Miraculous One Shots {Requests Open}

Just Breathe

I'm just going to say: I'm unfortunately being mean to poor Marinette again. Mature..it's a mix of my abused Marinette story and my Marinette's nightmares story. But there's a lot of fluff. Does that make up for the fact that I'm being mean to this poor girl again?
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Backstory - Marinette's POV

My father started abusing me when I was six. The reason was that my mother filed for divorce and moved back to her hometown in China. Her decision made him angry and he decided to take his anger out on me..for whatever reason...

When I was fourteen, I was given the ladybug miraculous and met Tikki, the Kwami of that miraculous. I became Ladybug, one of the famed superheroes of Paris; my partner in fighting crime is Chat Noir.

Chat Noir and I didn't know our civilian identities at first, but three years later, we decided to reveal them to each other since we figured Hawkmoth was planning something big. Which he was. We found that out, but he's still in Paris releasing Akumas for us to fight.

Chat Noir turned out to be Adrien Agreste, my crush. And he had a crush for me as Ladybug. So technically...we had a crush on each other. It didn't take long for us to start dating; much to Alya and Nino's excitement.

I had kept the secret about my father's abuse from everybody, including Adrien, for years. Until one day, that day being a few months ago...Adrien found out about it. He talked to me until he managed to get my consent to call the police. Once my father was arrested, Adrien allowed me to move into his penthouse with him. After about a month of reoccurring flashbacks and nightmares, Adrien pushed me to go to a psychologist and I was diagnosed with PTSD because of my father's abuse.

It took a lot of coaxing, but I finally started therapy a couple weeks ago. It's been going...well I guess, but Adrien said that it'll help if I keep going to it. He also said that it may take weeks or even months before I feel like I've improved. Which, if that's the case, is fine by me...for now at least.

One thing I have found though is that since I'm talking about what happened with my father and my feelings about it twice a week, I find that my symptoms are getting worse. I'm having flashbacks once every second-day minimum, I have a nightmare practically every night, and I find that I'm staying at home a lot more now.

I don't know if therapy is truly working...

I do hate seeming so weak and scared at every little moment, especially around Adrien. Sometimes even the littlest of things can trigger a flashback of mine, even if he just hugs me from behind!

I don't know how much longer I can go on for...we'll just have to see.

Third Person

Marinette bolts awake in the morning from another PTSD-induced nightmare, except this one was one of her worst ones ever. She's breathing heavily and her small frame is shaking slightly as she looks around the bedroom, gathering her thoughts. She looks next to her and realizes Adrien isn't there. Just when she is about to get up and look, she hears the bedroom door open. It's just Adrien coming in the room, all ready for work.

"Morning babe," Adrien greeted her with a soft smile, sitting down on the edge of the bed next to her. "How did you sleep?"

"I slept fine." Marinette lied, smiling faintly.

He raised an eyebrow, giving her a look of worry, but also a look full of suspicion as to why she was lying. "Are you lying to me?"

Her eyes widened, her mind racing as it was quickly filled with memories of her father using that exact same phrase. It wasn't in the same tone as Adrien was using since Adrien was using a more concerned tone while her father always used a more aggressive tone. But it still threw her off; and right in the morning? Her day was starting off great...