Charm

"Come on Kid!" Plagg whines. The Cat kwami had been trying to get his chosen to wear the bracelet he had gotten from Marinette for several weeks now now. He was tired of seeing the two teens dance around each other constantly and he wanted to see his girlfriend again without having to sneak around too.

"Fine Plagg! I need to give it back to her anyways. Now get in my bag before I'm late," Adrien scolds. Plagg went into Adrien's bag as the model put the bracelet on his wrist and then the blonde took off for the car. He began looking for Marinette when he arrived at school but couldn't find her. He asked Alya after greeting his best friend. The blogger told his that the bluenette was probably going to be late again since she hadn't answered her phone at all. Said girl did arrive almost an hour late and was immediately busy with getting caught up. He couldn't help but ogle at her outfit, which was a simple black dress with green paw prints all over it. She didn't have her hair in its usual twin ponytails, instead her hair was flowing down onto her shoulders. Adrien decided to give the bracelet to her after class since he didn't think he'd be able to focus on giving her the bracelet back while the teacher was doing her job. That ended up not happening because Alya practically dragged the girl off before Adrien could get to her. So he opted for giving it to her before she left for lunch. Of course when lunchtime came around, Marinette was held back by the principal to discuss her monthly duties as class rep. So he decided he would give it to her after lunch. That idea soon failed because he found out he had an emergency photoshoot that would take up the rest of the day. Apparently one of his photographer's assistants didn't develop the film correctly and ruined all the photos. When he returned home for dinner, he was pleased to know that he wouldn't have to worry about another photo shoot for a week.

"So you weren't able to give her the beads back?" Plagg asked when he and his chosen finally returned to Adrien's bedroom. The blond groaned before sitting at his desk to finish his homework before patrol. Half way through his work, Adrien fed Plagg a wedge of Camembert before returning to his work and completely forgetting about the bracelet around his wrist. When he was finished with his work, he stretched before calling Plagg and transforming. Chat jumped from roof to roof in order to reach the Eiffel Tower for patrol. He saw Ladybug already there and tried to sneak up behind her and hug her. Just as he was about to wrap his arms around her, she ducked out of the way and on the other side of the platform. He looked from his arms to where she had suddenly moved. He could see the slight smile she was trying to suppress. 'So she wants to play tag, huh?' Chat thought to himself as a giant smile made it's way onto his face. This was normal between the two. When they felt like they were in a more playful mood, they would end up chasing each other around the city instead of actually patrolly. This playful night was no different from those nights.

"You need to be faster than that, chaton!" Ladybug called back to him. The chase went on until they had run around the whole city once and then Chat caught up behind her and held onto her middle from behind and hugged her. Both were laughing hard until Ladybug spoke again. "Ow! Chat let go!" The cat hero did and looked at his lady with concern. "What's on your wrist? It was digging into me," Ladybug asked, turning around to look at her partner's wrist. It was then Chat remembered the bracelet again. Ladybug seemed to freeze in her spot when she saw the beads on the pink string around her partner's wrist. Chat decided to gloat about his friend to try to get Ladybug jealous.

"Oh! This little thing?" Chat held up his wrist and Lady's eyes followed the accessory with her eyes. "A friend gave it to me when she kept beating me at Mega Strike." From Chat's point of view, Ladybug didn't seem to respond to this and so decided to state why he was wearing it. "I was actually trying to give it back to her all day today but she just kept getting busy with something every single time. Her outfit today was also distracting. Cute, but distracting. She should wear her hair down more often." The cat hero noticed her suddenly pale complexion before it switches to bright red. She then proceeded to collapse. Surprised and worried by her reaction, Chat quickly caught her and slowly lowered her to the ground so she wouldn't hurt herself from the fall. "What just happened?! What did I do?! What should I do now?!" Chat asked in a panic to no one in particular.

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"Marinette! Wake up! You're going to be late for school again," Tikki's sweet voice penetrated Marinette's foggy mind. The bluenette looked at her phone and noticed the many calls from Alya before she shrieked at the time. She quickly got ready, not paying attention to what she had put on or bothering to put her hair up, and grabbed her purse as her kwami floated in there. She said a quick goodbye to her parents before dashing off to school. She was definitely late. Thankfully Alya was able to help catch her up after she sat in her seat. When Marinette had calmed down some, she began to stare at her crush and noticed her lucky charm bracelet around his wrist. Her smile grew and Alya noticed. The rest of class went as normal. When the class ended, Alya grabbed her and quickly dragged the bluenette out of the classroom.

"Girl! Adrien was looking for you before school!" Alya almost squealed out. Marinette did squeal at this fact.

"Really?! I wonder why?"

"I bet he is planning to ask you out," Alya said with a sly smile. "But until he does, why were you smiling differently at him earlier?" Marinette blushed. Of course her friend would notice the difference in a smile.

"Remember the game tournament?" Alya nodded at her. "Well, when Adrien came over to practice with me, he was getting down about me winning. So I gave him my lucky charm bracelet and he wore it today!" Marinette squealed as she and Alya began walking to their next class.

"See! That just proves that he wants to ask you out!" Alya cheers, making the bluenette laugh. Then a thought occurred to her.

"Hey Alya? Why did you drag me away from Adrien right when class ended?" Marinette asked.

"I wanted to see him get frustrated," Alya said with a laugh. Marinette giggled at her friend's antics as they reach their next class. When lunch rolled around, Marinette left to go find Adrien to see why he was looking for her that morning. She found him waiting there by the front of the school and was about to go over to him when the principal stopped her to discuss decorations for the upcoming dance. When she was done talking to him, she saw that Adrien had already left. She wanted to try to find him after lunch but Nino told her and Alya that the blond had a photoshoot to go to. She planned to visit the photo shoot after school but she had so much homework to do, she ended up not finishing it until just before her patrol with her partner. She put her hair up in their usual twin ponytails and transformed before heading off to their meeting place. She hoped that he was in a playful mood today because she could really use a good laugh to get her mind off of today. She heard a soft thump from behind her as her partner finally arrived. She knew he was purposely trying to be quiet so he could try to hug her from behind. So just as he was about to wrap his arms around her, she dodged and moved to the side, trying everything she can to keep from smiling. He stared at her for a bit before he gave chase.

"You need to be faster than that, chaton!" Ladybug called back to him when she noticed he was lagging behind. The chase went on until they had run around the whole city once and then Chat caught up behind her and held onto her middle from behind and hugged her. Both were laughing hard until Ladybug felt something digging into her middle. "Ow! Chat let go!" The cat hero did and looked at his lady with concern. "What's on your wrist? It was digging into me," Ladybug asked, turning around to look at her partner's wrist and rubbing her middle. chat seem to lighten up at the reminder of what was on his wrist while Ladybug seemed to freeze in her spot. She saw the beads on the pink string around her partner's wrist. The same one that was on her crush's wrist. Lady did her best to refocus on his words.

"Oh! This little thing?" Chat held up his wrist and Lady's eyes followed the accessory with her eyes. "A friend gave it to me when she kept beating me at Mega Strike." Ladybug was internally freaking out, trying to comprehend the fact that she has been fighting beside her crush this entire time. "I was actually trying to give it back to her all day today but she just kept getting busy with something every single time. Her outfit today was also distracting. Cute, but distracting. She should wear her hair down more often." Ladybug felt her face drain when she finally process the information before she blushed at his compliment. She then proceeded to collapse. As the rest of the world fades away into darkness, Ladybug felt warm arms wrapped around her and a panicked voice in the distance. When she wakes up later, and after she's calmed down, Ladybug decided to have a talk with her partner.

Flirt

They had been partners for a couple years now and still had yet to reveal each other's identities. Ladybug did her best to purposely not think about who was under Chat's black mask, but she did have an idea as to who it could be. Alya did show her the photo shopped picture of Adrien and it still hasn't left the back of her mind. She wasn't ready to confirm her suspicions. She has been considering revealing their identities to each other but she never feels like she is ready. She noticed Chat's flirting had ebbed away just a little bit and felt comfortable enough to slightly flirt back. She keeps denying that it really is just because she was falling for her cat partner.

Chat, on the other hand, has been ready the moment he met his lady. He had been looking for clues about his lady all over the place. He still didn't know who she was, but he was positive that she went to his school. Not only because of the history book, which was a huge clue, but also because of how quickly she showed up with the Horificator Akuma. He still hasn't put all the pieces together. However, he did start to take more notice in one of his classmates the more she became confident during class. He denied it for a while, but eventually accepted the fact that he was slowly admiring his blue haired friend as more than a friend.

As the days went by, the two would become closer in both their civilian forms and their alter egos. Their patrols became a time where they could spend more time together. Their conversations at school were calming and would occasionally hold a hint of flirtation in it. Thinking that her crush could also be her partner gave the bluenette enough courage to talk to her crush without stuttering as much as before.

"So where are we going for lunch?" Adrien asked his friends as the bell rings for the end of class.

"OH! There's this new cafe not too far away," Alya suggested.

"That sounds great!" Marinette agreed. The four decided to begin to walk out of the school and followed Alya to the cafe after they all agreed to the cafe. Alya and Nino held hands and walked in front of their best friends while talking about random things (*cough*Ladyblog*cough*). Marinette and Adrien were just making small talk and teasing each other throughout most of the walk.

"So, I've heard that there are a lot of guys who like you, Mari!" Adrien teased. "Got sights on any particular one?" Adrien asked, making Marinette hum in thought. Should she tell him or not?

"Yes," she answered. Adrien's eyes widened.

"What!?" Alya and Nino turned back to their friends at the sound of Adrien's voice.

"Hey, what's going on, dudes?" Nino asks them. Marinette giggles at Adrien's reaction and skips into the cafe, pulling Alya away from her boyfriend so they could talk. Adrien just stared at his princess as she walked away with her best friend, still giggling. "You okay, dude?"

"Do you know who Marinette likes? Who is he? Is he good enough for her? I don't think he's good enough if he hasn't asked her out yet," Adrien complained as they finally followed the girls in. It took everything the DJ had just to stifle his laughter. Adrien tried to get Marinette to tell him who it was for the rest of lunch. She finally gave him a small tidbit right before class started again.

"No, I'm not going to tell you but I will say he's the cat's meow," Marinette said with a wink to the blond. To say the least, Alya and Nino were having a field day with this. This only seemed to grow the model's frustration. Thankfully he was able to calm down considerably at the thought that he still has a chance with his lady. When school ended, Adrien was whisked off to another photoshoot before he was finally allowed to go home. When he reached his room, he fed Plagg and started on his homework so he wouldn't have to worry about it after patrol. He was able to finish and went onto his computer to look up pick up lines to use on his lady and his princess. He found a baker's pick up line to use on his princess and wrote it down so he wouldn't forget it for tomorrow.

Meanwhile, with Marinette, the young bluenette was talking to her Kwami, who was eating a triple chocolate chip cookie, about whether she should reveal her identity to her partner and prove her suspicions that he could also be her school crush. Ultimately, it came down to whether Marinette was ready yet, which she claimed she wasn't. She was worried he wouldn't like her anymore once he found out. Or that he isn't who she thought he was. Or that he would be disappointed that it was her. Basically it was all self doubt when it came down to revealing her identity to him.

"Don't worry, Marinette. You will know when the time is right to show him," Tikki encouraged her chosen. The bluenette nodded in agreement before taking a deep breath and transforming. What Tikki didn't tell her charge, was that Plagg was going to trick his chosen to say the wrong pick up line. Ladybug and Chat Noir met at the Eiffel Tower as they normally did before they started patrol. They greeted each other before racing across the rooftops of Paris, Chat shouting out pick up lines at Lady.

"Are you kryptonite? Because I'm weak at the knees for you."

"Yoda one for me."

Each one was either greeted with a giggle, laugh, or groan.

"If I was a superhero, guess which one I'd be!" This one made Ladybug stop in her track. She was about to point out the fact that he was already a superhero but he interrupted her. "Your Man." Ladybug groaned and continued on with patrol. The pick up lines never stopped. Eventually patrol ended and the two heroes were able to sit and rest. Chat's antics never stopped until he had to pull out his list of lines. He skimmed over the list and noticed one he hadn't said yet. Without thinking, he automatically said the line. "Are your parents bakers? Because they sure made you a cutie… Pie…?" Ladybug had started to freak out. She was hyperventilating and talking faster than the cat hero could process. However, he was able to make out a few things.

"How do you know?! Did you follow me home!? YOU FOLLOWED ME, DIDN'T YOU?!" Those were the only things he was able to process. He then immediately began to reassure her that he did not follow her and that, that particular pick up line was supposed to be for one of his friends at school. With that said, they called it a night and made their way home. Before he didn't get very far before he realized that she had basically confirmed that his lady does live in a bakery. And he only knows one person at his school who lives at a bakery. Everything began to click and he got super excited. That next morning, he found Marinette on time, talking to Alya, and making her way to her first class.

"MARINETTE!" Adrien shouts, making the poor girl jump before turning around to look at who called her.

"A-Adrien?" Marinette asked, still slightly startled.

"It's you!" He shouts as he picks her up in a hug and runs away with her, leaving a confused Alya behind. He wasn't going to hold in his realization any longer than he had to.

"DON'T YOU DARE MAKE HER LATE AGRESTE!" Alya shouts after him, whether he heard, she had no clue.

Hey! I'm so sorry for not updating faster! I completely blame it on my sister. She got sick and then gave it to me. Then we were also renovating a trailer this week. And we ended up cleaning like crazy today. This week was busier that I would've liked but oh well. At least I was finally able to update. I did get over 50 reviews before I could post this up. I'm so glad you all have liked this so much!

Okay, so a guest asked about the names Cyril and Viviane in the last chapters. Yes, they were the original names I was going to go with before I remembered that Marinette had already picked out her kids' names in the first episode with Stormy Weather. Hopefully I fixed it correctly.

I also got another review from another guest, which I can't find now, and they asked if Louis became a holder too. My answer is yes. My thought is that Gabriel retired being Hawkmoth after Ladybug and Chat Noir fought him and so Louis ended up with that Miraculous. Alya would've gotten the fox one and Nino ended up with the Peacock one.

mayuralover: Of course I didn't make their kids the next Ladybug and Chat Noir, that's too cliche! Besides, it was slightly easier to find bee puns.

Anyways! I'm sorry for not updating sooner, hopefully I'll be able to update more once I finally beat this dumb sickness. I hoped you all enjoyed! I'm sorry I couldn't make these any longer! Let me know what you all think!