The Treasured Ring AU *Marichat/Adrienette by Summer Cheng

Chapter 4 Marinette Feels Trapped

previously in Chapter 3,  Marinette rushes home and goes straight upstairs to her room.  Once inside she closes the door.  She breathes a sigh of  relief.  She thinks her mother does not know about Chat Noir.  

   However,  Sabine arrives home soon after Marinette.  Unknown to Marinette her mother did see her with Chat at some point earlier that day.  She is not to happy about this. She goes upstairs and locks Marinette in her room.  Sabine walks away slowly...

   Current chapter, Marinette pulls her journal out from the secret place where she has hidden it. She stores it under her mattress as she figures her mother would not dare to look for such a thing there.  She sits on the edge of her bed and thinks. She writes about her day and how much fun on the town she had with her new friend, Chat.  She is unaware of what her mother knows. When she finishes the entry, she draws a picture of herself and Chat together. She smiles at the photo. She closes the journal and returns it to her special hiding spot.  

      Marinette  goes over to the door for she can smell a delicious odor that comes from downstairs.  She attempts to open the door to ask her mother when dinner will be ready. She discovers the door will not budge.  How very strange, she thinks.  I wonder why the door will not open.  She shrugs her shoulders and gets ready for bed rather early.  As she slips her nightgown over her head, she wonders why did mother not call me to supper?  Certainly, she knows I am home by now and am rather hungry!  She cries tears of sorrow over her lack of nourishment, and the knowledge that her mother must have been the one to lock her away.  "How could she?  How could she do such a horrible thing to me?"  Marinette says  aloud to herself.

    She is horrified. She knows by now that her mother must have found out about Chat Noir. "But, how?  How could she know it is not as if I have told her about him! "  Marinette says. She feels sad. She continues to protest the notion that her mother hates her. Yet in some small way, she feels as if her mother does hate her.  "Why else would she lock me in here?" Marinette says. She cries.  She climbs into bed in the hopes to fall asleep. This way at least I will not have to feel sorry for myself for my lack of a meal.  She struggles to fall asleep as her stomach growls. She continues to cry.  It is as though everything is against me, though I have done nothing wrong, nothing wrong at all, she thinks. She eventually falls asleep.

      In her dream that night, she is on a picnic with Chat Noir.  She notices how lovely everything around her is and figures nothing could possibly go wrong. Yet everything did go wrong!  She was accused of some high treason and so was Chat!  They were sentenced to death and  their executions were carried out.  First they were tied up with their legs and arms behind them. This was to assure they would not escape.  Then, they were both gagged and had bags tied over their heads. No screaming!  Poor Chat was killed before she was. She could her him as he was tossed into the icy waters below. Her beloved Chat was dead!  She cried. She thought, how cruel for him to be robbed of his life.  Her beloved cat boy had done nothing wrong, yet he was dead. Dead, and all because of her!  If this were not bad enough, she felt herself being dragged to the edge of a cliff!  Before she could attempt to escape someone laughed and threw her off to her doom. She landed splat on the rocks below. Her neck was broken instantly. She lay there for several days in this condition.  No one knew she had survived and thought her fate to be the same as Chat's.  When she managed to regain her strength several weeks later, she recalled all that had happened and was furious!  She was in an all out rage for what had happened to the only one who had ever truly loved her!  She found a way to make her self a disguise. Why this one was so good even her own mother could not recognize her!  She found those who ruined her life and waited until night fall to seal their fate!  She brutally murdered each and everyone of them. Serves them right for what they have to me!  She laughed a laugh of insanity!  She had gone insane as a result of a broken heart.