Cat Noir was running fast. In her head she kept flashing back to Louis leaving earlier from the house. He said he was going to the mall to meet Sophie. The mall that the fight was happening at right now.

Her little brother was in danger! Sophie was in danger!

Cat Noir slide full speed into the mall and saw Louis, Zacharie, and Nina guiding people the nearest exit but also looking concerned as well.

Thank god they were okay.

"I appreciate the help but you 3 need to leave as well," The hero commented as she ran past them.

"Wait!" Louis screamed after the hero, "my girlfriend is still in there!"

That caused Cat Noir to pause before calling back, "I'll find her!"

The mall honestly looked like a mess. As Cat Noir jumped over to debris she noticed that Ladybug was fiercely fighting Buzzkill in a jewelry store and was about to run in to help when she noticed the Rooster hero, Riser, in the corner with the Mouse Villain, Squeak, over him.

"Hey!"

Squeak jumped at this and looked at the hero running towards her and yanked the Miraculous off of the hero, "Sorry, Cat! I'm not up for a cat and mouse game!"

With that she turned tiny and multiplied spreading out, "See ya next time! I got to get this to Luna Moth! She wants all the Miraculous after all!"

Cat Noir cursed for a moment and wondered if this Luna Moth was behind everything. This was the second time she was mentioned and honestly thinking about it was likely that she was the new holder of the butterfly miraculous.

Hearing a groan she turned to see the former rooster hero, Nathaniel Kurtzberg, lying in the rubble. Uncle Nath? Really? Did her parents only pick their classmates to be heroes?! No wonder their figuring this out…

"Mr. Kurtzberg, are you okay?" She asked helping sit him up.

Nathaniel looked close to tears, "I lost Orikko! I lost him! And I lied to Marc! I told him...I told him we wouldn't lose anymore with you two here!"

That guilt loaded statement hit Cat Noir hard but looking to see the battle raging with Buzzkill and Ladybug she needed to get Nathaniel out of here and then help her Lady out.

Luckily for her the camera crew that was filming the battle was near by.

"You guys!" She called to them, " I need you to help Mr. Kurtzberg out of here! Now!"

For a second they all looked to scared to help but of all people the donut boy was the first down and nodded at her, " I got him! Be a hero!"

Cat Noir smiled and looked over at battle and narrowed her eyes at the bee villain and ran straight for her, "Cataclysm!"

Buzzkill turned to look at her but was stopped from moving by a quick thinking Ladybug wrapping her up with her yo-yo.

That allowed Cat to aim her attack right at her ribs.

"Ahhhhh!"

The scream quickly spread through the mall as the villain dropped to the ground holding her ribs. Ladybug stared, a little guilty at the thief's pain, but leaned down to take back the bee miraculous then immediately take her to the hospital.

"STAY!"

Ladybug and Cat Noir immediately found they couldn't move at all.

That's when Cobra and a boy wearing the dog miraculous appeared.

"Cobra...Rowdy…" Buzzkill groaned in pain.

The snake villain helped the bee villain up as the Dog villain, Rowdy?, looked at Cat Noir and Ladybug, "My power is really handy huh? Your paused for about 2 minutes or till I touch you. We would stay and try to steal your miraculous but according to Cobra, Carapace and Rena are about to bust in any minute. So next time."
With that Rowdy went to help Cobra and the three villains were gone.

A few seconds later the two were free and Ladybug was fuming, "She was right there! Right there!"

She looked furious and looking at Cat Noir she didn't look any better, "We lost the bee and the rooster."

"Well fuck," Rena said as she entered the diaster area.

…

Later as Cat Noir is leaving she sees Sophie rush into Louis's arm worried and can't help but feel the pang in heart of jealousy, loneliness, and shame.

"Happy Birthday," She said bitterly to herself.

….

Sophie handed the gift to Sabine as she turned to leave.

"You can stay you know," the asian woman smiled, "Emma loves hanging out with you and I'm sure she wouldn't mind."

The blonde shook her head, "Thanks, Sabine but it's family only."

"Your basically family," Hugo yelled from inside.

Louis shrugged agreeing.

She gave Louis and Sabine a look, "I'm just leaving the gift."

"I agree you should stay too."

The three arguing people turn to see Emma pushing Nathalie Agreste to the door in her wheelchair towards the door.

"Mrs. Agreste," Sophie greeted having not seen her in a while, kinda weird to think Sophie had seen more of Nathalie growing up than Emma thanks to corporate parties.

"Sorry, we're late," Emma apologized, "Grandmere made friends with the waitress and wouldn't leave."

Nathalie gave her granddaughter a look, "She's a lovely girl and you should call her. Besides if you didn't eat so much cheese you wouldn't have spend so long in the bathroom."

Emma blushes at that comment and groaned.

Sabine handed the gift back to Sophie, "Well, if you won't stay give her your gift personally. Louis get Nathalie please."

The boy looked confused but did what was asked as Nathalie smirked slyly at Emma.

The blonde girl handed her the gift, "It's not much. I didn't know it was your birthday till the last minute. For the record mine's in February hint hint."

That caused Emma to smile softly then she opened the bag, "Yin and Yang?"

"Do you like it?" Sophie asked worriedly.

The birthday girl smiled and took the yin one and warped it around her neck, "I love it." She took out the yang one and handed it to her, "Here."

"No, it's your gift," the younger girl argued.

"I want you to have it," Emma argued back, "Think of it like a bff necklace thing. Besides one of yang's meanings is the sun and your the sunlight in my life sometimes."

That caused Sophie to blush deeply as she took it and put it on.

They looked at each other for a minute before Emma broke out of the stare and asked, " you sure you don't want any cake?"

Sophie looked at the soft look on Emma's face and gave up, "One piece."

Emma opened the door for the girl and let her in.

Sophie ended up sitting next to Emma and Louis as the cake was served and noticed a picture of 6 year old Emma with her parents on the counter with a piece of cake in front of it but decided not to question it.

….

Later on that night Sophie smiled at the picture she had taken of the smiling Agreste siblings and decided to make it her phone background thinking it was adorable and one of the few times all three seemed to be getting along.

….

Meanwhile at the same time Emma was looking down at a photo of Sophie and herself they had taken and against her better judgement she made it her phone background. She looked at the family photo on the kitchen counter and pick up the cake moving to throw it after.

That's when Plagg floated up and looked at the photo sadly, "Happy Birthday, Em"

"Its time for Plagg Talk!" Plagg greeted.

Tikki threw some cake at Plagg angrily as he dodged laughing.

"Anyway, you know Gabriel actually tried to get custody of all Emma, Louis, and Hugo following Marinette and Adrien's death," Tikki commented as she and Plagg ate some cheesecake.

Plagg nodded and looked at the reader, "But several people protested this. Not only Tom Dupain and Sabine Cheng but a lot of Adrien and Marinette's friends, such as Alya, Nino, Luka, etc."

Tikki licked her spoon, "In the end all his money and power only got him custody of Emma."

"That's actually why Emma never saw her brothers or other grandparents. Hurt feelings about the whole situation," Plagg mused, "Right call though. Don't know if Em would have gotten the right care otherwise. Plus Nathalie is on better terms with them than Gabriel."

"The rest of them won't say that though," Tikki commented and waved to the readers as Plagg ate the rest of the cake, "This has been Tikki Facts. See you next chapter."

Author's note

Sorry this took so long. I got distracted by Star Wars The clone wars. My brother just got us Disney Plus. Anyway, I have 32 episodes planned so no worries. We have the content!
Anyway, more awkward Emma and Sophie is always good and we development on the thieves so cool.
Next Episode: Episode 6 Christmas Crasher!