More reveal! Yay!

Ladybug was completely taken aback. All this time! It had been Adrien. But how? "I don't understand…" she said, "I've saved you before! When the Horrificator captured you—"

"I wasn't really captured, I just left my shoe for everyone to find."

"But when Simon Says—"

"I wasn't really taking a shower…"

Ladybug smacked her forehead with her hand, how had she missed it?! The green eyes, the blonde hair…but Adrien and Cat were so different!

"So are you going to power down, Marinette?"

She jumped at the statement, "Wha-what did you call me? Who's Mari-marinette?"

He raised his eyebrow in dismay, "Seriously? You're actually going to keep pretending even when I figured out who you are?"

"You haven't figured out anything." She said, trying to force confidence in her voice, "I'm not this Marinette person."

"I guess we're going to do this the hard way," he mumbled to himself. Standing to face her, he began to list off all the reasons why she was obviously Marinette Dupain-Cheng. "First off, the history book is where you went wrong. Only our school has it. There are 42 girls in the tenth grade, and 18 of them have dark hair. Once you subtract out the ones that have been akumatized at one time or another, you narrow it down to 4. Only 2 of those girls have blue eyes."

She waved her hand, "Th-that doesn't mean anything, I found that book and was trying to return it…"

Adrien's face flattened at the obvious lie, "Marinette, there are only two people that knew I was outside and upset tonight…and while I like Sabine, I'm doubting that it's her under that mask since she's about 4 inches too short. On top of all that, you smell like a cookie."

Marinette plopped to the platform. He'd caught her; there wasn't any way around it. "Tikki spots off."

"That's better," he said, offering her his hand to help her stand.

Tikki popped out of Ladybug's earrings and flew into Adrien's face, "Excellent to finally meet you in person Adrien! I'm Tikki, Marinette's kwami."

He laughed lightly, "Nice to meet you Tikki."

Before anyone could say anything else, Plagg was back in Marinette's line of sight, "You never said if you have any camembert! I'm dyin' here lady!"

"Plagg! You're being rude!" Tikki scolded him, "This is an important moment for them, you can eat later."

He pretended to be faint, "I'll be dead later!" Adrien rolled his eyes at his kwami's dramatics.

Digging around in her purse, Marinette produced a couple of cookies and passed them to the two floating kwamis. Plagg shrugged, "It's no camembert, but it'll do."

Tikki pulled at him while he munched on his cookie, "We need to give them a little space! I'm sure they have a lot to talk about…" Plagg grumbled at not being apart of the action, but allowed Tikki to lead him away.

After the two kwamis had left ear shot, Adrien turned back to Marinette who had been surprisingly silent through the entire exchange. Before Adrien could say anything, a large tear bubbled it's way out of Marinette's eye.

"What's wrong?" Adrien asked.

Marinette couldn't hold her feelings in anymore, "Are you going to break up with me?" she sobbed.

Adrien was completely confused, "What? Why would I break up with you?"

She sniffed loudly and tears continued to drain from her face. "Be-because I didn't tell you the tr-truth about the scar-ff…be-because I didn't te-tell you about being L-Ladybug…because I-I turned you dow-down as Cat Noir." Marinette could hardly get the words out. She was sure that this was the end.

He pulled her close into his arms and stroked her hair. "Marinette, I'm…I'm not mad at you."

"You're not?" she asked into his shoulder.

"I wouldn't have expected you to tell me that you were Ladybug…after all I didn't exactly volunteer that I was Cat Noir." Marinette continued to sniffle into his shoulder, his shirt getting damp from her tears. "As for the scarf…I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at me. I should have realized that my father wouldn't have actually given me a present like that. I just wanted to believe he cared about me so badly…"

She pulled away from him, sniffling, "I should have told you…I just-when I saw how happy you were when you thought it was from your dad…I just couldn't bare to tell you it was really from me."

He nodded, "I just can't believe I was so stupid to think my dad actually cared…"

"No! It's not stupid to want to believe that he cares. He's the idiot for not realizing what an amazing son he has." Marinette her sadness suddenly gone, replaced with indignation at Gabrielle's poor parenting.

He shrugged. "Feeling any better?" He asked as he wiped a tear from her cheek.

She looked at her feet, "…is Cat Noir still mad at me?"

He sighed audibly, running his hand through his hair, "Cat Noir and Ladybug…I don't even know where to begin."

"I tried to apologize, but it just—came out all wrong." Marinette said, unable to meet his eyes.

"That's not completely your fault. I appreciate that you were trying to apologize to me, I just wasn't ready to listen to it yet. I suppose it would have made things a little easier though if you would have just told me that you had a crush on someone else…" he smiled at her. His smile faded, "I wasn't mad that you told me that you didn't like me that way, I was mad that you tried to tell me that there wasn't anything between us. You treated my feelings like they were some sort of joke."

"When you joke all the time…it's hard to tell when to take you seriously. I'd always assumed you were just a flirt." she replied blushing. "I didn't mean to make you think that your feelings didn't matter. It's just that—before this year, if someone was flirting openly with me, it was joke or a prank. It didn't really mean that they liked me, they were just trying to get a reaction out of shy little Marinette."

Adrien was struck at the cruelty of teenagers. When Chloe had told him he'd a lot to learn about school politics, he'd not realized how right she was. "That's awful…I'm sorry. I guess social skills are still kind of new to me…I didn't think being honest would make you think I was lying."

"So…you're not going to break up with me?" she asked quietly, her eyes wandering to his lips.

He felt her gaze on him, his face became hot. "Just because we have a fight now and then, doesn't mean I'm going to dump you." He smiled at her, "I love you."

Marinette's heart did a flipflop at the words and she leaned forward, pushing her lips to his. He responded in kind. Finally there weren't any interruptions.

This next chapter is taking a while, lots of moving parts T_T Hopefully you enjoyed this chapter. I'm right around 50,000 words so far ^_^