Hey everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I took a break from my other stories to put together a little 2-part Miraculous Christmas story for you!

*Warning! I am setting this after the events of season 3 with heavy references to Chat Blanc so if you haven't seen it yet(I mean come on guys really, who hasn't seen it yet?) but still! Here is your spoiler warning!*

I do not own the characters, just the plot! So without further ado, here's the first chapter. Enjoy!

Part 1

Marinette stared down at the little slip of paper in her hand with the number thirteen on it. Miss Bustier smiled as Sabrina took the last folded paper from the box.

"All right everyone," she grabbed a sheet of paper and handed it to Adrien, "This is the list of everyone in class, with the corresponding number next to their name. Find the number you drew, and that is your secret Santa pal for this year."

Adrien handed the paper to Nino who scanned it quickly before turning and handing it to Alya. Alya groaned, face planting into her book before holding the paper out to her.

She scanned the paper quickly, looking for whoever Miss Bustier had assigned the unlucky number thirteen.

Her eyes widened as she saw the name next to the thirteen. She should have known. There, in clear script, read – 'Adrien Agreste'.

She quickly passed the paper back, Alya whispering it to her, "Hey, want to switch with me?"

Marinette shook her head, "Not a chance."

Alya groaned again and as the paper finally made its way around the room, Miss Bustier told them, "You can spend as little or as much on the gift as you would like, but I do recommend putting some thought into it. If you aren't sure what to get for your secret Santa, this would be a good time to get to know each other a little better."

Alya raised her hand, "Ma'am, what if it will be impossible to get anything for the person you drew? Owing to the fact that they don't NEED anything except something that can't be put in a box."

Some of the class started to laugh at Alya's tone but Miss Bustier smiled, "It doesn't have to be wrapped Alya, as long as it's from the heart."

Alya whispered to her, "Oh it will be from the heart, deep, deep, DEEP down."

Marinette giggled softly, almost knowing by the scrunched up face Alya was wearing who she had picked for her secret Santa.

The bell began to ring and they were dismissed, with a reminder that they would be exchanging gifts the Friday before the holiday vacation, two weeks from now.

Marinette put her things in her bag, Alya asking her again, "Marinette please, PLEASE switch with me."

She said it easily, "I already have the perfect gift in mind." And made.– She thought to herself. Even if she hadn't drawn Adrien for secret Santa, she had finished his gift weeks ago. Alya scowled before looking forward in hope, "Nino?"

Nino smiled up at her, "Sorry babe. That's not how secret Santa works."

Alya looked at Adrien who told her with a gentle smile, "It can't be that bad Alya."

Alya's eyes followed a certain obnoxious blonde girl out of the room, saying it hard, "Yes. Yes it can."

Marinette suggested it lightly, "Why don't we all go secret Santa shopping together? Maybe we can help each other out."

Nino looked relieved, "That sounds like a great idea."

Adrien nodded, "Yeah, I have no idea what a good gift would be."

Alya said it hard, "A good kick in the pants would work for my gift."

"Do you guys want to get a head start now? Or wait until tomorrow?" Nino asked, patting Alya's arm to try and dissuade some of her annoyance.

"I actually have the rest of the afternoon and tomorrow free, so either is fine with me." Adrien told them.

Alya put her bag over her arm, "Let's get this over with. At least this way, it will be done and out of our hair. Do you mind if we leave our school stuff at your place Marinette?"

She shook her head, "No, that's fine with me."

Adrien smiled suddenly, "Hey, you guys want to take my car? It is going to get colder out the later it gets."

Alya fanned her face sarcastically, "Star treatment huh? Being driven around with THE Adrien Agreste, swoon."

Adrien rolled his eyes, but was smirking, "Well, if you want to spend ALL afternoon walking around in the cold, carrying ALL of the bags you are going to eventually have,"

"That car idea is starting to sound better and better bro." Nino interjected quickly.

Adrien pulled out his phone when Alya and Marinette both agreed, sending a quick text to Gorilla for him to be waiting for them at the bakery.

They made small talk as they collected their bags and got ready to brace the cold that had already fallen over Paris. There wasn't any snow just yet, but they all knew it was coming.

Adrien stayed at Marinette's side as they walked to the bakery. Nino and Alya were holding hands in front of them, talking low between themselves.

Adrien told her with a sudden small smile, "I wish I could be so lucky."

She saw him motioning in front of them and she asked confused, "I thought, you and Kagami?"

He looked at her in shock, "No, no not at all. I mean, we went out a few times, but there was always something missing. Kagami and I are friends, that's all."

"Oh." Marinette said, internally squealing with joy, but telling him sincerely, "I'm sorry it didn't work out."

He shook his head, "No don't be. I knew I was probably never going to get over my first love, but I did try. There is just, no one that compares to her in my eyes." He looked at her suddenly, "Although, you come pretty close in a lot of things."

She blushed, smiling as she tried to confirm it, "You mean Ladybug, right?"

He stopped mid-step, staring at her wide-eyed, "How did you,"

"Nino, may have spilled the beans. It's not his fault I swear, I may have, tricked it out of him." She admitted, although that was only after she had figured out for herself the great secret around Adrien Agreste.

A few months ago, on Adrien's fifth's names day to be specific, future Bunnyx had popped out of a rabbit hole in a panic.

Bunnyx had taken her to a future Paris that had been completely submerged in water. The moon had been catastrophically blown in half, and only one person had been left alive.

Chat Noir.

She had entered that future, and found him sitting lazily on the top of Montparnasse Tower singing to himself.

Within seconds of seeing him, she knew that something was terribly, terribly wrong. His normal black suit had changed to all white, and his beautiful, brilliant green eyes had turned to a cold ice blue. He had been akumatized.

One emotional fight later, she discovered that Chat Noir had known in that timeline that Ladybug was Marinette. He had known, and had loved her anyway. She had purified his akuma, and as much as she had wanted to stay in that time with him, she knew she couldn't.

So, she went back to her time and fixed the mistake that had sent everything in motion for Chat being akumatized in the first place. Even though the Miraculous Cleanse had been set off, it hadn't taken away her memory of Chat Blanc, and it had led her to truth of the entire situation. Adrien was Chat Noir. It had taken her a few days to get to that point though honestly, to really know in her heart that Adrien was Chat Noir.

She had told Bunnyx that Adrien must have seen Ladybug leaving his room, and had figured he had told someone who then told someone else. But that didn't sit quite right with her. Even though Adrien had figured out that she was Ladybug, she knew in her heart that he wouldn't have ever told a soul. He wouldn't risk putting her in danger that way, so the new question became, how did Chat Noir find out if Adrien was the only person who knew? The answer had come easily, despite her head chanting loud signals of pure denial through her until her heart spoke louder.

Chat was Adrien, and Adrien was Chat. It was the only way that Chat Noir could have known.

She felt her shoulders fall. The timeline had been fixed by the simple act of erasing her name from the gift, but the new result meant that the scale had been tipped. She knew who was under the mask, but Adrien didn't.

That incident was something she had kept strictly to herself. Not even Master Fu had known about Chat Blanc before he made her the new Guardian.

It wasn't that she hadn't wanted to tell Adrien the truth, she did, but she didn't want him to feel guilty about being akumatized in a timeline that no longer existed. Adrien was already too hard on himself, in and out of costume. She had thought that if dating Kagami would make him happy, than she would step back.

It had still broken her heart when she thought he was in love with Kagami, but Chat Noir always assured Ladybug that she was the only one in his heart.

Hearing him say it out loud as Adrien warmed her heart and gave her hope, but also fed into her guilt.

She had blindly been pushing down her feelings for Chat Noir, constantly pushing him away because of her love for Adrien. She had hurt him, on more than one occasion when she had to reject his feelings. It was why she still hadn't brought herself to tell him the truth. She truly loved him, both sides of him, so she would wait for him for a lifetime if she had to.

Adrien's shocked, slightly embarrassed face, finally softened into a small smile, "I guess since it's you, it's okay. You don't think that makes me shallow do you, to be in love with Ladybug?"

She smiled at him softly, "Not at all."

"Nino thinks I'm crazy." Adrien admitted as they started walking again.

She hummed to herself, glad that after the past few months she had completely gotten over her stuttering around him. They were better friends right now than they had ever been, and she was glad that he felt that he was able to talk to her about anything.

"That's not crazy." She finally said, adding it lightly as she smiled at him brightly, "I've got a huge crush on Chat Noir so I understand."

Adrien nearly tripped over his feet, catching himself as she asked worried, holding back her smirk, "Adrien, did you slip on something? Are you okay?"

His face was flushed slightly as he asked sputtering, "Y-you, you have a c-crush on Chat Noir?"

She saw the worry in his eyes and looked away. She knew that Adrien didn't love her as Marinette, but it still stung. This was another reason she was hesitant to tell him. She wanted him to love both sides of her, not just Ladybug.

Her voice dropped, saying it defeated, "It's silly, I know."

"No!" He said quickly, startling her, "No it's not its, can I ask why? Did he, save you or something?"

'You have saved me more times than I can count Kitty.' She thought, before she admitted it, "Once or twice, but it's a little more complicated than that."

Adrien had a small smile creeping onto his face, "Why Marinette, it sounds like you are hiding a secret."

'Oh that's playing dirty. You are trying to get me to admit to the fact that you visit me as Chat Noir, to yourself-Adrien. Bold Chaton. Very Bold.'

She said it smirking brightly, turning to walk away before saying it, "Secrets are meant to be secret for a reason."

She heard his small chuckle behind her but he caught up to her in just a few long strides, "Don't you trust me?"

"Explicitly." She said simply, "But this is one secret I can't share, and won't share, not even with you."

"You've got a tough shell to crack. You'd give Ladybug a run for her money, holding onto secrets that way." He said calmly, throwing her another smile.

"She's much better at it I'm sure." She said calmly. 'I wish that one secret was the only secret I was keeping from you Chaton.'

They walked into the bakery behind Nino and Alya, Marinette asking right away, "Maman, do you mind if everyone leaves their school bags here? We wanted to go secret Santa shopping if that's all right."

Her mother nodded, "Of course, that's fine. You kids drew for secret Santa today huh? How did that go?"

All three of them looked straight at Alya who groaned, saying it bitterly, "Exceedingly, well."

Her mother gave a soft laugh before the kids went upstairs, dropping off their bags just inside Marinette's room and grabbing their wallets before heading back out into the cold. Thankfully, Gorilla was already waiting for them.

Marinette handed Gorilla a small bag of cookies and the hot chocolate she had grabbed for him. "Thank you for doing this."

Gorilla flashed her a small smile, patting her on the top of her head before she got in the car. She was sitting in the middle with Alya. Nino was sitting on Alya's other side, and Adrien sat next to her. They arrived at the mall a few minutes later, the hustle of holiday shopping already in full swing.

They went into store after store, their hand's slowly filling with bag's as they bought things here and there. Nino and Alya went into a music store, but she and Adrien sat down on the bench just outside of it to wait.

Adrien said it heavily, "We've been to almost every store already. I can't believe I still can't find anything for my secret Santa."

Marinette smiled, "Well, if you don't find anything today we can always come back. Nino still can't find anything either."

He asked curious, "Did you find what you were looking for?"

She moved the bag's closest to him into her other hand, "Maybe."

They laughed together before he told her softly, "Honestly, whoever you drew is lucky. You always know exactly what to get."

"I make most of my gifts, when I can." She told him.

"Exactly. You put your heart into it, and you care enough to take the time out to make things. No matter what it is, everyone loves your gifts because you did something that was just for them. Me?" He said staring towards the overcrowded store, "I can't even begin to narrow down a gift, much less even try to attempt to make something."

She put her hand on his arm, "You made me a new lucky charm for my birthday, and I love it."

"I don't think that will work this time." He said, giving her a small smile.

She looked up and tried to think, "Okay, let's try to narrow it down. You don't think you could make something, so buying is the best option. Do you have some sort of idea of what you are looking for?"

He shook his head, "Not really. Even walking around, nothing really stands out."

"Do you know your secret Santa pal pretty well?" She asked, honestly only curious because she wanted to help.

He nodded right away, "I'd like to think so, that's why it's so hard to find something. Nothing is good enough."

"I'm sure they would like whatever you got them." She said with a smile before asking, "What do you want for Christmas Adrien?"

His eyes fell to the ground in front of him, "The truth?"

She nodded when he glanced at her before he looked away again, "I want a happy Christmas, surrounded by people who care about me. I want to make cookies and leave them out for Santa, and have someone standing at the door, genuinely glad to see me and say 'Welcome Home'."

He asked her suddenly, not giving her time to react to his secret Christmas wish, "What do you want for Christmas? Maybe that will help me get an idea."

She smiled down at her hands, "That's a little tough, it's not something that can be made or put in a box. It's a lot like yours."

He asked worried, "What is it?"

She smiled at him, "I want him to see me the way I see him. I want him to see ME, not the person he thinks I am. If it was possible, even for just the smallest moment, I want him to understand how much I really love him."

Adrien's eyes widened slightly, a small blush on his cheeks as he asked, "You don't mean, Chat Noir do you?"

She said it lightly as she put her head back, closing her eyes, "Even if I told you who I meant, you'd never believe me. He is, so genuinely amazing. He'd never fall in love with someone like me."

"But how can you know that if,"

"Guys! They had it! It was the last one!" Nino called out to them, holding the highly sought after CD in his hands. Alya had a smile on her face behind him, even though she was rolling her eyes.

She stood quickly, glad that Nino had interrupted Adrien's question, "That's great!" She high-fived Nino and asked Alya, "Find anything that that would work?"

Alya smirked, "I found some Trance music. Think it could hypnotize someone?"

Nino said it quickly, "That's not really how it works babe."

Alya shrugged, "Then nope. I am getting hungry though."

She immediately agreed, "Me too. Guys?"

Adrien was still frowning at her slightly, but nodded, "Yeah, I could eat."

They left the mall with their few bags in tow, putting them in the trunk before going to one of their favorite café's. When she and Alya returned to the table, Adrien told her softly, "We went ahead and ordered for you girls. I hope that was okay."

Alya looked at Nino who said it quickly, "A ham and swiss, with no mustard, add mayo, no pickles, extra tomatoes."

Alya lightly pushed Nino's cap down over his eyes, "Well look at you. Double boyfriend points."

She asked looking between Nino and Adrien worried, "What did you order me?"

Adrien was staring down at his menu, the tips of his ears were red as he said it, "A turkey on wheat with muenster, with honey mustard instead of mayo, no pickles."

She felt herself blushing, "Oh, uh, wow."

He looked up quickly, "Was that wrong?"

Alya had the biggest smirk on her face, "No, that is her order to a T. I would say you earned some boyfriend points yourself but considering you aren't."

Adrien said it quickly, "I just pay attention to my friends. I could have ordered for everyone."

Alya nodded, "Mhmm."

A loud crash shook the building, and they saw people running outside of the window. A series of blue beams shot past the window causing it to crack, and Adrien told them loudly, "Get down!"

He flipped the table over, just as the front window sprayed glass into the café seconds after Adrien ducked down next to them. The restaurant's inhabitants began making their way to the back, while Alya had her phone in her hand and was peering around the table, "I have got to get footage of this."

All three of them face palmed at once. They had all known it was coming, and by the time they all looked up, Alya was gone.

Nino sighed heavily, "Why is she like this?"

Adrien said it trying to stay light, "She's dedicated. That's for sure."

She said it heavily, "I wish she wouldn't be SO dedicated." They made their way to the back of the restaurant together, but were separated as people rushed out.

She heard Adrien calling her name as she ducked into an alley, "MARINETTE, where are you?"

She waited until he passed to let out the breath she was holding, Tikki telling her quickly, "Marinette, the akuma."

She nodded, "Right. Tikki, Spots On!"

A flash of magical pink light later and she was Ladybug. She took to the rooftops, seeing the akuma in all of its multi-patterned horror. She wasn't sure what to make of it until she saw the blue beam from before. The beam hit a car that caused two more to appear exactly like it.

This was going to get really crowded, really fast if this dragged on too long.

"Bugaboo."

She turned instantly, seeing Chat dropping next to her on the rooftop, "Hey Kitty."

He asked right away, "Do you have a plan?"

"Not yet." She said softly, her eyes trained on the akuma as she tried to find a weakness.

As they both jumped from the rooftop, they instinctually moved around each other as they fought. They were long past the stage of calling out to each other with plans or idea's. She knew what he would do, just as he knew what she would do. They were perfectly in sync, in a dance that was all their own.

She called for her Lucky Charm, just as Chat caught the akuma's attention and was leading her to the roof. A baton fell into her hands. One that was identical to Chat Noir's except that where the paw print should be, a Ladybug was there instead.

She frowned looking around quickly to try and form a plan, but didn't see anything that connected.

Chat screamed out suddenly, and she watched in horror as one of the blue beams caught his middle and sent him flying back, "CHAT!"

She yo-yoed up to the roof where he had landed hard, seeing two identical wounds on his left side. He groaned as he sat up quickly before she could stop him, "I'm all right m'lady."

The wounds were bleeding, but they weren't gushing at least. She knew that even if she asked him to stay here and rest, he'd get up and follow her anyways. He always did. So, she helped him stand and showed him the Ladybug baton.

"Are you trying to be my copycat m'lady?" He asked with a small smirk, but the pain in his eyes was clear for her to see.

"I have no idea what to do with this." She admitted frustrated at herself.

"You'll figure it out. You always do." Chat told her, trust dripping in every word. They moved back into the fight. Chat Noir read Ladybug's sudden cue. It was time for him to get close enough to Cataclysm the bracelet on the akuma's wrist. He moved back, working his way around while Ladybug fended off the akuma. As Ladybug thought she had given Chat the opening he needed, the akuma suddenly turned away from her.

The akuma used her sharp nailed hands to grab at the wounds' on Chat's side as he came up behind her. He instantly dropped to his knees, his baton falling out of his hand and rolling out of reach. Before she could blink, the akuma used her other hand to grab Chat's neck, moving over to the edge of the roof and holding Chat just over the edge with a wicked smirk.

"NO!" She screamed, seeing the blood running down Chat's neck.

The akuma laughed triumphantly, "Hand over your Miraculous Ladybug, or I'll hand the Chat over to gravity."

Chat told her hoarsely, "Don't! I'll be fine!"

The akuma teetered Chat dangerously at the edge, "Don't try my patience Ladybug."

She felt her knuckles crack as she squeezed the baton in her hand. She extended it and held it up threatening, "Pull him in, or you will regret it."

The akuma huffed, "Be that way then."

Ladybug was already raising the baton to throw it as the akuma let go. Chat's hand was raised up as he started to fall back just as the baton left her hand. She tackled the akuma to the ground as Chat disappeared over the edge. She heard the baton extend but Chat never reappeared.

She snatched the bracelet and slammed it onto the ground. The akuma was released and she purified it quickly. She immediately ran over to the edge, screaming his name, "CHAT!"

He was lying unmoving in the alley below, the baton extended between the two buildings close to the top. She jumped over the edge, tears filling her eyes as she hung from the baton. She closed the baton and dropped down next to him, immediately throwing it up to release the Miraculous Cleanse. The second the magical Ladybugs left Chat Noir, she put her head to his chest. The tears in her eyes fell in relief as she heard the slow, even beating of his heart.

She shook him slightly, "Chat, Chat you have to open your eyes."

She shook him a littler harder, "Adrien, don't do this to me, you have to wake up. Adrien, Adrien," she whispered, sniffling as she rested her forehead on his shoulder. "I should have come up with a better plan. I'm so sorry Adrien."

"L-Ladybug?"

She sat up quickly, seeing his eyes staring at her in shock, "W-what did you just call me?"

She moved back as he sat up, his voice shaking, "Ladybug, what did you just call me?"

"I, I called you Chat." She stuttered, not able to look away from him.

"No, you didn't." He said evenly, letting the silence between them thicken uncomfortably until he asked firmly, "How long have you known?"

"Chat,"

"How long!?" He asked upset.

She felt her lip tremble. She had to tell him the truth, "A, A few months but,"

"A few months!" He said loudly in shock, "Why haven't you said anything before now?!"

"Chat I'm sorry, I couldn't I,"

"Why? After all this time, you still don't trust me?"

"No that's not it!" She yelled panicked, her heart breaking and her mind immediately filling with the image of him clad in white.

"Then what!" He yelled back, finally standing before shaking his head, "Forget it. You'd probably just keep it from me anyways. M'lady." He bowed sarcastically before shooting himself up onto the roof with his baton and disappearing.

She sat there silent, even as the tears silently fell down her face.

What had she just done?

…

She stared out into the night sky, ignoring the cold that was biting at her skin like a thousand needles. It had been two days since the akuma attack. Chat Noir hadn't showed up for their patrol yesterday, and he wasn't answering her calls either.

Not that she expected him to.

They hadn't even had an akuma since then either. Maybe her luck was finally starting to run out.

"Princess, aren't you cold?"

She didn't move, his voice bringing tears to her eyes all over again.

He placed a blanket over her shoulders, asking her worried, "Are you okay?"

She shook her head, telling him instantly, "No."

He turned her to face him, wiping the tears from her eyes gently, "Do you want to talk about it?"

She let her head fall to his chest, "I just, I lost one of my best friends the other day, because of something I did. And there is nothing I can do to fix it."

"What did you do? It couldn't have been that bad. You are the nicest person I know." He said confused.

She couldn't tell him the truth without giving herself away, but she didn't want to lie to him anymore than she already had, "I kept a secret to myself, and now that he knows about it, he hates me for it." She stared into his eyes, wanting him to understand, "I did it to protect him. I didn't want him to get hurt, and I hurt him anyways by keeping it from him."

He hugged her tightly, "I'm sure he'll forgive you. He's an idiot if he doesn't. You were trying to protect him," he added it somewhat bitterly, "At least you were looking out for him."

She looked back up and saw some of the sadness still lingering in his eyes, "Are you okay?"

He frowned, "I'm, I'm fine."

She asked him worried, "Do you want to talk about it? You know I won't say anything to anyone."

He looked away from her, saying it sadly, "I yelled at Ladybug a few days ago. She's been keeping something really important from me, and I reacted horribly. I shouldn't have yelled the way I did but, I was so angry," he hesitated for a second, "No, not even angry. I felt,"

"Betrayed." She tried when he hesitated again.

He nodded, "I trusted her. I have always trusted her, but this isn't the first time she's kept something important from me either. We are supposed to be partners. I'm the Destruction to her Creation, the Darkness to her Light, and even though we have put our lives on the line for each other more than once, she still doesn't trust me enough to tell me truth when it really matters."

She said it softly, "Maybe she had a good reason."

"You don't lie to the people who stand at your side when no one else will." He said instantly, "How am I supposed to stop myself from questioning everything she says to me now? How am I supposed to trust her again?"

"Talk to her Chaton." She practically begged.

"That's just it. Even if I talk to her, she'll probably lie to me again or come up with a reason for why she can't explain anything."

She saw the uncertainty in his eyes, "You don't really believe that."

"I don't know what to believe anymore." He sadly.

"All you can do is try Chat. If Ladybug is everything you've always thought she is, you know she probably feels terrible for keeping it from you, and probably wants to tell you the truth."

"Now." He said upset, "Now that I know the truth. She's had months to tell me Marinette, months. She has been acting like nothing happened, as if nothing had changed."

"Maybe something did, and maybe she didn't want to lose the relationship she already had with you." She tried explaining.

He blurted it out without thinking, "She figured out who I really am Princess, that's not something she should have kept from me. Since the beginning she has constantly been saying how we couldn't know each other's identities because it was too dangerous. She has been sitting on my identity for months, and instead of coming to me so we could figure out how that was going to impact us both, she kept it to herself."

She hugged him tightly, saying it sincerely, "I'm sorry Chat. I'm so, so sorry."

He hugged her back, saying it softly, "You didn't do anything wrong."

She hugged him tighter, "I'm sorry you are hurting. I wish I could take it all away. You don't deserve it."

He ran his claws through her hair carefully, "Thank you Princess." He smiled down at her, "As long as I have you, I know everything will be okay. You are one of a kind, do you know that?"

"Thankfully," she said sadly, "The world doesn't need more people like me."

He put his hand to her face, saying it seriously, "The world should be full of people like you. If it was, it would be a much better place."

"No it wouldn't. I'm nothing special, trust me."

He ran his thumb up her cheek gently, "You are more than special. The sun shines every time you laugh, and the stars twinkle in vain as they try to mimic the way your eyes shine. Your smile warms the heart of every person you share it with, and the genuine kindness that lives in your soul mirrors how beautiful you are."

She told him softly as she stared at the bell on his neck, trying not to cry, "You don't see me very well then."

"Chat's have great eyesight. I see you better than you see yourself Princess, trust me." He whispered.

She looked up, and all she saw was piercing beautiful green, before his lips made gentle contact with hers.

She kissed him back instantly, feeling his arms drawing her closer as she willed him to understand how much he meant to her. Her fingers tangled into his wild mane as their kiss deepened, both of them releasing the feelings they had for each other that they had kept down all this time. Neither of them was willing to pull away, too tangled by the truth they could no longer deny.

She could feel his heart racing against her chest, threatening to collide full force into hers. He was the all-consuming power that had always drawn her in. The whirlwind of feelings that burned brighter than the sun, and yet was lighter than the wind that could easily lift her off of her feet.

She was going to tell him the truth, the whole truth. She would show him that despite the wall that had separated them all this time, she wouldn't walk away anymore. She would break down that wall from end to end, and let her love for him cross over infinitely.

She would let the mask fall, if he could find it in his heart to forgive her, and let him decide from there.

They pulled away from each other reluctantly, both of them breathing heavily as Chat rested his forehead against hers.

He said it breathless, "I, I've always felt, like my heart was being torn in two. That I couldn't, let myself fall in love with you, because if I did, I would be going back on everything I had ever felt for Ladybug."

He finally opened his eyes and smiled at her, "But you've always created this mysterious feeling inside of me, and I'm tired of my heart being in a constant duel with itself." His voice softened as he whispered it to her, "I love you Marinette."

She buried her face in his chest, telling him with no hesitation, "I love you to Chaton. I always have."

He hugged her tighter, asking nervously, "Will you go out with me?"

She looked up at him, smiling, "I want to, so much that it hurts."

He flashed her a small smile before asking a little confused, "Is that a yes?"

She touched his face, tracing the outside of his mask, "Would you trust me enough, to show me who you are?"

"Instantly." He said, no doubt in his eyes.

She leaned up and gave him a feather-light kiss that made his eyes brighten, "Then trust me when I say that I love you, and I want to go out with you." He leaned into her hand and she told him softly, "But I think you should talk to Ladybug first."

He frowned and she tried to explain, "I know how much she means to you Chaton, all of Paris knows. You said it yourself. You are partners. I know you are upset with her right now and don't really want to talk to her, but you've loved her all this time,"

"You aren't a second choice Marinette." He said sternly.

She smiled at him, "I believe you Chaton, but I just want you to be sure. If you hadn't fought with her, would you still feel this way?"

He hesitated and she told him softly, "My love for you is infinite. I would wait for you for a lifetime if I had to."

"I would never ask you to do that." He said quickly.

"But I would anyways." She saw uncertainty flash through his face and told him calmly, "Just talk to her Chaton, when you're ready. If you are sure of what you feel right now, you know exactly where to find me. If not, remember that all I want for Christmas this year, is for YOU to be happy."

He grabbed her hand and told her sincerely, "You are amazing. I hope you know that."

She smiled shyly, and he spun her in a small circle once, making her smile brighter before he lifted her hand and kissed it softly.

"Christmas Eve, no matter what, can I meet you here same time?" He asked.

She nodded, "Christmas Eve, same time."

He jumped up on the rails, telling her softly, "Good night Princess."

"Good night Chaton."

He disappeared into the night, and her eyes closed on their own.

Everything was going to change now.

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