Chapter 4: Lot's of Correcting

Hey guys so here is Chapter 4. Just got like 60 more chapters to go, thankfully that should be counting the actual show. Here is for hoping. So chapter 4 hope you enjoy!

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~Papillon Adrien's POV~

As I take the book from Lolo I was wondering why I even volunteered. I then realized that I could change what the book said so I don't sound as bad as they thought. I notice Lolo smirking at me, why is she doing that? I look over at Oscar watching me, and rubbing at his shoulder. "I'm sitting this one out," he mutters. "Any longer and I could get lung damage or whatever it is. You take them, okay, Grace? And don't let him change things." She nods at him. I look around and it appears no one else heard what he said.

"Guys Oscar is going to leave for a little I have no idea when he will be back but possibly before next chapter," Lolo says looking at him for confirmation.

"Almost certainly around the end of the chapter. It doesn't take long. Just… every eight hours, that's all."

Everyone nods, and I open the book and skim the first page. "Okay onto the actual reading,"

Chapter 4

The akuma pull out of the other akuma victims in a flash, leaving the citizens on the ground, confused. Only one, Ivan, remains, holding Noir above the city.

The akuma butterflies begin forming into a form… the body of a man, who looks over the city. "Hello, beautiful city of Paris!" the voice is soft, but sends a chill down Marinette's spine. "I am le Papillon, the man responsible for the recent attacks. I apologize for having to resort to these methods… I promise, I'm usually pretty normal, but right now, there's something I need."

"You're my son, you are never normal," my dad says, clearly amused. I glare at him. All he does is smile pseudo-innocently. I than turn to glare at my girlfriend, who had her head in her hands laughing silently.

Marinette watches, nonplussed, as the man- le Papillon- makes his incredibly elegant and impressive (awkward) speech. He sounds like a professional, who's been doing this for years (a kid trying to sound like an adult.)

"Stop that," I glare at Lolo who kept breaking in as I was reading. How did she know I was reading what wasn't there?

"What am I doing?" she asks, with all the demeanor of a doll that comes alive and kills you. I just give her a look, she knew what. Now to figure out how she knew that I wasn't reading the book properly.

"What do you want?" she calls up, her voice carrying across the rooftop to him. He sees her and smiles.

"Hello, Ladybug! I'm glad you're here. So, if you give me your earrings, then I'll take Noir's ring, and we can be done with this whole thing," he extends a hand.

"… Are you insane?"

"Yeah, probably," he admits. "But look, if you give me the earrings, I'll go away, and then there's no need for this anyway. If you don't… just remember that any destruction I cause could have been avoided." He steps back. "I, um, I just realized that sounds really bad, doesn't it?"

"It really does," she tells him. "Just stop this. Why do you even want the stones?"

"I can't tell you that."

"Then forget it."

…

Gabriel is clenched in the fist of a giant monster listening to what seem to be two kids argue over whether Paris would end up being destroyed or the most powerful weapons in the world would go to the gentleman with the butterflies (guy threatening to destroy it.) This isn't how he remembers the whole superhero thing… except for the mortal peril thing. That's the same.

I don't even say anything I just glare at Lolo from the corner of my eye. She just grins and does a little finger wave. I can see the others looking at us in confusion. I can only hope that they don't listen to her.

"Hey, kid!" he calls out after they've had a nice conversation (long juvenile chat of, "Give it!" "Nuh-uh!" "Uh-huh!")

I slam the book down onto the table, I whip around to look at Lolo. "You need to stop."

"I honestly don't know what you are talking about. What am I doing? All I know is that you are reading it wrong. Can you even read? Maybe someone else should read it if you can't," Lolo says looking concerned, only I saw that it was fake.

"I can read just fine," I tell her.

"Adrien? What is going on? What are you and Lolo talking about, also why does she continuously talking over you and saying something different than you?" I look to my girlfriend. She as well as everyone else looked confused.

"Nothing, it is nothing Marinette," she looked taken aback.

"Okay," she says meekly.

"Don't call me kid!"

He rolls his eyes. "Are you going to purify the akuma or just chit-chat with them?"

She smiles. "You know what? I have one last thing to say."

"Great. Say it."

She drops down to the base of the Eiffel and looks up at the mass of akuma. "You're not getting the Miraculous, and I'm not letting you hurt this city. Mr. Noir and I, we're going to protect the people of Paris from evil like you, and there is nothing you can do about it, because good will always triumph." With that, she sends her yo-yo flying out, taking down most the akuma and leaving only the original Stoneheart… who, unfortunately, is still holding Noir.

"There wasn't much change from our universe, just that Papillon is a kid while Chat is a adult," the other Marinette says. Everyone, including Chloe at least till she realized she was agreeing with 'Mari-trash', nods.

…

Adrien realizes that -

"I can't read this, it's private," he stopped.

"So maybe someone else should read it," Lolo says again looking concerned.

"No I mean it is my private thoughts, no one can read them," I say to her.

"Everyone here may end up having their private thoughts projected in some way, you are not the only one. Besides I have already read the entire thing so it doesn't matter because others have read it," she says smirking. I freeze she and others have read it, so they know?

"Adrien what is going on with you and Lolo, she is continuously correcting you. I am inclined to agree with her that you can't read, I have been reading over your shoulder the entire time," Marinette, my girlfriend that needs to stay out of my business, says.

"Adrien, if you are not going to read the story properly then give it to someone else to read. We were reading my thoughts and I think I know what I was thinking," my father told me. I freeze I forgot I was reading his thoughts. Of course he would know what he thought. I look at Lolo who is just smirking at me. I won't give her the satisfaction of being right so I decide to read the book correctly.

Adrien realizes that he should have rehearsed this. It's not going as planned. He twists the pin, exasperated. "Stoneheart, get the Miraculous. Now!"

The monster refuses to listen. Why isn't it- he, Ivan, I pause, and take a breath before continuing, don't be a sociopath- listening?

And… "No, no, no!" Adrien shouts as Ivan climbs higher, and flings Noir at the ground.

"Why isn't this working?"

Ladybug catches the man, but is knocked off her feet. There's a short conversation as Adrien realizes he's lost control of the situation. Then Ladybug leaves, and he detransforms, falling to his knees, holding his head in his hands. "Nuru. Explain. Now."

"The akuma wasn't getting what he wanted, so he stopped listening to you. It happens sometimes."

"That has never happened to me before, I have never lost control," my alternate father says. I look at him with wide eyes.

"You're face to face with the man that sold the world," Oscar walks back into the room, singing the follow-up line. "So, what'd I miss, Grace?"

"Adrien kept trying to say things that were not in the original script, and that is basically it," she says to him.

"Anyway, Adrien's a moody teenager, and Gabe's an experienced superhero. Which one is going to lose control?" Oscar smirks. "It's pretty obvious I'd say."

"I am not an experienced superhero, my wife was but not me," the alternate Gabriel Agreste says putting emphasis on the not.

"And you didn't tell me this, why?"

The violet kwami glares at him. "I do as you order me, and no more."

"Damn it!" he cursed. "What now?"

"Did you think this would be easy, Adrien? Like Ladybug said, good always wins."

"The akuma is still-"

"Defeated. She got the girl, Mylène, to distract him, and purified the akuma," the kwami smiles. "You lost, Papillon."

…

Marinette returns to school that afternoon riding a wild high, and she spends the day smiling like crazy. Ivan and Mylène do not return to school.

When Adrien walks into class, however, she frowns, and turns away. He looks hurt, but once her back turns, a determination stirs in him. He's going to win her over. This girl, who stands up for her classmates, who takes no bull, and whose eyes shine like stars, he's going to get her attention, in a good way, this time

"Stay away from my Adrikins, Mari-trash. What makes you think you are worthy of his attention anyway," Chloe said to her Marinette. The girl in question curls into herself, I see that my father scowls at Chloe, and honesty he wasn't the only one.

"EXCUSE ME?! Chloe who are you to decide who I date, I think I can choose who is right for me," my doppelganger stands up looking like an angry cat. The girl who had insulted Marinette shrinks back, having never seen my alternate angry, I guess. "And Chloe I am going to be completely honest with you. I am more likely to date Mari then I am you," she gasps. Even here I can see the tears welling up in her eyes.

"But Adrikins-," she started till my alternate stops and interrupts her.

"No Chloe, I have watched you since the beginning of the year put Mari down, and I am sick of you hurting my princess," I see Marinette, 'princess', freeze. My alternate hasn't even noticed what he said but everyone else did. Chloe was red in anger while all the others were appearing as if they were trying to hide smiles.

"Hmph," Chloe said turning her head away and crossing her arms.

"So Adrihoney, your princess. I didn't know you thought of Mari like that," Alya's opposite said grinning at my alternate while teasing him with that horrid nickname. He turns bright red when it appears that he realized what he had called the clumsy girl, he slowly turned towards said girl and seems to realize that she was looking at him with wide eyes and a blush. He groans and puts his head in his hands.

"I keep forgetting that you are Chaton, his nickname for me is purrincess," Marinette said thoughtfully, rolling her eyes when she made the pun. I roll my eyes and look towards my alternate to see how he would react to her forgetting that he was Chat Noir. I was not disappointed in anything except that all he did was freeze and look towards her with wide eyes. I furrow my brow, did she say something wrong?

"M'Lady?" my alternate says slowly. The girl froze, I am confused who is M'La-oh she is Ladybug. But why did it take him so long to figure that out, it was fairly obvious to me, well once I found out.

"Let'sreadthebookokgotitgood," Marinette speaks really fast in the way I only heard read book. I decide to pity the girl and started to read again.

When the bell rings, and she walks out of the building into the rain, he follows her.

"Marinette, wait."

Hearing her name, the girl turns to see the boy from yesterday, Chloe's lackey. "Do you need something?"

"Just… I'm sorry about yesterday, I was honestly trying to get rid of the gum. I should have said that earlier but… I didn't really know how. I've never done this before, the school thing. I don't have a clue how to make friends, and… I just wanted to say sorry."

She softens. "I'm sorry I judged you so fast. I was dealing with some things yesterday, and I took it out on you. I'm sorry too."

He smiles, and then notices. "You don't have an umbrella…" It's a split-second decision.

Marinette is about to shrug off his comment, but suddenly, he holds out his own umbrella, and his deep green eyes are staring into her soul. There's something dangerous in those eyes, but behind the danger is kindness, and pain. "Marinette?" he asks, quietly.

She reaches her hand out, and for a moment, their hands are intertwined, and everything seems clear. Blue and green connect, and something starts cracking in Adrien's heart, and blooming in Marinette's. "Thank you," she smiles. Then she pulls her hand back, and…

The umbrella collapses, trapping her inside.

Adrien's eyes widen, and suddenly, he can't contain his laughter. Marinette lifts up the umbrella to glare at him, but in the end, she's laughing as well.

"I'll see you in school," Adrien smiles, and walks towards the waiting car, but not before casting one last glance over his shoulder. "Marinette…"

"Well at least that part didn't change, except she didn't start stuttering, only change," a little red bug-looking thing, a KWAMI, came out of her jacket. Several others gasp, but as I already knew I didn't say anything. I look towards my father and my own alternate selves, one looks as if Christmas came early but the other had no emotion on his face but his eyes looked … softer? What is going on?

"You are Ladybug," Alya says looking wide-eyed at the Kwami.

"Tikki," the girl whines," I wasn't ready to tell them yet." She pouts at her Kwami. The Kwami, Tikki, just gives the girl a look.

"Marinette, they already knew everyone else. It was time for no more secrets between you and your friends, besides Adrien figured it out," Tikki said crossing her arms.

"Girl, we are going to be talking about this later, and you are giving another interview with Ladybug," Marinette nods and sighs, her head facing the floor and her body slouched. I start reading again.

…

Meanwhile, Fu watches the scene, coldly looking on.

"There's a darkness in that boy," Wayzz tells him, worriedly. "If she gets too close to him, we could lose her…"

"We cannot interfere," the old man mutters. "Not yet."

…

Gabriel watches his son climb into the car. "You disobeyed me," he says calmly.

Adrien looks down. "Yes, Father."

"Take a nice long look at that school… you're going there from now on."

Adrien's head snaps up, and Gabriel smiles. He's negotiated to keep the Miraculous out of his son's hands. Now, he'll be safe from that, at least. So maybe things can change…

Just a bit.

And the smile on Adrien's face makes Gabriel think that maybe taking back the Noir ring is actually worth it.

"OK that was the end of this chapter who would like to read next?" I ask looking around. No one is raising their hands.

"I will read, but son we need to have a … let's say talk," I sweatdrop when I see who said that. It was my father. I am in so much trouble.