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What if we had known each other first and fallen in love second

Lady Wi Fi

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Adrien hated Tuesdays.

Well, not hated, just despised them for being his unlucky day of staying at school if there was an attack far from the building.

He and Marinette had come up with that system after realizing how suspicious it would be if both went missing for hours on schooldays. Adrien would have Tuesdays and Thursdays to deal with, while Marinette had Mondays and Fridays. Since Wednesday was half-day and Saturday was more likely for Adrien to have a photoshoot, they had left those out.

It didn't take away the stress Adrien had while he listened to their teacher talking about their homework, the seat behind him still empty as there was an akuma way too far from school for both to be absent at the same time. Thankfully it hadn't risen to something that needed him to go run after her for help –he would have gotten a message- but that didn't mean he was going to just go home as soon as the bell rang.

"Is Marinette still in the restroom?" Mme. Bustier asked Alya just as the bell he was waiting for rang.

Adrien waited to get his paper and stuffed it in his bag, waving a quick goodbye to Nino as he dashed out of the building and found a place to transform and catch up with Marinette.

"What's the situation bug?" he asked once he got sight of her.

"Traffic akuma" she sighed "did I miss much of class?"

"Alya got your homework" he grinned "let's get this dealt with shall we?"

"You read my mind" she smiled as she threw her yo-yo.

It didn't take long, the fact that they didn't have to use their powers was the sign of it. However, Chat made sure to make his way to one of the victims of the akuma, smiling as he comforted them and made sure they were alright. He liked this part of his role. Sure, Ladybug got the camera more often but Adrien was so used to them from fashion shows and interviews this was more like a break than anything.

"I should head back home before they think I skipped classes" Ladybug turned to Chat after they moved away from the people "catch you later?"

"Sure thing" he grinned as she threw her yo-yo and dashed away.

Ladybug moved across rooftops, jumping and twirling as she did. She couldn't deny she liked the gymnastic behind it, like the parkour people she had seen before. It was a little liberating.

Soon she found a good place to transform back to Marinette, not far from her home.

"Time flies fast when you're saving the world, the day's already over!" Tikki exclaimed as she peeked out of Marinette's bag, the girl nodding in agreement.

"Tell me about it, I missed an entire half-day of school!" she groaned "I don't even want to look at all the homework I have to do."

"Whoever is behind all of this sure is keeping us on our toes." Tikki crossed her arms.

That made Marinette giggle.

"But you don't have any toes" she smiled as she opened the door to the bakery, greeting her mom who had her bag, courtesy of Alya.

"You seem so forgetful these days, maybe you just need some fresh air and some exercise for that growing brain of yours.

'If only you knew' thought Marinette as she nodded along and dragged her feet up the stairs and towards her room. Adrien had mentioned some literature papers too and probably some math which was making her head pound.

She pulled out her tablet only to blink at the post-it on it.

"What's this?" she peeled it off only for her eyes to widen at the message.

"No way! You think she knows?" Tikki looked at her.

"I doubt it" Marinette put the post-it back on her desk "Alya is always jumping to conclusions before she has her facts straight."

She thought back on the first days after Ladybug had officially shown up in Paris, listening to Alya calling out nearly every girl around to possibly be the heroine.

"But just in case…"

She held out her phone. If it worked to reassure Tikki, she could give Alya a call. But it seemed luck was not on her side.

"No signal?"

Marinette climbed out to her balcony. Only to get the news they were doing maintenance on the cell tower. Well, this just meant she was back to working on homework. Marinette sighed as she pulled out the first assignment. It was going to be a long evening.

She was so focused on her homework and catching up with notes she forgot to call Alya. In fact, she forgot to even go back to her bed since she had fallen asleep on her desk.

"I'm so late!" Marinette rushed to gather her things and get a quick change of clothes. She brushed her teeth at the same time she packed her tablet.

This wasn't her first time but it didn't make her feel any better as she ran to the school and up the stairs to her classroom. Sneaking in wasn't much of a problem, getting a sympathetic smile from Adrien as she slid into her seat, but she couldn't help but notice Alya wasn't there.

Marinette tapped Nino's shoulders and pointed at Alya's seat.

"Where is she?" she whispered as she leaned closer to hear him.

"She's been suspended," Nino muttered back.

"What?!"

"Marinette! If you're going to come late, would you please do it discreetly?" Mme. Bustier called her out, making her cheeks turn red. She muttered an apology and sat back down. Curiosity, however, was biting at the back of her head.

"What happened to her?" she mumbled again.

"The short story?" Nino whispered back "accused to break into Chloe's locker, I mean Ladybug's locker."

"WHAT?!"

"That's it Marinette!" the teacher turned around "go to the principal's office!"

Marinette grabbed her bag and went out with her shoulders slumped, giving Adrien the same confused look he was wearing.

"What are you talking about?" he turned to Nino. Chloe? Ladybug? Was Alya that desperate to find out. He had to agree with Nino. Alya was starting to lose control of that situation. He still shuddered at the thought.

Boy was he glad it was not Chloe.

Marinette meanwhile had arrived at the principal's office shocked to see that he was frozen. Was this the work of an akuma?

The screen turned on, revealing the new victim taunting the principal with…wait.

Marinette glared at the screen. That had to be Alya.

"I'm going to have to save my best friend" she turned to Tikki "spots on!"

Back in the classroom, Adrien stood up the moment the teacher told them to go home. But home was the last place in his mind. If that was Alya, and who else could it be if Hakwmoth had a radar for anguished people, then she was probably going to go after Chloe. He made sure to sneak into a bathroom to transform.

Sneaking out afterwards was easy, soon Chat Noir was perched on the rooftop right in front of Chloe's room, at the top of the luxury hotel she lived at. He zoomed in with his baton, choking a laugh when he saw his childhood friend in what had to be a very well done cosplay of the spotted heroine.

"What in the world?"

"Who's being a sneaky kitty now?" he nearly jumped at Ladybug's voice right next to him.

"You startled me,"

"Oh, then scared kitty?" she giggled.

"Say what you want but we can't deny you have a fan" he smiled at her.

"A copycat?"

Chat tried to contain his laughter.

"Oh, so when you do puns is smooth and on point but when I do them is unnecessary and bad humor?"

"You have a terrible timing" she poked her bell and looked to the hotel "stake out plan?"

"Looks like it" Chat patted next to him for her to sit down "so! Any idea why Alya thinks Chloe is well, you?"

"Beats me" she sighed "but she did leave me a note about it, I wanted to call her but there was no service and then I got caught up with homework and next thing I knew I was late to class and maybe if I was on time I could have prevented her from being suspended- "

"Hey, hey" Chat held her hand "don't push yourself over this, it wasn't your fault."

"I know but," Ladybug squeezed his hand "I can't help but think if I had been there, did you feel this way when Nino got…?"

"Yeah," he sighed "but I'm going to tell you what I told myself, you are here now" he smiled "to save her from Hawkmoth, and that's something you do quite amazing."

"Well," she gave him a small smile "that's because I have one great partner by my side."

They stayed there, waiting for Lady Wifi to show up, observing Chloe's acting of Ladybug until it was nighttime. It was then that they finally caught sight of the akuma, both jumping to action to reach her right as she "revealed" Ladybug's identity.

"Sorry to bust your news story, next time you should double-check your facts" Chat grinned as Ladybug tried to contain her face from showing a reaction. He did have a point.

"You'll be sorry," Lady Wifi snarled at them, undoing her powers on Chloe and turning her full attention to them.

"I'm Lady Wifi! Ladybug, let's find out who you really are!"

They dodged and sneaked out of the room, taking the stairs floors below as Ladybug tried to come up with a way to save her friend. She was using her phone, so that meant she should need a signal to have it available.

"So, what's the plan?" Chat asked as they kept running.

"Let's lead her down to the basement where there isn't any service!"

They reached the very bottom, and right as Ladybug thought so, Lady Wifi's power couldn't reach them.

"Smart move bug," Chat nodded "now what?"

"Uh…" the slamming of doors made them look up "she's gone back into the hotel!"

They ran back up the stairs, only to realize the doors were locked.

"Seriously?!" Chat groaned as they ran "I don't need this much cardio in my life!"

"Focus Chat!" Ladybug panted as she kept running up the stairs.

"I am focused!" he yelled back "see? That one is unlocked."

Ladybug glared at it.

"It's a trap isn't it?" Chat took out his baton.

"Get ready for one then," she took a step back and counted "1…2…3!"

They kicked the door open and got into what had to be the hotel's restaurant.

"Huh, didn't know she had many phones" Chat mumbled as they took cautious steps forward.

"What's up with them?"

It seemed they got their answer when Lady Wifi showed up from one of them, attacking both with her pause button.

Chat dodged them without a problem but soon found himself overwhelmed by being the center of her attention, ending up with himself slammed against a table.

"Chat!" Ladybug threw her yo-yo at Lady Wifi, but she was using her teleporting skill to move away from her.

Ladybug glared at the phones and started to smash them one by one with her yo-yo, limiting her access to tele transporting. Lady Wifi sneaked past her and ran to the kitchen, but it turned out to be another trap as she locked the door right after Ladybug walked in.

Chat banged at the locked door.

"Hang on LB!" he called out as he opened the screen of his baton. He was not going to let the akuma reveal her identity to the city.

"Of course!" he grinned "the service elevator!"

Ladybug heard his steps further from the door and hoped he knew how to get in the kitchen. In the meantime, she fought her way to avoid Lady Wifi's attacks, thankful that she knew her way around the kitchen to know where to find the pots and throw them in self-defense, but soon she found herself trapped between counters, her arms frozen to the wall.

Lady Wifi smirked and started to broadcast.

"Who is Ladybug? Is she a super hero or a super weirdo?"

Rude, much?

"How can we trust the girl when we have no idea of who she really is? We have the right to know!"

It was a good thing Alya was akumatized because that was the worst way to want to know who she was under the mask. Ladybug winced when she felt fingers pulling at her face.

"Why doesn't it come off!?"

"Uh, because it's magic?"

Seriously, between magic powers and everything that had to be obvious, even for an akuma.

The service elevator door buzzed open, Chat Noir jumping out of it with baton at hand.

"You're out of minutes Lady Wifi!"

Ladybug tried not to chuckle. That was indeed good timing.

"Oh, how romantic," Lady Wifi sneered "tomcat has come to save his love bug."

"W-what?" both Chat Noir and Ladybug turned to her.

"I'm not his love bug!"

"We're not together?!"

Chat managed to snap out of his surprise as he dodged another attack from Lady Wifi, only to get hit again right in the chest and thrown to the freezer, the door magically locked behind him. Worse of all, his ring fell off, Plagg pulled out immediately from it.

"So chilly in here!" he shivered as Adrien patted the ground around, looking for it. This was bad, if Lady Wifi opened that door he was screwed.

"Well, well, well" Lady Wifi smirked, "what am I going to do with both of you?"

Ladybug struggled against the restrains just as a purple light appeared on Alya's face. She had seen it before; Hawkmoth was talking to her through her mind.

"If you don't get him out fast, your crush will soon be slushed!" Lady Wifi laughed as she undid the bounds on Ladybug "good luck with your cat popsicle! I have other news to cover!"

She disappeared with her teleporting skills, but that didn't help Ladybug at all.

And why did she say crush? She shook her head. Wrong thing to focus at the moment.

"Chat!" she ran to the freezer door, kicking at it and slamming against it, but nothing was good enough to break the magic lock.

"I'll get you out of there!"

"Please!" Adrien shivered "but also take your time!"

"What? You'll freeze in there!" Ladybug shouted as she looked around for something to help her. It was no use; she would have to call it sooner.

"Lucky charm!" she yelled as a metal box fell on her hands.

"This better be some lucky box" she muttered, only to notice the 'do not microwave' sign and the gears in her head started to spin. This wasn't exactly magic, what Lady Wifi was doing was thanks to phone technology and something she could stop it with was…

"Of course! The microwaves!"

She moved fast to pull the microwave to the freezer door and stuck the box inside. Her plan worked as the microwave imploded but the lock was long gone from the door.

"Yes!"

Adrien heard the beeping outside but he smirked as he finally caught up to his ring, transforming just before Ladybug opened the door.

"Chat!" she caught him before he could fall. Who would have thought freezers would leave you so numb in short time?

"Oh no," he looked at her earrings "you used your Lucky Charm bug! There's not much time left!"

"Well I wasn't going to let you freeze" she helped him to stand up, but it was true. She had a few minutes before turning back and there was a projection of them probably all over Paris right now.

She looked at the door and the microwave.

"I know what to do," she pulled him close so to whisper on his ear.

Chat nodded. Leave it to her to find out the solution every time.

"You can count on me" he grinned as he grabbed a pot to cover the projection.

"I'll go and jam the Wi-Fi antenna," he said as he climbed back to the elevator service.

"Good luck!" he heard her say as he went up to the top floor, only to be received with more projectiles from Lady Wi-Fi.

It was a good thing he knew that was going to happen. Chat sneaked back to the stair doors, running to the rooftop. Time was on the essence this time and he was not going to let Ladybug down.

"Cataclysm!" he called out for his magic as he reached the antenna, only to be stopped again by Lady Wi fi.

Well, his job was never easy.

"I'm not going to let you cut me off so easily!" she threw more projectiles at him, Chat dodging them while trying to avoid wasting his Cataclysm. He threw his baton at her, smirking as it divided in two, the perfect distraction for him to sneak to the antenna and slamming his hand into it, the metal corroding as Lady Wi-Fi fell to the rooftop.

"Give me that phone!" he jumped at her. Even if she was magically powerless, he couldn't risk the chance of Ladybug running out of time and showing her identity. But boy did he not expect Alya to sucker punch and kick him hard.

Chat tried to lunge at her phone again, only to be pinned down to the ground, with lady Wi Fi's phone out of reach.

"Hah!" she exclaimed just as a familiar string appeared to wrap around her wrist and pulled her back, the phone flying above her head. Ladybug jumped ahead and grabbed the flying phone, slamming it hard to release it from the purple butterfly.

"No more evil-doing for you little akuma" she smiled as she caught the butterfly, purifying it and letting it go.

"Miraculous ladybug!"

This was her favorite part, looking at the magic ladybugs floating around the city and fixing everything that had been caused by Hawkmoth. She smiled at Chat as she offered her fist, Chat grinning as they did their salute.

"Pound it!"

They smiled at Alya's rambling and fangirling, but as much as Ladybug wanted to stay, the beep in her earrings told her otherwise.

"Got to go, you only have a minute!" Chat said and turned around, leading Ladybug down the stairs and to the supply closet that was at the reception. It was a good thing he knew some hiding spots in this place.

"In, in, come on" he pushed her inside and closed the door behind him, just as the magic washed away from her.

"That was close" she caught Tikki in her hands "thanks."

"One can't be too sure," he grinned as he peeked out of the door "coast is clear, you can sneak out."

"Got it," Marinette moved to the door and smiled at him "see you tomorrow?"

"Of course bug" he smiled at her as she left the supply closet.

It had been a fight alright, Marinette couldn't believe how close she had been to have her identity discovered, let alone by Alya of all people.

"Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we didn't know," Marinette mused the next day as she and Tikki relaxed on the balcony.

"Would you have told him?"

"Maybe not yet" she shrugged "I'm glad it was on accident but who knows yet how different everything would be."

"Got it!"

Marinette yelped and turned around just in time to see Alya coming from her trapdoor, showing up a new smartphone in her hand.

Marinette let her breath calm down from the surprise and smiled as she looked at Alya gushing about her new phone and showing her the really high quality of the camera.

"And what's with all the photos of Adrien?" she couldn't help but to ask "are you going to tell me he's Ladybug now?"

"Very funny" she showed Marinette another photo "but now that you mention it, with a mask and a costume, don't you think he looks a little bit like Chat Noir?"

Marinette's eyes widened. As far as Alya's hunts went this was the closest one she had got.

"Are you out of your mind?!" she looked at her, baffled when Alya just raised an eyebrow. Oh, she overreacted, she had to fix this fast before Alya went after Adrien. Oh, she would apologize to him later.

"Chat Noir is way too chaotic to Adrien's poshness,"

"Is that even a word?" Alya smiled.

"You know what I meant" Marinette smiled back "but we can always check it out in your new phone!" she snatched it from Alya's hand, laughing as the girl went after her.

If she deleted the photoshopped photo of Adrien as Chat Noir, well, she could throw it away to her clumsiness.

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