Four Couples, Same Habits

Inseparable

[Inseparable is property of Thorne Rosewood.]

"Marinette!" Chat yelped, running towards his Ladybug. He grabbed her into a tight hug, knocking her off his feet.

"Kitty," she replied softly. "You're back."

"I'm always here," he assured her. "I'm just...so sorry I succumbed to Hawkmoth's evil. I promised you that I wouldn't fight you."

Tears fell from his eyes. Ladybug placed a finger on his cheek, and stopped them. "I don't care that you broke your promise. I don't care that I had to fight you. All I care about, is the fact that you're okay." She gushed, stroking her fingers through his hair.

"You get away from my son," Hawkmoth growled. Chat blinked his tears away and looked at his father, eyes narrow and teeth clenched. "Make another move on him and I will take him out of school, prevent him from seeing his friends, lock him up."

Ladybug immediately let go of Chat.

"Even though I saved you, it doesn't reverse that you and I can't be how we were. I love you so much. I'd hate seeing you locked up. You're afraid of that. I'd rather see you happy than miserable." She admitted softly.

His tears came back.

He stood, and pulled her back to him.

"What are you doing?!" She hissed.

"He said he'd lock me up if you made a move on me. But it appears that nothing will happen if I make a move on you."

Ladybug's expression softened into a knowing smile. He cupped his hands around her ear.

"Midnight, tonight."

She nodded, then left him.

"Adrien Agreste, you-"

Chat smirked.

"Hey, look!" He shouted. "It's Hawkmoth in the flesh!"

People immediately got out of their cars, getting their cell phones. It took no time for the villain to be surrounded, not only by curious civilians and paparazzi, but the government.

"Hawkmoth," an officer started.

Chat tore off his father's miraculous. "Gabriel Agreste," he corrected sassily, then left the scene.

"Gabriel Agreste, you are under arrest for taking the role of Hawkmoth, causing destruction to the city, and damage to the city."

Gabriel growled. "I am a fashion mogul! You cannot do this to me!"

"Mogul or not, what you did was wrong!" Someone accused.

"Yeah! Jail, jail, jail, jail, jail!" A chant started, and everyone cheered whenever the cuffs went around his wrists.

[Inseparable]

"Marinette!" Sabine exclaimed. "Sweetie, you have company!"

"I do?" Marinette asked.

"Bonsoir, belle princesse." Adrien purred.

"Adrien!" She squealed loud enough to break all glass in the entire universe. Despite how she ran into him and knocked him into a counter, he accepted her hug.

"We heard how his father got imprisoned." Tom explained. "He came here not too long after."

"Your father? Imprisoned? How did that happened?"

"A little bird shouted that he was there, in the flesh, then waddled off the scene."

"Oh." She said.

"You'll always have a home here, Adrien. Always with us, wherever we go."

Adrien smiled warmly at Marinette's parents, then got pulled down into a kiss.

His face flamed red. He always kissed Marinette, but in front of anyone else? Not so much.

She pulled away with a giggle.

"I love you." She told him.

"I love you more."

"It isn't possible when the whole universe is filled with my love for you."

Adrien opened his mouth, then got stuck trying to figure out a way to top her comment. He frowned.

"Dang it, Mari."

"You two are so lovey dovey," Sabine gushed. "You two are welcome to go upstairs."

Adrien looked at Marinette. It was all in his face that he very much wanted to go upstairs, but was too nervous to make a move in front of her parents.

"Come on, Adrien."

She pulled him out of the bakery and to the stairs leading to their apartment.

"Do you remember the feeling?" She asked softly, sitting on a table stool. Adrien got on one, too.

"The feeling of what?"

"You know...akuma." She answered.

"Oh...I remember losing control and regaining it after I was purified." He answered. "Why?"

"No reason, really. I just wanted to see if I wasn't the only one who remembered you be I so scared and overwhelmed with stress. You didn't want to fight me, you didn't want to fight your father. So you were on your knees. You were crying. You were charging a cataclysm that destroyed all of Europe. Then you released it, and everything was turned into stone, knocked over, submerged in water."

"I did that?"

"Yeah. I'm happy that I have the memory rather you. You come down on yourself really hard already. I don't need you continuing that, had you remembered."

"I...thank you, m'lad—I mean, Mari."

Marinette sighed.

"Is it true that you don't love me anymore?" He asked softly.

"No...I always loved you. I always will. I do today. I did yesterday, and I will tomorrow. My love is infinite. Nothing could destroy it."

"Then why'd you come to tell me that you didn't? Were you trying to akumatize me?!"

"Adrien, no! Of course not! I just...your father told me that I had to because my relationship with you was detrimental to the Agreste brand, company, all the way down to the name, and that if it continued, that he'd be forced to pull you from school and lock you up. So I came and told you that my love no longer existed, and I was so hurt for hurting you that I...I...almost..."

Tears fell down her face. She covered her mouth and sobbed.

Adrien pulled her close to him, and started running his fingers through her hair.

"Shh, shh...hush, princess. No more of that talk."

"But..."

"My lady," he said. "Relax. You're alright. I've got you."

"I almost got akumatized, I almost failed everyone."

"Stop it, Mari. Stop talking about it. Stop beating yourself up. I know you aren't pleased that you had to end our relationship unfairly, because my father wanted to akumatize you, and he almost did. But you know what? We're not just unstoppable as a team, or individuals, but we're inseparable. I won't ever leave you."

Marinette wrapped her arms around him. "Are we back together then?"

"Who said we were ever apart?"