"I'm home!" Jasmine Fenton yelled to nobody in particular.

"Hey," Danny replied, stating the usual greeting. This time however, it wasn't just Danny who was sitting on the couch. Two girls were sitting on the couch with him, both of them looking a little awkward and uncomfortable.

"Hi! Are you Jasmine Fenton?" the one with glasses asked.

"I am! But call me Jazz. You must be Alya then, nice to meet you!"

They shook hands, and started a conversation. Jazz had missed the introduction, so Alya was catching her up.

"Well now that you all know each other, I'm going over to Sam's house and pretending like I was never here today..." Danny said, getting up from the couch.

"Oh no you don't," Jazz interrupted him while stopping him from leaving the house. "Marinette is your partner," Jazz said, gesturing to the other girl with pigtails, "if you go somewhere, she goes with you."

Danny sighed in defeat. "Fine."

He knew this would impact his ghostly activities, but with Jazz around, there was no way out of this project.

He got ready to leave, making sure Marinette was willing to go, and they left for Sam's house.

****

Marinette felt very out of place. She didn't know what was going on, or why she still hadn't seen Danny's parents. 'When I get home from school, my parents are always home and ask how my day went', she thought.

Her thought process changed from the topic of parents to the Ladybug and how she was going to get to the meeting without raising suspicion from the Fenton family. She still didn't know where in the house she would be sleeping, so she hadn't had time to find possible escape routes. She wondered if Chat had the same problem.

Actually, scratch that. She wondered why the heck Chat was even here when she was.

She snickered to herself while shaking her head. It's not like he was in her class... right?

Her train of thoughts came to an abrupt halt as a voice disrupted the silence.

"You awake? We're here."

Marinette snapped out of her trance and followed Danny to the front door, nervously waiting as he rung the doorbell. She didn't have to wait long.

"Danny! Wait, Danny? You're actually using the door?" Sam's voice sounded legitimately surprised at the fact. "You know you could have just-" Sam cut her sentence off abruptly as she noticed Marinette standing behind Danny.

"Could have just opened the door and come on in!" Sam said, trying to correct her mistake and cover how she almost revealed Danny's secret.

Marinette walked in, and was in awe. Who knew Sam was rich! She certainly didn't act like one rich girl she knew. She didn't act bratty or anything for so far Marinette had noticed, but who knew...

"Hey," another voice said.

'Oh no!' Marinette thought, 'I forgot that Adrien is partners with Sam!'

"Gah!" was the sound Marinette made directly after Adrien spoke. She flung her arms around before crossing them over her stomach. Smiling nervously, she hoped no one had noticed.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, totally, everything is perfectly fine! It's as fine as your face!" Marinette wanted to smack herself after saying that out loud to him. "Uhh..."

"What?" Adrien asked, confused. She was speaking too fast for him to hear.

"Um... ah.... nothing!"

Danny chuckled softly to Sam, "Lovebirds."

She silently laughed at that.

"Well, since you two know each other, I'll leave you two be while I discuss some stuff with Danny here. Bye!" Sam said, ushering Danny out of the corridor up the stairs. "If you two want, I have movies and video games you can play, just go down the stairs into the cinema. Oh, and don't break anything!" she quickly added.

Marinette looked at Adrien, who was giving a funny look at the duo that disappeared on top of the flight. She dreamily sighed but then realized she would be alone with him, in one room, for at least half an hour.

She internally groaned as he shot her a dazzling smile. Why her?

****

"So, how is this meeting going to happen?" Sam asked Danny once they were safe in her room and out of hearing distance.

"I have no idea," Danny dryly commented as he plopped down

Sam crossed her arms at the boy that was looking around the room, totally paying no attention to her. "Very helpful."

"I'm honestly worried about sneaking out now that there are two more people in the house," Danny said, finally finding a good way to start the conversation.

"I don't think I'd be too hard. That's the beauty of invisibility and intangibility," Sam replied with an 'obviously' tone.

"Yeah, but if Marinette or Alya need anything and they come find me in the middle of the night and I'm not there, how am I gonna explain that?" Danny added. At this point, he was only worrying himself more.

"I wouldn't think it would be that difficult. Just say you were in the bathroom."

"For that long?"

Sam smirked victoriously as she also sat down. "Bladder problems."

"Fine," Danny grumbled. He crossed his legs and leaned forward, seemingly readying himself for some brainstorming. "Now that that part is out of the way, can you stay up with Fenton Phones just in case I need backup? I don't think I will, but it won't harm anyone to be careful sometimes," Danny said, finally letting his mind focus on the more important details.

Sam laughed a little before replying. "It's not like I get any sleep on a normal day why should tonight be different?"

"I guess that's true," Danny agreed.

"It's settled then. I'll go and make sure the two lovebirds in the other room didn't mess anything up."

****

'Cheese.'

Plagg sighed dreamily as he imagined his 999 year old piece of Grand Camembert. Nothing else was on his mind...

Well, perhaps also what he just heard from the goth and her boyfriend.

Against common prejudice -mostly coming from Adrien- he wasn't stupid. He just so happened to be able to prioritize what he needed, with cheese being the number one priority.

He knew who Ladybug was, heck, he knew that she was sitting right next to his holder! Now, he also knew that Ladybug was rooming with none other than Danny Phantom.

Plagg smirked a bit as he let himself slide further away in Adrien's pocket.

*****
Whaaaaat I actually updated??? You better believe it! I actually got motivated and made this chapter! Of course, Cartara still helped with proofreading and editing (she added like 200 more words!)

I do want you to know that I am very grateful to everyone that still remembers this story and reads it. That means more to me than you'd think.

Well, I think that's enough for now!

Sasha, OUT!

Word count (excluding A/N): 1073

Chapter published: October 19th, 2018