Ladybug had finally defeated hawkmoth despite losing her teammates. Broken and alone she takes her life only to find she's 14 again. Now knowing everything that will occur Marinette won't let her friends die this time around, especially Adrien.

Prologue

It was dark, dreary, and snowing. A bit too fitting for Marinette. It had been ten years since she defeated Hawkmoth and put away her miraculous. She had lost too much to that damned fool. A little over half a million Parisians had perished in the aftermath of the fight. The weight of it all drove Marinette near insane. In the hopes that she could live a normal life, she returned to her late parents' bakery.

Soft snow trickled inwards from the shattered windows, a result of vandalism. This part of the city would've been considered abandoned were it not for the litter of homeless individuals trying to survive from the fight ten years back. Most Parisians had fled from the city to the surrounding cities but the few who were unlucky were stuck.

Marinette stared hard at the old bakery. It looked like it was just yesterday she was in here baking with her father. The oven was long gone, any confectioners that may have survived had rotted away before anyone could scavenge it, but... something lingered. She couldn't quite place it but it felt like the smell of the bakery was still here.

At this point, Marinette decided to head upstairs before she ended up hallucinating. She creaked slowly up the stairs into her old living room, it was, of course, empty, but few of her belongings remained. A broken picture frame here and there littered the floor. After the death of her parents, Marinette couldn't bare to return to her home, it held... too much. After ten years of wasting away, whether at pubs or the occasional nightclub, she decided she didn't want to live this way anymore.

She trudged up to her room in the hope of finding a few more belongings.
Kicking down the ladder she fought to open her hatch. Finally pushing up her door Marinette stumbled in. She felt at a loss for words, she couldn't believe how pink her room was. God was she such a child. It had been nearly 14 years since she lived in this room. She was only 16 when she had left to fight hawkmoth, hoping to not include her parents. Of course, nothing in life goes well for her, putting a distance between her parents just made it easier for them to die. To this day

Marinette still blames herself for not protecting her parents.
Stumbling over some boxes Marinette was surprised to see most of her room to be intact, although there was a lot of dust... and spiders...

She scoured the room for anything that she could keep before stopping her eyes at the posters on the wall.
Adrien.

He was the first to die... he was chat noir... he was her everything... and he was... gone. Gone. Gone. Gone. Gone. Gone. Gone... whoops, better not linger too much on that. Can't go crazy now.

Realising that there wasn't much Marinette wanted to take she left her room. Trekking slowly out the shop she took in the sight of the front. There was nothing tying her down to this place anymore. It was just a broken, abandoned shop.

Marinette hopped on her bike and sped off to the tower.

Parking her bike, not really caring where she put it, she climbed the stairs to the top of the Eiffel Tower. She didn't really mind the hike up the stairs, she'd been through worse. Finally, at the peak of the tower, she perched herself at the edge. After going through the shop she realised she had no one left. No friends, no family. She was truly alone.

She wondered what cruel being put her on this world. Looking back, this is where she first saved Paris, standing on the middle of the tower she let out the wave of purified akumas and gave out her promise, to defeat hawkmoth and protect Paris. Though she defeated him, she couldn't keep up her second part of her promise.
With that final thought in her mind, she jumped.

Marinette felt strangely relieved, happy almost, she thought her descend down would be faster but surprisingly it was slow. She closed her eyes and waited for silence to envelop her.