Playing With Marinette Seems Pretty....

Playing with Marinette seems pretty....

Risky

RISKy Endeavors

Based on the Risk headcanon:

There were certain rules to attending school at College Francoise Dupont if you wanted to survive.

First, avoid any interaction with Chloe Bourgeois if at all possible. If you are unfortunate enough to gain her attention, simply let her be and hope nothing about you offended her enough to threaten to get her father involved.

Second, expect an akuma attack at least once per week. Many students now had designated hiding spots by this point.

And third, Risk is banned from the premises and even mentioning the game is forbidden.

Adrien Agreste may have been attending the school for a few months, but he was still technically new and thus did not know this when he suggested a game day after school when he actually happened to have some free time.

The other boys seemed interested in the idea. At least until he made the mistake of actually starting to LIST the games.

They realized all too quickly what was happening.

He failed to see the growing panic.

“Yeah, I have a bunch of board games we can play! Monopoly, Life, Scrabble, Ri—”

Adrien was cut off by the sudden appearance of five different hands covering his mouth.

“Who told him?” 

“I thought you told him?”

“I had to tell Alya! That was enough of a mistake!” 

“No way, you know what happened last time!”

“Guys? What’s going on?” Came another voice that had all five males tensing in fear as they recognized that deceptively sweet voice. None dared to move or release Adrien. Slowly, they almost seemed to turn as one to face true horror.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

Wait—what?

Adrien blinked, completely confused.

“Nothing! Nothing is going on! Nothing at all!” Nino exclaimed.

“We were just talking about homework.” Ivan insisted.

“And nothing else!” Kim added, hurriedly.

Max merely started muttering incomprehensibly. 

Nathaniel tried to hide his face behind his sketchbook.

Marinette appeared…disappointed. “Oh. Okay then. Guess I’ll see you all later.”

The five boys watched warily as Marinette walked away to the other end of the hallway and turned a corner out of sight.

None of the boys took this to mean anything though, and despite Adrien’s growing ire, they refused to release him until they were sure the coast was clear. Nathaniel went so far as to go after her and peek around the corner to make sure she was gone before turning back to the others with a nod that it was safe to talk.

“That was too close!” Kim said with a sigh of relief as he released Adrien. “Sorry, by the way.”

Adrien was…still confused. “What was THAT all about?”

Ivan winced. “It’s…complicated.”

Nathaniel was almost hyperventilating. “She was on the other side of the school. SHE WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCHOOL!”

“Logic doesn’t mean anything in the face of the “R-word”, Nathaniel. You know that!” Nino hissed.

And poor Adrien was completely lost. “What?

Kim, Ivan, Nathaniel, and Nino all sent each other glances, uncertain how to begin to explain. Realizing one of their number was not involved in the communication through staring, Kim’s eyes widened as he turned to find his much more intelligent friend who was sitting against a wall descending into strange muttering and where did he get that calculator from?

“Oh no, not again!” Kim moaned.

“I can figure it out, I swear!” The shorter boy insisted as he started typing the calculator furiously.

“Max. Max, no. We talked about this.”

“But the scientific probability—”

“Let it go, Max.”

“How could she not lose even ONE TIME!”

Kim sighed. “I’d better take him before he has another mental breakdown.”

Adrien gaped. “Another? What?”

Nino grimaced, rubbing the back of his neck. “Yeah, sorry dude.”

“It’s just not possible!” Max shouted before Kim hefted him over his shoulder and carried him out of the hallway, much to the somewhat resigned and amused stares of the other boys. And Adrien, who just stared after them in even greater confusion and a growing desire to know what the heck was going on!

With that strange interaction, Adrien turned to the others to try to request an explanation. As if sensing his intent, Ivan and Nathaniel suddenly had other places to be that were specifically not around him and immediately took off as well.

Realizing that he was the only one left (the cowards!), Nino sighed and took Adrien by the arm. “It’s okay. Let’s just go to my house and into a locked room where she can’t find us and I’ll explain everything.”