"Trust me" // mlb fanfiction

32//morse code

"What is he trying to say, Tikki? I have to figure it out." Marinette says, she's been listening to the cat toy since it first started to meow.

"I don't know, but I think you should go back to sleep and we'll figure it out tomorrow."

"I can't, Tikki. What if he needs me now?" It's weird what love does to people, it makes them care more about the other than about themselves.

Tikki tries to say something, but shuts up when the cat toy starts meowing again, it had been silent for about eight minutes.

Marinette starts counting. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 up to 27 meows till it goes silent again.

"What does it mean?" She asks desperately.

"What ways exist to talk to each other without words? He might be doing that." Tikki says, she knows Adrien is Chat Noir so she knows Adrien knows a lot of different languages. It wouldn't surprise her if he knew sign language, braille or morse code.

"Of course, Tikki, you're amazing!" Marinette suddenly shouts, there's only one way for him to get sentences through, there's no way he's randomly triggering the cat toy 27 times, there's a regularity!

Marinette starts a recording on her phone when the cat toy starts beeping again, that way she can easily figure it out. She searches morse code in her browser and starts translating with the recording. It's hard to figure out which are the 'dots' and which are the 'lines', but she eventually figures out that there's a longer pause in between the meows when there's a line and a short pause when there's a dot. She writes it down and checks in multiple times to make sure she didn't miss anything.

• - - • • • - • • • • - • • - - - • • - • • • • • - •

She starts translating. One dot means E, but a dot and a line means A and a dot with two lines stand for W. It takes over three hours before she finally figures out what the exact sentence is that Chat is trying to tell her.

• - means A
- • • means D
• - • means R
• • means I
• means E
- • means N
• - means A
- - • means G
• - • means R
• means E
• • • means S
- means T
• means E

"A D R I E N A G R E S T E" Marinette reads, realising the words Chat spelled is the name of the boy who sits in front of het in class, although she doesn't understand why. Does Adrien know something about HawkMoth, what if he's secretly working with HawkMoth, he did happen to have the book all this time ago.

Marinette notices she's really tired after staying up hours after her bedtime and decides she'll go to bed now and asks Adrien tomorrow when she sees him at school.
Little does she know that she won't.

Adrien is glad his father forced him into learning morse code, he keeps perfect track of what he's saying. "Adrien Agreste", the only way for Ladybug to save him is if she knows his identity, he doesn't care if she knows, he doesn't care how many people she has to tell to save him. Fatigue is setting in, that's what you get when you don't sleep for days. But he has good hope, Ladybug has most likely received the message, he only has to wait until she figures it out.

The next day, Marinette wakes up early, which is rare due to the fact that she went to sleep late. She changes into her regular clothes and goes downstairs. Her dizzy spells are gone and her ankle only hurts a little if she walks, it could have been worse. She leaves early for school so she can talk to Adrien as soon as he arrives, as Ladybug of course. But Adrien never arrives and when the bell rings, Marinette walks into the classroom to see that Alya and Nino are already there.

"Hey guys." She says walking up to them. "Where's Adrien?" Nino and Alya look at each other and then to Marinette. Marinette gets an uneasy feeling. "Did something happen to him?"

"If by something you mean that he got hurt, then no." Alya starts.

"Where is he then?"

"His father decided to homeschool him again." Nino says.

"Why?" Marinette asks, this can't be happening! She needs to talk to Adrien to save Chat.

"Girl, did you even watch the news? Three akuma attacks in one day, his father said it was too dangerous for him."

"Oh, that's fine. We should stop by his house today, just the three of us."

"We can't, his father forbids him to see any of his friends, we got sent home when we tried visiting him Friday." Marinette is disappointed but not surprised, she decides she'll secretly pass by his house as Ladybug today. She has to talk to Adrien because he is somehow related to Chat Noir, she just has to figure out in what way exactly.

I forgot to upload a new chapter yesterday so I'll probably upload an extra today :)
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