MariChat: Soul Link (SoulMates AU)

A Grateful Heart

Time certainly had not helped Marinette feel better about her encounter with Adrien as Ladybug. In fact, it had had the exact opposite effect. That morning she felt so anxious, so worried, so upset and so freaking scared of seeing him again that day.

She just had to name-drop herself, didn't she? She just had to do that.

What the hell had she been thinking?!

"Nooooooooo..." Marinette cried softly and slightly dramatically into the pillow she was hugging tightly onto, kicking her feet back and forth underneath her bed sheets. "Oh God, he's going to hate me, isn't he? Ooooh, what if he decides that I'm some sort of weird creepy stalker that keeps watching him and following him and I start to creep him out so he tries to stay away from me as much as he possibly can and then everyone thinks that I upset him and he starts to hate me for it?!" Her mouth moving about a thousand times faster than her brain was thinking, she began rambling illogical, improbably things that made perfect sense in her worried mind. "He-e-e-elp meeeeeee!"

"Calm down, Marinette." Tikki tried to reassure her human partner in her usual tender manner. "You know Adrien isn't that kind of person, don't you?"

"You don't get it Tikki!" Marinette responded. "I've never seen him like this, ever! He was so cold, so uncaring... Oh God, I feel like I've really just screwed up and made matters worse..."

"You were trying to help, Marinette. I'm sure that Adrien will understand."

"But what if he didn't want me to try and help? I - Oh noooo..."

She'd have to apologize. She'd have to do that the second she saw him, provided she could get past tripping over her own tongue for long enough to apologize to the model. She'd have to pour her heart out in apology, essentially, and pray that he would be understanding.

If she ever needed her powers of good luck, it was today, above all other days.

Plagg wasn't good with emotions. He knew that, Adrien knew that. That was fine. They understood one another fairly well. They joked around, and threw banter back and forth between one another. They knew what made the other one tick. So that meant that Plagg knew Adrien was absolutely shattered by the fact Ladybug wasn't his soulmate, at least from the current perspective.

So it certainly came as a surprise to the Kwami that Adrien seemed to be a lot better the next day.

Adrien had awoke and had slept well, as opposed to the previous nights all nighter with a billion thoughts spiraling throughout his brain. He looked more rested, and seemed to be more positive. He didn't stare at the ceiling for hours on end, nor did he seem to mope around, or seem to dread going to school that same day.

He looked... Fine. And Plagg wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.

"Kid, you alright?" The magical creature asked his human master, hovering a few feet from his face. While he wasn't an expert on emotions or humans, that wasn't to say he knew nothing about the subject matters. One thing he did know was that heartbreak was not cured this quickly, nor did it heal at this superhuman speed.

"Yeah, Plagg, I'm fine. Why?" Adrien replied, sounding like his normal self. Not his low, monotone, chronically depressed voice, but his usual more energetic voice back in his words.

The Kwami looked somewhat shaken by this. Adrien wasn't one to bounce back this quickly. underneath the exterior he put up around himself, he was a sensitive kid, and rather emotional at times. He had dedicated himself solely to Ladybug, and the idea of falling in love with anyone else had seemed alien to him.