Two choices

Chapter 22

Adrien POV :

I froze from where I was crouching, wiping my mouth clean as I stared at the person in front of me, my eyes wide. Mayura stood close in front me, furry flashing in her eyes as fresh tears dripped down her face.

"You monster!" She shouted," you killed him! How could you? You're supposed to be a superhero, yet you killed him! You don't deserve the miraculous if that is how you will use it!"

She took out a feather from her fan and using her power the feather turned a dark blue before flying into Mayura's fan. Creating an amucc of her own, a representation of me, my normal self Adrien being formed.

"Now it's time for you to be punished," she spat, her voice a hoarse sound that echoed off the walls," and who better to punish you than his own son! The man you killed son!"

A psychotic laugh escaped her lips which sent chills racing down my spine as I tried to get up, tried to move away, but my body was frozen in place. Is this really Natalie? Has she always been Mayura? That would explain why she knew about my father's plans and helped him. Although...I've never seen her this way...I don't know what to do...I don't know anything anymore.

I felt the warm liquid threaten to break loose from my throat again, but I kept it back. I needed to regain my composure. I couldn't just break down here, I have too many responsibilities right now, but I don't think I can keep it in. I wasn't strong enough.

All I know is that I deserve whatever is to come. The pain, all of it I deserve. After all, I killed him. I killed my father. A superhero killed someone. How long is a prison sentence if you kill someone? Wait never mind most of the time they're life long sentences...I'm going to jail!

I can't. I can't last one day there! What about my friends? What will they think? Suddenly Adrien is put in jail for killing his own father. Wait, no one knows I'm Adrien...I'm Chat...I could just run away.

But what about Ladybug? She was there at the scene...is she mad?...does she hate me? What does she think of me now? I'm a murderer after all...she would understand if I just left right?

Yeah, leaving should help. It should be the right thing...or I could just turn myself in...that would be awkward...and scary. I wonder if Ladybug would rat me out? No she's too nice for that...I hope. She is my partner. She wouldn't do that right?

Wait...

What about Marinette? She will be left alone...well I mean she will have her parents but I'm the only one who can see she's not getting better...I'm the only one who knows about the recent coughing attacks...

Would she care if I left? Would I be able to leave her? I don't think I'd be able to live without her...but who am I kidding. She will hate me for what I've done. For who I've become. I'm a monster.

I was knocked out of my thoughts by a cry coming from my right. I turned to see Ladybug, a look of fear written across her face as she stared at me. Well what was coming towards me.

I felt something solid collide with my left cheek as my body was flung across the room, into the wall near my mother's casket. Pain seeped through my body that was already worn out from the fight with Hawkmoth.

I heard my ring beep next to me, signaling that I had less than three minutes before I transformed back. That's not a lot of time. I heard the same beeping coming from Ladybug's miraculous soon afterwards and we both exchanged a look.

We were running short on time, we were short on strength and we didn't have our powers to back us up. The odds were not in our favor. I saw Ladybug struggle to get up as she used the casket as a helping hand, but her strength seemed to be worse than mine, because no sooner had she stood on her feet, she was back on the ground panting, her face scrunched up in pain.