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Day 11: October's Rain

Marinette's mood was not the best when she woke up the next morning. On patrol, Chat had told her the whole time, how his wonderful girlfriend was making him happy. She was cute and passionate and- ARGH.

She knew she should be happy for him. For heavens sake, she had a wonderful dream-boy-boyfriend on her own! Adrien was everything she ever wanted! He was handsome, clever, and simply... Adrien! Marinette had no right to complain about Chat's behaviour.

But she could not help it, every time, he opened his mouth, something about his 'princess' fell out and it cut her heart even deeper.

Tikki did everything she was able to do to comfort her, but... her mind always turned around the fact that Chat was happy without her. And she missed his flirting. She incredibly missed it and the attention he had given her before that princess stole him.

Sighing, Marinette pulled at her pigtails. She would have never thought she would mourn after Chat's flirtations.

Quickening her walk, she hurried over to school. If Chat was happy, she would be happy as well. She had Adrien, the boy she had wanted all year.

"Good morning," someone suddenly pulled her out of her thoughts. "What's with that frown?" Adrien asked, concerned.

"O... Oh," Marinette smiled and turned around to greet her prince. Hah, take that, Chat Noir. "Good morning, Adrien. I'm fine, was just lost in thoughts. How are you?"

"I'm fine. And guess what: My father smiled this morning. I thought I was hallucinating," he whisper-yelled and made Marinette giggle. She still liked him, despite her confusion with Chat Noir.

"He's human, he's allowed to smile, you know?"

Adrien only shrugged, watching her as if she was insane. "I thought he was an Alien. My whole world was crashing down on me," he whined.

Marinette laughed heartily. She would have never guessed Adrien was in reality pretty childish. But yesterday, where they were together the whole afternoon, playing games and watching Netflix, she was surprised to find him crying like a baby watching How to Train Your Dragon 2. She lost all fear of him that afternoon.

Taking his hand, she smiled up a him. "You know you would be an alien as well?"

"Well, this would be cool," he smiled giddily, tugging her up the steps to enter their school yard. "I may have inherited some cool alien powers."

Giggling, she followed. "I could be like Ladybug and Chat Noir!" Adrien added with a laugh, "I could fight evil alongside our heroes. Or who knows..." he turned around with a wink, "maybe I already am."

Marinette knew it was a joke. A bad one, but it was a joke and she was expected to laugh. So she did. She laughed and pushed him, even joking alongside, scolding him for having exposed his identity. But in reality... she was shocked. He had looked exactly like Chat Noir this moment. The smirk, the wink, the wind that had ruffled his hair this moment...

No. Adrien was not Chat Noir. She was lucky but not that lucky.

However, Marinette brooded all day. She was surely only seeing things.

:

Around noon, another Akuma attacked.

Unfortunately, Marinette was with Chloé at this moment, having argued with her about Adrien. The Akuma was a girl Chloé had recently snapped at for being simply in her way. Chloé had pushed her, in attempt to get past the slightly clumsy girl and the girl fell into the mud from the rain outside.

Full of anger, she fell victim to Hawkmoth and was now transforming everything and everyone into candy. Like always, Chloé was held captive in a prison with bars made of liquorice and candy cones.

Marinette quickly hid behind a shelf to transform, but Chat used his second to burst into the room. Before he could say anything, the Akuma used a gigantic candy cone like a club and hit her kitty hard in his side. He got flung to the side and crashed into one of the library's shelves.

Forgetting what she was about to do, Marinette hurried after her partner and helped him to get out of the myriads of books that had fallen on top of him.

As soon as his gaze landed in her, his eyes went wide, he looked even shocked. "Marinette?! What are you doing here?! It's dangerous," he growled and leaped to his feet.

Without giving her a chance to answer, his hands were under her knees and his arm around her waist. Leaping out of the library and out of the school's ground through the open roof, he brought her far away. Too far for her liking.

But Marinette did not say anything, she was too stunned by his face. He was frowning, determination and anger pulling his brows together. Why was he angry?

Somewhen, when he deemed the rooftop safe enough, he sat her down and quickly looked her up and down, making sure she was all right.

"Chat Noir? What is wrong?" Marinette asked, momentarily forgetting she was Marinette this moment.

"You have to stay out of danger princess," he winked, his usual easy demeanour back when he saw she was perfectly fine. "I don't want to see you near the battles, you could get hurt. And now stay here, I'll come back." Doing a triple somersault from the roof he bid her good bye.

Marinette was in the middle of rolling her eyes, waving his look off as some Chat-Noir-problem, she froze.

How did Chat call her? Princess?

"Marinette!" Tikki pulled her out of her thoughts. Flinching, she remembered the Akuma that still needed to be beat. Groaning, she shoved that problem back and transformed, leaping as Ladybug back to school.

The Akuma was easily beat and everyone was freed.

"Sorry, LB," Chat sung after their usual fist bump, "but I need to safe a princess from a rooftop."

"Wait," Ladybug nearly screamed, holding him back. "Is... she the princess?" she asked with a weird smile, anxiety burning inside her stomach.

Chat only hummed knowingly, shrugging his shoulders. "Who knooows," he sung, obviously not wanting to reveal her identity.

"Chat," she huffed, "I mean it. Is she your girlfriend?" she pried further, ignoring the third beep of her earrings. Chat's answer was important, it decided whether Chat was her boyfriend or not.

Chat only frowned, stepping closer. "LB, are you all right? Why is it important whether Marinette's my girlfriend or not?"

"Oh," Ladybug hummed, not knowing what to say. "Not at all, I'm just... curious?" Would he believe her?

"Have you seen her?" Chat asked, on alert.

Technically no. She had not seen herself this moment. Oh, she should not do this, Chat's identity was a secret, she should definitely not pry anything in that matter and should leave now.

"No," she lied instead and smiled up at him. "Just curious." Why did she do this?! She should leave now before Chat said anything that lead her to his identity. But she stayed. She wanted to hear a 'yes'.

Chat chuckled and his gaze turned playful again. "Well, yes. I was so scared seeing her here, in the middle of an attack and bought her to safety. She's surely worried."

Her heart stopped.

Chat had just confirmed he was her boyfriend. And Marinette had only one boyfriend. Adrien. Wheezing a chuckle out, she quickly bid him good bye with the excuse of her running out Miraculous and made a beeline towards the roof where he had deposited her earlier.

She had barely time to wrap her mind around the fact that Adrien was Chat Noir, when the black clad hero came into view.

:

It rained when Marinette stepped out of the school after their classes.

She had barely managed to contain herself when Chat, Adrien, brought her back to school and hurried off, only to join her after transforming back into Chat Noir in a closet. And she avoided him like the plague the rest of the day, she needed to get used to the idea of him being Chat.

Not that she was mad or sad or... anything. She was extremely happy if she was being honest, but... she needed time to get used to it. It seemed, she was indeed that lucky.

Sighing, she glanced into the sky. She had again forgotten her umbrella. She should have known not to listen to the weather casts.

"Marinette!" Adrien suddenly called from behind and she flinched around, stepping a few steps back, forgetting it was raining. Then she got hit by the drops, but she could not bring herself to care about the wetness.

Adrien had reached her and pulled off his white jacket from his shoulders to hold it over the two, shielding them. "Are you all right?"

"Yes," she simply murmured, not daring to take a deeper breath. Everything smelled like him and like Camembert, the snack his kwami preferred. She was so dumb.

"Then why are you avoiding me?" he asked, sad. "Or do you not like me anymore? What did I do?"

"You didn't do anything," Marinette shook her head. "Don't think I don't like you, Adrien. I liked you from the beginning, please, don't think that."

"Then what is it?" he asked, frowning. "Why are you avoiding me?"

Marinette did not answer first. Should she tell him she knew? Should she tell him she's Ladybug? It felt like the right thing to do. She had lied enough these past days.

"I lied," she confessed, avoiding his gaze. She wanted to make things clear between them.

"Y... You lied?" he asked and sounded like someone had just slapped him.

"Wait-" she stopped her inner monologue of how awful she was to snap her gaze back up. The cold and wet shirt fell down on her, losing Adrien's stable grip. His eyes were so incredibly sad, his mouth open in a silent agony. It broke her heart, because he simply looked like she had just squashed his heart.

"I mean, I did not lie now," she immediately whined, cupping his face in both of her hands. The shirt was covering them and Marinette shivered in the cold. "I do like you, I love you, Adrien." It was true. She had loved Adrien before and even now, her heart beat only for that boy in front of her. Him being Chat Noir was simply a great addition.

Marinette did not know Adrien well, but she could read Chat Noir like an open book. Chat Noir was her best friend, her partner. Chat Noir was the boy she fell for, despite Adrien showing interest in her.

"I love you, Adrien Agreste," she murmured, her thumb caressing his cheekbone. Adrien closed his eyes and circled her waist with his arms that had stopped holding the shirt up.

"Y... you...," he simply murmured, leaning his forehead against hers. "I'm sorry, but..." Adrien suddenly frowned. Marinette was already guessing what he wanted to say. He still loved Ladybug. That's why he came to her, a few nights ago, asking her what she felt for him. She had been so dumb.

"I know," Marinette giggled, pecking his nose in front of her. "You still love Ladybug."

His eyes snapped open, frowning. "How...?!"

"That... was kind of the part where I lied," Marinette confessed, glancing to the side. His head left hers and he was watching her intently.

Grinning bashfully and kind of awkward, she looked back into his eyes. "I told you I did not like you that way. I told you I was happy for you. I told you I did not see the girl who was sitting on that roof this afternoon and I did not stay on the roof." Taking a deep breath, she prepared for the incoming impact when he realized what she meant. "These were the lies I told Chat Noir."

Adrien needed a few seconds. His brows furrowed deeper with every passing moment. She feared he would reject her, when he suddenly shook his head. "No." he simply breathed.

"I'm sorry, kitty, but you called me 'princess' and I was suddenly... I thought it would be too good to be true. And then you confirmed it."

Marinette expected shouting, expected anger or denial, but he simply... smiled. "My Lady?" he breathed, sounding starstruck.

"I'm sorry I lied to you," Marinette smiled sadly, but Adrien only pulled her closer, his smile growing.

"My Lady," he said again, his grin only widening.

That made Marinette giggle. She would have never thought being this happy in her kitty's arms. "My kitty."

Suddenly, his lips were on hers and shivers and tingles raced over her body, making her warm and fuzzy when they shared their first kiss in the cold October's rain.