Pretty, Shining Hearts

By: QueenofHearts7378

DISCLAIMER: I, QUEENOFHEARTS7378, IN NO WAY CLAIM THESE CHARACTERS AS MY OWN. THEY BELONG TO NO-SPOILER MAN THOMAS ASTRUC.

Marinette loved going to the park. The sun shined down, warming her up on colder mornings, the grass tickled when she rolled in it, and there was always a new friend to be made and a kid to play with.

Today was no different. She had rushed away from her mother's hands giggling when she saw the swing sets. They were always full of kids the last few times she came here. Today only one played on them, leaving the other for her to swing on.

Her mother just smiled and went to sit down by the fountain, where another lady was sitting. Soon the two were talking like they were best friends.

Marinette didn't pay much attention though. She jumped on the swing, landing on her belly. The air was forced out of her, but she soon recovered and kicked herself forward. Her hair covered her eyes for a moment as she backwards. Fingers trailed in the dirt as she waited to fly forward again.

She kept flying, kicking against the ground to go higher and faster. Her fingers making pretty patterns in the ground as she flew back and forth.

She was so lost in the fun that she didn't hear the kid beside her trying to talk to her till she kicked him in the stomach.

Marinette fell out of the swing, gasping. She scrambled up to her feet and turned to see a blonde boy on the ground behind her.

"I'm sorry! I'm really really really sorry! Are you ok? Are you breathing? Do you need a doctor? Are you dying?!" She started to squeal, her voice getting louder with every question.

Her fears were calmed when he started giggling. The boy rolled over on his stomach and looked up at her with sparkling green eyes. "You sure do ask a lot of questions."

Marinette squatted down to look at him, "So you are ok?"

"Yeah!" He stood up, brushing himself off, "Nothing can harm me! I'm as fur-ro-si-us as a lion!" He put up his hands in the air and tried to growl at her.

Marinette only crossed her arms and looked him up and down, "I don't know….you look more like a kitten to me!"

She giggled as his hands and mouth dropped, "What! I am not!"

She fully laughed this time, "Whatever you say Kitty."

He frowned at her, before smirking. "Well you look a lot like a princess. But I didn't know a princess could kick that hard."

Marinette just scoffed, "I'm not a princess. I'm a lady. Ladies are allowed to kick butt. At least that's what mama says."

The boy smiled and then gave her a dramatic bow, "I'm sorry, my lady." He stood back up and gave her a grin, "I was just asking if you wanted to play with me?"

Marinette tapped her chin pretending to think, "Weeeeeelllllll…." She shuffled a couple steps towards him and innocent look on her face.

He stumbled in surprise when she poked his shoulder and took off, shouting "YOU'RE IT!" behind her.

The two chased each other all over the park. They ran in between couples and past the fountain. They swerved around the trees and jumped on the benches. They squealed and laughed and giggled and screeched as they chased each other, tagging each other over and over again. Finally they collapsed in a heap of giggles, in a partially hidden grove.

When their mirth finally calmed they looked up and grinned at each other. Two bright glows caught their eyes.

Marinette gasped as she could suddenly see a beautiful, little green heart materialize from the boy's chest. It pulsed gently, reminding the girl of springtime. It reminded her of rain and fresh grass and baby animals coming out to play.

She became mesmerized by the sight. Marinette just wanted to reach out and touch it, to see if it was just as warm as the boy she had played with.

She came back to earth as the boy gasped and pointed to her. "I can see your heart! It's so pretty!"

She looked down and sure enough, she had her own glowing heart. The only difference was hers was a gorgeous pink, like the flowers her papa gives to mama on holidays.

She looked back up to see the boy altering between ogling her pink heart and his own green one. The two hearts seemed to beat at the same time before they disappeared from sight.

Marinette blinked, already missing the sight of the boy's bright green heart.

Said boy whined at the now lost sight, "Awww, where'd it go?"

Marinette heard her mama calling for her in the distance. It must have been time to go home.

Marinette stood up and helped the boy to his feet. "I gotta go, but it was fun playing with you! We should play again!"

The boy looked hopefully at her, "Really? Yeah! We should! I bet I can get mama to come back over here."

"Oh!" The boy bounced forward and grabbed her hand. Then he kissed it and looked at her with those sparkling green eyes. "That's what you're supposed to do when you meet a lady right?"

Marinette found herself giggling again and pushed his face away with her hand. "That's not what kitties do silly!"

She turned around to start racing back to her mother, but spared a wave back to the boy.

He waved back with a smile as bright as his heart had been moments before.

It was only later that she realized she didn't get his name, when her mother was tucking her into bed.

"Did you have a good day at the park?" She asked as she fitted the covers snug around her.

Marinette nodded and recited everything her and her new playmate did, from kicking him in the stomach to the game of tag up to when they were resting in the grove.

"-and then you'll never believe it mama! I could see his heart!"

Her mother stopped her there, a strange look on her face. "What was that sweetie?"

"I could see his heart! It was a really pretty green, like spring time. And it was so bright! And then he pointed at me and I could see my own heart. Oh it was so pretty mama! Kinda like the flowers papa always buys for you. It was pink and glowing and then they just kinda disappeared." Marinette looked up at her mother, "I was kinda sad to see them go, his heart was really pretty."

Sabine cupped her daughter's face, "What was his name?" She asked gently, planning to call the boy's mother and tell her of this development. She never wanted to see two soul mates split apart, and was determined to keep her daughter and this young boy close, no matter what they came to be in the future. Whether they became friends or so much more.

Sabine had the misfortune of seeing someone close to her be split apart from their soulmate. She would never wish that on her worst enemy.

Marinette opened her mouth, the frowned. "I….I don't know. I guess I forgot to ask. But I'll ask him tomorrow! We're supposed to play together again!" She looked up at her mother with shining eyes.

Sabine smiled back and kissed her on the forehead. Maybe there was still hope. "Sounds like a plan sweetheart."

The next day came and had Marinette bouncing for joy as she tugged her mother to the park. Plans of fun games to play with the blonde boy rushed through her head.

When they finally reached the park, Marinette tugged away from her mother to run to the swings. When she didn't find him there, she ran to the little grove they had found. Then to the fountain. Then to the carousal. Until she finally walked back to the swings.

Thinking he just wasn't there yet, she sat on one of the swings and waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Until the sun touched the rooftops and her mother was crouching in front of her.

"It's getting late Marinette. Time to go home." Sabine couldn't help but to look at her daughter with a sad smile.

"But I haven't….Where is he? He said he would come and play with me again?" Marinette slid off the swing and grabbed her mother's outstretched hand.

"I don't know. But why don't we try again tomorrow?"

And so they did. For five days, Marinette and her mother walked to the park and looked for the little blonde boy. With each do ay, Sabine lost hope that they would find him and Marinette smiled a little less.

On the sixth day, Marinette was walking between her parents. They were on their way to her first day of school and normally she would be excited. But she still had her mind on the boy with the shining green heart who never came to play with her again.

As they stopped and waited to cross the road, Marinette felt like someone was watching her and turned her head around.

A little down the street, on the other side, she saw a stern looking man in black holding the hand of a little blonde boy.

When she met the boy's eyes, she felt her heart stop a little as she saw the familiar green of her friend from the park. The eyes that shined with so much warmth and happiness were shattered. They reflected glassily back at her, and Marinette couldn't help but think of broken glass.

She wondered if his heart - that pretty, shining, springtime green heart - was just as shattered as his eyes.

Then the two were tugged in different directions and she hadn't seen him since.

That week Marinette learned about soulmates in school.

Her mother didn't leave her side while Marinette cried over her the soulmate she lost.

Over time, her memory failed her as she grew up and tried to hold onto the memory of the boy from the park. Until all she could remember was shattered green eyes, a nickname "Kitty", and a shining green heart.

*Taps fingers nervously* Heh, this was just sitting in my drive and I thought I'd post it. Kinda forgot I wrote it...

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