Marinette knocked on the door three times paused then knocked twice paused and then knocked once to let Adrien know that it was safe. Adrien opened the door a crack to see who had knocked. Once he saw that it was Marinette he swung the door open and pulled her into a bone-crushing hug. Marinette squeaked in surprise.

"Marinette," Adrien sighed into her hair. "I am so happy that you are here." Adrien had been at the safe house for hours before Marinette had arrived. All he could do was stare at her soulmate tattoo. Then he kept thinking of Marinette and how kind, sweet, and brave she was. She had gone out of her way to make sure that he was able to find his soulmate. Then he began to realize how beautiful his friend was and that took him down a whole different path of thoughts. In the end, he was excited to see her, hold her and dare he hope to kiss her.

"Oh Adrien, I am so sorry. I'm not sure what I was thinking. I am not even sure if I was thinking. All I knew was that you had to meet your soulmate. I didn't want you to be lonely. So I came up with this plan to kidnap you. You must think I am crazy. I think I am crazy. I think I might have had an out of body experience. Your dad will hate me. We won't be able to friends anymore. I mean if you even want to be friends with a crazy person," Marinette began to ramble barely taking a breath.

Adrien just smiled at her. There was the Marinette he knew. The one who is so worried about what other people thought. She was the best. "Marinette don't you think that none of that matters anymore, " Adrien chuckled holding up his wrist. She had to know that he wouldn't let her out of his life now that they were soulmates. He was contemplating not letting her out of his sight for the next few days, weeks, months, years, or ever.

Marinette stared at his soulmate tattoo blinking a few times. She tried to keep her face neutral. She had to be happy for him. He was her best friend. "Oh my gosh, Adrien. You found her? Is she living in this building? One of the drivers? Oh no, was she at the airport? Did I drag you away from her?"

Adrien looked at her confused. Did she not remember what had happened at the airport. Adrien remembered her being in the zone but how do you know remember finding your soulmate. He blushed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Ummm...Marinette...at the airport...you and me…" Adrien fumbled with the words to tell her.

Marinette's memory finally caught up with her. Adrien and her were in the alcove at the airport. She had grabbed his hand. There were such pretty colors coming from their wrists but there wasn't time. She had to get Adrien to the safe house. She glanced up at Adrien then back at her wrist which was still covered by her leather band. She whipped the band off and saw that her soulmate mark had changed into an amazing tattoo. A tattoo that matched Adrien's perfectly.

"Me...you…" Marinette tried to find the words but ended up sitting on the floor. "I...we…."

Adrien sat down on the floor with her. He went to grab her hand but hesitated. He had hours to process that his best friend was his soulmate, but she had just realized what had happened. He was beginning to worry that she was upset or disappointed. Was there someone else to be her soulmate. Adrien knew he had hoped with almost one hundred percent certainty that Ladybug was his soulmate, but he hadn't even given her a thought once he found Marinette was his soulmate. Maybe Marinette had been in love with someone else. What would that mean for them? He was beginning to worry that Marinette might not ever be happy with him.

"I'm sorry if you are disappointed that it's me," Adrien whispered, not knowing how to fix this problem.

Marinette snapped her head up at that statement. Adrien thought she was disappointed. Her biggest dream had just come true. She flung herself at Adrien snuggling onto his laugh. Adrien blushed with surprise.

"Adrien you are my best friend. I could never be disappointed that my soulmate is you," Marinette said. She took a deep breath and tried to continue with a confession she knew she had to get out. "It's just that, these past few years, I have had...I mean you always saw us as friends and I didn't want to ruin it. Plus your soulmate mark didn't point you to me. So I was trying to be ok, but you know I never really stopped…"

"You never really stopped what?" Adrien looked down at Marinette confused at what she was trying to say.

Marinette looked up at Adrien and put her hands on his cheeks. She channeled her inner Ladybug and answered. "I'm in love with you Adrien. I have been for years. I had always hoped that you would be my soulmate but I never believed."

Adrien's heart soared at her confession. She wasn't upset or disappointed. She loved him. Adrien touched his forehead to hers. "I think I might be in love with my best friend too."

They eventually moved to the couch to snuggle and talk about what this would all mean for them. While they were talking they also examined their tattoos. There were colors of pink, black, red and green swirling around all the objects. There were hearts, thimbles, sewing needles, croissants, music notes, Chinese lettering, and a foil. They began to laugh at all the little symbols and how not only did they symbolize them individually but also together.

"Wait, is that a black cat chasing a ladybug," Marinette asked looking closer at her tattoo. The cat and ladybug were smaller than the other symbols.

"I think it is," Adrien replied. "I think that one is a me symbol."

"No I think that one is mine," Marinette insisted.

They went on debating who the symbol belonged to until Tikki and Plagg both came out of hiding and yelled, "It's both of you!"

Nathalie entered the office where Gabriel was sitting rubbing his temples. It had been a long exhausting day. He hadn't found his son. It was a wild goose chase to the hotel where he found a look alike. He looked up when he heard Nathalie entered.

"Have you found him?" Gabriel asked.

"Yes sir, but there has been a development," Nathalie responded hesitantly.

"Well, what is it? It's not like this day could get any worse," Gabriel huffed impatiently.

Nathalie turned her tablet around to show him a video of a girl chatting a goodbye to her family while she was at the airport. He looked at Natalie questioning her silently why she was forcing him to watch this silly girl. Then a flash of color in the corner of the screen got his eye. In the background, in an alcove, was a boy and a girl. The boy looked like Adrien. They were getting their soulmate tattoos. Gabriel could tell by the sparkling of colors around their wrists.

"Do we know who the girl is? She looks vaguely familiar," Gabriel brought the tablet closer to his face.

"I believe that it is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, sir," Nathalie replied. "She is also the one responsible for this whole ordeal."

Gabriel's head snapped up. "What?! A teenage girl is responsible for my son's disappearance?"

"It appears so. She did have the help of her classmates and some other friends. I am sure Miss Bourgeois and Miss Tsurugi were also involved. Along with a robot named Markov. Oh and she planned in less than 24 hours," Nathalie said matter of factly. "Also if you look at the video it does appear that Miss Dupain-Cheng didn't even realize that they were soulmates."

Gabriel started to laugh. The plan was that he had witnessed was ridiculously brilliant. This Miss Dupain-Cheng was a force to be reckoned with.

Nathalie watched her boss nervously. She had never heard him laugh so joyously before. At least, not since his wife had become ill. "Sir, are you ok?"

Gabriel looked up at Nathalie and replied, "Have I ever told you the story of how Emilie and I found out we were soulmates?"

"Umm...no sir you haven't?" Nathalie replied tentatively. She was beginning to think that Gabriel was having a breakdown.

"It involved me coming up with this ridiculous plan from Emilie to get noticed as the brilliant actress she was. I was so consumed with the plan that I didn't notice our soulmate mark had changed. It took me five hours to realize that Emilie was my soulmate," Gabriel sighed at the memory.

Gabriel stood up and went to the picture of Emilie in his office. He stared up at her lovingly. Oh how he missed her. "She would have approved of Miss Dupain-Cheng. She will love to hear the story once I bring her back."

"What should I do about Adrien? Do you want me to bring him home?" Nathalie asked breaking Gabriel out of his thoughts.

"Let them be. I was wrong. Everyone deserves to find their soulmate. To find that love that they would do anything to keep."