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There was a game that the Court played, a simple game, but the loser had to make or buy dinner for the next group meet up, and Marinette hated losing.
The rules of the game were simple. Someone would yell ‘Suit up!’ and everyone had to either get dressed or transform. You couldn’t ask if it was a get dressed or a get transformed moment, and whoever was last to be dressed appropriately lost, if you chose wrong you also lost. A simple game really, and Adrien had it out for Marinette. She had never lost a round and he had the worst luck and lost almost every time. So he had a plan! Marinette had just gotten into town late last night. She had flown in from Gotham so she would have jet lag, and they had to be at the city meeting early in the morning as heroes, but she had a meeting right before that with Coccinelle Fashions so he had the best chance possible to surprise her.
The thing was, Adrien forgot to think about the fact that Jason had come home with her and they were staying in the same room.
Adrien had come over as Chat Noir, he carefully opened the skylight that Marinette always left unlocked for him and dropped down to the foot of her bed. “Suit up!” He shouted and then flipped off the bed when there was suddenly a gun pointing in his face. He couldn’t decide what was the first thing to deal with. Because shirtless Jason with a gun was almost as concerning as Marinette who was mid transformation.
“Oh crap.” Adrien stared in horror at what he had just done.
“What the fuck?” Jason asked, flicking the safety back on the gun and lowering it.
“Oh my god.” Marinette was looking at her yo-yo and glaring at Adrien now. “You have three seconds to run before I kick your ass.”
“You lost!” Adrien shouted as he vaulted out the skylight and made a run for it. “And we will talk about the whole gun thing later!”
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Marinette dropped her transformation and laid back down. “If you wanna talk about it then say something now. Otherwise I don’t have to be awake for another forty-five minutes and will be going back to sleep.”
He nodded and laid down. “You’re ladybug?” Jason whispered.
“Can we talk about it when I’m awake?” She asked softly, laying her head back down and curling up against his side to try to fall back asleep.
He went quiet for a while and then finally whispered “I’m Red Hood.”
She groaned and sat up looking at him. “Okay, I’m awake now. Talk.”
Jason sat up and she remembered that all she was wearing was his shirt and she blushed.
“Well uh…” he rubbed the back of his neck. “It’s a long story, but…” Jason took a deep breath and then talked so fast that Marinette was having trouble keeping up. “I was the second Robin, and after I died and was brought back to life I became Red Hood. There was a time where I was mad with pit rage and tried to kill most of my family, almost did kill Tim, and now I work as both a gang leader and an anti-hero trying to clean up Crime Alley.”
Marinette blinked twice. “Okay, it’s almost time for me to get ready, so we don’t have time to unpack all of that, but let’s hit the big ones. You were Robin.”
“Yes.” He nodded.
“And you died?”
He nodded again. “Yes, Joker killed me.”
She gasped. “Joker- nope, don’t have time for that.” She bit her lip and closed her eyes. “You said pit madness. As in Lazerus pit?”
He reached out and gently grabbed her hands. “That’s correct.”
She squeezed his hands back. “You almost killed Tim.”
“We’re cool now though.” He pulled her hands up and kissed the backs of them. “Are… are we cool?”
She opened her eyes and saw the fear in his. “Jason… of course we are. You haven’t done anything wrong, and it’s not like I can blame you. I don’t really follow human morals per say, and I know about the pits and what they do to people.”
He looked at her like she was the sun and she blushed again. “Marinette, you really mean it?”
Marinette leaned forward and kissed him softly. “Jason, I’m literally friends with the goddess of creation and the god of destruction. Tikki has created monsters and started plagues, She has brought kings to their knees. Plagg has sunk cities and been responsible for the downfall of societies, and right now he is preparing his current holder to deal with my wrath.”
Jason laughed and kissed her back softly. “I love you.”
“And I love you.” She smiled. “Now, Tikki come on out, come meet Jason.”
The goddess came out and waved. “Hi Jason, I’m Tikki, and I give Marinette the power to be Ladybug.”
Marinette gave Jason another quick kiss. “Okay, I’m gonna go get ready for the day. You guys get to know each other.”
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Marinette cornered her platonic soulmate after their meeting. “In here.” She opened the door to his office and followed him in. “So, you wanna explain what happened this morning?”
Adrien smiled hesitantly. “Your boyfriend pulled a gun on me?”
She glared at him. “I was talking about barging into my room while my boyfriend and I were naked.”
“Oh ew, Mari, did not need that info!” He shook his head at her and fake gagged.
“Adrien,” She warned, advancing on him. “Did you not think about the fact that maybe I hadn’t told Jason who I am yet?”
He rubbed the back of his neck and looked away. “Well it’s just that-”
“Or the fact that most people living in Gotham have PTSD?”
“I didn’t think-”
“Not to mention that he’s a crime lord and obviously would have a gun on him.” She added on as though it was an afterthought, wanting to see his reaction.
“Wait, what?”
“Yeah, Jason has pretty bad PTSD from when Joker captured-”
He put up his hands to stop her. “No, no, go back. He’s a what lord?”
“A crime lord? Didn’t you know that?” She tilted her head all innocently.
“Didn’t I know- No I didn’t know that!” He responded, gaping at her and she smirked.
“I thought since you assumed that he knew who I was that you knew that he’s Red Hood.”
“Mari you can’t date a crime lord! That’s not safe! And it’s going to get you hurt! Who knows what he might bring home, and he could come home to you right after having…” he trailed off and Marinette laughed. “Did you say Red Hood?”
She nodded at him.
“Red Hood who works with Batman?”
“Well he prefers to not work with the other bats, but yeah.”
“You’re dating another hero!?!!?” He stared at her gaping like his brain was resetting. Considering her insistence that she would never date a hero she kinda understood.
“He’s an anti-hero.”
“He’s a Bat.”
“Don’t let him hear you say that.”