Miraculous One Shot Compilation

Under Agreste

A/n - This is a spin-off of my own one-shot "InternShip". The events of that one never happened, but the fan-site "Under Agreste" still exists.

"I can't believe you!" Marinette growled.

"I'm sorry! Please, Marinette, can't we talk this out?"

"After what you did? No! I can't forgive you! Now all you get is a good laugh at my expense."

"It was all supposed to be a joke! I swear, I never expected anyone to read it!"

"But they did. Enjoy the new friends you made... you don't need me anymore."

"But you're my best friend!"

"Best friends don't post fanfiction about their best friends, so clearly we aren't!" Marinette turned her back to Alya and stalked off, refusing to look at her former best friend. The direction she was intending to go didn't serve her purpose, so she had to sacrifice looking where she was going as well. She was in a vengeful enough mood that she did just that and tumbled to the ground. Alya offered her a hand up, but Marinette ignored it and went on her way.

A notification dinged on Alya's phone - it was from the Under Agreste fansite, which was devoted to (usually) lewd fanfiction about Adrien Agreste, a celebrity classmate of hers.

She opened the link to a glowing review: "Wonderful! Your language is so bold and your OC is almost as lovable as Adrien! I love how she gets to know him a little before falling in love. And it's clean! Only a rare gem of a fanfiction makes the trending list without the promise of a smut scene attracting clicks. Six stars out of five!"

Comments similar to this one that Alya had received before everything went downhill had filled her with such joy! Now it made her gut feel heavy and left a bad taste in her mouth. Marinette was not her OC, she was her best friend! Or at least she had been. Now Marinette didn't want anything to do with Alya, and it was all over this stupid story. Alya knew she had messed up, but she was truly sorry, and she had begged Marinette's forgiveness. Why couldn't she have a second chance?

Furiously, Alya navigated the website until it offered her the pop-up she was looking for. "Are you sure you want to delete your story? You will not be able to retrieve it." Alya had no question in her mind when she hit "confirm". Her fanfiction was important to her, but more important than Marinette? Never! She just hoped it wasn't too late.

This great debacle had all started when Alya was searching images of Adrien for two reasons: 1) To see if she could find any images of him in the same poses as Chat Noir for comparison, and 2) To send the best pictures she found to Marinette (who probably already had them anyway). That was how she had accidentally found the fansite "Under Agreste". She'd heard of this kind of thing before, but had never actually looked at one - so her general curiosity over all things forced her to check it out. She had skimmed the trending content, finding that in each one the blond model was paired in a romantic relationship with a different girl. By that time, Alya was almost as taken up with the idea of Adrien and Marinette together as Marinette was, so she didn't like the results one bit. She had wanted to read at least one fanfiction that showed things the way she wanted to see them; she'd been pretty sure there wasn't one already existing, so she'd figured she would have to create it.

When Alya had first written her fanfiction, she hadn't expected anyone to read it. She'd written it under a pen name, so it didn't have the advantage of being "by the same author as the Ladyblog". However, the views did come. By the time her story had been dropped from the new uploads list, it was already at the bottom of trending. From there, it had climbed its way to the top. Alya had been on cloud nine; that was, until Marinette had found out.