Marinette was a stunning woman for a single mother, she wasn't overweight, actually in amazing shape, her hair was longer and tied into a bun, her freckles and eyes made her sparkle like an anime character. It was hard to believe a few years ago she had given birth to three children, then a young girls voice was heard from down the hall.

"Who is it mommy?"

"It's just a friend."

Marinette chuckled in her head, she had heard that phrase way too many times as a child. Adrien smiled sweetly. "Wow Marinette, you look amazing. Just so I heard right and it wasn't a prank from Nino, you did give birth to triplets right?"

Marinette tilted her head. "Quintuplets actually, there's 5 of them."

Adrien widened his eyes and Marinette just laughed. "Just kidding, yeah it was three."

"How you been holding up lately, my father needed a mansion and servants to keep me busy and raise me."

"When you say it like that you make your life sound like a sad story, but I was there so clearly it wasn't that bad."

"Can I come in?"

"Sure! Sure, come on in."

Marinette showed Adrien to the main room. "Dupain-Chengs! We have a guest!"

Three young children bolted down the stairs at such a speed it was surprising none of them tripped over, the stood in a line in order of age. Emma, Hugo, Louis looked exactly like Adrien, everyone in the room noticed it. "Is this our father? He looks exactly like the making of you and him."

"No Hugo, this isn't your father, this is a friend from school. Adrien Agreste."

Emma's eyes glistened. "Adrien Agreste, like. THE Adrien Agreste, the model from like 10 years ago?"

"Please don't make me feel old, Marinette can you introduce me?"

"Sure, the girl is Emma, she's a lot like her father but has my seriousness and looks. This is Hugo, he's the really active child. And this is Louis, he's the chef and smart one. Kids say hello."

"Hello Mr Agreste!"

Adrien smiled at the casual formality, then he smelt something great. "What is that amazing smell?"

Louis ran to the kitchen and pulled 12 large pies out, they were baked to golden perfection. "Those look fantastic, what are they?"

"These are my special white chocolate and hazelnut dessert pie. My own recipe."

"Can I have one?"

"You can, but they taste their best after leaving them in room temperature and eating them around the 7-10 minute mark."

Adrien nodded, then followed Emma to her lego station. It was at least 10 square metres and the floor was fitted with carpet and lego was spilled all under the builds-table. Adrien stared at the three children as they looked at him. "They look an awful lot like me, is the bio-d-a-d Felix?"

"No no no, I know if I tell anyone anything about the father one day someone is going to go on a manhunt for him. And I don't want that"

Adrien took Marinette aside from the the children and talked to her privately. "Can I talk to you for a second, like away from here?"

"Sure what's up?"

"I'll explain when you meet me at the Seine. See you soon." He kissed her on the cheek and left, Marinette took 2 pies and called Jessica, her babysitter. Adrien left a little early and Marinette put on a beige coat and filled the pockets with her phones, snacks, money and keys. Her house was a 10 minute walk from the Seine and Adrien was probably already there, Marinette was turning a corner when her cell phone rang, Adrien had looked on the Ladyblog and gotten the number.

"Ladybug? Is it really you?"

"Of course it's me, but I've had plenty of people try to be Chat Noir so I'm gonna question you. There will be 5 tests, you pass all of them, which no-one has I will agree to meet you in person, obviously yours and mine faces will be cover. Got it?"

"Your in charge bugaboo."

"Test 1 passed. Now tell me why Tom Dupain was akumatised."

"Uhh, do I have to?"

"Yes silly kitty, I know you had something to do with it."

"One day I was visiting my friend Marinette, Tom saw us and invited me to brunch, I upset him."

"How did you upset him?"

"I didn't enjoy one of his meals."

"Test 2 passed. Next question."

"Wait how did I pass? I lied."

"Only Chat Noir would have something to hide, also all the public knows is that Marinette and Chat were on a date then her dad got akumatised."

"You made these carefully, after I left I didn't think you'd miss me so much."

"You left without asking! I just woke up on day and my kitty was gone!"

"You wanted me to go! You wished you never met me!"

"Test 3 passed. This is getting a bit scary, what happened between us the night you left."

"We were on a date, I wrote you a song, we ate 5-star food, and then we made love. It was a beautiful night wasn't it M'lady?"

"Chat... It is you. Screw test 5, find a mask, meet me at the Eiffel tower at 10:00pm."

"See you there."

Marinette arrived at the Seine just after Adrien had put away his phone, her hair shined in the sunset, her grin widened as well as her eyes. She faced Adrien and they stared for a while, until Adrien broke the silence.

"How come neither you or Alya sent me pictures of your kids? Like I got a few photos and info but that's about it, is there a reason?"

"You just left to the other side of the world one day without reason, I just guessed if you really wanted to checkup on me or Paris you'd either check the Ladyblog or call me. But you never did."

"I'm sorry, I had a fight with someone and I-"

A giant ice-cream monster appeared from the other side of their bridge, Adrien ran over to Marinette, held her hand and hugged her tight.

"What are you doing?"

"It doesn't freeze couples remember?"

"Oh yeah, where the hell is LadyNoir and MisterBug?!"

"That sounds so weird when you say it out loud."

LadyNoir swooped in and sliced off Glaciator's legs, MisterBug yo-yoed it's head off. "Get out of here civilians!"

Adrien left behind a corner as Marinette asked her to give their miraculouses back after battle, she nodded and Marinette ran closer to Adrien. Thankfully he didn't notice what happened, Glaciator's limbs grew back and he froze more people running around. MisterBug activated his Lucky Charm which was a bungee cord, he spun it like a lasso and threw it around Glaciator's stomach. The two heroes took one side each and pulled as hard as they could, a purple silhouette of André flew out and LadyNoir cataclysmed the ice-cream scooper that was in his hand, MisterBug fixed everything.

Adrien looked at the time: 9:38pm. "Hey Mari, I wish I could stay and chat more but I actually have planned another meet tonight with an old friend."

"Go ahead, I actually have something on too. See you tomorrow then." Marinette waved goodbye and Adrien waved back, Adrien ran to the nearest corner store and bought some cheese and a LadyNoir costume, it was a little different from his old one but it suited well. He got changed and messed up his hair and headed for the Eiffel tower, meanwhile Marinette was talking to MisterBug and LadyNoir in an alleyway.

"I'm going to need both your miraculouses and I don't believe you are ever going to be wearing them again, so anything you want to say before you reveal your identities?"

"MisterBug, whoever you are you are a remarkable person. Even though I am in a relationship with someone from school I cannot deny that I have some feelings for you, but I am not going to put you before my boyfriend."

"LadyNoir, this is the first time I've ever fallen in love with two people, deeply anyway. I admit I do have a girlfriend that I love very much but I love you too, it took me years to make my mind up on who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. But after a long process of thinking I have chosen you, I hope my identity can change any of your feelings."

"Now you can say your retransformation calls, you'll be surprised."

"Spots off."

"Claws in."

Rachel's boyfriend Alex was MisterBug and Alex's girlfriend Rachel was LadyNoir, they looked at Marinette who just chuckled. "I've been waiting for this day, forever."

"Seriously Marinette? You're our guardian and you chose two people who were in love as civilians?!"

"Thank god I'm not a crazy, cheating person who was in love with two. MisterBug has always had these kind of problems."

The two hugged and thanked Marinette for giving them their miraculous and walked away hand in hand, Marinette put on the ring and earrings and said hello to the kwamis. "Tikki!"

"Marinette! I missed you so much!"

"Come her Plagg, we're going to get the old Chat back."

"He's back?! Really? Woo hoo! I can finally have unlimited cheese again! That boy's parents never let him spend so much money on camembert, but my previous owner had secret cabinets full of cheese! And as long as the residents of his house never found them they would've aged perfectly!"

Marinette and Tikki rolled their eyes, Marinette gave Tikki a macaroon. "Tikki, Spots on!"

Ladybug yo-yoed up to the Eiffel tower, in front of the elevator basically just as it opened with Adrien in a LadyNoir getup. "It really is you."

"No welcome back hug for the lost-and-found kitten?"

Ladybug ran up to him and hugged him tight, tears started to fall down her face. "I missed you so much!"

Adrien was shocked at her response, then hugged her back. "I missed you too, bugaboo."

Ladybug held out a miraculous box. "Ready to come back again?"

"I'd be happy too." He took the box and opened it, Plagg emerged and stared at his owner. "You're back! And is that camembert I smell?!"

Adrien pulled a wheel of cheese from his pocket. "Just a little gift from me to you, to say sorry for not saying goodbye."

"You're forgiven!" Plagg took the cheese and inhaled the entire thing, Ladybug chuckled. "Patrol time, you ready kitty?"

"As ready as I'll ever be. Plagg, Claws out!"