Miraculous Ladybug Imagines

Reveal Scenario

so I haven't made a reveal one-shot in awhile so I thought I'd give it a go... ;) hope everyone enjoys!

Ladybug was running so fast her legs felt like they would snap off any minute now.

She couldn't stop. She only had a minute before her transformation would wear off, and Chat Noir was currently on her tail.

"Wait!" he yelled urgently. "I just want to tell you something!"

"I can't, I'm sorry!" Ladybug yelled back, hand gripping her yoyo. "I'm about to change back!"

Chat skidded to a stop, watching Ladybug reach for her yoyo. He frowned. Tonight was the night he wanted to confess to Ladybug. To spill his true feelings for her. And not by flirting.

He wanted it to be for real.

Ladybug looked back, visibly saddened. Her pigtails swayed in the wind. "I'm sorry," she whispered.

Ladybug flung her yoyo at the nearest building. She gritted her teeth, reminding herself to hurry up before her transformation wore off.

The string latched onto a chimney and Ladybug tugged on it to make sure it was secure. She scooted to the very edge of the building, still sensing Chat's presence behind her.

Ladybug was just about to jump off when a final beep rang in her ears. She gasped in shock as a red flash suddenly filled the air.

Chat winced, the light blinding him. It took him a moment to process the fact that Ladybug was detransforming right before his eyes.

As much as he wanted to look, he knew that Ladybug firmly believed that they shouldn't know each other's secret identities. And he would honor that wish.

"Ladybug?" Chat yelled, his eyes pinched shut. "Are you okay?"

As the transformation peeled away, it left a shocked and embarrassed Marinette behind. Realizing that she was on the edge of a building without the comfort of her magical yoyo, her heart sunk, causing her to quickly back away from the edge.

"Uh, yeah," Marinette said, noticing that Chat's eyes were pinched shut. Had he seen her detransform and was devastated with the outcome so he closed his eyes in disappointment? Or had he chose to close his eyes so he wouldn't know her secret identity?

Marinette guessed the second option considering Chat Noir was very respectful of her wishes.

"Sorry about... everything," Marinette laughed. "I didn't exactly keep track of time."

Chat chuckled back, his anxiousness creeping up on him. He wanted to open his eyes so bad. The love of his life was standing in front of him. Without the mask. Without the secrets.

Would she hate him if he looked?

Curiosity definitely would've killed the cat if that were the case.

Exhaling slowly, Chat opened his eyes.

He couldn't function. He couldn't talk or do anything for that matter. He was so utterly dumbfounded.

In Ladybug's place, Marinette Dupain-Cheng smiled sheepishly at him. So she was the girl behind the Ladybug mask.

He had been flirting with Marinette all those days. Innocent, quiet, kind Marinette. He was hopelessly flirting with her. The girl who couldn't say two words in front of him. It almost felt... wrong.