Chat waited in the afternoon sun for what he hoped was his soon to be future girlfriend: 'wife! But that would just be getting ahead of myself!'. However, with the troubling thoughts of what Kagami had said to him swirling around his head, he felt conflicted. 'Do I like Marinette? Obviously I don't end up with her so why am I even-"

"Hey Kitty," Chat zeroed in on the two figures approaching him on the roof of the school. After he had said goodbye to a strangely accepting Kagami, the blonde had called Nino about the comments the Japanese girl had made, only to be met with his best friend chuckling at him down the phone. The DJ had been no use whatsoever to help quell his new found inner turmoil, so had not hesitated in transforming to meet his lady and their future son to help keep his mind occupied.

What he saw, as Hugo walked towards him, made his blood run cold.

"What the hell!" He gestured to his son's purple attire, "are you wearing the Miraculous that I think you're wearing?"

Hugo looked sheepish as Ladybug simply crossed her arms and cocked her hip at him. "His grandpa is Hawkmoth, Nooroo confirmed that he has been with Hugo from a young age and that our son is his holder now… apparently that is how we are going to reach out to him."

Chat stood there with his mouth agape, "that is going to take some getting used to...shit," he sighed out forcefully, "I've just realised who Hawkmoth is."

His red and black spotted partner softened her body language as she made her way towards him, "I uh, kinda figured it wasn't my papa, sorry Kitty."

"Papa," Hugo began, "if it's any consolation, you have told me in the future, that you understand grandpappy's reasons."

The black clad hero chuckled bitterly as he shook his head, "I really cannot imagine my father being a grandpappy."

Ladybug snorted, earning a short glare from her partner. "Sorry! Sorry, sorry, I know I shouldn't laugh, but he can't be that bad."

"My father is Hawkmoth," Chat deadpanned at her, "I think it's safe to say he's pretty awful in this time Bugaboo." The realisation hit Chat tenfold: "my mother… oh my god he's doing it to bring, to bring her back!"

Green eyes searched his son's for confirmation, and the small nod he received made everything come together. "He wants the wish," Chat looked at his lady, "my mother, he wants the wish to bring her back. We've been stopping it all this time, we've… I've been preventing him from bringing her back!"

Ladybug sympathised with her black clad partner, reaching out to him, she laced his fingers with hers and placed her other hand around his gloved arm. "I really am sorry," she apologised earnestly, giving him a sympathetic smile as she leaned onto his shoulder in a comforting manner. 'I suppose this is how it starts between us."

Although the truth had hit him hard, Chat could not hide his smile at how close she was to him, 'she's holding my hand!' He internally celebrated. "It's okay Bug," the blonde turned to Hugo, "right then, what's first? Reveal or Su-Han?"

"Reveal," Hugo nodded with jubilation, "I always heard about this moment, and I can't wait to see it for myself!"

"So you always knew you would come back?" Ladybug enquired with a small smile, "so this will have happened before?"

"For me yes, technically," he squinted in thought, "this was how it was always meant to go down, I think…"

The Parisian heroes shared an assessing look before shrugging their mutual acceptance.

"Let's do this then!"

"Spots off."

"Claws in."

Gabriel Agreste stood in his villain attire, sensing the negative emotions of one Kagami Tsurugi. The greying man smiled wickedly as his hands encased the white butterfly when he summoned the evil energy he used to utilise the insect.

"Young love is always a great catalyst for powerful negative emotions… fly away my little Akuma, and evilise her broken heart.

Marinette squeaked as her face turned the colour of beetroot.

Adrien smiled happily before wrapping his classmate up in a big bear hug. "This is just…" he held her away from him to take in the frozen state of his bright red partner, he gushed with relief, "this makes so much sense!"

"It...does?" Marinette managed to find her voice before another squeak left her lips as Adrien spun her around joyously.

He stopped and gazed at her with utter adoration, "I am so relieved!" He relaxed and squeezed her to his chest.

Marinette finally relaxed into him, nuzzling his chest as she closed her eyes and let out a happy before she wrapped her own arms around him. "I am too."

Hugo smiled broadly, "I am so happy! Aunty Alya is going to be so jealous!" He froze momentarily as his finger pointed upwards in the air, "ooo, if you could just hold off another week before telling people you're an item though, so Uncle Nino can win the pot."

"Wha-" Marinette started to ask but then shook her head, "doesn't matter."

"The less we know the better," Adrien winked as they parted, but kept his arm around the back of Marinette's shoulders. "So how do we-"

A loud clash sounded out through the city from the direction of the Agreste mansion, pulling their collective attention in that direction.

"Ah, yes…" Hugo rubbed at his nape, "that's what I needed to tell you… Kagami has just become Akumatised and she is heading to get revenge on grandpa."

"What for?" Adrien asked, "if he's-"

"I hate to say it but he's done it before," Marinette pointed out, "he's also managed to Akumatise himself."

Adrien nodded solemnly as Hugo explained: "she holds him responsible for pushing you together when their was another in your heart, when you broke up-"

"You've broken up already?"

"Well yeah," Adrien shrugged at Marinette's creased brow, "I found out that we were gonna have a kid, I didn't think it was right to carry on with Kagami."

"Can we focus please?"

Adrien and Marinette both whipped their heads back to Hugo.

"Thank you, we need to get over there now before she exposes who he is, I'll explain it later but we have to go. Now."

As their Kwami hovered in the air between them, smiling broadly at the two teens, Marinette stopped Adrien and glanced up at him with concern. "You've just found out your father's Hawkmoth, are you okay?"

The blonde halfheartedly smiled at her and pulled her into his chest for another embrace, "I just have to have faith in our future family that this will all pan out as it should." Adrien nuzzled into her shoulder as Marinette made small soothing circles on his back when she returned the embrace. "I have to have faith that the man he is now, can become that 'grandpappy' that Hugo is talking about, and come to terms with this when we're on the other side."

Marinette nodded against him and Adrien pulled away, there was a broad smile on his face as he leaned into her space, "besides bugaboo, I now know it's you, I get to woo."

Marinette pushed him away by his nose with her forefinger, but the blush on her face with the poorly hidden coy smile completely gave her away: there was no need to acknowledge her squeak. Marinette managed to compose herself enough to teasingly roll her eyes as Adrien pumped his brows in his typical flirtatious Chat manner; Hugo cleared his throat.

"You'll have plenty of time to flirt, can we get to work now please?"

"Sheesh," Adrien raised his eyebrows and shot a look through the corner of his eye to Marinette, "I wonder who our son takes after…"

"Not the time."

"That answers that th-OW!" An annoyed blonde scowled at his Kwami while holding his ear, "what the heck was that for?"

Plagg deadpanned, "you're getting distracted, I need cheese, Tikki's giddy, we're about to go up against dad-of-the-year and you're not taking this seriously."

'If only they knew about the mask I was wearing now.' Adrien sighed and threw Plagg his favourite dairy product as Tikki cuddled into Marinette's cheek. With a silent nod, both Marinette and Adrien were ready to follow their son into what would hopefully be their last battle with Hawkmoth.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter! I have to let y'all know now that I am taking a break for a few weeks to sort a few things out. It's been pretty stressful recently and I have not had the time or inspiration to write so everything has come to a standstill with my stories. I will be back, that I can promise, but I need to sort out family shiz which is taking up too much of my brain's capacity. I hope you guys understand.

Take it easy!

Lady Rhi X