Adrien's POV

"Adrien!" Y/n yells and tackles me when I land on her balcony.

"Hi, Angel!" I say, grinning and returning the hug.

She hangs on an extra long time, before eventually pulling away and smiling really wide.

"You seem extra peppy tonight, what's up?" I ask.

"I'm just happy to see you!"

"I'm happy to see you too!" I say, although something feels wrong.

I don't know why, but I'm getting an uneasy feeling.

For one, she didn't greet me as "Kitty" like she usually does.

Maybe I'm still feeling weird about earlier, with Marinette and all.

Plus I'm conflicted on lying to Mom.

I don't want to say I'll be with Nino when I won't, but I don't know what else to tell her.

"So are we gonna go inside? It's purrty cold out here!" I watch closely and notice a quick frown pass at my pun.

"Uhh, would it be possible to stay out here? It's an amazing night!"

She didn't make the puns.

We always make puns any chance we get.

It's our thing.

"I guess we could, but you know what I'm supposed to do."

"Oh, right. And you um, you can't do it?"

"Well, no. I didn't wear warm clothes."

"So?"

"Uh, I'll get cold?" OK, either y/n is feeling really off, or I'm dealing with a fake girlfriend.

"Um, I don't want to go in. Your suit keeps you warm, doesn't it?"

"Yes, but Plagg?"

"He'll be fine."

"Here, I know how to keep you warm." She smirks and hugs me again.

I try to pull away, but she holds on tighter and tries to kiss me.

"Hey, you know Plagg, he's gonna yell at us. Better not."

"He can deal with it."

I begin to say something, but she starts mumbling.

If I wasn't transformed, I never would have understood, but with the cat senses, I can easily make out "Don't worry about him, worry about me. Should I even do this?"

"Do what?" I ask, my suspicion growing.

"Huh?"

"I could hear that, you know."

"Maybe that's a good thing. I don't think this is working anymore."

"What?" I know something is wrong here, but it still hurts for her to say that.

"With us. I think we should break up."

"Why?" She was fine earlier?

"I just don't like you anymore. It seems you care more about your kwami than me. You should find someone else. I'm sure Marinette still likes you."

"Excuse me? Why would I ever go to her?"

"Kitty? Who are you talking to?" I hear from the direction of the opening door.

"No!" The y/n in front of me hisses as another one comes out the door.

"Who are you?!" They say in unison.

"Cat, what's going on? Who is this?" The new y/n asks.

"Uh, I don't know- I just got here and she was out here."

"Yeah, because I live here! Why were you in my house?!"

"Because it's my house!"

I go closer to the y/n who came from inside.

"What are you doing? Take this lookalike and get out!" Balcony y/n says.

"First of all, don't talk to him like that! Second of all, you're the copycat!"

OK, I found my y/n.

"She tried to break us up! I knew it wasn't you the whole time!" I say happily and hug her.

I knew she wouldn't say all that, but it still scared me to hear.

"She what?! How dare you try to split us!?" Y/n glares at the person in front of us while wrapping her arms around me.

(I immediately thought of this meme and had to make it💀)

"He should be with someone else! Someone who has been wanting to be with him since forever!"

"But I wanna be with my Angel."

"Yeah, im-paw-ster!" Y/n says, and I can't help but laugh.

Before this trickster can say anything else, their appearance starts to change.

The y/n facade wavers, and then puffs away, leaving someone with a Fox themed costume, with a few stray spots and red thrown in.

"Who are you?" Y/n asks.

"It's not Rena Rouge."

"Has anybody else used the Fox?"

"Lila wanted to. It's not Lila, right?!" I pull y/n a little closer.

No way am I letting Lila get anywhere near her, if that's who this is.

"Ugh, I'm not Lila! Do I look anything like that liar?!"

"They knew my secret identity." I whisper to y/n, as I recall how I was referred to as "Adrien".

"Marinette, is that you?" Y/n asks.

"Maybe. It's none of your business."

"Oh it's plenty my business. You don't go around treating my boyfriend the way you have without getting some consequences." Y/n says, breaking away from me and going right up to who I'm assuming is Marinette.

"Who do you think you are? I am the most beloved hero of Paris! You can't do anything."

"Maybe the rest of Paris loves you, but I, for one, could not care less about you. And I suggest you leave us alone before things get real ugly."

"Oh please."

And with that, y/n sends a punch right at Marinette's jaw.

She groans and clutches the side of her head.

"Cat! Are you really going to let her do that? I'm your partner!"

"You don't deserve to be my partner. Hm, sound familiar?"

"B-but, I could, I could be your Princess! I'd even be your Purrincess!"

"The one time I won't go for a cat pun."

"Princess? Hah, too bad he's a King." Y/n says smugly, walking back over to me.

I feel my face getting warmer, but I still have to input "And I already have a Queen!"

"Give up the miraculous, Marinette. It needs to be returned."

"No! I'm going to be the Guardian! I can have any miraculous I want!"

"You what?!" Y/n and I say in unison.

"Yeah, Master Fu is gonna let me be the Guardian, since you wouldn't. And as my first act, I'm going to see that Plagg is given to someone else, unless certain things take place. Also, Kaalki will be dormant for a long, long time."

"You wouldn't..." I mutter.

"You can stop it. If you come with me."

"No way. You're crazy!" I will never be with her.

Never.

"Fine then. Hand over your miraculous."

"No, I'm not letting you have Plagg, I couldn't do that to him."

"Then be mine. Come on, Adrien. You know we're meant to be. The holders of our miraculouses are always together."

"Not anymore! We are not meant to be!"

"You've said it yourself."

"Thinking I liked you was a mistake."

"Thinking? You mean you didn't like when we kissed? Or held hands?"

"I thankfully don't even remember the kisses, and holding hands doesn't even mean much between colleagues. Besides, even if I did like you then, I don't now! Why can't you just move on? You never even liked me, the real me!"

"I did. I do."

"Yeah, right. If you really liked me you wouldn't treat me the way you do."

"That's just how I show affection."

"I prefur y/n's way." I mutter.

"Well I guess you have a choice to make."

"No I don't."

"Oh, you've already decided. I'm sure you've made the sensible decision."

"I have." I make a small motion with my head that I hope y/n interprets correctly.

She does take a few quick steps closer, as I make larger ones.

I hope my face doesn't give me away to Marinette while she stares at me.

Although I do want y/n to be certain of what I'm doing.

I hate to do this, but I slip my arm around Marinette's shoulders.

Y/n watches in what I hope is mock horror.

"Ah, good."

"But, what about, why?" Y/n asks, stepping closer.

"I'm sorry."

"You said you loved me!" Y/n continues, walking closer until she's right in front of me.

"Newsflash, we're basically soulmates." Marinette snaps.

"We are not." I grumble.

I finally get the clasp undone on the pendant, and pull it away as I wrap my arms around y/n.

Marinette doesn't seem to notice the Fox powers going away, until I tighten my grip on y/n and jump away.

"Hey! What are you doing?! Where are you going?!" Marinette yells, now just in her usual Ladybug costume.

We ignore her as I run faster.

"That was some good acting, Angel!"

"Yeah, right. Acting. You too."

"Hey, you didn't think I was being for real, did you?" I ask, taking quick looks down at her.

"No, of course not. I just thought, for a second, I mean, being Cat Noir is everything for you!"

"You are everything to me."

"You're everything to me too. It kinda scared me more to think that you'd be with her, and she would hurt you."

"Yeah. No thanks."

"Here," I pass the Fox pendant to her.

"Put this on and transform, we could use a mirage."

"Uhh, OK."

I stop for just a second so she can put it one without having to hold on.

"Where did you go?!" We hear from a short distance behind us.

She has it clipped now, so I quickly grab her and start running again.

"What's going on?!" Trixx asks upon appearance.

"Hey dude, sorry to not explain but we've got a lot going on. Quick rundown, please?" Y/n asks.

Trixx obliges, and in no time y/n has transformed into a Fox.

"OK, Mirage!" Y/n conjures the image of a thousand of us running along, making it impossible for Ladybug to follow the real ones.

"Meet me at Master Fu's." I whisper to her as I set her down after stopping a moment.

We take off in different directions, and though I hate to part, this should be the right decision.

I take many twists and turns, just in case, before I finally end up at the door to Master Fu's.

"Were you followed?"  Y/n asks from the shadows.

"I don't think so. You?"

"No, I haven't seen her."

"Good."

Before I really even notice, we've started holding hands as we let ourselves into Master's house.

"Master Fu! Are you home?!" I call out.

"Yes, what is it?" Master asks, entering from a different room.

"What's going on?! Why do you have the Fox miraculous? I gave that to Marinette?"

"Yeah, and she just came to us and tried to start something." Y/n rolls her eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"She just told me that if I didn't give up Plagg, we couldn't be together." I state, gesturing at y/n and I.

"Oh my. That's not right, you make a fine Cat Noir."

"Yeah and she also used a mirage to look like me!"

"And try to make me think she wanted to break up."

"So what should we do?" Y/n asks.

"I have been training her to become the Guardian because I do not know who else to ask. But she can't if she plans to use the miraculouses for reasons such as that."

"Should she even be Ladybug anymore?"

"I don't know."

"Master Fu!" We hear.

"Cat Noir stole the fox miraculous!" Ladybug yells, barging in.

"Hey, that isn't for you!" She hollers, charging at y/n.

I step between them before anything can happen.

"Let us all sit." Master Fu says hesitantly.

Y/n and I sit on the mat peacefully, but Ladybug huffs over and plops down, crossing her arms.

"Marinette. If you are you are to act this way, you shall not remain Ladybug, much less the Guardian."

"But it's his fault! Ladybug and Cat Noir are supposed to be together! You know it's true!"

"I don't decide that."

"Whatever. I don't want to be the Guardian anyway!"

"Good."

Y/n and I watch this exchange in silence, just hoping it'll get settled.

Ladybug jumps up and starts to storm off, but Master Fu calls out to her.

"I'm afraid I have to ask for your earrings."

"W-what?!"

"Yes. Bring them here."

"Spots off."

She yanks the earrings away and throws them at Master Fu.

"Bye, Tikki. It's been fun, but apparently I'm not a good Ladybug!"

Tikki watches in distress as Marinette blows out.

"I am sorry, Tikki." Master Fu says, placing her earrings in the box.

"Um, here's the Fox." Y/n awkwardly takes off the pendant.

"Thank you. Now I must find someone else to be the Guardian. You're sure you don't want to?"

"Sorry." Y/n shrugs and takes my hand.

"Oh well. I believe you had both better get some rest."

"Yeah. Goodnight, Master." We both say and head out.

"Well." I say as we walk out the door.

"Well." Y/n responds.

"This all happened so fast."

"Yeah..."

"So no more Ladybug?"

"I guess not."

"I can't say I'm upset about that." I admit.

"Me either."

"Uh, you want me to take you home now?"

"Yes, please."

I pick her up again and we take to the rooftops.

"I'm sorry I scared you. Earlier, I mean."

"Oh, uh, that's fine. It was good you did, more believable."

"Yeah. You do realize that I love you, so so much more than whatever thing I had for Ladybug, right?"

"Of course I know that! I just got worried for you."

"You're very sweet, Angel."

"You too, Kitty."

We get home quicker because I didn't take crazy routes this time.

"So uh, do you wanna come in?" Y/n asks.

"I do, but it's getting kinda late, I still have school tomorrow."

"Oh, right."

"Are you alright?" I ask.

"Yeah. This just really put into perspective how she is. The lengths she would go to over you."

"Oh. I'm already dreading tomorrow."

"I bet."

"I guess I have to face it, though."

"At least we get our sleepover when you're done."

"That'll keep me going." I say and hug her.

"I love you, Kitty."

"I love you too, Angel." I suddenly have tears welling up.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"I'm just glad to hear you say that. Not too long ago, I was being told you wanted to break up. I didn't believe it, of course, you wouldn't have acted so normal earlier if that's how you felt, but it still scared me to hear."

"Aw, Kitty. I'm pawsitive I'll not say that to you."

"Back atcha." I wink.

Plagg will probably yell at me for this, but it's worth it.

We kiss for a minute, until pulling away for air.

"I uh, I gotta go." I whisper.

"Yeah. Um, goodnight." She says, just as quietly.

"Love you."

She steals a quick kiss, before returning the "Love you".

I don't want to leave just yet, so we share a lingering hug.

After one more kiss I eventually pull away and leap home.

"Claws in."

"That was nuts!" Plagg says as he zooms to his cheese."

"Very." Is all I can respond with.

I quickly get ready for bed, and fall asleep even quicker.

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I just wanna mention that I saw the "I could be your princess/he's a king who already has a queen" thing in a meme lol, not mine.