Four Couples, Same Habits

College AU: Nightmare

Adrien and Marinette share an apartment for university. Adrien is up studying when Marinette stumbles in with the report of having had a nightmare. Adrien gladly holds her and they curl up together until she falls asleep.

"Adrien?" Marinette called softly from the cracked door. Adrien looked up from his laptop to see his friend standing at the door, arms wrapped around her abdomen.

"Come in." He says. She opens the door and slides in. "What's wrong?"

"I had a nightmare." She told him.

"What happened?"

"All I remember is that you and I booked a hotel room. Their were doors but they didn't have knobs from the inside, when you were in the knobs on the outside were taken off. The hotel room was empty and closing in around us like a trash compactor. Then a maid came out of nowhere and said that a lot of people died in the hotel. Then, well, we got flattened into pancakes and cooked on a frying pan, flipped onto a ceiling then we rotted and the end, I woke up."

Adrien chuckled. "That was a rather weird dream."

"It was scary."

"You can sleep with me if you want."

She blushed.

"Not like that, you dirty minded girl. I mean rest with me in my bed."

"Okay,"

She got under the blankets that he hadn't yet touched.

"Why are you still up?" She asked softly.

"I'm always up late." Adrien said. "Studying, usually."

"Why don't you study in the daytime, after your classes?"

"I used to do that, but when I studied for my first final, I stayed up all night and fell asleep in the day. My sleep schedule got screwed up after that."

"We don't always have tests, though."

"Yes, but I have an overbearing father who expects me to take over his fashion business. I don't even know what I'd do with it!"

"You can sell it..." Marinette offered tiredly.

"What would I do with all the money?" Adrien asked.

"Put it so something...anything."

"Like what? You got any ideas?"

Marinette moaned and shook her head.

"Silly girl." He said as she drifted off into her slumber. He gently kissed her cheek, rubbed it, and went back to his studying.