Unmasked

Chapter Seven

I walked to my safe house and dropped onto my bed. "Chat is so annoying!" my muffled voice yelled into my pillow.After sitting up and screaming to no one again I walked over to my computer and logged onto Skype.

I was only on for a few minutes when The Guardian called us for a debrief.

"How was the first day?" he asked everyone. We all groaned about classes and how Hawkmoth had both evaded us and let the school know of our existence.

"It was a jerk move. So not cool, dude," Carapace exclaimed to the world, similarly to what I had done earlier.

"So not cool," Rena Rouge echoed.

Their conversation washed over me as a looked at the notes I had written during the call. "Hey, guys. I might have something." Everyone went quiet, the only noise that could be heard was the ruffling of papers and heavy breathing. "Well, it's not anything major. But the student body as a whole seems to hate the Akumas, if we could ask around we could probably gain some information on them. Not to mention, when attacking the city and causing mayhem, they're known for crazy costumes and a purple butterfly mask- they all attack so randomly, they couldn't have chosen the times themselves.

"There must be a way that Hawkmoth is contacting his Akumas and deploying each person individually sporadically. Maybe it's a tracker and he sends someone, or maybe it's a small communication device. No matter, we should look for similarities of accessory choice among the students, and then we can dig and see if it's anything to be worried about. For all we know, the thing he's talking to them could be a ring or a pair of earrings!"

The Guardian hummed in thought when I finished ranting my idea. "Sounds plausible. Everyone keep your eyes peeled tomorrow and report back what you see. Take pictures or sketch the things if you can, then we can send our findings through here." Queen Bee yawned and The Guardian let out a small chuckle, "I suppose it's late, go to bed Agents, sleep tight and don't let the Akumas bite!" With that, he logged out.

"What a bad joke!" Carapace complained.

"It wasn't even a pun! And it wasn't funny." Chat Noir mumbled to himself about how no one respects jokes anymore.

I laughed, "It seems we've seen where you get your dry jokes from!" Chat was about to retaliate, when Queen Bee said goodnight and signed off, Rena Rouge and Carapace following right after.

"We should probably go to bed too, Princess, it's late." I peeked over at the clock and saw it was already 2am, wow time seemed to have flown by, and I have to get up early to do some homework that was assigned! At this rate I'll be so sleep deprived tomorrow that I won't be able to focus on anything.

"Yeah we should, talk to you later, Minou."

He chuckled and whispered, "See you tomorrow, M'lady." A subtle reminder that he knew exactly who I was, just as I did him.

I argued with myself for a while, then sighed. "See you tomorrow."

With everything I was, I knew he was giving the screen a cheeky grin and a wink, classic Chat. And for once, I didn't mind that at all. In fact, I welcomed how predictable and stable he was, I welcomed how much he made my heart flutter.

Maybe Chat and I wouldn't be such a bad idea.

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I'm so sorry it's so short! 

I've been so busy learning to code so I can use Archive of Our Own (I'm putting Miraculous Mishap up right now, user: secretsinmyhead, go check me out), and planning my outfit for this Harry Potter convention tomorrow that I literally forgot all about writing a chapter.

Again, I'm sorry! But hopefully you enjoyed the small amount of fluff?

-SecretsInMyHead