L'affaire

Her Sadness

Adrien POV

I knocked on Marinette's door to her apartment and waited. When I didn't get an answer I tried knocking again.

Nothing.

"Marinette? Mari are you in there?" I knocked again and was still greeted with silence.

"She's probably not home you nitwit." Plagg groaned from inside my jacket, probably annoyed at the noise I was making.

I sighed and began to walk away from the apartment back onto the sidewalk. I looked at the sky as it began to get darker, night slowly approaching.

Where could she be?

I tried her phone again, calling her for the 4th time today.

Once again I'm greeting by her voicemail.

I haven't seen or spoke to Marinette in a week and its starting to get to me. As much as I enjoy our...intimate sessions together just her company is enough to light up my day.

I really want to see her.

A noise alerted me and I look up to see Ladybug swinging around from building to building.

"What's Ladybug doing out here? Is there an akuma?"

"Maybe." My kwami replied sounding uninterested.

I ran into the nearest alleyway. Making sure the coast is clear I let Plagg out of my Jacket.

"We need to transform and see what Ladybugs up to." I told him. "Claws out Plagg!"

In a flash I transformed. Using my baton I vaulted across the buildings trying to catch up with Ladybug.

The sun had fully set when I lost sight of her around Notre Dame. I vaulted to the roof of the church and surveyed the area.

Where'd she go?

At the corner of my eye I saw a little flash of red near one of the gargoyles. I leaped my way over and stopped once I was a few feet away.

She was sitting on the ledge on the opposite side of the gargoyle..just staring at the city. I decided to make my presence known.

"M'Lady?" She jumped at the sound of my voice and looked at me.

She was crying.

"Ch...Chat Noir!" She said turning away from me quickly wiping away the tears. "What are you doing here?"

"I saw you swinging above the city and I thought there might have been an akuma." I explained honestly, taking a seat on the ledge next to her. "Is everything alright?"

"Yeah, everything's fine Chaton." She gave me a smile to further prove her point, but I was far from convinced.

"Ladybug...if something's on your mind you know you can tell me."

She sighed as she looked back to the city. "I doubt you or anyone else would really understand."

"Try me."

She sat in silence for a moment. She was still as beautiful as ever, her eyes sparkled from the tears she was shedding seconds ago, and I find myself getting lost in them like before.

Something was nagging at me in my mind though, there was something strangely familiar about her eyes, as if they belonged to...someone else.

"Have you ever been in love, Chat?"

I blinked at her sudden question. "Huh?"

Ladybug looked me in the eye. "Have you ever been in love?" She repeated

My eyes widen as I was clearly surprised at this.

"Yes...I have." I said staring back at her eyes. "Have you?"

She looked away. The sadness on her face seem to grow.

"Yes...I am in love with someone actually, but...he loves someone else."She fiddles with the string on her yoyo as she continues. "I've been in love with him for a long time and we're really good friends, awhile ago he revealed to me that he had feelings for someone..."

She looks down and I can tell she was holding back tears.

"But...even though I know he'll never see me that way, I still want to do whatever I can to make him happy."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing right now. Although it hurt like hell to hear that the love of my life say that she longed for another, the jealously I felt wasn't as strong as my anger.

Who the hell was this guy to ignore such an amazing girl, i felt that he wasn't worthy of her love, and here she is still trying to do whatever she can to keep him happy. What other girl could compare?

An image of Marinette suddenly crossed my mind. Could Marinette be the one that Ladybug's mystery love was pining for, she's the only other girl I could think that could even compare to Ladybug.

For some reason, the thought of another guy going after Mari also ticked me off. Whoever he is, he managed to capture the heart of my lady, and now there's a chance he's after my princess?

After a long silence I finally decided to speak up. "So..you want to make him happy...right?"

Ladybug nodded.

"What about your happiness? What about what you want?" Her eyes widen at my question and she looked at me, I continued. "How you feel is important too you know? You shouldn't have to force your feelings away like that. If you think you guys should spend some time apart to try to get your feelings together about the whole thing. Than that's what you should do."

Ladybug bit her lip as she went deep in thought.

I wasn't expecting her to give me a tight hug.

"Thanks Chaton, I think I know what I need to do now." She released me and stood up on the ledge and I stood with her.

"No problem M'Lady. I'll always be around to solve your purroblems" I winked.

"That...was awful." She said with a smile she was about to swing her yoyo but stopped.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Um...I've been meaning to apologize for how I treated you after our last akuma. I shouldn't have yelled at you, and im sorry for it."

I'm a little surprised to hear this from her since I myself had forgotten about it.

"Don't worry about it. I shouldn't have gotten in your way."

"You weren't in the way Chat. I just got frustrated, but that was no reason to take it out on you. You're my beloved partner not to mention my kitty" she winked at me and I can feel the blush crawl to my face.

She swung away leaving me at the top of Notre Dame. I'll admit it did hurt to hear her confess to me about liking someone else but...only for a minute.

Marinette crossed my mind once again and my blush deepened. That's right...I had Marinette. Ladybug and I will always be close, but in the end we'll be nothing more than partners.

Marinette has always been there when I needed her most, maybe...I should let go of my feelings for Ladybug and focus on the feelings I have for Marinette and see where that takes me.