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A d r i e n

I run faster and faster. She's growing so pale. I see the hospital. I smile and look down at her. "You'll be okay M'Lady. You'll make it," I look up and run inside. nurses run to me and I put her on a stretcher. They ask questions and I'm at a lost for words. I grab the doctor by the shoulder. He looks at me. "Please, save her."

"I'll do the best I can." He runs off and a nurse directs me to a waiting room. I bit my lip and pray she'll be okay. I text our parents to come to the hospital and they show up soon after, worried expressions. I explain what happened. A nurse walks up to me.

"Mr.Noir-"

"Chat will be okay."

"Okay, Chat, we can't get her to detransform. We can't operate until she does."

"O-Okay," I try to think, Plagg booming in my head. Ask Tikki. How? Go to her ear and whisper her detransformation. What's her detransformation? Tikki, Spots Off. I walk with the nurse into the room. I rub my thumb on Ladybugs cheek and smile. I go to her ear and they all look at me weirdly. "Tikki, Spots Off." A pink flash and Marinette is there with her red mask on. I catch Tikki and put her in my pocket.

"Thank you." The doctor smiles and I leave. I walk back to the waiting room and play with and talk to Tikki as the time passes by. A nurse in animal smocks walks up to me.

"Ch-Chat Noir, me and the other nurses on the children floor were wondering if you could come up and make them happy. Could you, do that?"

Of course I could. "I'd love too! I love children!" I smile and ignore my fathers grunt. It's distracting me from Marinette...

I follow her up to the children's floor and put Tikki in my pocket again. I walk in and I'm greeted with twenty nurses pointing in different directions. One to the new arrivals, one to the sickest, one the the kids who've been here the longest. I ignore them and walk my own way. I walk into a room where toys and books are scattered on the ground. "This is the reading and playing wing," I turn to the nurse. "Children come in here and play or read if they're better."

"C-Could you somehow bring all the children in here so I can read to them?"

"Not the sickest. They have to stay in their rooms."

"I-I'll visit them separately," she nods and nurses bring in the children. They all smile and chant my name, well my hero name. I laugh and find a chair and sit down crisis cross. I smile at them and when they're all here I smile bigger. "Hi! I'm guessing most of you know who I am right?" Most nod. "Well, for those who don't know, I'm Chat Noir! I save the say with Ladybug!" They cheer at her name.

"Is she here?!" They all yell.

"Yeah but she can't come up." I nervously scratch the back of my neck.

"Why?" I look at a little girl in the front. She's holding a Ladybug doll in her arm. She has small chunks of brown hair on her head. Does she have cancer? She can't be more then five or six. "Why can't she see us?"

"She's," I try to think of a word other then dying. "Hurt from saving people! She'll be okay though. The doctors here will help her and all of you!" I smile big. I see my father and the Dupain-Chengs in the back by the door.

They cheer. I smile. "Will you read this to us?" The same little girl hands me a book. I look at it. Sleep Beauty. "Please?" She gives me puppy eyes. I notice a Chat Noir doll behind the Ladybug one. I whisper something to a nurse and she nods.

"How about I read it and you sit on my lap?" Her eyes widen with cheer and she crawls onto my lap. I laugh lightly. A nurse moves her IV so it's not blocking the children but also not hurting her. I read the book and look at the children. "What do you think? Did I do a good job?"

They all cheered yes. I chuckle and they pass me more books. I read them even though my throat is starting to hurt. When I read the last one all of them are staring dreamily at me. "Can you make us a story?" I look to Mrs.Dupain-Cheng. All of the children agree.

"Well, what do you want to hear?"

"One about you and Ladybug!" The little girl smiles.

"What's your name sweetheart?" I smile and she blushes.

"A-Ann Mari, with an 'i' not an 'ie' but people call me Mari." She smiles. I smile back. That's a coincidence.

"Well, Mari, why do you want to hear that?"

"Because you two are awesome!" She smiles and all the children cheer the same. I look out at them. Their excitement baffles me. I want to take them all home. "Tell us an adventure!"

"Which one do you want here?"

"The lady one!" A child in the back yells. I think. We had so many girls.

"Lady Wifi?" He nods. "She was so long ago. I don't think I remember."

"Please?!" They all chime and I laugh and nod.

"Okay, okay," I smile. "I'll tell you," they cheer again. I tell them. About how I was flirty, they all knew that, how we got her and how she was attacking people and how Alya got akumatized. How it was scary fighting a friend. How Ladybuyg saved my tail from freezing in a meat locker. "Then, just as her earrings beeped again I stopped her from closing the door."

"Why?" I look down at Mari.

"I'm getting to that," I chuckle and continue. "'Wait' I say, 'I won't tell anyone who you are, cats honor.'," I hold my hand the same way. It feels like yesterday. "'No one should know who we are, not even us.' she says," I lower my hand. It still hurts thinking about but now I do know. "She closes the door and I grab the handle. I open it a little. A pink light flashes and I know she's her normal self. I hesitate. Should I open the door or not?"

"What did you do?" The children were getting antsy.

"I sighed and closed the door and ran out of the hotel. She didn't want me to know and I respected that."

"Have you found out now?"

I blush. Marinette flashes in my head. "Y-Yeah."

"Tell us!" They all yell.

"I can't. I purromised her I wouldn't," I smile. They groan at my pun. "It's been greet telling stories to you all." I move Mari to the ground and stand up and walk to the door. As they all leave I give each child a hug. When they all leave I look at my father.

"Chat," I gulp. "What you've done is nice but you could've gotten sick."

"So? I made their day and besides, I still have children to stop by," I smile and walk with a nurse to the wing with the worse children. She asks how I know Gabriel Agreste. I just say he owes me from Simon Says and that he's paying for Ladybugs surgery. I walk into the first room and smile at the child. He has to be no older then nine and looks incredibly shrunk. "Hi I'm Chat Noir." He looks at me and his eyes widen.

"I-I know!" He smiles. He has bulimia, I think that's what the nurse said. "I-I'm Oscar!" He smiles and I see his room decorated in Chat Noir merch. "I-I'm your biggest fan!"

"Well, would my biggest fan like me to sigh something for him?" He nods frantically and grabs a notepad. I sigh it for him, leaving a paw print and a little note for him. He had curly brown hair, dark tan skin and nearly black eyes that are sunk in. "I-Is Ladybug here? My sister would love to meet her!"

"S-She is but she's hurt so can't see anyone."

"O-Oh," his face falls then he smiles. He turns to his side and grabs a sticky note and writes something on it. "My sisters across the hall, could you give this to her?"

"Sure," I smile and take it from him. "Do you know what's wrong with your sister?"

"Th-The rest of my family got caught in a fire she started so she was closest to it when it exploded. No ones allowed to go in her room unless they have these special suits," he sighs, tears in his eyes. "S-She's seven and I'm worried about her. Her names Sasha."

"Where are your parents?"

"On the lower level being treated for their burns," he sighs then smiles. "I've always wanted to meet you! Can I take a picture?"

"Oh course," I smile and he pulls out a camera and takes a picture with me. "I have to go and see your sister now, okay?"

"Okay!" He smiles and I walk out of his room and into his sisters. She looks likes Oscar but has grey eyes. I get a face mask because I'm in my suit. I smile at her and her eyes widen.

"Hi Sasha."

"Chat Noir! Is Ladybug here?!" She asks and tries to sit up. A nurse helps her back down. Half of her face is covered in bandages.

"No I'm afraid not. She had other stuff to do but I promise to have her come in to see you, okay?" She smiles and nods. "Your brother Oscar asked me to give this to you." I hand her the note. She reads it out loud.

"Sasha, I love you very, very, very much. Feel better lil sis, Oscar," she smiles and puts it on the wall next to her. "Thank you!" I stay for a little then go to the next then the next child. They're all so sick. I can't help but feel back. I walk to the next room with a sick teenager in it.

"This is Ashley," she has bright blue hair, obviously dyed with her roots being blonde and green eyes. "She has severe anxiety and depression so she's not really out of this room. She was almost dead when she came here three years ago."

"Why is she still here then?" I can't help but ask.

"She keeps slitting her wrists and trying to kill herself. He have to keep her in a baby proof room and only certain nurses are allowed to enter. Her family dumped her here and she has no other place to go."

"How old is she?"

She checked the chart and inhaled sharply. "14 today," I can't help but cringe. She doesn't look happy with anything and he blue hair is fading. "We have to redo her hair. She likes it blue."

"Have you tried sending her to clinics for help?"

"Yes but they all send her back. Foster homes send her back, everyone sends her back. The only place she's safe is here." I nod.

"Can I go in?" She nods and I walk into the room. Her eyes land on me. I sheepishly smile and she grunts and looks away.

"Nice try cosplayer. You're not the real Chat Noir."

"How do you know?" She studied my body and I smiled.

"He has a cocker smile, wilder hair and has more muscles. You're just a scrawny noodle."

I'm partly offended. "Have you ever meet Chat?"

"No but if I ever do I'm going to ask him if I can wear his ring so I can be a superhero," she sighs and looks down at her dry hands. I sit by her bed and lay my head down. She glares at me and I smirk. She rolls her eyes and puts her hand on my head. She scratches behind my ear and I can't help but purr. She stops and I laugh. "Y-You're the real Chat Noir!"

"At your service Darling." I wince and she blushes.

"I'm like, your biggest fan!" Every Chat Noir fan says that. "Can I get your autograph?" I nod and she hands me a picture Alya took of me in action. I laugh and sigh it with a little note to her.

"Ashley," she looks at me. "That's a beautiful name Darling."

She blushes more. "C-Can I wear your ring?" She points to my hand. I nervously chuckle.

"I-I don't think my Kwami would like that."

"What's a Kwami?" She raises a brow. I open my pocket and take out Tikki who's asleep.

"This is a Kwami, well Ladybugs. Mines a cat."

"Wheres Ladybug?"

"She got really hurt in this mornings attack so she's in surgery to get fixed up. I have her Kwami for now." I put Tikki back in my pocket. Ashley just stares at me. I look aroun her room. She has posters of both mes around it.

"I-I can't believe I'm meeting a superhero. I'll never be as brave as you."

"You are for fighting your illness," I smile. I know the Dupain-Chengs and my father are looking at me. "You're so much braver then me."

She hugs me. I can't help but hug back. I feel my shoulder get wet and I bit my lip and hold her by her shoulders. She wipes away her tears with his wrist. "This is the best birthday ever."

"Happy Purrthday," I smile and she giggles at my pun. "I have to go now. Ladybug should be getting out of surgery soon."

"W-When she's all better, will both of you come visit me?"

"I'll try to convince her. She's kinda stubborn but she'll listen," I wink at Ashley and she smiles at me. "Have a good birthday Darling." She nods and I leave the room. Mr.Dupain-Cheng and Father are crackling up as we leave down to the waiting room.

"Darling." Father snickers and I groan.