A/N: Next Chapter this time doing the lady Wi-Fi episode. Hope you like it! Please leave a review!

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In Which I Defend Chloé and then punished for it.

"No, don't hurt them!"

"Then tell us where it is!"

"No, please don't!"

"I don't know what your talking about"

"Oh really?"

"NO!"

"You will pay for what you've done tonight!"

I woke up in a cold sweat in the darkened glow of my room. The swirling images of my parents last moments turning over and over in my head.

Calm down, calm down, you don't want Hawk Moth to sense this calm down. I lay in my bed and focused desperately on my breathing trying to get my heart rate under control.

After a few more moments, my heart rate slowed and I was a lot calmer then I had been.

But I didn't want to sleep yet, so instead I went to my desk and opened a drawer and pulled out a picture.

It was a picture of my mom and dad, but not just any picture, this picture was special.

Mom was in her ladybug outfit her blue eyes shone brightly. Her long hair was in loose pigtails and she was positioned away from her partner, only her hand reaching back.

Cat Noir held her hand, kneeling, head bent low as though to kiss her hand. His suit was different than that of the current chat noir. For once his boots were heels and thigh highs. His tail was longer, his ears were longer and his belt wrapped around his waist twice creating a 'X' shape in front. His hair was longer and messier then this Chat Noirs had ever been.
I had specifically had asked to take a picture of them like that. I wanted them to give me a pose of what their relationship had been back in the beginning.

I put the photo back and pulled out another this time of Ladybug leaning in Cat Noir's chest with Cat Noir's arms wrapped around Ladybug.
The third however was my favorite or at least it had been. It was me wearing a black mask with red lenses my hair tied back in black bow, a black long-sleeved shirt and leather gloves with black leggings adorned my body and my arms were crossed in front of my chest a smirk on my face.

My mother had abhorred the costume, stating I had looked to scary, to which my dad and I replied that it was exactly the point.

"You will pay for what you've done tonight!"

I dropped the photo back into the drawer and closed it and turned breathing deeply.

Damn.

It was Chat Noir's turn to patrol that night, but he couldn't help but watch his cousin as she went through another emotional break down.
At this rate, she's going to be the next Akuma victim. Chat Noir thought to himself.

A part of him wanted to knock on her window and go to her and hold her until she calmed down. Like she had done for him when his mother disappeared. The other part begged him to leave; that there were other parts of Paris that needed his help that night, not just the young girl that was obviously in such distress.

He watched as she stood again and looked toward the window. She pulled out another drawer and took out a cylinder. She opened it carefully before placing it delicately on the windowsill. The windowsill was very narrow and she kept working at it until it was perfectly balanced before nodding to herself and heading off to bed.

He could smell what it was all the way their and wrinkled his nose in disgust. Camembert. He had no idea, who could ever like Camembert so much and until he had met Plagg hadn't met anyone who had.

He frowned. He hadn't thought that Annette like Camembert either… in fact the few times it had been in the house, she had gone out of her to avoid eating it so what was going on?

Curiosity peeked he vaulted forward and aimed straight for the window. He hung preciously by the window sill for a moment taking desperate care not to let his present fall as he slowly took it off the sill and held in his hand before backflipping into the room.

"Thought that would work." Annette said half amused half annoyed. "What are you doing spying on me for?"

"I wasn't" Cat Noir lied.

Annette raised an eyebrow her arms crossed in front of her chest. "Want to try that again?"

"I noticed you were freaking out, I wanted to make sure, you were ok before I continued on my way" Cat Noir said.

Annette looked down. "Trying to make sure I don't become another weekly monster?"

Cat Noir looked at her. "No, I just don't like seeing people hurt."

Annette sighed. "I'm fine, just had a bad dream is all."

"Are you sure Annette?" Cat Noir asked softly.

Annette smiled. "You have the rest of Paris to watch out for, don't worry about me" I said calmly. "I'll be fine."

"You are apart of Paris" Chat Noir said putting a hand on her soldier. "You deserve my protection to."

"I'm afraid that this, is not something you can help me with" Annette said.

"One more thing" Cat Noir said holding out the camembert container. "Why this"

Annette looked at it, he could practically smell the apprehensiveness coming off her in waves before it disappeared and she laughed lightly.

"Had it brought to me with my dinner today, I loath the cheese, so I thought I'd save it for someone else who likes it better then me, figured if I left some out for you, you'd get curious, and come in." Annette said lightly her hands pulled behind her back.

Cat Noir stared at her for a moment. Had anyone else been with her they would have thought she was telling the truth, but Cat Noir or rather Adrien had known her longer, her pulling her hands behind her back was a tell that she was lying, it was something she did to hide the shaking.

"…Right" Cat Noir said. "Well if your sure your ok, I'd best be off, I have the rest of patrol to do"

Annette nodded and smiled tiredly. "Good night"

"I desperately need more clothes" Chloé said as she dug through her locker. "Want to come shopping with me?
Sabrina nodded excitedly while I shook my head.

"And be buried under a pile of clothes as you stick me and Sabrina with carrying your stuff, again?" I said leaning against the door, after Cat Noir had left that night I had been unable to get back to sleep, making me extremely tired. "Um, no"

Chloé pouted. "I won't do that!" She said.

I raised an eyebrow before leaning against my locker door and yawned. "Besides I'm exhausted, I haven't had proper sleep in like 3 days, I think I'm going to head home after school and try to take a nap before I get started on my homework."

Chloé glanced at me. "I thought your nightmares had ended."

I shook my head while Sabrina put a hand on my arm. "They came back a few nights ago." I said softly.

Chloé opened her mouth again to respond before being interrupted.

"Hey!" She and I turned around to see Kim holding Alya's phone.

"What's going on?" I asked my arms crossed in front of me.

"Look's like miss Blogger here tried to take picture's inside your locker." Kim said smugly.

Chloé eyes widened, before narrowing in anger.

"You shouldn't have done it"

"Her Locker was open!"

"While she was in it!" I yelled. "You should have respected her privacy"

"Oh, like she's respected ours?" Alya yelled back at me.

"I don't remember her taking pictures of your locker" I said.

"Girls, enough!" Principle Damocles said. Before turning to Chloé, "There aren't any rules against invasion of privacy" He told Chloé.

Chloé looked positively offended. "She insulted my very soul" She said before breaking down crying in Kim's arms.

I rolled my eyes at my oldest friend's antics. "I wouldn't go that far Chloé" I stated.

"She should still be punished" Chloé added petulantly.

Damocles sighed and turned to Alya. "You will have detention after school for one hour"

Chloé looked livid. "One measly hour, are you kidding me!"

"Chloé, that's more then fair" I whispered to her. "You got what you wanted, let it go"

Chloé turned to glare at me. "Are you against me too?"

My expression turned cold. "You're make mountains out of mole hills, she's getting punished, she'll never do it again, let it go"

Chloé sighed and left glaring darkly at Alya. "I catch you taking pictures, or even take a glance, inside my locker again, you will regret it." She seethed before stalking out the room.

I grabbed my bag putting it over my shoulders.

"What a spoiled brat." Alya muttered to herself as she and I walked out together. My hands stilled as I resisted the urge to slap Alya for what she said. She's allowed to have her own opinion, she's allowed to have her own opinion. I continuously reminded myself.

"Why were you taking pictures of her locker?" I asked her.

Alya glared at me. "That is none of your business"

"Like the contents of Chloé's locker is not yours?" I reiterated calmly.

Alya glared at me. "It was open"

"The objects in her locker where still hers." I said feigning calmness. In all actuality, my lack of sleep had resulted in my getting a headache.

"Why are you taking her side!" Alya said. "She's a bitch who ruins everyone's life just by existing!"

My eyes widened in anger and I slapped Alya. Hard.

I stared at my hand in wide eyed shock. Alya turned to face me her eyes wide in anger.

Alya glared at me. "Can't handle the truth?"

"That 'bitch' happens to be my oldest friend" I told Alya.

"Your 'oldest friend' is a terror to the entire school" Alya hissed. "And your nothing but an enabler"

I raised an eyebrow. "An enabler huh?" I said I could feel the anger bubbling in my chest but I forced myself to keep my cool. "Careful Ms. Cesaire, I got Chloé to back off on the punishment against you, without me, you would have been suspended, if I were you, I would think twice before badmouthing me again."

With that I turned and stomped away.

You did what! Adrien texted me shocked. The second I had left Alya's side I immediately pulled out my cell and started texting my cousin

I slapped Marinette's best friend in the face, I responded.

Why?

I took Chloé's side in a debate I texted. Alya didn't like that, she started calling Chloé a bitch and I slapped her, you know how I am I don't tolerate people badmouthing the people I care about, no matter how justified they may feel it is.

She's allowed to have her own opinion,

Annette Adrien texted.

I breathed deeply trying to reign in my temper. You're taking this two calmly, she's your friend too Adrien, or have you forgotten?

I am Adrien responded but you must admit, Alya was kind of correct.

I looked away. I can't just leave her I wrote back. She's over protective of her friends, and terrified of losing those precious to her, like she did her mom, and I, I can't abandon her, like she believes her mom did.

This time there was a little bit of a pause before he responded Acting the way, she does, isn't helping anyone

And abandoning her, doesn't help her, it makes her worse. I said with a sigh I put a hand to my forehead. I was honestly exhausted and just wanted to go home and take a nap.

I had half a mind to beg my cousin to cover me while I snuck out and went to Chloé's dad's hotel, to sleep for a good, rest of the day, but there were way too many things that could go wrong.

My phone started to ring and I, assuming it was my father or one of his employees, stupidly pressed the call button without checking the caller id.

I ball of light erupted out of my phone.

"Oh hello" I blinked as me and Adrien were suddenly blocked by a girl in black outfit with a Wi-Fi symbol on her top and black mask in the shape of a…

I smiled bitterly. "What do you want?"

She flicked through something on her phone and before I knew it I was frozen in place.

"Oh, don't worry you're fine." The akumatized victim said as she flicked something else and a camera icon appeared in mid air. "For now."

"Now Annette is it true you took the side of a selfish brat, for your own selfish purposes" I could feel myself move again.

"I took the side of my friend, because I felt she was in the right." I reiterated. I had been in front of the camera pretty much my entire life, both my parents had always warned me about the press and how it would twist the words into something I never said.

"Is it true you slapped a poor girl named Alya"

Alya… only me and Alya had been in the hallway when I slapped her, so that meant…

Oh no, I did not have a hand in creating this one, did I?

I nodded. "Yes, I slapped Alya, when she called one of the people I cared about a 'bitch' and insinuated that she was ruining's everyone's life by merely existed, I was tired, exhausted, and hadn't been sleeping well for the past 3 nights and what Alya said sent me over the edge". This was not going to endear me to anyone, but I was not going to let half of what happen not be heard.

A baton whizzed past and smacked the phone out of her hand.

"Don't you know better than to attack harmless citizens?" I heard the familiar voice of Cat Noir say. "Now behave before I have to unplug you"

I raised my eyebrow at Cat Noir "That the best you got?"

"Shut up!" Cat Noir said. "Shouldn't you be running away?"

"Have you ever met me?" I said as I jumped out of the way of another pink icon barrelling toward me. "Since when have I ever run away from anything?"

"Wish you would"

"Wishes are for stars, this is reality Kitty" I said with a chuckle as I cartwheeled away from another pink icon. "Besides Ladybug isn't here yet"

"Did someone say my name?" I didn't even turn around.

"Hello My Lady" Cat Noir said with a smile.

Ladybug rolled her eyes but she was still smiling before she turned to me. Before she could say anything however Lady Wi-Fi had recovered and aimed a shot at Ladybug.

"I will know your identity Ladybug, or should I say Chloé Bourgeois!"

"What!?" Ladybug, Cat Noir and I said at the exact same time. All with different inflections.

I broke out laughing. "Chloé's not Ladybug"

"Then what was with the yoyo, I found in her Locker?"

"She's a Ladybug fan?" I said with a raised eyebrow, "You know for a journalist, you suck"

That was not the right thing to say.

Did I mention I haven't been sleeping well?

Lady Wi-Fi shot another Icon at me I jumped out of the way.

"Hey it's true, no need to get so charged up"

"You think she's going to believe what I said about Chloé not being Ladybug?" I asked to the two superheroes.

Their silence said everything. "Yeah, I didn't think so either"

Alya hadn't been gone two minutes, when Ladybug rounded on me.

"You hit her?" Ladybug snarled.

I blinked at the bug themed heroine, surprised at the sudden hostility. "She insulted a friend of mine, and I reacted poorly, when you capture her akuma, I'll apologize ok?" I said hurriedly in the hopes that it will delay a fight.

Ladybug glared. "Why are you even friends with a girl like that?"

I leaned against my locker and rubbed my eyes. "There are things we've been through together that we can't just turn our back on. She along with Adrien, and Sabrina helped me out of some severe depression episodes, I can't ignore that, especially when I ignored her, when…" My eyes closed and I turned away. "Never mind, can we forget it please?" I said wiping away my tears.

"That doesn't give her the right to treat those around her like crap" Ladybug said.

I shook my head. "No, I know that"

"Than why do you let her?"

"I don't, I try my best to act as mediator and give healthy compromises, but I don't always succeed."

"Maybe you should cut her out"

"That's undeniably cold, she's already lost her mother, you want her to lose a friend too?"

Ladybug paused and stared at Annette in confusion. "S-she lost her mother?"

I froze. "Damn it" I sighed. "I should not have said that, ok no more questions until I have full control over my mouth to brain filter, I mean brain to mouth filter."

I could tell Ladybug was trying to hide a smile.

"Seriously though, don't tell Chloé what I've told you, it's not something she like's spread around."

"What happened to Mrs. Bourgeois though?"

Queen Bee happened. I shook my head a small smile on my face. "I can't, I promised I'm sorry."

"You should probably get some sleep" Cat Noir said softly. "You look exhausted"

I shook my head. "I can't, I won't be able too without knowing Chloé is ok..." I told him.

Cat Noir looked at me severely. "I'll come by personally after all this is over, and let you know how everything went, Ok, kitten?"

My eyes widened for a moment before I pushed him away. "…Don't call me that" I said or at least tried to say.

Cat Noir looked at me in surprise, before nodding. I was vaguely aware of his arm around my waist before darkness overcame me and I was out like a light.

"Come on, get up" Chloe told me while Sabrina pulled me right side up. "We are getting out of this house."

I said nothing just blinked at everyone tiredly.

"Uhh, Chloé I really don't think this is a good idea" Adrien said as Chloé dug through my closet and pulled out an outfit.

Chloé turned to glare at Adrien. "She hasn't left the house in weeks, Adrien, ever since your birthday the only thing she has done, is go to school and come home, she needs out, she needs fun." Chloe turned to Sabrina. "You agree with me right?"

"Yes Chloe" Sabrina said earnestly. Sabrina was a lot like me and Chloe her mother had just up and left one day, and she in her anguish had latched tightly to Chloe now the two went everywhere together.

"I'm right here you know." I said.

"Yeah, and it's completely true, get dressed" Chloé said dumping a handful of clothes and while Sabrina pushed me toward the shower.

"I doubt uncle will approve" I told her over Sabrina's head.

Your uncle can suck an egg" Chloé said bluntly. "Besides your aunt already agreed, stop stalling get dressed." Chloé said pulling the door closed. "Your coming too," I heard her say to what was probably Adrien.

For the first time in what felt like forever I laughed.

I woke up the light outside dark surprised to be in my own bed. The events of that day flooded my mind and I struggled to sit up only to find that I had an arm wrapped around my waist.

In the light of the moon I could just make out the blonde ponytail. I looked at her wide eyed.

"Chloé?" I whispered. Chloé unfortunately had always been a light sleeper so when I said that she turned around a groaned.

"Yes, yes, I'm here you can stop worrying, I'm fine, go back to sleep I'm exhausted" Chloé said before turning around and pulling my covers further up her chin.

I chuckled. "You don't do anything by halves, do you?"

"Go. To. Sleep." Chloé said.

I sighed and pulled the covers up to my chin and fell back asleep.

"So, after Cat Noir told me that he sent you home and that you were worried, I all but insisted that Daddy take me to your house, so you could see for yourself that I was ok, it would stop your midnight panic attacks, and I would not be woken in the middle of the night by the phone ringing." Chloe told me as my and Sabrina walked into class behind her.

"You were woken in the middle of the night anyway"

Chloé laughed. "Yes, only for a few seconds, not the five minutes it would have been calming you down trying to make sure I wasn't 'just saying that'.

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah and the fact that I told you that morning that I had been having nightmares had nothing to do with it?"

Chloé rolled her eyes as we walked into class.

As she went to sit by Sabrina and I went to sit by Nathanael I paused by Marinette and Alya's seat and stood there for a moment. Before plucking up my courage and talking to her.

"Alya?" I asked softly.

Alya turned toward me her eyes narrowed. "Yes?"

I bit my lip, worried for a split second that this would blow up in my face, but I swallowed my pride and plowed on through. "I just wanted to apologize for how I treated you yesterday, while I did not agree, with what you said, I should not have treated you the way I did, and I'm sorry for how I reacted."

Alya stared at me for a moment before shrugging. "I suppose complaining about Chloe to a friend of hers wasn't the wisest decision, and perhaps I shouldn't have been taking pictures of her locker."

I raised an eyebrow. "So… we good?"

Alya looked passed me to Chloé. "Do I have to apologize to Chloé?"

I smiled thinly. "It would be appreciated but I'm not going to gun you down for it" I said.

Alya hid a smirk.

I stepped back and headed back up the stairs.

Nathanael, Ivan and Myléné immediately rounded on me.

"What happened? Did you help defeat Lady Wi-fi? Did you really slap Alya?" They all fired at me at the same time.

"Yes, I slapped Alya, no I didn't this time around I was so exhausted I passed out in Cat Noir's arms, and you saw what happened, Lady Wi-
Fi interrogated me then Cat Noir showed up, we got attacked, Ladybug showed up, for a split second it looked like they were winning and then Lady Wi-Fi disappeared, I don't what happened after that I wasn't there."

They all just stared at me wide eyed.

"Look if this is about the slap I gave Alya…"

"You… passed out in Cat Noir's arms?" Myléné asked eyebrow raised.

"Um, yeah?"

"That all you can say?" Myléné asked eyes wide. "Where did he take you after that?"

"Uhh… my room?"

"He… carried you to your house in his arms?" Myléné said eyes wide.

My eyes widened and I blushed as what she was saying hit. "Sh-shut up it wasn't like that."

"It was like something" Nathanael muttered. "Your blushing."

I put my hands to my cheeks and laughed. "Cause your making assumptions!" I said. "Nothing happened!"

"Uh-huh" Nathanael said his eyes trained on his art work. This time with him being the one to save Lady Noir.

"Nice drawing" I commented.

Nathanael covered the drawing with his hand and glared at me. "Shut up"

I just gave a small smile.

"Hey" I turned to see Adrien running up to me after school.

"I uhh... didn't get to ask this morning since Chloé was monopolizing your time, but I heard you've been having nightmare's again."

I raised an eyebrow. "Umm yeah" I said. "Chloé tell you?"

Adrien's eyes widened. "Yeah! Yeah it was Chloé who mentioned it, she's worried about you."

"I didn't get them last night" I admitted. "Best sleep I've had in days."

"Oh yeah?" Adrien asked. "Any reason why that is?"

I shrugged. "I guess sleeping surrounded by others helps, but I can't be doing it that often, otherwise I might just get used to it." I shrugged. "I'll figure it out, don't worry Adrien, I'll be fine."

Adrien nodded in that way that told me he didn't believe me. "Any idea what brought them on."

"I've heard that change can bring nightmare's" I said though I didn't know how much stock to put in movie logic. "Maybe the new akumatizations have me unconsciously freaked."

Adrien put a hand on my shoulder. "You think that's it?"
Either that or the fact that the new Ladybug and Cat Noir look a lot like my dead parents, but you know which ever.

"Maybe" I said softly. "It is one of the things afraid of, getting akumatized. Fighting the heroes of Paris, is not exactly on my to do list."

Adrien hugged me tightly. "That won't happen Annette."

"You can't promise that" I said softly.

Adrien shook his head. "It won't happen."

"Hey" I jumped slightly to see Adrien standing outside my door. A pillow and blanket in my hand.

"What are you doing here"

"Keeping you company" Adrien said softly, anticipating my reaction he said. "Relax this is just until we can find something else that'll work, since you and I both know that meds don't work for you"

It was true, I had started taking, medication to help with the nightmare's 3 years ago, but the had long ago stopped being effective.

"I don't need your help"

Adrien rolled his eyes. "Calm down, it's temporary." He said walking past me to my bed. "Now get in bed before I drag you."

"Like you could" I muttered but I crawled into bed beside him anyway.