Adrien/Chat Noir

Adrien could barely contain his giddiness as he and Marinette walked into the school together for the second half of the day. Walking side by side, he kept letting his hand brush against hers as if it was an accident, but it was more like he just wanted to feel her next to him. He had to keep checking to make sure it was real, that all of this was real. He couldn't believe that he loved her and that she loved him back.

So they walked side by side, their hands a heartbeat apart, as they entered the school court yard. The sounds of feet shuffling arose from the students around them. Every eye turned toward them, whispers filling the air, as the couple strolled into school yard just inches apart.

Adrien kept glancing at Marinette, her warm smile, her rosy cheeks, her ebony hair. Every part of her glistened in the light of the court yard. He couldn't care less what the other students around him thought, but he had promised Marinette that they would keep their new relationship on the down low for a while. And with one disapproving look from Marinette, he remembered that they weren't on a rooftop scanning the city, even if he felt like he was looking as the stars.

Alya walked up to them, pulling Marinette away from him. Adrien watched as the girls moved away giggling. Alya kept glancing up at Adrien with wide eyes of exciting as she spoke to Marinette. Adrien looked away from the duo to see Nino walking toward him, the biggest grim on his face.

"Duude, I had no idea you had a thing for Marinette!" Nino was so loud that if the rest of the students had known, they did now.

"Nino!" Adrien hissed at his best friend. Adrien saw Alya and Marinette starring at them awestruck expressions. Adrien placed a hand on Nino's shoulder, pulling him away from everybody.

"Dude, keep it down," Adrien leaned in with a whisper, "I don't want the whole world to know."

"But bro what about that mystery girl you met online," Nino mentioned the lie Adrien had told when he had slipped up and started fawning over Ladybug. Adrien had luckily not said anything to revealing about it so he was able to cover it up. He had told Nino he'd met a girl online, who didn't know he was Adrien Agreste and all he knew was her username was L dybug88. It was such a bad lie, he had been sure Nino would catch on but he hadn't.

"Yeah, that girl," Adrien's eyes darted over at Marinette, "Turns out it was Marinette."

"Wow," Nino straightened up, "I never pegged Marinette as the online chatting type. I mean I knew she liked you,"

"Wait, you knew?!"

"Yeah, it was super obvious bro, like, stapled to your forehead obvious," Nino gave him a look of complete disbelief.

"Yeah well, imagine the hell Marinette will have to go through if my fangirls find out, If Chloe finds out. So try and keep it low key that we're a thing." Adrien wasn't completely lying. All these things were true. But if someone saw them together as Lady and Chat and noticed that those two were dating as well, their secret might be blown.

"You're right bro, Chloe and Sabrina will tear her up." Just as Nino said that, Chloe and Sabrina walked through the front gate of the school into the court yard. "Speak of the devil," Nino hissed under his breath taking a few steps back behind Adrien.

Chloe ran right up to him, throwing her arms around his neck, "Good afternoon lover, how is my favorite model." He heard her voice but he could feel Marinette's eyes on the back of his neck.

"Chloe stop,' he slowly and gently pushed her back by the shoulders. Chloe's face twisted into a little pout, her nose scrunching up like there was a foul smell in the air.

"Excuse me!" Chloe spat, shaking off Adrien's grasp. "You are mine!"

"No Chloe," Adrien said quietly, "I'm not yours. I have never been yours." Adrien heard Chloe gasp. But as every eye in the court yard turn toward the sound, Adrien saw tears well up in Chloe's eyes and not fake ones. She was genuinely starting to cry. Not those horribly loud fake sobs that she normally used to get attention. But just quiet, gentle sobs, ones that you could barely hear.

Adrien looked at the girl in front of him and saw an alternate version of himself. A version where he had simply accepted his father's abandonment, accepted the money and the bribes, all to fill the hole of him not being a real father. Getting every single thing you could possibly have but the one thing you really want, you can't buy with money.

These were all things he and Chloe shared. The only difference was that he had refused to accept those things in the place of his father's love as if they were good enough because they weren't. But Chloe had let those things replace her father's love. Now he saw how that had hurt her as he looked at the girl softly crying in front of him.

"Look Chloe," His voice was tender towards her, "There's some…

"You don't think I know that Adrien," her voice started to rise. "You don't think I know you're in love with someone else! I've known you for years Adrien. Of course I noticed when you started to smile more, started to laugh more," Chloe's voice faltered, "I could have anything I wanted but I… I could never have you." Then a sad grin fell across her face as she pushed passed Adrien.

Adrien turned around to see where she was going. He watched her as she suddenly stopped in front of Marinette. Adrien could everyone in the room tense up as Chloe stopped in front of her. He heard nothing but he saw Chloe's lips move and then she looked back at him for a second before she took off toward the classroom.

Right on que the warning bell went off causing the rest of the students to disperse toward the classroom. Adrien walked up to Marinette but neither one said anything. They just walked, stunned by what had happened, silently toward their classroom.

…..

Marinette/Ladybug

"You better take good care of him," The words were whispered so quietly that Marinette had almost missed them. They echoed in her ears as she watched Chloe walk away. She heard the bell ring and then she felt Adrien beside her. She had expected something from Chloe, it was only a fraction of the reason she wanted to keep their relationship quiet. Most of it was for Identity purposes. But she hadn't expected this. But complete surrender? From Chloe? Never in a million years would she have expected such a thing.

They went back to class without saying a thing, because there wasn't much to say. So they sat in class, the tension in the air so thick Marinette was sure there was a fog in the room. Everyone's eyes were on them during the entire class.

Afterwards Alya pulled Marinette to the side of the hall to finish their conversation. They waited for the rest of the class to pass by but just as the crowd of leaving students started to thin out, they noticed one straggler. Adrien was waiting at the end of the crowd for Marinette. Alya shot Marinette a teasing glance as Adrien walked up to them.

"So you're dating my girl huh?" Alya crossed her arms as she addressed Adrien. Marinette chuckled as she saw Adrien's cheek turn a bright red. The model just nodded as he looked over at Marinette. Marinette could feel her own cheeks grow warm as they shared a glance. They looked away from each other when they heard a loud scoffing noise coming from Alya.

"Am I interrupting something?" Alya teased, causing the two to blush. Then she turned toward Adrien, "Now listen up Agreste, my girl Marinette has been crushing on you for a while. So if you break her heart," Alya lifted her hand and made a fist, "I break you." Marinette watched all the color drain from Adrien's face as Alya shook her fist a little. Alya glanced back at Marinette with a grin and then stepped back from Adrien. She moved over to Marinette and two started laughing.

"What," Adrien said with a look of bewilderment. Marinette looked at Alya and the two started laughing again.

….

Marinette/Ladybug

"So what did you tell her when she asked," Chat Noir said as he swung through the air. Ladybug swung beside her boyfriend, maintain an even pace between the two.

"I told her that I bumped into you by chance at the café. That after we talked for a bit, we discovered our mutual affection for each other and decided to give it a shot," She explained to the boy with the cat ears. He landed swiftly on a building rooftop and turned toward her as she gracefully landed beside him.

"You realize that that doesn't sound like either of our personalities at all. You could barely speak to me coherently before yesterday and as for myself…" a slight tint or red flushed on Chat's cheeks under his mask..."

"You were so blinded by your feelings for Ladybug that you seemed completely oblivious to my feelings for you," Ladybug grinned as she leaned toward the cat.

"But I did know!" His eyes widened and his voice cracked, "I just thought would be cruel to lead you on if I was in love with another." Chat shuffled his feet awkwardly. Ladybug chuckled as she grabbed his hands, swinging them outward as she pulled him forward.

"That sure didn't stop Chat Noir from flirting with Marinette," Ladybug teased. She could see how awkward and flustered Chat was getting and she couldn't help but feel a little giddy that the shoe was on the other foot.

"I couldn't help it, you were just so cute when you were angrily ranting about my complete stupidity," he grinned, returning the teasing. She could see him start to recapture his cool composure and it was her turn to blush. She hadn't ever thought about how all those things she had complained to Chat about, she had been in fact directly telling to Adrien.

"I just can't believe you still liked me after all hearing all those awful things I had said about you." Ladybug admitted shyly. Suddenly Chat leaned down and gave her an eskimoe kiss, pressing his nose to hers. His grip tightened on her hands as he pulled her closer.

"How could I ever stop loving you and you're cute little freckles? Plus I had been pretty stupid for not seeing how you had always been there for me." Then he pressed his forehead to hers with a devilish grin on his face. She felt her heart leap in her throat. Maybe one day she would get used to those emerald green staring down at her with adoration. But for the moment, holding onto Chat's hands were the only thing keeping her from falling as a result of her weak knee he was giving her.

She felt more comfortable around Adrien knowing he was Chat Noir but she also felt a little more flustered around Chat knowing he was Adrien. She loved the boy and he knew it. But she knew he loved her too and they were only one day into their relationship.

So she mustered up the sass that she had always used to flirtatiously reject Chat before and turned it on its heels. With Chat's forehead against hers, she reached up and peck him gently on the lips holding the kiss for just a moment. Then she slowly pulled back, letting her lips linger just beneath his and then continued to pull away with her Cheshire smile.

"Hey," Chat whispered as he followed her forward, "That's mean. You shouldn't tease me like that."

"You started it," Ladybug chimed, just inches from him as he leaned into her. They had just started dating and yet here they were, acting as if they'd been dating for years. They had always been together and had loved each other for years. And almost every single day of that they had longed for a version of one another. Now that Chat was holding her, Ladybug had felt like she'd always been there, that she was always meant to be in his arms.

Suddenly they were interrupted by the sound of sirens and they were separated. Chat gave her his typical sly smile and a look that said 'let's go' before he turned to leap off the roof. But then Ladybug felt something. She paused and looked around curiously.

"What is it My Lady?" Chat looked back at her. He looked at her with confusion as she continued to look around.

"Nothing, it's just felt like we were being watched for a moment. But I'm It was nothing." She explained. Chat's face softened followed by a small chuckle.

"Well if it's nothing, then we need to go," Chat said being the responsible for once, "Crime awaits My Lady." He gestured a hand towards Ladybug with a short bow. She giggle taking his hand, offering a curtsy.

"Then we shan't keep it waiting sir," and with those words the two leapt off the building towards the sirens.

….

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"And you are sure you saw them together?" the cold raspy voice question. She smirked at the darkly suited villain. Hawkmoth's steely gaze always made her shiver but her face never showed it. She had a job to do.

"Even better, I saw them kiss," her words hissed to the evildoing master of hers. She watched the look on Hawk moth's face turn to confusion.

"How is that supposed to be beneficial to me at all?" Hawkmoth rubbed his temple in frustration.

She rolled her eyes.

"Don't you see," she raised her voice, gesturing her hand into the air, "If Ladybug and Chat Noir are romantically involved then they are distracted by each other." She watched as Hawkmoth's eyes widened.

"Yes, if we can just capture one of them, then the other will have no choice but to bend to our will." He had finally caught on to her point. The two grinned maliciously at one another for a moment. Then hawkmoth sat up in the darkness, the light from the stained glass window causing his blue eyes to glow. "Good work, I alert you to when the next Akuma is released. You must keep an eye on Ladybug and Chat Noir."

"Absolutely Hawkmoth Sir." Then she turned away, walking out of the secret lair and into the dark.