Still deep in the nightmare, Adrien felt the grab, felt the voice more than heard it, felt that desperation and fear. His fingers clawed, then dug into her skin, and when he turned, everything was red.

Red and sharp and red and she was on the ground and he couldn't move, he couldn't make his limbs respond as the world turned back around them, as it ate away at them both, as-

Ladybug's screams echoed in the dream.

Marinette's voice ripped him awake.

Adrien came back to reality in a cold sweat and with a racing heart, tears spilling down his cheeks, his throat raw from the noise he'd tried to make. Pain ripped down his torso.

He didn't immediately realize that he was awake.