Imagine post-identity reveal Adrien sighing and dreamily doodling “Mr. Adrien Dupain-Cheng” in the margins of his notebook with lots of swirls and hearts and shit. Nino laughs at him and Marinette practically spontaneously combusts.
I have been summoned
This chapter is a little shorter, but it kind of sets up stuff to get the ball rolling for future chapters. You’ll see what happens next time. I will say that I was so unsettled by my own cliffhanger that I started the next chapter immediately after finishing this one. XD
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Chapter 7
“Chloe?”
Adrien and Marinette stared at her with equally bewildered expressions as she glared daggers through them.
“What are you doing here? In my house? Who let you in?” Marinette instinctively bristled, but Chloe simply rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest.
“I came to your pathetic hovel to…ask for your help,” she said the last word with a hint of disgust.
“You want my help?” Marinette cocked a brow.
“Yes, don’t get all sappy on me. I still hate you, but I hate you less right now, so I’m calling a temporary truce,” she explained, shifting her weight a little.
“And just why should I help you?” Marinette asked, leaning back in her chair and crossing her arms.
“Because I think it will be mutually beneficial to both of us,” Chloe replied, glancing around the room with a wrinkled nose before settling back on Marinette.
“What exactly is it that you want, Chloe?” Adrien asked, and she flicked her gaze to him as if noticing him for the first time.
“Why are you here?”
“Adrien and I are friends, Chloe. He can hang out with me if he wants.” Chloe held up a hand to silence her mid-sentence, but Marinette ignored her as she waved her statement away.
“No, I know you two are friends; it’s a fact that has made me question Adrien’s sanity for quite some time now, but I just thought you ditched everyone at Francoise-Dupont,” Chloe said with a shrug. “We can discuss it later, right now I have bigger things to deal with. I know you hate Lila, and now I hate Lila because she’s getting in my way. You were the only real rival I had at school, so if anyone can help me destroy her it’s you, so I’ve been thinking-”
“Chloe, do you really think taking Lila down is the best way to go?” Adrien scolded, but she simply blinked at him.
“Adrikins, how long have you known me?” She laughed, placing a hand on her hip. “Taking people down is what I do.”
“So why do you need my help exactly?” Marinette asked.
and????
I despise that man more than words can describe.
Gabriel is preparing to Thanos his son in order to bring back his wife.
Ladybug: You flirt and kiss and for what? Sex? Love? Pathetic.
Chat Noir: To raise my charisma stat.
Ladybug: Ah, I see. A gamer. You may pass.
Manon: hey, mr. model, can we go to the park?
Adrien, helping babysit because of Alya’s meddling: what did Marinette say?
Manon: she said no
Adrien: so why are you asking me?
Manon: because she’s not the boss of you
Adrien, internally: it’s a trap it’s a trap it’s a trap it’s a trap
Marinette: [watching the news] some idiot tried to fight the squid at the aquarium
Chat Noir: [covered in ink] maybe the squid was being a dick
An AU where Adrien was never able to convince his father to go to school so he continues to be home-schooled, and his only friends are Plagg, Ladybug, and Chloe. He’s still in love with Ladybug but even though Marinette never meets Adrien she doesn’t quite fall for Chat Noir. She still sees him as a valued partner and a great friend, a best friend really. It probably could be more but she has to keep telling herself that she can’t get involved with a guy when she can’t even get to know his civilian self.
Then one day she goes to a party thrown by Chloe and meets Adrien and she decides right there and then that he can’t be trusted because he’s Chloe’s BFF and who could trust that, and she never gets to know him like she would if they shared class and got to have their umbrella moment. They keep running into each other since Chloe is a mutual person in their life and she can’t bring herself to make friends with him even after she begrudgingly sees he’s actually a nice person.
On patrol she sees an Adrien ad and she starts to dump on it. “Look at that stupid perfect face. I can’t believe I have to look at it all over Paris.” And Chat can’t stop himself from laughing and joins in. The next week she saves Adrien from an Akuma and lectures him about staying safe and Adrien can’t let the moment pass so he says, “who needs to be safe when you have a stupid perfect face.” he winks and Marinette/Ladybug.exe stops working.
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