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Marinette sat disheveled in the cell, here eyes blank and emotionless. No matter how hard she tried she was just a girl and those steel bars were not something easy to break, especially since they were made of such fine quality. Her clothes were tattered and she had no idea how long she had been in there. More that just a few days. She was no longer Ladybug, she wasn't even Marinette anymore. She was a doll that barely had an existence. The fire in her soul was extinguished just like Tikki. The door at the top of the steep stair case squeaked and quickly shut behind the shadow. The person came into the sunlight that peaked from the opposite side of the room. Adrien Agreste. No, she refused to accept this person as Adrien. His hair was black and his eyes were hard, and stern. Unlike they had ever been before.

He was akumatized by Hawk Moth while he was still Chat Noir. It was the first time Ladybug had to fight two people who were akumatized at once, in fact she didn't know Hawk Moth could do that. She simple thought her black cat had dyed his hair to match his name, or something like that. She did not expect him to rip her Miraculous off of her in the middle of battle like that. But, something snapped in Chat Noir while he was an akuma... or maybe something happened to Hawk Moth, she couldn't figure it out. Hawk Moth wanted the Miraculous but Chat Noir threw them on the ground and stomped them. Marinette heard Tikki scream in agony as the Miraculous shattered. The other akumatized civilian suddenly lost their akuma and Chat Noir grabbed the sobbing Marinette and ran off with her. She was thrown into a prison-like cell, but she had been too busy fighting to realize where he had taken her.

"Chat Noir! Why! No... Hawk Moth!" She sobbed against the bars. A flash a green entered her sight and she knew Chat transformed back to himself. She looked up to see the face of who killed Tikki. Tikki must have been dead, Marinette thought. There was no other alternative that she could think of. Her sobbing halted from pure shock when she saw the face behind the mask. Adrien Agrests, but his hair was now black, but his face was the same. Next to him a Kwami that resembled a black cat floated, looking as shocked as she was.

"Adrein! What's wrong with the!" The Kwami shouted, not sure of what had happened.

"What's wrong bug-a-boo?" the familiar voice questioned, but his face completely blank. Not like the soft expression Adrien often wore, or the gleeful smile Chat always had. Though the face was the same the person himself was now. Was he still akumatized? This was far too drastic for something of that sort... Marinette couldn't bare it and screamed for him to tell her what had happened. He didn't answer, just watched as she shook the steel bars that showed no sign of giving way.

"Adrien! Answer me!" she screamed. The kawmi also tried to get answers but all they achieved was putting an annoyed face on Adrien.

"Plagg! Shut up!" He shouted and grabbed the kwami roughly. "I'll be back... Marinette."

That had been several days ago and she still received no answers. She was sure that Adrien had not been going to school because he made sure to visit her everyday, several times a day. He would bring her meals and tell her stories. She quickly became broken with this development. He refused to answer any of her questions. Why was he doing this? Are her parents okay? Are people searching for her? How long is he going to confine her?

"Why do you do this?" he asked, much to her confusion. "Every time I hear your voice you only ask questions. Mostly about other people. You used to like me so much!" Tears streamed down his face as he became hysterical. "WHY IS THE ME RIGHT NOW NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!" He grabbed her wrists through the bars as he screamed. She couldn't respond, just what had happened to him. An akuma could not make him this psychotic, usually people akumatized had a purpose but Adrien seemed to have none. Besides confining Marinette he did nothing else.

"Are you okay?" Marinette finally spoke.

"Me? You finally want to know about me?" he grabbed her chin and kissed her gently through the gap between the bars. "You should've done this in the first place. Only think about me. Only love me. No one else, you don't need anyone else. EVER." he giggled a little bit and released her. "Oh, I see. It is pretty dull in here... I shouldn't leave you like this should I? A TV maybe? Books? What would you like Marinette?"

"A TV!" she replied. Then she could get information about the outside world. He looked a little alarmed at her eager answer but let it pass. He left on a quest for entertainment. If she responded the way her wanted he gave in a little to her, but how far would she have to go? It didn't take him long to return. He stumbled as he carried the medium size, flat screen TV down the stairs. He walked to the far end of the cell.

"Here." He pointed, his voice very authoritative. He had a pair a handcuffs. "I can't have you try anything stupid." he stated. She complied and let him handcuff her to the bar. He set the TV in the room, with an orange extension cord attached. There was an outlet outside of the cell that it could be attached to. "Oh.. Marinette." He quietly stepped over to her, his eyes shone with a weird sparkle. "I have been longing to touch you." He stroked her face and tilted her head like he was about to kiss her again. "I really shouldn't have been surprised that you were ladybug. Your eyes are so gorgeous." He traced his fingers of his left hand down her side. "And your body is the same too. Though that spandex was so revealing I wonder what it looks like beneath it too."

"NO!" she slapped his hand away frightened. "Don't touch me with the same hands that did that to Tikki!"

"Tsk." He slammed the bared door behind him with a click. "Disobedient" he muttered as he unlocked her handcuffs.

The first channel Marinette checked was the local news. After just a few minutes she saw a missing notice for her. She teared up as she saw her parents crying, pleading for her safe return. It was also all over the news that she was Ladybug, the news cameras captured that exact moment and aired it live. When she finally escaped she would have that joy to deal with... not like she could ever be Ladybug again. Tikki... Her poor friend... It seemed like she spent the last few days crying, she was surprised that she wasn't out of tears yet.

"Tikki isn't dead yet." Plagg whispered. Marinette spun around, scared at the random voice. "Shhh" he warned.

"Adrien's kwami... Plagg? What do you mean Tikki isn't dead? And how can I trust you?" She tried to keep her voice down.

"Shhh I don't have long. Adrien is taking a shower. Something is wrong, deeply wrong... I think the akuma polluted his heart. Anyway I don't have time for that! Kwami can't die that easily, I'm sure she will be revived... we just have to wait. I have to go now!" He disappeared through the wall after he gave his brief, broken explanation. So Tikki was alive! She smiled to herself a little, that bit of news glued her heard back together, but the cracks remained. Could Adrien be saved? They just had to clean him of the pollution right? Also assuming Plagg was able to get here and leave in the time-span of a shower, even that of an idol, she must be on the Agreste residence. Now she just needed to know how to save Adrien. But that outburst of his from before. Could this Adrien be the deepest darkest parts of Adrien personified? That thought hurt her deeply as she thought of how much that boy must have suffered in silence. She had to rely on Master Fu and Wayzz to rescue her, even in his old age.

"Why are you pacing like that?" Adrien asked as he walked in on her, deep in thought.

"I-I just need to exercise, Adrien!"

"You finally called my name!" He blushed slightly and touched his head. She noticed he had a huge bag to accompany him.

"What's that?"

"Ah!" He dumped the bag out to reveal a sleeping bags, pillows, and blankets. "Sleepover." he stated and pushed some of it through the bars. That night he had insisted sleeping while holding hands, and she had complied due to the new information and speculations. She couldn't deny this part of Adrien. She didn't sleep right away though, she watched Adrien's sleeping face. His hair changed back to the gorgeous blonde it was before in the matter of seconds once he was asleep. It was possible to save him.

"Adrien." She called out teary eyed. "It's really you."

"I'm sorry Bug-a-boo. I'm sorry, Marinette." He called out in his sleep, his eyebrows scrunched together. He squeezed her hand harder, like a child having a cruel nightmare.

"Please save him, Marinette." Plagg whispered from behind Adrien. "Please."