It happened in fragments, fragments so small Marinette wasn't all too sure what to make of it. It started with Adrien trying to be even sweeter than normal, which she thought was impossible. It threw Marinette off guard, for whilst Adrien was sweet, he was never submissive.

The next thing she noticed was that whenever they went to modelling shoots together everyone eyed them up. She thought it was because they were mad at her for something but Adrien had chased that thought away.

Finally, she noticed that whenever Nino was around Adrien was tense. It was like he was waiting for Nino to snap. It was kind of draining.

With that in mind, she scouted out her sweet dear boyfriend and fell on the couch next to him. He made quick work of pulling her into his embrace and kissing the top of her head. Marinette laughed

"You're cute," she said. Adrien beamed at her

"You're cuter" he insisted. Marinette scrunched up her nose

"Copycat" she huffed. Adrien laughed, a sweet melody to Marinette's ears. The boy kissed her as she smiled after a moment, she could feel herself melt into him.

Slowly they pulled away and Marinette swore she could see stars

"You really need to stop doing that," she said suddenly. Adrien looked at her confused

"What?"

"Kissing me like that, like are you a god?" suddenly Marinette's hands flew to her mouth and her eyes went wide. She mumbled something which couldn't be heard over Adrien's laugh. The boy seemed to vibrate as he laughed which amused Marinette to no end.

"For you princess, I'll be anything," he said swiftly. If it was possible Marinette would have turned to goo at his words. They held such love and compassion that Marinette was beginning to feel warm inside.

If she, could she would have stared at him all day but she had to figure out what was going on with him. So, she leaned into him, as his arms wrapped around her.

"Hey, Adrien?"

"Hmm," he hummed. She took a deep breath and asked

"Did you and Nino have a fight or something?" at her question Adrien stiffened. She gulped; she knew something was wrong!

"No, why would you think that?" Adrien asked. Marinette scowled

"A number of reasons, mainly that you're tense around him." Adrien shook his head to try and appease her

"Trust me princess everything is fine, Nino is fine, I'm fine don't worry!" he said all of this in a sort of rushed whisper. Marinette didn't buy it, something was wrong, they don't call her the leader of superheroes for nothing. Still, she didn't want to pressure her boyfriend into telling her, that would be wrong. No instead she would just ask Alya. So Marinette shrugged

"If you're sure," she said. Adrien's eyes softened slightly and he kissed her forehead before hugging her a little tighter

"I'm sure, I promise you Mari there is nothing to worry about" Marinette smiled falsely, somehow, she highly doubted that.

The next day found Marinette in Alya's room as the reporter spilt the beans. As to how everyone was trying to bully Adrien into protecting Marinette, like he wouldn't do that already. How Adrien had just kind of took it and not done much to defend himself. How even the models Adrien worked with had basically told him that he could never leave Marinette.

Marinette sat and listened to all the things others had put her boyfriend through and felt utterly horrible. How had she not noticed? When Alya had finished Marinette turned to her, face relaxed and asked her a simple question.

"Have you ever threatened him?" Alya shrunk back.

"Well not threatened but I did say nobody would find him if he hurt you." Marinette let out an exaggerated sigh. Why did everyone think she was incapable of looking after herself?

Alya stared at her best friend, contemplating what to do at the deadly calm exterior Marinette exuded.

"What are you going to do?" she asked. Marinette shrugged.

"Honestly? I don't know. I just think you are all so stupid, why would Adrien hurt me? He loves me, if anything I would hurt him or did none of you think about that. I know one thing though; Nino won't realise what hit him when I'm through."