#human!kwamis

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Marinette shot her eyes open bright and early the next morning. Her heart was pounding even though she couldn't figure out why she felt fidgety and panicked but when she looked around for Tikki, who normally slept on the little bed she'd made her, she found it empty. "Tikki," Marinette called.

There was a soft moan from below. Without any hesitation, the young girl climbed down off of her bed. She came to a halt. A scream caught in her throat and panic set into her mind. Laying on her lounge was a beautiful, porcelain skinned girl, with long red hair. She quickly looked around to keep her eyes off of the girl's naked body but reached for a blanket to cover her up. Apparently the motion was enough to wake her. The girl's eyes fluttered and she sat up, sliding the blanket back down a bit, as she rubbed her eyes sleepily, muttering, "Marinette? You're up early."

"How do you know who I am," she hissed. "How'd you get in here? Where's Tikki?" The girl blinked and looked down. She squeaked, grabbing the blanket and pulling it higher, clutching it to her chest. Her face was just as red as the hair on her head.

"Oh no... I forgot to warn you," she muttered. Marinette crossed her arms, waiting. The girl took a breath and smiled brightly up at her chosen. "Good morning Mari. I'm... Tikki." The dark haired girl blinked. Without warning, she moved closer, examining her closely. Staring into her equally blue eyes apparently made her satisfied and she pulled back with a gasp, her own eyes wide in surprise.

"No way! How? Why?" Tikki fidgeted.

"Well, you see, when the Miraculous brought the kwamis to life to protect and divide its power, it had to make a condition in which we would lose our magic for a time in order to keep ourselves from... imploding of sorts. Think about it this way: If you put too much of something inside a small container that is rather fragile, what's likely to happen? The container breaks." She paused. "So, the solution was to give us a time when we became human in order to "ground" our energies." A sheepish smile appeared on her lips, "Usually I remember to warn the holder I'm with but I forgot this time." Marinette sighed.

"That's... okay. That's a lot to take in but we'll make the most of it." She walked over to her closet and began rifling through it. Tossing a dress, sandals, a necklace, bra and underwear, she turned back and pointed to the clothing with a smile, "Those are yours for today." Tikki nodded and clutched everything to her as she ducked off to dress.

Marinette frowned when she disappeared. If Tikki was human... did it mean the other kwamis were too? That meant that her and Chat Noir were out of the picture for today but hopefully, that meant that Hawkmoth was as well.

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Adrien groaned as he woke up. He shook his head, completely dizzy but feeling refreshed from his last couple of sleepless nights.

"It's about time you woke up," a voice noted with a sassy tone, "I was beginning to wonder if I was going to have to call the hospital."

"You know I had... what the heck," Adrien shouted, falling out of bed. Sitting on his couch was a dark haired boy with brilliant green eyes, a cocky smirk, and wearing some of his clothing, a white shirt, vest, square tie, khakis, and tennis shoes. He waved a hand.  

"Yo."

Adrien jumped up from his place on the floor. His eyes narrowed as he walked around and stared at the other boy. The smirk didn't die. Eventually, two and two clicked and Adrien gasped, "No way. Plagg?"

"The one and only."

"But... but how?"

Plagg shrugged. "Condition of being a kwami. Too much in a small space and all that. Count it as releasing some pressure before there's a catastrophic failure."

Adrien snickered. "Did you just pun?" Plagg rolled his eyes and stood up.  

"Not intentionally. Anyway, I'm off. There won't be any akumas today and I'm going to not go to school with you." The blonde blinked. Before he could disappear out the window, Adrien grabbed him by the shirt tail with a smirk, dragging him back the other way. Plagg grumbled.

"Oh no you don't," Adrien scolded. "You don't have any magic today right? That means you need to stay close in case something happens. You are going to school with me."

"What does a literal god need with child's education," he muttered. Adrien rolled his eyes.

"Look, you probably won't even be allowed in the classroom but we'll hide you in the library or something. It won't be that bad." The dark haired boy sighed.

"And suddenly my day just got extremely boring."

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Getting Tikki out past her parents hadn't been an issue. Marinette had made sure they were distracted in the bakery before motioning for the other girl to disappear out the back door quietly. She sighed in relief as they met on the corner outside the bakery. Marinette was impressed with herself. She'd given Tikki a red, spaghetti strap sundress to wear that stopped just above her knees and all black accessories: sandals, necklace, belt, and purse. Of course it was slightly intentional since picturing Tikki in anything but red was a little hard to do. Said girl poked her cheek.

"Thanks for letting me come to school with you today," she chirped, "I'm really excited to see what it's like from a human's point of view."

"You've been to school plenty of times. I promise its not that spectacular."

"Education is very important Mari. It is miraculous one way or the other!" Tikki froze, her eyes going wide. Marinette stopped too but her eyes didn't go wide; her face went red. A dark haired boy and Adrien were standing next to the open door of his limo which was shut before it took off without a second glance. The blonde waved to her. Marinette immediately jumped behind Tikki with a squeak. As they came closer, it was clear that the dark haired boy's eyes were just as wide as Tikki's and they stared at each other like a person would stare at water in the desert; Adrien cleared his throat.

"Hi there. I'm Adrien and this is my cousin Plagg. Who are you?" Marinette squawked this time. Tikki flinched at the sound as her holder suddenly popped up with, "Th-this is my cousin Tikki!" Adrien blinked.

"Wow. Both of our cousins came to visit uh?" She nodded, face fiercely red. The red head giggled but stopped when her hand was gently grabbed and a kiss placed on the back of it.

"It's nice to meet you... Tikki," Plagg whispered. She smiled softly.

"Same to you Plagg." It seemed like the air left the area for a second before Plagg broke it by turning back to Adrien. "I can find the library from here. I'll take Tikki there too since neither of us can make an appearance in your classes." The blonde hesitated but shrugged.  

"Sure. Just make sure to stay out of trouble." Plagg smirked, grabbing Tikki's hand. As he pulled her into the building, he replied back with, "Always."

Marinette and Adrien shared a look but thought nothing of it as it was time for them to appear in class.

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Tikki giggled softly as Plagg kissed along her forehead, cheeks, nose, the line of her neck and eventually her lips. Strictly speaking, kwamis did not have affection the way that humans did; there was no mating ritual or services for procreation but they did have soulmates, other kwamis who made their spirits whole and balanced them out. Tikki was Plagg's. Plagg was Tikki's. Simple as that. As soon as they'd left their holders, Plagg had dragged her to a rather deserted and obscure part of the library to immediately begin kissing her senseless. It was something they couldn't do as kwamis. He only had today to kiss her as many times as he wanted. Tikki didn't mind either. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him just as much, returning every motion when his lips finally crushed hard into hers. When they pulled back, she smiled up at him.

"I missed you," she whispered. His smile softened a bit and he lowered his forehead onto hers. Tears threatened her eyes.

"I know," he returned, "I missed you too. Master Fu should've never separated our Miraculous."

"It was a mistake," she chided, "He was younger and foolish. He learned his lesson. You heard him." Plagg tisked.

"Yeah I heard him but it doesn't mean I can forgive that moment in time." Tikki reached up to stroke his cheek. It was warm and soft under her touch; she marveled at the feel of human skin, realizing that this is what Marinette had the chance to feel every single day of her life. It was truly magical.  

"Then I'll do it for the both of us," she assured him. He shook his head but a soft smile appeared on his lips. He kissed her forehead.

"This is why you're my better half." She swatted his arm.

"You old grump. I was meant to be your better half anyway!"

"You'll get no argument from me on the point."

"Good," she asserted triumphantly, "and don't you ever forget it." He kissed her nose.

"Not as long as the Miraculous exists and we do," he replied. After a few more kisses, Tikki grabbed his hand and led him to the floor where they sat cuddling for sometime. She talked about all the things she wanted to talk about with him. There was about a century or more of things to discuss and she poured her heart out for him. Plagg listened and recanted his tales as well. Hours passed. Finally, they were done but they didn't move from their cuddling position. Plagg nuzzled her head.

"I don't see why we don't just leave," he breathed. "It's not like Hawkmoth can really do anything today. Nooroo's human too."

"Why don't we go to the park," Tikki agreed. "It's not too far away and we'll be near if Marinette and Adrien need us." He nodded, standing to offer her a hand. He led the way out without letting her go; the sun was poking through the clouds but it wasn't particularly cold which was fine with them since Tikki reacted badly to the cold as a ladybug and all that. They crossed the street and ended up in the park. She giggled and squeezed his hand. "Wanna try something human," she asked. He raised an eyebrow as she reached into her purse and pulled out a camera, waving it at him. "Mari loaned it to me when I asked." He chuckled but nodded. Having the longer arms, he took the camera and held it up for the perfect selfie angle. Tikki squeezed in close to him. His cheek rested on the top of her hair. The camera clicked.  

They spent most of the afternoon going around the park and taking random, silly photos. Tikki laid on the fountain at one point and Plagg ordered her out of the way, showing her how a real model would do it considering he'd watched enough of Adrien's shoots to know what in the world he was doing. They took a twirl on the carousel at one point. Plagg made sure to take as many candid photos of her as he could. She caught him at one point and tried to take the camera back with no success. Until she sneakily kissed his neck. The camera fell in surprise and she caught it before it hit the ground.  

She didn't delete a single one of them.

As the afternoon wore on, Tikki took a seat on a bench and sighed. Her stomach rumbled. Plagg smirked. "If you were hungry, you should've just said something." She stuck out her tongue.  

"I wasn't but I think I see a snow-cone cart with my name on it." He rolled his eyes. Thankfully, Adrien had had the foresight to give him a little bit of money just in case (let's face it. Adrien isn't stupid and he knew Plagg wasn't going to be able to stay in the school all day without trying to run off somewhere). Plagg handed her the camera.

"Wait here. I'll go get you one." She nodded thankfully. As he left, she scrolled back through the pictures with a smile plastered on her face.

Plagg went to the cart and ordered two snow cones: a sour blueberry for himself and a strawberry for Tikki. He paid, thanked the man behind the cart, and turned to go back to his partner when he stopped dead in his tracks. She was still sitting on the bench but now, there was a man hovering over her. He leaned over top of her and she shrunk down in the seat, clearly distressed and clearly telling him to buzz off.

The green-eyed cat saw red.

As he moved closer, he could hear the man. "Come on baby, it'll just be for a little while. You're too cute to be sitting on a park bench doing nothing."

"I already told you, I'm with someone. I'm not interested in going with you."

"But I can make all your dreams come true. Just let me show you!"

"Go away!"

"Here, I'll show you."  

Before the man could grab her, Plagg grabbed him, violently pulling his arm back. Human he may be but he was still stronger than the average person. His eyes were narrowed in anger. His nails elongated to points and he started to bring his free hand up to slice along the man's throat. He gasped. Suddenly, a gentle hand grabbed his, stopping his motion. Plagg froze. He turned enough to look at Tikki who's face was twisted in fear, shaking her head.  

"Don't," she said calmly. Plagg calmed enough to release the man who fell to the ground with another gasp. Before he could move or say anything, Tikki grabbed her partner and dragged him away, back to the school where the classes were still in session. She pulled him back to their deserted corner.  

He was still fuming.  

Tikki grabbed his face, gently rubbing circles into his cheeks. When that didn't work, she slowly started kissing him like he'd done her: the forehead, cheeks, nose, neck, all the while saying, "Plagg, it's alright. I'm alright. Calm down. I'm alright I promise." He wrapped his arms around her waist, hugging her tight. A soft moan escaped his throat.

"It's not alright," he growled. "He shouldn't have been harassing you like that. You should've let me tear him apart before he does that to anyone else." Tikki smiled and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

"I don't think he will. You did give him a pretty big scare." Her smile grew brighter as she tilted her head back to really look at him. "Thank-you Plagg." He sighed, finally calming down, as he ducked his head onto her shoulder.

"I love you Tikki," he muttered. "I know it doesn't mean much because we're kwamis and technically human love doesn't cover it but it's the closest I can get." She turned to kiss the part of his head she could. He sat up, smiling at her.

"I know," she whispered, "I love you too."  

They kissed slowly this time, their hands exploring a bit, before they heard the sound of Marinette and Adrien calling for them and the magic of the day was over. They broke apart but promised to be with each other soon.

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A week later, Marinette approached Adrien with a small package. It was a set of photos. She smiled as she handed it to him, "My cousin asked if you would give these to your cousin. She also said to tell him thank-you, she had fun, and she can't wait to meet with him again." Adrien nodded and put the package in his bag.

"Sure. I'll get them to him straight away."