eternity to save you

chapter 3

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Adrien and Ladybug ran back into the sewers, both of their miraculous beeping rapidly. Ladybug barely made it into a locker before her transformation fell, and Adrien’s transformation quickly followed. Adrien sat down on a bench in the middle of the room.

He had finally, after 25,914 tries, saved Ladybug and defeated the akuma. He knew she was going to be disappointed in Chat Noir for not showing, so he decided the best option was to pretend he had been struck by the akuma before getting back to her.

Adrien glanced up at the locker Ladybug was hiding in. He knew he had to explain to her what had happened and wasn’t sure she would believe him.

After all, even if she did love him there was no way for her to know whether or not he was lying. He hated the hole he had dug himself into. He was so close to being with the girl of his dreams but because of the damned miraculous only he could remember everything. She had absolutely no recollection of the conversations they'd had. He was so deep in thought he didn’t realize the heroine had left the locker.

“Adrien are you ok?”

Adrien looked up and saw that Ladybug had transformed and was looking at him with a worried expression. He cleared his throat and straightened up on the bench. “There’s something I want to tell you,” he replied before beckoning towards the bench across from him.

After Ladybug had sat down and was looking back at him, he cleared his throat one last time before speaking. “So to keep this as straightforward as possible,” Adrien began, “during one of the many times I used the snake miraculous to rewind time, you and I spent the whole time talking. As of right now I can not tell you what led to this, but before I used Second Chance you asked me to find you.” Adrien met Ladybugs curious gaze, “As in… civilian you.”

To give her credit, she did not look nearly as shocked as Adrien would’ve thought she would be. Ladybug merely narrowed her eyes slightly and stared into his own for what felt like hours. She tilted her head curiously before responding.

“Did I mention anything about the identity rules to you, Adrien?” she calmly questioned. Adrien thought back to what she had told him. “From what I can recall, you said that you didn’t care about the rules and a mask shouldn't be in the way of our happiness.” Adrien replied firmly. If his friendship with Kagami had taught him anything, it taught him that it is best to just go for it.

Adrien watched a smile slowly spread across the spotted hero’s face. Her eyes got a slightly playful gleam in them. She seemed to have lost any doubts that previously lingered in her mind. “Well if that is the case,” Ladybug said before standing suddenly and leaning to whisper in his ear, “I guess you’ll just have to find me, mon prince.” She bopped him on the nose and practically skipped out of the lockers.

Adrien stood in shock as the door swung shut behind her. It was almost embarrassing how a simple nickname and nose bop could turn him into a blushing wreck. As he stood frozen, Plagg flew out of his pocket and started cackling.

“Well well if it seems little mister ‘Don’t worry Plagg, I can do it!’ has been turned to a useless statue because of a girl!” the tiny cat god teased. Adrien glared at the creature who was now mimicking his conversation with Ladybug. Even though Plagg was very dear to Adrien, sometimes he was really bad at reading the room.

“It’s not funny Plagg now I have to find who she is or she will be disappointed!” Adrien huffed back. “Oh come on kid it can’t be that hard just find somebody with pigtails and blue eyes!” Plagg shot back.

“Or just turn around in class to your just a friend,” Plagg muttered as he flew away from the oblivious wreck of a teenager. Adrien didn’t even notice Plagg had spoken as he continued rambling about Ladybug to himself. “If only he listened to me his life would be so much easier.” the kwami huffed as he flew towards the door to make sure nobody came in.

Luckily for Adrien, Ladybug was about to make his job a little easier. Across Paris, Marinette Dupain-Cheng was squealing into her pillow as an exasperated kwami floated nearby. Little would Adrien know until days later she stayed up all night thinking of ways to help his search.

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A/n: heyy sorry for the short chapter but i hope you guys enjoyed it!