Adrien woke up the next morning with the second worst headache he's ever had that week, but it was dulled by his aching jaw and throbbing ribcage. He took in slow breaths because expanding it too much hurt but at least there wasn't a stabbing pain so nothing was broken. With a pained hiss he very slowly sat up on the couch when a strange murmur caused him to finally open his eyes. He was blinded temporarily by all the sunlight in the room but once he was able to actually focus he started looking for the sounds origin. It wasn't until he looked down that he finally found it.

Marinette was sitting on the floor with her head resting in her arms on the edge of the couch fast asleep. It looked like she had been crying at some point because he could see the tear stains on her cheeks. When did she wake up to move out here and why? Was she worried about him? Gently he laid a hand on top of her head to run his fingers through her hair. He was hoping he didn't wake her up in doing so but she twitched awake groggily.

"Mmn, Adrien…?" She asked, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. He gave her a weak smile before speaking up. "Good morning, Princess." He said sweetly as she looked up at him. They stared at each other for a long while before fresh tears started pouring from Mari's eyes. She nearly tackled him in a hug repeating 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry' over and over again like a broken record. He bit back a pained yelp, nearly coughing on it, as he wrapped his arms around her tightly.

Slowly he calmed her down until she was just sniffling into his bandaged shoulder with the occasional hiccup. Once she wasn't a sobbing mess he gingerly peeled her off him while settling a hand on her cheek. "What are you even apologizing for?" He asked her softly, his thumb brushing away leftover tears. She took in a breath before explaining. "For slapping you, for yelling at you the way I did, for telling you that I hated you, for just believing Chloé in the first place…" She started between a few more hiccups. "For not listening to Alya last night and staying here instead of going out to see Nathanaël, for the fact that all of this happened to you." Her hand waved over Adrien's body and all the injuries he was covered in. "For being so, so stupid. You're probably really mad at me…" She muttered that last part lowly.

"So, wait, Alya had you listen to the recording already?" Adrien asked, not ignoring her words but wondering why she was suddenly saying all this. She nodded her head meekly. "Yeah, I listened to it five times before she and Nino left for school." His eyes slowly started to widen as he stared at her and he felt his heart start to race.

"And you believed it?"
"Yes."

His heart beat faster.

"You don't hate me?"
"Of course not."

Faster.

"So then we're not...broken up?"
"If you'll have me back."

Break neck speeds.

"Oh thank God." He said in a rapid exhale of breath he didn't know he was holding as he crashed their lips together. Nevermind the fact that the sudden movement of his own torso was incredibly painful it did not matter. She didn't hate him. She was there, in his arms, and she was kissing him back. A week felt like an eternity of torture thinking that he'd never have her back. He broke their kiss to bury his face in the crook of her neck while holding her as close as humanly possible. "Adrien are...are you crying?" She asked softly as he did so. The model hadn't even noticed that he was because he was so focused on making sure that this was actually happening. Everything that he had felt over the last week, the pain, the heartbreak, the anger, the loneliness, everything just came crashing down on him with the realization that it was finally over.

He couldn't answer her when she asked him, instead responding with a near death grip of a hug as her shirt became bunched up in this fists. She gently wrapped her arms around his shoulders while planting sweet kisses on the top of his head. Slowly she ran her hand down the back of his head repeatedly while her other hand traced random patterns on his upper back to help calm him back down. "I love you, Adrien." She hummed gently after a few moments like this. His hold on her loosened slightly at her words but his head remained where it was. "Say that again…?" He whispered.

Marinette couldn't help but smile at how familiar this scene was. Carefully she pulled back while shrugging her shoulder up so he could meet her gaze. While making sure to be extra tender with his black eye she held his head in her hands before speaking up again. "I love you, Adrien Agreste. To the moon and back, I love you." It was her turn to wipe away his tears as she smiled down at him.

"I love you too, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, more than life itself." He said as he matched her smile. He brought their lips together once more fervently because he couldn't put how he felt into words. He was a hurricane of emotion and he poured every ounce of it into their kiss with the hope that she'd understand. He had missed her so much he was terrified that if he left her go she'd be gone again. Adrien could feel himself getting lost in her lips but he quickly pulled himself back as he broke apart from her once again.

He placed a hand on her cheek to gently caress her with his thumb and rested his forehead against hers. He looked down towards her neck and winced at what he saw. Taunting him was a hickey glaring at him as cruel reminder of why his ribs hurt. He moved his hand down to hide it from view but didn't comment on it. It was temporary and would fade away in just a few days he had to remind himself. He chewed at his bottom lip. If only he had been able to deal with Chloé faster then Marinette wouldn't have had to go through such an ordeal.

Marinette could sense the sudden shift in his emotions and raised her eyes to look into his. There was something bothering him because his eyes were focused on her neck. "What's wrong, Minou?" She asked softly. He shook his head to try and drop the subject but she wasn't going to let it go. "Hey, don't try and ignore me. What's wrong?" She pressed as she forced him to meet her gaze. He let out a shaky sigh.

"I couldn't get to you fast enough to stop it from happening…" he muttered. It clicked in Mari's head and she brought a hand up to rest upon his. Her memory of what happened last night was hazy at best. She could remember going out to meet Nathanaël, ordering maybe two drinks, and then suddenly she felt like she had ordered seventeen. From that point it was just flashes of consciousness. She remembered being pressed against a wall and trying to push Nathanaël off her, and then it went straight to Adrien when she watched him punch Nathanaël in the face. And then the next thing she knew she was in her room.

"To be honest I don't really remember much. But you stopped him before things got serious, before he really...you know…" She trailed off, not really wanting to finish that sentence. "It's jarring to think that he stooped so low to drug me like that. But I'm so glad that you showed up when you did, or even at all. There were countless of bars you could have gone to but somehow you went there and you were able to save me. It's like fate told you where to go." She said sweetly, pressing a kiss to his forehead. "Thank you."

Her words helped him calm down some but this wasn't something that he'd get over quickly. It wasn't something that she'd get over quickly either and they both knew that and they were both okay with it. They had each other to help the other through this whole process so they knew everything would be fine.

It was another week before Adrien returned to school. During that time he called his father to explain to him that he couldn't do photo shoots for a while and he was met with the expected yelling. What surprised him was his father's reaction after he explained why he was covered in bruises and a black eye. There was silence on the other end before his father congratulated him for what he had done and actually cleared his schedule for the next month. Adrien nearly dropped his phone in shock because that was so unlike his usually cold hearted father. But even he had to have morals, right?

It took him a while to get back into the swing of school, there were piles of homework and papers that he had to make up but Marinette helped him through it happily. Adrien had visited Marinette's parents to apologize endlessly for his behavior when he had gone to their house drunk and swore he'd do whatever he could to make up for it. He was glad when they forgave him having already gotten all the details of what had happened from their daughter.

As time continued to move on for the couple eventually everything went back to normal. It was perfect...almost.

When they hit a year of being together Adrien was pacing around in their apartment. Three months beforehand he and Marinette took a huge leap in their relationship and were currently renting it together. She was in class currently and he was holding a small velvet box in his hands freaking the fuck out. "What if she says no? It's only been a year and we haven't been living together that long but I'm so sure." he mumbled to himself as he kept pacing around in their living room. "Maybe it's too soon? It's our last year in college and some people do it the moment they graduate highschool." He let out a frustrated groan as he collapsed on their couch.

He had been encouraged by the conversation he'd had with Tom the day before hand. Her father was perhaps too overjoyed when Adrien asked his permission to marry Marinette. But now that it was actually the day he was planning on proposing he was second guessing everything. He knew that he loved her and that he'd happily spend the rest of his life with her but would she really want the same thing? This was kind of the only real way to find out but it was terrifying.

The way his father acted when Adrien told Gabriel he was going to propose had shaken him too. The moment the words left his lips his father stood there like a statue just processing the information. He had brought Marinette over a few times to meet him and his father seemed to approve well of her but maybe Gabriel wasn't expecting his son to be so serious about her? What he did next shocked the model even further. His dad had turned on a heel and walked over towards the large portrait of his mother.

He watched as Gabriel opened the painting to reveal a small safe hidden away behind it. The designer opened it up to pull out the velvet box, closed the safe, covered it back up with the painting, and turned back around to face Adrien. He placed the box in the blondes hand silently before speaking up. "It was your mother's." That was all he said and instantly Adrien knew what was inside.

Adrien was brought back to the present as he looked at his phone to check the time. He had an hour until Marinette came back home from classes which meant he had to finish making all of the preparation for the night ahead. And that pretty much meant he had to decide right now if he was going to go through with this or not. He took in one last, deep breath, and held it for as long as he could. When he couldn't keep it in any longer he let it out quickly and stood up from the couch now determined. He was going to ask her to marry him.

He took her on a mock up of their first date when she came home. Again they wandered Paris looking at different pieces of street art, ate at the same italian bistro, and made their way towards the Temple Romantique. Even after a year of being together they still had plenty to talk about during their walk but throughout the whole evening that velvet box was burning a hole in his jacket pocket.

When they had crossed the lake to once more sit against the cool stone their conversation died down into warm silence. Adrien stared out at the lake waters while the sun set pepping himself up for what he was about to do next. Suddenly he stood up which was met by a very confused gaze from Marinette. He smiled down at her and held a hand out to her with a quick "M'lady?" She took it with a smile and he pulled her to her feet, planting a quick kiss on the back of her hand before lowering it.

He took in a deep breath before speaking up. "Marinette, this last year with you has been the best year of my entire life. No one else has ever been able to make me feel as whole and complete as you do. No one has ever been able to make me feel as loved as you do. We've grown so close together, to the point that I don't think I could imagine my life without you. And I don't want to. I love you, the moon and back, more than life itself. I know…" he let out a small laugh before he kept going. She was smiling so widely like she knew what he was about to do and it was taking every fiber of her being to not jump on him so he could finish.

"I know that this might be me acting too quickly but…" He lowered himself down to one knee and watched as her eyes widened while he did so. "Marinette." he stated as one of his hands fished out the box from his pocket. She gasped and quickly covered her mouth with her hands as he opened it up to reveal the diamond ring inside. "Will you marry me?" She stood there silently in a state of shock and suddenly Adrien was worried that she was about to say no. Just as he started to prepare himself for the worst she started to nod her head rapidly.

"Yes, yes, oh my god, yes!" She screamed excitedly as she started bouncing up and down. He let out a breath at her answer, elated that she said yes. Carefully he took hold of her hand, popped the ring out of the box, and slid the ring onto her finger. He stood as she gaped at it still bouncing before nearly tackling him in a hug. He lifted her up and spun her around happily, holding her tightly to him.

When he set her down they shared a loving kiss just as the sun finished its descent from the sky. It was almost like it vanishing behind the horizon was fate's way of closing this chapter on their lives. And as they made their way back home, hand in hand, he looked up to see a full moon shinning brightly on them signaling the start of a brand new one.

A/N: Aww yus, the resolution! A happy ending to a shitty conflict along with some extra feel goods. This is the end of the story, my sweets, and I hope that you guys enjoyed the ride. I'm so grateful for all of your support as I wrote this and I hope I can make you guys just as excited during future writings! R&R, I hope you guys love the ending, and I'll be back again with a new story! XOXO