Here's the fall-out. Because I decided to pity poor Lila… But I'm not at point yet.
by lord Martiya
02: Reputations
It had to be the two worse days in her life, Lila thought. Finally the Foreign Ministry had settled her parents down, at least for a while, and, trying to finally get some friends for once before they were moved somewhere else, she had passed herself as a friend of some celebrities... And she had been exposed in the most embarrassing manner one could have imagined, and before one of the few decent boys she had ever met.
And as the universe apparently hated her, Ladybug was a friend, or at least a friendly acquaintance, with the owner of the Ladyblog, enough to inform her, and as people had heard Cesare demand an explanation she was the school's pariah! A liar, no matter what. As she forced herself to ignore the jeers and hid in the bathroom she looked at her new necklace, the one she bought because it looked like a Miraculous, she distractely noticed a flutter of purple-and then she felt the voice.
"Volpina! I am Papillon and I'm gifting you the power of illusion."
"Go away, I was already embarrassed enough." she said.
"But-"
"Ascoltami bene, sottospecie di cravatta maligna! Sono già nella merda per conto mio, e non ho voglia di farmi linciare per colpa tua! LASCIAMI SOLA!"
"Nope! Not going through that again! Nope!"
Lila saw the corrupted butterfly fly out of her necklace-and realized she had done it. She had something to be admired for herself! She was the first to resist Akumatization! And a known glory-seeking liar. Nobody would ever believe her.
Lila screamed in rage. Then the bathroom's door opened, and Ladybug and Chat Noir barged in. Ladybug and Chat Noir.
"No Akuma?" Ladybug said, puzzled. "Chat, where are you going?"
"Away from the girls' bathroom?" Chat Noir said.
"Oh. OK. Oh, Lila, sorry about the situation, I mean, I didn't think it-"
"Two seconds." Lila said. "You couldn't come in just two seconds earlier, couldn't you?"
Ladybug was about to ask what she meant-then she saw Lila's somewhat crazy look, and decided discretion was the better part of valor.
Notes
Lila's speech to Papillon translates as "Listen up, sorry excuse for an evil tie! I'm already in deep shit by myself, and don't want to get lynched because of you! LEAVE ME ALONE!" As for why Lila called him an "evil tie"... There's a reason, and for now I'm not telling!
If you want to know what happened for our supervillain to react that way, I suggest you read quicksilversquared's awesome Sleepy Supervillainry (referenced with permission).
