The Five Minute Adventures of Snake Noir: I Want It to be You
Summary: After Ladybug admits to Chat Noir that she told someone her identity, she insists that he do the same. He wants it to be her. She insists it has to be anyone else. He suggests they use the snake. She finds this to be a reasonable compromise. (Season 4 Spoilers)
Per the advice of this post, I only wrote the part that was fun to write. It’s a 90 minute speed-write. They’re on a roof somewhere. Please enjoy!
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“I understand needing to tell someone. I do!” Chat Noir insisted for the third time that night. “I just don’t understand why it can’t be you!”
Ladybug wouldn’t look at him.
“Do you not want to know?” he asked, his heart had fallen into his gut.
She wilted. “I want to know more than anything.”
“Then what’s stopping you?”
“I can’t explain it,” she admitted. She looked at him with glassy eyes. “Can you trust me on this?”
He met her gaze, but he didn’t have words. She was almost crying and he didn’t know if it was because of the thing she couldn’t share or if he had upset her with his pushing.
“I understand if you can’t. I understand if you’re mad.”
He looked away. “I’m not mad,” he insisted. “I just don’t understand.”
They fell into an unhappy silence.
“I can respect it, LB. You know that I can. I just don’t want to tell anyone else. I want you to be the first to know.”
And then to his horror she started crying.
“LB?”
“I don’t deserve you,” she sobbed.
“You deserve everything,” he countered. He held her then. And they didn’t say anything. Just sat together overlooking the city that they fought to protect.
“What if we used the snake?” he interjected into the silence.