The pink and green light swirled around Emilie Agreste, before thousands of Ladybugs followed, swarming all over her still body.

"Adrien, transform." Always trusting in his lady, he called Plagg for his transformation. Marinette called hers at the same time before kissing Adrien again. The pink and green swirls grew higher and higher until they swarmed the whole basement, floor to ceiling.

They clung onto each other as the room rocked and the roofing became loose. As quickly as it began, it faded away into the abyss taking the thousands of tiny Ladybugs with it.

"Not in death, but just in sleep, the fateful prophecy you'll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake, when true love's kiss, the spell shall break."

Remaining as their alter-egos the partners turned to look at Emilie. Her eyes were open and she was looking around.

"Chat, go to your dorm and transform." Marinette said hurriedly. "I'll bring her to you."

"But ..."

She grabbed him tightly and kissed his perfect lips.

"Please, just go!"

Trusting his lady he extended his baton out the window and made his way back to campus. Ladybug turned back to Emilie.

"Where am I? What am doing here?" She gasped placing her hand to her mouth. "Where's Adrien? Where's my little boy?" Tears swelled in the bottom of her eyes.

"Emilie please, calm down." Ladybug took a step closer.

"Oh my, are you ... are you the ladybug Miraculous?"

"I'll answer all these questions for you but first we need to go and see your husband."

Emilie started to panic, her breaths becoming unsteady and Marinette could tell she was about to have a panic attack. She reached out and took her into her arms. 

"It's ok, just take deep breathes. I'm here, nothings going to happen to you."

"Don't take me to him, please. I don't want to see Gabriel, he's not the man I married. He's going to destroy everything. Please Ladybug take me to my son, I need to know he's ok and Gabriel hasn't done anything to him." The tears were streaming down Emilie's face and Ladybug could see how similar her eyes were to Adrien's. She thought the whole reason Hawk Moth wanted to take over the world was to bring his wife back with the wish granted by the cat and ladybug Miraculous'.

Emilie was starting to get more and more frantic, especially when she realised she was in the basement of the Agreste Mansion. Ladybug grabbed onto her.

"Hold on tight. I will take you to Adrien."

With that she swung out the window and into the dark night skies.

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Adrien had managed to persuade Nino to stay over to Alya's for the evening meaning once Ladybug arrived with his mother they'd have a safe place to talk.

As he paced the room for the thousandth time he heard a sound in his bedroom. He'd left the window open for Ladybug to come through. His head was still buzzing with the thought of his two ladies being one, and the possibility he has his mother back.

"Kitty, we'll talk later about everything I promise but please give my brain a rest." Marinette entered through Adrien's room frowning with the questions running through her head, she placed Emilie securely on the floor.

"Adrien, sweet boy, is that you?"

"Mother, I've missed you so much!" Adrien ran into the arms of his missing mother and both began to cry. Marinette had made her way into the kitchen hiding the tears streaming down her cheeks. Marinette felt like an intruder on such a momentous occasion. Adrien let go of his mother and she placed one hand on his cheek.

"You really are handsome, Adrien. How old are you now, my sunshine?"

"I'm nineteen, mother. You've been in a coma for almost six years." She grabbed hold of his hand and placed it tightly in hers.

"Oh darling, there's so much I've missed, I am so sorry."

Marinette walked and sat on the arm of the chair next to Adrien. She handed a bottle of water and some crackers to Emilie.

"Mrs Agreste, can you remember how this happened? How did you get the miraculous?"

Emilie took a deep breath and started to speak.

"Before you were born, Adrien, your father and I took a trip to Tibet. It was there that we learned all about architecture and archeology. We found all the tombs and temples fascinating, but we noticed a repetition on them of a lady with a yo-yo and a cat with a bubbling hand. Well, this just intrigued us more and we began looking into it and that's when we found out about the Miraculous," she turned to Marinette.

"One of the pieces of information which intrigued us most was that about the yin and yang, creation and destruction. That's you dear and your soulmate cat," Marinette and Adrien smiled as she carried on, "and then we found there were many more. We became slightly obsessed and when we returned to Paris we went out of our way to find a Miraculous. The thought of power was endearing, we wanted to know what it was like to wield such power. Anyway one day this girl appeared at the door, she was the same age as me, holding the peacock and butterfly Miraculous. We were blown away and Gabriel was so excited, her hired her as his assistant."

"Nathalie?" Adrien asked.

"Yes. We got on really well until the day I fell into the coma. She had damaged the peacock miraculous whilst wearing it, she was creating septimonsters of herself to win your fathers attention. You could tell she loved him and she would do anything for him. Well, anyway, I got insanely jealous and confronted them both. Your father was angry at me. More for the fact I didn't trust him to be loyal, but I'd seen how Nathalie had sided up to him, wanting a piece of the power. It was always about power. I was wearing the miraculous at the time when she advanced on me. It only seemed like minutes between that and Ladybug waking me up."

"It wasn't just me, Mrs Agreste. It was a combined effort between myself and Chat Noir, we're the perfect team." She places her hand unconsciously on Adrien's shoulders. She could feel the love merging with his warmth.

"So how is your father?" Emilie asks.

"He's been through a lot. He spent a few years terrorising the city as Hawkmoth, which is why Ladybug and Chat Noir received their Miraculous', once they managed to figure out it was him they could take his Miraculous and strip all his memories of them." Adrien explained.

"I thought only a Guardian could strip memories?" Emilie asked.

"I am a Guardian." Marinette explained, she knew she was young in Guardian terms.

"Strip mine, please!" Emilie cried. "I want rid of all these memories. I just want my husband and son back. I've already missed so much."

"If that's what you want I can do it, what do you think Adrien?" Ladybug asked him.

"As long as I have you back in my life, I really don't care." Adrien held onto his mother's hands again, their smiles were almost identical and it pulled on Marinette's heart strings.

"I'll go and get my book and the Miracle Box whilst you and your mother catch up." Marinette walked towards Adrien's window in his bedroom with him on her tail. He shut the door behind him and gathered her into his arms.

"I love you, Maribug." He bent his head down and gave her a deep, passionate kiss. She sighed with happiness as they released their holds.

"I'll be quick. You know what to do if you need me." She stood on her tip toes and kissed him once more on the lips.

"Oh, and Adrien. Keep those thoughts in your head. I'm quite sure we can do that later." With a wink she threw out her yo-yo she sailed out the window heading towards her dorm room. He felt the flush spread through the top half of his body.

Adrien went back out to his mother, a smile tearing apart his face. He still didn't quite believe she was sitting there, after over five years, his mother could be back in his life.

"So, Adrien, are you still modelling for your father?" She asked.

"I am, he's just promoted me to Chief Operating Officer and taken on my ... errrmmm ... my girlfriend as a designer."

"Ladybug?"

"N-no, no! L-Ladybug is with C-Chat Noir." Adrien scratched behind his neck.

"Firstly I know what two people in love look like and secondly I'm your mother. You can't get away that easily." She gave him a hug, "I'm so glad you've found someone who makes you feel this happy."

"She's perfect, mother. You're going to love her. I'll wait until you've had your memories removed before I introduce you properly. Father seems to really like her too." He gushed.

A red figure stood in front of Adrien's door and smiled at the sight.

"Are you ready, Mrs Agreste?" Emilie nodded her head and indicated for Ladybug to begin. Sitting in front of Emilie she opened the Miracle Box and placed all the Miraculous' on her body, freeing each of the Kwami's from their sleep.

"Adrien, can you call Plagg please?"

After Adrien called him, the little black kwami appeared from his cheese cupboard and made his way over to greet the others.

"Ok, here we go. Mrs Agreste it'll take all our memories of the Miraculous away including this interaction with me. I suggest Adrien takes you to the hospital as soon as I've finished. You'll be asleep for a while, but their shouldn't be any issues when you wake up. Hopefully I can then follow along and make the Doctors believe you've been there in a coma for the past five years. That way Gabriel won't get in any trouble." Ladybug explained.

"Before I do this, just please I beg, watch out for Nathalie. She's probably had something planned for your Miraculous'. Don't trust her."

"We can do that, mother." Emilie nodded at Adrien before looking down at her hands.

"Where's my ring gone?" She questioned.

"Ring?"

"My Graham de Vanily Twin Ring. Myself and Gabriel were wearing them?" She started to panic.

"Mrs Agreste, what do the rings look like? Perhaps we can find them for you?" Ladybug asked.

"You don't understand Ladybug, if the rings are combined through wholly matrimony with one being a blood relation to the Graham de Vanily family they will then be able to access great power."

"I can promise we will find them. Maybe Mr Agreste still has his, if not - myself and Chat will get them back we promise." Ladybug settled down in front of Emilie and held her hands. "Now this shouldn't hurt. Adrien, do you want to stay?"

Adrien nods.

"You'll have to stand back, I can't afford to have your Miraculous memories taken." Adrien followed Marinette's instructions and walked back into the depth of the kitchen.

"Ok, lie down Mrs Agreste," Marinette felt a hand on her arm.

"When I meet you next, as my sons girlfriend," Marinette's mouth dropped open and she looked over to Adrien, he smiled such a bright genuine smile she fell in love all over again. Emilie continued "no more Mrs Agreste, please."

Emilie lay back on the sofa and was suddenly swarmed by kwami's.

"This should be easier this time, LB. Your powers are a lot stronger." Wayzz came to Ladybugs side reassuring her.

"Just make sure you all take care of Tikki when I release." She replied.

Using her powers and those of the kwami's around her, she channeled all of the guardians to help remove the memories of the Miraculous from Emilie's mind.

Emilie's mind strings appeared above her head and using her Ladybug vision she could spot those to be removed. Once taken away Ladybug handed them over to Plagg to cataclysm. Within 5 minutes they were all gone and the kwami's made Emilie fall into a deep sleep. Marinette crashed on the floor exhausted and Adrien walked over to her.

"You're amazing m'lady." He dropped a kiss on her forehead. "I can't believe this is all happening."

Marinette grabbed Adrien's hands and looked into his eyes.

"Chaton, you have been through a lot these past few months. Just remember I am here for you, ok, anytime you need to talk? You're not going through any of this alone." She called off her transformation and gave Adrien a loving kiss as Tikki made her way to Plagg. Marinette placed all the jewellery back into the Miracle Box and placed it hidden in Adrien's room.

"You ready?" Adrien had already called his transformation and was in his new suit. Marinette properly looked it over for the first time.

"Is that a ... z-zip?" Adrien looked down at what was indeed a zip attached to his bell, and pulled it up and down.

"Cool!" Adrien stated, Marinette walked over to him and winked.

"We'll play with that later."

Adrien sucked in a breath.

Marinette called her transformation and they made their way to the hospital with Adrien carrying his mother in his arms, the way she did so often when he was a child.