Normal Again

A Miraculous Ladybug fanfic based on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode, "Normal Again".Chat Noir is hit by an akuma, a patient from a local mental hospital suffering under the delusion that he is a superhero. The hit destabilizes Chat Noir’s miraculous and he cannot hold his transformation. Now, as Adrien, he seeks food for his kwami, but before he can power up again and rejoin the fight, the akuma targets him. Fearing his son will be hurt, Hawkmoth/Gabriel Agreste recalls the akuma before Ladybug can cleanse it. Adrien/Chat flashes back & forth between the ML world and a world where he is in an institution for the mentally ill, having had a nervous breakdown after the disappearance of his mother and falling into a delusion that he's a superhero to cope. His doctor says that his delusion isn’t bringing him comfort anymore, since Ladybug has rejected his love, his father's actually his archenemy, Hawkmoth, and his friends no longer like him after he hurt Marinette’s feelings by rejecting her. Adrien has to decide does he stay in the world where he’s a superhero, but has to fight his father alongside a partner who doesn’t return his love? Or, does he return to a world with two loving parents, but no Ladybug?