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Chapter 6 | I'm Sorry

Luka's P.O.V

I shouldn't have done that. Why did I do that? Did I really do that? I wouldn't have done that. Not if Kitty hadn't called me selfish. But I've just proved him right.

This is all so complicated. Why did I ask him to take a break? I don't need a break. But he does. He needs to figure shit out.

These past 2 months, everything has been rosy for him. He hasn't noticed how tired I am of hiding. How we never hold hands in public because he hasn't come out yet.

Kitty told me he was Chat Noir, showed me his transformation. I know he has a lot of responsibilities put on him, but so do I.

I take care of Juleka. I cook, take her to school, make sure she has time for her friends and ultimately stay out of her way. I practically raised her.

But he doesn't seem to realise that. How every time we talk about family, I shut down. How I cry. Alone. In the dark, where no-one can reach out to me.

He doesn't realise that I'm a master of prentence. Sometimes he asks me what's wrong. I tell him I'm fine. I'm not fine. Nothing is fine. Nothing has ever been fine.

I'm not blaming him. I just wished that he noticed.

I'm at school right now and I'm not paying any attention to what Monsieur Etienne is saying.

"Luka? Luka! Luka Couffaine!"

I snap to attention.

"Yes, Monsieur Etienne?"

"I have been calling your name for the past minute. You are clearly not focused. Anything you would like to share with the class?"

Even thought they're all Sixth-formers, they still snicker when I go bright red.

"I think he was daydreaming about a girl," say Matt Higgins, the most annoying boy in the whole of Sixth-form.

The boy obviously hasn't got the memo. Hello? I'm gay remember? I told my class ages ago.

I stand up and say, "I need fresh air."

I can hear my teacher, about to protest but I don't wait to hear his answer.

I go straight to the boys toilets.

I sit on the lid of the toilets and I put my head in my hands.

It's my fault, not Kitty's. I can't tell Adrien what to do, or when to do it. I don't control him and I don't want to.

But look at that. Because of me, we're on a break now and I'm missing him more than I care to admit.

I look up just fast enough to see a black akuma fly into my earring.

"Hello, Luka. I am Hawkmo—" he begins.

"I know who you are! I know what you do and what you want. I'm upset but I'm not going to terrorize people," I say adding quietly, "my boyfriend wouldn't want that."

"Boyfriend? Don't you mean ex-boyfriend? He doesn't want you, Luka. But you can make him get what he deserves."

"No! I won't —"

I'm cut off by an intense amount of pain. It's unbearable. I want it to stop.

"Okay! Okay, I'll do whatever you want just make it stop," I screech, "and make sure I don't accidentally hurt my boyfriend."

"Karma, I'm giving you the power to give anyone everything they deserve. In return, I want Chat Noir and Ladybug's miraculous. Are we clear?"

"Crystal," I grunt before transforming.

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Adrien's P.O.V

There's a crash. It vibrates through the school walls and it's like nothing I've ever heard before.

Our teacher tells us to get down and I somehow manage to sneak to the boys locker room again.

"Plagg, that doesn't sound like a normal akumatization," I say.

"The person who's been akumatized must've been feeling a powerful negative emotion," Plagg replies.

"Plagg, claws out!" I cry.

And soon I'm on the rooftops of Paris, running right beside Ladybug.

"It sounds like nothing we've ever faced before," says Ladybug.

"I know."

We run until we see the source of all the disruption.

It's a person who seems to be throwing out cards that give people what they deserve.

He throws one at Chloé, and instantly Chloé has normal clothes on and her phone stops working. She screams.

"Kitty? Where are you?" calls out the akumatized person. I stop dead in my tracks.

"Luka?" I ask.

"I'm not Luka anymore, Kitty. I'm Karma now," he says softly, "but don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you."

Then he turns to Ladybug, who starts swinging her yoyo around. She and Karma begin to fight. He's throwing his karma cards everywhere.

She manages to pull me behind a car where Karma can't see us.

"Chat Noir, why aren't you fighting? He said he won't hurt you. In fact, why did he say that?" she asks.

"I can't fight him."

"Why? Of course you can," she says.

"Ladybug, you don't understand. He's my boyfriend," I say.

Karma launches another set of cards that hit people and wreck havoc on Paris.

"Well, he doesn't know that, you're in disguise," Ladybug argues.

"I kinda, may have, sort of told him that I'm Chat Noir. It's why he calls me Kitty," I explain.

"Chat! And what on earth happened between you two? Why is he upset?"

I'm about to answer, but Karma is peering down on us, about to throw a karma card at us.

"I've found you," he says menacingly.

Ladybug and I run as far as we can. We need to figure out what to do. I mean it. I can't fight Luka. He's the only person who could take my miraculous.

He's my kryptonite.

"I'm sorry," I mutter under my breath.

A/N: OoOoOoHh, our darling Luka had been akumatized, and Chat Noir is unable to fight?

What's going to happen? Can ladybug defeat Karma on her own?

My darlings, the tea has been made. All that's left is the milk and the sugar. After all, we don't want sour tea, do we?

Can Luka and Adrien solve their problems?

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