Look What You Made Me Do

Your knife like words can't touch me because I have words of my own

((A/N: We see a bit into the mind of Damian. Marinette plays her song and Flash finds out he messed up.  

This chapter wasn't what I planned originally and I feel like it came out a little rushed. But my cat chewed up the power cord for my laptop so I'm on limited time. Don't worry I ordered a replacement but I had this chapter already started and I wanted to finish it.))

"Do you know how to play an instrument Marinette?" Richard asked. Damian had to admit that he too was curious but hadn't been sure how to ask. He wasn't used to wanting to know about others, he didn't make friends easily so he wasn't sure what was appropriate.. No one else in the family was as musically inclined as he was. Though Cass did like ballet. Still he was grateful that Richard had encouraged him to continue to study music.

"Oh....well I don't play much." Dupain-Cheng answered modestly. "I only know a couple of songs."

"Marinette has her own song." Bourgeois announced. Damian raised an eyebrow as Richard of course became over excited.

"Marinette you have your own song?!" he explained.

"Um....kind of?" Dupain-Cheng answered. "My friend Luka wrote it for me. He plays the guitar and can create a melody for anyone. I've heard mine so many times that I wanted to learn it and then I added words.''

Damian felt himself tense a little. Luka? Who was that. Was this person a boy to Marinette Dupain-Cheng? How close was their friendship? Damian wasn't sure how to ask these questions without alerting his brothers that he was acting in a different manner than normal.

"That's so cool!" Richard exclaimed. Damian noted that both Drake and Todd looked intrigued. What was it about this strange girl from Paris that drew them all in? He wanted to know more. "Will you play it for us?" Damian's eyes widened at Richard's boldness. But then again maybe it only seemed bold in his mind but this was a normal thing to ask to anyone else.
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Marinette's eyes widened, she hadn't been expecting the others to be so interested in this. Why had Chloe said anything? Luka had been playing melodies for all of them since the day they had met. It was soothing and melted into background noise when they were together. But then one day she noticed that her song was different, the background music had changed. Once she noticed she couldn't unnotice it. It was part of what made her want to learn how to play it. "Um....w-well if you want." he said, feeling a bit nervous. Looking around she picked up a ukulele. "I think it sounds better on this than a guitar."

"And you told me it was a stupid instrament." Dick said to Damian looking smug. Marinette giggled before starting to strum the instrument.

"I don't need you to respect me, I respect me.
I don't need you to love, I love me.
But I want you to know you can know me.
If you change your mind

You think I'm no good, don't you?
Just admit it, just admit it.
And it gets to me sometimes,
When I let it, when I let it.
It's easy to let it, It's easy to forget

I don't need you to respect me, I respect me.
I don't need you to love me, I love me.
But I want you to know you can know me.
If you change your mind."

Marinette repeated the last line a few times before the last notes faded before looking up. Everyone was staring at her. "Uh....was it that bad?" she asked only half joking.
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Chloe was amazed, she had been wanting to hear Marinette's song for a while. But Marinette had always been self conscious about it. Luka wouldn't push Marinette at all, Kagami had been on her side for a little while but soon got on Luka's side. But as she had hoped Marinette either felt encouraged or pressured by an audience wanting to hear the song. She might have felt guilty about what she had done. But she didn't, because the song was amazing. It was hard to explain how Luka could figure out those melodies, they all had one even her. Somehow even without words it said Marinette, but with words....now it was absolutely perfect.

She was glad she had thought to pull out her phone. Who knew if she would get to see Mari play it again. Though it was more than that. She could use the video somehow. She wasn't exactly sure how yet.
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When the Flash came back into the monitoring room and saw Batman standing next to Wonder Woman he knew something was wrong. His mind rushed in the usual fashion as he tried to figure out what might be wrong and if he had done anything recently to tick off the Bat. But he couldn't think of anything.

"Uh.....hey Batman." he greeted as he went to sit down. Maybe Batman had just worried that he would try and skip out? Okay maybe he had done that in the past but the last time had been a really long time ago!

"A couple of years ago, do you remember the Justice League being contacted by a girl in red and black who called herself Ladybug asking for help?" Batman asked.

Flash blinked and thought back. "Uh.....yeah I remember that."

"What happened?" Batman demanded as his eyes narrowed a bit. Well that was never a good sign.

"Dude some kid called up the Justice League and was telling me some crazy story about some butterfly man who wanted to take over Paris." he answered, having totally forgotten about that until now.
"And you didn't think that was something that should be reported?" Batman frowned. Flash couldn't help but get nervous.

"I thought it was some new Young Justice recruit playing a prank." he said in his defense before adding in a mutter. "It wouldn't be the first time." Wonder Woman giggled a little which made him feel a little better. But not by much.

"You didn't think that you should look into things.....just in case?" Batman pressed.

"Batman what's going on?" Wonder Woman asked with a slight frown.

Okay Flash had this one! "Look when my shift was over I ran over to Paris. Everything was fine!" he complained.

"Bruce!" Wonder Woman's tone was quiet but sharp, her way of saying she was not pleased about having to sit there and not know what was going on.

"It turns out that was a super heroine from Paris, her name is Ladybug. Paris is being emotionally terrorized and has been for years. She came to us for help but got turned away." Flash almost whimpered at the sharp look he got after that sentence. "I've been in contact with Ladybug and another hero from her team. I wanted to know what happened and get to the bottom of things."

"We need to help the people of Paris!" Wonder Woman exclaimed.

"Don't worry....I have things under control." He announced before turning to leave.

Flash couldn't help but be relieved that Batman hadn't said he was in trouble. Though he soon sat up. Wait.....if he wasn't in trouble now....that meant he was going to be in trouble later! Everyone knew Batman didn't forgive or forget!!

((A/N: I loved Steven Universe. I highly recommend going on YouTube to listen to Rebecca Sugar play the full version of Change Your Mind if you haven't heard it. I heard this song months ago and knew I was going to have Marinette sing it. I'm so glad I could finally work it into the story. Ladybug's costume has changed and so has Luka's song for her.))