"I don't see why you're freaking out," Plagg muttered nibbling on one of the many cheese sticks that Emma had given them once they got back home, "You'll be a great Cat Noir."

"I have a list of reasons why I shouldn't be Cat Noir," Emma explained as she got up from her desk and walked over to her side table where a collection of pill bottles sat and picked them up one at a time for emphasis, "anxiety, depression, insomnia."

Plagg looked confused, "huh?"

"Argh! I'm a bundle of issues, Plagg!" Emma explained slamming a bottle down, "I literally had a panic attack earlier! Some days I have trouble even being able to get out of bed! I'm barely functioning!"

"Sounds like your making excuses," Plagg noted as he finished his cheesy snack.

The teenager looked at him frustrated, "Listen to me. I can't. I could freeze up or something worse!"

The kwami floated down and poked her nose. "Kid, you'll be fine."

Emma shook her head, "No, no, no. Get Louis to do this or something."

Plagg immediately got serious, "One, no. Two, Louis can't wield me anyway."

The Agreste raised her eyebrow, "What? Why?"

Plagg sighed "Only certain people can use certain Miraculouses. Your chi has to have a certain compatibility to the miraculous your using."

Emma made a face and put her hand to her chin in a thinking pose, "What? So we have to be drift compatible or something?"

Plagg made a face, " What is drift compatible?"

The black haired girl sigh, "A reference to a movie only I seem to like. But, what happens if you try to use a miraculous your not suited for?"

"Best case you use it but not be able to use its special powers. Worst case? You'll end up damaging the Miraculous and possibly hurting yourself. You could end up in a coma or worse. That's why the Miraculous Guardian had to choose people careful."

Emma looked seriously at Plagg, "So, my chi works with yours but Louis' doesn't?"

"Your chi works with mine and Ladybug's kwami's," the black cat explained, "that's important for Ladybug and Cat Noir's partnership, it creates a balance that's essential. Louis doesn't match me. Hugo does though."

Emma looked concerned as Plagg waved his paw, "Like I would ever think about making a kid a superhero."

The oldest Agreste walked defeated to the desk and plopped back down in the chair. She stared at her the photo of her 14-year-old parents smiling into the camera together that she had pulled from the family photo album.

"You'll be fine. Your parents were fine," Plagg said as he grabbed another piece of cheese from his plate.

"That seems like a matter of opinion at this point," Emma muttered.

She looked from the picture to her computer screen that had an old picture of Ladybug and Cat Noir. Honestly, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste were so obviously Ladybug and Cat Noir its ridiculous. How did no one notice? How did she not notice? How could she not know? Thinking back on it they didn't not tell her. I mean they had let Plagg and Tikki fly around play with Emma and her siblings when she was younger. So, maybe it wasn't really a secret. Just something that at six, she didn't properly grasp. But, still...how does one deal with find out your parents were freaking superheroes? Emma looked down at the photo in her hand again. She already didn't have closure with the whole dead parents thing. This is going to make it ten times worse.

Suddenly her room door slammed open, and Plagg flew into her bed covers to hide.

Louis came in eyes narrowed as he walked over to the desk and took the photo of their parents out of her hand and then the album, "This is mine. Don't take it without my permission."

That familiar guilt and shame started to fill Emma, "I'm sorry. Grandmère told me it was the family album."

That statement made Louis frown, "It is but I'm the one that adds new pictures and repairs it."

"Oh, that's neat."

Silence the room along with tension. Louis turned to leave the room.

"Um, say Louis-"

"Stop saying it like that."

The way he said that sentence with such ice in the words, it made Emma flinch away like they actually had hit her, "What?"

Her brother looked at her with a looked filled her cold angry, "You're saying my name with such a heavy American accent. It's said Lwee not Loo-ee. It's like you don't remember."

Emma looked at Louis trying to come up with anything to say. She really couldn't. While in New York, Gabriel and Nathalie had made sure she was still fluent in French as well English and Chinese. But, since English was her primary for 10 years send had grown more use to more American inflictions. But, to mess up her brothers name…

"Louis," Emma started trying to put her feelings into words, "I…"

The Asian looking boy stopped her by holding up his hand, "Emma, stop. I'm still processing you being here. For all intents and purposes, I buried the idea of you here years ago. Along with Gabriel Agreste being a part of our lives again."

With that Louis left the room.

Plagg flew out once he was sure Louis wasn't coming back in, "Em, he probably didn't mean anything by it. Probably."

Emma didn't listen as she pulled on her black jacket, "We're going out for a bit."

Anything to keep Emma from falling into her deep dark thoughts.

…..

Becoming Ladybug was a dream come true. Her dream. But there was also the idea of making her mother smile again and have hope. Especially after the lost of her Miraculous and watching her friends lose theirs.

Instead she just had her mother crying angry tears.

Sophie was at a loss at what to do at this. She was suppose to be the hero and the reassurance that her mother would one day get Pollen and the Queen Bee identity back, "Mom?"

Chloè looked at her daughter as she looked up from the news. She tried to wipe her tears away, "Yes, honey?"

"Are you okay?" Sophie asked coming in the living room.

"I just…" her mother looked at the Television, "It's just a nail in the coffin. I…we all were holding out hope. That our Lady and her tom cat was going to come back and save us. Instead? We get these two kids. Kids without the decency pick different names. Plus, what does that mean for the rest of us? Will we have our Miraculous taken even if we get them back? Plus, the akuma…It's just a lot."

Sophie had no idea what to say at this, "Maybe…"

Chloè breathed shakily, "Honey, please go out for a bit. I'm not in a good place."

The young girl didn't say anything as she left the house not bothering to get a jacket or anything. She just walked out into the cold rain.

How did Sophie ruin this? It was suppose to make her mother happy! But, she made it worse! Sophie kept walking till eventually she made it to the statue in the center of the city. The Ladybug and Cat Noir statue. Sophie had under the Ladybug part and let out a shaky breath.

"Sophie," Tikki whimpered as she pattered her cheek.

"I'm fine," the blonde lied to herself and Tikki.

"You don't look fine," a voice commented.

Tikki ducked back into Sophie's shirt quickly as someone sat down on the wet ground beside her.

Blue eyes meet green.

"Emma?"

"What happened?" the girl asked sincerely.

Sophie looked at her debating how much to tell the almost stranger, "More or less made my mom upset without trying to."

Emma gained a sad smile, "I just did the same with my younger brother. Didn't even cross my mind he would be upset like that."

The blonde looked at the black-haired girl, "So, what are you going to do about him being upset at you?"

Emma looked up at the statues seemingly in deep thought, "Tell you when I figure it out. You?"

Sophie shrugged, "No idea either. Maybe focus on what I can do?"

"That's something my therapist, Dr. Chad, would say a lot. Focus on you. Don't worry about others so much," the green-eyed girl replied, "That helped a lot when I finally started to go to public school."

"Might take Dr. Chad's advice then," she concluded as she stood up, "I should go home. It's starting to rain harder."

"Want me to walk with you?" Emma offered as she stood up as well.

The blonde shook her head, "I'll be fine."

The older girl looked hesitant but relented, "If you say so, Sophie."

Sophie paused at hearing Emma saying her name for the first time, "I like that."

"Huh?"

"I like how you say my name with your accent."

That brought a giggle out of both of them as the wind started blowing hard and causing Sophie to shiver. Emma immediately took off her jacket and draped it over Sophie's shoulders.

"Hey!"

"If you aren't to let me walk you home at least take the jacket," Emma justified as she pulled hood over Sophie's head, "and you can keep it. Don't worry about returning it."

Sophie smiled as she leaned up kissed her cheek goodbye, "Bye, Emma. See you at school."

"Bye, Sophie."

The blonde turned to leave smiling brightly. About a foot about as Sophie buried herself deeper in the jacket, Tikki stuck her head out, "Should you have really been flirting like that with Emma? You have a boyfriend."

Sophie blushed deeply, "I wasn't flirting. That was just friendship. Besides I don't like girls like that."

The kwami gave her a look, "This cheese smelling jacket says otherwise."

"This jacket does smell a lot like cheese."

…

Emma touched her cheek while blushing as she watched the blonde walk away.

Plagg looked up from the green shirt pocket he was in, "I'm glad I wasn't in the jacket!"

The girl didn't pay attention as she sighed.

"Emma! Emma!"

"Huh?"

"You better not tell me that she's just a friend!" The kwami complained.

"Oh no," Emma smiled as she touched her cheek again, "I hope we can more than just friends."

Plagg looked up into the sky, "If there is an even higher power than me. Thank you, thank you for the gift of a confident charge."

As Emma turned to walk back to the bakery, after one more look in the direction Sophie had walked off towards, she looked at Plagg confused, "Was my father that bad?"

"It was the peak of irony, kid. Let me tell you…after some more cheese."

"Hey, readers!" Tikki floated in, "its time for Tikki facts! Where I reveal a fact or two relating to this episode, Plagg might help a little too."

Tikki looked over at Plagg, "So, how old was your youngest owner?"

Plagg shrugged, "They're all children compared to my millennia age."

The luck kwami made a face at Plagg but continued, "Well, my youngest ever owner was a 7 year old korean girl named Ji-Su and my oldest was 84 year old Hilda."

"Hilda made some of the best cheese," Plagg dreamily commented.

Tikki rolled her eyes and continued explaining to the reader, "The average age of people chosen to wield a Miraculous for the first time is usually between 13-18."

"So, Emma's 16 and Sophie's 15 are right in the ballpark," Plagg nodded, "Old enough to make tough calls but unaffected the crippling depression of adulthood."

Tikki groaned at Plagg, "Anyway that was your Tikki Fact see you at the end of the next episode!"

Author's Note

Thanks for reading and please review, I love the feed back. Gosh this was not meant to be a long chapter but it was.

Also Emma has a lot of issues tied to the car crash that haunts and follows her, same with Louis but more with the aftermath. Sophie on the other hand just wants to be a good daughter and person. The jacket scene is kinda meet to parallel the umbrella scene a little. As for Sophie's boyfriend? We'll see him soon.