Winter Week Day 5 - Snowed In
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“This is outrageous! Do they know who we are?! Its’ freezing in here! OH MY GOD, I’LL FREEZE TO DEATH!” Queen Bee’s shrill voice echoed around the little winter market cabin as she stomped around, Ladybug’s beeping Miraculous punctuating her words.
“Look Queenie whilst my Girl’s magic stopped the CITY-WIDE blizzard it couldn’t move the metric tonnes of snow too.” Alya bit out her tone implying this was not the first time she’d repeated this to Chloe. “We’re relatively safe and they need to focus on the other people, they’ll get to us when they can.”
Chat’s miraculous beeped next down to two paw pads, Carapace’s matching his with a beep moments later. It had been a tough battle; the Akuma had created a blizzard, sealing people in Ice and trapping others within buildings. It had been a retail worker mad about people rudely swarming during Christmas’ late night shopping hours and wanting everyone to ‘cool off and slow down.’ Unfortunately the snow storm the Akuma had generated, along with the sheer cold of winter, meant Queen Bee and Ladybug were practically useless until they had warmed up making the battle even tougher and when they had finally taken the Akuma down the city had been knee deep in snow.
The final fight had crashed through the wall of one of the Christmas Market Cabins, the kind full of seating for festive visitors, and when Ladybug has purified the Akuma the gaping hole in the wall had repaired. That had been the mistake, trapping the Heroes inside the cabin as the snow failed to vanish away. The team had tried busting a new hole but the Akuma had made the first and thick wooden walls hadn’t bent to yoyo, shell or staff. With no food to recharge they’d resigned themselves to being trapped and Alya had detransformed using her Civilian phone to call for help as the missing Teens rather than the Heroes. Of course they weren’t the only ones snowed in so now they had to wait out their rescue.
“BUT IT’S SO COLD IN THESE THINGS!” Chloe gestured wildly at her suit looking close to tears.
“Well they’re designed for fighting Queenie, not snow exploration.” Alya rolled her eyes again poking at the fire rather than glancing at Chloe. Thankfully the market cabins were themed with fires and blankets so the boys had smashed up a series of wooden chairs for them to burn and created a pile of blankets in front of the hearth.
“Plagg, Claws In.” Adrien sighed detransforming before his final beep, Plagg shooting off to join Trixx by the fire the moment he was free. “It’ll be warmer if you take that off Bugaboo.” He’d put a cheeky Chat leer into his voice, trying to defuse the group’s tension as he wrapped Ladybug into a hug.
Not one to disappoint Ladybug pulled on the lapels on his thick winter coat, her eyebrow raised and her tone amused. “You just want to see what I wear under here.”
“THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR YOUR AKWARD FLIRTING!” Chloe shrilly cut in, her panic refusing to be defused.
“Stripes! Just detransform and go sit by the fire already. It’ll be warmer.” Marinette detransformed as she spoke her final spot vanishing, pulling away from Adrien to catch a shivering Tikki in her gloved fingers before depositing her by the fire where Plagg and Trixx immediately cuddled the bug Kwami for warmth.
“But I can’t.” Chloe’s muted whine was almost drowned out by Nino’s ‘Shell Off’ as he and Wyazz joined Alya sitting by the fire but Mari had been able to catch it.
“Why not?” Her tone was curious more than anything. The four currently civilian again were much warmer in their winter gear than their costumes.
“imwearingmypjamasunderhere!”
“Stripes I don’t speak Buzz, in French please.”
“I SAID IM ONLY WEARING PAJAMAS UNDER HERE! OKAY?!” Chloe breathed it all out in massive rant, her face turning scarlet. “I didn’t have time to get dressed before leaving…I didn’t know we’d get stuck!”
“Oh well, that’s easily fixable.” Mari shrugged removing her coat without pre amble and taking off her second sweater handing it towards Chloe.
As Mari passed the thick woollen sweater over, Alya had began stripping her Scarf, hat and gloves off to donate, Nino removing his over coat for Chloe and Adrien had stripped out of his black joggers revealing thick black thermal leggings underneath.
He caught Mari’s amused smile as she struggled back into her coat, winking at her. “My butt looks good in thermals, don’t deny it Princess.”
Marinette just snorted going to sit crossed legged in front of the fire and scooping the Kwami’s onto her lap for extra warm snuggles. Adrien joined her at fire leaning into her and passing a blanket around their shoulders. In fact the four already sitting had arranged in a manner leaving a gap right in the middle, a perfect Chloe sized gap between Alya and Marinette. Pollen soon joined the Kawmi pile on Mari’s lap and the sounds of Chloe dressing were drowned out by the quite crackle of the fire.
“Thank you.” Chloe sniffled, her eyes verging on watery; sometimes she forgot she was part of a team now, with actual friendships, but they never forgot her.
“Get your buzz in here.” Alya smiled over her shoulder lifting the corner of a blanket for Chloe, Mari immediately linking arms with her the moment she joined them in front of the fire.
@miraculous-weeks
Same AU as all the others! Aged-up, post reveal, team miraculous where miraculous have side effects. Chloe and Mari loathe winter (they’re hibernators.)
Just a bit of group friendship Chloe fluff. She’s still sarky and shrill but they love her anyway.















