Epilogue: A Matter of Time Travel

All's been resolved, and a first date occurs, but magazines just don't travel through time on their own.

Two Days Later

Marinette and Adrien were sitting at a small cafe on their first official date, and both were blushing messes.

"Why don't you pretend you're transformed," Adrien said.

"Because I want to be Marinette in this, not Ladybug," Marinette said.

"With or without the spots, you're still you. I'm the one who's different," Adrien said.

"But you're not. Not really. Who'd have thought you were a giant dork?" Marinette said.

"But Purr-incess, you know you love mew," Adrien said with a Chat Noir grin.

"That's a lot to assume from one date, kitty," Marinette said with an equally large grin. Their blushing and stuttering was gone.

Watching around the corner was three pairs of eyes: Two green and one blue.

"That's so awesome. I knew putting that magazine in Aunt Alya's bag would be a good idea!"

"If Maman and Papa catch us, we're grounded."

"Quit worrying Louis!"

"You don't need to be worrying about your parents' reactions to this. You should have considered your Grandparents instead, mes minous." The three froze. A pair of raven haired children, twins from the look of it, turned their green eyes to their grandmother. The only blond was notably younger and his blue eyes were wide with fear. Whenever their grandmother was the fierce Madame Peacock, her usually loving demeanor was absent. Her green eyes bore into them, and her silvering blonde hair was swept out of her face by a mask made of blue feathers.

"Hugo. Emma. Louis, what have we told you about misusing the Quantic artifacts your Grandfather has collected?" she said.

"To not to?" Hugo said.

"That's right, children. I have told you not to touch." They winced again as their grandfather walked out of the shadows, transformed into Papillon, formerly the villain Hawkmoth. He stood next to their Grandmother and his towering form made them bunch together.

"If we promise to be good, will you not tell Maman or Papa?" Emma asked. She looked like her mother, except her eyes, and she had the same ability to look incredibly innocent when she wished. Hugo joined his twin, looking like the black haired version of his father at that age and Louis, the blue eyed version of his father joined them.

"Remember when Adrien tried to do that?" Madame Peacock said.

"It would never work," Papillon said mildly, "But that's the same look he'd give us whenever he wanted to stay up a little bit longer after his bedtime."

"Emma," Madame Peacock said holding her hand out and the girl sighed and handed her what looked like a simple hour-glass pendant.

"Fortunately, it's not damaged," Papillon said before he motioned the children to him. They formed a huddle and with a turn, they arrived back in the future right in front of Ladybug and Chat Noir, who were waiting with their arms crossed.

"You three are in big trouble," Ladybug said, "Imagine my surprise whenever we received new memories of a magazine that you Aunt Alya made appearing twelve years in the past where it didn't belong?"

"A magazine that I remember a few children begging to borrow fur show and tell," Chat Noir said.

"And then, we find out your grandfather was missing one of his Quantic artifacts the day after three little children had been dropped off at his house to spend the afternoon with their Agreste grandparents. We of course needed to make sure no super villains had taken it, so while we searched Paris, with your Aunts and Uncle, your Grandparents seemed to have traced the magic to its source," Ladybug said.

"Do you have anything to say for yourselves?" Chat Noir said. The three gulped. Chat Noir hadn't made a pun. That wasn't good.

"We're sorry," Emma said.

"It was all Emma and Hugo's idea!" Louis said.

"Traitor!"Hugo said.

"It was!" Louis said, "They wanted to use that thing to go back and help out your young selves!"

"Why would you do that? You could have undo everything?" Ladybug said.

"We just wanted you to be happier sooner," Emma said.

"I also remember burning that Magazine so, you're going to have to apologize to Aunt Alya for destroying one of her favorite issues of Héro," Ladybug said.

"My Lady, ST is signaling us," Chat Noir said.

"We'll talk about this later," Ladybug said before she nodded to her husband and they ran out of the room.

"What should we do with three naught kittens who broke the house rules, Papillon?" Madame Peacock said as she released her transformation and resumed being their Grandma Agreste.

"We make them eat nothing but vegetables and send them straight to the play room to do something constructive until their parents come back," Papillon said as he resumed being Grandfather Agreste.

Louis looked so stricken that it was hard for his grandmother to keep a straight face. Emma and Hugo had accepted their fate.

"What constructive activity do you think they should be doing until their parents get back?"

"I have several back issues of Héro saved in boxes, including the one they destroyed. They could search for that issue so that when they apologize again, they can offer the replacement issue as part of their penance."

"Next time you have a brilliant idea Emma, keep it to yourself," Hugo grumbled. Grandfather Agreste gave the twins a piercing gaze.

"Crime doesn't pay, remember that."

— —

Hours later, Marinette and Adrien arrived at his parents' house to pick up their children only to find the three kids out cold in the middle of piles of magazines in play room.

"That was cruel, Father," Adrien said whenever he picked up the twins. The six-year-olds looked tiny in his arms. Marinette picked up their four-year-old son and noticed the copy of the magazine that had been destroyed in the past was sitting in a pile next to where Louis had been sleeping.

"We'll be by tomorrow to clean this up," Marinette said.

"It's alright," her mother-in-law said, "We've got this, after all someone needs to pay for his cruelty."

"With that, we're leaving. Good night Mother, Father," Adrien said as he bent down and kissed his mother on the cheek.

Though the room was in chaos, the night was peaceful. Everything would be ok.

Fin

MP: Thanks again to everyone who's been with me the whole time during Le Magazine de l'Avenir. I had a blast writing this. I hope you enjoyed reading it.

Thanks for reading ^_^
-MP