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"Bien Joué!"
As their fists pounded chat grinned once more. Another day saved by the two of them and how amazing she was. They had taken down Le Thérapeute and returned everything as was once before.
"Well, Mon Chaton, that one was harder than usual," she said between puffs of breath.
Despite being out of breath and exhausted she still had the same glow about her, something that Chat always admired. "Well, she sure did take our breath away." His grin reached his ears and Ladybug playfully sighed.
"Will you ever grow out of puns? Or at age 90 will you hobble around in spandex scaring children off with jokes?" She giggled as she walked across the building top to stare beyond the horizon.
"My Lady, you do know me so well! Those kids would be privileged to have the one and only Chat Noir make puns for them." He made dramatic hand gestures to emphasise his point before sitting down on the edge of the roof.
The sunset was warm and colourful. Some days he wished he didn't hear the beeping of their miraculous so he might have a chance to see her as she is. Le Thérapeute had said some things that continued to linger on the cat's mind.
"When you love something and you don't grab it, everything is taken away so easily!"
She was most likely talking about some kind of break up or loss of her own but it did get Chat thinking about who he cherished. Ladybug always got the job done and left. There would be idle conversation but he longed for more. What if one day she didn't show up? What if one day she got hurt and he didn't even know. Chat's mind was digging himself into a hole of doubt and worry, one he wouldn't have dragged himself out of for a while had Ladybug not just tapped him on the shoulder.
"Chat?" She stared down at him and he snapped out of his thoughts having realised the silence that had fallen on them.
"Ah sorry Ladybug, I was just thinking.. About what to have for dinner!" He gave her his signature grin as not to worry her. It made her giggle once more. Making her smile like that warmed his heart so much. If only she didn't just see him as a joke.
"Well better get home then shall we? Can't have you starving in an alley way or you might just go dumpster diving!" She poked his nose before turning away and throwing her yoyo. "I'll catch you later," she sent one last grin, almost devilish, back his way before disappearing over the roof tops.
"Ah, my lady really is the cats meow," he smiled to himself before making his own way home.
He wanted to better protect her.