Ficlet Request 7

[mistkitt]

 Originally Posted: 12/24/16

Prompt: Ladrien, power outage

I had to figure out how they’d be watching anything during a power outage. You kids and your newfangled technology. ((Reminder that requests are closed and I’m just fulfilling the ones I got!))

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Little known fact about Ladybug: She did not like thunderstorms. Apparently almost getting struck by lightning during the Stormy Weather incident had left her with a bit of a phobia. Adrien couldn’t blame her for that; having been standing right next to her during that incident, he had also decided he’d rather not be struck by heat six times hotter than the sun.

So when the storm had rolled in during Ladybug’s usual patrol time, he’d cracked open a window—just enough to keep the floor from getting drenched—and waited. She appeared five minutes before the storm knocked out the power.

“Oh my God.” Ladybug pressed into Adrien’s side as she toweled her hair dry. They sat on his couch, huddled together over his laptop. “Is Winry falling in love with Ed? Please tell me she’s falling in love with Ed.”

“What do you think?” Adrien asked her, admiring her hopeful expression awash in the glow of his laptop screen.

“I think I’m going to lose it if she is,” Ladybug said.

Lightning flashed. Ladybug scooted even closer to him. Thunder rumbled several seconds later, signaling that the storm was on its way out of the area. Adrien paused the episode. “Guess we’ll have to call it a night soon,” he said.

Ladybug tucked a damp strand of hair behind her ear. “Oh, I’m not doing anything important tonight, so we can keep watching…”

Adrien blushed. “You want to?”

“It’s not like I’m watching the show without you in my spare time.”

“You’re not?”

She frowned at him. “Of course not. This is our thing.”

Our thing. The words struck him in the chest like a perfectly aimed arrow. Adrien turned back to the screen, heart racing. “All right then, we’ll keep going,” he said. 

The episode resumed. Ladybug rested her head on his shoulder. He thought about putting his arm around her, but his courage failed him, so he settled for inching his hand over until his pinkie finger touched hers. She surprised him by sliding her her hand under his and threading their fingers together. Adrien, too distracted by the warmth of her palm against his palm, lost track of the episode entirely.

“Ladybug?”

“Hmm?”

“I’m glad we have a thing.”

She giggled. “Me too.”