Disclaimer-I don't own Miraculous Ladybug or anything involved in it.
Warning-Fluff, tooth rotting fluff, some family fluff, some love fluff, but this is fluff. Also some attempts at humor, but mostly fluff.
Summary- Chat wanted some Macaroons, and after feeding a stray cat they keep coming back. After a while he's introduced to the rest of the family as Marinette's boyfriend. One shots of there relationship, not chronological or anything, but all the same overarching story.
Note- I wanted pure Marichat fluff, so I'm making pure Marichat fluff. No angst, no big drama, just two dorks dating and Marinette's supportive parents.
Also I'll just say this, no sin will be shown, but it's going to be referenced in later-time stories, because that's what happens when two growing teens love each other.
Final pre-story note, I'm going to try to be vague with time, I mean sure I'll give the day of the week or what time of day it is, and I do plan on making a timeline at the bottom, but as for how long between any 2 chapters, whether it's 2 weeks or 2 years, I'm not going to specify that normally.
Chat Noir becoming her friend was both completely unexpected and completely predictable. Unexpected because he had just randomly landed on her roof one night while she was up late sewing, she had happened to hear him, and when she went to see what was up he had(impulsively) asked for something to snack on. There was no plan or desire on either of there ends to be friends. On the other hand a cat had landed on her roof and she had fed it, of course he'd come back and of course she wouldn't be able to resist getting closer to him.
Another very predictable thing was as they grew closer the visits grew to be more organized and involved, what had started as him just stopping by for a snack and nice company had turned into night long play-dates of them watching movies, playing games, or just talking(Chat was surprisingly gossipy).
However a much more unexpected thing were her feelings for him growing accordingly. She wouldn't say she had an Adrian size crush on him or anything, but the feelings were there, still growing, and they needed to be dealt with one way or the other. Or at least that's what she had finally been able to convince herself after a few weeks of internal freaking out.
And all that boiled together brought her to tonight, Tuesday, she and Chat needed to have a serious talk about how they were going to act moving forward because the impromptu and secret nights, while fun, were unsustainable and they needed to figure out what to do going forward.
So she had texted him earlier to come one of these nights for like half an hour to talk. Plagg had texted back that tonight worked fine for them at around 8, Chat had informed her about Plagg a few weeks back after she had kept asking why his texts were sometimes perfect right down to punctuation, and sometimes just barely this side of legible. He had explained that Plagg was a being that lived in his Miraculous and handled its features, like the phone and such, when he was in his civilian form(and Plagg was to lazy to bother with making things understandable apparently). After her asking in concern he had also told her that Plagg had no problem transforming and, as long as Chat wasn't stressing to much or using his powers the little being, as he described Plagg, could just sleep and ignore them so he was mostly fine with these play-dates(Tikki had backed this up thankfully).
A light tapping on her trapdoor told her Chat was there and without thought she called out for him. "Come in Alley Cat before you're stolen."
"Stolen from my Purr-incess? Never!" Came his voice, fake affronted, as he opened her trap door and easily jumped down, landing without a hair out of place. He was near instantly by her side on her bed and sat down looking kind of nervous. Understandable she didn't normally tell him to come over, typically just waiting for him, and had never told him they needed to talk before either keeping things light between them or keeping heavier conversations to more happenstance and unpersonal topics.
"Nothing bad Chat. I'm sorry if I worried you, but I meant it when I said we just need to talk."
"Alright, talk about what?" he asked looking slightly more confident.
"Chat, before I lose my nerve I'll be blunt, this isn't going to keep working like it is right now, not forever." she reached over grabbing his arm as he looked like he was going to start getting worked up. "Calm down Ally Cat, I don't mean this needs to stop or anything, just that we need to think this through a bit. You can't just pop in at all hours, hiding from my parents and friends, stopping me from doing work and ignoring your own life just to have fun. Instead we need to plan this out more, make this more fair, for both of us.
And I'm thinking of 3 thing we need to decide on."
Looking better, and more thoughtful Chat nodded "3 things, I'm guessing timing is one of them?" He asked as a point she was bringing up, and he agreed with but had been stead fast ignoring until now, was that just stopping by whenever stopped her from being with her friends and family.
She chuckled and reached over petting him between his cat ears(they flicked like real cat ears to much to her delight, she didn't know how what were clearly pieces of shaped leather that clip onto his hair moved, but she found it incredibly cute) much to his obvious pleasure.
"Kind of, the first thing I was thinking is actually much more simple, I want to tell my parents."
Now that visibly threw him for a loop, and he quickly vocalized the thought "telling other people never even occurred to me, the whole super-hero thing is all secret and trying to keep people we like safe and all."
She answered with a smile "That's true on it's own merits and a very good argument wy no one should know who you are under the mask, but I don't think telling them is any worse then you coming over for me, and if you even suggest not coming over because your afraid of that after all this time I will find you and skin you Alley Cat." he flinched at that, he didn't know how some 5′5″ girl he was convinced couldn't be even 100 pounds could make a threat sound so real, but she managed it.
She continued without reacting to that though "But this does solve most of our other issue's, if my parents know then keeping it a secret from people outside is much easier, meanwhile we don't have to run around all the time just to stop them from finding out. And I'm sure there will be questions but I'm also sure that once they realize you're not a threat, or trying to seduce me or something, they'll be all on board."
Chat choked a bit when she said 'seduce' but she ignored that as well, for a well built man that ran around in what looked like skin tight leather he was amazingly innocent even by her standards and she had been regularly told by her family, Alya, Nino, and even Tikki how innocent she could be.
"The second thing are rules, we need some rules we both agree on so we aren't always tip-toeing around each other trying not to say the wrong thing. I think the two obvious ones are no prying about secrets and no lying."
"Can't help but feel those are a bit contradictory Princess." he said slightly amused but still clearly thinking everything she was saying over.
"Not if we are honest Chat. I'll never ask about what you do when you're not in my house or on public TV, and if I ever accidentally ask a question that's to close or you feel uncomfortable with you just say 'I won't answer that', and it'll be the same in reverse you don't ask anything about me that's not from here or something I would talk about in school, and if you ever poke at something you shouldn't I'll say so. And as long as we aren't like cheating on our dates or kicking puppies, then if we do find out anything about each other we aren't suppose to later, like who you are under that mask, we won't get upset we didn't tell each other, because we are agreeing right now, no matter what even if I'm Ladybug and you're 10 years older then me or whatever, we won't get mad."
He smiled a bit ruefully "seems like that could be a hard purr-omise to keep"
With a small eye roll she answered him "of course, but it being hard doesn't make it any less important or real."
He sighed and was silent for a few seconds "That might come back to bite us in the future, but so far I'm willing to agree to all of this as long as you really think we can make it work, but what's number 3? Seems like 1 and 2 covered everything I can think of, can't even think of other rules I'd really pick besides the obvious 'don't tell anyone else' and 'try to always call ahead'."
She took a deep breath, come on Marinette take the plunge!
"3 is pretty different, and related to 1. How should I introduce you?"
He looked at her confused "As Chat Noir I'd guess? That's the point of introducing me at all right?"
She just stopped another chuckle from getting out of her, OK taking the plunge was harder then it sounded but here she goes. "No Chat, I mean should I introduce you as a friend or something... more." She leaned into him slightly, putting her hand into his as he low-key froze.
"M-mo-more?" He stuttered out, "You mean like...DATING? Don't you have a crush and I have Ladybug and."
She cut him off there "Yes like dating, or close to it.
I know you like Ladybug and I'm springing this on you suddenly, I'm not asking for your answer this second, that's why I told you this is a quick talk, so you can leave afterwards and think this through before answering me, all I ask for is that you give me an answer before meeting my parents."
She waited a few seconds letting that sink in before continuing. "As for my crush" who he didn't actually know the name off, just that it existed, thankfully. "Yeah I still like him, a lot. But you and him are different. With him it was like...an explosion, in fact I distinctly remember there being a thunderclap when it happened, he did something nice for me and he was there and handsome and it was all to much for me. It still is in some ways, I have trouble talking to him, I lose focus thinking about him, I get overwhelmed just being near him, and that's never going to work.
With you it's more like fire. I feel warm when you're around, only a little at first, but more and more as time goes by it's hotter and hotter. I laugh a bit easier when you're around, I smile a bit more, bad things just don't get to me as much, I like you being around, warming me. But that's why I need you to tell me if I have a chance now, so I can stop the fire before it burns me if you say no."
It was silent for a solid minute as Chat digested that, and Marinette tried to control the heat rising in he cheeks(she sounded like such a dork, talking about explosions and fire, God she hoped she didn't just screw everything up, stupid, STUPID).
"If it burns you if I say no, what if I say yes?" asked the super-hero.
She couldn't tell if he was just buying for time, flirting, or genuinely curious about her answer, but she was in this far. "It'd still burn, but it'd be a good burn, like when you're to cold then you walk into someplace hot and it burns as you heat up but it feels so good to get feeling back into you."
That got a smile on his face again "How poetic Princess. You do know this could all go wrong right, even as is it can all go wrong much less adding a relationship on top of it."
He wasn't saying no, but she was trying not to get her hopes up just yet "Of course it can go wrong, or it can go right. Maybe we end up like my parents who fell in love, dated, married, and that's that, or maybe we end up like Kim's mom, you remember Dark Cupid? Yeah that's Kim, his mother has had 2 ex-husbands and third long term ex-boyfriend, she just can't seem to make it work. But she was still happy, she has good memories of them, she has a son she absolutely loves, so while it went wrong, she won't even talk about Ex-1, and I'm sure it hurt, it was also good for her, and it was fun.
But we only find out if both of us decide we like each other, and we are willing to see." Her eyes widened a bit at how forceful that sounded and she took her hand back and waved both of her hands for a moment "Not that you need to say yes or anything, there's no shame in saying no, I mean I'd like for you to say yes but I don't want to force you to say"
She stopped her rambling(and intense internal panicking) when the hand that had been in Chat's hand was suddenly grabbed out of the air, and was calmly returned to Chat's side, once more being help by Chat as he smile at her, wider then he had at any other point that night.
"Princess, Marinette, I don't need to think about it, my answer is yes. I like you a lot, I'm not saying I'm over Ladybug or anything, but bashing my head against the wall trying to get her attention is only hurting us all, especially when I know that even if she loved me back she'd still say no just to protect both of our identities.
And I do like you, I wouldn't be coming over here so much if I didn't. Not sure about the whole 'fire' thing" he said teasingly making her huff a bit "but you make my day better to, I miss you when we aren't together and I just feel better when we are. So while it might be crazy and I have no idea what My Lady would say, my answer is yes, let's see if we can't make this work and see what we discover along the way."
He said yes.
That was all that ran through her head for a bit, she had hoped he would, thought me might, but she had always been pretty convinced that he wouldn't, he loved Ladybug not normal Marinette, she had just been waiting for the confirmation.
But he said yes and she was stunned, and just a bit warmer.
"What's wrong Purr-incess cat got your tongue." he teased lightheartedly when she didn't respond after a minute. Of course the tables were almost immediately turned on him when Marinette suddenly turned towards him, reached up, and kissed his cheek, holding his shoulder. His resulting blush was only a few shades shy of Ladybug's outfit.
"Nope, I caught the cat today, not the other way around." she said with a wide smile, not even truly noticing the profound effect she had on him with such a simple action, not that night anyways.
But she sighed after a minute coming down just a bit as reason returned to her and she saw the clock "This is great and all My Knight, but I only asked for you to be over for like half an hour and we are already 5 minutes over that, so I'm sure you have other plans. Text me later and we'll set up meeting the parents."
That got Chat's attention in a much more unpleasant way. She didn't know what he had planned but he clearly had other things planned for after this talk was over. "Sorry Princess but you are right I need to leave right now, see you soon."
And with a chaste kiss to her forehead(and more then a bit of blushing on her part) Chat was gone, out of her room before her human eyes could even blink.
She stayed there for a moment, just unmoving as it all hit her. She had confessed, Chat had said yes, she had kissed Chat's cheek and he had kissed her forehead.
Then she flung herself backwards onto her bed, reached over and grabbed a pillow before grabbing it, hugging it, pushing her face into it, and squealing so loudly that if her parents hadn't been watching a movie they'd have surely heard her.
So just a few days later on a Friday the day had come and she introduced Chat to her parents. She had told them she was bringing someone 'special' to dinner, and had come down with Chat Noir.
They had been understandably shocked but had rolled with it remarkably well, pulling out a seat for the super hero and the 4 of them had just talked and ate, enjoying themselves.
She had told her parents about Chat coming around more and more and the two of them finally deciding to make it more official and introducing him to her parents. They never exactly used the word boyfriend, but Tom and Sabine got the idea pretty quickly.
Sabine pulled Marinette aside and after a quick assurance that everything was fine and yes she honestly liked Chat and no they weren't rushing things, Sabine reminded her daughter where the condoms were, much to said daughters utter mortification.
Tom didn't do any such thing to either of them, just that at the end of that first stay, sharing numbers and promising to always call in advance by at least a bit and also always call ahead if he had to cancel, Tom simply said he hoped they were both happy, at least for a while, much to Marinette's embarrassment and Chat's gratitude.
So started Marinette's and Chat's relationship, filled with stories to tell.
I wanted fluffy Marichat, so I wrote fluffy Marichat, or at least the start of fluffy Marichat.
And as you may have noticed just like how Chat calls Marinette "Princess" in this story she calls him "Alley Cat', just a bit of tit-for-tat there, although this is also the first time she's ever called him "My Knight", but it will not be the last I promise.
I will continue this but I promise nothing else, I may write the next chapter this week, or in 3 months, it may only be a few paragraphs it may be longer then this chapter, I don't know, I have some idea's but nothing for certain yet.
Unrelated note but I write much more, and much better, when utterly exhausted but just not able to sleep. I need to do a lot of editing the next day, and it's still not perfect, but I'd never even get that far if not for writing while tired.
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