After a shooting on her 6th birthday, Marinette Dupain-Cheng died. She was brought to the afterlife by her grandmother. She was content. Until the paramedics did their jobs and suddenly she wasn’t dead anymore.
Waking up to find that half of her soul had remained tethered to the afterlife, allowing her the ability to see things others can’t, Marinette grows up an outcast.
It isn’t until she moves in with her only friend, a detective she’s known since preschool, that she finds her purpose, solving his harder cases with the help of her spiritual connections.
Three years later, she’s thriving. Her own business, two best friends, a K-9 drop out as a companion- life couldn’t get better. Until she meets Chat.
A ghost with amnesia and a mask to match, Chat isn’t sure what he needs to move on to the afterlife (and, considering he’s stuck around for another three years, he doesn’t seem in all that much of a hurry to figure it out either!)
When Amelie Agreste, a socialite from out of town, comes to Marinette for help locating her missing nephew, Marinette knows her career and her life will be on the line. But even a murderer intent on silencing her forever can’t keep Marinette from seeking the truth.
Words: 2226, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English
- Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
- Rating: Mature
- Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
- Characters: Amélie Graham de Vanily, Félix Fathom, Gabriel Agreste, Luka Couffaine, Chloé Bourgeois, Lila Rossi, Théo Barbot, Master Fu (Miraculous Ladybug), Le Gorille | Adrien Agreste's Bodyguard
- Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe
- Additional Tags: Private Investigator, Ghosts, Murder Mystery, Friends to Lovers, Solving crimes, Romance, Best Friends, Fluff and Angst, Fluff, Angst, Blood and Violence, Attempted Murder, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Attempted Kidnapping, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Drug Use, Tikki is a Dog (Miraculous Ladybug), Plagg is a Cat (Miraculous Ladybug), Adrien is a Ghost, No beta we die like Adrien Agreste, Illustrations, Crime Scenes, Don’t Believe Everything You’re Told, Forget Canon