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Now, on to what you need to know before the story. This one is post reveal and Adrien and Marinette are already dating. This was going to be another two chapter branching path, but the first one would have been so short that I decided to recombine them as daydream and reality.

"I would like to have a kitten," Adrien commented, watching a stray cat guide her little ones out into the world for the first time. His friends nodded and smiled, thinking they knew what he meant, while his girlfriend - who was sure she was the only one who truely knew what he meant - became lost in her thoughts.

"Then I'm an animal in heat, but just for you." She got down onto all fours on the ground. "Come over here and breed me."

Seeing the girl offer herself to him so willingly evoked a primal response in Adrien. He growled as he dropped to the side of his mate, hesitating with a finger tucked inside her pants, just long enough for her to have the chance to revoke her invitation. When she made no protest he ripped away their clothes and any semblance of civility as he mounted her and mated like a wild animal. He'd made gentle love to his girl in the past, and would again in the future, but this was not the time.

Only when they were done did they start to wake back up into reality and realize they were not alone.

"All that because he wanted a kitten?"

"Mmmhmm," Marinette adjusted her pants, sealing the majority of her mate's sperm inside her while deciding to ignore the bits that seeped out and gummed up her underwear. She could wash it out at home, and for the time being, it was something she would have to bear. "Adrien identifies as part cat, so kittens mean a lot more to him than to most people. What kind of significant other would I be if I didn't understand that?"

"Marinette? Hello... are you with us girl?"

"Oh, um, what was it you said?" Marinette responded to her friend, embarrased by the scene that had just played through her head. Just because she was in a relationship with the boy she liked, it didn't mean she could let her hormones run completely uncontrolled. But... he was sort of the one who started it with that comment, and she wanted to do something in response. She had an idea.

When Chat got to his girlfriend's bedroom for their scheduled nocturnal visit, he expected he'd find her on her balcony waiting as she usually did, or perhaps just inside the hatch, ready to open up when he knocked. This time she was neither place, and when he let himself in through the unlocked hatch, he found that she wasn't anywhere within sight in her room. "Oh, Marinette ~" he called.

"Chat, shh," Marinette emerged from a sheltered nook in her closet, cupping something in her hands.

"What is it?" he asked, trying to get a better look.

"Be careful of your claws," she told him, and placed it in his outstretched palms. "I know this isn't what you meant when you said you wanted a kitten, but it would be my responsibility to give you one, and I'm just not ready, so this will have to do."

The tiny black kitten opened his mouth in a silent mew of protest, not wanting to be moved from his warm nest in Marinette's hands. He just as quickly decided that Chat made just as comfortable of a nest and drifted off into a state of simi-sleep. Chat shook his head, he knew kittens this small weren't being sold in any pet store, it didn't even have its eyes open! "I didn't expect you to be ready any time soon, I was just dreaming. Where did you get this one?"

"I went around to a few animal shelters looking for a kitten. I eventually found out about a mother who died of birth complications two days ago along with most of her litter. Two of them survived, but the shelter was short on volunteers, and said they would have to euthanize the kittens if no one took them."

At the mention of another kitten her boyfriend's head shot up, a pleading look in his eyes. "Please tell me you took both of them!"

Marinette momentarily retreated back into her closet, then returned with a tabby kitten. "I have his sister right here. So," she teased "this is our first time as parents."

"My first two children..." Chat breathed, gazing lovingly at both kittens. Marinette couldn't decide if he was joking or not.

"You know, raising kittens from this age isn't going to be easy. They still need to be fed multiple times a night, and they need regular supervision, but it's less intense and a much shorter time commitment than a human baby. This is practice. If we do a good job parenting together, then we might be ready once these two are grown."

"Really?" That was actually pretty soon. He knew cats could be considered mostly mature around six months, and at most a year.

"Yes. I know you could be a good father, Adrien, but prove it to me."

"Have you considered having your cats spayed and neutered?" The vet asked. "These two are six months old now, so you could be having kittens soon if you're not careful."

"Um, can you give us a minute to talk about it?" Marinette asked.

"All right, I still have to look at their skin and fur samples under a microscope, so I'll go do that."

As soon as the vet was out of the room, Marinette blushed and looked to the floor. "I think it's time we stopped thinking of them as our babies," she admitted, "and remember that they are cats."

"I suppose... if we let them continue going outside they'd end up doing what cats in the wild do, and by our own logic we would be grandparents - we can't let that happen, but is it really right to force this on them like this? We can just keep them indoors for a few months and decide later."

"Adrien, they're cats, they don't really understand what siblings are, they see each other as just another cat. We can't keep both an unfixed male and female in my house. The only other option is if you take one of them home with you, but I don't think your father would allow it."

"But, if we have them fixed, I'll have to stop thinking of them as my kids, and if I stop thinking of them as my kids, I've lost the family I made with you."

"They'll always be our kids, Adrien, just, kids who are cats. Maybe this is a sign, tonight we should start working on having a baby who is the same species as us."

"Sounds good to me."