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Pancakes

Adrien just hesitated, not sure what to say or do, before blurting out: "Aren't you here to see my Father?"

Maria giggled, shaking her head, "I mean, yes, I am, however I've heard you were a fan so I decided to come early." She explained, her brown eyes looking into Adrien's green eyes.

"B-But you're here, like, two hours early!" Remarked Adrien, not sure how to take this information.

"I'm aware, Adrien, I decided to come early to see you." Maria said, glancing away for a moment, noticing Plagg, "And to ask you about something important." She added.

"Oh, uh, okay. Why don't you come into my room?" Said Adrien, feeling a little bit awkward. What could be of so much importance about him...?

Adrien lets Maria into his room, which she looks around in some amazement based on how it is. Normally she wouldn't be so amazed, but she has only ever really been in hotels and such, making it hard to not be in delight of an actual bedroom, despite it not being hers.

"This room looks great, Adrien-San." Maria stated, glancing around before looking back at him, "I've been too busy traveling and such to have an actual place to stay... It's nice seeing something that isn't a hotel room for once, you know."

Adrien smiled and laughed slightly, "Ah makes sense I guess. I bet hotel food tastes better then my Father's pancakes," He said, looking at Maria and her curly brunette hair.

And she couldn't help but laugh. She's heard of how Gabriel Agreste's pancakes aren't great, it's hilarious in her mind, "Oh, your Father's cooking must be awful if your comparing it to hotel food," She said in-between laughs.

Adrien couldn't help but get a bit flustered about the fact she actually found his pathetic attempt of a joke funny, "Y-yeah, it's not all that great..."

Maria couldn't help but notice how Adrien is flustered, and she smiles at it, "Ah, now the important thing I needed to talk to you about is-"

"PHOBBE!!!!!!!" Yelled Plagg, coming out of hiding, along with Phobbe, and he hugs her, "IT'S BEEN SO LONG! I thought I would never see you again!"

Both Miraculous Holders were speachless for a moment at Plagg's burst. Adrien looked so confused and lost, Phobbe was just giggling, and Maria quickly started to laugh.

"Plagg, as dramatic as always. Nice to know you have yet to change." Said Maria, smiling at Plagg.

"Oh, well, uhm... It's nice to meet you too, Mage." Said Plagg, not having a witty comeback this time around.

"You can just call me Maria, or Seraphina, Plagg... Ah, I was going to tell you Chat Noir, but Plagg here decided to be an intrusive little thing." Maria said, glaring at Plagg, who was still holding Phobbe tightly.

"Ah, uh... What?" Said Adrien dumbfounded. How does she know his secret identity? "H-How do you, uhm...."

"Know your identity, well firstly anyone with at least an ounce of common sense can figure out both of you and Ladybug's identity," stated Maria, as Phobbe finally got out of Plagg's grasp and got a piece of crossant to eat, "And secondly I'm the Mage/Creator of the Miraculouses. And I trained Su-Han to be Celestial Guardian, so I'm quite aware of the past, present, and future Miraculous Holders."

Plagg looked giddy, and excitedly stated, "That's right! Oh, it's been so long and, wait..." Plagg paused and thought for a long moment, before speaking with concern and sadness, "You never outright appear to Miraculous Holders except if they did something very, very wrong."

And now was Adrien's turn to be confused and sad, "Wait, I swear I didn't do anything wrong!" He exclaimed in sadness. Meanwhile, Phobbe was still taking her sweet time eating.

Maria just looked at Plagg, then looked at Adrien, and then started to laugh slightly, "Oh, no, no, no. No one did anything wrong, Plagg. I just thought I could pay a little visit since Chat Noir had "grown up" and his superpowers evolved. Secondly, you truly wasn't given much instruction about the Miraculous, however I'm glad with time you did find out about them. Phobbe also wanted to meet Plagg again, since it's been a while." Maria said, slowly starting to calm down.

Both Adrien and Plagg were dumbfounded, a bit surprised, before Phobbe finally finished eating and flew over to Adrien's side, "Hello, Adrien Agreste, my name's Phobbe, and I'm the Kwami of Imagination and Restoration. It would be Fantasy and Stability but it doesn't follow the -ion pattern sadly," Phobbe stated, a bit formal at first but turning slightly sad at that last part, before rebounding back to her usual, energetic self, "Oh well, anyways~, how are you doing, Kit-Cat?"

"Phobbe, his name isn't 'Kit-Cat', it's Chat Noir," said Maria with annoyance, a bit fustrated at the fact Phobbe is already giving him a nickname. Knowing Phobbe she's probably only ever going to say his name like that now."

"It's okay, Maria, I really don't mind. It's, uh, nice to meet you too Phobbe," Adrien said, yeah of course HE was fine with it. He wasn't living with this annoying being that is somehow considered a Kwami.

Phobbe giggled hysterically for a moment before suddenly stopping mid-giggle and hidding back in Maria's purse. Nathalie came into the room a second later, seeing Maria signing an album for Adrien, smiling. Meanwhile Adrien was just standing there a bit stunned, and a bit surprised with how quickly Maria and Phobbe covered their tracks...

"There you go, Adrien, and, oh! Sancoeur-san, what is it?" Maria asked with a pleasant smile, as if just a moment ago she wasn't talking to Adrien about the Miraculous, "Is Mr. Agreste ready?"

Nathalie glanced between the two, and cleared her throat before speaking, "Yes, Miss Maria, Gabriel is ready."

"Great!" exclaimed Maria, before turning to Adrien and handing him the album she just signed, "It was nice to meet you, Adrien, hope we can meet again some other time." She smiled a bit playfully before resuming her formality she had put on with Nathalie and left his room, going to Gabriel Agreste's office.