Miraculous Fanfiction - Lila's power

She waited, the scars burned, every muscle in her body telling her to run, to hide, to do something, anything. But still she sat, her white tank top had stitches everywhere from whenever it had been caught up in the attack, stains from her own blood splattered across it, her bottom half was covered by black shorts that had also suffered a bit of damage. Two weeks this had been going on, her sitting and waiting for her torture to come and get her, Marinette couldn't do this anymore, but she had no choice, a few tears sprung to her eyes, she wiped them away, she couldn't help it, if her tears were seen, it was worse. Her room, once her safe place where she almost never had to worry about akumas or the stress of being Ladybug had become her cage, school a battleground, where one wrong move could get her killed, why did she have to do this to her?

Two weeks ago she had been up late fighting an akuma, at school she had been tired and after had gone to meet Alya to help her study, she had fallen asleep, and when she woke up had been alone in the library, she had gotten up, running to the door, the second she got through it had changed everything, she had been tackled, and her earrings had been stolen, and then she had been injured with her own yoyo, over and over again, the string cutting her, the end smacking her repeatedly, it had been torture, that night had changed everything, and ever since, Lila had come, laughing at her and showing her no mercy, telling her what she could and could not do, what to say and how to act, Lila was Ladybug now, Marinette was nothing more than a girl at her mercy, Lila had taken everything from Marinette, and still there was no escape. Everyone believed the lies Lila told them, "Ladybug gave me her miraculous, apparently the stress was too much for her," or "she told me I was the only one in Paris powerful enough to stop the akumas," but the worst was when she talked about Chat, "ha! Him? He's my sidekick, and not a very good one at that, I could easily take care of Paris on my own!" She didn't know what Cat Noir thought, she never saw him. Every time she saw him, it was while he was being interviewed, or Lila was with him, she wanted to warn him, Lila was after his miraculous, so she could give it to Adrien and lie some more, keep him in the dark about her torturing Marinette, tell him that Cat Noir had willingly given it up so he could be with Ladybug, make him fall for her, Marinette didn't care anymore, let her have Adrien, she was more worried about Chat, how could she warn him? Would he believe her? Would he suffer the same fate as her? Would his be worse? This is what Marinette worried about that night, until she was jerked from her thoughts by the thud on the roof and the voice she knew so well, "Marinette! What did I tell you about talking to my Adrien?"