sunday six

from a long-stemmed rose (the dice are loaded) ch 2:

Adrien shakes Marinette off his tail less than three minutes after Adrien leaves the school building. Barely two minutes later, Ladybug spots Chat Noir running the rooftops along the river.

She catches up with him a few minutes later, having run almost the full length of Champs-Élysées. Not that he made it difficult—she's half wondering if he's being Chat Noir right now so that she would come chase him—but it still startles him when she grabs him by the tail and hauls him in for the hug of a lifetime.

It is always so much easier to not panic as Ladybug. And the safest place either of them could possibly be is in arm's reach of the other.