Note: Special thanks to rubygblog who was one of the people who got me into this fandom, sirrhieny for being a great person to talk regarding Ladynoir/Marichat/Adrienette/Ladrien and zenwisterias / taylordraws & magical-awesome-kid whose Miraculous Ladybug fic's have inspired me to try my hand at writing. Also thank you supercellcomic for letting me use their fan art picture as a cover (on ). I don't write fanfiction very often and I am very new to this fandom. I hope I got the character's more or less IC and haven't too many grammar mistakes. Thank you for your patience. Cross-posted on AO3 and my tumblr

Writing on the notebook

'thoughts'

"Speaking"

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
― Steve Jobs

Chapter 1: Paw-sitively Purr-sonal

It took a whole week before Adrien noticed the red notebook laying underneath his bed. To be fair, he had been extra busy with the amount of akuma attacks lately and meeting his father's expectations regarding his school work hadn't let him with much down time. He starts to be disconcerted the moment he notices it has a yin-yang symbol with a green paw in the black circle and a ladybug where the white circle should be, in the center of the book.

"Where did this come from?" Eyeing the book suspiciously he turns to look at his partner, who for once didn't have anything to say. He could count on one hand the number of times he had seen Plagg with such a serious face.

"Plagg...?"

"...well I'm sure everything will turn out alright." Shrugging nonchalantly Plagg gulped down the last bit of cheese before looking mournfully at the empty snack plate.

"What's going on? Do you know how this notebook got under my bed?" A knock on the door stopped whatever the little kwami was going to say.

"Adrien? Hurry up or you'll be late for school."

Shoving Plagg and the notebook into his school bag, he quickly said goodbye to Nathalie before running to the limo waiting for him.

"Hey Tikki...what's this notebook? Did my mom buy it for me?"

Peering at the black notebook with a yin-yang symbol in the center of the book, she noted it had a green paw in the black circle and a ladybug where the white circle should be.

"That's...don't lose that notebook okay Marinette?"

"Tikki?"

The little kwami stared at her from her desk, with a most peculiar expression on her face.

"It's a very special ...charm."

"Charm? Like my yo-yo? How does it work? Do I write in it like The Evillustrator did with his sketch pad?"

"It's not for crime fighting...in fact, it's very rare that this type of charm appears at all. It's not always a good sign when it does."

A sense of dread grew in Marinette as she watched Tikki get more and more serious the longer she stared at the seemingly innocent notebook.

"Don't lose it okay? And don't worry about how to use it, that charm will activate itself. Just keep it close."

Floating towards Marinette's hands, Tikki gently guided them towards her school bag before pushing the book inside, and making herself comfortable next to it. Staring at her friend in confusion, Marinette opened her mouth but was quickly interrupted by a warm voice coming from down stairs.

"Marinette! Hurry up! You don't want to be late for school!"

"Coming mom!"

"Adrieeennnn!"

A yellow blur threw herself onto the startled boy, sneaking a quick kiss on his cheek before cooing over him.

"Uh, hi Chloe."

"I just got off the phone with Daddy and he said I could join you on your next trip to Italy for a photo shoot! Isn't that exciting Adrien?"

Glancing quickly around the hallway, Adrien couldn't see Nino nearby to help him get out of this talk. Chloe could be a little too pushy for him sometimes, and really it was only because of leftover loyalty for his childhood playmate and his father's strict expectations of him being polite that had Adrien put up with her half the time.

"Uh, sure...Any way we better start making our way to class; don't want to be late."

"Oh of course! Definitely wouldn't want to arrive late like someone who's a low class ingrate and can't afford to own a decent watch to get anywhere on time."

Noting that she was smirking to someone over her shoulder, he peered around her to see a very red and angry looking Marinette.

Sauntering away from him, she shrieked at Sabrina to hurry up and strutted to class.

A warm hand on his shoulder jolted Adrien away from his thoughts of continued disbelief at Chloe's bullying.

"Sorry I'm late bro, looks like I just missed Chloe clinging at you huh?"

"It's okay. I'm just sorry she targeted Marinette again with her bullying, what problem does Chloe have against her?"

Adrien stared baffled as his best friend started to laugh, as they walked towards class.

"Dude you can be so oblivious, you know that?"

"Huh?"

"It's doesn't help that Marinette always reacts to what Chloe says; the girl likes it when her comments affect people. Power trip, you know?"

Settling in their seats, Adrien was distracted by the teacher walking in and taking attendance.

'Maybe Nino will explain to me later why Marinette always get's so shy around me. Am I that intimidating?' Taking out his homework, Adrien stopped that line of thinking and focused on the class lecture.

"Grrrr! That Chloe! She's just so!"

Marinette made hand gestures of strangling an invisible person, as if that would make her point more obvious.

"Calm down girl! She's just trying to get under your skin. You're going to completely stress yourself out if you keep going like this."

Sighing dejectedly, Marinette slumped next to Ayla on the bench.

"I know Alya, I know."

"Okay, let's change the topic. Want to hear some cool news? The anniversary of Ladybug and Chat Noir's first appearance is coming up! Can you believe it's almost been two years since Paris was first saved by those two?"

Smiling softly Marianne thought of the half finished gift she was making for Chat Noir. He had offhandedly mentioned having a hard time falling to sleeping lately, so with that thought in mind she had been making him a scented quilt with a chamomile aroma.

"Yeah...how time flies."

"I wonder if we'll have a sighting of them on their anniversary? Wouldn't it be so cool if I managed to get an interview with them?!"

"It'd be the coolest."

Sharing a laugh, the two made their way back to class, both feeling lighthearted and happy once more.

"Oh! Rats! I forgot my chemistry book in my locker! Be right back!"

Smiling at her friend, Marinette felt a small tug coming from the bottom of her shirt.

"Psst! Marinette! The notebook! It's activating!"

"I'm telling you dude, Alya hasn't stopped geeking out over the upcoming anniversary of Ladybug and Chat Noir. I swear she get's more excited about that day than she does over Christmas, her birthday, new years, and our own anniversary."

"Well you are dating the number one student journalist and creator of the Ladyblog."

Laughing fondly, Nino grabbed his chemistry book and closed his locker.

"Anyway, see you in class Adrien. I've got to go to the bathroom real quick."

"See you Nino."

Sighing softly, Adrien opened his locker and pulled out the receipt he had printed out. His online order for a ladybug locket necklace would be arriving today, and he couldn't wait to go pick it up. He hoped she liked it, the wings opened to show a picture of the two of them smiling after defeating an Akuma last year. Ayla had managed to get a good photo of it and posted it on her Ladyblog. Putting away his receipt, he reached for his chemistry book when Plagg flew out into his face.

"Plagg! What are you doing?"

"Take out the notebook Aidren! It's starting!"

Feeling confused about the whole thing, Aidren reached into his bag and pulled out the red notebook. The yin-yang symbol was glowing and the cat's paw and lady bug where rotating slowly.

"Whaa?!"

"Open it up idiot! Quickly!"

Too stunned to snap back at Plagg's 'idiot' comment, he huddled closer to his locker and opened it up.

"What...what is this?"

"What on earth is going on?"

Making sure no one had noticed the glow coming from her notebook, she had quickly opened it and laid it on her desk.

There printed out in neat writing was the title "Stormy Weather" with a small blurb below it:

Marinette is babysitting a child named Manon when her best friend Alya visits her. Alya tells Marinette that Adrien is having a photoshoot nearby and takes the three of them to watch him. Meanwhile, Aurore Borell has just lost to her competitor, Mireille Jattée, to become the next weather forecaster. Infuriated, she becomes influenced by Hawk Moth and turns into 'Stormy Weather', a villain who controls the weather.

Looking over at peering Tikki, Marinette felt dread crawl down her spine as her kwami stared blankly at the words on the page.

"It begins."