CatWalk

Seventeen

Adrien never thought she held that much of a grudge against ChatNoir. He showed up for a fitting later on in the day. He tried to prevent everyone from not noticing the red mark that would probably turned purple with time. He had no idea that Marinette was that strong.

"Adrien?! What happened to your face?"
Marinette asked overcome by worry.

Adrien couldn't exactly respond with 'You're what happened' without letting that cat out of the bag. Marinette left the room momentarily to get Adrien some ice even know he said he would be fine without it.

Emma stayed with Alya and her boys. Since she wanted to at least say 'hi' to her favorite hero but it looked like Marinette scared him off. Two of Alya's boys grabbed on to Carapace's legs. People commented with "You need to control your child" or "Who's their mother?"

The boys knew Carapace was their father so they continued while Emma and Kurt were being entertained with stories of Ladybug from Queen Bee. Emma new that Queen Bee's story telling wasn't quite accurate but didn't stop her from enjoying them.

Marinette held the small bag of ice close to Adrien's cheek as he sat on a stool ready to get doctored up by Marinette. To her surprise, he flinched at her touch. She wondered who had the nerve to hurt her precious Adrien.

Maybe, Gabriel slapped him? Gabriel was emotionally abusive to his son, was physical abuse to far off? No, Adrien was an adult he could prevent that. Did he also say he rekindled the father and son relationship anyway? So many questions ran through her head.

"Marinette?" He questioned as she lost herself in thought.

"Yes?" She replied looking up at him with her worried bluebell eyes.

"I can do that."

He gently wrapped his fingers around the wrist of her hand that held the ice to his cheek. He slowly guide Marinette's hand away from his face. He leaned closer to her face, not knowing why, yet not stopping himself like all those years before.

Marinette didn't know what he was thinking. She looked in his eyes, they weren't kind nor generous. They were a gravitational force pulling her in. His lips were only a inch away before their romantic adventure was short lived by the entrance of the other models.