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5 ANS PLUS TARD...
"Marinette! Pour me a glass of water!"
Marinette from the kitchen just simply poured water from a pitcher that sat on the table into the glass while Lila who was seated on the sofa waited for her return with her drink impatiently. To say the last few years had not been kind to her was a clear understatement. Asides from her less than convincing appearance Lila had shown that over the years she could no longer be taken seriously as she thought she should be to her victims anymore. The teenager who went from being a sadistic heartless liar was now a woman who was nothing short of demanding, annoying and bratty.
"What's taking you so long?" Lila demanded to know.
Within that a much more sophisticated Marinette sauntered halfheartedly into the den, loosened hair billowing gently in every step as she gently slammed to the glass onto the coffee table.
Lila stood back glaring menacingly at Marinette's nerve. Marinette narrowed back at Lila's glare and began to answer back to her, her voice cold and almost snaring.
"You told me to pour you some water. I bought it for you."
"You..." Seething, Lila immediately got up, hand raised as she intended to slap Marinette only pausing in shock as mari's hand quickly wrapped around her fragile wrist. Marinette then proceeded to tighten her grip eyes blazing as she impassively scowled back to the sausagehaired girl.
"You think now you can go back to torturing me as you did back in the past?" she asked. "Haven't you've learnt anything from your mum's death? Doesn't losing the one person that cared for you your whole life when no one else did mean absolutely anything to you?"
After taking notice of Lila's speechlessness Marinette's grip loosened eventually after finishing that sentence, carelessly throwing Lila's wrist down.
"Of course you didn't-you haven't learnt a single thing at all." mari spat. Before Lila stood a woman who had the face of a snarling pit bull after it had been threatened which managed stun Lila a little. "I clearly didn't remember seeing you cry after the funeral or basically expressing how you missed her or anything like that as soon as we all left. Lying to everyone is one thing but it's not nearly enough that makes it sum up the fact that you're just nothing but a disgusting, cruel, manipulative piece of trash who'd basically stomp on anyone who stands in the way of what she wants. And it's honestly a real shame that your mother didn't live long enough to actually see that she raised a girl who won't be afraid to kill to get her way."
Lila snarled back at a later apathetic-looking Marinette, fists and teeth clenched.
"I still have your parents wrapped around my finger. I can easily kick your ass out of this house."
Marinette still deadpanned at Lila's attempt to get back at her. "I always thought you were a cruel, heartless bitch-but I really didn't think you'd actually be a stupid one." she said. "Do you honestly think that it's still your word against mine after all these years? Do you think that they were too old, blind and stupid to ever realise your true colours? To actually have some common sense to know who you really are?"
Having enough of Marinette Lila immediately pointed her finger back to the front door. "You think that now Mr Multiverse hired you that automatically makes you think you're hot shit? You're nothing and you'll always be! Get out!" she shouted.
Marinette just only stood in her place still looking on blankly with crossed arms. Lila immediately put her finger down after finally understanding that Marinette wouldn't make her way out at her request.
Scruffing up her hair wildly and forcing some "convincing" tears Lila slammed her hands onto the sofa and turned over to the distance.
"Tom! Sabine!" Lila wailed. "Marinette's hitting me! Please help! Someone save me!"
At that moment a harsh-sounding cough coming from a man resounded from the sitting room as an older looking Tom and Sabine came in side by side. Lila held back a smirk.
"It's not enough that you burst into our home to torment Marinette? Now you're here raising your voice for everyone on the streets to hear?" Tom spat.
Shocked, lila only twiddled her thumbs nervously, trying to focus on making an excuse for her behaviour again.
"We couldn't believe we didn't see it sooner." sabine said angrily-tears or regret pricking at her eyes. "You've been harming our poor daughter for years on end-you lied to us about her hurting you and yet we believed you. Isn't playing us for fools and making us cast out her enough for you?"
Lila inwardly bristled as another of her lies were debunked before her just like all those years ago. Letting go of a ragged breath her lips split into a teeth-rotting grin.
"I'd...I'd knew you'd understand." she tried to reply silently yet sweetly, almost in lieu of further explanation, only until marinette interjected.
"Definitely not. I've been your little chew toy for years so enough is enough."
Lila turned away from Tom and Sabine and over to Marinette who simply stored right in front of her, Lila snarling back at her interruption.
"This house is mine now. I'm expecting you to pack whatever you own and leave." she simply demanded, pointing over to the door.
Lila's scowl fell her face leaving room for an unexpectedly horrified stare, "W-what did you just say?"
"You didn't know that ever since Steg hired me as his seamstress I've been working hard, all day and all night, sketching and sewing, for Steg, his bandmates and wife, and his two children especially since they'll have their first concert soon, to save a lot of good money to buy this house from the usurers?"
Kneeling down to Lila's level, Marinette inched closer within such a menacing range, her blazing cerulean eyes boring into Lila's almost frightened emerald eyes as she watched her sweat bullets after registering the revelation.
"I'm not going to ask you this again Lila. Your insolence is clearly making lose my patience. Take your stuff and Get. Out. You have at least one minute before I sic the national police on you to do it instead."
Lila felt her heart drop from inside her rapidly quivering body, eyes running around quietly a she looked around at Marinette and her parents back and forth with terrified eyes.
Because for the first time in years one of her victims had the courage to stand up to her and actually succeed at it.