Sorry if this seems a bit rushed, I'm on my dad's laptop so my time is limited. But here's a small surprise for you!

"So...who's Bridgette?"

Félix nearly choked on his coffee at the question while Adrien simply hid his smile by taking a sip of his milkshake. He had just returned from a day out with Marinette and came home to find his older cousin flipping through the pages of an old book with a bored expression on his face. The green eyed boy had been talking to him for a while now, aware of the fact that Félix wasn't all that interested; but at least he made the effort to pretend to listen.

However, Adrien found it interesting how the sapphire eyed boy immediately reacted the moment Bridgette's name was mentioned. He didn't even seem all that bored anymore.

"How do you know about her?" He asked calmly, managing to keep his cool even if he was obviously startled just a second ago.

Adrien shrugged, a grin on his face and his eyes shining with cat-like mischief. "I'll tell you if you answer the question."

Félix narrowed his eyes and sighed. "She's just a girl from back home," he answered curtly. Not offering any other explanation, even when his younger cousin raised an eyebrow in question.

"A special girl?"

Félix nearly shivered at the thought. "No, she simply followed me around, if you really want to know."

He did not like the look on Adrien's face.

The boy in question grinned cheekily. "Well, if you had listened to what I was saying before, you would have known why I asked."

"Which is?"

His grin widened, and Félix really started feeling uncomfortable.

"She's in Paris."

The man froze, mentally repeating what the boy just told him. Bridgette was in Paris? Sure, she liked following him around, even if he was being cold to her, but even she wasn't persistent enough to follow him all the way to Paris, right?

...Right?

"Before you start filing a restraining order," Adrien began jokingly. "She didn't come here because you were here, she didn't even know you were here to begin with."

"The fact that you said that in past tense worries me."

The boy suddenly seemed nervous. "Yeah...about that...um..."

Félix rolled his eyes, deciding it could only go downhill from this point, so why bother hiding it? "Just spit it out, Adrien."

"She's been telling Mari all about you and she just happened to let slip that you were here!" He blurted out quickly, looking anywhere but him as he fiddled with his ring.

The blond haired man sighed and closed his eyes. He shouldn't be really surprised, it was amazing how far his bad luck could go. It would only be fitting that his cousin's girlfriend just happened to tell his 'stalker'-

Wait.

"Why would she tell Marinette about me?" He questioned, frowning.

"Oh!" Adrien perked up, that knowing smirk reappearing on his face. "She's Marinette's cousin. She's actually visiting for the week since she hasn't seen them in a year or so."

Félix sighed. Why not? Nothing surprised him anymore.

Bridgette Cheng* was a...special case.

She looked a lot like Marinette, some people even confused them as sisters (although they did act like they were); and despite the major age difference between them, people still managed to mix up the names...which is the whole reason Bridgette grew her hair out while Marinette preferred to keep hers relatively short.

Bridgette was a sweet woman, always smiling and trying to help others. Honestly the only flaw she had was that she was a little...

"MARINETTE! YOU'VE GROWN SO MUCH!"

...expressive when it came to her emotions. And loud, very loud.

Marinette smiled happily as her older cousin hugged her tightly, ignoring the way the woman's pigtails got in her face in favor of hugging her back. After Bridgette had placed her stuff in the guest bedroom and she had greeted her aunt and uncle, she and Marinette wasted no time in catching up and went outside; deciding they could talk while Mari showed her around.

They ended up at an ice cream parlor, peacefully eating their ice cream while talking about random things that didn't really have any meaning. Honestly, the two were just happy to be with each other again. They had been inseparable as kids, always looking for the other at family gatherings and occasionally meeting up outside of school. Even when Bridgette started going to college they met up, it wasn't until Marinette moved to Paris that they got separated.

In the middle of their conversation, a certain cat crashed through the window and into the booth next to them. He quickly got up and smiled sheepishly at all the people looking at him before shooting a wink at Marinette and jumping back out the window. The girl in question narrowed her eyes and followed him with her gaze, sighing when she spotted her boyfriend fighting an Akuma whose powers were based on light.

After having arrested the Hawk Moth from their world, Ladybug and Chat Noir had brought Nooroo to Master Fu, where they were sure he would be safe. It was quiet for the couple of weeks after that, but when another Akuma appeared, they knew something was wrong.

When Ladybug had cleansed the butterfly, they immediately went to see the elderly man; that was when Nooroo explained the problem.

Apparently Gabriel had been suspicious of his son's identity for a while now, and when Adrien suddenly started acting distant and strange, he suspected something was wrong. So, he forced the butterfly Kwami to his limits by creating as much Akumas as possible and starting all over again when Nooroo had rested a bit. That way, even when Gabriel had been captured, the Akumas could still cause quite some trouble. He even made it so that the Akumatized victims would try their best to free him.

The only reason the butterfly Kwami hadn't mentioned it before was because he figured that it wouldn't work; he didn't have a host anymore, so why would his powers still work? He was proven wrong when the first Akuma attacked though.

Gabriel had abused Nooroo's power so much that he couldn't even turn the Akumas back, which led to Ladybug and Chat Noir being needed for a little while longer. Not that they minded, in fact, they were relieved that they were still needed.

"Who's that?" Bridgette asked, furrowing her brows.

"Chat Noir," her cousin answered, quickly pushing her ice cream cone into her free hand. "Bridge, I'll be right back, I really need to go to the bathroom."

"What? Mari, wait!" By the time Bridgette realized it, Marinette had already rushed off; leaving her alone with two ice cream cones in her hand.

She was content with staying there and waiting for her cousin to show up, but when a certain ladybug-themed hero showed up at the scene, her curiosity got the better of her and she put Marinette's ice cream in a cup on the table; having already finished hers.

The blue eyed woman stepped outside, following the scene with curious eyes, mostly focusing on Ladybug. She didn't know what it was, but the young hero seemed very familiar for some reason. She absentmindedly followed the heroes and Akuma when they backed away into another part of the town, not really paying attention to her surroundings or anything that was going on. She yelped in surprise when she tripped, but luckily for her, someone caught her before she fell.

"You really ought to watch where you are going."

Bridgette looked up with a surprised expression, her blue eyes lighting up when she saw who had caught her and was still holding her up with his hands on her waist.

"Félix!" She squealed happily, her cheeks heating up a bit as she didn't hesitate to throw her arms around him. She was aware of the fact that she was acting like a high school girl, but seeing him just had that effect on the twenty-three year old.

The man in question stiffened before gently pushing her off him. "You haven't changed a bit, have you, Bridgette?"

Unlike Marinette, Bridgette wasn't really shy and was more straightforward. She didn't bother to hide her affection for the man as she clasped her hands together in front of her and smiled lovingly at him. "I'm just happy to see you, Félix!" She answered softly, unknowingly tilting her head sideways slightly as she talked.

Even Félix had to admit she looked...cute when she did that (he never said that!) but that didn't change the fact that the girl in front of him was prone to stalking him. But from the looks of it, he had to get her out of here.

"Come on, we need to get out of here," he told her calmly, looking behind him at Ladybug and Chat Noir fighting the Akuma.

She smiled softly. "As much as I'd love to, I can't-"

He cut her off. "Let's, uh, go out for coffee or something."

"Really?!" She squealed and he flinched.

"You're so loud..."

That seemed to snap her out of her little love struck world and she glanced at the ice cream parlor. "I really can't, my cousin is there and I just can't leave her alone when it's so dangerous out."

"She's safe," a voice behind them spoke up. They turned to see Ladybug standing there, her yo-yo in one hand, she was smiling at Bridgette, despite the wary look she shot Félix. "I made sure everyone in the area got escorted to a safe place the moment Chat crashed into the parlor, you two are the only ones left behind. Trust me."

Bridgette narrowed her eyes, the feeling of familiarity increasing the longer she stared at the hero. Félix seemed to notice, because he didn't waste any time as he dragged her out of there.

Ladybug's eyes narrowed and she swung her yo-yo, heading back to Chat.

He blocked an attack with his staff before grinning at her. "Welcome back, my Lady."

She didn't respond, instead focusing on the Akuma as she swung her yo-yo and the wire wrapped around her.

Chat picked up on her uneasiness and frowned. "What's wrong?" He asked as he ran forward and knocked the Akuma down.

Ladybug shook her head and tugged on the wire to make sure it was secure and held it steady as her partner headed for the victim's hairclip. "Do you think Félix knows?"

The green eyed hero tensed at the odd question, if he was honest, he had been wondering that too. Félix always seemed to be there when an Akuma attacked and always asked if Adrien was okay after an attack. Other than that, he hadn't shown any other signs of knowing about them being heroes. "I'm not sure," he answered, tossing the hairclip at her.

She caught it and snapped it in two, catching the Akuma and cleansing it. "Well, he seemed dead-set on getting Bridgette out of here when she kept looking at me."

"Maybe he just tried to keep her safe?" Chat questioned, shrugging. As much as his cousin wanted to deny it, Félix was a good person, and, if he liked it or not, he seemed to care about Bridgette...in his own weird way.

The two adults walked around Paris silently, which was odd. Under normal circumstances, Bridgette wouldn't have stopped talking, she wasn't even clinging to him like she used to when they were in school. Who knows, maybe she had grown up?

But as he glanced down at her, he knew that wasn't the case. Her brows were furrowed and her lips were forming a small pout, which she was clearly doing unintentionally. Something was on her mind, that something was most likely Ladybug.

"Are you alright?"

Bridgette jumped in surprise before looking up and nodding, a smile on her face. "Yeah, I'm just worried about Marinette, that's all."

He sighed. "You heard Ladybug, she's safe."

"It's still my job to worry though, wouldn't you do the same for your family?"

"No," he answered immediately, before Adrien popped up into his mind. "...yes."

She smiled happily. "See? It's only natural."

He hummed softly, thinking about his next words for a minute before speaking. "So how've you been?" Félix kept telling himself he was just doing this to distract her, but he'd be lying if he said he wasn't curious. He hadn't outright missed her, he just...had to get used to living without a constant annoyance around.

Yeah, that's what she was, an 'annoyance'.

The woman blinked up at him, the surprise much clearer this time. "You...you actually want to know how I've been?" She confirmed.

He rolled his eyes. "I wouldn't have asked if I didn't."

He could practically see her eyes lighting up as she beamed at him, not bothering to hide it. She was happy to inform him on what she had been doing ever since they last saw each other. And, he didn't know why, but he found himself oddly intrigued as he watched her use her hands to talk as she completely lost herself in the conversation. He was so focused on her that he even noticed the slight shiver of her body.

"Are you cold?" He asked and her cheeks turned a light shade of pink as she shook her head.

"No, I'm fi-" she yelped when she felt a sudden warmness around her body. He had shrugged off his jacket and wrapped it around her. Bridgette took a moment to take in the scent that had become familiar to her before realizing what she was doing. "Félix, honestly, I'm fine. You'll get cold and-"

"Don't worry about me."

She studied him for a couple of seconds, smiling softly when she saw that he really wouldn't take no for an answer. It was probably his way of being nice.

"Marinette told me you were Adrien's guardian," she blurted, smile still on her face. "You always said I was wrong whenever I insisted that you were kind and could be loving, but this just proves I was right."

He paused, not having expected that.

He stayed quiet for the rest of the walk, until they sat down on a bench in the park. "You really have faith in me, don't you?"

Bridgette smiled up at him, as if she had expected that question. "Of course I do, people always keep insisting that you're cold and mean-"

Because it's probably true, he thought.

"-but let's be honest, I wouldn't have fallen in love with you if that was the truth."

His eyes widened and he stared at her in surprise. Sure, he was aware of her unhealthy obsession with him, but he didn't think that she actually...

"Do you mean that?"

She hummed in response, carefully leaning her head against his shoulder. She smiled when he didn't make a move to push her away, apparently she had hit a nail with her words.

"Bridge!"

The woman looked up and smiled when she saw her younger cousin standing a few feet away from them. "Mari!"

She got up and was about to head over to her before pausing and moving to shrug off Félix's jacket.

"Keep it," he instructed and she stared at him in surprise before smiling warmly and nodding. She waved at him in goodbye before jogging over to her cousin and hugging the girl tightly, all the while scolding her for making her worry.

Marinette laughed and smiled at Félix, catching him off guard a little. Normally, Marinette's smiles were always polite and formal when it was directed at him, probably because he seemed a little unapproachable. But this time, it was warm and friendly, maybe it had to do with the happy look in Bridgette's eyes.

"So you do have a heart," a voice said from beside him, and Félix rolled his eyes.

"Very funny, Adrien."

The green eyed boy grinned and watched the two girls leave. "Just admit it, Fé, you like her."

"And you're delusional, come on, let's go."

Adrien smirked knowingly but didn't say anything else.

*I figured the 'Dupain' part of Mari's name came from Tom, so it would make sense that Bridgette didn't have that part in her name.