Marinette walks into Kat's laboratory. She was in there so much more often than her actual bedroom, Kat Tudor is adorable in the fact she has painted her lab and created things to make her lab feel more like home than her room. "Hey, Kattie. What's wrong? And don't tell me nothing, because this is not a 'nothing' look you've been walking around in lately, mon petit chaton." She declared, plopping herself down on a comfy chair that Kat brought in for Nathanael who sometimes acts as her Laboratory assistant nowadays.
Kat sighs and lays back on her chair. It was a recliner that could move back. "I cant make a decision, Marinette!" She whined childishly. "I like them all completely differently. And I can't decide which emotions are stronger or more important. Mari, you need to tell me what to do!"
Mari immediately replied, "Go out with Nathanael. He's a sweetheart, doesn't constantly make bad puns, and you can actually TALK to him."
Kat crossed her arms in response. "You put NO thought into that at all!" She whined. "I mean, I can talk to Adrien now. He's such a dork. I mean, how can you really take CHAT NOIR that seriously?"
Mari's jaw dropped at that. "Adrien is Chat Noir?! And you KNOW about it. What?!"
Kat frowned to herself. "Oh…I wasn't supposed to say that. Yeah, I figured it out a couple weeks ago. I just…I never brought it up because I definitely had no idea how too deal with that. How do I deal with the fact that my kitty is the same person as my crush and yet I am clearly still conflicted on the choice between him and that sweet artist."
Marinette sat up in her chair. "Well, Kitty-Kat. You just need to relax for a little bit. You don't need to just make your decision immediately. They both like you and-"
"That is NOT the problem Mari-Baby. It's not like a lack object permanence. I know they'll still be there but I can't just keep asking them both to wait on a decision that I am unable to even make! They are both so great and I don't even know how I would make that choice." She was still rambling on about her inability to make this decision.
Marinette sighed. "Kat…Kitty….Kit-Kat…KAT…Ugh, she's just gonna keep ranting about this." She groaned and laid back in her chair, knowing she would just have to wait this out.
Kat and Marinette began to actually have their heart to heart talk later on. Marinette was shocked by the fervidness of her refusal to just let anything go. She shouldn't have been, she was aware that Kat's emotions were infinitely more substantial than she would ever verbally acknowledge.
Kat grumbled under her breath. "I don't know how to articulate my emotions this way. I could borrow the words of others but so many of them are so close to my experience, yet so easy to misinterpret. The words don't…stick. This isn't Latin. It's not a finite language. We have such flowery language that is so unnecessary. I mean, think of the word 'Jumentous'. Do you even know what Jumentous means?! It means 'smells like horse urine'. How am I supposed to use my language to explain my emotions in that case?!"
Marinette spritzed Kat with a green spray bottle full of water. It was only there because sometimes Chat Noir had a habit of coming in to her lab and bothering her when she was doing experiments. (Oddly enough it was USUALLY when Kat had Nathanael over to assist her with any two person experiment she was doing. She had unfortunately, yet to make the connection). "You're acting crazy, Kat."
Kat gave her the most offended look she possibly could. "Wow. Rude." She was, momentarily, distracted from her internal angst as she wiped the water off of her thick spectacles. "What do you suggest I do about it, huh, Mari?!"
Marinette had the simplest answer she had in a WHILE. It was difficult for her to be completely honest with Felix or Kat. Felix had her completely cowed, even though he tried to make her more comfortable. Kat, however, was almost worst. Kat was unintentionally manipulative at times. She could twist your words and behaviors to mean whatever she wanted you to mean. Kat may not MEAN it, but Marinette often found herself entrapped in Kat's circle of confusing half-truths, omitted facts, and sharp tongue. "Kat…Just be honest. Tell them what you feel like without trying to talk around them or manipulate them. You might need to use Felix so you don't do it unintentionally too."
Kat frowned at that declaration. She didn't like that part of herself. The side of her personality that would do anything, no matter how harsh and cruel in order to achieve her aims.
She subconsciously insulted the intelligence of the others when she did that. Using her skill of twisting words and confusing others to coerce them into bending to her will. Felix was able to get all her respect along with her affection and attention, mostly because of how headstrong he was.
Kat eventually had to agree with her girl-friend. Marinette wasn't a GENIUS but Kat always trusted Marinette to know what she was doing. She was also more perceptive than Kat, though Kat would rather fight a hoard of rampaging akuma than ever admit to that.
Felix stood in the room with his best friend. He seemed bored, shoulders slumped as he sat down and leaned back on the wall, arms crossed. That was only true to those who didn't know him well. All three in the room saw the way his eyes scanned their faces and the slight tenseness in his brow as he listened to the three of them have their discussion.
He was there to watch Nathanael and Adrien, though he was there under the guise of moral support for Kat. It took almost nothing to get Felix to do this favor for Kat. She actually mentioned it and he DEMANDED to be there "for her moral support". When Felix really set his mind to something, not even Kat could really convince him from his chosen course of action.
Nathanael was awkwardly twiddling his fingers. How does Adrien seem so calm about this whole situation? Kat was babbling and meandering around what she really desired to tell them, Felix was being intimidating in the corner, and Adrien was just leaning back as if he were at a photoshoot. Always modeling, that boy was.
Unbeknownst to him, Adrien was feeling the same way as Nathanael right now. But he also felt betrayed by his own brother! Watching him as if Felix was Kat's twin and not HIS. It was so unfair. Also, he was idly wondering how his alter ego fit into all of this. How did she even plan to sell this to Chat Noir? Or did she plan o just leave his alter ego out of it completely?
Kat was also fiddling with the ring on her finger. The newest version was a blood red color with a little puzzle on the top. There was a million configurations she could play with, and she knew exactly which one would turn the ring a glowing pink and allow her to become the Cheshire Chat.
Nathanael was the first to finally agree when he understood what Kat was trying to say. He loved Kat, (and he would never admit that he had a couple Adrien Agreste photos taped to a hidden page of his binder), so dating the both of them would be a challenge, but also one he could get behind.
Kat's entire visage altered the second the redhead agreed, she let out a happy squeal ("Like a piglet being offered a truffle", Felix would later declare). Her arms wrapped around Nathanael and she gave him kisses on both cheeks before whispering to both him and Felix that she needed to talk to Adrien in private.
"I'm not leaving." Felix drawled immediately.
"Oh yes, you are." Kat argued. "Or I will tell Marinette about…the Drawer."
Felix had a special drawer in his room that was locked and filled with god knows what. He has a special key for it, that is more well hidden than the Chat Blanc ring. Kat once broke into the drawer and only she knows what's in it. She had to swear never to look in it again or he would make her regret it. Not even ADRIEN knows what is in that drawer (as far as Kat knows).
Felix growled at that. "You wouldn't dare."
Kat arched a bushy brown eyebrow. "Oh wouldn't I?" There was a challenge in her tone. She wouldn't, it was an empty threat and they both knew it. They used empty threats to show the other how serious they are about something.
Felix glared at her, before huffing and following a blushing Nathanael out of the room.
"Okay, now, Adrien." She took a deep breath. "I need you to tell me what you think."
Adrien's lip curled in a petulant pout. "What about Chat Noir. I…er…I heard you and the Cheshire Chat both hung out with him."
Kat rolled her brown eyes. "Obviously. I mean, I am technically talking to Chat Noir about it right this second." She looked him straight in the eye as she said that.
Adrien froze up at that declaration. She can't actually KNOW about that…could she. "W…What…? N-No, you're not! It's just me-"
Kat held up her hand. "I definitely know when you are lying. Adrien…I figured out you were Chat Noir. And I LIKE you…I like both parts of you." She added, a bit awkwardly. How can she have such poetry in her mind and yet when she TRIED to tell him what she really thought, her tongue got tied up.
Adrien and Kat finally sat down and actually discussed the two of them liking each other. How Nathanael DEFINITELY knew who the both of them were. He started discreetly dropping hints to eachother. Adrien, blushing a deep red, admitted his feelings and agreed to date the both of them.
Kat was so excited she texted Alya and Marinette. Especially since the three of them decided on a venue for their first date. It was just a show at Adrien's house, since they needed to get used to eachother. Kat sat between the two of them on his couch, a big bowl of popcorn on her lap. They were watching an Anime that Adrien decided on.
It started the first of MANY future heated debates on Anime, Comic Universes, and Hentai between Adrien and Kat. Nathanael would eventually learn to just be amused by them as opposed to how he felt now.