A/N: I had an idea for a one-shot. This isn't it. This is what I ended up typing as I was thinking of that other idea, and I decided it needed to be its own story.

Chapter 3 - You had a Miraculous?!

"Marinette, your friend is here."

"Send him up, Mom. And, Thanks!" Marinette's heart started beating faster. Calm down, Marinette! You're working on a school project, not asking him out, she chastised herself. Marinette was still crushing on Adrien – hard – but had decided that it would be better not to stress over asking him out and just concentrate on being a better friend. It took her over a year to come to that conclusion, but hey… it seemed to be working.

Soon enough, she heard a knock at her trap door. "Come in, Adrien," she greeted brightly. "You ready to study? Or should I kick your butt at UMS first?"

Adrien laughed, his radiant smile lighting up the room. "We'd probably better actually work on our project first, don't you think? I can beet you at Mecha Strike later."

"In your dreams, Sunshine Boy! Come on, let's get started."

The two teens had been paired up for a project concerning social media and its impact on society. They looked for evidence from various social media and news sites: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, among others. Soon they were looking over the various stories and photos on the Ladyblog, their project all but forgotten.

"Ugh, I can't believe all the comments on artwork of Ladybug and Chat Noir kissing, of all things," complained Marinette.

"I don't know, Marinette. There is lots of photographic evidence of them kissing. That incident on top of Montparnasse Tower, for example." Adrien smiled.

"Oblivio, you mean?"

"Yeah," he sighed dreamily, thinking about how if his Lady fell in love with him during that Akuma that he could win her heart again.

"They lost their memories. So what could have possessed Ladybug to kiss her partner when she's been so adamant that they're not a couple?" Marinette wondered aloud. She's actually wondered this for a while.

"I don't know. Maybe their time had run out & they detransformed?"

"Maybe. But wouldn't they have to stop being a hero if that happened?"

"What makes you say that," Adrien asked.

"Um,… uh…, well,..." Marinette felt she was backed into a corner. The only way out of this was to admit she'd been a Miraculous holder. "You have to swear you won't tell anybody what I'm about to tell you."

"I promise," he said, nearly purring.

"Well," she said shyly, "I was a temporary holder once."

"Really? Which one?" He knew, of course, since he was there (as Chat Noir) when Marinette faced Kwamibuster.

"The Mouse Miraculous. I was Multimouse."

"Wow, Marinette." He thought that he should share his own experience. "On that note, um…" He paused. "You have to swear you won't tell anybody"

"I promise."

"I have been a temporary holder, too."

"Really?" Marinette had to fake that this was news to her. "Who were you?"

"I actually held the snake Miraculous before Viperion did. I called myself Aspik."

"Why did you stop?"

"I didn't do very well as the snake," he said sadly. He remembered all those months of resetting the timeline. "I saw Ladybug dying over and over and over again. Eventually, I couldn't handle it anymore."

Marinette reached out & gave him a hug. It seemed that it still bothered him.

"You know what, Marinette? I think you would be a great hero."

"You do?"

"Of course! After all, you're our 'Everyday Ladybug'."

"You've called me that before," she said.

"That's because it's true."

"If I'm an 'Everyday Ladybug', then can I call you our 'Everyday Chat Noir'?"

Adrien laughed at that. If only you knew, he though. "Why not?"

The rest of the afternoon was spent doing homework and playing video games, Marinette thoroughly trouncing Adrien at Ultimate Mecha Strike – except for the time he won by distracting her by kissing her on the cheek.

A/N: The other idea I had that this morphed from? That will be a different one-shot.