His feet unknowingly took to the one place he truly felt was home, Marinette's balcony. Compared to the cold atmosphere at his house, this bread and cookie smelling bakery was the best thing he had.

"Chat Noir? What are you doing?"

Damn she's such a good actor... I promise that I will make sure this plan doesn't get set into action, and leave her broken hearted. I need to warn her, subtly somehow.

"You can't trust Jace, princess."

"Huh?"

Shit. There goes trying to warn her subtly. Guess the element of surprise should have a good effect on her too, I hope.

"Sorry, I meant to be more discreet with that, but you can't trust him. Believe me." The way her delicate brows creased in confusion, or probably in frustration in this case, was almost enough to make Chat swoon, but he held his ground. "He only has bad intentions for you. I can't lose the best thing in my life, and I can't let you make the worse decision of your life." The facade she had been putting on for the past few weeks cracked as she frowned at the black cat that was perched on her metal railing.

"He told me that you're the reason for my amnesia. So why should I believe you?"

This girl is too trusting...

That's why her generosity is so great, one of the reasons why he loves her so much, but he couldn't let this become her Achilles heel, her fatal flaw.

"I am the reason for your amnesia. I wasn't fast enough to save you. Sandman took you from me, and had used you for bait against me." The memory had made his gut twist and turn, churning at an impossible speed as a certain bitterness flooded his sense. "And when you got pushed off the Eiffel, I was completely powerless in stopping you from hitting your head against the tower. And it's all my fault, and I'm so sorry Mari. You have no idea how long the guilt has been eating me alive, but right now; I can protect you, so let me do just that."

"Why should I trust you? If you couldn't protect me the first time, who says you can save me this time?"

Damn- that was a stab in the heart.

Her doubt was completely reasonable, in his eyes. How could he guarantee that he will protect her this time? Saying that his determination and motivation will make sure he will save her every time? That's not how reality works, no matter how much he wished it did. Just his love for her couldn't protect her and be a shield her from all the horrors of this world.

"Ill protect you." Because I can't let anything happen to you, not again.

"That doesn't mean that I should trust you. It would mean betraying Jace, and I'm in love with him." His heart squeezed in pain as the words left her pink and perfect lips, like a knife piercing his already broken heart.

"I've been with you, Marinette. I've been with you since the Evillustrator targeted you, hell; I've been with you even before then! I may not have always been your boyfriend, but I was always there for you as a friend before it. So, if you don't love me, that's okay." It isn't okay to me. "But as your friend, I need you to trust me when I say he's bad."

He searched her face, looking for the smallest fraction of agreement, but he was still met with a stone expression, saying that he speech hadn't affected her in the slightest.

"Mari, you're not like this. You know that this isn't right, so why are you doing it? The Marinette I know and love, hates anything unjust, and stands up for her loved ones."

"That's exactly what I'm doing now, Chat Noir." His name was spat as if it were poison that had burned her. "I'm standing up for Jace, the boy I'm in love with. I trust him fully, and when he says you're bad, I will and am taking his side."

"Marinette..." Every ounce of confidence and courage Chat had held was now completely drained out of his body. He had thought, truly, he had thought, she would listen to him, and that he could somehow make her realize that the one she actually loved was him, not that evil and twisted Jace Olsen.

He needed some way to show her, to pass on his feelings and prove to her that Jace was bad, for both of them. Some way to convey the message to her. And he only had one way he knew how.

His hands wrapped around her wrists, squeezing them tightly, but not tight enough to hurt her, as he pulled a stunned Marinette towards him, his lips crashing onto her soft full ones. He felt her gasp against his lips as he kissed her roughly yet gently, passionately yet shyly, fiery yet sweetly. He pressed all of his feeling into the kiss, hoping she accepted them and kissed him back with as much heat.

Two hands gently rested against his leather clad chest, and he felt relief flood through his system, assuming she was accepting his kiss, until she pushed him back roughly, wiping her slightly swollen lips with the back of her hand, a look of disgust covering her features.

"I told you I loved Jace! And yet you do that!" Her hands never left his chest as he stared at her with a heartbroken look in his eyes. This rejection had stung him more than any rejection he got from Ladybug, a hundred folds. Her sparkly blue eyes with filled to the brim with angry tears, which were caused by him.

"I hate you! I hate you so much Chat Noir! I never want to see you again!"

Her small hands, still attached to his chest, gave one final hard push, shoving him off her balcony.

Chat felt the wind whisk past his ears, his blond hair whipping wildly in the ferocious, freezing wind as he stared at her with wide green eyes, shock and despair clearly shown in them. He knew the ground was nearing, yet he couldn't move his arms to grab his staff. He couldn't bring himself to.

Suddenly, arms wrapped around his waist, and he jerked to the left before his back slammed against the brick wall of the building across from Marinette's home.

"I can't let you die just yet, Chat Noir. I still need to torture you more."

Ayeeee cliffhanger. Too bad it's not gonna last, since another chapter should be out either tonight or sometime this weekend. Im sorry for not updating but I ended up getting another concussion this week, so I have been temporarily banned from all screens and even stayed home from school for 2 days, which was so boring.

Anyways, everything I didn't update should either be updated tonight or this weekend!

Until next time, peace!