Chasing Ladybug 📸 (A Miraculous Ladybug Fanfic)

5 • Now | Sly Fox, Dumb Bug

NOW

Marinette pushes her trapdoor open to her bedroom and finds Rena Rouge by her desk. She closes the dork before asking, "Did the plan work?"

"You really are the embodiment of luck," Rena comments with a chuckle. "Trixx, let's rest." Alya takes the hero's place and reaches into her fanny pack to feed her kwami grabs. "Marinette—"

"I know, I know," The pig-tailed girl mumbles as she throws herself down on her chaise. "I fucked up."

Alya rests a hand on her best friend's shoulder. "You really have to find better spots to hide and transform. I can't keep using the fox miraculous to trick people."

"I didn't know anyone else was in the bathroom before I transformed!" Marinette defends. "I forgot to check the other stalls."

"Sky fox," Alya says as she points to herself, and then to Marinette. "Dumb bug."

Marinette grabs a purse and throws it at her. "Oh, shut up," She says, laughing.

"Hey, our plan worked, so it's no biggie." Alya squeezes her shoulder. "Just don't make it a habit, girl, 'kay?"

She nods. "Hopefully Sabrina doesn't believe I'm Ladybug."

There's a thud on the roof.

"That's my cue to go," Alya states, grabbing her backpack from the floor.

The skylight opens and Cat Noir drops in, his transformation falling into Adrien as he lands on the bed. He climbs down the loft and meets the girls. "Did the plan work?"

Alya nods. "Like clockwork. Don't let your girl here get into any more trouble."

"Trust me, I won't." Adrien leans forward and kisses Marinette.

"Well, I have a date with Nino, so I'll see you guys later." The reporter waves and disappears through the trap door.

"I missed you," Marinette whispers into his shoulder as she hugs him tight. "I know we saw each other five minutes ago, but..."

Adrien laughs in her ear. "I knew you couldn't resist me."

It had only been a month since Marinette and Adrien learned each other's secret identities and double lives as Paris' superheroes, and yet they were more in love than ever.

Marinette's grand idea to go back and forth as Ladybug and Multimouse had—inevitably—backfired as her kwami predicted and even through she tried to keep her identity safe from Cat Noir, it didn't work. They love dating at civilians, and to protect their identities, they decided not to date as heroes, too, in case someone eventually caught on.

It's hard to do, of course, when Cat Noir constantly flirts and Ladybug has to pretend she doesn't like it (because she does).

"I'm gonna miss Multimouse," Adrien says as he falls beside his girlfriend on the chaise, wrapping an arm around her shoulder. "All those secret dates we went on... all those akumas we fought together..." He pretends to cry and hides his face in Marinette's jacket. "A tragic ending to our beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime romance."

Marinette rolls her eyes. "Yeah, yeah... we're all going to miss the mouse."

"Hey, Multimouse holds a special place in my heart," The model fights back as she starts playing with the end of one of her pigtails. "Technically, she was my first girlfriend."

"Oh, and I wasn't?"

"Tomato, potato, Bugaboo." Adrien waves her comment away with a cheeky grin. "All that matters is that I got the girl."

"You sure did." Marinette cradles Adrien's face as she leans in and kisses him. "If my dad catches us, he's going to kill you."

The model held her chin and traced his thumb along her bottom lip. "Wouldn't be the first time he caught us, though, would it be, Milady?"