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If Mr Lee decided to go through with a custody battle then a lot of the shit Andre pulled as mayor and how much he fucked up Chloe's development would be dragged into the limelight for all the world to see.

If it's before the S5 episode where he leaves office he'd try to throw his power around and inadvertently prove how corrupt he truly is, thus losing the custody battle and all political power in one fell swoop while most likely getting thrown in prison for his actions as a corrupt mayor. If it's after S5, he wouldn't have the political sway to cover his past misdeeds anymore so the full extent of the means he consistently failed Chloe would be exposed and examined in great detail, leading to the courts granting Mr Lee full custody of Zoe to avoid the same thing happening to her.

In both versions I can imagine Mr Lee taking Zoe back with him to New York to keep her as far away from Andre (and most likely Audrey but she was never really bothered about Zoe to begin with) as possible. If Audrey's included in losing custody over Chloe along with Zoe, I could imagine Mr Lee asking if he could take Chloe as well to give her a fresh start in a place without the negative stigma she has in Paris and to be the parental figure which both Andre and Audrey refused to be for years.

Fuck, I can imagine a scene where Mr Lee learns the true extent of Chloe's abuse and mistreatment while alongside his lawyers building the case and he can't stand the thought of leaving her behind in a city that despises and blames her for Andre and Audrey's years of shitty parenting while ignoring their involvement in her behaviour. It's then that he decides he's not leaving Paris until both of his girls are safely under his custody where neither Andre or Audrey can ever harm them again.

• We can have this go two ways:

1. Chloe (Bratz) moved to Paris about a year before the show started. She was still friends with Adrien growing up, they just spent less time together because they lived in different countries. No one aside from him and Felix know she is a part of the Bratz, and she wants to keep it like that.

• she's not as bad as people think, but there is a good amount of bias against her.

• part of the reason why she doesn't want anyone else to know she's a Bratz is because of her mother.

• Chloe talks with her friends at night, they're worried about her, since she told them what's been happening in Paris; moreso since they learned she got akumatized.

• you bet your ass Chloe rants to her girls about Marinette's designs.

"FEATHERS!! SHE USED REAL FUCKING FEATHERS!! ADRIEN'S ALLERGIC TO FEATHERS!!"

"I don't think she even tried!! What was the design? "Dress like your dad?? "I bet she didn't even make them, she just pulled them off the rack!!"

"I have nightmares about that banner...the patterns...the colors..."

• Jasmine, Jade, and Sasha are the ones she turns to when LB kicks her off the team.

• she enters another contest (once again held by GABRIEL), this time showing off her real work. The work of Chloe "Angel" Bourgeois. She won.

• Marinette also entered, and refused to accept Chloe won. She accuses her of cheating and stealing the design.

• Marinette's behavior loses her the runner up spot, and the chance to intern with GABRIEL.

• unlike last time, Audrey shows up during the contest. And she also refuses to acknowledge Chloe's work as her own.

• I kinda want this contest to have an anonymous judging panel. It's a group of well known designers and models and amongst them is at least one of the Bratz.

• when they learn one of the judges knows Chloe on a personal level, Marinette and Audrey insist that that meant Chloe shouldn't have won. She clearly had a biased judge working for her.

• Adrien, who was also part of the anonymous judges panel, told them all the judges signed an agreement that stated they would be fair and unbiased towards the contestants.

Also, he knew Chloe AND Marinette. Does that mean he was biased towards both of them? Why are they only insisting on Chloe cheating because another one of the judges knows her? Shouldn't Marinette also be accused of that because he knows her??

• Marinette gives him the silent treatment for not siding with her afterwards, thinking it'd get him to beg her for forgiveness and give her her rightful first place prize.

All it does is solidify to Adrien that Marinette wasn't someone he wanted to be friends with. Because, seriously? This is how she's taking losing?? Chloe won fair and square. She needs to accept that.

OR

2. Chloe leaves Paris when she was originally going to leave (s2 iirc).

• Rather than staying in New York, she ends up going to California (the Bratz are located there). She's starting somewhere new. Somewhere no one knows Chloe Bourgeois.

• It takes some time before she and the rest of the Bratz become friends.

• The only person she keeps in contact with from her old life is Adrien. As much as she wanted to stay in contact with Sabrina, she knew things wouldn't last. But maybe one day they can reconnect, when she's a better person.

She could have easily cut everyone out, but Adrien always believed in her. And she wanted that belief to stay strong. Also, she just couldn't cut him out. She needed at least one person she knew in her life to be with her.

• Chloe tries to not pay too much attention to Paris, but she can't help but check the Ladyblog or ask Adrien for updates. She eventually tells her new friends about what was happening. About her own akumatizations.

How she wanted nothing more than her mother to acknowledge her, tell her she was exceptional, show that she loved her. How, just through sheer impulse, she decided to hop onto the first flight from New York to California.

How somedays, somedays she wants to go back. Back to Paris. To her old life. To who she was.

But she also doesn't want to leave. To abandon any growth she's had or the friends she's made.

• Chloe does, eventually, return to Paris. However, she's only going back for a short time. She and her friends were invited, as the Bratz, to model alongside Adrien.

They were going to be modeling outfits for an up and coming designer's debut.

• She won't lie, she's terrified when they land. She can't help but wonder what people will think when they see her. Will they immediately assume she was still the same Chloe? Would she end up alone in their hotel room, while her friends modeled with her childhood friend? Would Adrien even show up? He said he would show up, but what if he changed his mind and didn't tell her??

• She only calmed down when she saw her childhood friend waving to her, smile on his face, sunflowers resting in his free arm. Even if she lost everyone else from her old life, at least she still had Adrien. With her old friend and new friends with her, she's sure she'll be fine.

• Remember that feeling of terror from before? It's back. It's back and it's so much worse.

She shouldn't have come back. She shouldn't have left California. She should have known they'd be here.

It was bad enough that Marinette was complaining about Chloe wearing her designs and criticizing them, but then her mother showed up and told her she was fired.

Said someone as unexceptional as her didn't deserve to wear her interns work (because of fucking course "MDC" is Marinette Dupain-Cheng). Her little "friends" could stay, but "Charlie" had to go.

And when her friends defended her? Fired as well. Clearly "Claudia" was spreading how unexceptional she was to her "friends." It would do them better to look for new friends. How about Marinette? She was an up and coming designer. She'd fit in more than..."Chlorine."

• Needless to say, the show was canceled. Not only did the Bratz back down, Adrien did as well.

And Marinette couldn't understand why. All she and Audrey did was ask Chloe to step down. They agreed she wasn't fit for her designs.

Why were they being punished because Chloe decided to be a baby about not getting to model next to Adrien??

• Aside from the show getting canceled, a lot of people stop supporting Audrey and Marinette. Since the Bratz are well known, not only in the fashion industry, but for their music, people quickly learn what happened.

Some are surprised Chloe was Chloe Bourgeois. Some are skeptical of her change, but the majority are happy to see how much she's grown as a person.

Some are surprised to learn Audrey "Style Queen" Bourgeois is not only her mother, but a terrible one. Not once did she call her daughter the right name. Seriously, who calls their child "Chlorine"?

Some are surprised that MDC wanted Chloe fired. That surprise turns to annoyance when Chloe mentions she was modeling alongside her childhood friend, Adrien Agreste (SHE KNOWS ADRIEN AGRESTE?!), whom MDC just so happens to have a crush on (it was so obvious). Nevermind him constantly telling her she's just a friend (because, as she knows, her brother from another mother is very fucking gay but also very fucking closeted).

They just put 2 and 2 together. Clearly, whoever MDC is, she was jealous that Chloe was modeling with Adrien and had her fired. She and Audrey made a bullshit excuse and then she decided to have a tantrum because her debut fashion show got canceled.

It was sad to see MDC rant on and on about Chloe on her socials. But it was also satisfying to see her number of followers go down afterwards.