For the first time in a very, very long time Marinette wakes up before her alarm. She lies in bed staring at the ceiling, her mind surprisingly clear, and then realises that it's a Saturday. Which would be why she woke up without her alarm, because she doesn't have an alarm set for Saturday. For all she knew, it could be past lunchtime.

As the thought occurs to her, she rolls over in bed and checks the time on her phone. Her eyes almost bulge out of her skull. It's not even five in the morning.

Ugh, why can't she have done this on Tuesday? She'd slept through her alarm, missed the first five minutes of her Science test and thus hadn't been able to finish it. And yet here she is, four days later, awake at five in the morning.

Marinette pulls the phone from the charger and almost automatically opens Miraculous. The comments from Catalyst have come through, and most of them are overwhelmingly positive. It almost brings her to tears, having real people congratulating her on finishing the second season and eagerly awaiting the third.

The third and final season.

Right. She'd promised ChatNoir she'd discuss the third season with him today. Plan it out together, probably make an episode while they do it, and then they really begin.

Barely a few minutes have passed, so Marinette turns her phone off and leaves it on her pillow as she clambers off her bed and onto the floor. She pulls the trapdoor open and when she walks down the stairs, her mother is in the kitchen.

"You're up early."

"Don't I know it," Marinette mutters, heading towards the fridge. Sabine laughs.

"Any particular reason?"

Marinette shrugs half-heartedly, pulling a container of yogurt out of the fridge.

"We've got croissants downstairs, if you want one."

"We've always got croissants," Marinette says. "We live in a bakery."

Sabine just laughs, handing her a bowl from the draining board.

"I'm going to go down and help your father," she says. "Put the yogurt back in the fridge. Don't spill it over the floor."

"It was one time!"

Sabine laughs as she heads for the stairs.

"And if you go back to your room, bring the bowl back down!"

"Will do," Marinette promises, and Sabine closes the door behind her. The kitchen is silent, save the slight glop of Marinette spooning yogurt into the bowl, leaving the spoon in it and putting the yogurt back in the fridge. She holds the bowl with one hand as she walks back up the stairs, and is grateful that her mother has left, because she very nearly trips and barely manages to catch the bowl in time. She's very grateful to be in her bedroom again, with the yogurt sitting on a solid, unspillable surface.

She turns on her computer, logging on and connecting her drawing tablet. The time appears in the corner as it recognises the password and she groans. It's only just gone five, far too early for ChatNoir to be awake on a weekend.

She opens Miraculous, and decides that she might as well message him.

LadyBug: u up yet? i know it's early

She spoons some yogurt into her mouth as she sends the message, not really expecting a reply. Worst case scenario, he sees it when he wakes up. Big deal. It's not like he has a special alarm to wake him up when she messages or anything.

PING!

Adrien rolls over, still half-asleep, and waves his hand vaguely where his phone should be. He locates it without opening his eyes, pulling it from the charger and unlocking it with his fingerprint. It's then that he opens his eyes, his vision slightly blurry but able to read the screen.

Five in the morning. Why is he awake at five in the morning?

Then he sees the notification. Miraculous.

Oh, right.

He clicks the notification.

LadyBug: u up yet? i know it's early

The light from the screen is giving him a slight headache, and he yawns as he sits up.

ChatNoir: no, no, it's fine. i was awake anyway. you want to talk about season 3?

LadyBug: if you're available

Adrien grins at the screen, pushing himself out of bed.

The special alarm to wake him up when LadyBug messages him was definitely worth it.

ChatNoir: no, no, it's fine. i was awake anyway. you want to talk about season 3?

Marinette frowns as she takes another mouthful of yogurt, slightly suspicious. What was the chance of them both being awake at this phenomenally early hour of the morning?

LadyBug: if you're available

She doesn't even know what she's suspicious of.

ChatNoir: most definitely. just give me a sec to turn on my laptop

ChatNoir: have you seen the comments on catalyst?

LadyBug: yup. everyone seems really excited for s3! we gotta make it the best one yet

ChatNoir: s1 and s2 were pretty mediocre, so that won't really be hard

LadyBug: you calling my comic mediocre?

ChatNoir: yes

Marinette scowls as she eats more yogurt.

LadyBug: did you have a point or...?

ChatNoir: no not really

ChatNoir: did u see volpina's comments

LadyBug: do i want to?

She suspects she knows the answer before ChatNoir responds.

ChatNoir: probably not

ChatNoir: long story short, she wasn't particularly fond of her cameo

Marinette snorts. She remembers the days when Alya screamed at her in excitement for having an akuma based on her. Volpina's problems are her own.

LadyBug: that's her problem, not mine 🤷

ChatNoir: amen

ChatNoir: do you want to draw while we discuss s3?

LadyBug: sounds good. basic shape-shifting?

ChatNoir: let's do it

Marinette creates the episode, scraping more yogurt out of her bowl as she realises just how little she's actually planned this.

Which is practically nothing, considering she hasn't planned this episode at all.

ChatNoir: you ok there?

LadyBug: yes i've got this

ChatNoir: do you want me to start?

LadyBug: god yes

She can almost imagine ChatNoir chuckling as he appears on the episode and starts to draft panels. He drafts a few and messages.

ChatNoir: you able to keep going from here? ive got a s3 idea, but it might take a while to type

LadyBug: this is why i have u. you are literally the brains of this operation

ChatNoir: u flatter me

ChatNoir: keep doing it

Marinette laughs, but just starts to improve ChatNoir's drafts. She understands where he's coming from. Kind of. A jealous girl who wants to pretend to be her crush's girlfriend to get him to fall in love with her, and lure in Tikki and Plagg while she's at it.

Kind of.

ChatNoir: ok how flexible are you re kwami numbers?

Marinette seriously considers this, knowing full well that her answer will quite possibly change the entire plot of Season 3. She hesitates before replying to his message and continuing to draw the next panel.

ChatNoir: ok. what if:

It takes a moment for him to type it out, but the second message comes through a moment later. It doesn't take long to read, but Marinette has to take a moment because she doesn't deserve someone as GENIUS as ChatNoir.

LadyBug: you thought this up in how long?

ChatNoir: idk it took a while

ChatNoir: like idk

ChatNoir: two hours last night?

LadyBug: you were tired last night and thought this entire thing up in two hours, after just coming up with all the logistics behind catalyst?

ChatNoir: yes?

ChatNoir: was still faster than ur plan of s3

He doesn't even realise.

God, this dork. Genius dork, but a dork nonetheless.

LadyBug: thank you chatnoir

ChatNoir: you're welcome?

ChatNoir: i mean idk what for but yknow what you're welcome anyway. any time. all you gotta do is ask

Marinette smiles.

LadyBug: maybe i should start calling you dorknoir

ChatNoir: let's draw an episode

LadyBug: sure, dorknoir

ChatNoir: did u

ChatNoir: did u just call me a dork

LadyBug: yea

ChatNoir: ladydork

ChatNoir: dorkbug

ChatNoir: who even uses the word dork anymore. using the word dork just makes you a dork

LadyBug: i suppose we're both dorks then

ChatNoir: we spend an embarrassingly huge amount of our lives drawing an unreasonably popular online comic about supervillains and refusing to let nicknames die

ChatNoir: of course we're dorks

Marinette laughs.

LadyBug: don't call us out. next thing you know, someone'll hack in and find out we're dorks and tell EVERYONE

ChatNoir: right yes i'd better shut up. wouldn't want that to happen

LadyBug: don't mock me

ChatNoir: you know, we should probably continue w this episode

LadyBug: ya you're right

She starts drawing, and ChatNoir helps her, but after a moment she gets a message.

ChatNoir: dork

It's utterly unprompted, and Marinette laughs.

She can't wait to finish Season 3.

[A/N: Yes, she did finish her yogurt. Forget the love square, true endgame is marinette x yogurt. Welcome back to Season 3, the final season of this fanfiction]