HBBIC (Head Bitches & Bastard In Charge)

The Snitch💚

"There is no way in hell I am talking to him," Marinette snarled as she furiously drew in her new sketchbook. After the incident, Marinette made a new sketchbook, one to go with her Primary self. Nathaniel gave her one of the dozens of sketchbooks he owns but hasn't drawn in yet, she made a royal blue leather cover and decorated it with black rhinestones that spelled out 'MDC' in cursive. Right now, she was re-creating Jagged's award show outfit and from memory.

"He's just gonna bitch and moan about taking the high road and kissing Rossi's ass."

The Primaries and Marc sat in Marinette's room, going over the next stage of their plan to expose Lila if or when the class doesn't figure it out by the end of their month. They had to get Adrien to join them, but not as an official Primary decked out in his own blazer and bejeweled crown pin. He was going to be their snitch. Every year, The Primaries got a new snitch, someone who does their dirty work and gathers information on their targets. Most of the secrets Nathaniel knows about the students come from the snitch. They got new ones to erase their tracks in case anyone outside the group knew who their snitch was. Adrien seemed like an odd choice, considering his high road method, but no matter how much Marinette hates it, he's their best option. Someone else from the target class is a big no for obvious reasons. And the other students won't work since they're so vocal about their distaste for the target class, so they'll suspect one of them of being the snitch.

Adrien has proven himself to be a coward who can't say no. He bends over backward for those with some sort of power over him: Chloé, when the Primaries disbanded and she played the role of his only friend, and Lila, who has creepy ties with his father. What forty-year-old man calls a fourteen-year-old their muse? They know that Adrien knows Lila is a liar, and they'll gladly spread that around if he doesn't comply. While the target class won't do anything since they're kissing the ground Lila walks on, the other students will make his life hell. They will call him a weak, spineless nobody. Word will get out to more Agreste fans, many of whom hate Lila with a passion, and the brand will fry. So he had no choice but to be their snitch. It's either that or see Gabriel get dragged through the mud.

"You also need to call Jagged and get the numbers for his lawyers," Chloé reminded her. Since Lila destroyed something that Jagged had commissioned, Marinette was within her rights to sue her and her classmates for harassment. Same with Nathaniel for destruction of property.

"And Gabriel won't let me in the mansion," Chloé rolled her eyes. "Not after I started that Twitter online campaign to have him fire Lila. It got five-thousand retweets and eight-thousand likes but that fashion disaster still won't fire that bitch.

"That was you?" Marc asked as he and Nathaniel looked up from his journal. Off her nod, he pressed his lips together in thought before nodding. "Actually, I'm not surprised. And he probably kept tabs on the people who agreed with the post, so that leaves me out because I spread that post everywhere."

"Nath, then that leaves you," Marinette told him, much to the redhead's disappointment. "I know, I know. It's like talking to a damn brick wall, but just try." It was worse than talking to a brick wall in Marinette's opinion. You can slam the person you don't like into the wall over and over until they stop screaming, but do it with Adrien? He'll just coddle them and tell you you're wrong for trying to hurt the person you hate with every fiber of your being.

"Mari, are you sure you can't do it?" he asked, not wanting to deal with Adrien giving the whole 'high road' spiel to him.

"Nath, believe me, I have tried." She sets down her pencil and turns to face the redhead. "He will not listen. The only thing he's done is show concern when Lila pulls some shit, or look disappointed when I rant about them and then he'll tell me to be the bigger person." She smirks, "A few jabs at him from you will shut him up and make him do anything to get you to stop."