That night Mari just finished preforming when she thought about what her mother told her.
"Mari you still have time. If you still love Adrien than go and tell him. Do your best to get Adrien back."
At that moment there was a knock on her dressing room door. "Come in." Adrien walked in and she looked over at him. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to see the play you did a good job." Adrien replied.
"Thank you. Do you not care about the kiss anymore?" Mari asked.
"I learned to understand that it's only acting plus it's the only part in the play that you do wrong on." Adrien replied.
"That's not true I learned how to kiss." Mari stated.
"Yes I know because I taught you." Adrien replied. "I was the one to give you your first kisses remember?" Adrien was very close to Mari now. "If you want I can remind you." Adrien lifts her chin gently and before Mari knew it Adrien was kissing her passionately and she was kissing back as passionate.
After a while Mari broke the kiss and moved away from him. "Y-you should go now. Why are you doing this are you making fun of me?"
"No I just came to talk to you." Adrien replied.
At that moment Luka walked in. "What are you doing here Adrien?"
Ciel went over to Roland who went to the house to see Roxie. "What are you doing in my house? No one invited you here."
"I already told your maid that I'm here to see Roxie." Roland replied.
"And you were already told that Roxie doesn't want to see or talk to you." Ciel stated. "So forget about her and stop insisting."
"Don't even think about that Roxie won't get rid of me so easily." Roland replied sitting down on a chair. "She has a son of mine."
"Roxie isn't alone. She has people to protect her starting with my husband and me. I don't understand why you are claiming something you rejected at first. Now stand up because no one told you that you could sit down." Roland stood up. "You are going to push away your selfishness and leave Roxie alone. Your attitude is fake and your words too. You are only trying to make Roxie's life miserable but you won't achieve it because we are a lot on her side who will protect her from people like you. Now do me the favor to leave." Roland walked away.
"I have nothing to explain to you." Adrien replied.
"Adrien came to see the play." Mari stated.
"The profermance ended when it ends everyone leaves." Luka replied. "And the actress doesn't receive certain types of visitors."
"Let's just go Luka." Mari grabs a banquet of roses that was given to her before dragging Luka away.
Adrien thought about the kiss they shared and smiled.
Kagami was playing the piano in the living room when Adrien walked in. She stopped playing and went over to him. "How did it go did you see Mari at the theater?"
"Yes and there's a bit of an advance. I knocked on her dressing room door she said to come in from the inside so I walked in. We exchanged some words I kissed her and she kissed back. Mari responded to my love with the same passion as me. I don't even think Mari has kissed me like that before. Sadly Luka came after that." Adrien replied.
"I understand that you let him in not knowing that it was him at first but why did you let him stay?" Luka asked Mari as they walked in Mari's house.
"H-he came t-to congratulate m-me for t-the play a-and you c-came in w-when I j-just told h-him to l-leave." Mari replied nervously.
"Why are you acting nervous Mari? Are you not telling me the truth?" Luka asked.
"Why would I lie to you Luka? You just keep on asking me the same thing and I have nothing else to tell you." Mari replied. "I'm just tired it's not easy proferming than with everything that went on with you and Adrien. Can you let me rest?"
"What?...Mari all I want is to defend you." Luka was about to kiss her.
"Luka obviously got mad and with a serious tone he asked me what I was doing there. Mari dragged him away before a fight could start." Adrien stated. "I'm just happy about what happened tonight. That kiss told me a lot more than what her words could tell me. I know that Mari still loves me."
"Congratulations now it's my turn to see if I get any progress with Luka." Kagami replied.
Mari moved back. "I'm sorry but I'm very tired." Luka nodded and walked away. "I can't kiss Luka after the kiss I had with Adrien..."
She thinks about the kiss at the same time Adrien was thinking about the kiss in his room.
The next day Lila showed Isabella a check that Tom gave her. "Did he really give you that much money?" Isabella asked surprised. "What did you tell him so he would give you so much money?"
"I told him that I was very altered that I needed a vacation." Lila replied. "We need to be out from Paris when Mari's 'acident' happens so we aren't suspected of. Once we come back I'll keep my place in the Dupain mansion and no one will be in our path again."
"Another wedding?!" Luka exclaimed to Mari. "No more weddings. I'm tired of so many weddings. We aren't going."
"I can't miss the wedding of Alya and Nino." Mari replied.
"That's what you always say." Luka stated.
"Well it's always true. I know Nino since we were kids and Alya has been my best friend since I met her almost two years ago." Mari replied.
"I'm tired of seeing them Adrien and Kagami they are most likely going to be at that wedding." Luka stated.
"I doubt it Nino and Alya are my friends from the neighborhood plus I don't care if they're there." Mari replied.
"Well I do if you want to go fine but you'll go alone." With that Luka walked away.
"That jerk fine I'll go alone." Mari quickly got ready since it was late. When she got to the church the ceremony was already half way done. She took a seat on the front row of Alya's side. When she looked to the side she saw Adrien and Kagami on Nino's side Kagami saw her looking at them and she put her head on Adrien's shoulder seeing that Mari quickly looked away afterwards.
The party was at the apartment Nino and Alya brought. Seeing Mari sitting alone Kagami went over to her and sat on the chair next to her. "Hi Mari we seen each other in other places but we never talked so I decided to come see you."
"Why so I can congratulate you for your future wedding? Well congratulations your happiness wouldn't have been possible without me." Mari replied. "You know that I gave Adrien up to give him to you. You were a sick woman you needed him more than I did and I couldn't take him from you."
"You thought that I couldn't win him over on my own?" Kagami asked.
"Well now you can but be careful because if I want to I can take him away from you." Mari replied.
"I dare you to try." Kagami stated.
"Look Kagami it's not nice to mess with people's feelings and I won't do that. I won't take what I gave enjoy Adrien." Mari stood up and left the party. Kagami gestured Adrien to follow her. Mari just got to her house when Adrien arrived. "Did you follow me from the party?"
"I saw you leaving Nino's house without saying goodbye to anyone so I decided to come see if you were okay." Adrien replied.
"I'm fine now go back to the party your family is there." Mari stated.
"Well part of my family is here too." Adrien said gesturing to Adrienne who was playing with her toys in the ground since Fu went to make dinner once Mari arrived.
Luka walked in at that moment. "What's the meaning of this Mari?"
"Why are you asking her? You should ask me." Adrien said sternly.
"Please don't fight guys." Mari begged.
They didn't listen to her they soon started arguing and Mari was in the middle of them stopping them from getting into a fight and begged them to stop. Seeing the two grown men fighting Adrienne started crying in fear calling Mari to go over to her.
"Stop guys you're scaring Adrienne!" Mari picked Adrienne up and calmed her down before glaring at the two men. "I begged you guys to stop but you wouldn't listen to me. Listen to me now I don't belong to any of you two and I won't marry neither of the two forget that I even exist both of you now leave!" The two left. Once Mari calmed down she called Roland. "Roland I'm just calling you to let you know that I'm not quitting to be an actress I'll continue acting for the rest of my life. I'm not getting married anymore."
"Once Mari dies we will enjoy the money of the Dupain. Very soon it will happen and we'll be far away when it does. I won't be suspected at all the one that will be blamed and jailed will be the actor that uses the gun." Lila told Isabella over the phone. "Poor street rat she doesn't know that death is ahead of her."
The next day Mari and Kim were looking at the script before the rehearsal would start. "Did you see what the press says about us?" Kim asked and Mari shook her head no. "That we have a romance between us."
"Gzz the press makes up anything I hope your wife doesn't believe it." Mari replied.
"No she understands she's an actress too." Kim replied.
Roland called them to the stage and they got on starting the rehearsal.
Kagami walked in Adrien's study. "Wish me luck Adrien. I'm going to go see Luka or Viperion like many call him. You told me to try and get progress with him after what happened with Mari last night and I'll do it."
"I believe that Luka needs you right now." Adrien replied. "I wish you luck to achieve something that became impossible for me. Tell me when you come back to know how it went." Kagami nodded and walked away. "If only Mari was here by my side right now. Me Mari Maya and Adrienne united like a family."
"It's weird that I'm playing as a murderer be careful Mari I might actually kill you." Kim said jokingly.
Mari laughed. "Yea right and than a whole scandal is going to be made. The press might even say it was because of jealousy since there's a supposedly romance between us."
"Okay now let's start for real." Roland said sitting on the front row with Ana next to him.
Audrey walked in Adrien's study. "Adrien I plan to go to Spain and since Maya is going to be on break soon I'll like to take her with me. I don't think she's safe with Kagami here."
"I want to be with my daughter and believe me Audrey she's safe with me." Adrien replied.
"I'm sure she's faking on being cued but fine you're the one that rules this house." With that Audrey walked away.
There was a knock on Luka's door and when he opened it he saw Kagami standing there. "Why are you after me?" Luka asked.
"If you really want to know I'm after you because I love you." Kagami replied.
"Don't you feel peace without Lila here?" Sabine asked Tom as they were having lunch. "Without Lila here the sence of tension Is gone. As she was saying goodbye to me last night I felt her being mysterious. I assure you she's planning something with this trip."
"Hopefully the street rat has the good fortune to die." Lila told Isabella as they were at the pool in their hotel at Miami.
"When do you think that it will happen?" Isabella asked.
"They should be rehearsaling right now so it should happen at any moment." Lila replied with a smirk.
"Adrien doesn't want me to defend my daughter. He insists that she killed a man that she was supposedly having an affair with and that she tried to kill her best friend Sabrina in Spain...but I don't believe him." Audrey mumbled to herself.
"My heart only belongs to you Luka." Kagami continued.
"What game are you playing Kagami you're going to marry Adrien." Luka stated. "You even gave me an invitation to the wedding."
"That invitation was fake I knew that you weren't going to open it. I only did that to make you be jealous. There's nothing between Adrien and I." Kagami replied. "Well only friendship his true love is Mari and my true love is you."
"Please leave Kagami." Luka said sternly. "You destroyed me even though I loved you I had to escape from you."
"That was when I was sick. What made you escape from me doesn't exist anymore." Kagami replied. "Even as Kagami I still remembered you. That's why I came to Paris to look for you and even now I'm looking for what I came for. You know me better than anyone."
"Just leave me alone Kagami I need to think." Kagami nodded and walked away.
After rehearsaling a scene in the first Act Kim and Mari were about to rehearsal the scene that Mari gets shot so Kim grabs the gun and moves it up and down feeling that it was heavy. "It seems like this gun is loaded."
"Yes with fake bullets. Just shoot when it's time to kill Mari's character." Roland replied.
Kim nodded and they started with the scene. Mari pretended to run up some stairs as Kim hit the trigger three times. Gun shots were heard before Mari collapsed to the ground.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were coming here?" Roxie asked Edward as they were having lunch.
"I thought about it last minute plus I think that it was time that we talk about our wedding." Edward replied. "I don't want to wait any longer."
Roxie sighs looking away. "I can't marry you anymore Edward."
"Why can't you marry me?" Edward asked surprised.
"Roland forbids me to marry you. He threatened me to take Eddie away from me if I married you." Roxie replied.
"He was capable enough to scare you with that?" Edward asked furiously. "He won't be able to do it the law will be in your part. You are a decent woman who deserves to be respected and the best mother a child could have. We'll fight if we have to but I doubt it after I talk to him." With that Edward walked away.
"That was great Mari now get up and do it again." Roland said but Mari didn't get up. "Mari stop playing around get up."
Kim dropped the gun and run to her he saw blood coming out from Mari's right arm and Ana saw it too. "It's blood!" Ana exclaimed.
"No no no I killed her! I killed her!" Kim exclaimed in a panic. "I killed Violent Ladybug!"
Roland and Ana ran to the stage and checked Mari as Ana started tearing up in nerves. What they didn't know was that Adrienne was crying nonstop feeling that something was wrong and Fu couldn't find a way to calm her down.
Kim started to have a panic attack and Ana had to calm him down. "She's only hurt in the arm." Roland said but as he moved her gently blood was seen on her head from the left side. "...she's hurt in the head to."
Roland quickly checked the gun and it had real bullets. "See it has real bullets!" Kim exclaimed.
"It can't be I put the fake bullets myself!" Ana stated. "We need to call an ambulance with all our panicking we haven't called one."
The ambulance soon came and as they were taking Mari away the press suddenly came and started taking pictures and asked questions Ana spoke trying to push them away so Mari could be taken away.
Kim was still panicking. "Calm down Kim Mari's still alive." Roland stated. "I'll go to the hospital with her and I'll tell you what happens."
"We can go in my car I brought it." Kim replied.
"Okay but I'll drive with you driving in this state we'll get in a car crash." Roland stated.
Mari was taken to be operated to take out the bullets it was successful but Mari was very delicated so she was taken to a room in the ER to be watched constantly.
Roland and Kim were waiting in the waiting room as the doctor walked over to them. "Are you two family of the patient?"
"No but we would like to know how she got out from the operation." Kim replied.
"From the operation good but everything that could be done was done." The doctor stated. "At the moment she's alive but her state is delicated. You should let her family know as soon as possible."
Edward walked in the theater wanting to talk to Roland when he saw Ana about to leave. "Hi I want to see Roland Rople."
"He's not here he's at the hospital." Ana replied in tears. "An accident happened and Violent Ladybug got injured."
"Mari was injured?!" Edward asked in shock. "How did that happen?"
"There's a scene where her character supposedly gets shot and somehow the gun used had real bullets." Ana replied.
Roland walked in the apartment to see Fu talking to Marlena. "Fu I'm here to tell you that Mari...got shot and is in the hospital very delicated. You need to come I'll take you."
"What!?" Fu exclaimed in a panic and Marlena covered her mouth in shock.
Edward quickly went to Adrien's study. "Adrien I went to the theater to talk to Roland to tell him to leave Roxie alone when his assistant told me that...it seems in today's rehearsal an actor had to shoot Mari's character...somehow the gun had real bullets and Mari got hurt."
"Hurt?! Who did it? Is she dying?" Adrien asked in a panic standing up from his seat. "Where is she!?"
"Calm down I'll take you." Edward replied.
Adrien bursted into the hospital and was about to go to the ER when a nurse stopped him. "You can't go in there."
"Miss I'm a doctor." Adrien shows her his patch and she let's him in.
Adrien enters Mari's room and he sees that she had bandages on her right arm and head covering her left eye. Her heart beat was slow too. Adrien holds her left hand and buries his head on the bed bursting into tears. Mari was dying...
