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"Bridgette?"

"Yes?"

"The latest shipment just arrived an hour ago. Could you please record and stock it up for me?"

"Yes ma'am, no problem."

Lily smiled at the sweet young bluenette who was stacking the books in the correct order on the shelves. Bridgette made her way to the smiling 35 year old librarian who handed her the record files and instructions to the storeroom.

"I'm sorry to be keeping you in late but I really have to run some errands. It'll probably get late, so just leave it off to when I'll come back. You can pick that up from there tomorrow. I don't want you out in the streets alone that late."

Bridgette smiled at the kind, brunette lady and nodded, taking the files from her hand.

"I understand."

It had already been a week since she and Aurora had run away and arrived here. They lived a pretty decent life, having had their own place to live and able to afford both necessities and luxuries, though with a catch of working two jobs.

The bookworm bluenette has been more than happy to work at the former royal library of all places, even if it was late in the evening. Marinette could feel the excitement and awe that pumped through Bridgette's veins when she found herself surrounded by shelves and shelves of books.

"I'll be back later."

Thus, Bridgette was left all alone in the grand building, surrounded with hundreds and thousands of books.

"Ah, let's get back to work!"

"Aren't you afraid to be all alone here?" Tikki asked, plopping out of her dress's pocket.

'Heh, the same old Tikki.' Marinette reminisced sadly.

"Whoever said about me being alone?
You're here with me."

Tikki smiled warmly before floating out and flying in front of the bluenette.

An hour or two later, Bridgette sat, surrounded by books in the huge library, presumably all alone, while Tikki hovered above her, occasionally stacking the lighter books to their correct places. The sweet humming of Bridgette's voice was suddenly disrupted by a loud crash that echoed through the empty building.

Tikki and her sat up straight with a startle, a small gasp escaping the latter.

"What was that?"

Confusion filled her as she anticipated the noise. It sounded as if books were thrown off the shelves. But who would do that? The library was closed to the public at this hour. She was alone here, right?

Another crash was heard a while later and the young lady proceeded to get up with caution, and picked up the thickest and the heaviest book within her reach.

"Let's go see."

Warily moving towards the source of the crash, Bridgette's hold on the book tightened. As she got closer to the 5th shelf in the back, she could hear faint noises. Whisper yells.

"Can you stop being such a nuisance for one in your life Plagg?" an angry male voice whispered.

What was next heard was snickering. So there were two people here.

'Wait, Plagg? Isn't that Chat Noir's kwami? Is that Chat of this time up ahead?'

Raising the book above her head, Bridgette got ready for an ambush. Hopefully when she'd strike one of them, the other one would be confused enough to give her time to take them down too.

"Wait, What are you doing? Are you hiding? Plagg—"

Wham!

The blond man yelled out in shock and pain as he hurriedly used his hands to try and suppress the stinging pain in his head.

Confusion filled her head as Bridgette looked around to find the other person. But there was no one in sight.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"The library is closed for the public at this time! How did you get in? Oh, wait, you're here to steal, aren't you? Well too bad, pal, because I'll stop you! You're not getting away with this!"

He turned around and a gasp escaped both Marinette and Bridgette.

"F-Felix?"

"Oh it's you." He muttered.

"You-You steal?"

"Wha-No! I don't! Whatever gave you that idea?"

"W-Well you're here when the library's closed so pretty much anyone would presume that you'd broken in and entered. And...only....specific people do...that."

"I'm not a thief." He said curtly.

"How are you here?"

"You don't know, do you?"

"Know what?"

"Nothing..I- wait shouldn't you be working?"

"I-yes, but you still haven't answered my question."

"I told you it isn't important. Now go!" He practically snarled.

Marinette and Bridgette were both shocked beyond words. Marinette could feel the confusion and the slight hurt building up. After all who wouldn't be shocked? He was so flirty and lively just mere days ago but now...

...now he was disconnected and cold and rude.

"Who is Plagg?"

His pale face, if possible, paled even more.

"None of your business!"

Okay, so that's it.

"You don't have to yell about it you know!" She huffed. If he wants to play that way, she wasn't one to back away.

"And aren't you supposed to not even be here? And who are you, giving me orders? I don't work for you so mind that attitude Mister!"

He paused from his action of picking up the scattered books and turned around to face the bluenette, a cold smile plastered on his face. It made him look shrewd and rude, something that he most definitely wasn't when they first met.

Marinette couldn't help but form a crazy theory that he was Felix's evil identical twin.

"Well, little lady, you see I'm—"

"Felix, sir, is that you?"

Amidst their argument, neither of them heard the jingle of keys and Lily coming in.

She made her way towards the two of them and bowed to boy.

"Bridgette" she smiled when she straightened up. "This is—"

"Felix. Yeah, Yeah, I know. I met him earlier this week at-"

"You must've been mistaken Miss Bridgette." He cut her off loudly.

'What is up with him?' Marinette thought, thoroughly annoyed but the it changed to something else, curiosity and confusion.

Perhaps it was just her imagination, but she thought that she saw nervousness and panic overtake his expression before he expertly masked it away. It was so quick that Bridgette might've missed it, but Marinette didn't.

Lily seemed a bit fazed by whole ordeal, so she just cleared her throat and continued nonetheless.

"As I was saying, this is Felix Bronn."

Bridgette gasped.

"And as you might've guessed, he is the son of the royal librarian. And given our..erm..situation, he is now also known as the heir to this place." She finished.

The monarchs were no longer in power so this library was funded by the rich people, and accessible to all. However, recently, the royal librarian, Mr. Bronn, decided to convert this to a book store and a library. So Felix indeed was the heir to this place. And that meant that Bridgette did work for him.

Felix seemed very nonchalant about all of this but Marinette knew better. Even though she didn't know him for that long, she could still notice his nervousness and disapproval of getting this introduction. Perhaps it was because of her being friends with Adrien for so long that Marinette was able to notice Felix's subtle hints to anxiousness and disapproval. However, Bridgette remained utterly oblivious.

While Marinette's felt empathy for Felix, Bridgette just felt pure irritation.

Meanwhile, Felix smirked, and spoke, his voice sickeningly sweet but laced with authority and dislike.

"Now you know who I am?"

Lily motioned him to come with her to which he obliged, but before leaving, he leant over to the stunned bluenette's ear and whispered, his voice cold and intimidating.

"As I was saying before, Miss Bridgette, get back to work. You wouldn't want to get in my bad books now, do you?"

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Wow umm, that was intense.

So what do you think of Felix? Why is he like this? Is he indeed an 'evil twin'?
And have you noticed changes in Marinette and Bridgette? About their thinking and their noticing?
And did anyone remember that scene from Mlb Anime PV of Felix and Plagg? I was inspired by that to write this chapter.
(Man I so wish they kept the original concept and plot line :( wtf even is the mess that's miraculous now?? The og was so dark and exciting smh. I might've not dropped it)

So what do you think'll happen next?

Please vote, share and comment in the story! It means a lot, truly!

Till then!
Belle✌🏻💕