The Princess and Her Criminal

The 'fight'

Third Person Pov
"Alya! No! Let her go you bastard!" A female in a red and black themed outfit yelled. "Ah... 'Mal'?" Hawkmoth chuckled, amused. The girl didn't replied but instead swung her 'yo-yo' at the man. "Hmm... I see you have upgraded your little toy. Though, I do like your new costume design, the yoyo could use some more work." The man replied as he dodged.

Multi-mouse, Chat noir and Carapace were all fighting Natalie and the other guards.

"Tsk... Such a shame. You had so much potential Bridgenette... Why'd you leave?" The girl scoffed, "You killed my parents and tried to hurt my mother! What do you mean, 'Why'd you leave'?" He just smiled in reply. "And my name is Marinette'!" She once again attacked but again it was dodged. The man frowned and pulled out a sword from who knows where. Marinette clicked a button on the yo-yo and watched as it turned into a thin bladed sword. "Hmm... You've gotten better at technology or did the rat helped you with that?" Anger fueled inside Marinette and she charged at the man. The two swords clashed, pushing Marinette back but Hawkmoth stayed still.

"C'mon, you can do better than that." Marinette gritted her teeth at his statement. Again, she attacked. Their swords clashed against each other but this time Marinette wasn't pushed back. "Fix your posture!" The man said in a stern voice causing the bluenette's to do so out of instinct.

"Don't tell me what to do!" She shouted as she swung her sword, aiming for his knees but her attack was dodged. "He has no right to instruct me! Not after what he's done!" She thought, "I will protect Alya!" She watched in horror as the man before her chuckled and took out a gun. "That w-won't work on me!" Hawkmoth knew that, "But I wonder if it'll work on her. " He placed the tip of the gun to the unconscious girl's head. Marinette froze causing the man to smirk. He knew how much Marinette gets attached to persons that she cares about, it's one of her biggest weaknesses actually. And Hawkmoth felt like teasing the child.

"Now, I have some questions, drop your weapon or her brain will stain the wall behind me. Marinette gulped and slowly placed her weapon on the floor, and slid it over to Hawkmoth. " Good job, Bridgette." Her previous name slid of his tongue causing her to scowl quietly. She already told him, her name was Marinette, not 'Bridgette'.

"Just ask your stupid questions old man," Hawkmoth chuckled causing Marinette to realize what she said, "I- Don't get any stupid ideas! I still hate you!" The man nodded.

"First question, how do you know her?" The man sat down on the cold floor and motioned for the conscious teen to do so too. "About two months after I escaped," Hawkmoth frowned at the word 'escape' but allowed her to continue." Mother and I had rented an apartment. After about another month she was reunited with her boyfriend and they got married. Turns out Alya likes to buy pastries from my father's bakery so we eventually met. Then later we found out we were going to be attending the same school." Marinette sat down on the floor but maintained a distance between her and the man infront of her.

"Next question, where did you go into hiding?" Marinette rolled her eyes. "You're so personal, jeez. We were hiding out in an abandoned woodlot. The same one you saw Alya in. That's all your getter out of me." He nodded to show he understand. Don't get me wrong, he knew he could use Alya to get the rest of information but he didn't feel like pushing his luck.

"Are you and Adrien dating?" The man smirked as he gave a teasing looks. Blood rushed to Marinette's face but she somewhat kept her posture, "Shut up! I- What does that work to you?! So what if we're dating huh?!" She clenched her hand in a fist and yelled. Hawkmoth chuckled, it was the first time that she actually liked someone. It was funny to see her so flustered. "Since I'm feeling... generous today. I'll leave your 'boyfriend' be. But please, tell him I'm sorry." 'Marinette was shocked' is a huge understatement. She was beyond shock, she didn't expect him to say that. "What? Wait... He doesn't plan on killing me, I don't know about Alya though so I'll still be careful. If this talk was on other circumstances, this would've been nice. Just like old times. But nooooo, he just had to mess it up!" Marinette sighed. "What's the next question?"

"Hmm... Let me think." Marinette rolled her eyes again. "You don't even know what you want to ask?!" Hawkmoth ignored the child, "Where's the rat? Does she still prefer using technology instead of actually fighting?" Hawkmoth knew very well that Marinette doesn't like him calling Sabine a 'rat' and damn well Marinette didn't. "Stop calling her that! It's either Sabine or MultiMOUSE!" She stressed a bit on the mouse... Okay, okay  she stressed a lot on the 'mouse'. "Hmm... Alright." Marinette relaxed a bit unconsciously.  (𝙃𝙚𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙩?) "Mother still prefers being the one in a chair but, she's gotten more confident and no longer have a problem fighting in person." The child answered.

"That's nice. What's your 'father's' name?" Jealousy laced his voice. "Tom. His name is Tom. He's well built and tall. He has brown hair and brownish-green eyes. He's almost always spending quality family time with us and I love him so much! He's one of the best fathers in this world!" Marinette prolonged out of pure spite. And Hawkmoth knew this, though, he was still a bit jealous.

"Last question, why'd you change your name and appearance? It can't be only to escape from me. After all, Adrien didn't change a thing." Marinette chuckled, "Out of spite and also, I wanted to match my hair colour with mom's since she matched her eye colour with mine." Hawkmoth gave her a 'Really? Out of spite?' look causing Marinette to giggle. She missed this.

"I have a question for you..." She trailed off. "Shoot." Hawkmoth had lowered his gun quite some time ago but now he has fully dropped it. "Why'd you do it?" The man looked puzzled for awhile until he finally understood what she meant. He gulped. "I-" he paused as though trying to get his emotions together so Marinette allowed him to do so. "I'm sorry. I didn't know that I'd get attached to you. I guess, if you want I could tell you the whole story?" Marinette nodded. "Well, your biological parents were in dept. So we agreed that I'd take you at the age of 3 in exchange for paying off their dept. However, when you became 3,they resisted. I upheld my part of the deal but they didn't. So I got upset, killed them and took you. I..." He sighed as Marinette patiently waited for him to continue. "I didn't mean to get attached to you but I did. When you were 5, you started calling me 'old man'..." The man chuckled before continuing. "I loved you as if you were my own. But I knew to myself if you ever found out that I killed your parents over a stupid deal. You'd hate me... And I was right." Tears had built up in his eyes, "My brother hates me already, I didn't want to loose you too but I guess I really messed up."

"Oh... What about maman?! There was a file in your office saying 'Has served her purpose. Currently, useless. Get rid of.'" Marinette made air quotes with her fingers to emphasize her point. Hawkmoth chuckled, the tears now sliding down his masked face, one by one. "I wasn't going to kill her! She was my personal assistant and she meant a lot to you as a child. However, what you read was true. She had served her purpose and was thus useless to me. We would've wiped her memory of the past couple years and make it seem like she got into a car accident and had memory loss. We had it all planned out. I'm really sorry Bridg- I mean Marinette." He stood up and walked towards the teen and gently handed her friend to her along with her weapon. "I have to go. If you want to talk again, but on different terms, you can contact me using this. Hopefully, we'll talk again soon." He gave the girl a watch and turned to leave.

"Wait!" He turned back around to see Marinette....

𝙃𝙚𝙮 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨! 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨. 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 (𝟏 𝐨𝐫 𝟐) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭!