Blame the rain

I still like the potential and concept of MLB, even if I'm not content with where the series is going and how it's written. Mostly, I had issues with season 4.
One of my major complaints is how Ladybug and Chat Noir's angsty relationship and the sub-plot of his disappointment was handled, but I still tried to write a drabble with sad ending to wrap a bit the theme and just let out some casual dialogues going through my brain?
I hope you will enjoy some juicy angst!

"Why can't we recruit Multimouse anymore?!"

It hadn't started with such intense and pretentious tones. Despite his nervousness and growing dissatisfaction with the situation he was in with his partner, it wasn't in the plans to just explode the moment she arrived.

To be fair, his actual plan was to talk to Ladybug about their partnership, quietly but firmly express to her how much he felt left out and how he wished things to go back, as far as possible, to how they were in the beginning. It's not like he was asking for her to drop all the additional help from the temporary heroes, just... lean on him more.

He had also prepared a speech with Plagg, practicing in front of the mirror in his not-so-modest bathroom.

It wasn't such a bad strategy, he had prepared plenty of versions of speeches to start with and he felt like that one was already a small success.
He was at least less unprepared to face her.

And the greatest success in the first place; he had convinced her to come.

With a lot of insistence, the same efforts he used to take in booking an appointment with Gabriel, he had managed to convince her to meet up with him and even better... she didn't stand him up.
Like she did every single time in the last period.

How many similarities between his lady and his father...

But he preferred to avoid thinking too much about such a comparison. For some reason, it made him sick in the stomach.

However, Chat's luck or as well his self-control, didn't improve when, on his way to their patrol spot, he had caught with his eyes his classmate and, hopefully not on wrong assumption, one of his closest friends: Marinette.

It was impossible not to think about the matter concerning her once it was brought back to his brain, because even if he hadn't shown it openly, it had been an extreme pleasure to discover that Marinette was Multimouse. If there was one person who deserved to have a Miraculous, it was her.

A big disappointment was instead how Ladybug didn't seem to think the same way, further proved by the debut of the new heroine Polymouse, who had replaced Marinette in one of their latest fights.
He already had wanted to face the spotted-heroine on that, but never had found the right moment to bring it up, until it seemed unnecessary with the time that had passed. His classmate seemed to do well, better than how he had perceived her a few weeks before, so perhaps bringing up drama wouldn't be for the best.

But the more Chat stood there waiting, the more his thoughts couldn't leave out that detail and his patience grew on the verge. Eventually, when two hours passed and his partner showed up, that was the very first outburst that his mouth decided to throw at her.

"You know very well we already have a superhero for the Miraculous of the mouse." She replied directly, with a tone of obviousness, only instigating the boy's anger even more. He felt treated like an idiot, which he was not, despite his joking attitude.
She was trying to deviate the discourse by putting up the professional worker facade.