#laadychat fics

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a short preview of a dark romance zutara fic:

“I never said I was a good man.

A good man wouldn’t be stalking Katara Heneq.

A good man wouldn’t have murdered the man who was harassing her at work.

A good man would have introduced himself, asked her out on a proper date first, and gotten to know her in that way.

I am not a good man but I am hers, whether she knows it or not.”

masked man?? why not 😌

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She Noticed

She's noticed a some things.

Then more things.

And finally, it's gotten to the point where she needed to ask something. To ask him.

"Adrien?" She called out, her eyebrows furrowed. "Can I talk to you for a moment?"

The blonde boy nodded, quickly slipping away from those around him. "What's up, Alya?"

Making sure no one was around, Alya took in a deep breath. "I've been... noticing some things. Does," she paused, biting her bottom lip. She opened her mouth to start once again, "does Lila bother you? I see her touching you and putting you in situations that make you seem... uncomfortable."

By the way his eyes widen and leaned back slightly, she knew this caught him off by surprised. But it was his next words that shattered her.

"You... noticed?"

She was afraid of the answer she would have found, thinking she was prepared for the worst.

"Adrien, have you told her it makes you uncomfortable?"

He shrugged, glancing away from her. "I'm use to it, being a famous model and all. Marinette makes sure to get me away before anything really happens anyways."

This was not right. This shouldn't be something he's use to - regardless of his celebrity status. "If you're uncomfortable, she needs to be told to back off. No one should be touching you unless you want them to."

At that, Adrien's shoulders sagged, and he looked so helpless, it squeezed her heart. How could someone do this to him? When he opened his mouth to speak, she was afraid of what he would say. Afraid of what she knew he was going to say.

"I have told her." He stopped, caving in on himself as he stared at the ground. "But she doesn't care."

And that was it. She was going to tear-

"Please don't tell Marinette! She would murder Lila if she knew."

"Sunshine," she smiled at him, leaning in as if whispering a secret. "She won't be doing the murdering."

The rage filled her as she leaned away, hot, blinding, burning rage. She will not be sitting back as her friend gets harrassed. Not as long as she breathes, no one will get away with something like this.

"I will."

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For the miraculous au! Kim uncovers the truth about Lila and sabotages her plans

Of all people, he hadn't expected such actions to come from her.

Lila.

The girl who participated in so many charity events, in humanitarian projects, in environmental policies.

The best friend of Ladybug.

Then again, he did always think all those things she claims to have done didn't make complete sense. Also, shouldn't her parents be concerned she was missing so many classes?

It doesn't matter anymore - he found out some things. Things that had whatever respect he had for her be thrown out the window.

Lila Rossi had threatened Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

And Lila Rossi doesn't respect the personal space of Adrien Agreste.

For the first reason, Kim was already willing to go to war. No one messes with Dupain-Cheng and gets away with it.

(The only reason he never spoke to Chloé about her blatant attitude towards Marinette the past year is because Kim was convinced he was in love with her. But after realizing just how awful she was towards the norinette, he set his foot down.)

Adrien, as the shelter teen he is, craved physical affections. So when he saw the way the blonde boy cringe when Lila got all up in his space, he knew something was up.

Also, just because someone was willing to give a hug one day, doesn't mean they must give one every day.

But he saw the way Adrien would turn away whenever the Italian girl was even in the room. Kim doesn't know what Rossi did to him but he was willing to find out.

So he started out subtle, coming to Marinette's defense when someone mentions something wrong about her. When he digged for the source of such things, he was infuriated. They were all from Lila.

Now, whenever a classmate said something so terrible wrong, he challenged it, asked them how Lila could know such a thing when it was clear her and Marinette aren't friends.

From then on, he heard people talking about Marinette less and his heart soared when he heard Alya say these beautiful words.

'Marinette doesn't talk to Lila - I don't trust anything Rossi says about her.'

It was perfect, amazing, and Kim swears he was ready to throw a party just then.

While he was questioning all these claims, he was keeping an eye out for whenever Lila was heading in Adrien's direction.

Well, if you ask Kim why he always got Adrien out of the area at the same time, he would tell you it was mere coincidence.

But then Adrien came up to him one day, so thankful, it stuck with him.

And he knew Lila was catching on. Especially when he saw how angry she was when the other classmates started doing it too. The first time Kim watched Nino do it, he was surprised. He thought he was subtle, in the way he kept Adrien away from her.

'Thank you for always making sure i wasn't alone with Lila. You were the only one, besides Mari, to see how uncomfortable she makes me.'

And Kim was a big supporter of making sure people felt safe, comfortable, in their environment. Especially one such as school and it didn't sit right with him that such topics wasn't spoken about often.

So what did Kim do?

He convinced Ms. Bustier to teach some lessons on personal space and healthy relationships.

The Vietnamese boy quickly saw how the lessons were affecting everyone. Almost immediately, people were recognizing a lot of the red flag in their relationship with Lila.

In the way Lila talked about Marinette, treated Marinette.

In the way she always disregarded Adrien's boundaries.

And to his completely surprise, after a brutal interrogation from Rose and Mylène, she confessed about how hew trips were fake.

Lila Rossi never did any of those charity events, those humanitarian projects, are participated in the making of environmental policies.

She's never met Prince Ali.

And Alya confessed how Ladybug said that Chat Noir was her best friend in and out of the suit.

So overall, Kim thinks the outcome was very favorable. Marinette's name wasn't being dragged and people were respecting Adrien's space.

And against what he thought would happen, his classmates didn't fully turn against Lila. The lessons their homeroom teachers helped everyone realize that mistake happens and it's best to learn from them and make better decisions in the future.

But Lê Chiến Kim was going to keep an eye out, to make sure his friends were okay.

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💙❤ For the Zutara throwbacks, #18?

i know already said this BUT YOU'RE AMAZING, SARA.

here's a quick fluff to combat the angst i wrote earlier, lmao, cause i couldn't get this outta my head. thank you, homie.♡

-

"What movie did you pick?"

"You're going to love this," Zuko grinned, pointing the remote towards the television. "It's called 'Crazed Apple'. It's got a two out of ten rotten tomato score."

Katara groaned, closing her eyes as she flopped on the couch next to him. "Why must you make me suffer?"

"Drama queen," he rolled his eyes, but couldn't help the fond smile tugging at his lips. Opening the blanket, he let out a grunt when she forcibly pressed herself against his chest, but he pulled her closer still, closing it around her.

"Let's pick a good movie next time." Katara muttered, tucking her arm around his chest. She scrunched her nose and Zuko cooed, laughing when she swatted him. "Something less cringy."

"You know you love our bad movie dates." He mused, pressing a kiss on her forehead.

It was a tradition ever since they met in college; he was her brother’s friend and roommate. One night, her and Suki were over. They watched a movie together and when Suki and Sokka snuck into the latter's room, Zuko offered to start another movie.

He liked her then and didn't want the night to end and while flustered, he picked a movie at random. Rather fortunately, he didn't check the reviews of it beforehand and it turned out to be a horrendous movie.

Instead of pushing her away, it only managed to bring them closer. When they were overwhelmed from their school assignments and work, it was an escape for both. A simple, 'I found a movie', was enough for them.

And now, as he watched Katara laugh until she was wheezing, the scoff she let out when a bad scene came on, the way she buried herself under his arm when it was cheesy - he counted himself lucky.

Rubbing the velvet box in his pocket, he hoped to be even luckier man.

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We might have screwed up

this is for @chatnoirinette , I’m sorry I took so long!! But happy birthday once again, my dear friend. <3

“No. way.”

Marinette groaned and buried her head in her arms. “Shut up.”

Chat Noir snorted, before throwing himself right next to her. “Seriously? You had to take care of someone’s pet toad?” His heard some strange things slip past the girl’s lips but this, this takes the cake.

“That’s not even the worse part! When Alya asked me the pet’s name, you know what I said?” She lifted her head and blew at her bangs. “I said ’It died. He’s dead, Alya.’”

Chat couldn’t help himself - he laughed. the story was too good, especially because he explicitly remembers the whole interaction. The way Marinette looked at Alya with such a blank expression, voice completely void of any emotion - it was hilarious.

“Stop laughing! She wouldn’t stop talking about the natural process of grief - ‘It’s okay to be sad, M, it’s the way of life.’ Do you know how many times I had to hear that today?”

Seven.

“Seven!”

He didn’t, in fact, stop laughing. Instead, it only fueled him to laugh louder. At one point during the school hours, Marinette snapped and it only caused Alya to smile and pat her shoulder. 'Good, you’re progressing. Anger means you’re moving on from denial and guilt.’

Seeing Marinette’s reaction to that made his day worth-while.

Flailing her arms around, she groaned. “I failed! I don’t even know what I was thinking. No one has a pet toad!”

He really wanted to ask her why, of all things she could have said to go home for lunch instead of eating with them, why come up with such an excuse? It didn’t make any sense(he couldn’t pay too much attention - there was an akuma to catch!) but he would wait for her to tell him on her own time.

“What would you named it if he was still alive?” he snickered and dodged the pillow thrown his way.

Gritting her teeth, Marinette simply flipped him off.

“I’m thinking Ferb, isn’t that such a wonderful name?” He grinned, enjoying himself a bit too much. Although, it did maybe get himself kicked out a bit earlier than usual.

-

“Ferb is dead.”

Chat Noir fell through the trap door, landing on the girl’s bed with a thud.

Marinette snorted, barely missing a beat with the sewing machine. “What’d you do this time?”

The cat hero groaned, shoving his face in her pillow. “You’re only going to laugh.”

-

Marinette was staring over her balcony when she heard the family sound of someone’s foot step.

“Chat,” she sighed, then grimaced. “Ferb is dead.”

He chuckled, standing right next to her.

“I absolutely embarrassed myself at school today.”

-

And just like that, it became their thing. Whenever they’ve done anything ridiculous that would make the other laugh, it was always started off with that phrase.

Ferb is dead.

At first, it was just when they did something ridiculous. Then it was used when other people did something(like the time they watched a girl across the street absolutely rip into a guy who thought she was too submissive).

So if it was a thing just between Marinette and Chat Noir, how did Adrien and Ladybug know it too?

-

The school day started fairly normal. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred and by lunch time, Marinette was expecting today to remain pretty chill. Lord knows how much she wanted a relaxing day. Maybe even watch a movie with a certain feline.

When she walked into the classroom after lunch, the scene in front of her was pretty amusing. Kim was clutching his stomach while an equally distressed Alix sat next to him. Raising an eyebrow, she turned to Alya. “What happened?”

“They had a contest-” she snorted. “to see who could eat the most amount of ice cream without getting a stomach ache.”

“Who won?”

“Me, obviously,” Kim hissed out and Marinette clicked her tongue.

“Kimie, you know you’re a bit sensitive to dairy, why would you do this?”

His only response was to bump his head on the desk and groan once again. He waved towards the girl next to him. “Dare.”

Alix whined. “I wasn’t expecting him to actually take up on the dare.”

Marinette rolled her eyes, amused by her friends, although a bit worried. She turned to the boys in front of her. Before she could speak up, Adrien turned to her.

“Ferb is dead.” He chuckled, turning back in his desk as if what he said was something normal. 

And before Marinette could fully comprehend what the blonde boy said, the akuma alert went off.

He couldn’t have possibly say what Marinette thought he did.

Right?

-

The akuma was a bit… weird, to put it nicely. It did seem like the battle would be a bit difficult, if the akuma wasn’t could actually gather its wit.

So there was Ladybug and Chat Noir, staring at the odd thing in front of them. It was going towards the school but for some reason, it would trip and whine before getting back up again. They weren’t even sure what their powers was yet.

Rolling his eyes, Chat leaped off the building and started walking towards their supposed enemy. “Hey, what’s your panties in a twist?”

The akuma roared and pointed a staff like item towards his face. “Wedgies are not something to laugh about!”

Chat simply blinked, not at all expecting that answer. He turned to face his partner, the question clear on his face. Confused herself, Ladybug landed next to him, her eyes never leaving the akuma. “They seem… harmless. Do you know what their powers is?”

“Besides being ridiculously clumsy, I have no idea.” He snorted, eyeing the akuma. “What happened?”

Instead of engaging in a battle with the hero, the akuma whined once again and threw up their hands. “I was so tired of people making fun of me being clumsy so I wanted them to feel how I understand!” They paused, then groaned as they tripped once again. “But me being the clumsy mess I am, I hit myself with the stupid beam!”

A pause.

Ladybug let out a short laugh before turning to her partner and without thinking-

“Ferb is dead.”

She didn’t realize she said it but after breaking the akumatized object, her partner hadn’t moved from his rooted spot. He stared at her and irked by the whole thing, Ladybug raised her fist in their celebratory gesture. He returned the gesture, but continued to give her that same look.

It wasn’t until she got home later, she realized why.

-

“Tikki, this is an absolute mess.”

The small creature hummed, barely paying any attention to her wielder. Tikki told her from the beginning that the more Chat Noir and her hung out, the reveal was bound to happen. So yeah, it might be a mess, but Tikki was done with the whole situation.

“Tikki, Adrien is Chat Noir- wait.” She whirled around, pointing a finger at the small goddess. “You knew! You knew!”

The spotted creature nodded, her attention hardly leaving from the cookie in front of her. “Yeah, which is why I said this was going to be a mess from the beginning.”

That was as far as they got in their conversation when they heard a 'thump’ from above them. Straightening up her shoulder, Marinette gritted her teeth. “I’m going to act like nothing happened. Yeah…” she muttered as she climbed up and opened the door.

“Princess.”

“Chat Noir.”

They stared at each other. And despite her earlier resolute, she cracked.

“So… uh, Ferb is dead?”

<3 I know it wasn’t too great but!!! I hope you have a great day!!!

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pt. 2

"Oh, it's on."

Marinette looked directly at the camera and smiled, although it looked more like a grimace.

"Hey eveyone. I know I've been a little..." she looks off to the side before returning her gaze back. "off for the past year. But I want you all to know you mean everything to me. The past year has really, well," She sighed, resting her chin on the palm of her hand.

"You're probably wondering where I'm going with this video. I've never been great with words but..." she trailed off, before takinga deep breath. "I guess I'll begin by saying if you get this video, it means something has happen. Something I tried my hardest to not have happen but... sometimes, luck is not on your side, you know?"

"I love you all. Mama, papa, everyone, I love-" her voice cracked and she quickly looked away, but the tears didn't stop. "Something is going to go down tomorrow and quite frankly," she chuckled, so dry and humourless. "I have a bad feeling about it. But I can't back down, not when..." she sighed, glancing back at the camera. "Not when all of Paris is relying on me. Not when all of you are relying on me."

She sat up straighter and shook her head, a sad smile on her lips. "I didn't want there to not be a goodbye, but hopefully, you will never have to see this. But if you do, well," she brushed her hair back, displaying the dark earrings. "Even Ladyluck runs out of luck."

"I love you all and this year has been one of my best years. Thank you. This... this is goodbye from Marinette."

She moved her hand behind the camera and gave one last smile, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. "And Ladybug."

click.

-

This has been the last battle between the Miraculous Team and Hawkmoth. And like most stories, the good guys win. But... there's always some casualties in war.

Hawkmoth lost but...

The video was released.

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what if;

Alya shows mari the video of lila saying she's Ladybug's best friend before she uploaded it.

("gotta show my bff this awesome video!")

but when it was over, Alya was surprised Marinette didn't look excited. Then:

"Alya, you can't post that on your blog."

"What? Why not?"

"Think about it, Lila just moved to Paris - Ladybug's been here for months before that. How could they be best friends?"

"Maybe they were friends before that, like penpal or internet friends?"

Marinette shook her head, "You remember when Lila first came here, she didn't know who LB and CN are?"

"Oh... oh yeah..."

"Does Ladybug really seem like someone who would share their identity? If Hawkmoth knew who her best friend was, he could use that to hurt her. Ladybug wouldn't want that."

"...you're right.."

"and she claimed Jagged wrote a song about her - don't you think if that was true, Jagged could probably get a lawsuit? Lila's a minor! He wouldn't risk that."

At that point, Alya deflates. But Marinette wasn't done.

"I know you wanted to believe her so you could feel closer to Ladybug but I've searched up Lila and I couldn't find anything, except, well..."

Her interest piqued, Alya nodded for her to continue.

"I found this really weird article about a school in Italy and well, I don't trust her."

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Facial Recognition

got distracted and wrote this.

Things were just not adding up. She had a feeling, a hunch that something wasn't making sense.

So who else would she go to besides the smartest guy she knows?

Walking up to him as class was dismissed, she placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hey, Max? Are you free after school? There's something I need help with."

Clearly, by the way his eyes widen and adjusting his glasses, she caught him off guard. But with a nod, he gathered his things and followed her out the door.

Once there were alone and the threat of overly curious classmates was no more, Sabrina spoke up. "My father told me how there was a villian on Superhero's Day and Ladybug said her name was Volpina. If I give you a photo could use that one facial programming you created to see who it is?"

"How did you even know I created one?" Max asked, eyebrows raised. "I haven't even told Kim yet."

"I overheard you talking to Markov about it." She shrugged, one side of her lips lifted in a half smile. "So? Can you?"

"Sure. Send me the photo? And I'll run it through."

Sighing in relief, Sabrina sent him the photo. "No one really knows about her but do you remember the illusion of Ladybug that day? She was the one who created it."

Max hummed, his eyebrows furrowed as he started the program. "If I remember correctly, that wasn't the akuma the heroes fought that day."

"Exactly. So that, within itself, was weird. But... it's going to be even weirder if it turns out she's exactly who I think she is."

Pausing at that, Max looked up at her. "Who do you think she is?"

She shook her head, not ready to vocalize her thoughts incase she was wrong. "I'll tell you afterwards."

"Well, it'll take a couple of minutes for the analyzing to finish. Why do you think she got deakumatized without Ladybug's help?" Max asked, leaning against a wall.

Tapping against her chin, Sabrina frowned. "The only reason that would happen is because Hawkmoth took the akuma butterfly back. But the akuma never made a demand?"

"Do you think they might be working for Hawkmoth?"

Shrugging again, Sabrina turned back to Markov. "Probably. According to Ladybug, this akuma is different. Whereas other akumas don't have any control, this one knew exactly what they were doing and even remembered everything afterwards. And they've been akumatized as Volpina a couple of other times."

Their conversation was cut short as their robotic friend declared the analysis was complete. After taking a moment to prepare the results, Markov showed who was behind the mask. Sabrina's heart sunk.

Because Volpina was exactly who she thought she was.

"But that's impossible," Max muttered, his tone laced with disbelief. "But not? This program is completely accurate." Throwing his hands in the air, he looked at Sabrina with wide eyes. "She said she was in Achu during the attack."

"I thought so." Shaking her head, she crossed her arms. "Markov, can you look up Lila's location during the months she said she was in Achu?"

"She was lying?" Max whispered, his eyes trained on Markov, not wanting to believe it but accepting the facts. After all, how could Markov be wrong?

The address Markov displayed was definitely familiar. And with her lips set in a firm line, Sabrina turned to her classmate. "She's been in Paris the whole time."

"What the fuck?" was his only reply before he slid to the ground, back against the wall. "So she's been lying this whole time?"

"I guess so, Max."