Little levels of love | A marichat/maricat story

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Marinette's pov

I was extremely tired so I walked up to my bedroom. I shut my hatch and was walking to me bed. I stopped, thinking about what was happening. What if this is a terrible idea!? I don't even know him! What if he is a criminal, or a terrible person!? I fell to the floor and ball up, tears starting to form in my eyes. And everyone now knows! I'm dating chat noir and every single person in Paris knows!? I grabbed a pillow to catch my tears. This is horrible. I wanted to be famous but not like this.

3rd person

Adrien sat on his bed, thinking how happy this makes him.
"Kid, this is a terrible idea! Your 'girlfriend' is going to be followed everywhere just because of you! Do you want that!?" Plagg spat out his cheese as he shouted. He actually sounded serious for a change. Adrien turned his head to plagg with a worried look.
"Plagg... I'm sure she will be fine. Let things play out ok?" He opened his phone and changed his wallpaper to Marinette smiling.
"If you say so kid."

Gabriel watched the news in his office.
"Superhero 'chat noir' is in a relationship with a girl called Marinette dupain-cheng a bakers daughter. They have finally made their relationship publ-" Gabriel turned his computer off.
"Perfect.." he walked to the kitchen and poured a cup of tea.
"Gabriel what are you doing." Nathalie walked up to him.
"Chat noir is dating marinette dupain-cheng. And she is in adriens class. If we can get her over here she can reveal his identity!" Nathalie took a step back. She had to hold the counter.
"You can't do that Gabriel! She's 13! Besides how do you know he told her his identity!?" She protested, hoping he would lay it off.
"She wouldn't date him without knowing his identity! It's simple." He walked out with the cup of tea in his hand.

"Adrien." His father walked right into his room without knocking. He turned his phone upside down so he wouldn't see the pictures of marinette. He sat down on his bed.
"Father..? What do you need?" He stared at him in disbelief, Gabriel never usually comes into his room.
"You know your classmate, marinette dupain-cheng. How would you like to invite her over? Maybe a few other friends, like that nino and Alya?" He looked at him with
Shock. He smiled and hugged him.
"Really? You would let them come over?" His father nodded and walked out of his room. Adrien pulled his phone out before he left and Gabriel turned around. He saw the pictures of marinette on his phone. He then realised.

He walked to his office and slammed the door. He collapsed on the couch and laughed.
"My son, chat noir! As if!" He was laughing like crazy until he stopped suddenly. The flashbacks if adriens fingers came to him. The silver ring, the same shape as..
He threw of the red and white scarf covering the butterfly miraculous and it was what he thought.
When a miraculous is not being used but it has a holder, it camoflages itself to keep it's holder hidden. His chuckle turned into a laugh. He rubbed the butterfly miraculous, looking at the massive picture of Emilie.
"My dear, I will bring you back. I have a giant advantage." He moved his fingers to rub his wedding ring. He got up and adjusted his fingers on the painting. The platform below him lowered as it bring him with it. It revealed a sanctuary full of vegetation and butterflies. Gabriel walked up to the metal cylinder and pressed the button under it. It showed his dead wife. He was doing this for her. For Adrien. For the happiness of his family.

Adriens POV

When father told me the news that I could bring all my friends over and marinette, I picked up my phone and started to contact the group.

Adrien : GUESS WHAT!?
Nino 💯 : what dude?
Mari 🫶 : Can you finally leave the house?
Alya 🐞 : REALLY?
Adrien : No no. It's even better!
Nino 💯 : now I'm more interested!
Adrien : my father let all of you to my house! He actually mentioned marinette first!
Mari 🫶 : HUH? what did I do?
Adrien : maybe he likes you marinette! But come over quickly, I need some company.

I switched off my phone and rolled over to be on my back.
"Plagg, what has happened to my father? He's a new man," I wasn't complaining I just was shocked.
"This doesn't feel like a good thing kid. He is doing this for a reason, like why would her want marinette especially?"
He was flying around my room, pacing back and forth.
"I'm just happy that my friends can finally come ov-" A notification popped on my phone. I checked and saw it was from Marinette and I think I might of squealed.

Mari 🫶 : Hey Adrien I'm bringing some pastries so we can have some food! Tell me if you want something in particular, I've already asked the others.
Adrien : Do you have any chouquettes? I love them things!
Mari 🫶 : of course ❤️

I saw the heart and stared at it for a while. I loved talking to Marinette, it felt like you could spill your deepest darkest grittiest thoughts and she would still be there for you. God I love that girl.

Marinette's POV

I ran downstairs after seeing the message from Adrien and asked for some chouquettes, croissants and other pastries and packed them in my moped. I rode over to adrien's house and met alya and nino there.
"It's weird that his old man just gives up and lets us over like that dudettes." We all shrugged it off and pressed the doorbell. Nathalie let us in and led us to adrien's room until adrien's father stopped us.
"Miss dupain-cheng, do you mind if we have a little talk in my office?" He offered me into the room as I looked back at Nathalie's worried face. I started to get nervous as he tells me to sit down.
"So I heard you are dating the 'chat noir'! That's very interesting." I looked at him with an confused look
"Is that the reason you invited me in here?" I asked, thinking he was just curious.
"I was just wondering if- " he stopped talking. His eyes widened and I got a weird knot in my stomach. He was looking straight at my earrings. Did he just figure out my identity? No, he's probably just looking some place else.
"You know what, you remind me of my wife. She was so bubbly, just like you." He led me to the large painting of his wife. He was behind me, laying his hands on my shoulders.

3rd person

He couldn't stop looking at those earrings. He put the pieces together, her blue hair, her eyes, her height. It all matched up, he knew both chat noir and ladybugs identity. He had hit the jackpot. His hands slid off of her shoulders moving up onto her ears. He pinched the earrings and slowly took them out. He collected the jewels and put them in his breast pocket.
"You should see Adrien now. He must really want to see you. He has loads of pictures of you on his phone."

"Even his wallpaper."