Ladybug's Knightly Visits/Feeding Paris's Superheroes

Chapter Five-Marinette is Mafia

 A tap on the window facing out to the balcony had Marinette smiling. A few months of various superheroes visiting her at various times of the day had her memorizing their behavior. While Chloe, Queen Bee, also visited her in the evening, she made much more of a fuss and could always be heard stumbling clumsily onto Marinette's balcony. Nino and Alya's visits were much more sporadic, with Nino only appearing when Marinette was on her balcony. The girl smiled as she considered Alya, Volpina. Unbeknownst to the orange-clad girl, Mari knew her secret to her visits. Volpina would create another copy of herself and have it swing in front of the bakery window, and when everyone was distracted, would sneak up the stairs and through the trapdoor.

She was shaken out of her reverie by a soft creaking of the entrance to her room. Looking at the floor, she found a familiar face grinning up at her. Marinette grinned back until she remembered the tap. These damn heroes. Well, I guess they'd have to find out eventually.

"Pssst! Marinate! I can't wait here forever."

"Oh-um-Volpina! Sorry, I'm a little spacey tonight. Come in!" The girl twiddled with the end of her pigtails before bracing herself and saying, "Actually, Vola, I have another visitor." Marinette rushed on before the foxy (AN: sorry not sorry) superhero left. "It's just Chat. Chat Noir. He's just outside the window. Would you let him in? I have to go get some treats for the both of you." Leaving a taken-aback Volpina mid-way inside her room, the nervous girl adjusted her pajama bottoms and thumped down the stairs.

A few seconds later, Marinette softly set her trapdoor shut and locked it. The two superheroes slowly settling into various seats turned to her for an explanation.

"Mari.....?" The two girls faced each other, the masked one with skepticism on her face. "Why is he here?" Before Chat could speak, the girl in question rubbed her neck and responded.

"You got me. See, the thing is—I'm sort of running an illegal operation here. Guilty."

Two pairs of eyes bugged out at the girl. Marinate would later reflect on how much hurried speaking she'd had to do that day.

It's called 'Feed Paris' Stray Superheroes'." Marinette grinned. "See, I got you two. I'm honestly shocked that you would think even for a second that I, of all people, would be luring you into an evil scheme." She pouted and pushed her fake-hurt expression towards the other two. Alya grabbed a meringue from the tray and pouted back.

"Girl, you scared me! I would hate to have to arrest my bestie!" A speck of cookie landed on the chair, but the masked girl brushed it off before anyone could notice,

"You mean my bestie," Chat interjected, also reaching out to the tray. A pale hand helpfully slid it toward him. "Fancs." Chat's voice could hardly be heard as he shoveled food into his mouth.

The civilian shoved his shoulder lightly. "Hey Big Mouth, close your mouth while your chewing. I've seen enough blended ingredients going into that gullet of yours to put me off baking for months." Ignoring Alya's loud "Ohhh", Chat obediently closed his mouth and began shoving chocolate up his nose. He received a playful slap from the baker's daughter after he opened his still full mouth to gasp for air. "Go to my bathroom and get those out of your nose-if you can; they look pretty deeply buried in there. Besides, I want to talk to Vola for a second."

Chat reluctantly walked out. Even after the door was shut and they heard various blowing noises emanating from the bathroom, they just sat in silence. For those few seconds they were just two girls were leaning on each other, buried in a soft floor rug.

"How long has he been visiting you?" Alya's strangely quiet voice interrupted the relative peace.

"Vola-"

"Please."

Marinette turned a little to look into her eyes, half closed but intent for answers. "A little before you got your Miraculous. At first, it was just him checking up on me." Seeing Alya's questioning look, she continued. "You remember when that guy at my school, Nathaniel, got akumatized?" Alya nodded.

He wanted to go on a date with me, and me and Chat did each other a favor. He got me out of the date, and I almost got the akumatized item from Nath."

"Oh."

"Vola, please." Marinette cupped the side of her face.

Alya reluctantly withdrew from the girl's hand and tangled it with her fingers before slowly releasing it. "It's okay, girl. I get it. It's just, earlier you said 'Paris's stray superheroes'. Not 'Chat and Volpina'. Are the others coming too?"

A hand rested on the costumed girl's shoulder. She looked to the dark-haired girl, and relaxed slightly when she nodded. Alya's face split into a grin. We could invite them over. Maybe we could have a playdate!"

"Oh, Alya."

A creak of the door alerted the two girls to Chat's return. They scooted away from each other slightly, which Chat took as an invitation to plop in-between them. He grinned his special Chesire grin at them and scrunched his thankfully now chocolate-free nose at Marinette.

"So, Princess, Foxy—Ow!—What did I miss?"

AN: The whole mafia/illegal activity thing was inspired after computer "corrected" Marinette and turning it into Mafia. 

P.S.Psychos, Please stop shooting up our schools and killing or injuring people who have friends and families. These people matter.

-Potato