Marichat May 2020

Marichat Day 4 || Thief

Marinette was going to kill that silly, thieving, cat.

She ripped the pictures of Adrien off of her walls, throwing them into the recycling bin.

There was a thump noise from the ceiling, signifying that Cat Noir had arrived.

"Hey there, Purr-in-"

"Get over here, you thief!" Marinette cut him off.

Her tone frightened Cat Noir, as his ears went flat against his head.

"Thief? I didn't do any-"

"I said get over here!"

He scrambled to obey her, almost tripping over himself in his haste.

"What did I do?" He asked nervously.

Marinette threw a pillow at him, hitting him square in the chest. Cat Noir let out a "Mmph!".

"How could you not know?!" Yelled Marinette, clearly frustrated with him.

"Listen, this is all some big misunderstanding. I'm sure if we just sit down, calmly, we can work this out." He tried to reason.

Cat Noir expected another pillow to be launched at him, and was surprised when Marinette sat down on the ground in front of him instead. She was fuming, though. Cat swallowed and mentally kicked himself for whatever he had done to his princess to make her like this.

He sat down, facing her. "Alright, first of all, why are you mad at me?"

"Because you're a thief."

Cat Noir sighed. "How am I a thief?"

"You stole. That makes you a thief." She pointed an accusing finger at him.

"And what did I steal?"

Marinette looked away, muttering an answer under her breath.

"What did you say?"

Marinette turned to face him. "Y-you stole..." She mumbled the second half of the sentence, so it was unintelligible.

"Marinette," He said softly. "I can't fix this if you don't tell me what I did. I'll ask again: What did I steal?"

"M-my heart. You stole my heart."

Well, he wasn't expecting that. How was he supposed to fix this now!?

But the better question was: Did he really want to fix this?

"Why are you so upset?" He asked, genuinely confused.

"You promise you won't laugh?"

"I promise." Cat Noir answered.

"Okay," She took a moment to breathe before launching into her explanation. "You see, there's this boy, his name is Adrien Agreste-"

Cat Noir's breath hitched when he heard his name, but he tried to disguise it as a cough.

"I-I've been in love with him since he lent me his umbrella to use when it started raining. He's so sweet and kind to everyone, I couldn't help but fall for him, or so I thought.

"Then you came along." She sighed, as though talking about this exhausted her. "Cat Noir, I-I really like you."

Cat Noir was silent, the though of Marinette falling for him twice, as both Cat Noir and Adrien, sinking in.

"You probably think this is all silly-"

"No, no. I don't." He'd been chasing after Ladybug this whole time, and she never showed any interest towards him, romantically at least. But here was Marinette, who loved both sides of him. He'd been so blinded by his love for Ladybug, he'd never noticed. But if he had, he would've fallen too.

Like he was now.

Maybe it was time to move on from Ladybug.

He opened his arms out, inviting her into his embrace. Marinette crawled onto his lap, hugging him back and closing her eyes, content.

"I like you too."

"This doesn't stop you from being a thief, you know." She said.

"I know." He murmured against her hair, resting his head on top of hers.

"But you're my thief."

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