Safe place

by Your-local-trash

Every single day there was always someone else who fell victim to sadness and frustration, who got akumatized, who needed to be saved. What are you supposed to do when you're the one who needs saving?

1. Chapter 1

"Ladybug save us!"

"Ladybug help us!"

"Ladybug, Ladybug, Ladybug!"

It never really stopped. Someone always needed something from her alter ego. At this point Marinette was almost useless compared to the girl she was in black and red. She heard all of it so often that everyone's voices just merged together into one collective nagging voice. The worst part of it was that she didn't have anyone to go to- she couldn't let anyone know her secret identity. Not Alya, or her parents, or a therapist. She didn't want to push her problems onto Chat either. She wouldn't do that to her friend. So she was left to deal with such intense feelings by herself. And like every other responsible adult learns to do, Marinette learned to repress her emotions and bury them deep inside. She couldn't let everyone who looked up to her see her like this- see her annoyance, her exhaustion, her depression, her building up self-hatred. For now, she would carry the weight of the world on her shoulders to keep everyone else from drowning. It was her responsibility. She was a hero.