A Little Birdy Told Me 18

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Summary:  It's morning in Wayne Manor and Gordon and Bullock stop by for Marinette's statement.

“Good Morning Gordon, Bullock.” Bruce welcomed as he opened the door wider so the two men could enter his house.

“How many times have I told you you can just call me Jim, Bruce?” Jim asked with a shake of his head and a fond smile on his lips as he stepped inside the familiar manor.

“You forget Boy Scout, he was raised by the butler, I think he’s incapable of shaking off that proper speech.” Harvey joked as he followed Jim inside. The two followed the familiar path to the kitchen with Bruce making polite conversation, catching up from the last time they had seen one another. Bruce made sure his voice carried so the kids would know they were closing in on the kitchen. They all did better when they knew people were approaching rather than when they were snuck up on. Came with their night jobs unfortunately. He also did it for Marinette who was so tense, of course he knew why she was but it still made him frown when she flinched at his and the boys’ voices or simply seeing them out of the corner of her eye. He could tell that she was trying her best not to do so but he also knew it couldn’t be helped. 

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Summary: Nino didn’t know what to do and he felt like he was going crazy!

Nino didn’t know what was going on when he woke up but he knew it was nothing good considering the looks everyone was wearing when they were called down to the restaurant of the hotel they were staying. There were no other guests there but them and he had yet to see Mlle Bustier who was usually one of the first up. Everyone, though, seemed to be pretending things were fine, and this wasn’t strange and just carried on eating breakfast. Alya had tried to get Nino to get something to eat but he refused, he had felt nauseous since last night, or really he should say this morning and it was all because of his best bro. It wasn’t everyday you learn your best friend is a hero, specifically one of your home’s heroes, what made it worse was that Nino had kind of had suspicions about it. Back in Paris it had always been a thought in the back of his head but a thought nonetheless, and to have it confirmed was... something. A bad something if he were to be honest, and considering what some few thought of Chat as a whole, Nino had to swallow around the lump that formed in his throat. 

Once upon a time Nino would have been ecstatic to find out his best friend was the leather-bound feline hero, I mean who wouldn’t be excited about their friend being a magical superhero? But time passed and Nino noticed things about one of the defenders of Paris, like how he was late to fights, how he would flirt more than fight to the point of being a liability rather than a partner to Ladybug, he noticed how uncomfortable Ladybug looked whenever he would get touchy and flirt. Now he wasn’t the only one to notice these things as he had come to find out when he found out there were blogs dedicated towards Chat Noir’s less than stellar behavior, but it never caught traction because of all the people who wanted Ladynoir to be a thing, and those who idolized the feline hero. Most notably one of those people being Nino’s girlfriend, creator of the Ladyblog and self proclaimed President of the Ladynoir fanclub. He had made the mistake of showing her one of the blogs, he couldn’t even explain why, maybe to try and show her that Chat wasn’t all he was made to be, or maybe he just wanted her to take a step back from her blog and actually look at things.