An Unlikely Intern | Miraculous Ladybug

Chapter 13 - Apologies and Confessions

"I'm okay, I promise." She whispered. She hoped she sounded convincing. "Anyways, did you call me over here for a reason or...?" She wondered, desperate to change the topic.

"Oh, I uh, heh, yeah, I ah, hm," Adrien stammered. Marinette tilted her head at him.

"What is it?" She asked, kind of worried about him now.

"I ah, I wanted to, um," He took a deep breath. "Follow me." He grabbed her arm and led her up the marble stairs and into his room. Once they were alone, he let go of her arm and looked down at his feet.

"Adrien... You're scaring me. What's wrong?" 

"I promise, I love you. No matter what, I love you so, so much." He babbled.

"I love you too... What is going on with you today?" She asked him seriously. 

Adrien opened his mouth to say something but he closed it again. He was losing his nerve. He reached over and held Marinette's hands in his. "Don't be mad, okay?" He asked carefully.

"What is it? Seriously, Adrien." 

He mumbled something under his breath that Marinette couldn't quite catch. A green light exploded in the room and Marinette closed her eyes to shield herself from the light. Once she didn't see it through her eyelids anymore, she opened them and gasped. 

"Chat?! I- I- What?" She exclaimed. She looked down at her hands and saw that she was no longer holding Adrien's hands. Black leather gloves were now folded around her's. She backed away, forcing away his hands. Chat Noir let a worried frown show on his face.

"What do you think?" He asked.

"What do I think? What do I think?" Marinette burst, her face turning red.

"Yeah?" He answered, scared.

"You- You-" Her face turned serious. "You asshole!" She yelled in anger. She turned away from him, not wanting him to see her expression. He wiped her eyes, refusing to let any tears fall. Once she collected herself, she turned back to face him with double the fury.

"I was planning to come here today and break down. I was going to apologize and beg for your forgiveness and tell you that Chat Noir had been coming to my room at night and making me cheat on you! I was going to tell you that I'd never do it again, that I feel like the worst person on the planet!" She yelled. Chat's ears went back and he shrunk down.

"I-" He started.

"No, you don't get to speak," Marinette informed him. "No, no, it's my turn. You make me feel like this terrible person, you get me caught cheating on Adrien. Then you just leave with no defense. Then you ask me over here and expect me to just fall into your arms and forgive you for making me feel like I'm scum." Tears streamed down her face.

"Princess, I-" 

"Don't 'princess' me. No more. No more 'princess,' no more 'angel,' no. I don't even know how to process all of this, but I hope you are aware of how pissed I am." She yelled. She stormed over to the other side of his room and sat on his bed. Chat wanted to go over and comfort her and apologize. He stood in silence and watched her as she puffed to herself angrily.

After a while, she looked up at him. In a quiet voice that pierced through his ears, she asked, "Who else knows about this?" 

He slowly shook his head. "Nobody. You're the only person I've told." He explained quietly.

She nodded her head. "Good. You shouldn't have even told me. Don't tell anyone else." 

He nodded. 

It got silent again. Marinette didn't know what to think. She let an angry expression rest on her face, but she wasn't all angry. She was so happy, happy that the two people she loved were the same person. But she was angry, angry that he let her believe that she was cheating on him. Angry that she had let herself. Marinette pulled out her phone and opened the pictures that Alya had sent her a while back of her and Chat. As she looked through them, a tear landed on her phone and she wiped it away. She got to the one that she was looking for and held out her hand, motioning for Chat to come to look at her phone. 

Chat looked down at the phone in Marinette's palm and winced. It was the photo of the night she had sent him away, the night she had the most painful expression on her face. He looked back at Marinette and saw the same expression. 

"You let me go because you loved me, didn't you?" She asked, still looking down at her lap. He was surprised to hear how soft her voice was.

"You let me send you away because you wanted me to be happy." 

Chat nodded.

"And then, once I was, you came back anyway." 

Chat nodded again, ashamed.

"Why? Why did you come back as Chat and mess everything up?"

He looked away. "I- I don't know." He admitted.

"Why?" She looked up at him, forcing him to meet her gaze.

"I, I wanted to make sure you loved both sides of me." He confessed.

"How could you ever doubt that? How could you doubt that I loved both you and Chat? That's why, whenever you would come through that damn window, it tore me apart."

Once more, silence filled the air. Chat used this silence to detransform back into Adrien, and even Plagg stayed silent, simply flying away to go eat cheese in the other room. Adrien looked at his feet and broke the silence.

"Do you still?"

Marinette blinked away the last of her tears. "Do I still what?"

"Do you still love me?"

Marinette let out a breath and looked into those green eyes that she drowned in every time she met them. "Of course I do. I'm still pissed, but I could never stop loving you." Her voice softened down to almost a whisper, but Adrien still heard it. He stepped closer to her, searching her eyes for permission. Before Adrien could do anything, Marinette leaped up and wrapped her arms around his neck and brought her lips to his. Adrien melted into her and he felt whole again. 

Marinette's eyes opened and widened. She quickly pulled away from the kiss and gasped. "Oh, God. Oh my God!" She exclaimed.

"What... What is it?" Adrien asked, worried that he had done something. 

"I've... oh my God!" She exclaimed again.

"What?" He asked, still scared.

"You little brat!" She yelled as she rushed towards him and kissed him again. He was taken aback, but he accepted it. When she pulled away again, he tilted his head. 

"What was that? And are we okay, now?" He asked cautiously. Marinette shook her head. Adrien frowned and looked at her apologetically. 

"Before everything is okay again, we both need to be honest." She explained. He tilted his head, confused.

"At least I already know that you love both sides of me, you little brat." She laughed.

"What?" 

Marinette mumbled something under her breath and quickly pressed their lips together. She smiled against him as she saw his eyes squeeze shut as pink light flooded the room. When he opened his eyes again, he gasped and fell backward onto the floor. 

"Marinette? You're- Oh my God!" He exclaimed. Ladybug laughed and helped him up. 

"Don't be mad at me?" She smiled.

Adrien laughed and picked her up bridal style. They pressed their foreheads together and let out a happy breath.

A/N: Man, this is hard to write. This is the last chapter of An Unlikely Intern. There will be an epilogue coming soon, though. But after that, this book will be completed. I hope you guys enjoyed this story. Thank you guys for all of your support once again. I loved writing this and am sad to see it come to an end, but luckily it's a happy one. I am going to begin writing another Miraculous story soon, so stay tuned. Love you all,

~MiraculouslyyPanda