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3 A.M
3 freaking A.M
Marinette swore that she would definitely kill Hawkmoth when she finds out who he is. That little pest had her life in a loop. Living off of caffeine certainly wasn't easy but then again, if she didn't attend school, she would get good grades and would get expelled and then she won't be able to become a fashion designer and have the three kids with Adrien and their Hamster, whose name would be-
"Ladybug!"
Ladybug? Oh wait. She was in a fight! She couldn't lose focus!
This time, they were facing a particularly odd villain. The villain would send the person who came in contact with their beam to either future, or past, when their wedding would take place. It varied for person to person. Ladybug would say that Hawkmoth had done a good thing for the first time if the villain wasn't so desperate to get their miraculouses.
Ladybug's focus wavered due to the lack of sleep as a beam hit her and she disappeared, leaving behind red smoke.
Hawkmoth cackled evilly in his lair. With Ladybug gone, it would be easy to get Chat Noir's miraculous!
.....
His plan failed miserably. Chat Noir went ahead and got hit with a beam so that the villain couldn't have his miraculous. Hawkmoth let out a loud 'no' in his lair as he realized he had been defeated again. But then he realized that if he couldn't have the miraculouses right now, his future self could easily take it from them since they possibly couldn't get married to each other....right?
Wrong again!
Ladybug opened her eyes to what seemed to be a dream. She saw herself walking down the aisle, holding Tom's hand, Sabine in tears and Adrien waiting for her to come to him and surprise! Gabriel Agreste was sitting in the audience, looking fondly at future Marinette.
Ladybug didn't notice her jaw falling open nor the presence of Chat Noir, who was making a weird confused facial expression.
Just as future Marinette held Adrien's hand, both Marinette's eyes met and her future self's face mirrored hers, just without the jaw being open. She whispered something in future Adrien's ear as his head immediately turned towards the duo, both Ladybugs winced.
Suddenly, everyone's eyes were on them and the duo stood there, with their mouths open like gaping fish. Then the young Ladybug suddenly asked her future self "Ok, What. The. Hell. How even- Did I even have enough confidence to do this-"
"Uh, yeah... Alix, this is your time to shine!" Future Adrien suddenly spoke.
"Also, Younger me, You're a dumbass." Future Adrien suddenly added. Chat Noir's face was morphed into confusion as the wheels in his brain clicked. His eyes widened and he got a whiplash from the way the turned his head towards Ladybug, who was giving him the same look.
While he was busy consoling his poor cheek, Ladybug said "Yeah so, Alix, get your old ass here. I have a fucking school to go to tomorrow and we better defeat that Akuma. I swear, I'm killing Hawkoth when I find him for these 3 AM akumas."
Gabriel winced in his seat. Maybe he could choose better timings to release akumas since the dark circles on Adrien or Chat Noir, did not look pretty.