Miraculous One Shot Compilation

Corndogs

A/n - Autosuggest had some strange ideas as to what it thought I wanted to write in One Other Like It. afterwordstoo interpreted for me. Um... here it is...

P.S. I also brought back an OC from Twins, I hope you don't mind.

Adrien's heart unenthusiastically performed its dull duty. Goosh! It sent a load of deoxygenated blood to his lungs. It was quickly losing the will to work. Gush! It forcefully shot the blood out to the rest of Master's body. If it couldn't work anymore, Master would die. The heart did not want Master to die, it needed him to feel loved. The heart knew it was supposed to be attached to Ladybug, but what could it do? If she wasn't going to feed it, it guessed it would have to take the veins for a while in order to get what it needed.

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Luckily, Adrien wasn't alone at the moment. He had a partner assignment, and his assigned partner was that sweet girl who sat behind him. It had never got his brain to agree, but Adrien's heart thought that girl was eerily similar to Ladybug. So similar she could be Ladybug. Now Master was alone with the girl in the girl's bedroom.

"I thought... these could be possible topics for our project!" Marinette showed Adrien a list she'd put together before he showed up. "You could pick one of them? Not that we have to do something off of my list. If there's something else you'd rather do..." The girl rambled on.

One thing felt different than when they were with Ladybug. Adrien's heart could feel the girl's heart reaching out, wanting to recharge each other's need for affection. 'Master, please, just one date with her!' It coded a chemical message and sent it up to Adrien's brain.

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Adrien groaned internally as his brain and heart argued about something-or-other. Why couldn't they ever just get along? He forced them into the background as he focused on Marinette's list. "Uh, sure, that one looks good." 'So does she.' Adrien's heart fluttered in triumph as it forced his brain to whisper those words into Master's conscience.

'Would you two knock it off?!' Adrien scolded the two. 'I'm trying to work with her here!'

'It's the one to blame, not me.' Adrien's brain threw his heart under the bus. 'I told it you're only interested in Ladybug.'

'But she's so much like Ladybug!' His heart protested. 'Please, she can cure your loneliness, just this once.'

'Just this once,' Adrien decided. 'Only because I really need it. I swear, I'm faithful to M'Lady.' He rested a hand on Marinette's shoulder.

She stared at it, her eyes going huge and her face flushing pink. "A-adrien?" she stuttered.

'She's too nervous when it's just the two of you.' Adrien's brain gave its input on the situation. After all, Master had said he would go along with it this once, and there was no way that his heart alone was going to understand the fine artery of flirting. 'Bring in some people that will make her comfortable, then the heart will be able to harvest the attention it needs.'

Adrien nodded in understanding. He sent off texts to most of their classmates, somewhat reluctantly skipping Chloe and Sabrina. He knew the former wouldn't be the best for getting Marinette to relax, and the latter would tattle to the former. He also made an order for some food to be delivered - nothing too fancy, but food was a good way to draw their classmates in.

'All right, that's done,' he reported back to his internal organs. 'Now I actually have to get some work done before they get here.'

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The prospect of having a bunch of their friends come around actually did a lot to de-stress Adrien as well; it got his inspiration going and he was able to channel it into the project. Marinette, on the other hand, was pitching in between getting distracted by her crush, and becoming hyperfocused on their project, wanting to show him that they could work well together. They could, and it came out quite well.

"Marinette, a bunch of your classmates just arrived. They said they were invited over for food?"

"What? I didn't invite them!"

"Uh, I did..." Adrien admitted sheepishly.

"Adrien! You can't just invite people over to someone else's house!"

"Don't worry. I'm buying the food I promised them, and if anyone makes a mess, I'll clean it up myself."

Marinette opened her mouth to protest, but she only sighed. Alya was right, she really was a pushover.

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"Corndogs for everyone!" Adrien smiled brightly as he passed breaded hotdogs on sticks to Nathaniel, Ivan, and Mylene. "There are a few more in the box if anyone wants seconds!"

Adrien's stomach swished its acid happily, watching as his esophagus worked the corndog-bolus closer to its target. 'Now it's your turn to feast!' it informed Adrien's heart. Master worked his way across the room and sat down beside the girl.

Marinette smiled at him. "Adrien, what is all this about?"

"I don't know. You seemed uncomfortable when it was just the two of us in here."

"Oh, Adrien, you don't make me uncomfortable, it's just..." Marinette was unable to finish her sentence; a blush spread across her face.

At that moment, Adrien's heart felt the touch of the girl's heart. They'd drawn close enough to make their connection. The heart greedily drank in affection, all the while pouring out its own. It vaguely heard Master continue talking and laughing with the girl and their other friends, but what he said wasn't really important to it. It was full and it was happy.