so they wouldn't become akumatized anytime soon.

Giving Alix one more pat on the shoulder, Chat extended his pole and jumped onto the nearest roof. As he was running home, something occurred to him. There were two Ladybugs. There was only one Chat Noir. Chat stopped what he had been doing and pulled out the phone component of his baton and quickly texted Ladybug, hoping she would be able to read it. He wasn't sure if it would reach her if she was no longer transformed.

"Hey! R u still up 4 patrol tonight?" After staring at the screen for a moment Chat put away the baton and crawled down the roof and jumped into his room. Just as he was about to release his transformation his baton buzzed against his back. Ladybug had replied.

"Yep. Wouldn't miss it". Chat quickly smiled and replied with a cat emoji with its tongue sticking out. He could just almost see his lady rolling her eyes when she would read his text.

Adrien grabbed a wedge of cheese and tossed it to Plagg before he could complain and sat down at his computer to await the time that he would once again be able to don his spandex suit.

000

The two companions had already been scouring the city of Paris for about an hour and a half for Hawkmoth. The patrols had started out as a time for the two to try and catch victims before they became akumatized, but they soon learned that the attacks didn't really have a rhyme or reason in relation to time. So instead the superheroes started devoting their time to look for their enemy. They reasoned that Hawkmoth's lair must be somewhere in Paris for him to find his victims so quickly. With this reasoning the two decided to meet once a week to search Paris. As of yet, their plan was very unsuccessful. They had searched the whole of Paris at least ten times.

"I'm starting to wonder if I should use my lucky charm to help us?" Ladybug stopped from the l'Arc de Triumphe and stared into the wide expanse of the city.

Chat tentatively laid a hand on her shoulder. "Don't give up yet. Let's think. Where have we not looked?"

"That's the problem, Chat. We have looked everywhere. There is no place we haven't looked." Ladybug slumped against a chimney and closed her eyes. She paused for a long stretch of time, then decided to articulate what she was thinking. "What if we're not meant to win? What if time gets the better of us and we get to Hawkmoth too late? We can't exactly go back in time like the akuma victim did today. Our luck could run out any minute and…"Ladybug could have kept on going, but she was stopped by Chat as he roughly took her head in both of his hands.

"Stop. Don't do this to yourself, Ladybug. We'll win. We'll get there in time to save everyone, maybe even Hawkmoth. We won't ever need to go back in time. And our luck most definitely will not run out. Sure, I am the embodiment of bad luck, but you have enormous amounts of GOOD luck. We balance each other out." Ladybug was still not looking at Chat. Her eyes were looking anywhere but at him.

With the smallest growl, Chat pushed Ladybug's chin up so her eyes met his. "Do you understand?" Chat asked with a caring voice. Ladybug smiled just a little and nodded her head slightly. "We're going to be fine."

Chat let go of Ladybug's face and stepped back a little. "You ready to continue, My Lady?"

Ladybug picked up her chipper mood again and pulled her yoyo out. "I am if you are."

The two were off again searching high and low. Just when they were about to go their separate ways, Chat reached out to Ladybug. "My Lady? May I ask why you lost your usual chipper mood tonight?" When Ladybug's back went rigid Chat stumbled over his words, to try and soften them. "I mean, not that it's not ok, it's just you're usually more optimistic than….thinking the worst."

Ladybug turned slightly towards Chat. "No, it's ok, you can ask anything you wish." Ladybug took a quick breath and trained her eyes on Chat. "So you know how there were two Ladybugs today during the attack, but there was no second Chat Noir?" Chat just nodded. "Well, you got hit by Timebreaker, and you dissolved into air."

Chat nodded again and stood waiting for her to continue. When she didn't he prompted her with a question. "And me getting hit has to do with….?"

Ladybug flung her hands to her sides, irritated. "Chat NOIR! Do you realize that if I had failed in purifying the akuma you would have been stuck in no man's land? Even though this battle was not very tough, anything can and will go wrong. I can't lose you to any attack, Chat. Both of us are needed for every attack." Ladybug lowered her voice as she realized she was shouting in the dead of night. She sighed once again. "I was just realizing tonight that we are growing up and everything is changing including the attacks. Our lives have changed so much from where we started, and will continue to change."

Chat put his hand on Ladybug's shoulder. "It'll be alright, Bugaboo. No matter how many times things change and how many times we jump in front of the bullets for one another, we'll make it to the end together." Chat was just about to brush away a stray strand of hair on Ladybug's head when both of their miraculouses beeped.

Ladybug smiled gratefully. "Thank you. See you soon, Kitty."

"Goodnight, My Lady." With that, both Miraculous holders ran home.

Hey readers, hope you liked the new chapter. Sorry about posting it later in the day, I got hit by the I don't want to do anything bug. With this chapter, I had hoped it would connect to the episode more, but instead this came out. I realized that this is the first time that us viewers have seen Chat getting hit in this episode, so I thought that Ladybug might be affected, if only a little. The next chapter will be a short one from the episode "Mr. Pigeon", and coincidentally it also starts at the Trocadéro. Have a good rest of your day, and until I see you again, TTFN!