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falling hot and real (6520 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug & Nino Lahiffe, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Plagg, Alya Césaire & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Nino Lahiffe, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Identity Reveal, Season/Series 03 Spoilers, Romance, Angst with a Happy Ending, Gabriel Agreste's A+ Parenting, Ladynoir | Adrien Agreste as Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng as Ladybug, Podfic Welcome
Summary:

The box waited by the right side of her desktop keyboard as it always did, a low cylinder of thin plywood painted an unrelieved black, until one opened it—a riskier task than it looked—to note the gold-tone hinges and latch and, inside the lid, the emerald-green yin-yang. She didn't open it often anymore: she didn't want to see the dark brown hexagon inside, taunting her with red etchings in a balanced dance.

The mini Miracle Box was empty, of course. She couldn't wear his inactive ring—too risky; too easily noticed even if on a chain behind a high-collared shirt—and she'd only dared activate it once, and that briefly: Plagg had yelled at her for taking even that much of a risk.

sunday six

from where the firelight fades ch 1 "we were both of us betrayed":

"—Sir, if you do not take the aspirin yourself, I will force it down your throat."

Father must be feeling dizzy, or short of breath, or a purely literal heartache. Nathalie cares more about his heart health than he does. Adrien cannot care about it at all; not tonight. He may regret it later, but—

"—I understand," says Nathalie, "but as you yourself said five minutes ago, tonight is too important. Take the aspirin."

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cheesecake and sweetie pie-rates (2042 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir
Additional Tags: Identity Reveal, Baking, Birthday Party, Fluff, Romance
Summary:

Nathalie'd forgotten Adrien's birthday again. It probably should have hurt Adrien more that Father hadn't remembered than that Nathalie hadn't. Though at least this year he didn't have a photoshoot scheduled? And hopefully there wouldn't be another akuma?

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Fifteen minutes before lunch hour, when Marinette would be able to run home for the cheesecake she'd made while Nino and Kim snuck Adrien to the park for his party, an akuma turned up at the Trocadero.