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Merry Christmas @myladyladybug! I am your Miraculous Ladybug Secret Santa for 2020 (@mlsecretsanta). I hope you enjoy this Cinderella AU for Marinette and Adrien <3

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I'm so sorry this is so late @myladyladybug !! I literally waited till the last minute to post it, after writing this like 10 different times and reviewing them exhaustively. English is not my first language and even if I wrote a lot of fanfiction in the past, all of them were in Spanish and none of them were from the Miraculous fandom. This is my very first English One-Shot and my very first ML story so I'm super nervous to post it. But well, I wrote this for you: A Lukanette Aged Up AU without any character death and no mention of the characters you dislike. I tried to write it fluffy but you'll need to judge it yourself, I'm usually more on the drama boat so I think I failed miserably.

I wish you an awesome 2019! Hoped you had happy holidays this December 😊. @mlsecretsanta

At first sight

Word count: 1861

She knocked on the door twice and waited. Soon, she heard calm steps walking towards her and with a 'click' from the door's lock Juleka appeared in front of her.

"Thanks for coming, Mari. You are a life's saver", she let her in with a sigh of relief.

"Not a problem, Juleka. Hope I can help" she held up a big bag in front of her with confidence "Now, show me the poor victim".

Both girls walked together to Juleka's room, where she had a black dress with a big rip on one side.

"I helped Mom with a few things in her boat last Thursday and the dress got stuck in one of the wooden doors." Marinette inspected the fabric carefully, listening to Juleka's story without looking at her directly "Rose gave me this dress for my birthday, so it would mean a lot if you can do something to fix it."

Marinette left the dress on Juleka's desk and searched for something in her bag. "Don't worry Jule, I'll get this fixed for you. Can I work here?"

"Oh! Will you do it now? I thought you'll need to take the dress back home..."

"No need, it shouldn't take much time. This can be done in... twenty minutes? Tops. Maybe."

Juleka looked at the clock in her wall and bit a little her lower lip, looking guilty "Do you mind if I leave you alone here while I take a shower?" Marinette smiled at her and denied with her head "My brother is going to pick me up in around 30 minutes. There's a family dinner with Mom today. My place is between his and Mom's so..." She left the idea in the air and scratched her left arm, embarrassed.

"You should hurry up then, don't worry about me!" she was comparing two black spools of thread against the fabric. Ignorant of the girl's anguish.

"Sorry Mari, I made you come all the way here to work and I'm not even gonna make you company"

"Hey, I mean it, don't worry!" She laughed it off with her hand "We can go out one of these days to catch up"

"We must. Thanks Mari, you are the best. I'll hurry up" Marinette was soon alone in the room.

She started to hum a song, working happy to help a friend. Immersed in her thoughts and with the mix noise of water running in the next room, she didn't hear the knock on the main door. She didn't notice the keys that opened it and much less the steps in the corridor.

...

Luka woke up early that day. Ever since he moved on his own, when he was 21, her mother demanded a family dinner per month.

7 years now with the tradition and counting. Juleka also moved on her own last year so her mother became more emphatic on punctuality: "Every minute late is a minute of me without you."

So he didn't think Juleka would mind for him to arrive early this time. Although, he probably caught her in the shower because nobody was opening the door. Gladly, he had a duplicate of her keys so entering was not a problem. He walked to her room and was about to knock when a sound caught his attention.

It was a cute melody, so he stopped to pay attention. It was not a song he had heard before, but the happy humming inspired him. He took the guitar he was carrying at his back and slowly opened the door.

A young woman was sewing there, completely oblivious of his presence.

The strings of his guitar started to dance following Marinette's humming, which startled her and made her to suddenly stop. Luka kept moving his fingers and walked towards the bed, to give Marinette a little concert with the song she just inspired.

Amazed by the beautiful sound, she paid attention to the handsome boy that just appeared out of nowhere.

She didn't even notice when he stopped to play.

"Luka Couffaine, Juleka's brother" he said, extending his hand to her. "Should I assume you're my sister's girlfriend?" He winked at her, playing around. He knew whoever this girl was, she couldn't be Rose.

"Yes" she said stretching his hand, Luka couldn't hide his surprise. "I mean no" she denied quickly with her head "I'm a-a f-friend and I'm a girl but I'm not a g-girlfriend" she explained, moving her hands frantically.

Luka gave her a playful smile "Not a girlfriend for any girl or for any boy?"

"Not a g-girlfriend for anybody right now, single Marinette" she hit her forehead "I mean! Only Marinette!"

Luka gave her a soft laugh. "Well Only Marinette, where are you hiding my sister?"

The shower was not running anymore, so Juleka was probably going to appear anytime soon. She looked at the clock "She's getting ready. You got here early"

"I knocked at the door but nobody opened it"

She looked at him embarrassed. Why was he smiling that much? Was he mocking at her? "Sorry, I didn't hear it"

"It's not a problem, I have her keys" he played a little with his guitar "I also ignore everything else when I'm focused on something."

"I-Is just that I'm trying to finish this up quickly for her. I guess I really forgot about everything else." She said, giving him her back while returning her attention to the dress.

Bad move, though. She didn't know Juleka's brother had no respect for personal space. She jumped startled when he moved his head to look over her shoulder.

"Is that my sister's dress?"

"Y-Yes, I'm fixing it" she said, almost choking with her own saliva.

"Oh. It's looking good. She'll be happy, it was a gift."

"Thank you, I know how important this is for her." she said, geniuly happy with the compliment. Luka returned to his sit in the bed. She decided it was rude to give him her back anyway, so she forgot the dress behind her and tried to start a conversation.

"Is that a Jagged Stone t-shirt?"

Luka seemed surprised "You know him?"

"It's my favorite artist. He had a talent to match my mood with his songs all the time"

"What were you humming when I got in?"

Marinette cheeks went a bit red "Nothing, really... I'm happy to help, and sometimes I hum out of the blue"

Something moved inside Luka when he saw the color in her cheeks during her little confession, it was somehow adorable. If she were a little girl it would be cute but since the woman in front of him was a gorgeous one, it actually took his mind out for the not-so-inocent fantasy land "You know, I got inspired by your humming" she looked at him with wide eyes, "and since I write songs to make for a living, I would like to keep my inspiration close by"

Marinette tilted her head a little, not getting the full message. She didn't had time to process it though, Juleka interrupted the conversation.

"Luka, you came early today" she fist bumped him with a little smile "I see you met each other. Marinette, he's my older brother Luka. Luka, she's my friend from college, Marinette.

Juleka walked to get a sight of the dress "Were you able to work or did my brother interrupted you?"

He did interrupted her. But she wouldn't say that. "It is taking me a bit more than from what I expected" she said, standing up and putting back her things in her bag, including the dress "You two should go now, I'll continue at home and will call you when the dress is ready"

"Are you sure? We can wait" Luka spoke, looking a bit guilty, maybe also thinking he did interrupted her.

She wouldn't be able to finish the dress with him there anyway. That was a fact. Even without speaking his presence altered her guts somehow. "Don't, really, enjoy dinner guys. I'll call you when it is done, Jule"

"I did interrupted you. Let me at least walk you to the door" Luka left his guitar behind and took Marinette's bag with a smile.

Juleka sent him a funny look. Was he thinking clearly? He was about to help her carry her bag for like 10 steps until they reach the main door.

She was about to say something when Marinette's sweet and quiet "Thank you" interrupted her. The funny look quickly changed to a sweet one.

After seeing them disappear from the room, she decided that she would repay Marinette's help soon.

...

As a 25 year old woman who was finishing her career and without an official job yet, Marinette didn't move out like most of her friends and was still living in the bakery's second floor. Sometimes, she also helped her parents by attending the customers. That was one of those days.

With her hair carelessly held in a bun, she was counting the remaining croissants in order to tell her dad how many more he needed to bake for the day.

She was trying to not miss a single one so she was oblivious to the external world, as always. She didn't notice the so familiar ring from the main door and neither the foot steps approaching her.

"Anyone would say that you are sewing"

She would now recognize that voice anywhere.

"Luka! I thought Juleka would come for her dress"

"Nice to see you remembered my name, Only Marinette" he winked at her "She got busy with something, so she asked me to come in her place"

"Alright, here you go" she got a paper bag from under the counter and push it towards him across the table "Please let her know if something's wrong with it again to just tell me and I'll fix it"

"Sure, thank you." He was about to leave the bakery when a thought made him to stop. "Oh, by the way, can you stay still for a second?"

She looked at him with curiosity but stayed still while his hand approached her face. A finger caressed her cheek. She felt her face on fire when he licked it with a flirty smile.

"You had powdered sugar there." He winked again and she remained freeze in her place. "I'll see you around, Inspiration. One of these days I'll take you out for dinner."

With that, he exited the bakery humming her song.

She noticed her mother presence a little to late.

"Who was that handsome boy, sweetie?"

"Juleka's older brother"

"He seems to like you" Was her mother teasing her?

"M-Me? No! He's just... He's just..."

"Just what?"

"Just incredible hot" she hit her forehead with the counter, hiding her face from her mom. She heard her laugh. "Is that even legal?"

"I don't know, Inspiration" Marinette looked like a tomato after hearing the nickname from her mother's mouth. "But please count those croissants, your father needs the number." Her mother disappeared behind the kitchen's door.

Marinette sighed in embarrassment and got back to work. But she quickly overpassed the embarrassment with joy, and started to hum with a smile at the little croissants.

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Hope you like it!

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Merry christmas, @myladyladybug !!! I saw on your blog several great drawings of characters in princess dresses, so I ran with that hahaha 😄 @mlsecretsanta

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Coincidence? I don’t think so

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.