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[teannamon]

Why Do You Think This Would Work? Ch1 [ Taichihaya ]

They should have known that fake dating never goes according to plan. 

In which Mashima Taichi doesn't want to be bothered by his mother's prospects anymore and Ayase Chihaya hates her sister's attempts of finding her a boyfriend.

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Today was an especially stressful day for Mashima Taichi. He was supposed to clock in early from the hospital but as soon as his shift was about to end one of his patients went into cardiac arrest.

‘Ah I can never get used to emergencies like that’ he thought as he laid on his couch.

Just as he was getting comfortable, his cellphone rang which surprised him. He sat back up and picked up the phone from the coffee table next to him.

“Hello?”

“Ah Taichi, didn’t you read my texts?”

He sighed as he heard his mother, Mashima Reiko, on the other end. As tempted as he is to end the call right then and there, he wouldn’t dare get an angry visit from her instead.

“No, I had to attend to an emergency at the hospital a while ago” he explained “I just got home, what is it?”

“Well there’s a charity gala Mr. Ichido is hosting tomorrow night, maybe you could attend with your father and, you know, mingle with the people there at least”

“Why should I? I don’t have any interest in dad’s company, why aren’t you asking Rika?” he inquired, even though he has an idea of what Reiko is hinting at.

“She’s coming, that’s already a given” there was a small pause before she continued “Mr. Ichido’s daughter is coming to the gala, the one who just came back from the states, maybe you can tour her around Tokyo before she goes back after a week”

‘I knew it’ he said to himself. Ever since he graduated from Todai and immediately got a job as a doctor at the University’s same hospital, Reiko thought she wouldn’t need to worry about her son anymore.

To what she thought that her son would settle down with a woman as successful as he is, she slowly grew worried each day her son doesn’t call her to tell her about a doctor or businesswoman he’s going to marry someday. So for a year now, she’s been trying to connect him with the women in the families they’re connected with so it can ease her anxiety at least.

But Mashima Taichi has been a stubborn bastard ever since he was born.

“Not interested,” he answered coldly and Reiko just had enough of him rejecting every prospect she’s practically thrown at him.

"And why not? Again! might I add"

'This is getting really old' he rubbed his temples trying to calm himself down thinking of another half-assed excuse of not being ready. She was not yet finished talking though.

"And here I thought I can leave you alone to your devices after you've made it as a successful doctor, I can't believe you're making me worry over something you're supposed to have done a long time ago. Up until now I feel as if you’re waiting for me to push you into things that are good for you"

Now Taichi had enough, it's one thing for her to be critical of him being the best but for her to basically call him a dependent idiot is another thing.

"Well haven't you considered that maybe I am dating someone already without your approval?!"

She was taken aback and a million thoughts ran through her head, 'When? How? Who is it? Has she met her before?' But before she could get a word in he ended the call.

"If that's all, good night mom"

After that exchange he went back to lying down on his couch when his phone rang again.

"What?!"

"Ah!" The voice on the other end was startled by his loud reply.

Chihaya nearly dropped her phone when Taichi answered it a little too loudly for her delicate ears.

“Is everything ok, Taichi? What happened?”

“Oh Chihaya, sorry about that” he sighed as he relaxed at her voice on the other end, expecting it to be from his mother.

“It’s fine but could you let me in? I’ve been knocking for the last few minutes and you weren’t answering. I even brought you Daddy Bear Ramen and Snowmaru Ice cream on the way here” she whined as she banged her fist on his apartment door one last time.

Taichi opened the door as he pocketed his phone, “Geez you really are still a kid sometimes, you know that?”

Ignoring his comment, Chihaya walked inside the apartment like she owns the place. Ever since she’s gotten the job as a teacher at Mizusawa High last year, right after getting the Queen title, she’s been in and out of his place because, (a) it's the closest place she can stay at after late nights training at the society and (b) Taichi can drive her to school the next day.

He locked the door behind him as he went to the kitchen where Chihaya most definitely headed to.

Sure enough she’s already filled the instant ramen with hot water and is putting the ice cream in his mini fridge.

“So what crazy limited edition food did you manage to grab this time?” he asked while opening his share of the ramen, looking at the silly Daddy Bear artwork plastered on it.

“If you must know, I found these two at the very back of the shelf at the nearby konbini” she gestured to the two cups of ramen on the table “Can you believe how lucky I was!”

At that instant, Taichi checked the label on the cup to make sure it wasn’t expired. “Thank god you actually checked the labels this time before buying”

“Hey! That was one time ok” she retorted.

“Yeah sure it is” he teased as he took in a mouthful of noodles.

“Keep talking like that and I won’t let you near my Snowmaru Vanilla Ice Cream!” she pointed with her chopsticks.

“Which you stored in MY freezer?”

Chihaya groaned and grumpily ate her ramen.

The rest of their dinner went by as usual, Chihaya telling him how the karuta club they started has been doing so far under her care, her school day activities, and how her training at the Shiranami Society went that night.

Taichi almost forgot about his altercation with his mother that early evening until Chihaya brought up a topic that he’s not particularly fond of but listens to anyway.

“I can’t believe she tricked me into another blind date! I was excited to see her new commercial at the mall when she actually invited me into a double date” she said, a little bit frustrated and exhausted.

Ever since she became Queen last year, she’s been the center of attention of some men in the karuta community and even those outside of it. Her sister, Chitose, then saw an opportunity to play matchmaker with her sister so she can see her have a relationship outside of karuta.

And Mashima Taichi was both scared and relieved. Scared to see Chihaya having a relationship with another person and relieved to see her mature enough to finally fully understand what romantic gestures and relationships are.

It is no secret that Taichi always bore feelings for Chihaya, everyone at Shiranami knows, all their friends from their karuta club knows, Wataya Arata knows, his sister knows, except Chihaya.

“At this point, I might just fake date with the next person she throws at me to get it over with” she half-joked while taking another scoop of her ice cream. “Then everybody is happy, right?”

He inwardly panicked, even a fake relationship is risky, especially for someone like her. They might take advantage of her and they don’t know her like he does. It's not like they can keep up with her antics and airheadedness.

Without even thinking he blurted out, “Just pretend you’re dating me then”

Chihaya stopped midway with her scoop of ice cream, and looked like she’s processing what Taichi just said.

She was silent for a while and he realized what he just said, and just as he was about to brush it off as a joke she slammed her hands on the table a little too hard it shook and spilled the melted contents of her small bowl.

“Taichi! You are a genius!”

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NEXT CHAPTER

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First Chihayafuru fic, hehe... uploaded to both AO3 and FFNet, based on a random fake dating prompt I saw and I was instantly thinking “Taichihaya” so yeah here ya goo

[teannamon]

The Black Cat and the Princess (ML Fic) 6

Cover art by deryuj :>

[ Family Switch AU ]  Marinette’s the only child of fashion icon Gabriel Agreste, and Adrien is the adopted child of Sabine and Tom Dupain-Cheng, two of the best bakers in Paris. What happens when their paths meet?

↫ Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Adrien gets a visit from Marinette at the bakery.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Adrien groaned as he turned off his alarm. He was tired from last night’s party, not because of the party itself but because he spent most of his energy trying to calm down a drunk Alya from participating in another “Alcohol or Awful” drinking game. Ultimately, Nino decided to just take her home and he also decided to call it a night. At 3 am.

He rubbed his eyes and stretched to get ready for his weekend baking duties. Dropping down from his bed he grabbed a quick change of clothes and headed to the bathroom.

‘Not awful but not amazing either’ he thought to himself as he viewed his tired self in the mirror. After washing his face with cold water, he quickly changed into clean clothes. That’s when he noticed something missing from the hamper.

His favorite cardigan.

“Did I leave it at the party?” he asked out loud while double checking the hamper, but he remembered Marinette. Seeing her shiver from the gym clothes she changed into prompted him to lend her his cardigan so she would at least feel better from whatever happened to her.

“I’ll see her at school anyways, at least she’ll get home in better conditions” he said to no one in particular as he opened the trapdoor to head downstairs.

Sabine already prepared him a meal for him at the counter-three pieces of croissants, omelet, and a cup of coffee. She waited for him all night, so she knows how tired he must’ve been.

“Good morning dear, eat up so you can help your father downstairs” she greeted while taking a sip of her tea. Adrien gave her a kiss on the cheek as he sat down to eat, “Thanks mom”

“No problem hun, drunk Alya again?” she asked and Adrien chuckled while stuffing the bread into his mouth.

“You know it” he said after swallowing. He was enjoying his meal and almost choked when he heard his mother’s next question.

“Speaking of Alya, she mentioned you’re seeing a girl named Marinette is it?”

“N-no,” he sputtered out “Well technically I see her everyday because miraculously our schedules are almost identical, but she’s just a friend I swear Alya is just-and why are you laughing?”

His mom covered her mouth to stop her from laughing too loud but eventually calmed down, “You’re cute when you’re defensive, and Alya didn’t tell me anything. Actually, Marinette is at the bakery downstairs, said she wanted to bring back something for you”

She gave him a wink as she said, “I bet your father is already talking to her”

“What?!” the blonde boy ate his breakfast with much speed so he could head downstairs.

Meanwhile, Marinette and Tom were making small talk while he set the pastries on the display cases. She was in awe at the wonderful smell of fresh morning pastry, she made note to come here every morning that she can.

“I hear Alya mention your name a lot whenever she comes here, I’m guessing you’re that young designer she’s very fond of”

Said designer smiled sheepishly, “I guess you can say that. She has a lot of my outfits to say the least, and I’m glad we’re friends now”

Tom hummed in response before offering her a red velvet cupcake, “That’s great to hear, here’s a cupcake for making you wait long. Free of charge”

“Oh! that’s so nice of you, sir. It’s no bother though, I didn’t mind waiting”

“Even so, please take it. I’m sure one cupcake won’t hurt”

She happily took the cupcake and took a small bite, she was delighted by the taste “This is very delicious!” she exclaimed.

“I’m glad you like it; this is Adrien’s specialty” he gave her a knowing look she didn’t quite catch on as she’s too invested in the cupcake.

Another mental note-ask them to cater one of her future parties.

Just then Adrien burst in through the door that leads to the bakery.

“Good morning, Adrien” he greets with a large smile. Marinette peeks around the display case on the counter obstructing her view to see the person who he came here for.

“Hi Adrien” she waves with her cupcake in hand.

“Good morning dad, Marinette” he greeted back, sounding a bit out of breath.

He puts on an apron before taking his post behind the counter. At that moment his father conveniently ran out of cookies to put on display.

“Ah would you look at that, I’m all out” he said all too cheerfully and left for the kitchen door in quick strides “I’ll leave you two here then. Alone. Together”

Adrien internally facepalmed, ‘Not being subtle at all, dad’ and with that Tom closed the door behind him and as he said, leaving the two alone together.

He turned back to face Marinette who had no idea what just transpired as she just finished her cupcake. He noticed the custom cupcake liner he always used for his own cupcake recipe so he cheerfully told her, “That’s my special cupcake, what do you think? It’s a Crowd Favorite”

“It tastes amazing! I love the mix of dark chocolate and strawberry” she excitedly told him, “oh and the marshmallow frosting is such a cool idea. Does it have a name?”

Adrien resisted a chuckle, “I told you it’s a Crowd Favorite”

She rolled her eyes, “Well yeah, I meant special recipes have names right?”

He pointed his thumb towards the display case lined with his special cupcakes under the tag “Crowd Favorite”. This made Marinette groan but then chuckled after “Oh my gosh, you really are such a dork”

The blonde laughed with her and shrugged, “Well what can I say, I really am adorkable” repeating his statement last night, which reminded him.

“Anyway, I forgot to ask how you were since last night?”

“I got home safely thankfully, and speaking of” she reached down and placed a paper bag on the counter “you really didn’t need to lend me your cardigan you know but I do appreciate the gesture”

She smiled sweetly and Adrien couldn’t help but feel flustered as he recalled how close they were when he mindlessly carried her on the way out. He rubbed the back of his neck as he took the paper bag and placed it under the counter.

Just then the bell chimed and Adrien instinctively greeted whoever entered the bakery, “Good morning, how can I help you today?”

The blunette moved a little to the side to give way for the customer to approach the counter. She was wondering where the customer was until she looked down and saw a short old man wearing a red Hawaiian shirt. 

“Hello Mr Wang, the usual?” Adrien asked with such familiarity. The old man nodded and smiled. As Adrien turned around to pack up his orders the old man, Mr Wang, turned to the female visitor who busied herself looking at the other pastries on display.

“Here you go, I added an extra cinnamon roll from the burnt pile as well” Adrien handed him a small box of pastries and took his payment. 

“Thank you, Adrien. See you again tomorrow” Mr Wang took one last glance at Marinette as he left. The bell chimed as the door closed behind him.

Sensing that the day would get busier as time went on Marinette decided to say her goodbyes and leave. She approached the counter to face Adrien.

“Well, I guess I should go too since I already did what I came here to do but I’d love to come visit the bakery again” 

“No problem, Marinette. See you tomorrow at school” he waved as she left the bakery.

As soon as she left he turned to the kitchen door to see both his parents peeking through the small window obviously spying on their adorable son and his equally adorable female classmate.

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“Are you done with your errands?” Gabriel asked her daughter thru the phone.

Marinette rolled her eyes, “Yes father, we’re en route to the mall like you said”

Another event that she’s obligated to attend being the secondary face of the Agreste brand. That, and she needs to make up for her mishap last night.

“Good, and don’t forget to fix how you look all the time. I wouldn’t want to go through all the trouble of trying to get rid of unpleasant images of you uploaded to the net for everyone to see”

“Noted” she snapped as the call ended. She sighed and sank to her seat as they drove thru the city.

Last Night…

Chloe’s limo stopped in front of the Agreste mansion’s gate. Gabriel Agreste was already waiting for Marinette as soon as he got his daughter’s call.

“Ugh this won’t be good” she groaned and Chloe looked at her friend sympathetically.

The blonde patted her back, “Hey Mari, at least you had fun. Whatever your dad will tell you now shouldn’t take that away”

Marinette smiled at Chloe, she really was thankful for her. No matter how shallow and self-centered she might be at times she really does understand her and comes through when times get hard. 

“Thanks Chloe, see you on Monday” she said as she was about to leave.

She stood next to Gabriel as the limo left. 

He looked at her current get-up, “Those were not the clothes you left with tonight”

She looked down and wrapped the cardigan around her tighter, “Yes, I know. Can we get inside and I’ll explain everything”

He didn’t say a word but both of them went inside the mansion. As soon as they stepped foot inside he looked at her for an explanation.

Taking a deep breath she told him how she got soaked in juice, had a senior let her borrow gym clothes from a schoolmate, and Adrien letting her borrow his cardigan. 

She chose to withhold some information like the blackmail from Lila or when Adrien walked in on her underwear. If Gabriel knew about those details she’s more worried about what her father is going to do to them than her.

‘He’s quiet again, what now?’ she wondered, her anxiety growing more and more each second he’s not saying anything.

He sighed, “Well it can’t be helped since you’re at a disorganized and rowdy event. Next time limit your attendance to those unless it's necessary”

“Y-yeah, of course” 

“Goodnight, Marinette”

“Goodnight, father” she mumbled as they parted ways towards their own rooms.

She flops into the bed feeling frustrated at… well, she doesn’t know exactly.

Maybe Lila, for ruining her night and her outfit or her father for not even asking if she was okay throughout the whole night’s ordeal. Either way, she’s frustrated as hell.

‘Deep breaths Mari, deep breaths’ she reminded herself and she calmed herself down after a few seconds. 

“Like Chloe said, I had fun tonight despite what happened” she told herself as she recalled the people she met that night, the live student band, the crazy games she got to witness, and her new friends.

She never would’ve guessed that Adrien would have the guts to carry her all the way outside though. Somehow that was the most memorable event of that night for her, she pondered as she fiddled with the cardigan of his. 

As she took it off she noticed something written on the tag, ‘Adrien’s favorite cardigan DO NOT TOUCH’

“He really is a dork,” she giggled.

Marinette (wearing Adrien’s cardigan) being carried by Adrien in Chapter 5

art by @deryuj​

↬ Chapter 7 (tba) ↬ AO3 Link

Its been almost a year since I last updated this but I hope you guys can forgive me QwQ... I’ll be updating this story more often though since college stuff is all done (and by done I meant holding it off til next year lmao)

But rest assured updates will be more frequent from now on, maybe every 3days or every week hehe

✦ Tag List : @conquering-medians​

[teannamon]

The Black Cat and the Princess (ML Fic) 4

Marinette Agreste (outfit mentioned in Chapter 2) and Gabriel Agreste

Tom and Sabine Dupain-Cheng with their adopted son, Adrien Dupain-Cheng

Art by the lovely and talented @deryuj​ tysm :>

[ Family Switch AU ]  Marinette’s the only child of fashion icon Gabriel Agreste, and Adrien is the adopted child of Sabine and Tom Dupain-Cheng, two of the best bakers in Paris. What happens when their paths meet?

↫ Chapter 3

Chapter 4 :  The weekend is here and Marinette has been invited to a gathering.

Nathalie entered the young designer’s room with the item she requested-a black belt with a silver buckle which is, of course, of the Gabriel brand.

“Marinette, here’s the belt you needed”

“Thanks Nathalie, you’re a lifesaver” she said as she placed the belt in the middle of her black skater dress. Nathalie nodded and was about to leave when Marinette stopped her.

“Yes? Is there something else you need?”

“Kinda?” She shrugged, “Can you tell me if this is appropriate for a Freshmen get-together?”

Marinette gestured to her outfit. A black skater dress with rose embroidery at the sides, a denim jacket, stockings and heeled boots.

The assistant looked her over with a straight face. Not thinking too deeply about her choice of clothing she replied, “I would think so, I wouldn’t say you’re overdressed, and your fashion choices aren’t questionable to say the least”

“Thanks, I guess” with that, Nathalie finally left the room.

As soon as she did, Marinette texted Chloe saying she’s ready. Not a second later, she received a reply that she will pick her up in five minutes.

Exactly five minutes later, Chloe’s limo stopped in front of the Agreste manor. Marinette walked out not even bothering to say goodbye to her father.

Why not? She already asked for permission and he gave her a strict curfew. Why is there a need to bother him if he already knows?

In the back of her mind however, she wishes that her father could at least show some semblance of a parent figure especially ever since her mother has gone missing. True that Gabriel has been a strict and cold man probably ever since he was born but Marinette won’t deny that her father was at least kinder and caring in his own subtle way when Emilie was still around, albeit she lives a much busier life as an actress-travelling to many locations for new movies, auditions and attending premieres.

“You’re doing that face. Alright what’s on your mind, Blunette? Talk to me” Chloe said with a huff, clearly noticing the way Marinette is sulking by the car window thinking about her father issues.

“It’s… nothing important” she sighed.

Her blonde friend sighed in annoyance but didn’t press any further, “Fine, have it your way. I’m no good with sappy and emotional talk anyways, they’re utterly ridiculous and unnecessary” she said in a joking tone.

Marinette chuckled, she sat up straight and decides to change the topic. She’s supposed to enjoy this night, her first party with people her age that doesn’t involve industry talk and acting like what a Gabriel representative would.

“So what is this party about? I have no idea what to do”

Chloe lit up at her question and talked enthusiastically, “Just stick with good old Chloe, aka The Party Queen, and its smooth sailing from there. Just imagine, me and you walking in that party looking fab as hell… we are the perfect BFF goals!” she squealed the last part and Marinette smiled at her enthusiasm, making her feel better ever since she left the house.

“You should’ve rebelled a long time ago against your old man, we could’ve dominated Collegé and Lycée together”

“Well I guess things changed after you know what happened,” she started but quickly diverted the topic again to stop the conversation being about her sad thoughts “but hey, I thought you had Sabrina helping you since Kindergarten”

“Well she decided to pursue her studies in Harvard or something, she is pretty smart but not charismatic at all to join me in taking over Francois Dupont. Bless you, Sabrina” Chloe joked.

“And what makes you think I’ll take over Lycée with you? For all you know, I’m here to take it over myself” Marinette scoffed. Chloe always had this idea of ‘taking over’ the school, and by that she means being in the highest position at the student council.

She comically gasped, “You wouldn’t!”

Marinette smirked and raised a brow, “Maybe I would”

“Oh puh-lease, you may be famous but I know you don’t know shit about managing a school body even if you win” Chloe waved a hand dismissively at her as they both laughed at their banter.

“We’re here, Ms. Bourgeois, Ms. Agreste” Jean said as he stopped the vehicle.

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Adrien, Nino, and Alya walked into the venue together and saw that the event has already started. The sophomores and seniors are already at their respective tables and booths. Nino and Alya already left towards the snack bar, more like Alya dragged Nino but it’s the same thing.

“I’ll see you around, just make sure Alya doesn’t get drunk again please” Adrien yelled to the couple. He looked around to see if he sees anyone he knows to hang out in the meantime. He spots Juleka and her girlfriend, Rose, tuning a guitar by the stage and decides to walk over and talk.

“Hi guys, long rhyme no see” he greeted, emphasis on the pun. Hearing that Juleka groaned and immediately knew who it was before turning around, “Hi Adrien”

“Hi Adrien! Do you want to play with Kitty Section for tonight? I finally learned how to play the keyboard but another one would be better” the blue-eyed blonde happily offered.

“I’ll see if there’s nothing else to do, I’m kind of looking forward to meeting other people first” he said as he looked towards the entrance where more and more people came in.

“Ok! We’ll be here when you change your mind. Juleka’s brother will be doing all the singing tonight though, just so you know” Rose said sweetly as she went back to helping Juleka tune her guitar. Adrien waved at them as he left to find other people to talk to, he spotted Kagami with the other sophomores hanging by the ‘Club Applications’ table set up near the entrance.

He already applied for Fencing at the start of enrolment, so he didn’t bother approaching the table until after the party. Adrien was about to walk around some more before the band starts playing when he caught a glimpse of Marinette walking in the building with Chloe.

Her outfit stood out a lot, it was simple yet alluring, Adrien thought.

He approached the pair. “Hi Marinette, Hi Chloe”

“Adrien,” Chloe just nodded as a greeting.

“Hi Adrien, how’s it going? I mean we always saw each other during class but how’s the party so far?”

“Band hasn’t started yet,” he pointed to the stage set-up behind him with him thumb “Alya and Nino started hogging the snacks, and if you want to apply to a club my friend Kagami is over there to help you join one” he pointed to the snack bar and the table where Kagami is respectively.

“Thanks for the heads-up, baker boy, I don’t want to see her pompous ass in my peripheral tonight” Chloe commented as she glared at Kagami’s direction.

“I don’t understand why you don’t like Kagami, Chloe. She’s cool”

“Hmph! That’s because you’re too nice to see how holier-than-thou and stuck up she is” she retorted with a huff.

“I can tell, that’s why I’m still nice to you after all these years” Adrien teased and Marinette stifled a laughter.

“Whatever,” she rolled her eyes but she’s obviously smiling at his clever clapback. She linked her arms with Marinette “c’mon Mari”

“Um actually, Chloe, I want to walk around myself if that’s fine” she unlinked her arms and stood in front of Chloe. As much as she enjoys her company, she wants to get to know other people in school. And as much as Chloe wanted to walk around the party with her very talented friend to show everyone how amazing she is, she understands that Marinette always wants to experience new things by herself.

“Fine fine, but we’re going out together ok?”

She nodded, “I’ll be fine, it’s not like I’ll be kidnapped in the middle of this party”

“Oh is that a challenge?” Adrien nudged her to which she playfully pushed him away.

“If you want to face the wrath of my father then feel free to try, Dupain-Cheng”

The blonde diva smiled at the sight and turned around, but not before reminding Adrien “Take care of her Adrien, if anything happens to her you will not hear the end of it”

“Yes madame” he said with a two-finger salute as she walked away to where the drinks are.

“Has anyone told you you’re such a dork?” she asked.

“What can I say, my face is adorkable” he winked at her as they started walking around aimlessly, just talking while walking.

“Yeah right, if I recall, I wanted to punch that face of yours in the first day” she said while hitting him lightly on the cheek.

They stopped exactly near the performing stage when the music started. Juleka’s brother, Luka, approached the mic as he played a tune with his guitar to catch everyone’s attention.

“Good evening freshmen!”

Majority of the crowd yelled enthusiastically and formed a crowd in front of the stage. The rest of the band started playing a catchy beat while Luka continued with the opening remarks.

“Enjoy this night, make some friends, drink responsibly and let’s rock n roll til dawn!” he raised his fist as the students cheered. Luka received a text in the middle of cheering and peeked at his phone, he went back to speaking, “and don’t forget to register for a club at the registry near the entrance. Just find the pretty lady with stone cold eyes named Kagami”

Luka winked at said lady’s direction as he started playing, “This first song is for you”. Kagami growled in annoyance as the students turned around to look at her. She turned her back to the band and focused on her phone instead.

The band started playing their first song and Marinette turned to Adrien, “What’s up with that? Is that senior dating your friend Kagami?”

Adrien scratched his chin in thought, “I… don’t know exactly, but it’s kind of a this and that relationship. I’m not even sure if they hate or like each other. Luka used to hate Kagami but now he just teases her a lot and Kagami is still Kagami to him”

“Seem like you know a lot about almost everyone here”

He shrugged, “Just the ones I knew back then, which is actually a lot since most of us promised to attend here for Lycée.”

She was intrigued, before she could ask him to introduce everyone he tapped her shoulder and pointed towards the band members performing on stage.

“I’ll tell you about everyone I know here, so this band is called ‘Kitty Section’” he said closely in her ear now so she can hear him as Luka started singing.

“Sounds cute”

“Just the name is cute, they mostly perform rock songs and guess what?”

“What?”

“That cutesy girl playing the keyboard,” he pointed to Rose and Marinette nodded and ‘uh-huh’.

“Her name is Rose Lavillant. She writes their original songs and she’s the lead singer, her voice is really something when she sings”

“Wow! That’s amazing!” she exclaimed in awe while taking out her phone to take pictures and record the band.

“That’s not all though…”

A good hour of walking around and introducing his old classmates and acquaintances to Marinette, they stumbled upon Nino and Alya still by the snack bar, talking to Lila.

Lila had their backs turned to them when Nino called out, “Hey Adrien and Mari-dude”

Alya grinned widely and waved at Marinette, “Hi Marinette! Nice outfit mind if I take a pic again?”

“Sure no prob” she posed then Alya took quick shots of her outfit to add to her blog. Alya has gotten over her fangirling on Marinette after talking and hanging out some time with her during classes and seeing her as a clumsy student like any other. Marinette and Alya were quick to become friends after that.

“Oh by the way, Lila was actually looking for you” she said after taking the pictures.

Lila turned around with a sweet smile and moved closer to the young fashion designer, “Hi Marinette, I really wanted to apologize for my attitude a few days ago. Alya told me about your situation and I totally feel for you” she dramatically placed a hand over her chest and the other on Marinette’s shoulder.

“You… do?” she suspiciously raised a brow at that. Lila’s apology didn’t make sense to her, she basically glared at her everytime they see each other. Marinette swears that she’s doing this for show and she should be careful.

“Yes!” she said rather abruptly “In fact I was talking to Alya about things I can do to make it up to you”

Said brunette piped in, “Yup and since Lila here knows a lot of people and has a lot of connections she can be your personal guide for the school year”

‘Oh hell no, I’m spending another minute with this crazy bitch alone much less a whole year!’

“What a nice offer Lila, but…”

“But what, Marinette?” Lila tilted her head looking slightly disappointed but Marinette felt her grip tighten on her shoulder like a silent threat.

“But,” she lifted Lila’s hand off her shoulder “I like to do things on my own and Adrien already introduced me to a good number of people for the past hour. I can handle my own”

She didn’t mean to brag to Lila about that fact but with the way she was trying to look like a saint in front Adrien and the others, gives Marinette a not-so-good gut feeling.

For a moment Lila’s eye twitched but quickly washed her annoyance off with a devious smile, “It’s no problem, but I do like to talk to you in private if possible”

She looked at Alya who’s giving them both a reassuring thumbs up. She was about to protest but she was the stranger here and clearly Lila has known them longer than she has so of course they’d side with her. Deciding to just let it go she agreed.

Alya nodded at Lila and grabbed Nino and Adrien with her to head to the dance floor.

“Ok, so what’s this nice girl act you’re pulling Lila?” Marinette gestured at her, clearly confused and suspicious. Lila, however, just snickered.

“Nice girl act? What are you insinuating Marinette? You barely even know me, for all you know I’m actually nice”

“I barely even know you, yet I can still smell your bs a mile away” Marinette retorted.

The brunette shook her head, “Tsk tsk tsk… You really have no idea now, do you?”

Lila got dangerously close to Marinette and hugged her tightly, Marinette choked on her breath.

“Stay away from Adrien or else I’ll turn every one of your new friends against you, and I mean everyone” she harshly whispered in her ear.

Marinette tried to wiggle out but Lila just hugged her tighter, “And get this, you won’t ever know what I’ll do or when I’ll do it. So. Better. Watch. Out.” She spat out the words and swiftly let go of Marinette.

She was stunned but she was not fazed, it’s not like she can do much these are all empty threats she convinced herself.

“Excuse me guys, punch refill coming through”

“Oops!” Marinette heard Lila say before she got drenched in something sweet and sticky. And she sees Lila walking away from her.

↬ Chapter 5 ↬ AO3 Link

I’ll be adding the Lukagami side of this story as a oneshot sometime later, I still need to proofread it. Anyways to anyone who’s reading my fics, tysm for reading these stories of mine you guys are the real MVPs ;> Mari’s outfit for this chapter is still being commissioned so I’ll reblog it with the art soon enough ~

[teannamon]

So for the prompt thing it would be awesome to read 97 Kagami/Marinette if u aren’t a fan of that ship than possibly felinette💕💕

Oml yes anon Kagaminette is a guilty pleasure of mine hshshshs

prompts here

“You know this voucher only works for couples, right?”

“And so, I can just ask Alya to come with me” Marinette scoffed at Chloe as the blonde handed her the glossy piece of paper.

“I think you’re forgetting that Nino also won the contest and I doubt he’s asking someone else but Alya” Chloe smirked.

The whole class had a ‘Chloe Facts Competition’ during the weekend held by Chloe, naturally, in return for a voucher that entitles a free Couple’s Night Buffet at Le Grand Paris. Being Ladybug gave her an upper hand-knowing things about Chloe from being ‘besties’ with her. She didn’t expect Nino to do his research though, so Chloe crowned them both winners.

Marinette groaned, “Can’t I just go on my own and eat twice?”

“No can do, Dupain-Cheng~” she said in a sing-song voice as she walked away “It’s called Couple’s Night for a reason”

Marinette was approached by a stone-cold Kagami in the locker room right after fencing practice. “I know you’re a clumsy girl Marinette, but even I know you’re better at fencing than you let on. Is this because Adrien is out for Fashion Week?”

“W-what no” she shook her head, waving her hands in front of her “I just have a bit of a dilemma that’s all” she answered vaguely.

“About what?” Kagami asked, now sitting down next to her.

She chuckled as she decided to open up to Kagami, “This” grabbing the voucher from her bag to show it to her. 

“I won it from a Chloe contest, but it’s strictly for couples so I couldn’t go without a partner.” then an idea hit her “Here, maybe you have someone you can ask to go with you. A girl as pretty as you could probably get anyone as a date for this than me”

The “Ice Queen” was taken aback from the subtle compliment as she unconsciously reached for the piece of paper. She looked at the item and she let out a small smile, “Maybe I could”. Marinette smiled and clasped her hands in delight, before she could congratulate her though Kagami took her hand and pulled her up to stand. 

“Will you be my date then, Marinette?”

“Eh?” was all she could sputter. She didn’t expect this, not at all. Kagami asking her out? “Are you sure? Ah-I mean I’m a horrible first choice to be honest”

Kagami frowned, she cupped Marinette’s face to make her face her “Don’t say that. You are a great girl Marinette, and like you said ‘a girl as pretty as me could get anyone as a date’ right? That includes you, so will you?”

Her cheeks heated up as Kagami repeated her words to her, she looked at Kagami’s piercing brown eyes. She gulped as she answered meekly, “Yeah I’d like that”

“Great, I’ll pick you up at 7″ she said as she left Marinette stunned in the locker room.

Bonus:

“Sorry Blunette, I told you this is couple’s night. I don’t even know how you got in”

“Actually she’s with me” Kagami glared at Chloe as she wraps a hand around Marinette’s waist.

“K-Kagami?!”

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Bless u anon for requesting this pair, I always loved this pair but never had an idea for a fic but here we are and I love it :>

requests are open indefinitely (I won’t be doing them as soon as I get them tho, just depends)

[teannamon]

Can you do 13 with Viperion and Marinette?

This is actually my first request but that Felinette prompt called out to me first lmao

prompts list

AU where Viperion, Chat Noir, and LB are chosen at the same time.

“What are you doing here?”

Tikki squeaked and flew back in Marinette’s purse just as she was about to transform. A familiar voice startled both of them and she turned around to see one of her superhero partners.

“Viperion?”

“What are you doing here?” he asked again, with more urgency this time.

“Ah I’m hiding from the akuma, I get really anxious when I’m hiding with crowds” she answered, hoping he would leave her and she can get back to transforming.

He looked around, and he can see Chat Noir distracting the akuma away from the bridge to a more open area. 

“Well this is a bad place for you to hide, you need to get somewhere safer”

“No problem, I’ll just g-LOOK OUT!” she grabbed Viperion by the arm and pulled him away from the akuma’s beam. 

“There you are you little snake!” the akuma cried out. Viperion expected the akuma to lunge at him so he braced himself but it went for Marinette instead.

“Ah! Let me go!” she cried out but the akuma was quick to trap her inside its cage-like body. “That’s what you get for flirting with my boyfriend!”

Without thinking, he flicked his bracelet to take him back minutes ago. 

“Second Chance!”

A bright light flashed and he’s back to talking to the pretty civilian hunched behind a pillar. 

“What are you doing here?” he asked but this time he didn’t waste any time carrying her inside an alleyway farther away from where they were, despite her incoherent protests.

Marinette was confused on why she’s being whisked away into an alleyway like a damsel in distress by Viperion. She heard his miraculous make a beep as he set her down. 

That’s when the akuma struck the area where she was a while ago. “Where are you, Marinette?!” the akuma cried out when she realized she wasn’t behind the pillar.

‘Did he use his Second Chance for me?’

“Please stay here, I think the akuma is fixated on you. Marinette is it?” he asked while he lead her deeper into the alleyway. 

“Y-yes,” she answered as she noticed his hand on hers guiding her “I only helped her boyfriend carry their basket to their picnic place and I guess she misunderstood”

“Well, it happens a lot. You’re a sweet girl, Marinette” 

Another beep.

“Thanks,” she blushed. She never noticed how sweet her partner was while being Ladybug because of the limited times they’ve interacted, so this was a whole new perspective on him.

‘Ladybug, oh right that’s me’ she shook her head from her thoughts and focused on the current situation at hand so she stopped walking, pulling back Viperion.

Another beep from Viperion’s miraculous.

“I’m good here, I think Chat Noir needs you. I appreciate you hiding me, Viperion”

He looked at his bracelet and to her, “Ah you’re right. Don’t worry, after Ladybug shows up and we finish off this akuma I’ll be sure to check up on you”

He places a gentle kiss on her knuckles as he lets go of her before running out to help Chat Noir fight off the akuma.

Marinette was flustered and rubbed the top of her hand where Viperion kissed them. Tikki flew out of her purse, “Ready when you are Marinette”

She shrieked and remembered that she’s supposed to be Ladybug right now, “Tikki, Spots on!”

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I loved this one cause we finally saw what Viperion can do and damn he hot sksksksks

Btw, what’s the ship name for Viperion x Marinette? Vipernette? Marion? ViperMari? MariViper???

Requests are still open, just depends when I can work on them so be patient :>

[teannamon]

I liked reading the number 48 Felinette one shot of yours! I was wondering if you could do number 6 Felinette? Thanks!

Thank you anon and I’m looking forward to some Felinette action in canon *wink* *wink* and I’m sorry if this request took a while but I hope you like it ^^

prompts list

“I know when you’re lying.”  

“Yeah, how’s that?” Felix raised a brow at the girl interrogating him.

“Your eye does that cute twitch thing” she said as she chuckled, pointing at the side of his eyes with her fork. 

“It does not” he denied, “and stop pointing with your fork, you might poke me with that and remember I have an interview for tomorrow with Adrien”

“See you did it again!” Marinette exclaimed as the fork got dangerously close to his eyes. He pushed the fork away from his face with a finger and Marinette sat back down to continue with her pasta.

“And if it does do that whenever I -quote unquote- lie” he gestures with airquotes, “does that mean the interview is a lie  when everyone in Paris and their mothers know it’s true?”

The girl pondered and eventually agreed. Somewhat.

“Yeah but you have to admit you do it a lot when you lie to me about not knowing where Adrien is, that’s why I assumed”

His eye twitched, “Is that why you asked me to lunch today? To interrogate me about Adrien”

“Well not exactly, I wanted to give these macaroons to both of you before the interview tomorrow since I can’t go to the studio and watch. One for you and one for Adrien” she handed out two boxes. One with Adrien’s name on it and one with Felix’s.

He grabbed the box with his name only and placed it on his bag, leaving Adrien’s on the table.

“What about Adrien’s?” she asked, a tinge of annoyance in her voice. His eye twitched again.

“Why don’t you give it to him then if you really like him that much” He scoffed as he retorted back.

“Oh my god, Felix!” she gasped and Felix looked at her, her face flushed while staring at him. 

“What?” he doesn’t seem to understand what she’s freaking out about. 

“A-are you jealous?” she asked softly, slightly hesitating at her words.

His mind went in hysterics. Jealous? Him? About what? Marinette? Adrien?

‘What a joke, Adrien is nothing compared to me. Marinette is better off with me than him anyways. Wait, what am I saying? Am I really-’ he looked at Marinette, before finishing that thought, with the cutest shade of pink on her cheeks, obviously panicking internally.

‘All this time I thought he’s twitching cause he’s lying but now that I think about it, he only does it whenever I bring up Adrien in our conversation. So does that mean he likes me? No way, right?’

She looks over to the person on the other side of the table and they make eye contact.

Felix was the first one to break the silence, “I’ll just go and take these to Adrien. See you around, Marinette”

He grabbed the box and with that he left the cafe, leaving Marinette still conflicted about this new information. 

A few years later

“Hi Felix, ready for lunch” Marinette greeted as she approached him by the lockers. 

A couple of guys passed by, “Hey Mari want to join us for lunch? It’s on us” one of them winked at her.

“Oh, I’m having lunch with Felix today sorry guys”

“No sweat” they waved as they walked out.

She smirked as she felt an arm around her shoulder, “Are you doing that thing again?”

“Yes” he sighed, defeated. 

She reached out to kiss him on the cheeks “You get jealous so easily, one day your eye might pop out”

“You know I can’t control it, it’s practically involuntary at this point that whenever someone shows interest in you my eye goes haywire”

“Of course you can” she pulled him lower to meet her face “Just think about it, no one else will get the privilege to get this close to me like this but you”

She placed a quick soft kiss on his lips to which he dipped his head for more. She’s right, but at the same time he thought she just proved his point further of him being possessive of her.

Of moments like this, with her.

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Whooo this is one that went many turns that I definitely enjoyed writing :3

I bet you all, we will be loads disappointed when they decide to make Felix not as pompous as we all thought of him to be lmao

[teannamon]

How about 48 Felinette?

prompts here

“I don’t want to be your partner either, but we have to get this done.”

Marinette looked at him with a dumbstruck face, “I didn’t even say anything”

“Oh so you’re not complaining that we’re the only boy and girl pair for this activity?” Felix crossed his arms looking obviously irritated.

“You’re the only one that’s making this weird,” Marinette poked him on his shoulder. She is kind of hurt that Alya chose to pair with Lila instead of her but it’s just a simple fitness test for PE so she didn’t make much of a fuss of it.

Same goes for Adrien. He’s paired with Nino, naturally and because of the unequal number of boys to girls she’s paired with Felix. 

She eyed her partner looking over the instruction paper.

“I can do these without assist, why in the world would I need a partner for the flexibility test?”

She groaned in frustration as she grabbed the piece of paper from him, “Because who else would observe and assist you for certain tests, let’s just get this over with”

Her eyes scanned the paper for the first test. “Push-ups” she said and she heard Felix scoff, “Easy” to which she rolled her eyes. 

For the rest of the period they took turns doing the tests and jotting down the results on the piece of paper.

“Ok for the last one, Sit-and-Reach” she read as she waited for Felix to position himself on the mat. His legs in a V-position as the meter stick was placed in between his legs for measurement.

“Just raise your hands like this,” she demonstrated “then stretch as far as you can”

He did as she showed him and stretched at a certain point to which Marinette wrote down. It’s her turn now, and she can see that they’re the only ones not yet done so she looked up at Felix, “You can go on if you want, I can get this done without a partner” she smirked as she reused his words a while ago.

Felix huffed at her choice of words but left towards the others, leaving Marinette doing the test on her own.

Looking at Felix doing it without assist looked like it was easy but she’s actually having a hard time keeping her knees in place, so she kept on redoing the test until she can stop bending her knees.

She was about to give up and just write an approximation when she felt a hand on her bare thighs. Marinette sat straight up to see Felix next to her, his hands moved down her ankles to keep her knees from bending.

“The bell rang a minute ago, let’s just get this over with”

“O-okay” she nodded as she performed the test, trying to shy her mind away from the fact he came back to assist her. Maybe he’s not so bad as a partner, she thought.

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I enjoyed writing this cause a) I love sassy Marinette b) I love stone-cold ‘too cool for everyone’ Felix c) this was a perfect prompt for them.

Requests are still open btw :>

[teannamon]

The Black Cat and the Princess (ML Fic) 5

Cover art by deryuj :>

[ Family Switch AU ]  Marinette’s the only child of fashion icon Gabriel Agreste, and Adrien is the adopted child of Sabine and Tom Dupain-Cheng, two of the best bakers in Paris. What happens when their paths meet?

↫ Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Marinette got into an "accident". Kagami and Adrien come to the rescue.

“Good thing this container is plastic” the buff person, who Marinette knew as Kim from the earlier introductions, picked up the big plastic bowl from the floor with a third of its contents still inside.

She has been drenched in, she assumes, orange punch based on the smell. Kim stands up and notices Marinette, dripping with orange punch. The spill was directly aimed at her so she was wet from her shoulders down.

“Oh damn, I’m so sorry Marinette. I think I tripped on something on the way here”

“It’s fine, Kim” she said rather coldly. She wasn’t mad at Kim; she knows exactly what tripped him and damn her for not paying attention. Her stockings and jacket are starting to itch on her skin now so she took off her jacket first while walking to somewhere more isolated. “I’ll just…go”

“What did you do to the punch, freshman?!” a loud female voice boomed through the loud music. Marinette figured she didn’t need to be there so she didn’t bother to turn around to see and kept going to the bathroom.

“It was an accident ok, chill… I’ll have it covered with rags later so no one else can get into an accident like her” he pointed to Marinette making her way awkwardly to the bathroom.

“I want it done now, freshman, you’re lucky most of the people are dancing”

“Alright, alright… Also, I have a name you know it’s Ki-hey where are you going?!”

“To check on the damage” she replied coolly as she left Kim to take care of the spillage by the table.

Marinette entered the bathroom just as two other girls left. They didn’t seem to notice the state of Marinette’s outfit or they didn’t care, either way she was grateful for it.

She dropped her jacket by the counter and entered one of the stalls to take off her stockings. Apparently even her shoes weren’t safe from the punch incident so she took those off too.

‘What am I going to do with the rest now?’ she looked at her dress, because of its color it’s unnoticeable that it’s wet but the front part is soaked with and smells of orange punch, not to mention her body is uncomfortably itchy now.

‘I’ll just go home, no use enjoying the party in wet and itchy clothes no matter how branded it is’ she left the stall barefoot with her shoes in one hand to grab her phone from her jacket she left on the counter. Just then, someone opened the bathroom door to which Marinette jumped in surprise.

“You” the person approached her. It was Kagami from the booth, Marinette recognized. She pointed to herself, not really getting what Kagami is implying, “Me?”

“Are you the girl who got drenched in punch or are you just doing laundry in the bathroom?”

“Uhm I-”

“That was a rhetorical question” Kagami cuts off before Marinette could answer. She eyes her up and down, which makes Marinette really uncomfortable. The need to leave the vicinity was stronger than ever.

“Is your undershirt soaked?”

The blunette fidgeted, “The thing is, I’m not wearing any. Look, I can just call my driver and I can go back home without causing too much trouble” she gestured to her phone, still in her jacket’s pocket.

“Look, freshman… I may not be the kindest person here but I would know how uncomfortable walking barefoot in juice soaked clothes is. So just follow my lead and let me help you before you go waltzing out of here, understand?” her tone is one that sounds like a command you don’t want to say no to, so naturally the poor girl nodded in agreement.

“Good, now get into one of these stalls and take off your dress.” She said while wetting her handkerchief in the faucet then squeezing out the excess water out of it. Meanwhile, Marinette did as she was told.

She actually felt relieved once the sticky clothes left her skin even though she’s been reduced to her underwear, and still has some lingering stickiness in her skin.

“Here, you can wipe off your body with this” Marinette looked up the stall to see Kagami’s hand holding out her damp handkerchief.

“T-thanks” she stammered as she reached out for the item.

“Stay here, freshman, I’ll be right back”

“I have a name you know, It’s Mar-aand she’s gone” she said as she heard the main bathroom door closed. She looked at the damp handkerchief before finally wiping the sticky substance off her body.

It only took a few minutes and she finally felt like her body can breathe. Kagami still hasn’t returned though and she’s feeling awfully lonely in the bathroom. Her phone is still at her jacket that’s still at the counter.

‘Should I get go out and get it? I really need to text Chloe, right now. It’s not like anyone’s gonna enter, it’s been quiet for five minutes in here’ she thought as she left the stall in her underwear.

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“Alya, no” Adrien protested.

“Alya, yes” the brunette mocked as she gulped the unknown substance. The small crowd gasped as her face grimaced, “Ew it was vinegar!”

“I told you so, and did you listen? No” it was Adrien’s turn to tease his friend as Nino gave her a cup of water to wash down the awful taste. He gave the couple two thumbs up as Nino took Alya by her arm and led her to the bar stool.

Seeing them together made him remember about Marinette and how she’s sort of his responsibility. ‘If Chloe asks me where she is and I don’t know, I’m dead’

“Hey Dupain-Cheng, where’s Marinette?”

‘Speak of the devil’ he cursed himself for speaking too soon. He turned around to see Chloe with a red stain on her grey blouse, and he can only guess why she’s looking for her so early.

“I’m gonna go see her now, actually. Lila just wanted to talk to her in private”

“It’s fine, it’s fine. Just tell her that I’ll wait for her in the car cause some idiot spilled my cherry wine while dancing” she flared as she walked towards the exit.

“O-kay?” he waved at her confused. After all these years, he still couldn’t understand Chloe’s personality. Sometimes she’s reasonable and logical, most of the times she complains about the smallest things.

‘Back to Marinette then’ he turned around but was met with Lila’s smiling face. The music turned into a slow dance and she stepped forward, “Do you wanna dance?” she asked but before he can say ‘no’ or ‘yes’ for that matter she already draped her arms around his neck and pulled him close to sway to the music.

He didn’t mind dancing with Lila but right now, his priority is Marinette. ‘Wait, if Lila is here’

“I thought you and Marinette were talking?” he asked as Lila rested her head on his chest lovingly.

“She just had more important things to do, I don’t know where she went. She didn’t even let me finish what I was telling her, I didn’t know she was so rude” she lied.

“Maybe it was something important” he suggested.

Just then someone bumped into them causing Lila to let go of her grip on Adrien and fell on the floor.

“Hey what gives!”

“Watch it with the moves, freshman!” the person who bumped into them yelled.

“Kagami?” Adrien called out, he noticed her holding a set of gym clothes. “What’s that for?”

She turned around “Oh Adrien, yeah your new designer friend just got a whole bowl of punch spilled on her. Pretty bad situation if you ask me”

His face turned into deep worry, “Where is she now? Is she ok?”

In the middle of this, Lila gritted her teeth. Adrien didn’t even help her get up and now he’s worrying over a girl he just met for a week! She’s been classmates with him for 2 years now, and she even pulled some strings to make sure she would have at least the same classes as him but he still only saw her as a close acquaintance (friends if you squint hard enough).

“She’s fine, I just need to bring her these gym clothes I asked from Luka’s sister and it’s all good from there”

“Kagami, I need you backstage right now”

She turned around looking annoyed, “Can’t it wait, Luka?”

“Nope” the guy answered casually. She rolled her eyes and sighed, “Fine just give me a minute”

Luka winked as she patted her shoulder, “Thanks”

Kagami shoved the clothes into Adrien’s hands, “She’s at the bathroom, give these to her and tell her to give them back to me” and with that she left.

Adrien nodded and took off to the direction of the bathroom, completely forgetting about Lila, not even saying goodbye. Lila groaned in frustration and walked somewhere to cool off, she’ll deal with the Marinette situation sooner or later she thought.

Without skipping a beat Adrien opened the bathroom door, only to see Marinette standing wearing nothing but her underwear her phone in her hand.

It took both of them a silent minute to realize the situation at hand, then they simultaneously reacted. Marinette shrieking while covering herself with her hands and Adrien closing the door behind him, still clutching the gym clothes. Both of them blushing.

Adrien was the first one to calm down so he opened the door just a crack to talk to her, “I’m sorry, I just came here to bring you the clothes you can change into” he extended his hands inside to hand her the clothing.

Marinette was still too embarrassed to respond but moved closer to the door. “T-thanks, Adrien” she grabbed the clothes and she has never changed so quickly in her life up until now.

She sucked in a deep breath and breathed out, “I’m ok now you can come in if you want so it wouldn’t be weird talking through a door”

He opened the door and went inside the bathroom to see her now clothed in Juleka’s gym clothes. She walked around the bathroom to grab all her stuff, once she had them all she placed them in a neat pile on the counter.

The outfit was a bit tight on Marinette and Adrien couldn’t help but admire her form. It seems that she takes care of her body extensively. She looked at him to say something and he averted his eyes quickly to hide the fact he was checking her out.

“I’m sorry you had to bring my clothes instead of enjoying the party, I may not know what a teenage party is but I do know its not ‘hanging out in the bathroom with a messy Marinette’” she joked, the previous embarrassment dwindling down.

“It was nothing, I am supposed to be your adorkable guide for tonight” he said with a curt bow to which Marinette chuckled.

“Well, thanks again. I feel bad for asking Chloe to leave early”

“About that, she kinda had the same problem as you so she told me she’s waiting for you at the car. And now that I think about it, that’s an understatement considering you had to take off your whole outfit”

“Let me guess, a stain on her blouse?”

“Exactly” he answered and both of them laughed. Marinette decided it was a good time to go so she grabbed her damp clothes and wet shoes from the floor.

“I guess, I’ll go then.”

“No wait” Adrien took off his cardigan and draped it over Marinette “It’s going to be cold out”

The cardigan went past the shorts she was wearing so it actually warmed her as soon as she was wrapped in it. The two of them walked out and luckily most of the people are either drinking, dancing or leaving at this point. He saw Alya and Nino dancing and he noted it when he comes back.

The blunette was about to walk into the crowd to get to the exit when Adrien pulled her back by the shoulders. “There’s a side door here you can walk out to instead” he pointed at a small hallway behind him.

“Oh, thank god, I was worried I’m gonna trip somewhere in the crowd and drop everything” she gestured to her stuff and that was the only time Adrien noticed she was actually barefoot.

He thought of giving her his shoes to walk out but he realized that it was unsanitary, so he applied the second-best method of not letting her walk out barefoot. Carrying her.

“Let me” he said as he bent down to pick her up.

“What are you-ah! Put me down, I can walk you know” she protested as she held her things tighter with her hand and the other clutching on his shoulder lest she fall.

“I know that but as a damsel in distress with no shoes to walk in, its my noble duty to guide you” he said with a cheeky grin as he walked her out in his arms and Marinette’s cheeks heat up at the sweet gesture.

“Dork” she mumbled under her breath.

Adrien spotted Chloe’s limo and walked towards it. Chloe must’ve spotted them from far away cause she opened the door urging him to hurry up with her friend.

He set her down the car seat and she thanked him. Ignoring Adrien, Chloe bombarded Marinette with questions so she just smiled and waved goodbye at Adrien as the car doors automatically closed and started moving.

She wrapped the cardigan tighter around her and thought about how she would explain her appearance to her father when she gets home.

↬ Chapter 6 ↬ AO3 Link

I will dedicate this chapter to this beautiful fanart by Luminous_Lilypad on reddit (link here to see their other amazing artworks too). Its their rendition of Mari's party outfit and its adorable :>

I will publish spinoffs after this fic is done. Already plan on The Black Cat and the Princess as told by Chloe and through Lukagami (titles subject to change, feel free to suggest)

Also, I’m adding a taglist for tumblr readers who dont want to follow me but want to follow the story :>

✦ Tag List : @conquering-median

[teannamon]

The Black Cat and the Princess (ML Fic)

[ Family Switch AU ] Marinette’s the only child of fashion icon Gabriel Agreste, and Adrien is the adopted child of Sabine and Tom Dupain-Cheng, two of the best bakers in Paris. What happens when their paths meet? 

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The story will somewhat follow the flow of the canon episodes Also a more tolerable Chloe, if that makes you uncomfortable (somehow) then eh… up to you

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“For the last time, Marinette, no is no and that is my final decision”

“Well for the last time as well, my decision is final. I will attend Lycée with Chloe like a normal 16-year old”

The older man sighed and stopped illustrating to look at his daughter standing in front of his work desk, a determined look in her face. He raised a brow, “And how do you suppose you will do that when you need me, your parent, to enroll you?”

His daughter scoffed like the answer is quite obvious, “I can enroll myself you know, and Chloe says I can apply for a scholarship under her father if you’re really that insistent on me not attending. I refuse to be homeschooled, 9 years of that is enough for me”

Gabriel let out a long and deep sigh as he returned to illustrating, not saying anything. Marinette’s confidence started to wind down as her father stayed quiet. Something she hates more than him talking her ear off for how she should or shouldn’t do things because at least when he’s talking she knows what he’s thinking and it doesn’t add to her anxiety.

“W-well, anyways I’m off to my room to prepare my uh, things for next week” she managed to say as she quickly turned to leave the room.

“Marinette,” her father said flatly and she stopped in her tracks, once again facing Gabriel.

“Y-yes?”

“Nathalie will enroll you tomorrow under the scholarship of Mayor Bourgeois to ensure that you actually intend to learn and not just mingle. The Gorilla will drive you to and from the school and anywhere you may go as long as I know beforehand. Understood?”

Marinette blinked. Once. Twice. She feels…happy? Relieved? Amazed? She doesn’t know. The last time he granted her what she wanted that he didn’t approve of was when she wanted to cut her hair short and color it blue because the way she styled it then was that she looked like Chloe when seen from behind. That was 5 years ago.

Realizing that her father was looking at her expectantly from his work desk and that she’s been standing still for a solid minute she shook her head from the initial shock and let out a genuine smile.

“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” she hugged Gabriel in excitement then left the room to prepare for next week, now in high spirits, and inform her only friend.

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“Adrien! Adrien!”

“Yes mom?” the blonde boy shouted back as he paused his game.

“Your friends are here, hun” and with that he turned around to open his hatch and was quickly met in a tackle.

“Nino! Seriously, one of these days you’re gonna break my everything, and then I can’t help around the bakery, and then you’ll have to stay here and do everything for me, is that what you want?”

His best friend laughed and got up while picking up his cap, “Chill dude, I just want to show you how excited I am for next week. Speaking of, have you gotten your schedule already?”

As he asked, Nino opened Adrien’s computer to open his best friend’s email, to which Adrien didn’t mind. He got up and dusted his outfit while rubbing his elbows that hit the floor harder than any part of his body during the tackle.

“Yo! what’s up A, your mom told me to bring these up” a voice caught both boys attention back to the hatch to see their journalist friend, Alya bringing up a tray of croissants and cookies.

“Hey Alya, good to see you too” Adrien greeted as she approached the desk and placed the tray of sweets next to the computer Nino was focused on.

“So, what’s pretty boy’s schedule?” she asked, directing the question to her boyfriend who’s opening up his emails.

Nino opened the email he was looking for with an audible ‘aha’ and now the three are looking at Adrien’s schedule.

“Well, at least we have lunch at the same time. Oh! and we’re in the same Physics class, this class will be a breeze” Alya excitedly gestures and Adrien groans.

“Please don’t make me do your worksheets, this isn’t secondary anymore it’s harder in Lycée”

Alya waved her hand dismissively, “No worries, just expect me to be your partner in every groupwork”

“Yay” Adrien replied sarcastically, while raising a fist limply.

“Hey if its any consolation to my girlfriend’s piggybacking, I’ll totally be the most helpful History partner” Nino offered to the blonde to which he glared at the giggling couple.

The rest of the day was spent planning their hangout schedules and their speculations on who the surprise famous student that Chloe was referring to in her latest tweet.

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Knock! Knock!

Marinette was startled by the sudden sound and dropped the clothes she was holding in front of her.

“It’s Nathalie, I need to ask a few questions” the voice said from the other door.

“Come in, Nathalie” she said as she picked up the clothes she dropped and placed it in the neater pile next to the mirror. The door clicked but did not open. ‘Oh yeah, I locked it cause I was trying out clothes’

“Hold on, I’ll open it!” in a rush to open the door and not keep her father’s (and hers too but she doesn’t want to think about her that way) assistant waiting too long, she tripped on the pile of clothes. Twice.

Once she managed to untangle herself from her own clothes she seemingly tripped on so easily, the door opened and Nathalie, with her serious face as usual nodded before walking in.

“What is it you wanna ask?”

Nathalie faced her and tapped on a few things on her tablet before talking to her again, “It seems that you have one more elective to choose to complete your schedule”.

Marinette stood beside her as she showed her the list of electives she can choose from. She saw that the Fashion elective has already been chosen-probably chosen by her father, she thought, not that she’s complaining.

“I guess I’ll take Arts” she decided, and Nathalie nodded as she entered Arts into her schedule. Before the assistant left, she turned around as she remembered something. “The scholarship for Mayor Bourgeois, requires you to have at least a grade of 15 or higher in all of your subjects”

“U-understood” she stammered in response as Nathalie left her room and closed the door. The blunette let out a sigh as she returned to her pile of clothes now strewn about because of her tripping incident just a few minutes ago.

‘I need to practice not tripping on everything once I’m school’ she teased herself.

Next Chapter: Marinette trips. Chloe shows off her very talented and famous friend. Misunderstandings ensue. Adrien gets an unexpected gift after class.

↬ Chapter 2 

↬ AO3 Link

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Endnote: I only have a general direction for this story not a detailed one so expect some not-so-expert writing on my part, and I’ll probably revise them when I’m older and wiser. Also, feel free to correct me on some blatant inaccuracies cause I am not an expert with everything I may write.

And being the non-French that I am, I based the education system and curriculum loosely in general terms and how it’s done in my university so yeah there’s that to keep in mind.

Anywho, feel free to hmu for fanfic suggestions, questions, or to just yell at my mistakes lmao

[teannamon]

The Black Cat and the Princess (ML Fic) 2

[ Family Switch AU ]  Marinette’s the only child of fashion icon Gabriel Agreste, and Adrien is the adopted child of Sabine and Tom Dupain-Cheng, two of the best bakers in Paris. What happens when their paths meet? 

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Marinette trips. Chloe shows off her very talented and famous friend. Misunderstandings ensue. Adrien gets an unexpected gift after class.

Marinette nervously fidgeted with her skirt as her father took a look at her outfit. He asked her to see him before leaving to make sure that she’s dressed appropriately, aka make sure she’s representing his brand properly.

“I believe you’re well-dressed enough to leave. Is that skirt another one of your creations?” he asked while gesturing to the skirt patterned with butterflies made from lace at its hem. She nodded in response.

“Good work, is that for personal or do you plan on adding it to another collection?”

She shook her head, “I don’t plan on making any collections anytime soon since I want to focus on school first, Father”.

Gabriel sighed and muttered “What a shame, at least when you were homeschooled you had a laidback schedule”.

As soon as she heard it, she huffed in annoyance, ‘I can’t believe he’s still at it, it’s already a week since I enrolled’.

Her father stood up, “I’ll see you out”.

With that she followed suit while putting her bag back on. He only saw her out til the front door and quickly said their goodbyes. Her driver/bodyguard is already waiting inside the car and Nathalie opened the car door for her.

She thanked the woman as both of them entered the car. Marinette is nervous to say the least, sure she’s always wanted to attend a public school but she has no idea what studying with other people would be or how she should act, and adding the fact that she’s actually a ditzy klutz in her everyday life only adds more to her anxiety.

“Marinette,” Nathalie started which shook Marinette from her thoughts and looked at the woman beside her.

“Y-yes?”

“For your lunch breaks, please inform me where you’ll be and who your companions are. It’s for precaution your father insisted”

Once again, she huffed in annoyance before muttering a ‘fine’ as a more than sufficient reply. The rest of the drive to the school is eerily quiet.

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“Well you’re up very early, Adrien” Sabine noted with a chuckle as she got up to their kitchen to see her son, already stuffing his face with croissants looking ready to go. He swallows the last one and gets up from the counter.

“Morning mom,” he kissed her cheek “I’ll be walking with Alya and Nino so I needed to be early”

Sabine smiled at his enthusiasm as he left for downstairs, “Don’t forget the box on your way down”

“I won’t, thanks!”

Adrien skipped down the stairs as he opened the door into the bakery to see Tom already fixing the pastries on display. “Morning dad,” he greeted

“Oh, good morning, son. I have two boxes prepared for you just in case” he placed an arm around his son and handed him a paper bag with, indeed two boxes of their special macaroons. Adrien smiled and hugged the huge man, “Thanks dad, you’re the best”

He turned to leave with a goodbye and headed for the park a few blocks away.

Nino was already waiting with his phone out, ‘Probably playing Super Penguino again’ Adrien thought as he crossed the road.

His DJ friend didn’t seem to notice him so he tapped furiously on his phone and Nino looked up, “Hey! I was about to beat my hi-score!” he yelled at the blonde culprit who just laughed.

“If anything, I actually helped” he teased. Nino was about to retort back but was quickly trapped in a tight hug by his girlfriend who came sprinting around the corner.

“Ready to go, boys?” Alya asked as Nino pried himself off her breathtaking (literally) hug. He wheezed and gave a thumbs up.

The trio walked towards their school while chatting when suddenly Alya shrieked. The two guys looked at her in confusion and surprise when Alya practically shoved her phone in their faces.

“Care to explain what we should be looking at?” Adrien questioned while straining his eyes to look at Alya’s screen just a few inches off his face.

She pulled back her phone and composed her initial freak-out mode that happens when something amazing or major comes up. Breathe in. Breathe out.

“Ok,” she started “remember the mysteriously mysterious super famous new person attending Lycée with us that Chloe tweeted like last week?”

The boys nodded.

“And?”

“Well, it turns out that this the mysteriously mysterious super famous new person attending Lycée with us is Marinette! Aaaahh!” Alya shrieked again.

“Woah! Seriously!” Nino looked at the tweet Chloe just posted. A selfie of Chloe with her arms around a nervously smiling blunette near the entrance of their school.

“Who?” their blonde companion looked at the picture and the couple audibly gasped at him in disbelief like he just popped a second head.

“I can’t believe you don’t know her, she’s like the cutest fashion idol. Made her own collection at the age of 12, not to mention she’s the only daughter of Gabriel Agreste and- Oh my God! I should have worn her Ladybug Collection blouse for today if I had known, Ughhh!”

“Alya chiiill~” her boyfriend assured, “you look good already if I must say so myself”

Alya laughed and composed herself one more time, “You’re just biased cause I’m your girlfriend” and Nino shrugged.

‘She seems like an interesting person; I hope we have some classes together’ Adrien happily thought as the trio continued their walk with Alya practicing how to say hi to the blunette should she see her at school.

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Before Marinette could even reach the entrance, she heard the familiar voice of her only friend outside of the industry. Although, they did meet because of connections she didn’t see their relationship as something due to connections and obligations she has to fulfil.

“Mariiiiii~” Chloe approached her with Jean behind her, umbrella in hand. Marinette returned her affections by kissing her on both cheeks.

“Hi Chloe, thanks again for the scholarship idea I probably wouldn’t have been able to convince my dad otherwise”

“Oh puh-lease, it was nothing if it meant getting out of that jail you call mansion. No offense” she remarked to which Marinette laughed, “None taken”

Chloe fished out her phone from her purse and excitedly draped an arm around the blunette. Marinette nervously smiled at the camera, knowing all too well what Chloe is doing.

Click!

“We look so cute together” Chloe gushed at the picture and her eyes trailed down to her skirt, “that skirt is fabulous, do I smell an upcoming collection?” she asked as she took a full body picture of Marinette in all her fashion glory.

“Oh this? It’s nothing I don’t plan on starting a new project soon”

Chloe pouted, still occupied with posting the photos on all her socials “What a shame, we could’ve been wearing matching designs for the whole school year to show off”

“Go on, Marinette, your first class starts at 8. You don’t want to be late” Nathalie informed her as she placed a shoulder on the girl and handed out her bag. Marinette reached for her bag and thanked Nathalie as Chloe practically dragged her towards the school.

“So, Mari, let me see your sched” Chloe asked as they walked in the middle of the courtyard and Mari stood there for a minute before realizing what she meant.

“O-oh yeah, sched, the schedule. Hold on, I think Nathalie added it to my tablet” she opened her bag to pull out said device and opened up her schedule for her friend to look at. Chloe scrunched her nose up obviously displeased at her schedule.

“How is it that we don’t have any classes together but PE? It’s like the universe is asking me to stay away from you. Ugh, this is utterly ridiculous,” she grumbled before turning back to Marinette “but no worries, your BFF, Chloe Bourgeois is here to make sure you don’t fail at anything”

“Uh, thanks, I guess?”

Just then, they heard shrieking from behind them. Both girls turned around to see a brunette girl looking their way being shushed by two guys.

“Alya! Shush, everyone’s looking at us now” the dark-haired one said in a harsh whisper.

“I can’t believe it; it really is her. Nino, please tell me I’m not dreaming” the girl grabbed the boy by the collar and shook him while still keeping their eyes on Marinette’s direction. The boy can’t formulate proper sentences as he’s shaken back and forth mercilessly.

“Time to go Mari,” Chloe grabbed her wrist as they walked up the stairs towards the classrooms. Chloe stops by the door next to the stairs.

“My class is here; your room is 3 doors over. See you later for lunch Mari” the blonde girl waved as she entered the door.

The young fashion designer finally reached her room and was about to open the door when someone opened to which she instinctively stepped back.

To her misfortune she tripped on someone’s foot behind her and stumbled down with them bags and some miscellaneous items sent toppled over her. Her butt expected to land on the cold hard floor but instead found herself on top of someone’s lap.

“A-are you ok, miss?” the person she’s currently on top of asked. Marinette turned her head towards the person to see one of the guys from earlier.

“Y-yeah, I guess…” she managed to say as she got off his lap momentarily and reached for her fallen bag.

“Oh no! The macaroons!” the blonde panicked as he started picking up the pastries around them and placing them in the open box now on the floor. In a blind panic he’s not aware of where he’s picking them off from.

Between her skirt and her legs is where most of them landed and she can feel the guy’s touch in the most inappropriate of places. He’s about to reach for one that somehow landed on top of the opening of her blouse when she swatted his hand, stood up and let the macaroon fall.

Marinette was reduced to a blushing mess while covering her chest with her hand and the other one holding her bag in front of her legs as she looked down the guy with anger. She couldn’t find the words to say at the moment, so she just huffed and entered the room in a dash.

Adrien was left there dumbfounded wondering what just happened when suddenly something in his brain clicked. He was mortified by his actions and he feels so ashamed.

‘Oh no, she’s a famous person right. Holy shit, she’s going to report me for sexual harassment’ he screamed internally pulling at his hairs.

“Yo Adrien, what happened?” Nino ran towards his friend and helped him get up with his things too. The DJ took this opportunity to pop some macaroons into his mouth while picking them up from the floor, its not like people would like from-the-floor macaroons he thought to himself.

The blonde stayed quiet, still internally screaming and having an existential crisis with himself. ‘Ok, as long as I don’t see her for the rest of the day. She won’t remember my face or what happened right?’

He let that thought calm him down, but it did not last long when he met eyes with her once again inside the classroom. ‘I spoke too soon, dammit’

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“I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU!”

“Alya, keep it down. Please” Adrien pleaded at his journalist friend who just stood up and pointed an accusatory finger at him. People at the café were throwing confused and annoyed glances at their table.

Nino arrived with their drinks a moment later before sitting back down. “Hey, if you don’t keep it down we’ll be kicked out before you know it”

Adrien sighed, “That’s what I’ve been telling her y’know”

“I don’t want to be associated with someone named Adrien Dupain-Cheng anymore” Alya huffed as she avoided looking at her blonde friend while reaching for her drink.

The guy in question pinched the bridge of his nose with an exasperated sigh, “It was an accident and I panicked ok. It’s not like I wanted to ghost my hand over her body” he tiredly explained.

“Also, is it good or bad luck that she’s your classmate in every one of your subjects?” Nino pointed out.

“Ugh don’t remind me. I think I would’ve died if looks could kill” Adrien shuddered at how she always sat at the back and he can feel her eyes stabbing him from behind. Physics was even harder because he was forced to look back at her when passing the worksheet and it felt like her eyes bore through his soul.

Alya stayed quiet. Adrien knows that she really wanted to talk to the fashion designer but if she’s see with him she might not be able to- quote unquote -for the rest of her life.

“Look, I’ll apologize and give in a good word to her for you will that be ok?” he looked at the brunette expectantly.

“That goes without saying pretty boy, you should apologize with or without me pouting here” she said as a matter-of-factly and Nino nodded while sipping his drink.

Meanwhile, in another table.

“So, there was this this blue-haired girl in my Physics class named Kagami and she’s like so pompous and shit. I mean she is smart, but you don’t need to rub it in EVERY SINGLE TIME” Chloe vented to the blunette on the other side of the table with exaggerated hand gestures.

Marinette listened to Chloe’s ‘first day vents’ as the blonde called it, she never knew that listening to someone vent was fun and like a breath of fresh air. She never was someone who openly let out all her rage through words and always kept it in because it’s what she’s taught; that whenever in a corporate situation where something infuriates you, you breathe in and don’t lose your composure or else everyone will.

“-nette? Marinette?”

“Huh? Did you say something, Chloe?” she snapped back to their conversation.

“I was asking how your classes was so far” her companion repeated.

“Well…” her mind went back to the tripping incident this morning and how she basically glared at the guy whenever she had the chance waiting for an apology. How lucky is it though that he was in every one of her classes so far?

“…it was a somewhat exciting, it was mostly getting to know and a lot of people were surprised to see I was there to say the least” she answered, leaving out the embarrassing highlight of her day so far.

“That’s to be expected, you are a famous designer among teenagers and we’re, well, surrounded by teenagers at school” Chloe chuckled as she gestured around her, then her phone chimed right after.

“Should we go?” she asked as she slung her bag on her shoulder. Marinette looked at the time, “Isn’t it a bit early?”

“Yeah, but I have an early elective subject and it looks like its gonna rain later. I’d much prefer if the ground wasn’t wet when I’m out and about”

She looked up and the sky does look like its about to rain.

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“It was a bit exhausting but it’s nothing I could handle” Marinette told her father through the phone. As soon as her last class ended, he called like he knew precisely what time she’s free.

“The Gorilla is on his way, there was a slight traffic cause of the sudden rain so just wait for a couple of minutes”

“Alright, alright. Bye”

She decided to wait by the door when she was approached by a familiar face. From the class introductions she learned his name was Adrien Dupain-Cheng. As usual she glared at him, waiting for an apology.

“I’m really sorry for what happened,” he started to say as he looked down “Those pastries were prepared by my parents to share to my classmates, so I panicked and acted without thinking. They took some time of their busy day to cater my request so I just prioritized salvaging what I can of their hard work”

Now Marinette felt guilty for glaring at him throughout the day. She was about to say something when he presented a box in front of her, “I know its not much but please accept it as an added apology for making you uncomfortable on your first day”

She eyed the box curiously, ‘Tom and Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie’ the box label read.

“No need to worry, these were the ones left that never left the box. My friends and I already ate the ones I dropped” he nervously chuckled trying to lighten the mood.

The young designer was awestruck, never has she seen such genuine kindness emanating from someone before. She nervously reached for the box and his hands lingered next to hers before letting go of the box, making sure that she had a tight grip on it.

Adrien smiled at her and she gave out a shy smile in return.

A car honk startled them both. Her ride just arrived so she turned to say goodbye to Adrien, “That would be my ride… Goodbye, t-thanks for the uh-this” she gestured to the box she’s holding between her hip as she opened her umbrella.

She got in the car placing the box in the seat next to her, when she saw him still standing where he was when she saw why she got out again. “I forgot something, be right back”

Adrien was about to wait the rain out before sprinting back to the patisserie when a blushing Marinette Agreste faced him again.

She held out her umbrella not looking at him directly, “Please use this, the rain will take a few more hours before it completely stops. I also want to apologize for glaring at you for basically the whole day”

He hesitated before eventually receiving the umbrella, his fingers touching hers for a split second. “Thanks Marinette, I hope we can still be friends”

She smiled.

“Yeah, I’d like that”

Next Chapter: Marinette gets picked on. Alya finally talks to her fashion icon. New friendships. New relationships.

↬ Chapter 3

↬ AO3

[teannamon]

26. “All I wanted was you.” – Gabriel/Emily

Ok I think I’m doing rarepairs now lmao… also props to @maddrag for giving me all these prompts ;> will take me a while to get through all them though so…

This one’s a “bit” angsty and one sided so yah

prompts here as usual

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“All I wanted was you.” Gabriel spoke through the glass chamber of his wife. Her body still and not responding like it always had for these past 5 years.

Five years of fighting Ladybug and Chat Noir for their miraculouses to bring her back.

Five years of longing for their family to be complete again.

Five years of failure.

But he will have an eternity of loving her.

Which is why he had to do this.

“I’m sorry, Love, but I know this is the right thing to do” he pushed the button to stop the chamber’s preservation capabilities. He dropped down on his knees as he cried, remembering all the atrocities he had done to get to this point.

He had akumatized innocent people of Paris, put his son in danger countless times, and fixated his lifestyle on being a villain called Hawk Moth.

‘She wouldn’t want this. If it were me in that state, she’d make superheroes to save me’

The chamber hissed as it’s shutting down slowly.

“Hey Gabe?” 

“Yes?” 

“Can you stay with me til forever?”

“Why?”

“Cause I want to ok!”

A young Gabriel laughed, “Of course Em”

He can hear the sirens approaching the mansion, accompanied by the protests of the people of Paris.

“Will you marry me?”

Tears streamed down Emilie’s face as she tackled Gabriel on the floor of their apartment.

“So is that a yes?”

Still sobbing her eyes out of happiness she nodded as they sat on the floor now. He chuckled as he placed the ring on her finger, “You’re such a drama queen”

“Well can you blame me? This is all I ever wanted”

Gabriel stood up and walked out of the chamber room as slow as he can while fiddling with the ring on his finger. 

“Adrien” Emilie mumbled while rubbing her swollen belly.

“What was that?”

“Adrien Agreste, seems like a perfect name for our perfect boy”

Her husband beamed and placed his hands over hers, “If that’s what you want. I think Adrien will love it”

Arriving at his office he can see the blue and red lights flashing through the window. His assistant waiting for him with swollen eyes, still keeping a level of professionalism despite the current situation they are in. 

“Don’t do it Emilie!”

“These people need help, Gabriel. I can’t just leave them”

“Didn’t you hear? That miraculous is damaged, it can destroy you”

“I know that and I trust that you will bring me back if I do.”

“No! Not this time, Emilie. I can’t do what you want this time”

“I promise this will be the last time and then we can do what you want after.” she turned around “Duusu, transform me”

This was not what he wanted. 

He never wanted to become a terrorist.

He never wanted to hurt innocent people.

He never wanted to hurt his son, Chat Noir, Adrien. Their sweet Adrien.

Nor his partner, Ladybug, Marinette. Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

All his life he did whatever she wanted because he loves her so much with feelings he can’t even begin to describe. When given the chance to do what he wanted for a change he did but he failed.

All he ever wanted was Emilie.

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Are you sad? Cause I am lmao… I can’t believe I wanted to torture myself with some Gabriel angst at 11pm but here we are  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My asks/requests are open indefinitely but again, disclaimer, I will do them in my own time :>

[teannamon]

Purple Butterfly (ML Fic) 1

How does one handle negative emotions in the midst of romance?

Adrien is coming into terms of knowing who the lady of his dreams is but with the stress that comes with the new perspective on Marinette can he still get a happy ending with his lady?

(Cover art done by P00pyPetals)

Chapter 1 : A Beautiful Night Deluded Me 

Adrien woke up with a jolt, panting and trying to take in his current surroundings. He’s in a white and blue bed, to his right a digital clock that brightly illuminated the time ‘4:25 AM’ as his eyes fixated on the windows seeing as the sun is still barely rising at this hour.

Bedroom. He’s in his bedroom he mentally tells himself as his breathing starts to calm down. He tries to lay down once more to make the most of the hours he had left before inevitably leaving for class he remembered what made him wake up in such a state in the first place.

‘That weird dream again’

After a few minutes of waking up in a daze, only remnants of the dream remained in his mind.

A purple butterfly fluttering about. An akuma.

Marinette.

Him kissing Marinette.

Someone else with Marinette.

The akuma landing on her shoulders.

He covered his face with a pillow and groaned his frustrations into it. He’s been having these weird dreams for the whole weekend after that incident. When he stumbled upon a sight that he was not supposed to see but have been wanting to ever since he was chosen to be a Miraculous holder.

The identity of Ladybug, love of his life, the strongest and most fearless woman he knows, and the person who captured his heart for all these years, is no other than their everyday Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

Clumsy and shy-around-him Marinette, creative and resourceful Marinette, brave and tough Marinette, not scared to fight and speak for what’s right Marinette, sweet and kind Marinette.

Yes, her. That Marinette.

Oddly enough, the first time knowing this information, the more it made sense. Those days on collegé where she always runs off somewhere whenever Ladybug is needed, her quick call to actions during attacks like she precisely knows what they’re supposed to do in their situation, and many more parallels in their attitude. And the more he thought about the fact, he couldn’t see anyone else being Ladybug but Marinette.

Now, he’s going to have to face his lady as Marinette after a weekend of thinking. His discovery is purely accidental. True, that he wanted to know her identity for almost 3 years now but he wanted her to tell him herself when she’s ready; so he doesn’t tell her what he knows and it’s killing him.

“Hey kid, stop doing that. I’m trying to sleep here” his kwami scolded next to him.

Adrien pouted as he pulled the pillow off and dropped it on top Plagg, to which the kwami wriggled out off. “Sheesh, you can’t keep sulking you know. You can just tell her what you know and it’ll be over with”

“You know it’s not that easy, Plagg. If I recall, you didn’t want me knowing who she is because of your agreement with her kwami”

“Well I wouldn’t go with the technicalities of the situation but Tikki told me that hypothetically, if you were to know each other’s identities at an early time there’s a higher risk that comes with it” the black kwami explained as brief as he could without eluding to the added information that Marinette used to have a thing for his chosen and knowing at that time would have her doing things with reckless abandon, like that time where she was about to give up her Miraculous to Volpina when Adrien is supposedly at stake. What more if she knew that he’s Chat Noir, who keeps on taking the deadliest of hits for her sake?

The blonde let out a heavy sigh, clearly still bothered by the situation and decided to ditch his few more moments of sleep. Sitting at the edge of his bed, he glanced at the clock ‘Exactly 5 am’ it read.

‘3 more hours before the start of a long day’

He stretched his arms before heading to the bathroom. Passing by his mirrors he took a good look at himself - disheveled blonde locks with a matching tired look but still passable as a cover in a teenage girl magazine.

Grabbing a towel from the bathroom cabinet, he then proceeded to take a long hot shower to take his mind off his weekend thoughts. That, however, proved to be the opposite.

Every minute in the shower just brings up scenarios from his dreams. Some are more cryptic than the others but it always has him kissing Marinette one way or another.

Call him crazy but just thinking about it leaves a lingering feeling on his lips. Marinette, soft and sweet as she is, are like her kisses. He closed his eyes imagining her in front of him now, her arms crossed behind his neck while the warm water is hitting their backs.

He decides to relish the feeling for a few more minutes before leaving.

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[teannamon]

The Black Cat and the Princess (ML Fic) 3

[ Family Switch AU ]  Marinette’s the only child of fashion icon Gabriel Agreste, and Adrien is the adopted child of Sabine and Tom Dupain-Cheng, two of the best bakers in Paris. What happens when their paths meet?

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Chapter 3 : Marinette gets picked on. Alya finally talks to her fashion icon. New friendships. New relationships.

“It’s fine Chloe, it can’t be helped since the rain was so hard yesterday” Marinette assured her friend thru the phone.

“Of course it's not my fault, its this stupid rain and its stupid sickness. Just make sure to have fun without me” the blonde on the other side said between sniffs. "Jean! Is my sushi here yet?"

Beep!

The car came to a stop as soon as the call ended. Nathalie got out first, handed her her bag as soon as she's out, and reminded her to call her whereabouts for lunch. Especially now that Chloe is not around.

Marinette nodded and left for her classes. She felt vulnerable without someone talking her ear off (i.e. Chloe), despite it just being her 2nd day of Lyceé so its supposed to be normal to feel this way.

What's not normal though are the hushed whispers and not so subtle remarks about her.

"Hey Marinette!" a familiar voice called out behind her. She turned around to see Adrien, the baker boy.

"Hi Adrien" she greeted with a warm smile. The events from yesterday were quickly replaced with good memories between them.

He walked towards her and handed her something. She looked down to see the umbrella she gave him yesterday. Chuckling, she pushed it back to him.

"It's ok, I'm giving it to you. It's just an umbrella"

He stammered for a bit, "B-but it's not just an umbrella. It has your signature on it, its probably expensive to have it customized like that"

Alya was the first to notice when she came over for the details after her club activities. Her signature was subtle but still noticeable when the light hits it at an angle.

At first, the brunette wanted to keep it but Adrien insisted he return it. They opted for a secret photoshoot with the umbrella to share to her blog instead.

"Its no biggie," she waved a hand dismissively "besides, now you can think of me whenever it rains"

Adrien didn't know how to respond to that so he muttered a "Yeah"

When Marinette realized how it sounded she blurted out, "W-what I mean is you'll remember the umbrella when it rains, because the umbrella, me. It belongs to me-I mean its now yours but you get the point"

There was a pause. Then both teens laughed, "Ok, I'll keep it. Thanks, Marinette" he placed the umbrella back to his bag.

"You're welcome. Feel free to call me Mari if you want, I feel like Marinette is a mouthful"

"I'll keep that in mind, but I prefer Marinette. I think it's cute" he gave her a small smile and she felt her cheeks heat up at the compliment.

They arrived at the same room for their Physics class, "Guess you're stuck with me as a classmate again huh, Ms. Fashion Designer" he teased.

"Oh hush, you make it sound like a bad thing"

Adrien sat on the first table in front and looked at her expectantly, she pondered for a bit looking at the back seat then back at the blonde before she sat down on the middle seat next to him.

Just mere seconds later, Alya showed up and gasped. She didn't waste any time sitting on the vacant seat next to Marinette and fished out her phone for an interview.

"So Marinette Agreste, young and cute fashion designer, what's your favorite collection so far? Who are your inspirations besides your father? Can we get a teaser for your next one?"

"Alya!" Adrien scolded her but Marinette looked his way and assured him it's fine.

"Well, the Ladybug collection is definitely my favorite since it's the first one I did without my father's supervision and its one I can say that's 100% me. Audrey Bourgeois. And I don't plan on making a new one this time around because I want to focus on school first" she answered with as much enthusiasm as the brunette.

Alya was about to say something when a voice from behind interrupted her, "Pfft what a load of bull. All your designs are obviously ripped off"

A long-haired brunette with a smug look looked at both females smugly. It even seems like she said it out loud on purpose judging how some students tried to listen in to the conversation.

"Adrien," she turned to look at said blonde "please tell me you don't believe this wannabe fashion disaster?"

Adrien grumbled but stayed quiet. Alya on the other hand stood up, slamming her hands on the table. "Now, you listen here Lila. You can't accuse someone without proof, otherwise you're just lying for attention"

"Am I though? Look at this costume concept art posted 4 years ago" she showed her phone and some students gathered to see, she swiped left "and look at this cardigan from her most recent collection"

Alya and the crowd that formed around them collectively gasped and looked at Marinette. She was surprisingly calm about the situation and took a deep breath, "If you checked my site I stated that the artist is the inspiration for this piece and that I did ask her for her permission which she gladly accepted"

The doubtful murmurs shifted to approving glances and a cough made everyone go back to their seats. Marinette smirked at the girl called Lila, and the latter glared at her as Alya looked more amazed at the designer than ever.

Class ended earlier than expected since it was their first meeting for this class. Adrien and Alya left for their Foreign Languages elective so Marinette stayed behind for a while. She was waiting for Lila to leave first but it looks like she's doing the same thing because the only people left in the room are both of them.

Seeing that none of them are planning to leave, Marinette sighed and prepared to take her leave when Lila stood up to face her.

Marinette was the first to speak, "Ok first of all, I don't take kindly to liars especially those who manipulate people. Secondly, I barely even know you so why are you doing this?"

Lila took a step closer, faces now mere inches apart. "And you listen here bitch, I don't care how famous you are or how many people 'admire' you so much, but stay away from Adrien and I'll stay out of your hair. You don't want to see your reputation go down the drain now do you?"

The young designer scoffed as she walked past the glaring brunette, "I can befriend whoever I like, and whatever lies you conjure up won't be convincing enough to fool everyone when fake information is easy to clear up"

"We'll see about that" she snickered as Marinette walked out the door.

Next Chapter: The weekend is here and Marinette has been invited to a gathering.

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[teannamon]

For the prompt can you do kagaminette as 90? And thank you I really like your fanfictions

Thank you~ I’m glad you’re enjoying my fics :> And since the fandom is on a Kagaminette roll, I decided to do this request now :3 

prompts here

Takes place right after this request fic, but can be read on its own too

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“If you’re going to dress like that, I’m not going to let you out of my sight.”

“Why? Is something wrong with it?” Marinette fidgeted. 

“No, it’s just-nevermind” Kagami shook her head and opened the car door for her. Marinette is torn between getting in the car or running back inside to find a different outfit. 

She did try her best to match Kagami’s white and red tux with a qipao of the same colors. Although her qipao is a bit tight around her chest, it’s still comfortable so she decided on wearing that. 

“Marinette?” 

“Yes?”

“Are you getting in or not?” 

She mouthed an apology and got in the car, with Kagami sitting next to her. 

The ride was fairly quiet, with some small talk here and there. Marinette was worried about her date since she kept avoiding her gaze and it made her really anxious.

‘Is she having second thoughts on asking me out because of what I’m wearing?’

“Are you ok?” she felt a hand on her thigh and see Kagami’s face near hers with a concerned expression, “We’ve arrived just a minute ago”

“I-i’m fine, I’m actually worried if you’re having second thoughts on asking me” she nervously chuckled and she mentally slapped herself for speaking her mind.

Kagami remembered what she unconsciously said when she saw Marinette approaching her, “If you’re worried about what I said earlier, I didn’t say it because you don’t look presentable. Far from it, actually”

“What do you m-” 

“It means, you’re too pretty, too” Kagami sighed as she looked at Marinette longingly “breathtaking, and I don’t want others, especially guys, ogling at you”

Something in Marinette’s mind clicked, connecting things that happened prior to them arriving in front of the hotel. She blushed at the statement and appreciated what Kagami meant and felt her heart flutter from every word.

It was her turn to reassure Kagami so she grabbed her cheek and kissed the other, “Don’t worry Kagami, no one will ogle me and like you said you’ll never let me out of your sight, right?”

Her initial shock to the kiss worn off and was replaced by determination, “Of course”

Ladybug she is, but she felt safe with Kagami always next to her as Marinette during dinner. She was right, some guys tried to flirt with her whenever she was at the buffet table alone but Kagami’s stare a few tables away was enough to ward them off.

The food was amazing, as always, at Le Grand Paris but the beauty dining with her was even better according to Kagami. She promised to keep an eye on her and that she did. 

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Her dress that I had in mind btw :3

Here’s a sweet and short kinda continuation of the first Kagaminette fic that was requested. Hope ya like it :>

I’m still accepting asks and requests, I just work on them whenever I can ^^

[teannamon]

Purple Butterfly (ML Fic) 3

(Cover art done by P00pyPetals)

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Chapter 3 : A Beginning is Always Trivial, Right?

“Did you see that too Plagg?” Adrien asked the kwami flying out of his pocket as he started driving.

“See what? You mean the blonde stalker who followed Marinette to see if she’s really having lunch with Luka and not ignoring said stalker?” he remarked with a smirk, aiming the statement at his chosen.

Adrien grumbled, not because of Plagg’s teasing but because it was true. Instead of heading straight to the lunch interview, he spotted Marinette and decided to follow her to her “lunch date with Luka”. She didn’t say it was a date, but he assumed it might as well be.

He acted as if he was just passing by the corner when Luka noticed him and nudged Marinette beside him, most likely letting her know that he was there for some reason. She smiled and waved at him, and that’s when he headed back to his car in the parking lot.

“They were sitting so close to each other their faces are practically touching. I mean it’s possible they’re just talking about something serious but the way he looks at her, and laughs with her, talks with her so easily!” he practically yelled, venting at the kwami enjoying his cheese in peace. He remembered how Marinette would have trouble talking to him back then and it took her a year to make her talk comfortably around him (based on the few interactions they had after starting Lycée), he didn’t mind it but thinking about it now he envied Luka.

The car came to a stop as he arrived to the restaurant he was scheduled to have the lunch interview. “Tomorrow,” he muttered and Plagg stopped eating to look at him “I’ll make Marinette see a different side of me”

                                              Adrien arrived to school earlier than usual. He wanted to see Marinette to make sure his lunch ‘date’ offer still stands. He cancelled a charity event for this and he had it all planned out.

“Excuse me, Mr. Model, but do you happen to spare a few minutes to talk to your bro?” a voice came from behind.

“Nino!” Adrien turned around and hi-fived his best friend, “What’s up dude? Sorry I couldn’t hang out as much with y-”

“Hey you don’t need to apologize everytime we see each other in person, talking online still counts as hanging out in today’s modern world” he playfully punched his shoulder, earning a chuckle from the blonde.

“Besides,” Nino continued “I heard from Alya that you’re starting to fancy a certain cute fashion designer”

Adrien felt his heart beat faster and his cheeks heat up.

“Oh, would that cute fashion designer happen to be me?” Marinette teased and Nino looked surprised to see her behind him. She laughed to see him so jumpy.

‘God, she’s so beautiful when she laughs’ Adrien thought as he looked at her.

“’Sup Mari,” Nino greeted, then moved closer to whisper “Alya told me about the date for today and I wanted to make sure it’s true”

She scoffed then whispered back, “It’s probably not a date, maybe he’s gonna ask me a favor. You don’t know”

This time it was Nino who laughed and patted Marinette on the shoulder, “Yeah keep telling yourself that. Well, see you around guys I have to meet someone before class”

“See ya” Marinette waved as their friend walked towards the library. She turned around to face Adrien, “So where should we meet for lunch?”

Hearing her ask about it made Adrien relieved and it gave him an idea. He was supposed to tell her but a better plan popped into his head.

“It’s a surprise, I’ll see you later after your class” he winked and walked past. Leaving a very confused and flustered Marinette by the school gate.

“Please read the required readings by Thursday for our activity” their professor said as he left the room. Students began scrambling out of the room as quickly as they can, obviously ready to leave. Marinette still had her handouts and tablet out so she stayed a bit to fix her things.

“Marinette? She’s over there”

“Ok, thank you”

“Wait is that Adrien Agreste, the model?”

“Omg you’re so lucky!”

“Is that his girlfriend?”

Adrien strolled in the classroom towards Marinette, fixated on her things. She dropped a page of her handout and it landed right on Adrien’s feet, to which he picked up and handed it to her.

“A-adrien? What are you doing here?” she looked up and grabbed the page from him.

“I’m here to pick you up for our lunch of course” he said with a grin like it was the most obvious thing ever.

“Thanks, but you really didn’t have to” Marinette said sheepishly while looking to her side, avoiding his gaze as she stood up.

“No, but I want to” with that he grabbed Marinette’s bag from her chair quickly before she did and he slung it over his shoulder. She gasped and tried to protest but decided to let it be. Its not everyday your crush suddenly asks you out for lunch, fetches you after class, and carries your bag, right?

They made small talk as they walked to the parking lot. They talked about trivial things like their weird professors, how some of their old classmates are doing, and general ‘how’s it going’ stuff.

Adrien opened the door to the front seat and placed her bag there, then gestured for her to get in before getting into the driver’s seat himself.

“So now will you tell me where we’re going?” she asked as he started the car. He looked at her briefly, “If I told you now it wouldn’t be surprise now would it? Besides, this will be a one-of-a-kind lunch date than yesterday”

“Yesterday?” she raised a brow.

‘Shitshitshitshit, I shouldn’t have said that’ he scolded himself and he can hear Plagg snickering from his pocket.

Meanwhile, Marinette is thinking back to what he meant by ‘yesterday’ when she heard Tikki chuckle from her bag something about Luka, then it clicked. ‘Oh he meant the lunch with Luka. It wasn’t a date though, they were sitting pretty close yesterday while eating but that was because they were discussing costume details and-wait how did he know?”

With that thought she snapped her head to face Adrien, who’s trying his hardest to appear casual about his own statement but internally kicking himself in the face for letting that slip out. He must’ve read her mind because he followed it up with, “I mean I was passing by the café as a shortcut and I saw you guys”

She pursed her lips but smiled right after, “Oh well, that makes sense. It wasn’t a date though, we were just discussing some band related stuff”

“I see, that’s nice.” He responded as the car came to a stop. Marinette looked out the window to see that they’re in front of the Agreste Mansion. It’s been a long time since she’s been here so she was easily overwhelmed. ‘Did he forget something at home?’

“Shall we go?”

“Huh?”

                                              Adrien lead a confused Marinette around the back of his house. She never would have dreamed of having a private lunch with Adrien Agreste at his house. She’s still wondering why is he showing sudden interests now so suddenly, but she’ll figure that out later.

Right now, she would let loose and enjoy herself like her kwami always told her to do. In between saving Paris, schoolwork, and having commissions at the side she doesn’t have as much time to let loose and she decides that now is the time.

“I hope you don’t mind sitting on the ground” Adrien told her. She smiled and nodded, so he grabbed her hand gently and lead her to a beautiful backyard garden. There’s a picnic blanket placed by the shade and Adrien pulled her to sit down on the blanket.

“Can you wait here? I’ll get our food from inside, I cooked it this morning” he said as he let go of her hand.

“I didn’t know you can cook, Adrien”

He winked, “There’s a lot of things you don’t know about me yet, mil-I mean, Marinette”

Second time he almost slipped but thankfully Marinette hadn’t caught wind of his antics yet. She just chuckled and said “I suppose not”

Jogging inside thru the kitchen backdoor he reached for the thermal bag he set aside on the corner. Plagg got out of his jacket and flew to his camembert stash in one of the cupboards and floated next to his chosen as he double checked the contents of the bag.

“So when will you tell her? Or are you going to keep this charade up?”

“Shut up, Plagg. I will tell her when she decides to tell Chat Noir, and this is not a charade. I’m just taking advantage of this moment to establish a closer relationship with the girl behind the mask I have loved for so long” he replied.

“I may not be a fortune teller kid, but I can tell this is going to do worse than good. Trust me, Tikki thinks that you both are mature enough to know each other’s identities but the delay is all on Marinette now”

Adrien closed the bag and slung the strap over his shoulder, “Exactly Plagg, it means that there’s something holding her back and I will make her trust me. Both as Chat Noir and Adrien”

Plagg grumbled while he went back to his pocket, “If things go wrong don’t say I didn’t tell you so”

Tikki peeked out of Marinette’s bag as soon as Adrien left to take a breather and talk. “Hey Marinette”

Marinette turned her back to the door just in case Adrien comes out unexpectedly. “Hi Tikki, are you hungry?”

The kwami shook her head no, “I just want to let you know that I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself on this date”

She blushed at the statement, “I-its not a date” she hesitated “I think”

“Well whatever it is, I feel something good is going to happen from this so make the most of it” Tikki chirped happily.

“Thanks, Tikki” she heard the door clicked and the red kwami ducked back into her bag. She turned around to see Adrien with a thermal bag walking towards her. He sat down next to her and opened the bag. The distinct smell of Bacon and Cheese hit their noses.

“Its Bacon Cheese Fusilli,” he said as he opened the small tupperware and handed it to Marinette “I made it this morning but its still pretty warm”.

“It looks so good, smells good too.” She complimented, “Thank you by the way, this was a nice change of pace from both our busy schedules and considering we didn’t hang out as much back then too”

‘Probably cause I have a hopeless crush on you that made me stutter whenever I see you’ she said to herself. By now though, she has matured past the sighing fangirl crush she has on Adrien and toned down to admiration for his kind demeanor.

He took out the forks and handed one to Marinette as he said, “Well it was nothing, Marinette. I would definitely go out of my way to impress the woman I love and if it means taking extra time out of my busy schedule it would be worth it”

‘Wait what?!’ Marinette nearly choked on her food.

Not realizing what he just said he still continued while opening up his container, “And of course, even though I already know you from the surface level I’d always wanted an opportunity to know you better as the brave, kind, and sweet Marinette Dupain-Cheng ever since I saw you”

He looked at her with a smile and it was only then he saw how flustered she looked. She wanted to say something but her brain can’t comprehend properly what Adrien just said to her, about her.

‘He likes me?! All this time?! This doesn’t make sense, where is Alya when I need her!’

And for the third time today, Adrien realized what he (unconsciously) said and tried to salvage the situation. He set down his food and sighed while scratching the back of his neck “W-well I guess the cat’s out of the bag. I was supposed to tell you after our lunch date but I guess I got carried away” he chuckled nervously.

She’s still in shocked silence.

“Marinette? Are you ok?” he cupped one hand on her cheek. Warm and soft, he mentally noted.

She finally finds the words she wanted to say, “Uhm yeah… but why now?”

His mind went back to his accidental discovery and his weird cryptic dreams, but he figured he couldn’t say those to her. Well, not yet at least.

“Let’s just say,” he rubbed circles in her cheek while moving closer to her “I’ve waited for a long time for the perfect moment and something made me realize it was now”

She parted her lips to say something when Adrien talked again, this time with a request that sounds all too familiar but she just can’t quite remember.

“May I?” he asked as his thumb ghosted over lips. He couldn’t help himself anymore, his lady is right there in front of him just like how she was in his dreams. All what’s missing is him to close the distance between their faces.

And something else, that he just remembered as they both heard a crash from the distance.

A purple butterfly.

An akuma.

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❤ I finally have cover art for this fic *happiness noise* It’s my favorite scene from the vocaloid song that’s inspired by this fic :3

[teannamon]

Purple Butterfly (ML Fic) 2

(Cover art done by P00pyPetals)

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Chapter 2 : A Beginning is Always Trivial

The very first thing he saw when he stepped out of the car is Marinette running towards the stairs to the entrance. Without thinking he ran after her and reached for her hand before taking a step on the stairs.

“Marinette, wait!”

Marinette quickly turned around about to greet her friend but instead saw the last person she ever thought of holding her hand first thing in the morning.

“Hey Al-adrien! Is there something wrong?” she exclaimed her face warming up at the sudden contact. He looked stunned and kept his eyes fixated on Marinette’s eyes the prettiest shade of blue, then to her hair now devoid of her pigtails and instead let it flow freely to her shoulders, then her subtle freckles that dusted her face, then his eyes focused on her slightly parted lips like it was taunting him to do something.

The people around them were starting to look and whisper at their direction. The blunette can feel her heart rate quicken and all the blood rush to her face the longer Adrien held on to her and looked at her like he wanted to kiss her.

“Mari, there you are, class starts in 10 minutes girl” the booming voice of Alya from behind broke whatever trance the two are in and Adrien’s hand quickly left Marinette’s wrist. The brunette noticed the person in front of her best friend and smirked knowingly before greeting the second person, “Oh hey Adrien, am I interrupting something?”

The blunette next to her not-so-subtly elbowed her in her sides.

“Uhh… I was just uhm” Think of something real quick “going to ask Marinette if she wanted to have lunch later” Lame

This sparked an interest in their journalist friend looking at Marinette’s reaction at the proposition, ‘Nino can’t even get his model of a best friend to hang out with him but here we have pretty boy asking Mari out to lunch. Interesting’

“Lunch huh? You mean just the two of you? Why of co-”

“Ah I kind of promised Luka to have lunch with him today, maybe tomorrow? Ah, if the offer still stands that is?” Marinette answered for herself as Alya looked at her surprised, waiting for Adrien’s reply.

“Oh that’s fine, tomorrow it is then” he smiled as he waved them a brief goodbye trying his damndest not to look disappointed at the mention of Luka.

It wasn’t an issue back then, why is it an issue now? He always was supportive of their relationship since it seems that the musician had a thing for his fashion designer friend, and they do seem happy together.

But wait, are they a thing already? He barely had time to hang out with the three of them together because of their conflicting schedules to know what’s going on. Not to mention that any free time he actually has is being booked for fittings, shoots, and interviews. Curse these monthly issues on teen magazines.

Now, he really looks forward to having lunch with her tomorrow. It’s not like he doesn’t know her a lot already, but he wishes to know her more as Marinette too. It would also be a good way to catch-up with one of his first friends from collége, albeit she seems too shy around him to talk back then, he still considers her a very good friend.

A very good friend.

That’s right, he always distanced her as just a friend because he didn’t want to get attached to her when he’s interested in Ladybug. ‘But things are going to change, now that I know who she is it’s like I can start knowing her all over again’ he thought with a determined glow within him.

“Psst, lover-boy. If you’re done with your internal monologues, the bell rang 2 minutes ago” a voice from his jacket whispered to him. Adrien realized he was staring at himself in the bathroom mirrors where his feet unknowingly led him to be alone with his thoughts.

“I really need to get this day over and done with,” he mumbled to himself.

                                                           Smack!

“Ow! what was that for?” Marinette yelled at her friend who just hit her back as soon as they met after their first class was over. Alya let out a heavy sigh before speaking, which Marinette knew she was getting an earful.

“One, I’m shocked but happy for you that you caught Adrien ‘I’m too busy to hangout’ Agreste’s attention somehow cause even Nino has trouble hanging out with him on his own; Two, how come you never told me that you’re meeting Luka today? Is there something I should know?”

The two walked side by side now, heading towards their next class together. Marinette wishes she knew the answer to the first one, especially why did he suddenly want to hang out when all the communication they had since they started Lycée were small talks here and there, and the once in a blue moon group lunches the four of them had. To top it all off, it was a lunch between the two of them only.

‘And that look he was giving me’ she thought as she recalled his flushed face, looking at her longingly like he was itching to kiss her or something.

“Earth to Mari? Are you even listening to me? Do I have to repeat everything I said?” Her friend’s fingers snapping in front of her made her realize she didn’t say anything in response to her quips.

“First,” she raised one finger “I have no idea why; Second,” she raised another “Luka just wanted to meet with me to discuss costume modifications for Kitty Section and I think there’s something else but he said it was nothing”

By that time, they were standing in front of their room. They stopped near the entrance to talk for a few more moments. Alya pondered with two fingers rubbing her chin, she then nodded taking in what her friend just told her “Makes sense, makes sense.  Except for one thing though”

Confused, Marinette raised a brow and looked at her friend expectantly “Which is?”

“The fact that your 3 year crush just asked you out?!” Alya suddenly freaked with exaggerated hand gestures, like what she just said was groundbreaking. She grabbed Marinette by the shoulders and shook her, “Do you know what this means?!”

Before Marinette could open her mouth to say anything, her friend answered her own question. “It means he’s into you, girl” she stopped shaking the poor girl when their professor coughed to get their attention as he went inside, signaling both girls to do so.

“Pffft… as if” the blunette scoffed dismissively as they walked inside the classroom, “besides why now?”

“I honestly don’t know, maybe the gods humored you for once and gave you a new shot with Adrien” Alya joked as they both sat down.

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