The Salt Files: Additional Cases (MLB)

Birthday Surprises (and Disasters) Alternate

Alternate version of the other one cuz I changed it last minute cuz I got a really good idea and wanted to write it before I forgot it.

I've done Marinette birthdays, and I've done Lila birthdays. You know who's birthday I wanna do and haven't done yet?

MARCCCCCCC

Lila finds out it's Marc's birthday and tries to ruin it since she knows he knows about her lies, but lets Alya do the dirty work for her. Turns out more people care about him than they thought.

Luka, Adrien, Marinette, Marc, Nath, Aurore Sugar

Alya and Lila Salt >:)

Marc sniffled as he slid down behind the building, holding his notebook close. It was the only comfort he really had through this situation. 

One moment, his party was going great! Next, Alya barges in and causes a fuss, ruining everything! Marc was left embarrassed and fled, not sticking around to hear his cousin tell the girl off. He heard Nathaniel call his name as he ran, but he didn't stop. 

He felt guilty now, thinking back on it. His boyfriend is probably worried about him!

But he can't face them. All the stares, pity glances, none of it! Marc isn't really known for his confidence, after all. That trait was more towards Marinette.

The boy started taking deep breaths. He knew he would get akumatized if he wasn't careful with his emotions, and he didn't want to hurt anybody. He looked down at the book in his hands and started to write to calm himself down. He wrote down how he was feeling, what went wrong, and how the party should have gone. 

As a writer, he should have felt relief or at ease at this. But instead, all he felt was anger. All this work to make this surprise party for him for his birthday, and this is how it ends? Because some overconfident, cocky, and hard-headed journalist believes that she was in the right? How was that fair?

Writing out his rage was not helping him in the slightest, instead making him angrier the more he recalled what happened. Marc continued writing, but suddenly stopped. He read out what he wrote. "I wish Alya..." He didn't know what else to think. His head went blank and his mind felt...blocked. He didn't get to finish remembering what he was going to write before his vision went purple. 

"Writer's Block," a voice spoke up. "I am giving you the power to write what you want to happen to your enemies. As long as you have a tool, anything you wish for can come true. But in return, I want the Ladybug and Cat Noir miraculous. Do we have a deal?" (I made it sound kinda different cuz I haven't watched the show in a while and his rant is so repetitiveeeee)

Marc couldn't win, and he knew it. If it was even possible to fight off an akuma, he doesn't think he will today. He wasn't strong enough to do it. He felt all alone, empty, and filled with negative emotions. And it was all because of her.

Marc couldn't even say anything before his mind made the decision for him.

📝📝📝

"What the hell is wrong with you, Alya?!" Marinette reached for the girl as Luka and Adrien held her back. "Do you even know what you've done?!"

"He knows what he did!" Alya snorted back, being held back by Nino. "He knows what he did to Lila, I'm just giving him what he deserved!"

"Oh really, what did he do then, huh? Because you have yet to share anything about the situation, you just came in and started destroying everything!" Marinette climbed over Luka's shoulder and was about to jump when Adrien stopped her. "As far as I can tell, you are the one who is in the wrong here!"