Adrien stared blankly at the sheet music in front of him as he sat on the piano stool, his kwami Plagg floated above the music stand staring down at him as he swallowed a piece of cheese whole to which Arien rolled his eyes.

"Why not just write the way you speak to her? You don't lose confidence then, don't think I don't hear you."

Adrien looked up at Plagg with a raised eyebrow, "thanks, that's really helpful," he leant forwards and scribbled some more words above the black dots already noted, he tucked the pencil behind his ear and began to play as Plagg nodded his head in time with the love song and Adrien smiled finally happy with what was written.

"Well that's done, how exactly are you going to get it to her?"

Adrien stretched his feet out either side of the pedals, "no idea. I wish I knew her real identity, I could just approach whoever that angel is and play it to her."

Plagg smirked to himself remembering when he had seen Ladybug remove her disguise, "yeah, that would be easy. Why not just invite Ladybug here?"

"Are you insane Plagg? How would I do that? Just casually invite her into Adrien Agreste's bedroom as Cat Noir, ha, that would go down well."

"She'd know your real identity then."

"Precisely, it's not going to happen Plagg, I'll just need to think of somewhere else which has a piano."

There was a knock at the door and Adrien tucked Plagg under his jacket before calling out, Natalie walked in holding a clipboard and smiled at him.

"Composing Adrien?"

"I was, yes."

"School time, you can continue your music later, I'll meet you in the limo."

Adrien nodded with a sigh, "coming," he picked the music off the piano stand and folded it gently into his bag before leaving his room.

Marinette walked into class with her friend Alya talking about Valentine's Day to which her best friend was finding hard to get a word in edgeway, the two girls took their seats in the second row and Nino turned round.

"Morning girls, February 13th huh, getting close."

Alya shook her head, "you're hopeless at subtlety, so I hope you have something planned for us tomorrow?"

"I might," Nino kissed her hand with a wink, "what about you Mari?" Marinette squeaked as Adrien walked in and Nino sighed with a smile, "never mind."

Adrien sat down in his seat in front of Marinette trying desperately not to make eye contact with Chloe who was looking dreamily at him, no, his heart belonged to a ladybug who wasn't even in the room, not to his knowledge, "another week huh?"

"Come on dude, it's Valentine's Day tomorrow, you must have something planned?"

"Can't say I have."

Marinette's head sank and she glumly looked at Alya who winked, "nope."

"Don't give up, you've got a whole day."

"Yeah, a whole day to turn into a stuttering mess and miss every opportunity."

As Marinette predicted, the day did go along with no progress, and what made it worse was that Adrien was acting very strangely. In any way she could, she tried to get a moment alone with him but he was either dragged away by Chloe or he took himself off alone to his classes, something was bothering him but she had no idea how to confront him about it, as final period crept up screams were heard outside of the school and Marinette skidded to a hault beside the nearest window to look out at what was happening, small explosions were going off and she looked up to see a young woman clad in black and red firing what appeared to be roses from a missile launcher down to the ground below, she ran round a corner hiding herself from view and called to her kwami.

"Tikki, spots on!"

Ladybug emerged and slid down the steps into the school's courtyard below smiling immediately when Cat Noir joined her, "lovely to see you, kitty."

"Anything for you, my lady."

"From what I've seen so far, the Akuma must be that missile launcher."

Cat looked up at the masked woman shooting, "that's a pretty big weapon for an Akuma to hide in. Are you sure?"

"I'm not 100%, it looks like we'll need to get closer."

Hawkmoth's voice resounded in the girl's head, "Missedlove, Ladybug and Cat Noir have emerged, get me those miraculouses and I'll make sure the man who's hurt you gets what he deserves."

"Yes Hawkmoth," she aimed the launcher at the two superheroes and fired with a cackle.

"Cat, duck!"

Cat Noir dived and pulled Ladybug to safety with him, "thanks for the heads up."

"And thanks for squishing me. We've got to bring her down to our level if we're ever going to get that Akuma."

"Leave it to me," Cat Noir reached around and grabbed his baton, "going up."

Ladybug went up on the pole with him and settled onto his knee like she usually did when towering over the streets, she called to Missedlove, "you're a good person, let go of the Akuma."

"You're nothing to me Ladybug, I am Missedlove, and with me, no-one will be happy!"

Ladybug looked back at Cat, "tip me forward, I'm going to grab her leg and pull her down to the ground with me."

"Be careful my little insect."

"Flirting can come later, do the job first," Ladybug rolled her eyes with a grin as she prepped her yo-yo, "now!"

Cat let her go and watched as she looped the string around Missedlove's ankle before they both fell to the ground, the missile launcher breaking, "Yes! Wait, what?"

Ladybug was just as surprised, "it wasn't in there?"

Missedlove cackled as she threw a rose at Ladybug's heart knocking her backwards, "let's see how you feel with no love."

Cat Noir sprung forward and wrapped Ladybug into a hug, "bugaboo?"

"How dare you call me that, we have a job to do. There's nothing between us, now get on with it," Ladybug pushed herself free and threw the yo-yo up, "lucky charm!"

Cat watched it fall as he dodged roses firing at him, "a Valentine's Day card?"

"Cards mean nothing, get that rose launcher."

Cat activated his cataclysm whilst feeling extremely heartbroken, he watched as Ladybug battled the Akuma out of Missedlove's control and felt his heart clench as he heard his lover's cry of de-eviltising before she set everything back to normal, Missedlove reverted back into a young girl who had just been dumped by her boyfriend and Ladybug approached Cat, "my lady?"

"We're good here, another butterfly has been set free," Ladybug smiled at him.

Cat wrapped his arms around her nuzzling his face into her shoulder, "bugaboo."

"Awwh Cat, you're suddenly all affectionate, what's up?"

Cat began to purr and pulled away, "sorry, I was just making sure I still had it."

"Had what?" Ladybug chuckled as she scratched his head, "oh, you'll have to tell me some other time, I'm about to change back."

"Yeah, ok..." Cat watched her unravel the yo-yo, "wait, just a second. Could we meet tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow?"

"Yes, there's something I'd like to show you."

Ladybug raised an eyebrow under her mask, "you intrigue me kitty-cat, I'll be in touch. Bug out."

Cat was left alone and he walked away from the park to transform, Plagg poked his head out from the jacket, "what?"

"That was the moment, you should've held her back and transformed together."

"In broad daylight and in public? No way. Besides, she'll meet me tomorrow."

"Are you going to ask her out as well, as Adrien?"

Adrien sighed, "I don't know, she'll be in contact with me as Ladybug. In the meantime, I still need a place to perform for her, I might try the old studios, I'm sure we could get in unnoticed."

"Up to you, you'll be in disguise anyway."

Adrien nodded, "best get home, we don't want to be late for afternoon studies," he got out his phone and texted Natalie his location, "you hungry Plagg?"

"I'm always hungry, you use up my energy."

"I'll get something whilst we're waiting, and no before you say it, I'm not buying you cheese. You have plenty at home."

Natalie looked over at Adrien in the car and cleared her throat quietly, "umm Adrien, a young girl named Chloe is coming for dinner tonight."

"What? No, please cancel that, I have no wish to see her."

"Her father demanded that we allowed her to enter."

"What did my father say?"

"He's been busy, I haven't seen him," Natalie scrolled through her phone messages.

"Then cancel this meet up please, I know we've been friends since infancy but I've met so many new nice people at school, of whom are nothing like Chloe."

"As you wish master Agreste."

Adrien looked out at the scenery of Paris, "thank you."

Gorilla pulled up to the gates and turned the car in before stopping outside the house, "home, master Agreste."

Adrien opened the door of the car and got out slinging his bag over his shoulder, "I'll be studying in my room if my father asks for me," he took himself upstairs and collapsed on his bed as Plagg flew out from his jacket and hovered above the desk before landing in a small box to sleep in, Adrien sighed and rolled onto his back staring up at the ceiling thinking about Ladybug, he just had to know who was under the mask, and tomorrow he would come clean to her.