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Beau and the Beetle	By : Cat_Eyes Category: +M through R > Miraculous LadyBug Views: 3721 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous Ladybug. Miraculous Ladybug is the intellectual property of Thomas Astruc and released by Zag studios. No profit was made writing this story.

Chapter List
- 1-Prologue: Alya
- 2-Adrien
- 3-Felix
- 4-Bridgette
- 5-Adrien
- 6-Sabine
- 7-Bridgette
- 8-Alya
- 9-Adrien
- 10-Felix
- 11-Sabine
- 12-Bridgette
- 13-Alya
- 14-Felix
- 15-Adrien
- 16-Alya
- 17-Felix
- 18-Bridgette
- 19-Adrien
- 20-Sabine
- 21-Felix
- 22-Alya
- 23-Bridgette
- 24-Adrien
- 25-Sabine
- 26-Adrien
- 27-Felix
- 28-Alya
- 29-Bridgette
- 30-Adrien
- 31-Sabine
- 32-Bridgette
- 33-Felix
- 34-Alya
- 35-Adrien
- 36-Felix
- 37-Sabine
- 38-Bridgette
- 39-Adrien
- 40-Felix
- 41-Adrien
- 42-Felix
- 43-Adrien
- 44-Adrien
- 45-Adrien
- 46-Epilogue
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Gabriel had Felix on a strict schedule, with every minute accounted for, and none to spare. It made watching out for Adrien difficult, as he was liable to sneaking off at inopportune moments, usually when Felix was stuck running errands at their father’s company.
Felix returned late, driven home by Gorilla, who still gave disapproving looks in the rear-view mirror, as if he couldn’t believe he was still forced to chauffer Felix around. Gabriel himself would be taken home by Nathalie, some time later in the evening.
While stopped at a red light, Felix saw Adrien duck into a Metro station, the ever-present duffel slung over his back. He knew the moment Gorilla noticed his other charge, a surprised grunt emanating from the driver’s seat.
As Felix suspected, Adrien’s outings were not planned or given approval by his guardians.
As quickly as he’d appeared, Adrien was out of sight once more, Felix and Gorilla staring at the place where his head had disappeared from view.
‘Keep an eye on him from now on,’ Felix instructed. ‘Learn his pattern, and follow him. It’s time we found out what’s going on.’
Gorilla grunted in understanding, for once not questioning Felix’s direction.

While Felix was stuck in a conference room later that week, shadowing Gabriel, his phone buzzed in his pocket. Casting a furtive glance around the table, Felix slipped his phone out to check it. Gorilla had sent him an image of Adrien sneaking out the house again, the duffel across his back once more.
Felix sent back a brief message.
Follow him, but do not be seen. Keep me posted.
He then turned his attention back to the treasurer as he rambled on about corporate finances. Normally, Felix would be paying close attention, but his mind was elsewhere, speculating on what Adrien was doing when he crept out of the house. He was supposed to be preparing to get back into work, after Gabriel's less than subtle hints in that direction.
Only weeks ago, Felix would have assumed Adrien was running off to play with his friends, except that Adrien did not typically carry an over-burdened duffel to gad about with Nino. If he were meeting a girl, he would have put more effort into his appearance, and was not likely to have been so secretive or defensive when confronted. It was perplexing, and Felix was determined to get to the bottom of it.
His phone buzzed with a new message – a picture of Adrien heading into the same Metro he had entered the last time. Felix furrowed his brow. Adrien was following a predetermined route then, and one he knew well. Felix couldn’t think of anywhere he could go by train where Gorilla couldn’t drive him.
A video message showed him Adrien darting into the Metro tunnel, rather than waiting for a train on the platform. Curiosity thoroughly piqued, Felix raised his eyebrows, holding his phone up to his nose, disregarding the reproving stares of the board members. He couldn’t see any figures in the shadows beyond the mouth of the tunnel, and the audio was too low for him to make out individual sounds, much to his annoyance. He held the phone in his lap, meeting Gabriel's glare with an upraised brow, unconcerned by his father’s censure.
His phone buzzed once more. With bated breath, Felix played the second short video. The shot followed Adrien from a distance, his figure only made discernible by the glare cast from his own phone. Some way into the tunnel, Adrien sat down, and scooted forward until his legs disappeared into the wall. Then, the rest of his body slithered out of sight, consumed by the shadows.
Gorilla raced toward the spot, finally halting before a hole in the wall, one much too small for Gorilla to fit through. There was a grunt of frustration, and the video ended.
Felix sat back, brows furrowed in thought once more. He sent another short text to Gorilla instructing him to return to the manor, with congratulations on a job well done. It was up to Felix to find out what Adrien did next.
His thoughts churned with outlandish ideas of underground fighting clubs, secret rave venues, monster hunting, and a morbid fascination with the ossuary below ground. He dismissed the ideas as blatantly ridiculous, but it was not entirely out of character for Adrien to want to explore the underground tunnels, now that he knew where to access them. But it was unusual for him to willingly return to a place where he could have died.
Felix remained distracted for the remainder of the day. Fed up, Gabriel sent him home early, with orders to continue to study business management from the many journals in the library.
Felix obeyed, but hid behind the dining room doorjamb, waiting for Adrien to return, rather than sequestering himself in the library. Two and a half hours after Gorilla had sent him the first text, Adrien skulked back in the front door, before furtively creeping up to his room. The duffel bag hung limp from his hand.
Felix squinted. Wherever Adrien was going, he departed with a full bag, but returned with an empty one. This led to the conclusion that Adrien was ferrying items into the tunnel, and leaving them there. In the few times Felix had caught Adrien returning, the duffel was always empty. He frowned at Adrien’s bedroom door. He needed a plan.

On Friday afternoon, one of Gabriel's designers sent Felix out to source new materials, and begin negotiations for regular deliveries. Felix thought this move was above the designer’s rank, but excused himself all the same. He saw an opportunity, and he was going to take it.
School had not long let out, so he was reasonably sure Adrien hadn’t run off on his mysterious errand yet. Still, he wasn’t going to take any chances. He ran to the Metro Adrien always utilised, arriving just in time to see Adrien descend the steps.
Following at a discreet distance, Felix slunk down after him, Adrien’s bright hair standing out like a beacon in the dim interior. Inside, there were surprisingly few people, all of whom were standing at the far end of the opposite platform, and looking away from his direction.
When he was sure no one was looking, Felix followed Adrien into the tunnel, crouching low to avoid detection.
When Adrien vanished into the hole low in the wall, Felix grimaced, then copied the movements, sliding forward, then down a surprisingly long way. He rolled his ankle upon landing, and fell to his hands and knees, biting his lip to keep from grunting too loud. With a pained wince, he got to his feet, then raced after the light bobbing around a corner.
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