Adrien woke up to the feeling of someone tapping on his arm. He blearily opened his green eyes to be met with gray ones. He smiled at the little girl and her bed head; it reminded him of his when he would first get out of bed. He yawned and checked his phone; there was still fifteen more minutes left on the timer.
"What is it, Evangeline," he whispered.
"Can we play tea party now," she said in a normal voice.
"Shhhh, Mari and Remy are still sleeping," he shushed.
"But you promised," she whined quietly.
"I know, I know. We can't play in here; let's go to Mari's room ok?"
"Ok, the tea set is in the chest but it's down at the bottom."
"Let's just take it with us then."
Adrien gently eased his way off the couch and took the toy chest and Evangeline up to Marinette's room. A few minuets later, Marinette woke up and saw that she was alone in the living room with no Evangline or Adrien in sight. She noticed that Remy was awake, too.
"Well, hello Remy. Did you have a good nap?"
She quickly changed his wet diaper and then she heard noises coming from her room. She carefully climbed her way up with Remy in her arms. When she opened the hatch, she saw Evangeline wearing a fancy hat she kept in her dress up trunk along with gloves and a feather boa. A tea party was set up and at the other side was Adrien wearing a top hat and jacket and a green scarf. He turned and smiled at Marinette.
"Ah, my Lady! Come join us," he said with a British accent.
"No please, don't let me interrupt," giggled Marinette as she sat at her desk watching.
"More tea Sir Chat," asked Evangeline in a snotty voice holding the tea pot.
"Why thank you, Lady Bug," answered Adrien in his accent holding his cup out.
Marinette giggled at the sight of them and that same warm feeling from before filled her chest.
"Do you want a break," she asked.
"No it's ok," he answered.
"Can we play dress up," cried Evangeline.
"I don't think I look good in a dress," said Adrien.
"Don't worry, there's items for gentlemen," said Marinette. "Say Evangeline, did you know that Adrien plays dress up for a living?"
"He does?! Come on! I'll pick a suit for you!"
Adrien looked at Marinette with a pleading expression. But she just smiled and bounced Remy on her knee. Evangline came back and made Adrien throw on random pieces of clothes. It was the most random fashion show he ever took part in and Marinette laughed and took pictures. No one would believe her if she told them that Adrien wore such garish clothes. She then began to smell something from Remy.
"Uh oh, I think someone's got a stinky diaper," she said in a baby voice.
Adrien never heard her talk like that and he found it quite cute.
"Um, Adrien," she asked nervously.
"Yes, Princess?"
"Can you run down and get his diaper bag? I don't want to try to climb down with him in my arms."
"Right, be right back."
After Adrien left, she got Evangeline to clean up and set her up to color. When he returned, Marinette began to change Remy's diaper. Adrien looked on with curious intent. She laid him down so gently with grace on the mat she laid out.
"You ever seen someone change a diaper," asked Marinette.
"Not really," he answered.
"Ok, but I gotta warn you, this won't be pretty."
"Why?"
She opened the dirty diaper, Adrien was met with a smell worse than Camembert and he immediately gagged.
"That's why. Don't feel bad, I hear most father's act this way when they face a poopy diaper."
Adrien's face went red when she mentioned the word "father". He watched her clean Remy up and put cream on a red spot and put on a clean diaper. She quickly placed the dirty wipes inside the dirty diaper and wrapped it up within the dirty diaper. She held it out to Adrien who just stood there.
"What," he asked.
"Can you dispose of this please?"
"WHAT?! I am not touching that!"
"Oh please, it's all wrapped up it won't hurt you. Please just throw it away and wash your hands if it makes you feel better."
Adrien reluctantly took the diaper with two fingers and held it far away from himself and left the room. Marinette shook her head and returned her attention to Remy.
"There we go, all better," she said smiling at him and making funny faces causing Remy to giggle. Evangeline rushed over to see what was happening.
"I can make Remy laugh, too!"
Evangeline made a face and Remy laughed. While Evangeline kept her brother busy, Marinette cleaned herself up and stood back and watched them. Part of her wished she had a younger sibling growing up, but babysitting like this made up for it. She went back to the kids and went back to making faces at Remy who was laughing at them. Adrien finally returned to see the silly spectacle. He smiled at the sight and wished he had siblings to do this with. Suddenly, he got an idea. With a Chat Noir like grin, he snuck up behind Evangeline and tickled her. She shrieked in delight.
"Noooooo...hehehehehe!"
"Tickle Monster has you now," Adrien cackled. He then eyed Remy. "What's this? Another victim of the Tickle Monster!"
Adrien took his other hand while still holding Evangline and tickled Remy's stomach. The baby giggled and cooed and Marinette laughed.
"Adri! I need to go potty!"
"Alright, go on then," he said as he released her.
Evangline left the room and that gave Marinette and Adrien a chance to catch their breaths.
"You're so good with them. You're gonna be a great dad one day," smiled Marinette.
That statement made Adrien blush and relieved; she had just made him feel sure about a part of his future that he was worried about. Although, he wouldn't have been worried about it so much if he wasn't helping her babysit. He decided to return the favor.
"Thanks. You make an amazing mother, Marinette."
Now Marinette's face turned red. Before she could say anything, Evangline came running and jumped on Adrien's back.
"Horsey," she cried.
"Evangline, let's give Adrien a break. I'll play horsey with you," said Marinette.
"Noooo! I want to play with Adri!"
"If it's what the Lady wants, who am I to deny," smiled Adrien.
He jumped up and bounced Evangline up and down and ran around the room. The little girl laughed her head off at the horse noises he made. Marinette laughed as well and before she had a chance to stop, her next words spilled out.
"Daddy sure is funny isn't he?" Adrien stopped and looked at her with a surprised face. "I mean, Adrien is funny," she tried to correct.
The damage though was done; Adrien gapped at Marinette as she turned her gaze to Remy to coo at him. Evangeline was not happy that her "horse" stopped moving.
"Daddy! Keep going!"
"It's Adrien, Evangline," Marinette corrected.
Adrien felt it best to wait after the kids left to address the slip up. Suddenly, Marinette got a message from the kids mother that she was on her way to pick them up. They made quick work on cleaning up their mess and made sure they got everything packed away. Both Marinette and Adrien were at the door greeting the mother.
"Thank you so much for watching them. If you had told me you had a study date, I would have found someone else."
"It's fine, we had fun though," said Marinette.
"I like Adri! Can he come play with me sometime?!"
"We'll see," smiled Adrien.
"Remy had two diaper changes and he finished his bottle before his nap," said Marinette giving a rundown of how it went.
"Did you get Evangeline to nap?"
"Yeah, she slept about 45 minutes," said Adrien.
"Good. Now Marinette, I know you don't usually charge for this but I still want to pay you back some how and given this handsome young man here, this might work."
The mother gave them a voucher for a free large ice cream sundae at a local ice cream parlor.
"Oh, we can't take this," tried Marinette.
"I insist, and I would feel insulted if you didn't use it for your next date with your boyfriend. I can always ask your mother to make sure. You two enjoy the rest of your day!"
The mother left the two teenagers dumbstruck. Even though they knew their hero identity, they had yet to determine what they were outside of that. Marinette still harbored a crush on Adrien and Adrien liked Marinette but both were too nervous to take things further. But after today, hearing Marinette call Adrien "daddy" the way she did helped him make a decision, but knew he needed to talk to her first.
"Let's use it now; I think we need to talk about somethings," he said grabbing his and her jacket and purse."