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Sometimes Marinette didn’t know who was more of a handful. The six-year-old identical twins, Louis and Hugo, or three-year-old Emma.
Something about the screaming downstairs and shout of “DIE BY THE POWER OF CROISSANTS!” told her it was the latter.
Marinette and Adrien were at her parent’s house, trying to get some paperwork done in peace and quiet while Tom and Sabine watched the kids downstairs. But with the Agreste children being… well, them, that just wasn’t happening.
Marinette groaned, placing her head in her hands. “Go deal with your daughter.”
Adrien gave her a dirty look. “She’s just as much your daughter.”
“Not when she’s like this. She gets her dramatic side from her dear papa.” She stuck her tongue out at her husband.
Adrien returned the gesture, but did go to deal with sweet little Emma.
Within a minute, the sounds were muted to a level that Marinette could think for what she thought must’ve been the first time since the twins were born.
Until her ringtone interrupted it. She sighed and didn’t bother to even look who it was before answering.
“Marinette Agreste speaking.” If it was one of her friends, they would understand.
“Marinette.” That voice. It sounded familiar. “It’s me, Master Fu.”
That got her to sit up in her seat. “Master Fu? I’m surprised you’re still alive- not that it’s bad, but… it’s been fifteen years since I’ve seen you. What’s going on?”
“Ladybug and Chat Noir are needed again.”
Adrien chose that exact moment to walk in. “I finally convinced Emma that it would be better to eat the croissants than hurtle them at her brothers, but then they wanted some, too, and-” He looked up and saw that she was on the phone and her expression. “What’s going on?”
“Wait a second, Master Fu. Adrien just got here, let me put it on speaker phone.” Marinette pulled it off her ear so that they could both here.
“Uhh…” Adrien hesitated. “Hey, Master Fu. What’s up?”
“Some evil spirits popped up in China, and need to be contained by Ladybug and Chat Noir.”
The couple shared a questioning glance.
“We’ll do it,” Marinette said resolutely. “Where do we need to meet you? The temple?”
“As if I could get cell reception from there, ” Master Fu laughed. “I’m down at the park next to your parent’s bakery. I’ve also brought the horse miraculous so that you can get there quickly.”
“Alright. Meet you there.”
They hung up and went downstairs. “Mom? Dad?”
Sabine looked up at her daughter. “What is it, honey?”
“Do you think you could watch the kids for a few hours to… indefinitely?”
She frowned. “What if we need their clothes and such?”
“Ooh!” Emma bounced from sitting to standing on her chair (despite knowing very well she wasn’t supposed to), abandoning her croissant for the moment. “I know the passcode to the apartment! It’s-”
“And that’s how,” Adrien finished. “Is that alright?”
Sabine nodded, and they left quickly, easily finding Master Fu in the park. He gave them their miraculouses, and they didn’t wait a moment to put them on.
“Now,” Master Fu said. “The sooner you leave, the better.”
“What?” Plagg complained. “No time for cheese?”
“ Plagg,” Tikki chided.
Marinette grinned. That was exactly how she remembered them. But Master Fu was right.
“Tikki, spots on!”
“Plagg, claws out!”
Ladybug turned and- Wow. Chat Noir. She smiled and went on her tiptoes to give him a quick kiss.
When he gave her a questioning look, she shrugged. “What? It’s been half my lifetime since I’ve kissed the paw sitively a meow zing Chat Noir.”
Chat chuckled at that. “I’ve missed you, milady.”
She returned a smile. “I’ve missed you too, kitty.”
The End.