Wherever I Go
I needed to get into Mari’s head post-reveal for the next chapter of For Crying Out Loud, and I’ve been having trouble finding her voice. So here’s a different reveal and a different reaction while I experiment. I listened to a lot of Norah Jones and Florence and the Machine for this. This is mostly unedited, so if there are goofs then I’m gonna live with it. Tagging @everythingelsegoesherethen bc you’re a gem <3 Word Count: ~3300 words Rating: G
She thought she was finally ready. Ready to be honest with him, to share the parts of herself that she had so closely guarded, to let him take down the walls he was always so careful to keep between them. She thought she didn’t have to be afraid of the what-ifs, that come what may, they would face it together.
But then their transformations release in twin flashes of light, and her partner—one of her best and dearest friends—is not some blonde-haired, green-eyed boy she’s never met. It’s so much worse. He’s Adrien.
She never could have been ready for this.
And Marinette doesn’t even realize how his face lights up like the sun breaking through the clouds, how he reaches out for her with a grin so bright she shouldn’t look at it head on. All she knows is the sudden, thunderous screaming in her head and the way she can’t suck air into her lungs fast enough. Or is it that she can’t let any of it out?
She stumbles back half a dozen steps, choking on her own breath, and it’s his quick reflexes that keep her from tumbling head-over-heels right off the edge of the roof. His grip on her shoulders is firm and strong, and it makes her shrink further into herself.
She’s spent most of the year half in love with one boy and telling herself she had to keep the other at arm’s reach, despite the voice that kept reminding her how much he means to her, how much she cares. She couldn’t let herself entertain the possibility of loving one and not the other, or worse, loving them both.
And all this time, they’ve been the same boy.
I'm an extrovert and a writer. It is nearly physically fucking impossible to shut me up, for a myriad of both personal and other reasons. This shut me up. If you read one goddamn drabble in this fandom, let it be this.
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