When You Love Someone (Let them Go)
A Miraculous Reveal
Note: This is the one shot Love Square version of chapter 9 of Right Behind You that was edited to stand alone. Break Up Fic. Lots of Love here, but not a happy ending.
When You Love Someone (Let Them Go)
Adrien exalted in the feeling of vaulting from building to building as Chat Noir. He focused solely on the placement of his baton to guide his movement across Paris’s skyline, and the sensation of the air sliding through his unstyled hair.
It was freeing.
It reminded him that he was alive.
He landed in a crouch at his and Ladybug’s usual rendezvous point half an hour early with only a small amount of trepidation. After working with her for nine years, he knew she wasn’t going to be pleased with him. She never was after he had sacrificed himself in the middle of an akuma battle. It never mattered that it was often the only way to keep her in the fight.
And according to Plagg, this sacrifice had been more terrible than normal. He hadn’t been zapped out of existence or turned into an inanimate object. He had apparently actually died, saved only by Carapace’s endurance and Ladybug’s miraculous cure.
So he settled on the edge of the building half an hour early, prepping himself to reassure that he was totally and completely fine. That he wasn’t affected by this mere setback, that he would always be there at her side. She needed that confidence, even if it was a lie because he knew that she was struggling.
With what, he didn’t exactly know, but she needed something more than she was currently getting, and he promised himself that he would do everything he could to support her.