Moving On?

Fix Him up

*Updated 3/5/24*

No response. He knocked on the trapdoor, and there was no response. Waiting a couple seconds, Chat then knocked again, but there was no answer. Jumping to the worst case scenario, he panicked thinking that she had been hurt by the akuma, or was missing, or lying unconscious in a ditch... 

"Chat Noir?! Are you ok? What happened?" Marinette said, finally climbing through the trapdoor, instantly wanting to get to work patching him up.

"Mari, I- I uh, the akuma, and then I was um" he said, finding it hard to swallow. Just being around her was making him all flustered. His heart was racing, and he couldn't help but notice how beautiful she is at any given moment. He almost forgot he was injured, but then soon remembered after feeling the pain from Marinette pulling him into her room.

"Owww" he groaned. She was only able to move him onto her bed before realizing she shouldn't try and move him anymore. 

"Where does it hurt?" She said, scanning his body for any signs of injury, which was hard to do with the suit. 

"All over here" he said, pointing to his chest area. She looked, but it was pointless with the suit. There was no seeing anything.

"I can't see anything!" She yelled out in frustration. 

Chat trusted her fully, and told her, "I can detransform, then you'll be able to see the injury". 

Normally she would be protesting such an idea, but this was a desperate situation. "I have just the thing!" she said while jumping off from the loft to find what she was looking for.

As Chat laid in her bed, he fully realized what was happening and what was about to happen. He was laying in Marinette's bed, in her room, and he was about to detransform. Right before he was about to panic, Marinette returned with a makeshift mask, and a Chat noir onesie with a zipper down the front. "Here, you can put these on so I wont see who you are, and so I can access the wound" Mari said to him.

He was in awe of her quick thinking and resourcefulness. It kind of reminded him of Ladybug. "A Chat Noir onesie? Pawlease, I'm flattered, it's the highest honor" he said chuckling, but wincing from the pain of laughing. 

Marinette loved how Chat always tried to look on the bright side, but knew that he shouldn't be taking up so much energy, "Only you could be joking at a time like this" she said. But her face immediately softened from the look Chat was giving her. His eyes were sincere, and his smile genuine.

"Thank you so much for helping me Marinette".

She quickly said "it's nothing" as she ducked down from the bed, feeling a bit flustered from the look he was giving her. At a time where she needed a clear head, he was not helping. 

Then she heard, "Plagg, Claws in!" as a green light engulfed her room. 

"Uhhgggg, What happened?" said a new voice Marinette recognized as Plagg. 

Wanting to play dumb, she said, "Who's that?!".

Adrien, now de transformed, forgot that Marinette hadn't met Plagg yet. "That's my kwami, he gives me Chat Noir's powers" 

"And all of his good looks" plagg added in. 

That caused Marinette to chuckle. Adrien then took off his shirt and put the onesie on over his pants so Marinette wouldn't recognise the clothes while still being able to help with the wound. He also put on the makeshift mask, which was surprisingly comfy.

As Marinette was getting her first aid supplies together, Plagg flew down over to her, "So this is the pigtails I keep hearing about" he told her. Marinette paused what she was doing, not expecting Plagg's commentary. Obviously Marinette and Plagg knew each other already from the Reflekta situation so she knew he was like this, but she didn't expect that.

"Pigtails?" she responded, not knowing what else to say. 

"Yeah, it's my name for you. Cat boy over here loves your guys' visits" he said. This was all too much for Marinette right now. Before she even had time to respond, Plagg started whining, "I'm hungryyyyyy. Got any cheese?" 

"uhh, sure. Help yourself, it's down in the kitchen" Marinette said. Plagg left before she could even fully process everything that just happened.

Taking a deep breath, Marinette prepared herself to go back up on the loft and see Chat, well whoever his civilian self was dressed up as chat. Gathering her supplies, she made her way up saying, "Are you ready?". 

Adrien took a second before answering, then said "yeah, you can come up now". He was really nervous. If he didn't know how to act before, he definitely didn't now.

Marinette appeared, now up in the loft. Her hair was tied back into a bun. She then crawled over, kneeling right down next to his chest. "Could I um, could you, uh, I need to see the injury, heh" she then said. Adrien could see her face get significantly more red as he unzipped a portion of the onzie so she could see the bruise.

Looking down, she still recognized Chat, but it was so weird seeing him without the suit, without the more Cat-like eyes. 

Marinette could see the source of all the pain. There was a giant bruise right near the bottom of his ribs. "I'm sorry, I can't see the full bruise" she said. Chat then zipped it down a bit further, allowing Marinette to see the whole thing.

Adrien watched as she brought her hands to the area of his stomach at the bottom of his ribs. When her hands touched his skin, it was like a zap. As if a bolt of electricity was sent throughout his entire body; extremely sensitive. She made sure to be as gentle as possible, not wanting to cause any further injury.

While she was assessing the damage, Adrien had to keep his mind from wandering... which was a bit hard. Never would he have thought that anything like this would be happening to him. Marinette was truly amazing. The fact that she even knew how to do any of this was mind boggling. He'd have to ask her about that later.

Not realizing it, Adrien had been watching Marinette the entire time she was assessing him. Something about her made him calm down. Make him feel like everything would be fine, and that nothing's wrong in the world. Suddenly he was broken from his trance when Mari returned his glance, "Ok, I've looked over everything, and it seems you have a cracked rib, and the area around it is has some deep bruising. There's also some bleeding, but thankfully it's just on the surface. Thank goodness the rib's not broken" She said in relief that it seemed Chat would be fine.

"So what does that mean for me?" he asked, wondering what he'd have to stop doing. 

"Well, that means no fighting akumas for a small while. We don't want the bone to crack any further" Mari said. 

Adrien hated hearing that. There was no way he wanted to take a break from being Chat, especially since that is his break. "No! There has to be something I can do!" 

"Yes there is, and that something is rest. Let me get you an ice pack" Marinette said while heading downstairs.

He just couldn't get a break could he. First Marinette starts ignoring him as Adrien, and now he wont be able to see her since he can't transform as Chat for a while! It was a disaster. That's when he noticed Marinette's phone had been buzzing. Looking over on her nightstand, he saw Felix's name repetitively pop up on her lockscreen.

As much as he shouldn't meddle with these kinds of things, he couldn't help but want his cousin to get a little taste of his own medicine. Adrien was about to completely delete all the messages, but a small part of him just couldn't do it. So he did the next best thing and deleted the notifications so Marinette wouldn't see the texts for a long while, hopefully.

Felix was worried sick. Marinette hadn't been seen or heard from since during the akuma attack when she left. The miraculous ladybug should've turned everything back to normal, but no one could find her. What if she was lost, or hurt?! Felix headed over to his cousin's room to see if Adrien had seen her as Chat, but he wasn't home as well. A gut feeling told Felix that if he was able to find Chat, that he would find Marinette as well.

That didn't mean he wasn't still worried. He would have to just keep trying to get a hold of her until he knows she's ok and safe. Although Alya and Nino said she usually disappears before, during, and after akuma attacks. The circumstances seem a bit strange. He'd have to investigate further on that. For now all he could do was wait.

A/N: I know this was a lot of Marichat, but who do you think is going to get a miraculous in the meantime while Chat is healing ;)