Luka knew that look, it was the one twins gave each other when they did their telepathic communication trick. She knew, what she knew Luka had no idea. But he knew that she knew something.

"What?" He asked.

"How long have you been making out with cat noir?" She replied.

Luka almost choked on his cereal, not expecting that while he was only half awake and still in his pyjamas eating breakfast.

"Excuse me?" He coughed.

"The signature on our cast" Juleka replied, casually eating her breakfast like she didn't just almost choke her brother.

"Oh that... he just checked up on me because he was the one who saved me and all. That's it"

Juleka gave him a playful glare.

"Mmhmm..." she muttered suspiciously.

"It's true!"

"What are you kids bickering about now?" Their mother spoke up, heading over with her own breakfast to sit with them.

"Lukas kissing cat noir" jueleka said.

"IM NOT- I wish I was- but I'm NOT. He just signed my cast" Luka snapped back.

His sister just snickered, always finding it funny to stir the pot and get Luka all riled up like that.

"I'd say bagging a superhero is pretty impressive, I won't stop ya" Anarka said.

"Mum-" Luka sighed.

Great, now his whole family was shipping him with cat noir. Not that he didn't like cat noir... he just wouldn't hear the end of it now.

"How ya feeling by the way kiddo? Not too sore?" Anarka asked.

"I'm alright, everything still aches but I think I can handle school in a few days" he replied.

"Well you can stay home for this week, I don't wanna overwork ya kiddo. Just make sure you catch up on anything you've missed when you get back ok?"

"Easy. Thanks mum"

So Luka was home alone that day, Juels at school and his mum at work. Most of the day he spent groaning in annoyance at the ache in his leg and playing guitar hero. But he had a rather pleasant surprise when Juleka bought home half the damn friend group after school with her, everyone wanting to make sure he was ok. And of course, get a spot on that cast.

Notably, the pianist of the band wasn't there. Which he half expected since Adrien was known for having the worlds strictest dad. Luka knew he'd see the boy on the weekend at band practice anyway, so it didn't bother him too much.

Adrien though, had other plans. He expected to be told no to going out after school, and he was. But that didn't stop him from sneaking out and cat noir-ing his way over to the boat. Gatecrashing the impromptu get together, under the guise of 'checking in on the victim'. Well... he was, but there was more to it than that.

"Woah, it's a party over here. Hey how come I wasn't invited?" He joked, having landed on the roof of the cabin looking down over the deck.

The group looked up at the familiar voice and we're a little surprised to see their favourite black cat, but definitely not disappointed.

"You're back, still checking in on me?" Luka asked.

"Of course, you got literally crushed dude. Can't just not check on you" Cat replied, jumping down onto the deck.

"Whaaat? Luka you've been hanging with Cat Noir? How'd you manage that?" Rose asked.

"I broke my ankle that's how" Luka replied.

Jueleka gave Luka a knowing glare, one that Luka glared back to in a way to tell her to not say anything about his obvious crush.

"How are you feeling? Better than the other day?" Cat asked.

"Much better. Still sore but I can actually move now" Luka replied.

"Nice decor you got there, really broke out the sharpies for that"

Luka looked down at his cast, now covered in signatures and drawings from all his friends.

"This whole group is a bunch of artist, if there's something to draw on it'll be drawn on" Luka chuckled.

"Careful cat, you might get drawn on if you get too close to us" Marinette joked.

"What am I a doodle bear from your childhood?" He joked back.

Cat Noir naturally got along with the group. They were all his friends after all, they just didn't know it was Adrien under the mask yet. So the whole group talked and hung around for hours, making sure Luka was ok and catching him up on everything that's happened in the group and school while he's been away. Eventually as everyone had to get home, and Lukas mum got back from work, it was just the family and Cat Noir left on the boat.

The boys sat out on the deck, the sun starting to go down now. Just a superhero and a guy still in his pyjamas with a broken ankle having a casual chat. Even though he knew Luka was ok, Adrien still felt kind of bad that he even got hurt in the first place. It was his job to protect after all, and one of his favourite people got hurt.

"Hey... I know I keep saying it but-" Cat began.

"Stop saying sorry. It's not your fault" Luka replied.

"I know it's just... I feel guilty. I was the one fighting the akuma and you still got hurt"

"Cat, you had the whole city to protect. It was either me getting a bit busted up or the whole city collapsing"

He knew the city was technically more important than one person. But to him, Luka was the more important one.

"You're worth more than the city to me..." Cat muttered, without thinking about it.

Moments later he realised what he just said, and his face went red. Luka processed that for a moment, as far as he was aware he and Cat Noir we're just acquaintances. They knew each other from interacting in akuma battles and nothing more. So if Cat felt that strongly for him... that means Cat was someone that knew Luka in his personal life.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you know me outside that suit as well" Luka teased.

"I mean... maybe I do" Cat replied.

Before he went too far and blew his cover, he decided now was a good time to bounce. Cat got up, stretched out his arms and grabbed his baton.

"I've got patrol soon, good to see you're alright. Take care of yourself ok?" He said.

"Thanks for caring. I appreciate it" Luka replied.

"Always, I'll check in again soon"

Waving him off, Luka then went to head inside and ponder on who exactly cat noir could be. It seems like he definitely knew Luka from personal life.

"There you are, your boy toy finally head home?" Jueleka teased.

"Jules who do we know that's blonde, shorter than me and masc presenting?" Luka asked.

"Hmmm... Adrien?"

Luka stopped in his tracks. The second Jueleka said that name it clicked, suddenly he could see Cat Noir without that mask on. He looked down at his cast, at the signature left by the cat hero.

That handwriting... he'd seen it before.

"No fucking way..." he muttered.

From the context and the twin telepathy they had, it suddenly hit Juleka too.

"Holy fucking shit so way-" he muttered.

They looked at each other, shocked by the sudden revelation. Luka looked back down at the signature on his cast, his mind racing. Adrien was Cat Noir. Adrien was the one that saved him. Adrien was the one that'd been checking on him. Adrien was the one that cared about him more than he cared about the city as a whole.

"Well... I'm going to go scream into my pillow now..."