A/N: just a short chapter, ive been experiencing a bit of writers block on the next few chapters so please bare with me! Im determined to finish this story before I start uploading my next one. Thank you so much for the reviews again, I honestly dont know what to say, Im just so happy that people are enjoying my story and the world in my head. -bug-out-

"Plagg." Adrien had barely jumped in the window of his old room at the mansion before he de-transformed.

"Lady-bug, its Marinette, isn't it?" Adrien couldn't keep the plea out of his voice. 'please please let it be her'

Plagg drifted lazily across the room "I'm tired and I need cheese" he moaned.

Adrien ran his fingers through his hair, griping it tightly at the top. The stress was more than he had ever felt in his life. How could this be happening? If ladybug was Marinette, this would mean he loved the same person, and she did too. This could be great, amazing even but he had left, he needed to know.

"Plagg, please, I'll do anything, I need to know! Is ladybug Marinette?" Adrien was on his knees but this point.

Plagg looked over at him with narrowed eyes "who's Marinette again? Cheese first then we talk terms"

Adrien scrambled to his feet and scrambled out the room, he knew he had a vintage roll of Camembert he was saving for the perfect time and this was it. Nothing bribed Plagg more than cheese and the right timing needed to be perfect. This was it.

Almost dropping the cheese twice as he raced through the mansion back towards his room he presented Plagg the cheese like a knight presenting the head of a slain dragon to his king.

Plagg grinned and knew he had the upper hand here. He drifted towards the cheese letting his nose guide him towards the smell. Adrien cut a small kwami sized piece off the wheel and Plagg held it close to his body. He smelled the cheese and licked it and then a small bite and swishing it around his mouth like he was tasting a fine wine.

"Please Plagg" Adrien had tears in his eyes, he felt his heart may break or explode at any second.

"my conditions..." Plagg looked amused at his new form of torment. "I want double cheese rations, the good stuff, not the cheap stuff."

"ok, ok, no problem" Adrien looked at his kwami, if Plagg had wanted he would had tripled, quadrupled the cheese.

Plagg flew in a loop-the-loop and gulped down the remaining part of the slice. "I cant wait to see Tikki again, I just want to hold her and snuggle up with her, bugs give the best tummy tickles you know, I"

"PLAGG PLEASE!" Adrien begged

"wha- oh yeah, yeah its Marinette, come on, suit up, I wanna see Tikki now!" Plagg hovered by Adriens ring waiting for the transformation words.

Adrien collapsed on his bed. It all made sense, his feelings, all these years, Louis. "Plagg-"

Plagg braced him self in a star position ready to be sucked into his chosens ring "Plagg- I – what have I done?"

For some reason Plagg had not expected this. Adrien started sobbing into his arm which had draped across his face, almost as if to hide himself in the shame.

"what have I done?" he repeated with his sobs getting more intense.

Plagg rounded on him, he was never good when it came to the emotional part of his kittens and this time he was being kept from Tikki. "What have you done?" Plagg kicked Adriens arm from off his face. "You have kept me apart from my other half for over 5 years! Go now. NOW! I WANT TO SEE HER! I told you so we could go and make this right, go now. NOW!"

Adrien had never seen his little kwami so angry. "I cant, Plagg, I just cant, how can I face her now knowing what I've done to her, to you, to Tikki, she doest want to see me Plagg, I- Plagg, please, how do I fix this?"

Plagg huffed and turned his back on Adrien. "you fix this by being a man and going and telling Ladybug the truth and taking me to see Tikki"

"If I do that then Marinette will hate me forever. She will never want to come near me again, as Chat or Adrien and then we will neither of us be with our other halves" Adrien flopped his arm back over his face as silent tears fell down his cheeks.

He could feel the sobs catching in his throat edging to come back. He felt a small soft ball curl under his chin and felt the distinct purring of Plagg on his neck. Both closed their eyes and fell into an emotional sleep.