Marinette's specialty macarons.
Different personalized flavors for each of her friends.
She makes them whenever someone is sad, angry, or needs cheering up.
It never fails to bring a smile to the recipient's face.
This is the story of Marinette's macarons; and the day she stopped making them.
Marinette's specialty macarons.
Different personalized flavors for each of her friends, even Chloe.
Like Max had dark chocolate, Alya had orange, Adrien had passionfruit.
She makes them whenever someone is sad, angry, or needs cheering up.
It always makes them feel better.
They taste different from Tom and Sabine's macarons.
"A secret ingredient!" Marinette always replies with a mischievous grin and a wink.
"What is it?" Everyone asks.
Marinette wiggles her fingers. "Magic!" She says with a laugh.
It takes a while for them to realise when she stops making them.
Normally, Marinette would bring a big box with two of each personalised macaron before a big test, to cheer people up.
No one notices when she stops making them after Lila comes.
No one realises that they'd never asked Marinette what her own flavor was.
"Adrien would never like someone like you."
Marinette learns not to cry at school.
She learns how to run away from akumas within two weeks after Lila's arrival.
She learns how to barricade her room so she can break down properly within three weeks after Lila's arrival.
She learns how to wipe away tears and leave no trace of their existence within ten seconds a month after Lila's arrival.
She learns not to trust people as soon as Lila opens her mouth.
Unfortunately, she learns these the hard way.
When the class realises how much time passed since they've had one of her magic macarons, they protest.
Lila inquires what they are.
The class scream at Marinette because Lila doesn't have her flavour.
No one except Marinette recalls that she hasn't made macarons since Lila's arrival.
It takes a while, but Marinette grows to trust Chloe.
She gifts the blonde girl with a new flavour, a change from her regular banana one.
A week after Chloe and Marinette's friendship, they meet Luka and Kagami.
It took a month for Marinette to trust them.
Now, the four were a group.
Marinette gifts them with blueberry and matcha flavors.
Even more so when Chloe tells them of the significance her macarons have.
When Hawkmoth was arrested, Chat demanded a personal macaron from Marinette, hovering outside her window like a gnat that wouldn't go away.
Marinette doesn't want to.
She learns to lock her windows and bar them from the inside.
Eventually, Marinette just stops leaving her window open.
Marinette, the new guardian, renounces Chat Noir, who turns out to be Adrien Agreste.
She wonders if she should feel surprised. Chat Noir had become increasingly useless as time went by. Just like Adrien.
The only reason she won the fight against Hawkmoth was because Chat had seen Emilie Agreste encased in her glass coffin, and assumed Hawkmoth was holding her captive.
They took down Hawkmoth within fifteen minutes.
When Lila gets outed for working with Hawkmoth, the class discover that she had been lying about everything else.
They wait for a bluenette baker to walk through the door, her happy and cheery self, sitting down next to Alya as per normal.
She promptly sits at the back with Chloe.
She ignores everyone else the whole day.
Marinette never really forgives them.
Personally, Marinette doesn't understand the term redemption.
Sure, they can turn over a new leaf.
But what was stopping them from turning right back when another liar comes along?
After mutliple failed fundraisers and not raising enough money for a field trip, the class realise.
They realise how useless they are without Marinette.
They realise how much they depend on Marinette.
They realise how much they miss Marinette.
But she still never forgives them.
They are reminded of the macarons' existence when Marinette carries a box into class one day.
Admittedly smaller, but a box no less.
They eagerly wait for their macarons.
The next day, Ladybug makes a public announcement.
She's hanging up her title for good.
"Mari-hime?" Kagami asks one day.
Marinette hums from where she lies in Luka's lap.
Marinette props herself up and smiles at the Japanese girl.
"Chocolate chip red velvet." She replies.
But they don't need to know that.
The secret ingredient? Many people will ask.
Only four people alive know what it is.
Luka, Kagami, Chloe and Tikki.
It isn't love, if that's what you're thinking.
aha a less than 1k word fic after disappearing for 8 months? more likely than you'd think. anyway heres a draft i wrote in september last year (2020) ;; i havent written any maribat fics since october and i might not ever again bc ive sort of fallencout of the fandom but i do have alot of uncleared and unfinished drafts so ill post those maybe?? anyway thanks for everything
er this was unedited too not my best work definitely but have it anyway bc i think this is one of the few completed fics i have in my drafts.