Here's Chapter 6 guys, on my time for once. Expect chapter 7 sometimes around the 14th everyone, I have a few other projects that are taking up my time so sorry. And next chapter expect a biggggg surprise.
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Louise knocked at the back entrance to the Dunpain-Chang bakery holding a briefcase in one hand and shook his head. If nothing happened like I thought I guess first thing first I'll do is send a form to the school board for all the camera footage, that way I'll have it to look over the data and we'll be able to use that to sue this bitch. He thought before the door opened and Tom looked out and smiled when he saw him. "Hi Tom, so did the school send over anything to you all?"
"I wish that they had, at least then this nightmare might have been over with or we would have something to fight against." Tom said and Louise just sighed and shook his head.
"Well at least the Akuma attack gave me plenty of time to get the paperwork done to send to the school board, and I was able to handle Adrien's problem." Louise said as Tom led him into the house, a commotion from the kitchen caused him to sigh and shake his head. "Giving that it's almost time for the dinner rush, I guess I'll be talking to your daughter alone?"
"Yeah, I'll have the intercom on so I'll be able to hear everything." Tom said as he looked at Louise and glared at him. "Don't make me or my wife come up there."
"Of course sir, I will be perfectly professional, I always do." Louise said and Tom nodded and sighed
"Kids, he's back to talk to you both!" Tom called up and then pointed at his eyes then at Louise before he headed towards the bakery's kitchen.
Louise shook his head and then chuckled and walked upwards and smiled when he saw Adrien and Marinette walk towards the table and he grinned at them.
"Hey kids, you all okay, stayed away from those people today?" Louise asked as they walked towards the table. "The Akuma stayed away from this area but did some of the dogs come and bother you all, it didn't look like they did but you never know with her Cure."
"We stayed safe and away from the windows, we only stopped hiding when the alert died down." Marinette said and Louise looked at them for a few seconds before nodding.
"Yeah, we were safe Louise. But you're here about something, so how are our issues?" Adrien asked as the three of them sat down at the table and Louise put his briefcase down and sighed. "That bad?
"Let me start with you Miss Marinette. I had a friend of mine check over the video you got yesterday and while it wasn't changed or modified, legally it is tainted because it was anomalous but it gives us wriggle room to hunt down the original. I will be going to that school tomorrow for that reason with a few members of the police, I'll have a warrant to get a copy of the school's security cameras and another copy will be given to the school board so there's that." Louise said and then looked at Adrien. "But then there's your problem kid, first and foremost we need to get you to a doctor in the next few days for a full physical, it's part of the process okay kid so don't ask okay? And the witness list will be drawn up after that."
Adrien nodded and looked down and sighed and closed his eyes. I can get why, to make sure it's not physical abuse. I mean this has to part of the process. I have to do this, I said I would and this is important, I can't go back to how it was before, nothing about this is healthy for any of us. Adrien thought as he felt Marinette reach over and squeeze his hand. "This is why it's so hard, isn't it?"
"Yeah kid, it is." Louse said and then he smiled at him. "I mean I always thought that you were a bit skinny kid, so a general physical is something that would be good for the case, I'll also need you to sign a few documents that need to be signed with the Child's Protection agent present as a witness to let me look into your finances, again part of the process. And all of this stuff that was set up to keep you, the child in question safe."
"The Justice department really has a lot of stuff set up to handle this doesn't it?" Marinette asked and Louise laughed darkly.
"Yeah, but unfortunately it was more of a 'don't do this again' thing that grew overtime." Louise said with a sigh and shook his head. "So to finalize everything, tomorrow I will be heading to the college to serve the warrant, then I will be heading over to the board of education to serve the papers that will contest the expulsion and or suing the college for what they did."
"Yeah, then there's the way that I can get that physical. He's going to be watching most of the hospitals and clinics in the city." Adrien said and Louis smirked.
"All you need to do kid is make it away from here and get to around the 7th on the boarder of the 6th. I'll pick you up there and then I'll get you to this clinic the police and most of the lawyers use when they need a doctor without people knowing. Perfectly legal but it was set up that way for undercover ops for the police, a totally covered garage and the normal way in only covered to." Louise said with a smirk. "One of the best in the city, most people who know about it think the directors a little too concerned with privacy but he did get his leg broken when fans mob a hospital when he was a student so there's that."
"Wow." Marinette said as she and Adrien blinked and looked at him. "So do you think you'll be able to get everything that we need to successful argue about happened to me?"
"Perfectly. The trip tomorrow is basically just to find airtight copies of the original videos. And I'll be heading over to the Italian embassy within the next few days and well." Louise said with a shrug and looked at the two teens.
"Do you think that's a good thing, it might give Lila time to cover her tracks or get out of the city. And if her mother is a diplomat." Marinette said as Adrien nodded and Louise only smirked back.
"Don't worry about that, I have to head over there anyway and follow up on a settlement with another client, and I can't talk about why but I will be talking to a person who knows who works there. I'll find out the truth and from there, and then we'll see what's true." Louise said as he looked around at the two teens who smiled. "Relax, all I'll be doing is finding out where she lives and making sure she knows to make it to the hearing about what happened, from there we'll see what's what."
"There might be another way…." Marinette said and looked down at the table for a few moments. "A frie….a classmate has access rights to the school's network and website."
"Why?" Louise asked and Adrien looked at her as she refused to meet their eyes.
"He reworked it a few months ago after it was hacked, nothing was destroyed but the files were renamed and well it was chaos for a few days as the students had to deal with what the hacker renamed our accounts as." Marinette said as she blushed. "For a month before Max fixed it I had to log in as 'Bakery-Model' and Chloe was 'Chief-Brat.' Let's just say that when she realized what her new login name was she screamed so loud the whole school heard."
"So then Max could get the number and email address Lila gave the school!" Adrien said as Louise started to grin and rub his hands together.
"But would this Max be willing to do that?" Louis asked and Marinette nodded.
"Some of our classmates figured out Lila is a bitch, and two of them came over today and apologized for not believe me. We had a talk and shared lunch together and we cleared the air." Adrien said and Marinette nodded.
"So I'll call text him later and message you if he's willing to do that. Once that's done I'll text you or do you want me to send it tomorrow?" Marinette asked and Louise nodded at her.
"That sounds great Marinette, just send me the information before Francois Dupont starts tomorrow, I'll be raiding during the first class so hopefully I'll get by the principle." Louise said as he took some papers out of his briefcase and passed one pile to Adrien and one to Marinette. "The one with you Adrien is the summery of everything that you and I talked about, every bit of the case against your dad. And Miss Marinette, what you have is the paperwork that I'll need you and your parents to sign, it's how we're contesting the 'expulsion'. Oh, and I used a copy of the video that you were sent yesterday as the reason for my 'fishing expedition' tomorrow."
"So that will let you track down the evidence?" Marinette asked and Louise got up and the teens did as well.
"Yeah, it's technical but that's right." Louise said and smirked. "I wonder if the owl will find us before we leave? Well you have a nice night kids."
As Louise walked away Adrien turned towards Marinette and rubbed the back of his head, waiting until they heard the door downstairs close before he looked at her. "You know we have to talk about what we learned….."
"Marinette! We're be up for super in a few moment, the dinner crew is here! So could you get out the plates and put dinner in the oven?" Sabine's voice caused Adrien to stop and shrug and Marinette to sigh internally.
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"Thanks Max, just get me the data as soon as you can tonight." Marinette said into her phone as she climbed up to her bed.
"I'll send it to you by midnight Marinette, and I hope that you're back in class soon." Max said as he hung up and Marinette chuckled as she got to her bed.
"Max is a good friend Marinette, I knew he would help you!" Tikki said as she floated up after her.
"That was never in doubt Tikki." Marinette sighed as she looked around her room, when they had both gotten back to her house her parents had thankfully stayed downstairs the whole time and hadn't gone to check on them and that was one thing that they had lucked out on. Dinner had been tense between the two of them but they had been able to get through it without her parents getting a clue that there was something that was bothering the two of them.
"Are you okay Marinette?" Tikki asked as she floated there and Marinette only hid her face as her kwami looked at her in concern.
"He must be so disappointed that it's me Tikki, he just has to be." Marinette said and hugged her knees as she rested her head on her bed.
"You don't know that Marinette, you don't." Tikki said as she looked at Marinette. While she tried to keep her temper down as she looked at her chosen. He better not! After all the times that Plagg's said that he's mooned over her, just finding out who she really was she had better not have stopped loving her because she's 'just a friend'! I mean really! Tikki thought as she floated to Marinette and touched her check. "You two just need to talk to each other privately about a lot of things."
"But where can we talk my parents overhearing us?" Marinette asked and Tikki sighed.
"Here for one, or up there." Tikki said as she pointed towards the door to the roof and Marinette's balconies
"All it would take is someone to see him and then who knows what Gabriel or Lila would do? The only place is my room and that's a whole other kettle of fish." Marinette said with a blush and Tikki sighed and thought darkly about teenagers and their hormones.
"You have to talk to him Marinette, want me to go get him; I could follow the vents and hide from your parents that way." Tikki said and Marinette looked like she was going to say something when they both heard something.
A buzzing caused her to snap her head up and look towards a statue light her parents had giving her for her last birthday before Tikki had come into her life, her friend had gone into it and discovered a microphone and a few searches at school had turned up the item on a site that sold parential spyware, a way for parents to spy on their kids without them being aware of it. the model in question had a recording option, thankfully Max had come over once or twice to share a new game and he had helped her by showing her how to modify it to make the engine run a bit louder so she knew when it was active.
A knock on her door caused Marinette to look towards it and swallow. "Come in."
Adrien looked around as he came up into her room and Plagg flew around and Tikki flew over to him and gestured pointed towards the statue that Marinette had just been thinking off and before Adrien could say anything Marinette held up a hand and type out a quick text on it before throwing it to him, he caught it and looked down at it and paled a little as he read, 'the statue is bugged by my parents, let Plagg and Tikki handle it.'
"Hey Adrien, you doing okay stuck in here?" Marinette asked as she grinned at him and kept her eyes on the statue as Plagg and Tikki flew towards it.
"Okay, I have a lot of practice with this so it's not too bad; at least I have someone to talk to who doesn't answer to him." Adrien said and Marinette looked at him with a look of concern in her eyes that caused him to shiver a little.
"What about the models you've worked with, couldn't you talk to them online at least?" Marinette asked and Adrien laughed and shook his head. He kept his eyes on the two kwami as she slipped into the statue and sighed before he spoke up.
"You'd think that but their contracts have a clause in them that kept us from sharing our emails on sets, the parties and work with our agencies is supposed to be where that kind of stuff is exchanged but well dad never let me go." Adrien said with a shrug.
"Why wouldn't he?" Marinette asked in complete shock
"Something about drug abuse that one model said started at a party. Which is insane and impossible because all the company's models have to have blood tests every few months and most of them bring in paperwork to show what prescriptions their doctors are having them take and why, and the company is responsible for the food. But of course he ignores that but well who would tell him that?" Adrien said dryly and Marinette looked at him in concern.
"Before you made it to school, you had a very small circle of people you knew that didn't work for your father, didn't you?" Marinette asked, complete shocked and rethinking a lot about how she felt about his father.
"I think maybe Chloe, but there's some kinda connection between her family and my mom's." Adrien said with a shrug. "He was better when mom was around, at least I think he was."
Marinette looked so concerned for him he almost took her into his arms but then he saw the kwami float out of the statue as the buzz died down.
"Not bad Plagg, you drained the battery so fast!" Tikki said and Plagg laughed and nudged her.
"What about you, going right for the wires that led to the motor and tearing them first, then going for the wires connecting to the speakers! This way they'll think it broke by age and without the motor then it will die from the heat!" Plagg said as Tikki bowed.
"So we don't have to worry about my parents hearing us then." Marinette said and Adrien nodded.
"Yeah, we have to talk but let me get this off my chest first. It's about the Lila thing, her second time as an Akuma, that we know about for sure anyway." Adrien said sheepishly as he watched her climb down from her bed as Tikki and as Plagg sighed and landed on his shoulder.
"Lila, what about her, wait is this about not confronting her?" Marinette asked only for what Adrien to look down with an ashamed expression on his face.
"You know how I said I was talking with her before she became Chameleon, remember?" Adrien said. "I was talking about how people would like her if she didn't lie, I tried to make her see that and she walked off in a huff. Then she became an Akuma and tried to ruin my social life."
"Yeah, I can get it better now. With how tough her forms are, not wanting to set her off is pretty smart I guess. And I admit I should have told you about how she threatened me but…" Marinette interpreted him before he exploded.
"It's more than that!" Adrien said and bowed to Marinette suddenly and Plagg fell off his shoulder and dropped a few inches before floating back upwards. "I was afraid that if you called her on her lies then she would become an Akuma that would want to kill you!"
"Oh." Marinette said quietly and paled as she realized that was a possibility given what Akumas had acted like and the many times that the Akumas had attacked people and with how dangerous Lila's forms were….. "Oh."
"Yeah oh, and with how bad she was, I was worried that she might be able to do that to you, well 'civilian' you." Adrien said as he looked away only for Marinette to reach over and cup his check causing him to blush.
"Oh kitty." Marinette breathed and looked at him with a caring look in her eyes.
"I couldn't tell 'civilian' you how dangerous her Akuma's were, so I gave that stuff about the high road because I didn't want you around her enough to set her off and have Lila try and kill you." Adrien said as he looked at her as he grabbed her hand and stared into her eyes as they seemed to draw him in as he lost himself in them. Unconsciously the two of them were slowly moving their heads closer to each other and then Adrien realized what he was doing and shot backwards and took a step back.
"Adrien?" Marinette asked before she realized what they had almost done and her earlier thoughts came back but before she could start to spiral Adrien held up his hands.
"Sorry, and I'm sorry if flirting with you had made you uncomfortable, I'll try and tone it down, it would probably give Hawkmoth a clue if I stop cold. I never wanted to get in the way of your relationship with him." Adrien said and Marinette grew more confused as Tikki face palmed as Plagg started to snicker.
"Him?" Marinette asked as she looked at him, totally confused as Plagg started to snicker behind Adrien as Tikki got a strange look on her face.
"Luka, the person you have a crush on." Adrien said as he looked away from her, not seeing her mouth drop open as Tikki slapped her face and Plagg starred to snicker harder. "I'm sorry, I guess all this time I hoped that maybe he wasn't that good a person and you might give me a chance, but I've met him and i…."
"Wait, wait!" Marinette interrupted him. "You think I've had a crush on Luka?"
"Well yeah, you don't?" Adrien asked and Marinette nodded and he looked shocked.
"No, Luka's a great guy but the both of us know that we'd be bad for each other. He was always helping me because of…..things that are private for his family really." Marinette said and she looked down and Adrien frowned.
Adrien looked at her and tried to comprehend something, everything he knew about her told him he had feelings for someone, she had told him he had feelings for someone else but if it wasn't Luka then who. "Then who do you have a crush on? Sorry if that a bit forward but…"
"You!" Marinette exclaimed as she shot to her feet. "I've had a crush on you since you gave me your umbrella that day we first met you stupid cat! And as I got to know you it became…love"
"Love?" Adrien said shakily and Marinette rolled on.
"Yes! Your kind, one of the best students in our grade, you try to help whenever you can get away from your father and you're a great person! All this time when I've stumbled around you it's because I've been trying to tell you that!" Marinette said and blushed when she realized what she had just exploded on him.
"Oh. So all this time; I've been the other boy that in your heart, and I was the reason that you wouldn't give me as Chat Noir a chance, so the girl I had a crush on had a crush on me. Well that's something." Adrien said dumbly he sat down in total shock as Marinette stared at him.
"Wait, you've had a crush on me as Ladybug, what about Kagami?!" Marinette said and Plagg looked at Tikki who nodded at him, a snicker escaping him.
"Wait Kagami, you thought I had feelings for Kagami?!" Adrien exclaimed as he looked at her. "No, Kagami and I don't have feelings for each other, it was more of a thing to get away from our parents and how controlling they are, her idea really."
"Really?" Marinette asked and Adrien nodded.
"She said something about dating a person in a similar situation to mine once and it didn't work out, she said it was one of the reasons they moved but that was all that she said about it." Adrien said and he looked at Marinette and took a deep breath. "But it did let me talk to her and she helped me work through my feelings, get them under control and try and deal with my crush."
"On Ladybug, right?" Marinette said with trepidation as she looked at Adrien who nodded.
"I do love the Ladybug you but I developed feelings for someone else over the last year." Adrien said and Marinette started to feel worse.
"Who?" Marinette asked and Adrien looked at her.
"You bug." Adrien said as he blushed. "On both sides of the mask I fell for you."
"What." Marinette asked faintly as she looked at him as Plagg started to grin and Tikki smiled at her.
"For a while now I've been having a hard time dealing with my feelings for well; both of you. As Ladybug you're brave and smart, and as Marinette you're creative, helpful to everyone and talented as heck, and the way you looked when you won that video game tournament with Max. I've been having a hard time separating what I felt about both of you. That's why I went on that date with Kagami, I was trying to move on but it didn't work well, we both saw that." Adrien said and Marinette sat down as she looked away as Adrien in looked at Marinette before he started to laugh, startling Marinette and the Kwamis.
"So the reason we both rejected/ ignored each other is because we fell in love with one side of each other." Adrien said as he stopped laughing and Plagg fell to the floor and started to laugh.
Plagg finally stopped laughing and grinned at them. "Oh man o man, you two crack me up! That right there! You two are my new favorite chosen ever!"
"Plagg!" Tikki said as Marinette and Adrien blushed and looked away.
"Come on sugarcube, don't tell that you don't think this is funny!" Plagg said as he snickered and Tikki giggled and nodded.
"Their almost as funny as our first wielders; remember them?" Tikki asked and Plagg laughed as he spun around. "And I can't wait until Alya and the others find out, you two have to make up a good story to get by her!"
"Alya, why would we have to make up a story for her?" Adrien asked and Marinette blushed and looked away. "Anything else I should know?"
"Alya's been trying to help me confess with the girls for most of the school year, I can't even count all the times and plans we made that failed." Marinette said and Adrien looked down with a deeper blush.
"Oh, that's something but I was talking to the Kwami. Anything you want to say Plagg?" Adrien asked and his kwami turned and grinned at the humans as Tikki just looked on exasperated.
"Sometimes when this happens it's either my holder or sugarcube's who finds out first, they try and make them fall in love with their 'other-selves'; it's kinda funny to tell the truth." Plagg said and Adrien looked away as Marinette looked the other way.
"Oh, look at the time, shouldn't we go to Alya's soon?" Adrien asked and Marinette looked at the clock and nodded as Plagg shook his head and Tikki giggled as Marinette smiled at him. "So how about I turn in and then slip out through the window, I'll meet you up top?"
"We still have about an hour, so let's give go play a round with my parents for a bit before they go to sleep and then we'll slip out from our rooms." Marinette said as she looked towards the door down and smirked. "Because I know they'll be here in a few moments because of how the power went out."
Adrien looked towards the door as they heard someone climb up the ladder and a moment later Tom Dupain opened the door with a smile. "Hey kids, Sabine and I are starting a round of Ultimate Mecha Strike III, want in?"
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Alya hugged herself as she waited on the rooftop of the building she lived in she shivered a little. She had been able to escape dinner without her parents giving her much trouble about her blogging during the attack and even Nora had been quiet about it, something that hadn't happened a lot and she still looked around with a nervous feeling. I don't know what to do, I have to take down that damned interview but how? I could say I was attacked by a hacker, that might buy me a few days and then I can talk to the others about Lila, see how we can get her back. But what did Marinette mean about how she wasn't going back to Dupont? What did she and her parents learn about the school to make them decide that? Alya thought as she stood there and tried to think about.
"Alya?"
"JESUS!" She exclaimed as she spun around and saw Ladybug and Chat Noir standing there looking at her. "When did you get here?"
Chat Noir and Ladybug looked at each other before Chat spoke up. "A few minutes ago, you wanted to talk to us about something?"
"Yeah, it's about this girl at school Lila, I posted an interview about her, how she was Ladybug's best friend but I'm think she's not and I shouldn't have done it at all." Alya said and her smile dropped as she saw Ladybug nod and Chat Noir scowled.
"She the last thing from even a friend to Ladybug." Chat Noir said and Ladybug nodded.
"And the reason that we never said anything about it because we didn't want to call any attention to your site, we didn't want Hawkmoth to think he could get to us through you." Ladybug said and Alya flushed and looked down, ashamed beyond her ability to speak.
Alya could only look at them and pale as she thought about what her 'Ladybug hunts' could have brought down onto her family. Gods, this has to be why Marinette always talked about them, how she tried to get me to slow down and not go so fast? And forget Hawkmoth, who else could have used what I put up on my blog the wrong way? How much danger have I put my little sisters in? Alya thought as she swayed a bit causing the Hereos to look at her in concern.
"Are you okay Alya?" Chat Noir asked and Alya nodded absently.
"Yeah, I'm just thinking about what people could have done with what I put up on my blog, I gotta try and fix it….. maybe I could talk to Max…." Alya said as she started to plan a way to fix what she had done and the two heroes looked at each other, the way that they had
"Like that interview and the knowledge about the Miraculous?" Ladybug asked and Alya looked down and blushed in shame.
"I don't even know why I did it in the first place, she just said what I wanted to hear and I didn't think." Alya said and Ladybug reached over and squeezed Alya's shoulder.
"She used you, she's a monster, she doesn't care who she hurts as long as her goals are met." Chat said bitterly and Alya's snapped her head towards him and her mouth dropped open.
"How do you…..what do you mean?" Alya was able to stammer and Ladybug and Chat Noir looked at each other for a few moments before Chat Noir pointed at his forehead and Ladybug nodded.
"When the girl who became Riposte became Oni-Chan, Lila tricked me to leave Ladybug to fight her alone." Chat Noir said causing Alya to gasp and looked at Ladybug as Chat Noir continued. "She faked being injured and since she was the target I carried her away and then."
"Chat told me on the next patrol we had. After that whenever we saw her we tried to look at what she was doing with one eye open when we encounter her because of Akumas." Ladybug said as Alya starred at her in total shock.
"She's a monster, a total monster! Oh god, what is going through her head!?" Alya asked and Chat Noir scowled and Ladybug sighed.
"We don't know. …. When she first came here I was passing by and I saw her telling that model, what's his name again….Darien, Ernie?"
"Adrien milady. I think his name is Adrien." Chat Noir said and Alya perked up and looked at them.
"Yeah, him. She was telling him that she knew me and well….. combinded with her interview then Hawkmoth might have attacked her family!" Ladybug said and Alya looked at her as Chat Noir nodded. "So I confronted her about it and well then she became Volpina."
"And we don't have proof but she might have helped Hawkmoth set up the Hero-Day attack, we're not sure what school she went to at the time soooo." Chat Noir said with a shrug.
Alya only looked at the heroes in total shock, unable to comprehend what they were talking about before she realized just what they were saying. "Illusions, that's her power as Volpina… but how did she… she was playing hooky all those months?"
"As Chat said we don't have proof. But personally I wouldn't be surprised if she has been working for Hawkmoth." Ladybug said causing Alya to gasp as her mouth dropped open and Chat Noir to scowl and look away.
"Really wouldn't surprise me." Chat said flatly and Alya looked at him as Ladybug eyes shot to Chat's as she hopped he wouldn't let on to Alya who he was.
"I can't believe this, someone is actually working with Hawkmoth?! Why?" Alya asked as she couldn't comprehend why on earth anyone would want to help the magical terrorist.
"We're not sure, but we're not sure she's not working for him." Ladybug said and Alya looked at them and scowled. "But what did you want to talk to us about? Anything besides Lila?"
"I wanted to set the record straight about her. She got a friend of mine kicked out of school and I didn't believe her when she said that Lila was behind it." Alya said and looked away, missing the look Chat Noir shot Ladybug before Alya turned back. "Beyond everything I want to make sure that my friend gets justice, and if I have to tear apart every one of her lies then so be it!"
"That's fine then, we'll be happy to make a statement right LB?" Chat Noir asked and turned his head and looked at Ladybug who smiled, not what they would do but at the wink Chat Noir sent her that Alya couldn't see.
Alya waved goodbye as the two heroes ran away and suddenly turned when she heard the door opened and revealed Nora standing there in a green buttoned tee-shirt and black pants, a smirk on her face.
"So that was why you ran off to little sister, what did Heroes need from you?" Nora asked and Alya stared at her.
"Nora, how long have you been there?" Alya asked as she tried to recover her equilibrium.
"Only the last couple of minutes while you were saying goodbye to them, so what's up?" Nora asked nad Alya looked away. "Hey sis, what is it?"
"I messed up sis, I messed up big, I didn't believe my best friend and I projected something I did onto her actions and she got hurt because I trusted the wrong person." Alya said and Nora looked at Alya and raised an eyebrow.
"Do we need to get the parents sis?" Nora asked and Alya looked away. "Alya?"
"Dad's due back for supper tomorrow night, and Mom will be here too, I'd like to tell all of you about it together, okay?" Alya said and looked at Nora. "I need to talk to Marinette, get an answer about something she said but it might be important."
"Are you hurt little sis, that's what most important okay?" Nora asked concerned.
"Only my pride." Alya said and walked towards the door. "I don't want to talk about it, okay sis?"
Nora only nodded as Alya passed her, promising that she would help her sister no matter what was wrong.
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As she sat in the teacher's lounge before classes started, Miss Mendeleiv frowned as she looked over the report on Lila. None of this makes any sense. She should have had a meeting between her parents and the school by now, I don't get it. The only reason that she hasn't is either… two things one that stupid owl was scared off or he was payed off! After what happened with her you think that stupid owl would have remembered what not to do! I swear this school is going to be shut down! She thought as she sipped her coffee and tried to get her emotions back under control. "Come on, don't give that scum someone to take advantage of so early in the morning, take a deep breath and stay calm."
As she sighed and did a meditation exercise to control her heartbeat and emotions a commotion outside caused her to look up with a raised eyebrow. As the door opened she heard the
"…and I'm telling you that's how it happened!" Caline said as she came in to the room, her head looking over her shoulder before she turned it and walked to the counter and grabbed a cup to pour herself some coffee.
"I can't believe it, no! I know how the laws are, I know what's right or wrong! To think that you did nothing Caline!" D'Argencourt voice caused Miss Mendeleiv to wince. This wasn't going to be good. "At the very least you should have walked them to the office yourself."
"I had to watch my class, I couldn't leave my students alone!" Caline said and at this D'Argentocourt only scoffed.
"Then you should have had the class representative watch them while you took them! If something happened
"Marinette was the representative! And I still need to get a new one soon!" Caline said and at this Miss Mendeleive looked up and hid a glare at her words.
"Then the deputy then! And calling her to the front of the room without bringing her outside the room?! What in the world were you thinking?!" He countered and Caline winced and looked around, when she noticed Miss Mendeleive there she looked up, hoping for some help but when Miss Mendeleive only scowled she looked down.
"Even I have to admit that you messed up by doing that public, and for an anonymous report? And if the answer sheet was missing before the test, then you shouldn't have gone through with it in the first place Caline!" Miss Mendeleiv said and Caline Buister looked at her with a shocked expression.
"But it went missing after the test!" Caline said and then she went silent at the looks she was getting.
"What?" D'Argencourt exploded and Miss Mendeleiv stared at Caline as she looked back at them.
"You mean to say that the answer sheet was taken AFTER the test?!" Miss Mendeleiv exclaimed as she shot up, her face angry beyond and Caline looked at them confused and could only stare at them in confusion. "Then Marinette couldn't have used it to cheat on it! What were you thinking!?"
"And what was the sequence the events that led to her being expelled?!" D'Argencourt demanded and Caline swallowed at the look on his face and collected herself before she started to speak.
"I discovered that the answer sheet was missing during lunch after the test, and then someone nocked on the door to my room and ran away, I found a paper tapped to the door that said that Marinette took the answer sheet." Caline
"What kind of paper?" Mr. D'Argencourt demanded and Caline looked at him before continuing.
"The paper was typed, by a computer it could have come from anywhere, Then when the answer sheet was found in her backpack Marinette accused Lila and after a few moments we all heard a scream and Lila was down at the bottom of the stairs. Then Lila said that Marinette had stolen a necklace and it was in Marinette's locker." Caline began when Mr. D'Argencourt interrupted.
"Did that fool even check for fingerprints or was it all done on the word of one person with no proof!?" Mr. D'Argencourt demanded and Caline shook her head. "Unbeleivable, and Miss Marinette's locker has been broken into this year alone, and there are no locks for heaven's sake!"
"Lila grabbed the necklace and then Marinette's parents were called, then after she was expelled those scarlet Akuma's attacked and well." Caline explained and the other two teachers shared a look with each other.
"She did that before she was taken to the hospital? What were you thinking letting her move about like that." Miss Mendeleiv and Mr. D'Argencourt both looked at each other and Caline started to get a sinking feeling. "What is it Caline?"
"Who, Marinette? Why would she have to go to the hospital?" Caline asked and Miss Mendeleiv only stared at the younger teacher.
"I'm talking about Lila, after a fall down the stairs to the courtyard, onto hard cement!" Miss Mendeliev said angrily and Caline looked at her in total confusion. "What's with that look Caline?"
"She didn't go to the hospital." Caline said and Mr. D'Argencourt stared at her as Miss Mendeliev's mouth dropped open and stared at Caline as she
"The nurse said she didn't have to go the hospital?!" Miss Mendeliev asked in total shock, wondering how she didn't know that. "What kind of fall did Lila have to not be injured!?"
"She didn't go to the nurse." Caline said and the other two teachers went still in shock.
Mr. D'Argencourt and Miss. Mendeliev only looked at Caline as the bell rang, Caline smiled at them and walked out of the room. The two teachers looked at each other and Mr. D'Argencourt started to swear in German and Miss. Mendeliev put her head down.
"How does this work with the notes you've been taking my dear?" D'Argencourt asked weakly and Miss. Mendeliev sighed.
"I still can't explain the scarlet Akuma's the first time, and then there's this attack! The only answer is one I'm sure you came to as well." Miss said as Mr. D'Argencourt nodded and they both sighed. "Well we best go and take care of our classes my friend, we'll find some way to survive."
Of that I have no doubt my lady, of that I have no doubt. Mr. D'Argencourt said as he openend the door for Miss. Mendeliev who laughed and curtsied after she got up and grinned at him.
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Fred Haprele sighed as he walked around the courtyard and shook his head. I can't believe that happened the other day, none of it feels right! And something's bothering me about Marinette's punishment, I mean was she even giving a chance to defend herself? There's something else here, I can feel it! He thought as he walked towards the stairs and frowned as his eyes looked over them. As he walked up the stairs he saw nothing that indicated that Lila had fallen or that anyone had cleaned the area. "Nothing about this makes sense, I mean nothing at all. Maybe the nurse will know
He looked back down at the courtyard and saw a group of people, a man in a suit and three police officers. He walked down the stairs at a brisk pace and moved towards them, frowning when he saw them looking at him with scowls on.
"Good morning, my name is Fred Haprele, how can I help you?" Fred asked and he relaxed as he saw the scowls leassen.
"I'm officer Jacob, this is Officer Robert and Coby. We have a warrant to serve, I'm going to have to aske you to take us to the security room so we can download a few files." Officer Jaccob said as he held out a hand that Fred took and shook.
"I don't suppose I can see it could I?" Fred asked and the man in the suite smiled and took out a few papers that he handed over to Fred who took them and whistled when he saw the name on the document and nodded. "These all seem to be in order, this way please.
As Fred walked towards the security room he looked over his shoulder and saw the four people following behind him and smiled over his shoulder. "You all came in the right time, class just started so you'll be able to get in and out fast…but I'm guessing that you all planned it this way?"
"A few files that I need for a case. Mr. Haprele…. You wouldn't be someone who's been at this….. school long have you?" The suit asked and Fred shook his head.
"No I only started working here a few years ago….. about three now that I think about it. The people who've been here the longest are Mr. D and Miss Mendeleiv." Fred said and the suit relaxed and smiled at him.
"Then you needn't worry, but you might want to find another job." The suit said and Fred stared at him, stopping and looking at him. "Mr. Haprele, is something wrong?"
"Why would I need a different job?" Fred asked and the suit smiled darkly and Fred felt a shift of terror.
"Let us just say that old sins have a way of coming back, and this place has quite a few." The suit said and smiled at Fred. "But that's not important right now, the security room sir?"
"This way please." Fred said as he swallowed. Maybe I should talk to the old man about becoming the manager of the theater after all. It might be the best decision after all. He thought as he led the way through the school.
A few moments later they moved down a flight of stairs and the suit looked around. "You know, I remember the security room being on the top floor once."
"Oh it was." Fred said as they walked down a hallway. "But the story is that it was moved after a fire in the old science room burned down the wall dividing them and fighting the fire destroyed the computers. They had to get new computers, there was a bit of unused space down here so the decision was made to destroy the damaged wall and turn both rooms into the new art room."
"Oh, I think I heard about that." Robert said and Fred nodded.
"Came into this place during the construction really, and parts of my duties are to transfer the data to a new drive every month." Fred said and the suit nodded.
"Good, but I have to know when the next scheduled transfer is supposed to take place." The suit asked and Fred looked up
"Actually it's supposed to be tomorrow, you're lucky that you're here now." Fred said and the suit nodded.
"Wait, what? But this is only the second week of the month!" one of the officers exclaimed as the other two nodded as the
"Yeah, it's usually later but the principle was adamant about it, he wants it done sooner this month for some reason." Fred said and the suit chuckled.
"That makes sense, so the old man could learn." The suit muttered and Fred looked at him as he only grinned back.
A few moments later in the security room the suit had taken out an external hard drive and Fred sent the last month's CCTV camera's for the last two weeks and nodded at the suit.
"Now the cameras are sub divided by day, good luck finding out anything that you need, and they turn on at the first bell and turn off at a the last." Fred said once and the suit offered his hand that Fred took.
"Thank you, now officers, Mr. Haprele I just need you all to sign that you witnessed the transfer and you Mr. Haprele just need to sign for the authenticity." The suit said as he got out a piece of paper from his briefcase. As they finished sinning the paper Fred looked up at his boss's voice.
"What is the meaning of this?! Mr. Haprele; who are these people and what are they doing here?!" A voice from behind them caused them to turn and see Mr. Damocles standing outside the room looking in with a glare and
"Hello Damocles', how long has it been?" The Suit asked and Mr. Damocles' turned towards him and paled as he saw the suit
"Mr. Artoga….. what are you doing here?!" Damocles asked and Mr. Artoga only grinned at him evily.
"Oh, I'm just serving out a warrant. I expect that you will be hearing from the school board sooner or later about it." Artoga purred as Fred watched as Damocles backed up and started to sweat. "I think this time I'll get justice without a girl dying. Goodbye Owl-man"
As the suit walked away Fred looked at his boss and frowned as he leaned against the door. "What was that about sir?"
Damocles shook his head and looked at Fred with a glare full of anger and Fred scowled back.
"NEVER MIND THAT! Why on earth did you take that…..that parasite down here?!" Damocles demanded and Fred crossed his arms.
"He had a lawful warrant and three officers of the law as backup, that was legal and I was full within my rights and responsabilites to this school to have done that! if you have a problem with it then I will contact my union rep for you to talk to with me!"
"Nevermind that, what did they want anyway?" Damocles demanded and Fred shrugged.
"Nothing much, just the camera's recording for the month so far. Why?" Fred asked as Damocles just paled and looked at the security system and staggered off to Fred's confusion.