Chapter 15: Sin Chapter by beccalovesyuge
Summary:
Prompt: Sin
"Forgive me, Father…" Her words tumbled passed her trembling lips. "For I have sinned…"
Part of the Favoritism AU
Order of chapters:
5-Bridal Style
6-Kitty Kisses
8- Bad Idea
12-Hostage
13- Catnip
14- Marinette and Plagg
15- Sin
3-Can I pick, Princess?
Notes:
Just one more part to this storyline and it'll be complete! Once I finish the rest of the MariChat prompts, I'll be working through Ladrien June and possibly Ladynoir July!
Also, I had originally planned for this prompt to be Chat/Adrien centric in how he'd betrayed his father/dishonored him, but this way flowed better with the storyline.
"Really good advice!" Marinette snapped back at the little god. Adrien and Gabriel were both between her and the door. She absolutely could not trust Gabriel and she wasn't sure what the magic had done to Adrien. He looked like her kitty and he was still the same boy, but she knew firsthand how akumas could change a person. She wanted to believe he wouldn't hurt her…
But the doubt was there.
Especially when this new Chat, this Chat Blanc, fully turned to face her. Her vision began to tunnel in on the approaching victim as her body slowly went numb in his chemical stare. She couldn't hear Tikki's pleas for her transform nor Plagg's cries towards his own charge. She didn't see Hawkmoth's wicked smirk as he finally found his way to his feet. Her breathing went shallow and she felt like his prey.
She was going to die.
Her breathing erupted from her chest painfully in a sob as the girl sank to her knees. Chat was going to kill her and she couldn't even find the strength to transform, to save herself. "Forgive me, Father…" Her words tumbled passed her trembling lips. "For I have sinned…"
She'd stolen. She's lied. She's hurt Chat Noir over and over again. It figured he would be the one to end it for her. After all, what chance had she ever stood the moment Hawkmoth's identity had been exposed? No matter how terribly Gabriel had treated him, he was still Adrien's father. And Adrien had always wanted to make his father proud.
He paused before her and she squeezed her eyes shut. Marinette was too much of a coward to watch him raise his hand for the final strike. Her throat constricted and she let out a few guttural words toward her partner. "I'm sorry…Adrien…I never…wanted…hurt you…"
The cool leather encasing his hand contacted her cheek. She flinched as she assumed he would take her earrings from her first. "Good, my son. Take her Miraculous!" Hawkmoth cooed from across the room.
When his hand finally moved, it was not towards her ear. His knuckles skirted up and down her cheek in a soft, cool caress. Bluebell eyes snapped open to meet toxin purple and she gasped. He kneeled before her with eyes so soft, so full of love. It was the same look Chat Noir had given her hundreds of times of the years.
Her kitty was still in there. And he was fighting.
Marinette's trembling stopped as she reached her own hand up to cover his, to hold it closer to her. "Kitty," she breathed.
Chat Blanc's hand dropped abruptly from her face to grab tightly around her waist. She yelped upon colliding with his firm body; her arms instinctively encircling her partner. She peered up at him in confusion, but his gaze was locked on the kwamis above them. She heard Tikki begin to protest before she saw Plagg drag her away from their charges and materializing through the wall in a flash of sparkles. Marinette considered it a blessing that the kwamis were away from the danger Hawkmoth presented.
Chat Blanc's free hand lifted to touch the wall behind Marinette. She didn't know what other trap doors existed in this mansion, so she merely assumed he was going to open another one. Her assumption was proved false when Hawkmoth shouted for Adrien to stop.
Marinette clutched Adrien tighter as he called upon his power, his curse. The Cataclysm spread across the walls like a virus. The world shifted and dropped around her and she squeezed her eyes shut once more; a scream ripping from her throat as she felt them plummet.