He's a Keeper

Revealed!!!

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Chat detransforms and looks at his phone before speaking to those in the dance hall

"Why?" he calls into the near-empty room.

"Why what?" Ladybug asks, grinning coyly.

"Why are you trying to kill an innocent girl who's still under the control of Hawkmoth? Did you freak because she looks just like you behind the mask? Or are you just trying to do something you've sworn never to do, to kill an akumatized innocent civilian?!!!"

Ladybug drops the knife, smirks and walks towards him, entwining her hand in his.

"Oh, you think she's under his co -? And that I'm La -? I'm sorry babe, I really freaked. But she's been impersonating me, maybe we could test out what happens when you use Cataclysm on a person."

"Just do your cure so that this girl can go back to being a guest here at the Estate instead of being a spitting image of you!"

He walks over to the akumatized lady "Don't worry," he tells her, "Soon you'll be out of this body and won't have this appearance anymore and Hawkmoth won't be controlling you anymore and everything will go back to normal."

She starts to weep, "But Chat... this is my real body," he hugs her and reassures her one more that everything will go back to normal.

When he feels the Miraculous Cure wash over him he looks towards the young woman he was currently embracing. She hadn't changed. She still had his girlfriend's appearance. Which meant...

"You're Marinette?" he asks her.

"Yes" she replies

"And for your fourteenth bir-"

"You gave me a homemade lucky charm, exactly like the one I gave you,"

Adrien smiles then it vanishes.

"And the reason why you aren't Ladybug?"

"Your dad's sister made me pissed, so I put my earrings in my bag so that I wouldn't be akumatized as an evil Ladybug."

"But wh- Wait, my dad's sister Tanya?"

"Yes,"

"No, no, no, Aunt Tanya is my late mother's half-sister and the head of the marketing sector of Gabriel. You know, posters and things"

"So she's not his sister, but why would sh-"

"No, I'm not Gabriel's sister, but after I post this video of Ladybug trying to murder his future daughter-in-law, I'll have more money than even she."

Ladybug holds up her cellphone which played a video of the attempted-murder scene. She then detransforms, a weary-looking Tanya appearing in her place.

Adrien sits on the dance floor and fans her off "You do know we have security cameras here at the Agreste Estate. Ones that could include tapes of both the attempted murder and the detransformation of Ladybug."

Tanya nods "Security cameras that will not be able to be hacked by someone with your hacking skill level."

Adrien nods, "Definitely not. Thank goodness she's doing the hacking and not me" he points a finger over to Tikki, who had retrieved all the security footage from that night, loaded it onto the yo-yo, then put the original in a loop.

Tanya shrugs "Tikki spots on!" she cries.

Nothing happens.

"Looking for these?" Marinette asks, putting her jewelry back in her ears.

Tanya screams.

"YOU ROTTEN NO-GOOD POOR BAKER'S GIRL, YOU DON'T DESERVE AN AGRESTE. YOU AND MY SISTER SAT THERE AND LOOKED PRETTY WHILE THE REST OF US HAVE HAD TO WORK TO GET MONEY AND POSITION. I HAD TO WIN MY WAY UP THE COMPANY WHILE EMILIE WAS PROMOTED TO CO-CEO JUST BECAUSE SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE HEAD OF THE COMPANY. YOU ARE JUST THE SAME. I'LL BE ROTTING AWAY IN A GOVERNMENT RETIREMENT HOME BECAUSE I WON'T BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO LIVE AT HOME WHEN YOU'LL BE GOING ON A 2-MONTH LONG HONEYMOON WITH YOUR HUSBAND BECAUSE YOU'LL HAVE MONEY TO SPARE. BUT YOU'LL TURN OUT THE SAME AS HER TOO. I WILL END YOU. I'LL FIND A WAY. I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU ALL!!"

Marinette and Adrien sat through her rant in silence and would've continued to sit there in silence if it had not been for a loud slow clap that wafted its way to the trio's ears.

"Bravo, Tanya" a male voice rang loud but not clear. The voice sounded as if its owner was choking, or had just finished crying.

"I've been trying to find a way to convict you for so long, I knew you killed my Emilie, but I had no proof, so I scoured Paris for negative emotions, hoping if I aku- manipulated you, you'd do something else reckless that would throw you in jail. But no! All you do is meet my son's brilliant girlfriend Marinette and you've done something so stupid you'll be in prison for 25 years. A big enough scandal that all will forget to care that I'm Haw-"

"That you're what Father?"

Adrien raised his phone from behind him, the one that was recording every moment since he walked into that room.

"That you're Hawkmoth?"