A/N: Because I'm horrible at keeping schedules (lol, what are they!?), have a chapter, and know I've worked my way through writer's block, head on into another one. HURRAY! It afforded me enough to word three chapters worth before it struck. Remind me to put up the next one soon!

Chapter Summary: Is it a dream, or a nightmare? Plagg still doesn't have a lifetime of cheese he wants. Someone send help to Adrien. Preferably Marinette. It's a bird! It's a plane! Nope, it's flying Elder-Adrien! Titanic references have been made. Chloé gets shut down. Again. Ladybug and Chat Noir figure out what they do now. By explosions. (Someone fix that god damn wall properly). Ladybug scares everyone. So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, good night! Chat Noir hatches a plan that involves the One Ring(s) To Rule Them All.

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone? 'Cause I left behind the home that you made me, but I will carry it along. And it's a long way forward, so trust in me. I'll give them shelter, like you've done for me, and I know, I'm not alone, you'll be watching over us, until you're gone. When I'm older, I'll be silent beside you, I know words won't be enough.

- Porter Robinson & Madeon

Part X:

She never thought he would be on her roof now that he really didn't need to because Gabriel was behind bars. But she was so wrong. (She was getting there with that).
Adrien, as Chat Noir appeared, still, on her balcony every so often, when things got too much for him to handle at home. Not that she ever minded.
She did mind when she checked up her balcony in the mornings, she had, thankfully, developed a habit, because holy damn, if she found him there one more time…!
"Minou!" She cried opening her window, and he froze.
"Hey there, Princess!" He was able to stutter out sleepily.
If she wasn't going to kick his ass off her roof, she'd damn well kick that fake smile he was currently sporting into the near year.

But, Marinette just sighed. "What happened this time?" She asked, as custom.
Because he was front facing, she couldn't get a good look at his tail flicks.
He just sighed, and flopped down to sit cross-legged. "Have I changed a lot in two years?" He suddenly questioned.
Marinette blinked. "In what way?" She asked, confused.
He notched his head but shrugged. "In any way." She just gave him a blank look, so he sighed. "Two years ago, people told me I was still a child, that I needed more instruction, to act older, to be an Agreste. But…" Chat trailed off, looking as confused as Marinette did.
"But…?" She tried.

He looked back to her. "I don't think I've changed that much." He started.
"I don't get why we're discussing this?" She asked.
He sighed and leant back against the wall exhausted. "It's just that my mother is searching for a little boy…"
Marinette blinked. Oh. Now his question made more sense. "She's walking around?" She asked.

Chat shook his head. "She wanted me to go find her little boy. Again." He grit out.
"You're still not allowed to tell her?" Marinette asked.
Chat again, shook his head widely, his tail thumping to his side angrily.
"They just glare at me every time I try. Literally drag me away." He looked close to crying.
Marinette reached out to pull him into her lap.
He reacted by huddling himself into her as if he wanting to make himself as small as he felt.
"I don't understand, Mari!" He cried.

/

/

"I don't understand, Mari…!"
Marinette flew out of her sleep so fast, she hurt her back while doing it. She looked to her side in alarm and paused.
Oh.
He wasn't there anymore.
It was painful. And she didn't like it.
She reached for her phone, and noted, more painfully that she had no messages from Adrien or even Alya.
She jolted when her early alarm went off. She voiced her distaste and threw her phone down across her bed.
Tikki flew out of the alcove to look worryingly at her chosen. "…Marinette…?" She asked quietly.
Marinette huffed, no way in hell was she dealing with that. So, she jumped down from her loft bed, hurried into her clothes, and ignored her kwami.

"What do you mean there's no cheese?!" Plagg's grumpy voice near on yelled.
Marinette nearly groaned at his loud voice as she traipsed down her stairs with a yawn.
"You ate it all, remember? When we go out, I'll buy some, okay? Keep your voice down." Elder-Marinette hissed. Just because Plagg was up, didn't mean his chosen was. Elder-Adrien was still passed out on the couch next to a shushing Elder-Marinette. Plagg huffed at her, but she ignored him in favour of welcoming Marinette.
"Hey, there, how did you sleep?" She asked curiously. Marinette just grumbled as she went passed, heading for the fridge, and didn't see her elder's facial expression fall. "…That good, huh?" She muttered.
"Her Adrien's not here." Plagg muttered, still pouty about not having cheese.
Elder-Marinette's head snapped back to Plagg in a second, while Marinette ignored him entirely, focusing on waking up and getting breakfast. "Really? How can you tell? He was here yesterday." She voiced.
Plagg looked to her. "You fell asleep, he left with Nathalie." He told her.
She frowned. "Willingly?" She asked, her voice tinted with worry.
"I asked him to stay." Marinette yawned. "But he didn't want to. He wasn't on my balcony either." She continued, then frowned at why she would need to say she checked.

Elder-Marinette looked as if dawn rose on her thoughts. "Ah. That idiot." She even pushed her husband in annoyance, who only grumbled and hid his head more under the blanket in his sleep.
Marinette looked to her. "Huh?" She asked.
"So it begins, huh?" She asked Plagg, who nodded, understanding what was going on.
"What's beginning? I don't get it?" Marinette told her.
Elder-Marinette just sighed. "I think we've been over this, but we'll go over it again, because it will not go away, no matter how much I tell him." She started, then looked from her husband, Plagg, then to Marinette. "Because he's just realised that he's the son of Papillon, he thinks it will affect negatively on your affections of him. Does that make sense?" Elder-Marinette continued sadly.
Marinette blinked. "I told yours that it was stupid." She grumbled in annoyance.
Elder-Marinette just laughed quietly. "Yeah! I do too. Tell your Adrien that the next you see him, beat it into his head repeatedly, because it'll come back to haunt him every single time." She advised.
Marinette just nodded and understood. "I will." She promised.
"Good, now come over here and help me wake this cat up." Elder-Marinette asked.
They ended up up-turning Elder-Adrien straight off the couch, waking him as he flew.

Marinette ran to school, wanting to be there before Adrien, seeing Alya she ran up to her.
"Hey!" She called, stopping to breath.
Alya looked to her. "Hey, girl! You're early!" Alya told her proudly.
"Yeah, I need to speak to Adrien." Marinette muttered.
Alya nodded. "Gotcha, he didn't come back last night?" She asked.
Marinette shook her head.

Alya was chatting to Nino by the time Marinette was fidgety enough to spot Adrien's car coming from a mile away.
"There!" Marinette near on shouted, causing her friends to jump a mile.
"Jeez, girl. Calm down!" Alya scolded.
Marinette gave an out of character glare, and Alya understood she was serious.
"We've got trouble." Nino stated, pointing to another limo, Chloé's.
"I am not dealing with that right now!" Marinette seethed, and she stormed down the school steps as Adrien stepped out of his car, and before he could protest, or say anything, she grasped his hand and yanked him to follow before Chloé's car got near.

"Whoa—? What? Mari!" Adrien started to protest but didn't try to get out of her grip.
What was this girl doing? Better yet, where was she taking him? Was she angry with him? Was she going to finalise the end of their extremely short relationship?
He protested when she yanked them both into a small supply cupboard. "Mari!" He yelped.
"Just stop." Marinette muttered.
Adrien blinked. She was the one yanking him places! She should stop!

He was about to protest when she looked to him fully, and he lost his voice in the process.
"Why did you leave last night? You know you could have stayed. You could have even come back to my balcony. I've told you I don't mind." Marinette told him.
He gaped at her before finding his voice again. "It's just that…" He tried.

She sighed. "You think I'll treat you differently once I figure out Gabriel is actually Papillon?" She answered for him, abruptly. So much that he flinched. "News for you, Minou, I was there when we unmasked him, I understand. The only thing I'll be doing is make sure you never go anywhere close to him without me coming with you." She told him heatedly.
"You—What? Mari…" He just sighed. "You won't let go…?" He tried to ask.
Marinette shook her head. "Nope. Just as long as you don't let me go. I've adopted you." Marinette confirmed.
"You do realise I'll never let you go, and this is a horrible Titanic reference?" Adrien asked.
Marinette barked a laugh. "Yeah. I'm cool with that." She told him.
Adrien blinked, then started laughing.

Alya and Nino were rather confused when Marinette came back leading Adrien, who looked like he was crying.
"Come on, Bell-Boy. It wasn't that funny." Marinette told him.
He chuckled. "You made puns! Deliberately!" He near on shouted.
It was like punning made his day.
Alya and Nino looked to each other in confusion – that wasn't what they expected when they saw the backs of them both an hour ago.
"Excuse me?" Chloé screeched.
Everyone immediately soured, so much they were stunned when Marinette pushed Adrien to sit in his seat, and she whirled around.
"I am not dealing with you." She hissed dangerously but timed perfectly that Chloé was shut down by their teacher coming in to start their lesson.

/

During one long boring math class, there came a completely unexpected explosive earthquake that knocked the teacher to her knees, and an unfortunate Marinette who had been picked to hand out work; flying into Adrien's arms, who was up and out of his seat once he saw her knocked off her feet.
All their screams were drowned out by the proximity alarm blaring out, Alya and Nino had raced over to their teacher once the tremors subsided to ask her welfare bravely, as their other classmates had ducked under their desks.
Adrien held onto Marinette through the tremors in alarm, one arm around her waist, the other reaching out to latch onto the chair arm, he could feel her trembling and he could feel Plagg moving around anxiously.
He looked over the classroom. "Anyone hurt?" He yelled, trying to be louder than the alarm that was still going off around them.
Chloé and Sabrina had been in the worst case, as the just fixed wall and the window came crumbling back down. (Seriously, they really needed to fix that completely.), and were sent scrambling to avoid being taken with the debris.
"We're fine!" He heard Nath, and Alix call from somewhere behind him, muffled under their benches.
"We're good." Alya noted, seeing their teacher back on their feet.
Chloé roared as she got back up, indigent, as ever. "What was that?!" She screamed.
"It's not your dad is it, bro?" Nino asked, worried.
Adrien blinked at him but shook his head. "Ladybug and Chat Noir took the reason he could when they uncovered him." Adrien told him.
That settled that fear.
"Then what is it?" Marinette asked.
Adrien looked down to her. "Ever thought that it could be completely natural?" He asked, a little sarcastically.
Marinette laughed. "Maybe." She chuckled, moving out of his embrace, but not going far.
"If it were natural, the proximity alarm wouldn't be going off." Chloé muttered, using her knowledge as the mayor's daughter for good use, for once.
Everyone blinked at her, and she snuffed at them all.

Their attention was brought to the rising smoke cloud outside their broken window, and a flicker of red and black that symbolised an in-flight Ladybug.
"Well, if they're out, it musn't be natural." Marinette pondered, grasping Adrien's hand.
Adrien eye-rolled. "Or, they're just curious?" He asked.
The door to their class was shoved open. "You guys need to follow emergency procedures! You know this!" The upper-class man that came for them yelled, which got them moving to bolt out the room.

Ladybug and Chat Noir made their own way to the smoke cloud, catching up to Elder-Chat, who was perched on a rooftop as they went.
"What's up?" Ladybug asked.
He looked to them and brightened up. "Hey, there!" He smiled at them, then pointed a claw down to the nearby destroyed bank that Elder-Ladybug was by giving a glare to the nearby baring policemen.
"Welcome to your first assignment after Papillion. Robbery-Style!" He continued.
Chat notched his head. "Why're you up here, then?" He asked, curiously.
"Waiting for you guys. You guys will need to talk to the police here, they're not used to you guys crashing their parties. They'll be grateful for it, in the end. It's why they're glaring at my Lady over there." Elder-Chat told them.
They nodded in understanding, with that the three jumped down to join Elder-Ladybug and the police.

Roger looked to them in distaste.
"This has nothing to do with you," He was trying to tell them.
Elder-Ladybug just snorted and rolled her eyes. "Yeh, and while we're arguing these guys have, by now, rung up more explosives to charges should you attempt to walk in the front door." She grouched. As she had said before, miraculous magic and hormones did not mix well. She was on borrowed time, and the other three knew it, she knew it, hence why she hadn't just waltzed in already.
Roger grumbled but conceded. They saw this. "What can we do?" Ladybug asked.
Roger looked to her. "I will let you know I am highly uncomfortable in letting kids walk all over this." He told them, unsettled.
Ladybug rolled her eyes. "Good thing we're not kids, then, huh? Are you gonna tell us how we can help? Or will I bring the place down?" She asked in rising annoyance.
Chat looked to her in amused awe. As much as he would love to see her bring down the house… "We have tried talking to them, right?" He asked. That was pretty much standard protocol in all shows he had watched.
Roger nodded. "Then they blew the place up." He told them.
It raised eyebrows.

Both elders hanged back, little their younger's handle the mission, only glaring at Roger when he looked like he was about to back down.

Ladybug gave a hand signal to her Chat, who nodded, and jumped up the building and out of sight, all the while Roger looked confused.
"You wouldn't happen to have rope or zip ties on you, would you?" She asked.
Roger blinked in puzzlement.
Ladybug just rolled her eyes and called for her Lucky Charm.
It happened to be rope.
She then charged through the smoke.

Therein came another explosion, that worried onlookers, then several people bolted out of the smoke, with both Ladybug and Chat Noir hot on their tails.
"There's five more inside!" Ladybug yelled as she chased two more down.
Both elders took off with them, while police stormed the bank, and others ran for their cars to chase after the superheroes.
There were, indeed five villains inside, all tied up and looking pleadingly scared at the policemen that stormed in.
"It was his idea!"

The four didn't notice the familiarity of the street they were gunning down until it was too late.
"Son of a…!" Elder-Chat near on screamed as the anomaly turned up and the two escaped with a knowing grin.
"See you on the other side!" One yelled as he jumped.
The younger's screeched to a halt, while the elder's fumed.
"Now it makes sense." Elder-Chat noted.
Elder-Ladybug looked to him. "What do you mean?" She asked.
"I was monitoring a case before we landed here about a string of uncatchable's Roger had told me about. This must be them, they're from our time." Elder-Chat told them.
Elder-Ladybug fluttered down to land on her feet, in realisation. "It's time to go, huh?" She murmured, and her Chat nodded.
"You're leaving?" Chat asked quietly.
They nodded. "Bad guys never rest, apparently. We need to find out how they got hold of time travel, for a start." Elder-Ladybug told him.
It made sense.
Even though he knew they couldn't stay with them forever, they were themselves, after all, but knowing they had to leave made him tremble.
Ladybug was distracted when the police wails came around the corner. "Oh…!" She voiced, and walked over to Roger, who was getting out of his car.

Chat looked back to his elders.
"…Can I ask something before you guys leave…?" He asked.
They both nodded, good-naturedly.
"She…She won't ever leave, right…?" He asked minutely of them.
They both blinked and looked to each other. Elder-Ladybug huffed. "I'm still here, aren't I?" She grumbled. "She's not gonna leave now, she's not gonna leave in ten years, she's definitely not gonna leave once she's pregnant, she won't leave when she's raising her child with her husband." She said sternly, her hand coming over to cover her unborn child.
Both males looked at her as if they both suddenly saw the sun rising for the first time.
Chat looked on in awe, as Elder-Chat yowled and glomped his wife happily.
"You guys are married, with rings, right?" He pondered.
Elder-Marinette smiled at her boy. "Just so you know, you're not allowed to get married until you're eighteen!" She scolded playfully.
Chat snorted. He knew that. But he might as well put down a down payment. That never hurt before.

"Oh, I know that smirk, what are you planning Cat-Boy?" Ladybug asked, flicking one cat ear having walked back over once dismissing the police.
"For me to know and you to find out." Chat said in sing-song.
Ladybug narrowed her eyes at him.
Both elder's just burst out laughing.
"Well, our time to go!" They said joyfully.
Elder-Ladybug was the first the go through, Elder-Chat held back, with a look of thoughtfulness.
"Oh, hey, Princess!" He called, getting his Princess' attention.
"Yeah…?" She asked.
"Your problem has been solved!" He said joyfully, then hopped through the distortion and it filled in behind him, closing and leaving them all alone in a street of Paris.
"What did he mean by that?" She asked.
Chat Noir blinked, just shook his head. "No idea." He said, well he had an idea, and she would find out soon enough.

A/N: PUT YOUR HAND UP AND SAY AYE IF YOU WANT THE ELDERS BACK FEATURING A (little) TAG ALONG CALLED ELLAYNE!

On that note, a big thank you to "inknpaperlove" (Tumblr), "toxicgirlfriend" (Tumblr & ff) as well as to anyone else who looked and commented on my Promise Rings rant on Tumblr. Because Toxic commented talked to me on Tumblr, got a spoiler about Agreste Mama. You could to, if you talked to me, and looked at my rant of Promise Rings over on my ML Tumblr under the name "Thoughts", or head to this chapter on ao3 for the link. (YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!)