Summary:

Nightmares, Adjusting and the beginnings of Miraculous shuffling; it can't get anymore complicated, right?

I apologize for any mistakes I may have made.

Chapter: Ladybug and Noir P.1

It can't be worse.

The voice is soft, it's just above a whisper.

A single sapphire eye snapped open. A soft cough escaped passed chapped lips. Her head turned to one side, pain immediately racked through her body. "Nngh.", came a slightly gurgled grunt, she suddenly felt liquid copper fill her mouth, she quickly turned over to her side and spat out the awful liquid, her eye widened as she saw crimson splatter on the glass and rubble littered cement ground next to her. She sucked in a shaky breath and started to feel panic flood her. "Wh...at…", the word came out broken, she winced as she felt more and more pain washing over her, her jaw felt like it was on fire along with the left side of her face and head. Slowly she brought her right hand to her face, finding that her left arm wasn't moving. She slowly shifted to sit on her knees, she touched her face and pulled the hand away from her face to look at it, she grit her teeth upon seeing her hand soaked in crimson. Her breath left her as something passed her crimson fingers caught her eye, she slowly looked up from her hand and her eye widened.

Fire, destruction, carnage. Ruins of what was her home City.

Lips part open. 'No…', she thinks to herself, she tries to quickly get up to her feet, but she regrets that choice when pain shocks through the left side of her body. "NNGH!", she grits her teeth, clenching her jaw and screwing her eye shut, trying to calm herself, trying to force herself to not think of the pain. 'What's happening.', she thinks to herself. She can't help but feel dread and sorrow starting to flood her. She sucks in a breath and uses her good arm and leg to slowly get herself up to her feet. She huffed heavily, feeling out of breath, she starts to look around herself, she sees damage and ruins, nothing but destruction laid all around her. Nothing was left intact. She presses her lips into a tight line.

She hears nothing but the crackling of fire and the soft thuds of falling debris and rubble. They echoed loudly.

She breathes unevenly, she starts to slowly limp towards a path ahead of her. She huffs and puffs softly, wincing every now and then. Many thoughts crossed her mind as she walked for what seemed like forever, until she finally made it to where the eiffel tower was supposed to be. A heavy frown took her lips, she winced as she felt the tug of the frown, irritate whatever injury she had gotten on her face.

"If you would have just given me the miraculous, none of this would have happened."

Hawkmoth's voice echoes, it booms around her, it sends chills down her spine. She finds herself turning around quickly, ignoring the pain that racked through body and just as she found the man responsible for Akumatizing people walking towards her, she suddenly felt herself losing her balance, she felt as if some force had pulled her back off her feet. She closed her eye and released a yelped as she found herself falling onto her back, she felt all breath leave her.

"I only tell people what they want to hear."

Sapphire is met by the sight of a familiar yet not really familiar bathroom ceiling, she groans and sits up, she finds herself inside the bathroom inside her school, but not really. The bathroom she currently laid in, was destroyed, there was nothing but rubble and broken glass. 'Lila.', she thinks to herself.

"You're everything I hate in this world, Marinette."

Shivers and chills run over her body, "Why?", She opens her mouth before really thinking her words through, she slowly sits up. She sees Lila, perfectly intact, leaning against the cracked and crumbling bathroom wall, smiling at her, her eyes not really looking at her, but through her. "What did I ever do to you?".

Lila snickers softly, innocently. She looks out of place inside the bathroom. She's a juxtaposition. She sighs softly after a moment, she breaks her dark gaze off of Marinette and slowly starts to get off the wall and she begins to walk towards a broken mirror, "You're perfect.", she says, her words come out just above a whisper. She reaches out and grabs a rather large shard of glass. Her hand starts to bleed as she takes it out from where it was. Her hand grips it tightly.

Marinette winces as she sees the blood running down the brunette's arm, she sees it stain the sleeve. "Lila-".

"Quiet.", she says softly, the word is hollow and cold, Lila turns towards her, holding the shard of glass. She begins to steps towards Marinette, drawing closer and closer, stopping once she was at the foot of where Marinette's feet were, she stands there, holding the shard and looking down on her.

Marinette is afraid suddenly.

Lila smiles again. She starts to step again, she steps over Marinette's legs, a foot on either side, she then suddenly drops her knees and straddles the ravenette, she leans a little close and brings up the shard of glass, putting it in the space between their faces, "Well, you were, perfect.", she suddenly grins darkly, "Take a look, Ladybug...or rather, Marinette."

And Marinette does, she sees the left side of her face all bloody, her hair stained crimson, sticking onto some parts of her face, her left eye was swollen shut. She hisses through her teeth.

"This suits you", Lila comments, "It's more realistic.", the brunette smiles and suddenly drops the shard onto the floor, it shatters. "You were too good, too perfect, too unreal.", Lila kept her bloody hand up, an angry cut on the inside of her palm, blood trickling. "You were the girl that had everything.", Lila's gaze grows malicious, her smile grows darkly, she reaches out with her injured hand and suddenly she grabs messy bangs, pulling at the hair tightly, her blooded trickled down the right side of Marinette's face. "In your world, there is no room for me."

Marinette whimpers softly, "S-Stop.", her bottom lip quivers. She grimaces as Lila's blood enters her eye and stings, "Nnn...Stop.", she grits her teeth.

"Why don't you make me?"

And as Marinette was going to speak again, she feels everything around her fade away, she opens her eye but just as she does she was stricken across the face, hard enough to be knocked back onto her back once more.

"We could have had everything together."

Marinette knows that voice, she somehow just...knows it. She coughs and feels the right side of her face burning, she cringes, thinking that, that was her good side. "Chat...Noir?", she whispers softly, she groans in pain and turns to her side and slowly starts to get up.

"Yes, Milady?", his voice is cold and distant. The voice sounds nothing like Chat Noir's own, it lacks the warmth it used to carry, yet despite that, Marinette knows it's him.

Marinette turns to look over her shoulder, she says nothing as she sees her old partner standing before her, crossed arm with a wicked grin, a bloody baton in hand.

"You look like you've seen better days, Milady. You got, a little blood…", Chat speaks sarcastically, his gestures around his face.

Marinette feels her chills run down her spine. She feels uncomfortable under the boys gaze. "Chaton...why...why…", she feels tears stinging both her eyes. She feels guilt and sadness weighing heavily on her. She gets to her feet, stumbling slightly.

The blonde's playful expression darkens suddenly, it melts away and is replaced with a look of disappointment. "Why?", he hums and begins to step towards her.

Marinette shivers and starts to step back, stumbling, limping. "Chat…"

"Everything would have been okay if you had just...loved me back like you were supposed to.", Chat Noir frowns heavily.

"Everything would have been okay, if you had just gone with the flow.", Lila suddenly appears, casually stepping over rubble, she hops down a busted fountain and gets beside Chat Noir. Both walked side by side, walking towards a scared Marinette.

"Everything would have been fine if you had just given me your miraculous.", Hawkmoth walks down some steps to Marinette's right. "If you had just done what we wanted, none of this...would have happened."

Marinette feels herself getting more and more cornered, there's nowhere to go for her, nowhere to run, she was being backed into a wall by Hawkmoth, Chat Noir and Lila. They were cornering her. She continued to step back carefully, her eyes shooting between the trio that were drawing closer and closer. "I...I-I...Chat-Ahh!", suddenly her words turned into a surprised yelp. She slowly looked down, breaking her eyes off the trio that were now just standing, she finds a blade sheathed through her chest, crimson starting to drenched the front of her chest, her lips tremble as she feels copper flooding her mouth.

"If you had just done what everyone else wanted."

Marinette shakes and slowly turns her head, tears escaped her eyes, running down her dirty cheeks. Her swollen eye stings as it opens just a little bit along with her other eye.

Sapphire eyes stare back at her.

Marinette feels something leaving her as she takes in the sight of who had just impaled her with a sword. She feels something inside of her sinking.

It was...her-

"-nette!"

"-id!"

"Marinette!"

Sapphire eyes snapped open, she gasped for air, and chokes, she's shaking, she feels wet and sticky.

"Marinette!", Chloé's voice suddenly pulls Marinette from her daze, the blonde is looking at her with great concern, her hands on her shoulders, shaking her. "Marinette breathe!", the teen says, her voice cracking.

And Marinette lets out a breath and she gasps all over again, she felt her lungs burning, she felt as if she had been deprived of breath. Marinette panted, she felt one of Chloé's hand gently cradle the side of her face.

"Marinette.", The heiress says softly, blue eyes were slightly teary, "Hey, hey, relax.", her other hand is brought up and places itself over Marinette's sweaty forehead, she gently pushes the hairs that had stuck onto the sweaty skin, back. "You're burning up.", she says a little shakily.

Marinette sighs and swallows thickly, she doesn't move away from Chloé, she stays still. She notices the sensation of her hair being wet, she can feel how drenched the pillow was. She feels dirty.

"Kid, what happened?", Plagg suddenly pops up beside Chloé, concern on his face.

Marinette groans and nods her head side to side. Words not coming to mind.

The heiress sighs softly, she gently runs her hand from the side of Marinette's face to the teen's chest, she feels the heart thumping hard and fast. "You weren't breathing and you were struggling in your sleep.", Chloé speaks softly, she removes her other from the warm sweaty forehead, "Did you have a nightmare?", she asks slowly, her gaze is soft.

Marinette swallows thickly as everything starts to come back to her, she sighs and turns away from the blonde and her kwami, she sees the time, "It's 3 in the morning-", she mumbles.

Chloé's eyebrows furrow, "Marinette, talk to me.".

Marinette grunts softly and turns her head back to the two concerned looking expressions. "It was nothing.", she breathes, a little out of breath.

The blonde is not going to have it. Her expression hardens, her eyebrows furrow in a way that indicates that she wasn't going to just let this slide. "Marinette, please.", she says, her eyes searching Marinette's own.

The teen sighs deeply, she swallows thickly. "I...it was just…I just had a nightmare.", she finally says, that's all she wants to share, she doesn't want to get into it, she knows that if she reveals more, Chloé would no doubt piece together that she is Ladybug, and Tikki told her specifically to not reveal herself to Chloé. "I...I don't want to share more.", she speaks again. She can't share too much, a part of her reminds herself.

The heiress looks a little disappointed. But she concedes and slowly nods. "Okay.", she says softly, her face shows concern. She removes her hands from the Dupain-Cheng's body and slowly starts to shift back into her space on the bed, she lays on her side, facing away from Marinette. Her eyes remain open.

Plagg narrows his eyes, he looks between the two girls in the bed, he says nothing as he merely floats above them.

Marinette swallows again, she feels guilt. She knows Chloé only wants to help, she knows the blonde has done nothing but help her. She feels like she's being ungrateful. She sucks in a shaky breath, she shoots Plagg a look as she remains on her back. "I had a dream about Lila.", she says, she leaves Hawkmoth and Chat Noir out of it.

Chloé hums softly, she slowly shifts under the comforter and turns until she lays on her other side to face the teen. She stares at the side of Marinette's face, "You were struggling in your sleep.", the blonde says softly.

Marinette shrugs, she slowly reaches out and gestures for Plagg to come closer.

Plagg raises an eyebrow and slowly draws near and as he does, he is immediately taken from the air as Marinette grabs him once he's within reach. He finds himself awkwardly pressed against Marinette's chest.

Marinette sighs deeply, there's a longing in her chest, an ache. She misses Tikki and wishes that the kwamis she held against her chest was hers. "I was...being cornered by her…", she releases a soft shaky breath. She uses her thumb to gently stroke the top of Plaggs head as she holds him against her chest.

Chloé shifts closer, her eyes focused on the side of the teen's face. "Lila's a whole new kind of evil.", she can't help but comment. She knows what Lila is, the girl was smart and calculating, it was scary. She knew right off the bat that if Lila was capable of completely destroying Marinette and everything she was, then no doubt Lila would be able to the same to anyone else. Chloé chose her Battles more wisely. She had been trying to change as a person for a while, after being stripped of the bee miraculous, she figured she'd at least try to be a better version of herself.

"It's like...sometimes I wonder...what if I just did what Lila wanted me to do…", Marinette sighs softly, "What If I just...chose to be her friend and ignore her lies.", she spoke the things she thought.

"If you did that, than you would be lying to yourself.", Chloé said, "You aren't that kind of person, Marinette. You see something that's wrong and you act, you try to rectify it.", the heiress sighs, "I know that everything with Lila and the class has been weighing heavily on you and I know you've been dealing with so much unnecessary shit from them and now Hawkmoth.", blue eyes shine with affection, pink lips curl into a small smile. "Marinette, you'll catch a break, people like you always do."

Marinette turns her head to the side and she immediately locks eyes with the blonde and as soon as their eyes meet, Marinette feels something in her chest, she feels warmth flood her. The ache and tightness that was in her chest suddenly disappears. She finds herself suddenly put under some spell. She feels compelled to spill.

"You can always talk to me, Marinette. You aren't alone in this. I know that I haven't been the best person for the majority of the time we've known each other, but I promise you that I'm changing and that I really want to help you through this. Whatever you need, I'm here.", Chloé's words are sincere.

Marinette releases Plagg and swallows thickly, her eyes grew watery. She nods. The heiress's words mean so much to her. "I...I miss Alya sometimes.", she whispers softly. She starts to spill a little more. She feels her vision blur.

Chloé nods her head, she listens and speaks, "You two used to be so close, I didn't expect her to do the things she did."

Marinette feels her heart breaking all over again, and the tears start flowing, her lips part to release a soft whimper. She turns away from Chloé, she feels her chest tighten all over again.

Chloé sits up, quickly she adjusts her pillows against the headboard of the bed and she gets closer to the whimpering Dupain-Cheng, she wraps the teen up in her arms suddenly, pulling her up a bit, she feels Marinette sit up to curl into her chest, she opens her legs for Marinette's body to get between them. "Shh, it's okay.", she hushes the crying teen, she dips a hand into Marinette's damp messy loose hair, as the teen's head is against her chest, her back resting against the pillows.

"It's not fair. I did everything right.", Marinette sobbed, she wraps her arms around Chloé and clings to her, the left side of her face was against the heiress's chest. "I never gave them a reason to doubt me, I...was always there for them.", Marinette whimpers.

Chloé rests her chin on the top of the crying girl's head, she agrees, it wasn't fair. Marinette was a kind person, she always went out of her way for others. The Dupain-Cheng never lied, she never hurt anyone, she didn't deserve this. She sighed deeply and suddenly makes a choice, she decides that the first chance she gets, the first solid chance, she'll take Lila down and she'll make sure to give the others hell for turning on their everyday Ladybug. Alya and everyone else, were all going to come out looking like the assholes they all were. "It's going to be okay, it's going to take time, but eventually things always fall into place. People like Lila always slip up, it's only a matter of time before everyone pulls their heads out of their asses and figures out how full of shit Lila is."

Marinette breathes unevenly, her whimpers calming down.

"Nngh...help.", comes Plagg's slightly muffled whine.

Marinette and Chloe both hum and pull apart from each other to see Plagg roll out from between them.

"You were smothering me!", He complains, Plagg pouts.

Marinette blushes slightly and releases a small chuckle, "I'm sorry, Plagg.", she apologizes a little sheepishly. She had honestly forgotten about him.

Chloé smiles a little amused. "Forgot you were there for a minute.", she comments.

"RUDE.", Plagg scoffs.

Marinette smiles sheepishly. She feels better, she feels a little lighter. She sniffled softly and brings her eyes up, she meets Chloé soft gaze again, she feels her cheeks warm up. "I...I'm sorry for keeping you up.", she apologizes to Chloé now. She feels a little guilty for keeping the blonde up, for making Chloé listen to her cries and troubles.

The blonde merely shrugs, she reaches out and gently takes a hold of the side of Marinette's face, she uses her thumb to wipe away a tear, "It's fine. We're in this together."

Together. The word brings about bad memories and feelings, the last two people to tell her the phrase 'We're in this together', left her to fend for herself or just...betrayed her. She sighs softly as she breaks her gaze from Chloé's own, she looks down.

Blue eyes narrows slightly, "What's wrong?". Chloé can see the expression Marinette wore just drop immediately.

The teen brings her gaze up again, her lashes glistening with tears, "The last two people to tell me that, hurt me.", she admits and it hurts.

Chloé's eyes widened for a moment, she takes in what Marinette said, she softens her expressions and gaze and speaks, "They must not have meant it.", she says. She shifts to sit up straight, she wants Marinette to know how genuine she's being, how sincere she truly is. "Marinette, I promise, I'm here and god knows I've hurt you enough.", she brings her other hand to cup the other side of the girls face, she looks her deep into those watery Sapphire eyes, "I care about you.", she suddenly admits, "I...always have."

Marinette raises her eyebrows in what looks like surprise and shock, for a moment there's a mix of emotions that shoot across the teens face before one expression settles in. "Chloé.", she whispers softly, she wears a look of bewilderment. Chloé said she cared about her, always had. Yet, the girl treated her so poorly.

Chloé blushes and looks away for a moment, she feels a little embarrassed. Truth be told she never knew how to deal with her feelings and she ended up making an ass out of herself, she treated the girl she liked so poorly. "Let's get some sleep, yeah?", she breathes out a little nervously, cheeks burned red.

"Uh, Yeah…", Marinette nods, she shifts to give Chloé space, she feels her heart racing in her chest, she feels her face warming up.

The blonde pulled her hands back from Marinette's face and fixes her pillows, she dropped to her side, back facing the teen, she feels her body heating up, she felt her heart racing in her chest. "Good night, Marinette.", she manages to utter through her internal freaking out.

Marinette looks at Plagg and Plagg shrugs, "Uh, Y-Yeah. Good Night.", she says as she too shifts back into the position she usually sleeps in. She has a few new questions running through her mind suddenly. Chloe's words repeating themselves in her head. She sighs and silently lays on her back, she feels Plagg suddenly sit on her chest.

"Can I sleep here?", he asks.

"Yeah, just don't cataclysm me.", she jokes.

Plagg rolls his eyes.

She brings her a hand up and gently touches him, she uses the pad of her thumb to stroke the top of his head. "Good night, Plagg."

"Night, Kid, try not to snore."

"Shut up."

It's a month of Marinette adjusting, a month of nightmares, a month of sleepovers and her sneaking into Chloé's room late a night for late night cuddle sessions that turn her into putty in the blonde's arms. A month of her and Kagami building a tight bond together, a month of getting to know her 'new friends', friends Kagami recommended. A month of fighting Hawkmoth mostly on her own as Ladybug and sometimes even as Bug Noir, having used both Plagg and Tikki at once. The Dupain-Cheng is taking things slow, moving slow, she isn't quick to let the students in, despite knowing that they know the truth about Lila and the whole false accusations that were pinned on her. She's hesitant, she sticks by Chloé's side, or Kagami's side, she doesn't meet the gaze of any of her old classmates when they look her way.

Marinette is trying to move on, but she can't help but feel something tugging at her from the back of her mind.

It's been a month and a half. A month and a half since he was stripped of his miraculous, a month and a half since Ladybug and The Guardian betrayed him. He was angry of course, frustrated that they would do this to him, after everything he's done. He didn't and couldn't understand where he went wrong, why they decided to do what they did to him. He's spent the past few weeks in his thoughts, he didn't come back to school until two weeks ago, only to find the last sensible person, had switched all her classes. His anger grew. Adrien was angry and his anger only grew again when he saw the pictures of the new Black Cat surface, a girl who went by the name 'Noir', his anger could only grow more once he also saw 'Bug Noir', Ladybug wielding the ring of the Black Cat. He remembers sneering at his phone when he saw the pictures, he remembers cursing under his breath. He remembers thinking 'How's a girl going to protect Ladybug?', or 'How's Ladybug going to manage on her own', He's tried tracking Fu down, but he turned up with nothing, the man disappeared. He's also tried luring Ladybug his way, but that never worked out because he wasn't in the right places when Akuma attacks showed up. He knew he had to be patient, he knew that his moment would come, he would get his answers.

"You look like shit.", Chloé's voice suddenly pulled Adrien from his thoughts.

Adrien looked up, his expression was far from being warm, "Good morning to you too.", he mutters.

Chloé frowns and sighs, she walks away from him and walks over to her seat.

The dynamics of the entire class had gotten thrown out the window a while ago, for a time Adrien thought everything would go back to normal, he thought for sure everyone would realize how much of a liar Lila was. But none of that happened, things got worse and now that Marinette was gone, he knew things were forever screwed up. A part of him wanted to text the girl and ask what happened, he wanted to ask if she had done something to usher retaliation from their classmates. He knew that Marinette must have played a part in her own downfall. He had tried to tell her how useless it would be to stand up against Lila, he tried.

But Marinette was brash and thought she knew her 'friends'.

Jokes on her for not listening to him, Adrien thought at the time. He had been busy, too busy thinking about Ladybug to deal with any external things in his civilian life, after a time he just ignored Marinette's complaints and whines. He didn't have the time, which ended up resulting in a falling out between them.

He felt a little bad, but he tried to warn her of what would happen.

Marinette huffs as she runs to her first period class, she knows that she'll be late if she slows down for even a moment. She had unfortunately dealt with an akuma before school was to start that morning, she'd been up since 4am, trying to take down an Akuma, it took far too long and she barely handled it on her own. It certainly wasn't graceful. 4am was far too early for anyone to get akumatized. Marinette is pulled from her thoughts as she sees familiar faces ahead of her, she groans as she sees a few of her old classmates standing about outside the class. She knew they usually gathered about to chat before entering the class. She internally recoiled. She sighs and prepares to ignore them, she's ready to just run by them. But of course it's never that simple.

"Watch your step.", Alix said as she suddenly popped up and stuck her leg out, ready to trip the Dupain-Cheng.

Marinette saw it coming, with a deep frown, she jumped over Alix's foot. She ignored the gasps of surprises and murmurs. She didn't turn back to face any of them, she just continued on her way, eager to not be late to her homeroom.

'Just on time', Marinette thinks to herself as she enters her class just as the teacher is starting to do the attendance. "Morning.", she says as she speed walks to get to her chair in the back next to Kagami.

"You're just on time today, Marinette. But try to be earlier.", the teacher murmurs.

"Of course, sorry.", Marinette apologized and sat in her chair, she prepares herself to learn today's materials.

Kagami sighs and turns to her and quietly whispers. "Tough fight?", she asks. She knows about Marinette's fight against some akuma that popped up around 4 in the morning and frankly, she's a little upset that Marinette didn't come and get her for backup.

"Yeah.", The miraculous wielder answers.

"You know you could always come get me, right?", Kagami says softly. Her eyes wandered down to Marinette's lap to see Tikki and Plagg idly sitting and smiling up at her.

"Yeah, but it was far too early.", Marinette says, she leaned back in her chair a bit as she turns to her table mate.

4am was certainly very early in the morning. Marinette honestly wonders if Hawkmoth even sleeps at this point, the man was somehow always up and ready to akumatize people, it was very bothersome. Marinette knew she had an ally in both Kagami and Chloé, but she didn't want to bother them. She chose to fight most of the battles on her own.

The Tsurugi sighed, she couldn't help but grow worried about Marinette's wellbeing. She knew how determined Marinette was to carry everything by herself, she knew that the girl preferred to struggle on her own. "It doesn't matter how late or early it is, If you need help, I'm here and I'll gladly help you.", she spoke sincerely. The last thing Kagami wanted was for the ravenette to be overwhelmed in battle and hurt.

Marinette nodded slowly, she knew better than to try and argue with Kagami, the Tsurugi was certainly very stubborn. Maybe more so than her.

It's lunch time when Chloé's day as well as Marinette's day, gets a little longer.

Chloé sighed deeply, seeing her classmates all coming after Marinette quite relentlessly despite Marinette being in a totally different class now, was a little upsetting. She ignored all the rude remarks and comments everyone made about Marinette. It made her sick. She sighed deeply and turned to see Adrien wearing a scowl, the boy was clearly getting annoyed. After all, the trash talking was something that Adrien, Chloé and others that knew the truth, were getting sick and tired of listening to.

"I can't believe she ran away.", Alix merely said.

"All she had to do was apologize to Lila.", Mylene said as she crossed her arms over her chest, she frowned in dismay, she was disappointed in Marinette. She always thought the girl was kind and genuine, but clearly her jealousy over Lila getting closer to Adrien won out. At least, she thought.

Alya merely sat silently next to Nino, her scowl rivaling Adrien's own.

While the girls started trash talking Marinette, Kim felt his patience starting to run thin, he felt anger clawing in his chest. He was no coward, yet he had opted to hide behind feigned ignorance so as to not be targeted by Lila and her lackeys. But there was only so much he was capable of swallowing and keeping down. His fist balled up tightly as he heard his table mate, Alix, laugh about Marinette being a complete 'wuss'.

His temper tipped.

"ENOUGH!", Kim slammed his hand on his hand onto his table and shot up from his chair.

Everyone in the class was startled, they all looked at him in shock at his outburst.

"For fuck sake!", Kim cursed as he turned to Alix, "Leave the fucking girl alone!", He yelled, his face red with anger and rage, his heart racing in his chest, "She's gone! Enough!", he threw his arms up. He hated it, hated how everyone kept kicking the poor girl down despite already taking her down.

Ivan, Nino and Max shot up from their chairs.

"Chill out dude!", Nino yelled.

Alya and Adrien both looked at each other and got up from their chairs, Alya grabbed one of Nino's arms.

"Nino.", Alya spoke in a warning tone.

Juleka and Rose both swallowed thickly, both felt dread come over them.

Chloé had stood up and turned back, she felt surprise washing over her, someone stood up for Marinette? It was almost unreal.

Kim turned back and glared at Alya and Nino, "You two should feel ashamed of yourselves! Especially you Alya! You were her best friend!", Kim stepped towards Nino and Alya, he pointed a stiff finger accusingly at the brunette. "You fucked her over! You let this happen to her!", his voice only rose. All his pent up anger and guilt just spilled over. He saw through Lila's bullshit, why couldn't Alya?

Nino felt threatened by Kim's tone towards his girlfriend, and he reacted accordingly. He cocked an arm back and suddenly threw a punch. The class erupted in gasps and the sound of chairs harshly moving as students stood up to ensure they would be out of the way of what they knew would be a brawl.

Kim moved away before he could get hit in the face, stepping back, "You-!", he made to engage the boy in a fight, but just as he moved, arms wrapped around him from behind, holding him.

"Stop.", Chloé suddenly said as she pressed herself behind Kim, her arms wrapped tightly around the boy, a part of her knowing that her intervention would finally mark what side she was taking in this whole matter. "Don't.", she said as she stepped back to pull him away slightly.

It wouldn't just be Kim and Chloé that would be seen as being on the same side, more would finally make themselves known, seeing this an opportunity to draw a line in the sand that would forever change the class and friendships that were once thought to be unbreakable.

"Guys, Guys.", Lila suddenly piped up, she got up from the chair beside Adrien, "There's no need to let Marinette divide us any further.", she said with tears in her eyes, she was playing her usual victim card, she was ready to blame Marinette. "She's ruining us.", Lila said, faking a soft whimper. She then promptly leaned into Adrien's side and clung to his arm suddenly.

Kim's anger was only fueled further. "You're ruining us!", he roared furiously. Turned towards the brunette, Chloé still clinging to him.

"Cry me a river, bitch.", Chloé glared at Lila and backed Kim, her hands clutching the boys shirt tightly, her nails hurt.

Alya gasped and prepared herself to protect Lila. She was sick of Lila being targeted, she wouldn't let Marinette do it, so she definitely wasn't about to let Kim and Chloé put the girl down. "If anyone's a bitch here, it's you, Chloé!", Alya countered, her voice raising.

Adrien cringed and growled as he watched the class starting to tear into each other, he could see that they finally hit rock bottom. Lila's grip on his arm annoyed him, he felt his patience finally disappear, he could handle Chloé smothering him and clinging to him, but any other girl was just that, another girl. Personally, he wanted to stay out of it, but it appeared that he had no choice but to pick a side, and he chose to side with Chloé, as annoying and clingy as she was, she was all he truly had and before his mother disappeared, she told him to take care of her and love her, because she was like his sister. He slammed his hands on his desk. "Leave Chloé alone, Alya!", Adrien yelled at Alya now.

More gasps filled the room, Chloé tensed against Kim.

Surprise took over Nino's face, he turned to look at Adrien, "Bro!?", he gasped.

Lila turned to Adrien with shock on her face. Clearly not believing that the blonde sided with Chloé. But deep down she kinda figured that if push came to shove, the boy would choose Chloé, after all, even Gabriel warned her to not mess with Chloé directly.

"Get off me, Lila. I'm asking nicely.", Adrien took a dark tone, he turned to Lila and glared at her, further shocking the class.

Juleka frowned deeply. she looked on, she knew that this was the time to choose a side. She turned to Rose. "Rose?"

Rose turned to Juleka with a watery face and nodded. "We're on Mari's side.", She softly spoke.

Juleka nodded.

Alya returned Adrien's glare, "Chloé's being a bitch and you're yelling at me and being a dick to Lila!", she yelled at the blonde.

Lila grimaced and pulled away from Adrien. Backing away.

"Yeah, what the fuck, Agreste.", Alix piped up.

Ivan growled, he looked between his friends arguing.

Mylene intervened. "You're being a jerk Adrien, what's gotten into you."

Chloé growled and turned to Mylene, "Oh shut the fuck up, Mylene.", she said in Adrien's defense.

"Well, well, well. Looks like my side project has pushed her playthings too far.", Hawkmoth chuckled darkly, he could feel the anger and rage brewing.

"Adrien's in the class, sir."

"He'll be fine, He's on the same side as my target, he wont be in any immediate danger.", he sighed as he reached out to a butterfly and evilized it. "Go my little akuma, Evilize the angriest among those brats."

"Leave Mylene alone!", Ivan finally got involved. He stepped in front of Mylene.

It was all back and forth.

"Shut up, Ivan!", Kim growled, turning his body towards Ivan.

"Come make me, Asshole!", Ivan yelled.

Adrien sneered and suddenly grabbed a chair and threw it across the room to get everyone's attention. It worked. "ENOUGH!", he yelled. Frustration and anger came over him, he didn't want to be apart of this, he had stuff of his own to deal with, but screw it all at this point, "This has gone on long enough, I'm sick of it, sick of hearing all this crap!", Adrien yelled, the class falling silent, everyone was listening for once. All eyes were on him. "Don't drag Chloé into this.", he spoke roughly in a warning tone as if he was warning the entire class, he then looked at Alix, "I heard what you've been doing to Marinette and frankly I'm pretty sure she can kick your ass if she really wanted to, why she hasn't, Is beyond me.", Adrien was sure Marinette was capable, he had witnessed the girl use some form of martial arts against a boy that was under Hawkmoth's Akuma's influence, he also couldn't help but notice how fit Marinette was.

Alix grimaced.

Chloé couldn't help but chime in, she knew that Marinette was capable, she was absolutely certain. "Of course she can, she can probably body all of us, one on one.", the heiress practically snorted.

Adrien continued, "You all call her the bully, yet here you all are, doing the very things Marinette was accused of doing. How hypocritical. All of you are no better.", he then turns to Lila, he glares at her. "I hope you're happy.", he says, he then turns to collect his things, getting ready to just leave, "and I honestly hope you all choke on your apologies after this, when you all wake up and realize. Marinette will certainly never want to talk to any of you again anyways.", he sighs deeply, he remembers his last conversation with Marinette, the girl was furious with him, so furious in fact, she told him to choke on his apology and words and then promptly said 'Fuck you' before pushing past him and leaving him to stand alone in the hallway. He knew then that Marinette and him were definitely not going to make up.

"Us, apologize?", Mylene yelled from behind Ivan.

"Yeah.", Juleka suddenly spoke up, causing everyone to bring their attention to her and Rose.

"You've all been so mean...cruel even. Marinette's done nothing but support us and be there for us, you all just turned on her-", Rose spoke but was quickly cut off.

"Mean!?", Alya yelled, she couldn't believe how many of their friends Marinette had brainwashed. It was infuriating. "Marinette was the one that started being mean and cruel! She fucking got jealous of Lila.", the brunette cursed and said out, she scoffed and glared at Chloé, Kim, Juleka, Rose and Adrien.

Adrien stares at Alya, it starts to finally set in. He starts to think about Ladybug's betrayal, how he had been abandoned by the last person he ever thought would leave him. "Fuck.", he curses and turns around to face Alya and Nino, it's karma, he thinks. He left Marinette, and Ladybug left him. He had been selfish and self centered. Marinette didn't deserve this and in all honesty, he should choke on his apology.

Lila watches a few feet away from Adrien, she sees that this ruckus may just be the beginning of the end of her reign over the class. Adrien finally stepped in. She balls her fists up and grabs at whatever she can to derail him. "I know you're just trying to protect your girlfriend, Adrien, but Marinette isn't as nice a person as you thought she was."

Lila steps far passed the line of return.

Adrien turns to Lila with wide eyes, he knows what this means, what this is. Lila was trying to throw him under the bus.

Everyone gasps.

"For fuck sake.", Alix curses, "She lets you into her pants, of course you're sticking up for her."

Adrien frowns heavily.

Alya scoffs, Alix's point makes sense. She wants to say something, but before she could, everything suddenly takes another turn.

Chloé sees that Adrien was about to get verbally attacked by the class, she knows it, she can see it on everyone's face, so she speaks up before any insults get hurled Adriens way. "Liar!", she let's go of Kim and steps past him towards Lila, she points her finger at Lila and says that first thing that pops up in her head, "Marinette's mine!", a lie for a lie, Chloé mentally reasons with herself through her blush, deep down she knows that problems may come from this, she knew she had to let Marinette know of this before anyone else did. "If she's anyone's girlfriend, she's mine.", Chloé spoke in her 'matter of fact' tone, arms crossed over her chest when she finished speaking, she held her head up high. She was determined to be as genuine as possible.

Adrien flinches for a moment but relaxes, Chloé saved him. "Marinette and Chloé are together.", he says as he slams a hand on his table. He goes with what Chloé said. "Wanna try to throw another lie?", he says. He knows that Chloé may have spoken a lie herself, but at the rate everyone was buying lies in this class, who would notice?

While Adrien corners Lila, Alya is frozen in shock at the news of Chloé and Marinette being together, she's at a loss for words. Alix's jaw practically dropped, Mylene is flabbergasted, Sabrina whom was trying to just stay out everything after her falling out with Chloé is completely baffled. Nino and the other boys are all processing the news.

Kim merely glares at Lila, he was sick of her and her lies, she ruined everything, the entire class came down on each other, people that knew each other for so long, all fighting among themselves. He hit his boiling point.

And maybe the class did too.

And suddenly everything went black.

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