Sweet Tooth: A Miraculous Ladybug Fanfiction

Ch 12: Consent and Strawberries

***WARNING: This chapter contains a lot of SIN and talks about abuse. Read with caution.***

"Adrien, wait!" Marinette calls out to him as she watches him pull on his jeans and open the trapdoor to her room in record time, still in pajamas herself.

"Hell no!" He replies, going to the front door and only stopping when he realizes he doesn't have the keys.

"Give me your keys." He orders her, his face showing that he won't take no for an answer. He, however, should know better than to order Marinette around.

"No." She frowns, grabbing him by the arm and attempting to pull him away from the door.

"Mari, give me the keys." He practically growls out, not having the patience for this.

"If I let you go right now, you'll kill him!" She reminds him, not seeing the smirk that he gives in reply as the thought of killing Luka crosses his mind.

"Wouldn't be too bad." He jokes darkly, a slightly serious tone in his voice.

"Yes, it would! You'd go to jail!" She says as she struggles to pull him towards the couch to sit and calm down.

"He's touched you without your permission!" He reminds her.

"I know.."

"He's hurt you emotionally and physically!"

"I-I know!"

"And he hasn't even apologized!"

"I KNOW!" She screams out, tears falling past her cheeks before she can even try to stop them. She wipes at her face furiously with shaky hands, stepping away from Adrien slightly.

Adrien's eyes widen at the volume of her voice, watching quietly as the bluenette tries to compose herself and ultimately fails.

"Y-You think I don't? I do! I know! H-He hurt me, really bad.. And I could blame myself for it if I wanted to, I could say that it was because I told him—..But that wasn't it. He's the one that'd always blame that. I'd always blame the alcohol. I-I should've known—I should've realized it was just.. him." She tries to explain, desperate for Adrien to stay as she paces around part of the room.

"Mari.."

"And-And he'd get so mad! And I'd get so scared! And I shouldn't have been, what kind of coward am I? I mean, I-I'm facing so much scary shit every day, why was I so scared of him? Why am I still so scared of him?!" She continues, laughing sarcastically at her predicament while more tears falls down her face. Adrien's presence starts to become non-existent to her as she rants, the anger, the pain, all coming back at once.

"Mari."

"What did I even do to deserve it? Because I'd say no?! Because I—.. None of it makes sense! Even if he was pissed off at me for my feelings, to use them against me, to hurt me with them as the excuse... It doesn't make sense! And now he looks at me like.. Like I'm the bad guy! Like I always planned for this to happen!"

Adrien grabs her arms as gently as he can, stopping her from pacing a hole into the floor with how fast she is moving.

"Hey.. take a breath." He tells her, trying to calm her down.

She does as he says, feeling it to be rather hard as the pain in her heart echoes throughout her body. She does her best to steady her breathing, looking down at the ground with quivering lips.

Adrien frowns as he pulls her in for a hug, her words slowly being processed by him.

'He hurt her... how exactly? I know it was emotional and physical pain, but she's saying he hurt her bad.? What does she-?' His thoughts come to a halt when he remembers something. Something he really wishes he didn't.