I See You

Chapter 1

Dear diary,

  This is Marinette as always, it's been a month since I met my supposed soulmate. Now that I thought long and hard about it, it might just have been a trick of light--just the dark blue sky reflecting lightly on his sparkly green eyes...

Just like yesterday,
Marinette 🐞

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  "Stupid little Marinette...I wonder what got into to my mind that day," Muttered Marinette as she packed away her mostly used clothes into a bag. She was, after all, going to University to study fashion. It has been her passion, even as a child.

  "Marinette dear, your moving out tomorrow. Can't leave packing until the last minute, better hurry up," Her mother called from the kitchen.

  "Yes mama!" Marinette yelled as she started packing her sewing materials. She then found an old, tattered, stuffed toy she had from two years ago. A souvenir from a painful memory.

"...hey Tikki. It's been a while huh?" The toy was holding a pair of earrings. Ladybug's earrings.
Marinette missed all of it, the wind in her face, her hair flowing as she jumped from roof to roof, most of all she missed Tikki and her partner.

  "Don't worry Tikki, I'll get you back." Marinette put on the earrings again, unlike always, Tikki was not zooming through everything. She was just there, in Marinette's hand sitting motionless.

  It's been two years since Hawk Moth created the first akuma that actually succeeded. He didn't get the earrings but he managed to get the ring.  Tikki was turned into a stuffed toy by the akuma, Ladybug and Chat didn't have time to name it, but they knew it was going to cause chaos if they didn't stop it. But the akuma just magically disappeared.

  After all that, they haven't revealed their identity to each other. They didn't have the chance anyway, they don't know each other out of the mask. They were separated when they got defeated. For Marinette, defeated was not the right word, according to her Hawk Moth just stalled them to have time to create a plan.
It was there after all, the earrings, in his fingertips but he didn't do anything.

  "Marinette! Hey girl, how's packing?" Alya just burst in the room completely startling Marinette.

  "O-oh, hey Alya! It's going fine?" Marinette answered, more like questioned.
  "You don't seem so sure." Alya laughed and picked up one of Marinette's sketchbooks. "You were so obsessed with mystery guy back then huh?"

  "Shut up Alya. It's been years already." Marinette laughed. Knowing that the kid he met long ago was just another kid from the city.

  "Uhuh, I know that hun. The blog isn't doing well either. I have no leads on where to find Ladybug or if Chat was able to get back his ring." Alya paced in Marinette's room.