It had been an accident when he'd rushed off to go see her, forgetting that he was transformed right now, and that she'd be waiting for Adrien, not Cat Noir. Excitement bounced and clattered around in his bones, and yet when he'd slid to a start, looking more like an excited puppy dog than a feline themed hero, he remembered last second. She didn't look up at him, her feet dangled over the edge into the pond before her, sitting on stones, and framed by pale moonlight. She was gorgeous.

She'd always been, and so Adrien's heart gave a brief stutter and a wild flip somewhere in his chest before three words came to mind, one of them being a name. He whispered them, just eager to be done with the suit, to be standing before Ladybug as the man that she was waiting for so serenely, someone who couldn't be right here so quick, and yet his words hadn't been whispered fast enough since she turned around to only lock eyes on him.

"Adrien?" Was her soft murmur, and his heart practically gave out and died on him.

"Y-Yeah?" His mutter was barely audible past the beating in his eyes and the sudden onslaught of nerves as he looked into startled blue eyes and realized that just Ladybug and Adrien would have a completely different feel to it now.

"My silly kitty." Her eyes looked lost, kind of unsure of herself, "I've been all that you saw for some time. How could I not see it?" She stepped closer, and the moonlight lost its edge around her, lost the bright effect that had made her look like an angel with her spandex covered feet in the pond.

"Mi'lady?" It came out as more than a stammer than a term of endearment, as more of something that should have been kept silent than a name.

"Mon Chaton." She stepped closer and sighed, "I guess it's time then." She glanced up at the full moon as if stealing confidence from it, "Tikki, spots off." Before him stood a familiar woman, a face that he couldn't forget whether it was all pink and stammering or heartfelt and sincere; he knew Marinette much better now and yet it wasn't perfect. She'd been a riddle or a puzzle that he'd been trying to solve for so long now.

"My Princess?" It felt out of his lips before he could stop it, but her face lit up with a bright smile and tears filled her eyes regardless. They definitely wouldn't just be Ladybug and Adrien anymore.

"My Kitty." She breathed, and stepped up to him; it felt all the world like Ladybug was stepping closer to him, like he was just Adrien, all confidence lost and zapped away in an instant, and he felt nervous like he always had whenever she stepped closer to kiss him. It felt as if Ladybug still could be at the pond, looking ethereal and lovely, though there was something more to her now as well. She was his Ladybug regardless of whether she was transformed or not, and he was her Adrien, the boy that she'd planned to meet tonight out by the pond after a patrol that accidentally dragged on too long with many, little surprises dragging it out. In this moment, they appeared like Ladybug and Adrien despite the reflection in the pond showing different, showing just Adrien and Marinette.

She'd always be his Ladybug, his lady, and he'd always willingly be her 'model' citizen, the love of her life, because masks never could stop or isolate their love that grew more and more with every passing day.