Come Roses, Come Thorns—Marichat Beauty & the Beast AU (Chapter 11)
Summary: When Marinette’s father goes missing, there’s only one place he could be: the Wanderwoods, where travellers enter but never leave, and myths are told of monsters and a cursed prince living in a long-forgotten castle.
For her father’s freedom, Chat Noir offers her a game to play: take the mask off his face in thirty days, or end up with her own mask and spend eternity sentenced to the castle.
The clock is ticking, but between the enigmatic prince and the golden-haired servant boy who comes around at night, things are never quite as they seem.
Chapter 11: A couple steps later and she stops, head spinning much more than before. “Marinette?” Chat’s voice is still awfully close, but she closes her eyes.
“Just a small break,” she tells him. “Then we’ll go back.”
His reply is nonsensical and faraway. Marinette wants to open her eyes again but they refuse to do so. Instead, she feels herself being lifted up, settling into a steady pair of arms. Chat is carrying me, she thinks woozily, but still, her eyes don’t open.
Then even that feeling fades away, and the rest is oblivion.