Chat Blanc: Chat's Fall [Hiatus]

Chapter 10: Marinette

I didn't leave home that day. Staying inside watching whatever interested me I only felt melancholy for the last two days. It wasn't until I got a surprising phone call that I left home finally. Sitting by the fountain by Marinette's home I wait for her to meet me.

Early this morning she called me asking to talk, what about I do not know but she sounded serious about doing so. And I obliged. Leaving I put in a jacket and some bland clothes. Plagg came with me, probably just in case my father sent out an Akuma. He still seems upset about what I said but he at least is more willing to speak to me now. Checking social media on my phone I hear footsteps. Looking up I find Marinette in a different attire than usual. Instead of her usual pink pants, white shirt, and black vest she is instead wearing a blue button up shirt, and jean shorts. "Hey Adrien. Thank you for coming." I nod sliding over so she could sit down and put my phone away to listen fully. "You are probably wondering why I asked you to meet me huh?"

"For the most part I guess you could say I am curious to know yes."

"I feel that I never got to fully explain myself about the Luka incident. Will you allow me to?" I nod again and she starts. "Ok, Luka has liked me for a long time he said. The day he came over he was confessing his feelings for me."

"So you let him kiss you." I am not mad at this so to speak but I am somewhat indifferent about it. I did have feelings for Ladybug and in some way Marinette but after what happened with both her kissing Luka and my identity.... I just don't know how I feel about being around her as a whole.

"I didn't let him. He just did it, I wasn't even expecting him to do that. After he told me he started leaning in and I didn't know what to do and then he kissed me."

"Yea, ok." I say in a kind of mean way.

"Adrien I don't like Luka in that way nor do I love him. I..."

"You what?" I ask arching and eyebrow.

"I...I don't want to let this ruin out friendship." She says lowering her head as if ashamed by what she said.

"You don't want this to ruin it? This."

"Yes I don't want this to!" She says sharply.

"Am I a game to you M'lady?"

"No you aren't a---wh..what did you just call me?" Crap. I know she knew my identity but she doesn't know I know hers yet. "Only one person calls me that."

"Yea, one person." Not wanting to keep talking I get up and start to walk away.

"Wait where are you going?" She asks following behind me.

"I don't know but I don't want to be here." While that was cold it was the truth and despite the truth possibly hurting her feelings I had to say it. She stops in her tracks and just looks at me, sadness in her eyes. I might've went to far on that one but in the moment I could've help but try to hurt her. I walked all the way to the Eiffel towers former placement and see a plethora of people. Workers, probably here to rebuild it, gonna take a while to rebuild that thing though. Seeing a seat near there construction facing the plains behind it I take my place in it. "Is this how my life is going to go now? Losing my family, my lady, even the girl I thought could replace her?" I put my head in my hands just thinking of it all when I remember something.

Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous can bring my mother back.

The light of both my and my father's world's.... Maybe if I bring her back...things can go back to normal? But the risk? Who's to say there really is one? For all I know the guardians just said that to prevent anyone from getting what they wanted. But even so I need Ladybug's--Marinette's--miraculous. How will I get it from her? She never takes her earrings out from what I've seen. But just maybe I can persuade her?