Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

For the random title fic meme, from @littlestartopaz:  Sugar and spice. Miraculous! Fandom

This is obviously the fic where Alya is convinced that her best friend is cheating on her boyfriend who is…also cheating on her?  It’s all a little confusing, honestly, there are a lot of people to keep track of in this…love trapezoid, or so she tells Nino when she commandeers recruits him to help figure it out.

There are three problems with her mission to figure out what the hell is going on with Marinette and Adrien.  Little problems.  Tiny, really.  She can barely see them, they’re so small.

First of all, Marinette and Adrien are impossible to keep track of, which means she can’t even get a good picture of the guilty parties caught red-handed.  Alya can get around this, okay, she is a skilled journalist, she’ll figure it out even if she has to bug the little bastards.  (Nino thinks this is going a bit far, but she did not ask for his opinion, thank you very much.)

Second of all, neither Marinette nor Adrien will even entertain suspicion of each other, which under any other circumstances Alya would consider a good thing.  Really!  But how are they so dense, she wonders aloud on more than a few occasions to Nino.  Hell, they’re always running off without explanations, anyone would be suspicious.

Third of all, and this might be a slightly bigger problem, the other half of this set of guilty couples is pretty high profile.

But how do you just up and accuse the heroes of Paris of cheating with a couple of high school students?

For @littlestartopaz (who requested it) and @twistedangelsays (who wanted to read it).  Chat Noir/Ladybug with G from this post, Chat says the line (“Don’t you ever do that again!”)

All right yeah, look, I really like reveal fics and I really like pain, so this is the product of that.  Also, these two kids need to get their shit together and cuddle and care about each other and stuff.  I am a simple woman with simple needs.  AND this is your friendly reminder that I am taking prompts and there’s a masterlist of ships/fandoms on my blog!  Hit me up!

“This guy needs to chill out,” Chat Noir said, shooting a smirk at Ladybug to see her nose crinkle up.  Her look of fond distaste was the highlight of his day, every day, the kind of friendly teasing Adrien had always wished for as a little boy. The only thing better was when she actually shot a joke back at him, leaving a warm weight in his chest and a smile on his face.

“That wasn’t even clever, Chat,” she said, spinning her yoyo and letting it fly at the shell of ice between them and the rest of the world.  He spun his baton overhand and slammed it into the crack she had left, and as he pulled back the yoyo lashed out again.

“So you think my puns are usually clever?” he asked, grinning, and hit the ice again.  “You know, I could have us out of here–”

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“Miraculous! Adrinette where Marinette is an upperclassman. Her main interaction with Adrien is at her parent’s shop, where he always grabs something during lunch break. She’s still a hot mess around him, and he’s still a complete flirt with Ladybug. Go.”  For @littlestartopaz , on the AU meme.

C’mon now, we’ve all basically agreed that I’ve co-opted this meme as an excuse to get AU prompts and write a lot on every single one of them.  So Marinette is seventeen here and Adrien is still a lonely fifteen-year-old kid who gets devoted to anyone who seems like they care about his feelings. There’s no regard whatsoever for the canon timeline here, we’re pretending that they’re already working together by the time he starts public school.

• The first time Adrien Agreste walks into her parents’ bakery, Marinette hides behind the counter and hyperventilates for a solid minute while he looks around.  She stutters her way through taking his order, and he gives her a small smile that genuinely makes her heart stop a little.  (She’s going to feel bad about that later, once she knows how much it bothers him when people get fluttery over him, but look, just look, he’s a very handsome boy and she’s awkward, this is a matter of record, Alya has the proof.)
  
• And then he actually sits at the counter and picks through his sandwich and talks to her, and he’s nice and funny and wry, with a sweet self-deprecating smile.  Marinette can barely string a sentence together, but he doesn’t make fun of her or question her and he seems fine with pretending that she has no idea who he is.  She might die, she might have a heart attack, but what a way to go, that’s all she’s saying, under those bright green eyes.
  

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