Part 9

Word Count: 4444

A/N: Thank you for reading my story, omg! 🤍

I'm not really happy with the way this part turned out, but I desperately wanted to involved Bunnyx a little bit more, and this was the only way I could think of it happening. I didn't want to re-create Chat Blanc because the episode broke me. Anyway, Bunnyx at least gave me a chance to involve the beginning of Part 1, which I had originally planned to be the ending but I didn't like my original ending anymore so I wanted to change it. Or maybe it'll still be the same, we'll see.

[This is not the end! There are more parts to come!!]

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Adrien decided to go for a walk. He couldn't take all the thinking any longer, especially not about this seemingly new Lady Noire girl. How dare Marinette snatching Adrien's Miraculous and giving it to some other chick sometime in the future?

"I'm sorry, Emma and I will have to go before her lousy mouth says something that will cause fatal situations," Bunnyx said as she put one leg inside her burrow, grasping Emma by her wrist before trying to pull her inside.

"No, Bunnyx, wait. Can you not give me five minutes with her, please?" Emma asked with teary eyes.

It genuinely seemed like it was important to Emma. Of course Bunnyx knew it was, but she couldn't possibly have Emma speak to Ladybug and spoil her entire, in case things go the right way, future.

But the fact that Bunnyx knew it might be her only chance to speak to her, she eventually gave in.

"We'll visit her after the interview," Bunnyx whispered into Emma's ear, praying she would now get inside that damn burrow.

A huge smile spread all over Emma's face, her blue eyes gleaming as she could feel the adrenaline rush through her body.

Ladybug was confused, more than that even. She tried to think of who Emma could possibly be, and why she would have Chat Noir's Miraculous. Maybe she was the one who kidnapped Chat Noir in her previous time.

No, never mind, Emma seemed to be around 14, in the future, so she would be almost to none existent just yet, right?

Due to Ladybug's curiosity, she couldn't keep sitting there, answering questions that would just rip her heart out.

"I'm sorry, Nadja," she apologised before immediately running out of the studio, the building, and swung her yoyo off to a chimney that would allow her to completely disappear from the scene.

Half way home, she would notice a blonde boy, one she knew only too well, walking up and down the street. He seemed to be worrying about something, which would only make Ladybug worry as well.

So instead of heading home, she dropped herself down right in front of him.

"M-Ladybug?" Adrien widened his eyes in shock.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," she said, looking around to see if anyone was there.

"It's fine. Aren't you supposed to give an interview right at this moment?" He asked curiously, furrowing his eyebrows as Marinette reached out for Adrien's hands, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Hold on tight," she said, throwing her yoyo off once again.

Under different circumstances, he would probably be scared shitless, but he knew Marinette would never drop him, and if she did, she would totally rescue him before anything could happen.

"So?" Adrien asked as Ladybug made her way home, with him still wrapped around her body.

"Oh, yeah, I had to go, getting come visitors," Marinette said quickly as she swung inside the apartment through the opened kitchen window.

She set Adrien down, giving him a slight smile before closing the window.

"Visitors?" Adrien questioned, wondering if it was going to be this Emma girl.

"Yeah, apparently someone from the future would love to speak to me," Marinette chuckled in fear.

Adrien would pretend to not have watched the interview for the most part of it.

"I don't know, something about her seemed familiar when I first saw her, as if I've seen her before, but also not really," Marinette said in a worried tone.

Yeah, familiar.

"Don't you want to," Adrien's eyes followed Marinette's silhouette up and down, "want to de-transform or something?"

"I don't know, do you think she knows me outside of being Ladybug?" Marinette asked when suddenly the same bright light appeared right in Adrien and Marinette's living room.

"She does," Bunnyx said with a shy smile, entering the apartment through her burrow, followed by the very same blonde from just a couple of minutes ago.

"Adrien, Marinette, this is Emma," Bunnyx introduced, moving her hand up and down to show Emma off.

"Hello," Emma said shyly.

Suddenly she seemed to be way more shy than back at the Studio. She gave them both a small smile as she wiped a tear away from her eye.

Marinette de-transformed, giving Tikki something to eat before turning her attention back to Emma and Alix, who had also de-transformed to rest her Kwami.

"Alix?!" Adrien exclaimed, being in total shock for this one.

Alix didn't bother to say anything to that, quite the opposite, she appeared to be pretty mad at Adrien, which only made sense considering future Alix knew exactly what the Chat Noir from now had done, and also everything that happened because of it.

"Emma, wouldn't you like to sit down?" Marinette asked, giving her a warm smile to welcome her.

"Thank you Mu- Marinette," she sat down onto the couch, looking pretty uncomfortable to begin with.

"Emma, we can just go back, you know?" Alix said, resting her left hand onto Emma's knee, stroking it lightly for comfort.

"No, I want to speak to them, I never got to," Emma said with tears in her eyes.

Marinette and Adrien both furrowed their eyebrows, then locking each other's eyes, trying to ask if the other one knew what that was supposed to mean, but neither of them did.

"Excuse me?" Adrien then said, hoping for a little bit more information, but when Emma was going to explain herself, Alix would stop her, glancing at her with a made look on her face.

"I'm sorry aunt Alix, but don't you think they should know? Maybe they can still change their path, and not cause everything?" Emma asked, never taking her eyes away from Marinette and Adrien, it was like she was mesmerised by their appearance or something.

"Aunt Alix, huh? That's one way to go," Marinette cheered at the 'aunt' part of Emma's question, hoping it would somehow change the pretty depressing vibe, but of course it did not.

Alix sighed, knowing Emma was probably right.

"Listen, especially you listen, Adrien," Alix began. She tapped the couch, indicating for them both to take a seat as well.

"Can I-?" Emma interrupted, desperately wanting to tell them herself. Alix nodded.

"I am Emma, your daughter," Emma would shock Adrien and Marinette. "You don't know it yet, but the two of you are making the greatest couple very soon in your future," she would continue.

"So then what kind of thing had we caused if Emma is hoping for us to change it?" Adrien asked in confusion, earning just a sarcastic chuckle from Alix.

"Smart of you to ask, Adrien," Alix said feistily, but proceeded to answer anyway.

"Marinette found something out shortly after she gave birth to Emma. Something that could have been avoided if only a special someone would have just told her sooner, but no, he had waited until two years later," Alix said.

"So wait, was this two years after Emma was born, or?"

"No, Emma was born two years after that someone could have come clean with Marinette," Alix said.

"Is this about Chat Noir?" Marinette asked only to be sure.

Alix nodded, her confirmation only made Adrien's heart stop.

"Wait, if whatever Chat Noir did, still had a terrible effect on Marinette then, why did we have a child together if she clearly wasn't over him?" Adrien asked curiously, and kind of because he was still trying to deny Chat Noir's disappearance could cause anything fatal.

"Accidents happen," Emma widened her eyes, choking on the air as she had just found out she wasn't even wanted.

"However," Alix continued, "when Marinette found out she was pregnant, you two obviously stayed together for Emma's sake. It wasn't forced, Marinette had always loved you, Adrien, and you have always loved her, I think you've already figured it out yesterday."

They have not. Well, Marinette had figured out Adrien's feelings, but not the other way round.

"Everything seemed to be perfect. Marinette was happy again and could finally let go of Chat Noir, willing to give herself to her family, just that she would then discover little Plagg wandering around your house," Marinette gasped, now having the confirmation that Chat Noir definitely was still alive.

"He was visiting Tikki and looking for cheese, Camembert of course, just that Plagg's suddenly appearance only meant that one specific thing," Alix said but was quickly to be interrupted.

"Chat Noir was alive," Marinette said, feeling her veins fill with anger, yet also she felt relieved.

"He certainly was," Alix said, giving an angry look to Adrien which Marinette was too blind for to see notice.

"Yeah anyway," Emma continued, "Mu- Marinette, you um, you kind of got angry with him."

Marinette lifted her head, pouting her lips as she would think this was her future self's correct response to it. But it wasn't.

"You tracked him down," Alix said, never stopping to look at Adrien who was completely freaking out on the inside.

"And did I find him!?" Marinette rushed to ask.

"You did," Emma answered, "but you only grew angrier with him."

"Well, he left me to think he had died."

"Yeah, just that you two were never the same again. You began to fight Adrien," Alix said.

"Adrien?" Marinette chuckled, "Apparently he is part of my future family, why would I do such thing?"

"Because you were confused, Marinette. The love of your life was back in your life, and you were furious with him, because him suddenly showing up again after you were finally over him just brought back too much pain," Alix explained, twisting the truth in a way that Marinette would not be able to connect the dots between Adrien and Chat Noir.

"You left," Emma would then say, her voice suddenly as quiet as a needle hitting the floor in a loud room.

Marinette's eyes widened, as so did Adrien's as he would realise this meant he had lost the love his life.

"And you never returned," Alix added onto it.

"I left my child?" Marinette asked with a slight tone of sarcasm in it, not wanting to believe she would ever run away from her family.

"That you did, but the worst part, when dad went to go after you," Emma could not continue. Although she wasn't really able to comprehend anything that had happened when she was only a couple of weeks old, it still hurt her.

"You were flying away, Marinette. You boarded a plane and Adrien ran after you, trying to keep you from leaving, but you just didn't," Alix voice sounded as if she was on the verge of her tears.

"He entered the plane but he couldn't make it out anymore before the doors were closing, he was forced to go to America with you. He had given Emma to me for the time he was trying to stop you from leaving, but then something happened."

"We stayed in America and just never returned?" Adrien asked somewhat hopefully.

"You died. The plane crashed right and the two of you died, leaving Emma to grow up without her parents, and that only because someone was too afraid to tell Marinette the truth," Alix said, shocking Marinette and Adrien completely.

"We'll be dead in two years if Chat Noir doesn't come clean soon enough?" Adrien gulped, seeing the plans he had for his future flash in front of his eyes.

Emma nodded, "I'm sure she will be mad, but the sooner he tells her the truth, the less pain she had felt until then, and the more she will understand why he did what he did."

"So, Alix, why did Chat Noir disappear?" Marinette asked, hoping Alix would give her an answer to it, but of course she wouldn't.

"You already know too much, Marinette. Your fate was to die in two years because of his consequences. This Emma here, she will continue to live without her parents, but you, your you now, can still change the future and have the soon to be coming Emma grow up in a loving household," Alix said, grasping Emma's hand, squeezing it lightly.

"But how could I be with Adrien, knowing Chat Noir is still around here somewhere?" Marinette's eyes filled with tears as she would stab a knife right through Adrien's heart with what she had just said.

Alix eyed Adrien, signalling him that it was time for him to say it, no matter how scared he was, but of course Adrien was too oblivious to realise that.

"I'm sorry, but why exactly aren't you just telling me who he is and why he is hiding? Like, doesn't he love me? Why wouldn't he trust me?" Marinette cried, feeling guilty to speak of another man right in front of her future daughter.

Alix pinched her lips into a straight line, taking a deep breath, not knowing what to say to that when suddenly Emma laid her hand down onto Marinette's leg for comfort.

"He does love you, and he's always around you he just wants you to realise it and protect you," Emma said, praying it wasn't too much information, and to be honest, Adrien could not have said it any better himself.

He felt terrible for seeing Marinette that frustrated, even more now that he knew his life would be ending sooner than later because of it.

Marinette opened her eyes, trying to focus her blurry vision onto Emma's hand as she would try to take a look of the ring. Why would Chat Noir had given it to her and was he the new (Mister)bug then that Marinette was dead?

Emma kneeled down in front of Marinette, lifting her head before wiping away her tears, something Adrien would have done if they were alone.

"You see, from what Alix had told me, you two," she cupped Marinette's chin with one head, leading her face to look towards Adrien, "were the perfect match ever since you met. Alix said you fell in love with him almost instantly, you used to think he was your soulmate, please just open you eyes and see it again."

Instead of Marinette opening her eyes, Adrien opened his, choking on the air as he had never thought Marinette's crush on him went this deep. Suddenly he felt even worse.

His dream of dating Ladybug became reality, Marinette's of dating Adrien never really did. Sure they were dating after all, but never the way she had expected it. She might have moved on from him, but she fell for his alter ego. It just wasn't fair to her, and he would only make it worse by lying.

"I'm sorry, Emma, but Adrien is not who I'm in love with anymore," Marinette stood up from the couch and ran into her room, pushing the door shut behind her.

She would drop down onto her bed, letting out all of her frustration and pain she felt inside in form of painful screams and even more painful cries.

"But now that we know about the plane crash, I don't think we'll even get onto the plane, right?" Adrien asked in concern and hope in his eyes as he looked at Alix.

"That might be true, but the way you have aligned both your futures, you are destined to die. You started it by faking your own death, and in every single universe, you messed it up. You know Marinette, she's not made to be played with like that," Alix gave Adrien a disappointed look.

"You've played enough with her feelings. It's only been a day, and she's exhausted. She now knows he's alive and she won't stop looking for him. We've been through this before, if Marinette finds it out too late," Alix would continue but once again, Emma took over.

"If she finds it out too late she will get more than mad with you, to the point where she feels nothing but hatred towards you. You've put her through pain for no reason other than to make her fall for you again, when she clearly does love you no matter what," Emma said in a more angry tone this time.

"I do have other reasons," Adrien tried to defend himself, "I don't want Hawkmoth to get to her."

"Hawkmoth is gone. Your father can't hurt anyone any longer, he doesn't have his Miraculous, and his freedom is more important to him than to try and get back at you and her. In fact, in my time, your father, my grandpa, has helped mum's parents to get over her daughters death. He took great care of me and held himself accountable for your death more than anything," Emma tried to make it clear to Adrien that Hawkmoth is in the past, and will never be a part of the future again.

"But in your time we're also dead, so maybe that changed him," Adrien said coldly.

"He was there for you and Marinette throughout her entire pregnancy. He sat eight hours in a hospital chair in front of the room Marinette gave birth in only so he could see Emma as soon as possible, despite the fact that he had to be at an important event," Alix said.

"That doesn't sound like my father, he never attended anything," Adrien lifted his head, thinking he knew everything better than anyone else.

"That was when he needed to hide so his identity would stay a secret, Adrien."

"I think you should be going," Adrien said coldly, not willing to put up with any more irrelevant 'future' talk.

Alix rolled her eyes before she would transform back into Bunnyx. She reopened her burrow and stepped inside, followed by Emma.

"It's your life that will end in two years, and your daughter you will be letting down," Emma said just as cold.

"Unless I just don't get Marinette pregnant and don't ever tell her I'm Chat Noir," Adrien talked back in an arrogant way, kind of as if he never cared in the first place.

"We both know you can't paw-sibliy stay away from her," Emma winked as he completely disappeared inside the burrow, leaving Adrien standing there by herself.

Once the white light disappeared Plagg would begin to laugh right from Adrien's pocket.

"Shut up, Plagg," Adrien said in annoyance, growling as he didn't know what to do at this point.

"Well, as long as blondie 2.0 gives me my cheese, I am fine with being her Kwami," Plagg said, "she certainly got those awful puns from you though."

Marinette just sat on her bed, hugging her pillow tightly, crying her heart out all over again when suddenly her phone started ringing. She groaned as she got up to look who was calling.

She would swear under her breath as she read the name 'Luka' on her screen, but then she grew curious, remembering she hadn't talked to him in ages and he never called her before, so she did end up picking up her phone.

"Hey, Marinette," Luka said in a somewhat awkward tone.

"Luka?" Marinette was still confused.

"Yeah uh, I'm called because I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date with me?" Marinette's eyes shot wide open. Where did that come from so suddenly?

"I'm sorry, Luka, but we haven't exchanged a single word in almost 3 years, I would not feel comfortable going on a date with you," Marinette said truthfully. And she also didn't want to go because of Chat Noir, but she couldn't tell him that.

"So let's grab a coffee together, catch up and try again what we've once started," Luka said, suddenly sounding to be under the influence.

"Have you been drinking?" Marinette asked, not being sure if she wanted to know the answer, considering it was still early in the morning.

"Perhaps," Luka said sloppily, only shocking Marinette even more. Then she would remember that he was probably still somewhere in America, so it would be around nighttime for him right now, which only made it a little bit better.

"I'm so sorry, Luka, but I have a boyfriend," Marinette lied, or did she?

Once those words slipped her mouth, she would excessively start to think about it.

If Chat Noir was still alive, did they break up, or were they still dating? If Chat Noir was still alive, would he try to move on without her? Would he ever come visit her- yeah, never mind, he will in two years.

Luka had ended the call right after Marinette said she was taken, but she was too busy thinking that she hadn't even noticed it. The only thing that would interrupt her and bring her back to reality was the knock on her door.

Only a few seconds after the knock, the door would open, revealing Adrien.

He would give Marinette a slim smile before asking for permission to enter her room.

"Be my guest," Marinette chuckled sarcastically as she sat up straight on her bed, making some room for Adrien.

He would take a seat down beside her, fidgeting his fingers in nervousness as he was trying to find the right words to say.

Luckily, Marinette's outrageous anger came over her, making a great conversation-starter.

"How could he do this to me, Adrien?" Marinette balled her hands into fists, "Chat Noir is alive and left me here thinking he had died!"

Adrien bopped his head as he would straighten his lips into a thin line, lightly squeezing his eyes together as he realised how stupid he had been.

"If he wanted to break up with me that desperately, he could have just told me!" She yelled in anger, hitting her thighs with her fists.

Adrien was quick to grabbed Marinette's hands in his, hoping that would make her stop hurting herself out of anger.

"Listen, Mari," he took a deep breath before he would continue, "maybe you should forget Chat Noir, I mean Bunnyx or Alix or whatever just told you that you're having a future with me, we are going to have a child together and he would be the reason for the both of us to die in what, two years?"

Marinette rolled her eyes as she pulled her hands away from Adrien.

"I don't want a stupid child with you, Adrien. I'd rather take death right about now as well. I'm such a horrible person that my boyfriend thought faking his own death would-" She would stop talking when she had suddenly came to realise something.

She slowly turned her head towards Adrien, locking both of their eyes. Her mouth would be opened only slightly enough to portray her anger.

Her eyes were suddenly saying so much more than her would ever could. She looked angry, furious even. She looked as if she had just murdered someone in her brain and enjoyed it. Like, she was just about to get revenge on the person she had hated the most.

Adrien grew worried, not only for his life, but also for his relationship to Marinette.

"I-I u-understand you don't wa-nt a ch-child w-with me, but," Adrien tried to speak but failed miserably.

Maybe Marinette did want revenge on him now.

Despite being certain that Adrien was Chat Noir for a while now, she was even more sure after she had connected a question Adrien had asked her once to Chat Noir's disappearance. And to be honest, she felt like she deserved to make him feel guilty and miserable for it.

"You what's just the worst part about it all, Adrien," Marinette's face softened, irritating Adrien once again. "He slept with me before he wandered of to fight Hawkmoth that night. Kind of as if he was just using me one last time."

Adrien chocked on the air. He had never seen it that way, but it did make sense now that she had mentioned it. It was never his intention but he understood why it appeared that way.

"He found out my identity that day as well, reassured me nothing had changed and he would still love me," Marinette continued.

"And he probably does still love you?" Adrien said in a questioning way, his voice filled with fear.

"I just hope he had fun using me for sex, betraying me like he did, playing with my feelings the way he did," she would burst out into a horrifying laughter.

She would move her face closer to Adrien's, and in fear, Adrien would only lean back more and more until his back would hit the mattress. But of course Marinette would use that to hover right over him, sitting down onto his thighs.

She would tie her hair back so it wouldn't fall into his face as she would lean down, her lips only millimetres away from his, her breath colliding with his.

"What's wrong, Kitty?" She would empathise, smirking mischievously as she placed a soft kiss onto Adrien's lips.

He pulled away, turning his head to the side, trying to avoid her face but she would hold his jaw with one hand, always turning his face back to her's.

"Doesn't my kitty find it paw-fully paw-mazing that he is no longer fur-ced to hide?" Marinette asked angrily.

"Ma-Marinette," Adrien tried to speak but Marinette would cut him off with yet another kiss.

"Are you not feline so good, Chat?" She laughed for a split moment before turning back to being the most serious person ever.

"Marinette, I-I get you're-"

"I'm what? Purr-haps not your type anymore, Adrien?" She let go off his face, sitting back up straight, yet continuing to sit on his lap.

"That's not why I did this, Marinette," Adrien said with tears in his eyes, sitting up as well.

He carefully laid his hands down onto Marinette's hips, pulling her a little bit closer against his body as he feared she would just run away, but she was not going to go anywhere.