“Merry Christmas, Chat Noir.”
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Adrienette
“Merry Christmas, super Marinette.” Marinette stood frozen in front of the nervous-looking boy, staring at him as if he’d grown a second head, trying to process his words and the weirdly shy expression on his face.
She seemed hyperaware of everything.
Of the entire class staring at them, of Chloe (for a change) not making a fuss (perhaps Pollen really was a good influence on her). Of Nino staring at his best friend with a weirdly proud look, like a parent would look at their child if they did something nobody believed they could. Of Juleka and Rose freezing mid-hugging due to Adrien’s words and actions. Of Mme. Bustier smiling happily and gently coaxing Nathaniel and Ivan out of their statue-like state to accept each-others presents.
Of Alya harshly bumping her hip against Marinette’s own to rip her out of the black hole she’d nearly fallen in in her state of shock.
Of the weird, adorably shy way Adrien scratched the back of his neck with his free hand with pink cheeks and big, hopeful green eyes that reminded her of Chat Noir when he gave her the ro-
Marinette nearly tripped over her own two feet if Adrien hadn’t sprung in action to grab ahold of her hands, pulling her back.
C-close.
“M-Marinette?” wait, did Adrien just stutter?
“Love present I your really!” the words were flying out of her unfiltered mouth and Marinette quickly corrected herself, “I-I mean I…” she took a deep, calming breath, “I really.. love your present Adrien!”
Out of all people, it was Chloe that whispered the words to her, “Open it!”
With surprising speed, Marinette had opened the box and pulled away the colorful, decorative paper within.
It was a beautiful pendant. Green and blue.
It was silver, in a tear-shape, big enough to see the multitude of shades and nuances of green and blue, their eye colors, within them, but small enough that it didn’t look clungy.
Marinette stared.
“Um, if you don’t like it I-I understand! I can return it no problem, I think the jeweller said that two weeks shouldn’t be a problem to return it. I-I have the receipt too, just in case, it’s uh-” Adrien fumbled with his pockets, hands sweaty and uncoordinated, unlike the usually composed and cool model.
It was their third and last year in Dupont, their friendship had grown from one sided admiration to a solid bond of trust and camaraderie, even to the point she entrusted him with her small crush on Chat Noir, to the point she, as Ladybug, had give him the Snake Miraculous once or twice as assistant superhero.
For once, Adrien Agreste was the nervous, stuttering, fidgety teenager Marinette had been the better part of her life.
She felt an odd calmness take over her when she reached forward and placed the pendant in his trembling hands, presenting her back to him with a blush as she held her hair up, “C-Can you…?” her heart wanted to jump out of her chest.
Adrien stared, dumbstruck, Nino’s kick the only thing bringing him back to the present. He carefully grabbed the ends of the pendant, carefully bringing it towards her front and pulling it close around her neck. He fumbled with the ends for a moment, until he locked them, letting the jewellry rest on her neck as she let her hair fall back in place.
Adrien felt like all the life-sustaining functions within his body shut down when she turned and presented him the view of her wearing his pendant. With their colors.
“Adrien?” Marinette’s singsong voice echoed within his mushy brain.
“Y-Yes?”
She smiled, “Thank you.”
He had never felt as alive and serene as he did and Adrien leaned forward.
Marinette was surprised at the close hug, but she returned it nonetheless, hugging him back.
What surprised her more was the sweet kiss on her cheek.
Ladrien
Adrien paced the length of his room, anxiety taking hold of him as he went through today’s events in his head.
He had tried finding a suitable present for Ladybug, but didn’t find anything remotely worthy of her. He had nothing.
What if he saw her patroling the streets with Chat Noir and standing there empty-handed?
Wait…
He was Chat Noir!
With a frustrated groan, Adrien fell on his bed, beside the gluttonous black mass of fur laying upon it with the smelly cheese abomination on a silver platter next to him. The smell had long since stopped bothering Adrien as much, either it killed all his senses of smell or he had gotten used to it.
Plagg grumbled, “I’m not going to share my cheese with you just because you’re gloomy, lover boy.”
Adrien stared at the kwami flatly, “One day, the world will stop producing cheese because you emptied them of their reserves.”
The kwami’s eyes widened as he wolfed down a sizeable piece of said delicacy, “Wow, someone’s in a mooed.” Plagg cackled, “Get it? Cheese? Cow? Mood?”
Adrien sighed, “No wonder I stopped getting good ideas for puns. It’s your fault.”
Plagg made a flabbergasted expression, holding his tiny paws over his heart, “Oh, be still my heart, he didn’t mean it.”
Adrien shook his head and absently scratched Plagg’s head, “I wonder what Ladybug’s doi-”
A sudden thud sounded on his window.
What was that? Was that an intruder?
Adrien carefully slipped off his bed, motioning for Plagg, “Plagg, get ready.” Choosing not to tell whose presence he sensed at the window, Plagg held in his giggles, folowing behind Adrien’s smooth motions along the wall.
The window opened.
“HYA-”
“A-Adrien it’s me Ladybug!”
Plagg had to stifle his laughter from beneath the bed covers he had slipped in. Adrien quickly dropped his arms from their awkward fighting position over his head, looking at the heroine in amazement, “L-Ladybug?”
He froze.
His room.
It was a mess!.
What would his lady think?
“Uh, L-Ladybug w-what-uh, what are you doing here?” Adrien pushed back the Ladybug plushie underneath his chair.
She didn’t notice, shakily holding out a small paper bag to him, “Um, I-I…w-well I, it’s uh, Christmas and I w-wanted to um…” she grinned sheepishly.
Adrien shakily accepted the bag, peering inside.
His eyes flew open.
Ladybug thought it was of disgust, “I-I’m sorry! I was looking for a Chat Noir themed one I swear but um, they didn’t have any anymore and I was looking everywhere for it but uhm- and-”
Adrien carefully pulled out the small ladybug animal plushie,a heart in the middle of its red and black spotted back with the words “Adrien” engraved on it in cursive.
“F-F-Ffor me?” Adrien blinked.
Ladybug nodded quickly, hiding her face with her hands.
Adrien’s heart nearly burst.
It even had a little yoyo hanging from one of it’s black legs beneath.
How precious.
“C-cute.”
Ladybug’s face was on fire, “A-Adrien?”
The blond didn’t notice he had been staring at her the whole time he had said it, “T-the plushie! Cute! Uh, the plushie!”
Both red faced teens looked away, before Adrien cleared his throat and looked down at her, “W-Well, what I meant to say was, the p-plushie is also c-cute…” he scratched his head in embarrassment and Ladybug froze.
“Ladybug?” Adrien rose an eyebrow, “Are you okay?”
Plagg shook his head, “You gave her a heart attack, kid. We have to bury the body.”
Adrien held the poor unconscious Ladybug in his arms, face red and hyperventilating, “P-Plagg!”
Ladynoir and Marichat will follow! Thanks for reading so far and Merry Christmas to those that celebrate!
Miraculous episode where Hawkmoth faces a bigger bad than himself and there’s a repeat of what went down on Heroes’ Day. Except they are all the non-evil akumas so you have light and good versions of each past akuma victim come together to fight. Perhaps small redesigns as well.
Copycat and Chat Noir pairing up.
Antibug and Ladybug coming together to save people before Antibug becomes Queen Wasp
Volpina begrudgingly fighting beside Rena Rouge as she will help Hawkmoth provided Ladybug goes down later
Evillustrator working with the Mime to have everyone’s back and do distance attacks
Stone heart and Befana fighting against minions either turning them to to their side or just defeating them swiftly
Dark Knight and Riposte showing all of Paris the proper use of a sword
Rogercop’s hard following of the law alongside Captain Hardrock’s constant rebellion just taking down people.
Guitar Villain and Troublemaker being the cutest couple as they help the heroes.
Sandboy making dreams instead of nightmares come true.
Chat and Ladybug barely have to do anything after the start of the battle because there is a legion of superheroes who have their back, they don’t have to worry about Hawkmoth, and there is no way this big bad is going to win.
Well, until Hawkmoth tries to steal the miraculous, Lila starts manipulating the situation, Chloe takes the spotlight telling Prime Queen to focus on her, Style Queen announcing there is only one Queen here, and Animan upset at Dark Cupid because there is no way that fake angel could out fly or dive a real eagle.