Ladybug Gone Bad

Chapter 24

The memories were wonderful at first. I saw myself as an adorable little girl, having my parents push me on the swing set. I watched as I baked for the first time. There was such a warm glow in me. Such childish innocence, I was happy. Joyful tears spilled out of my eyes as I got my first batch of memories. I even remembered all the fun I had with Felix before he changed.

Then the memories stopped being happy. I felt myself being ripped out of the arms of my unconscious parents. They really did die in an automobile accident but I lived. I watched Felix turn into a monster and saw the confusion in my young eyes. It seemed my father had told me to pretend to be a hero all in a bid to get Chat's miraculous. We had destroyed all those akumas together. As a team.

Then I saw blood. I watched myself slice people's throats, strangle people, hurt people again and again and again with no remorse, no hesitation. The tears weren't happy anymore. I wasn't sure they would ever be. Hawkmoth turned me into a monster.

"Marinette..." I glanced at Adrien.

"Wh-what?"

"Are you alright?" I swallowed and turned to Felix. I crawled over to him, my body shaking. I forced myself to stand and stretched out a hand to him. He took it and we looked at each other. He understood exactly what was happening to me. I shut my eyes again suddenly the moment our fingers touched.

There was blood on my hands as I held a bloody knife. A girl hunched over on the bed. And that girl... that girl was...

"Your angel. Felix, I... I killed her. I killed Bridgette. I didn't... I didn't mean to... I mean I..." his entire body went rigid. He stared at me, mouth open.

"You couldn't have Marinette. I- I don't..."

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..." I put my hand against my mouth, trying to hold back my sobs. I opened my arms when he walked up to me before I felt his fist connect to my cheek. I was so shocked I actually fell down. I looked up at him, my eyes blurring with tears when Adrien held him back.

"HOW COULD YOU?!" I held in my sobs and got up, attempting to keep my dignity. Adrien was staring at me, Master Fu was nowhere to be found. I took a deep breath and looked at him. Same ol' violent hothead Felix. I waited till the red cleared from his eyes and suddenly, he looked guilty as hell. Idiot. I heard commotion and turned towards the door of the large building, too overwhelmed to actually look around.

"Felix, what did you just do to my cousin?" I whipped my head in the direction of the voice and saw a girl with bright blue hair and soft brown eyes which seemed to be blazing with silent fury.

Cousin?

"Angel?" She punched him in the gut and sighed quietly when he winced and fell to the floor. I stared at her. She really was an angel. Her eyed, her face, she was so graceful and elegant even while punching the guy. "Damn, that punch. It's definitely you-"

"I will wipe that smirk off your face you idiot. What did you do to Marinette?" He looked down quietly. She sighed. "I heard everything. And you're about to feel worse because clearly Marinette didn't kill me. She saved me, actually. She just hasn't remembered everything yet."

"I... saved you- oh. I remember now." I stared at her. This was the girl Felix had been pining away for. I didn't blame him. She was beautiful and she seemed kind. I let her speak while more memories flowed in.

"I was kidnapped by Hawkmoth too. The only thing is, unlike Marinette and Felix, he made me a servant, a maid. He never told Marinette that we were related either. When Felix and I tried to escape and he found out, he sent you to kill me. Guess he thought it would hurt me more to have my throat slit by my own flesh and blood..."