There were things Adrien expected out of his best friend after school let out for the summer, certain qualities he knew would change. Perhaps Marinette would be taller? Or she would have more freckles? Her hair could get longer! She might even cut it really short!

What he didn't expect when he saw Marinette in July was for both of her front teeth to be missing.

WHAT?!

"Marinette, what happened?!" Adrien screeched when he saw the girl. He'd come over to spend the night with Marinette after coming back from England, where he'd been for three weeks. "Did somebody punch you?! Did you punch 'em back?!" he frantically questioned, now trying to figure out how he could permanently stay by Marinette's side, just so he could do his knightly duty of protecting her.

But, the little girl just giggled and shook her head. "Don't worry, Kitty!" she said as she waved off his concern.

"Don't worry?" Adrien repeated, "You're teeths are gone!"

"They was loose so Papa pulled them out!" Marinette explained. Adrien paled at her explanation, however. Her father purposefully pulled her teeth out?! And she let him?! Wasn't that child abuse?!

Marinette seemed to pick up on this concern, as she tried to comfort the boy again. "Baby teeth are supposed to come out!" she started. "Then you get adult teeths in their place, see?" she tilted her head back to show Adrien where a white speck was already poking through the tops of her gums.

Adrien stared in wonder and amazement. "It didn't hurt?" he asked.

She shook her head, "Not really. They were already really wobbly, 'nd Papa was careful."

Adrien nodded and sighed in relief. Though, that did explain something for him. "So, is this tooth 'posed to come out, too?" he asked, gesturing to one of his bottom-row teeth. It was a canine, his left one, and when he pushed on it, it started coming up and bled a little. At first the bleeding had scared him, but the longer it kept on, the more he was just annoyed by it.

Marinette looked at his tooth, then squealed in excitement. "It's gotta come out!" she announced, grabbing Adrien's hand and pulling him along toward the bathroom. The little girl made him sit on the toilet as she grabbed a washcloth and dampened it. "Open your mouth 'nd I'll yank it out!" she said.

Adrien's eyes widened. Shouldn't she get her dad to do this?!

Nevertheless, Adrien didn't want to upset his wife. So, he reluctantly opened his mouth and allowed the little girl to wrap the cloth around his loose tooth and pull it from his gums. Once the tooth was out, he again tasted blood in his mouth.

Marinette showed him the pink tainted tooth, and watched as Adrien's eyes widened in fear. Blood?!

He flung himself toward the mirror and stared in horror at the puddle forming around the hole where his tooth had just sat. "Marinette!" he shouted, whipping around to face her. "It's bleeding!"

"Rinse your mouth out," Marinette said calmly, as if this wasn't a life-or-death situation. Adrien took her advice, however, and rinse his mouth under the faucet, watching the pink water drain away.

This so wasn't happening!

"What are you two doing in the bathroom?" Sabine asked, knocking on the doorframe. She leaned against it, wondering just what Adrien was doing laying across the counter with the faucet running and his head jammed under it. Yes, she knew he liked to pretend he was a cat, but this was taking it a bit too far.

Marinette held out a tooth for her mother. "Whose is this?" the woman asked.

"It's Adrien's!" Marinette exclaimed. The little boy finally pulled away from the water, his face and bangs thoroughly soaked.

"Oh, dear!" Sabine jumped. "We should call your parents, sweetheart…" She picked up Adrien and gestured for Marinette to follow.

This just seemed to convince Adrien that they did something wrong. Sabine never he called his parents, so he obviously wasn't supposed to lose that tooth! So, like any sensible child, he began to cry.

"No, no, no, sweetie," Sabine cooed as she sat him on the counter of the kitchen. "It's alright, don't worry," she said with a chuckle. "We…we just have to make sure your parents tell the Tooth Mouse where to find your tooth tonight!"

That caught his attention. "Tooth Mouse?" he asked as he tears lessened.

Marinette crawled up beside Adrien and leaned her head against his shoulder. "The Tooth Mouse comes in the middle of the night and leaves you either money or sweets in exchange for your tooth," she explained.

Well, that changed everything. He might get candy, or a cookie or something…just from losing a tooth? Where's the hammer, he could get the others out right then!

After Sabine hung up the phone, she turned to the children with a bright smile. "Your daddy is going to make sure the Tooth Mouse knows you're staying with us tonight!" she said. "Just make sure you put this under your pillow tonight!"

When Adrien woke up that next morning, he firstly shoved Marinette's stinky foot out of his face. Then, he quickly turned his attention toward his pillow. He tossed it down the steps that led to Marinette's loft to reveal a chocolate chip cookie on the sheets.

"Awesome!" he shouted. Marinette stirred and pulled herself into a sitting position.

"What'd you get, Kitty?" she asked through a yawn.

"A cookie!" Adrien giggled. Without any hesitation, he broke the cookie in half and presented part of it to Marinette.

"No!" Marinette insisted, shoving it back toward her knight. "You earned it, you eat it!"

"But!" Adrien whined. He wanted to share his fortune with his princess! Why did she have to be so…princess-y?! "Just take it, Princess, please!"

Marinette sighed, then grumpily accepted the smaller of the two halves. It wasn't a bad cookie, in fact it tasted exactly like the ones in her parents' bakery. Hmmm…

I knew this would happen eventually. Anyway, I'm back to taking suggestions! If you have any ideas, please let me know! And, who knows, your idea just might make it into a chapter!

Also, depending on how this whole Volpina things goes, I might be adding her to this soon. So, if you're following any other dub besides the French one, you may or may not get confused soon. Possibly.

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