(Summary: "Hey, Nath!" Marinette called, suppressing a malicious grin. "Did you know that Lila is dating your boyfriend?" And that was the beginning of the end of Lila's reign of terror.

Really, this story is just an excuse to hate Lila Rossi. I've officially lumped her in with Dolores Umbridge. She cannot be redeemed. Chloé can, but not Lila. I mean, come on.

Imagine this happening post-reveal, but that isn't exactly addressed.

Disclaimed: I do not own Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir.)

The day started out as any other. Marinette was late. Again. This one wasn't her fault, though! Hawkmoth decided that it'd be a lovely idea to Akumatize Manon again, this time over her having a nightmare about getting her dolls taken away, so Marinette had to spend five hours chasing after Puppeteer and now she was sleep deprived and late.

So she sprinted towards François Dupont, with energy Marinette didn't know she had. But it seemed luck was on her side, as it seemed that Madame Bustier was not in yet. And then Marinette noticed a large group of her friends gathered around Lila and instantly her mood shifted. If there was one person that Marinette disliked, it was Lila Rossi. 'Disliked' was an understatement. Marinette would give up her firstborn just to see Lila's downfall. Marinette knew how wicked she sounded, but she also knew that Lila was lying to all of her friends about everything. She wasn't about to sit back and watch.

Of course, Adrien's face popped into her mind, offering her helpful advice about taking the 'high road'. Marinette loved her kitty. She really, truly did. But that advice was bullshit, and Marinette's opinion would've shifted considerably when it came to him, if he hadn't told her about tabloids and how he'd thought of her as one.

Well, despite how Adrien saw things, Lila Rossi was not a tabloid. She was a living, breathing person who deliberately told lies. Who got Marinette expelled. No matter the fact that she'd been reinstated in the school eventually, the stain was still on her reputation. She saw the looks from other students and even Alya was acting awkward around her. Marinette hated─despised─Lila Rossi.

After Adrien had realised just how bad Lila was, with a little angry rant on her end, he had immediately withdrawn the advice, and a little comment involving her and the word 'princess' was what made Marinette realise that Chat Noir had been under her nose the entire time. Quite ironic, to be honest, especially when she realised that she'd rejected Adrien a million times for… well, Adrien.

Of course, she couldn't help the small, Tikki-like voice in the back of her head, wondering if, perhaps, Lila had a good reason for lying. Marinette almost wanted to believe her lie about that disease she'd told Damocles, but she knew better. She knew that Lila had no reason for lying, except for the fun of it. And that bugged Marinette.

Speaking of the liar, Lila was looking down at Marinette's classmates like they were mere peasants and she was their queen. It made Marinette feel sick. "Yeah, last weekend my boyfriend took me on a ride around the Place Bellecour in Lyon, where he's from." Marinette sighed, closing her eyes. It was as if Lila was a fisherman─well, woman─and the girls gathered around her were fish.

"Boyfriend?" Rose asked with wide eyes, falling for the bait, hook, line and sinker. "I thought you were dating Adrien?"

Lila let out a grating laugh, shaking her head with a fake grin. "No, no. I mean─Adrien asked me out a couple of times─I felt terrible turning him down─but I just wasn't about to cheat on Marc!"

"Marc?" Alya asked, leaning forwards interestedly. "Marc who?"

Lila smiled, "you know the writer, Marc Anciel, right? We started dating a couple weeks ago. Jagged Stone introduced us."

Marinette had to suppress an indignant screech. Marc Anciel. Marc Anciel! As in, Nathaniel's boyfriend. As in, a student at their school. As in, Lila just made a huge mistake.

Marinette watched as Alix tensed, Rose's head tilted in confusion and Juleka opened her mouth to speak, before looking down and mumbling incoherently. Little did Lila know, Marc Anciel was a member of their art club. But Marinette also knew that Lila would simply lie her way out of this.

And so, Marinette shifted in her seat, catching sight of the ginger boy sitting alone in the back of the classroom. "Hey, Nath!" she called, suppressing a malicious grin. Eyes instantly shifted to Marinette, as she wasn't exactly quiet. "Did you know that Lila is dating your boyfriend?"

Three seconds past, in which Nathaniel blinked dumbly before he frowned, setting down his drawing pencil and closing his sketchbook. "What?"

"Oh, yeah, she just said so!" Marinette said, glancing back at Lila to catch sight of the horror on her face as she slowly turned white. "Why don't you tell him Lila? Tell him exactly what you just said?"

"I...I…" Marinette hid a smirk at Lila's speechless state.

"Girl, what are you talking about?" Alya asked, standing and crossing her arms. "Lila was talking about a different Marc, I'm sure."

"Really?" Marinette turned innocent, wide eyes on Lila, and only then did she reveal the fire behind the orbs. "You said that he's a writer, Lila? What has he written?"

"Oh, he's written this Ladybug comic and─" And Lila got no further than that, as Nathaniel quietly stood, quickly descending the steps.

"Really, Lila?" Marinette asked. "Usually your lies are much more thought out than this. I mean, did you even look at the other name on the comic? The illustrator?"

"W-wh-what are you talking about?" Lila asked, drawing in on herself. She looked around, a decent impression of being afraid passing over her face. "Marinette, I get that you don't like me, but─"

"Are you really that stupid?" Alix asked. Marinette raised an eyebrow. She expected Nathaniel to speak before Alix did, but Nathaniel was nowhere to be seen. Oh no. Marinette would've loved to stay behind and watch her classmate rip into Lila, but there was a fairly good chance that Nathaniel had believed Lila.

The second Marinette was out of the classroom, she transformed, sprinting around the school and looking for him.

Eventually, she caught sight of Nathaniel with his head between his legs, hiding out in the otherwise empty art room. She caught sight of the purple butterfly hovering outside of the window. Marinette made quick work of capturing the Akuma, stepping back outside and de-transforming, before making her way inside once more.

"Nathaniel!" she exclaimed, crouching in front of him. Marinette took one of his hands. "Nath, don't believe Lila! She was lying about knowing Marc! She didn't even know that you illustrated the comic!"

"B-but…"

"No buts, Nath. She said that Marc was from Lyon. Marc hates Lyon… I still don't get why, but he does! And Marc loves you. He'd never cheat on you. Lila's just a liar. She doesn't even know that he goes to school here."

Nathaniel slowly raised his head. "Y-you really we-were telling the truth about her, w-weren't you? Sh-she's been lying from t-the start?"

"Yes, she has been," Marinette said, wrapping an arm around him. "Now, come on. If Madame Bustier is actually in class, for once, she'll be wondering where we are."

Once they reached the classroom, Marinette was vaguely surprised to witness a screaming match taking place between Alya and Alix. She wondered what she'd missed.

Marinette, catching sight of a certain blonde model, began to formulate her plan to end the witch.

Ten Minutes Earlier…

"Are you really that stupid?!" Alix demanded, glaring down at Lila. "I─I mean, come on!? What the fuck?! Nath has been dating Marc for months! The same Marc who wrote the Ladybug comics! Nathaniel fucking designed them!"

Alix wasn't best friends with Nathaniel, but she still considered him to be her friend─and Alix protected her own.

"Alix, I'm sure it's all just a misunderstanding─" Alya started off.

"What's there to be misunderstood?!" Alix spat, scowling at Alya. "She literally just claimed all of that. And none of that is fucking true, so what else has Lila lied about?!"

"I─" Lila was interrupted by Alya.

"Really, Alix? Because you aren't even letting her explain!"

Lila barely suppressed an eyeroll. "Well, if─"

"Because there's nothing for her to explain!"

"Can I─"

"You haven't even let her speak!"

"Neither have─"

"So she can spread more lies? Yeah, no thanks!"

"This is─"

"Maybe Nathaniel assumed they were dating!"

"I'd really like to─"

"Marc was the one who asked him out you fucking nitwit!"

"Please, can I just─"

"You're sure he wasn't just asking to hang out?!"

"Guys, seriously─"

"Considering he asked Marinette to make t-shirts and have the entire art club spell it out?! NO!"

"Really, this is getting─"

"SHUT UP!" The entire class jumped, their heads no longer swinging around as if watching a tennis match. Instead, they zeroed in on a very annoyed looking Adrien Agreste, who was glaring at them. He stood beside Nathaniel and Marinette, an uncharacteristic look on his face. He looked back at Marinette. "Wow─you really weren't joking about shock value." He stepped back, bowing dramatically. "Your floor, My Lady."

Marinette snorted, swatting at him, before taking the 'floor'. Really, where was Madame Bustier? "Okay, so now that some of you have realised that Lila only spews bullshit─don't interrupt me, Alya, it's my turn─I think it's time that we talk." Marinette hopped onto Madame Bustier's desk, crossing her legs. "Right, let's start out with the obvious ones. Jagged Stone. You've never saved his kitten. He has had Fang for the past twenty years. Lila? Anything to say?"

"Yes! Yes, I do!" Lila exclaimed, desperately clinging to any hope of keeping her crumbling crown. "Fang was the name of the cat I saved!"

"Hm." Marinette frowned. She looked at her classmates. "Does anyone want to correct Lila?"

Surprisingly, Chloé was the one who spoke up as she lazed back, having Sabrina paint her nails. "Fang is Jagged Stone's crocodile! I should know! He ate my Gabriel shoes! Six pairs of them!"

Marinette almost laughed, if not for the fact that she was dedicated to Lila's downfall, and this was serious. "Exactly. Another one… oh, right! A napkin can't gouge out anyone's eye. It's impossible. It's paper. Also, Max was wearing glasses. Need I go on?"

Max pushed back his glasses nervously. "Yes, I must admit that after extensive research, I have concluded that a on its own could not separate the eyeball from the optic nerve. Perhaps if one was holding the napkin as they pulled an eyeball from it's socket, it might be possible, but otherwise, there was a zero percent chance of me losing my eye."

Marinette sometimes wondered how Max could say so much in one breath, but then she recalled herself speaking about Adrien. "Right," she stated, shuddering at the images. "On to another point. Ladybug. I mean, guys. Really. I highly doubt that Ladybug would be best friends with Lila of all people!"

"Marinette! How could you?!" Lila exclaimed, finally realising just how much she was about to lose. "I mean, I get that you don't like me because Adrien does, but─"

"Lila," Adrien calmly walked forwards, towards the back of the class, where the only open window was with a small plastic jar and lid clutched behind his back. "I never liked you." Panic flashed through Lila's eyes as she searched for an excuse.

"If Ladybug wasn't my best friend, then why did she give me a Miraculous?!" Lila desperately shouted.

A few students moved to speak, but Adrien drew a finger to his lips silently, making sure to meet their eyes. Lila was about to dig her hole even deeper. Marinette merely raised an eyebrow. "Miraculous? What Miraculous did she give you, Lila?"

"The Fox Miraculous!" Alya's arm that was once wrapped around Lila's shoulders recoiled as Lila held up a fake version of her Miraculous. "I'm Rena Rouge!" Nino stood up, stepping away from Lila and taking a frozen Alya's arm. She walked mechanically as he dragged her away. "What?! Alya!"

"Guys, come on," Mylène nervously said. "I'm sure that Lila didn't mean anything too bad if she told a fib or two. Not like she hurt anyone, right?"

Marinette let out a sardonic, bitter laugh. "Right, right. Yeah, on the day she came back, she threatened to ruin my life because I noticed that her shit wasn't adding up. Definitely nothing too bad." Mylène frowned at that.

"But did you have to be so mean about it?" Rose asked softly. "I mean, sure, she might've said some bad things, but that doesn't mean she was going to do anything, right?" Lila looked up triumphantly, but Marinette shook her head.

"She had all of you convinced that I was evil personified." Marinette met each of her classmates' eyes, daring them to disagree. "That first day? I would've gladly given up to a new student with a disability. If you had asked me about it. But instead, everyone assumed that I was jealous and overreacting. I was just mad that all of you thought that my feelings weren't important. But─hey, as long as you're happy, what does Marinette's feelings matter? Apparently, they don't." Rose's eyes widened, but Marinette wasn't finished. "Lila got me expelled. And, somehow, you were all convinced─are still, actually─that I'm capable of pushing somebody down a fucking flight of stairs! I mean, I never even hit Chloé! So, yes, Rose, I did have to be so 'mean' about it. Because, otherwise, none of you would have believed me!" Marinette stood from the desk, looking at her classmates. "I do wonder, though. Was it something I said? Something I did? What caused all of you to jump at the chance to believe that I could do any of that, when I've always jumped at the chance to help you?"

Nobody had an answer for Marinette. She snorted sardonically, shaking her head. "Of course," Marinette muttered under her breath. She turned back to Lila. "Although, Lila, I guess you did win. I lost my friends to you. Even now, after learning you lied about everything, they still believe me to be the villain." Marinette caught Adrien's eyes, and he knew he wasn't included in that statement.

Alya stood up, pushing off Nino's hold on her arm. "I'm gonna murder you," she said, staring Lila down. Marinette cringed. Maybe they should've gotten a bigger jar. She wouldn't be surprised if Scarlett Moth decided to make an appearance. "You lying bitch!" Alya moved to attack her, but Marinette moved quickly, catching her around the waist. Alya continued to scream at Lila as Marinette dragged her away. She may have been upset with Alya for not believing her, but she also didn't want her best friend to have to deal with assault charges.

"Wait, so she really lied about everything?" Rose asked. "Even knowing Prince Ali?"

Juleka snorted quietly. "Rose, you know Prince Ali!"

"I─ oh yeah!"

Marinette opened her mouth to speak, but was interrupted by the sudden appearance of an authority figure. "Hello, everyone. I'm sorry I'm late, I─" Madame Bustier glanced around the room. "Did I… miss something?"

Marinette didn't really feel like causing too much trouble. "No─" Marinette was interrupted by almost the entire class.

"YES!"

"I─ oh." Madame Bustier's eyebrows creased. "I… am going to fetch Principal Damocles. Everyone, return to your seats!"

Once they were all seated, Alix snorted. "I think we all learned a lesson today. Don't lie about Nathaniel's boyfriend."

Kim raised his eyebrows. "So you don't need a teacher to learn!" Marinette got the distinct feeling that Kim's definition of 'learn' involved at least three pranks.

Oh, well. A liar had been exposed and all was right in the world. Of course, Hawkmoth had been strangely quiet, but Marinette wasn't about to question a good thing.

Three Hours Later…

As Gabriel Agreste awoke, he found himself in a lukewarm bathtub with a feeling that he'd missed something.

Ah, well, it was probably just the age getting to him.

Of course, he'd later learn just what he'd missed when Lila Rossi called to rant and rave about how she'd been expelled, but Gabriel couldn't bring himself to care. Nathalie had just walked in, naked.

(A/N I'm not even mad at myself for that ending. I mean, it's fucking cringey, but it's also funny. Also, no. I'm not going to continue this with a chapter of Gabenath lemons. Just… no.

I really hope you guys enjoyed it! Leave a review telling me what you thought of this disaster!

Also, yes, I have realised that I spelled Nathanaёl's name wrong. Sorry, Nath!)