Devastating

Chapter 21

Marinette's P.OV.

After raising Mar'i's spirits,  Marinette had to leave promising to come over whenever Mar'i wanted. Damian escorted Marinette to the cave where she transformed with Kaalki.

"Oh, Marinette, before you go? What was that name you called Mar'i? I've never heard it before." Damian admitted, curious as to its meaning.

"It's something we call little girls, it means 'my little doe'. I thought it fit." Marinette said with a smile and Damian's breath hitched.

"Thank you for letting me stay the night, Mon Étoile. Maybe next time, you'll actually beat me in something. " Marinette teased taking a step toward Damian a smug look smeared on her face.

"Well, you wouldn't want me to break your streak now would you?" Damian said taking a taunting step forward looking down at the much shorter Parisian. They wordlessly inched closer, stuck in a game of chicken.

"I think I'd be willing to risk it." Marinette said making the gap between them even smaller as she looked up to meet his searching eyes. They stared into each other's vivid pools, bright jade and forest green clashing against azure and midnight blue with shades of everything in between.

Marinette tried to memorize how his brilliantly green eyes swirled mischievously, set like flawless stones, the deep rings of green were dark but still clear. Damian's head slowly leaned down, eyes filled with something that wasn't quite love yet. Marinette smirked as she pulled away, he frowned.

"Oh, relax, I was only teasing." Marinette said as she quickly pecked his lips, knowing her friends might be waiting up for her. They hugged, Damian was grateful for all the practice with Mar'i.

Eventually, Marinette had to leave, pulling away first. Damian kissed her hand in goodbye before Marinette called for voyage and walked through the portal and into her hotel room. No one was there and Marinette found a note saying that the group had to leave but that the bluentte was excused for the day.

Marinette sighed as she began to go through what she could tell her friends about and ended up watching the news dosing off as the reporters began to talk about the stock market.

"NETTIE! I WANT EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENED, RIGHT NOW!" Chloe stormed into the room ready to torture the information out of her friend if necessary, and so Marinette told them everything she could without risking the bat family's identity.

"Okay, so their gonna help us?" Kim asked just to be clear.

"YuP." Marinette said affirmatively while popping the 'p'.

"Great, now you can tell me every single detail about the bat-mobile."

"Okay, well it was black, very angular but aerodynamic and Oh it had so many buttons! I was really tempted to push some of them but they seemed dangerous so I had to restrain myself." Marinette said mocking Lila's usually tone when telling a story, getting the whole group to laugh. The bluenette continued to answer their questions until they were satisfied and had to go to dinner. As the group was about to leave, Marinette received a phone call, the ID read 'Mon Étoile' and Marinette answered the call.

"Hello?"

"Auntie Nettie!"

"Hey, Mar'i! What's up?"

"Uncle Dami misses you and Papa says it's because he got spoilt with you being around for so long. Mama made meatballs with mustard for lunch. GG Alfie is making dinner and he's letting me help!"

"That's great, Mar'i, anything else?" Marinette responded hoping to get the reason behind the call while putting a finger up for her friends to know to wait for a second.