Marinette Dupain-Cheng doesn’t believe in letting people get too close. She’s perfected the art of keeping her guard up, focusing her life on her dream of becoming a writer. But when her neighbor Adrien Agreste—a charming aspiring psychologist with his own complicated past—starts to chip away at her defenses, Marinette finds herself confronting emotions she thought she’d buried for good.
Adrien had his own issues, sure. But he was very simple otherwise. He was a meek tune, and she was a harmonious symphony; complex, and beautiful.
And she was a work he wanted to learn.
But how can two people, each so used to hiding from the world, learn to let each other in without falling apart?
Words: 2606, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
- Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
- Rating: Mature
- Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
- Categories: F/M
- Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Luka Couffaine, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Lila Rossi, Chloé Bourgeois, Gabriel Agreste, Emilie Agreste
- Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe
- Additional Tags: grumpy x sunshine, reverse grumpy x sunshine, Golden retriever boyfriend, black cat girlfriend, obviously marinette is the black cat, adrien is a golden retriever, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir Has a Crush on Marinette Dupain-Cheng, a crush is an understatement, Minor Character Death, Heavy topics, Angst, Eventual Smut, Sexual Content, Adrinette | Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Aged-Up Character(s), Read at Your Own Risk, I cried writing this, Brief Lukanette, Fluff, Slow Burn, painfully slow but it’s perfect trust me