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@adrinetteapril 2018, Day 19: Partners

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Confronting Ladybug about her talk with Marinette was turning out to be quite a challenge. Chat Noir could call her any time, but how would Adrien arrange a meeting without causing too many questions?

In the last few days Ladybug had been restless. She went out on unscheduled solo patrols, transformed and detransformed a few times on the way, as if she knew she was being followed. Tracking her was proving to be nearly impossible, even with Chat’s resources.

Adrien decided to follow her in his super suit and randomly detransform after a while in hope of meeting her in his civilian form. Not once did he succeeded in spotting Ladybug, but quite a few time he happened to almost bump into a very confused Marinette. Not that she noticed. He was keeping a low profile and managed to avoid being spotted by her. Was she tracking Ladybug too? Maybe she wanted more details about him saying she was just his friend?

After the encounter in the rain, when he simply couldn't ignore the soaking wet girl, Adrien’s motivation at contacting the spotted heroine doubled. Plagg, unhelpful as usual, pointed out that it really didn’t matter, but the boy got into his head that talking to Ladybug would somehow clear the air and help him clean up this mess. He wanted to be near Marinette again, he wanted to chase away that sadness and surrender he saw when he walked her home. He didn’t dare to put a label on all the other things he wanted to do with her, not wanting to get his hopes too high.

Desperate times finally called for desperate measures. After the last akuma battle Chat Noir handed Ladybug a card with a location and time.

‘What is it, Chat?’ she frowned at the marked spot. It was that same bench over the Seine, where her and Adrien had their little talk after the photo-scandal.

‘A guy we saved some time ago said he needed to talk to you about something,’ he replied, keeping his features carefully blank. ‘He sounded as if this was something important.’

Ladybug shifted her gaze to him, blinking in confusion. ‘And you’ve agreed, just like that?’ She snapped her fingers. He noticed that she seemed less patient lately and more acidic when it came to comebacks. Her eyes had lost their joyful gleam. He wanted to ask if something troubled her, but she made it clear this concerned her civilian identity, hence she couldn’t say a word.

Chat shrugged. ‘I trust him,’ he stated and that was the end of it. That at least didn’t change. They were partners and she still trusted him immensely. That was the first time he asked for something like that, so she assumed it was important.

Adrien arrived at the river bank with a few minutes to spare. He sat on the bench and fidgeted nervously, wondering if Ladybug would come. An irrational fear was screaming at him that she would flee the moment she saw him. He craned his head to see if he could see her coming from any of the buildings behind his back, but he searched and waited and Ladybug was nowhere to be seen.

He rubbed his thighs in exasperation and hid his head in his hands again, his fingers digging deep into his perfect hair and messing it. Why wasn’t she coming?

‘Adrien?’

Just like the first time, she appeared in front of him silently and out of nowhere. He looked up to see her in the exact same spot as before.

‘Was it you Chat Noir mentioned?’ Ladybug asked, voice tight and worried.

‘Yes, Ladybug,’ he confirmed. He wasn’t so sure anymore this was such a good idea. He didn’t like lying to her, and while omitting the full truth wasn’t the same as lying, it wasn’t honest either. Pretty much what Marinette had done not telling him how she had felt.

She fixed him with a puzzled stare. ‘He said it was important? Is this miraculous related?’

Adrien flushed, his hand automatically going up and to his neck. He didn’t see that coming. She must have thought it was about miraculouses or Hawkmoth. Bad, bad idea. Abort mission?

‘Weeeeell, not really?’ he offered.

Ladybug frowned.

‘It’s personal,’ he sighed in resignation. She was probably going to leave any second now.

The heroine released a startled, ‘Oh?’ She was still standing where she landed, but now she tilted her head as if he piqued her interest.

‘Remember when we talked a few days ago?’ Adrien started. ‘After those pictures of me and m- Marinette appeared in the internet?’

‘Yes?’

‘Did you talk to her about it?’ he asked, watching her carefully.

‘Why would I?’ she shot back, eyes blown wide.

‘I don’t know,’ he shrugged. ‘I’m only asking if you did.’

‘Why are you asking?’

‘Because I need to know,’ he replied, his patience growing thin. Why wouldn’t she just answer? ‘People were talking about me, about us, and… and…,’ he didn’t want to finish this sentence. He couldn’t really say they broke up because of that, because they hadn’t dated for real. But he felt as if someone robbed him off his time with Marinette and he wanted to find the culprit.

Ladybug’s stance turned defensive. ‘Look,’ she rubbed the bridge of her nose and looked up. ‘I swear I didn’t talk to Marinette about you or about anything else, okay?’

Adrien stood up to be closer to her. Somehow he never noticed that he could tower over her if he wanted to, even in his civilian form. ‘Listen, something happened between me and Marinette,’ he explained, a desperate lilt to his voice, ‘and I’m trying to figure out how to make it right.’

Her eyes snapped back to him. ‘Make it right? Is it broken?’ Did he imagine the scoff in her voice? ‘I thought she was just your friend.’

That was it. That was the line. Adrien inhaled sharply. Words rolled off his tongue before he could stop them.

‘So you did tell the girl I love that she’s just a friend to me?’ he burst out.

There was a pause filled with his angry pants and her opening and closing her mouth a few times.

‘The girl you-,’ Ladybug finally choked out, going all pale. ‘B-b-but you said-’

‘You asked if she was my girlfriend,’ he said with emphasis, ‘not if I love her. It was a matter between me and her, no one else. Did you interfere?’

‘W-w-what?’ she stuttered.

‘Did you tell her I think of her as only my friend,’ Adrien asked again, silent plea in his eyes.

If she was out of countenance before, now she looked distraught. She stared at him for a moment, as if making up her mind. When she averted her gaze, the mask of confidence and power was back on. Only the pupils blown wide betrayed that she was shaken.

‘I really didn’t,’ she claimed. ‘Now excuse me, I must go,’ she turned to him with a lopsided smile. ‘A hero’s work is never done,’ she murmured.

He whipped his head at her. ‘W-what?’

‘It’s just something Chat says sometimes,’ she shrugged. ‘Bug out!’

And before he could stop her, she was out of his sight, leaving him flabbergasted again.

Adrien didn’t really remember how he got home, but his head already hurt when he closed the door to his room behind him.

‘Talk to me, Plagg,’ he shot at the floating black sprite, who flew out of his bag.

‘Sure,’ the kwami shrugged and cleared his throat. ‘Uhm, uhm. So, did you know that camembert was originally invented in Normandy, in the midst of the French Revolution, by one genius of a woman named Marie Harel? That marvelous cheese took the name of her home town - Camembert. I’ve already signed the petition to recognize this word as the synonym of perfection, by the way,’ he winked at the boy and resumed the lecture. ‘But where was I? Ah yes. The wood box typically associated with this cheese was introduced a hundred years later, as a cheap way to carry the delicacy without squishing it to pulp. Which by the way is a total waste of…’

‘Not about cheese!’ Adrien groaned and clutched at his hair. His head was swimming with unexpected thoughts and observations.

Things didn't add up. They didn’t add up badly. What’s worse, his subconsciousness was screaming at him in capital letters and kicking his consciousness viciously, but for the love of him he could not make out any words in that constant screech in his brain. Was he on the verge of epiphany or aneurysm, he really couldn’t tell. Might as well have been both.

‘About what then?’ Plagg tilted his head curiously. His ears perked up.

‘About who told Marinette,’ Adrien huffed. ‘It wasn’t my father, it wasn’t Nino nor Alya.’

‘With you so far,’ the kwami nodded appreciatively.

‘And it wasn’t Ladybug,’ the boy concluded releasing another exasperated sigh.

‘Correct.’

‘So then who does that leave?’ the boy scratched his aching head. ‘I’ve eliminated everyone.’

‘Not everyone, kid.’

Adrien looked at him as if he grew a second head. ‘This doesn’t make any sense!’

‘It doesn’t make sense, because you’re thinking about it wrong,’ Plagg lectured. ‘If no one you told tattled to Marinette… who does that leave?’

‘Me?’ Adrien’s brows shot so high up they disappeared under his bangs. ‘I told Marinette?’

Plagg nodded eagerly.

The boy tossed this thought in his head a few times. ‘But that’s impossible,’ he finally said.

‘Is it?’

‘Yeah, because that would mean…’ he drifted off. ‘The only logical conclusion would be…’ he tried again. ‘Ugh, why does my head hurt so much?’

‘That’s right kid, you can fight it!’ Plagg flew closer and waved his paw encouragingly. ‘You’re just one step from breaking the glamour. Get enough clues together and it’s gone.’

Adrien stilled and looked at the flying cat, his green eyes as big as saucers. His brow furrowed.

‘Are you really saying,’ he drawled, slowly, carefully, as if he was trying to grasp the edge of a thought that was sliding out of his reach, ‘what I think you’re saying?

Plagg’s mouth stretched into a shit eating grin. ‘What do you think, kid?

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hari-writes · 6 years

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Three Sides to the Story - Chapter 23

Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug Pairings: Adrien/Marinette Marinette/Chat Noir Summary: It’s been almost three years since Adrien Agreste walked out of Marinette’s life. An accidental meeting at a party starts a course of events that will either drive them together or further apart. Meanwhile, Plagg and Tikki have had enough of their holders’ indecision and obliviousness.

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Happily Ever After?

They could have slept longer, probably would have it it wasn’t for the piercing scream that echoed through the streets that afternoon.

“Why?” Marinette mumbled, “Why does Hawk Moth hate sleep so much?”

“It’s two in the afternoon, Mari,” Adrien reminded her. “Plagg? Claws out!”

“Woah, that’s still really hot you know?” Marinette winked at her fiancé, now standing in front of her as his superhero alter ego.

“I’ve shown you mine, My Lady. Show me yours?” Cat Noir smirked.

“Tikki, spots on!” Marinette said and changed into Ladybug. When her transformation was complete she stood in her power stance, feeling a little exposed. Nobody had ever seen her transform before, it was strangely intimate.

Her partner was wide-eyed and grinning.

“I see what you mean. Damn, you’re sexy when you transform.” He drawled.

“Down, boy. We have a job to do.” Ladybug reminded him, playfully pushing him away with a finger on his nose. Then, the pair exited through her bedroom window.

The commotion was coming from Marais so they headed in that direction. Ladybug grumbled all the way about how far they had to run, still unhappy about her interrupted sleep. Cat Noir mocked her for not being a morning person before pointing out yet again that it was, in fact, afternoon.

They reached the source of the disturbance. Tom & Sabine’s Boulangerie Patisserie was rubble and a garishly dressed child was sitting in the middle of it eating cookies. Marinette’s heart stood still until she spotted her parents behind a police cordon, holding each other close as they watched an akumatised girl destroy their livelihood. Another scared adult, she guessed the child’s parent, was nearby.

A strong hand rested on her shoulder.

“You okay, LB? Think we can take this one down with minimal fuss?” Cat Noir asked.

She nodded with steely determination.

The child spoke, but the words were not hers.

“Give me your miraculouses, Ladybug and Cat Noir.” She couldn’t have been more than five or six years old.

“You’ve got to stop akumatising children, Hawk Moth.” Cat Noir said, “It’s like you’re determined to act like the garbage person everyone thinks you are.”

“What did you say?” The girl’s eyes were glassy as the villain used her mouth to speak.

“I said, STOP AKUMATISING CHILDREN.” Cat Noir shouted for emphasis. "I get that you're a supervillian and all, but do you have to act like human garbage all the time?"

All the while, Ladybug was sneaking up on the girl. Hawk Moth was distracted and she needed to use that opportunity. Experience told her that young akumatised victims were a lot more complicated than they first appeared. She was close to her now and she reached out to grab the teddy bear the girl was clutching. It seemed to have a purplish aura that nothing else on her person had.

It was millimetres from her grasp when the girl became alert again and stamped her foot. Shockwaves radiated from her and threw Ladybug several metres, knocking the wind from her lungs. She hit her head as she landed.

“Ma- Lady!” Cat Noir shouted. Marinette dimly reminded herself to have a chat with him about secret identities later.

He ran to her. He held her head in his lap, panic on his face.

“I’m ok,” she reassured him, “I’m going to need you to do the legwork on this one, okay, kitty?”

“What’s new?” He winked.

Ladybug crawled to shelter behind a mound of rubble and summoned her Lucky Charm. A deflated vinyl ball landed in her arms. Meanwhile, Fille Fâchée was screaming at Cat Noir.

“I wanted a cookie! Why did mummy say no? The Hawkman said I could have as many as I like, but now he wants your ring, Cat Noir.” She cried.

“We all want cookies,” Cat Noir was attempting to reason with her. “But if your mum said no, she must have had a good reason. It’s not worth destroying the bakery over, is it?”

“Cat Noir! Get in!” Ladybug called as she tossed the now inflated zorb ball towards him.

Inside the ball, he was insulated from Fille Fâchée’s shockwaves and was able to knock her over, sending her teddy bear flying in Ladybug’s direction.

Tearing open the bear, and feeling a little bad about the act, she released the akuma. She caught the butterfly in her yo-yo and purified it. She bounced the zorb ball into the air and sighed in relief as her parents’ bakery was restored to normal. The pain from her earlier flight across the wreckage disappeared.

A scared little girl, Margaux, clung to her mother, and was apologising over and over for the chaos she caused. Marinette wanted to check on her parents, but she heard the first warning beep of her earrings. She took the now whole bear back to the little girl who grabbed it and squeezed it tight. The girl’s mother thanked Ladybug and Cat Noir for rescuing her daughter.

Ladybug’s earrings chirped again.

“You can transform back in your old room if you like?” Sabine Cheng whispered.

“Wha-?” Ladybug said. How long had her mother known?

She caught Cat Noir’s eye and she looked to the bakery, trying to communicate that she was going inside. He seemed to get the message and she saw him vault up towards her roof terrace.

There was no point in hiding it so she de-transformed in front of her parents. She knew she looked dishevelled, she was still wearing the dress she slept in. Yesterday, it was a ballerina length prom dress in deep blue lace and tulle, today it was a crumpled mess. Sheepishly, she looked at her parents.

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you,” Marinette said, “I was trying to protect you.”

“Us and all of Paris,” Her father smiled kindly. “We understand. Now, do you need to go let Cat Noir in through the roof?”

Wondering if she had any secrets left, Marinette climbed the stairs to her old room. Cat Noir was waiting for her.

“I’ve got to tell maman and papa to lock that hatch.” She grimaced, “Otherwise, any stray cat could just drop in.”

“Uh-oh, did they take it badly? Your, uh, little bug problem?” He asked.

“Hey! I am not a problem!” Tikki squealed indignantly.

He laughed, “I didn’t mean you, Tikki. You know I love you.”

She nuzzled his cheek and stroked his face while he cuddled her in return. Marinette watched the two most tactile beings in her life fuss over each other and felt her nose wrinkle.

“You two are made for each other,” She joked.

“Does that mean you and old cheese-breath are soul-mates, too?” Adrien raised one eyebrow.

“I could live with that. He gets how stomach-churning you are sometimes.” She huffed.

“Speaking of, claws in.” Cat Noir disappeared and Adrien caught Plagg in his hands.

“Energy. Failing. I… need… cheese.” Plagg gasped.

“Yup, I should have known you’d take your fellow drama-queen’s side in this,” Adrien said.

“Oi! Watch it or I won’t marry you.” Marinette tried to sound affronted, but she wasn’t fooling anyone. “While we’re here, should we break the news to maman and papa?”

Adrien swallowed hard. He looked suddenly nervous.

“I’m glad I put trousers on before I transformed.” Was all he managed to say as she led him through the hatch to her parent’s living room.

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He shouldn't have worried about Marinette’s parents, they were delighted to hear that he and Marinette were engaged. They glossed over the fact that they now knew he was Cat Noir. He suspected they knew about Marinette’s identity for quite some time. In retrospect, their behaviour when M. Césaire was chasing Kim as Animan indicated they knew more than they were letting on. Hindsight was a wonderful thing.

It wasn’t until they were knocking on the door of the Agreste mansion that Adrien considered that he really should be worrying about Gabriel’s reaction to the engagement. Marinette had grabbed a change of clothing at her parents’ place and they dashed to Adrien’s bedroom so he could do the same. He didn’t want to break such important news in rumpled clothing. His father would never allow it.

They found Gabriel taking coffee in the lounge.

“Father? Can we talk?” Adrien asked as the butterflies in his stomach danced to techno music.

Gabriel looked over his glasses, expression stern. “You may.”

“Um, well. It’s just…” He felt Marinette’s hand squeeze his hand, reassuring him and he felt a hundred times braver. “I asked Marinette to marry me and she said, yes.”

“We were planning to wait until after we graduate,” Marinette added.

“I see.” Gabriel wasn’t shouting, which was as positive a sign as any. If anything, he seemed distracted.

Gabriel put his coffee down and stood up. He walked over to Adrien and Marinette and stopped in front of them. His brow furrowed and his eyes moved from Adrien to Marinette, then to her earrings and his ring. He shook his head, almost imperceptibly then looked his son in the eye.

“I’d like you to come to my study, please.” Gabriel was already moving towards the door.

Adrien shot Marinette a concerned look before following his father out the room.

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Adrien returned after twenty minutes wearing an odd expression. It was a mixture of relief, surprise and resignation. Marinette wasn’t sure yet if it was good or bad. He didn’t speak, just took her hand and led her outside.

They walked in silence and she let Adrien lead her, knowing that he’d explain himself when he was ready. His relationship with his father had been slowly improving, but she knew they had years of hurt to make up for. She hoped the engagement wasn’t the source of contention.

She wasn’t paying attention to where they were going and now, she realised with surprise, they were in the Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques.

“Adrien? What are we..?” Adrien put a finger to her lips, silencing her question.

“Marinette. I have lived around the corner from this park all my life, but until three years ago, I had never seen it lit up in the darkness. Until you showed me its beauty, I didn’t really see it. You have a gift, Marinette, you see the beauty in everything and it’s just one of the reasons I love you. So…” Adrien paused and reached into his pocket.

He held a small black box in front of her.

“This was my mother’s and I want you to have it.” He opened the box.

A marquise-cut diamond was set in a platinum band, surrounded by smaller rubies. It twinkled in the sun. Marinette felt the breath leave her lungs for the second time that day.

“So, your father was?”

“Happy for us? Yes. He just has a funny way of showing it.” Adrien smiled.

Adrien got on one knee, holding her hand in his. He looked up at her with tears in his eyes.

“Marinette Dupain-Cheng. Make me the happiest man on earth and marry me?” He asked.

“Yes!” She exclaimed.

Adrien stood and pushed the ring onto her finger. It was an almost perfect fit. She placed her left hand on his chest, enjoying the way the diamond and rubies sparkled with every movement. Then, her eyes trailed upwards to the face of a radiant Adrien Agreste.

Her husband to be.

There, in the same place they shared their first kiss, nearly three years ago, their lips met once more.

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purrincesskittens · 7 years

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Miraculous Ladybug: Adventures Of Lupine Alpha and Corvus. Chapter 8

Summery: A new girl has started at Adrien’s school. One whose elder brother is just as rich and famous as his father. Adrien gets to know the girl more as his father works with her brother on a new project and finds she is a lot like him. As Chat Noir he continues to work along side Ladybug to keep Paris safe when a new Miraculous Holder appears along with a new enemy. Just who is Lupine Alpha? As their knowledge changes and expands more and more information about the Miraculouses comes to light. As do more miraculous holders.

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Adrien sat in his room with a sigh staring up at the ceiling from his desk chair. His room had been basically cleaned out of all things interesting enough to provide him with entertainment. No computer, No T.V., No cell phone, no video games either. Nothing. His father found out he had skipped his fencing and Chinese lessons and he had lost all his privileges except for going to school. He couldn't even hang out with friends after school.

He sighed again bored out of his skull trying to think of something he could do. He had finished his homework so that was out. He wasn't in the mood to read. He wanted to talk to his friends or play video games but he couldn't. He was SOOOO BORED! Plagg groaned as Adrien sighed again. "Kid enough with the sighing already! You're driving me insane!" He growls floating up to his face to lecture him. "But I'm bored there is nothing to do." Adrien complains with another sigh.

Before Plagg could answer there was a few rapid knocks on his door before it swung open. His father and Natalie always waited for him to answer before opening the door so he knew it wasn't them. Gorilla never came into his room usually. Plagg quickly zipped into the trashcan with a piece of Camembert to hide. J.J. walked right in through the door with a amused smile on her face.

"I love how you get grounded and yet you're still allowed to see me." She comments dropping her bag on the floor and making her way towards him. While his attention was focused on her Accalia quickly zipped out of the bag and under the first piece of furniture she could get to before zipping her way towards the trashcan having figured out where Plagg was hiding.

"How? What? Why?" Adrien asks confused as to why the older girl was here. "My brother agreed to work with your father on the project which means I'll be staying in Paris for the duration of it if not longer as your dad wants Kei to work on several other projects after this one. In the mean time I get to hang out with you." She says cheerfully plopping herself done in a chair.

"But I'm grounded. I'm not allowed friends over or to go out with friends or go over any friends houses." Adrien says mournfully still confused. He was bored and quite frankly lonely. He was even missing Chloe for all she could be annoying. At least before he went to school he had her now he didn't even have that. He never thought he could miss his friends so much.

"Ahh but you see my brother brings me along since as he sees it I get into mischief if left to my own devices for long and I just annoy him to death while he's working unless otherwise occupied and I'll be in their way while they are working so I'm sent off to go do what I want and since you and I are friends that means hanging out with you. Keeps me occupied and out of the way. And your father doesn't want to risk my brother backing out on him now that he has finally agreed so I get to hang out with you anyways even if you're grounded." J.J. exclaims with a bright smile on her face.

Adrien blinked taking in all that she just said. It did make sense if he thought about it. His father was smart and he had put to much work into getting her brother to collaborate on this project with him to mess it up now or let it slide out of his grasp now because of one, as he would see it, silly bored teenager who could easily be kept occupied with his own teenage son. Letting her hang out with his grounded son was a little thing to allow compared to how important this project was; he had been preparing for it for over a month.

"Well hanging out with you is something at least though I don't know what we're going to do since my video games were taken away." He says glad to have someone as company other then Plagg. "Not a problem. Your father didn't think to pat me down for all pieces of technology I have on me." She answers reaching down the front of her shirt and pulling out her cell phone from between her breasts causing Adrien to blush. "Why...Why do you have that hidden there?" He stutters his face turning bright red.

"Just in case your father did have me pat down." She says with a roll of her eyes tapping away at the keyboard to unlock her phone. "Now who should we call first? Ohh I know." With a grin she played with her phones features for a minute before scooting closer to him so he could see the screen as it rang for a video call to someone listed as Mari Girl with a Heart Emoji?. "Hello?" Marinette's voice came though the speakers on the phone crystal clear before the video loaded. "Hey Mari guess who I'm hanging out with today? He got grounded for missing his lessons and I'm the only one allowed to visit him so this is the only way he can talk to you out of school."

J.J. seemed to have a particularly evil glint to her smile as Marinette blinked her face scrunching up rather cutely in confusion. "Huh who are you talking about?" Before she focused in on the other person sharing the screen with J.J. and let out a terrified shriek dropping her phone and her arms pinwheeling as she fell over backwards. Adrien could see the wheels on her rolling chair spinning off to one side of the screen and he could hear her pained groan from where ever she landed off screen.

"I don't think you should have called her up so suddenly out of the blue like that with out any warning that I'm here too. I don't think she likes me very much. We didn't exactly meet on the best of terms I sometimes think she still holds a grudge for that." He murmurs feeling disappointed that the one friend he could talk to at the moment was so terrified of him she went into a panic over just talking to or seeing him; scratching the back of his neck as he spoke.

J.J. sent him this odd look. "I heard from Alya how you two met and trust me she doesn't hold a grudge over something as petty as that after you made up and became friends. Trust me when I say Marinette isn't afraid of you. She likes you." Adrien brightened at that smiling himself now glad to know Mari didn't hate him. "I like Marinette too and am glad she's my friend." He says giving a warm happy smile.

Marinette had recovered enough to pick up the phone again and nearly fainted when she heard what he said and saw his smile. "Oh boy you are so obliviously stupid when it comes to girls." J.J. mutters under her breath casting her eyes heavenwards. "Ohh Hi ...AdAdrAdrien I'm sorrrwry about at I mean that you just startled me is all." Marinetee stutters tripping over her words her face turning as red as her ladybug suit.

"Chill ax girl it's just me and him take a deep breath and calm down then try speaking again no need to get so formal and all." J.J. interrupts rolling her eyes before giving her a wink. "Just talk like you normally do to me or Alya." Marinette took a deep breath Tikki coaching her on mediating breathing in the background not that they could hear her through the phone. "Sorry I guess I nervous got... I mean got nervous is all." She says after a minute keeping her gaze mostly on J.J. the best she could still mixing up her word order.

When Marinette did look at Adrien and start to freak out again she did the breathing just as Tikki told her to and tried her best to remember J.J. was there to speak as if she was speaking to J.J. and Adrien just so happened to be around too which he was he was right there oh my god Adrien was right there she was doing a video chat with Adrien! Squeeee!

Adrien watched as Marinette changed from looking somewhat terrified to overly excited and jumping up and down. Her frequent mood changes and positive attitude was one of the things he liked about her it made her interesting. "Mari Girl deep breath before you hurt yourself again." J.J. says an amused smile on her face watching Adrien's indulgent slightly adoring look on his face at the moment wishing she could take a picture of it to send to Mari and Alya later. Thinking quickly she hit the capture button on one corner of the screen so it captured a picture of them at that exact second.

Adrien barely registered the click sound it made shaking his head and peering at J.J. curiously. "Sorry my finger slipped. Don't worry I'll delete the picture later." J.J. lies smoothly having gotten good at it after moving in with her brother. It was the only way to get away with things at times that he would otherwise not allow. He wasn't the easiest person to live with especially having spent the years from age 9 to age 16 living apart.

"Sorry about that I got a bit over excited." Marinette apologizes sheepishly rubbing the back of her head with a shy smile. "It's okay Mari that's what makes you so cute." J.J. purrs with a endearing smile. They laughed and joked and talked together for a while Marinette stuttering occasionally or tripping over her words when she looked directly at Adrien and focused in on him. Having J.J. there to play referee helped she would randomly interrupt at times long enough for Marinette to catch her breath and try to calm down.

By the time they were wrapping up the conversation Marinette had only embarrassed herself with somewhat strange embarrassing things she said a few times which J.J. laughed off putting her more at ease. J.J. knew what it felt like to be embarrassed or be afraid of being embarrassed in front of others and tried her best to make Marinette feel more at ease and have more confidence in herself with Tikki whispering words of encouragement in her ear from behind her head.

Marinette's stuttering hadn't been as bad as it normally was around Adrien talking on the phone helped with that some instead of talking to him in person even if it was a video chat. J.J. had an entire collection of pictures of different facial expressions Adrien made throughout the call figuring out how to also reverse the camera so it captured a screen shot of Marinette's expression as well adding even more photos to her phone's gallery.

"When Adrien get's ungrounded we should all go see a movie together. You, Me, Adrien, Alya and Nino." J.J. says as the phone call drew to a close. It was getting late which meant that soon her brother or Natalie would be coming to get her to leave. Marinette's face lit up and she let out a squeal of delight. "That would be amazing there is a new movie coming out that I've been dying to see." She gushes hearts in her eyes at the thought of a group date with Adrien.

"Yeah that would be fun. If I can get my father to let me go or give my bodyguard the slip." Adrien says his face falling as he considered his father actually letting him go see a movie with friends. "You leave that to me I'm a master at giving my bodyguards the slip." J.J. puts in flipping her ponytail over her shoulder arrogantly. "Judging from your grand entrance at school on the first day I don't doubt that." Marinette comments snarkily with a yawn her chin resting in the palm of her hand.

"It's late, you're tired and we should be going, my brother should be finishing up any minute too. See you tomorrow at school Mari." J.J. says giving Mari a gentle smile. "Bye Marinette see you at school tomorrow." Adrien says giving her a smile of his own. "Bye J.J. Bye Adrien I'll see you guys at school tomorrow." She says with a sweet smile and another yawn as they hung up managing her her sleepy state to get out the words no problem.

A knock on the door sounded just as J.J. was slipping her phone back into her pocket. "Miss James your brother is getting ready to leave." Natalie calls through the door. "Alright give me a minute and I'll be down." She calls back moving to grab her bag rustling in it to pull something out. "Here this is my spare phone that I use for when I lose my actual phone. The features suck on it and it gets crappy signal but you can make basic calls using it and my number and a few others you know are programmed in besides numbers of my friends back home. The games aren't to bad on it simple but not bad you can use it till you get your phone back." J.J. explains handing Adrien the small touch screen burner phone.

"Cool thanks." Adrien murmurs trying to press and hold the button on the lockscreen long enough to unlock it. It was apparently very touchy and stubborn. This gave Accalia time to get back into J.J.'s bag part of the reasons he distracted him with the phone in the first place. "And here. This is the latest handheld version of my brother's games for on the go. It's still in the testing stages this one so you can play it and give me the feed back on how it works." She says with a wink slinging her bag over her shoulder placing the hand held gaming device in his hands before heading out the door.

"See ya Adrien." J.J. calls back to him as she closed the door behind her. Adrien had a huge grin on his face now. "Well you can't be bored now." Plagg mutters glad to finally be rid of that nosy wolf. Her sense of smell was far to sharp; she found his hiding place in no time at all. But one thing she had going for her he had to admit was she really knew how to pick them if one didn't know any better her pup would seem almost normal. "No I most certainly can not."

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Gabriel Argeste nearly jumped out of his chair in his study when his son's phone which he had in his pocket suddenly erupted in a flurry of noises that kept on going with seemingly no end. It wasn't his ringtone. One of Adrien's so called friends had tried calling earlier only for Mr. Argeste to answer and inform them Adrien was grounded and lost all phone privileges. She had squeaked out a vague reply and quickly hung up much to his satisfaction.

Now he pulled out the phone to figure out not only how to silence the damn thing but why it was going off. He blinked one brow rising as he saw the notification on the homescreen saying there were thirty something messages from one J.J. ;P a few quick taps and the phone was unlocked. Adrien didn't need secrets he was his father he had the right to know who his son was talking to and who he hung out with.

All the messages appeared to be one picture each. Various pictures all taken of the same girl. Not taken in person either but a screenshot of a video call. Despite the photos being cropped he could still make out the details that showed the girl was talking to whoever this J.J. was through their phone's cameras. More pictures arrived after a pause. After a few moments of a pause and Gabriel browsing through the new photos, a text message arrived.

"These are for Adrien when he gets ungrounded. Yes I know you have his phone at the moment Mr. Argreste but that doesn't stop me from sending these for him to see later. If I don't send these now I'll forget later. Don't bothering to delete them either I have copies as do others. ;) Besides isn't she cute? followed by an *Sparkling heart emojicon*. She is too cute for words! She's super shy and sweet and looks so f*ing adorable! (delete this last message please)

The message dropped off after telling him to delete the last part. He frowned looking back through all the pictures as Adrien's father he didn't approve of Miss James sending his son or rather his son's phone a ton of messages especially pictures of one girl. As Adrien's father he had the right to determine who Adrien saw and had contact with. His perfect son had to have only most perfect of backgrounds which included those around him which at the moment was sadly lack luster except for a few diamonds in the rough as one might say.

However the designer in him had admiring the pictures mainly seeing as how they all captured a cute expression on the young lady's face that one would most likely not see under normal circumstances but something had sparked her into making those faces and they had all unknowingly been captured forever by a cell phone. The pictures themselves weren't ideal for model type shots but they could be digitally touched up.

It was the girl who caught his interest. The spark in her eyes the shy but hint of sweetness in her smile and the pure look of adoration stamped on every inch of her face. Her faint bits of freckles across her button nose made her look cuter in many ways that freckles could also detract from ones looks. Small and delicate she was if her features where anything to go by and one of mixed blood.

The pictures made him vaguely curious as to what the girl looked like fully not just her face. Her eyes was what drew him back to the pictures each time he hit the lock button to go back to work. Those bluebell eyes had that same look in them that his wife had had in her amazing green eyes. It made him miss her even more. It also made him angry that someone so young could have that look in their eyes and be happy when he could not. He could not see that same look in the eyes of the one he loved but whoever that look was for for this young lady they were lucky and they probably didn't even know just how lucky they were to still be able to see it.

Getting frustrated with himself over a bunch of stupid photos and not very decent ones he relocked the phone and called for his secretary Natalie. "Here take this until Adrien gets off groundment. Miss James just sent over thirty photos all at once of some random girl. It's bothering me while I'm trying to work I don't have time for some teenager's foolishness." He orders handing over the phone to her. "And delete the last message she sent."

He throws in getting back to work on organizing the details of his new advertisement parts of it were coming together nicely now that he had Miss James's brother Kei working on it with him after all Kei wasn't the best for nothing. Natalie replied with her usual monotone "Yes sir.", until she opened the phone to delete the last message and saw all the pictures of the girl, one of Adrien's classmates.

"Sir should I delete these pictures as well? They seem all rather well kind of intimate." Natalie questions flipping through the pictures herself. "No leave them. Adrien has never shown any interest in any girl at all this time will be no different. As his father I'll pick him out a nice girl of good breeding for him to date once time comes he is too young still too foolish right now he needs to learn. After all it's my right to make all the important decisions for him I'm his father after all. I know whats best." He responds shuffling through the papers on his desk dismissing her with a wave.

"Yes sir of course sir." Natalie responds backing out of his home office. She couldn't help but think that perhaps this time he might just be wrong there was something about this girl that just made her feel special. Perhaps she would be the one to heal Adrien from the loss of his mother after her disappearance. Natalie also couldn't help but think that Mr. Argeste despite all his words was not much of a father towards Adrien when he needed him most. Having to basically be forced to see his son like back during Christmas, was not something a father should be doing.

Adrien was growing up and he was doing it alone. Public school might not be such a bad idea after all since it gave him people who really did care for him, it gave him a support system. Adrien was experiencing the world slowly through his new friends whether or not his father knew it or not. Miss James was going to be playing a big part in it now too. Natalie knew about the new game and spare phone Adrien currently had but didn't say anything.

This girl understood the way Adrien felt but she rebelled against the life she was being forced to live and was helping Adrien learn to rebel too and to stop being the perfect model son his father expected to be. Miss James was just as suppressed as Adrien except for one fact she had grown up free of it all until she had been kidnapped at age 15 and then everything changed for her. But she could be free once more all she needed was just over a year and she would be. Just as Adrien would one day be free of his suppressed life. Nothing could go back to the way it was before but maybe just maybe Adrien could be happy again even if it wasn't in the Agreste house or under the Agreste name.

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