If he had been present, if he had been there by Ladybug’s side, then maybe his father would’ve still been alive today. Maybe the butterfly miraculous wouldn’t have been lost again to some new villain. Maybe Ladybug wouldn’t have gotten hurt, causing his father to sacrifice himself. Maybe he would’ve been the one to sacrifice himself. That was part of his job, wasn’t it?
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She’d seen him when she had to tell him his father died. She’d seen how it had broken his heart and she couldn’t bear to see that in him again. So, maybe she was a terrible girlfriend for not being entirely truthful, but how could she be when it would only hurt him more?
The only way she could cope with any of this was: 1. Stay as busy as physically possible so as to not think about it and 2. Think of it as a Ladybug problem, not a Marinette problem. Marinette didn’t know that Adrien was a senti-being. Marinette didn’t know that Gabriel Agreste was Monarch. Marinette didn’t know about the wish. Only Ladybug did.
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Marinette and Adrien grapple with their guilt as Christmas approaches.
Words: 4120, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: F/M
- Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug)
- Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
- Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-London Special, post-s5, Christmas, ML Secret Santa