A/N: there's no Ladybug, but Gabriel died after Cat Noir became a criminal. Also they are 17/18 in this AU. Adrien was in school like Marinette but couldn't go out due to how his father was.

"Good morning mom and dad," Marinette yawned, running downstairs. 

"Good morning sweetie," Sabine, her mother replied back. 

"Are you still looking for Adrien?" Tom asked, worried about his daughter's missing childhood friend.

"No papa, just thinking about something else right now,"  Marinette stubbornly replied. 

With an awkward silence, her parents went into the bakery while Marinette was on her way to the university she's attending.

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"Ms. Marinette?" Ms. Tikki, a professor in Marinette's class called her to her desk after class was over.

"Yes Ms. Tikki?" Marinette answered, looking confused about what she called her for.

"I seen your hard work on your designs, I want to see if you want to be a helper in my class tomorrow since we're discussing about different styles each student has," Ms. Tikki explains, Marinette thought about it for a second and replied.

"Sure, why not?" Marinette gladly accepted, shaking her professor's hand.

After a few minutes of her professor explaining her task, Marinette went home due to some personal reasons.

Was that just a dream or was that encounter real?, Marinette thought to herself before sitting down on her chaise lounge watching TV but the news cut on quickly.

"Today, just a few minutes ago, a robbery took place in another jewelry store and bank. We suspect it's Cat Noir, a theif and deliqucent born into crime," The reporter stated, before she pulled up a photo of the previous crime leader, Hawkmoth's mugshot. 

"It seems he's related to him in a sort of way, but detectives are on the case but still have problems solving this mystery. No leads, evidence but a stolen jewel worth billions! This is Nadia signing off," The reporter added, before the news cut back on Marinette's TV show.

"That's something not new," Marinette sighed, turning of her television.

All of sudden, a loud knock on her balcony window surprised Marinette, which suddenly opened  out of nowhere. Marinette hid behind her chaise lounge, watching someone enter her room.

"Princess, please come out. I'm not going to do anything to you," Cat Noir said, standing near her window.

Marinette had a guitar from Luka as a present for her 15th birthday. Cat Noir looked at her confused before she hit him in his stomach without breaking the guitar.

"If you're not going to hurt me, then stop entering without knocking!" Marinette yelled, punching him like he was a punching bag.

"Ok, okay! I get the message, I won't barge in without knocking," Cat Noir said, putting his hands up.

"Also I don't entertain criminal deliqucents, Chat. That'll make me look like I'm abetting a criminal," Marinette said, pointing her pepper spray at his eyes in playful manner.

"You seem to play by the rules, but how will you react if I do this?" Cat Noir cheekily smirked, smacking her butt as her face went pink.

"You pervert! This is why I don't have friends like you!" Marinette frowned, stepping away from Cat Noir.

"I'm your pervert!" Cat Noir blushed, smirking to himself before reaching his arm around her.

"Shut it! Before I stick a needle up your brains or butt!" Marinette yelled at him, knocking him off her.

Cat Noir looked up at her to see her blouse was almost torn off, but Marinette didn't notice before she felt a cold breeze hit her hard. She moaned when she the cold air hit her exposed skin. 

"Princess I don't think you should do that with your shirt exposing your skin like that," Cat Noir said, throwing a blanket on her shoulders.

I know it's stupid to do this, even for a crime leader. I have to up my game or people will think I've gone soft, Cat Noir thought to himself before he imprinted something on her blanket.

" Property of Cat Noir. Touch her and you're toast!"

And with that, he left her to sleep while he had something in mind.

"Carapace, I demand you tell me why you almost got us caught! Luckily, we weren't spied on," Cat Noir slammed his fists on the table, glaring at his friend.

"Sir, please forgive me. I was just a little distracted by Rena Rouge while we were discussing about our plans," Carapace explains, hoping for Cat Noir to believe him, instead he sighed.

"I'll let this slide, for once. Slip up again, I'll have to give your job to Viperion," Cat Noir said, groaning at thought his father made Viperion join before he died.

"Okay sir, thank you," Carapace said, before leaving Cat Noir's lair.

While Cat Noir was busy with training his criminals, Volpina, His assistant, interrupted him. This got on his nerves when he told her more than once to not interrupt him.

"Kitty, I have a few recruits for you," Volpina flirted, Cat Noir ignored her tone of her voice while letting the recruits inside while they shut the door in front of her.

Volpina tried to get Cat Noir's attention for the past few years she joined, only to ignored by him. She knew about his nightly visits to a certain civilian. Viperion, her close friend, who fell in love with her throughout the time he met her.

Their relationship was intimate but one-sided, Volpina wasn't his first because he lost his first time with Chloe, his ex girlfriend who left him for a debut.

"Well that's sad how your girlfriend left you all alone," Volpina flirted, sitting on top of Viperion while his crotch was covered.

"Let's begin breeding," Volpina said, sticking a syringe in his arm.

And with that, Viperion's and Volpina's breeding started.
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Cat Noir, on the other hand, couldn't stop thinking about Marinette since he visited her last night. His feelings for her have gone way more from playful to full on romantic.

"Hey, Marinette?" Adrien said, blushing as he sat down next to Marinette, his childhood crush.

Their parents were very close, so Marinette and Adrien became friends quickly. But when his mom disappeared, he was 15 when it happened and he was locked inside the house everyday for school.

"Yes Adrien?" Marinette answered, smiling at him.

"I like your style of dresses," Adrien said nervously, sweating profusely.

"Thank you Adrien! See you tomorrow, I got to talk to Nathaniel," Marinette said, Adrien's heart felt a tear in it.

Nathaniel. That bastard.

Cat Noir couldn't stop laughing at that memory as replayed in his head. He snapped out of his daydream to find Carapace and Rena Rouge naked on top of one another.

Why can't I find love when everyone else has someone special?, Cat Noir thought to himself.