Look What You Made Me Do

Is My Crown On Straight?

((A/N: This chapter has head cannons about languages. I know I've mentioned that Chloe and Marinette speak different languages but I don't think I've listed them anywhere. Both girls have learned the languages over the years mostly to help with their family businesses. I picked them after googling top spoken languages around the world if anyone is curious about my choices. Arabic is in the top ten but I would have picked that for Marinette to give her a connection to Damian anyways. So happy coincident.))

When they were led to the dining room Marinette was relieved to see that it was a large but still normal sized table, she had been imagining a table so big if you sat at one end you couldn't hear the person at the other end. Everything looked so elegant!

"Hello girls." Mr. Wayne greeted them.

A part of Marinette still couldn't believe she was staying in Wayne Manor. This place did not accept guests in a casual manner and was only opened up to the outside world when there was a party. She noticed two other girls sitting at the table. One was a Chinese girl she remembered seeing at the gardens, and the other was a blonde girl. They introduced themselves as Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown.

"It is good to meet you." Cass smiled.

"It will be fun to have guests around." Stephanie added.

Marinette couldn't help but wonder just how big the Wayne family was. "Just how many kids has Bruce Wayne adopted?!" And like usual Chloe said the thing that everyone was thinking but most wouldn't say out loud. Before Marinette got a chance to scold Chloe everyone else started to laugh.

"Well officially only myself, Jason, and Tim have been adopted." Dick explained. "Damian of course if Bruce's natural son. Cassie and Steph are unofficial children."

"But no less important." Mr. Wayne insisted.

"Me and Babs have field trip duty tomorrow in fact." Step announced.

"Barbara Gordon is a family friend and the daughter of the police chief." Tim explained before anyone needed to ask.

"So what are tomorrow's outfits going to be?" Dick asked.

"Sorry wouldn't want to ruin the surprise." Marinette smiled.
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Cass looked at the two French girls with interest. These two held their secrets close. She liked them both even though this was the first time she got to see them up close and talk to them. She had seen all she needed to at the Gotham Gardens, these two were good people with good hearts. Chloe may seem fierce but it was because she wanted to help and protect. Marinette, she would give everything she had for a stranger, even some one who saw her as an enemy. Her heart was closing itself off, but Cass didn't think that would last forever.

Her eyes flicked to her baby brother. She knew Damian wasn't sure what to make of this French-Chinese girl. He was starting to experience things normal young men had felt at least once by now. Her little brother was growing up even if he didn't know it. Not many could reach him, but this girl....she believed in her. In this Sunshine Girl.
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"Is this your first time leaving the country?" Bruce asked. They had all agreed on a game plan earlier that day. Get Marinette and Chloe to relax by making small talk and then slowly work their way up to asking them about the Paris situation. It felt a little dishonest at first but they had all done worse. Though he had to admit that as a father he was interested in the girl who seemed to be having an emotional effect on his son. The signs were extremely subtle but he was the Batman, it was his job to notice the most subtle changes in a person.

Dick was the best at getting people to talk so they were all kind of following his lead. But they couldn't make it seem obvious

"This is my first time out of the country." Marinette replied.

"I've been out of the country several times." Chloe responded. "I was in New York for fashion week in the fall with mom..

"Oh?" Bruce said, hoping that he sounded interested when he was really wondering what kind of parent pulled their child out of school for a week just for fashion. "Are you into fashion like I hear Marinette is?"

Chloe smiled. "My future career is in business. My Daddy runs the biggest and best hotel in all of Paris and I plan to run it one day. But of course I like to stay on the cutting edge of fashion. My mother is the director of Style Queen so it comes naturally to me." Bruce had no idea what Chloe was talking about. What was Style Queen? A magazine? A show? Something done online? Thankfully Stephanie saved him from making a reply.

"Your mom is Style Queen?!" she exclaimed. "I thought your name was familiar! Why don't you want to follow your mother's footsteps?"

"I don't need to make fashion statements. I am a fashion statement." Chloe replied. "Besides, the next world famous designer is my best friend."
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Dick wanted to squeal, as Marinette's face went red at Chloe's praise. If these two girls got any cuter he didn't know if his heart could take it. They were clearly best friends and their friendship was just too pure for this world! Chloe came off as a brat at first, but it was clear that she cared about Marinette.

"Well both of you speak English very well." he praised. "Did you guys know the language before you came here?" He had overheard some of their classmates who sounded like they had just learned enough for the trip.

"Both of us knew English before this." Marinette answered. "Actually we're both multilingual, some languages we learned through for practical reasons and some we learned for fun."

"What languages do the two of you speak?" Damian asked.

Chloe spoke first but that didn't really surprise Dick." We both speak English of course. But I also speak Japanese, Russian, and I learned Mandarin Chinese from Marinette."

Marinette seemed a little more on the modest side. "I grew up speaking both French and Mandarin since I'm French-Chinese, later I learned Italian from my grandmother on my father's side. Chloe has an ear for languages so my mother and I taught her after we became friends. We both learned Japanese from our good friend Kagami" Dick wasn't surprised at all that Marinette praised her best friend. "So for me it's English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic."

Dick couldn't help but notice that Dami sat up a little straighter when he heard that Marinette also knew Arabic.

"Dinner is served." Alfred announced. "In honor of our guests I decided on a French theme. We will start with a vegetable consommé.(1), followed by a nicoise salad( 2). The main course will be ratatouille(3) and a coq au vin(4). For dessert we will have a chocolate soufflé."

Dick let out a whistle. "Wow Alfie you really went all out."

"Well it's not every day we have special guests." the butler responded as he started to serve the consommé..

"Why did you guys decide to learn so many languages?" Tim asked. "That's pretty surprising for high schoolers."

"Most of it is business related. Chloe lives in the hotel her family owns, my parents run a bakery so along with my Mother's native tongue they thought I should learn some of the common world wide languages." Marinette smiled. "Chloe aren't you learning sign language?"

"Yes, after losing my voice and hearing so often I realized what a good idea it would be." Chloe explained.

"Um.....what the hell are you talking about?" Jason asked. "I get losing your voice if you're like sick and....stuff." Dick was always proud when Jaybird remembered not to swear. "But how can you lose your hearing more than once?"

"Akuma attacks." both girls answered at the same time.

"Um....what the heck is an akuma?" Stephanie asked.

((A/N:

The dishes Alfred made
1) This is a clear soup. The recipe I found used meat but I made it a vegetable consomme for Dami
2) Nicoise salad has a mix of lettuce, fresh tomatoes, boiled egg, tuna, green beans, and Nicoise Callentier olives. Damian naturally will have it with out tuna
3) Ratatiuille is a vegetable dish that is shallow fried and then baked
4) Coq au vin is savory chicken dish braised in wine with mushrooms, onion, bacon, and garlic

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