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Marinette, after graduation,  she put all of her newly found free time into her fashion again - it had been put on the back burner. her time was divided between school, ladybug & being guardian, and sleep. so having thirty five hours freed up from actual school time, along with the several hours at night that was dedicated to homework - that was basically a forty-five to fifty hours freed up each week.  She had some many drawing that she did have time to accumulate the past couple of years that she ended up just diving into making them.

Most of them she asked Juleka to model for her, having started an instagram to post them. That slowly grew her following and when she had asked Adrien to model some of the male focused  things she had done, and she was glad he always was glad to help her out. With those posts - going from a couple thousand with Juleka’s posts jumping right up to couple of hundred thousands every time she posted Adrien. She never wanted to step on his fathers toes, but when ever Adrien did model for her, he always  happier then when she had seen him at other photoshoots for his dad. 

Now, a year or so after graduation Marinette had been working on something special for Adrien, teasing him all week with texts of the scraps of the fabric, and her almost asleep at her sewing machine, and even a blurry picture of the full outfit. The last text she sent him before the photoshoot was ‘i cannot find the shoes i want for this outfit - you don’t happen to have like black vans or converse do  you? if not just lmk and i’ll buy them before the shoot tomorrow!!’

She was excited to be in an actual photo studio, rather than the park or something outside. There was so much more control - and weather wasn’t a factor. Having gotten to the studio she set up everything. She wanted everything to be perfect before Adrien got there - along with ordering plenty of food , even if it was just going to be the two of them, Marinette planning on taking the pictures like she always did. 

She sat down in one of the director chairs, as Tikki flew out of Marientte’s bag. “Marientte he’s gonna love it!” the little ladybug kawmi said before flying over where the outfit was hanging up. The outfit was totally not something that was Adrien’s style - but she was working out of her comfort zone having the silky black fabric shirt with the buttons on it being a muted green color and her first pair of denim jeans she had ever made. She really hoped that those fit him - having double and triple checked Adrien’s measurements when she made them - knowing if they where even a little bit wrong, they’d look awful. “I really hope he does Tikki, I think it’s much out of his comfort zone as far as style - and he’ll be truthful to me saying if it sucks or if there is anything wrong with them.” Tikki flew back over to Marinette “How could he hate it, he always loves everything you’ve made!” That made Marinette giggle as she looked down at her phone before hearing the door open “Hide Tikki” Marinette’s voice became soft, letting her fly  back into her bag.

Defensive.  Now that was a much, much more accurate description of Chloe's current behavior. From the way her arms were folded across her chest to the sharp way that Chloe deflected his questions, Chloe was being very, very defensive. With anyone else, this behavior could have been perceived as normal. Nothing out of the ordinary for a girl who made enemies with the majority of her class. But Adrien was the one exception to that, and for her to be anything other than giddily open with him was... Off.

"I..."

She what? What could she say that wouldn't leave her vulnerable in the most pathetic way? Instead of daring to allow herself to be so, Chloe did what she was best at. She closed up.

Marinette glanced to her partner with concern on her face. She never wanted to leave them, but Hawk Moth gave her no choice in the matter. She still felt bad for dragging him into this mess, but at the end of the day, she was relieved to have him by her side.

“Hey! Look who the cat dragged in.”

Chloe never thought a year a go she’d be in the same spot. the fact that he convinced her to move out of le grand paris and she didn’t go back like a dog with its tail between its legs. but here she was, still living with her longest friend and neither of the very sheltered children burnt down the apartment - though that could just be because they door dashed more than either of them would care to admit. It was a shock to both of their systems. Chloe missed her dad - but her mom...the girl was thriving without having her mom around. not having someone call her any other C name besides Chloe. She had put up with it for so long - it was nice that everyone she was around now at least would call her Chloe. 

Chloe had been rearranging her room - so there was clothes and blankets and the like spilling out of her room. Had Adrien not have been out of the house for most of the day with some photoshoot she would have tried to contain this too her room - but the almost twenty year old was going through a phase where all she wanted in her room was minimalistic art and airy colors and fabrics. She kept her four poster bed, having changed the fabric that was draped on it to some baby pink tulle, from it being dark and a heavy cotton and yellow fabric - that was now in a pile to get washed. 

A few hours later, her room was back to being clean and organized - despite her vanity still looking a mess of makeup and dirty makeup brushes. She would deal with that tomorrow - seemed like she earned a nice cold glass of wine - and a couple macaroons that had yet to be touched by either of them. She went to the laundry room - switching out the load in the washer to the dryer, and throwing in her blankets in, and starting it up. After that load was complete Chloe finished all the laundry in the house - including Adrien’s. She had folded them, and put them back in his room - along with the clothes of lie-la’s she found. She had moments of wanting to just burn them, or throw them away but she thought better than it. The only person Chloe knew that hated Lila just as much as her was Marinette and that was something the two had connection on, plus Chloe knew more about Marinette’s crush on Adrien then she used to, and really wanted to know how blind Adrien really was.

Having finally got back out to the kitchen, she grabbed down a wine glass, pouring some rose into the glass - finishing off the bottle taking  sip letting out a sigh, having the flavors hit the right spots. And just as she was about to open the box of macaroons she heard the door to the apartment open - with the familiar keys jingling. “Adrien?” Chloe called out grabbing her glass by the stem walking out of the kitchen to the front room slash living room looking at the blonde. “How did your day go?” the wine glass went back to her lips before taking a long sip. 

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Ladybug let out a sigh. “No the conversation  actually is over Chaton.”  The pair never honestly fought over anything until Chloe, Queen Bee, or Vesperia was talked about. Ladybug normally did win, but she just did not want to deal with this at all today.

Though Marinette had gained some type of  friendship with Chloe, and she personally would trust her a little bit, she really wasn’t ready to trust her with the bee miraculous again. Too many bad things happened with her, and it wasn’t that Zoe wasn’t good as Vesperia, but every time she needed her, Chat was always cold to her.

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"Yeah, that's not what I'm seeing here." and she had seen her fair share of saving the world situations, but this was a bit...different from what she was used to. super powered kids was something new and slightly upsetting. still she twirled the baton in hand, testing the weight as the masked hero scowled. for a moment she wondered if this was how she looked to the adults in her life when she was on mission after mission in her teens.