Ladybug and Chat Noir gasped in horror as Chat's baton disappeared into The Collector's book of inspiration.

"Nice piece, wouldn't you agree?" The latest akuma sneered at his two enemies before forcefully throwing his book in their direction. Chat Noir blocked his attack by flinging a chair at the tiny object. It turned the piece of furniture to black ash before absorbing it into the pages. As the book flew back to the hand of it's owner, Ladybug and Chat took the chance to flee the scene. The collector let out a frustrated growl and swiped the page with his hand to erase the image.

The two superheroes went to hide behind to furniture near the staircase while they formed a plan. "The akuma has got to be in that book," Ladybug declared with an exasperated look on her face.

"Yeah, but if we touch it we'll disappear," Chat pointed out. He watched his lady pick up her magic yo-yo and smile that little mischievous smile he loved oh so much.

"Lucky charm!" She cried as she threw her weapon into the air. A ladybug patterned bike pedal appeared in the air above her and fell down into her waiting hands.

"Huh? A pedal?" The spotted heroine questioned in a confused tone. She began to search the room for any idea on how to use the lucky charm to stop the akuma, but nothing stood out.

"I have no idea what to do with this," she explained to her partner hurriedly, "We need to stall him."

Just then, the wall of the staircase behind them suddenly turned into black ash and vanished before their very eyes. There, stood the collector with his book in the doorway of the room.

"Ladybug and Chat Noir, you shall be the masterpieces in my new book of inspiration!" He proclaimed, a venomous tone lacing his cold voice. He threw the book in their direction again but the two teens were much faster and leaped out of the way before the pages of his weapon could touch them.

They continued to dodge the collectors attacks, not letting the book touch themselves or their partner. The akumatized villain was growing more and more angry by the second. His book was kicked high into the air by Chat Noir, but when he jumped up to grab it, Ladybug's yo-yo wrapped around his ankle instead, causing him to come crashing back down onto the floor. The book landed on the ground a few feet away from his reach. Using his powers, the Collector was able to force the book back into his hand and use it on Ladybug's yo-yo. Ladybug lost her balance when her weapon vanished from her hands and nearly tumbled to the floor.

"My collection's growing," The villain hissed in a delightfully evil voice.

"NO!" Ladybug yelled, and swiftly jumped out of the way as the book was launched in her direction once again. She landed next to her partner, and they both jumped up to a higher place where they would be safe for a short while.

"So that must mean… Gabriel Agreste can't possibly be HawkMoth since he's been akumatized!" Chat exclaimed a little too excitedly.

"You call Agreste turning into the Collector good news?" His Lady questioned in her sassy little tone.

The wall in front of them suddenly turned black and disappeared. The villain was not far behind them. The two heros immediately stood up and ran to Adrien's bedroom. They quickly began shoving everything they could find in front of the door to block the akuma from getting in. They no longer had their weapons and could not protect themselves from his attacks.

"Gabriel Agreste's son isn't at home?" Ladybug asked worriedly. Chat stiffened at the mention of his civilian self.

"Maybe the Collector's already captured him," he shrugged causing the girl to gasp in horror.

"You think he'd take it out on his own son?" She shrieked of disbelief. The blonde rubbed the back of his neck nervously while trying to come up with another excuse, but was saved by the Collector's reappearance.

"You cannot escape from me!" He shouted as he began to get rid of the objects blocking his path, one by one.

'What if he doesn't have any pages left in his book?" Ladybug suddenly realized and began to search the room for ways to carry out her plan. An idea suddenly came to mind, and she knew what she had to do. While Chat was distracting the akuma, she ran behind the large television in Adrien's room.

"But before I immortalize you, allow me to seize your miraculous for HawkMoth," The villain said as he walked over to her hiding place. Ladybug was about to yell her idea to Chat Noir but was unable to because he had already jumped down, on top of the akuma, and began to attack him.

"Don't touch my lady you slimy toadstool!" He screamed as he attempted to claw at Collector's face. The villain only smirked up at the hero and grabbed his wrist, faster than the speed of light. Before Adrien realized what was happening, his ring was gone and he had transformed back into his civilian form. Plagg popped out of the ring and immediately flew into his chosen's shirt, not daring to make a sound in fear of the villain hearing.

Poor, defenceless Adrien was harshly shoved onto the floor by The Collector who was too busy wickedly laughing of victory to notice that the male superhero of Paris was actually his son.

"Finally, FINALLY! I finally have Chat Noir's miraculous! Now all I need is Ladyb- ADRIEN?!"

Ladybug came out of hiding, after hearing her crush's name, and was puzzled to find the The Collector frozen in shock. Then she saw Adrien on the ground and was immediately alarmed.

"Adrien? What are you doing here? Where did Chat Noir go?"

Both the akuma and Adrien turned to look at her with baffled expressions.

"Are you serious?"

"Are you really that foolish Ladybug?"

Now the girl was really, really confused. What was she not understanding? She obviously missed something while hiding behind the tv.

"I have Chat Noir's miraculous," Collector taunted for a second before freezing on the spot. "And…..and then he turned into Adrien! ADRIEN?! You're CHAT NOIR?!"

"Uhh….."

"WHAT? NO, Adrien is not Chat! Adrien is wayyyyy cooler than Chat Noir."

"Hey! I mean...uh thanks..?"

"No you fool! I just watched him de-transform into my son as soon as I removed his miraculous!"

"Ladybug! He has my miraculous!"

Ladybug immediately glared at the enemy and was about to attack, but was stopped by his surrender.

"NO STOP! I cannot fight my son," He said before tearing his book into two pieces. The dark little butterfly flew out of the pages and began to fly away. Ladybug threw her lucky charm into the air, got her yo-yo back, and then caught the akuma just in the nick of time. She cleansed it from evil and let it go free. Gabriel also returned to his normal form and immediately went to his son.

"Adrien, are you alright?" He questioned with a hint of worry on his voice.

"I'm fine father," his son replied with a grin. "I'm just so glad you aren't HawkMoth. If you were, we would be fighting against each other!"

Ladybug ran over and knelt down beside the two Agreste men. "S-so Adrien is a-actually Chat Noir?!" She stammered, cheeks tinted a rosy pink colour.

"Uh….yeah," the teenage boy rubbed his nape nervously. "I hope you aren't disappointed."

"WHa- Oh no, of course not! I'm happy that it was you!"

"Sooooo are you gonna tell me your identity now?"

"Huh?"

"Please Ladybug! We could be an even stronger team if we could contact each other's civilian forms!"

"I-I don't know….."

Gabriel was silent the entire time as he watched the two flustered teen's interactions. If his suspicion of his son being Chat was correct then maybe…...then maybe he's correct about Ladybug's identity too.

"Marinette, please calm down," he announced and stood up. He watched as the girl's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates and had to hold back a small chuckle of amusement.

"Wha- H-how I mean...I-I...WHAT?"

Adrien looked at his lady with a perplexed expression.

"What's going on here?" He asked awkwardly.

"How do you know my real name?" Ladybug shrieked while pointing fingers at the famous fashion designer. He smirked at her cluelessness.

"Miss Dupain-Cheng, I asked you to please calm yourself," He repeated his request in an unamused tone. The heroine gasped again.

"How?!" She cried. Suddenly, her earrings beeped and her transformation wore off, leaving Marinette standing in Ladybug's place. Tikki floated down into her chosen's hands with a cross expression on her face.

"Did you really not hear me signalling that you didn't have much time left?" She squeaked in her angry voice. Marinette's face grew red of embarrassment.

"I-I was kind of occupied," She stuttered out. The red kwami rose an eyebrow. (even tho she doesn't have eyebrows)

"TIKKI!"

A small blur of black flew by and tackled Marinette's kwami to the ground.

"Plagg! Oh my gosh, you're okay!"

"Tikki I missed you so much," Plagg squealed and hugged his other half tightly.

"Marinette?! You're Ladybug?" Adrien gasped. The young baker couldn't tell if he sounded excited or disappointed. She squeezed her eyes shut and slowly nodded. When she heard no response in return, Mari opened her eyes to find her crush staring at her with wide eyes and bright red cheeks.

"I'm so blind," he facepalmed.

"Yes you are, son," Gabriel added with a pat on his shoulder. The man may have looked calm on the outside, but he was a mess on the inside. He had no idea what to do now with the information he just received. Should he tell them that he is really HawkMoth? Should he continue to secretly fight against his own son? If he told them the truth, would they work with him to find his wife, or would they make him fork over his miraculous instead?

"Hey, Adrien's dad sir?" Plagg interrupted. Gabriel looked at the small creature with cold eyes.

"You can never tell anyone about the identities of Ladybug and Chat Noir. If HawkMoth found out, we would all be in serious danger. You must also never tell anyone about me or Tikki. No must know we exist," The black kwami explained carefully. "Also, I'll be needing my ring back please."

The man nodded silently and handed the ring to the small creature, then announced that he needed to leave before exiting the room to go find Nathalie.

Adrien and Marinette awkwardly glanced at each other and their kwamis, who were both smirking at the irony of their situation.

"Marinette you've had a crush on Adrien who is Chat Noir all this time, and you've also been rejecting him over and over again as Ladybug!" Tikki exclaimed to her chosen, who was blushing madly of embarrassment.

"Tikki!" She growled through clenched teeth.

"And Adrien! All this time you've been pining for the love of Ladybug when she's actually had a crush on you! But you kept passing Marinette off as 'just a friend' because you're such a denial!" Plagg laughed hysterically while pointing at the boy's red face.

"Plaaaggg," the model groaned of annoyance. He felt a hand on his shoulder and quickly turned to Marinette who was giggling childishly while looking down.

"They're right you know, we are pretty clueless."

The blonde boy smiled at his princess and hummed in agreement.

"Yeah. We sure are," he laughed along with her, but then gave her a look of remorse.

"Marinette," he began as her laughter died down. "I'm so sorry. I was so blind by my love for Ladybug so I pushed away those feelings I felt for you. I wanted to be loyal to my lady, so I would try to find every possible excuse to pass off my feelings for you. I called you a friend and a friend only. I never even thought about how it would make you feel. God, I'm-I'm just so sorry. Could you ever forgive me princess?"

The bluenette stared at him with wide eyes. Was she hearing correctly? Was she dreaming? Did Adrien Agreste just say that he had feelings for her?

"Wait, wait…..let me get this straight. So you did have feelings for her but you pushed them away because you didn't want to betray your feelings for her?" Plagg chimed in with curious eyes. Adrien sent him an icy glare.

"So you rejected me because…because you love Ladybug?" Mari murmured in a hushed tone as she fiddled with her fingers in her lap while avoiding his gaze. Adrien could see the sadness and disappointment swimming in her eyes and felt his heart crack.

"NO NO! Well er t-technically yes, b-but I MEAN..NO! I-I…"

He took a deep breath before continuing, "Yes, I do love Ladybug, but I also love Marinette!"

"But Ladybug is so much better than Marinette! She's strong, and confident, and powerful. Marinette is just shy and clumsy."

"But Mari, you are Ladybug. You are strong, you are confident, you are powerful. With or without the mask, you're still the same beautiful, amazing girl that I've fallen in love with….twice."

Her heart fluttered with every word and a small smile slowly stretched onto her lips. Adrien beamed and slowly pulled her into a tight embrace. Tikki and Plagg fangirled/boyed in the distance, both extremely happy that their ship was finally canon.

"Well now we can be an even stronger team and work harder together to finally defeat HawkMoth," Mari sighed as they pulled apart.

"A-and now I c-can finally ask you o-out on a….date to the m-movies?" The blonde squeaked nervously. He watched his princess's cheeks grow pink and mentally smirked. She was so incredibly adorable.

"Uh y-yeah! S-sure love I'd t-to GAH I meant I-I love to!"

Both teens looked at each other before bursting into fits of giggles. They were so happy to finally be able to be together.

Meanwhile, Gabriel Agreste was back in his office freaking out about the situation at hand.

"What will I do Nathalie? I can't tell my son about my identity. I think I've made a huge mistake."

His assistant just stood there and tried her best to help him out.

"Sir, I'm not quite sure what to tell you," She began, but was interrupted by more of her boss's whining.

"Tara is gone. I think i just need to accept that and move on."

"I completely agree, but sir-"

"But what will I say to Nooroo?"

"You could apolo-"

"Maybe I should apologize. I treated him so horribly and abused his powers"

Nathalie nodded in agreement. "I completely understand sir," she said in a neutral tone.

"I need to go," the famous fashion designer said as he headed towards the portrait of his wife. He pushed the four hidden buttons into the photo and was transported to his secret lair. He opened the box containing his miraculous and watched as his little kwami appeared in the air in front of him.

"Nooroo….."

The purple kwami looked up at his chosen with hopeful eyes.

"Nooroo, I'm so sorry….."

Hi! Welcome to my Miraculous Season2shots! I'm going to be writing a one shot for each episode of Miraculous season 2, but with a little twist in each story! I know that this one was a little boring but I promise the next ones will be better! Stay tuned for Episode 2, Despair Bear!