"Bruises?"
Clear to See; Injuries Abound
“Well… at least it’s nothing really that bad… I can probably say something to explain it…”
Marion murmured aloud as he glanced over himself and touched a faintly painful bruise here and there while cataloging the various scratches and scrapes he’d gotten for the brief duration of taking on an akama without help for a few minutes.
He’s fairly glad and maybe a little bit proud he held off the Akama as well as he did till Chat showed up and distracted them while he did his job.
But, well… they had gotten in a few good hits before she did… so, unfortunately Marion had ended up with some small injuries even beneath the suit.
They may be fairly sturdy and whatnot but his armor is a little bit thinner than his Partner’s and thus not quite as decent at taking direct hits.
“Haaah, at least most of these can be hidden under clothes… Rig-”
He’d looked around to see where Tikki might have been but was struck with the oddness that it was her… well… absence. They had been alone and she had been flitting around him while he’d taken off his shirt and begun to catalog his injuries but..
Shit.
He hadn’t noticed her dart into hiding…
Fuck.
Pausing mid-sentence his gaze whipped towards the nearby open space only to widen at the sight that greeted him- the sight of someone very familiar… standing right there.
Her delay had not only costed countless of property damage, but also her partner earning a horrible set of bruises. Sure, the destruction was an easy fix with Ladybug’s lucky charm–– but the latter was not as fortunate.
And she was absolutely distraught with herself. If she had only been there sooner.
And to top it all he had darted off before she could find some way to aid him.
Now Chat hadn’t been following him–– she wouldn’t. She respected his strong wish for privacy, no matter how curious she were. But he had dashed off in the same direction of Adrienne’s home, and she was certan Ladybug was long gone by the time she spent to trail after anyway.
She hadn’t planned to look down either, spotting a familiar boy amidst the streets. She tensed a little. What was he doing here? The akuma had been cleansed only minutes before, most people were still in hiding and unaware of the changes.
“Prince!” She dropped down to his level and flashed a grin to her classmate, which was short lived as she took in the sight before her.
Chat stopped in her tracks and swallowed.
“How…
did you get
that?”














