Five weeks later
Marinette and Adrien agreed that they needed continue kwami counseling. They each were messes and knew they still had a lot to work through. Plus, it was time together, spilling secrets the other may not have been privy too and strengthening their bond in the process.
However, it was halfway through this week’s counseling session that Marinette felt positively sick to her stomach.
“Marinette?”
Oh, was it her turn to talk? “I… sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.”
With a concerned expression, Adrien reached for her hands. “Are you feeling all right? You look really pale.”
Marinette nodded, but the second she shifted on the couch, her stomach roiled and she began adamantly shaking her head.
Next thing she knew, she was running toward the bathroom.
“Marinette!”
She barely lifted the lid to the toilet before her stomach emptied all its contents into it. Adrien was by her side soon enough, pulling her hair out of the way and rubbing her back soothingly.
Eventually, her stomach had nothing left to give up. Feeling exhausted and sweaty, she reached up to flush the toilet, making it disappear.
“Better?” Adrien asked, not stopping the soothing circles on her back.
She gave a nod, unable to answer.
“Do you want some water?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay,” he said, standing up. “Do you want to stay here, or do you want me to help you to bed?”
She thought about moving, but that sounded very unappealing. “Stay here.”
“Okay.” He pressed a kiss to the top of her head before walking out of the bathroom toward the kitchen.
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“Plagg,” Tikki said, looking off toward the bathroom where her charge had bolted off to.
“Yeah, Tikki?”
“Adrien agreed to go to the store today, right?”
Plagg looked at her suspiciously. “Why?”
“I need you to get something.”
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When Adrien came back from the store, Marinette was feeling well enough to help put everything away.
“Thank you, bugaboo.”
“Of course, kitty.”
“I’m just glad you’re feeling better.”
“Yeah,” Marinette said, grabbing the bag full of bathroom supplies. “Me too.”
Adrien shot her a smile just as she headed toward the bathroom, but this time to put stuff away. She was halfway done when she pulled out an item she knew wasn’t on the list.
“Adrien?”
“Yeah?”
She appeared into the kitchen, holding up the little rectangular box. “Ummm… are you trying to tell me something?”
His brow furrowed as he stared at the item. “I didn’t get that.”
“I did,” Plagg piped up, looking at Adrien. “You’re so clueless; you didn’t even notice I slipped that in.”
Adrien’s eyes narrowed at his kwami. “I’ll keep that in mind.”
“But… why?” Marinette asked, waving the box in the air in front of her.
“I asked Plagg to,” Tikki piped in. “I have my suspicions.”
Suddenly, both Marinette and Adrien showed a little more interest in the box.
“You… you think?” Marinette asked.
“When was the last time you or Adrien used contraceptive?”
Marinette’s eyes locked on Adrien’s. They were blushing bright red within seconds because the answer very well could be “not recently enough.”
Partly to hide out of sheer embarrassment, Marinette slipped back down the hall to the bathroom, where she shut the door and took the test.
Before she could find out what the test said, she walked out of the bathroom to finish helping Adrien put the rest of the things away, only to find him right outside the bathroom.
“Well?” he asked.
“I don’t know yet,” she said, siding up to him. “We have to wait.”
His expression fell and his gaze hit the ground. “Oh.”
There was a silence between them.
Slowly, Marinette reached out to slide her hand into his. “What do you want it to be?”
With a confused hum, Adrien looked back at her.
She took a breath. “Do you want it to be positive or negative?”
His brow furrowed. “What kind of question is that?”
Words got caught in her throat for a moment. “I… we just put us back together.”
“So?”
Again, words got caught in her throat, but this time they stayed there.
Adrien smiled. “M'lady,” he said, grabbing her other hand and squeezing tightly. “We may have just put us back together, but frankly, I don’t think we’re falling apart any time soon. Not when we both are willing to put in extra work to make sure we don’t end up where we had been. And…” he sighed. “I know we’ve talked about a family before we got married. You know I want one, particularly with you. The fact there could be a baby makes me positively ecstatic.”
She looked at him and his unabashed smile. And she couldn’t help but laugh at him. “You are such a dork.”
“Your dork,” he corrected. “And your husband, and possibly the father of your child.”
Something warmed in her at that. She’d always wanted to be a mother, and now, at the prospect of finally being one…
She glanced behind her at the bathroom.
“You think it’s done yet?” he asked.
“Possibly.”
“Then let’s go see.”
Together, hand in hand, they walked into the bathroom to look at the little pregnancy test on the counter.
And those two lines they saw caused immense joy in the Agreste household.
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The love dare
Random⚓After Hawkmoth was defeated, Adrien and Marinette are both hurt, leaving their marriage strained. Worried, Tikki and Plagg decided to take matters into their own hands by issuing a series of dares in an attempt to help their charges fix their marri...
