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Chloe was in her room at the top of the bakery as she works on her homework. Since that wish she’s been living the life of Marinette while she’s living her old life. Her dad is a baker while Marinette‘s parents are the ones running the hotel and her dad is the mayor. But she has managed to make a name for herself as a heroine, taking on the Akuma villains that Hawkmoth creates. Some she remembers while others are completely new. (1)

The last one was Alya's big sister, Nora who became the spider-themed akuma Anansi. Who she blinded by throwing broken glass into her eyes after she was tossed around breaking several of her bones. Red Queen and Cheshire came in and took the now blind Anansi down and restoring everything back to normal. Nora is now scared of Chloe remembering how she toss the broken pieces of glass into her eyes blinding her, not helped that she told her next time she will do worst. Lots of the akumas that would had showed up again or the ones before turn into a different Akuma never did so because of the fear they have of Chloe.

Chloe looked up at the clock and saw it was time. Audrey Lee, famous fashion critic and Chloé's mother is in Paris for Gabriel Agreste's fashion show. This would be the first time in years that she gets to see her mom face to face. And unlike what happen in he other world, it wouldn’t happen like that. She’s a heroine now, who without powers help stop the akumas, her mom would be proud of her this time.

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Both Red Queen and Cheshire were toss backwards out of the building as they faced off with a another villain. Both of them doing badly and the part of the city they’re in is a wreck. The reason why they been doing badly of late against the villains Hawkmoth creates, is because of the missing member of the heroes of Paris, Chloe.

“Ok we need to get Chloe back to her normal self,” Marinette said to her friends who she has gathered together in her room at the hotel after turning off the tv. “As much as I hate to say this. We need Chloe to be back to her old self and she be able to help out fighting the villains again.”

“She’s right, remember what happen when she didn’t helped out when the spider villain attack the school,” Kim said.

“I talked to her dad and all I learned that Chloe has been depressed since she saw her mom last month,” Adrien said. Since Chloe been depressed and not helping out when a villain showed up, he’s been barely able to handle the villains who showed up. He and Red Queen had just gotten use to Chloe wearing out the villain first or wounding them or distracting them during a fight. And the villains have been powered up to handle how brutal Chloe gets.

“Both Red Queen and Cheshire need her to help them. I never realized how much her just being there made all the difference,” Sabrina said who like Adrien once Chloe stopped showing up to fight, how much they really needed her. Sure she repairs all the damages caused but the victims who were caught in the battles still remember.

“I can’t believe that Chloe was right about being a meat shield. She was taking all the damage that would had hit others,” Alix said rubbing her legs. “I still have the phantom pains of having my legs crushed.”

All of kids in the room all sulk as they all remember being injured one way or another by one of the villains, sometimes one of their friends who was turn into a villain. And because Chloe wasn't around, there was no one there to keep the damage down or draw the villain's attention away from them. Making all of them realized that Chloe was the only thing that had kept them from being hurt in the past. Which everyone else in the city was realizing as the damage and people being injured kept on piling up with each villain attack.

“And there the crime rate,” Mylène said. “Turns out because of what Chloe was doing, keep the crime rate around here down because people were just scared of her stepping in to stop it.”

“The only place that hasn’t seen a raise of crime is around her bakery,” Nino said who was looking up things on his computer. (2)

“Ok we need to find out what happen between Chloe and her mom and help her through it,” Marinette said.

“But one problem,” Juleka spoke up. “None of us are her friends.”

"Chloe won't listen to any of us. Remember when she just run pass us when we were trap in that jelly when Jam King attacked? She just ran pass Adrien who was her friend," Luka said.

"Her dad told me she just ran home to protect him if the Jam King came by. He said that since she stop fighting villains, whenever there's a villain attack she comes home to protect him. And strangely she's been helping him in the bakery learning to be a baker like him," Adrien said.

“Oh right,” Marinette said seeing how useless it be trying to talk to Chloe when none of them are close to her, before coming up with an idea. “I know she just needs a visit from Red Queen. We just have to talk to her the next time she shows up and tell her the plan.”

“Yeah that works,” Sabrina said remember the reason why Chloe became attached to her as Red Queen, when she stop her from taking that step off the bridge.

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1 - Continued from chapter 108. Based on Chloé's Lament of the lament series by ChaoticNeutral.

2 - This is one of those, didn’t realized how important that one person was till they stop doing what they use to do. Yes Chloe is rude and self center but she did help stop the villains and used herself as a meat shield to protect others. And now that she isn't everyone is realizing how they need her.