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gabriel-agreste-has-no-rights · 4 years

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Summary: The beret smelled like Ladybug. It was only natural that Adrien would wear it to school. He didn't know why Marinette would look so terrified to see it.(Post-Chat Blanc identity reveal)

Word Count: 5053

Notes: Requested by my good pal @mozzys-studio! (I”m no longer taking requests but this is for the episode-divergent reveal fic asks)

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“Did you know I have a fan club in Brazil, Plagg?” Adrien asked as he examined the beret Ladybug had dropped off.

“Like I keep track of all the girls who want to gobble you up like a piece of cheese.” Plagg snorted and lounged on the now-empty windowsill. It was tempting to run to the window, try to follow his partner’s path home with his eyes. But he knew better than to breach her trust like that.

“It’s not like that, Plagg. I’m sure they’re just into fashion, like Marinette.��

Though… the hearts embroidered on it were a little much. It was too bad the gift wasn’t actually from Ladybug, like he’d first guessed when he’d caught her in his room.

“I wonder how they got it to her and not me,” he thought out loud. “Some fans in Brazil wouldn’t know her identity, would they? That’s on the whole other side of the world.”

“Of course they wouldn’t. You’re her partner, you know she’s not that careless.”

Adrien didn’t like Plagg’s tone. Ladybug wasn’t careless at all. Of course no one knew her identity, or she’d have to give up her miraculous.

Though Master Fu would have to go through him before he ever let that happen.

“You’re right.” Adrien sighed and flopped back on the bed, still running his fingers over the beret. The fabric was silky soft, obviously high quality. “I still wonder how they got this to her. Even I don’t know how to contact Ladybug unless I’m transformed.”

Plagg shrugged. “Maybe they sent it to the mayor or the Eiffel Tower or something. Who cares? It’s a dumb looking hat anyway.”

“It’s not dumb.” He held it closer to his chest and caught a whiff of Ladybug’s scent. Sugar and cinnamon mixed with some kind of flowery perfume. He’d wear it for weeks just to cling to that scrap of her.

Of course, the smell of camembert would probably overpower it before too long. Why hadn’t the same company that made “Adrien the Fragrance” bottled Ladybug’s heavenly aroma yet?

He was lost in daydreams of Ladybug modelling for a perfume ad for a few minutes before the itching mystery of the Brazillian fan club intruded again. Maybe if he looked them up online, he could ask someone how they’d gotten ahold of her in the first place.

Or I could just ask her, the more rational part of his mind said. But Adrien didn’t have any reason to get close to her, and Chat wouldn’t have any reason to know about her delivery.

Which begged the question… why did Ladybug agree to deliver the present in the first place? She said there was a postal strike in Brazil, but unless she’d used the horse miraculous, the package had at least gotten to Paris.

“None of this makes any sense.” His brow furrowed as he picked up the blank card that had come along with the package. The Brazillians hadn’t even left him a note.

He squinted. Or maybe they had—it looked like something had been erased from the bottom left corner.

“Hey Plagg, can you make this out?” He asked.

The kwami had been oddly quiet. Normally he liked to flip through a magazine or play foosball after a day of being squashed inside Adrien’s fencing gear.

“Huh? What? That little smudged spot?” Plagg waved a paw dismissively. “Nah. Probably just a stamp that ripped off, or something. Who cares? They should’ve sent you cheese instead, anyway.”

“It’s definitely not a stamp. There’s eraser marks, see?” Adrien sat up, crossing his legs on the bed. As he held the paper up to the light, he could almost make out the left over indentations of the word that had been erased.

“I wouldn’t look at that too closely if I were you. If she got rid of what she wrote, it’s for a good reason, right?”

Adrien’s head snapped up. “Wait—she?”

Plagg froze, looking guiltier than the time Adrien had caught him sneaking an extra wheel of camembert after dinner.

“Uh, did I say she? I mean they! The fan club, remember? I bet it’s a lot of shes though. Or guys maybe, it doesn’t matter to me.”

“No, you said she!” Adrien scrambled on his knees, rumpling the carefully made comforter. The beret reamined clutched in his right hand as he came face to face with where Plagg was laying. “Plagg—did Ladybug actually get this for me?”

“No! Of course not! Why would she do that?” Plagg laughed. “Come on, kid, you’re just saying that because you wish she would give you a present.”

Adrien’s face fell. Was he reading too much into it? After all, Ladybug herself had said the beret was from Brazil. Why would she lie to him?

“...Maybe you’re right.”

But he still took another deep whiff from the beret. She must have held onto it for a while at least. Would it be so bad to imagine it was hers? The stitching even looked like it was from a home sewing machine, not a factory. A few little threads hung off from the underside, just imperfect enough to feel handmade. And the pattern matched his favorite shirt, the one he was only allowed to wear to school or for stock photo shoots. His fans wouldn’t have known that if they were focused on his father’s fashion, right?

Getting your hopes up again, he thought with another wistful sigh.

Oh well. Regardless of the beret’s origin, Ladybug had come to see him. That was more than enough to cheer him up from the disappointment of Father missing his fencing tournament.

He smiled up at the ceiling.

“She really is simply the best.”

XXX

At school the next day, he guessed someone might comment on his beret. Maybe Nino would appreciate having a hat buddy. Maybe Chloe would say that he’d finally learned how to accessorize. Maybe Marinette would have something to compliment about the design.

What he did not expect was for all of the girls chatting on the steps to look at him like they’d seen a ghost. And then for each and every single one of them to hone in on Marinette.

“Girl! I thought you said you didn’t give it to him!” Alya whispered.

“W-well…” Marinette tapped her index fingers together. What she said after that was too quiet for him to make out, but it had all of the girls looking at each other in confusion. Rose squealed in excitement. Alix groaned before shoving a stuffed unicorn at her.

“What’s going on?” He asked Marinette as he approached the group.

She jumped higher than the time he’d accidentally startled her in the locker room

“Nothing!” She waved her hands frantically.

Alya’s jaw dropped. “Girl! Tell me this isn’t a repeat of the scarf incident!”

Marinette’s panicked eyes flickered between the girls’ gazes, and Adrien wondered if he’d walked in on something secret. But he was too curious to leave. And besides, if Marinette was having any trouble, he hoped he could help.

“What scarf?” His head tilted.

“Also nothing,” she said with a glare at Alya before forcing a too-wide smile. “I-I mean, it’s ages ago, it doesn’t matter now!”

“Oh… okay.”

Concerned though he was, he didn’t want to push her boundaries. He was about to say that he’d see her in class and that she could always talk to him if she wanted to, but before he could, Juleka spoke up.

“So you like the hat?” Her bangs swung in front of her eye as she nodded towards his beret.

“Huh? You know about it?” Had she possibly seen Ladybug on her way to deliver it? No, it had been wrapped at the time.

“Of course we do!” Alya grinned as Marinette made slicing motions in front of her throat.

“Alya,” she hissed under her breath.

“Come on girl, you’re so close! He obviously likes it!” Alya whispered back.

Adrien’s brow furrowed. He was mostly wearing the hat because it still smelled like Ladybug, but they didn’t need to know that.

Alix sighed wearily. “She didn’t tell you, did she?”

“It was Marinette who made—” Rose began before she cut her off.

“Don’t you dare!”

If her words were directed at Rose, why was Marinette looking at him with such wide eyed terror? Did he do something wrong again without realizing, like he had at the wax museum? Or was his new beret really that ugly?

“I’m sorry.” He reached towards her vaguely before letting his arm fall back at his side. If only he knew what he was doing wrong! He would do anything to make Marinette feel comfortable again.

“We’re just trying to help,” Mylene said softly.

“W-well you’re not!” She spun and shouted back. The girls jumped—understandably; Adrien had never heard her snap like that at anyone but Lila, who wasn’t even here right now. “Just—leave me alone!”

“What? Marinette!” Alya called after her, but she was already running away from the school, down the street.

Adrien would’ve preferred to get context from the girls first, but there wasn’t time. His feet pounded against the pavement as he chased after his friend.

“This is a bad idea,” Plagg hissed from his shirt pocket. “You just made things worse last time, remember?”

Like he could forget the time she almost kissed him while he was pretending to be a statue. It still didn’t all make sense to him, but he supposed he deserved it after tricking her like that.

“I have to try. She could be akumatized if we leave her now.”

Marinette had never been akumatized before, and he wanted to keep it that way. He wasn’t sure he’d be much help to Ladybug if he was forced to fight her.

Don’t think about that. She’s going to be fine, he told himself as he rounded a corner and found her pacing frantically at the end of an alley—

And a violet butterfly fluttering straight towards her.

“Marinette!”

He sprinted with all the strength his superpowerless legs could give him. His transformation phrase caught in his throat, torn between protect Marinette and your identity must remain secret. He doubted he could regret calling a Cataclysm to turn the insect to dust. Because even if it meant revealing himself, this was Marinette and he couldn’t let Hawkmoth steal the light behind her blue eyes, watch her become a puppet to his demands and her own twisted emotions—

But he didn’t decide quickly enough. When he was three steps from her, the butterfly dissolved into one of her red hair ties. A translucent purple mask flashed over her wet eyes.

“No,” he breathed.

This couldn’t be happening. The moment felt surreal, despite the number of his classmates who had already been akumatized. And Marinette had always been different from his other friends, even if he couldn’t admit it until he was watching her like this, pulling at her hair, at her ears—

Wait, her ears?

“Adrien,” she gasped, her voice cracking under the pressure of resisting Hawkmoth.

The bubbling darkness hadn’t washed over her yet. She might still have a chance. He wasn’t sure if anyone had ever fought off the supervillain’s influence before, but if anyone could, it was her.

“Marinette, look at me.” He took her hands, guiding them away from where they clawed at her earlobes. “It’s going to be okay. Whatever you’re afraid of, whatever Hawkmoth’s telling you he can fix—I promise you, we can do it together. Without him.”

Her eyes glazed over. He might not have much time.

But at least he had one advantage.

One hand squeezed both of hers while his other reached up to carefully unwind the tainted hair tie from around her pigtail. It crumpled beneath his fingers, releasing half of her hair to cascade down her neck—and releasing the dark butterfly back into the air.

“Oh no you don’t,” he growled and scooped it into his satchel, careful to tug the zipper completely shut.

“Adrien, no! You’ll be—”

He smiled at her once his prize was caught fluttering helplessly alongside his notebooks.

“—akumatized,” she finished, eyes wide.

A blush stained his face as he flung his satchel away. She was right. He’d been touching the bag. If his own negative emotions had been strong enough, he might have become an akuma himself. He couldn’t imagine how awful that would be—for Ladybug as much as himself.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to be careless. I just saw you about to be akumatized, and I…”

I didn’t know if I could bring myself to fight you. But he couldn’t tell her that. He scratched the back of his neck.

“You saved me.” She wiped away tears with the back of her hand. “Oh my gosh, I was almost…”

She shuddered and wrapped her arms around herself. Adrien wished those were his arms enveloping her instead, but didn’t know if that would make things worse. She had asked to be left alone, and he still had no idea what had prompted her panic in the first place.

“Do you want to talk about it?” He asked gently. “I know you wouldn’t be this upset if it wasn’t important.”

She bit her lip, eyes flickering to his hat, then to the satchel that still bulged occasionally as the butterfly tried to escape. Now more than ever he wished he knew how to call Ladybug. Maybe he should’ve done some research on his Brazillian fan club after all.

Though, now that he considered Marinette and the girls’ reactions this morning, as well as Plagg’s slip yesterday afternoon, he was less sure that a potentially-hypothetical fan club could help.

“I can’t.” She shook her head, and she seemed to wilt.

“It wasn’t… something I did, was it? Because you can talk to Alya, or anyone else, it doesn’t have to be me. I just want you to be okay.” He stepped closer, reaching out to wipe a stream of tears from the soft curve of her cheek.

She stiffened at the contact. Right. They weren’t close enough for that either, no matter how much he wanted to be.

(Or how much they might secretly be, if his too-hopeful theory was true.)

“N-no, Adrien, it’s not you at all. I messed up.” She squeezed her eyes shut. “I messed up so, so bad, and now my best friend is going to pay the price for it.”

“Alya?” He frowned.

“No.” She almost-laughed and looked up towards the rooftops. “I really thought you’d figured it out. Maybe I’m not too late after all.”

She seemed to be talking to herself more than him. But by now, he was fairly confident he knew at least part of what she meant.

“You made this beret,” he realized, slipping it off his head and holding it close. “Was that what you were worried about me finding out?”

The color drained from her face.

“Would you believe I was commissioned by your fan club in Brazil?”

Ladybug was the only one who knew it was the Brazilian fans who sent it to him. And she’d mentioned a postal strike there, which meant Marinette couldn’t have made it, unless—

Visions of his partner and his friend blurred together in his memories. Marinette dressed as Ladybug for Clara Nightingale’s music video. Ladybug asking him to team up with Marinette against the Evillustrator. She may have been able to fool him as Multimouse, but his gut feeling made too much sense to ignore again.

“You’re Ladybug,” he blurted before any better judgement (or the pain of Plagg smacking him under his shirt) could kick in.

“Shhhh! No one can know!”

She practically tackled him against the alley wall as her hands slammed over his mouth. He almost dropped his hat, which didn’t seem as important now that her cinnamon-sugar scent was surrounding him anyway. He just wished it was because she was hugging him, and not because she was terrified of him knowing her identity.

The butterfly beat even more forcefully against the cage of his satchel, a reminder of just how important it was that her secret stay secret. If Hawkmoth found out… he didn’t even want to imagine what could happen.

But she hadn’t tried to lie to him this time. She was Ladybug—Marinette was Ladybug! And she’d given him the beret—no, she’d made him the beret, which meant his wishful thinking was actually right, which meant—

The embroidered hearts on his beret suddenly didn’t seem too much anymore.

“Do you—do you like me?”

Even muffled by her hands against his mouth, his voice betrayed too much of his swelling hope. She’d chosen Adrien to work with against Desperada. Even if he’d been the wrong pick in the end, that counted for something, right?

“W-what? I—what makes you think I—?” She stammered before finally hanging her head and releasing him. “Yeah. I wanted to give you that beret to finally confess to you, but then Nathalie wouldn’t let me in your house, and so I snuck in as Ladybug even though Tikki warned me not to, and then you found out and I got Chat Noir akumatized and I thought I fixed it when I erased my name but apparently I didn’t and now I have to give up my miraculous or else everyone will find out I’m Ladybug—”

“Maybe you shouldn’t shout I’m Ladybug,” a higher-pitched voice from her bag suggested, and she froze.

“Right. Right.” She leaned against the wall and took a few deep breaths.

Adrien began rubbing soothing circles on her back—something he’d occasionally do as Chat when Ladybug was stressed. She relaxed into his touch instead of stiffening this time, probably an instinctive reaction.

Because she was Ladybug. Marinette was Ladybug. And she’d tried to confess her feelings to him.

He should probably tell her he liked her back, right? Or would she only feel more stressed by that? She didn’t seem happy that he’d found out— though that probably had something to do with Chat Noir getting akumatized.

“I can’t let Hawkmoth sense my emotions again,” she said while he was still trying to process everything. “I’m lucky that he didn’t seem to understand most of them. He knew I was upset because I’d caused a friend to get akumatized, but since almost our whole class has been, that didn’t give him any clues to my identity. Not that it matters, because I… I can’t be Ladybug anymore anyway.”

Her breath came in short hiccups as tears once again leaked down her face.

“My la… Marinette,” he corrected himself as he gently turned her to face him. “You’re an amazing Ladybug. No one else could do what you do. Believe me, I’ve—” I’ve tried, he stopped himself from saying. He caught Tikki’s knowing grin from her spot in Marinette’s purse. “Anyway. I won’t let anyone take your miraculous, and I won’t tell anyone your identity, I swear.”

He’d guarded his own secret for this long; he was sure he could do the same for Marinette.

“And I—and Chat Noir’s never been akumatized.” Unless he’d forgotten, like during Oblivio or Dark Cupid… but he couldn’t completely forget the fact that he’d been akumatized, right? He would have at least seen it on the Ladyblog.

“Not yet.” She wouldn’t meet his eyes. “It’s complicated. Bunnyx—she’s the hero with the miraculous of time—took me to the future, only everything was wrong, and—it’s complicated,” she repeated with a sigh.

Everything about today was complicated. All because he’d decided to wear the hat that smelled like her.

“If it’s really a big deal, can’t she fix it again? Or couldn’t she just… I don’t know, have stopped you from giving me this beret in the first place?”

He clutched the gift tighter. He didn’t want the proof of her feelings ripped from him, but what else could he do? She didn’t want him to know. He’d always meant to respect her privacy. If he’d been thinking straighter, maybe he would’ve played dumb. Then she wouldn’t have to panic, and they could be together, and she could come to his photoshoots and he could model her designs and they could adopt a hamster—

But if what she was saying was true, then the problem was that he knew, not anyone else.

“I guess…” she mumbled, frowning at the beret in his hand. “But what if she can’t fix it? If you know, and it gets out, and my partner gets akumatized… I could never forgive myself. I may be in love with you, but he means the world to me. I was selfish to still give you that hat when I knew what could happen.”

His heart could’ve stopped right then. She was in love with him! He wanted to spin her in his arms, but he settled for squeezing her shoulder and giving his most comforting smile.

“You didn’t know I’d find out. And really, I don’t think you have anything to worry about.” He laughed. “How could Chat Noir ever be akumatized after learning that you’re in love with him?”

She looked up, brows furrowed in confusion. “But I already told you I’m not—”

Her mouth made a tiny o as recognition flashed across her face.

“Y-you’re him. You’re Chat Noir.”

He gave a quick wink. “The one and only, my Lady.”

Her forehead thumped against his chest, nearly startling him into tripping backwards.

“It’s you. This whole time I’ve been so worried and it was you! And I love you so much and—and this is terrible!”

The butterfly started fitfully fluttering again at her wail. It was a good thing Hawkmoth could only evilize one at once, or Adrien would worry about him sending another one after her. He kept his eyes peeled just in case.

“What’s terrible?” He asked while resuming rubbing her back.

“You—when you were akumatized—you said it was…” she choked back another sob. “It was our love that did that. I didn’t think it was possible, since I wasn’t in love with Chat, but… it all makes sense now. Of course I loved you when we got hit by Oblivio, and in the alternate timeline. It was always you.”

If Marinette kept saying she was in love with him, he was probably going to combust on the spot. Which made it very hard to think clearly and come up with a solution that didn’t leave them as star-crossed lovers until Hawkmoth was defeated.

“And it was always you.” He wrapped his arms around her, letting her cry into his shirt while he ran his fingers through the loose half of her hair. “If akumatized-me said our love was what ruined everything, then it must have been the butterfly talking. I would never let Hawkmoth use my love against you, Marinette. I swear, I’ll do whatever it takes to protect you.”

She pulled back just enough for him to see a smile beginning to form on her face.

“You already did, didn’t you?” She nodded at his satchel. “Speaking of which, I should probably finish taking care of that. Tikki, spots on!”

It was one thing to know she was Ladybug, but another entirely to feel the pink crackle of her transformation tickle his skin, to see her mask sweep the tears from beneath her eyes. It unfortunately reset her pigtails, keeping her soft hair from his reach.

“Adrien, you have to let go of me for a second, at least,” she giggled when he stared at her dumbly.

“Oh. Right.” He snapped his arms to his sides, like a kid that had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

Plagg snickered and flew out from the pocket of his shirt. “Finally. You were really squishing me there, Pigtails.”

“Good to see you too, Plagg.” She chuckled as she unzipped the bag and quickly purified the akuma. “Bye bye, little butterfly.”

“And good riddance.” His kwami snorted. “Sorry about my kitten, by the way. I tried to throw him off your tail before, but he’s too stubborn. I think he was looking for any excuse for you to be Ladybug.”

“Why wouldn’t I? Marinette is amazing.” He hugged the beret over his heart. “Besides, I was right!”

Her grin lit up the whole alleyway. “You’re amazing too, Adrien. Even more amazing than I realized.”

“You—you really think so?” He was about two seconds away from actually swooning into her arms.

“Of course I do.” Her eyes softened. “You’re the best partner anyone could ask for, Kitty. I—I don’t know how I could ever give you up, knowing that you’re not just one but two of the most important people in my life.”

“Me either, Bugaboo.”

He put his beret back on so both his hands were free to cup her face.

“Spots off,” she whispered, and his thumbs brushed her cheeks without resistance. She cupped one hand over his, tracing the circle of his ring in a soothing pattern.

He could’ve stood there forever, just staring into her eyes, but he knew the conversation about their future couldn’t be put off for long.

“I don’t think Bunnyx is coming to stop us,” she said softly.

“Do you think…” He swallowed. “Do you think that means we’re going to be okay?”

Her eyes flickered to where Tikki hovered, looking torn.

“I don’t know,” the kwami said. “I do want you both to be careful, but Adrien is right. You can’t stop being Ladybug, and he can’t stop being Chat Noir. Your fight against Feast proved that.”

“And what about us being together?” Adrien asked a little too eagerly. Knowing that she loved him back was a dream come true, but it would easily turn to a nightmare if she expected him to act like nothing had changed. Not that he ever hid his feelings for her, but he’d respected that she didn’t return them.

Except she did. He was the boy she’d been in love with!

“Didn’t you hear her? She said you said that your love destroyed the world!” Plagg exclaimed.

“He wasn’t exactly himself!” Tikki countered. “It’s impossible to tell what really happened in the future without Bunnyx coming back. Which is why we need to be careful, but it’s not fair to ask them to just give up their feelings.”

Adrien didn’t particularly care what the kwamis thought. As far as he was concerned, this was Marinette’s decision. She was the one who had seen the future, or at least a version of it.

She was the one he loved. Who he would do anything to protect… but what if that meant letting her go? Was he selfless enough to do that?

He wasn’t sure. But he owed it to her to try to be.

His hands slipped from her face.

“I’m sorry. I’m not being fair to you. You were almost akumatized because of this, and here I am just worried about if you’ll go out with me.”

He’d said he’d always be there for her, that he’d never let Hawkmoth use him, but how could he promise that when she’d already watched it happen?

“Adrien, no.” She squeezed his hand. “It was my fear of the future that almost got me akumatized. If we have to live like that… always afraid of our feelings for each other—we’re just asking Hawkmoth to come for us.”

“Then… you don’t think it’s too dangerous?”

Fragile hope danced on the edge of his voice. Maybe it wasn’t smart. But the future wasn’t set in stone—the fact that Bunnyx had visited at all proved that.

“I think right now, it’s more dangerous for us not to rely on each other.” She smiled, and his stomach fluttered with the good kind of butterflies, the ones that wouldn’t try to twist his emotions into weapons.

“It’s too late to put the cat back in the bag anyway,” Plagg sighed.

“It would’ve happened eventually.” Tikki nodded. “I wish it weren’t so soon, but we can still make this work if you both are extra careful.”

“We will be,” Adrien promised. “I want to show you off to the whole world, but we could keep our love a secret instead, if it’s safer that way.”

“You think you’d show me off? You know you’d be the trophy boyfriend in this relationship, Kitty.” She giggled and flicked his nose, and heat spread through him.

“I can be your boyfriend?”

“My secret boyfriend.” Her cheeks were pink too. “I mean—I wish we didn’t have to, but you’re right. It’s probably safer this way, so Hawkmoth doesn’t find out.”

“Secret boyfriend still has boyfriend in it.” He grinned. “So what are my rights as your secret boyfriend? What kind of secret things do we get to do?”

He wiggled his eyebrows, making Marinette cough and sputter.

“A-Adrien!”

“I’m thinking secret cuddling, secret movie night, secretly adopting a hamster—okay, that one might be a little harder to pull off—”

Her laughter cut him off. “Oh my gosh, you’re such a dork.”

“What? Your dad said you wanted a hamster. Is that too soon? Should I have waited until the second secret date to suggest that?”

Her laughter turned to cackling, and he found himself laughing along with her. They were partners; they were best friends. She wasn’t going to secret-dump him just because he got a little overexcited about secret-dating her.

“Hmm…” She tapped a finger to her lips. “I think it should at least wait until after our first secret kiss.”

His brain officially fizzled out at the word kiss combined with the fact that he was already staring at her lips. He licked his own, suddenly wishing he’d worn chapstick.

“Um. So. That secret kiss—can that be now, or—”

Marinette answered his question by crashing her mouth into his, by tangling her hands in his hair, knocking his beret to the ground. Which was perfectly okay. He didn’t need a hat to remind him of her when she was here in his arms and in his lungs.

No matter how many secrets he had to keep, it would be worth it to be safe and sound with his Lady.

#reveal #fic requests #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #love square #marinette dupain cheng #ladybug #fic tag #tali writes #really happy with this one!!#chat blanc

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Bedtonic – A Local Linen Business I Really Love

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Bedtonic founder Julie Ramsay. Photo Rae Fallon.

I always admire it when people don’t merely just dream or talk about doing things, but they actually go out and give them a red-hot go. It makes sense that I frequently admire small business owners, professionals and creatives, and one of my favourite local businesses is also run by one of the nicest women. Julie Ramsay, the founder of Bedtonic, is not only a wonderfully generous person who has the most infectious energy; she also founded, in a highly competitive market where most small businesses go bust in two years, a successful, sustainable small business selling the most beautiful linens for the home (and body). On top of that, she started Bedtonic in her early 50s, wrapping her head around the complicated worlds of tech, e-commerce and social media at an age when, to be quite frank, I know other 50-somethings who can barely send a text message!

I can personally attest that Julie’s Bedtonic linen is a pleasure to have on our bed… and on my body. (Her iconic Poet’s Tunics are one of my go-to’s, particularly perfect for holidays and days at the beach).

This year we have had the pleasure of experiencing one of the new pure French flax linen bespoke blankets from the Bedtonic range too. I could probably write a blog post just on this blanket and how much I love it. Here it is, below. If you think of linen as being hard and rough, you’d be extremely surprised. Julie’s flax linen blankets are super soft straight off the bat, they come in the most beautiful colours, and they keep you so snug and cosy. It has been absolutely freezing at night this winter, and we honestly have not turned on the split system in our bedroom ONCE all these chilly nights. We pop the blanket over our lightweight doona, and the blanket is enough. It’s perfect. And it’s perfect on warm nights too – you don’t get tooo warm – and we just chuck it in the wash when it needs it. (I next want to buy one for Little Nerd’s bed… lucky boy! I believe all of my childhood sheets were 110% flammable polyester).

Our Bedtonic bespoke blanket teamed with my Euro Hawtrey cushion from Orno Interiors.

Julie grew up in picture-perfect Wanaka, New Zealand (yes, home of the famous Wanaka tree). She later moved to Australia, married her husband Donald, and they had a daughter, Mollie, spending the first year of her life on a cattle farm north-west of Perth where Donald had farmed all his life. The flat and often very dry landscape was completely different to the scenery Julie had been used to growing up amidst the spectacular lakes and soaring alps of Wanaka, but inspired Julie all the same.

When Mollie was still young, Julie saw an opportunity to start a drive-through coffee business in Broome.

“We were building our own house at the time and noticed there was nowhere for all the tradies who were starting work at seven to get a good coffee first thing in the morning! My husband said I would ‘blow my dough’ but that didn’t stop me. I started with a tiny trailer that I trucked over from Brisbane and made twenty coffees on my first day. Four years later I was making four hundred or more coffees each morning.”

Donald’s initial skepticism of Julie’s business concept disintegrated quickly and he joined her in the coffee shop. “My husband swapped cows for coffee and we worked like mad together in the business for four years,” she says. “We had incredible community support and went on to win a small business achiever award for the Kimberley region. I learnt a lot about grit and determination during this time.” In 2013, they sold up and moved to Perth to be nearer to their families.

Photo Jessica Wyld

Bedtonic began after Julie realised she was getting tired of working long rigid hours in hospitality. She knew she wanted a new job that would give her more flexibility with family life. “Mollie was put in daycare from 18 months to five, and I really wanted an online business that would allow me to be present with her more,” she says. “I also felt washed-up in hospitality at 50 when we moved back to Perth. So I took a year off and creatively brainstormed ideas around how I wanted the next chapter of my life to look.”

Photo Rae Fallon

Julie could see the transition with e-commerce, noticing more and more people were gathering faith in buying things online, and decided to begin an online store. “This suited me with Mollie who was seven at the time,” she says. “I saw the retail environment changing and e-commerce becoming the new way forward. Removing the retail overheads was also a big tick for me. By taking the wholesale out, I could pass the savings onto our customers. Providing personal customer service in a timely manner was and still is also key.”

But what to sell? Julie soon realised her favourite business ideas related to sustainability – and her happy childhood. “Growing up in New Zealand, my mum was a seamstress,” she says. “I remember a constant stream of ladies coming in and out for fittings and alterations, with patterns and pins and Mum’s Singer sewing machine taking pride of place on our dining table. My dad had a rafting business and was involved with the conservation and fisheries department. So from a young age I was very aware of sustainability, and nature and all that it offered.”

Searching for a sustainable business idea, Julie looked back to her roots for inspiration. “I’d always loved natural textures and fibres – oh, and I LOVE my bed,” she laughs.

“It’s the place I go to escape the flurry of life. It is my sanctuary when I need to unplug.”

With both of these loves as her inspiration, she decided to create her own line of high-end, long-lasting bedding, blankets, cushions and clothing, and started researching all sorts of different fibres. “I have always worn natural fibres and before I fell in love with sleeping in linen, I was always an Egyptian cotton girl… thick white crisp sheets like Grandma’s!” she says. “But ultimately, linen won me over,” she reveals, adding that she thinks of linen as nature’s wonder fibre. “Linen is a sustainable crop. It uses fewer fertilisers and four times less water than cotton during cultivation.”

And the feel.

“I love the fact it’s soft washed (with pumice stones) which makes it so buttery soft from the first time you wear or sleep in it… it’s not scratchy like grandma’s old tea towels!” laughs Julie. “It’s so soft but still has a weight that drapes around you. It’s whisper quiet, breathes well and keeps you cool in the summer months yet warm in winter. And the garments are so well made – French seam finishes ensure longevity and durability.”

Some people think that a hotel-like bed is only possible in well, hotels. But Julie says she believes in investing (in a good quality mattress, toppers, bed linens and pillows – whatever you need) to make every night you sleep at home as rejuvenating as you can.

“We spend $200 on a garment or pair of shoes but often short-change ourselves when it comes to sleep,” she says. “And we shouldn’t – after all, we spend one-third of our lives in bed! Bed is our haven so our bedroom should be the place we go to unwind. A comfortable bed with your favourite bedding is key to a good night’s sleep.” (Perhaps a good night’s sleep every night is why she has so much energy?)

Photo Jess Wyld

Starting with only a few key items in her online shop, it wasn’t long before the name Bedtonic was well-known – now Julie’s linen products have appeared in an impressive host of nationwide magazines and newspapers and her thrilled customers regularly give her five star reviews (“Gosh, I wish we had started those reviews three years ago!” she moans) and one of her biggest sellers, her iconic poet’s tunic, has become a staple of effortless capsule wardrobes, with fans from millennials to the more mature.

“I think it’s the structure of the garment, its French seams (no raw edges) and durable weight give it an industrial, lived-in, no-fuss look and feel,” says Julie on why she thinks they are so popular. “The cut of the garment allows it to fit all sizes and it cuts across generations in appeal. They are the epitome of the capsule wardrobe staple. We hear stories all the time of our tunic being spotted in different corners of the globe. Customers wear them straight out of bed to the school gates, beach, bar and back to bed! We have customers who own up to five of them in different lengths and colours. They really do have their own cult following!”

One of the Bedtonic Poets tunics (modelled by my lovely friend Kaylie Bodeker! Perth is a small world city). Photo at Kawa Heart Studio.

So how does a typical day running her small business go? As much as Julie loves her bed, she will leave it for a hot cup of coffee, which is how she starts every day at work. “I get up for coffee – always!” she says. “I’m actually a tea drinker for the rest of the day but it must start with coffee.

“Then it’s a walk around my neighbourhood with our schnauzer Buddy in the winter, or in summer I try and swim as many mornings as I can. It’s without doubt the best start to my day. By 9.30 I’m in my home office – even though I have an assistant, Cass, there is always my nail it list to work through.

“Orders are packed by my niece who’s studying, so she comes three days a week. By 5pm I’m either ready for a glass of wine before dinner or it’s tea on the run and more work. I’m trying to make myself stop work at nights and lock some Netflix in. No two days are the same though. Next week I will be in Shenzhen visiting our makers again which I do each year.”

2019 has been a huge year for the Bedtonic team behind the scenes as they have been working on a rebrand to tie all their labels, packaging and swing tags in line with each other, they’ve introduced new eco-friendly reusable and recyclable shipping bags, and Julie has been working closely with her seamstress designing new loungewear to add to their collection. “This design process is really important for me so I can hold me hand on my heart and say this has not been copied form another store – true ethically designed products,” she says.

They recently launched three news clothing items – their Field Dress, an oversized linen shirt called the Mollie Shirt (“think big comfy pyjama shirt with large shell buttons!”) and Slouch pants, which Julie is very excited about! “They are THE most comfortable slouch pants you will ever wear with a wide ribbed top to fold over for superb comfort!” she says.

“I had friends over in different shapes and sizes when these pants were being sampled and some would say, ‘Oh no, I won’t be wearing those.’ I said just try them for me and then, ‘Oh you’re right, they are soooo comfortable’.

“I’m super excited about these pieces as they are as comfy as pyjamas but you can wear them out for coffee, lunch, to the bar and home to bed again, just like all of our Poets tunics!”

My new linen Euros with our bepsoke blanket – I love these colours together.

While Bedtonic keeps her busy, Julie also says one of the wonderful things about Bedtonic is the work-life flexibility it gives the Ramsays. Julie, Donald and Mollie, as well as their schnauzer x poodle Buddy and cat Harry (“they are best mates”) currently live in Daglish, where the human members of the family think big – and exciting – when it comes to the future.

“We sold our workers cottage in West Leederville so we’re in a transition period of renting while we plan out our next digs,” reveals Julie. “The plan is to spend six to twelve months in France before Mollie finishes high school, and then I would love a pod home on land back in the country and a weekender in Perth!” Her own interiors style is an eclectic mix of contemporary and vintage and I love contemporary art. “A lot of my furniture is repurposed, some from kerbsides or bought from travels,” she shares. “I love mixing things up and I’m not afraid of colour. I have moved so much over the years that I now loathe clutter (or maybe it’s an age thing) I really like the notion of ‘less is more’ and I hate waste.”

So what advice would Julie give to other people wanting to take the plunge into their own small business?

“You have to really hone in on what you’re passionate about,” she says. “What makes your heart sing, what works for you around your lifestyle, family, your location, etc and then go for it! If you truly follow your passion then you will not tire of it and on the nights long after everyone else has gone to bed, it really won’t feel like work at all! There is a saying that goes starting a small business is like jumping off a cliff and building a model aeroplane on the way down… true that!” Maya x

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Bedtonic – A Local Linen Business I Really Love

Bedtonic founder Julie Ramsay. Photo Rae Fallon.

Our Bedtonic bespoke blanket teamed with my Euro Hawtrey cushion from Orno Interiors.

When Mollie was still young, Julie saw an opportunity to start a drive-through coffee business in Broome.

Photo Jessica Wyld

Photo Rae Fallon

Searching for a sustainable business idea, Julie looked back to her roots for inspiration. “I’d always loved natural textures and fibres – oh, and I LOVE my bed,” she laughs. “It’s the place I go to escape the flurry of life. It is my sanctuary when I need to unplug.”

And the feel.

Photo Jess Wyld

One of the Bedtonic Poets tunics (modelled by my lovely friend Kaylie Bodeker! Perth is a small world city). Photo at Kawa Heart Studio.

“I’m super excited about these pieces as they are as comfy as pyjamas but you can wear them out for coffee, lunch, to the bar and home to bed again, just like all of our Poets tunics!”

My new linen Euros with our bepsoke blanket – I love these colours together.

So what advice would Julie give to other people wanting to take the plunge into their own small business?

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