Summary: When Marinette turns 21 and is finally of age to pick up her soulmate journal, she expects to immediately be put in contact with a certain blond crush of hers like she's always dreamed of. However, when she opens up the journal to find it already half filled with entries from a soulmate who had long given up on ever getting a reply, she wonders what cruel joke the universe must be playing on her. When Gabriel hears the tell-tale sound of pencil against paper coming from a long forgotten leather-bound journal, he nearly thinks he's imagining things. After all, he'd long given up on believing in the soulmate system and had moved on to find love elsewhere. However, he finds himself presented with an opportunity he can't pass up: a chance to get closer to his leading suspect for Ladybug's civilian identity and possibly a new opportunity to get the earrings he so desperately needs to bring back his long-lost wife.All best-laid plans are bound to have complications, though. Actually beginning to harbor feelings for his enemy, however, was not one Gabriel expected.