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The Curse of Chat Noir Ch 1 (Miraculous Ladybug)

Summary: Felix is Adrien’s older cousin, reluctantly come to visit. Adrien is prepared for awkward small talk and a stoicism that nearly puts his father to shame. He supposes that’s normal, though; they hardly talk.

Felix just wants to go get this family visit over with so he can go home. But when Adrien falls ill with a fever and starts having nightmares about his ring, Felix makes the poor decision of taking it. What was so special about a ring, anyway?

Word Count: 3k

A/N: Hello everyone! I got this lovely idea from ladyserendipitous on tumblr. I have been wanting to write a Ladybug fanfic for forever and especially one with Felix. There doesn’t seem to be enough love for this idiot, so I wrote some! This is also my first Ladybug fanfic so please be gentle! Comments and criticism are welcome! I’d love to know what you guys think! -Kristen

When Adrien had been informed that his older cousin Felix was coming to visit for a while, he had been... alright with that. However, between school, his other lessons, any work his father wanted him to do, and being Chat Noir, that small piece of info had been pushed to the far reaches of his mind. So when Felix had showed up almost a week later, Adrien had been kind of taken by surprise.

"Adrien, Felix is here," Nathalie had announced, still looking down at her phone to handle something that was no doubt work related. "Please show him around. I've already made you two lunch reservations at a local restaurant in the city. Have the car take you."

Felix had stood there, tall and cold as Nathalie left. His blonde hair was combed neatly, not a hair out of place. Green eyes watched him, nearly uninterested in anything around him. His dark clothes and vest posed an odd contrast to his hair. Even with the small height, and age, difference, the two could nearly be mistaken for twins by an outsider.

As Felix just stood there, Adrien wanted to sigh. It didn't look like Felix was anymore friendly than he had been the last time he had visited. "Uh, ready to go eat, Felix?" Adrien asked, hoping to lessen the awkward tension that seemed to fill the space between them.

"Do I have a choice? Seems like I already have a schedule planned out," Felix remarked cooly, looking around at the mansion.

You've no idea, Adrien thought. He could swear his life was nothing but scheduled events one after another. "Nathalie means well, and I'm sure the restaurant will be nice," he tried, leading the way outside and to the car already waiting for them. Felix followed without saying a word, still stoic and impersonal.

The ride was silent, as Adrien had thought it would be. Or rather, Felix was still quiet, while Adrien had tried to inform Felix of some of the cool places they passed while going to eat. The restaurant was even worse. Everyone around them were talking to each other, remarking on the lovely atmosphere and different things on the menu. Felix remained silent. Even the waiter seemed off-put by Felix's demeanor even though Felix had done nothing actually rude. He just seemed to give off that vibe.

Adrien tried for some form of small talk, trying different topics of conversation that he could think of that may lead to an actual conversation. He knew that it was going to be somewhat awkward; he hadn't seen Felix in years and they had not contacted each other in that time. They were virtually strangers with nothing seemingly in common other than their family line.

Felix's responses to Adrien's questions were either silence with a sense of judgment, one word responses, or a curt sentence that killed the conversation in its early stages. About halfway through, Felix excused himself to go to the restroom and Adrien heaved a heavy sigh, letting his head fall to the table.

"What's up with him?" a voice whispered near Adrien's shoulder. "He's got an attitude problem," Plagg continued, keeping hidden beneath Adrien's jacket collar.

"That's just... Felix," Adrien couldn't help but sigh again. Thankfully, their table was more secluded in case anyone happened across them. Nathalie was pretty good at making sure he could eat without being pestered by the general populous, so he didn't look quite so crazy when he talked to "himself."

"Do you want me to bite him?" Plagg asked, licking a paw. "I could claw him a little bit. He'd never know it was me."

Adrien furrowed his brows at the kwami. "You're being... nice." If Adrien didn't know Plagg was...well, Plagg, he may find it suspicious. And as appealing as the idea was... "No, no clawing or biting him. He's only visiting for a couple weeks, and he's staying in one of my father's hotel suites across the city instead of the mansion so he won't be around constantly."

Plagg sniffed, "Good, I don't think I could deal with that all the time. He may be worse than your old man, kid." Before Adrien could respond, he saw Felix rounding the corner, so Adrien stuffed Plagg inside his jacket. Despite protests, Plagg still snorted an almost sarcastic sounding "good luck!" before he went willingly.

Not long after Felix sat back down, the food arrived, saving Adrien some time to try and fill the awkward silence. Briefly, he wondered if Felix felt as awkward as he did or if he just enjoyed the silence.

Forks and knives scrapping their plates was the only sound that filled the immediate area, only other people's conversations filtering to them provided some kind of background noise. Felix was finished, while Adrien was still eating his larger portion of food. Surprisingly, Felix didn't seem to care that Adrien was eating enough for two people.

Although, true to his inherent bad luck, he only made it about half way through his plate before the distant screaming started. Adrien felt Plagg zip up his jacket, still hidden as everyone around the restaurant stood up and ran outside.

"What's happening?" Felix asked, standing up to look as well.

"Akuma!" Plagg whispered.

"I can't just leave-" Adrien whispered back. Felix would obviously notice if he just up and left. Looking out of the large windows in the front of the restaurant, he could see Ladybug swinging through the buildings to get to the attack. What should he do? He obviously needed to help, not that his Lady needed help exactly, but he was a hero too. Looking at the people piling outside, Adrien lost sight of Felix. Well, that settled that. Quickly, he darted into an abandoned hallway of the restaurant and transformed.

He'd always love transforming. The rush of his heightened senses was invigorating, and his body seemed supercharged somehow. Using his baton, Chat extended it until he was able to jump onto the roofs nearby and then he raced after his Lady hoping he wasn't too late to help.

"What took you so long, Chat? I thought you were going to let me do all the work this time," Ladybug asked as Chat swooped in at the last second to distract the akuma. He had been too late to get this one's name, but that didn't really matter. They were all named oddly anyway; Hawkmoth really needed to step up his name game. Adrien could name them so much better, preferably with a few puns.

"I was a bit caught up, My Lady, but I'm here now, no worries," Chat responded flirtily. "Did you miss me?"

"I missed my backup, yes," Ladybug answered, hopping from roof to roof as the akuma made its way towards them. It was slower, but simple hits seemed to do no damage whatsoever.

Chat followed, a roof behind, using his baton to make his movements smoother. "Any ideas on how to get rid of it?" he asked. She didn't respond, but he knew she was scoping for a weak point.

In it's frustration, the akuma lashed out at the nearby buildings. It was some kind of large...creature of some kind. Almost scaly like a lizard, only...not. It stood on two legs to walk, but went down on all fours to move quicker. It also seemed to spit some kind of poison. That was such a nice touch, Adrien thought sarcastically.

As the creature's tail swung about mindlessly, it crashed into some buildings which caused some large chunks of debris to go flying. Thankfully, no one was anywhere nearby so taking the akuma out was easily done with his Lady's Lucky Charm, and a quick Cataclysm from him as well. Only, just before taking the thing down it blasted Chat with poison, making him fall to his knees and begin coughing harshly. It felt like his lungs were on fire and being shredded from the inside.

"Chat!" he heard Ladybug scream, but he was too preoccupied with the burning in his lungs to really focus. Ladybug's purification soon swept around the city, fixing everything the way it should be. As the red blur passed over Chat, he inhaled deeply as he could finally breathe once again. "Chat, are you okay?" she asked, running over to him, putting a hand on his back.

"Thank you, My Lady," Chat choked out, rubbing his throat. Their miraculouses beeping interrupted before he could croak out anymore thanks to her.

"Go home and rest, Chat," she ordered. "Do you need any help? We've got a little time left, I can get you in the right direction at least."

"I'm purr-fectly fine," Chat smiled, enjoying his pun, even if his voice was still a little scratchy. Besides, it was hardly flattering for him to appear so weak in front of her. "I'm feline better now!"

He didn't miss her look of skepticism and slight annoyance at his puns, but listened nonetheless. She kept a weary eye on him, until she swung away, shouting out a "Get some rest!" behind her again before disappearing.

Yeah, rest sounded good. He was tired now that the adrenaline was wearing off with the transformation. A nice nap sounded fantastic, and he'd have to get Plagg some Camembert before he started getting really cranky. On autopilot, Chat made it a few blocks away and into an alley before the transformation released and he stumbled into the street with everyone else.

A few hours later, Felix sat watching over Adrien.

After having returned from the chaos that had erupted in the restaurant, Adrien's driver had driven them straight back to the mansion. Adrien had been fine during lunch, even if he had insisted on banal small talk. Felix hated small talk; there was no point in talking if one wasn't saying anything, so he had mostly remained silent. He had no desire to talk for the sake of talking.

Felix had seen the akuma on the news, and the new heroes of Paris, so he could only assume there had been an attack. The only upside had been that whatever had happened, happened several blocks away so Felix hadn't been caught in it. He knew that the heroes "saved Paris" and "protected the people", but to Felix, it took a special kind of crazy to run towards the danger instead of away from it. Perhaps the suits and powers helped...

A fit of coughing broke through Felix's thoughts, bringing his attention back to Adrien. He was now sweaty and occasionlly tossing his head in his fevered sleep. Adrien had been coughing for a while after they had returned from the attack, but he had soon started wheezing like he was choking on something. Nathalie had insisted on him laying down and giving his younger cousin medicine to help. Not that it seemed to do Adrien any good. Felix had left the room to walk around the mansion before Nathalie insisted he watch over Adrien as she called the doctor to make a house call. By the time Felix had returned to the room, Adrien had been asleep and twitching in his sleep, muttering unintelligible things.

He really hoped he didn't get sick from exposure. Even though he did feel bad for Adrien, Felix had no desire to get sick as well.

"Plagg... my ring... don't-" Adrien began mumbling, not making any coherent sentences that made sense.

Felix furrowed his brows as he listened to Adrien mumble. He kept mumbling about his ring, and at first glance, Felix didn't know what was so special. It looked like a simple silver ring, with an odd little design on top. Nothing special.

"No!" Adrien nearly shouted suddenly, making Felix jump, before quieting down again. "Lady... my ring..."

Rolling his eyes, Felix grabbed Adrien's hand and took the damn thing off. If his cousin was having nightmares about it (and who had nightmares about a ring?) then he'd just take the thing off for him.

What's so special about it anyway? Felix wondered, looking at the piece of silver metal in his hands. Certainly didn't look special to Felix. In fact, with as rich and keen on fashion that Felix knew his Uncle Gabriel was, the ring was actually a bit out of place. He was surprised Adrien was actually allowed to wear it. Then again, Uncle Gabriel didn't seem to pay much attention to Adrien if what Felix's mother told him was correct. Not to mention that Felix hadn't so much as seen his uncle since he had arrived.

Absently fiddling with the ring, Felix turned when Nathalie had arrived with the doctor. "Felix, I've got the car ready for you to take you to the suite. Thank you for sitting with Adrien," Nathalie told him, one minute addressing him and by the next, completely dismissing him as she explained to the doctor what was going on.

Huffing slightly, Felix slipped the ring on before walking out of the room. He'd just give it back to Adrien when he saw him again in a couple days. Hopefully, Adrien would be healthy by then. The last thing Felix saw was the doctor and Nathalie surrounding his cousin, before walking down the stairs and back outside to the car.

The driver mercifully remained silent the whole ride, Nathalie already having programmed the GPS to where Felix needed to go. He was glad for that. The drive didn't take more than twenty minutes before the car stopped in front of a lavish hotel. The driver handed him some ID cards and a brochure before unlocking the doors.

The hotel was every bit as fancy as he imagined his uncle would settle for. A bit too fancy for Felix's tastes, but he could appreciate it nonetheless. While his family wasn't as rich as Adrien's family, they were still well off.

After checking in, and being unnecessarily doted upon because he was "Mr. Agreste's important guest", Felix was escorted to his room. And by room, Felix realized they meant humongous suite that was nearly a whole floor by itself. What exactly did his uncle think he needed all this space for? He was one person; It seemed a bit wasteful to Felix.

The bellhop set Felix's bags inside the doorway, asking if Felix needed any help with anything before going on and on about the history of the hotel. None of which Felix cared about, so he dismissed the bellhop quickly, shutting the door behind him.

He stood there for a moment, taking in the overly large living area and smaller kitchen off to the side. He could spot at least three bedrooms and two bathrooms just from the doorway. Why had his mother insisted he visit again? Couldn't she have just called and talked with Adrien and Uncle Gabriel over the phone like usual? Although, his mother never really got to talk to his uncle much. It seemed he was even less of a people person than Felix was, and that was saying something.

Rubbing his hand down his face, Felix felt a brush of something cold against his skin. Pulling his hand away, he remembered the ring that he had taken from Adrien. Now that Felix got a better look at it, he didn't care for it.

Felix pulled off the ring as he walked into the living area. Or at least, he tried to. Multiple times. Only the damned thing would not...Come. Off!

Laughter next to Felix's head made him whip around, looking for whoever was in the room. Heart racing, he walked around the suite, looking for anybody besides himself within. Maybe there had been a house keeper still straightening the rooms or something...

Or maybe not, Felix thought, once he had gone through all the rooms (there were actually five rooms) in the suite. Narrowing his eyes, he looked at the living area. He knew what he-

"Oh, kid, you're an idiot aren't you?" the same voice laughed again.

Felix turned quickly, coming face to face with a tiny...floating...cat? Caught by surprise, Felix remained still, eyes nearly crossed looking down his nose at the creature. What the hell?

The creature looked at him, whiskers flicking occasionally, saying nothing while staring back at Felix. "Boo!" it suddenly cried, causing Felix to flinch backwards and onto one of the couches. It instantly started cackling while it floated.

Felix grabbed a pillow and tried to hit the thing out of the air. Only for the little thing to phase through it like Felix had swatted at the air. "What are you?" Felix asked, still caught by surprise and just a little freaked out.

The creature just laughed more, not answering the question.

"Well?!" Felix demanded, standing back up. His shock was giving away to embarrassed anger at being laughed at. He didn't like to look like a fool, and that's what he felt like.

The creature finally stopped laughing and looked Felix up and down. "Plagg," it answered.

"What?"

"My name," Plagg drawled slowly. "My name is Plagg," he continued, like he was talking to an infant.

"I'm not stupid," Felix snapped at Plagg's tone. "You've still yet to answer my question."

"Well, here's the thing," Plagg said, zipping towards Felix's face. "I'm a kwami, don't worry kid. You won't know what that is. But you really should've just left the ring with Adrien." Felix gave a questioning look at the thing. "Now you're cursed! Congratulations. This oughta be interesting." Then he zipped around the room, looking at things.

"Cursed?" Felix murmured to himself, watching Plagg flit about.

"Oh, yeah, big time kid," Plagg answered, zipping right back into Felix's face.

Felix pulled at the ring again. "Well, get this thing off of me! I don't want it."

Plagg snorted, "Too late for that. The only way to get that thing off now... is to die!" This information came with a dramatic wave of his tiny paws. "I did say cursed didn't I?"

"Die?!" Felix nearly shouted. What the hell was going on? He was so not dying just to get the ring off. Almost desperately, Felix kept trying to force the ring from his finger, but all that got him was a painfully popped finger. The thing wouldn't come off!

"Or," Plagg continued, barely suppressed laughter off-setting his otherwise grave tone. "Get a kiss from Ladybug, which ever comes first."

He froze. "Ladybug? What does she have to do with this?" None of this is making any sense!

Plagg didn't answer, instead asking if there was any Camembert cheese anywhere while flying towards the fridge.

"Plagg!" Felix snapped, running over to snatch the tiny cat out of the air in his hands. "Tell me what Ladybug has to do with this? In fact, tell me everything right now," he demanded, only slightly hysterical. Normally, he was poised and controlled, but he could cut himself some slack. None of this was normal.

Plagg's tiny whiskers fluttered for a minute, his green eyes widening for a second. "Oh, you're about to find out real quick, Kid! Get ready," Plagg supplied with a snicker. Before Felix could shake the kwami in his hands, Plagg flew from his hand and turned into a black blur as he got sucked into the ring.

Suddenly, Felix felt a rush of energy take over his body as Plagg disappeared. He threw his arms up at the quick flash of green light, and then it was totally silent.

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mycreativeoutlet1 · 7 years

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The Curse of Chat Noir Ch 1

Summary: Felix is Adrien's older cousin, reluctantly come to visit. Adrien is prepared for awkward small talk and a stoicism that nearly puts his father to shame. He supposes that's normal, though; they hardly talk.

A/N: Hello everyone! I got this lovely idea from ladyserendipitous on tumblr. I have been wanting to write a Ladybug fanfic for forever and especially one with Felix. There doesn't seem to be enough love for this idiot, so I wrote some! This is also my first Ladybug fanfic so please be gentle! Comments and criticism are welcome! I'd love to know what you guys think!