Composure (A Miraculous Ladybug Fanfiction)

Keeping her composure with a ticking time bomb in tow might not be such a piece of CAKE. Especially when it's presence as a menace might not be known until it's too late.

Ladybug's Miraculous has a new enhancement--time travel. She was given this new power to juggle around along with everything else--including the presence of a new student in her school by the name of Lila Rossi. And, well, Marinette isn't very welcoming of liars. Especially ones who threaten her chances with her dream guy. Except this new student hasn't been active in class--in fact, she's rarely shown up since her first day at school, and when she has, she's silent, and it seems as if the teacher doesn't even know that she's there.

It's said often that silence speaks the truth. So what happens when you are left alone, left prey to it's hungry jaws? It keeps you up. It keeps you thinking. It keeps surging through the threads of your mind and tearing it apart from inside out and sewing it back together. All it takes is a bit of silence.

And Marinette went through a whole load of it.

She tried to keep her composure, she really did (or at least, that's what she kept saying to herself in the dead hours of the night when time was intermittent)--but it's exactly what she lost.

The fabulous art of Ladybug in the original cover is by Un on tumblr. Here is a link to their account:
http://29sjamjam.tumblr.com/

NOTE:
I BEGAN WRITING THIS BEFORE SEASON 2 CAME OUT, SO SOME INFORMATION MAY BECOME INVALID IN TERMS OF BEING CANNON. THIS IS AN AU THAT TAKES PLACE A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER THE LAST EPISODE IN THE FIRST SEASON.
This story idea was thought of on May 7, 2016. I started writing chapter one on July 26, 2016 at 10:24 AM. I started figuring out the entire story on August 4, 2016 at 3:21 PM. The story was finished being written on January 1, 2018 at 2:06 AM..