A/N: This snippet sort of takes place just after the season four finale but can be read as a stand-alone if you haven't seen the episodes yet. And don't worry, I will make sure that if I post any stories and drabbles that take place during season five, it will be warned in the notes and tags so that those that want to avoid spoilers don't get spoiled by reading my shit lol (I'll be watching the episodes in order too so don't spoil anything for ME in the comments regarding the new season and the leaks. Too many people have done that on social media.)

Though, the snippets I've already written and compiled have been done many, MANY months and weeks ago. So you shouldn't have to worry about any spoilers here after season four. Most of my stuff on this drabble collection doesn't have a specific timeline or timestamp anyways.

With that sorted, let's go!


"A shimmery light runs across the sky

Let us fly around as we like it

If we run right until the end,

What will become of us?"

Night Running - シン サキウラ (Shin Sakiura) ft. AAAMYYY

Pairing - Ladrien

Prompt - 'Promise'


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"I'm madly in love with you. Always have been. You know that, right?" Adrien suddenly quipped out of the blue, breaking the comfortable silence they were basking in for quite a while. His tone was nonchalant and innocent- as if he didn't just drop a bombshell. He continued to stare into the night sky with a neutral expression, leaning against the open window in his bedroom whilst the heroine clad in red eyed him with an astonished gape.

She quickly composed herself, not wanting to be too vulnerable nor shaken up by her partner's side, biting her bottom lip hard as all the reasons why she's yet to come clean of her own feelings towards him came barrelling back into her mind. Ladybug tried her best to keep cool, leaning her back against the windows by his side but facing the dark, soulless room rather than indulging her eyes with the midnight blue sky.

"Mmm..." She hoped her detached answer would be enough.

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She should've known better.

Now facing her, his intense emerald greens bored into her frame without mercy, intoxicating her blood and body and the shells of her ears heating up with bright red. Ladybug hated how almost all the time (especially around him) her body language always gave away the stormy thoughts that dwelled and rampaged within her mind.

"Ladybug," Oh no, he was using her full name. "Why do you always hold back with your feelings for me?"

The heroine wanted a hole to swallow her up right there and then, having half expected him to get straight to the point but she was never prepared for this amount of bluntness. She should've known. She should've known because of how smart and perceptive he is. She should've known because he knows her so damn well, it's as if her heart and soul are bare within his eyes.

She should've fucking known that he'd catch on that she's just as madly in love with him too.

The boy continued to watch her patiently(sweetly), his face calm and curious and the warmth that flickered within the eyes she adored with her everything was more than enough to persuade her to finally tell him the truth.

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"Because I don't deserve you," Ladybug decisively replied after some time, still keeping her gaze fixated on his library upstairs and her knuckles whitening under her suit as her fingers clutched the linings of the windows. She held her breath, anxiously anticipating what he was going to say in return but that feeling started to warp into slight frustration from the way he continued to watch her wordlessly.

It took her everything to not whip out her yoyo and dart out of the building with the way the nerves were flaring in her bloodstream. But she couldn't do that to him.

Not to her Chaton.

After what felt like forever, Adrien gently approached his partner, his taller frame towering over hers thanks to his height and broad shoulders and his eyes continuing to peek through all the secrets and wonders within her. She didn't expect him to softly cup her jaw with his hands so that she had no choice but to melt into his loving touch and face him.

Sky blues met emerald greens.

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"That's for me to decide, Marinette," The mention of her civilian name was the first lightning strike to shake up her entire world. "And I've decided that no matter what happens. No matter what you think. I'm going to love you for the rest of eternity." His decision was the next lightning strike to entirely wreck her to the point where all her walls and dams were destroyed, exposing every single vulnerability within her glassy eyes.

He couldn't help himself anymore and brought his Lady into his arms, the appendages strong and firm around her frame and his face tucked into her neck, inhaling his favourite spiced vanilla scent that always, always lingered in her hair.

"So please, stop punishing yourself and let me love you," He pleaded in a raw, wrecked whisper, his heart beating so fast against his chest, it gave hers a run for its money. Ladybug wanted to push him away.

But she also wanted to embrace him even closer.

Ladybug wanted to run out of the room and out to the outskirts of Paris.

But then she'll want him to suit up and chase after her without a beat just so he can make sure she doesn't do anything reckless.

Unable to decide between her mind and her heart, she allowed her transformation to just dissolve, allowing him to hold her even tighter as she silently wept in his grasp.

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"Okay," She whimpered with so much want and so much hope, her entire face drenched with her tears. "Okay, Adrien,"

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"I promise you, Marinette. I'll protect you,"

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A/N: Proofreading? Me?

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