Marinette woke from her sleep via a hand slapping at her arm and chest. A voice was groaning and moaning besides her.

Adrien tossed and turned in the bed next to her. He threw off the sheets and almost assaulted Marinette again.

Marinette turned over towards him and called out, "Adrien? Adrien hon! It's o…" Just before she could put her hand on his chest he shot up and screamed.

"LEMMIE OUT!"

Plagg and Tikki were woken up too and flew over to see what was wrong.

In their 3 years of marriage Marinette had never seen Adrien wake up like that.

"Adrien my love, what happened? What did you dream about?" Marinette had sat up and was gently rubbing Adrien's back with one hand while the other held his.

Adrien took a moment to calm down. He brushed the hair out of his face as he steadied his breathing. Marinette just kept whispering soft nothings to help Adrien relax. Plagg had floated to Adrien's shoulder and nuzzled into his neck and lay there softly purring. Tikki had landed on Marinette's shoulder.

"Mon Dieu princess. It was horrible." Adrien's hands still shook a little.

"It was just a nightmare Adrien, it wasn't real." Marinette touched her forehead to Adrien's.

Adrien sighed and pulled his head back a little. "In some ways it was real. I used to have these nightmares occasionally of being locked in a cage. Or of bars suddenly coming down on the windows of my room. This was way worse."

"I remember you having those," Plagg said while still purring. "Some nights those were really bad. They happened a lot when his dad got really overprotective and kept him in the house for very little reason."

Adrien tried to look at Plagg, "This took the cake Plagg." Plagg pulled back to see into Adrien's eyes.

"I dreamt I was on a catwalk. This disembody voice told me to walk to my point and turn left. I did so and the voice again told me to walk and turn left. It went on for a bit before I realized I was on a square catwalk. There was no extra ramp for walking on or off. I tried to jump off but there was some kind of invisible wall all around the sides. I couldn't jump out or even into the centre. The voice yelled at me to walk again. I started banging on the walls and suddenly there was this electric shock that came up from the floor. I started walking again. Slowly the lights came up and I could see hundreds of Chole's mom sitting in the audience, all just laughing at me. I tried to get away and I was shocked again. I started pounding on the walls and I kept getting shocked. It was horrible."

Adrien was nearly in tears. Marinette hugged him, Plagg purred even louder and even Tikki flew to Adrien's cheek and hugged it.

They all sat there giving Adrien comfort for quite a while until the tears that started to fall slowly ebbed away.

Marinette pulled back and gently clasped Adrien's jaw with both hands and turned his face so she could look into his eyes. "It's over Adrien. You never have to walk a catwalk again. You never have to model for your father again. It all ended with his Hawk Moth rein. He gave up trying to get your mom back so he could be with you. He realized that what he was doing to you was not what a father should do. He finally started treating you like a proper son and the third thing he did was asked you what you wanted to be. He's never going to make you walk a catwalk again."

"But Marinette, I was wearing one of your outfits." Adrien said softly, the tears coming back.

Marinette gasped and covered her mouth with one hand. "Oh Merde! Adrien. No, I'd never, no," Marinette's voice broke off in horror.

Adrien clasped her hands, "But I love it. See, I'm wearing it now."

Marinette looked down to see that Adrien was wearing one of the outfits she had just designed for her fall collection debut at Agreste Fashion.

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Marinette screamed and threw herself out of bed so hard she hit the floor.

Adrien sat up, "Huh?" he mumbled sleepily. "What?" He pushed a hand through his hair. He looked over to see Marinette on the floor.

She was wide eyed and breathing hard.

He held out a hand for her and helped her back on to the bed. He pulled her close and asked sleepily, "Was it that nightmare where you gave me a nightmare of being trapped on a catwalk wearing one of your outfits?"

Marinette nodded and cuddled closer.

Adrien shook his head, "I knew you taking over the designing aspect of father's company was going to be too hard on you. You didn't have to start running it after he was revealed to be Hawk Moth and jailed. I could have just hired a bunch of designers and let you work into it gradually. This back to back to back fashion weeks in 3 different countries was always hard on him. You doing it with never having done it before was always going to be extremely hard on you."

"Just because we stopped his plans and had him arrested after 8 years doesn't mean that we should let everyone who worked for him suffer." Marinette yawned. "It's only 5 more days until it's all done. Then we will never do one of these 3 weekers again. Ever. They not only cause nightmares, they are nightmares."

Adrian chuckled. He then lifted Marinette's face to his and placed a kiss on her lips. "Well, we could do something else to get your mind off the stress and worry." He smirked in a very Chat Noir way and leaned over Marinette to capture her lips once more.

Nightmare forgotten, for now, Marinette kissed him back and ran her hands over his chest. sinking into his warmth and comfort.