Adrien did the only thing he could.

He ran.

Adrien couldn't breath, couldn't think, couldn't focus. All he could do was run.

he wasn't thinking about how his dad was Hawkmoth. He wasn't thinking about the fact that he wasn't strong enough to do the right thing. He wasn't thinking about how the fate of Paris rested in his hands.

He was definitely not thinking about how Ladybug was akumatized.

All he could do was run. One step after another. He sprinted away from Marinette, if she could even be called that, out of the school and down the streets. He ran away down the road, around buildings, until he was sure she was no longer following.

Only then did he turn into an alley and collapse.

Adrien broke down. He slid down against the wall, feeling a weakness unlike any other. His shoulders shook with the sobs he didn't know he was containing as Plagg petted his head and whispered "Itll be okay buddy".

It was his fault that Ladybug had been akumatized. It was his fault for letting the situation escalate. His lady was no longer recognizable, to herself or anyone else.

He could've stopped it, all of it, but he didnt.

If he had been less oblivious, he could've taken down hawkmoth from the beginning.

Not that he couldn't do it now.

His breathing was shaky as he wiped his tearstained face and stood up.

"We have to do something, Plagg." He paused. "I can't let Hawkmoth win, but I can't let that Akuma kill him either."

Plagg looked at him sympathetically. "So, what are we gonna do?"

"We have to tell her. What's going on."

Plagg scrunched his nose, the same way Adrien did when he smelled camembert, "This Akuma had Marinette wrapped around it's thumb. Wing? I don't know. But it also is somehow suppressing Tikki. And if you tell her that she's akumatized, the Akuma could hurt both of them. This is gonna be tricky."

"I know."

"She has to figure it out on her own. Once Marinette realizes she is akumatized, no magic can take away that knowledge. But if you tell her, you're in a lot of trouble."

Adrien groaned. "I don't like any of this."

"Neither do I, but ill be with you the whole time."

"Thanks. Plagg, Claws Out!"

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AN: guess who's back, bitches.

Actually you aren't bitches, you're wonderful people and I love and appreciate all of you.

Anyway I've been gone cause I got a job working at a summer camp with no wifi :( and I didn't really have time to write. This has been my favorite story to write and my most popular. And I was planning on finishing this story a while ago, but I kinda lost the document that had like my outline, so who knows where this story will lead.

Not me.

And then I got a concussion and wasn't supposed to use my phone for a couple weeks (spoiler alert I did which prolonged the symptoms) and wasn't allowed to like write on a computer.

But I'm mostly healed. I think. I have headaches and memory problems, but I'm fairly sure I wasn't akumatized lol.

Anyway, thanks for reading and leave a reveiw. Tell me what you think of this chapter or what you think should happen next. It could influence what I write next.

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Also if any of you know apbio hit me up cause this summer homework is hell when I can't even read the book without getting a major headache.