This story is for @silverwhiteraven ! I hope you had a merry Christmas and I hope that this is one of your best years!
One of my friends, @cyber-geist helped me write this! It’s 9 chapters, and I really hope you like it!!!!! Now presenting:
He Stole My Heart So I Stole His
Prompt/based on:
The only Felix/Marinette interaction I want is them stealing the same object from each other for the better part of a day.
Consider the following: Felix and Marinette bump into each other in a hallway. Marinette holds up Felix's phone that she just stole, and unlocks it because he never thought it would be stolen. Felix, meanwhile, unlocks Mari's phone by correctly guessing the password is ADRN.
They both get the dirt they were looking for, and go to send it to their own phones and simultaneously receive each other's messages. They turn, realizing what happened.
Wordlessly, they delete the dirt from each other's phones, remove themselves from contacts, and exchange their phones back. They hate each other's guts, but also have a strange sort of respect for each other. Honor among thieves, if you will.
Okay but an addition, if you will....
Felix and Marinette keep stealing from each other. They’re sure that they can outwit the other next time, so they just keep trying. (They both steal at the same time. It’s an impulse. If they’re within five feet of each other, at least two objects have been stolen within the first minute). Nobody truly understands how it’s happening. One moment, everything is fine. The next, Marinette is wearing Felix’s blazer, and he got her shoe. Nobody blinked. They haven’t ruled the idea of magic out of the explanation list. Eventually, their rivalry turns into some odd game of tag. One person steals an item, the other has to. And then they start...leaving items on their person. Like little gifts. A chocolate here, a flower there. And the final object? A note that says, “You stole my heart, can I take yours in return?” And suddenly Miss Bustier’s class is screwed, because the two thieves are now one kleptomaniac couple who want everything.
Chapter 1: An Unexpected Encounter:
Felix slid by Marinette and as he did so his foot slipped slightly causing him to accidentally bump into the irritating girl. They shared glares and then both continued on to their respective predestined locations. Neither noticed the smirk on the other's face as they walked in separate directions. Once Felix had rounded the corner he pulled his hand from his jacket pocket and tossed the small black and pink rectangle into the air. He walked to the library and sat in the back at a secluded table and after a few attempts rolled his eyes when the phone before him opened on attempt six, ADRN. Really, this girl was just too predictable.
He began to scroll through the phone till he found what he was looking for. He smirked at the picture of his brother sprawled spread eagle on the grass drooling, his hand curled around a ladybug action figure. The picture had been taken at the park when they had been on a school field trip, by Adrien’s friend Nino. All copies had been deleted immediately upon his waking up, that is except for the one Nino had sent to Marinette. Felix chuckled quietly to himself and sent the image to his phone, at that exact moment a message appeared on the screen from his own phone. Felix stared at it for a moment, then reached into his pocket. It was empty. He blinked, confused before tapping the message. It contained a picture of him and Adrien genuinely and happily hugging the other. He blinked again when he heard a startled squeak from a few bookshelves over. He leaned out from behind the bookshelf and met eyes with Marinette who had just looked up from his phone. They stared at each other around the bookshelves for a moment before both looked back down and deleted the messages they had just sent. Felix stood stiffly and crossed to Marinette. Wordlessly he held out her phone, she grabbed it while simultaneously passing him his own. As he turned to go he couldn’t help a parting jab over his shoulder.
“You really need a better password. It was ridiculous how easily I was able to access your personal files.”
Marinette smirked slightly and raised an eyebrow.
“At least I had a password Mr. ‘Everyone’s too scared of me to dare steal from me’ Agreste.”
They stared at each other for a long moment before, they both nodded slightly to the other and went their separate ways. As the day progressed Felix couldn’t help but think about how on earth she’d managed to get his phone off of him without him noticing. After going home with Adrien and realizing he still didn’t have an answer, Felix huffed. No matter, he had just been off his game. It was fine. He would steal something else from the brat tomorrow, just to prove he still could. That decided, he rolled over and went back to sleep.
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Marinette headed home after school grumbling to herself. Since when was Felix such an experienced master of the sleight of hand? Curse him. Now she’d have to find another way to get that picture of him and Adrien. She scrambled up the ladder and into her room. After completing her homework she began to brainstorm different ways to get the photo again. Yet she couldn’t seem to focus on it. She kept getting frustrated whenever she thought of Felix and how he stole her phone. How had he done that? It didn’t make any sense, her senses from her fighting as Ladybug and training with her family should have warned her what he was up to, yet there had been nothing. Nothing at all. She sighed she must have been too focused on getting his phone to notice, which was bad, she needed to up her game. After dinner as she was getting ready for patrol she set a notification for herself to practice her spatial awareness later. With that done she swung out into the night. Patrol was dull, it was Rena’s turn to be on patrol and patrol was largely uneventful. At the end of the night after a quick treat at a local shop the two parted ways and headed to their respective homes. After finally collapsing into her bed, Marinette decided something. She was going to nick something off Felix tomorrow if only for her peace of mind. With that decided she snuggled into her bed and fell into a deep restful sleep.
Me: i can play spear fine, but you seemed to figure your way around it so i changed it up
Them: ye mean you decided to spam a terrible weapon?
Me: its just my playing style
Them: play more fun, dunt spam
Them: *has left the chat
(side note - I use the phrase "playing style" loosely. Player was salty they couldn't get around the lance and I kept switching the spear out. But they peaced out with a heart emoticon so, they aren't entirely toxic? )
I know she is based off a meme. But please don’t consider thats all my Neon is. Like, Yeah she is high energy and still a raver type girl. But thats not ALL she is. I am in fact trying to give her a story and personalty outside what little we know about from canon.
Marinette felt nauseous as she boarded the plane for Gotham. The whole War against Hawkmoth had ended about a month ago. And in that month Gabriel Agreste denied Lila helping him “willingly”—which was bull as Lila had been so happy to take the akumas that flew towards her as shown in the camera footage— so she was declared innocent and cleared of any charges. Lila had made a whole sob story about how Ladybug “betrayed“ and “accused“ her. Of course her school bought it and Alya posted it on her blog. “Ladybug, a liar and a backstabber. Accused best friend of working with Paris terrorist Hawkmoth.” Not to mention that her lies about her had gotten worse, and so did the bullying.
Marinette suppressed all of her emotions. Not because she wanted to, but after 4 years of having to do it to not attract an Akuma, it was just habit. Every day blurred into each other, and it just felt like she wasn’t even in her own body half the time. And when her class decided to “teach her a lesson”, dissociation was her best friend. Adrien, who had been her crush, who she thought was her friend, left her. And after Ladybug took his miraculous, he was cruel and ruthless.
Tom and Sabine, to put it lightly, were pissed. How dare the school do nothing while their daughter was suffering. How dare they report falsehoods about their sweet girl. They weren’t able to have kids, so being able to adopt the little girl was a miracle. They knew the girl they raised, they knew her struggles, and though she thought she was sneaky, Sabine knew she was Ladybug. She worked so hard, and all she got for her efforts was hurt. Well no more, this was going to change now, even if it hurt her. After discussing it with Tom they agreed on what needed to happen and called the number on the birth certificate.
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Marinette stepped off the plane, the restless feeling she felt throughout the flight never leaving. She was adopted, she was going to meet her bio dad. She was going to live with him because Paris was too toxic for her now. Marinette wrung her hands together nervously as she looked around. She spotted an older gentleman holding a sign with her name and walked towards him trying to ground herself with the weight of her backpack on her back and shoulders.
“Hello Miss Dupain-Cheng, it is very nice to meet you. I’m Alfred Pennyworth.”
“Hello M. Pennyworth. It’s nice to meet you too.”
She refused to make eye contact. She didn’t want to see if he was disappointed.
“Shall we go grab the rest of your baggage miss?”
She simply nodded. The less words the better, no one could use them against her if she didn’t use them often. They quietly grabbed her things before heading to a limo where he helped her put her things in the trunk and helped her through the door. The car ride was silent, though he did ask a few yes or no questions where she either shook her head or nodded. She didn’t know how as he never turned back to look, but he seemed to know her answers. The car pulled to a stop in front of a grand entrance to a large beautiful manor. In any other circumstance she would be in awe of it and want to learn more about it, but currently she just felt intimidated and horrified. The door opened and a hand was held out. Very hesitantly she took the hand and stepped out of the car, though she looked at the ground. She could feel the eyes on her, there were many people there, but she didn’t want to look.
“Hello Marinette,”
A deep gentle voice began. The voice got closer and the footsteps got louder till eventually someone was in front of her. They crouched down and she felt a hand placed on her shoulder. Marinette flinched back at the touch, and the hand quickly left.
“Sorry. Welcome to Wayne manor. You’ll be staying here till your parents give the ok to return to Paris. Would you like me to show you where your room is?”
She quietly nodded again and slowly looked up to see the same blue eyes that she had looking at her gently. Dark black hair lined the man’s handsome face and she could see some of the same features on the man’s face that she had. This was her father. Maybe everything would be ok. Maybe things will be different. Maybe she would finally heal.
took me 2 fucking hours to go thru all those blogs my eyes hurt ((from staring at my screen !! not saying ur blogs is bad if i didnt follow u back !!))
