Ladybug and Chat Noir always went on patrols. Usually they took the same routes, keeping each other company in the time it took to scan the city of Paris.

Yet on other times the two decided to go in seperate ways, completing their patrols in record time.
Tonight was such a night, and when their paths crossed, the red and black-clad heroes stopped to rest on a rooftop.

"Bugaboo," Chat Noir started suddenly, causing Ladybug to jerk from her near-asleep state.

"Mhmm?" She replied in a lazy tone. She leant back on her hands, eyeing the cat beside her.

"It has been nearly a year since we began all of this, hasn't it?"

Ladybug blinked. "Well, yes, I suppose." She shrugged, staring up at the streetlight-lit sky. "We should do something to celebrate, don't you think?"

Chat Noir nodded, my thoughts exactly, L.B."

"Do you ever refer to me by my real name?" The Lady Luck sighed.

He blinked. "Well, I don't really know it-"

"You knew what I meant;" She interrupted, frowning. Chat Noir's cat ears drooped ever-so-slightly, but Ladybug caught the difference in demeanour. "Oh, sorry..."

"It's fine, My Lady." He brushed off, turning his green eyes down to the street below them. Cars drove past, filling the awkward space between the partners.

The silence covered the two like a blanket, growing heavier by the minute.

"Hey..." Ladybug started up again quietly, Chat Noir's green eyes flickered up to meet her blue ones. "We don't even know much about each other at all, do we?"

Chat Noir hummed an agreement. "But if you don't feel comfortable revealing your identity to me, I won't push you." Ladybug smiled.

"Thank you;" she said "you don't know how much your words mean to me."

"So if I said I love you-"

"Don't push your luck."

Two seconds passed in silence. Chat Noir smirked. Ladybug's eyes widened in realisation.

"My Lady, was that a pun?" The cat superhero chuckled.

"Not intentionally! No don't do this kitty, you said you wouldn't!" She denied, holding her hands out in front of her in defence.

"I made no such purromises." He smirked deviously, tail flicking out behind him. His Lady groaned at her fate. "I would've remembered it in our little chit-chat."

"Are you serious right now?"

"No, I'm just kitten around."

"How do you even...?" She didn't bother completing the question, letting it hang in the air.

"Determeownation." Chat grinned. Ladybug threw her hands up in defeat.

"Okay, I surrender! Just please don't make any more!"

"One more? Pawlease?"

"Nope." She deadpanned.

"Aww."

"So, kitten." Ladybug sighed, massaging her temples. "With no Cat puns, we're going to do something I wouldn't have dared before tonight."

Chat Noir's heart leapt. "Are you finally falling for me, Bugaboo?"

"Once again, don't push it," she said, completing the threat with a withering glare. "We're going to learn about each other."

"Oh?" Chat's tone was an indistinguishable mix between disappointment and curiosity.

"Answering questions. About us in and out of mask, but nothing too revealing." She folded her arms, surveying her partner's reaction. Besides his ears flicking as another car went past, no change.

"I'll let you go first." She said, smiling gently at him.

"Ohh-Kay..." Chat began, stroking his chin. "What to ask, what to learn... Ah! Ladybug, do you wear your hair in two ponytails all the time or just in suit?"

Ladybug laughed. "Oh, these?" She stroked the bunches of hair, defined by red ribbon and smiled at the Cat. "I've had them for a while now, almost two years. Before that I had a bun in my hair."

"A bun?" Chat grinned, visualising the spotted hero with her hair in the other style. "Would that make it a..."

"Don't!"

"Ladybun?" He completed, much to the annoyance of his partner.

"I said no puns!" She raged, pouting at the black-clad hero beside her.

"Ah, L. B. You only said cat puns. I have a right to any other type possible."

"Not anymore. I'm revoking that right."

"Wha- hey!" Chat protested, only for Ladybug to poke her tongue out in reply. He sighed in resignation, gesturing to the girl. "Your turn for a question."

"Oh, yeah. Uhmm... What colour are your eyes under the mask? It's really confusing for you to have cat eyes whilst transformed."

"Yeah, I've also wondered about that, to be honest. They're naturally green, but less..." With a lack of words to describe what he wanted, the cat motioned with his hands. "You know."

Ladybug giggled, hiding her mouth with her hand. "Well, your turn." she said, booping him on the nose. He blinked.

"Favourite colour?"

"Pastel pink. Yours?"

"Blue." he shot back immediately, thinking back to the scarf he received for his birthday. It had become his favourite article of clothing, and he wore it at any given opportunity. It wasn't the only blue thing he loved, the thought, glancing over at Ladybug. Her eyes shone bright blue in the city's light, hair matching. His Lady was, for lack of a better word, Radiant. God above, he really was smitten with her.

"Huh," Ladybug pondered, leaning back to look at her partner in full. "I would've thought green."

"I just look good in it." Chat shrugged, a smile tugging his lips upwards. The girl groaned, her own mouth betraying herself to form a grin. "Anyway, favourite video game?"

The spotted hero paused for a minute, brain trying to choose out of a long list. "I like Fire Emblem." She ended up saying "But it is certainly one of many games I love!"

"Awakening?" The boy asked.

"Yup!"

"Who did you S-support?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her, causing another giggle to spill out of his mouth. "I myself chose Olivia."

"Really? I would've taken you to be more of a Cordelia kind of guy." Chat shook his head. "Well, I went with Chrom." Ladybug said, averting his eyes.

"Typical," The black cat huffed humourously. "The awkward dork who seems to break things." His partner looked at him pointedly, and he grinned sheepishly.

"We're getting off topic," She said, dodging the near-oncoming flirt. "Do you flirt with anyone else or am I a special case?"

"Just you, My Lady. Well, with one exception;" Ladybug listened intently, adjusting her posture to sit on the roof more comfortably. "There's a really cute girl that I sometimes run into during an Akuma attack. She's helped me out on several occasions." Chat smiled, thinking back to his classmate, who had no idea that he sat in front of her everyday at school.

"Well, if you managed to gain her favour, I'd be surprised." the Lady Luck said, knowing that he was unwittingly referring to her outside of suit.

"Next question!" Chat Noir said suddenly, shaking her out of her stupor. "Best Akuma we've fought? I mean, which one do you think was the most imaginative that hawkmoth has come up with?"

"I- I don't think I follow..." She said, tilting her head to the side.

"Well, I enjoyed fighting the Mime. He was different to anything we had faced because of his vow of silence. I thought he was cool."

Ladybug shook her head, tutting. "You really are strange, Kitty."

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"Well, I suppose I liked Mr. Pigeon." She stole a sly glance at her partner. "Besides, I found out your ultimate weakness!"

"I expected you to say Timebreaker, to be honest." Chat remarked, brushing off the jab. Ladybug shuddered, holding her arms close to her body.

"Don't." She said softly, eyes downcast. Chat Noir's ears drooped the second time that evening, tail swishing from one side to the other behind him. It wasn't like he meant to upset her

"What happens if you use Lucky Charm when there's no danger around?" He said quietly, drawing away and trying to divert the touchy subject. I seemed to work, as his partner resumed a more confident stance.

"You know," Ladybug said slowly, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear. "I have no idea." She frowned, pondering on the question.

"Care to find out?" the cat asked, gesturing to the yo-yo hanging off her hips.

"We really shouldn't- I mean, what if an akuma attacks?"

"My lady, we haven't had a nighttime attack for nearly two whole months. Just this once." Chat Noir pouted, cat-like eyes turning into puppy-dog ones as he pleaded.

"But what if there is? I can't just-"

"If there is, I'll hold them off until your Kwami can recharge;" he interrupted, flashing his black-and-green ring towards her in a promise. "Which reminds me, what is your Kwami's name?"

"Hey, no fair! Two questions at once is cheating!" The girl cried, folding her arms in mock annoyance.

"Just answer the question, bugaboo."

Ladybug sighed, shaking her head at his antics. "Tikki. About this big-" she motioned with her hands "-and red and has a couple of black spots on her head. She's super adorable and sweet and really supportive when I need her to be."

"What?!" Chat Noir groaned, tail lashing again. "How come your Kwami is easy to handle?!" Seeing Ladybug's questioning look, he continued. "Plagg. Black and sort of cat-ish, rude, lazy and obsessed with cheese. And I mean obsessed. I smell like a cheese shop permanently because of him."

Ladybug giggled, blue eyes sparkling. "Okay, you've convinced me- just this once." She said, standing up, unhooking her yo-yo. Chat grinned widely as she got into position to cast her power.

"Lucky Charm!" The spotted hero called out into the night, releasing her yo-yo upwards, magic flowing outwards from it. The sparks formed an object, falling down into Ladybug's waiting hand.

"So what is it?" Chat Noir asked, reaching her on all fours.

"Shush now, kitty-cat." Ladybug scolded, examining the small black and red object. A marker. She wondered why, of all things to appear in a peaceful time, it was a texta. Glancing about, her eyes caught on the cat beside her, pouting at her silencing of him previously. A devious smile formed on her face as she uncapped the pen.

Chat Noir blinked when he realised what it was. "Ladybug, is that a... nevermind, what is it for?"

Ladybug grinned, twirling the red and black spotted marker between her fingers

"My Lady, what are you planning?" Chat Noir said, staring at his partner suspiciously.

"Here, kitty kitty!"

"Wha- Ladybu- No!" He cried, dodging her first lunge. He barely avoided her second jab, skittering away across the roof. The entire scene somewhat reminded Ladybug of the incident with Dark Cupid (not that she'd ever need reminding of that).

An all-out sprint was what became of the two heroes, Chat Noir rushing ahead to avoid His Lady with a marker. Unfortunately, as it always is when you have bad luck, he was pinned to a chimney by Ladybug's yo-yo string. He struggled against the durable string, trying to break free as Ladybug advanced, still twirling the pen between her fingers.

"This little kitty is missing his whiskers." She smirked, bringing the texta up to his face. He shied away slightly, but couldn't get too far tied up as he was.

...Permanent marker doesn't wash off, even if a magical cleansing light restores everything back the way it was.

Plagg was cackling like a maniac, devouring cheese. Nothing new. Adrien Agreste had whiskers drawn across his face. That was going to be a little harder to explain.

To all my lovely readers and reviewers (seriously you all make my day when I get a like/follow/review), not to worry, as Chapter 2 is officially in progress starting from today!

It may take a little while to be published, as my maths work is a little (read: a lot) backed up, but it will be happening :)