wanna-bee your honey
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happy third birthday to the bee movie au!! i wrote this quite hastily yesterday but thought i needed to do something to commemorate this anniversary. hope this gets you buzzed! :)
“...and so, we decided his punishment would be to watch the Bee Movie,” Tim finished with a flourish.
“The Bee Movie?” Marinette made a face. “That’s quite a…targeted consequence for losing a bet.” The bet in question was over how much money Bruce would fork to prevent Jason from telling a reporter about him and Batman’s torrid love affair. The answer was nothing—though it was probably because he knew no one would believe it. Wouldn’t stop Vicki Vale, though.
“Why that movie specifically? Does he have a vendetta against it or something?” Marinette questioned further.
“He does, actually.” Steph piped in. “‘Capitalist propaganda,’ he claims, but it’s gotta be more than that. We thought that if we made him watch it, we’d finally find out why.”
She nodded. That made sense.
“Y’know,” the blonde continued, “he always gets weird around bee-themed heroes too, so maybe he just doesn’t like bees in general.”
“He’s not very buzzed about them,” Marinette observed. Tim groaned, but Cass and Dick reached over to give her a high-five.
“We’re watching it tonight, so make sure to bee there,” Dick told her. “You won’t want to miss this one.”
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True to his words, the Wayne kids were all gathered in a swarm around the projector that night.
“Where’s the queen bee?” Marinette asked.
“Dunno, but he’s gotta be somewhere in the hive.”
“We are not doing this,” Duke spoke to the air.
He was saved from death by puns at the sight of Damian escorting Jason into the room. Escorting was a loose term, considering the katana the shorter brother was currently brandishing across his throat.
“I have apprehended the convict,” he said. He let go of Jason, who fell to the ground with an oof. “Not to worry. I confiscated his bee-bee guns.”
“Damian!” Marinette cooed, and smothered him in a hug. She was so proud. “My honey’s all grown up.” He scowled at her but made no move to push her away.
“Don’t bee such a buzzkill,” Dick said to Jason, resting a hand on his shoulder.
“I hope you all go to hell.”
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“Bees have good qualities. And it takes my mind off the shop,” Vanessa said to Barry, waxing poetic about her fuzzy more-than-a-friend.
In what seemed like an odd mirror of the situation, Marinette leaned over to whisper to Jason. “Are you okay?”
He had seemed mildly uncomfortable at the beginning of the movie, but she was beginning to get concerned. His posture was uncomfortable stiff, he had uncharacteristically drawn into himself, and his face was awfully red…
“Do you want to leave?” she prompted.
Jason whispered something under his breath, but it was indistinguishable.
“Don’t be such a mumble bee,” Marinette said, followed by a sheepish ‘sorry.’ The situation was funny at first, but now she was worried that the Bee Movie was emotionally triggering for Jason. Perhaps the failure to overturn capitalist institutions reminded him of his failure to get Bruce to understand his moral stance on killing, or…something.
There was no response aside from the slight grimace that crossed Jason’s face, so she let it be. Bee. Haha.
The Wayne siblings were largely movie talkers, so it was easy to let herself get swept away in their commentary and the lightheartedness of the movie. When Ken attempted to swat Barry away, however, she felt a shift on the couch and heard Tim shout suprisedly. She turned around to see Jason slipping out the door.
“I’ll get him,” she said immediately. The rest of them had already stood up, but she sent them a look. They all knew that crowding Jason wouldn’t help, and he would be the most willing to listen to her.
“Pollen, buzz on!”
She winced at both the suit and the raised brows she received, but it was her only choice! Pollen had been curious about the movie, and she would have to be a real wasp to turn them down.
“Time to get down to bees-ness.”
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Plan A of calling Jason on his phone didn’t work, so Marinette was forced to resort to plan Bee. It didn’t take long to track him to the top of a roof, and even less time to get herself there.
When she landed, Jason moved deeper into the shadows, his body carefully angled away from her. She could hardly make out his face in the darkness. “Go away,” he said, but it didn’t sound like he really wanted her to leave.
“Come on, Jason. You can tell me what’s wrong. I won’t make fun of you.” Marinette edged closer towards him with carefully small steps. It felt like she was trying to approach a spooked animal.
“Marinette,” he warned, but the force behind his words was getting weaker.
“Whatever it is, I’ll try my best to help you. It’s okay.”
Jason snapped out of his reverie in a flash. He took a step forward in his panic, then back, but it was too late. Judging by the widening of her eyes after she looked down, there was no doubt that Marinette had seen it. God, he wished he had a fucking ‘bee-bee’ gun to hold to his head right now.
“Jason? Wait, no, come back—”
He ran and pointedly did not heed her words. In fact, he was planning on never coming back. If the universe was on his side at all, his grappling hook would miss the next roof and he would never return to the land of the living.
Of course, the universe hated him, so he was quickly immobilized by the Bee Miraculous’s venom ability.
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Marinette couldn’t believe it. Jason’s beehavior all made sense now: his refusal to watch the Bee Movie, his unwillingness to be seen—she just never thought it was because it gave him the urge to stick his finger into a honeypot.
“Sorry. Does it sting? No, stop glaring at me, that wasn’t a pun. Okay, maybe it was.”
The situation was a little unconventional, but she couldn’t stand to see Jason so embee-rassed.
“Truth bee told, I’m a little confused. But!” she emphasized, “I’m not opposed, per se.”
Jason looked beewildered.
“What was it that Barry said…right. I can help you, ah, drain the old stinger.”
The confusion was still plastered across his face, so Marinette released him from the effects, trusting he wouldn’t fly away. Then again, according to all known laws of aviation, there was no way a bee should be able to fly, so maybe those weren’t to be trusted.
“Why?” Jason asked. She didn’t need to question what he meant.
“I’ve aways liked the taste of honey. And, conveniently, I have access to a magical bee costume…”
Was it an abuse of power? Perhaps, but she was the Guardian of the Miraculous, so it didn’t matter. “You’re so beeautiful,” Jason whispered, and leaned in.
Safe to say, after the buzz they caused from their pollination, they needed to buy some Plan Bee.
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