Fear Leads to Love

The Rescue

Adrien-
After the video call with Father I text Nino asking if he can send picture of Marinette from Alya. A few minutes later he he texts back a photo of her. Emailing it to myself I print it out. Plagg flies over handing me a pair of scissors, and I cut out the picture. Opening the locket I slide the picture into the empty side. Just then my phone starts to ring. I pick it up and see who it is. It's Alya. Why would Alya be calling me? I press the answer button, and hold the phone to my ear.
"Hello?" I say.
"Adrien!" Alya screams so load I have to pull the phone away from my ear.
"What is it?" I ask, putting the phone back.
"Did Marinette call you about her parents?"
"Yeah. What about it?"
"Do you guys plan to hang out on Saturday?"
"Yeah."
"Ok. Ok. On her birthday keep her away from the bakery at all cost! We'll be setting up a surprise party!"
"That's awesome!"
"I know!"
"But how am I suppose to keep her away?"
"I don't know just keep her away!"
"Ok. I'm on it."
"Good. BTW the party is at 4."
"Got it."
The call ends, and I set my phone back onto my desk.
"What's so cool?" Plagg asks.
"Surprise party for Marinette." I answer.
Floating over my shoulder Plagg inspects the necklace.
"I think you should give her cheese." He comments.
"She's not you Plagg."
"But who can resist cheese!"
I roll my eyes, and close the locket. A knocking sound echoes through the room. I get up from my computer desk, and walk to my bedroom door. I rotate the knob, swinging the door open to see Natalie stands in the doorway.
"Yes Natalie?" I ask.
"Your school called." She explains. "A pipe burst, flooding the building. You have no school tomorrow, along with your fencing class."
"Thank you." I say.
She walks away without another word, and I close the door. Grabing my phone again I text Marinette.
Hey no school tomorrow. Want to go to the park?
I toss my phone onto my bed, and walk into my closet. I then change into a pare of boxers and a t-shirt, and walk back out. Plagg lays on my pillow, belly filled with cheese. I collapse on my bed, wondering if she's asleep. Just then my phone makes the sound when I get a text. I pick it up off my head and turn it on.
Marinette texted back. 
Sure. When should we meet up?
Pick you up at your place. 11:00?
Great.
I lean other, and set my alarm to go off at 10.
Great. Goodnight Lovebug.
Night Kitty.
Setting my phone on my nightstand, and crawl under the covers. Under the darkness of night I quietly fall asleep.
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Marinette-
Papa loads the airport van with his and Mama's luggage. I hug Mama one last time, and she won't let go. When she does she says. "Ok there is plenty of food in the fridge. Your allowed to have friends over. And Mrs. Janis is next door if you need any-"
"She'll be ok." Papa interrupts.
"Oh, ok. But I'm still going call to check up on you."
"Ok, Mama." I say. "Win that competition. I'll make sure to watch."
"Oh, we love you Marinette." Mom says hugging me, along with Papa.
When they get in the van and drive off I retreat back inside from the cold of the early morning. Returning to my room I find Tikki still asleep. Without disturbing her I crawl back into bed, and set my alarm for 9 a.m.
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Mari-
I tie my hair into two pig-tails, and slip my purse over my shoulder. Tikki perches herself on my shoulder, and I pat her head.
"I wonder if we'll see that white animal again." She says.
"I hope so. I want to know what it is, and possibly help it out more." I say.
I walk down stairs, and into the bakery. Grabbing a muffin from a cabinet, and take a bite. Looking at that clock it reads 10:56. Adrien should be here any second. Tikki yawns a cute little yawn. "I'm still sleepy. I'm going to take a np."
"Ok sleepy head." I say while opening my purse.
Tikki floats down into my purse, and snuggles into her little blanket. I close the purse, and look up just as a knocking sound comes from the front door.  I walk over and open the door to see Adrien leaning against the door frame.
"Hey there Bug-a-boo." He smirks
"Hey." I say closing and locking the door. "How many cute nicknames do you have for me?"
"At least three." He says as he laces his fingers with mine.
"Well then I think it's only fair to come up with two more for you." I tease as we walk down the block.
"Oh. I know one." He says excitedly. "How about Handsome Cat?"
"Really?" I say raising an eyebrow. "Handsome Cat."
"Yeah! Isn't it suiting?"
"Hey Adrien. There's this new thing called humility. You should try it." I joke, taking another bite off my muffin.
"Haha, very funny." He laughs, kissing my cheek, and leads me into the park.
Walking around the park we talk about random things. Like getting to know each other, school, the news cast about us, and other stuff.
As I laugh at a bad joke he attempted making I blur of white dashes across my vision. I stop and turn towards a bush where the blur disappeared. Adrien stops dead in his tracks as I pull him back.
"Wait." I whisper, not wanting to scare it off.
"Marinette-"
"Shhh." I interrupt him.
I let go on his hand, and slowly walk up to the bush. Kneeling down I set the last of my muffin on the ground. And I wait patiently for something, anything. After a couple minutes a white paw sticks out from the shrub. Then another. Slowly a long snout with a black nose pokes out. It's a puppy! I had to hold back from screaming at the top of my lungs how cute it is. On further examination it looks like a husky. Slowly the husky pup walks up to the muffin, and starts nibbling on it.
"It's so cute." I whisper.
It looks up. One of its eyes are blue as the sea, the other orange as the sun. I've never seen a dog with different color eyes. Titling its head it looks at me. The muffin is gone, completely eaten by the adorable creature. Suddenly it pounces, knocking me onto my back. It then starts to lick my face with it's sand paper tung.  After it's done giving me doggy kisses I sit up to see my boyfriend on the ground laughing.  I pick up the cute pup, and start petting it.
"You're such a cutie." I say to the pup.
"Does it have a tag?" Adrien asks, calming down from his laughing fit.
I feel around it's neck. No collar. No owner. The poor thing I so thin. No wonder it ate the muffin in less tan 3 seconds.
"Nope." I say sadly. It looks like he's all alone. I scratch the dog's head ad he licks my nose. "Let's take it back to my place."
Adrien nods in agreement, and begins to walk over to help me up. The pup suddenly jumps off me, onto the ground, and growls at him. He staggers back, surprised by the dogs sudden action.
"Wow." He says. "You're a feisty one. A real hunter."
I pick up the pup to calm hI m down.
"Hunter." I giggle as it licks my nose again. "I'll call you Hunter."
This time when Adrien steps closer to me Hunter doesn't growl at him, but barks a friendly bark. I stand up on my own, Hunter wrapped up in my arms so he can't run off. When we reach my place I hand Hunter to Adrien so I can open the door. As I unlock the door Hunter squirms in his arms, ready to be let go. I close the door behind us, and head upstairs to the living room. Adrien sets the pup down, not wanting to handle to wiggling. The pup then starts to run around the room, sniffing everything.
"I don't have any dog food." I say, closing a cabinet I was looking in.
"Got any meat?" Adrien asks.
I raise my eyebrow.
"It's for the dog."
Rummaging through the fridge I find frozen dinners, cheese, etc. Searching through the meat drawer I find a raw piece of meat. The reason why Papa would have it escapes me. I grab a cutting board from a cupboard, and set it on the counter. Pouring the meat onto the board, and get a knife from the utensil drawer. Using the knife I cut the meat into I small pieces. Finishing up I walk over to where Adrien and Hunter play on the carpet.
"Ok you two." I laugh. "Snack time."
"Great! I'm starving." Adrien says rubbing his stomach.
"For the dog."
"Oh come on Bug-a-boo." He pleads. "I'm hungry."
"I'll make us lunch in a bit."
I kneel down with a piece of meat in my hand. Hunter skips over, and devours it. He eats so fast that I barely have time to grab the next before he eats it again.
"Would you finish feeding him?" I ask ask Adrien. "I want to call my my mom about our little friend here."
"Take your time."
I kiss him on the cheek, and head into my parents room phone in hand.
*Time skip 10 minutes*
I walk out from my parents room into the living room. Adrien and Hunter still play on the carpet. The small pup wrestles Adrien to the floor, but when he sees me he pounces and I'm the one on the floor.
"What she say?" Adrien asks laughing.
"Well." I say as Hunter licks my face. "First things first. We need to take this cutie to the vet."
"I figure that." He says moving next to me. I pull Hunter off my head to see my boyfriends upsides down face looming over mine.
"Mama said that he can stay here, but we'll side if we'll keep them when they get back." I say.
"I think you should." He says leaning closer. "I know my father wouldn't allow him to stay with me."
"Well then let's go to Pet Smart. Mama said we can him checked out there."
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A/N: Hey guys. I hope your liking the story so far. I just want to say I'm sorry for past spelling mistakes and others mistakes. I have started to reread my work before I post. And I hope you guys appreciate that I almost post daily. I'll try to continue doing that. One last thing I have decided that I will start my next fanfic after I finish this one. And this one is very long. There is plenty more to write. Goodbye for now my lovelies. Looooooooove yooooooou.