Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir- Season 4, Ep. 18.7 Mister Noir

Both: part 6

Over the course of the night, many people arrived and filled the Dupain-Cheng house with laughter and comaraderie. Adrien was cooed over, embraced, joked with, and praised all evening.

Plagg was openly greeted, and while Adrien didn't see who all they arrived with, a fair few Kwamis seemed to show up throughout.

Very little was said about their own lives, though Adrien could see some definite groupings throughout the night, and several toddlers and babies appeared for him to hold and admire or play with.

Mylène and Ivan's beautiful, round-faced boy took to showing Adrien every interesting thing he found all night, needing Adrien's opinion on it all.

Manon took a photo of something and would have to be told not to post it anywhere all over again and made to constrain herself to giving them all to just the friends present.

"Dude! Is that you?!" Nino's shocked, older face said from atop enormously pumped shoulders, at least a foot higher than Adrien was used to.

"Nino?! What happened to you?"

"What happened to me? Me? This baby Adrien is really standing here where my bro should be asking ME why I'm not the way I should be?"

Adrien laughed. Of all the people present, Nino was the one who was definitely already his friend, and he was deeply pleased to have him there.

"Has it been fifteen years already?" Alya asked. "Girl, where'd that go?" She turned to Marinette and they shared one of their looks. "So we finally get to see what you were up to this side! A party. I guess I should have known. I had expected some sort of huge adventure, the way you'd get all mysterious and happy."

"I expected a quiet night thrown into confusion," Marinette laughed. "He'd told me we were doing a jigsaw puzzle when he arrived."

"What were you doing when he arrived?"

"Uhh--"

"Nino?! Is there a baby in there?!" Adrien skillfully and genuinely asked here, spying the bundle Nino was swinging in a car seat.

Nino's face took on a soft, proud look and he brought the seat up to be seen more fully. "Adrien, my dude, meet my little girl... again."

And Adrien was filled with a deep joy he hadn't felt before, putting his finger into the tiny palm of what was instantly his new favourite human.

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Mister Noir stayed for a very short time, overall, even though he was obviously feeling welcome and jovial, and Tom, Sabine, and Marinette could not get him to stay longer.

"No, I really must be going. I should probably see how I can help with any stray problems left from the sentimonster, now that the reporters will have cleared out a bit. I'd hate to have Bunnyx accuse me of slacking off when really it was better I wasn't there to keep the area clear."

"Oh, that's true!" Sabine awed, "I guess it was useful to hide inside with us for a little while then."

Marinette and Tikki swapped looks.

"I've had a wonderful dinner, thank you all kindly, my compliments to the chef," Noir was saying as he rose and went to the door. "Just keep an eye out for Kitten Noir, would you? He could use a few good people on his side these days."

The Dupain-Cheng's looked surprised to hear it. "Of course, Mister Noir. Cat Noir will always have friends here, we'll make sure he knows that."

"Why, after things didn't work out with him and our Marinette--" Marinette was suddenly red and turned to hide her face, a definite groan that sounded a little like the word 'dad' squealed from her unmoving mouth, "--I still offered him the chance to train as a baker with me!"

Mister Noir's green eyes shimmered adoringly. "I remember," was all he said.

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"Well need to work on two fronts, simultaneously," Gabriel was saying to Nathalie over the video call from his office.

"I can use the peacock miraculous to recreate Timeless using your watch, Nathalie. It will lay in wait, obeying your command discretely.
"Then I can go to the press release on the rescheduling of the fashion shoot in person tonight. That way, if this future Mister Noir does know my identity, we'll lure him out one way or another."

Nathalie looked disturbed. "It's a risky plan sir, what if he uses the wish to terminate you?"

Gabriel rumbled a thoughtful noise. "I think there is one thing Cat Noir wants more than to defeat me, Nathalie.
"Cat Noir is desperately in love with Ladybug. If he wants anything, it will be either her return affections or her life spared. We need to have Ladybug as bait in our trap first."