Miraculous: How It Could Have Happened-Season One

The Evillustrator

"Oh, Super-Nathan!  You're my hero!", cried Marinette, throwing her arms around her handsome rescuer.  "It was nothing.", he said, suavely and confidently.  "I love you."  "I love you, too."  The incredible artist hero and his beautiful damsel-no-more-in-distress embraced passionately, him stroking her beautiful silky dark locks...

"Nathaniel!"  The real Nate Kutzberg was harshly jerked back into reality by the sound of his science teacher's voice.  Mlle. Mendeliviez slammed her hand next to his drawing book, making him jump and drop his pencil in shock.  "This is why you're failing science!", she snapped somewhat cruelly, flapping a page of his work around like a piece of trash.  "Go to the principal's office and show him that chicken scratch!"

Nathaniel sheepishly gathered his things, wanting to be invisible from all the eyes of his classmates, who were staring him.  On his way towards the door, he tripped over someone else's backpack, dropping his notebook, and it fell open on the floor, right on the page he had just finished of his imaginary self and Marinette holding one another.

He gasped, then looked up at Marinette, who was staring at the page, looking flustered and such.  She was rendered speechless.  So put on the spot was she and everyone else, that no one noticed the way Adrien's adorable face darkened into a glaring scowl when he realized that someone had made his Marinette into their muse.  An ugly side of the handsome boy showed as he thought about only he was allowed to fantasize about himself with the baker girl.

To make matters worse, Chloe swooped her hand in and snatched the notebook off the floor before Nate could retrieve it, showing the pages to her red-haired lackey.  "Look, Sabrina!  Its him as a superhero!  Oh, and look who he's saving!  Marinette!"  She stole a glance at the blunette.  "He's totally crushing on her!"

At that moment, Nathaniel wanted nothing more than to melt through the floor and disappear.  "Give me that!", he growled, snatching his book back from the snooty blonde.  Before he could wallow in self-pity more, the teacher shouted at him to leave the classroom, and he did, tail behind his legs.

Marinette watched him go with sympathy in his eyes.  Nate hadn't deserved to be humiliated by Chloe like that, especially not over his work.  He was shy and reserved, but he was a very talented artist, especially in the style of comic books.  His art was to be praised, not mocked.  Marinette also felt a tinge of guilt that she could not return his feelings.  He was a sweet boy, but her heart was taken by another superhero.  And it wasn't the one Nathaniel had drawn himself into.

Once he was out of the room, Nino heard a small growl from next to him.  He leaned forward to get a better look at his best buddy, and immediately saw the nasty sneer on Adrien's face as he focused narrowed green eyes on the doorway where Nathaniel had left.  "Dude, jealous much?", he whispered, just loud enough for Adrien to hear but no one else could.  The blonde immediately regained his composure before anyone noticed his suspiciously envious mood.

Little did he or anyone else know, his new rival's anger and humiliation had caught the eye of a certain evil villain-maker.
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Chat scowled as he got started on Chloe's physics homework. He was deeply regretting his decision to stay behind to protect Chloe from the Evillustrator, formerly known as Nathaniel Kutzburg. All she had done for the past hour was whine about how Sabrina wasn't answering her calls and how hard her part of the assignment was (although Chat was pretty sure she wasn't even trying).

Besides, it was Chloe's own fault that she needed protection. If she hadn't ridiculed and humiliated Nate in the first place, she wouldn't be in danger. And she didn't seem to realize that, or even care, for that matter. The day she apologized for anything was the day pigs grew wings and flew through the air. Maybe Ladybug had had the right idea swooping out.