#<- only kinda but I know people are already sick of this gabriel talk and i don't blame them lol

[guardian-angle22]

So just throwing this other point for why it doesn't make sense from a story telling point to kill off Gabriel. He's also law enforcement and they can bring him out for plot points they want to explore that don't make sense for Carlos and then not have to spend time finding another actor to cast as a Texas ranger. And if I remember right Tim justified killing off Gwyn and Charles because he didn't know what to do with them. I have no idea what this tragedy is but hopefully it isn't something that makes zero narrative sense like killing off Gabriel or cruel like giving Tk huntingtons disease

[follow up to this post]

Hmmm that is a very good point!

Mark this under The Dreaded Thing is Not Happening column, thank you for your contribution!

#anon answered #911ls spoilers & speculation #if i werent so strongly looking for things to go in The Dreaded Thing is Not Happening column I would maybe point out a thing #(and that thing is the reoccurring character of Detective Washington) #BUT! I am ignoring that pls and thx #also small note but I do think Charles was technically killed off cause the actor got another better job and Tim... #... didn't know how to work around that & therefore 'didn't know what to do with him' - i'm not still bitter at all about that btw 🙃 #negativity discourse all the bad words #<- only kinda but I know people are already sick of this gabriel talk and i don't blame them lol

[motherofplatypus]

What to expect in S6?

Let's be real, there's nothing that we can expect, especially if you look at how they deal with the plots and message in each episode, especially with how S5 ended. And with Lila, who's the epitome of plot device, being the main villain, you understand why the expectation for season 6 is 6 feet under.

Ironic.

However, i miss the old days where the fandom would theorize things that might happen with joy and curiosity, and i wanna bring that back. So let's ignore That Guy and co's incompetency for the last 3 seasons and the disappointments that came along with it and see what to expect and could possibly happen in the next season.

1. Lila as the new Hawkmoth.

It's the first thing that came to mind, since she'll be the main villain. From what we've known about her so far, unlike Gabe, she take things into her own hands even though it relies mostly on dumbing down everyone else.

So we can expect that she'll use her skill to manipulate people to be vulnerable enough to be akumatized into a villain that she needs. (Goodbye Gigantitan and Mr. Pigeon, y'all gonna be missed. Unless the writers pulled all her brain cells like they did with everyone else, we'll see you soon.)

2. Emilie's sudden appearance.

This one needs to be explained. She's been declared missing, or dead, for at least a whole year, so her appearance needs an explanation.

As an extension to that, we might learn about what Gabriel wish was, and to a lesser extent, we might learn how the peacock got broken in the first place.

(Yes, I know TA already explained that miraculous being indestructible was an error. But the rule of every show is that what was shown to the audience is canon. But of course we can't expect him to own up to his mistake like an adult and try to do something with what has been established.)

3. Power ups, including Chat's (possible) power upgrade.

This one pissed me off the most, because power ups were first introduced in S2, and from 8 potions that's available, we've only seen three. Come on, 4 seasons and only 3 of them? And one of them isn't exactly a power up (You can't possibly say the ice one is a power up).

So yeah, they better introduce all the other power ups this season. Of maybe a fusion power up.

4. Luka and Alix.

It is now clear that everyone knows that Luka knows who LB and CN are, and that Alix very possibly knows too from the time travel. This opens up a lot of possible scenes, and one that everyone had been dying to have is Marinette and Adrien talk to Luka about their hero life (and maybe how they're scared that their hero life might affect their relationship with each other, and Luka has to hold the urge to tell them that they're actually dating each other).

5. Su Han's role.

Now that the new team is formed, Su Han, as the grandmaster guardian of the miraculous, have the responsibility to teach these younglings how to fight properly and learn more about their miraculous. We can expect a sparring session or team battle, and if we're lucky, how to counter each other's miraculous.

Heck, maybe we get to meet more of the monks and learn more about the temple of the guardian.

6. Rose's sickness.

This one i don't really like to talk about, but since it kinda depressing, I wanna talk about it. What would happen to Rose and her sickness? Like, I would imagine an episode where she fell ill and her power is needed to fight an akuma, and she decided to go. When the battle is over, she succumbed into her illness (not dead, mind you).

The angst is strong in this one, and im all for it despite not wanting it.

7. Chloe's return

Rumor has it that she won't be in this season, and honestly that's for the best, seeing last season we got 7 episodes dedicated to put emphasis on how bad she is without giving a single flying shit how much it retcon and ruined the show itself.

But, possibility is possibility, and it's interesting to think about what she'll bring if she's coming back, since she no longer has power and must do things herself. Will she be more of a threat? Who knows.

~~~

I'm purposefully not putting Adrien learning the truth here. Aside from the writers are infamous for doing absolutely jackshit for an entire season and compress everything into 3 episodes near the finale, it's logical from writing standpoint that they'll hold this important part of the story for the real final season. So yeah, I don't think we'll gave him learning the truth in the next season.

So, that's all from me. Sure, there's more to say, but my fingers are tired if i have to write more. So, share your thoughts what you think might or want to happen.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #mlb #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #miraculous spoilers #ml spoilers #ml speculation #mlb spoilers #miraculous season 6 #miraculous fandom #ml fandom #mlb fandom #thomas astruc #thomas astruc salt #miraculous season five #miraculous season 5 #mlb season 5 spoilers #mlb season five

[balbinchen]

As much as I hate to admit it, but I kinda understand why they choose this ending for season 5.

Massive end of the season spoiler ahead!

Quick recap so everyone is up to date: In the finale Gabriel gets to make his wish and the world apparently resets. He is dead/died in the finale battle and Emilie and Nathalie are both alive and are apparently Adriens guardians. No reveal and Adrien and Marinette have their miraculous back in the end.

Now think of a different way to end this season:

Let's say Gabriel actually dies at the end of Re-Creation before the wish, which means there is no wish and no reset. Emilie is still dead and Nathalie is still sick or dead. Adrien and Marinette still didn't do a reveal, but the big difference is: Adrien would most likely find out that is dad was Monarch.

But why is this a problem for the show?

This ending would have left Adrien as an orphan and with the knowledge that his dead father (who died because of an injury he inflicted on him!) was actually a villain who kept his dead mother in his basement. This is also most likely the reason why Adrien is not in the final battle.

If the show would have ended with season 5 (like it was originally planed) they could have maybe get away with this scenario. They could show a short scene of Adrien grieving or at a funeral and then do the end shot. The show would be done, a mostly hopeful ending and we don't know how Adrien really deals with all of this, since the show is done (Of course until a new show set in the same universe with either Adrien and Marinette as mentors or completely new characters debuts only like a year after Miraculous ends on Disney(please note this is a joke, because they will milk Miraculous even when it's already dead))

If this kids show (for 6-12 year olds) now continues with season 6 without acknowledging Adriens struggles and complicated feelings or even mentioning the traumatic events, everyone who watches and is older than 12 will call them out for that.

But if they show acurate behaviour for a situation like this, it will no longer be a kids show.

But now with at least two more seasons they would have to address Adriens struggles in this scenario and can't just ignore them. So they had come up with an ending without Adrien in it on order to continue this show as kids show and not turn it into a dark sad teenage drama.

You are probably asking yourself now:

Hey, but what about Marinette keeping the secret of Monarchs identity to herself?! Couldn't Adrien find out from her what his dad was up to?

For this I have to say: Do we actually know Marinette still knows Monarchs identity after the wish? Do we know that other people in the world know what the wish was and who did it even when they witnessed the wish being made but also being affected by the wish? Apparently the wish made everyone think Monarch was somebody else than Gabriel and Gabriel actually helped Ladybug to a significant amout that he is now considered a hero himself. Marinette talks about the wish but she doesn't seem to know what the wish did. In the scene in her bedroom she only speaks about Monarch and not about Gabriel and earlier at the mansion she said how Gabriel helped defeat Monarch. She also doesn't talk about the fact that her boyfriends mom was in freaky coffin in the basement, which you know it's kinda important. Especially because she just had a pool party with her and her wife/girlfriend/partner she saw dying just moments before her final fight against Gabriel aka Monarch. She also probably wouldn't be in favour of a Gabriel statue right next to her house if she knew his identity. But most importantly she would also tell Chat Noir, which brings us back to the point where we can not be. Because Adrien can't know who Monarch really his.

But what about Plagg and Tikki?!

We know the kwamis know when the wish is about to destroy and rebuild the universe. But in Ephermal we only saw the other kwamis from the box and not Tikki and Plagg. For the wish they have to become one new deity (Gimmi) and it seems like Gimmi is completly different person/deity/kwami(?) and not just Plagg and Tikki squished in one body. For example they ask which year it is, which is something Plagg and Tikki would have already known. So maybe they also don't remember the previous universe pre-wish because their "main" consciousness is not there during the wish and their "secret second" consciousness takes over, which only shows up during the wish making process. Neither of them can access it in their lone kwami state since the consciousness is made of both of them. Their (lone kwami) memory about Gabriel and Monarch is altered like everyone elses.

So, with the wish, we now have a clean slate. Nobody (at least I think so) knows who Monarch really was and thinks Gabriel helped defeat Monarch and with this set up the show will probably never come to the point where Adrien has to face the fact that he nearly killed his father.

Is it lazy writing? Well, a little bit. They can now ignore everything that happend in the first universe and continue the story in the second one without the heavy load.

BUT

It's also writing for a KIDS show. Most of us kinda forget it, but Miraculous is still a kids show. The bible states this in the first few pages. You can't expect a kids show suddendly having long complicated dark storylines like in adult dramas. Yes, they could have aged up the show with their audience, but they did not (Purely speculative: Disney/Gloob/TF1 probably pay pretty good money and losing this money and looking for a new channel to broadcast would be hard). From a kids persepective this is a clean ending, where everything turns out great and everyone is happy. The villain is out of the picture, the heros are together and everything bad is in the past.

In the end I just wanted to say I really hate this ending BUT I also understand how they have to come to this point to continue with the show as a kids show.

One of the main reasons I'm so mad about this ending is that it makes the whole previous seasons worthless. Because in the end Gabriel won and he made his wish and it's shown as a good thing, where everything just perfectly falls into place because of the wish.

#miraculous ladybug #ml spoilers #bible spoilers #mlb s5 spoilers #recreation spoiler #miraculous spoilers #ml recreation #honestly this is mostly just me ranting

[familyagrestefanblog]

Episode 2 of season 4 is confirmed to be "Lie" and a Kagami episode. I'm not entirely up-to-date with the spoilers but I think it's most likely this episode

I guess the show will take the route that ep. 1 "Truth" will be about the Lukanette break up and in ep. 2 "Lie" so will Adrigami. I won't lay judgment upon this decision yet, I want to see the episodes first. The parallel in the titles is interesting tho and maybe that's how we can identify what Kagamis powers will be!

Going by the parallel, if Luka as "Truth" wants to find out secrets and bring them to light Kagami might be the complete opposite. Maybe she can sense the desire of people, the life they wish they had and what(or who) they wish they had in their lives and use it as bait to lure them in so she can get them.

The reason that lead me to this idea is the one thing everybody screamed about when they saw the trailer, Adriens "sacrifice". Because I'm gonna be honest here, the more I look at it, the less it looks like a sacrifice to me. I know everybody seems to agree on this but what we have seen just doesn't add up to me.

I mean, Ladybug is the one these two who is perfectly SAVE and out of harms way when this happens and Kagamis attack seems to be directly after Chat Noir. HE is the one trying to escape the attack not Ladybug.

(gifs from @dailymlgifs)

Not gonna lie, I'm kinda lost on how the white energy ball works. Ladybug seems to be on a lower level than chat but she isn't in danger of getting swallowed by the energy? The attack really just seems to be after HIM

So how could he sacrifice himself for her when she is not even in any danger?

This is why I think there might be a very different reason for why Chat let's himself fall into the white nothingness (totally not a visual callback to Chat Blanc noooooooo) and with a SMILE on his face non the less!

Every episode has a topic and I think here it'll be "the life we have vs the life we WISHED we had" and we will see how it'll affect at least Ladybug, Chat Noir and Kagami.

Concidering that this is probably going to be the Adrigami break up episode its fair to assume that it could happen because either Tomoe and/or Gabriel do not approve of the relationship between their children (we already saw Gabriel sabotage Adriens relationship in Chat Blanc) and Kagami gets akumatized because of it (also parallel to Chat Blanc where Adrien was able to save Marinette from the akuma). She then "freezes" her mother as we saw in the leak.

There are so many possibilities with Kagami in this scenario when you look at it from an "the life we have vs the life we WISHED we had" angle: Maybe the forced break up happens because of the business contract we saw in "Animaestro" (the episode also included the almost random topic of the possibility of Kagami and Adrien leaving for Japan)

and Tomoe tells Kagami they will go back to Japan but Adrien and Gabriel stay in Paris. Kagami would then loose every friend she tried so hard to make, loose both Adrien and Marinette and go back to being all alone. That is one HELL of a reason to get akumatized!

Continuing this topic with Marinette/Ladybug it would explain why akumatized Kagami seems to ignore Ladybug to go after Chat Noir. As we also know from the trailers Marinette will loose alot of her social life to her duties as Ladybug AND guardian, Marinette is definitely NOT excluded from the longing for other circumstances in her life.

But the thing with Marinette is that while she indeed has the emotional tumult for Kagami to target her, the circumstances in which she losses her social life give her a purpose to NOT give into the longing and it saves her from Kagamis power.

Marinettes social sacrifices are painful but she knows they didn't happen for no reason. This is the complete opposite to Adriens losses in life and in my assumption the reason why Kagami not only goes directly after Chat but why he then lets himself fall with a smile.

(Gif from @valleybone)

When I see this moment from a "the life we have vs the life we wished we had" angle then I realize again just how much Adrien LOST already and how purposeless it must seem from his perspective.

-Emilie got sick out of nowhere and then just vanished from the surface of the earth in Adriens eyes. He has no idea what happened to his mother, she is just GONE.

-Nathalie may start to become his new mother figure now but she is also bedridden with the same "condition" as Emilie. So even that light is dimmed with a certain darkness.

-Chloe officially crossed a line in "Miracle Queen" and from the way she behaved there Chloe will get even worse this season. Oddly we kinda tend to forget it on some levels but Chloe was for a long time the only friend Adrien was allowed to have. And while they definitely drifted apart althrough s1-s3 Adrien still genuinely cares about her and with her going "antagonist to villain" now, it makes Chloe one more person Adrien now losses.

-How much do I have to say about Gabriel? "Stormy weather 2" already forshadowed that Gabriel will loss Adrien when he continues to go down his evil path and Adrien brought up the possibility of moving on with life without his father. And now with Gabriel being ShadowMoth he will distance himself even more from his son. Gabriel is definitely a person who must basically feel almost lost to Adrien.

-Of course Kagami herself which the break up and loosing her after they became such great friends

-and we can even include Marinette and Ladybug on this list. Adrien/Chat in the s3 finale at last accepted that Ladybug doesn't love him and the summary of "Truth" says that Marinette "neglects Chat Noir" because shes so overwhelmed. So the potential for Adrien feeling like she's drifting away from him as well is definitely there. And I think Marinette is reasonably enough to include here because if she has no time or opportunity to see everyone else, then it also means Adrien doesn't get to see his very special friend very often either.

-combine this with how lonely Adriens civil life normally is and how "Chat Blanc" forshadows that Adriens popularity will increase even more now and how that will definitely affect him

Then you know what? I would perfectly understand why Kagami would go after Chat in particular when she feels such a longing in him for a life where things are normal and peaceful and his loved one do not slip right through his fingers for reasons he cannot know. Adriens losses in life and the way he has to accept that a normal life in general just was never meant for him just HAPPEN to him and therefore I completely understand it if Chat letting go with a smile on his face has to do with him not being able to resist the longing he feels within. He already has to fight and suppress it every day in his normal daily life but faced with an Akuma like Kagami might be he would succomb to it. Because unlike Marinette he can not hold onto a purpose that explains his losses and gives him the strength to hold onto reality.

I will stop here because I don't even know if this will actually be the case x3

But can you imagine how heartbreaking it would be if we were to hear Emilies voice talking to Adrien for the first time and it's the reason why he let's go of his staff??

(gif from @dailymlgifs​

Gurl I know I'm going so hyper-specific again that I shouldn't expect to actually see it in the episode, but the sheer possibility makes me so sad and now I'm having FEELINGS

#ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #adrien agreste #chat noir #Emilie agreste #Ml season 4 #Ml ep Lie #kagami tsurugi #marinette dupain chang #Guys im sad wft #Adriens life is so depressing man

[write-orflight]

Like Real People Do.  Chapter 6

*Gif not mine*

Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3  

Chapter 4 Chapter 5

Rating: M, eventually will be smut.

Words: 2.8k

Warnings: Semi-angst, a lot of cursing, Kinda nsfw language. Body image issues

Request: OPEN/CLOSED

A.N This chapter made me cry while writing it and it’s a long one. Message to be on Taglist. Much love, Cia

Chapter 6: Before those hands pulled me from the earth?  

You wake up the next morning to knocking at your front door, Garbage immediately running out of the bed in search of the sound, probably hoping it was someone with food. 

You groggily walk to the door in your pajamas and open it, it’s Spencer. Standing in his typical cardigan over a dress shirt, messenger bag clenched tightly in his grasp. 

“Spen, what’re you doing here?” You ask, sleepily. 

“I-uh, I know today’s going to be rough, I just thought you maybe didn’t want to go in alone.” He says, nervously. “It’s stupid, I’ll just go-” He starts to turn but you grasp his wrist, tugging him down so you could peck his cheek, you smile at the instant blush that spreads across his cheeks. 

“Thanks for thinking of me but I still have to shower and get dressed. Do you mind making coffee?” You ask, Spencer shakes his head no before walking to where he knew your kitchen was. 

You go into your bathroom and undress slowly in front of your full length mirror. It had been a big selling point when they showed you the apartment, but you kept covered it in newspaper the second you moved in. You hated your reflection, often reminded you of that night and your time with Gabriel. Large raised scars adorned your abdomen and sides, and if you could turn and see they’d be all over your back too. Stray tears fell from your face. Your mom would always tell you how beautiful your skin naturally was. How women her age would pay just for their skin to look like yours again.

You knew she’d be disgusted with how it looked now. 

You sighed heavily before stepping into the hot stream of your shower. 

When you come out, you dress blandly in a simple gray button up black slacks and blazer. You put your hair in a tight bun and opt to wear your glasses instead of trying contacts. Typically, this is boring and not your style at all but Hotch and Rossi had briefed you on how you should dress and act today. To look exactly the opposite of what attracted you to him in the first place, to be sensible and adult. 

You come out and Spencer is leaning against your kitchen counter, sipping from a mug with one hand and petting Garbage who was sitting happily on the counter next to him. When he sees you, he smiles and hands you another mug. You cautiously take a sip. It’s made exactly how you like it.

Of course it is. 

You lean against the other counter across from him and listen absently as he tells you facts about cats, still affectionately petting Garbage. The whole thing feels domestic and scarily, right. Normally, you get antsy when people are comfortable in your space but Spencer just seems to fit. Like it’s exactly where he was meant to be. 

“Are you ready to go?” He asks as a while. You had almost forgotten why he was here in the first place. You nod, and the two of you walk outside to your car. 

You drive silently, Spencer chatting amicably in the passenger seat. You could tell he was trying to distract you, you welcomed that. It was only a matter of time before you saw the entrance to the FBI parking garage. 

You drove straight past it. 

“Uh, Y/N… That was the turn.” He says, warily. 

“I know, I just needed to circle the block really quick.” You say, He nods understandingly, You blow a breath as you circle the block. You see the entrance in sight. 

You drive straight past it again. 

“Fuck!” You swear. “I’ve got it this time, I swear.” 

“You can take your time, Y/N/N.” Spencer says, softly. 

“No, I can’t!” You say, looking over at the man next to you. He looks at you with a soft expression. “And God, stop looking at me like that.” 

“Like what, Y/N.” 

“With pity!” You yell. “You all look at me like I’m going to break any second and this was the exact reason I didn’t want you guys to know in the first place. I’m still me, I’m still more than capable of doing my job. I’ve interviewed serial killers before, so stop looking at me like that!” 

“I’m not looking at you like anything, Y/N.” He says. 

“Spencer, we both know I’m not an idiot. Yes, you are.” 

“Ok, maybe I am!” He raises his voice back at you. You turn your eyes off the road for a second to look incredulously at him. He never raises his voice at you. “But that’s only because you went from being the smartest, most beautiful woman I’ve ever met to being the strongest as well. 

You pull into the garage silently when he says that. You pull into a space quickly, throwing your car into park. You look up at him to see he’s already looking at you with so much adoration, you’ve never seen that on him before.  

“Thank you.” You say quietly. 

“You’re welcome.” He smiles, getting out of the car.  

You follow him to meet your fate. 

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The two of you head straight for Hotch’s Office. He opts to wait outside while Hotch and Rossi go over how you should act with him once he’s in interrogation. Be indifferent, don’t show any emotion and if you do, don’t let that emotion be fear. You still being fearful of him is what gets him off. You nod and mumble “Yes, sir.” as you walk out, you realize you should’ve waited. Spencer was there waiting for you but so was he. Being escorted off the elevator by two guards, Gabriel Ferguson is walking through the bullpen towards interrogation. He looks up at the catwalk, sees you and smiles. You feel sick to your stomach suddenly. 

“Hey, don’t look at him. Look at me.” Spencer says. His hand moves under your chin, tilting your head so you’re looking in his eyes. The action itself is so intimate that you can’t help the doe-eyed admiring look you give back to him. “You’re safe okay, no one here is going to let anything happen to you. I’m right here and I’m also going to be right behind that glass. Nothing’s going to happen. You’re going to get the address, then he’s going to go under the needle and you’re going to move on with your life, ok?” He reassures you. You nod back at him. Hotch clears his throat behind you guys, causing you to take a step away from each other. 

“You ready, Y/N?” He asks. 

You sigh.  “As I’ll ever be.”  

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You follow Hotch into the interrogation room, where you see him sitting. The smug look that always adorned his face. He stands, cuffs around his feet and hands. 

“Beloved--” He greets. 

“Sit down!” Hotch instantly yells, the man falls back into his seat. 

“Hotch, I’m fine. You can go.” 

“Yea, Hotch.” He says, venomously. “She’s a big girl.” 

Hotch gives him an angry look that could cut steel, as he cuffs the man to the table in front of you. He looks at you, softly. “I’m right outside.” He turns and exits, leaving you alone with your monster. 

You sit, sitting a legal pad on the table next to you keeping the pen next to it. You then lean back and pull out your phone. 

Gabriel says nothing, neither do you. You sit in silence, he watches you as you keep your focus on the screen in front of you. 

After 5 minutes, he snaps. “Am I boring you?” He asks. 

“Yes.” You say, looking into his eyes before turning back to your phone. 

“Come on, Play fair, Beloved.” He says, in that voice that always made bile come up every time you thought about it. “The deal was I give up the location if you talk to me.” 

“No, the deal was if you give the location of the bodies, You get to talk to me. I don’t have anything to say to you.” You turn your attention back to your phone. “Oh, and you will call me Agent Y/L/N, or nothing at all.” 

After another minute, he snaps banging his hands against the table. It startles you for a second before you fix back to your bored expression. “What could possibly be more important that you need to be on your phone right now?” He says, angrily. You’ve forgotten how angry he could get and how scary that was but you didn’t let him win. 

“Lunch actually.” You say looking into his eyes with a bored expression. “I’m thinking of getting Thai. I think this’ll take, what… 30 at most so if I order it now then it’ll probably get here by the time we’re done.” 

He slams his hands again. This time you don’t react, expecting it “Put your phone away now!” You roll your eyes. “You know, I don’t like being disobeyed, Beloved.” 

You do get off your phone but place it on the table in front of you, not wanting to show him an ounce of obedience. “I’ve already told you, It’s Agent Y/L/N” 

“Ah yes, Special Agent Y/N Y/L/N.” He says, in a sickly tone. “Followed in daddy’s footsteps, huh? Let’s hope you don’t meet the same fate.” 

That throws you off a bit but you try not to let it show. “Considering you’ll be dead in what? 23 hours? I don’t think I will.” 

He has the nerve to chuckle. “Aw come on, Beloved. You won’t mourn me when I’m gone?” 

“No, I was actually thinking of throwing a party.” 

“That’s not true, there were times when you enjoyed our time together.” 

You look at him, angrily. “I did not enjoy a single second with you.” You say, coldly. 

He leans back. “I saw him, you know.” 

“What’re you talking about?” 

“Him.” He says, as if that was supposed to give you some sort of indication. “Up on the catwalk with you. I saw how you looked at him. Boyfriend, I’m assuming?” 

You don’t give him any reaction to what he said but you knew he was talking about Spencer. 

“Co-worker.” You say. 

“Don’t lie to me, Beloved.” 

“I’m not.” You say, growing irritated. 

“I’ve worked a lot of jobs in this lifetime and I can tell you I’ve never looked at a ‘coworker’ like that.” He says, smirking “And I bet he’s right behind that glass. Do you think he’d like to know how you were back then. How you would beg for my cock? How you would scream?”  

“Stop.” You say, quietly. 

Spencer’s jaw clenched in the other room, he was seething mad and everyone else in the room could tell. 

“You gotta pull her out, Hotch.” 

“She’s fine, Spencer.” Hotch says. “If I thought she wouldn’t be, she wouldn’t still be in there. Let her do her job.” Hotch looks Spencer in his eyes. “Do you need to leave?” He asked. 

“No, sir.” Spencer said, turning his attention back to the scene unfolding in front of him. 

“You were always so good back then, so good and pure. Always wet and ready for me when I got home. I wonder, what he’ll have to say when he sees you, if he hasn’t already,  when he sees just how much I ruined you.” 

“ENOUGH!” You snap, angrily. “You didn’t ruin me! I ruined you.” He looks at you confused. “You think we didn’t find your little manifesto? With your brilliant plan to kill 2 agents and their daughter then kill yourself? You thought that would make you famous, didn’t you? That you’d go down like Dahmer and Bundy? Well, guess what, asshole? I had them seal the records, no one even knows what you did and as a bigger fuck you, I’m. Still. Alive. And you had to live the past 10 years and now the next 22 hours and 22 minutes, knowing that you are exactly what your parents always said you were, a fucking pathetic failure.” You’re seething, you know you weren’t supposed to do this but you don’t care at this point. You played his game for too long, in fact, you played it for 10 years. “And my scars only show me that despite your best wishes I’m still living. And when they stick that needle in your arm finally, I’m going to get a coffee, or read a book, or ride a bike. I’m going to do every single thing a living person does. Because in the end, You did not win. I did.” 

You stand up grabbing your things to leave. Hotch is already entering before you can turn and go. He looks at you in concern but your eyes are only focused on Ferguson’s  

“There’s an old pig farm off route 100. I’d check the flooring of the barn if I were you.” He says. You immediately go to exit the room. “And Beloved?” You stop, but you don’t turn around to meet his eyes. “Of all the girls, you were my favorite.” 

On that, you do turn. “Go fuck yourself.” You say, leaving him and hopefully, the past behind you. 

You speed walk away, you hear Spencer calling your name behind but you speed walk away from him into the file room. The tears you’d been holding all day come back with a vengeance as a sob tears through you. Suddenly, you feel arms around you and you know it’s Spencer. 

“Spencer, let me go. I’m fine.” 

He’s reluctant but he does let go. “No, you’re not, Y/N.” He says, looking into your eyes. “It’s ok. You did so good in there.” 

The sob rips through you again, this time Spencer keeps his hands to himself, unsure if you want to be touched. “You saw?” You asked, He nodded sadly. “So, you heard what he said, what I did.” 

“You didn’t do anything, Y/N.” He says, looking into your eyes. “You did what you had to to survive. No one’s judging you for that.” 

“He’s right though.” You say, tears streaming down your face. “He ruined me.” 

“Don’t say that.” 

“It’s true!” You snap. “Look at me, I’m a fucking wreck. I have nightmares all the fucking time, I can’t even look at my own reflection for long without getting sick, I can’t date because every time I do, I’m afraid they’ll finally see me and see this broken, horrifying, disgusting monster he left behind. I-” your rant is cut off by Spencer’s lips connecting to yours. 

Your first kiss had been Peter Ross in the closet at your first boy/girl party in 8th grade, you remember it being wet and slimy and swearing to yourself you’d never kiss a boy again. That hadn’t been true though, you remember your high school boyfriend, Tony, who had kissed you for the first time under the bleachers of the football field. Derrick, your college sweetheart, who kissed you for the first time in the library. Danny, a summer fling who kissed you on the beach. Random boys you had the misfortune of meeting and making out with at parties. You’ve had a lot of first kisses in your life, you thought you knew exactly what they were supposed to feel like. 

They’ve never felt like this. 

Like fire under your skin, fireworks behind your eyes. Pulling cookies out of the oven at the right time. The smell of calm air after a hurricane. 

These were some of the things you’d use to describe what it felt like kissing Spencer Reid but the action itself was still indescribable. 

You groan in surprise at first, not completely sure what was happening. But when his hands caressed soft yet somehow still firmly around your face, you couldn’t help but melt right back into him. Your hands moved to his jaws while his moved from your face to grip tightly at your waist. His tongue slides along your bottom lip, you groan in surprise earning you a groan in return and a tongue in your mouth. You stay like that for a while, frenching in the file room like this was a bad Daytime drama, until he eventually pulls away. You go to follow his lips but he only pulls back more with a smile, leaning his forehead against yours. You stay like that for a moment, your hands still on his jaw, his on your waist. 

“Do you-uh,” He starts. “Do you want to get dinner tonight?” He asks. 

“Uh, yea.” You say, reluctantly letting him go and backing up so you can look at him properly. “Can it be Thai? Talking about it in there made me crave it.” 

He nods, happily at you before following you out of the file room.      

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[khaleesiofalicante]

Il n'y a pas d'autre langue pour ce chapitre que celle-ci 😂 Sur d'autres nouvelles : j'ai survécu cette semaine !  Et je te vois aussi, alors félicitations !

I'm reading this on Satuday but I will still send my reaction on Tuesday because this seems so soft and amazing

So, this week... Was a week. But its not bad. Just gotta make it through the next week and thats it😂 (I'm not optimistic, I just know next week will be the end) My grandmother went shit-talking about us with the rest of the family... But she will go next moth with my uncle, so we will be free for some time!! My aunt is no longer sick but she has to stay for next week still (kinda sad I can't sleep in my bed yet, but nevermind) and yeah, thats it :) how was your week?

David and Alec shit-talking Asmodeus jdidjdidndks 😂

David making breakfast for them is the cutest🥺 (Also Alec like: If you say yes to that, it WILL be a mistake 🙂)

He is such a romantic💙

Max is a softie clenaing the Pacific and he knows it!!! (but he must stinks)

“Love is blind,” Magnus said in the background. “But apparently it also has no sense of smell.” (Bro look who is talking😂😂)

Mmm, do I wanna know the ichor story....?

"He could clean himself with the snap of his fingers – which, uh, came in handy during other situations." I cant😂

"This was the Max he had loved all his life" Jjsnsls 💙💙

Max and Magnus better speak in the next chapter istg...

Omg the letter finally arrived!!! Still love Alec for trying <3

They are meeting!!! Mmm, still don't know what to think but I'll keep my mind open

Jace taking care of Clary🥺🥺🥺

Magnus is right and I love him. Also, YES. Parents mess up sometimes...

My boy is crying at night😭😭😭 I just want him to be ok!! Yes Magnus, you have to make the first move...

He. Offered. His. Loft. Why is it so cute?? 🥺

Rafe is the sweetest..

“I’ll have to get a second job to afford him, aren’t I?” David asked with a chuckle. “I’m afraid so,” (where do I get someone like him???)

Lexi, Selena and David have such a cute relationship!!! (still relate more to Rafe and Max but they are🥺🥺🥺)

Jace is so proud and so am I!! 💙💙

YES CLARY IS HIS MOTHER

"Gabriel called it short people problems." been there, done that (I was actually really small until like 2 years ago. I was a fucking minion compared to my friends😂 although I had a friend who was REALLY small and he was the BEST at basketball...)

Jace is soo good at giving advice and he is so soft <333

Clary and David. Thats my heart jdkdjdisnssj (also him picking her up is *whispers* beautiful)

Bro stop scaring David😭😂

Trust me on this one: stay away for Leon Verlac

IF HE DOESN'T CREATE LIGHTNING FOR YOU THEN WHATS THE POINT!!! Seriously tho it is so soft and💙💙

David with a child. Are you fucking trying to kill me with this softness ma'am???

"Pouvez-vous voir le garçon bleu? N'est-il pas beau? Tu trouves qu'il est beau aussi?" BRO WTF THIS IS THE SOFTEST SHIT EVER!!!

Ok, quick note: Is that the same spell Magnus used on Rafe the firts day they meet?? Bc its so pure and wholesome🥺🥺🥺

HOLY SHIT MAX WITH THE BABY. MY HEART CANT TAKE IT JDHSKSB

“No one is scared of you,” he said, closing his eyes. “Only you are.” ❤️❤️❤️❤️bro....

Conclusion so far: THEM>>>>

"Flattery will get you everywhere, David Beauchamp,” yes it will. He already got my heart, the limits are none

David is a cute and in love dork😂

WHAT THE FUCK LEVITHAN?????? WTAF???

INMORTALITY???

Like.. Max does need David.. BUT NOT LIKE THAT

“Take this power and rule by Max’s side.” Ngl, it would sound tempting to me, but David doesn't want that, does he?

Low blow dude. Well, everything aside, its actually a good gift? I mean... Its for someone Max loves to be with him forever... Its not THAT bad considering he is a prince of hell..

I would pay to hear him say croissant...

Max is a horny little shit😂😂I mean also David but he is better at hiding it...

"Gorgeous Gabriel" jdisjdodk he gets me!!!👀

Omg he is jealous!!!😂😂 Max is right, he is mega-hot.....

Coraline can’t meet today???? bad start, but ok ok, we still can have a nice meeting

Max is so fucking powerful, just WOW...

Whats happening?? WTF??? Who is this girl???

Mmm, I kinda like her... Not a great plan, but will do :)

I dont ever know where his jokes are gonna get and I love him😂😂😂

Oh, Mal... Nice!

Is David jealous?? 😂😂

"He was so much like his parents sometimes, David thought. Max had never met a person he didn’t want to help." THIS is so damn true even tho we dont always see it

“I’m not jealous,” David said. “And I am not blue,” I CANT LOVE THEM MORE THAN I ALREADY LOVE THEM 🥺❤️❤️💞

All of this day is the cutest shit in my entire life jdjdkdid

"You’re all that I know. You’re all that I love.” THIS FUCKING CHAPTER. IS ONE OF THE CUTEST. EVER

Jackson!! I'm love him💙💙💙

Jackson is so wise and he is indeed impossible to hate🥺🥺

I'm with David on this. Percy Jackson is better

“Then I hope you carry me with you, Brother David. You are immortal after all.” Their friendship is something else💙💙>>>

Nooo, I will fight his nightmares with my bare hands and my knife🔪🔪

Well, David is already here for him🥺🥺

"He looked like a black and white photograph. David wanted to keep him inside his pocket 💙💙💙

Advantages and disadvantages of dating a Lightwood-Bane...

WHY is Coraline here??!

“Ah. Right. We have a relaxed clothing policy at home so,” why am I not surprised?

“I called her when I woke up,” dude what??

I support throwing people who dont like David into the Seine :)

"So, if this goes to shit, then you just come back to me. I’ll be there to remind you what love feels" I'm full on feelings💙

"Also, Coraline is kinda hot.” dude stop 😂

He knew who he looked like. He knew there was nothing he could do about it.😭😭

He wants to make sure she respects and accepts Max🥺🥺

"Hello, gay,” she said. “I’m Coraline.” (I already like her :))

“I work as a child psychologist at a juvenile rehabilitation center.” omg yes I like her and I feel they will have a good relationship :)

She was afraid of meeting him... FUCK ALBERT

A semicolon!! Short story: I had a teacher in 5th grade that had several tattoos, including a semicolon, she explained us the meaning of each one and it was so beautiful and in conclusion, the reason why I wanted tattoos ever since <3

“I left my family because my family wasn’t safe for me anymore.” it hurts that you have to do that sometimes, but its true...

David!!! 🥺 Telling her he is proud of her is so wholesome

“Very angelic,” yeah they are 😂😂

Telling her about his family gives the same vibe as Alec rambling of his family whenever he gets a chance 💙💙

Mozart!!!! Bdjsksbos love

I love Max so much!! He knows what he needs

She told her she is proud!! Why is it so deep??

HOLY FUCK!!! ALEXANDER???? WTF??? I AM KDJSKND I LOVE THIS SO MUCH FUCK YEAH I CANT WITH THIS INFO!! AND AFTER ALEC LIGHTWOOD!!! OMG YESSSS. HE INSPIRED SO MANY AND JDJDISKLS💙💙💙

Brother Enoch is an icon😎

I hope Albert is burning in hell with his son dating a boy, a warlock and Alec and Magnus son😌

Alec Lightwood is the MVP💙

🥺🥺🥺LOVE THEM!!!!

They are both horny shits...

She played a song for him jdjdjdjkd

Max inherited the need to make jokes in a serious conversation

Yeah, it would make sense if he has PTSD

Fuck yeah. Comunication is so sexy

But he said it so well and  “It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s not that I don’t I think I can't love you forever. It’s just…Forever is a really long time. I don’t want to live that long.”🥺🥺💙💙

If you meet someone else,” David managed a smile. “Someone who is ready to spend forever with you.”

“Take it,” David insisted. “I want you to have that chance – even if it’s not with me.”

“Centuries from now, when you come back to Paris, will you remember this? Us?”

He is too good for this good for this world indeed💙💙

He fucking tattooed David’s name in his wrist!!!!? OMG I'M GOING TO CRY THIS IS BEAUTIFUL 😭💙💙💙SO HE REMEBERS HIM WHEN HE DOES MAGIC OH GOD😭😭

ALWAYS!! I'M LOVING ALL THE WORDS (might add them to the edits👀)

AYAN. I- Magnus help him. He fucking created a word to call him bc there weren't words good enough for him. I'm crying WTF ITS SO WHOLESOME 😭🥺💙💙

Malec having flashbacks to the hot air ballon incident🙂

YES HIS MOTHER IS CLARY AND SHE IS SO BADASS AND CORALINE SO NICE JDISJDISB

If only she knew Max’s unhinged being....

“M for Max,” David smiled. “M for Mon ange.” (HOLY- 🥺🥺 HE GAVE HIM HIS RING. AND IT FUCKING FITS!!!💙💙)

Ok, THAT WAS THE MOST SOFT AND HEARTWARMING CHAPTER. MY HEART IS GOING TO EXPLODE

also the note got me emo bc its the last pov we will see of him and I love him too much

The way you wrote David... I love him so much and I agree with Max that there aren't any words to describe him properly. His advices and all the love he has inside him is brighter than any cruel thing the world may offer him. I will miss him so much and I'm so grateful I got to meet him in this story. He will forever be in my heart

Also after reading all the reactions I realized we are all just having a shitty month and trying to make it alive to February😂 so dont give up yall!! We are all in this shits show together💙

This really made my day and week and i will remeber this chapter when I need sterotonine. Thank you so much, ily

C'est probablement la réaction la plus longue mais je l'aime tellement et je t'aime tellement.  Au revoir💙

YES FOR SURVIVING THIS WEEK.

I don't even know your grandma but I am glad she is leaving lmao. I hope you get to sleep in your bed soon. Wishing a lot of comfort and good things to come your way. (my manifestations work usually).

My week was...a week too. I've been working really, really hard. Sleep is basically nonexistent. But I think things will settle down next week (or I hope) so that's that.

But hey. We survived.

We really are bad bitches, huh. Good for us.

Writing this chapter brought me a lot of comfort too. I'm glad you made you smile.

Au revoir and Fuck January 💙

#lbaf

[sir-adrien-swagreste]

Shipping with Myself - A ML Fanfic

(Based on the following post: <Click Here> )

It was a normal Akumaless day in Paris. Adrien Agreste was busy practicing the Piano when he was talking to Plagg about the possibilities of someone discovering his Identity as Chat Noir.

“Hey Plagg, do you think there’s anyone who thought about me being Chat Noir?”

“Kid, if that happened that reporter girl from your school would be on top of it ASAP. You’re good kid.”

“I don’t know....Oh I know! Let’s search online and see if anyone has tried to search up my and Chat Noir.”

Adrien goes to his computer at his desk and searches “Adrien Agreste Chat Noir”. The results were a little shocking for him as he got 1,000+ results. The first link brought him to a Fanfiction called “A Chatastic Night”. Curious, he clicked onto the link to see what it was about. As he began to read it, he couldn’t help but be impressed with how well the Author nailed Chat Noir & all of his Puns. Unfortunately for our Sunshine, his intrigue was going to shift to pure shock.

“Ok, I’m just getting out of the Shower when Chat arrived.....wait why does Chat have a Red Rose in his Mouth?”

Plagg is watching his child read this clearly lewd Fanfic while trying not to laugh & is kinda curious to see how far it goes.

“Chat walks towards the partially dressed Model and begins to undress himself as he grabs the Chatastic Model & gives him a passionate kiss. Chat then grabbed the towel wrapped around Adrien and....”

“OH MY GOD!!!!” Adrien shouted!

“Bwahahahahaha oh my god!” Keep reading! I got to hear how this goes! Let’s see “Adrien then grabbed Chats tail and pulled it off while whispering in his Ear “Purr for Daddy”. Kid.....this is Unreal! Also this has been read by 50,000 + people”

“PLAGG SHUT UP!!! OMG OMG OMG! Ok it’s no big deal. I just have to close the page, clear my history & no one will ever...”

“Adrien? I heard you scream. Is everything ok”

Adrien stopped in his tracks immediately. It was Ladybug. She was standing just outside his window. She walked into see how Adrien was doing while also trying to stay calm as she was I her crushes room.

“M’L..I mean Ladybug! I’m rood..I mean I’m good. I just uhhh stubbed my toe. That’s all. No worries here.”

Ladybug sign in relief. “Glad to hear it. I thought that maybe an Akuma showed up or something. I’m glad to see that you’re so fine..I mean that you are okay. I better....”

Ladybug paused as if she was in deep thought. Adrien was curious to see if she was ok when he realized that she was looking at his computer screen. With a Raunchy Chat Noir X Adrien Agreste Fanfic open on his screen. Adrien suddenly began to panic.

“LADYBUGITSNOTWHATITLOOKSLIKE!! I-I-I-I Just found the link by accident. I wasn’t reading this becau..”

Ladybug was about as red as her costume. Unable to know what to say she bolted out of the window screaming that she had to run! Adrien fell over in defeat and anguish. Not only does his Lasy think he likes someone else, but it a guy and more importantly it’s himself! Plagg came out of hiding u able to hold it in any longer.

“OH MY ME!! THIS IS TOO MUCH!! THIS IS ALMOST BETTER THEN CAMEMBERT!!”

Adrien proceeded to hide himself under his pillow and remained in his room for the rest of the day.

——————————————————————————

Meanwhile, Ladybug silently arrived home and transformed back into her civilian form and was about to follow suit and crawled into bed hugging a pillow while screaming.

“Marinette? Are you okay?” Asked Tikki

“Ok? OK?!? NOO!! I’m not okay!! Adrien is in love with Chat Noir!!”

Marinette began to tear up. Marinette reaches out to her laptop and began typing onto it. The page brought her to a website with the User “The Y-Bug”. In the links of things on the users page included a certain link. A link to a Fanfic by that very Author. The link was to none other then “A Chatastic Night”.

“Why did I have to make that stupid Fanfic?!? What if Adrien finds out that I wrote that?!?”

Tikki attempted to comfort her Master while also trying to figure out why Adrien was on that page to begin with since she knows Chat & Adrien are one and the same.

——————————————————————————

Several days pasted and Adrien was not to be seen in school at all. Apparently he was sick and was unable to come to school. Everyone was concerned, but Marinette was panicking since she thinks it was because of what happened.

When she went home she immediately walked up to her room and sat by her computer to quickly get all of her work done and retire early for the night.

“Ugh! This is the worst!”

Suddenly she heard a ping come from her computer. Apparently it was from a User from the Fanfiction site who went by “SwagChat”. They claimed that their Agreste/Noir Fic was really well made & had sent them a link to a Fanfic of their own. Trying to get her mind off of what happened, she decided to give it a read. Maybe this would help make her feel better.

The title of the Fic was called “A Spotty Situation”. It stared Ladybug as the Main Character & went through the Adventures between her and Chat Noir. Seeing this helped put a smile on her face. She was also impressed that the Author has her character down to a T.

“Whoever this is must be a real big Ladybug Fan.”

She continued reading the Fanfic. Apparently the Ladybug in this wanted to find herself a new style for her Super Suit but was having dificulties getting ideas. Ladybug then mentions one of the people she once saved who she knew was also a Rising Star in the Fashion World. The person she was going to was none other then Paris’ own, Mari eye Dupain Cheng.

“....Marinette?!? That’s me!!! Why am I in this. Also Rising Star?!?”

Marinette was both shocked and also flattered that whoever wrote this thought so highly of her. As Marinette continued to read the fanfic, Tikki was listening and reading from behind. Tikki was also curious as to how this individual knew her and Ladybug so well. This is when a sudden thought dawned onto her.

“No way.....it couldn’t be....”

In the fanfic Ladybug & Marinette apparently became fast friends. Marinette happily helped Ladybug come up with ideas for a new style for her Suit. Marinette asked Ladybug if she could take a few measurements & Ladybug allowed. As Marinette was taking Ladybug’s Measurement, she accidentally tripped and fell on top of Ladybug.

“OMG Ladybug, I’m so sorry are you al..”

Marinette stopped as her eyes suddenly locked with Ladybug. Both were silent, both of their hearts began to race and both started to get a little Red in the face.

“It’s...ok. Uhh....I....I....”

A shout can’t from outside. Soulds like there was an Akuma Attack going on. Ladybug quickly collected her thoughts as she and Marinette got up and Ladybug prepared to leave. Before she left, Marinette called out to her.

“Ummm will.....will I see you again Ladybug?”

Ladybug began to blush just as Marinette had.

“Of...of course. Can’t wait to see you again!”

Ladybug then left in order to stop the Akuma that was reeking havoc.

Marinette still red in the face with her heart feeling like it was going to leap out of her chest.

“See you soon.” A soft smile appeared as she said this. End of First chapter of “A Spotty Situation”.

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Marinette just finished reading this with a face so red it put her Ladybug Suit to shame.

“What The Hell Is This?!? Why is there a Marinette x Ladybug Fanfic here. And Who The Hell is SwagChat?!? OMG I swear if this is Chat, I will kick his fine ass!! But even if this was him it’s not like he’d know that this was my user.”

Tikki remained silent. (“Well you’re not incorrect.” “Plagg, this was your idea! I’m sure of it! When I see you, we will have words!”)

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Meanwhile at the Agretes Mansion, Adrien was sitting at his desk in his pajamas with a flush face. In truth he was actually a little under the weather although that didn’t make him guilt free. Not long before, he had just finished Writting the first part of a MariBug Fanfic. “Why did he choose Marinette?” To him, she was his everyday Ladybug. It felt somewhat fitting to use her. Plus she knew Ladybug and Chat Noir so it wasn’t too far fetched. He just hoped she’d never see this or find out he wrote it. He couldn’t imagine how she’d react if she found out one of her Best Friends was writing a fanfic where they pair her with Ladybug.

Plagg is currently eating Cheese while thinking to himself “Oh kid, if only you knew!”

*Ping*

Adrien looked over to his computer and saw that he just got a IM from the user “The Y-Bug”. Y-Bug?!? Wait wasn’t that the one I sent the link to? They read it already? Let’s see.

“SwagChat. First off thank you for your comments about my fanfic. I was surprised when you sent over this link & even more so after I read it. What inspired you to write it?”

Adrien was nervous since he didn’t want to reveal too much & also wanted to respond so they didn’t try to inquire more about him and possibly find out that he was Adrien or worse Chat Noir.

“Hello Bug. I guess my inspiration was a few things. First was your Fanfic. As for the second.....I....Actually am somewhat farmiliar with both Ladybug & Marinette. I’ve been a fan of Ladybug since her debut and as for Marinette....well I’ve a fan of some of her work. She’s a new Self Designer but if you asked me, she could even give Gabriel Agreste a run for his money. I really admire her so when I think of two girls in my life as a Pairing, it kinda make me feel....happy.”

Marinette fell silent. Whoever this person is, they must really know her well to think so highly of her. Both of her. Despite being pissed earlier, she couldn’t help but feel happy. She then wondered if she knew this user and tried to see if she could get them to reveal anything about themselves.

“Nice try, Bug. Can’t do that. Cats got my tongue. Though maybe if we can chat some more maybe I’ll feel more comfortable seeing you in person. Afterall, it sounds like you also live in Paris so maybe we will bump into each other. Can’t help but be curious about who made this Fic. Chat out.”

Marinette was half convinced at this point.

“It’s Chat! I’m sure of it! He saw my post and is trying to get back at me by making this post.”

Tikki decided to jump in.

“If it is him....are you upset?”

“At first I was, but now....I can’t help but find myself smiling. Oh No! Am I falling for Chat now? Speaking of there’s still the Adrien/Chat situation. Ugh...what do I do?”

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Adrien just finished loggin off his computer when Plagg landed onto his head to talk about “Y-Bug”.

“So kid.....how do you feel?”

Adrien was silent for a second.

“I’m...okay Plagg. Y-Bug really wanted to know who I was. Can’t help but wonder if she suspects anything. Also.....”

“Also?”

“I feel like I know them somehow. I don’t know why but I just have this feeling that I know who the Author is but I can’t put my finger on it...”

Plagg sighs as he begins to think to himself.

“Good thing I flew over to Marinette’s house the other day to see if my hunch was right. It’s also good that Adrien was sick sleeping all day yesterday so he didn’t realize where I went. After this, I’m getting tired of waiting for these two to figure it out. I hope my plan to hook these two up somehow using these “Fanfics” of theirs works. I guess only time will tell.”

Hope you all liked this.

Tags: @buggachat for starting this, @gale-of-the-nomads for inspiring this particular idea, and also @masked-bixch since I usually tag you in posts like this.

#adrichat #maribug #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #chat noir #ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #love square #adrinette #adrienette #ladrien #marichat #ladynoir #ml #ml au #ml fanfiction #ml fanfics #miraculous

[p-artsypants]

Perfect, No Matter What

In which Gabriel sets the bar even lower for himself, a reveal happens because of pain medication, and the new guardian actually goes to Chloé for advice. 

At least Adrien gets some kisses out of it. 

I’ve been watching ‘Botched’ while I work remotely and it took me to dangerous places.

Ao3 | FF.net

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You know the phrase, ‘beauty is pain’? Well, some people knew that better than others.

Especially Adrien Agreste. 

Diets, rigorous exercise, intense skin care routine including microdermabrasion, UV treatment, and teeth whitening. 

Perfection. 

And he hated it.

At this point in his life, he feared that his slew of doctors thought he was horribly vain. 

Really, he was just the victim of a highly critical father. 

On a Friday, Adrien prepared for school as usual. He dressed casually, lightly styled his hair, and ate breakfast. 

As he came back down the stairs after grabbing his bag, his father was waiting for him. 

“Father?” 

“Just here to see you off to school.” 

That was new, and concerning, to say the least. “Oh…thanks?” 

“Hmm,” Gabriel hummed, stepping into his personal space. Without another word, he hooked his thumb around Adrien’s chin, manipulating his head in different directions. 

“What?”

“Hush.” 

Adrien just waited in fear as his father examined him, turning his face this way and that, and a look of displeasure was growing on his face, stronger and stronger. 

Finally, blessedly, he pulled away. “That will be all. Get off to school.” 

“Uh…okay.” 

With confusion and paranoia, Adrien went to school. 

—

The day continued on as normal. No akumas, no unnecessary drama, easy homework, nothing to stress about.

And nothing to bring Adrien’s attention away from his father’s strange behavior this morning. 

The class before lunch, his paranoia picked up when Nathalie interrupted the lesson.

“Pardon the intrusion, Adrien has a doctor’s appointment, and will be out for the rest of the day.” 

This was news to him, and he could only gape. 

“Come on Adrien, get your stuff. Is one of your friends willing to take notes?” 

“Marinette will!” Alya volunteered. 

“Y-yeah! Of course I will!” 

“See to it that you drop it off at the mansion after school.” 

“I have fencing after school, we have a tournament tomorrow.” Adrien pointed out, while still shoveling his books into his bag. 

“I’m afraid you won’t be participating in the tournament, or any other weekend activities.” 

“What? Why?” 

“I’ll explain in the car, please now, hurry.” 

Adrien did as told, not before casting a fearful look to his friends. 

—

Marinette couldn’t stop thinking about Adrien. 

Not that it was any different than usual, but that look on his face…

It was haunting. 

The look of complete horror and loss. To be fair, if she had received the same news he had, she probably would have been blindsided as well. 

The reaction at the house when she brought his homework wasn’t insightful either. Just like every time she brought something for him, the camera came out, the drawer opened, and that was it. No communication, no nothing. 

“I don’t know Tikki, should I text him? Or would that be weird? Does he know I have his number?” 

“Marinette, I’m sure he’d love to get a text from you. Just ask him if he got the notes.” 

“Great idea! Simple! I can’t butcher it!” She took out her phone and read aloud as she typed. “Hey Adrien…it’s Marinette. Alya gave me your number…did you get the homework? Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you need anything else.” 

“Good!”

“Would a heart be too much?” 

“It might be a comfort for him? Sending him love in his isolation.” 

“Okay. Heart. And send!” She hit the button and nearly threw her phone in anxiety. 

Then she waited.

And waited.

And waited. 

An hour or so passed as she tapped her foot with tense energy. 

“Whatever he was pulled for is probably still going on. I wouldn’t worry about it, Marinette. Adrien isn't the type to leave someone on read.” 

Taking a calming breath, Marinette nodded in agreement. “You’re right, I’ll just suck it up! I might hear from him tonight.” 

So she spent the day doing homework, and a bit of various projects to stay busy. 

Nearing patrol time, Plagg showed up on her desk, spooking her. “Hey pigtails.” 

“Ah! Plagg! What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be with Chat? It’s almost time for patrol.” 

“Nah, not for him!” 

“This is joint patrol. It’s Friday night.” 

“Yeah, well I’m here to let you know that he won’t be joining you tonight, and I left him because I knew he was going to try to transform, and he’s in no shape to!” 

“Is he sick? Injured?” 

“Injured.” Plagg confirmed. “Not dire, and he’s already been treated…though there was no reason to be hurt in the first place.” He muttered that last part to himself. 

“Is he okay?” 

The little cat shrugged. “Eh, probably. Little trauma never hurt anyone. It’s over now.”

“What happened?” 

“That, I can’t tell you. Though I’m sure you’ll see it eventually. I’d just prefer to let this play out naturally and see what happens.” 

“You really are chaotic, aren’t you?” 

He beamed. “Only the most chaotic. Well, I’m here to join you, so you aren’t patrolling alone. That way he’ll be happy, and you’ll be happy that he’s not out with an injury.” 

“That’s bizarrely considerate of you.” She snorted. 

“I know, aren’t I the best?” 

She scratched him between the ears. “The best. Now let’s go!” 

—

Monday morning finally came. Marinette had finally received a response from Adrien on Saturday, which was just ‘yes I did, thank you!’ with a little heart as well. 

It melted her a little. 

But Adrien didn’t elaborate any more. It was complete radio silence from him, both to her, and to Nino, who had also tried to reach out. 

But now it was Monday, and hopefully he would be here. 

“Chloe,” Nino asked. “Did you hear anything from Adrien this weekend?” 

“No!” She exasperated. “I called him like nine times, and not once did he answer! Nathalie said he was sleeping when I called her. And Gabriel didn’t answer either. It was ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!” 

“He confirmed that he got my notes, but didn’t say anything else to me.” Marinette added. “I’m kinda worried.” 

“Me too. He should be here by now.” 

Luckily, the tension didn’t last long, as Adrien’s extremely tired voice spoke from the doorway. “Hi guys…” 

Record scratch. 

He looked hideous. 

Both eyes were black, with huge purple swollen bags on each cheek. It was swollen so bad, his eyes were half shut. A thick bandage rested on the top of his nose, and over the nostrils, leaving just the little pink tip poking out. 

“Dude!”

“Hey…” He couldn’t even smile, and looked to be in a lot of pain. He shuffled to his seat and sat down. 

“What happened bro? You look like you got hit by a bus!”

“You really shouldn’t even be here.” Alya added. “That looks really bad.” 

“My dad didn’t want me to come, but I begged him. I already missed half of Friday. I didn’t want to fall behind.” 

“Yeah, but like, what happened?”

Adrien hesitated a moment, and then admitted, “I ran into a wall.” 

Chloe scoffed, glaring at him with an absolutely disgusted look on her face. “Sure, right.” 

“You broke your nose?” 

“Yeah, really badly. Doctor got me all fixed up though. I’ll be fine!” 

Marinette wasn’t convinced, however. It was weird that he had been pulled out of school for some sudden weekend event, only to show up on Monday with a broken nose. 

Unless Adrien, in a desperate move to get out of the weekend plans, ran headfirst into a wall, which was admittedly kind of funny. 

Or something more sinister was going on instead. 

Nino and Alya continued to badger him about it, but Adrien just reassured them that he was fine. 

But Marinette took notice of the bandage on the inside of his right ear too. How does one damage an ear when running headlong into a wall?

Marinette’s phone buzzed, a message from Chloe, of all people. 

Chloe: I can see that look on your face. Adrien is lying. I want you to get the truth out of him. 

That was surprising! 

Marinette: What? Why me?

Chloe: Because if this is what I think it is, he’ll never admit it to me. And I need to know if I need to be disappointed in him or Gabriel.

Marinette: What are you talking about? And why me?

Chloe: It’s not my place to say, okay? You’re the class rep, and his friend. You’re good at coaxing people to open up. Do this for me and I’ll buy you some fabric or something. Don’t make me beg. 

Marinette considered it. Seeing Adrien look like this quieted that part in her brain that just shouted ‘Adrien Adrien Adrien!’ And brought out ‘He’s hurt, he’s vulnerable, protect him!’ 

Marinette: You don’t need to buy me anything. I’ll try to talk to him, for his sake. I won’t mention you at all. 

Chloe: Good. Let me know the details, alright? I’m very concerned. 

Marinette: Obviously, if you’re asking for my help. 

Chloe: Don’t get used to it. 

Marinette: I won’t. :)

Turns out, Marinette didn’t even need to plan out how she was going to approach Adrien. He made it easy for her. At lunch, he approached her. 

“Hey Marinette, can I talk to you for a sec?” His voice was nasally and groggy. 

“Sure thing!” She chirped, leading him to a quiet corner. Her blood pressure spiked. Did he find out that Chloe had talked to her? Was he about to tell her to mind her own business??

“I have a really big favor to ask, and you can say no, but I just thought...” 

“Whatever you need,” she laid a hand on his arm. “Just say the word.” Okay, maybe she was coming on too strong, but that nose…

He kind of smiled, though it looked painful. “Sorry, I’m not supposed to smile.” 

“Gotcha. We’re serious here.” She steeled her mouth into a neutral grimace. 

“I begged my dad to let me come back to school, but I didn’t realize how tired the...pain meds were making me. Do you think your parents would mind if I crashed on your couch until the end of the day? You’re just so close to school and—“ 

“I understand completely!” She smiled at him, only to make that neutral face a minute later. “I mean, yes. I’m sure it’ll be okay with them. You okay to come now?” 

“Yeah, my chef sent me with some soup in a thermos.” 

“Alright, then let’s go.” 

Over at the bakery, which was blessedly not busy for lunchtime, Sabine noticed Adrien and gasped. 

“Oh honey! What happened?!” 

He winced. “I Uh...I ran into a wall.” 

“He’s already been to the doctor.” Marinette clarified. “He was just wondering if he could nap on the couch for a few hours. The painkillers are making him groggy.” 

Tom came into the room at his wife’s exclamation. “I bet it’s hard to sleep with that too.” 

“Yes, exactly.” Adrien breathed. 

“Of course you can nap upstairs. You’re always welcome whenever!” 

“Thank you. I really appreciate it.” 

“You might be better off in Marinette’s room so we don’t disturb you.” 

“Is that okay with you, Marinette?” He asked. 

“Oh! Yes! Of course! Wherever you want! Umm I’ll show you upstairs!” And she gestured him onward. 

In her room, Adrien looked around as he sat his bag down. “You still have the pictures of me.” He said fondly. 

She had forgotten about them in her worry. “Oh! Yep! I like to look at them for inspiration, and to support you, you know?” 

He walked over to her wall and stopped to look at one. “And...if I didn’t look like this anymore? Would you still like them? Like me?” 

What an odd thing to wonder. “Of course. Are you worried that you’re going to look different now because you broke your nose?” 

He was quiet for a moment, then admitted. “Yeah.” 

“Don’t worry, Adrien. I’m sure it’ll heal just fine.” 

“Yeah, I trust you.” 

She awkwardly patted her hands against her thighs. “So...you can use my bed, or you can just use the chaise...” 

“Can I steal that big cat pillow? I’m supposed to sleep sitting up.” 

“Oh yes! Of course!” She scrambled up to grab it for him. “Anything else I can get you? Where’s your soup? I’ll warm it up for you.” 

He gave her that warm and tender smile that made her heart swell. “You’re the best, Marinette.” He took out the thermos from his bag. “Could I also have some water? I’m going to take some more drugs.” 

She giggled, “sure thing. I’ll be back in a sec.” 

She took the soup downstairs and poured it into a bowl, then popped it in the microwave. Then she got a glass of water and a bag of frozen peas and went back upstairs. 

Adrien was reclining on the chaise with his head back, resting. 

“Here’s your water,” she announced, sitting by his side. 

“Ugh, thank you. My face is killing me.” 

She snickered at him. “There’s a mean joke here, but I won’t say it.” 

“You’re not supposed to make me laugh, remember?” 

“Oh right, sorry.” 

He took the water and popped a few pills. “Fair warning, this medicine makes me a wee loopy, so...”

“Well, I’ll be going back after lunch, so you probably won’t embarrass yourself too badly.” 

“Mmm, I trust you won’t tell anyone if I confess my undying love for fried chicken.”

“Your secrets are safe with me.” 

The microwave dinged and she excused herself to get it. The bowl was too hot to take out, or even hold to eat out of. So she took the time to make a sandwich for her own lunch, and grabbed an extra slice of fresh bread for Adrien. 

Returning upstairs, Adrien was reclined again, with the frozen peas on his face. 

“Soups on.” 

“Feed me...” he begged weakly. 

She almost dropped the tray she was carrying. “What? I mean, are you sure? I uh...” 

He made a grabby hand toward her. “Soup soup...” 

“Oh,” she breathed out. “The medicine kicked in fast.” 

“Me want soooooup.” He moaned, absolutely miserable. 

Seeing him so vulnerable and slightly childish was so sad.

And kinda cute.

“Okay, I’ve got it, but you have to sit up first. I don’t want you to spill on yourself.” 

He moaned and groaned as he shimmied up. “Otay?”

Marinette giggled, “Otay.” She set the tray on his lap. “I’m not used to high Adrien.” 

“Hi Marinette.” 

She giggled again, “no, I meant you’re being goofy.” 

“H-yuck.” 

She shook her head. “Eat your soup, Adrien.” 

“Yes mom.” He slowly spooned up his soup. He was quiet as he did so, looking like he was focusing hard on it. His eyes blinked slowly, like he was going to fall asleep at any second. Finally, he pulled away a half empty bowl and held it out to her. 

“You done?” 

He nodded. 

“Okay.” She placed the bowl on the tray and stood. “Let’s get you a blanket.” 

His eyes closed as he settled back down. 

She grabbed a fuzzy blanket from her bed and draped it over him, which he immediately snuggled into. 

“Alright, you rest as long as you need to. I’ll rush back here at the end of school to wake you up.” 

He took her hand. “Mari?” 

“Hmm?” 

“I didn’t run into a wall.” He confessed in a whisper, tears gathering in his eyes. 

Immediately, she sat by his side and grasped his hand. “What happened?”

“I got a nose job.” 

Her jaw dropped. She never imagined Adrien as a vain person, so unless this was for his health, it kind of changed her entire perception of him. 

“I didn’t want to.” A tear streaked down his cheek. “My dad made me. He pulled me out of school and took me to the doctor. They said my cartilage was shattered, probably from all the hits I take as Chat Noir…”

“They said that?” Her mouth was dry.

“They don’t know I’m Chat…no one does. You won’t tell, right Mari? Fried chicken?”

She nodded fervently. “Of course Adrien. My lips are sealed.”

He nodded slowly, starting to relax more. “They had to rebuild my nose. They took cartilage from my rib, and skin from my ear. It hurts all over.” 

“Even with the medication?” 

“I’ll never be good enough.” Another tear rolled down his cheek. “Not for him, not for her…no one.” 

Marinette was torn between the fear of him remembering and forgetting what she was about to do. Nonetheless, she cupped his very bruised cheek. “Adrien. Even if your nose fell right off your face, I…I love you. I think you’re perfect.”  

“Yeah?” 

“Yeah. Remember when we first met? When I yelled at you over the gum?” 

“Dumb gum…”

“Yeah, I thought you were just like Chloe. Just a spoiled, pretty, rich kid.”

“But I am, I’m such a brat.” He nuzzled his face gently into her hand. 

“No you’re not. It was never your looks that made me like you. It was your kindness. Okay?” 

He slowly blinked at her. “My face hurts.” 

Very gently, she leaned in and kissed the very tip of his nose. “All better.” 

“Mari lucky kiss. Just like lucky charm.” His eyes fell closed. “Don’t tell anyone about nose job, ‘kay? Dad’s not bad, he’s just grieving…” 

Marinette gave a long exhale. Being distant and withdrawn from society? Grieving. Forcing his son to get a nose job at 15? Insane. 

There was just a lot in this conversation that was too much to unpack in the first place. 

File the whole ‘Adrien is Chat Noir’ thing away to freak out about later. 

“I promised, I won’t tell a soul.” Except Chloe, because it seemed like she had guessed it already. 

“Night night…” He mumbled, letting the drugs pass him into the world of slumber. 

She petted his head. “Night kitty.” 

He didn’t say anything else after that, so she safely assumed he finally fell asleep. 

With the calmness that only comes to someone in shock, Marinette collected the dishes and took them downstairs, placing them in the sink. 

Plagg and Tikki quietly followed behind, watching her with concern. 

When the dishes were safe, she slowly turned around, spotting them floating there, gazing at her. 

“I…” She began. “Where to start?” 

“Well, for one thing,” Plagg began. “He hasn’t been that talkative to anyone else all weekend, so he must really trust you.” 

“A nose job! A freaking—plastic surgery! He’s 15! What the hell—who does that!? To their kid!” 

“Oh good,” said Plagg. “She’s not freaking out about the other thing yet.” 

“I mean, if it was a medical thing, like a deviated septum or something, I’d understand, but it didn’t seem like that all! Was it like that? Is he just delusional? Tell me he’s delusional, Plagg.” 

“Well…he is delusional. But his dad said his nose was developing an ‘unsightly hump’ to it.” 

“A hump! A HUMP!!? What if this surgery is botched!? What then, Gabriel!?” She gasped and grabbed Plagg. “PLAGG!” 

“Yes?”

“YOU’RE HERE!” 

“Yes?” 

“HE REALLY IS CHAT NOIR!?” 

“Shout a little louder, I don’t think they heard you in Los Angeles.” 

“Ohmygodohmygodohmygod—“ 

Tikki flew up in front of her face. “Marinette, you’re the guardian now. You had to find out eventually.” 

“Yeah, but not while he’s high on painkillers! He’s already had his nose ripped away from him! He didn’t need to lose his identity too!” 

Plagg phased out of her hands. “Why don’t you take a nice calming breath.” 

“I AM CALM!” 

“Yeah, I like to scream when I’m calm too.” 

She sunk to the floor, hyperventilating. 

“What’s the big deal anyway?” Plagg asked, lounging on her thigh. 

“What’s the big deal? What’s the big deal!?”

“Repeating my question is not an answer.” 

“The ‘big deal’ is that Chat Noir and Adrien are the same person! The love of my life, and my partner! The same!” 

“So this is a happy freak out?” 

“No! Yes! I don’t know!” She slapped her hands over her face. “I’m confused.” 

“Obviously.” 

“Okay Plagg, lay off. This is a lot of information to deal with.” Tikki pacified. “It’s a good thing, Marinette. You know, it might be a good idea if he knows who you are. Once he feels better though.”

“I think my brain is about to explode.” 

“Join the club. Man, you got a set of pipes.” 

Marinette took a shaky breath. “Okay, okay, I’m calm. I’m cool! Just…I’ll worry about Chat Noir later. What should I do about Adrien?” 

“Stutter like a moron?” 

“Plagg, seriously, stop.” 

“Killjoy.” 

“What about Adrien?” Tikki urged. 

“Should I call the police or something? Is it legal for a 15 year old to get a nose job?”

Plagg got up and started to float around the kitchen. “It is for the right price.” 

“Chloe wanted to know who she was supposed to be disappointed with. Should I tell her? Do you think she would know what to do?”

“You really want to ask Chloe for advice?”

“This is so out of the realm of what I know!” She threw her hands up. “I know superhero and Miraculous stuff, and designing and fashion, and you know, normal teenage stuff! I don’t know anything about the legal ramifications about illegal nose jobs on minors!” 

Tikki patted her hand. “I think you should talk it over with Chloe. I know you’re pretty disappointed in her because of Miracle Queen, but Adrien is really her only friend. She might be respectful of him. Either way, someone needs to know about it. It’s not okay.” 

Marinette nodded. “Yeah, I suppose she is the best to talk to right now.” She winced. “I can’t believe I’m going to Chloe.” 

“I’ll stay behind with Adrien,” Plagg assured. “Not that I’d want to be anywhere else.” 

“I wouldn’t want you to be anywhere else either. Thankfully my parents are home. I’m sure they’ll check on him periodically.” 

“Then all that’s left to do is to go back to school and act like you only got one piece of life changing information instead of two.” Tikki grinned. 

“And who’s better at fibbing than me?” Marinette put her hands on her hips. 

“Ummm, everyone else in the world? Is that a trick question?” 

Marinette groaned. “Just get in the bag.” 

—

Back at school, as soon as she walked in the door, Marinette was grabbed by the wrist and yanked off into a solitary corner. She had expected to be shanghaied by Chloe, but not quite so violently. 

“Soooo?” She asked, once they were alone. “Where’s Adrien? I saw you guys leaving together!” 

“Relax,” Marinette hushed. “He needed a place to lie down for a while and didn’t want to go home. Also, he didn’t want to go far.” 

Chloe pursed her lips. “I suppose that makes sense. So? Did you get it out of him?” 

“Look Chloe, he did tell me what happened, but he asked me not to tell anyone. So I will not confirm that his father made him get a nose job.” 

Chloe grunted, balling up her fists. “That piece of—“ a string of swears came out of her mouth that were completely unladylike. “Alright, what are we going to do?” 

“I was hoping you had something in mind. I’m not sure what we even can do.” 

“I know Gabriel will weasel his way out of it if we go to the authorities. And even if we did, Adrien would hate us for getting his father in trouble.” 

“Yeah...” Marinette sighed. “Is it Stockholm syndrome?” 

“What?” 

“When you’re locked up for so long you start to care for your warden instead of waiting to leave? Or else Gabriel is secretly affectionate and we never see it.”

“He changed a lot. He used to be...at least a little warmer. Gentler. But I’d never call him a good dad.” 

Marinette frowned. “I...have an idea. It’s not a good idea. In fact, it’s a really really bad idea.” 

“Let me hear it.” 

“What if...” she scrunched her lips. “We’d have to convince Adrien, but what if we botched the surgery?” 

Chloe’s eyes widened. “What do you mean?” 

“Like...we fiddled with the recovery, and made it look like the surgeon did a bad job? Then the surgeon who operated on a minor would get in trouble, and Gabriel would be forced to recognize that his meddling ruined Adrien’s nose.” 

Chloe grimaced. “That’s pretty devious, even for you Dupain-Cheng.” 

“It’s all I got at this very second.” 

“Isn’t that dangerous too?” 

“Look, I said it was a bad idea.” 

“But...” 

“But...?” 

“It would get Adrikins out of modeling for a little while. At least until it heals. Then Gabriel will be forced to shell out more to get it properly fixed...” 

“Forget it, this is a bad idea.” 

“No no,” Chloe insisted, a malicious smile in her face that only came with her dastardly ideas. “This could work. You mention it to Adrien. Caution all the dangers and what not, but if you plant that seed in his head...we can go from there.” 

“Why don’t you do it?” 

“Because I’m not supposed to know about the nose job, duh!” 

She had a point. 

“Now let’s get to class before anyone thinks we’re friends or something.” 

—

After school, Marinette rushed out of the building to get to Adrien before his driver came. 

But it was no use, the Gorilla was already waiting in front of the school. 

Dare she even attempt to sneak Adrien back over? Or should she just let the man in on the secret? 

Believing that honesty was the best policy, Marinette approached the sedan and knocked on the window. 

The gorilla rolled it down, giving her a patient look. 

“Hi! Um, Adrien is at my house.” She pointed to the bakery. “At lunch, he got drowsy from the painkillers and asked if he could nap on my couch. I don’t think he wanted to go home—“ 

But the bodyguard understood, and beckoned her on, then started the car. 

Marinette hurried back to the bakery. Inside, she greeted her mother with a kiss. 

“I checked on him an hour ago,” said Sabine. “He was still sleeping.” 

“Thanks Maman!” She called as she was already halfway up the stairs. 

In the apartment, a little voice in her head reminded her gently, “Adrien is Chat Noir,” as she started up the stairs to her room. 

She did a u-turn and came back down. “Oh I’m not ready...” she lamented. 

“You don’t have to be right now,” Tikki provided. “You just have to wake him up so he goes home.” 

“Yeah, yeah okay. I can...how am I supposed to wake him up?” 

“With a kiss?” Tikki batted her eyes, mocking her. 

“What! No! No I can’t!” She covered her red face. “I’ll just—shake him!” 

And she trudged up the stairs. 

Seeing sleeping Adrien, however, melted her heart. He was propped up, though slightly leaning towards the trap door. At some point during his nap, he (or Plagg) had snagged the Ladybug plush from the box in the corner, and he was now cuddling it. His mouth was open to breathe and he snored ever so gently. 

He was precious.

Pushing away all hesitation, Marinette stepped forward and swept the bangs from his forehead. His eyes twitched at the touch, though he continued to sleep. 

Daintily, she pressed a kiss to his forehead, lingering for just a moment. 

“Wakey wakey, my Prince.” She said fondly. 

Adrien’s face screwed up, and then he moaned in pain from moving his nose. “Huh?” 

“Adrien?” 

“My Lady?” 

“It’s Marinette.” 

He opened his eyes, blinking rapidly to focus them. “Oh…Marinette?” 

“Good morning, Sleeping Beauty.” 

“How long was I out?” 

“Well, schools over. So about three hours.” 

He shut his eyes. “It feels like it was only 15 minutes.” 

“Well, I explained everything to your driver and he’s waiting outside. You can go home and go back to sleep.” 

He opened his eyes again, and looked at her. “Not gonna lie, I really liked sleeping here. It was…warmer. Cozier.” 

“Well, if you decide to try to go to school again tomorrow, you can nap here again…or anytime you’d like to. If you need to. You’re welcome whenever, that is.” 

He sat up and stretched, his shirt riding up and revealing his tummy. 

She did not look. 

(Yes she did.)

“Hmm…I think I’ll try out your bed next.” 

Her eyes blew wide. “Wh-what?” 

“This was comfortable, don’t get me wrong. But the bed would probably be better.” Then his sleepy words finally clicked into place. “For a nap! By myself! But the chaise is fine! I should be lucky you let me over here at all! It’s the drugs!” 

Seeing him flustered was new, but very fun. She smiled at him. “I know what you meant. I was just…not expecting it is all.” 

“Right, so…” 

“So…”

“I should probably get going…” 

“Right. Don’t want to make your driver wait.” 

“Right…” He rubbed his hands together, then fidgeted with his ring. “Listen, Marinette?”

“Yes Adrien?” 

“Um…about earlier…when I told you I was Chat Noir?” 

“You remember that? I thought you were completely strung out on meds.” 

“I mean, I was, a little. It’s a little fuzzy, but still…can you keep that a secret?”

“What, that you said it in your pain med haze? Of course.” 

“No I mean—“ He bit his lip, looking at her earnestly. 

“Wait, are you really—?” She had given him an out, and he hadn’t taken it. He could still back track though!

“Marinette, I…” He closed his eyes, his brow furrowing in thought. Finally, he opened them again, tears gathering at the corners. He whispered, “Lying to you would just hurt worse. I can’t, not to you. I’m sick of lying. I’m sick of secrets. Please don’t tell…please don’t tell…” 

“I won’t,” she assured. “I won’t.” Marinette rested a hand on his forehead, worried that he might be getting a fever by how vulnerable he was speaking.

He felt fine, but pressed his head into her hand, seeking out contact. 

“I’m scared.” He whispered. 

“Of what?”

“Of him…my father.” He drew a shaky breath. “I’ve been meaning to tell Ladybug…but I know how protective she is of our secret identities. She’s right, of course…but…” 

“You should tell her anyway. Make her listen. If she cares about you, she will.” She hadn’t even noticed she was still touching his head until he leaned away. She lowered her hand, only for him to grasp both of hers. 

“Thank you, everyday Ladybug. I owe you big time.” 

She shrugged. “Just talk to Ladybug, and we’ll call it even.” 

“Okay,” he smiled weakly and pulled her into a hug. 

It was strong and firm, even a little painful with how tight he hugged her. A hug that drew strength, that was trying to savor a feeling. 

That they both hoped would last. 

“I’ll see you later, okay?” He asked when he finally pulled away. 

“Sure. You know where I live. I’ll leave the trap door unlocked.” 

He breathed a relieved sigh. “Just having the option is the best news I’ve gotten all day.” He stood. “I really do have to go now though. He’ll get suspicious. I’m not going to practice after all.” 

“Go, I don’t want you to get in trouble. And make sure to talk to Ladybug at patrol tonight!” 

“I will!” He assured, hooking his bag over his shoulder. “Thanks a ton, Marinette!” 

It was only after he left that Marinette realized he had never told her he had patrol tonight.

Maybe he wouldn’t notice.  

—

Marinette had the volume on her phone turned up all day. She didn’t want to miss anything from Adrien. Whether it was him noticing her slip up, or just needing someone to talk to. 

She supposed, now that she knew how mischievous he could be, he might just drop in from the trap door. 

But given the pain and exhaustion from his nose, he might not be so willing to transform. 

After she had dinner, but still a few hours before patrol, her phone dinged. 

She swiped it up. 

Adrien: I was thinking about it all day. I’m really happy that you know my secret. Secrets are funner between two people. :3

Marinette: You mean three right? You’re going to tell Ladybug, right?

Adrien: Of course. I will tonight. But for right now, it’s just you and me. Adrienette secret. 

Marinette: Are you high on meds again?

Adrien: No. I took some more after I came home, and then took another nap. Nathalie woke me for dinner. I think I’m going to stay awake and do some homework/look over your notes before patrol

Adrien: Why did you ask if I was high?

Marinette: I just thought you were being goofy

Adrien: That's my secret cap. I’m always goofy.

Marinette: XD

Marinette: hey does Kagami know? 

Adrien: That I’m goofy? 

Marinette: Lol no that you’re cat boy 

She doubted it, since it had taken him getting high to admit it at all. But she did wonder where he drew the line. Chat was always more relaxed when it came to Identities. Did he want to tell Kagami? Should she tell him about Ryuko?

Adrien: no, why would she?

Marinette: she’s your girlfriend?

Adrien started and stopped typing a few times, the little bubbles popping up over and over. 

Finally, he just called her. 

Which was just great. She wanted to stutter like a moron today. She had missed not doing so earlier! “Adrien?” 

“Hey, hi, sorry, umm...it's kinda complicated. So I didn’t want to text it out.” 

“Oh, sure. I understand.” 

“Are you busy?” 

“No. Just sketching.” 

“Do you mind if I rant a little?” 

“My ears are yours.” What a weird thing to say. He was going to hang up now. 

Or giggle, that was fine too. “So...Kagami and I never actually started dating. She thought we did, and when I said we weren’t she got really mad and we argued about semantics…She said I was leading her on, and I said I was just being nice, and she said I was being a people pleaser and fake…I said she was jumping to conclusions. She said it was implicit permission and I said I needed to give explicit permission…”

Marinette winced. “Yikes.” 

“Yeah, um, don’t tell her I said this, but I’m pretty glad it didn’t work out.”

“Really?” She dared not to hope. 

“Yeah. We both had expectations that the other couldn’t meet. I wanted someone who was willing to just listen to my problems and show me affection. Kagami grabs the bull by the horns and she’s not a hugger. She wanted me to solve her problems with her mom and to be an escape…but with my dad, it was the same exact problem.” 

“Oh, I see what you mean. That is hard.”

“And also…being with her was…really boring.” 

“Boring? Kagami?”

“We have the same life experiences. Allowed to watch the same movies, read the same books. There was nothing to add. We’re too alike.” 

“Huh.” 

“And truth be told…” he winced, hesitating, but then admitted, “I’m still desperately in love with Ladybug.” 

Desperately. Desperately! 

“I know she doesn’t feel the same way about me. So I tried to move on. I know it’s not healthy to date someone else to get over someone, but Kagami was just so…insistent. And I don’t know, it made me feel awkward.” He sighed. “I’m really tired of girls fighting for attention, when the one girl I want brushes me off.” 

Marinette clenched her fists. 

I have messed this all up.

Oblivious to her pain, he continued. “I wanted to give Kagami a chance because she’s my friend and she’s nice. Every other girl who’s wanted me has just wanted ‘Adrien, teen idol’ not ‘Adrien the boy with thoughts and feelings’. They just talk at me, and cling to me. Like Lila…and Chloe, unfortunately.” 

“You deserve someone who listens to you.” She assured, swallowing her sorrows. 

“That’s why I like hanging out with Ladybug. She’s so cool and kind! But we have some really deep conversations. As Chat Noir, I’m not ‘Adrien, teen idol.’ I’m just me. She sees me as an equal. She’s my best friend, Marinette. I can just talk to her, you know?”

“Yeah.” She whispered.

“I—I’m sorry.” He suddenly cut himself off. “It’s pretty unfair to you to hear my woes about my love life.” 

“No, it’s okay. I promised to be a pair of ears to listen.” 

“I know but…earlier today…” He paused. “Didn’t you say you loved me?”

Bad. Bad. Awkward. Oops oops. Abort!

“I—I did.” 

“Did you mean it like…?”

“Like however hopes the most.” 

“Uh huh. Please be honest with me, Marinette. Please.” 

How to play this? He had just gotten over a rant about girls fawning over him. Wouldn’t it be awful to lump herself in with them?

Especially since she hadn’t revealed herself yet. What if she doomed herself now, and then later doomed Ladybug?

“I…I love you. Adrien. I enjoy spending time with you. I love your laugh, and my day is brighter with you in it. You’re my favorite person. It doesn’t have to be romantic. I just want you in my life.” 

Marinette held her breath before a pleasant hum came from his side of the phone.

“Then I think…I love you too.”

She tried not to scream.

But she did mime the action to Tikki, who responded in kind. 

“Would you still love me with my old janky nose?” The question was sad, but his tone was light.

“Your nose was perfect! I think your old man just needs new glasses!” 

“No way, if he gets new glasses, he’ll just find something else to fix. ‘These cheekbones aren’t sharp enough! Nathalie, bring me the cheese grater!’” 

“Nooo! Stay away from Adrien’s cherubic cheeks!” 

“Cherubic?!” 

“Like a newborn baby!” 

His wonderful sunshine laughter burst from the speaker before it broke off in a moan. “Ughh you’re not supposed to make me laugh!” 

“Oh, sorry. I forgot.” 

“You just like to see me suffer.” 

“Absolutely not, Adrien. You’re baby.” 

“You heard it from her, folks. I’m baby.” 

“And don’t forget it.” 

They talked for a while longer before Adrien relented to do his homework. 

“Are you going to try to come to school again tomorrow?” 

“Yeah. I know I can crash at your place again, so I’ll try to make it through the morning classes.” 

“Good. Then I’ll see you tomorrow.” 

“Bye Marinette, love you.” 

“I love you too.” 

And he hung up.

And Marinette fell off her chair with a scream. “Tikki! He loves me! He loves me! Both of me! He’s desperately in love with Ladybug! And he wants Marinette in his life! He loves me!!!” 

“And you’re going to return the favor tonight during patrol?”

“Can I?”

“It’s up to you. There’s always the threat of secret identity mishaps, but personally, I think you’ll be stronger together if you reveal yourself. He obviously needs you. Especially if things like this nose job are going to become a recurring problem.” 

“God, I hope not.” 

“So what are you going to do about it?” 

“Besides revealing myself? I don’t know. I still have that awful idea that Chloe and I had. I just worry about how deep that problem could become.”

“Well, you’ve got a little time before patrol starts.” 

“Yeah, I guess I’ll brainstorm.” 

—

Despite her best efforts, the only other options included calling in an adult. And if Gabriel was deranged enough to force a nose job on Adrien, then he would surely blame him for getting busted. 

Maybe talking with Adrien would prove fruitful. 

And with that, she left to meet with him. 

Chat Noir, that is.

She arrived first. The high rooftop offered a full view of nighttime in Paris in all its splendor, without being visible to civilians. 

A perfect meeting place if she said so herself. 

The minutes ticked on, and Adrien was still AWOL. Was he that nervous? Or maybe he fell asleep. Or maybe his nose was hurting too much? 

Would Plagg know where to find her? 

She took out her yo-yo and flipped open the screen, his paw print appearing on the grid. He was transformed and out and about. She watched as the paw print bounced around from block to block. He was not heading towards her. What was he doing?

It took a while, but eventually he started making his way towards her. This gave her a few minutes to get her story straight. 

Then he arrived, holding onto the top of the staff and riding it to the roof like an elevator. 

“Evening my lady,” he greeted, lacking any flirtatious tone and scarily neutral. “Sorry I’m late...I needed to clear my head.”

“Hey kitty. How are you feeling?”

“Um...I’ve been better...” the mask formed over the bandages, but did nothing to hide the shape or the bandages over his nostrils. 

“Broke your nose?” 

“...yeah, something like that.” 

She waited. Normally Ladybug would jump right into patrol, but she knew they had to talk. She was just trying to give him the right moment. “Do you...want to talk about it?” 

He gripped his arm and looked away from her. He was still out of arm's reach and only felt farther as the time stretched on. 

“I...something happened. And I need to tell you but...I don’t want you to be disappointed with me.” 

She sat, leaning her back against the lip of the roof. “I could never be disappointed in you kitty. Let’s talk.” 

He didn’t look so sure, but sat next to her regardless. He pulled up his legs and rested his forearms on his knees. 

She waited. 

“I um...I messed up. I told someone my identity.” 

She kept her face neutral, allowing him to continue. 

“I was really scared and in pain...she let me nap at her house and she made me feel safe. I had some pain meds, but I let it slip that I was Chat Noir. Later, she gave me an out, saying she assumed I was just loopy from the meds but I couldn’t deny it. I had to tell her the truth. She’s one of my best friends, and she’s so trustworthy! I’m so sorry Ladybug...I just...it just came out...” He trembled as a tear rolled down his cheek. “I don’t regret it. But...I know I have to give up my ring. I’m...I’m so sorry.” He covered his face with his hand. “I wanted to be there for you while you were the guardian, but I already blew it. I’m such a mess...” 

Ladybug wrapped an arm around him and pulled him into a side hug. “Chat, I’m not going to take your ring. You’re still my partner, and I want no one else.” 

Chat shuddered and began to cry in earnest, letting out all that he was trying to conceal. 

Ladybug tried not to cry too. After all, there was more talking to be had. She rubbed his back and across his shoulders. 

“Marinette told me everything.” She whispered. 

Chat’s eyes blew wide as he whipped his head to look at her. “No...no no she promised...she promised she wouldn’t tell!” 

“Shh, hey hey, it’s okay.” 

“No! She gave me her word she wouldn’t tell! I told her everything! I trusted her!” The absolute betrayal in his voice broke her, and she found her eyes stinging with tears.

“Chat...she told me it was an accident. She begged me not to take your Miraculous away. She said you needed me. You needed a friend. She was concerned, Chat. She loves you.” 

He hiccuped and sobbed. 

“She told me about your injury, and that you don’t feel safe at home. She told me that you’re still in love with me...and she said she couldn’t ask for a more perfect partner.” 

His haggard breathing stuttered at that. “W-what?” 

“She said your puns are hilarious, just ill timed. Your fighting skills are second to none. And that despite all that you go through everyday, Adrien, that you still continue to be an encouraging anchor to her. And most importantly, as the guardian, she says she can not pick a better Chat Noir.” 

He swallowed harshly. “My...my lady?” 

“Yes kitty.” 

“Marinette?” 

She nodded. “I didn’t break my promise. Mums the word.” 

The next moment, Ladybug was on her back, as Chat had thrown himself at her, his arms tightly wound around her. “My lady!” He sobbed. “My beautiful lady!” 

Ladybug just patted his head and pressed a warm kiss to his forehead. “Yes kitty. I’m here. I’m here and you’re safe. I’ll keep you safe.” 

“I knew it was you.” He breathed. He leaned away to look down at her, affection pouring from his eyes. “I don’t know how, but my heart knew. You wonderful girl. I wouldn’t want anyone else.” 

“Chat...” 

“I love you, Marinette. You’re everything I ever wanted.” 

Her face burned as a few happy tears leaked out. “I love you so much Adrien...but...” 

“But?” He asked, voice small. 

“Don’t put me on a pedestal. I’m not perfect.” 

He scoffed. “No one is. But you’re perfect to me.” 

She smiled sadly. “I meant, there’s something else we need to talk about.” 

“What? I get to stay Chat Noir, you love me, you’re the most amazing, kindest, sweetest, trustworthy girl—“ 

“I kept my mouth shut about nearly all your secrets. All but one.” 

He furrowed his eyes. “Wait what? To who? Tikki? She doesn’t count!” 

“No, not Tikki.” Ladybug pushed off the ground so they could sit and talk again. “Listen. Chloe cornered me when I came back to school. She already had a hunch, but...I confirmed the truth about your nose.” 

Chat didn’t respond, just stared at her. 

“I’m sorry. I know that was the thing you specifically told me not to tell about, but...it’s just not right, Adrien. This is wrong. Like, really really wrong.” 

He frowned at her slightly and turned away. “I kind of figured Chloe had me figured out. She’s seen her mom get enough rhinoplasties to know what it looks like.” He scratched the back of his head. “But like...just because you’re not used to it doesn’t mean it’s wrong. My dad is just a little more critical of me. That’s our normal.” 

“No no no no no! Bad kitty!” She grabbed his hand tightly. “Never ever, for any reason, is it okay for an adult to force their child to have elective surgery. You said you were scared earlier! Don’t try to justify that behavior!” 

“Well...it’s not great, but he’s my dad and he’s grieving...” 

“Adrien Arthur Alphonso Andrew Absolon Athanese Agreste, you know better than that.” 

Chat gawked at her.

She held his cheeks in her hands and forced him to look at her. “This stopped being a grieving process. It’s abuse.” 

“...I just didn’t want to have an abusive father.” 

“No one does, kitty cat.” She whispered, rubbing her thumb over his cheek, careful not to bump his nose. “But justifying his behavior isn’t going to help. It’s just going to make it worse.”

“I don’t know what to do.” 

Ladybug screwed up her lips. “Chloe and I...may have come up with a horrible idea. I wanted to talk to you about it to workshop it.” 

“Okay. I’m listening.” 

She bit her lip and answered haltingly. “We could...purposefully...botch your nose.” 

He narrowed his eyes. “Botch my nose...? Why would we do that?” 

“If your bandages come off and your nose is ‘worse’ than it was before, your dad will take it out on a doctor that was willing to operate on a minor, and your dad will have to realize it was his fault this happened.” 

“You don’t think he’d suspect me of tampering with it?” 

“Would he? Knowing that it’s your nose on your face that you’d have to live with?” 

“I don’t know...” 

“Like I said, it’s a terrible, awful idea. A huge risk. But it’s all I got right now.” 

Chat frowned, bringing his hand to his chin. As he considered this, his brows twitched and his lips screwed up. Then, his whole face relaxed and a smile slowly overtook it. “The surgeon said it would take a few weeks for it to heal on the surface, but a year or two to heal on the inside before it would be safe to operate on it again. If it’s botched…I could get out of modeling for at least a year.” 

“Is that what you want?”

“To not have to miss class for photoshoots? To not wake up early, or have my free days taken? To have to say no to hangouts? To not have a rigid diet? To not have my flaws pointed out by my father, makeup artists, and photographers? Gee, how will I survive?” 

She smiled a little at that. “I can’t emphasize how dangerous messing with this is. You could have breathing problems, headaches…” 

“With my crippling anxiety and self-doubt, I already have breathing problems.” 

It probably meant it as a joke, since he said it so casually. But there was just so much weight to it that he couldn’t be lying.

“Adrien, do you need to see a therapist?” 

“Eh, probably.”

“Did you see any therapists after your mom disappeared?” 

“No, father said it wasn’t anyone’s business what happened to our family.” 

“Christ on a motorbike…okay, once your nose gets revealed, I want you to act as traumatized as you can and demand that you see a therapist. I really think it’d be good for you. Does that sound fair?”

“Yeah…I think you’re right. It might be weird though…” 

“Sure. But I just want you to be happy, okay?” She rested a hand on his cheek. “I’m asking you to do this not because it’s what I want. I’m asking you to put your mental health first.” 

He shimmied over so he could hold her, and rest his head on her chest. “I believe you. I love you.” 

“I love you too, Adrien.” She whispered, her lips caressing his forehead. “Oh should I say, ‘other boy’?”

He looked up at her. “Really? Me?”

“Since the moment you gave me your umbrella.” 

“Aw Bugaboo! That was the day I fell in love with you too!” 

 For a long time, they stayed just like that. Embraced, safe, content, and basking in the affection they’d been denying for so long. Broken hearts mending, battered souls finding reprieve. 

“So,” Chat began. “How are we going to bust my nose?” 

“Wait, you’re serious?” 

“Unfortunately, it makes a lot of sense.” He pulled away from her, begrudgingly, and stood. “I’ll stand here, and you go to the other end, and then just chuck your yo-yo at my face as hard as you can.” 

“I can’t do that!” 

“It’ll be fine, my lady.” 

“No it won’t! There’s no way to control it! What if I cave your nose in completely!?” 

“You won’t. I have silicone braces in the nostrils. If you shatter the cartilage, it should stay in place. The doctor took cartilage from my rib and rebuilt my nose. We need to break that.” 

“Or just dislodge it.” She suggested. “Wait, I’ll try for a clean snap in the middle.”

“You can try,” he chuckled. 

Ladybug hopped to her feet and took her place a good twenty feet away. 

“I’m going to close my eyes. Don’t tell me when you’re throwing it so I won’t flinch.” 

“Okay!” 

Then silence. 

He waited with bated breath, flexing his fingers. 

Then there was a whistle and he turned his face reflexively, taking the impact to the side of his nose. 

CRUNCH

And he hit the ground. 

“Chat!” Ladybug rushed over to him. 

He gave her a weak thumbs up. 

“I’m so sorry! That looked so painful!” 

“You held back.” He teased. 

“Because I didn’t want to kill you! I know it was my idea, but that was terrible!” 

The bandages under his nose were nearly soaked with blood already. “It didn’t hurt that badly…” 

“Let’s take you home and redress your nose. Okay kitty?” 

“Only if you do it for me, My Lady.” 

“What do I look like, a nurse?” 

“No, but you are the one that broke my nose.” 

“Oh great. Now you’re going to lord that over me?” 

“Always, my darling bug.” 

—

Back at Adrien’s room, he dropped his transformation and turned to look at Ladybug. 

“What’s with that look?” 

“I just…it’s one thing to hear it, and another to see it.” She also dropped her mask. 

“Oh…I see what you mean. Despite the pain in my nose, I’m just…really happy to see it’s you.” 

Smiling gently, Marinette took his hand and guided him into the bathroom. “I’d say we’re pretty lucky.” 

“Well, I hit the jackpot.” He joked. “I think you just got the consolation prize.” 

“Nonsense. You’re the perfect trophy husband.” She reached up and gently removed the tape holding the bandage in place, and then eased it off. 

Adrien watched her reaction, his heartbeat quickening when her eyes widened in horror and her jaw dropped. 

“Is it bad?” 

She nodded. “Can you breathe okay?” 

“It’s hard with the splints, but it doesn’t feel any different from before.” 

“Okay. Well, that’s...good? Um..go ahead and look.” 

Adrien turned to face the mirror, and tears sprang to his eyes. His face, his nose, what he was familiar with, was wrong. The bridge was broken, and very visibly bent like a parenthesis mark. No doubt about it, the surgery was botched. 

But he wasn’t expecting to be so startled by it. 

Marinette’s arms wrapped around him from behind. “It’s okay kitty. It’s alright.” 

Adrien nodded, his nose throbbing. “I should probably redress it.” 

“Do you want help?”

“It’s alright my lady, I’ve been doing this all weekend.” 

Very gently, she turned his face toward her. Then she kissed the corner of his lips to avoid bumping his nose. “Roman statue, Pinocchio, Jimmy Durante, no matter what your nose looks like, it’s perfect to me, and to Nino and Chloe and all of your friends. Because it’s yours.” 

He embraced her, leaning his cheek on top of her head. “Thank you, Marinette. That means a lot to me.” 

“Of course kitty. Anything for you.”

There was no talk of what came next for them. Adrien redressed his wounds and took some pain medication. Then Marinette tucked him into bed before transforming and going home to sleep herself. 

—

The bruising was even worse the next day. He looked like he got stung by a bee, he was so swollen. 

“Dude...” Nino whistled lowly. 

But Adrien ignored him in favor of Marinette’s shoulder. He snuck up from behind and dropped his chin on her, embracing her around the waist at the same time. 

“Oh! Adrien!” She squeaked, unprepared for the hug. “How do you feel today?” 

“Like Ladybug hit me with her yo-yo.” 

Marinette chuckled despite herself. “I’m sure she’d never do a thing like that. She’s far too nice, and I think she has a crush on you.” 

“That’s good,” stated Nino, eavesdropping. “Adrien’s got a mongo crush on her too.” 

“Hugh Mongo?” 

“Hugmongus Dungous.” 

Alya was alert the second Adrien dropped his chin on Marinette. “Okay, well for someone crushing on Ladybug and dating Kagami, you’re certainly chummy with Marinette.” 

“Kagami and I aren’t dating. We never did. And Ladybug is better off with Chat Noir.” 

Marinette patted his hands in mock consolation. 

“That still doesn’t explain why you’ve decided to use Marinette as a pillow.” 

“She let me crash on her couch yesterday at lunch. After she left, I found her diary and read the whole thing. I found out all about her gigantic crush on me.” 

Nino let out a violent sigh of relief. “You mean we don’t have to hide it anymore?! Finally!! Dude, it was getting so embarrassing!”

“Completely unbearable!” Agreed Alya.  “Did you see the calendar?” 

“Calendar?” 

“Alya...” Marinette warned, her face turning red. 

“Yeah! She has your whole schedule written out! It’s adorable!” Then she added under her breath, “and borderline creepy.” 

Adrien hummed and hugged Marinette a little tighter. “That’s nice. You’ll have to share that with me. I’m so bad at time management.”

Chloe had been listening for a while as well, but decided that this was a good time to interrupt. “Adrikins? Can I borrow Marinette for a moment please?” Her voice was so sickeningly sweet, as if she were asking daddy for a pony. 

Adrien sighed and released Marinette. “Be nice,” he warned. 

“Of course!” She beamed, before grabbing Marinette’s wrist and hauling her off to a corner of the courtyard again. “You two are awfully close this morning! What gives?” 

“Well...last night he called me and we had a good talk. Then I told him of the idea we had. He wasn’t thrilled initially, but the more he thought about it, the more he came around. He eventually agreed.” 

“And then?” 

“And then I went to sit on my balcony, and saw Ladybug and Chat Noir patrolling. So I flagged them down and told them the whole sad story. As Adrien told me, they showed up at his house and Ladybug broke his nose with her yo-yo.”

Chloe screwed up her face. “Ladybug, Huh?” 

It was obvious she was still having some reservations of the hero ever since Miracle Queen. Maybe Marinette shouldn’t have mentioned Ladybug in the first place. 

“Did she mention me at all?” Chloé asked. 

“I said you and I came up with the idea to botch Adrien’s surgery. She kind of laughed and said we were crazy, but she respected how much we both cared for Adrien.” 

“She didn’t say she was disappointed with me?” 

“No, should she?” After all, Marinette wasn’t supposed to know about Miracle Queen. 

Chloe was quiet then shrugged. “Maybe. Not your business though.” 

“That’s fair.” Marinette amended. 

“So she broke his nose?” 

“Yeah. But she said we’re not allowed to tell people she’s responsible for it. Adrien doesn’t even want people to know it was a nose job.” 

“Here’s a bit of inside information from the world of the rich and famous. No one ever wants people to know they’ve gotten a rhinoplasty. If they have surgery, they disappear until it’s healed. Then they emerge and all the rich and famous friends so “oh wow, did you get a haircut?” But never, never, is it talked about with men. You see?” 

“Huh. So if anyone notices he has a crooked nose?” 

“Gabriel will probably make up a story about him being in an accident, to drive up the tragedy.” 

“He’s a real piece of work.” 

“That is something we can agree on.” 

—

Adrien stayed until lunch again, before going to crash on Marinette’s bed. The next day was much the same, and the day after that. By Friday, the swelling had gone down significantly. 

“I’m not going to have to crash at your place today, My Lady.” Adrien said by way of greeting. 

“Oh, do you feel better now?” 

“No, I have an appointment at lunch. One week post op. Fingers crossed.” 

“Let me know how it goes, okay?” 

“Absolutely!” 

And so at lunch, he pressed a kiss to her cheek and left with his driver. 

It was less than an hour later when her phone buzzed with a message from Adrien. 

Adrien: going in. I’m about to destroy this man’s whole career

She burst out laughing, startling Alya and Nino who were eating lunch with her at her house. 

About 15 minutes after that, her phone dinged again. 

Adrien: where are you?

Marinette: At my house. Lunch is almost over. Why?

Adrien: we’re going to a different doctor and I need an ‘emotional support friend’ with me. Can we pick you up?

Marinette: Absolutely! I’ll be right down!

Marinette explained the situation to her parents, Alya, and Nino, and prepared to meet the sedan outside the bakery. 

The car pulled up and she wasted no time getting inside and sliding right in beside Adrien. 

“I apologize for asking you along on such short notice, Miss Dupain-Cheng.” Said Gabriel from the passenger seat. “The reveal of Adrien’s nose was understandably quite upsetting to him. It appears the doctor who did the first corrective surgery did so poorly, and Adrien’s nose is ruined. We will be going to a new doctor to see what our options are. He’s requested someone come along to comfort him. I don’t blame him, I’m extremely upset myself.” 

Marinette turned her attention to Adrien, seeing his eyes red from tears. He may have gotten actually emotional, or just from watching his father get angry. 

“I understand, Mr. Agreste. It’s really no problem. I want the best for Adrien.”

“You’re an artist with a keen eye. His nose is clearly crooked, right? That foolish quack had the audacity to say that it was fine! Swelling he said!” 

Marinette turned Adrien’s face toward her to get a better look.

His nose was even worse, if that was possible. It might have been swelling, but no doubt about it, the bridge was pointing left. 

“It’s...it’s a little off...” she said sheepishly. 

Boy, she did a number on him. 

Adrien simply took her hand and squeezed. 

Soon they arrived at the new doctor’s office. A plastic surgeon, specializing in rhinoplasty. The office was emasculate, marble flooring, chandeliers, it looked more like a hotel than a doctor's office. 

Gabriel strode right up to the front desk. “Gabriel Agreste. I called a little bit ago about an emergency consultation with Dr. Nosestiff for my son.”

Adrien and Marinette looked at each other. Nosestiff? There’s no way that was a real person. 

“Of course. He was able to squeeze you in. He’ll be with you in a moment. Please take a seat.” 

They sat down in the empty waiting room, Gabriel tapping his foot impatiently. 

“I hope that the other doctor loses his license.” Said Gabriel, to no one in particular. “It was supposed to be a simple surgery. That’s what he promised. I paid 100,000 euros for my son to look like a boxer. Unbelievable.” 

Adrien had not yet let go of Marinette’s hand, and he trembled at his father’s anger. 

Marinette rubbed a hand down his arm soothingly. “It’s going to be alright.” She whispered. 

“Alright? Alright?!” Gabriel barked at her. “No it’s not alright! Adrien’s future as a model is ruined! That’s not alright! And all because—“ he stopped and hung his head. 

All because of me. Is what he didn’t say. 

“Agreste?” Called the nurse. 

The group was led back to an examination room where two doctors were waiting. Adrien was urged into a chair. 

“Hello, I’m Doctor Nosestiff, and yes, that is my real name.” He shook everyone’s hands. “This is my colleague Dr. Zasio.” 

“Gabriel Agreste. This is my son Adrien, and his friend Marinette.” 

“From what I heard on the phone, Adrien has had...an accident?” 

“As you can see,” Gabriel gestured to his face. “The doctor was supposed to be performing a rhinoplasty, but instead decided to turn my son into a rhino!” 

Adrien turned his face from side to side. 

“Yes, that is a severe complication. He still has a lot of bruising and swelling, did you just come from the other doctor?” 

“The one week follow up, yes.” 

“What doctor did you go to? Was it a plastic surgeon?”

“Yes, a cosmetic surgeon.”

“Well, a cosmetic surgeon and plastic surgeon are not the same thing. Cosmetics can do lip fillers, Botox, and rhinoplasties, but they should not be doing septoplasties, which obviously happened to Adrien. Rhinoplasty is surface level. Nostrils and the tip. But a septoplasty deals with the septum and the bridge. That doctor shouldn’t have even touched Adrien’s bridge.” 

“He said his cartilage had been shattered and that it needed to be rebuilt.” 

“Again, not in his area of expertise. Adrien, did you have some sort of face trauma?”

“Uh—“ Adrien started, but Gabriel interrupted. 

“No. It must have happened when he was born. Adrien hasn’t even been in any situations where he could get hit in the face.”

The doctor frowned at this. 

Dr. Zasio spoke up. “What was the goal of the first surgery? Surely you didn’t know about the shattered cartilage?”

“Adrien developed a bump on his nose that was unsightly and uneven. Here’s a photo from his last photoshoot.” He handed over his phone. 

The doctors both stared at it in shock. “Oh my god!” Exclaimed Dr. Nosestiff. 

“See? It’s quite distracting—“ 

“That’s a perfect nose! Absolutely gorgeous! People would pay millions of euros for this nose! Why on Earth did you want to change it?”

“I uh…” Started Adrien, yet again, Gabriel interrupted. 

“This bump, right here.” He pointed to the screen. 

Dr. Nosestiff pinched his own nose and frowned at Gabriel. “Look Mr. Agreste. I’m going to have to ask you to sit in the waiting room.” 

“Excuse me?”

“It's obvious that you’re upset about this, rightfully so. But I need to speak to Adrien, and you haven’t let him have a word edgewise. I think you might be a little hysterical right now.” 

No, that’s just how he always is, Adrien thought.

Gabriel balled up his fists and jutted out his jaw, the impending explosion gaining pressure. But instead he huffed and raised his chin. “Fine. I will go wait out in the lobby.” He snapped, and walked out.

Dr. Nosestiff exhaled once he left. “Wow.” 

Adrien and Marinette exhaled too.

“So what’s really going on?” asked Dr. Zasio. “I’ve seen your ads. They’re everywhere. I’ve had patients bring in your picture asking for your nose. What gives man?”

Adrien swallowed. “I didn’t want surgery. I liked my nose. I didn’t know there was anything wrong with it.”

The two doctors sighed dejectedly. “Disgusting. your father put you up to this?”

“Yes.” He confessed, sheepishly. 

“What did the doctor say to you at your consultation? Did he ask what you thought?”

“I never talked to the doctor before the surgery. I was pulled out of class without warning, driven to the operating room, and put to sleep. When I woke up, my face was totally swollen, and the nurse said I was ‘all better.’” 

“Yeah, all better,” scoffed Dr. Zasio. “Who was this doctor? Picasso? No one should operate on a minor unless it’s an emergency. You weren’t having any difficulty breathing, were you?” 

“No.” 

“Thought so. Well, he messed you up real good.” 

“Um,” Marinette spoke up for the first time. “There’s something else you should know.” 

They both looked at her, listening. 

“Adrien confessed to me what happened, and we…well, I had…a really terrible idea.” 

“Which was…?”

“I’m the one that screwed up his nose. I hit him. We purposefully botched the surgery to make Gabriel feel guilty.”

Dr. Zasio buried his face in his hands as Dr. Nosestiff just stared. 

After a long beat of silence, Dr. Zasio finally just chuckled. “I mean…I guess you accomplished your goal? Waste his money, and make him live with the fact that his risk put Adrien in jeopardy. Honestly, it’s better that you did that this time instead of seven surgeries down the line when he starts to look like a ken doll.”

“What you did was extremely stupid and risky.” Scolded Dr. Nosestiff. “But, it was clever. This isn’t the first time a narcissistic parent has forced cosmetic surgery on a child. But I have a feeling it will be the last for Adrien.”  

Adrien smiled a little at that. 

“Now, let’s talk about fixing that nose. How’s your breathing?” 

“It doesn’t feel any worse than before.” 

Dr. Nosestiff tilted his chin up and shined a line in his nasal cavity. He poked and prodded with a long q-tip. Then he gently felt the bridge of his nose. 

Adrien winced. 

“That hurt?”

“Yeah.” 

“Still broken, of course. I’m actually optimistic about this. The skin of your nose is thick, so breaking the cartilage and resetting it should solve most of the problems. If the other doctor had to reconstruct it, that probably means he took out all the old cartilage to begin with. Now, the golden question: Are you planning on continuing whatever activity it is that shattered the cartilage in the first place?”

Adrien and Marinette shared a look. 

“I kind of have too.” 

“Okay. Well, try to be a little more careful?”

“I’ve been telling him that for a while.” Teased Marinette.

Adrien just fondly rolled his eyes. 

“Now for the news that’s going to make your dad really mad. I don’t operate on minors without due cause. Since you can breathe fine, I don’t see a need to get you in here as soon as possible. How old are you?”

“I just turned sixteen.” 

“Perfect. In two years, come back, and we’ll fix this. I’ll tell your father too. You need to fully heal before any more surgery happens. If anyone goes digging in there, the risky for a horrible, life threatening complication goes up. Gabriel Agreste will just have to deal with having an attractive son with a slightly bent nose, over having a son with no nose.” 

Gabriel was brought back into the examination room to hear all this himself while Marinette and Adrien waited in the lobby. 

Adrien just sat with a fond smile on his face. “You know what? I’m also okay with a slightly crooked nose.” 

“I think it’s cute.” 

“I think you’re cute.” 

She stuck her tongue out at him. “Hey, I was thinking…next weekend, if you’re feeling better, do you want to go on a date with me? Maybe get some ice cream?” 

“Oh my lady, I’d love to…but I have to check my schedule. I might have a photoshoot—JUST KIDDING I’M FREE!” 

#miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #adrinette #ladynoir #chat noir #ladybug #gabriel agreste #identity reveal

[slytherindisaster]

NOT A DATE

I’ve been in a very soft mood for these two for a while now (I mean I’m sure everybody’s already noticed lmao), so enjoy this little winter-y kinda fluff featuring Roxariel (and some other folks). Also one of the dialogue lines was heavily inspired by this.

Roxie belongs to @weasleysandwheezes, Danny belongs to @catohphm, the Gryffindorks (who are mentioned) belongs to @unfortunate-arrow, @cursebreakerfarrier and @words-and-wands.

Word Count: 3,887

Wednesday, 18.15

Hogwarts’ Library

But I believe in Love

And I know that you do too

And I believe in some kind of path

That we can walk down, me and you

-

Someone snapped their fingers right in front of Gabriel’s face.

“Are you even listening to a word I’m saying?”

Gabriel slightly lifted his head and looked at the boy in Ravenclaw robes. He was sitting at the opposite part of the table and was surrounded by a large amount of books.

“Where had you go?” he asked, eyeing him suspiciously. Gabriel was zooming into his own world again and this time Danny was having none of it.

“I think I’m gonna ask her out” mumbled Gabriel, still looking somewhere beyond the reality he was currently in.

“Who? Elladora Ketteridge?” Danny asked snarkily.

“What?” Gabriel looked at him in confusion as if he finally realised, that not only there’s someone sitting in front of him, but that he’s also asking him questions “What are you talking about, mate?”

“Elladora Ketteridge” Danny repeated, extremely calmly. “The one we have to write an essay about? The essay we need to submit by tommorow morning?” his left eyebrow risen up “Does it ring any bells to you?”

Gabriel looked around at his surroundings, noticing that while the parchment laying in front of him was nearly empty, Danny’s were quite the opposite.

“Yeah, forget it” he waved his hand dismissively and closed the nearest book. “I’m going to ask out Haley.”

“That’s what you’ve been thinking about this whole time?”

“Yeah?” he shrugged.

“When are you going to give up eventually?”

“What do you mean give up?” Gabriel looked at him triggered “I thought you out of all people would be supportive! You basically bullied me into having feelings for her, with all your admit that you like her already bull-crap talks!” he said imitating his friend’s voice.

“I do not sound like that.” said Danny but he couldn’t help but laugh.

“Whatever, my point is — you succeeded. I do like her and now I’m going to take her on a date, because it’s a Hogsmeade weekend, for Gordic’s sake!”

With each word he was speaking louder, which eventually catched the attention of the librarian.

“Mr Sapieha!” she scolded him.

“I am incredibly sorry m’am.” he answered immediately, as if he knew it was going to happen.

Danny sighed.

“You’re aware that she must agree to it first, right?”

“Oh, she will” said Gabriel with the amount of confidence as if she already did.

“Right, just like all those times before?” his friend rolled his eyes with a slight smile.

“Look, she will go out with me this time. I mean, let’s be honest — for how long you can resist this pretty face?” he gestured at himself.

“I don’t know, why don’t you ask her yourself?” Danny pointed the quill he had in his hand at the library door, that just opened.

Gabriel turned around and leaned back in his chair, trying to get a better look.

“Haley!” he called out.

This time the librarian just glanced at him angrily.

“Right, my bad. I apologise” he said and sent her a charming grin.

Roxanne Haley, who just stepped into the library, was a girl that possesed both incredible wit and the privilege to call herself definitely more than pretty. That blond-haired Ravenclaw were — in Gabriel’s eyes — practically a perfect match for him. The only minor obstacle for them living happily ever after were the fact that she seemed to have a deep aversion towards him. And she wasn’t shy to show it.

Not that he was actually bothered by it.

Roxie crossed the whole library looking like she knew exactly what she needed to do and how much time it’s going to take her. Gabriel could sewar that this girl even sneezed only when she planned it before.

“Hello Roxie” said Danny when she stumbled past them.

She paused at the sound of her name and took two steps backwards. She smiled when she saw that it was Danny who called her.

“Oh hi! I’m sorry I didn’t see you there, I’m kinda busy actually” she said in one breath “I need to finish all the assignments for the week if I want to have the time do go to Hogsmeade this weekend.”

“Let me guess, you’re all out of quills already?” asked Danny in a tone that implied he knew the answer already.

“If only of quills!” she laughed and turned her head slightly to see that there’s another person listening to this conversation. Her laughter immediately died out. “Sapieha.” she said acknowledging his presence.

“Haley.” he responded with a playful wink. “Fancy to join us?” he asked, still leaning back in his chair, trying to look nonchalant.

“Are you daft? Why would I want to willingly spend time with you?” her brows furrowed as she spoke. “Besides, I was just saying that I am busy.”

“Come on!” he groaned “You can admit that you enjoy our study sessions.”

She blinked couple of times, as if she didn’t quite catch what he said to her.

“Danny and I have study sessions. You just so happen to be there everytime, just to annoy the shi—“ she cleared her throat. “To annoy me.”

“Well if you’re really so bothered by me why do you keep showing up?”

“Because I’m friends with Danny, genius!”

“Well he’s my friend too” he put his hands up in defensive gesture “so, it looks like we’re stuck together!”

“Mister Sapieha, Miss Haley, for the last time—“

Roxie opened her mouth to apologize, but Gabriel was faster. He put his chair back on it’s four legs and turned around to look at the visibly irritated woman.

“I am so sorry m’am, It’s utterly my fault” he said with a sheepish smile on his face, looking right at her “What about I stay around to clean this place up after you close? You really deserve some time off, after putting up with all of us all day m’am.”

The woman’s expression softened a little.

“Or you can just keep quiet from now on?” she said but this time there wasn’t any anger in her voice.

“Of course!” he said loudly “I mean— from now on.”

He turned back to his table, only to see Danny looking at him with disapproval.

“You need to stop doing this.” he said.

“Doing what exactly?” asked Gabriel, trying to appear clueless.

“You know what.”

“Okay first of all —“ he began, leaning back into his chair again. “it’s not like I can control it completely. Sometimes it just... happens naturally. Second of all— I’ll remind you about this conversation next time you will need something from the restricted setcion” he gave him a knowing look and the he turned Roxie. “Haley, you were saying?”

“Do I— do I want to know what was this about?”

“I have a better question” said Gabriel, grinning “Do you want to know what we’re doing this weekend?”

“We?”

“Yeah, we” he nodded in agreement “I’m taking you to Hogsmeade.”

“Not in a milion years, Sapieha” she snorted.

“You said you were going to do some shopping anyway, right? You might as well kill two hipogriffs with one stone.” he winked at her again.

“I’m pretty sure that’s not how the saying goes...” she rolled her eyes.

“Actually we can all go together” Danny swooped into their conversation “I need to take care of some stuff there too.”

Roxie sighed heavily, and shoot Danny a disappointed look.

“Please, tell me you’re kidding.”

“Quite the opposite actually” he chuckled “It’s simple, I like to spend time with both of you” he shrugged. “Please, don’t let me ask you twice, Roxie.”

Roxie took a deep breath, reviewing her options. She looked at her friend after a while, visibly tired.

“Fine. Don’t make me regret this Danny.” she said and walked away, leaving them alone.

Gabriel glanced at his friend annoyed as soon as she left.

“What? What did I do this time?”

-

Saturday, 12.45

Outside The Hogwarts Castle

The excited chatter could be heard from a mile away, as always when it came to Hogsmeade weekends. Hogwarts students were all around the place, not even bothered by the cold whether of late December.

Gabriel was looking around the courtyard, now filled with the school’s carriges with no carters, trying to find his friend. Although he and Danny didn’t really established where they’re supposed to meet, Gabriel was hoping to see him sowhere between the groups of other students, trying to get nice spots for the road.

Finally he spotted a familiar streaks of blonde hair, blowing in the wind, which of course haven’t belong to the person he intended to find, but nevertheless the search turned out to be a success. The girl he was watching, just walked towards one of the carriges that were left on the side of the courtyard, as if she was sure that it’s empty.

“Oi, Haley!” Gabriel yelled and jogged up in her direction. She pretended not to see him and tried to quickly close the carrige door, but he managed to catch it just in time. “Hey, where’s Danny-boy?” he asked, catching his breath, when he noticed that she was the only one inside.

“He said that he’s feeling sick and isn’t coming” she said casually, although her expression looked like she was holding back a couple of curse words.

Oh, he did, didn’t he? Gabriel thought to himself. This sneaky bastard! And just when I started to doubt him.

“Although I think it’s pretty weird, because he seemed perfectly fine when I saw him at breakfast today!” Roxie continued to rant, as Gabriel tried to swallow a cheeky smile that was crawling up on his face.

He slowly climbed the carrige steps.

“So...” He said as he sat himself at the couch across from her. “Looks like it’s just you and me then” he stated and closed the door.

“What?” she looked at him shocked. “Oh, not a chance, Sapieha, you’re walking out of this carrige right—”

They both felt a small bump and the carrige started to move slowly. This time Gabriel couldn’t help but smile.

“You were saying?” he asked, with a shit-eating grin on his face.

“We’re parting ways, as soon as we walk out of this carrige.” she said in a cold voice, looking outside the window, at the road.

“Oh, come on, Haley!” he groaned “Let me take you on a date. Just one date, that’s all I’m asking for!”

“Not in this life. Or any other for that matters.”

“Why not?”

“Because” she said, finally turning to him, the look of her eyes seemed to be way colder than all the snow laying outside the road. “I have utterly no interest in you whatsoever, and even if I did, which is impossible and not going to happen, I do not have time for this kind of stuff.”

“Ouch” he laughed putting a hand on his chest, in a place when his heart was “that’s pretty harsh, even for you, Haley.”

“Ugh, grow up.” she rolled her eyes and returned to looking out the window.

“Okay, no dates then. But let me just tag along while you’ll do your chores. I mean we were supposed to spent this time together anyway, remember?” He changed his tactic. “Also I have nothing to do there anyway, all my friends stayed in the castle.”

“I’m pretty sure I saw the Ellison boy, along with the others — how do you keep calling yourselves? Massive dorks? — outside the castle, betting if they can spent the whole ride to Hogsmeade at the roof of the carrige.”

“Gryffindorks” he corrected her “And it could be anyone, really” he said, scratching the back of his head.

“They were yelling to you, about why aren’t you coming” she raised her eyebrows in a pretentious manner.

“I— I’ve never seen those guys in my life before” he said in full seriousness.

“Whatever.” she said rolling her eyes again, but he could swore he saw a shadow of a smile passing by on her face.

“So, how’s it gonna be?”

“Why would I even want for you to come with me anyway?” Roxie asked, looking genuinely curious.

“Um, besides the fact that you can enjoy the company of yours truly?” he teased, but the look on her face made him quickly regret that sentence. “I’ll carry your stuff or something.” he srugged.

She remained silent, thinking intensively about an answer, and it looked like she was searching for any reason why she would agree on it. After what felt like forever she finally announced:

“Fine.”

-

17.26

Hogsmeade Village

Roxie stepped out from another shop with, yet another paper bag full of school supplies. She went trough the list she made in her head and checked if there is any place she forgot to visit. When she finally established that she was, in fact, done with shopping, she realised that something was missing. Or rather someone. And as she would normally be pleased to be finally left alone, he had all her stuff with him.

“I’m sorry, were you waiting for long?”

She turned around and was more than relieved when she saw that he was still holding her bags as she left them. To her own surprise she was actually kinda glad that he was back at all, and the stuff he was carring had nothing to do with it.

She quickly shook her head, trying to repress those thoughts.

“Where were you?”

“Why, you missed me?” he smiled cheekily but her face remained unimpressed. “Uh, I got kinda hungry so I stepped into Honeydukes, while you were shopping for quills at Scrivenshaft’s.”

“You got hungry, so you went to buy some sweets?”

“Um, yeah? Oh, right” he digged into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a small blue box. “Here.”

“Wha—“

“I wasn’t sure if you preferred the regular frogs or the white chocolate ones, so I bought both” he said as he handed her the box “...but then I kinda ate the white chocolate one, so, I hope you like the regular ones.”

They both started to walk slowly, although neither had the idea where they were heading now. The freshly fallen snow was creaking under their boots.

“Right. Thank you, I guess?”

“Just take the frog” he said, tucking his hands into the pockets of his coat.

“Fine.” she shrugged and stared to open it but then she suddenly stopped. “Wait— how do I know that you didn’t fill it out with some love potion or something?”

Gabriel’s smile disappeared. He furrowed his brows and said with all seriousness:

“I feel deeply offended by that, Haley. Merlin, I know you don’t think very highly of me, but a love potion? Seriously?”

Her already rosy cheeks, slowly turned into a shade of red.

“How could I know? You’re kind of a wild card, aren’t you?” she said defensively.

“Well, do you really think I need such thing as a love potion? Have you seen me?” he laughed suddenly, his expression softened.

“First of all, how can one person be this full of oneself?” she asked snarkily.

“Haley, I am just messing with you—”

“Second of all” she continued, ignoring him. “I rather be safe than sorry. Just because you’re handsome doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of something like this!”

Gabriel slowed down a little, processing what she just said.

“So, you think I’m handsome, huh?”

“That’s— that’s not even near the point I was trying to make! Is this all you got from my words?”

“Well, do you?”

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself down. A little cloud of steam escaped her mouth when she exhaled.

“Just for the record — yes. I think you kind of fit into the conventionally attractive category. Although I am positive, that the simple fact of you having Veela genes heavily influenced this opinion.”

He looked at her in full suspicion, his brow furrowed again.

“Wait, how do you even know about that?” he looked her up and down, but her expression, as always, wasn’t telling him anything. “I thought it weren’t a public knowledge? Don’t get me wrong, I am not ashamed of it, just— I’m not going around the school telling that stuff to everybody I meet.”

“I just always do my research well.” she said casually, not looking at him.

“Research? You were doing research on me?”

“I— I like to know the enemy well enough!” she tried to explain, but in result she buried herself even deeper.

“Merlin, are you even hearing yourself right now? Haley, I hate to be the one breaking the news for you, but you’re totally obsessed with me!” he laughed, noticing that her cheeks got even more red.

“That’s not what—”

“I mean, not that I mind” he shrugged his shoulders.

They walked in silence for a some time. Roxie’s face went back to her normal color or, at least, as normal as one can be during a winter afternoon. She looked at him from the side, shaking her head, but her lips were curled into a small smile.

“You’re a weird one, Sapieha” she said after a while.

“Hey, look who’s talking. Do you have, like, a file on me or something?”

“You’re still onto that? I’ve told you — it’s not like that!”

“What’s it like then?” he asked, looking genuinely interested. “How do you know about me being a quarter-Veela?”

She sighed heavily, before answering.

“I think Danny mentioned it to me at some point.”

“Oh, so now you’re saying that you’ve been talking about me with Danny? That’s interesting.” The shit-eating grin once again crawled back onto his face.

“Don’t start it—!”

“No, no— I’m quite flattered actually.” he said quickly, cutting her off. “You see, I’m always interrogating my friends about the people that I deeply despise too.”

“Yeah, right” she laughed, rolling her eyes.

“It’s true, though. That’s how I know that you’re a Capricorn for example.”

“What?”

“Yeah, I mean, I guess that makes perfect sense given that you’re willing to give up basically everything just to be at the top of the class.” he chuckled to himself “I should probbably been able to figure it out myself. Feel kinda stupid now, honestly. Although I still have no idea what’s your rising sign, or moon for that matters—”

Gabriel finally spotted her confused look. A cold wave of embarrassment went down his spine. His confidence melted almost as fast as the snowflakes falling onto his head.

“It’s just— kind of my thing, you know? Or I like to think that it is. Astrology, I mean.”

With the corner of his eye he noticed that she shivered a little. Seeing it as the perfect opportunity to drift the unwanted attention away from his stupid babbling, he took off the scarf, that was hanging loosely around his neck.

“Here.”

He overtook slightly and stopped right in front of her, forcing her to do the same. Before she got a chance to protest, he carefully wrapped the scarf around her neck.

“Shut it, Haley, will you? I can see that you’re cold.”

“It’s— Actually it’s surprisingly thoughtful of you” she said, with an expression he couldn’t quite read.

“What? I can be a gentleman!” he angrily tucked his hands back into his pockets.

She started to laugh at his frustrated reaction.

“No, I mean— It’s seems weird that you’re so concerned about me being cold, while you are the one walking around in an unbuttoned coat” she said as she grabbed the flaps of his coat, pulling him a little closer.

“Well I just—” he swallowed the words he wanted to say. Instead he just looked as she started doing up the buttons.

“Done” she said after a couple of seconds but, to both his and her surprise, she didn’t take a step back.

“Perfect” he murmured as a thank you, although he haven’t took a single glance at his coat. He was looking at her instead.

She lifted her head a little and finally locked her eyes with his. He was sure that somehow she got even closer, though he wasn’t really confident if it was her who moved or if he did it himself. They stayed like this, caught up in the moment, for a little while. Then, Gabriel managed to gather all the courage he had left in him, and just as he leaned in to cut the distance between their lips—

SMACK

— something hard hit him in the back of his head, and almost immediately shattered in pieces.

“Ha! You missed!”

He turned around, his eyes glowing with anger. Two third years freezed with the laughter on their faces. The one standing farther realised that the snowball he send seconds ago didn’t miss after all.

“Oi! Watch out you two!” Gabriel yelled in their direction, annoyed.

“Sorry! I didn’t mean to!” the one who hit him yelled back.

“Well, I sure hope you didn’t, mate!” Unexpectedly, a chuckle escaped Gabriel’s mouth. “Otherwise I would have to challenge you to a snowball fight. And let me tell you, I’m incredibly good!”

The boys both smiled with relief, when they realised that he wasn’t mad. Or at least he didn’t sound like he was.

“Right, I can’t imagine the defeat I would face from your hands!” the boy said cheerfully, the other one started to laugh.

“Yeah, you never know when you accidentally hit a snowball fight champion!” Gabriel laughed with them “So try to be more careful next time, will you?”

“Sure thing!”

Gabriel nodded towards the opposite side of the street with a playful smirk.

“Now, get outta here!”

The two third years ran off with laughter trailing their way.

Gabriel turned back to Roxanne, only to find her standing at much bigger distance than she was before. Despite that though, he was able to notice that she was heavily blushing, and again it wasn’t because of the low temperature.

“Remind me to never challenge you to a snowball fight, Mr. Champion” she said with laughter.

“Hey, I am really good at it, okay?” he pretended to be offended. “Although I must admit that he had a good hand too, it hit me pretty hard” he said, rubbing the back of his head.

“Baby.”

“Well aren’t you moving fast, Haley. Are we in the pet names stage, already?”

“What? No. I was insulting you!”

“Could’ve fooled me” he sent her a playful smile.

“Shut up” she shoved his shoulder, but a small smile was present on her face.

“You’re the one who started it.”

She rolled her eyes and begin to walk again.

“Come on, move it, Sapieha!” she called, without looking at him.

“Wait, where are we going now?” he asked trying to catch up with her.

“The Three Broomsticks are just around the corner” she said over her shoulder. “I think I might let you buy me a Butterbeer.”

A wide grin appeared on his face.

“Are you asking me on a date?”

“Don’t push it.”

“Right” he nodded as he walked up to her side.

He extended his arm to her, and even though Roxie rolled her eyes at first, she tucked her hand under it. They haven’t really talked until they reached the Three Bromsticks, but for some reason, the silence hanging between them wasn’t awkward at all.

Actually, it felt just about right.

-

So keep your candles burning

And make her journey bright and pure

That she will keep returning

Always and evermore

Into my arms

— Nick Cave, Into My Arms

#i mean it’s mostly dialogue bc i can’t describe things for shit #but nevertheless i hope you enjoyed #my sloppy writing #and yes i am sure that the gryffindorks called themselves that in school lmao #i was so fun to write gabriel around roxie #bc he’s just a 180 from his usual grumpy self #and instead just act like a self centred idiot #but like a cute one #and #it’s all just because he’s trying so hard to seem cool #also the song probably isn’t fitting at all #but it has ultimate winter energy for me #and also it’s been in my favourite movie #(i am talking about ‘about time’ if anyone’s inter)ested #hphl #gabriel sapieha #roxie haley #roxariel #gabriel x roxie #writing kisses is cool #but what about ALMOST KISSES? #yup that’s definitely my jam #it got long didn’t it? #other people’s mcs #my writing #my art #hogwarts legacy #not hphm art #hogwarts legacy mc #winter fluff

[5ammi90]

Supernatural rewatch

Season 1 episode 20

Vampires??? Also don’t call the old dude a nut, he is the only one who knows what’s happening. Oh wait isn’t this the dude that has the colt??? I think it is cause he has a journal like Johns. It is the colt. I have a better memory than I thought. She knocked over a whole bookcase, rude. She doesn’t know what the colt can do, huh I thought that’s why they went after him.

Ah dang it, John’s in this one. The joys. Did they keep Elkins journal?? If not why not there was probably a good amount of information in that thing that isn’t in John’s one. Hi John stop being a creeper and go say hi to your children. Oh this is the first time the boys actually take on vampires.

Sam is pissed that John showed up for Elkins but not for Dean dying or any other time they called. The gun is the most important thing to John because all he wants is revenge. John already sick of Sam questioning him. The fact the Dean thought vampires didn’t exist due to John thinking they were extinct is not going. Especially when you realise that the lore on vampires is all wrong. Already berating Dean for not taking care of the car. It explains why later on he does everything to keep the impala in pristine condition. Dean is piggy in the middle between Sam and John. Poor Dean.

I love the kidnapped girl, she is tied up and surrounded by vampires and she still spits beer in his face. Yas bitch. Oh yeah Luther, his whole nest was killed and he’s spent years trying to build a new nest. So Luther is pissed because hunters now know that the vampires are out there, nice work there Kate. Sam now is not the time for fighting. Damn it Sam, the two of you dragging up old history. Poor Dean he just done with the both of them. Luther is smart, he bit people methodically and not all at once to keep themselves hidden, where as every other vampire we see are a bunch of idiots. No John they don’t want to know about the colt. It’s not like Sam’s been asking since you mentioned it. Fucking dumbass. Samuel Colt is a bamf. Yep kill anything except god, Michael, lucifer, Raphael and Gabriel. Someone should have put that on the fine print. John should have mentioned the possibility that the people who were kidnapped might have been turned. Also how can the vampires not smell them. Damn you and your bleeding heart Sam. How deep do these vamps sleep. John has a look on his face that says “my sons are idiots”. I kinda agree with him. That hurt to write.

Sam and John are alone without Dean. Someone get an ambulance on stand by. Oh no wait hang on we’re having a touching moment. Yet Dean gets sweet fuck all. The roles the boy play Sam as Lucifer and Dean as Michael I used to think it was super obvious but watching this episode, the only difference is Sam and Dean would do anything for each other. I love how annoyed Kate (vampire) gets whenever she gets impaled because it ruins her shirt. Luther has obviously not told these new vampires anything.

Nope John is leaving. You still thought one emotional moment meant things would be different. Dang Sam you are naive. I love when Dean talks back to John. It so funny the way John and Sam look at him as if to say “wait a second that’s not your line”. Yes Dean go off, call him out on his bullshit. How did John go from I can’t watch my children die to telling Dean kill Sam if he goes dark side. Like what was he told that made him feel like that.

Vampires are chasing you John. You are in big trouble because Luther is pissed. I mean it’s Kate fault cause she went after Elkins. The glowing eyes on the vampires are very cool when the headlights hit them. Dang John you fail. Was gonna say the boys win then Sam got captured so Dean wins the rest of you suck. You wasted a bullet from the colt on a vampire, seriously John. Also didn’t notice before but the two vampires that get away one of them was the kidnapped girl, how mental is that. John they saved your ass like Dean said (again he’s look at like he’s lost it) so shut up and thank them. Dean looks terrified in the quiet moment when waiting for John to respond. Dang it John’s staying. Nooooooooo.

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#supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #john winchester a+ parenting #john winchester #supernatural rewatch #season 1

[thewalkingdead-imagines]

TWD - Negan Imagine ~ “Stalker”

Imagine about the the 10th episode of season 10.

Summary: While Negan gradually finds out about Beta’s plan for Alexandria and has to cope with the helplessness and fear that the Reader could be in life threatening danger, Alexandria’s residents and the Reader have to deal with the bloodbath Beta causes inside the community.

Alexandria truly couldn’t catch a break. And neither did you. Just moments after you had stepped after your house you’d been called to the gates, first suspecting that another wave of walkers was about to hit Alexandria but instead, it was only one person, one person who was enough to rush another flood of restlessness over the community. Right in these moments, she was standing in front of the gates, the whisperer who had been talking to Aaron, Mary, who was surrounded by guards who pointed their spears at her, ready to act if she only tried anything. But she was all still, maybe a bit nervous as you watched her fumbling on her torn clothes before she moved up to pull the mask off her face and tossed it to the ground. “I'm the one that knows Aaron”, she said, gulping thickly as her eyes switched briefly to the spikes that were pointed at her. “We know who you are”, Gabriel quickly said as you kept on looking at her, watching while she shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot.  “The people you sent out, they're in trouble, trapped in a cave where Alpha has placed her horde. Now, they could still be in there or they might've gotten out... I don't know.” From one moment to another, you could feel yourself an ice-cold shudder washing down your back, flooding your body with tension as you thought of Daryl and the others that could still be trapped in a dark cave, surrounded by uncountable walkers that only waited to get their hold on one of them. “You said the horde was in a field”, Gabriel’s voice cut of your train of thought, preventing for a moment that the toxic and concerned thoughts could bore themselves deeper into you while the woman sighed thickly. “It was.” “Now it's in a cave”, Gabriel nearly snarled, staring down at her as she shifted slightly, nodding as she grew even more uncomfortable. “She moved it.” “The whole thing. Right before they got there”, Gabriel said, spite and nearly some sarcasm sounding through his voice, matching the change in personality you had seen over the last time in him while Mary sighed defeated, looking as if she knew that no one in here would believe her right away. You didn’t neither, even though she seemed sincere...but Dante had seemed sincere the whole time as well.  There was a part of you that wanted to believe that she was actually ratting Alpha out, that she was saying the truth here but you were still too struck by Siddiq’s death and Dante’s betrayal to allow it completely. This could be a sick plan of Alpha after all, who knew, that woman was capable of anything. And you couldn’t miss some signs of some suspicious behavior again, no matter how small it was. You really couldn’t. “I'm just telling you what happened. I'm not sure you are. I'm trying to help”, she said, sighing once more as she stared at Gabriel, almost desperate while Rosita stepped a little closer, eying the women. “Why?” Her voice hushed and silence fell over the place for a moment, while she visibly struggled, her eyes swaying to the ground for a moment as if she needed to collect herself again before she glanced up. “The baby that they left at Hilltop, he's my nephew. And I would do anything to see him again”, she said, and if you hadn’t that bitter aftertaste of Dante’s actions striking through you, you would feel drawn to believe her.  Sure, you would expect Alpha to give her instructions to direct her reason at soft spots, at spots that would elicit empathy and trick someone more into trusting another one than some random reasons, but for some reason she seemed genuine and you didn’t know how to handle that. “Where's the baby's mother?”, Gabriel said, his voice as cold as before while the women grew even more restless and uncomfortable than she already was.  “Dead”, she finally said, her lips quivering slightly as she thickly gulped, her fingers fumbling on the torn clothes that covered her body. Gabriel stayed silent for a moment, only turning to Rosita who nodded softly before he glanced back at the woman. “If I give you a map, can you show us where the cave is?” “Yes”, she said, nodding and with a small gesture of Gabriel, the guards lowered their spears from her body and allowed her to step closer. She was a little reluctant, her eyes starting at you before her glance swayed over the others until she finally stopped at Gabriel and Rosita as she stood before them, waiting for what to come next. And so did you, watching the scene, your head still pumped up with thoughts of if Daryl and the others were fine that mixed up with the thought that if Negan was actually in the whisperer camp, she might know him. But before you could grasp a clear thought, you suddenly saw Rosita lunging towards the woman, her fist meeting her face’s side and knocking her right to the concrete ground. “You're a liar”, Rosita growled, her eyes glaring down at the woman who was wincing, only barely conscious as Rosita gestured towards the guards,”The cell!”

Couple hours had passed since he was back at the camp again and while he had hoped that spending some time alone a little bit off from the skin freaks would help him forget what had happened on the clearing, it honestly hadn’t done anything but give his thoughts space to torture the shit out of him. He’d told himself constantly that (Y/N) would understand that he hadn’t been able to find a way around it, that scaling her “reward” down to a kiss had been all he had been able to do without risking that she suspected something of his real intentions or worse, would directly end his ass because she couldn’t take rejection from a follower. She would understand, he hoped, she knew how goddamn much he loved her and she would know that he would never do shit like that if there had been another way, if there hadn’t been the threat of being exposed or killed.  Still, he was scared shitless to lose her and that feeling only started to nestle itself deeper into him the more time he spend alone. So he was wandering around the camp now, trying to distract himself, trying to tell him that it had at least made her trust him more and got him a step closer to destroying her and the rest of those skin freaks. He couldn’t really do much around the camp except for walking around, collecting some firewood or digging some holes that would be used to cook the meat. Some others were responsible for making new skin suits and he was kinda glad about that, though that didn’t keep him from realizing more and more how goddamn boring the life of a whisperer was most of the time, apart from the whole disgusting and culty vibe they were giving off. He couldn’t really talk to anyone, all they did was either giving him no reaction at all, grunting back or, if he was very lucky replying with a sparse sentence. Hell, even during the day hours of his time in the prison he’d been able to talk more than now and that meant something.  And fuck, that bothered him. He liked talking, much more than most people probably and he missed the hell out of having real conversations, he missed getting a reaction to whatever goofy shit was slipping out of his lips, he missed being among people who were actually acting like humans and not some weird stage between walker and living person. And neither Alpha nor Beta were at the camp right now to entertain him with their weird-ass relationship.  Groaning slightly he bend a little down to grab a couple of branches that seemed fitting as firewood, just the right size and dry enough to do the job while he let his eyes sway around the camp, that was becoming less and less filled than usual. It wasn’t a rare thing that the number of skin freaks varied around here, often, some wandered off to check on borders or tried to get more walkers for their herd or some new skin suits, but today was different, even more because some of them seemed more restless than usual and he had to find out what was exactly going on around here, why there were much less skin freaks walking around, why the hell the rest was so troubled and why Alpha and Beta both weren’t back yet. He had to find out what the hell was going on here, one way or another.

You felt like you could cut the tension air with a knife when you found yourself in the conference room, not more than two hours after they had brought Mary into Negan’s old cell. She wasn’t there anymore though, she was standing before the large table, two guards behind her that had their spears ready in case she tried anything, while she was glancing over the map trying to explain where the cave was. “So, 14 miles inland here?”, Gabriel mumbled, bowing his upper half over the table, moving his finger over the map before glimpsing up at her.  “Yes”, she nodded while he gripped the edges of the thick wood, standing a little straighter  “Any other way in or out?”, you could hear Scott ask from his spot beside Gabriel,  before Mary shifted a little from foot to foot. “There are others in the area. I'm not sure where. And they'll be guarded”, she said, gulping thickly while you were still unsure what to exactly think of her. Gabriel and Rosita had found out that her sister and the baby’s mother wasn’t only dead, she’d killed her for Alpha and hearing that her leader had lied about killing Lydia, a sacrifice similarly big, had crushed her in the end.  She really did seem genuine and you wanted to believe that her information was true, but you had your problems crossing Dante out of your head, regardless out how much you hated it. “Did Earl send those new weapon sets?”, Gabriel finally said, glancing over at Laura who nodded quickly. “Yeah. Enough for all of us.” “Good. We're gonna need them”, Gabriel mumbled while Rosita shifted uncomfortably beside you, staring out of the window and even more tense than before as she let out a thick sigh. “What about the border?”, she said, for the first time glancing over at Mary,“It's gonna be guarded all the way down to-” “It's clear. It's too long for Alpha to defend. Most of the patrols will be near the cave”, the shorter woman quickly said, fumbling on her torn clothes and even though that didn’t really seem to calm Rosita, what she said made sense. The border was long as hell and if the whole thing about the cave was really true, they were definitely setting priority onto that. “Take her back to her cell”, Gabriel finally said, leaving the guards to lead Mary out of the room and just as they had closed the heavy door behind themselves Gabriel pushed himself away from the table and walked around the table. “So, two rescue parties. Rosita and I will take the first”, he said, stemming his hands against his hips before he glanced into the round. “We don't know if any of this is real”, Rosita scoffed, moving from her spot by the window finally towards the table, a thick frown pressing into her face while Scott let out a defeated sigh. “Don't we? You said you were sure she wasn't lying”, he said, glancing towards Gabriel while he leaned back over the table, as if that position would make him more powerful. “I am, and she isn't”, he said, putting an urge into his voice before he let out a thick chuckle and that odd look you had seen a couple times these last days began to spread over his face again “You all are hesitating because you're afraid of them, right? You shouldn't be. That's why I brought her in here. So you could see”, he said, almost as if he as some prophet who was trying to show his followers the right way, his eyes nearly looking as if he was possessed by his ideas. “See what?”, Laura asked, similarly irritated as you were while that only seemed to facilitate Gabriel in his intensity. “That they're cowards. We broke her. Completely. And if we can break her, we can break others. If you come across one of them, keep them alive, start pulling teeth and taking fingers. Get information, because we now know the more pain and fear you pour over them, the sooner they drop the act, which is what it is!” Now what the fuck was that? He stared at you all, eyes wide, and his hand gripping into the table’s edges as if he intended to break it while you just looked back at him, with furrowed brows and not sure what to answer to this bullshit. “Do you have anything to say?”, Gabriel’s eyes suddenly fell on you, his eyes still as wide and his body as tense. “What?”, you said, startled for a moment. “I can see the way you’re looking. The way  you’re all looking at me”, he said, clenching his jaw while you could see Laura and Scott looking at you from the side, as if you expected you to tell Gabriel what kind of shit had just slipped out of his lips. “I just..I don’t think it’s the fear that made her break and I don’t think teeth pulling or cutting fingers off is the way to get into their head either”, you said, sighing softly as he looked confusedly at you, as if what you had just said was a thousandth time crazier that what he had told you. “Then how?”, he asked and well, now you had to find a way to put your thoughts into words, in any way Gabriel might understand. “She revealed everything after she found out what this place actually is, right? That it’s not as bad as Alpha tried to picture it. And she cracked once for all when she realized Alpha lied about not only that but about Lydia and a bunch of other stuff too”,you said and even though the look in Gabriel’s eyes didn’t make you feel like he was just trying to process what you were trying to say, you went on ,”Realizing that Alpha is a liar and betrayed them too is what made them crack.” “I think so too”, Laura said, and you couldn’t thank her more since it honestly felt like Gabriel was gonna jump on you and maul you if no one would support your point as well,”We have to make sure we find the most effective way...we can’t let our hate or rage get in the way.”

Only an hour later, Alexandria was starting to go into lockdown, preparing search teams, sharpening their weapons and dividing tasks and while this would have already been more than enough for anybody inside the community, there were calls coming from an outpost warning about new waves of walkers that were starting to make their way towards Alexandria like it already had happened weeks ago. “How many can you see in the herd?”, Laura asked as she stood beside you in front of the smaller gates at Alexandria’s backside, holding the walkie close to her lips before the crackling voice of from the other side echoed through the air. “100 at least. It's hard to tell, but it looks like there are Whisperers in it. It's on its way. What should we-” The voice broke off as you looked confused at Laura who stared huffing at the walkie, shaking her head softly. “Echo post, say again”, she repeated as you made your way over to Gabriel and Rosita, but nothing but static crackled through the walkie. “We lost you. Echo post, respond”, she repeated again while you gave her another confused look, asking yourself what the hell was going on at that outpost before you heard Gabriel’s voice again, thankfully less eerie than it had been in the conference room. “That watch tower's two miles away. We can't let this next wave bunch up at the gate the way the last one did.” “Why would they send a herd now?”, Scott scoffed, readjusting the armor he had just slung around his torso. “We have a defector giving us information. They're trying to stop us before we act on it”, Gabriel shook his head  “We're gonna have to split up if we want to cover both gates” Laura said while you glanced at her walkie and still nothing but static slipped out of it, only hearing Scott’s voice distantly between the bunch of people that were rushing around you. “That means less people out there.” “We don't have a choice”, you heard Gabriel quickly mumble back while you let out a small sigh and glanced up. ”Well defending the gates will take more people than finding the group, right? or do you wanna stop part of the herd outside too?”, you asked, looking at Gabriel as he let out a sigh. ”Yes, that would be the best, that’s why we should split up”, he added again while Scott let out a grumpy huff and moved from your side back to the few Alexandrians that were busy with collecting the right weapons for the people who would head out. “Show of hands how many people here have been on gate duty?”, Laura called out as she walked from your little group towards the others, trying to get some overview in this mass as a couple rose their hands. You didn't, though you walked a little away from Rosita and Gabriel, hoping to see that none of the other shift workers would head outside and leave you completely alone with it. Normally, it would’ve been okay but after this whole forenoon you could pass on that. “Hold on. New Plan”, you heard Gabriel say before you could go any further, bringing your glance right back to him ,”Rosita and Laura, stay back on gate security with a skeleton crew.  (Y/N), you too, so you’re available if you’re needed in the infirmary or anybody gets hurt in the night.” You nodded slowly, kind of agreeing with him for the first time today. You hadn’t expected much else, there were already two less people in the infirmary, especially during the time most people could get hurt they wouldn’t send you out as well.  You could still hear Gabriel making some more orders to other people, and while it still weirded you out to see him in any kind of leading position, you got stuck in your thoughts again. This would be a goddamn long night again, and while you were already exhausted from the little sleep you had gotten during the last nights, at least this wouldn’t allow any nightmares to torture you, at least you wouldn’t have to see Negan die over and over again until you would wake up covered in cold sweat. 

The sun was slowly vanishing from the sky, filling up the forest with warm light when Negan found himself back on his usual spot by some tree, nibbling on the rest of meat that was left on the bone he’d been able to snatch from today’s dinner. Tossing the clean bone to the side he let out a small groan and leaned himself against the tree behind him, glancing around the camp that was becoming even emptier than earlier today. Alpha and Beta still weren’t back and that only gave him the feeling that something bigger was going on, and he was kinda pissed at himself that he hadn’t been able to get some real information out of any of these silent ass fuckers except for catching some small comments about having to wander off to different spots in the territory. He’d hoped that would help him in any way but he couldn’t make up some connection between them, not at all. He knew some of the area around here, especially from runs during his Savior days but by far not enough to make sense out of these spots that were sprawled out over the area. He wished he could just ask out of the blue but he couldn’t do that, that was for sure, it would just make him look suspicious and that was something he really didn’t need, so he had to find the right moment, and that shit was especially hard when the fuckers who were sitting with him by the roasted pig were as taciturn as the fucking rest of this damn group. He was just about to try to figure a way out to get the skin freaks to talk, right as he found the right opening as two of the four whisperers who’d sat around the pig nodded to one another, got up and slowly made their way into the woods.  ”They’re going too? Fuck, leaving us poor fuckers alone, huh? Gettin’ empty in here”, Negan chuckled, glancing at the other two men who’d been silently nibbling on their meat until now but were looking up now, the older clearing his throat after he gulped down his bite. “They’re heading to the cave...Alpha wants more guards there after the enemies got out, wasn’t sure if they all did”, he mumbled, surprising him for a moment with that long ass sentence that sure was more than he’d expected before he got what the man had just said. Whoever was in that small group they’d talked about yesterday, they were out which was definitely some good news, except not everyone had made it out and he could only reassure himself that his girl was most likely in Alexandria and the chances were close to zero that she was among that group. “Alright, now that’s a good reason for gettin’ their asses outta here”, he chuckled, running his hand over the beard stubble that was already a little thicker than usual while he put a brighter grin on his face. But now that he had them by the balls, he couldn’t let go there and damn, chances were low that he was gonna get a whisperer to sit next to him who spoke in actual long sentences as this one here. ”By the way, anyone’s seen the big fella? Feel like he’s gone forever”, Negan said, reaching for his last piece of meat and cleared his throat slightly,”if he’s by the cave, pretty damn sure no fucker gets in or outta there without being knocked on their ass.” The whisperer only shook his head slightly, nibbling off the last tiny bit of meat on the bone before he glanced back at him, keeping him more on edge than he liked. “He’s on his way into the enemy’s camp...He’s on his way to the place that held you captured.”

A thick yawn left your lips as you moved through the streets of Alexandria that were filled with darkness by now, while you grabbed the Machete in your hand a little tighter and glimpsed around yourself. Rosita and Laura were right next to you, a few other Alexandrians were walking right behind you, caring some spears and hatchets while Rosita talked to Gabriel on the walkie, trying to find out when you had to prepare for a wave of walkers, though that was your smallest problem at the moment. They had reached the outpost by now only to find the people stationed there slaughtered and left to reanimate, giving you a sad explanation to why they hadn’t responded to the walkie calls anymore and it didn’t take a genius to figure out who was responsible for that bloodbath. “They were forced to call. Must've held the knife to her throat to make him call us and lie”, Gabriel’s crackling voice sounded through the walkie while a cool shudder ran down your back and made you unconsciously grab the machete tighter.  “Why?”, you could only hear Scott’s voice echoing quieter through the walkie, just before Gabriel’s voice sounded a little louder to you, “Most of us are out here. There's hardly anybody back home.” And right in that moment, right as you felt the tension growing even more in you and gave you the feeling that this whole night would take another horrible turn, you heard an eerie scream sounding through the night. “Walkers!”, you heard a male voice scream, mixing within moments with the groans of the dead, forcing your glance at a house in a side street, the doors wide open as freshly reanimated corpses of Alexandrian’s poured out of it, their bodies covered in blood, some of their heads nearly hanging onto their shoulders as more blood flew out of their slit throats. “They're here”, you heard Rosita call out as you gripped the machete tighter, watching as the guards who had walked behind you right now were already storming to the walkers to end them before they could cause greater harm. “Are you gonna check the infirmary?”, Rosita asked, her voice already filled with tension as you nodded quickly, feeling as if you were stuck in another one of your nightmares before you could see her nodding to Laura. “Come with me. We’ll check Morgan Street”, she panted, already starting to run while you could feel yourself starting to switch into the survival mode. The whisperers were here, and fuck, now it was time to fight. Heavy pants left your lips as you ran down the street, keeping your machete ready as you tried to make sure to catch every little thing that was going on around you, tried to make sure that you wouldn’t miss any whisperer that could hide in the shadow of the houses. It was an oppressive feeling that was pressing down on you there, giving you the feeling that in any moment, any time some of those freaks could attack out of the blue even though you hadn’t seen just one when you finally reached the infirmary. Gulping thickly you made your way up the porch, your heart pounding up into your throat as you rose the machete a little higher, preparing in case one of them was hiding in here. Your eyes were constantly searching for blood, your ears directed to detect any groans while you hoped dearly that no one had been in here and had hurt them, or worse, was still making their way through the house.  But instead, and before you could even open the door it ripped open, revealing the three patients who stood in their pajamas in the door, their eyes tried from the sleep but filled up with worry and confusion.  “What’s going on here?”, Barbara asked, her voice filled up with fear as you walked closer, quickly lowering your weapon while still trying to keep yourself calm to not get them all worked up as well. “Whisperers are in here”, you said, gulping thickly as you glanced around for a moment, trying to reassure yourself that none of them was near before you glanced back at the three, ”We’re trying to find where exactly they are. I need you to get inside and move up into one of the rooms upstairs and lock yourself in. We’re gonna be fine” “Okay”, Oscar just nodded while Barbara already tried to vanish behind him, clearly scared and you had really hoped that you could’ve told them in a more sparing way but you couldn’t lose any time, not while those freaks were in here. “I’ll lock the outer doors now”, you said, trying to force a small smile up your lips even though you knew how desperate it made you look as you watched them moving inside, “We’re gonna be fine.” Fumbling on the keys from your pocket you quickly moved them inside, seeing the last of them as they moved up the stairs and vanished upstairs before the keys clicked in the lock and gave you the go for the next steps. Your heart was still pumping violently against your chest when you finally locked the two terrace doors as well, making sure that no one would get in there or would at least have a hard time doing so. And right in the very moment you finally made your way back down on the street a gun shut sounded through the air, pumping you right back full with a new wave of adrenaline as it urged you to ran towards its source. It was coming from somewhere around the brownstones, you were sure, and the fear of what might have happened there right now kept you running down the street, past the corpses of the Alexandrian’s that plastered parts of the blacktop and the pools of blood that slowly grew around them. Your breath grew heavier with every moment, straining your throat as you pushed yourself to keep going until you finally got into the street of the brownstones and raised your machete, hoping that you weren’t too late. Panting heavily you glanced around, feeling the fear skyrocketing in you as you made your way down the street, instinctively glancing down the stairway that lead to Negan’s old cell, right before what you could glimpse at through the window filled you up with nausea in the matter of seconds. There was a body down there, lying on the concrete ground and all you could see was part of its lifeless figure, not more, not less, but it was way more than enough to let the panic in you rise even more. “Shit”, it left your lips as you slowly stepped down the stairs, keeping your weapon ready in case whoever was responsible for this was still down there. But there was no one, nothing as you finally entered the all too familiar room and could finally see the full figure of the person who was laying by the bars. “Oh no, oh fuck”, you panted as you stepped towards Laura’s lifeless body that got slowly surrounded with a pool of blood and was daubing the metal bars next to her. “Fuck...fuck!”, it left your lips again, as if it would act as a valve for the panic that was rushing through you right in the very moment you saw her body starting to twitch and heard a groan falling from her lips, alarming you to do something. Carefully, you stepped closer, laying the machete to the side for a moment and moving your hand to the holder on your pants to get your knife out, before you leaned down to her, trying to figure out how fast she would reanimate before her bleary eyes suddenly stared at you and her arms raised up as she snarled, forcing you to act fast. “I’m sorry”, you mumbled, gulping thickly before you reached your knife up and let it rush down onto her head, closing your eyes the moment you could feel the blade burying itself into her skull and could feel her body going limp beneath you. “Fuck”, you cursed, trying to hold it together as you moved your hand into her blonde hair to keep her steady as you moved the knife out of her skull and slowly let her down, before the shock ebbed for a moment away and made you realize that Mary was gone from this cell and that she and any other whisperer was still walking around outside. Fuck had she fled?  Had she done this? Or had it been some other whisperer trying to get her back to Alpha done this shit? You didn’t know and it drove you crazy and you rushed up the stairs again, almost on your way onto the street again before you caught what had you had missed to notice when you’d seen Laura’s body in the cell. The door of Michonne’s home was opened, not wide but just enough to slip through and after what you had found in the cell, this couldn’t mean anything good. “Shit”, you cursed to yourself, gulping thickly as you could feel your palms growing sweatier while you gripped the machete tighter and slowly moved up the stairs, right as you heard a loud thud coming from the inside, mixing with choked up screams that let the fear in you spike once more. This wasn’t just preparation anymore, there was definitely whisperer inside, hurting Judith, RJ or maybe one of the others and you had to get in there, you had to get in there now. You could feel yourself tensing harder as you got into the house, trying to be as quiet and fast at the same time without stumbling about anything in your way, knowing that you could neither lose time nor that you could allow whoever was in there to know of your presence before you could afford it. “No!”, you could suddenly hear Rosita’s voice scream upstairs, sending another shock through you before you heard another thud, enough for your body to take over your mind and make you rush upstairs just as you heard Mary’s voice calling out. “Beta, stop!”, she screamed just as you got up the stairs and saw her standing in the doorframe at the end of the hall, her small stature only barely covering the scene inside. Rosita was on the ground, blood dripping down her arms as the whisperer who had to be Beta stood above her, his arms raised, ready to rush down the knifes he had in his hands down into her body. “Alpha wants me alive. Step towards me”, Mary said, moving the knife in her hands to her throat while you tried to process what was happening in front of your eyes right now. You stood there, glued to the ground as you saw the giant with the skin mask move towards the short woman, nodding at her and leaving Rosita behind just as you saw Judith and RJ peaking out of the door beside you, uninjured but just as shocked as you. And just then, just when that giant beast got to Mary you allowed yourself to move towards them, standing in front of them to make sure you could do at least something for them while you lowered your weapon as they started to walk down the hallway.  “Toss it away”, you suddenly heard the giant growl as he saw the machete that was still in your hand, stopping his path as you stared at him for a second, feeling another icy shudder rolling down your back before you let the weapon fall to the ground and pushed your foot onto it to slide it as far as possible away, trying to convince him that it was enough. You wanted to kill him,  you really did, for all he had done here in this night and for everything he was involved in before but you knew that you didn’t stand a chance. You couldn’t risk everybody’s live in here by trying to play the hero, keep the machete and attack him, you just couldn’t. You had to do the smart thing and let them leave, no matter how hard that was. You had to let Mary walk him out of here, the woman who had gladly said the truth about everything and who was now risking her damn life to keep Beta from continuing his slaughter.  And so you were forced to watch them walking down the stairs after beta had started to walk again, feeling like shit that you couldn’t do anything but stand there and wait for them to leave, feeling like shit that you couldn’t fight even though you knew that this was the only smart thing to do. And then finally, the door fell into its lock. With that one sound a could snapped in you and allowed you to move again, first reassuring yourself that Judith and RJ were both fine before you found yourself rushing down the hallway. “Oh fuck”, it slipped out of your lips as you caught Rosita leaning against a wall  by now, holding her arm with her hand that was already covered in her blood, wincing as she moved to see you. You’d almost expected for Judith to call out your language as she’d often done it with Negan but instead, she stayed silent now as you kneeled down next to Rosita and glanced at her as she kept on pressing her hands onto the wound. You gulped thickly, glancing from the kids to Rosita, still too overwhelmed with everything that had just happened before you nodded to her, trying to somehow grasp some clear thoughts as you watched her wincing once more. “We’ll get you to the infirmary now, alright?”, you said, watching as she nodded and tried to move herself a little up. “Okay, let’s go.”

Fuck it. Fuck this goddamn day.  Hours had passed since that whisperer had broken the news and there hadn’t been a quiet moment in his head ever since. Beta was probably right fucking now at Alexandria and he couldn’t do a thing. All this time he’d hoped she’d be there and not among that group, had told himself that this was the only probable thing and now this hope had fucked him over. He’d almost been up and about to end this whole fucking plan here and make his way back to Alexandria, too worked up by his emotions and fears that this big ass idiot would end up hurting his wife when he’d start whatever fuckin’ slaughter he’d planned there. He’d pulled himself together though, forced himself to sit his ass down and stay calm, no matter how fucking hard that was at the moment. He only had a chance to really change something if he stayed here, he couldn’t let that be ruined by some suspicions that might not even be true. Maybe she wasn’t in Alexandria at the moment for whatever damn reason, and if she was...she would knew what to do when that freak got in. She would know when it was smart to fight and when the time had come to hide or attack from the ambush, she would know what to do. She wasn’t asleep right now, right?  No, during all those years in the prison both of them had gotten used to stay up longer to use the time they had together in the night, she probably was still up and would notice when that fucker would walk through Alexandria or come even close to their house. She wouldn’t get hurt, she would be fine. A tight breath left his lips as he shifted against the tree, moving uncomfortably over the cold ground as he closed his eyes tightly shut, trying to silence the fucking thoughts that kept on spinning around in his head. All he wanted now was to be with her, make sure she was fine and make sure that no one would just harm a damn hair on her head but he couldn’t and he had to find a way to cope with that, somehow. Morning fell over Alexandria, filling the community with light again after the horrible night that was still stuck in everybody’s bones, keeping the memories of the dead bodies and the blood that was still partly covering the streets alive. The night and the early morning hours had brought revelations with themselves that at least were more good than they were bad. Gabriel’s group outside had brought Mary back inside with them after Beta had been forced to leave her behind as they’d shot at them, unfortunately without killing him but at least urging him to vanish back in the woods. Aaron was back, bringing the news that everybody except for Connie and Magna had made it out of the cave in time before it collapsed and left their fate  unknown. And while you felt sick knowing that not everybody might have made it, you were more than relieved that Daryl was out even though he still wasn’t back, still searching for other openings of the cave to see if he could get them back or at least find Lydia. The complete dark side of these revelations was a late gift from Dante, one that he had worked on during his time in Alexandria, before everyone’s eyes. he’d used Cheryl’s grave to build a tunnel that lead out of the community, allowing Beta to walk right into Alexandria without having to conquer the walls just the tiniest bit. You’d already thought you’d seen the last of him but hell, that asshole really was trying to stay in your minds for longer. “Are you coming with us to Hilltop?”, you heard Judith ask from her spot at the kitchen table, watching as you got her and RJ’s food for the way ready. A whole bunch of people would head there today, along with Rosita who you could stitch up in the night but who’d definitely needed some of the medication you simply didn’t have available anymore at Alexandria. They’d leave in a bit, and you really weren’t sure yet what people had planned for you. “I’m not so sure to be honest. They need me here at the infirmary but if I could come with you, I could get new health care supplies and stock up a bit up, maybe recruit someone to come help here. So we’ll see”, you said with a small smile, packing the first done sandwich into a box while she slowly nodded, watching you before she puckered her brows slightly and shifted over her spot. “Where’s Negan?”, she asked out of the blue, startling you for a moment as you gulped thickly and glanced down at the bread in front of you. They hadn’t told her yet, of course not. You couldn’t fool her, she knew that he hadn’t been in the cell but hell, you also couldn’t tell her what you suspected him of doing outside and you also didn’t want to just crudely say that he had simply escaped his cell, leaving him to look like someone who had left this place behind for good. “He isn’t here at the moment”, you said, feeling your throat growing tighter the moment you had spoken it out. “He’ll come back, right?”, she asked, glancing at you as fumbled on Carl’s old hat that laid right next to her on the table. “Yeah, yeah he will”, you said with another smile that was more bittersweet than anything, filled up with the uncertainty of when this time would come and the worries about him, mixed up with the hopeful thought that it if you were just a little lucky you’d be able to have him back with you sooner than later. And you couldn’t put in words how much you hoped that the luck would be on your side with that.

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Built in Best Friends Part Four

 A/N: Sorry this took so long, for a while there this story became my own life and I had my heart broken. It was hard to relive it all, but I’m finally over it, I hope you enjoy my pain.

Summary: Tom gets a new girlfriend and becomes a dick.

Warnings: Tom is a dick. Very angsty

Pairings: Reader x Tom Padalecki, Tom x OC, Jensen x Daughter!Reader, Danneel x Daughter!Reader, Jensen x Daneel

Word Count: 1.3k

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The next time you even got a whiff of a party buzz going around the school you encouraged Tom to go, not wanting him to miss out on his teenage years. You, however, were never going to have normal teenage years because anxiety plagued your bones. You helped him get ready and left him to his own devices on the promise he gave you the low down the next day. It took everything in you not to check up on him and text him that night. It was his night of fun. You couldn’t burden him like you always did. Instead you had a family movie night and an early night, spending some much needed time with your siblings.

The next morning it barely hit 9am when Tom burst through your bedroom door and jumped on your bed to wake you up, laying in the space beside you.

“Do you have a death wish Padalecki?” You hissed at him eyes still tightly shut.

“Come on Y/N it’s 9am, don’t you want to hear about my steamy kiss with Sasha?” He laughed making you shoot up. “That got your attention.” He smirked.

“You kissed her?” You asked, ignoring the sickly feeling in the pit of your stomach.

“Yup, and it gave me butterflies. Swarms of them Y/N!” He gushed making you feel guilty for being jealous while he was so happy.

“That’s brilliant Tom!” You forced out, smiling tightly.

“We’re going on a date this afternoon, soo I need you to help me pick out an outfit? Pretty please with cherries on top.” He begged making you giggle.

“Fine, only if it will be worth my time afterwards.” You laughed at his puppy face.

“Pizza and Disney marathon tomorrow?” He asked and you nodded.

Hearing about Sasha made your heart clench and every day you realised how stupid you were for falling for your best friend. He was heart-wrenchingly happy, it was a completely bittersweet feeling towards your best friend. If that wasn’t bad enough when he finally asked her out, you felt sick to your stomach. Then he started to drive her to school and she had to sit in the front, or she’d throw a bitch fit and toss you a dirty look. Then she sat with you two at lunch constantly giving you disgusted looks as you joked with Tom. You started seeing Tom less and less because he was always with her.

“It worries me Tom, I get that she’s your girlfriend but what if I have a panic attack and I need you and you’re not there? What if you’re with her?” You asked him one night, tearing up a little at the thought.

“Y/N listen to me. You’re my best friend, nothing will ever change that. You come first. Always.” He spoke, grabbing the sides of your head and looking into your eyes. Didn't really help with the whole crush thing either.

But little by little the strong bond between you two began to break. He wasn’t always there for you when you needed a little reassurance or pick me up. You turned to your family instead, but it would never be the same as your best friend. Your parents began tossing you worried looks whenever you came to them with the problem knowing they were never your first port of call, ever since you could talk it was Tom. It was always Tom.

You hit a breaking point when you sat down at your usual lunch table and he wasn’t there. You looked around nervously, you didn’t have any other friends and you couldn’t eat in front of all these people alone. Then you spotted him. Sat at the table with the jocks and his cheerleader girlfriend laughing not even looking over at your sad face. You quickly texted him asking if he was going to join you, to see him take his phone out look at the text and put it back in his pocket as if it was nothing. That was the stinger. You almost ran out of the cafeteria and into the library a quiet space you could collect your thoughts and focus on not crying. 

“Psst.” You heard someone whisper making you look up around you, eyes locking on a brunette girl passing you a note. You recognised her as Penny from your French class and gave her a smile.

You okay? You look kinda lonely and upset.

Just friend issues, thank you for asking. You wrote on the slip of paper and passed it back.

Wanna get out of here? You looked up at her and nodded softly.

She led you to a picnic bench outside and got out her lunch and some notes from one of her classes and smiled at you.

“Look, I know what it’s like to feel lonely. I don’t have many friends around here and the ones I do have are in lunchtime detention.” She rolled her eyes making you giggle. “But you don’t have to be, you’re always welcome to hang out with me.”

“Thanks Penny, it means a lot.” You smiled at her gratefully and got out your lunch taking little nibbles, feeling weirdly comfortable around her already.

“Anytime.” She smiled. You spent the rest of lunch getting to know Penny and hearing stories about her troublesome friends making you laugh harder than you have in a while.

Although he had hurt you, you were looking forwards to seeing Tom at the end of the day so you could confront him about lunch. However, standing outside the front of school for the past 20 minutes wasn’t looking good. You texted him only to be left on read, making you sigh in frustration. He would feel your wrath when you got a hold of him. You looked at the time and sighed knowing your parents would still be working at the brewery so ringing them for a lift wasn’t an option and all of the buses had left 10 minutes earlier. You had no other option but to walk and it looked like the skies were about to open. Lucky you.

You finally arrived home half an hour later soaked to the bone and sniffling slightly. You slammed the door and dripped water all over the floor making your parents look up at you from where they had just sat down.

“Why are you dripping? You need to get out of those clothes before you get sick.” Your Mom asked sounding worried, rushing to get you a towel.

“Didn’t Tom give you a lift?” Your Dad asked confused.

“He didn’t show so I texted him and got left on read.” You grumbled.

“That’s not like Tom, maybe he wrote the message and forgot to press send. Something must have come up.” Your Mom said thoughtfully.

“He did the same at lunch to.” You mumbled.

“He left you at lunch? He knows how anxious you get eating around people!” Your Dad grumbled angrily. “Did you eat?” He asked you a little softer, looking in your miserable eyes.

“Yeah I sat with a girl from my French class called Penny. She looked after me, don’t worry.” You flashed a fake smile at them that clearly didn’t meet your eyes.

“That’s not the point, Tom shouldn’t have left you.” Your Mom pointed out.

“I’m not his child, he doesn’t have to do anything. Plus, his girlfriend is his first priority.” You sighed making your parents raise their eyebrows. “Now I’m gonna go shower I am freezing.” You mumbled making your way up the stairs and missing the way your parents stared after you sadly.

After your shower you began to feel more and more angry with Tom. You felt like you deserved an explanation, he had left you twice today and potentially going to make you sick. You saw his shadow behind his curtains on his bed watching TV so you knocked on the wall and waited for him to come over. After 5 minutes and still no sign of him you knocked again and furrowed your brows, usually he came over in a flash. Especially when you knocked, it was your secret code. You heard your phone ping and as you looked at the message you felt your heart break a little inside.

Busy. Leave me alone.

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Counting Bodies like Sheep

Summary: Kim and Chloe break down.

Warnings: TORTURE. Seriously- this is a bit more... obvious. There is torture here. As well, use of a slur, referenced child abuse and other things. 

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Chloe’s always been a bit broken. She knows this. 

 It happened young. When she was just a little girl and her mommy decided she wasn’t exceptional. When her daddy decided all he had to do was give her money. 

 She isn’t sure when she started knowing she was broken though. 

 “Oh sweetie, we just want to know what you were planning.” She told the man in front of her. He’s tied to a chair, glaring at her and Kim. 

 Chloe never expected to work with Kim. She never gave he boy the time of day at all. Why bother? He wasn’t special. Wasn’t important. Her mommy told her she had to focus on people who were special. Important. It’s why she was only allowed Adrien as a kid. 

 She wanted real friends though. And her daddy let her go to public school.

 Mommy left soon after. 

 Maybe that was part of her breaking.

 “Go fuck yourself.” Snarled the man. “You’re nothing but a slut. You don’t scare me.” Chloé snorted.

 “Wow, original.” She mocked. She smirked as Pollen buzzed angrily from the rafters. 

 Pollen. Pollen was her first friend. Really she was. Adrien was a business thing. Sabrina… well Chloe tried but even Sabrina was pushed at her because her daddy wanted a police officer in his back pocket. And Sabrina has something similar happen to him.

 Chloe gave up trying after a while. She didn’t care anymore.

 Why bother? 

 Picking up a serrated blade, she raised an eyebrow at the man.

 “Are you sure?” 

 “Yeah! You won’t touch me.” Sneered the man. Chloe snorted and stripped off her jacket before she plunged the blade into his shoulder. He started screaming.

 She smiled. 

 Chloe didn’t know when the final breaks occurred. All she knew was that it happened. When Lila came and started lying. At first, she ignored it. 

 But then everything began changing and it felt like she couldn’t breathe. Being Queen Bee helped. But things kept happening. Lila spoke to her daddy and mommy and they were going to have another baby. To replace her. She heard them talk about it. How utterly fucked up their kid was. 

 So she decided to show them fucked up.

 Chloe ripped the blade out, blood splattering the room. She made a face.

 “Ugh, it’s getting on my shirt. Monkey, hold my knife.” She handed the blade to Kim and then stripped off her shirt, before taking the knife back and slamming it into the other shoulder. Ripping it out again she slid it down his chest, cutting him. 

 She started partying. Drinking more. Lila took those things and spread nasty rumours. Chloe’s name was mud.

 Except for some others.

 “Still not scared?” She mocked the man. “Gonna talk?”

 “All you do is stab.” He snapped. “You’ve got nothing that’ll scare me. And you’re giving me a show.” He leered at her chest and she stabbed him in the crotch. His screams were her soundtrack as she grabbed some pliers.

 “Pity. Oh well, this is more fun.”

 She hadn’t known they were the rest of the Miraculous Team. Not really anyway. Sure she’d had her suspicions about Adrien, but the others? No. All she knew was that they were the ones knocked down and hurt by Lila. The bottom of the pile. 

 It had helped. They’d kept her from falling fully. They’d kept her from doing worse than drinking. 

 She’d even fallen in love.

 Chloe ripped out the man’s right thumbnail, adding more screams. 

 “Willing to talk yet?” She asked. The man took a breath and then glared. 

 Oh, pity he was against them. This guy had spunk. 

 Alya and Nino had sort of swept her off her feet. Sure they had issues between them but… well after the first screaming argument that ended in a hard fuck against the wall? They happily put their issues aside. 

 Her parents had been horrified. More broken Chloe and fucked up Chloe and all that bullshit. they’d tried to get her to stop. 

 She wouldn’t listen. 

 She ripped off more nails and sighed as the man just screamed. Music to her ears. 

 “Mm. Maybe I should record this one day. I’d love to fuck Fox or Turtle listening to this.” She told Kim who snorted.

 “Neither would be up for it. They don’t like the screams like you do.”

 “True.” Chloé hummed. “Oh maybe they’d tie me up and put headphones on? That way I’d get the best of both worlds.”

 “You’re kinda sick Bee.” Kim laughed.

 “Look who’s talking Monkey.” Mocked Chloe. 

 Learning who they all were. It made everything better. But then Chat got stabbed and nearly died. 

 They were all close. Incredibly close. Enough a bond formed between them all. They became something different. 

 The death spread across them. The dark energy- the inhuman energy- affected them all. It didn’t break them. It made them stronger. Made them more in touch with their animal sides.

 The final break came from Lila. Of course it did. 

 She claimed to have been helping the team defeat Hawkmoth. That it was all her who did everything. That Adrien had been helping his father. 

 They proved her wrong but with all the hate, all the scorn thrown at them from all over when they sided against her- after being thrown out by their parents…

 Was it any shock they snapped?

 Chloe grabbed a hammer and slammed it down on the man’s knee, breaking it. He screamed. 

 She smiled in the screams. They sounded like her daddy had when she revealed every single fucking lie he told, every bribe he offered. It sounded like Sabrina after Chloe ruined her.

 It sounded like Lila had while Kagami ripped her apart. 

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 Kim never talked about his home life. It wasn’t bad or anything just… quiet.

 His mom was never around. Nor was his dad honestly. They worked long hours. He had babysitters as a kid but soon that stopped when they thought he was old enough. 

 Ten wasn’t old enough. He knew that now.

 Kim slammed the woman’s head into the ground. She growled. “Fuck you!”

 “I have a boyfriend thanks. How about instead you tell us where the Ghosts are hiding their shipment?” Kim asked the woman. She growled in response. He picked her up and threw her against the wall.

 He got into sports because his dad talked about them. Got into competing because his mom said he had to be the best. It consumed him. Max… Max helped stable him out, helped pull him out of it. Max was great. 

 Of course, he couldn’t be with him. Not like that. No, his dad wouldn’t have no fag for a son. 

 Whatever. He liked girls too. He liked Chloe right? Sure she hurt him but it was fine. Whatever. Ondine came next. And she was amazing.

 “I won’t fucking talk!” Screamed the woman as Kim casually snapped her arm with his two hands.

 “Really?” He asked. She glared. “Why does the damn Ghosts keep getting good people? We’re nicer.”

 “Because you’re sick freaks who get off on this. You were heroes!” The woman yelled. Kim wanted to laugh. So he did.

 Oh, sure they’d been heroes. But after a while, he started noticing that Lila’s words didn’t match up with what Ladybug said, that her actions were freaking weird. 

 He started talking out and… everyone just turned on him. Him and the others. It was confusing and strange. He’d had Max and Ondine though. 

 Until he hadn’t.

 “You were heroes!”

 “You know I don’t get it,” Kim said, turning to see Chloe walk into the room bright red with blood. She’d taken off all her clothes but her underwear it seemed. Didn’t want any blood on her or whatever it looked like. “They scream and shout about us once being heroes. Shouldn’t they be happy we aren’t anymore?”

 “Not when you’re like this you freaks!” The woman roared and he grabbed her leg to snap it. Her screams filled the room again. 

 Ondine left him. Believed the rumours and… it hurt. It hurt a lot. He felt shattered sorta. A bit more broken than before. 

 Max had been his rock. Along with the others. They leaned on each other all of them. Marinette led them and it was amazing. She was a born leader. Kim didn’t need it to be a competition. He just followed. 

 “You know you might kill her if you break too many bones,” Chloé said in a bored tone. “I’m also ordering food. What you want?”

 “Pizza or Indian,” Kim said casually. “And I pumped her full of some potion that Xuppu told me about. She won’t die… not until it wears off. Hurts like a bitch and makes you dependent on it too.” Chloé laughed and left. The woman he was dealing with began crying. “Yep, you heard right. I can hurt you in any way I want and you won’t die until I let you. You won’t even pass out.” 

 The woman sobbed harder.

 He kissed Max one day. It was sudden and he hadn’t fully meant to but he did. Max kissed back and he thought there was some happiness…

 And then his dad threw him out. Lila had seen, had taken a photo. Kim was alone. Adrien snuck him into his house and it was okay but. Everything was going to hell still. Especially when Gabriel the fuck had turned out to be Hawkmoth. 

 And he ran his son through.

 Kim stomped on the arm he’d already broken, breaking it again. The woman was sobbing now. Xuppu looked irritated from his spot up high. He’d been trying to nap. 

 “Sorry, buddy. She’s a tough one.” Kim told him before he kicked the woman hard in the ribs. Another scream sounded.

 Saving Adrien, the dark energy… it didn’t do much but bind them together. And then fucking Lila kept going on and on and Kim felt so fucking mad. 

 When she pushed them that one step when she made that fucking move they just… snapped. 

 Kim wished he was the one to kill her. He really did. But Kagami got there first. 

 Kim sighed as he turned away from the crying pile. He’d eat and come back for more. Maybe she’d talk then. 

 Or maybe he’d have to keep going. Either worked.

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[moonstone27ls]

TMNT being cancelled?

Guess I’m surprised cause there’s no official word. Second... I was hoping if they were planning to “end the series” to move to a movie at least do it evenly. I mean Nick we got 26 the first season. So its only fair season 2 gets an even 26 as well.

Am I mad? Not really, cause if Big Mama was their endgame for Splinter, I’d rather not dread the worse for the boys or for that matter more stupid love drama. I’m sorry I love this version but Nick or some shows in general seem to aim for love drama and it ruins the show/or characters for me. Star was ruined with that crappy love triangle/rectangle(being rushed), (starco people don’t start, I respect you love the ship. but the writers ruined the moment for me. Hard for me to root for a couple that hurt their partners and I’ll be honest the “best friend true love” trope’s been done a MILLION times. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I’m “ughhhhh again but I liked the other dude”) Korra... was that also damn love triangle I still can not look at Mako the same. with 12k version of TMNT it was that stupid love triangle they had to put with Casey/April/Donnie. Its the only time I had quit a turtle series and was actually sick and tired of Donnie. And before a shipper gets in my face let me not I did ship him and April before this series in 2003 version I thought the idea was cute. (Was really more of a Raph/April shipper but I digress). I only shipped her and Casey in the movie version. 2003 version was kinda not interested in them(same for the animated movie version) So I as I said love drama tends to ruin a character(s) for me or the story.

What did I want for the series before it ended

I wanted to see if Raph/Casey would still have that friendship dynamic. Every version for the most part has always had their special friendship.

Casey having girls night with April and Sunita

MEET APRIL’S PARENTS XD. The show acknowledge she has them. We were told she’s know the turtles for 5 years. Actually stating that I want a meet flashback ep. Little 11 yearold April being friends with them XD her meeting Splinter. Gah I can imagine the awesomeness!

Piebald, she was only given one ep. And Mikey tends to treat everyone like family XD. So kinda wish she’d come back and be part of this colorful family.

I wanted establish if the “mutants” could be returned to normal or not. I mean I dunno this story is different from the others. Draxum’s reformed kinda wondered if they would return the ones that want to be normal back to themselves.(or at least that poor kitten Mrs. Nubbins)

I kinda wanted Huginn and Muninn back. I dunno I thought they were cute little lackeys for Draxum. Again I can see Mikey offering them a “dog bed” they wanted so badly XD.

Speaking of characters... what happened to Mayhem? you’d think for the “finale” he’d be more useful than Big Mama (nick please drop that ship8P)

We didn’t get enough interaction with Baxter Stockboy/Stockman 8B.

Tang Shen, the fact that we didn’t give her a real character makes me disappointed. As I’ve said before would have loved her to come back, as either an old flame(whether just bitter ex, or the “one that got away), old co-worker, or one of the few people that knew about Yoshi’s calling. Seeing Yoshi’s grandfather made me imagine “what if she saw them have a fight... what if she tries to get him to talk to his grandfather.” or she chastized him for being selfish.

I wanted Bishop again and this time I want him as a villain. 2012′s version made me annoyed they wasted a good opportunity for a shady government character for a “oh yayz its another good guy”. You want another scary villain, in my opinion Bishop would be a good one.

Drop the Big Mama/Splinter thing. Seriously drop it, Big Mama has no real character (as a love interest). And I’ve seen couples were they dual with good & evil or whatever or maybe a better ref would be the “bad girl/boy”.Best example of that ship is Goldie/Scrooge, Batman with Catwoman/or Talia Al Ghul, Spiderman/Black Cat, Brock/ Moltov Cocktease (Venture Bros), to a degree Buffy/Angle/Spike(only 90s people know this ref), Lupin/Fujikio (though both are bad in some moral way) & Bulma/Vegeta, even 90s Xena and Gabrielle fell for a baddie now & then that got reformed for them. As a character Mama’s done nothing to prove to me she really loves Yoshi or his kids, the show knows she doesn’t care so her last scene doesn’t prove it to me. As a villain awesome. But is she Catwoman/or even a Goldie(Ducktales ref) nope. Archer’s more redeemable than her and he’s a selfish moron. (dont take that too personal I love that show but just admitting what he is). Don’t hate me shippers and yes I know I’ve said it more than once XD. But as I said some tropes work for me... and some don’t. This was one of them

We didn’t get Usagi crossover. (maybe if the movie proceedes they’ll do it for that) but we gotta have one 8B

Characters from the series I wanted either cameo or given more of a role Leatherhead, Klunk, & Jhanna. Would say whats her name Renet and the dino aliens but they’ve been done two times already, so while I’d like them as easter eggs or whatever kinda not gonna miss them.

More of Hamato Yoshi’s family, can’t really believe that Yoshi, his mother and grandfather were all that were left. Comic wise Hamato Yoshi does have a possible niece? So I dunno maybe they could give him a distant cousin.

Lastly tell us who Big Mama’s assistant was .We never got their name or who they are.... WHO WERE THEY?!!

#tmnt #is it really cancelled 8(? #rise of the tmnt

[nathalie-sancoeur-assistant]

Loveater

Here’s my analysis on Loveater, spoilers are below- and there may be some Miracle Queen ones as well.

“Experiencing loss is a part of life. Some people lose their first love. Some lose the harmony of their relationship. Some people lose hope. Others lose patience. While others lose their soul. Some lose their certainties...and some have nothing to lose”

Let’s look at this intro sequence, shall we? 

I believe each and every one of those lines have meaning and foreshadowing in them for each character they were about. 

My evidence:

“Some people lose their first love” it shows Master Fu staring longingly at Marianne. And in the very next episode ( MQ spoilers) even though he’s lost his memories, he’s finally able to be with the woman he loves. 

In this very episode, the loss of harmony between Andre and Audrey’s relationship is what starts off the whole plan Hawkmoth has in store for the next 2 episodes. 

Some lose hope- Chloe, losing hope in Ladybug that she will ever have her miraculous again. And that loss of hope is what fuels her to (MQ spoilers) follow along with Hawkmoth.

So what are we left with that didn’t quite have any resolution in this episode? 

Chat Noir, losing patience. 

Nathalie, losing her soul. 

Gabriel, losing his certainties. 

And Luka, having nothing to lose. 

Before I go on, I would like to point out that the only time we have heard of someone having “nothing to lose” was in Heroes Day, when Hawkmoth claimed HE had nothing to lose....and yet, if he had nothing to lose, he wouldn’t be losing his certainties. So how does Luka have nothing to lose, pray tell? Moving on- these are the 4 unresolved lines of this episode, and I can’t help but feel as if there’s going to be more at play to them later on. 

Chat has been basically waiting for Ladybug to fall in love with him this whole time. If he’s losing patience, that may very well cue his attempt to move on through season 4. 

Nathalie, losing her soul- Nathalie Sancoeur. Nathalie “Heartless”.Soulless? And directly after it’s said, she begins coughing, because she’s still sick. This could be implying a couple things. 

1.) Nathalie’s body isn’t the only thing being effected by the miraculous. Her lifeforce and very soul are being effected and potentially drained. 

2.) By soul, they’re referring to how she’s willing to give up anything for this family. How she’s essentially allowed herself to become their servant, willing to do whatever they ask of her and essentially, giving up her soul for them. 

And if it’s the first then we know that Emilie isn’t just comatose or dead. She’s practically soulless. 

No matter how you take it, it means that she has been willing to give up her very soul for Gabriel and his family. 

Gabriel, losing his certainties- when she says this, we get this scene. 

So this I feel kind of obviously implies that Gabriel’s certainty on both what he thinks is right and what he wants is wavering. And if he’s losing his certainty, his determination is going to waver...which means he might start occasionally skipping over potential akumas for Nathalie’s sake.

Now of course (MQ spoilers) by the end the peacock miraculous is already fixed, giving him less reason to doubt his intentions and actions, but what about what he wants? This is the episode after Felix chronologically if I remember correctly, so this is directly after Adrien told Gabriel that Nathalie was practically part of the family. And we see how intimate things get between them throughout these two episodes. He may have no reason to back down anymore, so it would be interesting to see him still doubting himself. 

And lastly, Luka...honestly, this is likely a really big stretch...but the only other person who’s been implied to have nothing to lose (despite having a son who needs him, a woman who loves him, and a business that can’t run without him) was Hawkmoth. And now we have Luka, someone with a sister who needs him, a mother who loves him, a girl who needs his support that he cares very much for and a bright future ahead of him, being implied to have nothing to lose. As soon as I heard that, my thoughts went to the new Hawkmoth actually being Luka. Which...I have no clue how they would do that. But...he’s the person no one would suspect. He’d be practically safe from suspicion until some solid evidence came into play and even then folks would doubt. It would be the biggest plot twist MLB could pull, I’ll tell you that. 

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I don’t ship Lukanette, but this is very cute.

And this...oh my gosh, Gabriel in this scene. He just seems so happy to present this love cloak to Audrey and Andre. It’s one of the happiest sounding voices I can recall him using and it’s because he did this on purpose, he know’s exactly what’s going to happen. He’s just waiting for it to unfold. And you have to admit it’s pretty funny. Especially when you realize that...he did it on purpose. (and he made it a cloak because he wanted to akumatize both of them.)

They both know what’s up.

And you know what, I actually like it quite well, but Audrey is right...it doesn’t look good on Andre. 

“A symbol of eternal love...”

Sooo if someone were to order that in a dress form for themselves....would it symbolize their self-love too? 

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Adrien: Can we help you? *puts hands together* please?

Pure. 

“The secret to a long lasting marriage is-” “Distance!” 

Nathalie:

That smirk.

Even if no one dates each other in the Kagami/Adrien/Marinette/Luka square, they have a very wholesome friendship deserving of recognition. 

Scooby dooby doo, where are you, we’ve got some work for you now 

This was a shout-out to the cliche of all older cartoons when folks are sneaking around, wasn’t it?

She’s still the one out here on the field doing the dirty work. 

Pure. Nothing to see here, just two broken rich kids finally having a chance to enjoy themselves with their good friend Marinette. I love their friendship.

My resting face.

She really is quite pretty with her hair down. 

Gotta go fast

She pressed one button and spoke to Hawkmoth. She has Hawkmoth on speed dial.

I ship lovesquare but the more we get of Lukanette and Adrigami the more I appreciate it. And the more Luka grows on me. I don’t ship it, but I’m not mad at it at all. 

I love the Mari-vision. Its like watching a lightbulb go off in her head.

Also! I love how Heart Hunter/Loveater doesn’t just target romantic love. I mean, sure romantic love is cool and all but they were even able to recognize the love and bond between an owner and their pet. Self-love counts. I’m honestly really disappointed they didn’t get a chance to corner Nathalie, though...not that I want Nathalie in harms way, but I would have loved to hear them say something like “This one is just absolutely filled with love.” “Yes, unrequited...” “Love for a family that can never be her own. What a shame...” and right before she gets devoured, Chat Noir dives down and gives her a chance to get away. 

I have nothing to say about this, I just wanted to include it. 

They still look like night and day even without ones transformation.

“I dont believe in those kids of myths...but I do believe in ice cream” I agree.

“I wish I didn’t have to involve you in this”

Poor thing- I love this scene though. As soon as we see them together it starts with him reaching for her- seeing them out in public, in the daylight, interacting like that, it’s quite pleasing. 

Does he even realize how close her is to her?

And when you zoom further out, he’s got a hand resting on her shoulder...

It’s quite beautiful. 

An awkward screenshot, but I love this running sequence. “Bye bye little bird”, love it.

And...she fell right into their trap. They knew they’d never be able to find the guardian if she managed to detransform and be her civilian self- they were rushing and confusing her so she’d forget to detransform.

“My dear guardian” Okay so what does Hawkmoth have a thing for Master Fu now? 

“My dear Pigeon” 

“My dear Mayura”

“My dear Guardian”

It’s like with me and calling everyone “Hon(ey)”. And I have to admit, the first time seeing this- 

It was quite terrifying. Because I couldn’t help but imagine/compare it to looking up and suddenly seeing something like SCP-096 looming over you, or slenderman or you know just...something really chilling. Looking up and seeing someone or something with the capabilities of ruining and uprooting your life, when you’ve been trying so hard to avoid them all this time. It’d be spooky.

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The conversation they had here was kinda heartbreaking. 

“There’s only one person I don’t want to hurt- Marinette. She’s the only other friend I have.” and yet “I can’t give him up, even for the sake of friendship”

Maybe I find it heartbreaking because I value friendship over romantic feelings. If I found out a friend had feelings for a guy I also liked, unless that guy approached me first, it’d be given up for the sake of my friend. And even if the guy approached me first, it’d still be a complicated process for me to be willing to accept. I’m so used to hearing about Friends > everyone else that I forget that there are people who don’t have those same values. 

Aw yeah, Master Fu finally out to kick some shell.

And the fact that Hawkmoth assumes that old people have the same time limit that children do, goes to show that hey, he still doesn’t know everything about the miraculous. He still has a lot to learn. 

Oh gosh I love going through and pausing this show frame by frame because then I get gems like this

I can’t stop giggling at this omgosh

“You talk a lot but you haven’t achieved much so far” Master Fu’s really out here to roast Hawkmoth. 

Maymoth are a power couple.

Okay so....I love this? It’s actually really clever if he’s looking for more allies. I like the way he went about it here. Offering her something she desperately wants and can boost her power...and in return she fight by his side. And targeting her once all her hope is down the drain, when her doubts are at their highest...yes, yes, it’s twisted as heck but I like how you can see the thought he put into this. He’s even willing to go so far as to call her “My queen” just to further erase all doubts she might have and cement the idea that if she follows through and does as he asks she can have everything she wants.

ngl this gave me strong Sebastian Michaelis vibes (a demon off the show Black Butler). 

And I like how they were sure to incude the detail of the akuma not only just flying out of the cloak but also lsing the energy it had been infused with.

And Marinette’s emotional breakdown...

Finally, we get to see some of the effect that owning the miraculous and having to constantly hold back her negative emotions has had. It can’t be easy, having to constantly lie to people you love and trust, not being able to show them a side of yourself that really is a part of who you are. Never being allowed to feel overwhelmingly sad, or mad, for fear of destroying your home and family with no one to stop it. And on top of it, feeling as if you have to give up on the person you love because, they love someone else, and someone else loves them more than they love you. Feeling as if Adrien can’t be trusted for fear of spreading her deepest secret, as if Kagami doesn’t care about her as much as she may have hoped, and she ends up rambling about something tht Luka can’t begin to understand unless he knows her secret. 

And Luka, “You can tell me everything, or nothing if you prefer” that is so important, Luka has officially gained my utmost respect. His personality, values and mindset are starting to really come out and I respect it. He knows that sometimes people just can’t talk about something right then and there, that sometimes they’re just not ready, and that it’s okay. I like how they used that to showcase part of Luka and it’s really important for kids to learn that too. 

#loveater #loveater spoilers #battle of the miraculous #ml spoilers #mlb spoilers #finale spoilers #marinette #marinette dupain cheng #nathalie #nathalie sancoeur #gabriel #gabriel agreste #maymoth #gabenath #loveater analysis #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #ml #mlb #chloe #chloe bourgeois #mayura #hawkmoth #kagami #Kagami Tsurugi #luka #luka couffaine #miracle queen #miracle queen spoilers

[sincerelymarinette]

A Recorded Life - Miraculous Ladybug (20/50)

Words: 1173 Chapter Summary: After a big and difficult Akuma, make sure to tune into the news to see the newest viral video people will be talking about for years. Author's Note: here we are............. >:) i love this chapter and i love light angst. and yes i just gave all the chapters names and i tried to make most of them sound like youtube video titles because ya know it kinda works 

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"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug yelled as she was running out of time. She only had less than a minute left, and Chat Noir was not far behind with his timing. She had already run off to recharge, and was running out of stamina as this fight ended. The second round of recharge was better, as they did finally defeat the Akuma, but she was still freaking out inside.

"My Lady," Chat Noir said. "We need to get out of here. Now. Or we will detransform in front of everyone," Chat held out his hand for Ladybug to take, and they started running. Racing the clock, they jumped into an alley.

Ladybug lost her balance when they jumped down and ended up on the ground. She had less than thirty seconds to get out of there, and as she struggled to get up, Chat was trying to tell her something. Of course, Ladybug didn't hear it, thanks to the loud noise of the flash from the detransformation. "Marinette?" Chat gasped when he saw Marinette Dupain-Cheng sitting before him.

Tears formed in Marinette's eyes when she realized what was happening, and before she could look away, Chat Noir lost his transformation too. "Adrien?!" Marinette yelled.

"Oh my god!" A teenager shouted from down the alley with his phone facing the two. "Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the YouTuber, is Ladybug? And Adrien Agreste is Chat Noir? No way!" The kid shouted, obviously having recorded the whole thing.

Adrien grabbed Marinette's hand. "We have to get out of here," He said as he helped her up. Instead of Marinette walking with Adrien, though, she took off running. "Marinette!" Adrien called after her, but was stopped by the teenager.

"Adrien, anything you have to say about this?" The kid shoved the phone in Adrien's face.

With a scowl on his face and squinted eyes, Adrien moved around the kid, pushing the phone slightly. "Get out of my face and leave us alone," He snarled and turned in the direction Marinette ran. "Marinette!" He yelled again, chasing down the street. But alas, he had lost sight of her, and he knew there was no way he was going to be able to find her.

Adrien ditched a crowd following him by hiding in a few random buildings, and his phone began to blow up as the video was posted and went immediately viral.

Marinette held her hands in her face as she bawled running down the sidewalks. There was no way she was going home to face her parents; she was too scared about what they would say. And she really just needed a shoulder to cry on now, and ended up knocking lightly on the door of her best friend.

"Marinette!" Alya sighed. "I was just about to call you. I just saw on TV...are you okay?" Alya said and pulled Marinette into a tight hug. Alya guided her inside and locked the door. "Nino is here, too, is that okay?"

Marinette sniffled and nodded. "I'm freaking out, Alya," She said through tears as she heard the radios, phones, and TVs playing the news. "I can't believe this is happening," Marinette cried as she collapsed on the couch, staring at the TV.

BREAKING NEWS flashed across the screen as Nadia Chamack began to speak.

"Don't be bemused; it's just the news! As the most recent Akuma was just defeated, a video has been released showing Ladybug and Chat Noir dropping their transformations. Ladybug is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, a successful YouTuber featured around designing and random videos. She has worked with Jagged Stone many times before, as well as working in her parent's bakery. Chat Noir, surprisingly, turns out to be Adrien Agreste. This was a real shocker! The son of fashion powerhouse Gabriel Agreste and famous fashion model is one of Paris' superheroes-" The TV continued on, and Marinette gasped.

"Adrien," She whispered. "I...I left him," Marinette began to cry again.

Nino nodded slowly. "Yeah, and he had some harsh words for the person recording you. Then it looked like he was chasing after you, but I guess he didn't find you," Nino said, and Marinette shook her head to confirm his assumption.

Alya clicked off the TV. "I'm going to call your parents and let them know you're here. I know they're freaking out right now, and I know you won't be able to say a word," Alya announced and moved to the other side of the room. "Hey- yes, she's here. She's okay. Very shaken up and crying, but she's okay," Marinette began to tune out the conversation and just let herself cry.

"Hey," Nino put his arm around Marinette for comfort. "If you don't mind me asking, did you and Adrien know about each other?"

She shook her head once again. "No, we swore to keep it a secret to keep everyone safe. If we knew about each other, it could get out easier. But I guess that didn't matter," Marinette cried into Nino's shoulder.

"Yes, of course. Nino and I are going to talk to her and try to calm her down, but I will bring her home tonight. What? No, sorry, he isn't here. I'm sure he will show up sooner than later, though. See you guys later," Alya finished the conversation with Marinette's parents and put her phone down. "Girl, this is crazy."

"You're telling me," Marinette sniffled. "This is everywhere. Hawkmoth's probably watched the video a million times. He could go after Adrien or me...Adrien lives in a big mansion, and I live in a popular bakery, not the hardest things to find."

Nino and Alya listened to Marinette freak out. "Did you guys have any ideas about who Hawkmoth is?" Nino asked.

Marinette wiped her tears and shrugged. "At the beginning of the year, I actually thought it was Gabriel Agreste. I had a pretty good lead, too, but then he got akumatized, and we were able to rule him out. Oh my god, that means there was a point where Adrien was convinced his father was Hawkmoth..." Marinette set in realization.

"Well, you can't keep him ruled out, now," Alya shrugged, only getting a confused look from Marinette. "Miraculous holders can get akumatized. Chloe got akumatized while she had her miraculous. I'm not saying Gabriel is Hawkmoth, but you guys should be careful and see if there is any way you can protect your miraculous. Who knows who could break into your houses now to get your stuff," Alya reasoned.

Nodding slowly, a million thoughts were circling her mind. "Hey, it's getting late. I should get you home so you can talk to your parents. I'm sure they're worried sick," Alya grabbed Marinette's hand and pulled her off the couch. "I'll walk you home. Nino, are you joining?"

"Sorry, dudettes, I think I'm going to try to track down Adrien. I want to make sure he's okay, too," He said.

"No, that's a good idea," Marinette said as she was being dragged out by Alya. "I'll talk to him, too," She paused, "Eventually."

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