A Fly's Trap

Well, this certainly shows each other who they are when their older selves come through a time portal, and the older selves keep accidently exposing secrets the younger two have tried so hard to keep, as well as expose some new things they didn't even know at all. Spoilers for Origins up to Volpina episodes

Some notes and information before we start:
In case you haven't noticed, this is heavily reliant on all episodes to date, which yes, means Origins to Princess Fragrant - NOW UP TO VOLPINA.
This started of a drabble piece on my ML side blog of "minouchatonandhislady", because I wanted to try and write fluff because I am seriously stuck on a scene on my other non-ML-related story for literally half a year (I'm still writing it!). I wasn't expecting anyone to take notice, nor ask me to write more and publish it.
I still don't know where this is going. But it now may have something to do with Mama and Papa Agreste. Whoops.

I seriously might age up the kiddie's. Because I seriously thought they were closer to seventeen-eighteen in age when I started this, based on the English dub (I swear Alya said they were grade 10 somewhere in the Mummy episode), and what schooling ages in Australia is like. (FYI I'm Australian!) In Australia, schooling system could easily place them in year 10-11, easily in grade 12 (last year in high for us Aussies) (which I think is Junior and Senior in America?), depending on scores, age, repeats and birthdays.

But they're actually ages up to fifteen, which would mean in France school they're Collège year Troisième, which translates into highest middle school/junior high for Americans (?), and year 8-9 for Australia (which is considered last year middle-high. Depending on schools, last year could very well be 6-7 before throwing those particular teens into a high school campus). But again, age, they could still be year 10 in Aussie school. Year 10 can be fifteen-sixteen years of age.
Bah! So I got extremely confused. So if they act older then fifteen, it's based on the info above. My bad. (HOW ARE THEY FIFTEEN!? I feel so bad for swearing! (Not that they swear! The adults do! They're thirty!)

Bring me up if any of my French is wrong. I'm used to Japanese to English. Been to Paris, uh, once. Stood underneath the Eiffel Tower and swore because it was flipping huge (like a true Australian!).
Thanks to "lamia-mhyt-medea" from tumblr who told me it was the "Ma chéri" instead of "Mon chérie" when it's Adrien to Mari! (I've hopefully changed all the times I've incorrectly done this phrase!)

And for the record, I was throwing Chat/Adrien into bodies of water, before it was cool. I literally wrote that scene before I uploaded the drabble (I literally wanted to take his shirt off, fight me: he's thirty, I can do that.), then the scene from ML came out when LB threw CN into the Seine, so I was on point! (Though seriously, stop akumatizing poor Chat and give him a hug.)

Also, if you haven't read the explanation before on my drabble on my ML tumblr (though you can find it, just got to my ML blog and search "my post" it'll be there, somewhere): a little backstory, in case you don't want to go looking for the post, otherwise you'll get slightly confused: Head cannon that Papillon / Hawkmoth is Gabriel Agreste / Papa Agreste (whether or not it is true we'll wait until it comes from the horse's mouth).
(Non-explained)-Head cannon that Chat/Adrien adores the little charm Mari gave him in the Gamer episode, and carries it around no matter which version he's in. Head cannon that as they grow up they get more abilities, Flight for LB (She'd act more like Tooth from the Guardians movie), and Chat would still be the oblivious bean bun (this autocorrected into Beanbag, and I laughed way more than I should have) he is, but have cat-themed attacks, such cat toys as furry balls and bells, and still be a head and a bit taller than LB (not that it matters in uniform because she freaking flies and floats).
Still tossing up the ability to turn Chat into an actual cat (otherwise the intro to ML makes no sense. And it would be hilarious LB being like "CHAT FETCH" -turns into an adorable little kitty-cat and runs off to do whatever she needs him to do-. -And gets stuck in that form-. Because I'm evil).
I seriously wouldn't mind if people drew scenes from this. I absolutely adore some (all of them) scenes, and if I had the drawing abilities, I would draw the heck out of this. (Draw this, please!)
Anyways…
So this is my excuse to officially join ML fandom, and write fluff that as of this moment has thirty pages. Whoops. (Please take this offering?)

***20/03/16: Made some changes to fit in with the Volpina episode! – So spoilers for that!***

"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart… I'll always be with you."
- A.A. Milne

Part I:

Well, they were going after an akuma butterfly, in hopes to catch it before it found its host, they had finally got ahead of it to try and intercept it.
But this was before they found themselves stalling in the middle of a quiet street, in awe of a phenomenon they hadn't seen before.
Before them they watched as this phenomenon swirled in the space off the side of the road, they really hoped it wasn't because of the akuma they were intercepting. They had their weapons ready when suddenly a yelling black mass of a human body came tumbling out of it at such a fast pace that it made the lamp post that he collided into contact with shudder, and nearly loose its light fitting.
They had no time to think that this was a villain, as another person came through.
Well, came through, as in she flew through the vortex frantically after her partner.
Yeah, flew with actual wings.
They stood in amazement as they realised the two older people in front of them were in fact versions of Chat Noir and Ladybug.
It's not as if any in acting Ladybug's could actually flipping fly.
Hell! Not even the actual Ladybug had wings!

"Minou!" She cried as she raced after the tumbling man.
(Alright…So French versions then…)
She raced over to him, only to float above him frantically and grasp his upturned legs, he was in a position that Ladybug had seen so many times, but as they grew older, he seemed to return to this position a lot, of half on his back, feet splayed in the air over his face that it just looked awkward and extremely painful: she had lost count how many times she had restored him to his rightful position.
She grasped his legs and pulled him around and down so he was lying flat on the road. "Are you alright, Minou, are you hurt?" She asked fluttering above him frantically. She hadn't even noticed where she was, or who was watching her.
His eyes opened, and seeing her above him, he grinned. "I'm alright, now, My Lady." He responded happily.
She rolled her eyes and took his hand to pull him up.
While he dusted himself off, checking to make sure he was all still there, she was able to take in her surroundings, and completely freeze when she saw the two younglings watching her in awe and amazement.
Her wings faltered for a second, which her Chat noticed, and looked around as well and had a similar reaction.
She then lit up like a firefly. "OH-MY-GOD!" She near on screeched staring at them, pointing at them, and waving her hand up and down at her Chat, just in case he hadn't seen them.
Chat looked at her in wary, having no idea what she would actually do.
But she shot off towards them, and actually engulfed the little Chat in a motherly hug, that he yelped in alarm at, unknowingly bringing him off the ground as she did.
"Oh my god, they're so small! So cute! I want ten, Chat! TEN!" She gushed and she hugged the smaller version of Chat.
She heard her Chat laugh at her, and it turned into a chuckle when he watched the younger Ladybug side step away in massing confusion, and a tad bit of jealously.
"Seriously, My Lady, please consider letting him go before he passes out." Elder-Chat called, still trying to stop chuckling.
Elder-Ladybug glared, and looked like she held on tighter. "I'm making up for lost time. He needs more hugs. Seriously." She announced, but she gently let him go once she hovered back low enough to the ground in an awareness she had floated away from his height off the ground.
"Seriously." Elder-Chat asked, deadpanned. Elder-Ladybug nodded, and flew back towards her Chat, to float by his side. "See, this is why I say you'd be good with children." He stated.
She glared at him. "If you make another bakery joke, so help me!" She hissed at him.
"What!" He started, offended, throwing out his arms. "But you—we—live in one! It's hard not to!" He announced, annoyed, gesturing to her, still offended.
The youngers stared. "Say what?" The younger Chat said.
Elder-Ladybug glared at her pouting Chat. "Naw, poor baby…" She started, patting his head, while his eye twitched. "But seriously, say either puns or jokes related to ovens one more time, and I will hurl you off the Eiffel Tower, and I will make sure Plagg is sufficiently occupied at the time." Ladybug threatened.
Both Chat's flinched, one moved away from his Ladybug in a slight fear, while the elder one waved his arms defensively. "No need, Princess! I'll stop!" He amended.
This made the youngers look to each other with a slow oncoming enlightened frown.
"Oh thank god. Now, if I could get you to stop making them in our civilian life, that would be heavenly." She muttered, which in most truth was thankful it didn't reach younger ears.
They all watched as the older Chat's cat ears wiggled.
"Um, My Lady?" He started, making her look to him, and he was pointing upwards. "Is that…what I think it is…?" He trailed off nervously.
Her eyes narrowed, and she threw something that wasn't her yo-yo, but whatever it was returned as a cage around a purple butterfly.
Seeing it, she screeched in alarm and actually dropped it, while the elder Chat darkened in expression.
"That's an akuma." Elder-Chat said, rather unneeded, pointing to it in slight shock.
Elder-Ladybug looked to him in worry.

"…You guys don't fight akuma from where you're from?" The younger Ladybug finally got up to say.
Both elders flinched. "Uh, no. No we don't…Not anymore." Elder-Chat said while he crouched down, sitting rather cat-like to poke a claw at it.
"If you touch it…" His Ladybug seethed.
Elder-Chat quickly pulled his hand away. "Can I squash it?" He asked, then brightened. "Even better! Let's follow it back!" He said, getting back up, and jumping from one leg to the other, rather childishly, but imploringly.
Elder-Ladybug blinked at him. "Uh. No," She remarked.
He pouted and crossed his arms, and stood away from her, unknowingly showing a colourful charm on his belt that caught the children's attention.
They were slowly realizing what the little charm was.
Whelp, for Chat it solidified that the version in front of him was actually him. For Ladybug, she nearly flipped in alarm. There were only two options for why Elder-Chat would have her lucky charm that she had given to Adrien: either Adrien had given her charm away for some reason, (maybe he was saved by the cat, and perhaps he thought it would help with his bad luck?) …Or Adrien was Chat…
"You do remember that these things are going to a host, not back to the man himself right?" Elder-Ladybug asked, patting his head.
He looked to her and pouted. "It might just be better if we…" He trailed off, a little hopefully.
She looked wounded. "I'm sorry, Minou…" She muttered.
He shook his head sadly, but offered nothing else.

They all watched that the evil butterfly was now pure.
"Huh, so it works on them too…" Ladybug remarked, pulling back her cage and putting it away once releasing the butterfly. "Was that what you two were chasing?" She asked.
The two nodded silently.
"So, you're saying we can't follow the butterfly back….?" Elder-Chat asked, still a little hopeful.
"I don't think they go back to him." She stated, then blinked in slow realization. "But maybe Nooroo can?" She asked.
The youngers blinked in confusion, while Chat shrugged.
Before anyone could really tell her it was a bad idea, suddenly Ladybug wasn't Ladybug anymore.
And Elder-Chat cursed when he realised what she had done, when she was several feet off the ground. He raced towards her, barely able to cover her fall.
The youngers stared, (more Chat than Ladybug), when an older version of Marinette stood in Chat's arms.
"You seriously forget you fly sometimes, don't you?" He asked her.
She blinked. "Sorry, Minou!" She appeased bashfully.
He just groaned, rolled his eyes, but gently put her back on the ground, but didn't move an inch, far to protective to go far.
They watched in rising freak out that after her kwami floated around to sit on her pink and white shoulder cape, she reached down to her purse. "Nooroo?" She asked.
And another kwami floated out of it.
What.
What the heck.
What the heck is going on.
It floated out cautiously, as if very afraid. "…Ma'am…?" It asked, more like squeaked.
She blinked. "You really don't need to address me like that…" She sighed.
It nodded cautiously, but floated in front of her open hand.
It looked like a butterfly.

"Can you feel where your younger self is being controlled….?" Elder-Chat asked, butting in, ignoring his Lady's glare.
Nooroo looked to him in alarm. "You want me to go back?" It squeaked in alarm, almost looked ready to cry.
Marinette shook her head. "No, no! We just wanna know if we find him earlier…" Marinette trailed off sadly.
Nooroo blinked. "That he won't be a meanie, and be a good daddy?" Nooroo offered.
Elder-Chat and Marinette nodded.
Nooroo blinked and looked thoughtful. "He's always been a meanie towards me, ever since he found me. I don't know if finding him earlier would help…" Nooroo said uneasily.
"But it would prevent a lot of people going bad…" Marinette's kwami offered.
"Isn't that kinda like changing timelines….?" Marinette asked.
Both Nooro and Tikki shrugged. "Not as if we haven't done it before?" Tikki stated.
Marinette groaned. "I only changed that because Chat literally died…" She said.
"And many lives are at stake here, Princess," Elder-Chat noted, then started counted on his claws. "There was that time the Eiffel Tower exploded, the Seine River tsunami, the Arc de Triomphe implosion, the metro transit—" Elder-Chat counted down, and Marinette covered his mouth.
"Alright, alright, fine." She agreed, then looked at Nooroo.
Who looked uncomfortable. "He'll be at home…" He said, then rushed back into her purse, and actually closed it behind him.
Elder-Chat lit up and turned tail, looking about ready to march of towards Nooroo's suggestion. "Whoa, Chaton-Chaton, where do you think you're going?" She asked, pulling on his tail.
He yelped. "Uh…Home?" He asked, not noticing the effect it had on the youngers.
Marinette blinked. "Oh! Sure!" She started, highly sarcastic. "Let's just waltz right up to the Agreste family Mansion and go Hello Daddy-O! We've come to wreck your day! Come quietly!" She near on yelled.
This freaked the youngers out. "SAY WHAT!" The two screamed.
The two realised they were still there, and blinked at them.
Then Marinette realised what she said. "Whoopsies." She said, as Tikki cackled.
Elder-Chat glared at her. "You were always the one that went on about let's keep our civilian lives a secret! Look at what you just did!" He yelped in alarm. The two were freaking out, pointing to each other in alarm. "They're still young, they probably didn't even know!"
The kids might be freaking out, but so was the elder Chat.
Marinette sighed. "My bad…" She started.
Elder-Chat groaned at her.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait. REWIND AND FREEZE!" Ladybug was the loudest in screaming at the time, that everyone quietened, the younger Chat stalled when she turned to him. "You're actually Adrien?" She asked.
He nodded silently, freaking out, possibly way worse than she was. "And you're Marinette…" He breathed, it was obvious because the elder looked just like her.
She nodded, then looked back to the elders in confusion. "What did you mean that you were going to go to the Agreste home?" She asked.
Elder-Chat actually whimpered, while Marinette sighed. "Oh bless them, they don't know." She said worriedly.
Elder-Chat rolled his eyes. "Yeah, and can they never find out? That'll help, like, everyone." He added, crossing one arm over his chest to hold up his elbow as his other pointed to them.
Marinette frowned at him. "…Wouldn't you realise, coming home and your father not being there?" She asked.
Elder-Chat frowned. "Why? I don't live there anymore?" He asked, severely confused.
Marinette face palmed. "No, but he does!" She said, pointing to the younger Chat.

Elder-Chat looked like he was thinking. "Dang that was a long time ago. How old are you?" He asked looking towards the kids.
Before they could answer Marinette literally got out a yo-yo from her purse (an actual child's yo-yo) and whacked him over the head with it. "You can't just ask that!" She said, offended.
He yelped. "It was a legitimate question! If we stop him now, and he's under age, what's the probability he'll be able to stay at home?" He asked her, seething.
Marinette blinked. "Huh. That's the smartest thing you've said recently." She remarked.
He pouted, but still looked a tad angry.

Suddenly Elder-Chat de-transformed, he blinked and looked at his ring in surprise. "…Huh?" He asked, while automatically catching Plagg. This change caused the younger two to openly stare at how grown up he looked, he hadn't changed much in the way of clothing, except he had more pockets in his jeans, his over shirt was black, a different style and had shot up like a beansprout.
"You guys were arguing so much, you didn't even hear the warnings." Plagg muttered, annoyed.
"Sorry, Plagg," Adrien apologised.
Plagg sniffed and zoomed around into one of Adrien's pockets and brought out a slice of cheese, then took one look at the younger Chat. "He's fifteen," then munched on his camembert.
Adrien hissed. "Merde," He swore, causing everyone to blink at him. "He's not old enough, Princess." He stated, looking a little worried.
Marinette looked calculating. "When your father's not home, you're with Nathalie, and the Gorilla, yeah?" She asked, with a frown, almost like she was trying to remember a time where she knew this stuff.
Adrien sided his head. "I think so? What, you gonna march over to them and ask them to be official guardians until he's eighteen?" He asked curiously.
Marinette looked to him with an eyebrow raised. "Uh, no. That would raise questions. Bah!" She suddenly trailed off and sat down in a huff, holding her head on her hand and pouted.
Adrien blinked down at her in worry. "I think you're taking this way more seriously than I am, chéri," He said in comfort. "I think I would react worse if it was Tom who was Papillon." He stated offhandedly, bending down to her height kindly so she didn't have to look up at him.
Marinette looked up to him. "That's not a very nice thing to say, nor fair." She said quietly.
Adrien shrugged. "I know your dad more than I know mine, and there is a reason I keep skipping meeting times at prison, chéri," Adrien reminded her.
Marinette flinched. "Still doesn't make me feel better," She muttered.
Adrien chuckled and held out a hand for her. "Come on, you shouldn't be sitting on the ground. What happens when I'm not around and you can't get back up?" He asked.
This confused the children, who looked to each other, and shrugged. They had quickly gotten over who they were in civilian life, when the example of how well they worked together when they were outside the uniform was presented right in front of them perfectly.
Marinette moaned as he helped her up. "Duh, just wait for you to come back, you don't usually go very far, or transform, whichever comes first?" She stated.
Adrien laughed. "There'll come a time Tikki won't allow you to transform, then what will you do?" He asked, chuckling further when Tikki nodded in agreement.
Marinette stalled. "…Still wait for you then." She muttered.
Adrien blinked at her, then laughed loud that he bent over and hugged his stomach.
Marinette paused. "I will hurl you off that damn Eiffel tower one of these days!" She seethed.
Adrien chuckled. "No you won't, chéri, you love me too much." He stated lively and happily when she slumped, knowing he won.
"I should throw my ring at you." She muttered, causing him to laugh again.

The youngers finally had enough of being confused.
"Okay, so, what's going on?" Ladybug finally asked, with Chat nodding along.
"Damn it, I keep forgetting," Marinette curse, causing them to blink.
"Okay, so going after Papillon earlier has pros and cons, and I guess Adrien should be the one to make the decision?" Adrien asked, a tad confused himself.
Chat also looked confused. "Why me?" He asked.
Marinette and Adrien looked to each other. "Uh, because he's your dad?" They said.
"SAY WHAT!?" They screamed.
Marinette quickly closed over her ears. "Wow. Loud." She stated.
"I think we were louder…" Adrien remarked.
"No, no we weren't," Marinette said shaking her head. "You nearly got yourself killed mid-battle when you froze as he went for you after he told us." Marinette said, holding her arms close as she shivered with the memory.
Adrien blinked and rubber her back in consolidation. "Sorry, Princess," He told her.

Ladybug blinked, but tried to sort through the information she got. "Okay, so Papillon is Chat's slash Adrien's dad?" She asked, mulling the information over.
Marinette and Adrien nodded.
Chat looked like the inevitable fact now made a lot of sense.
Ladybug looked to him. "No offense but that time we had to defend him was one of the creepiest days of my life. He tried to take my earrings." She said.
Chat sighed. "No kidding." He replied, now making sense of why his father had been interested in his ring. But he looked to the elders. "Why?" He asked.
Both Adrien and Marinette looked to answer, then paused, as if they didn't quite know.
Marinette flinched when her purse opened by itself, and Nooroo flew out of it nervously facing the youngers.
"How he explained it to me, is that he wanted the Miraculous Stones of Ladybug and Chat Noir, to gain power over his wish to bring his wife back." Nooroo stated.
Adrien looked amazed. "Really?" He asked.
Marinette looked to him. "Maybe that's what he wants to talk to you about?" She asked.
Adrien gave her a look. "It still doesn't excuse his behaviour. I found out what I wanted to find out before he was taken away." He replied.
Nooroo looked back to him and nodded. "But no matter how much someone wishes, or how much power they can wield, there are some things I just can't do." Nooroo apologized.
Adrien sighed and shook his head. "Genie of the lamp." He muttered. "So, un-ironically while trying to fix his family he broke it beyond repair. Fantastic job," Adrien applauded sarcastically.
Marinette sighed. "It's late," She worried. Seeing it was actually dark. "What time is it, actually? My watch is still reading the time we left." She pondered.
"It's about ten thirty – eleven." Ladybug stated helpfully for them.
Marinette blinked. "And it's a school night…" Marinette pondered.
Adrien actually whined. "See? This is why you'll be good with children." He stated, she glared at him, and he raised his hands defensively. "I didn't do a pun!" He defended.
Marinette sighed. "Well, we can't go home. Marinette and her parents live there currently." She stated.
Adrien actually looked crestfallen. "So that means no cookies in the morning?" He asked, looking about ready to cry.
Marinette laughed but nodded. "I seriously don't know how you can eat as much as you do, without putting weight on, it's mindboggling." She said, shaking her head, but getting out cookies from her purse, giving one to Tikki, and one to a starry eyed Adrien, who took it of her like she had just given him the world.
"But it's your cooking, how can I not eat your cooking?!" He admonished in fever, as he chowed down on the cookie happily.
Marinette saw the pout on the younger Chat's face and gave out a cookie to him to. He took it in a similar way to her Adrien did, while Ladybug politely declined.
"See?" Adrien said with a hand over his mouth as he chewed politely. "Mother," He stated.
Marinette sighed. "Say all you want about my mothering skills; I'll still freak out when the day comes." Marinette pouted.
Adrien looked confused. "But you'll kick ass at it? We can fight ghosts and ghouls, and everyday criminals, but you freak out over childrearing?" He asked, not understanding. Never had he understood her when it came to this.
Marinette blinked at him. "And what, you don't?" She asked.
Adrien actually groaned. "I know what I will never be like, but I've never actually had a good role model for being a father. I took some notes from Tom, you know." Adrien reminded her.
Marinette chuckled. "You'll do fine." She stated.
Adrien grinned. "And so will you." He returned.
Marinette rolled her eyes.

Tikki flew off her shoulder. "I'm good now." She answered.
Marinette nodded, and in flash of pink therein stood Ladybug, who automatically stretched out her wings and began hovering. She flipped out her yo-yo, and began searching for something.
Adrien looked to Plagg, who groaned but gave an annoyed nod, and therein stood Chat Noir, who took out his baton only to extend it and lean on it.
"So, what are we gonna do about this?" He asked her.
"I'm seeing if I can find our way to Fuu from here." Elder-Ladybug said, still pinning into her yo-yo.
Elder-Chat blinked. "Why are we going to Master Roshi?" He questioned.
Elder-Ladybug blinked up at him. "You really need to stop watching anime, I even got that reference." She responded.
Elder-Chat shrugged. "He's a master, he's over 180 whatever years old, he has Wayzz, who's a freaking turtle as old as time, and can levitate things. How is he not Master Roshi? Either that or he's a Ninja Turtle." He asked indignantly.
Elder-Ladybug looked to him, after finally getting a hit. "You call him that and he and Wayzz might just end you, 180-whatever years old or not." She stated.
He nodded. "True, true." He agreed.

"Wait, what are we doing?" Ladybug asked.
The elders turned to her. "We need to place to sleep, we can't go home, because one, you live there with your parents, two, we can't crash at the Agreste mansion, because that'll be creepy and it'll raise questions, three, we have no one else really to go to that will understand, and four, you guys need to go home and sleep because it's a school night." She retorted, as she set up her tracker.
The younger Chat shivered. "I really don't wanna go home right now." He stated.
Elder-Ladybug looked to him in understanding. "We'll see what happens, and if this actually leads us to Fuu." She said.
Elder-Chat shrugged. "We can always camp out at the Eiffel tower, we've done that before." He took at glance towards his Ladybug. "Though, that might not be a good idea now." He thought.
Elder-Ladybug nodded. "Shall we? I know better than to tell myself to go home, just keep up." She noted.
The youngers nodded, and kept up with the elders.

They reached the China precinct part of Paris, several minutes later.
"…So it is the same place." She muttered.
"Do you actually think he'll be awake? And that this is his place, and not actually just a place he calls us to? He normally just seeks us out…" Elder-Chat muttered, keeping close to his Lady.
Elder-Ladybug shrugged, then face palmed at the sign above them that read Fuu's massage and clinic. "Yeah, he's not subtle, apparently." She noted, pointing at the sign.
"He's subtle enough that we didn't realise he was trailing us for years? You even went to him for help and didn't realise." Elder-Chat responded.
She looked tired. "That's because we're idiots. Don't get those two things mixed up." She said.
He sighed and nodded while she ratted at the door. "Let's just hope he's awake, and actually is here to let us in." He hoped.

The door flew open, as if the man behind it was extremely surprised to know what was at his door near at midnight.
The elder Ladybug and Chat sighed in relief. "Oh thank god: we're idiots, he's always here. Hello Fuu!" She said happily.
Fuu looked extremely surprised.
"Got caught in a time portal. Ended up here, these two are here with us too." Elder-Chat steam rolled into saying, pointing behind him to the wondering nervous children.
"So that is why." Fuu pondered, but allowed them in.
"Xièxiè," Elder-Chat noted absentmindedly as they were let in.

They were set up in a sparse room with an olden record player on the far table. The elders sat down in relief, while the youngers hung back nervously.
Fuu smiled at them. "Come in children, I won't bite." He said sagely.
This caused Wayzz to wake up and fly over to his long-time friend. "That's strange." The turtle muttered. "There's two of them." He remarked.
Fuu looked to Wayzz in wonder, but looked back when he heard two miraculous beeping in alarm.
The elders looked to the children who flinched.
"Might as well change over, kids." Fuu said with a smile.
In their places was a young Marinette and Adrien, both looking flustered and tired.
"Hello," They both said nervously to each other and to the others in the room.
Just as suddenly there were elders Marinette and Adrien as well, looking just as worn out and tired.
Wayy gave a saddened look towards Elder-Adrien as if sensing someone else with him, but he turned to Elder-Marinette and motioned to her purse. She nodded and encouraged Nooroo out.
"Oh, my old friend, where did you wander off too?" Fuu asked, seeing the nervous butterfly.
Nooroo suddenly realised where he was, and flew off to nuzzle Fuu.
"Fuu…!" The butterfly squeaked, as the man cupped his friend.
"He's from our timeline. He stays with Mari. For some reason he didn't want to go back." Elder-Adrien told him.
Fuu nodded, and smiled at the butterfly friendly.

"Do you mind if we stay here, Master Fuu?" Elder-Adrien asked. "We don't want to be much trouble, but we can't exactly go home." He said.
Fuu blinked. "You're stuck here?" He asked.
Elder-Marinette sighed. "For now, until the Vortex turns up again. We can't go home because," She points to her younger self. "She lives there with her parents, and they'll ask questions they can't know the answers to yet. And we can't go to the Agreste Mansion, because neither us or Adrien want to walk into Papillon…" Elder-Marinette started.
Fuu looked startled. "Chat's father is Papillon?" He asked.
Both males nodded, one anxiously, the other sadly.

"Therein lies the question of what we do about that. Getting to Papillon early has pros and cons, for everyone." Elder-Adrien stated, getting out what looked like a piece of string and fiddling with it absentmindedly.
Fuu nodded and looked grave. "You are welcome to stay here for the nights ahead. Just take precautions in getting home before people check up on you in the mornings." Fuu told them.
Marinette sighed and got out her phone to alert her when to wake up, while Adrien did the same.

As they settled in, Fuu left to go back to bed, the younger Adrien would actually now only get a few hours' sleep (if any at all), before he needed to bail and get back to his house in time for Nathalie to notice him to wake up, Marinette was a little luckier, she guessed she could leave for her house half hour before school started before her parents checked on her to see if she were dead or alive. She looked between the two Adrien's in concern. Her mind wouldn't settle on what would actually happen if they outed his father as Papillon. The elder said something about skipping prison meetings, which could only mean his father rightfully went to prison, which would mean Adrien was parentless. At her point in time that would probably cause a concern, but by looking at what information she was able to put together about where they came from, the elder Adrien no longer lived full time in that big mansion by himself, but lived with her at the bakery. He apparently loves cookies in the morning, her cookies in the morning, which probably meant they had taken over the bakery, and either her parents were retired or no longer in the picture too much or not at all. Her elder self still apparently made clothing because she saw her signature on the black shirt Elder-Adrien wore, as well as the shoulder cape. She narrowed her eyes at the pair as she thought: they were either expecting a child or thinking about actually having one, they didn't already have one because they were scared about raising one.
This hurt her head a little.
(but oh-my-god-children-with- Adrien!)
But she was glad that somewhere in her future she was able to stop stuttering around Adrien, and apparently her feelings were returned so much that the two in front of them were actually married, still fighting crime, and worrying over child raising. What she was worried about were the current-day consequences for Adrien.

She looked over to Elder-Adrien, and walked over to him. She reached out for his shirt and tugged a few times, not quite sure how to initiate a conversation with him.
He blinked and looked down at her in surprise. "Hello, Princess." He said with a smile.
"H-hi…um…" She started, internally cringing as she stuttered.
He blinked again, but smiled encouraging at her. "You can do it." He told her, and waited patiently.
"Um…How's…How's…uh…Is he g-going to be alright?" She barely got out.
He grinned proudly at her. "Told you, you could do it!" He praised, and she giggled faintly. She watched as he looked over to his younger self as he got ready to bunk down and try to sleep, with a Mother-Hen watching his every move protectively. "I think he'll be fine as long as you don't desert him, he really needs you, both as 'just Marinette', as you would say, and as Ladybug." He told her.
She blinked. "Why would I desert him?" She asked with a frown.
He continued to smile. "It was a fear I had, still have actually, that because of who my father is, that you'll one-day leave because of it." Adrien told her.
She stared at him in a stupor. "…You realize that's stupid, right?" She asked, not stuttering once.
He grinned proudly at her for not stuttering, then shrugged. "It's a nightmare I can't shift. My Lady wakes me up from it when I have it, tells me I'm an idiot, then waits for me to fall back asleep before going back to sleep herself." He confided in her.
She blinked. "Y-you really l-love her, huh?" She asked faintly.
Adrien blinked down at her fondly. "Of course, Princess, always have. And it was never because she was Ladybug. It was because she believed I wasn't the one who stuck gum onto her chair, and that she took my umbrella and never gave it back. Finding out that My Lady and Princess were one and the same girl meant everything to me, but even if they weren't I would have my Princess without her Ladybug powers any day." Adrien told her.
Marinette stared at him. "E-Even now?" She asked, hopeful.
Her voice made him smile encouragingly. "Even now, Princess. Ladybug is an idol; Adrien loves the Lady underneath the mask. He tries to get Ladybug's attention because he doesn't know who's under the mask: he's always wanted the attentions of the Lady underneath; it'll shift to you now he knows. You'll start to notice he'll try to be around you more, but he'll never push you." He told her. Marinette blinked, as if she couldn't believe what he was telling her. Someone's alarm beeped midnight, and he gently pushed her to where his Lady had lain out a bed for her. "Time to sleep, Princess." He told her.
She nodded dimly and went over to the bed, to settle down as she took of her purse and laid it next to her with an already sleeping Tikki inside. She looked over to Adrien who looked asleep, and noticed that his kwami was nuzzled under his chin protectively.
She wondered if he would get any sleep at all.

*throws story at you* IS THIS FLUFFY ENOUGH?!
And guess where the Peacock Miraculous is at! It's in there! I'll literally give you a preview of the next chapter if you can find it!