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virtuestovicesAdrien had gotten in trouble with his father countless times before. This time, this time was worse. He'd gone missing for hours while fighting a particularly nasty akuma with Marinette. They won, but he'd gotten hit by a car trying to rush home. The car hadn't been going fast when he ran out into it's way, and he'd only broken his arm. Gabriel said that he wouldn't be going to school again, but stayed silent when Adrien asked if he meant until his arm healed.
He started getting homeschooled again, and kept from leaving the house without Gorilla glued to his side. At first he made sure to video chat with his friends, have Nino over, do what he can to kill the isolation. For some reason there seemed even more akuma than normal, but the newly installed security systems kept him from even opening his window. He managed to sneak out a message to her in the showers at fencing to tell her that he was... tied up. He tried getting out to help her a few times, but every time someone came in.
He slowly stopped getting as many calls from his friends, but then he stops answering them as often. It hurt to see them, to know that they were so close but that he couldn't see them. When his grades start to slip and he's banned from seeing even Nino in person it hit him hard. He put on a brave face for his friends, but after that he just barely answers, feeling exhausted watching them have fun when he's locked away in his tower, even if they were going out of their way to try to include them. He had kept emailing and texting with Felix, depending on where he was and what his service was like there, but one night he just stops.
It wasn't like most akuma. There wasn't a sudden trigger to cause a strong emotion. It had just built up over time. The resentment towards his father, the isolation, the creeping feeling of abandonment that he tries to reason away with the devotion of his friends. He'd lost count of how many weekends had passed alone in his gilded cage. He didn't see the Akuma coming.
And then there were reports of a white-suited Chat Noir, helping other akuma start with an edge against Ladybug. For every bit flashy Chat Noir normally was, Chat Blanc was going out of his way to be subtle.
It had been a nightmare for Marinette. She was already working basically a double shift to make up for Chat's absence. He wouldn't answer any of her calls, and hadn't since Adrien got hit. Did he blame her for that for some reason? That seemed totally unlike him, but he'd been gone since Adrien was grounded. She's sitting in her room, sighing up at a picture of Adrien.
"Don't worry, Marinette," Tikki says consolingly as she pats Marinette's hand, "I'm sure that everything will be okay. We just need to have faith in your friends!"
Mari can't help but smile to her kwami, always somehow knowing what is gnawing at her, "I hope you're right, Tikki."
He started getting homeschooled again, and kept from leaving the house without Gorilla glued to his side. At first he made sure to video chat with his friends, have Nino over, do what he can to kill the isolation. For some reason there seemed even more akuma than normal, but the newly installed security systems kept him from even opening his window. He managed to sneak out a message to her in the showers at fencing to tell her that he was... tied up. He tried getting out to help her a few times, but every time someone came in.
He slowly stopped getting as many calls from his friends, but then he stops answering them as often. It hurt to see them, to know that they were so close but that he couldn't see them. When his grades start to slip and he's banned from seeing even Nino in person it hit him hard. He put on a brave face for his friends, but after that he just barely answers, feeling exhausted watching them have fun when he's locked away in his tower, even if they were going out of their way to try to include them. He had kept emailing and texting with Felix, depending on where he was and what his service was like there, but one night he just stops.
It wasn't like most akuma. There wasn't a sudden trigger to cause a strong emotion. It had just built up over time. The resentment towards his father, the isolation, the creeping feeling of abandonment that he tries to reason away with the devotion of his friends. He'd lost count of how many weekends had passed alone in his gilded cage. He didn't see the Akuma coming.
And then there were reports of a white-suited Chat Noir, helping other akuma start with an edge against Ladybug. For every bit flashy Chat Noir normally was, Chat Blanc was going out of his way to be subtle.
It had been a nightmare for Marinette. She was already working basically a double shift to make up for Chat's absence. He wouldn't answer any of her calls, and hadn't since Adrien got hit. Did he blame her for that for some reason? That seemed totally unlike him, but he'd been gone since Adrien was grounded. She's sitting in her room, sighing up at a picture of Adrien.
"Don't worry, Marinette," Tikki says consolingly as she pats Marinette's hand, "I'm sure that everything will be okay. We just need to have faith in your friends!"
Mari can't help but smile to her kwami, always somehow knowing what is gnawing at her, "I hope you're right, Tikki."
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2019-03-17 09:00 (UTC)Turning on his heel Fèlix is leaving her room and heading downstairs. After bidding a polite yet brief farewell to Sabine and Tom - who insist on giving him a pastry to go - Fèlix is outside walking towards the bridge they'd agreed to meet at. By the time she arrives there he's finished his pastry and he's fidgetting a little with nervous energy.
Seeing her he comes to his feet, moving towards her. "We can either go someplace else as we are or you can give me the Miraculous you've brought; we could split up to transform and meet up somewhere higher - away from the press, tourists and all the other people.. I'll try to answer what I can but I can't make any promises. I won't compromise Chat's identity."
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2019-04-20 04:32 (UTC)A minute later she's waiting for him instead, scanning for someone dressed to resemble a dragon. She's not sure just why, she had so little to go off of and Master Fu had his reservations, but trusted her intuition on this. She had to learn to do that was well, since she'd been ignoring it for so long.
When he gets up there, Mari moves to greet him, "How do you even know what Chat Noir has been up to? It's like he's been avoiding any attention on him with equal measures for how much he usually showboats. Not many others have noticed a photo negative of my partner around at all, let alone there being any real evidence left behind. I don't know how to track him, let alone find him. I've not even seen him myself- I've only heard from some people around the incidents they thought they saw him. I would think that he was just a mistake if it didn't make so much sense."
Adrien wasn't a dumb boy. Just because he is reckless doesn't mean he isn't capable of being careful either. Together it left Marinette in a very tight situation. She didn't have the skills she needed to find them, and didn't know anyone who did. She didn't know anything about Felix, or really this miraculous, so she was uncomfortably left relying on Felix.