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"So, what now?" asked Adrien. "Are you going to tell your parents?"
Marinette shook her head. "Not yet. I want to be sure that the implantation holds first." She swallowed hard at the thought that it might not. Adrien squeezed her hand reassuringly.
"So, when then?" he asked.
"After the first appointment," Marinette said after some thought.
"Next two weeks?" Adrien said and then nodded. "Fair enough mi'lady. That'll give us some time to 'catch back up with each other 'in front of everyone else"
"You think we should?" asked Marinette.
"Mari," said Adrien, "I'm not leaving you now. We don't have to get together but I will be your other best friend for life. That's our child and I'm not ever going to be a distant father." He looked away.
Marinette gave a gasp as she realized what she had implied.
"Of course not Adrien! You could never be a distant father and I won't want you to be. You've already done so much for this baby already. You're not going to be like your father. You're too warm-hearted for that Kitty."
The tense line in Adrien's shoulders slowly eased as she spoke. He turned his head and gave her a wobbly little smile.
"Thank you, Adrien," she said slowly and clearly, "for being so sensitive about my situation. You're already my other best friend for life. And the best partner anyone could have. There's no one else I'd rather have back-up on for parenthood."
That startled a laugh out of him. "I'll always be your back-up Bug!" He told her cheerfully, "Dirty diapers and all!"
"Be careful," Marinette warned him," "I'll hold you to that!"
"Cats always land on their feet!" he reminded her, "Even in smelly situations!" She laughed and hooked her arm through his.
"Let's get food. I'm starving and in the mood for chicken soup."
"I'm a growing model," he told her with a wink, "I need more than soup."
Two weeks later Adrien dropped her hand off at her apartment and followed her carefully up the stairs.
"Stop motherhenning," she told him, "I'm pregnant, not an invalid."
"Mothercatting," he corrected her even as he raised his hands in surrender. Marinette stomped to her door and jammed the key in. She loved her partner, she did but if he kept hovering like he had the last two weeks she was going to jail for murder.
"I'm mad at you," she announced as she entered the apartment. "Just so you know."
"You would leave this poor kitty out in the rain?" He said blinked his green eyes at her morosely from the doorway.
"The sun is shining," Marinette told him and slammed the door. She walked to her bedroom kicked off her shoes and collapsed gratefully on her bed.
Ten minutes later she couldn't take the quiet and grumbled her way of the bed and opened her apartment door. Adrien gave her a smug smile from where he was leaning against the wall.
"Wipe that smirk of your face and get in here!" She told him.
"Anything for you mi lady," he quipped following her inside. Despite his words he was still smirking.
Marinette made a bee line for her bed and lay back down facing the doorway.
Adrien kicked off his shoes, stole her other pillow and sat on the floor with it so that he could see her face.
After a moment, she sighed and rested her hand on her stomach.
"I'm glad the baby is okay," she said. "This is the only child I can have. I don't know how I could bear it if I lost it."
"Me too," said Adrien, "it's the only child I can have too."
Marinette frowned. "Wait, what do you mean Kitty?"
He gave her a little smile. "My miraculous," he said, "Bad luck, power of destruction. Wielding it for so long well," he shrugged, "I can't have children anymore."
Marinette gaped at him. "Why didn't you tell me Kitty!"
"I didn't want to force your decision," he said lightly.
"But, but!" she sputtered. She wanted to shake him. "It's your life too! You deserve a say! If I didn't love you so much I would smack you!"
She slipped off the bed and kneeled next to him, resting her hands on his shoulders. "Don't ever do anything like that again Kitty," she said, eyes filling with tears. "Do you think I would ever want you hurt like that? I never, never want you hurt like that. Do you know how much it would hurt me to know you gave up something like that because of me? You're my best friend Adrien! It would hurt both of us the same. That's what best friend means."
"I'm sorry Mari!" he said stricken.
"Don't apologize to me you silly Kitty!" she said and hugged him. "Just, just take care of yourself too. Let me take care of you too. We watch each other's backs remember?"
He hugged her back tightly. "I remember," he whispered, "and I won't forget."
Marinette hugged him tighter.
When they finally calmed down, Adrien asked. "So, when are you going to tell them?"
Marinette twirled a strand of hair around her finger. "I think tomorrow if that's good for you."
Adrien checked his calendar. "No engagements tomorrow," he announced after a moment. "Free and clear. I'm all yours mi'lady!"
"I thought you were already mine," she teased.
He gave her a classic Chat wink. "I just like to remind you!"
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