"Trust me" // mlb fanfiction

19//another visit

The students arrive in Paris after a long ride, everyone is obliged to go home immediately, so that's what they all do.

When Marinette walks through the front door of the bakery, her parents come running towards her. They didn't have the chance to speak to each other after the attack yesterday and they're obviously worried.

"You promised me you wouldn't do anything reckless, but we saw the video Alya posted. Why didn't you wait for Ladybug and Chat Noir to arrive?" Tom asks, he tries to play the strict parent, but he's too soft and concerned for that. Marinette doesn't look forward to explaining it all over again, but she doesn't have a choice. So she starts explaining the lie again, that Ladybug and Chat Noir were probably sleeping at that time the akuma attacked and wouldn't arrive 'til the next morning. That would've meant that a lot of her classmates could have gotten hurt and she couldn't bear the thought of that. She ends the conversation with an apology and — her parents being her parents — they smile and forgive her.

"I'll be up in my room." Marinette announces, leaving her parents to help the customers in the bakery.

"What is worrying you, Marinette?" Tikki asks, they haven't been able to speak properly to each other in the past few days.

"A lot, too much to tell you all at once."

"Just start with some worrying things you feel like are important to tell now, you can always tell those other things later."

Marinette smiles, she's happy she can always talk to Tikki, but her smile turns soon into a worrying look "I think HawkMoth might know my identity." She says, spilling the thing she's been worried about most, next to Chat's injury.

"How come?" Tikki asks, she doesn't show big concern yet but she isn't as calm as always either.

"Like Chloé said on the bus, most miraculous holders are in my class, so HawkMoth must have assumed Ladybug or Chat Noir is a student too. That's why he kept sending akumas to our class. I defeated Mylène's akuma without my suit, I'm afraid he will figure it out, if he hasn't already, because of that event. I have been this ignorant and if he discovers my identity, then my family and all my friends are in danger and that'd be all my fault."

Marinette tries her best to hold back her tears, but she fails. Tikki simply hugs her face and calms her down "Panicking won't help. Looking back on mistakes you made in the past won't solve the future. It has happened before that a Ladybug's identity has been revealed to the enemy and they all handled it well. Since you're the best Ladybug I've ever served, you'll get through it too, I'm certain." Marinette never knew someone's identity has been revealed before, she always thought it was the one thing everyone managed to keep a secret, the thought of it somehow relieves her concern a bit; her identity being revealed doesn't mean she's failed.

Later that night, when she's about to get some sleep, she hears two footsteps on her balcony. She totally forgot Chat would come to talk about what happened as soon as she returned to Paris, she still can't believe it actually did happen. They kissed each other, and she didn't dislike it. She's supposed to be in love with Adrien, not with Chat. That hasn't changed, right?

"Hey kitty." Marinette says awkwardly, entering her balcony.

"Hi princess." Chat greets her, he didn't feel the need to make his usual pun, guess the things really got awkward between them.

"So, about what happened. I really am sorry. I don't know what I was thinking or why I did that. I'm so sorry if I made things awkward between us." Chat starts apologising, but Marinette stops him.

"No, I'm sorry. You didn't just kiss me, I kissed you too. I don't want things to get awkward between us either, kitty, can we please forget about it and go back to being friends again?" Neither of them actually wants to go back to how it was before, they both enjoyed the kiss, but neither will admit it due to their blinding love for each other's alter egos.

"Yeah, I'm fine with being just friends. It's nice to talk about hero stuff to someone every once in a while." Chat says.

"So, do you want to talk about any hero stuff now?" Marinette asks.

Now that Chat has come to think of it, he does want to speak to Marinette about what happened. "I saw the video of you taking down that akuma. It was reckless, you shouldn't have done that."

"Well, I couldn't just stand by and do nothing, especially since you and Ladybug weren't there."

"I won't fight 'til my back is healed, I promised Ladybug, but you could have waited until she arrived."

"You don't understand, I couldn't. Once I realised my classmates- my friends were in danger, I had to do something to make sure they were safe. I couldn't stand by and do nothing." Here she is again, the confident girl that's more like his lady than like his classmate. If he hadn't seen her and his lady at the same time, he might have thought Ladybug and Marinette were the same person.
As always, he puts that thought out of his mind, it is not possible! But he knows his lady will do anything to keep her identity a secret, such as lying, so what if Marinette is Ladybug after all?

Hi everyone, I'm kinda stuck with a writersblock on this story right now (I know what I wanna write but I can't seem to find the right words). I've got only a few chapters left before I run out of 'spare-chapters' so I'll probably post even less than before (I'm sorry). I just want to write a little further before posting daily or 3 to 6 times a week again. I hope u guys understand (also, even though I'm having a writersblock, I am planning on finishing this fanfiction so no worries, I will keep writing)
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