Marinette didn't say much after that, she just guided Adrien to her working space to start making measurements.

They were both in silence while Marinette rounded Adrien with her pink tape measure and scribbled into her notes.

The whispers of the other interns was the only noise on the room, till those whispers faded away and the interns were gone and the silence reigned again.

Adrien felt awkward and was still confused about the whole situation he was living. He didn't know what to do. He obviously had to ask Marinette what was going on, but he didn't know how, she was a different person or at least showed to be a different person, and Adrien didn't know how to deal with it.

While Marinette has measuring her waist, the tape snapped from her fingers and she had to start once again, making a new bad word come out of her mouth. And that made a light bulb light up on Adrien's brain.

"Have you ever been to America?" He asked looking directly at her eyes

Marinette paused all her work, she stood stiff and her breathe turned uneven, which made Adrien regret the question so he started speaking again

"I used to curse that much when I was in America, my first years and I realized that you curse like an American, I mean how you make the phrases and I, I'm sorry I asked I just wanted to know because I lived in America for long time and… sorry" He stopped and looked away from her blue eyes

"Let's say that I have but at the same time don't have been in America" Marinette answered, but really that didn't make any sense and only made Adrien more confused

"You are really confusing, Mari" He sighted

"Wow, there with the confidence, I don't think your father will like if you called me any other thing that Miss Dupaing-Cheng, at least Miss Marinette"

"Sorry, old habit" And there it was, subtle but effective

"Old habit?" Marinette looked at him, and took a step away "We know each other?!"

"Yeah, why did you think I asked you if you recognized me?" Adrien said back

"Because you were a public figure? I don't know... Oh, damn! You know me, we know each other!" Marinette walked in circles, her hands in the air and her face in shock "From where?"

"School, we were friends"

"We were friends?! Why didn't you said it earlier?!"

"Well you were being really mean and shouting at me"

"I didn't knew I knew you… and you didn't make any attempt to show me the contrary

"I was a little shocked myself, excuse me"

"Yeah but you didn't even called me by my name, that's how I usually guess people know me, you were a total stranger and oh god" Marinette kept rambling

"So you're not acting" Adrien said relieved

"No I'm not" She said as he had asked "I had… let's say an accident"

"I'm sorry, I didn't knew"But I kinda had figured it out He thought. There was no way Marinette could have changed that much without any reasons

"God, I'm so sorry, I feel so bad. I'm not usually that mean but you just got in my freaking nerves for some reason, and I'm very impulsive after the whole thing, or so my family and friends say"

"It's okay, I think I should have been more direct when I realized something was wrong with you"

"Maybe you should have, but is still not okay from me to have treated you in the way I did, I'm just under a lot of stress and things are going on and I don't know, I'm sorry"

"Stop apologizing, is really fine" Adrien smiled to her and a strange sensation filled the room

Marinette seemed to feel it too but tried to ignore it. She felt too much since the weird "accident", and three weeks ago things started to be bolder than ever. Her emotions were all over the place, she was jumpy all the time and it was like every sound was louder, every color brighter and every sensation multiplied itself by ten.

Marinette stared at Adrien for long time before speaking again. He was handsome, so handsome and she had noticed that last night and this morning but somehow, now right in front of her he looked especially gorgeous. There was a fiery feeling on her tummy, as much as burning sensation all over her body and it performed to the public on the apples of her cheeks.

Adrien could see in front row how Marinette's cheeks started to stain in red, making him smile from an ear to another. That was Marinette, always burning in red and smiling shy

"I think we should finish with this" The girl said in a really low tone that Adrien wouldn't have heard if they weren't so close

"Can we finish the conversation first?"

"I had an accident; I lost my memory and I'm still trying to get it back. There's not much to talk about" Marinette huffed

"Yeah, but—

"Mari!" A shout at the door of the room made the girl turn around and smile

Adrien followed her sight and saw his old classmate and now Marinette's boyfriend on the door

"Hi" Marinette waved at him with a little smile

Nathanael walked to her workspace ignoring Adrien completely, he turned to Marinette and saluted her with a sweet little peck on the lips. Just then he turned to Adrien

"Long time no see" He smiled and extended his hand to the blonde

"Yeah, how is life going? A part of it pretty good as I can see" He didn't meant for it to sound full of jealousy, but it did, and Adrien was afraid that he could turn green right in the spot.

"Amazing" Nathanael's happiness was undeniable. He reached Marinette in a hug by her waist and kissed her temple "What brings you back to Paris?"

"Got a job at Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech "

"Right, you are a teacher!" Nath said at the same time Marinette said "That's impressive, you must be so smart!"

"It's not a big deal" He said looking at Marinette, who finally acted like the girl he knew

"I would love to catch up but Mari and I have a date planned" Nath smiled.

Adrien couldn't help but hate every part of that phrase, and the way Nathanael said all of it. He was being nice and not faking a word or feeling that came out of his mouth, he was only that nice but for Adrien it felt like he was making fun of him. How ridiculous was that?

"Yeah, I have some errands myself" Lies, he swore he could hear Plagg laughing on his back.

"I'll have a few designs ready really soon" Marinette said "When can I show you?"

"Whenever, just knock on my door" Adrien smiled "Have fun guys"

"Sure" Marinette smiled awkwardly when Adrien turned around "I'll see you, I guess"

"I guess we'll do, neighbor " Adrien answered between a chuckle

By finally reaching the couch on his house, Adrien properly freaked out

"She had an accident! She got an accident and I didn't knew!" He yelled at Plagg "We were friends, I had a crush on her and I didn't knew a thing!"

"You moved an ocean away" Plagg said flying by his side

"Yeah but I kept contact with Nino and a few of my modeling friends, I could have kept contact with Marinette"

"Didn't the whole breakup of your best friends messed up that?"

"Yeah" Adrien nodded. Nino and Alya's break up had been awful, not because they hated each but all the contrary, the break up had ripped both of them apart, they didn't wanted to end things up but if they didn't none of them would have been successful. They had cut every cord that bonded them together, and that included Marinette and Adrien. Adrien didn't remember he agreed to that condition, it all seemed to have happened by itself.

"Well, now that I know and we cleared things up she was nicer" Adrien sighed and lied on his couch

"Yeah but there's still something weird about her"

"Wasn't you who this morning said she seemed the same?"

"I hadn't been around her for so long, there's a weird vibe around her, it kept me alarmed the whole time"

"She didn't alarmed you when she was rude but she did when she was being herself?"

"There's something fishy about her"

"Well as a cat you would know" Adrien grinned

"I can't believe I have been around you for ten years and you still impress me with horrible puns" Plagg said and ran to the kitchen

"It's a tailent" Adrien laughed and followed him "And talking about cats, we have job to do"

"Oh c'mon! I had to hide for an eternity and now you want to go and play around? I need a rest"

"You rested enough, I left you a whole bag of crackers and a round of cheese, you ate at all, I think you are fine"

"I have to differ"

"I differ back" Adrien smirked, put his hand on a fit and throw it on the air to what Plagg sighed "Plagg!

"Yeah, I know, I know, no need for the Sailor Moon scenario in your head"

"Transform me" Adrien ignored him and said the words.

When Adrien moved to Cambridge he didn't knew how much he would miss Paris, as in the city, how it was build, how it shined under the moonlight, how it became alive in such a different way when the sun went down. He didn't noticed how much he missed it till his second year of college, but tonight, this particular night when the drops of water were falling over Paris and the lights of the buildings seemed blurry thanks to it, when you can see tourist getting mad yet still having fun, when you can see citizens going out to bars and restaurants. The city was certainly beautiful, but in between all that beauty there was a part of it that refused to stay in peace.

Close toGaleries Lafayette, in a street full of people, criminals were running. Pushing people away and hitting them to get away from police.

It had been ten minutes of persecution when in between the roofs and pipes a black and tall shadow was running to the scene.

Adrien felt how the adrenaline pumped through his veins, it had been way too long without feeling this kind of energy and the excitement of being a superhero was even bigger than when he was a teen. In those times it felt like a dream but also as a heavy weight to carry thanks to the akumas, right now when he chose to do it, it felt amazing.

With help of his staff he had moved people out of the way from his place in the rooftop, making moves not to catch the criminals but to take them to an alley and trap them. While his plan was working perfectly, with the police helping and doing as he ordered (good thing that they still trusted him, there was a time when they would have doubt immediately) he didn't noticed the other figure running slower and with less precision trough the roofs.

The person was following him and a bit ahead of him since he still had to distract the criminals, yet this person was less skilled, maybe to the fact that she didn't own any super power at all, but to replace it, she was extremely smart. She realized the plan and localized the alley where the superhero was leading the criminals. In a fast move she changed directions, swiftly but carefully climbing trough the roofs, this night thanks to the rain she had to be especially cautious, one bad step and she will become a sticker on the ground.

She ended up in the scene first and hided on the shadows of the alley; when steps on the puddles made their recognizable noise, the shadow became alive and started fighting.

The element of surprise was her thing, no one expected to find an obstacle, not her that was for sure, tiny and skinny but when it came to fight hand to hand, she was impeccable.

Thanks to the unexpected stop of one of the criminals his buddy crashed against him, making it easier for the girl to kick them both to the wall. But that wasn't as effective as she thought, sadly the rain had made her slipper and her kick wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The criminals jumped back and ran to the end of the alley.

The girl ran behind them to realize what they were doing. They had seen the same stair she had used to go down to the alley. While they ran stairs up, she jumped to grip the metallic bar above her so she could win time, not having to ran upstairs when the rain pouring down as it did.

She jumped, not quickly enough so the criminals were on rooftops already. If they were smart, they would chose the same path which would be nice for her, she already knew the easiest and safest paths on the roofs better than anyone in the whole city, rain or not she would win.

She stepped on the tiles of the roof and started running; in a shift move she flexed her knees and stopped running. Thanks to the rain she slide off and overtook the two thefts. She caught them by their hoodies, pulling back and down so they could stop.

But this time the element of surprise wasn't on her side. The tallest of the criminals had a knife and was aiming at her. The girl wasn't fast enough, the knife cut in to her thigh, which made her release them and loose the balance.

She hit the blue tiles with her body and slide down to the end of them. She tried to held up but the rain made everything slippery.

While she was falling she heard two loud howls, a laugh and a well known scream

"Cataclysm!"

Everything happened in less than a second but for her it was like a slow motion camera. One moment she was hearing all that noise and falling down the roof and the other she was stopped in the air, looking down at the cars and people who stared at her, and someone was holding her by her ankle.

She couldn't look up, she knew any move could make the person who was holding her lose the grip, and she didn't wanted to meet the ground face to face. But after she heard a deep rich laugh she was about to make him drop her.

She didn't knew why she felt like that, the necessity to roll her eyes to the guy who was holding her, but she did, so she spoke

"Are you gonna put me down?"

"Alright" He said and the grip was gone

She shouted when she started falling again, moving her arms and legs trying to make the fall less fast, but she knew it was useless.

She closed her eyes, ready to find her fatal destiny when once again everything stopped. She was in a guys arms, and he was running like she weighted the same as a feather.

"You almost kill me! Damn I thought I was having a heart attack!" He laughed again and stopped in the flattest roof he found.

Chat put her down and stepped away from her, giving her space to breathe

"I'm sorry, princess" He said making something click inside the girl's brain "But you shouldn't been playing superhero, it's dangerous" That he said it with seriousness and a frowned expression

"Superheroes hadn't been here for long, somebody had to do something"

"Sure, but it's no work for a princess like you. Being totally serious, Marinette, what were you thinking?"

Marinette blinked and opened her mouth in surprise

"You know who I am?"

"Of course, the mask doesn't do much, it's not magical like mine, and I would recognize my princess anywhere" He smirked

"We know each other?"

"Let's say that you were an incredible ally back in the day, thought I say you have gone way too far now. Police saw you in the shadows and called me to warn me about you. They think you are… reckless and mess up a lot of operations"

"What?! I have captured more criminals in these three months than they have in a lifetime"

"No one likes a vigilante, princess" He crossed his arms on his chest and walked to her "What's with you? What motivated you all of a sudden?"

"You ask with such confidence, really how did this conversation start? it shouldn't been taking place, thank you for saving me but I'm alright"

"We have tons of confidence, princess, we are very good friends"

"We are?" Marinette gasped, trying to connect pieces of the puzzle on her head, but it was useless.

"Yes, and we can still be if you want" Chat extended his hand to her face, making Marinette flinch "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have tried to touch you without permission, I know this must be weird for you… I heard about your accident"

"You did?" She asked surprised. Details of her "accident" weren't out there so that made her suspicious "What did you heard?"

"Nothing more than you had an accident and lost your memory" He upped his shoulders "It must be hard to be through that…why risk it trying to be Paris' Daredevil?"

"I don't have to explain anything to you" She huffed and putted her hands on her waist

"You don't" He nodded "C'mon if I'm not getting any answers from you tonight, at least let me take you home"

"What? No, what happened with the thefts?"

"Ah, the police must be scrabbling between the rubble to find them"

"You destroyed a building?!" Marinette gasped

"Only a little wall, everything will be okay when—" He stopped, eyes wide open in realization "Oh, purrfect" He said, clearly stating that nothing was

"What? You didn't knew that destroying things was bad?"

"Is not about my powers" He sighed "I just never had fought without my Lady, she used to fix everything at the end"

"Oh, I'm sorry" Marinette felt the need to apologize, the sadness that Chat irradiated was palpable "Where's she?"

"If I only knew" He laughed ironically "I'm looking for her, we haven't been in contact for a few years now"

Marinette didn't knew how to answer so she kept her mouth shut.

She took off her black mask and took off her tall pony tail, letting her long black her fall to her shoulders. Thanks to the rain it was heavier than usual and it tangled easier so she started brushing it with her fingers.

"You look really good with your hair down" She looked up. Chat was looking at her and she wasn't sure, but it seemed like he was blushing. The rain dripping on his blonde hair and the teardrops making his way down along the sharp line of his jaw, made a strangely familiar and overwhelming feeling take over Marinette. She couldn't explain what it was, she knew a part of her was admiring how handsome the guy was under the mask but there was so much more that it wasn't possible to describe. There was a feeling similar to what Alya gave her but also the weird awkward and unsettling feeling that Adrien gave her was there, thought it was almost nonexistent compared to the blonde model.

"Princess is everything fine?" One blink and he was closer, his hands on her shoulders, gently rubbing her, as he was calming her down. He was tall so he was looking down to her, but instead of feeling terrified, Marinette felt so safe and warm being this close to him. Which obviously, made her blush, and Chat noticed "You still blush, I like that too"

"Stop" She ordered in between a laugh "Or I won't take your offer to take me home"

"Why would that be bad for me?" He lifted a brow

"Something tells me you won't leave me alone till I accept it"

"Something tells me that there's a part of you who remembers me perfectly" He took her hand, pulling her closer "C'mon, purrinces, it's time to go home"