Ten Years Later
Had you asked a teenaged Marinette where she would be now in her life, she would have answered that she had the perfect life: married to Adrien and had three kids and a hamster while she worked as a fashion designer.
Well, she did work as a fashion designer, running her own company. She’d managed to rebrand Gabriel as MDC, which did wonders for increasing the popularity of the company. While yes, she did bear the Agreste name, and proudly, MDC made for some really fancy monograms.
Adrien found it hilarious.
The hamster was scrapped because there was a penchant for cats in the household.
Marinette had to put her foot down at three.
Number four was only because it was a kitten that Emma begged to nurse back to health and she couldn’t say no when her husband and her eldest ganged up on her.
There were three kids, though. There was Emma, her first and most responsible. Then Louis came along two years after that. Next, little Hugo was nearly four.
And then there was little anniversary accident that didn’t have a name yet. But, considering how severe her morning sickness, Marinette was searching for a girl’s name.
Lastly, yes, she was married to Adrien, but to say life had been easy was an outright lie. To think that one day they almost ended everything…
Marinette held her stomach while she looked toward the living room where her three other kids were playing with the cats. This almost wasn’t. Four of the most important people in her life, one she hadn’t even met yet, almost weren’t in existence.
Strong arms encircled her, protectively wrapping around her stomach and pulling her flush against a firm chest, one built from years of fencing, including—much to Marinette’s pride—on the Olympic team. Twice.
MDC may have been a very proud sponsor of one gold Olympic winner and two-time world champion.
“What’s going through that pretty little head of yours, bugaboo?” he whispered.
She sighed, snuggling deeper against him. “Have… have you ever looked at those three or thought of this one,” Marinette held his hand to her slightly bulged stomach, “and thought… that they almost didn’t exist.”
Adrien tensed at that. “Yeah, actually,” he said. “I have. Particularly when I look at Emma, knowing when she was conceived.”
Marinette blushed.
“But,” he continued, “I am so immensely grateful that Tikki and Plagg made us pull our stuff together before we did something we would regret. Heavily. Because yes, we each could have married again, had kids of our own, but knowing that… that you’re the one beside me, that you’re the mother of my children, that we are going through life and facing it together… I would have missed that. And that’s what I would have lived to regret.”
Marinette smiled as she looked toward the framed vows hanging on the wall in the living room of their larger house. They’d had to move when Hugo was born because their first house was too small for two kids. So instead of putting their vows hidden in a hallway, they put it front and center in a room where they could all see it as a reminder that their family was the most important thing in their lives. As their reminder to never give up.
Marinette reached up to grab her locket, one she wore regularly. Adrien hummed as he pulled his watch out of his pocket. Honestly, Marinette hadn’t expected him to wear it as often as he did, but Adrien never left the house without it.
“I love you,” he said, giving her a squeeze and replacing the watch. “You have no idea.”
She smirked. “Well, there are three kids in this house with another on the way. I think that should be some indication.”
Adrien chuckled. “And that right there is why I love you.”
Her smile turned sweet. “I love you, too, kitty. To the end of the world and back.”
He smiled, slipping his left hand over hers, their rings touching as he wove their fingers together. “To the end of the world and back.”
Here's the last chapter of this story, thank you everyone for reading it and i feel so sad that it the end but everything must come to an end at some point, special thanks to TheNovelArtist who did such a great job writing this story, iloveu all and have a good day/night.
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