You listed Marichat as one of your favorite pairs, and from what I’ve seen on your blog I may have lurked a bit to get to know you better tehee~ you also liked Rhythm Thief? And both fandoms happened to set in Paris? So I decided to merge them to create this AU featuring Chat!Phantom R and Marinette!Marie
Loved being a part of @mlsecretsanta and making this for @ceryneiian !! Marichat is one of my favorite sides of the love square and I’m glad it’s one of yours too I hope you like it ^^
The Christmas season is closing in and applications to be a part of this year’s Miraculous Ladybug Secret Santa are approaching! Tis the season for gift giving and lots of love~
As stated last year, I will be opening two periods for application to this Secret Santa event. The first set of applications will begin on September 16th and will go for a month before closing. Second applications will open up on November 1st and remain open for another month for anyone who missed the first one.
I want to make this awesome experience accessible to as many people as I can, even if it’s only 10 or so participants.
TLDR;
September 16, 2017 - SIGN UP!
October 16, 2017 - Sign Up closes
November 1, 2017 - SECOND SIGN UP
December 1, 2017 - Second Sign Up closes
This blog came about as a very last minute Secret Santa blog because I was determined to participate in one this year. Every year I forget to apply but often manage. So next year, I have set a little alarm for myself and will hopefully be running an earlier (and later) Secret Santa! Thank you to those who have joined me this year and I hope to see you in 2017.
This is my secret santa gift for @myladyladybug. Happy holidays! I hope that you enjoy this little fic I wrote for you!
(Btw I entered this secret santa as @capstevenrogers (my main blog))
Marinette was humming a song while she baked her favorite Christmas cookies. Tikki watched her with big eyes and signed contently, when she smelled the delicious cookies. “Oh Marinette, you are baking a lot of cookies”, the little kwami giggled, “How will we eat all of them?” Marinette laughed. “I’m baking them not just for us, Tikki, but also for my friends in school.”
Marinette kept baking until she had a big assortment of all sort of Christmas cooking. With her parents help she decorated them and then filled them into little bags until she had enough for her whole class, yes even for Chloé. But even after she stashed aside a large box with cookies for her family, there were still some left. She decided that Chat Noir would definitively be happy, if she gave him some too.
It was the next day and Marinette had put all the little bags in a larger one to carry them to her school. When she started to give them out, everyone was smiling at her, thanking her and telling her that they were delicious. She had made sure that everyone got cookies with personal decorations and her classmates were delighted when they noticed them.
When she got to Chloé’s and Sabrina’s row, Chloé’s annoyed look turned into a surprised one. “You made me some too?” Marinette smiled at her, Chloé might be mean, but Marinette would never want her to feel left out. “Yes, of course”, she answered. Chloé looked up at her with wide eyes, but managed a smile. “Thank you.”
Alya hugged her and started laughing, when she saw that her cookies were decorated with phones and little ladybugs. Marinette had also written “Alya” on some of them.
The last person to receive Marinette’s gift was Adrien. Marinette was extremely nervous, when she gave it to him. “Um..Adrien…Hi, I made th..these for you.” She blushed and held out the bag for him. He beamed. “Thank you, Marinette. They look wonderful.”
She tried hard not to squeal at his compliment or melt because he looked at her with such genuine happiness, while she walked back to her seat. He took a bite of one of the cookies and turned around with a big smile. ”They’re absolutely delicious, Marinette! I love them, thanks!” For the rest of the day Marinette felt like she was walking on clouds.
In the afternoon Marinette was disturbed during her homework, when she heard a loud scream. One look out of her window was enough for her to get into action. “Tikki, spots on!”, she called out to her kwami.
Five minutes later she landed on a rooftop besides her partner. “Bugaboo! It’s pawsome that you came right on time!” He winked at her and Ladybug rolled her eyes at him.
Their opponent, who was standing in the place in front of the house, was dressed like a ninja and snarled at them.
“Watch out!” Ladybug called out to Chat, when she noticed that the akumatized villain threw something at them. They both jumped apart and the stones the villain was throwing bounced off the roof.
“You might be fast enough to avoid my stones, but are you fast enough for this?”, the villain shouted at them, before he started throwing his stones at the civilians.
Marinette used her yoyo to quickly get off the roof and to keep the stones from hitting the civilians. Chat Noir did the same with his baton on the other side of the place. The civilian all ran away screaming.
The villain launched at Ladybug and tried to attack her, but she was faster and jumped out of the way. “Chat Noir, the akuma must be in his weapon”, Ladybug yelled to her partner, “Try to distract him!”
“On it, my lady.” He winked at her and then screamed at the villain: “Come on, catch the cat in the sack, if you dare!” Then he darted away. The villain immediately followed Chat Noir.
What Chat Noir hasn’t expected was, that the villain was learning fast and was now throwing his stones directly in Chat’s way causing him to stumble and to fall flat on his face. The villain laughed while he approached Chat: “Give me your miraculous!” Ladybug threw hair yoyo forward until it was entangled with the villain’s leg. With a firm tug she caused him to fall.
Then she threw her yoyo in the air. “Lucky Charm!”, a little cloth bag dropped in her hands. “Hm, what should I do with that?”, she peered inside and found marbles.
The villain slowly stood up again and then tried to charge for Chat Noir again, who just managed to pick himself up. Ladybug threw the cloth bag in front of the villain and the marbles spread all over on the ground in front of him. He slipped on the marbles and his weapon flew away.
When the weapon landed in front of Chat, he called out “Cataclysm” to activate his power and then he destroyed it. Ladybug caught the freed akuma with her yoyo and purified it. Afterwards she threw the cloth bag with the marbles in the air and yelled “Miraculous Ladybug”, her magic fixing everything that was destroyed.
Chat walked over to her with a big grin. “As always were a cattastic team, bugaboo.” She smiled at him and gave him the little bag she was carrying the whole time. “This is for you, kitty, I baked this cookies and I thought you would like some.”
He took the bag from her with a bright smile. “Thank you, my lady, this is pawmazing from you.” She rolled her eyes at him, but she had a fond smile on her face. Both their miraculous beeped. “Looks like it’s time for me to go. Bye, Chat!” “Bye, Ladybug!”
She dashed off, not noticing the shocked expression on his face, when he peered into his bag and saw cookies that were all too familiar.
Back at his home Adrien compared the cookies Marinette gave to him to Ladybug’s cookies. Marinette had decorated his cookies with polaroids and cameras with sugar icing indicating his model career and she even neatly wrote his name on some of the cookies. The cookies for Chat Noir had cat ears, batons and “Chat Noir” on them. He compared the handwriting on both cookies, it was the same. He tasted both, they tasted the same, even the pretty plastic bag they had been it was the same. There was no doubt that he had found his lady.
Plagg, who was munching on a piece of camembert, flew over to him. “Hey, what’s up with you? Why are you sitting there all shocked?” Adrien turned to Plagg. “Plagg, you don’t understand, I just found out that Marinette is Ladybug! I finally found out, who my Bugaboo really is!” Plagg’s eyes wided in shock, he even dropped his cheese. “What are still doing here then? Go talk to her!”
Adrien considered that for a moment. Was Marinette really Ladybug though or was this just some weird coincidence? Maybe Ladybug just bought this from the Dupain bakery? No, he shook his head, Ladybug had said, that she made the cookies and he knew without a doubt that Marinette did them herself too. It was actually obvious now that he thought about it. Marinette was never around, when Ladybug arrived, Ladybug knew the names of all their classmates, he also knew that Ladybug was in his class after Alya found her history book and Marinette was always late just like him. All those facts just point out to Marinette being Ladybug.
“Lame”, Plagg suddenly cried out. “Why are you overthinking stuff again? Do something!” Adrien rolled his eyes at his kwami. “Tomorrow, Plagg, I’ll talk to her tomorrow.”
The next day Marinette was late for school, she was almost overrun by a car, when she ran over the street. Why did the akuma of the day have to happen before the school even started? Luckily she and her partner dealt with it fast. Chat Noir had been acting weird though, he had been constantly staring at her and she didn’t know why.
When she entered the school, she was stopped by a nervous looking Adrien. “H-hey, Marinette! Could I..I talk to you?” “Sure”, she tried to sound casual, but a blush was betraying her. She didn’t even care, that they were both late now. “Um so… let’s find a quiet spot first.” He gently grabbed her arm and pulled her to a secluded corner of the school.
He was looking anywhere but at her. “I … I … ugh, I don’t know how to say this.” The frustration was visible on his face. “It’s ok”, she tried to reassure him, “Whatever it is just tell me.” He was now looking straight at her eyes causing her to blush harder. He took a deep breath and then blurted it out. “Marinette I know that you’re Ladybug.”
A full minute long no one of them said a thing. “What?”, Marinette was completely shocked. How did he find out? Then she started laughing trying to overplay the shock, but her nervousness was audible. “I’m n-not Ladybug, I…I don’t know what you are talking about. Y-you must have gotten something wrong.” He shook his head. “Marinette, the cookies you yesterday gave me and the one you gave Chat were one and the same. You can trust me, I won’t tell anyone.” He was now smiling at her.
“Wait, how do you know that I gave Chat Noir cookies too?” Then the realization hit her. She stared at Adrien and it made perfect sense. The blonde hair, the green eyes and also the fact that he knew that the Adrien Volpina had been threatening hasn’t been real. “You are Chat Noir!” He nodded and grinned at her. “And you just confirmed that you are my Bugaboo.” Marinette squeaked in shock. Adrien laughed. “I’m glad that you are Ladybug, Marinette.” Marinette smiled at him. “I’m also glad that you are Chat Noir.” “Let’s go to class.” He held out his arm to her and she grabbed it. “Oh, no. We’re are really late now.” Adrien just laughed.
It was finally Christmas and Marinette was helping her parents to prepare a Christmas dinner. A knock on the door interrupted her. When she opened it, she was greeted by a smiling Adrien and his father. After they found put about each other’s secret identities, they spent a lot more time together and Marinette had invited him and his father over for Christmas dinner.
Her parents greeted them both with warm smiles, before they led Gabriel into the living room. Marinette grabbed one of Adrien’s hands. “Come on, I have to show you something.” She led him into her room. Plagg immediately dashed out of Adrien’s pocket and flew to Tikki. Both kwamis started talking frantically with each other.
Marinette pulled a wrapped box out of her drawer. “This is for you.” Adrien unwrapped it and then beamed at her. “Thank you, Marinette!” He grapped the blue woolen hat out of the box and tried it on. He went over to the mirror to take a look at himself. “It even has cat ears!”, he exclaimed. “Yes, in case you get cold ears as Chat”, Marinette laughed.
He grabbed her hands and swirled her around. Both of them laughed. “Your gift is waiting with my father. I gave him a suggestion and he agreed, but I won’t spoil the surprise for you.” Marinette giggled, she was excited for his gift. When Adrien looked up, he saw a mistletoe over their heads. With a mischievous grin he pulled her closer. “What?”, Marinette blushed and looked confused at him. He pointed up. “Oh, how did that get her?” Apparently her parents hung it up there without Marinette noticing. Suddenly shy Adrien asked: “May I kiss you, my lady?” She was speechless. Was that really happening or was she dreaming? She nodded and Adrien pulled her into a gentle kiss. She thought that she might burst of happiness while she melted in his arms.
Christmas is almost here and it’s time for some Secret Santa exchanges!
How to Apply:
Follow the Secret Santa Blog, where I will post updates and reblog gifts
Take a look at the Application link and submit your info
Applicants will be matched based on ships
Secret Santa’s on Tumblr are simple:
I send you a message with the URL of the person you’re making a gift for, and their favorite ships
You can choose to send them anonymous messages all through the month of December
All the while, you’re making a nice gift for them
Gifts can be fanfics, fanart, ficlets, gif sets (please keep things SFW)
Applications close December 2nd and I will start giving out info about matches on December 5th. Remember to keep your ask boxes OPEN with anonymous on so that I can contact you and so your Secret Santa’s can contact you.
Get creative and remember to be kind and respectful this holiday season!
