May and Lee lay on May's bed watching Beauty and The Beast. May was on their phone texting someone while Lee was preparing herself. "May, I think we need to talk about what happened today."

"About how you yelled at the fortune teller?" May asked, still texting on their phone. Lee flinched, she knew they need to talk about this but taking countability is still a new thing for Lee.

"Yeah, about that, I- I don't know what came over me. I have been working on my anger, I don't know why I lost it like that."

May turned off their phone and put it under their blanket, "Lee, I love you but I think you know what happened today," May looked at their partner, "You need to be honest with me."

"What? I'm being honest! I don't know what came over me," Lee felt her palms get sweaty, for a superhero she should be better at lying by now.

May sighed, "I can't do this again, Lee."

Lee frowned, "Do what?"

"Us."

"Are you breaking up with me?"

May wiped the tears in their eyes, Lee hadn't even realised they had been crying. "You don't love me, not the way you love Pierre."

"What?! May, my feeling for Pierre aren't important, he's just my best friend, I don't even-"

"I have always been your second choice, Lee. I can't be second to Pierre any longer. We've been dating on and off for the past year and you still choose him over me, you need to choose, you can't be dating me while obsessing over Pierre."

"I can't do that," Lee shook her head, "You and Pierre are both important to me, I can't lose either of you."

"Lee, I'm not asking for you to stop being friends with Pierre, I'm just asking for you to stop loving him the way you should be loving me."

Lee grabbed May's hands and gripped them, she looked into May's eyes, "I'm not going to lie to you because I love you. I can't control how I feel, I'm sorry. If I could I would."

May dropped Lee's hands and walked over to their door, "Get out, please. Go and talk to Pierre, he cares more about you than you think."

"May, please."

"Lee, it's over, I'm sorry."

Lee got up and walked over to May and the door, "Please-" May closed the door behind Lee.

Pierre was sitting in the kitchen when he heard the front door open, the young boy stopped eating his salad sandwich and grabbed out a knife as he slowly walked over to the living room. It is five in the afternoon, there was no one coming over and he had locked that door. "Pierre?!" A female voice called as Pierre froze in his tracks.

"Aunt Anne-Marie?" He asked as he came out of his hiding spot.

"Pierre! Why are you holding a knife?!"

"I didn't know it was you, why are you home so early? I thought you were still in Germany."

"Pierre put that knife down and take a seat, we need to talk."

"Okay..." The boy walked back to the kitchen and put the knife back in its box, he walked over to his strawberry blonde-haired aunt and sat down confusedly, "What's this about?"

Anne-Marie is a younger woman, pretty with strawberry blonde hair and green eyes, she has a strong Canadian accent even though she's been living in Australia for longer than Pierre has even been alive. Her hair is shorter than the last night Pierre had seen her which again, was over four months ago. "I'm going to be staying home, just for a while."

"What? How come?"

"That doesn't matter," his aunt said sharply, using the face that she would always make when he was a kid which says, 'adult stuff'.

Suddenly Pierre's phone started to ringing, he looked down at the scene to see an Akuma warning. Pierre panicked and said, "Good talk Aunt Anne-Marie but I just remembered that I had to have my assessment in for school, I'll be back soon."

"Assessment? But it's school-" Pierre was already out the door before she could help him it was the school holidays.

Pierre ran behind a bush and let Trixx out, "So that's your aunt?"

"Yeah. Don't get used to her Trixx, it won't be long before she needs to leave for work again," Pierre said bitterly. The boy loves his aunt but that's the problem, Anne-Marie is too afraid to show her affection for him because she doesn't want to replace his parents, Pierre finds this stupid though because his aunt was the one who raised him, he was six when his parents died. "It doesn't matter now though. Trixx, let's pounce!"

[ Small Timeskip ]

"Who's the Akuma?"

"The Akuma calls themself Dark Cupid 2.0, they are a sixteen-year-old named May Yontararak, they have gotten akumstised after a breakup with their partner Lee Stanford," Tartaruga explained.

Renard choked on his spit, making the other heroes look at him with concern. Lee and May broke up, that can't be a coincidence. "Um- ah," Renard turned to find a non-identity-revealing explanation for his reaction. "How did you know all that? Don't tell me you ran into Lee Stanford again."

"Actually, I did."

Renard didn't believe Tartaruga for a second but he knew better than to argue when Honeybee and Ladybeetle are around. 

"So what's the plan?" Souris asked the group, the youngest superhero looked distracted and deep in thought.

Ladybeetle shook his head, "I don't know. Mariposa has never akumatised two people in one day, this is unlike her, I'm already drained from the last battle."

The last battle was definitely interesting, it gave Renard a lot of questions, like what was happening to Ladybeetle, it looked as if Oracle's words were triggering some hidden memories.

"Let's just fight, how we always do. Yes, we may be weaker but that means so must Mariposa," Honeybee encouraged, Renard looked down to see her and Peafowl holding hands.

"When did this happen?" He asked as he pointed to the couple.

"Oh," Honey let go of Peafowl's hand, "Um, a week ago?"

Peafowl grinned, "Yep! One week ago, we were planning on telling yous but it never came up."

"Congratulations!" Night exclaimed as he hugged Honeybee and then Peafowl.

"As cool as this is," Tartaruga turned to Peafowl and Honey, "And this is really cool, congrats. We need to be focusing on May!"

"Dark Cupid 2.0," Renard corrected, "This isn't May, it's Mariposa's Akuma, we shouldn't confuse the two."

Tartaruga rolled her eyes.

"Okay, plan, we need a plan." Ladybeetle looked over to Dark Cupid 2.0 who was causing chaos and demanding for their obsessors (victims) to find Lee. "Lucky charm!"

"A piece of chalk?" Souris questioned.

Ladybeetle looked around and tried forming a plan. Chalk. He remembers that Lee likes to graffiti the school with chalk, and how she always signs her work with a small c.a.s, maybe he could write a message for Dark Cupid 2.0. "I had a plan. Peafowl, I'm going to need you to create a sentimonster version of Lee, give him this piece of chalk," Ladybeetle handed the chalk to them.

"Got it."

"Once a message is written and signed by c.a.s, Dark Cupid 2.0 should be drawn out and then Tartaruga can trap them and us in an shell-ter. Tartaruga, do you know where the akumatised object is?" The turtle theme superhero shook her head, "That's okay, Night you might to use your cataclysm a lot, do you think you can handle that?"

Night nodded.

"Okay, I'll text you all the rest of the plan, let's make this as quick as possible because I only have four minutes."

Peafowl created the sentimonster and gave it the chalk, the semi monster did as was told and as Ladybeetle planned the Akuma fell for it. "Lee! You will love me the way you love your best friend!" Dark Cupid 2.0 demanded as they shot the senti-Lee.

Renard froze as he stared at the Akuma, and so did Tartaruga. The boy couldn't believe his ears, did the Akuma just say that Lee was in love with him? Renard was freaking out but it didn't show.

Ladybeetle turned to the turtle-themed hero, "Tartaruga, create your shell-ter now."

"Oh, right, sorry!" Tartaruga grabbed her shell, "Shell-ter!"

The shelter formed around them, trapping them and Dark Cupid 2.0. Ladybeetle nodded at the group, Renard frowned as he saw the older boy try to hide his discomfort, Ladybeetle was clearly still experiencing headaches.

Dark Cupid 2.0 aimed their shotgun at Souris and fired, he tried dodging but he was too slow. The gun got him as his brown eyes turned pink. "My love, what may I do to please you?"

"Get Night Noir and Ladybeetle's miraculous," Dark Cupid 2.0 ordered.

Souris turned to the group as Honey grabbed her spinning top. "Venom!" She launched at Souris.

"Multitude!" Souris spilt into four different copies, shrinking a metre. Honeybee's venom hit one of Souris' clones only paralysing the individual one.

Dark Cupid 2.0 turned their shotgun on Tartaruga making the superhero remember her first date with May, they had gone to the arcade and May had won an offbrand nerf gun. "It's the gun! Night! That's where the akuma is!"

Dark Cupid 2.0 froze, as if they were mentally saying shit, shit, shit, over and over again.

"Cataclysm!" Night called as he destroyed the shotgun.

Dark Cupid 2.0 turned into a very watery eyed May, they looked up at the heroes, "I got akumatised didn't I? I'm so sorry." They sobbed.

Tartaruga shook her head, "Don't be sorry, it happens to even the best of us." Tartaruga checked her timer, Renard saw that she still has two minutes left, "Come on, I'll take you home."

Ladybeetle caught the akuma in his yo-yo before purifying it and letting it go. He grabbed the piece of chalk and threw it in the air, "Miraculous Ladybeetle!" He decided to say this time.

Beep, beep.

"I'm about to detransform, good job everyone."

"Team miraculous!"

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This might have been the shortest akuma battle they have ever have, usually it goes for hours oof.

Did I make May come across as overly possessive? I wasn't trying to but as I was proofreading I realised I may had.

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