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Ladybug thought she had had everything handled; it was only when the blond cousin revealed his true nature that she realized she’d tied up the wrong one!
‘Damn it, Félix!’ Ladybug exclaimed. 'Why didn’t you say anything earlier?’
'I was curious as to why you needed my cousin so desperately as to kidnap him,’ he replied from his position slung over her shoulder, still bound by her yo-yo, looking as infuriatingly calm as ever. 'You know if you just asked him that he’d go anywhere with you, Marinette. Besides, he’s in London right now.’
Ladybug growled and put him down on his feet, recalling her yo-yo as she pinned her boyfriend’s cousin with a glare. She was tired, and now that she got a proper look at him, he was obviously in his pyjamas with bed head, making his hair look more like Adrien’s. She knew Adrien was in London, but as she swung past him earlier, he looked too much like Adrien that Ladybug couldn’t help but take the opportunity to rescue what she thought was her boyfriend, too exhausted to think straight and realise it wasn’t him.
'You know perfectly well why I’d go to such drastic measures,’ Ladybug retorted. 'Speaking of; why did you decide that a theatre performance was the best way to tell me everything? Why didn’t you and Kagami just talk to me? Preferably before Adrien was forced to leave Paris?’
'That’s the way Kagami wanted to tell you,’ Félix admitted, 'but I thought that the most optimum way of delivering all the information was through a storytelling medium - we figured that us performing the story would hold your attention long enough to give us a chance to make you listen to what we had to tell you.’
'Well, it did work,’ Ladybug conceded, 'but I also thought I had dreamt the entire thing and struggled to put it all together. But that doesn’t answer the question of why you two didn’t tell me earlier.’
'Rehearsals,’ answered Félix with a light shrug. 'Kagami is wonderful, but a theatre major she is not.’
'How did you convince Kagami to perform, anyway?’ she asked curiously, before shaking her head to refocus. 'Ugh, tell me later. Anyway! So - Gabriel Agreste is Monarch, and you and Adrien are both part-sentimonster?’
'Correct on both counts,’ he confirmed.
'And does Adrien know about any of this?’ she pressed.
'To my knowledge, no,’ said Félix.
Ladybug groaned. Poor Adrien was being left in the dark about, well, everything. 'Why didn’t you tell him all this?’
'We couldn’t risk it,’ Félix answered. 'Gabriel still has possession of Adrien’s amok, and therefore has control over Adrien. Telling him could jeopardise everything, including any advantage we have to defeat my uncle.’
Ladybug nodded thoughtfully. Unfortunately, Félix was right. But sooner or later, Adrien deserved to know.
'Fine,’ she agreed, 'but as soon as Monarch is defeated, you have to tell Adrien everything. And you won’t disappear on him like you did with me - you stay with him and answer every question he has for you, and you will comfort and support him so that he can come to terms with the bombshells you’ll be dropping on him. This is yourshared history - I can’t be the one to tell him. Got it?’
Félix grumbled, pouting. 'I was hoping maybe that you-’
'No,’ she immediately cut him off. 'Not me - you. Copy?’
He sighed. 'Fine. Now, can you take me back? I’m kinda cold.’
Ladybug shot him a deadpan look.
'You and I both know you can transform into Argos and get yourself home,’ she retorted.
'But you’re the one who kidnapped me,’ he fired back, smirking playfully.
'I wasn’t- I was trying to save Adrien-’ she blustered, before sighing. 'I’m too tired for this.’
'Maybe you need some melatonin if you’re struggling to sleep?’ Félix suggested.
'What I need is to stop my father-in-law from destroying the universe and for him to let my husband freely live his life,’ Ladybug muttered dully. After a moment, her own words registered in her mind and her eyes widened. 'I- I mean- to stop Gabriel and- boyfriend not husband-’
Félix laughed lightheartedly. 'I understood, don’t worry… cousin-in-law.’
'Go home, Félix!’