Adrien pov.

I groaned as I woke up the next morning. Another dream about Marinette, two days had passed since the first day of spring. I began to believe that she had left me for good. I wanted to die oh how I wish I could die, I thought about committing suicide but something always stopped me. I assumed it was because of fear.

"Excuse me?" A voice asked. "Are you Adrien Agreste?"

I turned to see a woman dressed in orange in my room.

"Hi we've never met but I know you pretty well." She said. "My name is Trixx, sorry to drop in like this but I wanted to apologize."

"For what?" I asked.

"For giving Lila the power to do what she did. She wasn't always like this, she was once a poor girl who needed help. I thought if I taught her magic I she would use it for good but I was wrong. I'm very sorry."

"That's alright. You couldn't have predicted what she would've done."

"If there's anything I can do to help just ask."

"I'm guessing you can't undo her curse?"

"No."

"Well then I have a request."

"What?"

"Can you give Plagg back his eyes and Tikki her wings?"

"Oh! Well I don't know about that. Something like that could only be done if they did a good deed. Look I can't just give them back but if the curse gets broken then that will count as them helping you so maybe." She opened my window and spread out her orange wings. "I'm really sorry."

Then she flew away. Four more days went by and I spent those days in my room watching people with the mirror. I couldn't bring myself to watch Marinette, it was just too painful. The first person I asked to see was my father who had fallen into a drunk decline over my absence, I never imagined my father would miss me that much. Then I spied on Chloe who was either doing her make up, shopping, or flirting, and Nino who was always with Alya.

One Sunday night I looked down to see one red rose left, once it wilted I was done for. I looked out the window hoping that maybe by some miracle I could see Marinette coming back but I didn't. It was 11:00 at night when I finally decided to ask the mirror where she was. I just had to see her one last time before I was left alone in darkness forever.

"Show me Marinette." I said still looking out the window. Then I heard a scream, I turned to the mirror to see Marinette in the bad side of Paris being dragged by some greasy looking man with brown hair.

"Where are we going?" She asked fearfully. "Please let me go. Theo I promise I won't tell the police just let me go."

"Shut up!" He said. He threw her to the ground, ripped off her jacket exposing a white night dress, and forced her up. "Your uncle couldn't pay back with money so he gave me you! Now I'm gonna have my way with you!"

"No! You can't do this!" She cried. "Help! Someone help me!"

I ran downstairs and out the door then bolted toward the city. The people who saw me gasped and screamed in horror but I didn't care. I felt my animal instincts kick in, I ran faster and my sense of a smell increased. I caught her scent and followed it to some low down, cheap motel. Once I arrived I ran upstairs and through every isle and with my animal like smell and hearing, searched for which room they were in.

"Get up!" I heard a voice shout from one room.

"Stop it! Let me go!" That was Marinette. "Don't touch me!"

"Princess!" I kicked down the door. The man called Theo sized Marinette by her hair and pointed a gun toward her. I looked into her eyes, they held both fear and relief.

"You're here." She whispered happily.

"Don't move freak!" The man said.

I bared my fangs and my ears went down in anger.

"IF YOU HURT HER!" He growled. "I'LL KILL YOU!"

Fear crossed Theo's face, his grip on Marinette began to loosen but he still cocked his gun, her breath stopped. But he turned the weapon away from her and toward me, that was all I needed. Giving into my animal rage, I tackled Theo, we wrestled for the gun. A shot rang out hitting me in the chest, in pain I punched him knocking him out and collapsed to the floor. Marinette ran to my side.

"I'll get help." She said starting to leave.

"No." I clung to her arm. "Stay with me! Be with me!"

"But you're hurt!"

"I don't care! You need to hear this." My chest hurt like hell and it was bleeding, I felt my mind wanting to slip into unconsciousness but I had to stay awake. I couldn't die yet, I had to tell her.

"Don't talk, you need your strength." She said cupping my face.

"It won't make any difference."

"Don't say that! Please don't!" Tears began to fill her eyes. "I'm here now. We're together again. Everything's going to be alright."

"Why didn't you come back?"

"I'm so sorry I stayed longer than I promised but my family begged me to stay and when I tried to come back I had a hard time finding where you lived and then I got jumped by Theo, my uncle owed him money so he sold me to him and- oh this is all my fault!"

"Hey it's okay." I said weakly. "I'm just glad I got to see you. Marinette I want you to know that being with you for that year it...made me happier than I ever been."

"Me too."

I raised my hand to caress her cheek and wipe her tears away. She fought to hold in her sobs. I looked over at my tattoo the last rose was beginning to wilt, it was too late. I felt my life begin to fade, I had to tell her now.

"Please, let me get an ambulance. If anything ever happened to you-"

"I love you Marinette! I love you more than anything in the world! I know I'm too ugly for you to love. But I'll always-"

"You are not ugly!" More of her tears fell. "You are the most beautiful man I have ever met." She sobbed. "And I love you! Don't die please! I love you! Don't you see that?! I love you!"

"Then kiss me! Let me have the memory of your kiss even if I die."

She leaned forward and kissed me, my eyes, my cheeks, and finally my lips. I was fading fast but I didn't care. I tasted her, I felt her, I held her. Now I could die happy. My eyes closed and my body became still just as the last petal of the rose fell. I felt Marinette laying on me and I heard her sobbing bitterly. I was so sorry that I was leaving her like this.

Suddenly I felt something falling in me. It felt like, it smelled like, rose petals. Hundreds of rose petals falling in to us. Then just like that they stopped falling, I began to feel better a lot better. I didn't hurt anymore in fact it was like my wounds were gone. I opened my eyes to see rose petals everywhere on the floor, Marinette was looking at me upset and confused with red, white, and pink rose petals in her hair.

"What?" She said. "Where's Cat Noir?"

"I'm here my love." I said sitting up.

"Adrien? Adrien Agreste? What are you doing here?"

"What did you call me?" I looked down, the tattoo was gone and I saw my hands. They were regular, regular human hands. I felt around my face and head, no fur or cat ears. I looked at my reflection in the window. I was myself again.

"Adrien, did you see a boy dressed in black? He was-"

"Ugly? Hideous? Fearsome?"

"No!" She cried with another tear falling. "He was the most wonderful person I ever knew."

"It was me. I was him."

"No. No you can't be. Where is he? He was hurt!"

"Marinette I'm here and I'm alright. Let me explain there was a spell and it could only be broken if you loved me."

"That's crazy! I don't understand!"

"You once told me that I reminded you of someone when you could only hear me. Close your eyes and listen to my voice."

Marinette pov.

I couldn't believe any of this and I was so afraid that the man I loved was dead that I felt like balling. But I did as he asked.

"I'm here." He said. "I'll always be here."

I gasped at the familiarity in his voice. I opened my eyes, he held my face gently and wiped my tears away like before. I looked into his eyes, his beautiful green eyes that were the very same as Cat Noir. I gently raised my hand to stroke his cheek.

"I love you Princess."

"It is you." I said hearing the familiar nickname. "Oh Adrien."

We kissed each other passionately with our arms around each other. Oh how I prayed to God this wasn't a dream.

...

No one's pov.

"Wake up." Plagg said as he opened his eyes to see the sun. "Wake up! Wake up!" He slapped and pinched himself. "This can't be real!"

"Plagg!" Tikki cried. "Plagg! You won't believe this!"

She ran out of her room to where he was. The man's eyes widened in disbelief when he saw the beautiful red woman who had his wife's voice.

"Tikki?" He touched her hand to make sure she was real.

"Of course. Who else would it be?"

"You...You...You." He stuttered.

"I what? What is it?"

"You look as beautiful as the last time I saw you."

"You...You can see? You can see me?"

"I don't know how it's possible but yes. I can see. My eyes are back."

"Then take a look at this."

She took off her sweater to reveal a pair a glittering ladybug wings on her back.

"This is a dream right?" He asked touching them.

"Must be." Tears of joy filled her eyes. "But happy." She said hugging him.

"Very damn happy." He said stroking her hair and wings.