Within the next few weeks things were quite happy for the family in fact they were more happy now then they ever were but they were also a lot more tired. So much so that after taking care of baby Daniel for almost a month Felix decided that he and Bridgette needed a vacation.

"I don't know if I can leave him Felix." Bridgette said looking at the infant sleeping peacefully. "He's so little."

"Bridgette he'll be fine and besides I haven't slept in a month we need this."

"But do you really think he'll be okay all alone?"

"He won't be alone he'll have his big sister looking after him, right Marinette?"

"Right. Don't worry Mother I'll take good care of him." Marinette said.

"And my Aunt Audrey will be here too."

"Oh yes her." Bridgette sighed.

"Who's Aunt Audrey?" Marinette asked.

"She's my aunt and she's coming to help take care of Daniel while we're gone." Felix said.

"Felix are you sure she should come?" Bridgette said. "You know how she is with certain people."

"Look I know Audrey can be very difficult and demanding from time to time but she really likes kids not to mention she has two daughters who are Marinette's age. I'm sure they'll all be friends."

"I hope so."

Just then the door bell rang.

"That must be her now." Felix said.

He went to answer the door allowing a blonde woman in her late forties enter the house. She was very tall and looked like she was a woman of high society and wealth.

"Hello Aunt Audrey." Felix said.

"Hello dear, sorry I'm late but the roads were dreadful."

"We appreciate you coming especially under such short notice."

"Oh it's not a problem now the two of you better get going now."

She hurried them out of the house then went upstairs into the nursery. Marinette followed her went over the crib.

"This is Daniel." She said. "In't he cute?"

"Good gracious what are you doing near the baby?!" Audrey cried.

"What do you mean?"

"A dirty little girl like you shouldn't be near this child at all!"

"Dirty?"

"Go on now! Out! Out! Before you get my grand nephew sick with your germs! Get out of here and go take care of my luggage!" She then pushed Marinette out of the nursery and slammed the door, waking up Daniel and causing him to cry. "Oh now look what that girl has done! There, there Daniel I won't let her bother you."

"Hmmph!" Marinette huffed as she picked herself up. "How rude. I'm not dirty, I really wish people would stop thinking that. Well I might as well go help her with her bags."

She went downstairs and went to get Audrey's luggage. On her way down something tripped her and sent her tumbling down the stairs. When she landed she saw what had tripped her was a foot that belonged to a blonde girl who was snickering next to another girl with brown hair.

"So this is the street urchin our cousin Felix adopted?" The blonde said. "She's uglier than her pictures."

"I beg your pardon." Marinette said standing up. "But who are you two?"

"We're Felix's cousins." The second girl with brown hair said. "Lila and Chloe, now if you don't mind we'd like to get settled in."

"Okay well the guest rooms are right down the hall and-"

But the two girls had already left and were making their way toward Marinette's room where Chloe was going through her closet and Lila was going through her jewelry box.

"What on earth do you think you're doing?" Marinette asked.

"These dresses are so poorly made." Chloe said throwing them out. "What kind of designer did you buy these from?"

"None. My mother made them and I made some of them."

"Ick! No wonder they look like trash!"

She watched in horror as Chloe started throwing out and tossing around her dresses, make up, hair brushes, perfumes, and her other belongings.

"Boring." Lila said throwing out one piece of jewelry after another. "Dull, ugly, ugh! What poorly crafted trinkets!"

She then noticed Marinette's necklace.

"Hmmm...That's pretty. Can I have it?"

"Please no, this was my mother's." Marinette pressing her hand over it.

"I don't have a necklace with a blue diamond." Chloe said. "I want one! Give it!"

"I said no."

"Fine." Chloe then picked up an expensive vase and dropped it. "Whoops!"

"That vase was mother's favorite." Marinette gasped as she tried to clean up the broken glass.

"Whoops! I'm so clumsy!" Lila said purposely throwing one of Felix's hats into the fire place.

"What are you doing?" Marinette cried as she tried to get it out without burning herself.

Before she knew it the two girls were purposely wrecking the house and breaking many valuable things that belonged to her family.

"Stop this! Please!"

But they didn't. Poor Marinette went out of her way trying to clean up the messes they kept making and hoping that her parents wouldn't be too angry with her. Suddenly she heard the sound of Daniel crying. She rushed upstairs to the nursery to see what was wrong, Audrey wasn't there but Lila and Chloe were. They stood there over the crib, teasing him cruelly by taking away his two favorite toys, his teddy cat and ladybug which Bridgette had stitched for him.

"Aww is the baby sad because we took his toys?" Chloe taunted while she and Lila did everything they could to keep the toys out of Daniel's tiny hands that were desperately reaching for them.

Marinette felt a great rage come over her. She didn't care about being polite or welcoming anymore. Not to these two because guests or not no one would upset her baby brother and get away with it. She grabbed two of Daniel's building blocks and threw it at them.

"Ow!" They cried.

"Get away from him!" She screamed angrily as she snatched the toys from them and hand them back to her brother. "How dare you upset him! He's just a baby! He never hurt anyone! You two brats leave him alone! Get out! Out! Now!"

She continued throwing blocks at them until they ran out screaming which alerted Audrey.

"What's going on here? Merciful heavens!" She gasped when she saw her daughters lying on the ground clearly faking an injury. "My darlings! My precious children! What happened to you?!"

"It was Marinette!" Chloe lied. "We were just trying to get settled in when she attacked us."

"Yes and she wrecked the house too just so she could get us in trouble." Lila lied as well.

"Oh you wicked girl!" Audrey snapped at Marinette. "How dare you harm my sweet little angles!"

"But I didn't-" Marinette stuttered.

"Silence! I'll fix you good!"

She seized Marinette by her arm and dragged her outside into the car. She drove down to the store where she bought a large wooden cane then dragged her out back where she threw her down and began to thrash her with it. Marinette was horrified, no one had ever hit her before in all her life let alone a thrashing from a cane and it hurt her terribly.

"Hold still!" Audrey demanded.

But she didn't and in fear Marinette broke away and fled for her life. She didn't know where she was going but at the moment she didn't care, all she wanted to do was get away from that woman. She ran and ran until she reached an alleyway where she tripped over a garbage can that made a noise.

"What's this?" A voice asked.

"Oh look it's a woman." Another said.

She picked herself up and found herself face to face with three very large, dirty, and mean looking street urchins. They had tattoos, pointy teeth, yellow fingers nails, oily hair, and bad breath. She did not like the looks of them.

"Hi, sorry if I'm intruding but I'm lost and I'm not really sure where I am." She said nervously.

"What a beauty." One of them said. "This must be our reward for all our hardwork eh boys?"

They chuckled sinisterly and she could tell by the look in their eyes what they were going to do. She might've been naive but Felix had warned her of what some men would to women. She quickly kicked over more trash cans to block their path and ran as fast as she could.

"Get her!" She heard them shout as she ran.

She was a fast runner but she couldn't run forever. Luckily however Adrien was just a few blocks from where they were and he saw her run by with the three men chasing her.

"Help! Help! HELP!" She cried out fearfully.

Thinking fast he headed down a back way he knew of that would prove useful. They had her cornered in an alleyway with no way out. She stood there completely frozen and scared beyond belief.

"Don't worry sweetheart we don't bite." One of them teased as he reached for her.

"But I do!" Out of no where Adrien jumped down between them and bravely shielded her from tgem. "Keep your filthy hands off her!"

"Beat it Agreste! This one's all ours!"

"You lay one finger on her and I'll rip your head off."

"Little punk!"

The three men lunged for him but Adrien was a lot stronger then he looked. He punched, kicked, slugged, and bashed them one by one. Marinette could only watch in amazement, she never thought it was possible for one man to take on three without a weapon but he could. Eventually he managed to scare them off and send them running with their tails between their legs.

"Yeah that's it run! Run away you dirty rats! Before I claw your eyes out!" He flared angrily. Then turned to Marinette giving her a gentle face. "Hey Princess what are you doing on this side of the tracks? Don't you know it's dangerous over here? You could've been-"

But he stopped when he saw her arm was bleeding.

"What happened?" He said gently examining her arm. "Come on I know someone who can fix this."