In Love with a Black-Leathered Criminal {COMPLETED}

Part 5

Marinette stifled a yawn as she stood in front of Adrien. Instead of going to bed, she spent most of the night thinking about what Chat had said. She knew that she couldn't join him completely, but she felt the slight urge to rebel against the expectations that Paris held her under. "These are very good Marinette," Adrien said, noticing her yawn.

"Thank you, Mr. Agreste," It felt strange to call one of her high school best friends by his last name, which he seemed to hate since his father was convicted.

"How much sleep did you get last night?" he asked, knowing she would find some sort of excuse as to why she was up so late.

"Well, I did take a nap as you said, but I couldn't fall asleep so I took a small walk last night," Marinette explained. Taking a small walk... Is that what she called it? Jumping through Paris while running from the police was just a small walk to her. He smiled, remembering their events from the previous night. Adrien sighed, passing his assistant, Natalie the tablet he had been looking at her work on.

"Marinette, Natalie is retiring soon and I will need a new assistant and I was considering you for the job, how about it?" He smiled, letting his 'boss' persona go.

"Really? Thank you, Adrien!" Her excited behaviour from high school seemed to reappear suddenly. She still had the same positive and independent energy from high school, but she rarely got overly excited about anything. Marinette left the Agreste mansion, hopeful for her new job.

"Marinette, are you sure you're going to be able to handle being Adrien's assistant?" Tikki asked, appearing from her bag.

"What do you mean?"

"Being his assistant will mean you have to work almost 24/7," Tikki explained. "Being Ladybug already takes up a lot of your time,"

"I'm sure I can manage a schedule, I did it for all of high school and college," Marinette wasn't worried about a busy schedule, she was used to cramming a lot of things in one day. "Plus, this is a big opportunity for me," As Marinette sat in her living room, watching T.V, she saw a black cat passing by, followed by the police sirens. Marinette quickly transformed and leaped from her balcony, following the trail of money that blew in the wind. Chat Noir had robbed another small bank nearby. She sighed, knowing that she had no chance of catching him but she could still try.

"Did you see him leave the bank with the money?" Ladybug asked the police officers.

"No, but we saw him on the next street over, running with the money,"

"Was he running on foot, or by his staff?"

"By staff," The police officer explained. Chat hadn't left without a trace though, there was security footage of him breaking into the vault with his cataclysm, and taking the money. Something in Ladybug's mind didn't want to catch Chat, she didn't want her ex-partner to be locked up. She hoped that one day, he would see his wrongdoings and try to repair his reputation to something like before.