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“No! Don’t run, you've got no socks on!” Marinette said with an exhausted breath as she watched the blue blur zoom around her room. She soon heard the sound she was expecting to hear. “Ouch.”
This sweet cry was followed by a chorus of crying as Marinette wondered how she got into this situation.
Seven words were the cause of all this, seven simple words, told to her by someone she has a bad habit of saying “Yes” to.
“ Can you do me a small favour? ” Were the words said as Bunnyx popped into Marinette’s bedroom as if she lived in there.
“What?” Marinette was so stunned by Bunnyx’s entrance that she had no time to react at all. But she quickly spoke. “Is it another Cat Blanc level event… Am I finally dealing with Rena Bluey…” Marinette said with a mixture of seriousness and sarcasm.
Bunnyx rolled her eyes. “Worst… I need you to babysit a small child for the afternoon…” Bunnyx said with the same tone she would for a Cat Blanc level event. Marinette was taken aback by the request, she was used to looking after kids but to have a request from one of her friends.
“Is she yours?” Marinette asked the only question on her mind, as she watch Bunnyx’s face light up like a firework. “What! No she is not ours… I mean mine… I mean… Arrrrr. Just can you do it or not, Marinette?” Bunnyx asked, clearly breaking her calm and layback persona as Marinette unintentionally scored a victory over her.
“Yeah sure… Not like I’ve got much on…” As soon as Marinette gave the clear Bunnyx disappeared into a portal and then came back with a little girl in nothing but a cute white dress, that worked to contrast the long bluey black hair…
“Wait, is that me?” Marinette busted out as she watched the barefoot girl shuffle behind Bunnyx. “Bun Bun, She’s loud… Who is she?” The younger Marinette asked softly to Bunnyx.
“She’s always like that, trust me… I’ve been trying to shut her up for years… But she’s your big sister and she promised to look after you while I’ll fix this mistake.” Bunnyx said as she softly smiled at the Younger Marinette.
Before Marinette could ask anymore questions Bunnyx vanished into the portal. Leaving the two Marinettes to stand in an awkward silence.
After what felt like forever Marinette decided to spark a conversation. “So nice to meet you, I'm Marinette… What’s your name?” The younger Marinette’s face lit up with amazement. “Wow My name is Marinette too! Bun Bun is right, you are my big sis. We even have the same hair colour, Big sis.”
Young Marinette sparked to life as she rushed over and admired Marinette like an animal at the zoo. “Wow, maybe I can wear my hair in twin-tails?” The younger Marinette questioned as she messed around with her own hair. “How old are you, Marinette?”
A chill ran down Marinette’s back as she asked herself this question. “I’m about this many! Big sis.” The young Marinette held out six fingers and had a smug grin on her face, as if what she had done was quite complex. “Oh wow, You're a big girl aren't you.” Marinette was putting her hours of babysitting Manon to use as she knew what her younger self was after.
But unlike with Manon, praising her younger self made Marinette feel funny, but it wasn’t a bad feeling… Just new to her. “Big sis… I’m bored! Can we play a game?” Young Marinette said in her sweetest possible voice.
“Guess that's just my name now… What do you want to play?” Marinette was surprised how hyper she was as a child. Alya had joked that Marinette must have been a bottle rocket as a kid, but even Marinette was surprised at the speed her younger self was going at as she played all sorts of games with Marinette.
Their latest was Ladybug vs Akuma. Young Marinette was Ladybug and Older Marinette was the Akuma. Funnily enough Young Marinette had picked the Timebreaker doll. “They remind me of Bun Bun, so you should play as her!” Marinette was surprised by the attachment her younger self had to Alix. But even stranger that attachment was something she was starting to feel as well as she fondly held the doll, she felt her heart skip a beat as she thought about Alix some more. But Marinette returns to her duty of babysitting.
But this now brings us back to the present moment with Marinette dealing with the blue blur and the eventual accident waiting to happen. Marinette rushed over to find her younger self had tripped and scraped her knee on the wooden floor.
The younger Marinette was clearing in pain as the small girl’s face was about to burst. “Awww, Don’t cry little sis. Don’t worry your big sis is here to make the pain go away…” Marinette picked up her younger self and took her to the chaise lounge, where she knew her first aid kit was.
She had fallen so easily into the big sister role that she failed to notice the use of little sister when referring to her younger self. “Now I need you to be brave sis while I make it all better.” Marinette said in a caring tone. “Be strong for Bun Bun… She would be sad if she saw you were sad as well.”
Marinette chuckled as she easily used the nickname herself young self uses almost as if she had always used it. “A long time ago I had an accident like this…” Marinette felt a weird sense of Deja vu as she continued. “But I had the best big sis in the world looking after me and I knew I was in safe hands.”
Marinette got a bit melancholy as she said the next part. “I always wanted a sister afterwards… Just so I could be like my big sis as well.” Marinette watched the sparkles in her younger self’s eyes as she saw the same desire on her younger self’s face.
For a while the two just sat on the chaise lounge, Marinette using her adventure as Ladybug to entertain her younger sister.
“So big sis? What’s your relationship with Bun Bun?” Her younger self asked with a curious tone. “I don’t know really…” Marinette thought for her second about her younger self’s question.
What was her relationship with Bun bun? She felt her heartbeat shift to a more rapid beat as she pictured her more and more. “Cause I owe Bun Bun for saving me and… Well when I’m big enough… I’m going to take Bun Bun to be mine!” Marinette was amazed by her younger self’s brazenness, she was almost jealous.
“Well good luck with that…” Marinette said as she pinched her younger selves cheek. “Don’t worry big sis, I’ll share her with… Yawn… You too.”
Marinette started to notice that her younger self was starting to run out of batteries as that yawn was only the beginning as soon Marinette watched her cute younger face slowly lose the fight as sleep took hold of them.
“Guess I’ve finally… drained the little devil… Yawn… Oh.” Marinette then let out a yawn of her own, as her eyes started to drift. The two Marinette fit quite nicely onto the chaise lounge as either take up much room.
After a few moments of quiet, Bunnyx enters the room once again and is pleasantly surprised to see the sight of the two girls sleeping on the chaise lounge.
“Wow if I didn’t know any better… I would think these two are sisters…Haha.” Bunnyx saw an opportunity as she noticed a space opening up between the two girls.
“Well if you can’t wake them, join them.” Bunnyx slides in between the pair as she takes this moment to relax with two Marinette. “I’ve already messed up the timeline enough… I guess I’ll just take Marinette as my prize.” Alix said smugly to herself as she hugged the older Marinette.
She smiles softly as the younger version latches onto her back with a hug. The three would remain like this till long after the sunset.
But they were all happy.