Marinette had always been fascinated by the words decorating her mum's wrist and her father's forearm. Something so simple that showed that they were meant to be together. She had gone to sleep many nights hearing the tale of when their words appeared and when they first met and loved how sweet it was, and romantic. Hearing the tale and knowing it off by heart was exciting to say the least. Marinette often wondered if her experience would be similar to her parents or who her soulmate could be. Everyone normally had a soulmate, but not always did they stay together, which was disheartening. Marinette was excited when she finally turned 15. She woke up early, disturbing Tiki's slumber, walking over to the mirror to find her words. She twisted and turned, trying to find the writing that would be the first words her soulmate would say to her. Her mum and dad had dark brown writing, her mum had a scrawl while her dad had the neat handwriting of Sabine. She couldn't see any different marks,
"What is going on? Tikki, I can't find anything!" Marinette panicked, "That must mean I don't have a soulmate, and that means that I will never get married, I'm not supposed to be with Adrien and I will end up all alone and some sort of cat or bag lady that everyone pities for being the only person to never have a soulmate!" She started to cry, Tikki flew into her face,
"Come on Marinette, it can't be that bad, maybe you missed them in your haste to check, maybe, they are only just appearing. You can read about it in the Soulmates section in the library at school now you're 15, maybe there are answers there," Tikki calmed her down, "Let's get you ready for school so we can go and look," Marinette brightened a little before going and getting ready. She walked downstairs, being greeted by her parents, wished happy birthday and her parents let her leave,
"Think she is going to look in the library?" Tom asked as they watched their girl leave,
"Of course, she needs to find things out for herself, I still don't understand why we can't tell her more though," Sabine looked at Tom,
"Because law, I wasn't told anything besides the story of how my parents met, it's a French thing, you know the city of love and it's expected that each person makes their own way on their path of love, most of the country have this law, but don't worry about it, she'll find what she needs to know," Tom shrugged.
Marinette had 6 books all on soulmates surrounding her, reading one followed by another, she sighed in relief many times. Her words hadn't appeared yet as she had to turn 15, not on the day, but the hour and minute. Marinette knew she had been born in the early evening and that meant she wouldn't meet her soulmate just yet, or at least learn who her soulmate was. She read that the writing appeared in your soulmates handwriting and their eye colour. Some information was weird, like if someone else purposely said the words to try and be your soulmate, then words would burn and change. She remembered an earlier instance months ago, it had been Lila's birthday and she had said Adrien's words, Adrien hadn't said anything, instantly grasping his hand in pain. Marinette had learnt from Alya, who asked Nino, who had talked to Adrien what happened. Adrien's words had been on the back of his palm, as after he had the words appear, his father telling him to constantly wear makeup to avoid people seeing it and one day Lila had talked to him, it had been hot so the class had instead of a normal in doors gym lesson had a water fight and Lila must have seen them. Nino had said that Lila had said in such a simple way his words, and after they fell from her lips, his hand had been in burning pain. Adrien had gone to the bathroom to pour water on his hand and watched in fascination his words change from what Lila had said to something completely different. Nino didn't know what as Adrien didn't tell him, saying that the less people knew the better, it was one of the main reasons he now wore gloves all the time, particularly as people kept saying his words but they weren't soul mates. Marinette had relaxed, glad that he wasn't in pain anymore. She stopped reading and put the books away before walking to find Alya before class.
"Hey birthday girl! You get your words?" Marinette hugged her,
"Hey Alya, I um… damn how do I put this…"
"You do have words right?" Alya looked concerned for her friend,
"No, no, I was so excited that I left my house without checking?" Marinette hated to lie to her best friend but until Alya was 15, she couldn't reveal anything about soulmate words, it was a law in France that went back centuries. If Marinette got found out who knows what would happen to her and if Paris could survive without Ladybug.
"Oh, I knew this would happen. You would only look if you were in a rush and make yourself late for school, you need to look tonight!" Marinette nodded and smiled, before sitting down, most people wished her a happy birthday, and she smiled and thanked, some asked about her words to which she said nothing. She had looked around the room, wondering if someone here was her soulmate, her eyes ended on Adrien, she hoped that he was her soulmate, she could barely talk to him though, who knew if she actually was. Her whole school day passed normally, she realised that after tonight, every person she greeted would potentially be her soulmate until they spoke. Sure there were some exceptions for people who already found their soulmates, and she wouldn't know for some people until they turned 15 but a majority of people she would see would be possible. She looked at the clock, only a minute left. She had to hurry and find it though, she had patrol with Chat in half an hour, she stopped, was he 15? She had never thought to ask, they were similar in age she knew, but didn't know if he was 15 or not. The clock changed, breaking her out of her reverie. She stood in front of the mirror and checked her arms and legs. She looked at her neck and turned around to look at her back, Tikki helped her look, before pointing out that Marinette had over looked it, it was written in green high on her upper arm like an arm band. Marinette studied the words, finding it a bit difficult to read it at the awkward angle
My Lady, glad you showed up, ready for paw-trol?
Marinette could only stare at them, she wanted to break down and cry, her words...her soulmate…were her partner in fighting crime, Chat Noir. Not Adrien, how could she face him knowing it would be him who uttered her soulmate words,
"It's not Adrien," was all she could say, her head felt like spinning, she wanted nothing more than to pull her bed sheets over her head and cry herself to sleep. She had wanted it to be Adrien so much, how could it be that goofy cat? She had always shut off his advances and focused on Adrien, if there was any sign that her and Adrien weren't meant to be, this was it. She looked at the clock, she had to get to the Eifel Tower in 10 minutes, she sighed and spoke the magic words, going out the trapdoor, and swinging along on her yoyo.
Chat was waiting for her, he was sitting there without a care in the world and Ladybug wanted to do nothing more than to turn around and leave, pretending later that she had fallen asleep or forgotten, but her duties to her city remained stronger, she approached him, he must have heard her because he turned around,
"My, Lady, glad you showed up, ready for paw-trol?" he grinned at her, brightening at the sight of her. She couldn't trust herself to speak. She only rolled her eyes and nodded, "What's wrong? Cat got your tongue?"
No, nothing like that, only that I discovered not even 10 minutes ago, you are my soulmate! Marinette wanted to shout at him but couldn't. Her mouth didn't open, she remained silent, grabbing her yoyo and throwing it, ready to go and swing away, leaving a confused Chat Noir behind her on the tower.
Patrol had gone awkwardly, Marinette refused to say a single word and he only stared at her confused, he asked her what was going on, if she was okay, what he had done to get the silent treatment in between puns. She hadn't replied to a single thing he had said, focusing instead on patrol and at the end of the night simply waved goodbye and ran off, disappearing into the alleyways and off the rooftops. She ran through the streets, constantly watching for the cat. She stopped and waited for a while, seeing if he was following her. When she was close to her home, she swung up onto the balcony and hurried into her room, dropping her transformation. Tikki flew into her face,
"Are you okay Marinette?" she asked, Marinette collapsed, she wasn't okay. She just wanted to hide away forever,
"I'm going to sleep, night Tikki," Marinette replied, before doing just that.
Marinette walked to school the next morning, early due to her not getting enough sleep. She sat at her desk, waiting for Alya to show up, drawing an outfit in boredom. She didn't even notice Adrien enter the classroom and was standing beside her looking at her drawing,
"I see you're still as good as the derby hat competition, Marinette," She jumped and whipped around to face him,
"Oh, A-Adrien, I didn't see you there, sorry, um…Thanks?" she blushed and looked down at her hands and fiddled with her fingers. She didn't Adrien's eyes widen nor him holding up his hand, removing the glove. She glanced up to see his words on his hand. She saw in blue her handwriting, reading what she had just said. Now she desperately wanted to burst into tears, someone else had said her words, and she had said Adrien's. How could life be this unfair!
"Sorry, Adrien, but, I'm not…I mean, that it's just that…" she looked him in the eye and sighed, before pulling her jacket off and showing her words, looking away. She watched him, wasn't she the unluckiest girl ever, the single person who said her words was Chat Noir, someone she cared for deeply and was a part of her, while she had said Adrien's words, and she wasn't meant to be with him. Great, now she had two soul mates, and that is just mean, why couldn't the universe have been kind and not make her choose between two guys, one which would be soulmateless and that is a tragedy. She watched him. His eyes widened while he read her words, he looked between her and the words on her arm and his words on his hand and back to her. She watched him and shifted uncomfortably in her seat, avoiding his eyes. She jumped when he suddenly laughed, she turned to him surprised. He was now howling with laughter, leaning on her desk as if he would fall over,
"Adrien?" She looked at him quizzically. He looked at her, and grinned, "My Lady, it seems to me the cat is out of the bag and soon will be amongst the pigeons." She blinked. Twice. Thrice. She then let her head land on the desk with a solid thud. Adrien just stood there grinning like an idiot. When the rest of their class entered, the two of them were sitting in their usual seats, Marinette hunched over and muttering 'you have to be kidding' over and over again while Adrien just sat there with an abnormally satisfied smirk on his face. No one noticed the two kept exchanging glances throughout class.
That's my first of this short collection, this is going to be fun! Who shall I do next? And who else should be partnered up? Let's find out…
Also, I apologise for not updating my other story on here surprises and twists if any of you are reading it, as well as my Rise of the guardians and frozen crossover…I can't find my document of S&T and I have been lacking motivation for my first story, for some reason (School is life and creative draining on all levels), so I'll keep hunting for it, and work on the next chapter as soon as I can, for all stories.
At least this one is going to be small collection, so that it won't be updated much. I have 4 other chapters planned already, but if you guys want a particular ship told, I'll try, but if no suggestions come in, I'll go with popular/canon/favoured ships, like Alya and Nino, Rose and Juleka, Alix and Kim, and such. Maybe I'll try Theo and Mirelle, that would be entertaining to say the least.
Until next time!