Tikki watched as panic surfaced in Plagg's eyes. She didn't know what had happened before they arrived, but Plagg was clearly out of sorts and not hiding it well. She could feel his distress from two floors away and without a word to Trixx, had immediately flown to his side. When she found them, she saw her feeling had not been wrong, but one look at Plagg's face told her the last thing he wanted was to continue whatever he'd been talking about with Wayzz.

So she'd moved on and tackled the problem at hand. When they found the box, she breathed a sigh of relief and felt the tension drain out of Plagg too, but of course it couldn't be that simple. Then she saw the terror in his eyes as the boy went to throw the linens down the laundry shoot, and she threw all her rules out the window. Some humans had already seen her today, so what was risking one more?

"Oh no you don't," she grumbled, her mind forming a plan. "Trixx?" She looked over at the fox kwami and they exchanged a conspiratorial smile.

"Way ahead of you."

The kwami sped forward and Tikki turned to her partner, who seemed confused but relieved that she clearly had a plan.

"We'll distract him. You just get that box." She reached over to squeeze his hand briefly in solidarity before she was off too, knowing he could handle the rest. They just had to give him an opening.

She zoomed over, seeing Trixx already busy creating a mess of wires and otherwise bipedal-unfriendly obstacles in the boy's path, but Tikki decided to take a more direct approach. She was already breaking the rules today, so what the hell?

She zipped into the opposite corner, passing in a blur and just grazing the boy's nose before hiding behind the shelves on the other side. He froze, his head whipping from side to side in search of what had just touched him. He crinkled his nose in discomfort, not being able to itch because his hands were full, but continued on his way. Tikki tried again. They just needed to make him put down the bundle…

The second attempt was unsuccessful, but Tikki tried for a third. Just as his feet reached the edge of Trixx's obstacle course, Tikki spun around his head, this time eliciting a thunderous sneeze, the force of which threw the boy forward. Tikki was joined by Trixx as the two cringed, watching him take a step forward to steady himself only to trip over a broom and have the other leg tangle in the electrical wire. The two kwamis cringed and winced each time the boy took another step to right himself only to encounter another object to trip over.

Yet somehow, he didn't fall, and at last managed to catch himself on the handle of the laundry shoot, prying it open as he brought himself to a more stable standing position. Tikki and Trixx just stared with dumbfounded expressions.

"Seriously?!" Trixx finally hissed, and the boy's head whipped around towards the noise just as he started to let the linens tumble into the shoot. Tikki pushed Trixx immediately out of his line of vision, but she was able to make out a black and a green blur as Plagg and Wayzz used the distraction to zip into the laundry shoot after the box.

When she peeked back out, she saw the boy kicking the broom out of the way and grumbling to himself as the door to the shoot snapped shut behind him. Once he was further down the hall, they floated over before freezing, not sure what to do next.

"A little help, Tikks? This box can't exactly go through walls like us."

Plagg's gravelly whine echoed in the metal tube and Tikki let out a sigh of relief before sharing a grin with Trixx.

"Shoot, Plagg. I don't know if we'll be able to open it," Trixx responded with a wink to Tikki. She giggled before they both sat on the handle to engage the latch and pulled down.

Plagg and Wayzz floated out, carrying the box between them.

"You know, I never understood the saying clever like a fox," he looked at Trixx with an unamused expression before continuing. "I still don't."

Trixx just smirked, but before she could get in another word, the clock at the end of the corridor sounded and they all froze.

"Uh, what time was the ceremony again?" Plagg's head slowly swiveled to Tikki, his eyes wide.

"Now," she responded as they all stared at each other, before zooming off and out a nearby window towards the chapel.

Alya stood fidgeting and straightening Nino's already perfectly positioned tie.

"They'll be here, relax," Nino said for the tenth time.

"You know, when someone says relax, it usually has the opposite effect," she sniped back, before moving on to straighten his pocket square.

It'll be fine. They're on their way. It'll be fine, she repeated the mantra to herself, trying not to meet Marinette's eyes, knowing as soon as she did her friend would know something was wrong.

Then the music started, and her heart beat faster. Just when she was about to scream, Alya heard a light tap on the window near her and practically collapsed from relief. She darted over, tugging Nino along with her and opened the door.

"Hey, love, we-"

"No time!" Alya whispered loudly, cutting off her kwami's explanation. "Places!"

Just like they practiced, Tikki and Trixx hid themselves in her bouquet, perfectly matching the deep red and orange poppies and fall flowers Marinette had chosen deliberately as her color scheme for that reason, while Plagg and Wayzz zipped into Nino's suit coat. Alya took a moment to compose herself, before turning and almost running into the bride.

Much unlike her usually self, Marinette was completely calm and just smiled down into Alya's bouquet.

"Cutting it a little close, Tikki," she winked at her kwami and Tikki gave her an abashed grin. Then Marinette focused on Alya.

"You're up!"

Alya took a deep breath and quickly kissed her friend on the cheek before linking arms with Nino and walking down the aisle.

Plagg huddled in Nino's interior pocket, holding the rings he had taken out of the box to his chest for dear life. When they finally made it to the end of the aisle, Nino parted from Alya and gave Adrien a brief hug, giving Plagg the perfect cover to zip into his charge's suit jacket instead. Adrien opened his coat slightly, catching Plagg's eye briefly.

"Thanks man," the boy Plagg had watch become a man smiled down at his kwami. "I knew I could count on you."

Plagg held his gaze for a moment, allowing a rare smile before the wedding march sounded and Adrien's attention was rightly captured elsewhere.

Plagg took a deep breath. Everything was alright. They'd done it. He smiled, taking another breath before peaking out from Adrien's coat, grateful that all eyes were pointed in the opposite direction because there was no way he was going to miss Marinette walk down the aisle.

The wedding went off without a hitch. Plagg handed Adrien the rings at the right moment, and the two official became husband and wife to the tolling of the church bells. Even he had a tear in his eye as they made it official.

His kids. Together forever.
He'd never smiled so wide.