Miraculous Ladybug AU- Soulmates

Chapter 2 - Happy Birthday, Kitty

Adrien's day hadn't been the best.

First, when he got to school, it was apparent that Marinette had gotten her mark, yet she seemed incredibly reluctant to let anyone see it. It made Adrien wonder, had Marinette gotten a mark of someone she didn't want as her soulmate? Was that even possible?

Soulmates were supposed to be the better half of someone, someone who will always be there for, the person you are destined to love. It made Adrien think about his own mark. What would he get? Needless to say, he wanted his soulmate to be Ladybug. Ladybug had already gotten her mark. So would she know if he was his soulmate? He could actually be her soulmate, but just his civilian form!

His father never really talked about soulmates. He always changed the topic, or said he was too busy to talk about it. That meant that Adrien wasn't the most educated about soulmates, but he was still excited to see his mark. His seventeenth birthday was next week, and he was wondering what his mark would look like.

He sat down on his bed and began to Google everything there was to know about soulmates and soulmate marks.

'A soulmate may be the person you least expect,' he read after typing in the question Can you get a soulmate who you don't like?

It turned out that people did get soulmates that they didn't always like, but they always learned to love them. You never got a soulmate who you didn't end up with at some point in your life. You may have fights, and break up, but you always come back to each other.

His heart instantly warmed at the thought. He hoped, with all of his power, that his soulmate was Ladybug. Ladybug and Chat Noir had to be meant to be together - right?

A week later, Adrien woke up excited. Today was his birthday and the day he would get his soulmate mark.

"Happy Birthday, Adrien! I brought you a present!" Plagg said.

"Plagg, if it's cheese, then I'll be more than happy for you to eat it," Adrien said, searching his skin for his soulmate mark. He was becoming more and more anxious by the second to find it.

"Well in that case," Plagg said, taking an especially smelly piece of cheese - his most prized camembert - that he had saved for Adrien. He popped it in his mouth.

Meanwhile, Adrien was searching all over his body, but couldn't find it.

"Plagg, can you help me find my mark?" Adrien asked pleadingly.

"You can't find it?" Plagg asked.

"No, I can't, so please help me, Plagg!" Adrien exclaimed.

"Fine," Plagg said. He flew around Adrien once.

"It's on the side of your bicep," he said.

Adrien ran to the mirror and looked at the mark. His excited expression instantly slid off.

It was a pink M in cursive. His soulmate wasn't his lady. It wasn't the love of his life. Who was his soulmate? Who was represented by an M? Was it anyone he knew?

"You okay, kid?" Plagg asked, noticing his expression.

"My soulmate isn't Ladybug," he said, sitting slowly back onto his bed. He didn't examine the mark further.