I swear the moment you start you'll get the Frozer ep vibes...because I was writing the Frozer one until I realized it's useless to me now. I'm not going to do a "Marinette vs Kagami for Adrien" or "Luka vs Adrien for Marinette" because it's not my thing. But I left it there because why not.

Chat found amusing how their job was not only Hawkmoth's akumas. No, during certain days it also involved saving people from unusual situations.

Like that day, with them saving a guy whose paraglider had gone rogue. A flower delivery guy from what Chat caught as Ladybug got the poor guy.

"Don't forget your bouquet" he said as he handed it over.

It was a bold move, but he stole a rose from it and did what he had seen in many shows before. He got on one knee to offer it to Ladybug.

"For you my lady,"

Her cheeks flushed, her eyes widened and her lips parted in surprise. Chat smiled more that she took it with care.

"I...thanks but, you're about to transform back-"

"But you already know who I am," Chat stood up and held her hands "you know me better than anyone Ladybug, Marinette, the one and only girl that has captured my heart."

Her cheeks were turning even redder.

"We can defeat Hawkmoth and then travel across the world, get married, have kids, you can run your fashion line and we can have-"

"Chat," Ladybug squeezed his hands "are you...confessing to me?"

"Yes," he said "I love you,"

"Oh Chat," Ladybug moved closer "I-"

"Mr. Agreste!"

"Gah!" Adrien almost fell on his feet. Of course, he was at fencing practice and had spent a good amount of time daydreaming about confessing. His cheeks were burning and he was so glad they were hidden by the helmet but everyone had looked at him and now he felt like a fool.

Who was he kidding? He didn't have it in him to confess his feelings, not to mention they already had too much to deal with at the moment. Between training, the still pending decision of becoming guardians, not to mention they were so close to lycée. And! Between Marinette's work as student representative, her fashion projects and his overwhelming schedule, he knew it was not the right time to even add more to their weights.

It didn't take away his brain was not in place to the perpetual beat that he got from Kagami that evening.

"I usually enjoy defeating you but it's not fun when you make it that easy."

Adrien winced, Kagami didn't deserve his half assed efforts.

"I'm sorry Kagami, I just," he sighed "I have too much in mind right now."

"I see,"

"It's..." maybe asking her would be a good thing? "I am unsure about some feelings I have, whether I should let them out or not."

"Ah," to his surprise she sat next to him, her posture straight as usual "this is about Marinette."

"W-what, how I didn't-"

"Adrien," she cut him off "straight to the point, it is obvious you are more than infatuated with her, what is stopping you from telling her?"

Adrien thought on all the things involved, their partnership, the safety of Paris, the big decisions, none of those he could really share with Kagami.

"I have never…really, declared my feelings before to anyone,"

Sort of lie, he's had, but never with this intensity to someone.

"Then perhaps you should find out more about how that is before you speak with her," she stood up "Marinette is, from what I have gathered, a caring person, she would not hurt you intentionally if she were to say no to your emotions."

Her hands gripped on her bag and turned around to leave.

"Boy oh boy, you sure are hopeless," Plagg muttered from his bag, startling Adrien to stand up and change already.

"And now I have to do something about it or else fencing will be even more painful" he struggled with his shirt "I just, I'll ask around, surely someone can give me advice."

He regretted even trying to look for advice by the time nightfall came. How was he even going to touch the subject with the few adults in his life? The Gorilla wouldn't say a thing, Nathalie didn't even let him ask before dismissing him and if he even dared to tell his father... he shuddered.

"This is hopeless," Adrien groaned on his bed "how do they make it so easy in tv shows?"

"Because it's fiction," Plagg mumbled from his slice of Camembert.

Adrien took his phone, a photo of him and Marinette wearing cosplay greeting him. A smile crossed his face, the way Marinette tried to do a serious pose while Adrien had a goofy smile. They had gone to the park to do those photos, with Alya offering to take them and it had been so fun and Marinette looked so beautiful...

His phone buzzed, almost making him drop it on his face.

Buginette: We really need to talk about that choice

Buginette: The you know what yes or no question

Adrien smiled. It was a good thing he knew what Marinette meant otherwise he'd be panicking over the cryptic message.

Catdrien: I've thought a little but it's been pushed aside because of history

Buginette: I know! But at least in a few weeks we'll be out… we can think it through then?

Catdrien: It is a good plan oh mighty strategist :3

Buginette: Shh, now the other reason I am texting

Catdrien: I will exchange my physics notes over a passion fruit macaroon

Buginette: A fair price :D

Adrien smiled; he was going to help her either way.

Catdrien: And the possibility of you playing some Resident Evil with me

Buginette: Is this because you are scared of the zombies or because you got stuck in a puzzle?

Catdrien: I'll let you decide that owo

It was definitely the second one, Adrien told himself as Marinette typed her response.

Buginette: Fine then, but I'm sleeping for now, Alya just finished texting me about her sister's latest date and am I glad not to have an older sister.

Catdrien: Sleep tight don't let the bugs bite ;D

Buginette: * *

Adrien chuckled and was about to put the phone to a side when something clicked in his head.

"That's it!" he sat up and unlocked his phone, scrolling down his contacts to send a message

The next day looked promising as Adrien arrived with a skip in his step. That is of course until he spotted Alya.

"Ok sunshine boy," she almost pulled him to the empty locker room "what's so urgent you couldn't tell me by text but had to be me to know?"

"I need your help" Adrien said "how do you tell someone you like them?"

Come to think of it, maybe asking Alya first hadn't been the best choice. Because the moment he finished his question Alya's face made a frown followed by a gasp and pointing at him with her mouth open.

"So, help me Agreste if you say it is who I think it is-"

Ok, he didn't think this through.

"You already know?"

"I have eyes, but a verbal confirmation would be divine."

"Alya, what I'm going to tell you is very important but no one can know yet,"

"Oh? Still makes me wonder why me and not Nino,"

"Nino who had no idea how to confess and ended up with a wacky zoo trip?"

"Fair enough" Alya crossed her arms "so, spill."

"I…" he looked at the hallway, just to make sure no one would enter and overhear "I am in love with… Marinette."

Alya's face was a huge smile. He could tell she was fighting the squeal or even the need to grab her phone.

"Oh my gosh, I thought you were going to say like but," she clasped her hands "this is so amazing!"

"What?"

"I mean, don't get me wrong Adrien, we kind of figured it out but" she kept smiling "the fact that you are confirming it, this is too good."

"Alya, she doesn't know that,"

"And she should" Alya pointed a finger at him "she should know this f-ohhh, I see, you want to confess to her?"

"No!" Adrien jumped "I mean, not right now! There's, there's too much on our plates right now with…with exams coming and about to start lycée and,"

"Ah, yes, our Marinette is probably running herself to the ground" Alya sighed "I see your point Adrien."

"But I also want to ask how I could, I just," he squeezed the strap of his bag "Marinette is a very special friend to me Alya, I don't want to lose her friendship over my feelings."

"So… you want to tell her, but also not want to tell her?"

Adrien knew that was too much to ask but it'd give him some time to put his thoughts in order. As far as he was concerned, one of their decisions would still have time until vacations, because they would have more time to think and discuss.

And yet he didn't know how much his heart would be able to handle with the time left for that.

"Oh, hey guys, you're early" Nino waved at them "and I thought Marinette would be the first one here,"

"Oh right!" Alya slapped her forehead "the classroom decoration I almost forgot!"

"Classroom decoration?" Adrien turned to Nino "oh, whose birthday is today?"

"Dude, I don't blame you for forgetting with all your work but we did mention it on the group chat" Nino smiled "it's Miss Bustier's birthday today."

Adrien wanted to smack his own forehead now. Of course, it totally slipped his mind! He remembered last year and how everyone had gotten gifts for the teacher and told himself to not forget the following year.

"Man! I've been with so much in my head that it slipped my mind,"

"Hey man, you don't have to give a gift, remember?"

"Yeah, still" he sighed "maybe I can find something nice for her during our break."

"Works good, but I have to ask, what was going on with Alya back then?"

Adrien grabbed his books for the following classes and took a deep breath.

"I was asking for love advice," he left it at that "since she has an older sister and well, no offense Nino but you aren't the best at this category."

"You are never going to let me live that one down, aren't you?" Nino bumped his shoulder, smiling as both went to the classroom "will I at least know about who?"

"You can but I have the feeling everyone knows…woah" Adrien's words died out when he saw how incredible the classroom looked "wow."

"So, what do you think?" Marinette clapped her hands together when she spotted the guys arrive "too much?"

"No but it looks really good!" Adrien was amazed "how did you pull this off in so little time?"

"That would be because of me" Chloe said from behind "consider this my gift this year."

"The first one ever," Adrien heard someone from the class comment but he was even more surprised that Chloe had helped out, he still remembered how it had been the last year. It had been a very, very long journey (even if it hadn't been more than two years top) but Chloe was slowly pulling through.

"The point is, we'll have a good small celebration for Miss Bustier right now" Marinette shared a glance with Adrien.

"Definitely so,"

There was no way this could be ruined.

Then again, Adrien should've known by now not to jinx it. Because bad luck would come get him sooner or later, this time in the form of an akuma.

And it hadn't been targeted at their class! One moment they were enjoying that free period, the next there's a situation between the student council that had to make Marinette excuse herself from the room with their teacher and it couldn't have been more than five minutes when an akuma strolled to their classroom.

"Great," Adrien looked at the door, hoping that Marinette made it out safe to transform.

"I have got some great news for you students! From now on everyone's going to hug and kiss and feel the love!"

What in the world…

Next thing he knew the akuma had thrown a kiss that landed on Sabrina's forehead, just as Ladybug kicked open the door.

"Everyone out!" she threw her yo-yo at the akuma "now!"

Adrien jumped above the desk to make sure all his classmates were leaving, sharing a fraction of second with Ladybug but it was too soon for him to transform, not with everyone still here. Right, divide and conquer for now.

"I am not Miss Bustier anymore! I am Zombizou!"

"Really?" Adrien wanted to ask but Ladybug pushed him out of the classroom.

"What just happened?"

"Why is Miss Bustier…?"

"This cannot be real, she's so nice!"

"Guys, stop!" Adrien called out "Ladybug and Chat Noir will save her; we need to move away from here now."

"I don't feel so good," a voice said from the stairs, Adrien and Chloe turning to see Sabrina holding onto the rail "it's so warm in here…"

"Hey no, don't you faint on me now Sabrina," Chloe walked towards her "come on, snap out of it."

Hang on, Zombizou, Sabrina had got hit with a kiss, the name…

"Chloe no!" Adrien pulled her away just as Sabrina's eyes turned purple "everyone! Step away from her!"

"What?"

Sabrina had jumped at Mylene and next thing Adrien saw were two of his classmates acting like kiss frantic zombies. A part of him thought it could be worse, it could be flesh eating type which he was oh so glad was not the case.

"Don't let yourselves get kissed!" Adrien pointed at the other stairs for everyone to run, just as Ivan stood in front of them to block Sabrina and Mylene.

"Run! I'll hold them back!"

Adrien had seen enough zombie movies to know that meant Ivan was lost to them. At least he managed to get everyone safe in the locker rooms. He looked through the window as Zombizou kept transforming students and teachers, glad to see Ladybug had evaded them from the second floor.

"Look, if they don't see anyone they stop moving" Alya whispered next to him.

"Oh yeah like…Dawn of the Dead"

"I think you mean World War Z" muttered Kim, who had just pushed a locker to the other door to block it.

"Seriously? We are not going to debate zombie movies; everyone needs to hide in a locker for now."

How was he going to get out of this? He bit his thumb as he heard the commotion outside, no doubt Ladybug arriving to the room to make sure everyone is ok.

"Adrien hasn't come out of his locker,"

Oh, oh think fast, he had to think of something…

"Adrien?" someone opened the locker door.

"Kissy boo" he muttered, only to get slammed on the face by the locker door. It was good that everyone started to yell because it hid his wince of pain but now, they were going to get all the attention.

"We need to head to the roof" Ladybug said, giving the locker door a quick tap "now!"

Ladybug was so going to regret not liking all those zombie movies with how relatable they were feeling right there, but she had to wonder if Adrien had really been touched or not. Getting everyone to higher ground was a good idea for now, but as usual they had to get the akuma to save everyone.

"How could they get Miss Bustier?" Alix kicked a rock from the roof "who could have- "

Ladybug frowned. She had been there of course. A misdirection of budget in the Council and they were starting to point out fingers, the other teacher not helping in defuse the situation where the akuma arrived about to hit the other student and her teacher taking the butterfly from pushing the poor kid away.

What surprised Ladybug in that moment was that she saw Miss Bustier fight it, before it was inevitable her control. That was something she'd take into consideration later on.

"I'm all for our French greetings, but let's not kiss for now" she heard Chat's voice walking towards him and there was no denying of the relief she felt.

"I'm so glad you're here" she showed him the screen on her yo-yo as they got hold of the city's situation. It was just like a zombie movie, no doubt about that, with less blood and more…kissing.

"Did you notice she's not targeting a specific person?" Chat said once the transmission ended "unlike the other akumas?"

"She got caught out of love, it'd make sense" Ladybug looked around "but at least we know the area she's around."

"Ah! They're coming!" Rose pointed at the other side of the roof where more zombissous were climbing.

"We've got to evacuate everyone!"

"Over there!" Ladybug pointed at the bus and then looked at Chat "want to get your driver lessons already?"

"For our sake I'll say yes" he smiled and jumped towards the bus to create a made-up zip line with it and his belt.

It worked for the most part, until he spotted more zombissous flooding the rooftop.

"LB!"

Chat wanted to jump back towards her, but Chloe was sliding down the zip-line so fast he didn't manage to get her on time.

"Ah! Someone! Help me!"

"Here! Kissy kissy!"

It was way too risky and after this he was so going to reevaluate his taste in zombie movies, but at least it managed to get some of the zombissous away from Chloe. He jumped out to another van and looked at Rose of all people running out to take Chloe, just as more zombissous showed up from around the corner.

He was so glad to see Ladybug arriving just in time to pull them back to the bus.

"We have to go," Chat jumped towards her, just as Ladybug glanced back at the roof. Kim and Max were up there, no doubt zombissous already, but Chat had to think they were going to be ok.

"We'll save them," Chat pulled at her hand and jumped back inside to take over the steering wheel.

It was so not like Mario Kart, that was for sure.

"It could be worse" Chat tried to say as he tried to get the shifting and pedals. Soon enough they were moving at a not so fast speed but at least decent enough to not get hit by the zombissous outside. The last thing he wanted was to accidentally run over a person.

"What's our plan?"

"The best place should be the Eiffel tower, less fewer places for Zombizou's disciples to run to,"

"Huh, I've been calling them zombissous,"

"Really?"

"Sounds way better than disciples" Chat turned the steering wheel "but won't there be less places to hide?"

"Yes but it's the only way to catch Zombizou's attention-"

A scream from the back side of the bus made the hairs of their necks to stand up. Chat didn't turn around to see, instead trying to floor it on the bus, but enough to listen how Rose had succumbed to become one of the zombissous, followed by Alix stopping her from moving forward.

"As soon as I stop the bus you two run straight to the tower" Chat turned to Nino and then to Chloe "I'll take you in,"

Ladybug held tight to her yo-yo, her hands starting to hurt from the tension. It was a very slim space of time but as soon as she saw Chat crossing the entrance that she let go and ran as fast as she could out of the bus and inside the tower. There were far less people in but it was still dangerous.

They ran to the elevator, but she should have known something was going to happen when as soon as the doors opened more zombissous came out and took over Alya.

"Alya!"

"There's nothing we can do about her right now," Chat jumped into the elevator, "come on LB, we can finish this."

"He's right," Alya sat up, the purple kiss marks all over her face and arms "just go, and save us all."

Ladybug felt something at her throat tighten. This was not like those movies, Alya was not going to die. She moved to the elevator, just as Nino stayed behind to be with Alya.

"Nino!"

"LB, we are going to save them,"

She heard him, she believed him, but this was feeling so apocalyptic she was having a hard time trying to get it together. At least Chloe had been quiet, which was, to her surprise, a silver lining, last thing she needed was her suddenly complaining.

"Where now?"

"Straight ahead, Gustave Eiffel's tower," Ladybug almost rammed into the door, as more zombissous were right outside. How did they even get there?

"LB! Catch!" she heard Chat as he threw (and she couldn't believe he had done that) Chloe at her.

She was barely able to get her without getting a kiss and locking Chloe in the office but something in her gut started to squirm. This was just like Dark Cupid, just like Timebreaker, she knew it was going to happen and yet that dumb cat!

"Chat!" she looked at him, holding off a dozen of zombissous with his body and baton, the purple mark kisses all over his face.

"No!"

"I'm sorry LB" he gave her a small smile "I really tried,"

"I…"

"Hey, you can do it, I believe in you,"

She wanted to cry. She wanted to yell at Hawkmoth to yell at Chat to just yell but Chat's eyes were starting to turn purple and left her no other choice but to run back to the office where Chloe was.

"Ladybug!" Chloe called as soon as she closed the door.

"How's your foot Chloe?"

She had to have a cool head, she needed to, for the sake of everyone, but she felt so powerless right there, three times she had lost Chat in fight! How could they let this happen?

"It's…ok," she clasped her hands together "I'm sorry Ladybug, if I hadn't twisted my ankle-"

"No" Ladybug held up a hand "it's… part of the job, Chat knows it, I know it…it's going to be ok."

At the very least, she knew what to do with her lucky charm, after all, the kissing marks were makeup in the end. She was even more relieved to see Chat at her side, free of marks and with her bright green eyes looking at her.

Still, it wasn't until late night when they were taking a break from patrol that Ladybug spoke up.

"You did it to save Chloe,"

"Yes," Chat twirled his baton "I know what you're going to say,"

"How heroic you are but also this isn't a tragedy?"

"Oh, well," Chat looked at her "almost what you were going to say."

To his surprise Ladybug just smiled and held his hand, squeezing tight. The moon wasn't full but if it were it'd help show the intense blue glint on her eyes that made Chat's pulse accelerate. And to think that hours ago he was thinking whether to talk with her or not about his feelings.

"But no zombie movies for a while,"

"Agreed," he looked at their hands, unable to move it away. It was warm and safe and Chat wanted to never let go of that hand.

"I can't wait for vacations" Ladybug sighed "it'd be a breather."

"Yeah, it sure would."

Chat squeezed back her hand and looked at the sky.

He would tell her. About his feelings, about his thoughts. But not that night. That night was to just enjoy her company and the moon in the sky.

As usual, no beta read, I don't really have one, and I'm going to go back to work now.

Because I'm in "should Chloe have the miraculous or not" because a part of me is like "nah," and skip already to season 3 and do Chameleon because I already know when and how these two will finally get together.

Thanks for reading!