Hello, my dear readers! I am back with another chapter of this story! I'm sorry I'm posting this so late, but at least it's not a month between chapters, right? Well, it almost is, but there are still about 6 days until it's been a month, so, yeah. But, I made this chapter longer, so please don't try to kill me. I played around with the POVs last chapter and thought that it seemed okay, and no one said it didn't, so I'll just assume you all agree with me. If you don't, tell me. But, if you do like it better this way, still tell me, please . Anyway, let's get on with the story!


Chapter 9

Marinette's POV

Marinette couldn't help but chuckle, Plagg was so cute. He really did seem like a good match for Tikki.

Adrien and her reached the bottom floor of her room and just stood there, not really knowing what to do.

She cleared her throat and said, "So…"

He just nodded, and it felt like she could reach out and feel the awkwardness between them.

Marinette chuckled and Adrien tilted his head at her in confusion.

"One minute ago, we actually revealed our identities, something Alya would be freaking out about and now...we're just standing here in silence. As if we just went on our first date. Pure awkwardness." she explained. Then realization struck her. She had just compared how they are acting now to...people after their first date!

And to top it off, she had said it to Chat Noir.

She mentally face palmed. Then she heard a soft laughter coming from the blonde. It was her turn to be confused.

"Did you just say we're on a date, my lady?" Marinette saw a Chat like grin on his face and groaned.

She pointed a finger at him and responded, "You know that's not what I meant. I was just using a first date's awkwardness as a simile."

His smile faltered for a second. "Are you saying you've been on a first date before?"

Marinette could hear the hurt in his words and saw it in his eyes. He thought she liked someone else, she could sense it. The fact he didn't include 'my lady' proved it. His hurt tore at her heart.

"No, mon chaton. I haven't been on a date before." Marinette saw the relief in his eyes and smiled. "I have been saving that experience for someone special."

She could practically see his response written out before he said it.

"Does this mean you've been waiting for me all this time, purrrincess? Because, I can't leave a damsel in distress."

She laughed and decided to tease her kitty a little more."Who says I was talking about you, Adrien?"

He seemed shocked that she would actually tease him. She couldn't blame him though. She was his shy classmate, after all. Not just, the brave heroine Ladybug.

Marinette chuckled again and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Don't look so scared, kitty. You don't have to worry, I was talking about you. I just couldn't help myself. The look on your face was priceless."

By the look on Adrien's face he seemed to recover. And some. He wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned down until their faces were mere inches apart. "Does that mean you do want to go on a date with me?"

That question made Marinette's new found confidence towards her crush crumble. She had forgotten for a moment that he was 'her kitty.' Chat Noir. Her partner in saving Paris. The one who flirts with her constantly, because of his confidence. The one who likes her.

The one who she likes.

Marinette could practically feel the blood rush out of her face. How was she supposed to answer his question? Yes! Oh my gosh, yes! I would love to go on a date with you! I have been wanting you to ask me that for over a year.

That wouldn't go over so well. Especially with him being Chat and all.

Marinette was trying to think of an answer, but it was really hard with his face inches from her own. Her eyes involuntarily flicked down to his lips.

Adrien obviously noticed and laughed, leaning back at the same time. His eyes stayed locked on hers' though, waiting for an answer.

She focus a little more now, but she didn't know how she should answer him. After all of the times Alya tried to encourage her, she decided to just go for it.

"I...would, uh," she could see the hope in her kitty's eyes and she got a little more confidence to answer. She smiled as wide as she could, "I would love to go on a date with you mon chaton."

Marinette could see the relief that filled his eyes at her words. She laughed and pulled him into a hug.

Adrien's POV

She said yes. She said yes. Marinette agreed to go out with me!

Adrien couldn't believe it. The most amazing girl he had ever met agreed to go on a date with him.

Instead of jumping for joy, his body decided to become frozen instead. He could feel her pull him into a hug and he would of hugged her back, but his arms stayed wrapped loosely around her waist.

Adrien remembered Ladybug telling him that she had fallen for him in her civilian form, but he could barely believe it. And now that he knew Ladybug is his classmate that he had developed feelings for...it was a dream come true!

Marinette's POV

Marinette felt Adrien not moving and instantly became worried.

She removed her arms from his neck and pulled back, studying his face. She felt his forehead and asked, "Adrien? Are you okay? What's wrong?"

When he didn't answer and just stared into his eyes with a look of shock, she became afraid.

"Ti-" She had began to yell out for her kwami, but was silenced by Adrien pulling her into a bone-crushing.

She was frozen for a second, but then she hugged him back. They stayed like that for what felt like an eternity.

Marinette realized that it was long past time for patrol, but she didn't hear any screaming, so she didn't say anything.

When Adrien pulled away, he looked really happy. Marinette wondered what had been wrong a minute ago, but she didn't want to have the smile leave his face, so she didn't say anything.

She opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted by her Tikki flying up to them with Plagg following behind.

Tikki announced, "It's time for patrol. Transform, so you can make sure nothing is wrong in the city."

She had to have known that patrol was supposed to start over an hour ago, but didn't say anything. Marinette smiled at her kwami in thanks.

Her and Adrien reluctantly pulled apart, so they could transform.

Marinette smiled at the blonde, then yelled out, "Tikki, spots on!"

Adrien's POV

Tikki got sucked into Mari's earrings.

Bright pink light filled the room, and Adrien had to look away.

When the light disappeared and everything went back to normal, Adrien faced the spot where his classmate had stood a moment ago. Now, there was the spotted heroine that Adrien couldn't help but admire.

She smiled smugly at him when she caught him staring. She crossed her arms across her chest, as if daring him to transform himself.

Adrien smiled, accepting the dare. He put his fist out, as if asking for a fist bump, and shouted, "Plagg, claws out!"

Marinette's POV

Marinette closed her eyes when she heard Adrien's transformation phrase. She knew a bright light came afterwards, and she didn't want to become blind.

Once she didn't see anymore light behind her eyelids, Marinette opened her eyes.

Where the blonde model had stood a moment ago, now stood Chat Noir in his magical black suit.

Marinette had already known that Adrien was Chat, but she still found it a little unbelievable. She imagined that Adrien felt the same way.

When Chat saw that she was a little awestruck, he flexed his muscles and asked, "LIke what you see, my lady?"

Marinette laughed. She stepped forward and punched him lightly in the shoulder. "As if, Chat."

Chat placed a hand over his heart, acting like he was hurt. "My lady, you wound me."

She laughed again before turning towards the stairs that lead to her loft. "You seemed like you needed a reminder that we're in the real world, not your fantasy world." She threw a smirk over her shoulder with that.

Marinette opened the window above her bed and climbed onto her balcony.

The wind had a slight chill, but felt nice as it hit her face. She heard Chat climb onto the balcony next to her, shutting the window as he did.

Marinette turned toward him with a smile. "Race you to the Eiffel Tower." And she was off, jumping and swinging across the rooftops of Paris.

The feel of the air breezing past her face, swept away any awkwardness that might have still lingered.

Marinette reached the top of the Eiffel Tower mere seconds before Chat. He landed on the platform right next to her without a sound.

She turned to him and smiled, "I won."

Adrien's POV

Marinette's beautiful blue eyes glittered in the city's lights. Her shiny hair reflected the moonlight, making it look more blue than black. The smile on her face wasn't smug, like most other people's when they won. No, her's still showed kindness, somehow.

It seemed to Adrien that she was never didn't show some form of kindness.

Well, except for when it came to Chloe, but that was different. Chloe was a bully, even if she was his only childhood friend. He had come to realize when he entered public school, that she wasn't as nice to anyone as she was to him. In fact, she wasn't nice in general to anyone, but Sabrina and him.

Adrien looked at 'his lady' and realized just how much he had fallen for her. Both in the mask and out.

He hadn't told anyone, not even Nino, but...he had started liking Marinette a while ago. He would have tried to go out with her a lot earlier, but he still had feeling for Ladybug and felt that liking Marinette would be betraying her somehow.

Now that he knows that they are both the same person it all makes sense. And he's relieved.

Marinette's POV

Adrien was just staring at her with a smile on his face and she didn't know why. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I agreed to go on a date with him? That was the only thing she could think of.

Marinette decided that it doesn't matter, she was going to tease him a little bit, that was always fun.

She smirked then said, "Like what you see, mon chaton?" She decided she was going to give him a little payback for earlier.

He blinked with his face going neutral, then he smiled. "Most definitely, my lady."

Marinette was taken aback. She hadn't expected that, but then she remembered that this was her kitty they were talking about. He was still going to flirt, and she would never admit this to anyone, but she wouldn't want it any other way.

She smiled and leaned in close, making it so he was startled by the close distance. She made it so there was not even four inches between their lips, then she whispered, "We have to patrol," and jumped to the next building. Leaving behind a flustered Chat.

After Chat recovered, the patrol was like normal, not much talking and more focus on the safety of the city and its civilians.

At the end of the patrol, they just stood there on the Eiffel Tower, not really doing anything.

Then Marinette heard Tikki say to her, "It's after midnight. And it's a school night. I don't care if you want to talk about the reveals or feelings right now, you are both going home and getting some sleep. You can talk to each other tomorrow. Or, you can end up detransformed and walk home."

Marinette shivered, knowing her kwami wasn't joking. She looked at Adrien and said, "Tikki is doing that thing adults do, when they threaten kids to make them go to bed. And as much as I'd love to stay and chat, I don't want to walk home from here. So, goodnight!" She leaned in and gave Chat a kiss on the chhek, then leapt off of the tower and left a frozen kitty standing at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

As soon as Marinette got home, she changed into her pajamas and fell onto her bed. Then, her flying red kwami landed on her stomach and smiled. "So, that was an eventful evening."

Marinette smiled. "Yes, it was. I finally got to meet the kwami you have a major crush on."

If it was possible, Tikki's cheeks got even more red. "I don't know what you're talking about. Me and Plagg are just really good friends." At Marinette's look, she continued rapidly. "Th-that whole cuddl-ly thing before, was just...uh, him being the cat kwami. Yeah. He is a cat, so he cuddles other kwamis. It's completely normal. And just a friend thing!"

Marinette just laughed at her flustered friend, it was finally someone other than her. "Oh? So what was that whole speech last night about him being 'the ying to your yang' and your 'soul mate', hmm? Was that a 'friend' thing, too? Or was that about him being a cat, somehow?" Marinette understood why people were always doing this to her now.

Tikki kept opening her mouth and closing it, not knowing what to say.

Marinette smiled and continued. "Don't worry, Tikki. I won't hold this against you. I mean, you don't hold the crush I have on Adrien and Chat against me, so it wouldn't be fair."

Tikki seemed to have retrieved her composure, from the smile on her face. "Oh, that reminds me. You have been liking Chat Noir lately, have you not? And the only reason you hadn't said anything to him was because you still had some feelings for Adrien, and you felt it was wrong to pursue someone when you had feelings for someone else, correct?"

Tikki didn't give her a chance to respond, she just continued talking. "I'm not going to have you respond to that, I'll just continue what I'm saying. So, now you have no reason to not date Chat, seeing as how he is Adrien, the one who you didn't want to pursue Chat for. It's a win-win, right? Having two people you like turn out to be the same person? Anyway, I'm not going to torture you with this conversation any longer, seeing as how you and Adrien are, inevitably, going to end up acting closer tomorrow and Alya will end up interrpgating you. Which should be fun!" Tikki showed fake enthusiasm and turned off the light before Marinette could respond to anything.

Marinette was about to fall asleep when something Tikki said jumped out at her. "Alya will end up interrogating you." She jumped into a sitting position and nearly screamed, "Alya is going to kill me!"

She faintly heard the red kwami chuckle and reply, "Goodnight, Marinette."

It took a while for Marinette to fall asleep after that.

Adrien's POV

It took a few minutes of holding his gloved hand to the cheek Marinette had kissed for Plagg to finally complain that they needed to go home.

Not one to want to face Plagg's wrath, Chat ran across the rooftops of Paris, towards the Agreste Mansion. He jumped through the window he left open and flopped down onto his bed.

There was a beep, a flash of grren light, and the sound of a hungry kwami as he de-transformed.

Plagg went to Adrien's desk, where he had left a block of camembert for the kwami. He began eating as Adrien stared at his ceiling, remembering the events of the night.

Ladybug kissed him. Marinette kissed him. The love of his life...kissed him.

It was on the cheek, but still, she kissed him.

Wanting to spend more time with her tomorrow, he decided to go to sleep quickly, so he could get to school early, where she'll be.

Thinking about that, the young miraculous wielder fell into a sweet dream, of him with on a date with Marinette, rather quickly.

Marinette's POV

The first time Marinette's alarm rang that morning, she jumped up and turned it off. She ran around the room, grabbing her clothes and getting ready.

Tikki was visible in her peripheral vision, just floating there and giggling at her chosen's haste. Marinette wanted to scowl, but she wanted to see Adrien sooner rather than later, so she continued to rush around.

Within ten minutes, she was ready, fed, holding two croissants, and running to school. She had fifteen minutes before class started, but she wanted to try to delay her conversation with Alya, along with talking to Adrien.

Alya was waiting in front of the school, staring at her, as if she knew Marinette was going to be early today.

Marinette approached her cautiously, holding out one of the croissants like a peace offering. She saw Alya's face go from one of slight anger to delight as she snatched the croissant from Marinette's hand.

Marinette sighed in relief. This will work.

She saw Adrien out of the corner of her eye and smiled. She wanted, no...needed to talk to him, but first she needed to delay this conversation with Alya.

She cleared her throat and spoke, hoping her best friend would do what she asked this one time. "Alya, I know I said I would talk to you today about what happened yesterday, but can we do it later? There is someone I need to talk to, and it's really important."

Alya had stopped shoving the pastry in her mouth and looked at Marinette. Marinette saw her eyes dart behind her, towards wher Adrien was standing. She looked back towards Marinette and smiled.

"Go talk to Adrien, but you will talk to me later." Marinette eagerly nodded. "You're lucky I was in the mood for a croissant today." Both of the girls laughed and Marinette walked towards Adrien.

They would only have about five minute to talk, but that's better than nothing. She walked over to him and looked into his gorgeous green eyes. She smiled then said, "Hey."

He looked back and responded, "Hey."

Marinette extended the hand holding her last croissant towards him. "Here. I grabbed an extra croissant for you."

He took it with a smile and "Thank you."

She smiled and they just stared at each other for a minute. Then they broke out laughing.

They calmed down then Adrien spoke. "Okay. That was funny. Hehe. We need to talk about a few things. But, since class is about to start, we can talk about it later." Marinette nodded ad they headed to class.

Some sudents were already in there, including Alya and Nino, who stared at the two when they came in. They sat at their seats and got their stuff out.

Adrien's POV

Adrien saw Nathanael approach Marinette, but figured nothing of it. He knew the artist had a crush on Marinette, but he also knew Marinette liked him, so he had nothing to worry about.

Then he heard the artist start to talk. "H-hey, Marinette. I was w-wondering if you wanted t-to, I-I mean...if you w-would mind, um…"

He could practially hear Marinette smile. "Hey, Nath. What do you need?"

Nathan said, "I was wondering i-if you could help m-me with some designs I-I'm working on."

Marinette, being the kind person Adrien knew she was, responded, "Of course."

Adrien could hear Nathanael's sigh of relief. "It's a date then."

Adrien whipped his head towards the artist and instinctively growled.


I'm sorry for the cliff hanger, really I am. I have had most of this typed up for about two weeks, but then I started crashing whenever I got home, so I never had a chance to finish it. I am posting it now though. So, school's almost over for me (two more days), then I'll have more time to write, so there will be more updates. Plus, I'm not planning on ending this anytime soon. But, I am staring another story, so I may not update this for at least a week or two, but there will be more updates soon. I still want more ideas from all of you, so please don't hesitate to comment or PM me ideas. Also, Thank You to NefeliMalfoy, for the growling Adrien idea. Until next time, Au revoir!