#watching it the first time i thought that roland killed his father accidentally

[blueflyingturtleontheway]

How was I NOT supposed to get hooked after the wishing well episode

[sturchling]

First off I love your Miraculous Ladybug fics. Also I don't know if you are a Black Butler fan or not. But if you are could you please do a fic where Lila causes a that destroys Marinette's home/bakery, which kills Marinette's parents and severely injures Marinette. While in the hospital recovering Roland finds out what Lila did and talks with Gina, both recently have been diagnosed with cancer and want to make sure Marinette is taken care of when they die. Gina or Roland remember a story told to them by a descendant of the Phantomhive servants (In this fic it follows season 2 with Sebastian being able to get Ciel's memories back before Claude tried to brainwash him and was able to eat Ciel's soul) (either from when Gina was in traveling in England or someone who Roland's father knew during WWII) about a demon who acted like a caretaker for a child in the late 1800's. They both decide to sacrifice themselves so Marinette can be cared for. One summons Sebastian the other summons Claude. The terms of the contract are simple, in exchange for eating the soul of the person who summoned their specific demon the summoned demon would care for Marinette, act as her guardian, help her achieve her dreams, and care for her, her husband and their children until Marinette passes away from old age. The contract is accepted with both demons. While caring for Marinette it becomes sort of a contest between the two demons of them trying to out do each other in different ways (if Claude gets her multiple roles of different color spider silk fabric, Sebastian "accidentally" gets Marinette introduced to several high ranking nobles ["Hello, my ancestor worked for your ancestor's peer. What a small world. Might I introduce you to my ward?"] that become her clients. Due to the two demons' shenanigans Lila gets exposed, the Butterfly and Peacock are recovered, Adrien's mother is awakened, Marinette gets some real friends (Will, Ronald, Grell, and the Undertaker got reincarnated and regain their memories after a while) and falls in love with her future husband (either Will, Ronald, or the Undertaker. The only reason I don't do this fic myself is I can't write Black Butler characters even though it's one of my favorite animes.

Sorry this took so long, I wanted to try my best to make the characters accurate, so I had to rewatch some of the show. I hope I did good, but I am pretty rusty, writing these characters. But I tried my best! Hope you like it!

Lila was getting more and more dangerous. She didn't just want to ruin Marinette's social life anymore. Now she wanted to ruin her entire life, or even end it. One night, when everyone was asleep, Lila broke into the bakery and started a fire. She made sure that it would spread to the upper floors and then she raced from the building before she was spotted.

The fire spread quickly and soon the entire building, bakery and the apartment were completely engulfed. Marinette woke up to the smell of smoke and Tikki yelling in her ear. Despite the kwami screaming at her to leave the apartment, Marinette raced down to her parents room, to see if they had gotten out, but the door was blocked by debris falling from the ceiling. The thick black smoke was choking Marinette as she tried in vain to get to her parents. By the time Tikki managed to convince Marinette that they had to leave, Marinette was severely burned on her arms, legs, and back. As she blindly felt her way to the exit, a now exposed wooden beam in the ceiling, came crashing down, landing on Marinette's legs. With her legs pinned and unable to move, Marinette passed out. Thankfully firefighters had already been called and pulled Marinette from the flames before it was too late. On lookers from the neighborhood watched in horror as the bakery went up in flames. Once the fire was put out and Marinette was sent to the closest hospital, the firefighters went into the apartment and found Tom and Sabine. They had died in their room, unable to get out because of the debris blocking their door.

The next morning, the whole city seemed to be grieving. Tom and Sabine were well loved people in the city and everyone was distraught over the loss. But no one was more distraught than Marinette and her grandparents. Roland and Gina heard about the fire early that morning and were horrified to learn that Tom and Sabine were gone. But their one piece of solace was that Marinette had survived. They both raced to the hospital and comforted their granddaughter. But they had a bigger problem. Both Gina and Roland were getting older, now both in their late 80's. Both of them also had several severe health conditions and likely wouldn't be around for much longer as it is. And then who would take care of Marinette? That is when Gina remembered a story she had heard when she was in England. A story of two boys in the Victorian era who had made deals with demons, and those demons took care of the boys. Soon after, both boys' souls were eaten by their respective demons. As much as Gina and Roland didn't want to leave Marinette, they thought that this was the best thing for her. The only way to know that she would truly be cared for.

That night, after they left the hospital, they summoned the demons the same way as in the story Gina heard. The room became dark with shadow and two voices spoke from the darkness, asking the two elderly people why they had been summoned. "We summoned you to make a deal. Our granddaughter has recently lost her parents and we likely will not be around much longer as it is. We heard stories about how you two cared for two boys in the Victorian era in exchange for their respective souls. In exchange for our souls, we want you to take care of our Marinette. To help her achieve her goals, protect her, and care for her until she dies. Both demons agreed to the deal. After all, they had already cared for children before, so they had the skills to do it, and the souls of these two people who would willingly do this for their granddaughter would be nice to have. With the contract sealed, Gina and Roland wrote in their wills that Marinette was to be cared for by Sebastian and Claude, claiming they were old family friends. They also took the two demons to meet Marinette, so that Marinette would at least meet the two before they began caring for her. Once the legalities were taken care of and Marinette had met the two, Sebastian and Claude took their payment and Gina and Roland died.

Marinette was overcome with the grief of not just losing her parents, but now her grandparents as well. Sebastian and Claude, who her grandparents had recently introduced her to, were declared her guardians and began watching over her. Roland had left Marinette his house, so she had somewhere to live. While Marinette began to settle into the new normal of her life, Sebastian and Claude got to work on the first order of business. They were going to get justice for Marinette's parents. They knew that the fire was not an accident and that someone had set it on purpose. The evidence was obvious, but the police were stuck. They didn't know who did it. But Sebastian and Claude quickly learned that it was a girl named Lila who had been tormenting their charge for years now. All they had to do was phone in an anonymous tip to the police about the girl, and the police searched Lila's apartment. Mrs. Rossi kept sayin this was a mistake and her daughter couldn't have done this, but the police soon found evidence of her involvement, including the accelerant used at the bakery. Lila was confused, sure that she had gotten rid of it all. But Lila was arrested quickly, as a crowd had now grown outside of her apartment building. Several members of Mrs. Bustier's class were there and saw Lila being dragged out in cuffs. As Paris looked on in horror at the arsonist that had killed the Dupain-Chengs, no one noticed the shadow like figures standing to the side, smiling coldly at the scene.

They also quickly figured out that Marinette was Ladybug and even figured out that Adrien was Chat Noir when he came over to check on Marinette. They learned this by sensing the souls of the kwami. Since the kwami's souls are obviously not human, and Marinette kept disappearing during the akuma attacks, it didn't take long for the demons to be sure of their suspicion that Marinette was Ladybug. After confirming this, they felt that defeating Hawkmoth fell under their duty of caring for Marinette so they set out to find out who Hawkmoth was. They were able to sense the souls of other kwami in the city. They sensed two other kwami in Adrien's house. With only two kwami present in the house, they were certain that this was the location of Hawkmoth. To confirm this, Claude used a smaller version of his demon form to enter the manor and watch the residents of the house. Claude soon saw Gabriel and Natalie transform with the missing miraculous. Now that they had confirmation, it was time to end Hawkmoth.

The two demons began to plague Gabriel and Natalie with nightmares and torment them constantly. In each nightmare, they made it abundantly clear that this was because of their actions as Hawkmoth and Mayura. Soon, Gabriel and Natalie could hardly sleep and were almost driven completely mad. They surrendered to Ladybug and the miraculous were recovered. Gabriel and Natalie were sent to prison for their crimes. When Marinette learned why Gabriel had done everything and what happened to Emilie, she used everything she had learned about magic to help revive her. Sebastian and Claude lent some of their power to this endeavor as well, not wanting their charge to exhaust herself in the attempt. Adrien had his mom back, and the two moved to England to get away from all the trouble Gabriel had caused as Hawkmoth.

With all the major problems in Marinette's life taken care of, Marinette could relax a bit and focus on her fashion. While she thought it was odd that her grandparents had left her in Sebastian and Claude's care, she did think they were doing a wonderful job. They helped to support all her dreams, any way they could. Claude once brought her several different rolls of fabric made from spider silk. This of course, renewed the rivalry between the two demons. Sebastian brought Marinette to England, making the excuse that it was to see her friend. While there, Sebastian made sure to 'run into' the descendants of some old friends. Several nobles and aristocrats found a charming man and young girl in front of them at many parties. The man seemed familiar to them all, especially the older guests at these parties. They were sure they had encountered this man before. When asked if they knew him, the Sebastian always responded with "My ancestor worked as a butler for one of your ancestor's peers. He worked in the Phantomhive manor as the butler to Ciel Phantomhive. It truly is a small world for us to meet. May I introduce my charge, Ms. Marinette Dupain-Cheng." Sebastian spent the whole night talking up Marinette's fashion business and Marinette would leave these parties with several more clients than when she arrived.

Claude and Sebastian kept trying to out do each other in their attempts to care for Marinette. Helping her with her designs, getting her fancy fabrics and equipment, even convincing several major fashion magazines to feature her work. As odd as the arrangement was, it did work. Marinette met several new friends, thanks to Sebastian and Claude's interference. She even met the man that she would marry. A man who looked suspiciously like Will, from all those decades ago. As the years went by, even after Marinette was an adult and didn't need caretakers anymore, Sebastian and Claude continued to watch over and protect her, as per their contract. And they would watch over her, for the rest of her life.

[justanoutlawfic]

We Fight Together: Outlaw Queen Ficlet

Summary: Resurrected remix. What if Regina told Robin about Jefferson's threats?

Someone on CuriousCat prompted: "Here's a prompt for you: OQ moves to a different country". And while I'm sure this wasn't what they had in mind, this is all I could think of. A remix to Resurrected, where Regina tells Robin what's going on. It diverges from "Bang", when Jefferson pretends to shoot them. However, if you haven't read Resurrected, I would recommend reading the first chapter because it gives the backstory of why Zelena wants to hurt Regina.

Also on AO3/FF

Robin’s hand clasped through Regina’s as they stood on the doorstep of Jefferson’s mansion. After the gunshot the night before, Regina came clean about Jefferson’s offer. Robin’s first instinct had been to punch him in the face but she talked him down. As much as they hated it, they were going to need Jefferson’s help to get through this. Together.

 The door opened and Jefferson stood on the other side, dressed dapper as always. He smiled at the sight of Regina, which made her stomach turn. As the man turned to Robin, however, he frowned.

“You told him,” he said with disgust.

“You nearly killed us last night,” Robin said, gruffly. “I had a right to know what was going on.”

Jefferson rolled his eyes and this time, Regina wanted to smack him. “Come in. The both of you, I guess.”

 Regina and Robin followed Jefferson into his living room. It was meticulously decorated, but there were signs that a child lived there. Grace’s drawings were framed on the wall. Harry Potter books sat beside Jefferson’s copies of John Grisham. For a minute, Regina was reminded that he was a parent. It almost made him seem human. The way he interacted with Grace at school function was an entirely different man than the one that stood before them today. Grace, hopefully, would never know that her father was a hitman.

 “For the record,” Jefferson said. “I didn’t try to kill you. I’m an expert at what I do. If I wanted you dead, we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now.”

Robin growled. “Get to the point, Chapeau.”

“That was a taste of what could happen.” Jefferson grabbed some scotch from the drink cart that sat next to the off-white couch and poured himself a glass. He offered the bottle to the couple before him, but they shook their heads. “Zelena asked me because I’m one of the best, but I’m not the only hitman in a 100-mile radius.”

 Regina watched Robin look away and she squeezed his hand tighter. Despite being married to a lawyer, there were times he was learning just how corrupt Storybrooke could be.

 “So, I don’t do it, because you two are the parents of my daughter’s classmate. Someone else who doesn’t know you, easily will.” Jefferson swirled his glass. “And trust me, Regina. It’s not just you she’s after.”

Regina stiffened. “What do you mean?”

“That beautiful family of yours. She wants to destroy it.”

 Regina was going to be sick. What in the hell had Zelena gone through to make her want to target innocent children? Go after her, sure. Henry, Roland and Margot had nothing to do with it. They didn’t even fully understand what their mother’s job was.

“We won’t let her,” Robin said. “We can get out of this town.”

“Sure. You could start over.” Jefferson shrugged. “But she’ll know as soon as you do. She’s got eyes everywhere. As soon as you open a new bank account or use a credit card to buy gas, she’ll find you.”

Regina cleared her throat. She didn’t want to break down in front of this man. “So, what are our options?”

“You die.”

Robin’s eyes narrowed. “I thought the whole point of this was you protecting Regina?”

“Relax, Locksley. I don’t mean literally. As far as Zelena knows, however, Regina will die in a car crash. You’ll be the grieving widow with three kids. With Regina gone and not trying to convict her, Miss Greene will move on.”

Regina shook her head. “I’m not going to abandon my family. Not when they need me the most.”

 Margot wasn’t even a year old yet. Henry would be going through his pre-teen years soon enough. Roland was her partner in crime, he wanted to do everything with her. Not to mention, her husband of 9 years. She wasn’t about to leave Robin. How could she go on without him?

 Robin nodded in agreement. “There has to be another way.”

“I’m afraid not,” Jefferson said. “This is the one way to get her off your backs.”

“What if we all…died?”

 Regina looked at Robin, a bit caught off guard. He hadn’t wanted to deal with Jefferson at all. He would be willing to give up everything they knew and just leave? How would that impact the kids?

 Probably better than a dead mother would.

 “That’s dangerous,” Jefferson said. “Regina dying, that can look like an accident. Zelena may even view it as fate. All five of you dying? She’ll know something is up.”

“But you’re a smart man. You could make it hard.”

Regina leaned into her husband. “You’d really do this?”

“I’d do anything to protect you and the kids.”

 Jefferson sighed and finished the rest of his scotch. He looked between the two of them, clearly hoping one of them would break. Regina’s hand stayed firmly within Robin’s. This was all happening so quickly but she knew one thing: if she was going to leave this town, she wasn’t doing it without him.

“You’d have to leave the United States,” Jefferson said. “She could have spies anywhere around here. I’d say England is risky too. Not only is she from there, but Robin is as well. She’ll suspect you’ve gone to stay with family.”

“So…where?” Regina asked.

“I’ll need time to think about it. Right now, I only had plans for you to go to Seattle, Washington. I wasn’t expecting you to show up with him.”

Robin didn’t look phased. “We’ll give you a day before we find someone else that can help us.”

Jefferson cocked an eyebrow. “I’m the one helping you, you can’t be too choosey.”

Regina took a step forward. “You’re the one that said we’re at risk here. And you know just as well as I do that we can’t go to the cops, she’s got support everywhere. So, find a new plan that includes my whole family or we’re going to have a problem.”

He blinked a couple of times before regaining his composure. “We’ve got a deal.”

 As promised, Jefferson had a new plan within the span of 20 hours. As far as Storybrooke was concerned, the Locksley-Mills family would be killed in a house fire. Jefferson had connections to make it look like an accident. By the time anyone got word, the family would be on a plane to Andalucía. Regina had taught the boys Spanish as a second language as they were growing up and their private school required it be taught to them. Robin knew the language somewhat from Regina, but she could teach him more. With connections, Jefferson found them a farm that needed to be taken over. Robin had grown up on one in England prior to his father’s passing, so his lessons for Regina would be with agriculture and farm life.

What to tell the kids was a challenge. Margot wouldn’t remember anything about Storybrooke, but the boys would questioned being pulled out of school just after the year started. According to Jefferson, they could never talk to their old friends or family ever again. Not even Regina’s father and Henry’s namesake. They finally decided the best way to go about it was to lie. It wasn’t something they liked doing, but it was necessary in this situation. They’d tell the kids the morning of that they were going on a surprise trip to Spain. Once they were there, they’d find a way to break the news. The boys were still so young. As well meaning as they could be, Robin and Regina couldn’t risk them accidentally telling someone they were leaving.

 Regina packed the things she knew her kids wouldn’t live without. Robin was in charge of sneaking momentous from over the years, such as their wedding album and baby pictures of the boys. Regina wondered if they would ever forgive them for this. She wondered if her father would, if he ever found out. She tried to put herself in his shoes. Potentially losing her kids was why she was doing this. And if she found out they had to do it to protect them, their family…she hoped she would be able to take in grace.

 Sometimes it was easier to ask for forgiveness, than to ask for permission.

 October 17th, the family took off on a private jet arranged by Mr. Gold, who had worked with Jefferson to plan all of it. By the time they landed, Sidney Glass would have an article out about the fire, despite no details being present. Everyone would think they were dead.

 Regina’s hand went over Robin’s. The boys were asleep and Margot sat on her father’s lap, playing with a stuffed fox.

 “We’re doing the right thing, aren’t we?” she asked.

Robin was quiet for a moment, staring forward stoically. Finally, he spoke. “We’re doing what we have to.”

 Regina nodded and leaned into him. His arm wrapped tightly around her and they stared forward towards the cockpit. There was no going back now.