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Call Me Friend But Keep Me Closer (1065 words) by Chanter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Émilie Agreste & Duusu (Miraculous Ladybug), Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug) & Sabine Cheng, Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug) & Mylène Hapréle, Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug) & Caline Bustier, Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug) & Duusu (Miraculous Ladybug), Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug) & Rose Lavillant, Nathalie Sancoeur & Duusu (Miraculous Ladybug), Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth & Nathalie Sancoeur, Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug) & Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug) & Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir
Characters: Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug), Duusu (Miraculous Ladybug), Caline Bustier, Mylène Haprèle, Sabine Cheng, Emilie Agreste, Max Kanté (mentioned), Gorilla (Miraculous Ladybug) (mentioned), Rose Lavillant, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Nathalie Sancoeur
Additional Tags: Daydreams, Longing, Complicated Grief, Moral injury, Gabriel Agreste's A+ wieldership, season 2 finale spoilers, season 3 references, conflicted feelings, Empathy, empathic spillover, Devotion, nonbinary Nooroo, intersex Mylène Hapréle, genderfluid Duusu, peafowl!Émilie Agreste, Guilt, Loss, Canon Quotes, Canon Callbacks, free Nooroo 2K5ever
Series: Part 4 of Not Alone
Summary:

Nooroo is not a slave in their dreams. Guilt for the subversion scalds them every time, but they cannot stop dreaming.

Part of the Not Alone 'verse, skipping ahead roughly eighteen years. No, this is not the end of the story.