Cat or Mouse?

Chapter 3

Marinette

When we pulled up to the gardens. We hoped out of Helenas car and raced inside the gates. I smiled as I saw my aunts Harley and Ivy talking just a few feet away. I pressed a finger to my lips before sneaking up behind them.
"I don't know Ivy. I think Salina should have told Bluebell about the rock on her finger."
"I know Harley, but I don't blame her for wanting to tell her I'm person."
"Maybe the class is hers. It's from Paris. That would be amazin'!" Harley was getting excited. So I smiled before crossing my arms.
"If you wanted to see me, you could have called." I said.
It was instant. They turned around, smiles on their face before they tackled me to the ground.
"Marigold! Bluebell!" They shouted.
I chuckled as they slowly helped me sit up. We hugged and talked about for a minute, as I tried not to think about my aunt not telling me about her engagement. And when the secret keep walked into the garden, I plastered on the innocent smile as she walked over to me.
"Aunt Salina!" I cried, my smile straining ever so slightly. I heard Helena laugh behind us, but I focused on Salina. "How have you been? I haven't heard from you in months!"
I watched her frown, before her hands farted behind her back.
"I'm sorry, kitten. I wanted to call, but I was busy. You know-"
"Hand." I stated, holding my own out. I watched the boys and my class pull up, but I focused on Salina.
She sighed heavily. "I wanted to tell you Mari, I just wanted to tell you in person." She held out her left hand and there sat a three carrot diamond.
"I expect details later." I said with a bright smile, before launching myself into her arms. "I missed you like crazy. You normally call and I got worried." I whispered into her shoulder.
"You have not idea how hard it was to not call. I threw one of Brucies vases on accident, because I was so stressed." Salina said.
I laughed as we pulled apart, and I quickly wiped both our tears away.

After talking broadly, she walked me back over to my friends, before heading over to Aunt Ivy and Aunt Harley. But my happiness didn't last.
"Do you remember Mourning Mother, omg she is such a cry baby. I bet she wanted attention, like Marinette." Lila 'whispered'
"That bitch." Alya agreed.
And just like that, the death, the screams, the crying, were in my ears. I was reliving it, and I knew exactly why she became an akuma.
"You lying, duck face, bitch!" I yelled as I threw myself at Lila, only to be caught by Adrien and Chloé. They held me back. "She became an akuma because of you! Assface! She lost her child because her psycho brother stabbed it because it wouldn't stop crying! He went to an asylum, and she had a funeral for her baby!! A BABY!! She was doing good, keeping her emotions in check, she did good, not letting it get to her! But you had to tell her she was being a baby and that it was her fault in the first place!!! Shut you fucking mouth before I tip it off and shove it up your ass do far it reattaches!" I yelled. My breathing was heavy, but I was glaring at Lila and Alya. "What about you Alya! Your mom lost a child in birth, how would you like it if someone walked up to her, in the middle of a terrorist that controls your emotions, and said she was being a baby!" I hissed. I fell limp in Adrien, and Chloé's arms.
"How long did you know and not tell us?" Adrien whispered in my ear.
"The day after the attack. I went to check on her and she ended up venting to me about everything."
"That's where you disappear to?" Chloé gasped
I nodded numbly. They slowly let me go, and I kneeled on the ground for a moment, before getting up and glaring at the class one more time.
"You can lie about me, Lila. You can make my life hell, but you leave victims of Hawkmoth out of it. Because I have enough evidence to put you away right next to him, Miss Helper."
I walked pasted Helena and sighed. "I'm going to my spot. Keep them away please, flower."
"You got, Kitty." She said with a sad smile.
I didn't return it, just walked away, to a small spot in the garden that's as surrounded by bushes, and trees, and flowers, before collapsing on the ground and cried.

Damian

What just happened?
I've never seen her like this before. Confident? Yes. Kind? Yes. Caring? Yes. Flirt? Hell yes. But angry? Never. Mad? Sure, never angry.
"What was she talking about?" I asked Adrien and Chloé.
The look they shared only spiking my interest.
"A few years ago, a magic terrorist appeared and took control of Paris. He created monsters from people with negative emotions. Mourning Mother was the worst. She killed anything below the age of 17. There was blood, and death everywhere. He was only recently put away. And Lila bringing her up hit a soar spot for Mari. Lila got away with creating Akumas, after Hawkmoth went to jail. She used the mind control excuse. Problem was, Hawkmoth doesn't do mind control." Chloé said as she leaned against Adrien.
I looked in the direction where the girl, I have been trying ask on a date, disappeared.
"I'm gonna go check on her. I'll catch up with you." I said before walking off into the garden.

I found her a few minutes later, crying into her hands. Tikki flouting next to her head. She gave me one look, before going back into her bag. I slowly walked over and wrapped my arms around her and gently pulled her against my chest. She stiffened, before slowly relaxing into my arms.
"I'm ok, Damian." She whispered.
"You used my real name, something is definitely wrong." I whispered back, squeezing gently to remind her he was here.
I heard her sniffling, before she pulled back and averted her eyes to the ground. I leaned back against a tree trunk, and waited for her to talk. She eventually does, it just takes a minute.
"Ava's husband was away on business when it happened. She called her brother to help out with the baby, while she tried to get some work done. He had been there for three days, before she found him standing above her crying baby, as he stabbed him three times in the heart. She sobbed as she called the cops, but made sure to keep it under control. She was overwhelmed by grief, and loneliness, but she kept a leash on it. Ready to vent to her husband when he returned. A week later, she and her husband had a funeral for their son. And as it finished, Lila walked by and told her she was a cry baby, and she needed to stop crying and woman up. She lost it and became Mourning Mother."
A few tears escaped as she refused to look at me. I gently wiped them away, a frown on my face.
"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked gently.
"I just didn't want to reopen the wound. But Lila knew it would get under my skin, and I lost it. And in front of everyone. The only people that have seen me like that are Adrien, Chloé, Helena, and Aunt Salina. My class thinks I'm a bully, and a jerk, but I've never yelled at them or anything. I didn't want everyone knowing I'm a cold hearted monster. I'm all honesty I've been called worse."
She's never told me how she and Salina met. Just told me it was bad. I gripped her chin gently, and forced her to look at me.
"Your not cold hearted." I said. "Your compassionate, and caring. Your the only person to make me smile, and laugh. If you were a cold hearted monster, I would treat you like a cold hearted monster." I said, I gently kissed her cheek. "I wouldn't kiss you, or hug you, or flirt with you. And I definitely wouldn't have sex with you."
A small smirk grew on her lips at that last part. "I was wondering why walking became so difficult lately." She teased.
"Go on a date with me?" I blurted out.
She froze and stared at me in shock. Her blue eyes wide. "What?"
"Go out with me." I said again.
Her face was flushed in red. "Mr. Mouse, are you caving?" She tried to tease, but her voice was an octave higher.
I smirked. And leaned forward to whisper in her ear. "If caving means I get to call you mine, and publicly kiss you, then yes. I'm caving."
She looked me over. Any sign of a trick. Anything that would indicate a ploy. Before she smiled and nodded.
"Fine. One date, Mr. Mouse."
I smiled and Captured her lips in a powerful kiss. "Oh Kitty, you have no idea what you got yourself into." I sighed.
"If you think I'm going to willingly stop this game we have going on, you got another thing coming." She smiled, before standing, brushing the dirt and grass off her backside, and walking away.
"See you soon, lover boy!" She called. And I watched as her hips moved with the light breeze, and her skirt dance. I rubbed my face and groaned.
"I CAVED!!" I yelled
"I KNOW!!!" She called back. And I smiled, before rolling my eyes.