Loving Cat Noir was both one of the easiest things that Ladybug could do and one of the hardest. It was easy to love her best friend, the one that encouraged and motivated her, one of the few people that she knew that she could always count on.

Cat Noir was her best friend, the love of her life, and so much more to her; in that way, it wasn't hard to love him and yet it wasn't easy to love him when she saw how close he came to losing his life, laying it down in a sacrifice for her sake or during the moments when she realized how lonely she felt without the suit since he wasn't at her side.

Loving Cat Noir was more than the familiar, reaching out and just knowing that he'll be there, through every Akuma fight, every patrol, and everything in between. There was an unknown or many unknowns in their future, and while their trust and faith in each other was absolute, they didn't know who the other was when they went home after a patrol, after a date, after an Akuma fight. Who was it that they kissed and cuddled with? Who did they stake their whole futures on or what they could of them?

It wasn't like Ladybug could go out and tell everyone that she had a boyfriend or what his name was or count on late night, goodnight kisses on her balcony or on her doorstep. She couldn't even be teased by her parents a little over just how smitten she was with him.

All that they had was a relationship coursing into the unknown, a free fall into their future, stumbling and trying to pull through together. It felt like a free fall too when she locked eyes onto his and felt her heart speeding away in her chest, felt that eager anticipation to take that plunge into the unknown. They had no idea what her last name would be in the future or at least she did if that hopefully got married, and he didn't know what her last name was right now.

It was a free fall, but neither of them wanted to look back or demanded a parachute. In a way, they'd try to be each other's parachute as they slowly figured things out together. They had each other's backs through thick and thin, and a free fall won't stop that love from festering, from blooming, from growing with everyday together.

Taking that plunge, feeling the free fall around them, was scary, but they had each other, and that was all that they ever needed to get through whatever life throws their way.