When two worlds collide

Her body ached, trying desperately to find comfort in the bloodstained ball gown that hugged her figure too tightly, constricting her lungs and crushing her ribs. A broken sob escaped her as the bone dug into the deep slash on her stomach, forcing broken shards of glass deeper into her skin. Harsh screams and shouts ripped through the air somewhere nearby, distorted by the blood that caked her ears. She brushed her fingers across her eyelids, letting out a cry as a warm liquid slipped down them, blood, presumably. Fresh waves of pain shot through her at the touch. Her only relief, and to call it a relief was pushing it, was the fact that she no longer felt the cold chains tugging at her wrists. Maybe he had left her to die? Or was taunting her with the prospect of escape. “Adrien?” Nathalie’s cautious whisper cut through the air, catching her attention. “Adrien?” If he was here, he could help her! He could rescue her and everything would be okay again and the world would fall back into it’s perfect bubble- “He was your son!” That wasn’t right… She sounded... angry? Nathalie sounded angry. Her fists began to shake, salty tears biting deeper into her cut cheeks.

“ADRIEN!” Her cry was ignored, left to echo through the room.

“Nathalie…” Gabriel’s voice. It carried a dangerous warning Marinette had grown to fear

“He was your son and you-”

“ADRIEN PLEASE!”

“You killed him!”

The room fell to silence. A silence broken only by her own harsh breaths.

Adrien was dead.

Adrien was dead.

Adrien was dea-

“NO!” Her scream shattered the silence into a thousand pieces. She could hear muttering in the distance, footsteps approaching, and she scrambled back in fear, ignoring the agony that came with every slight movement. “No no please don’t do this-” What she was expecting, she wasn’t sure, only that whatever it was would bring more pain. Words fell from her lips, filling the room with her inaudible pleads.

They never reached her though, instead her vision filled with a blinding purple light.

“NO!”