Disclaimer: I have the rest of it written out. So, I thought I'd post another part. I apologize in advance. I wrote it this way because I felt it was important to do so. Not only for the characters, but for the story to progress forward. I am not a medical professional. Everything medical from here on out is strictly researched online or from stories I've heard from various people.
Adrien punched the code in with a heavy stomach and watched the gate open. Bile rose in his throat, but he quickly swallowed it down. He could do this. He had to do this.
Plagg peaked out from his shirt. "Just remember, kid. If it gets bad, run and transform."
"Got it." Adrien nodded and kept walking forward.
He stomped up the stairs and flung the heavy front doors open. His father stood at the stairs with his hands behind his back and a stern expression on his face. The door fell behind Adrien and he swallowed hard.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Gabriel's voice echoed through the house. Nathalie sat at the front desk and didn't dare look over at them.
Adrien didn't say a word. He just stared at the ground and his body shook.
"LOOK AT ME WHEN I SPEAK TO YOU!" Gabriel rung his fingers together in anger.
Adrien shot his father a look that could kill. Gabriel growled at his son's expression. "YOUR GONNA FIGHT NOW?" He laughed. "I'd like to see you try."
Adrien balled his hands into fists and his nails cut into his palms. Blood dripped onto the white tile below them. He grit his teeth and stomped up to his father. "I'M DONE! I'M NOT DEALING WITH YOUR BULLSHIT ANYMORE! I'M NOT DEALING WITH YOU ANYMORE! I'M LEAVING! I HAVE A PLACE TO STAY. I HAVE SOMEONE I CAN RELY ON. I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE. I NEVER DID NEED YOU. GOD KNOWS YOU HAVEN'T BEEN AROUND SINCE MOTHER DISAPPEARED. WHAT KIND OF FATHER ARE YOU? NO WONDER MOTHER LEFT. I'D LEAVE TO IF I HAD TO DEAL WITH YOU AS A HUSBAND!"
Within seconds, Gabriel had towered over him and grabbed his arm. He yanked him towards him and got in his face. "You will do as I say. Or I'll do worse than what I planned to do to you." He spoke in a quiet menacing voice, before dragging him into his bedroom.
Adrien yanked and fought against his father's hold to no avail. Gabriel slammed his door shut and threw him against the wall across the room. Adrien hit his head on the desk and touched the back of his head and brought his hand in front of his face to see fresh blood. "Shit." He whispered under his breath, as his vision blurred.
"YOU DISOBEYED ME! AGAIN! AND YOU RAN AWAY?!" Gabriel grabbed the belt from his drawer. The one reserved for him and flicked it through the air. "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO MODEL MY PROTOTYPES FOR ME, ADRIEN! YET, you were nowhere to be found."
Gabriel came at him and began to pull the belt back before swinging it. The loud sound of leather hitting skin rang out. Adrien stiffened as it hit and sliced into his forearms, since he had covered his face to protect it. He wanted to run like Plagg had planned, but there was no way he could with the shape he was in.
"Then your little girlfriend came by. You don't think I didn't know you were with her?" Gabriel threw the belt and began to kick him to the ground.
Adrien curled up in a fetal position and lost his breath, as his father began to kick him in the stomach, the chest. He tried to use his arms as protection, but it didn't work. He felt his ribs crack and knew he was bleeding out from the wound on his head. His father yanked him up by the collar of his shirt and brought his face to his. "You're worthless. You're not perfect. I was wrong before. You're nothing! No one loves you! And no one will love you! Your mother left because she couldn't handle the pressure of living with a well known designer. She couldn't handle the media constantly watching us! And she couldn't handle you and your stubborn nature!" He threw him into the wall again and Adrien slumped over his thighs and blacked out. Plagg panicked in Adrien's pocket. Everything happened too fast. If he transformed Adrien now, his father would know who he was. Gabriel held his fist in the air, ready to punch his son.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" A red yo-yo wrapped around his fist and yanked it back. "I SAID! Leave him alone!"
Gabriel scowled and turned to face the intruder. "Who asked you to come here?"
"A little cat told me. Don't you love your son? Why are you doing this? Why are you being so mean?" Ladybug looked at Adrien and tried to hide her panic. He was losing a lot of blood and at this rate he wouldn't make it. "He's gonna die." She couldn't contain herself anymore. She sobbed hysterically. "Your son is going to die. Don't you see? Don't you know what you've done?"
Something cracked inside of Gabriel. Something changed. It was like he woke up from a nightmare. "Oh God." He finally turned to really look at the damage he had made. "Adrien!" Ladybug retracted her yo-yo and he ran to him and fell to his knees. He took Adrien's lifeless face in his hands. "What have I done?"
Ladybug watched from far back and fought the urge to wrap her arms around Adrien and take him away.
Gabriel sat and pulled Adrien into his lap and rocked him. "Call an ambulance. NOW!"
Ladybug quickly walked up to them and slid Adrien's ring off of his finger, while his father was distracted.
Ladybug opened her yo-yo and called an ambulance and Sabrina's father and tried to stay calm. It took everything out of her to leave them alone and swing her yo-yo back to her apartment. She swung into her bedroom and fell onto her bed and sobbed. "Spots off."
Tikki zipped out and nuzzled her face. "Go see him. Go as Mari."
Marinette tried to bring herself to get up off the bed, but she couldn't. Everything was weak and wouldn't work. "He said he'd be fine. That he was Chat. Plagg said…"
"We can't do everything." Tikki whispered and touched her face.
"Lucky charm?" Marinette whined out.
Tikki shook her head. "Nothing could have prevented it. It happened too fast."
"I should have done something years ago! I should have noticed that Chat was hurt. I always knew when something went wrong. How could I not notice that he was being beaten by his father? How could I not notice when Adrien was in pain in class?" She tried to think of an instance when he hadn't fully sat in class. Had kept his back from the back of the seat. Maybe had even shifted uncomfortably, but she couldn't really come up with a specific memory. She had been too lost in his eyes or his clothing due to her designer lovesick brain.
Marinette fell apart longer until she passed out with his silver ring in her hand.
Adrien was put into the back of an ambulance with Nathalie, while Sabrina's father, Roger, took a statement from his father. His father turned himself in and took full responsibility, much to Nathalie's surprise.
"Take care of my son." His words haunted Nathalie's mind, as she held Adrien's lifeless hand.
They cut his shirt open and put a syringe into his upper chest and he started to breath. Nathalie sighed in relief. They hooked him up to an I.V. and immediately hooked him up to a blood bag to replace what he had lost. He screamed out suddenly, as all of the pain hit him at once. Nathalie's eyes went wide in shock. Adrien never made sounds when he would have fights with his father.
"Is he okay?" Nathalie looked at them frantically.
"It's the pain. Chances are he wasn't aware of it while being passed out. Kind of like being in a dream." The nurse explained and added a pain killer to the I.V drip. "We usually try to avoid using I.V drip pain killers with chest injuries, but in this case, I'm willing to do it. This should stop it for a bit."
Adrien ground his teeth and writhed on the gurney, screaming. The nurse held his arms down and he kicked his legs and pressed his feet to the bed, fighting.
"When will it work?" Nathalie was in shock. She just wanted it to stop.
"Any moment now." The nurse calmly spoke.
Within a few moments, he had stopped screaming and stopped fighting. He laid limply on the gurney with his eyes shut. They pulled into the emergency bay of the hospital and wheeled him out and into the hospital. They left Nathalie in a waiting room. She opened her phone and pulled up Marinette's number and she held her breath, as she dialed it.
Note: I felt it was important to have Gabriel be the one to change, to be the one to stop it himself with the help of Ladybug and Sabrina's father. But in the end it was important for Gabriel to wake up and see what he was doing. I didn't want for others to solve the problem because in the end you have to solve your own. I wanted someone to guide him in the right direction. I have close friends that have been in abusive relationships and I've been there myself and I and they had to get themselves out of it. No one can really help you. They can give you the tools, but in the end it has to be you to use them. So, I wanted Ladybug to be the one to push him there. This is how it turned out. Sorry for the disappointment and the sad ending to this scene for those who saw hope. There still is hope though. I promise. :) I'm still okay with reviews. :) I wasn't trying to come off rude or anything. :) Feel free to voice your thoughts. :) lol I'm sorry if I came off that way. I wasn't trying to. :)