A Compromise

A little walk

Marinette POV

As I walked down the sidewalk, I took the longer route so I could sit on the benches and view the streets of Paris. I heard a small thud behind me, and I jumped as a black figure appeared in front of me. If I were Ladybug, this person would have been already thrown over my shoulder.

I calmed down once I saw his pearly green eyes staring at me. "Hey Princess, taking in the view?"

I did a breathy laugh and looked around. "Yeah, but what are you doing here? What if someone sees us?"

"We will be fine, besides, I needed to get out. If I stayed inside for one minute longer, I just might have popped."

"The great hero, Chat Noir, popped," my mouth made a popping sound and we both laughed, "because he couldn't go outside and flirt with the poor damsel in distress."

"It would be torture without you, Purrrincess." He out longed the word just to emphasize the pun.

"And it would be torture to listen to one more pun," my hand reached out and booped his nose and I started to walk again.

"Hey! Don't leave me!" Chat run up until he reached me and walked at my pace. "How about we go to the movies, or to a cafe, or..." he paused as he realized that I had stopped in my place to look at a sign.

The place was very bright and had cat signs everywhere. A cat cafe. Funny

I turned to him in amusement and walked inside. He followed suite.

Once the woman inside saw us, she opened the gate, saying that it was free because he was a hero. "Purrrrks of being a hero."

"Oh, shut up, Kitty." 

We sat in there and made jokes. People stared at us, probably because he was a hero with a citizen girl, but also because we were kind of stealing all of the cats.

"Wow, I didn't know that the miraculous attract their animal. They're all latched onto you." I said and pet one of them. Since not all of them could fit on his lap, they also laid on mine. One black cat with green eyes in particular wanted nothing to do with Chat Noir and just purred in my lap.

I giggle and pet him. I look over to see Chat pouting.

"What?"

"You never pet me." He crosses his arms.

"You little attention seeker. I'll do it when we are in private, not in public, you weirdo." I stuck out my tongue.

He smirked, "Oh, so you'd only do certain things to me in private..."

My face blushed and I continued to pet the cat.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE BOYS? I can't keep shutting down every time they flirt, but ADRIEN FLIRTED WITH ME! And then Chat Noir had to make it all worse and flirt even MORE! 

They just might be the death of me.

"Stop being weird."

"Can't, Princess."

I feel the collar of the cat and look at it.

"Unclaimed

Name- Cherry

Sex- Male

Age- 2 years"

The cat looks up at me and I stare right into those green eyes.

"Chat"

"Yes"

"I want this cat." I get up and sign the papers and use my credit card.

The woman looked at me questioningly. "Are you sure you want Cherry. He's a tough on-" She was cut off as I picked up the cat and smiled as I officially signed the papers, and she went to get his stuff.

(as you can tell, I have no idea how to adopt a cat, let's just say that it was this easy)

The walk home was cheerful as I went to buy cat food and a bed.

Chat just looked at me as if I stabbed him.

"WHY DO YOU NEED THAT CAT WHEN YOU HAVE ME!?" He laid on my bedroom floor and whined.

"Hush, I have parents' downstairs."

"And are your parents okay with you having a cat? If it's the purring, I can purr t-"

I put a hand over his mouth.

"My parents always told me to get a pet, I was actually going to do that next weekend, but since you were there, I walked in." I set up Cherry's stuff and made sure to keep it away from Tikki's hiding spot.

"Cherry's eye color reminds me of someone."

He looked at the cat and then you. "He's a black cat with green eyes." He pointed at himself. "Hmmm... I wonder who would be so similar."

"Adrien."

"Hm?"

"The eyes remind me of Adrien," I sigh.

"Do you still like him?"

"Yes- w-wait... no- maybe... ummm. UGH! Wait- what I mean is that he still hasn't outright asked me yet and I don't really know if he's just flirting because he knows that I will get flustered or if it's because he actually wants to woo me."

He stares at the ceiling and nods.

"Marinette?"

"Yes?"

"Can I kiss you?"

'Why did he just ask?' Is what I was thinking after 5 minutes of Chat Noir blowing wind in my face after I just went through a whole thinking process.

"...Sorry! I just- I just said that because I wanted to know if you would want that or if that was with Adrien. Sorry! Sorry!"

I looked into his eyes.

His really were like the Cat's, it's funny. Maybe I was seeing Chat Noir.

I grabbed his face and brought it closer to mine.

We just sat in that position for a while. Nobody knew what to do, who would be the first to move, or who would break it.

"Can I?" He asked again, we were so close that I could feel his breath on my face.

"Stop asking."

He closed the distance.

It was a sweet kiss, experimental almost. Like we didn't know what to do or how to move. Then some sort of wild side of me took over and I pushed as to the chaise, so I was sitting in his lap and kissing him. I molded right into him as the kiss deepened.

We backed away at the same time, knowing that if they went any further, hell would break loose to the chaise.

I laid my head on his shoulder and just sat it there.

"That. Was. Amazing! My princess is such an amazing kisser. I hope that doesn't mean that you've done it before."

"Nope, just doing what felt right." I smiled and he smiled back at me.

It was comforting, to just sit in his arms. We watched a movie and then he had to go, and I gave him a goodbye kiss that he returned with a goofy smile.

Well shit. I like Chat Noir.