Verity Queen and Princess Justice

A Ladybug rewrite, where Nathalie doesn't fall into a coughing fit and stop the akuma attack.

Alya trusts her best friend inexplicably. She may not have been on the whole Lila is a liar train, and still isn't fully there, but she believes that someone framed her friend, so she watches Marinette, making sure to catch where her akuma is, so she can be more help when Ladybug eventually calls for her. And she catches Marinette take off those earrings that she wears, literally everywhere, the act setting off a red flag in Alya's mind. Alya watches them drop, then dives under a bench, keeping her an eye on the earrings.