The talk with Alya and Nino went surprising well. When the got back Alya ran over an hugged Marinette after giving Adrien a glare for the tear tracks in Marinette's make up. Marinette assured Alya that things were set right between her and Adrien and they were going to start dating. Nino congratulated him pulled in into a bro-hug. They had a talk together and Alya's mother brought out some more items they were thinking of adding to the menu. A good long talk was had and they all felt better than ever. They made plans to meet up the following week and go to a movie. Then after the next set of exams they were going to try to get away for a few vacation days as a group. One big, long, double date.
Over the weekend they had talked to Master Fu and he was happy they had found each other. He knew most of the Ladybugs and Chat Noirs were made for each other and fell in love. There had been a few that had hated each other, some that remained only as friends, and one set that was actually twins, but a large portion of them fell in love.
With this new dynamic between them he admonished that they had to be careful during battles. They may have to watch each other get extremely hurt and not be able to do anything about it. He suggested them coming to his place to practice fight against each other.
He also mentioned that since they had found each other, that when Hawk Moth was finally defeated, Tikki and Plagg may continue to stay with them. But he would have to see how things were at that time.
It was now about a month after the reveal. Mari had moved most of her sewing supplies over to Adrien's apartment off campus. She hadn't moved in, but she had a lot of her stuff in his space and she spent lots of time there. It seemed that their relationship as crime-fighting partners pulled them closer together as dating civilians and to some people it seemed kind of fast. They just fobbed them off with excuses of having unrequited crushes on each other for such a long time as to why they were joined at the hip on occasion now.
Adrien sat on a small love-seat on the side of the room with a textbook open on his lap as she sat at a small table, hand stitching a design on a handkerchief. He spent more time watching her than reading his business management book. He loved the way she would stick out her tongue a little bit from the corner of her mouth while she was concentrating. He followed the movement of her hands as she sewed. Pulling the thread one way, spreading the material that way, tying off threads and switching to different colours and needles.
When Marinette finished with the design she held it up to show Adrien. "Does this look like a handkerchief a guy would want in his jacket dress pocket?" she asked.
Adrien got up and walked over to her, putting his book down on the table. There were gold swirls all around the edge. A blackish stylized cat face with bright green eyes was placed in the corner so that when the handkerchief was folded up the cat would be peering over the top of the pocket. The handkerchief itself was a dark navy and the cat both showed against and blended in, depending on the angle you looked at it. Though the eyes seemed to stare at you no matter how it was held.
"It's great Mari. Way better than the drawing you did of it. I've gotta ask though, is it Chat Noir themed?" Adrien leaned close, his lips hovering just a breaths distance away from hers as he spoke low.
"Yup. I've got a whole set of ideas based on Chat Noir and Ladybug. For both men and women." She turned away and reached for her sketchbook, knowing full well that she was leaving him hanging for a kiss. She started flipping through the pages, "I'm going to use a few of these for assignments but I'm hoping to use a good number of them for my portifilo for graduation."
Adrien harrumphed and turned Marinette back to him. He kissed her forehead. "I'm sure they will be amazing."
Marinette tossed her sketchbook on the table and cupped both sides of his face with her hands. She pulled him down and kissed him properly. Adrien almost lost his balance and braced himself on the table and the arm of her chair. Eagerly returning the kiss. He pulled Marinette up as he stood and pulled her close, deepening the kiss.
Their tongues darted around each other. Marinette's hands roamed over Adriens' shoulders and arms. Adrien's hands drifted from her waist to her hips, pulling her closer and trying to mould her to him. His mouth pulled from hers and started to leave small fluttery kisses along her jaw up to her ear, then he kissed his way down her throat to her collarbone and lavished moist open mouth kisses at the hollow there.
Marinette moaned and tilted her head back, giving him free range to roam over her neck. Her hands moved to his back and pulled him closer to her. One hand slid up to his blonde locks and her fingers burried themselves there. Flexing and twitching with each gasp and moan Adrien pulled from her.
Adrien kissed his way back up her neck to pull and tease at her lips before slipping his tongue inside and using one had to cup her bottom while the other slid along her leg to pull it up over his hip.
A tiny voice yelled out from the other side of the room, "You two might want to stop sucking face and take a look at this."
Adrien pulled away from Marinette rubbing his temple as they both went to the couch in front of the TV. "Plagg, you've got to work on your manners." He said to the kwamii as he was floating there.
Plagg and Tikki had been watching a comedy movie on the TV, it had been interrupted with a news bulletin. Another akuma was loose in Paris.
"Well, it has been almost 3 weeks since the last attack. I thought Hawk Moth might be giving up, he has been attacking so infrequently the past few months." Marinette leaned over the couch to get a better look at the area the attack was happening in.
Adrien stretched. "My Lady, shall we go?"
"Sure thing Kitty."
They transformed together. "I have been wondering Chat, what's up with the clawing at the air near the end of your transformation? Does it help you feel more cat like?" She giggled.
"Hey, don't you knock it Bugaboo. It makes a lot more sense than that high kick you do at the end."
Ladybug laughed, "I kind of just let the transformation take me." She poked Chat's bell with her finger, causing it to ring. Chat opened the hidden door to a sectioned off portion of his balcony, bowing for her to take the lead. And with that they were off, bounding into the night to save Paris once again.