Rain.

Chat Noir hadn't felt it in such a long time.
It was cold, and he glanced up at the sky as he stood in between the two towers on the west facade of the cathedral. His hand reached up, capturing the cool rain drops on the palm of his hands.

It was as if the sky cried, and though he believed he had enough of it, he couldn't help but to feel that his heart poured out into the streets. He was a cat led astray, and even though he was once the vengeful cat in the night, he was completely lost.

And he definitely wasn't vengeful. He felt nothing.

The feline closed his eyes, relaxing as the rain continued to fall against him. He opened his eyes, not once flinching as the thunder erupted. His cat like ears flattened against his head and he turned, his eyes glancing up at the spire of the building.
The hero moved towards one of the towers of the Notre Dame, running his hand between the gaps and admiring the large bell inside.

He wondered if Lila had planned to show and taken his word for it.
Granted, she did have a thing for Adrien that appeared to be short lived due to her desire for power and greed, Chat had hoped Lila was still foolish enough to trust him.
Chat found himself growing distant, and at that point he couldn't have cared less what happened to him.

Lila had beaten him down to a pulp.
She had planned this. She mentally tortured him, she emotionally tortured him
She was ruining his life.
The blonde glanced above him, his pupils narrowing the moment he caught Lila landing on the other side of the spire.
She stood up straight, looking down at the streets below. She watched as the tourists cleared the way, attempting to move away from the rain.
Chat Noir remained impassive, moving slowly towards her as he meticulously took each step against the wooden roof of the cathedral.
His hair was soaked and the rain dripped down his suit.
Just above the bend, Adrien could spot his fiance's childhood home. He could see the balcony she would stand on many times.
He remembered before Louis was born how they had broken up, and he returned to her balcony begging for her to take him back.
His facial expression only grew more grave.
He couldn't feel guilty anymore. He continued to remember every experience he had with Marinette, and each time he wondered if she would have still lived if they had never crossed paths.

"What are you doing?"

Chat paused as he heard Ladybugs voice in his head. He glanced back at her.
Ladybug stood just behind him, her arms crossing as she reprimanded him.

Chat ignored her, turning his head and jumping as she appeared right in front of him.

"I know what you're thinking..." she murmured, her blue eyes locked on him as Chat simply walked right through her, forcing her to dissapear as a mist of imagination.

Chat extended his weapon, approaching Lila at full force before he placed the weapon at her neck, pulling her close to him as he held her hostage.
Lila gasped, her hands immediately gripping on to his weapon in an attempt to pry it away from him.
Her heart raced at the sound of his cold voice.

She knew what would have happened if they crossed paths again.

"Look..." Chat instructed, edging Lila closer to the edge of the room. Her green eyes glanced down at the drop below. She pressed her lips together as she struggled against him.

"Do you think a fall from that height could kill a person?" Chat asked, his voice remaining eerily calm as he spoke.

"Where's Ladybug?" Lila grunted, squirming in his arms, but also keeping her feet planted to the floor in case Chat decided to push her over the edge.

Chat glanced ahead of him, his eyes fixating on the balcony where he used to spend with his lady.

"She won't be joining us tonight..." Chat uttered out before he ducked his foot beneath Lila, tripping her to the ground. Chat grabbed on to her chest, body slamming her into the old roof. The structure crashed open, sending her flying into the ribvault of the cathedral.

Lila groaned as she landed into the hard floor, her body aching as she turned over into the narrow aisle. Her eyes glanced over the church's pew and she reached for the wood.

Chat extended his weapon, leaping through the roofs opening so that he could land in the narrow aisle beside her.
He retracted his weapon, keeping a hold of it as his green eyes glared at Lila the moment she began to help herself up.

"What was your plan for me and Adrien, huh?" Chat asked, perking a brow as he began to slowly walk towards her.

Lila immediately began to back away, tripping over debris as she did so. She reached up, immediately pulling glass from her earrings in an attempt to defend herself .
"To tear us down? To take everything from us so that we were left completely vulnerable to your manipulation?" Chat asked, immediately blocking a shard of glass with his weapon as Lila spiked it towards him.

Lila flinched as her own shards began to fly back at her each time Chat Noir blocked each shard.

Lila rolled over, crawling on her hands and knees before she was finally able to get herself back on her feet.
She gripped on to one of the pews grunting as she used all the strength she had to pull it off and throw it straight at Chat.
Chat ducked, getting down on one knee as he looked up at her.

"You didn't expect it to backfire on you...." Chat finished, standing up to extend his weapon to smack Lila with it.
Lila saw stars as she was plowed a few feet over, her bones aching as she landed on the ground.

She breathed out, her eyes darting over the designs in the walls as she attempted to come up with the last resort she knew.

"Where are you hiding Ladybug?" She asked, her voice rigid. "Why hasn't she come out yet?"
She climbed back on her hands and knees, scurrying away from Chat with a hushed panic.

"None of that matters anymore..." Chat murmured, his eyes glowing in the dark.
Lila flinched, the thunder rumbling eerily around them.
"For the last time..." his eyes glowered down at her. "It's time to end this..."

Lila widened her eyes, fearing the worst. She had one last option available and she was going to grab it.

Within an instant, she leapt, her body moving just above his.

Chat widened his eyes at her sudden movement.
The boy was stunned as he didn't quite expect her to leap over him.
   Chat was just about to turn when Lila flicked her glass towards him.

His eyes widened at the feeling of a sharp pinch behind his neck.
   The feline dropped his head as Lila landed on her feet.
  She glanced up, her eyes capturing a glimpse of the back of his neck. Her heart hammered away in her chest with a sense of relief and victory, she had finally got him.
   The female breathed, reaching up to wipe some blood from her mouth as Chat dropped his head low.

   "You allowed yourself to become a puppet..." She breathed out, standing up straight to place her hands on her hips.
  "You've become the masterpiece of my manipulation..."

Chat Noir glanced at the floor, listening to Lila speak to him before he closed his eyes.

   "Manipulation..." he breathed, his head lifting before he slowly turned to face Lila. "You've gained the power to control emotions so that it's easy to overtake ones mind. You used Marinette's fear to trick her into taking her own life. You manipulated your way into being a murderer."

Lila furrowed her brow, keeping her face firm as her eyes met his.
  
   "You've beaten me down into nothing. You allowed me to watch her die. You've forced me to watch her family grieve. You've taken every possible reason for living from me..." Chat reached up to grab the piece of glass from his neck, pulling it from his skin.

   Chat pulled the glass towards his face, examining his blood that stained its surface.
   "But can you manipulate someone you've tormented into numbness?" He asked, dropping the glass to the ground as he glanced back at her. "Is it possible to manipulate something with no mind or emotion?"

   Lila's eyes widened, her gaze glanced down at the glass Chat Noir simply picked from his skin and dropped it on the ground like nothing

   Her heart raced as Chat Noir called his cataclysm. A black mass formed around his palm, and Lila was all too familiar with what Chat had planned.

Ladybug wasn't coming, and Lila knew from the beginning that if she bumped into Chat again, her fate would soon be met.
  No matter how much she begged Hawk moth for an alternative, he had planned for her to die, anything to get the jewels he wanted.

Lila knew that no matter how much she ran from him, he'd always find her. He wouldn't stop until she was dead. Her last resorts failed, her power did not work on him.

He was like a machine that only worked on completing a mission and only then did Lila realize that she was truly fucked.
  
   She barely had any time to think before she realized that Chat was lunged towards her, his death palm out towards her.

  The female screamed, immediately throwing herself in another direction to avoid the cataclysmic attack.

   Lila plummeted into the podium, shattering it instantly.
  
   Chat nearly toppled over, turning over to glare back at her. He redirected his route, being sure to hold his palm out in a threatening manner.

   "Just take your own medicine, Lila..." Chat growled, his green eyes scanning the dark. "Or I'll come find you....I always do..." he murmured coldly.

Lila quivered, ushering herself under a pew.

   Chat's ears flickered at the sound of Lila scrambling away to find a place to hide.
   His green eyes flickered in her direction menacingly.
   Lila trembled, tears trickling in her eyes as she could see the eerie glow of his eyes in the dark as his boots began to move closer and closer to her.

   She flinched the moment his claws dug into the pews and ripped it out, revealing her.

     "Wait!" Lila screamed, her body flinching as she witnessed Chat about to use his cataclysm on her. "I can bring her back! I can bring Marinette back to life!"

   The feline paused, his face remaining impassive.
 
She breathed, her lips trembling as his brow furrowed slightly.
   She relaxed, her hands shaking as she held on to her head.
   "I....I can undo her death. It's my power...to manipulate time..."

   "You aren't going to do anything unless I say so..." Hawk moth reprimanded, his voice sharp in her head.
  Lila flinched at the sound. She remained quiet, her heart conflicted as she knew Hawkmoth would end her too.
  Either way she was losing.
But she needed to do what she knew would save her life.

She glanced up at Chat who remained quiet after some time.

  "Liar..." he uttered out.

Lila gulped, her heart beating so fast she almost passed out.

   "Chat- no!" Lila screamed as he grabbed her throat by his other hand and forcefully threw her across the worship room with great strength, Lila was almost sure she split her head open.

  She wanted to Manipulate Chat into becoming her puppet, and what she ended up doing was turning him into a monster that turned against her.

   She knew Marinette and Adrien were close, but she was completely mind boggled how her death had affected Chat.
  She thought that him witnessing her death and the guilt of being unable to save her would break him down along with Adrien, making it easier for her to use him.
It all backfired.

   In the end, she would always end up with nothing like Adrien said.

   The female opened her eyes, her mouth bleeding as Adrien gripped her throat once more.
  His green cold eyes glared into hers.

"I hope you enjoyed your time torturing people....because this is the last time you'll even be alive to murder someone else..." Chat murmured coldly before showing her his cataclysm.
   She trembled, her eyes glancing up almost as if they were rolling to the back of her head before they flashed a solid green.

   Chat paused, his brow furrowing as he was suddenly jerked away from her.
  Lila fell on to the ground, her hands clenching as she remained limp.

Chat glanced around him, the walls suddenly ripping apart. The ground beneath him began to tremble, and large chunks of the space around him began to fly up into the air.

   Lila began to twitch against the floor, small whimpers escaping her lips and Chat reached out to her.
  The feline grunted as he was whisked away forcefully and everything went black.

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He felt dead.

    He couldn't move. His eyes remained closed as Chat was struggling to remove himself from his slumber.

   He heard Marinette sobbing and his heart ached. His fists clenched as he was tired of the same nightmare over and over again.

  Lila had traumatized him to the point where he couldn't stop seeing and hearing her.

   Chat opened his eyes, his pupils shrinking at the bright light. He sat up slowly, his eyes blinking as he realized his surroundings.
   Lila stood at the ledge of the Eiffel tower, her back faced away from Chat.
Without looking back, she climbed over the ledge and leapt, escaping before Chat could even get up.

  The blonde glanced down at his hand, the area completely silent as Chat realized he was alone once more and Lila got away.

  Chat blinked as he began to hallucinate. His heart raced as his mind conjured the figure of Marinette on that ledge, she fell backwards over and over again.
   The blonde stood to his feet, the lines under his eyes deepening as Marinette fell backwards, and then dissapeared before she reappeared at the top.

Chat edged closer to the ledge, both hands gripping on to the bar and he frowned as it crumpled to dust.
He glanced down, his eyes straining the length of the fall, and even then he could still see Marinette at the bottom, dead.
  He clenched his teeth, his head turning as Marinette reappeared at the top. She breathed out as she fell backwards once more.
   Chat breathed out, his heart aching as he knew this was Lila manipulating him once more.

Even if it was his imagination and even if it was Lila's new manipulation tactic, he couldn't let her fall again. He had always went after her.
  It was in his nature to go after her.
He didn't care that she'd end up as a mist after he grabbed her as it always did, he couldn't let her fall.

   He needed to have her in his arms until she dissapeared.
The blonde stood on the ledge, watching Marinette fall. He was ready to jump, he was ready to reach out to her.

And just as usual, someone stopped him.