sunday six

from "falling hot and real":

Alya's running along the lane, trying to focus on where she's going more than Nino's video call, but Ladybug's swinging him to where she told Alya to meet them and that means hella shaky cam and more rushing-wind noise than words. It's all right, though, as long as Chat Noir doesn't see her, doesn't realize Rena Rouge is about to come take him down.

This will be the world's worst akuma fight.

She misses a call from an unknown number.

A text notification drops, hiding Nino's hat and hand:

Unknown: alya it's chat noir, urgent mission for ladyblogger

Unknown: lb got butterflied. tell paris i need rena rouge and carapace

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to know is to be responsible for knowing (600 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Emilie Agreste/Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Emilie Agreste, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Emilie Agreste, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Additional Tags: Kwami Swap, Identity Reveal, Puns & Word Play, Akumatized Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Gabriel Agreste's A+ Parenting
Summary:

They're only half here, he and Marinette: only half of each their strength to call on, only half of each their will, and he at least is dizzy from gaining only half of every breath. Hawkmoth thought the lives of Ladybug and Chat Noir would be a fitting price to pay for the life and health of the cold-eyed woman who looks like, speaks like the mother Adrien remembers. Adrien wonders if that is why Marinette could twist the magic so the price would not be his parents' son, alone and entire.

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Buy me a coffee?

(Also I posted five 3 Sentence Ficathon fills, excluding the above, though one of those five is in fact 3³ sentences.)