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“Tikki, spots off.” Ladybug, in an empty alleyway, stops to detransform.
“Spots off,” she repeats.
“Tikki, spots off!” She tries again.
Marinette waits for a moment.
“What? What’s wrong?”
She throws her yoyo to a nearby roof, hoping her transformation doesn’t drop late when she is in the air.
“Tikki! Tikki!” The girl shouts.
It’s no use.
Marinette rakes her hands through her hair.
A frustrated growl escapes her mouth.
“Ugh! What’s going on?”
If she’s honest, something felt different. As soon as she transformed today, she felt something off. She felt unusual. Now that Marinette is the guardian of the miraculous, there was extra weight on her shoulders. This is the first time she transformed since becoming the guardian. Now, her damned suit won’t come off.
“Ugh! I should of asked Tikki more questions. Why is this happening…”
“What do I do?” She worries.
Marinette’s thoughts drift to her parents. They will be worried sick if she doesn’t come home. But Marinette can’t come home.
“Tikki-,” Marinette calls, voice shaking, “-Spots off,”
And nothing.
“No...what do I do?”
Chat Noir already took off into the night. Ladybug wishes he stuck around, because he would help her. Though there wasn’t anything he could really do in this blunder, he would have tried his best to help, and that would be a great comfort.
“What did I do? Why is this happening?”
Marinette looks around her surroundings frantically, mind swirling with overwhelming options and decisions she can go to from here.
“Ok, calm down Marinette,” she whispers. Despite how scared she is, she takes a deep breath.
“I should of transformed back...but I didn’t. I can figure this out. I need to sleep on it…No, I can’t be sleeping on the rooftops. It’s unsafe. So where can I go?”
Marinette thinks it over. Which upstanding citizen of Paris would let Ladybug have a sleepover at their home?
Many...
Marinette figures if she somehow can’t fix this tomorrow, she’ll still need to stay at someone else’s house the following day. Another she trusts. Someone who won’t announce to all of Paris that Ladybug slept over.
And on this first brand new, scary night...she knows that Adrien Agreste is one of those someones.