Taken by Control (Mircaualus Soulmate AU)

You're Mine Even if it's Fake

Marinette never looked at her feet. She refused to believe it was anything other than a dream. Even though Chat hadn't told her to, she didn't tell anyone about her dreams. Though she had to question if it even was a dream, in most of her dreams she had freedom, not her cruse, or rather gift. Maybe she had turned Chat into what she was afraid Adrien would turn into? After all, The dreams only happened at Adrien's and her house. She had no answer. After all, Chat acted the same online and Adrien never acted like she was missing when she woke up from the dream. So unless Adrien was in on it then it had to be a dream right?

When the gang's grad was only a month away and Marinette had agreed to make the dresses and suits. Even though she'd been working on all four for a few two months already, as she got them more assembled, her room at the bakery really didn't offer much space for them to all be out nicely. So Adrien agreed to help her move her sewing stuff over to their new place and he made sure she had what she needed to do a good job on the dresses and suits especially since he had to beg his father to let her make his grad suit. He gave her a key so she no longer felt let she needed him to go into their house.

It was bout two weeks till grad and everyone's outfits where grad ready, and Marinette felt safe in the house and wasn't scared of her Chat dreams anymore. The gang gathered at there table. "So I asked Father and he agreed to let us use his best photographer for our grad photos as long as we use some of them as promo for My Lady Fashion brand announcement. They will take place on grad day before our class photo so let's all meet at our place at say 10? The photographer will take photos of us getting ready and then he's got some time over schedule after the class photo if we need it." Adrien shared happily.

"Dude that's great! We should definitely get some photos at this table." the girls giggled in agreement at Nino's comment.

The sound of Marinette's giggle made Adrien get lost in thought, he needed to give Mari a reason to agree to be his girlfriend even if it was fake. He needed to find a way to scare her into agreeing before grad and before the group's photoshoot... Then they could take some cute couple photos and share them with the public and have it be official before grad.

"Adrien would you be okay with that?" Mari's voice broke through his thoughts.

"I'm sorry I was thinking about something, what did you say." he looked at the girl next to him, who rolled her eyes.

"Ayla was saying she'd like to make workspace tour for her ladyblog since I'm set up at our place for that anyway, she would do a q and a with me. She would release it after the photos were made public. You technically control my brad so I don't want to do anything that would make it look bad."

His eyes widen, oh Mari you had just given me the opportunity I needed. "That's perfect! I think it would be good for you to show love to your most loyal supporter. After all, her blog is a great publicity point for your brand, I was going to ask Ayla to keep it up. I'm not going to offer to pay you for it as that would make it less authentic. But I do think the blog is great and you should keep it up."

"Thanks, Adrien! Wait, you've read my blog?"

"Well of course. I was quite smitten with My Lady Fashion even before I knew Mari was the girl behind the mask. So your blog was my place for info." Adrien shrugged as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

"Dude, how long did you know that?" Nino was shocked, Ayla had a knack for this kinda thing and even she couldn't figure it out! Ayla sat slack-jawed.

"Guys I'm literally the guy who sees everything, I've known for about a year, she's my best friend, I know everything about her. So I knew she didn't want anyone to know so I kept it to myself. But I showed my Father her Instagram account and website, and I told him if I could find the girl behind the fashion I would hire her for what I want to turn Agrest Industries into." He smiled proudly.