"BEEEEEEPP!" The shrill song of the alarm clock brough 24 year-old Adrien Agreste back to the harsh reality of life. By harsh he meant terrible. Sometimes life got so bad he just wanted to turn his back to it all. Sometimes he just wanted to curl up in a hole and pretend that things were different. Remember how life used to be before it took a turn for the worse. Right now, his life was worthless. Absolutely worthless. Everything worth living for in his life was gone. Love, family. The things in life that kept him going. But, those thing were slowly disappearing: First his mom, then his dad, and then…...Ladybug. He still remembered it. The night it all went down. The night he lost two of the most important people in his life. The night his life shattered. The last time he had seen her….

"Eurgh!" Chat let out a yelp as Lady Wifi sent a pause button flying his way. The minute he rolled out of the way though, he was assaulted by a blast of guitar music. Immediately he was sent flying backwards. It was like the Puppeteer incident but ten times-no, one hundred times who had been akumatized was now reakumatized. If you asked Chat for his input on the battle then he would say this: It was the final showdown. While it seemed crazy that's what Chat thought. After all guess who was here. I'll give you three guesses. Well if you said Hawkmoth than your right. Chat personally didn't know what to think. Part of him was scared while the other parts of him were excited, relieved, and a little glad. He wondered what Ladybug though of all this. Did she feel glad to? Penny for her thoughts.

Chat turned to see Ladybug and Antibug fighting. Both girls were literally at each others necks. Their facial expressions were exactly the same: Pure frustration. They were both pretty evenly matched though, and neither of them seemed to be girls seemed to blow their tops at the exact same time. Together they called for their charms.

In seconds a black and red gun with a bayonet attached to it fell into AntiBug's outstretched hands. Mere second later a tub of foamy clay play do stuff fell into Ladybug's lap.

Antibug smirked, "You think you can defeat me with a children's toy? Ha! This should be Child's Play."

"Hehe. I think your even worse than Chat."

"Hey," Chat said, acting offended from where he was fighting Darkblade.

Antibug rolled her eyes.

"Whatever. This is a waste of my time. I should be doing something that's actually important and hard. This is seriously a waste. I can't believe you guys seriously call yourselves heroes."

Antibug then brought her anti charm object up to her shoulder. She aimed it at Ladybug. Ladybug jumped out of the way and frantically looked around her.

Chat never knew what happened after Ladybug called her Luck Charm, but he did know that something magical happened. Something simply.. Miraculous.

Ladybug leaped at Antibug, popping of the top of the tub of clay stuff. Antibug raised he weapon, prepared to shoot and then…

"Squirsh." Antibug looked at Ladybug. Then down at her weapon.

Somehow, using inhuman speed, Ladybug had managed to stick Antibug's entire weapon with her clay charm stuff.

"ERHG!" Why you little."

Antibug lunged at Ladybug before she was met with a faceful of clay.

"AHH!" My hair, my makeup! It's all ruined." Antibug was barely heard through the clay but you were able to make out what she was saying if you tried. (But, no one really did.)

That's how it went for the whole fight. Ladybug and Chat took down a few more victims; Darkblade, Guitar Villain, Princess Fragrance, and Reflekta. The more people they took down though, the more they struggled to fight. Ladybug's accuracy with her yo-yo was getting worse and worse as the minutes drew on. Chat felt himself getting weaker and weaker. He was so tired. He stumbled over to Ladybug and grabbed her hand as they ran from Horrificator.

"W-were get-getting too weak to-too fast." Ladybug panted.

Chat barely managed to nod his head in feeble agreement.

"If we take down Hawkmoth, won't all of the others go away?"

"Yeah, great idea, Mon Minou."

Chat gave Ladybug what he hoped was a daring, dashing, Debonaire smile. Ladybug rolled her eyes, but gave him a smile anyway.

"Let's go," Ladybug said before gracefully leaping off of the rooftop. Hiding her fatigue perfectly.

Chat smiled and then ran after her.

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Ladybug sat on the ground. She was surrounded by blood. There was a body next to her.

"Hawkmoth," She managed to choke out the man's name.

The man smiled at her.

"Tell my son I love him."

Purple shone from the brooch on his chest. Then he was encased in light and then…..

The police took away the body of the former fashion leader. Gabriel Agreste.

Before you could even say 'Miraculous' Ladybug was out of there.

That was the last time Adrien had seen Ladybug, but he remembered it like it was yesterday.

He still remembered the shock when he saw who Hawkmoth was. Then the pain of losing his father.

He still remembered the pitying looks of people all around him when he went to school or when he was just walking the streets of Paris.

He still remembered how he felt when Ladybug didn't to patrol the day after. Or the next. Or any of the days after that. She just...disappeared. Disappeared like everyone else.

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Marinette knew what she had done was wrong. Selfish. Stupid. She regretted it still. Seven years later and still, she couldn't forget it. After the defeat of Hawkmoth, she had…. Left. She didn't think she could do it. She couldn't face Adrien knowing that she had killed his father. Eve though it had been Ladybug, not Marinette, she still just couldn't. How could she be able to just look him in the eye and act like nothing was wrong when she had killed his father. The only family he had left. She was a murderer. So, she had selfishly left Paris. She had left Paris and Chat to fend for themselves. They were better off without her.

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