Day Two: Hero/Villain (Warning: Character Death)

It's so fitting that today is the day of my cat's birthday and the day I wrote this was the day he died. I cried while writing this and I hope you don't cry while reading but it is heavy with emotions. Skip if you wish!

It happened suddenly, all miraculous holders are aware of the limits but a case like this rarely happens. The cure had just dissipated, and everything was fine. Queen Bee watched her beloved Paon Bleu leave in the opposite direction, the battle was over and although they both didn't use their powers they decided to part. Her eyes widened as she saw him make a leap across a rooftop, he didn't make it to the other side. Instead he clutched his heart and fell, gripping the building with one hand, he slid down to the ground. Bee rushed to him screaming for people not to touch him.

"Paon! PAON!" He was breathing but passed out, his right hand still clenched over his left side, over his miraculous, over his heart. Quickly, Bee lifted him into her arms and rushed to the nearest hospital. A cure couldn't reverse whatever was happening since it happened after, this was internal due to the holder. His kwami holding the transformation for him was as lucky as Ladybug's lucky charm because Bee wouldn't know what to do with a civilian Paon. Her love was cradled in her arms, they were partners, heroes of Paris together. Sure, he would visit her as Chloe and leave her beautiful feathers or sketches and be only friendly toward Bee, but she was head over heels for him, both with and without her miraculous mask. The hospital allowed them a private room in a semi private wing and got to work checking his vitals. Queen was wrought with worry and paced as they tended to him. They asked her all sorts of questions and she only told them what she had seen and that is wasn't Akuma related. Eventually they got an IV in him and he was sleeping or unconscious she wasn't quite sure. She asked for honey and slipped into the private bathroom when they left. He was transformed, so technically she was his only family and she couldn't get a hold of the Chat and Bug.

"Hurry Pollen, eat up!" Chloe dropped her transformation and shoved the little honey cup into the kwami's arms. She had a sad look on her face while she ate.

"Why don't you stay by his side as Chloe?"

"Pollen do you hear how stupid that sounds! I came in as Queen, I need to leave as Queen. Are you finished yet?" The little bee nodded, and Chloe hastily said the transformation words and excited the bathroom.

She was not alone in the room this time. An old man was there by Paon's bedside, looking him over. She assumed he was this Master Fu that Ladybug talked about because he fit her description of him.

"Hello Bee, taking care of our bird, I see."

"Master Fu, I presume?"

"Ah yes, nice to finally meet you, Chloe Bourgeois." Shock was evident on her face as he shook her outstretched hand. It fell limply back by her side and she stared at him and Paon.

"Do-do you know all our identities?" She took a step closer to the other side of the bed and reached out to hold the Blue bird's hand.

"Yes, I do, and no I won't tell you his. His kwami wouldn't mind but she is keeping the transformation because he is in pain."

"Pain!? Why is he in pain? What happened? Do you know?" Chloe was borderline losing it. Her lover was strapped to the bed with needles and a machine putting out beeps for his heartbeat. She hated hospitals, she hated seeing him like this, his brows creased, and face scrunched in pain.

"It's very rare that this happens. You know how holders tend to get traits of their animal. Well, bees crave more sweet things, cats purr, and for the peacock," Master Fu got a terrible look on his face a mixture of pity and sadness maybe even some grief. Bee was held in suspense, she knew of these tendencies they would often get but Paon Bleu didn't seem to show anything. Now he might be showing but whatever it was, put him in the hospital. Chloe was distraught while waiting for him to continue. "The peacock, though rare, gets congestive heart failure. It hasn't happened in many years but for some reason it might be with this boy."

"What!?" Fu ignored her outburst and patted the young male on the head and whispered in his ear. Then he went to leave the room.

"I'm terribly sorry Bee, my condolences to you and the team." He left, and Chloe broke down.

Tears streamed down her face, mouth slightly open in shock, she turned to face her lovely bird. Paon was going to die, they all were eventually but this was just too soon. Just the other day he mentioned his 17th birthday was in April. He won't make it. Chloe fell to the ground; her legs couldn't hold her any longer. She sobbed on his arm, the steady beeping started to slow then pick up rapidly. Nurses rushed in and Queen Bee was forced up and out of the way. This couldn't be happening. They fussed with him trying to determine what was wrong. Chest paddles were rolled in and his jacket was opened, they knew better than remove his miraculous. Chloe watched in horror as they did what she had only seen in movies and dramas. His body convoluted of the bed a few times and the beeping stopped to a flat monotone after seconds. Fear gripped her own heart as Chloe threw herself to the bed on top of him. Pounding in his chest she yelled at him.

"WAKE UP YOU STUPID BIRD! WAKE UP! DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE THIS QUEEN WITHOUT HER KING!" A complete sobbing hysterical mess collapsed on his chest. Her emotions were everywhere, and she hoped the bird could still feel them. One second. Two second. The doctor in the room looked at his watch.

"Time of death 11:52 am."

"LEAVE! ALL OF YOU! LEAVE!" Queen Bee screamed at l of them, if she wasn't wearing her mask she was sure her mascara would be all the way down her neck with the tears she has shed. Everyone scrambled out and she finally let her transformation fall. She stared at the body of her lover, she needed to know, and she needed to tell his family. "Please," She whispered. "Please let me see him, your fight is over. I'll take care of everything now." A blue light engulfed the room and them. Chloe and Pollen gasped at the sight before them. Laying in the bed, with a small crying blue kwami on his chest, was Nathaniel Kurtzberg. Chloe collapsed to the floor for the second time, more hysterical than the first. Her lover had been so close, this whole time. Sure, she was sometimes cold to the Tomato, but she also had a soft spot for him. She was a wreck, Pollen came to nuzzle her neck and the new kwami tried to hold her hand and cry with her. Chloe wasn't sure how long she had been crying on the floor, but the dark purple butterfly went unnoticed by her. The kwamis noticed and backed away trying to get her attention and calm her down. It was no use. The Akuma touched her miraculous comb and the kwamis watched in horror as not even a second later Chloe stood and transformed. Dressed all in black she looked like a grim reaper, all was black except her hands. She went to the window.

"Chloe, wait, you can fight this."

"I'm not Chloe anymore, I'm Deathtouch." She picked up a chair and threw it to smash the window. "I'll bring death to everything." With that she jumped out the window to go cause havoc in Paris.

Sorry for the tears, if any