"Where to begin?" Nathalie muttered as Emma settled down in a chair across from her.

"Probably Master Fu," Plagg supplied as he grabbed some more cheese, "I gave Emma the bare minimum info. One cause of that damn spell and two I didn't want to get into it."

"Spell?" Emma asked confused.

"The spell prevents a kwami from revealing too much information about their master," the older woman explained, "since your parents died before they ever renounced ownership of their miraculous its still in effect. But I suppose the former miraculous guardian is a good place to start."

Emma motioned for her to start her story.

"Master Fu was a man that made a deadly mistake. A mistake that cause the destruction of the order that protected the Miraculous. In the chaos that followed Fu saved all the miraculous. All but two ," Nathalie began explaining.

The younger girl shook her head, "Let me guess. Butterfly and Peacock?"

Plagg nodded and answered for Nathalie, "yeah."

"And a few years later the peacock was found," the grandmother looked at her tea, "By Emilie."

A shocked look appear on Emma's face, "Emilie? But.."

Nathalie realized her mistake and fixed her statement, "Your grandmother Emilie found it and used it."

The confusion cleared up on Emma's face, "Oh."

"Emilie Agreste used it and even showed it to Gabriel. She and Gabriel didn't realize till much later that Emilie was incompatible with it. I believe Plagg must have mentioned that concept?"

The teenager nodded, "Your chi has to be able to work with the kwami's."

"Yes, and your grandmother's didn't. So it damaged the Miraculous and herself. She put herself in a coma. Your grandfather found her when it happened and panicked," Nathalie continued the story.

"As he did," Emma reminisced.

"As he did," Nathalie smiled sadly, "And after the doctors couldn't do anything, he decided magic could. He hunted down the Miraculous book and the butterfly miraculous and found out about what the reality wrapping power of the combined power of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous and decided that he needed it to bring her back."

"Wait, reality wrapping? The cat and ladybug can do that?" the girl asked confused looking at her kwami.

Plagg paused in his stress eating, " Yeah, if you wield them together. But you have to pay a price and the price is never worth it."

The pretty much killed any unrealistic ideas Emma had as she looked back at her step-grandmother, "And this lead to him being a supervillain?"

"Gabriel figured the easiest way to draw the ladybug and cat out was to create a villain for them to fight and since it takes Ladybug to fix akuma and the cat has to balance out the bug it was prefect," Nathalie summarized as her granddaughter deadpanned stared at her, "In his crazy grief mind it was perfect."

"That's when Master Fu took me and Tikki out and gave us to your parents," The kwami added to the story, "We fought some akumas then the love square happened then we fought some more akumas then Marinette started handing out the miraculous left and right then the love hexagon happened then we fought some amoks and akuma…"

"Anyway, you became Mayura why?" Emma interrupted Plagg as he cried out offended he wasn't allowed to finish his tale.

"To help him. My chi does work with Dusuu and I even healed the Miraculous but for a while it was killing me. Using it did come with a price," Nathalie looked down at her wheelchair with regret, "I loved Gabriel, Emilie, and Adrien. I wanted their family to be whole again. Instead? I helped everyday for three years to try to hurt your father. Your father fought your grandfather for three years. Adrien and Marinette almost died several times and for what? So Emilie could come back? No your grandmother never did come back. Your parents finally defeated us and your father was shocked. We were too. This was never a possibility to any of us."

Emma sat silently as she fiddled with her yin necklace as Nathalie continued, "Your parents couldn't drag us to jail. Adrien couldn't put his only family in jail. So, we decided to just stop. At that point, Gabriel was already conflicted since he realized I love him. So, he and Adrien finally decided to let Emilie go. To give your father some space we decided to move to New York. That would have been the end of it really."

"But it wasn't?" Emma realized sadly.

The former villain nodded, "Marinette called us. She thought she saw someone following her. Adrien could have sworn things were missing from his office. Apparently Louis very much like the camera that strange man that was following him had. There were severally drones hovering around Ladybug and Cat Noir."

"Someone was following us?" Emma asked shocked.

"They were scared. Super Villains they could handle, people? Not so much," The woman explained as she adjusted her glasses, "So, a weekend trip was planned. We would have met your family and the Dupain-Chengs at a cabin and then the grandkids would come with us for a few weeks while Adrien and Marinette figured everything out."

"But the car accident happened," Emma cut in finally realizing what she was talking about, "Was...Was it an accident?"

"Hard to say. We think so," Nathalie replied sadly, "But the police were far from helpful and they traumatized you."

"Let's move on," Emma pushed on not wanting to think about the accident to much, "Little me comes to live with you in New York City after that since I need some much help and attention and then…" Emma looked shocked as she realized, "You still had the Miraculous….Up till his death Grandpere had the butterfly miraculous…."

Nathalie felt tears well up in her eyes, "I came how and the house was a wreck, I was so scared. He was lying at the bottom of the stairs. Barely breathing ...they threw him down the stairs. He could speak much but...he got that got. He said something about some thieves hunting had taken the Butterfly. He died in my arms before the ambulance got there."

Emma stood up angry eyes hiding behind her glasses, "You said he fell down the stairs! That it was an accident! Hell you told me he probably died on impact!"

"Emma, please. I just wanted to ease you into it," her grandmother tried to explain

The seventeen year didn't want to hear it as she headed to the hotel door, "I can't with this right now. I just can't. Plagg, come on!"

The door slammed and Plagg sighed putting down his cheese and giving Nathalie a little face hug, "Give her time. She'll come around."

…

Sophie was exiting the elevator as she walked down the halls of the hotel. After learning of Emma's disappearance the group of teens had spilt of in hopes of finding her.

The blonde was tasked with searching where her grandmother currently was staying on bail since the police were considering prosecuting her for her past crimes.

Tikki had been amazingly quiet so far and she was pretty sure it was so Sophie could think over what she had learned earlier about Emma maybe liking her.

Sophie was halfway down the hall when people ran down the hall with yells about a mirror monster.

The hero immediately picked up her pace and ran down the hall.

….

Emma was not pleased as she decided to walk around a few minutes to calm down. She pulled out an anxiety pill and dry swallowed. She didn't need that today.

Her parents were heroes.

Her grandparents were villains.

She was a failure.

She leaned against a wall and took a deep breath, she needed to calm down.

"Monster!"

She heard being yelled as people ran past.

"Monster?" Plagg muttered in surprise.

Emma looked over as a simmering form of mirror person coming towards them, "Plagg?"

"Ready!" the kwami responded as Emma raised her ring.

"Plagg! Claws-"

"Em?"

The girl froze. The voice came from the monster. She knew that voice.

"Emma?" the voice called again.

The mirror morphed from the abstract thing to the form of a young girl. A six year old girl with black hair, bright green eyes, and wearing a cute ladybug shirt, "Emma?"

Emma stared in shock. No. No. No.

"Emma, she's not real," Plagg said seriously as he tried to pull the teenager out of her scared daze, "She not there! It's a monster! An akuma's minion or something!"

"Emma, why did you let me fall?" The mirror girl asked voice full of sadness as blood started pouring down the scratches on her right arm.

"Your...your not real," Emma repeated trying to make herself believe it.

"Why are you saying that? Don't love me anymore?" the girl cried as she walked closer to her.

"Your not her!" the hero tried to reason as tears started welling in her eyes.

"You let me fall! You let go! You can't ignore me!" The girl cried as she came closer and closer, "You and everyone can't just pretend I never existed! I existed till you let go! Mom and Dad may have died by chance but I died cause you let go of my hand!"

"I was six! It wasn't my fault!" Emma cried as she stumbled backwards away, Plagg still trying to get her attention, trying to break this weird trance, "You're not Emilie! You're not Emilie!"

"Sis, why don't you love me anymore?" The monster asked as she stood over her.

Emma cries deepened as she looked at the twisted monster that had taken the last image of her long dead sister.

Author's Note

May I present Emilie Agreste (II) the "fourth" child of Marinette and Adrien, the third victim of the car crash, and a character I had been trying to carefully hint at for a while. She technically was mentioned in the prologue with Emma reaching to grab someone and failing, along with hints to her in chapters 9 , 12, 14, and 16, and a technical name drop in chapter 17. The major guilt Emma has? All because of Emilie, and we will get to that next chapter.

Yes, we will get more into what was going with the people stalking Marinette and Adrien and killed Gabriel. I promise.

The akuma here creates minions that shift into something that represents your biggest regret. In Emma's case? the person she couldn't save.

Next chapter: Ladybug and Cat Noir try to stop the akuma.

Anyway, I'm so happy I've finally gotten to this chapter. Please give me feedback if you feel like. Review and thanks for reading.