Whelp, I'm back! ...For now, anyway. This is my first Ladybug and Chat Noir rp, though I have a lot of ideas written down in my phone, so expect a few of these popping up in the near future! Or sometime in the future. ...Probably.

Disclaimer: I own squat! If I did, Marinette/Ladybug would have a bigger appearance change (like Chat/Adrien) so that it would be more understandable as to WHY nobody has figured out her identity! Plus more MariXChat moments. X3

Observation

Marinette had a means of contacting Ladybug!? How could Adrien ignore such a gifted horse in the mouth? he was no Peeping Chat, but keeping his eyes and ears out near her house may be just what he needed to catch his Lady.

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Chapter 1: Lucky Connections

"Seriously girl, the Ladyblog has been bombarded with requests for another interview with Ladybug as of late," Alya explained. "Even Chat has been requested."

Alya, Marinette, and a few others sat at their tables early that morning. Marinette was not only on time, but actually early for once, even if she was a little exhausted from yesterday's akuma attack. Chloe and Sabrina were also early; and although the blond was busy flipping through a fashion magazine, she kept her head slightly turned to listen in. They were talking about her favored hero, Ladybug, after all.

Marinette wasn't paying much attention to either girl at the moment. She was too preoccupied trying to finish up the remnants of her homework she had been too busy to do the night before. It was due today and she was only halfway through. Even Adrien and Nino's arrival went unnoticed.

Alya continued talking away, Chloe stepped in with some snide remark that had Marinette's name in it, Alya shot some defensive comment back about her friend and Ladybug, and that was that. All background noise. A distant buzz. ...Until Adrien's beautiful voice reached her ears. His even more beautiful face not far from her own.

"Is that true?"

That had been her interruption. One that had her nearly jumping out of her skin looking like a sun-burnt tomato. At least she wasn't drooling... Yet.

"Wh-what?" She asked, fumbling with her words a bit. "I-is...is what true?"

He was so close! She felt hot around the collar and her palms started feeling sweaty. She now keenly aware most of the class was starring at her either in surprise, awe, or disbelief. ...Clearly she had missed something.

Adrien did not look the least bit upset that she hadn't heard him clearly. His eyes shined with excitement and the etchings of a soft smile graced his lips making the girl's heart melt. "I asked if it's true you could get in contact with Ladybug?"

She nearly choked on her own spit. "W-WHAT!?" Marinette bolted up from her seat and looked to Alya for some kind of explanation before she glanced back at her crush. "I-I don't know what you're t-talking about! I've never called her or anything!"

"Don't be so modest, Girl! Of course you do. You got a hold of Ladybug for a private interview for me that time you thought you accidentally deleted one of my videos, remember? She told me you were the one who set the whole thing up. Plus there was that other time in the park with Stormy Weather, and you said you helped with Evillustrator." Nathaniel fidgeted a bit somewhere behind them, keeping whatever he was drawing hidden. "And of course about the other video..." Alya grit out, vaguely.

After the incident with Volpina, Ladybug had made a pit-stop at Alya's house to discuss the removal, of Lila's interview. Even if Marinette felt guilty about being the reason the new girl became akumatized, she couldn't just let Lila sully Ladybug's name in the future, or put herself in danger with her lies about being tight with the superhero-or superduo if she went so far. At least Ladybug had been nice enough to ask her number one reporter from calling Lila out on the lie. Alya wasn't exactly thrilled with being tricked, but she was doing well so far to hold back her sour attitude over the whole incident. She was certainly good at distracting Lila from the topic whenever the redhead asked about the video. Even if Lila still hated Ladybug, the girl was a constant seeker of attention.

Lila didn't look very pleased with the current situation given her last encounter with the heroine. Add in the fact that Adrien was paying attention to a girl other than her at the moment and it was her own personal invite into the conversation.

"I highly doubt Marinette has Ladybug on speed dial. Ladybug isn't exactly the nicest person..."

This seemed to cast some doubt on the matter of contacts, though most ignored the latter comment with their own experiences; something Marinette was grateful for on both accounts. She did not need to be the target of the next akuma attack.

"E-exactly!" she said with a nod. "I was just lucky to run into her all those times. And with the interview, I simply ran all over Paris to find her. She must have thought my panic had to do with an akuma, so she dropped in. Just lucky," she repeated more firmly just as Ms. Bustier entered to begin class.

Adrien seemed a little disheartened as he turned back around, shoulders slumped and a small frown on his face. Noticing this, Alya whispered to Marinette just loud enough for him to overhear. "I know that's not true. Off the record, Ladybug talked quite fondly of you as if you were secret buddies. Maybe she knows you outside the suit? Or maybe you've got your own, personal, guardian ladybug?"

"And if she does, I wouldn't know," Marinette said more tensely, trying her best to focus on her homework and not he friend's suspicions. Curse her past self for trying to play up her own popularity! Alya was far more perceptive than Chat!

In front of the two girls, Adrien had leaned forward with his fingers laced together in front of him as if he were paying close attention to the lesson. In his head, he was anywhere but in class. Alya's comments about Marinette and Ladybug had interested him. Could she really have some kind of connection to his Lady? Ladybug knew rather quickly about Marinette's date with the Evillustrator. Could she have gone to check on his classmate? Ladybug was also quick to show up in akuma attacks near the school or whenever Marinette was near. Maybe she really was a guardian ladybug to Marinette...

This was something he could not pass up.

A Chat-like smirk tugged at his lips, hidden behind his hand. Oh, what a wonderful plan indeed.

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There we go. A bit short, but most of my first chapters are. Hope it at least caught your attention as I have a lot planned for later chapters.