"Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Bourgeois, we're able to have our work experience field trip today at the Grand Paris luxury hotel. Each of you will get hands-on experience with one of the many jobs here at the hotel," Ms. Bustier smiled at her students as they were all assigned an assignment.

She sighed as she saw Ivan and Alix having a pillow fight. "You'll be graded on your effort, which will affect whether you pass or fail the class."

Ms. Bustier walked to the main hall and saw Marinette and Alya standing there. She asked them and she's been told they were not given a job and walked to Mr. Bourgeois.

"Do you have Marinette and Alya on your list, Mr. Bourgeois?" she asked, looking through her list.

"It doesn't look like it," he frowned, also looking through his list.

Gwen rolled her eyes as she stood next to Adrien and Chloé at the reception. She has been tasked to be in charge of the guests as Chloé coddles the blond. It didn't take long for the girl to realize that Chloé messed up the list.

I mean, come on! She could have at least done something that doesn't involve her as a third wheel for them.

"It must be an oversight," Mr. Bourgeois murmured.

Chloé stopped and grabbed a slip and leaned over the table, "Daddy!"

Mr. Bourgeois walked over to her and looked at the list and smiled, "Thank you, sweetie. Oh yes! Alya, you're going to be...sorting trash at the main dumpster. And, Marinette will be–"

He was interrupted as Jagged Stone walked through the doors with his crocodile. Everyone's eyes widened at the rockstar. Seeing him at that outfit gave Mr. Bourgeois a fuse and stomped over to the star.

"Excuse me, but this is a luxury hotel, not a..." Mr. Bourgeois stopped as the crocodile growled at him.

"Daddy!" Chloé called him again. Mr. Bourgeois leaned his ear to her as she whispered, "That's Jagged Stone, the rockstar. He's sold millions of albums, he's very famous and is very rich!"

That piqued Mr. Bourgeois' interest and smiled at Jagged Stone, "Mr. Stone, welcome to the Grand Paris Hotel! I am Mayor Bourgeois, the owner of this luxury establishment, in fact, the most luxurious in all of Paris. How might we serve you?"

Jagged scoffed, crossing his arms, "How'd you think? I didn't just come here to admire your lobby."

Penny Rolling, Jagged's agent, spoke. "Jagged would like yo check into your most luxurious suite."

"And Fang better get a real bathtub, not a tiny water hole like the one in that hotel across the street," Jagged stated.

Mr. Bourgeois turned to Penny and smiled, "We have everything you need, Ms. Fang. Even a state-of-the-art entertainment center!"

"Fang's my crocodile," Jagged deadpanned.

Mr. Bourgeois sweatdropped, "Mr. Stone, we have everything you require for your...Fang. Would he, um...enjoy a bubble bath?"

"Crocodiles don't like bubble baths. That dries their scales out!" Jagged scowled.

Gwen boredly stared at them as a stranger sneaked in and hid behind one of the tables and narrowed her eyes at him. She was about to press a button for security when Fang sniffed the guy out and follows him.

The guy yelps as he sees it and jumps out, having everyone see him.

Jagged groaned, facepalming. "Oh, no. Not him again."

The guy smiled, pointing his camera at the star. "Remember me, Mr. Stone? Vincent Aza! Just one photo to show everyone in the world that we're best buds! Come on, please! I'm your biggest fan!"

"I know, you've been to my last 36 shows. But we are not friends," Jagged rolled his eyes.

Vincent ignored his words and wrapped an arm around the man, facing the camera at them. "There! Look into the lens!"

Penny snatched the camera and glared at Vincent, "Didn't you hear Mr. Stone? You still haven't got it, have you?"

Gwen was impressed as Penny got Vincent out of the hotel, "No photos!"

She threw the camera but Vincent managed to catch it in time before it hit the ground. "Good reflexes. Now don't let me see you near Mr. Stone again. Or next time, you won't get your camera back."

She walked back inside.

Gwen smiled as she handed Penny the keys to their suite and a schedule of the opened rooms if Jagged wished to dine or swim in the luxurious pool. Penny smiled back as she and Jagged headed to the elevator as Mr. Bourgeois bid them goodbye.

"Mr. Bourgeois, you haven't told Marinette what job she'll be doing," Ms. Bustier spoke up.

Mr. Bourgeois sighs as looks at his list again, "Ah, yes. Of course, Marinette. Gopher, I've got a job for you already, Marinette."

Gwen groaned as Chloé once again was distracted with Adrien as she sat with the computer, looking at the cameras.

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Gwen welcomed some stars into the hotel and had Kim take their luggage to their rooms. She rolled her eyes as Adrien sat next to her and Chloé took selfies with him.

"Why am I here again?" Gwen spoke.

Chloé turned to her and spoke, "You are in charge of the computer as your basically a geek at it. Meanwhile, Adrien and I will help when there is something wrong. But you're smart, you got it covered."

Gwen's eye twitched at looking back to the cameras and answering phone calls to make a schedule.

Her eyes wandered as Marinette ran back and forth through the entrance. She waved as Marinette came with a brown bag but sweatdropped as Marinette ran out the door, having Chloé chuckle amusedly.

"Failed as a gopher already? Not surprised. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!"

Gwen stopped as she saw someone in a strange outfit outside the doors from her camera. She scheduled the last person and looked closer to the camera.

Her eyes widened as Kim and a worker has been pixelated. She turned to Adrien and Chloé and tried to usher them back but Chloé was too distracted. It was too late as the man entered the hall.

Gwen's senses flared and stood still as Chloé spoke, "Oh, look what the cat dragged in. Let me handle this, Adrien. Watch and learn."

"Chloé!" Gwen hissed and grabbed her wrist but she snatched her wrist back and walked to the man. "Excuse me...Excuse me! You can't be a guest at this hotel! My father only allows the most important celebrities. Like me."

The man turned to her and smirked, "Well then, I am Pixelator. Your number one fan."

"Moi? Oh, my, you're flattering me. Keep going," Chloé grinned.

"A photo of you, sweet miss..." he pointed his camera at his mask.

"Chloé, of course."

Gwen's eyes widened and jumped over the desk with Adrien. "Look out, Chloé!"

"Look into the lens, miss!"

Gwen pushed the girl away in time, but unfortunately for her, Adrien attempted to do the same thing and pushed her too. Pixelator zapped both Gwen and Adrien to nothing as Chloé yelped, falling to the floor in the hall.

Chloé screamed seeing Adrien and Gwen gone and the Pixelator turning to her. With no hesitation, she left to the kitchen.

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Adrien hugged Gwen tight as they landed in a white room. Gwen's senses flared as she looked at her hands.

"What the hell was that?" she murmured.

"I think we've been like...digitized or something," Adrien frowned.

Gwen looked around, "This isn't good. Chloé's not here."

"She most likely saved herself," Adrien helped her up and grabbed his phone to call Nino but no one answered.

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Gwen groaned as she also didn't get a signal to call Alix or Nathaniel. "This sucks."

"It just goes on forever. No doors, no walls, no nothing," Adrien spoke as the both of them have been walking for a while but they don't see anything.

"I guess we're stuck here. Ladybug would most likely see Pixelator around."

"No, there's gotta be a way out somewhere. I hope..." Adrien murmured.

Gwen sighed and kept walking. Adrien could tell she was tense and lightly punched her back, making her stiffen and turn to him.

"What was that for?'

Adrien smiled, "Don't worry if anything happens, I got your back. I won't let anything happen to you."

Gwen blinked and looked at her surroundings, "I think you're late for that."

Adrien sweatdropped and nervously laughed.

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Another hour has gone and Gwen grew irritated. She can't use her bracer to call Ladybug because she is with Adrien and she can't leave him alone if something happens. But she is about to scream as there was nothing around her.

Gwen stopped and looked around as Adrien walked a little forward from her and looked down to his kwami, making sure the girl was out of earshot.

"Plagg, I gotta find some way to transform," he whispered.

"Come on, what's the rush?" Plagg asked as he flew to see the other blonde scratching her wrist in annoyance.

He sighed as Adrien deadpanned at him. "Fine. If you insist, at least find me some cheese."

Adrien turned to Gwen, who was scratching her wrist in annoyance, and turned to her. "I'm gonna see if there's a way out down there. Don't go anywhere. Could be dangerous."

Gwen's eyes narrowed at him, "And where are you going? You'll get lost."

Adrien smirked at her, "You're not scared, are you?"

Gwen scoffed, smirking at him. "Please! Not scared of anything."

He chuckled and runs away but runs back to her as he saw Fang in front of him. Gwen's eyes widened at the crocodile and blinked at him.

"And I'm the scared one."

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Gwen managed to walk away from the crocodile with Adrien in her arms.

"You're strong..." he commented at the blank silence.

"You're stupid," as she looked over her shoulder and sighed, seeing they were far from the crocodile.

She lowered Adrien down and kept walking. She stopped as she sensed someone staring at her. Adrien bumped into her back and observed as Gwen turned around and lightly gasp.

Ladybug was in front of them but she was huge and staring at them.

"Ladybug?" Adrien called out.

"What are you two doing in there?" she asked, seeing Gwen and Adrien...alone...in a blank space.

Gwen irked, "Planting Daisies, what do you think?"

Adrien gasped and grabbed her as she was getting into a fuse.

"Over here, Ladybug!"

"Help Ladybug!"

They stopped as they heard voices not far from them but there was no one around.

"What happened to you?" Ladybug asked.

"It's terrible, this man, he...took a photo of us and we ended up trapped in here!"

"While we were just simply strolling the Champs-Élysées!"

Ladybug sighed, "I just hope Ghost-Spider and Chat Noir is there already."

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After thirty minutes of Adrien calming Gwen down, they saw as their hands were being digitized again and they both disappeared.

Nino yelped and fall back as Adrien and Gwen appeared again. Gwen and Adrien didn't hesitate to run to the computer and look at the news.

"Dudes! You scared me!" Nino groaned, standing up.

"Fill in for me," Gwen ran away from the hotel.

"Yeah, will you Nino?" Adrien also ran away.

"What do you think I've been doing this whole time?!"

Gwen ran from the hotel and to the Champs Élysées. She hid behind the building and punched her fists together.

"I've kept my part of the deal, Ladybug. Now bring me Jagged Stone!" Pixelator demanded as he stood over Ladybug.

Ladybug stopped as she saw Ghost behind Pixelator. "Pixelator, I know your akuma's inside your glasses!"

"Stop wasting time!"

Ghost smirked as she neared closer to the camera. She inwardly groaned as a civilian shouted, "Yeah! Go Ghost-Spider!"

This alerted Pixelator and turn to her. He threw a punch at her, but she dodged and kicked him away.

"Sorry, I'm late. Traffic," Ghost deadpanned as she stalked over to Pixelator.

Pixelator stood up and started zapping in her direction as she ran and hid behind the car Ladybug was in.

Chat didn't waste time and jumped in, but Pixelator saw through his attack and grabbed his legs, and threw him to the girls.

Ladybug smiles, giving a hand out to help him, "Thanks for dropping in."

Ghost's eyes widened as Chat's hand went through Ladybug's arm.

"Not very handy, I see," Chat punned.

"What about our deal?!" Pixelator exclaimed as he started zapping the three as they ran away and dodged them.

"Together!" Ladybug shouted as she threw her yo-yo but it bounced off the car as Pixelator dodged.

Ghost threw webs at him but he also dodged them. Chat jumped and launched to him, about to fight him with his staff but Pixelator zapped him.

Pixelator smirked, "When the cat's away, the mice will play. Ready to become immortalized?"

"Can't wait to live it up," Ladybug smirked as she and Ghost ran and dodged Pixelator's zaps.

Ghost exclaimed in shock as Ladybug has been zapped on the leg and fell. She managed to catch her and hide her behind a car.

"Look into the lens..." Pixelator caught up to them.

Ghost growled and threw a punch at him, narrowly missing his face. Pixelator zapped her but she yanked the door from the car and used it as a shield as it was digitized to the blank space.

"Shit..." she cursed.

"Hey there, Pixelator! I heard you wanted my photo!"

Ghost stopped as Jagged climbed to one of the cars and announced himself. "What are you doing here? Get out of here!" she exclaimed.

"Jagged! About time you showed up!" Pixelator walked over to him but Ghost didn't let that happen and webbed his feet to the ground.

"What are you doing?!" Pixelator growled at zapped her but she dodged and ran to him.

Pixelator was getting irritated with the hero and kept zapping her but she would dodge left and right and finally neared to him, punching him to the ground.

As she was about to give the final blow she heard Ladybug shout to her, "Batter up!"

Ghost sensed something thrown at her and caught it as she directed the mirror to Pixelator's face as he zapped her. Except it deflected to the mirror to himself.

He got digitized as the camera fell to the ground in front of her. She smirked and stepped on it, crushing it as the akuma flew out.

Ladybug grinned and purified it and brought everything back to normal, including bringing the people back from the blank space and healing herself.

Pixelator turned back to Vincent.

Chat smirked, relieved coming back, and found his partners waiting for him. After the last encounter with Ladybug, she chose to help Vincent back to his apartment as Chat and Ladybug pounded their fists in victory.

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"Thank you very much for this work experience day, Mr. Bourgeois. I'm sure we'll all remember it for a long time to come," Ms. Bustier smiled as the students gathered at the entrance.

"So do I. Oh, wait, I almost forgot. Jagged Stone's giving a concert tonight, so, I'm giving tickets to the students who demonstrated the greatest effort today," Mr. Bourgeois smiled as Penny started handing out tickets.

Everyone grinned as they have the ticket in their hands except for Chloé, who was skipped over.

"Ridiculous! Utterly Ridiculous!"

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Gwen smirked as she went to the concert in a small dress with leggings and boots. She grinned as she went with Juleka to the concert.

They danced and sang to the songs excitedly as Jagged's concert went on and on for the night.

Juleka smiled and went with Rose as Gwen walked to Adrien who was in the front. He grinned turning to her. "It's my first live concert, ever! It's amazing!"

Gwen laughed, "Hell yeah!"

The music slowly slowed down as Jagged wore his Paris-themed sunglasses and sat at the piano.

"I'd like to dedicate this song to the girls who saved my life. This one's for you, Ladybug and Ghost-Spider."

Gwen's eyes widened and grinned as a famous rockstar started singing about her and Ladybug. She also noticed Marinette was very excited.

After the song and many others, Gwen decided to take Adrien to the entrance. She grinned as Adrien was still excited.

"Had fun?" she teased.

"Of course! How about you?" he asked.

She shrugged, "It's cool. I liked it."

Adrien smiled, "I'm glad. At least you're not angry as earlier."

"Shut up!" she laughed.

Her eyes softened as she started to miss dearly the Mary Janes and Harry. She left them in a bad time as she argued with them before leaving. Do they miss her as she misses them? Are they angry at her for leaving them with nothing?

She snapped out of her thoughts as Adrien patted her back, "Is everything okay?"

She nodded, "Yeah, I just remembered something."

Adrien saw the faint sad look in her eyes and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, surprising her.

"Remember what I said, I won't let anything happen to you. You can talk to me about anything when you're ready. I won't pressure you."

Her eyes widened and smiled, hugging his side, "I'll let you know Bad Omen."

Adrien laughed, "I don't think there have been any incidents with your bad luck."

She raised a brow at him, "Oh, yeah? What about today? Or last week with you messing up the lab project?"

Adrien laughed, "I forgot."

"Of course, you did."

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Next Episode: Guitar Villain ♥

A/N: Hi guys! The first season is almost ending! I think about 6 or so episodes left. Because Gwen has been single for a while, we shall give her a boyfriend! MUAHAHAHA *cough* *cough* sorry...ANYWAY! I'll let you guys decide who she should be shipped with. I'll give you guys by the end of the first season. Although I'm not sure if she should catch feelings already in the second season. Is it too soon?

What do you think? Until third season? Let me know in the comments.

See ya!

-Wuv out 🤍

Published: March 4, 2022

Word Count: 2900