Miraculous One Shots {Requests Open}

Lonely Tiredness

Marinette's POV

Adrien hasn't been here for the last couple of weeks. His father forced him to go to Italy for modelling for a little bit, leaving me to do patrols all alone.

It hasn't been terrible so far. Just a couple of Akumas and a few criminals wanting to cause trouble. Other than that, it's been pretty calm.

But to be honest, I'm pretty exhausted. Without Adrien here, we can't take turns doing the nightly patrol, which means I have to do it every night.

Adrien is supposed to come back any day now though; I'm sure he's going to be worried when he notices how tired I am.

Third person POV

Ladybug jumped around on the rooftops, going around on her usual route for patrol tonight. She's yawning occasionally and she never does that until the very end of patrol usually.

Then, she heard cries of help. Straightening, she leapt into action and went to help whoever was in trouble.

Ladybug landed at the entrance of an alleyway just in time to see some criminal pull a knife out at some innocent civilian who happened to be wandering at this hour.

"Hey!" She called out, holding her yo-yo tightly as she stepped towards the two of them slightly. "Back away from the civilian and drop the knife!"

"Aww," she heard the criminal say and just by his tone she could tell he was smirking. "What are you going to do about it, bug? Your kitten isn't here."

Ladybug narrowed her eyes and she swung her yo-yo beside herself fast; her bluebell eyes glowed a little in the darkness, though she didn't realize it.

The criminal stepped back a little, giving the innocent civilian enough time to run out of the alleyway, getting somewhere safe before Ladybug could hear the muffled voice of them presumably on the phone, probably calling the police.

You just have to hold out a little longer, she told herself. Police will arrive soon.

The criminal kept the knife, not dropping it onto the ground like Ladybug had asked him to.

"Drop the knife," Ladybug firmly stated, watching the criminal closely as she stepped towards him more.

The criminal disobeyed and instead launched himself at the superhero in front of him.

Ladybug cursed under her breath before working on defence.

She managed to get the knife out of the man's hand before quickly putting the cover over the blade and placing it around her waist. She then worked on keeping the criminal at bay until police arrived.

What Ladybug didn't know was that the criminal had a partner in crime. He was hiding in the shadows with a knife of their own.

Once Ladybug managed to disarm the original attacker, she could just barely hear sirens off in the distance.

The other attacker, hearing the sirens as well, took this opportunity to sneak up behind the superhero and slash at her side with the knife.

When the knife made contact with her side, Ladybug held back of cry of pain and quickly turned around to disarm the surprise attacker.

While she was gaining an advantage, the police made it to the scene. Hearing this, Ladybug pushed back harder against the surprise attacker.

"Hands up! You okay there, Ladybug?"

The criminals put their hands in the air and Ladybug panted silently. She pressed her hand against her side, hiding her wound as she made her way towards the officers and handing over the knife she got from the original attacker.