Miraculous Prompts

Coffee Dreams

Chapter 2: Coffee Dreams

Prompt: Ladybug and Chat Noir: Coffee

Rating: K

Requested by: Adesteny

Marinette was tired. Really tired. No wait, tired was an understatement. Marinette Dupain-Cheng was exhausted! And she still had to finish her math homework and read an entire History book and write a Literature essay that was worth 10% of her grade. By tomorrow.

"Why does the universe hate me?" Marinette groaned in her head as she sat in her desk chair, glancing fleetingly at her bed. It looked soooo comfortable. If only.... She unlocked her computer and switched to the open Ladyblog tab for a few seconds, scanning it to see if there was an akuma running around. "There better not be..." she muttered.

"What?" Tikki asked, flying up to the desk. The little kwami let loose a huge yawn. She was just as tired as Marinette was.

"I was saying there'd better not be an akuma out today," Marinette explained. There had already been three akuma attacks this week alone! Plus her patrols every other night. Marinette was running herself ragged.

Tikki suggested asking Chat to cover her patrol, but both of them agreed that it wasn't a good idea when Chat Noir nearly passed out from exhaustion on their last patrol. He was pushing himself even harder than she was. Through pleasant (but vague) small talk, she had also learned that he was severely punished if his grades fell. Strict parents, maybe?

Anyway, after that little episode, they had decided to patrol together. That way, if one of them did end up passing out (it was ridiculous that it had come to that) then the other one would be there. Marinette glanced at the clock. 9:37pm. She had to meet Chat in an hour and a half.

"What should I even start with?" Marinette asked herself, groaning. Tikki hovered over her.

"Start with the Lit essay. Then do the math if you have time. You can read the book in between classes and at lunch because History is the last class of the day. Maybe you'll read enough of it to fake reading the whole thing," Tikki suggested. Marinette groaned again.

10:45 came too fast. Marinette forced herself to her feet, looking at the half completed algebra equation on her paper. Shaking her head, she called "Tikki, spots on!" Transforming brought her no extra energy, because Tikki had none to give.

"This is gonna be horrible," she commented as she swung out the window. Leaping across the rooftops, every step she took, she nearly stumbled. Only the wind against her face kept her eyes open. At one point, she did actually trip and ended up sprawled across the arooftop.

"Okay, I'm calling for intervention," Tikki said inside of Marinette's head. "You're gonna kill yourself if you patrol while you're this tired."

"What are you gonna do? Give me an energy drink?" Ladybug groaned. Tikki giggled.

"Kinda. You see that café down there?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"I want you to go down there and buy yourself some coffee!"

"As Ladybug? I don't have any money... And those people will freak out if a super hero comes into their shop."

"No silly, as Marinette. I know for a fact you have a leftover ten dollar bill in your back pocket," Tikki said. Marinette gasped.

"I do?" She leapt down and de-transformed. Digging around in her back pocket, she pulled out a crumpled ten dollar bill. "Booya! I'm freakin' rich!" she cheered tiredly. "How did I miss this?"