Thanks for all of the great reviews I greatly appreciate them. This will probably wrap everything up. Please remember to read and review, this is a continuation of the last few chapters. Sorry if this is a little on the short side. Just wanted to get it out there.

Marinette sniffled a little in her bedroom. She knew that this was pathetic, she was almost a full grown adult! And here she was scarfing sweets like a child while watching the news with Adrien and Lila on it.

It had been a great big fuss when Gabriel Agreste had returned after finding his son and his sons girlfriend. That was how people had taken it. that was what the press was reporting, and there was no reason to disregard it. Lila and Adrien were a couple and they were being paraded around Paris, their love had kept them alive during the entire ordeal of being stranded on a deserted island.

Marinette knew that no matter how much she cared about Adrien she would never love him as much as Lila cared for Adrien. She groaned as she shoveled another spoonful of ice-cream into her mouth. She chewed and swallowed the icy treat freezing her all the way down to her core. She would probably gain a few thousand pounds and die of a heart attack by the time she was forty.

She reached down to the plate beside her and grabbed a cookie. She munched on it sadly for a few moments. She clicked the rewatch button on her computer screen and the news video started up again. It showed Adrien getting off of his fathers ship. Blinking in the light of all of the news cameras and photographers. Then it went on to show a comparison of him then versus where he was now a few months later. His hair was shorter, he had put back on the weight he had lost and he wasn't as tan. But he looked healthier, as if his eyes had a spark to them.

She didn't know why, his eyes always looked lively, but then and there, when he had first stepped off of the ship he had looked lost and confused. He was probably overwhelmed, at least his father was nice enough to point him in the right direction and bring him to their limo. Marinette had no idea how to feel about that, for one thing it was Gabriel, he was already a control freak, but that control freakiness probably saved his son. That was probably how he had found Adrien too. She had spent so long searching for her so called 'light and love' and his father had found him in about a week and a half.

For her it had taken around a year and a half.

Marinette scraped her spoon around the inside of her ice-cream container and shoveled the sweet gooey goodness into her mouth.
"You cannot really be letting this get you down." Tikki said floating up next to her chosen. "Go to him, tell him how you feel. What good is any of this?"
"For starters it won't complicate that." Marinette said pointing at her computer screen with her spoon, a fleck of the treat flew off and hit Lila's face directly in the middle of the screen.

"Ugh if I hadn't seen them making out I would march up to her and smack her silly." Marinette ground out. She shoveled more food into her mouth.
"You know maybe there is another explanation." Tikki said as she took a cookie from Marinette's hand. It wasn't stealing though, Marinette was polite enough to offer her kwamii a treat while she was slowly turning into the human blob.

"Like what? He was giving her mouth to mouth while they were standing upright? Or she had a piece of food stuck down her throat and he could only get it out with his tongue? Or maybe she had gotten bitten on the mouth by a snake and he was sucking the venom out?" Marinette prattled off. Tikki rolled her eyes.
"Okay so maybe it is exactly what it looked like. But you can't stay in here all day and eat away your feelings!"
"I do not eat away my feelings!" Tikki gestured at the empty ice-cream containers, dirty dishes and the pile of candy wrappers. The girl had some big feelings. Which meant a big appetite. She was still very petite though, it would take something insanely huge to make her put on any lasting weight.

"This is the definition of eating away your feelings Marinette, not to mention not even talking to your parents. You are still living with them, the least that you could do is talk to them and assure them that you are...not fine but at least functioning."
"You're functioning." Marinette mumbled out around her spoon. Tikki rolled her large bug like eyes at her chosen childishness, it was cute when she was young, but just like a kitten they stop being cute as they get bigger.

"Marinette!" A shout echoed through the apartment. Marinette sat upright, her parents should have been in the bakery, and the voice didn't sound like either of them.
"Marinette!" The voice was not stomping up her staircase to her bedroom.
"Hide Tikki!" Marinette said to her kwamii friend, the little red bug did not have to be told twice. She zipped behind a picture and sat down.

Alya slammed the floor trap door open and launched herself into the room.
"Marinette!" She shouted before she jumped over the mess on her best friends floor. She grabbed her by the shoulders and physically shook her.
"What are you doing here!" The two shouted simultaneously. Alya blinked owlishly behind her glasses before she lifted her friend out of her chair.

"What am I-What am I?! What am I doing here?! What are you doing here? What are you even doing? Girl why didn't you bring Adrien back? What is the matter with you? Are you crazy! And I am starting to sound unhinged." She sighed and stepped back rubbing her forehead before looking around the room in wonder and slight disgust.
"What happened here? It looks like a snack tornado...is that cheese?"
"Camembert cheese yeah...it was Adrien's favorite." She said a little embarrassed. Alya shook her head in amusement and wonder.
"You are such a little weirdo sometimes." Alya said sarcastically yet lovingly. She suddenly hardened and looked at her friend with a serious expression. "But seriously, we went to the same island that you went to. Why did you leave them?"

Marinette stubbed her toe on the floor "Well I thought...wait a second what do you mean we?"
"I snuck on board Mr Agreste's boat, the two of us found him together. My parents found out and I've been grounded for the past few days, where do you think I've been?"
"Wait but you're like-"
"Yeah we are both too old to get grounded. My point is why didn't you bring them home?" Marinette sighed and sat down.
"What if you had found a perfect place to be? With the love of your life? And you were happy? Would you want to leave? I just put myself in Lila's place and knew that I would never-"
"The witch was drugging him, there was a plant on the island." Marinette sat up sharply.
"But-I-uh-what?"
"Marinette? You still working?"
"But look!" she protested shaking her head and pointing at the computer screen where the two were standing arm in arm and waving, the two Parisians who triumphantly returned from the brink of death.

"That's all a photoshoot. Meant to make them look good." Alya said icily. "I mean obviously. What else could it be. I saw the drug man. It was out of some sort of flower thing."

Marinette's eyes grew wide, then they hardened and turned into slits.
"She was hurting him. She used him. That insufferable witch!" Marientte shouted her hair seemed to stand dangerously on end, there was lightning brewing in the bedroom.
"Yes! That's what I've been trying to tell you!" Alya shouted. She stepped back into some old ice-cream tops. "What's with all this garbage anyway?"
"My Adrien needs me!" Marinette shouted. Alya backed up, beginning to get legitimately concerned. Sure Marinette was determined to catch Adrien's eye but this...this went a little into crazy territory.

"Okay let's not do anything crazy here." Alya attempted to say. Marinette shook her hair out from around her and exposed her ears.
"TIKKI! SPOTS ON!"
"Oh no." A little voice whispered near Alya's hand. A little red blur shot through the air and in a flash of light where Marinette had been standing was now the Parisian superhero Ladybug. Alya's eyes widened as she fell back in shock. Ladybug! In Marinette's room! The superhero had not been seen in forever! And now here she was! And she was Marinette! Alya reached for the wall and her pocket. She needed her phone, she needed to say something.
"Bah?" She got out. Marinette or rather Ladybug gazed down at Alya before smiling and nodding.
"Thank you. I needed a kick to get moving." Marinette said nodding to her friend. "Sorry to keep this from you. I'll explain when I get back."

With a jump and a swing she was out her window and down the street. Alya rushed to the window and looked out after her.
"My entire life has been a lie." She said softly to herself as she sat down onto her friend's couch.

"That is the fifth wheel of cheese that you've eaten. This hour." Adrien said as he sipped his green based drink. He didn't even know the flavor...it was just green...with hints of protein.

Plagg merely sniffed disdainfully. "I was stuck in a ring for close to a year and some change while you played kissy face with your girlfriend." Plagg responded in disgust.

"I am entitled to splurge after the stunt that you pulled."
"She is not my girlfriend! Lila used me!" Adrien shouted standing up and pointing at the tinier and very unimpressed magical creature.
"But you liked it right? So it isn't being taken advantage of."
"You are just a terrible thing aren't you?" Adrien said in disgust as he continued to suck on his drink.
"And proud of it. Your computer is making noises again." Adrien looked up. Plagg was right. His computer was beeping. Which was weird as he wired it to wake up automatically only when it was related to Ladybug...and no one had seen her for a while which meant...

"No way!" Adrien shouted as he jumped over his couch and got to his computer. He maneuvered through it until he got to the right website. And there it was. In all her red and black spotted glory. Ladybug.

"She's back!" Adrien shouted in joy as he jumped up and did a little victory dance. Plagg rolled his eyes at the amount of energy that his chosen had in him.

"Now her I wouldn't mind being stuck on a deserted island with." Adrien said dreamily staring at a stock image picture of her.
"Well your wish is about to be granted." The black cat said as he hovered near the window. "Cause here she comes."

Adrien turned and his eyes widened as Ladybug was indeed making her way determinedly towards his window.
"Hide Plagg!" Plagg shrugged his tiny shoulders as he lazily floated over to Adrien's trash can and flopped down into it. It was pretty comfortable he wasn't going to lie.

Adrien ran around his room straightening up and fixing his hair. Why was she coming to him so quickly? What did she want? What was happening now? He felt slower since the island. Duller. It had to do with what Lila had done to him, but he was better, he didn't repeat everything that everyone said anymore, that was good.

The window burst inward and Ladybug hovered there. She gazed at him. Her eyes wide as if in shock. Adrien returned her gaze. Simple stalk amazement.
"Ladybug-"
"ADRIEN!" Ladybug shouted as she flung herself into the room and wrapped her arms around him. She picked him up effortlessly. "I am so sorry!" Adrien gasped as she hugged him as tightly as possible.
"It was my fault! I should have taken you back anyway! I should have known that you weren't safe! That she was doing something to you! I am so sorry!"
"Ladybug...is...okay...choking...can't...breath!" Marinette gasped and dropped him.
"I am so sorry! I almost killed you! Oh my God you must hate me! I left you once and then I nearly strangled you to death!" Ladybug flopped backwards onto Adrien couch covering her eyes. "I am a terrible person."

"No! You aren't! You're perfect!"Adrien shouted out before blushing and covering his mouth. He then drew his hands away from his mouth in confusion.
"What do you mean you could have taken me back?Ladybug...did you...did you search for me?" Ladybug breathed in and then out slowly.
"In my...civilian form...yes...I sort of have a massive crush on you...in my civilian form..."She said simply and straightforwardly. She might as well admit it, she had been so terrible towards him so far that she might as well go the whole nine yards and confess to him.

Funny she thought that it would be a bit more romantic, not her sitting on his couch dressed as Ladybug and not having showered for a week (Why hadn't she showered? She must reek. God she wished she wasn't so weird!)

"But...someone...back on the boat...they said that only one other person looked for me...Alya! That's it!" Adrien said slapping his hands together. "Alya said that only one person spent enough time to search for me for my father to jump off of her progress and actually find me!"

Adrien froze as he recalled the name.
"You said that you used your civilian identity? To look for me?"
"Did Alya tell you who searched for you?" Ladybug groaned.
"I almost forgot...but seeing you here...I know exactly who you are..."Adrien gazed at her in wonder. His eyes wide and filled with stars. Amazing, absolutely amazing.

"Marinette." Adrien breathed out. Ladybug sighed and closed her eyes. Tikki took the cue and the magic wore off. Marinette gazed up at Adrien. He merely held his hand out, without a word, it was almost like Plagg was reading his will, the tiny black cat Kwamii flew out and transformed Adrien into Chat Noir. The two stared into each other. Through each other. Puzzle pieces were coming together. The two stared, blushing like two overly ripe tomatoes.

"So. What now?"

Again thanks for all of the great reviews I greatly appreciate it. Please remember to read and review. No real set ages for them in this one, a little older then in the show I would say.