Chapter 21

Marinette's P.O.V:

The two of us spent the first half of our date laughing at jokes and getting to know each other. We spoke about school and friends (or lack thereof in Damian's case) and even a little bit about our hero work. Conversation seemed to flow so easily between the two of us.

"Wow." I finished off my plate. "Did Alfred make this?"

"He did." Damien smiles at me.

"And it was still warm. How did this even get up here?" I question.

"I have my ways." He crosses his arms on the table and leans closer to me.

"Oh, we are keeping that a mystery I see." I also lean closer to him from across the table. "I have my ways of getting information out of people." I say smirking.

"Do you?" He raises an eyebrow at me. "I'd like to see that." He says smirking back.

"I'm sure you would, Boy Wonder." I reach a finger out and boop him on the nose. "But we can't get everything we want."

"Says who?" He challenges me as he leans in a little closer.

"Says me." I wink at him as I abruptly stand up.

Damian frowns when I step away from him but he follows me anyways. "Where are you going?"

"To sit at the edge of the roof. You joining me?" I sit down and let my legs hang off the roof while Damian nods. Damian slowly makes his way over to me and sits down a few inches away from me. "Look at the sun setting." I sigh. "I wish I could sketch right now."

"Why can't you?" He asks.

"My sketchbook fell into a koi pond and is now ruined." I pulled it out of my bag to show him. "Plus, my pen sank to the bottom."

"I thought you were lucky." He looked sadly at the sketchbook.

"Not when people purposefully do mean things to me. Lila bumped into me and that's how I dropped it."

"She sounds like a jealous idiot."

"Yeah. Tell me about it." I shake my head. "God forbid I do anything I enjoy in front of her. It's like its in her blood to hate me."

Damian intertwines his fingers with mine to get my attention. "Let's not worry about her for now." He smiles down at me.

Looking up into his emerald green eyes, I can't help but relax and smile back. "You're right. Enough about me and my problems. Tell me more about you."

"What do you want to know?"

"I don't know. Just anything. Like what's your favorite color? Mine's pink."

"For the longest time I thought it was black, but recently I just found out it was blue." He looks fondly at me.

"What made the change?" I asked earnestly.

"Your eyes." He whispers.

I blushed and ducked my head down to hide my blushing face. "You're just saying that."

"No." Damian takes his free hand to gently lift my chin up so I can stare into his eyes. "I don't just 'say things'. I will never just 'say things'." He shakes his head at me. "There is something about you that just encaptivates me. From the moment I saw you dancing, I just couldn't look away. If any other person had punched me on that rooftop, there would have been a serious fight. But you..." He cups my cheek and leans down closer to me. "you are the guardian angel that was sent down to save me."

I give him the most loving smile and reach up to run my fingers through his perfectly styled hair. "And what am I saving you from exactly?"

"Myself." He whispers roughly to me.

Something about the way he said that gave me butterflies. Sighing deeply, I close in on the last little bit of distance between us and close my eyes for the kiss. When our lips met, the butterflies didn't seem to stop and something like a warm, yet soft electric current ran through my whole body. I can't help but to think about how warm and soft his lips felt against my own. We stay like that for a long moment before we both break away to breathe.

Smiling to myself. I rest my head on his shoulder and look out to the city. Paris has always been the city of love but tonight, Gotham really took that title. "I don't want this to end." I whisper to myself.

"Is this even real?" He whispers back as he rests his head on top of mine.

"I sure hope so." I snuggle closer to Damian to keep warm from the cold night air. "I'd be really mad at myself if I was dreaming this."

"I'm still not convinced that I haven't somehow died and snuck my way into heaven."

I giggle at the idea. "No. I'm pretty sure this is real. I can see your brothers over there taking pictures of us."

"Of course, they are." He says annoyed before kissing the top of my head. "Should we get up to go yell at them?"

"Maybe." I look over at them from where they are standing on a rooftop a few buildings over and I give them a big wave. Dick is the only one who waves back.

"You know, they probably sat around and watched our whole date." Damian gave them a mean look.

"I wouldn't doubt it." I stood up from my spot on the roof and Damian quickly follows suit.

"What are you doing?" He asked when I opened up her purse.

"We are gunna go yell at them." I smile mischievously at him before saying "Tikki, Spots on!" I am engulfed in a pink light. Now in my signature spotted Ladybug look, I unhook my yoyo and wrap my free arm around Damian's waist. "Hang on." I wink.

"Wait, what?" He asks as I throw my yoyo around a nearby gargoyle and swings off the roof into the direction of Damian's brothers. My agility and speed was so good that it only took me a few moments to land on the roof I was after. Letting go of Damian, I turn my attention to the three boys who look a little bit shocked to see me. "Angel, please give me some warning the next time you do something like that."

"Sorry." I smile at him over my shoulder. Looking back at Nightwing, Red Hood and Red Robin, I say "What do you think you guys are doing?"

"Uhm..." Red Robin speaks first. "This was all Nighwing's idea." He pushes Dick towards me.

"Harsh, man." Nightwing looks at Red Robin. "I didn't see you stopping me. In fact, both of you wanted to tag along."

I cross my arms and look at the three.

"You look great, Pixie-pop." Red Hood tries to butter me up.

"It's Ladybug to you, Red Hood." I smirk at him.

"Have none of you ever heard of privacy?" Damian stares angrily at his brothers.

"Oh, come on, Damian." Nightwing pulls out his camera to show the two of us a picture of us kissing on the rooftop. "You are going to thank me one day for these."

"Dick!" I go red just looking at the picture and cover my face.

"That's Nightwing to you, Ladybug." He smiles at my embarrassment.

"Har har." I sarcastically laugh as I drop my hands to my side. "No more spying on us."

"Deal." Nightwing smiles at me before turning his attention to Damian. "But seriously, little D. Way to go." He playfully smacks him on the back.

"Alright." Damian grabs my hand. "We are leaving."

"The same way we came or...?" I look over at him.

"No." He leads me to the fire escape. "I don't want to do that again anytime soon."

I laugh. "Okay. Tikki, Spots off." A pink light shines again as my transformation falls. "Are we heading back to your car?"

"Only if you want to, Angel." He smiles back at me as we make our way down the fire escape.

Reaching the bottom, I nod. "Sure thing, Boy Wonder. Let's go home."