AN: The one Adrien finds out.
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Two Pink Lines
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Chapter 02 – Pawsitive
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Two days later Marinette was behind the counter, flipping through s fashion magazine when the bell came from the front door and she didn't look up: she had just stopped on a gorgeous dress by Gabriel and she was carefully examining it.
"Can I help you?" She asked, distractedly
"I would like the prettiest woman in Paris in my arms, if you please." The moment she heard the familiar voice, she looked up and saw her boyfriend, Adrien Agreste, in all his blonde glory, a grin on his lips, his arms crossed over his chest and her heart started to beat faster.
"Adrien!" She shrieked, putting the magazine away, getting up from the chair and coming out from behind the counter to throw her arms around his shoulders. He laughed when Marinette started to pepper his face with kisses. "You said you were coming home tomorrow!" She said between kisses.
The blonde finally cupped her face and kissed her lips for a few moments, sighing with the contact. "I made a deal to come back a bit earlier." He kissed her again. "I missed you."
"Good." She smiled, a hand on his cheek. "Because I missed you too, kitty." His smile could've lit up whole Paris and then they were kissing again.
"Oh, Adrien!" Tom's voice came from behind them and they let go of each other just enough so they could look over Marinette's shoulder and saw the large man smiling at them, he had a batch of croissants in his hands. "I thought it was strange for Marinette to shriek like that; I thought you were coming back tomorrow, though."
"Hello, Mr. Dupain." Adrien put his arm around Marinette's waist. "I decided to take a plane after the photoshoot to come home; I've missed you guys." It was weird how much Tom and Adrien had hit off because Marinette always thought her father wouldn't approve of any boy, after all she was a daddy's girl, but Adrien had fit in their family like he always had been there.
"We did too. Come on, Adrien, take some of these croissants!" He offered.
That was the moment Sabine appeared from behind her husband. "Did someone say-" She finally spotted the blonde man next to her daughter and she smiled. "Adrien! Oh, you are here!" Sabine passed by her husband and by the time she was close enough, Marinette had already let go of Adrien, knowing her mother would fuss over him. "Come here, honey." Sabine pulled the young man into her arms in a tight hug. "How are you?" She let go of him, but put her hands on his cheeks. "Have you been eating? Those awful photographers even bothered to give you something to eat other than carrots?" She didn't wait for him to answer. "You are skinnier than before. Isn't he skinnier than before, darling?"
Tom nodded. "You're so skinny, if you turned sideways and stuck out your tongue, you'd look like a zipper."
"Dad!" Marinette tried to reprimand her father, but she couldn't help the giggle that overcame her.
"What?" Tom looked at his daughter innocently. "I'm just agreeing with your mother."
"Don't listen to them, honey." Sabine patted Adrien's cheek. "You won't look like a zipper after you eat some of my food. Now come to the kitchen."
Adrien always loved to be pampered by Marinette's parents, it made him feel like he was home and with his family so he was easily snatched away to the bakery's kitchen.
"Go with them, Marinette." Her father told her. "I'll manage here."
"Thanks, dad." She kissed Tom's cheek and then went the same direction her mother and Adrien went.
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After a lovely dinner with her parents, Marinette went to her room to retrieve a bag with some overnight clothes and said good-bye to them. Adrien had already called for a cab and when they were inside he told the driver his address.
"Did you bring…?" He asked Marinette in a whisper by her ear.
"Yes." She hissed, glancing at the driver. "Why are you so obsessed with that?"
"Because you look more beautiful than you always are, My Lady." Adrien's smirk was Chat's through and through, and the thought made Marinette's skin get hotter and her heart raced.
"Aren't you tired from the flight?"
Adrien leaned and his nose touched her temple, sniffing her hair discreetly. "I'm never too tired for you, Marinette."
'Don't I know it?' Marinette thought and scoffed inside her mind. 'That's why in a few months we will have a little Chat,' she stopped for a moment. 'that I will tell him about it as soon as I'm ready.'
She put a finger on his forehead and pushed him away like she used to back when they were not together. "Well then, if you are not tired we should patrol instead."
"Mari." Adrien whined.
The blunette chuckled, but kissed his cheek. "Don't worry, Adrien, I missed you too much to share you with Paris tonight."
"We'll patrol tomorrow." He gave her a peck on the lips.
"Tomorrow."
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It took Marinette ten days to gather enough courage to finally talk to Adrien about the pregnancy. She woke up with his body pressed on hers from behind and arms around her. She couldn't help it but to smile and she carefully turned around to look at him: his blonde hair was messy but his face was so serene, so relaxed.
So beautiful.
She gently touched between his eyebrows, then one to the other before the traced the line of his nose then to his lips. Would their baby have those gorgeous lips? That perfect nose? Would it have blonde or dark hair?
"I love when you check me out, My Lady." Adrien said without even opening his eyes but he started to smirk. "Especially if you check me out while touching me."
"You looked so peaceful." Marinette whispered. "But now you ruined it, silly cat." His eyes opened and she was taken aback, as usual, at the beautiful shade of bright green and she really hoped their child would get them. "How are you feeling?" She touched his shoulder where he had been hit the night before as Chat Noir.
"I'm alright, Mari." He kissed her lips and then hid his face on the crook of her neck while she started to caress his hair, just as he liked. "Just happy it's Sunday and we can stay in bed all day if we want."
Marinette chuckled. "You know I need to sleep home tonight, right?" Adrien groaned in annoyance and she giggled. "I haven't slept at my parents' for almost a week." She went to the bakery everyday but eventually she would return to Adrien's apartment. "And I need more clothes."
"Bring more here." He nuzzled his face even more. "You know half of my closet is for you."
"Yeah." She kept caressing his hair, knowing that if she kept doing that he would fall back to sleep but they had important things to talk about other than lazy around in bed all day long. Marinette gently pushed him away so he lied down on his back and watched as she got up from the bed and retrieved her pink robe a few feet away. "Adrien, I need to talk to you." She said in a serious tone while knotting the robe.
Adrien was stretching his body like a cat and Marinette almost rolled her eyes with the action, he wasn't even aware of his actions, he just hummed in agreement but made no movement to get up from the bed. "What about?" Suddenly, Marinette was nervous: her heart was beating fast inside her chest, her palms were sweating and she was a little afraid of what was to come. She probably looked awful because Adrien's look of carefreeness changed to worry. "Marinette?" He got up as well and she blushed when he bent over to grab his underwear and he said, while putting it on: "What is it? You've gone pale."
Once he was with the underwear on, he stepped closer to her, eyes clearly searching for an answer. "Something happened." Marinette told him slowly and she could see his body tense. After that, she became so nervous she barely breathed between words. "And… I don't… I don't know what you'll think of it even though I have an idea everything can go the opposite way I think it will be. Sure, we've been together for years now and we talk about what we will do in the future but we are also only twenty-four and finishing college to have careers and this might've come in a bad time. The blood test was conclusive, though, and-"
Adrien tried to understand her words, she was babbling but when the words 'blood test' came out of her mouth, he put his hands on her shoulders. "Blood test? Marinette, what blood test? What are you talking about?" When she didn't answer right away, it was his turn to get pale. "Marinette, are you sick? Oh god, please tell me you are not sick."
"No!" She assured him but he still looked shaken up with the thought. "Adrien, I am not sick, I promise you." The blonde man was clearly not believing it yet. "Kitty, I'm fine. I promise."
"Then why were you talking about a blood tests?" Adrien asked, eyes narrowed.
Gathering all her courage, Marinette stepped away from her boyfriend and went to grab her purse, taking a piece of paper from inside. When she walked back to Adrien's way, she bit her lower lip for a moment before speaking. "Last week I was really tired and it was really unusual. I realized, then, that my period was late and took a test. The next day I went to the clinic and had a blood test just to be certain." She gave him the piece of paper.
"I don't-" He was clearly confused but accepted the paper and unfolded it slowly. Marinette knew that it was serious business but she couldn't help it but to draw a black cat under the result saying: 'It's paw-sitive!' with a little more glitter than it should have. She thought he would like the pun and she liked colorful things. "What am I looking at here?"
Marinette sighed and pointed to where, underneath her personal information and a lot of medical words, there was a line saying 'Pregnancy Test: Positive'
"What-?" Adrien choked, his eyes wide. "What is-?" He tried again. "Mari this is…"
Oh, she was so nervous but she needed to play a bit cool at the moment. "Paw-sitive, Adrien. I thought you would appreciate the pun; I even draw a cat for you. See?"
His green eyes finally left the paper to gaze at her. "Is this for real?
"I'm afraid so." Marinette said carefully, trying to read his expression, but all she could see at the moment was surprise. "What… what do you think?"
Adrien blinked one time, then two more before he spoke. "You are pregnant."
"I… am." She agreed, slowly.
"With a baby."
That time she scoffed. "I sure hope so."
He didn't seem to hear her. "My baby."
"Of course it's your baby, who else would it-?" She didn't have the chance to finish the sentence because suddenly there were strong arms around her waist, her feet were off the floor and she was spinning. "Adrien!"
Only after she said his name two more times he put her down on the floor once again just to prevent her from talking by pressing his lips on hers. "We are going to have a baby!" He punctuated each word with a kiss. "I can't believe it!"
"Adrien-" She tried, but he ignored her.
"I love you so much." The blonde man kissed her again, deeply that time and she kissed him back with as much love as he was showing her. "You just made me the happiest man alive."
Marinette's eyes started to water with his words. "I did?"
"You have no idea." Adrien's eyes were the ones watering, then. "I'm going to have a family."
"You always had a family." She caressed the short hair at the nape of his neck.
"I know, but this little kitten," He put a hand on top of her clothes stomach "and you… are mine. My family. Do you know how long I've been waiting for this?" She shook her head, a couple of happy tears falling down her cheek. "My whole life."
"Yeah?" Marinette whispered.
"Yes." His smile was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. "And you are giving it to me. I loved the 'paw-sitive' pun, by the way. I think I'm rubbing off on you; I'm proud, Princess."
The blunette couldn't keep herself from crying even if she wanted. "Aren't you concerned if we are too young to do this?"
"I don't care." Adrien shook his head. "Plus, we are adults, we are finishing college, we have jobs and we've been together for a long time." He stopped and he frowned. "We need to get married."
Marinette blinked. "What?"
"You are pregnant so we need to get married." She could see his mind working behind his green eyes, calculating something. "We need a bigger place to live too, just one room won't do." When he had moved in almost a year ago he had told Marinette he wanted a small apartment since he had been living in a mansion his whole life and felt lonely; at least in a one-bedroom apartment he had less space to feel lonely, especially with Plagg around. "I will start looking for bigger apartments. And churches, of course, to get us married."
"Adrien, slow down." Marinette put a hand over his mouth. "We don't have to get married for us to have a baby anymore." She told him. "And you know why I can't accept it just now." She wanted to marry him more than anything in the world but people already talked about her relationship with Adrien at her job, whispering she only got the job because of him. There was a promotion coming the upcoming month and she didn't want anyone to doubt her work.
"I don't care about that, Marinette." Adrien pleaded. "I just want-"
The blunette quickly kissed Adrien's lips, shutting him up. "One thing at a time, kitty. We can work something out later." She kissed him again and he let out an annoyed breath, but quickly recovered and kissed her back. After a few moments, they stopped. "I love you." She told him.
"Oh, trust me: not more than I do." He chuckled. "I need to tell someone!" Adrien couldn't hold his excitement.
"No, no, no!" Marinette prevented him from running to get his phone and she saw it took a lot of his strength to let her hold his hand. "Adrien, I don't think we should tell people yet. I haven't even see a doctor yet."
That made him frown. "Oh. Oh, you need a doctor! Of course you do!" Marinette could see his mind working again. "I'll get you the best doctor in Paris. In France if you want."
"I have a doctor." Marinette rolled her eyes. "She's great and I have an appointment in two days and I really want you there."
"Of course!" His excitement was palpable. "I'll be with you in every appointment, every second I can get and… oh, I'll nag you so much. What do you want for breakfast? I can get you anything you want. Did you have any cravings yet? Because I will wake up in the middle of the night to get you anything, just say the word."
Marinette couldn't help but to giggle. "No cravings yet, but… pancakes would be good." It was the only thing she knew he could make and tasted good; since he never had to prepare anything to eat while growing up, her father was slowly trying to teach him and so far he was great at pancakes.
"Gotcha!" Adrien gave him a peck on the lips and he was still smiling when she looked at him.
Taking pity on his excitement, Marinette decided to give in a little. "And if you are so eager to tell someone, you could tell Plagg. Tikki already knows but she swore not to say anything until I did."
"Can I?" He was almost jumping and then he stopped, narrowing his green eyes at her direction. "We will discuss how you still were Ladybug even after you found out about this. And what we will do from now on."
Marinette knew the conversation was going to happen, so she nodded in agreement, "Of course."
With a grin, he kissed her once more whispering a 'thank you' and ran to the living room where Plagg and Tikki had their little beds. "Plagg! Guess who's going to be a father?"
The blunette laughed and heard Plagg's annoyed voice: "Oh come on, not another kitten. They always try to eat me Adrien! Eat me!"
"Serves you right for teaching them to eat me." The blunette heard Tikki say.
Putting a hand over her stomach, Marinette smiled. "You are coming to such a crazy and wonderful family, little kitten." She heard Adrien's excited voice alongside with Plagg's and Tikki's and felt so much love for all of them she almost couldn't bear. "The best."
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AN: I was going to take a very dramatic road but I decided this is to be a very fluff and happy story. I am quite overwhelmed with the amazing feedback I've received especially from such a young fandom! And so many of my readers are in the fandom so it makes me sooooo happy! You guys rock!
Thanks to: Bijuewled, Xenoa Fahrer, TidePoolAngel, WindPretear, Darkkiss15, DJMirnum, cherryblossoms redwillow, Sara lovelymusic, yurithefurry, pokeperson01, IzzyQuagmire0907, Thaysh, nadeshikofan, Hyo, Delightness, Guest, Jocie413, Gabrielle Talia, King Sorrow, YANonymous, Ocean Sparkle, CuteLadyBug(I'm actually from Brazil, hon!), Phoenix1218, meowica97, cybercorpsesnake, Giotto27, Lilianna martinezHopelessly Unromantic, Frosthsea(Hey, we are only as old as we let ourselves to be! HAHA I loved the story and Marinette makes me remember Juvia. Of course I was sold LOL), njdaphne, nerdofraiand Starduststruck! You are pawsome and I hope to see your comments again in this chapter!
03/14/2016 ~ BonneyQ