A/N: Cheeto is gone, you all put him in a coma because he used the peacock Miraculous to try and get more reviews! If you want to save the author kwami, review!

So this chapter is just a bunch of random fluff, and then some dramatic shit.

Chapter 21: Jolly Holiday, more Gabriel and Zoe bonding, and a new piece of the puzzle

This wasn't supposed to happen. Zoe was supposed to go on another date with Mockingjay, and now she was stuck with babysitting.

It turned out Chris had loved when she didn't put up with his shit and he told all the kids at school how awesome she was. So Nadja Chamack—who Zoe would kill one day—and Mrs. Lahiffe, dropped off their children very rudely and expected Zoe to babysit them.

Eli came over, as while the snow had melted in the two weeks since she and Mockingjay had started dating, it was Saturday.

"Hey Princess!" He grinned, but also seemed dully annoyed.

"Eli, thank the gods! I'm being forced to babysit!" Eli gasped,

"Oh no…" He looked at the two children, then his eyes brightened, "Lightbulb! Let's go to the park!"

They both complained, but Zoe followed Eli and his wise words.

"Not the park!" Chris complained, "It's so boring!"

Eli smirked, and remembered a detail both he and Zoe shared.

"Kids, all that it takes is a spark

Then something, plain as a park

Becomes a wonderland!" He started to sing, as he had played the role of Bert in Mary Poppins, the counterpart of said character, and he knew Zoe had played Mary.

"All you have to do

Is look a-new

Then you'll understand.

Why it's a jolly holiday with Zoe

Zoe makes your heart so light."

Zoe crossed her arms, "Oh, really."

"When the day is grey and ordinary

Zoe makes the sun shine bright!"

"You do talk nonsense, Eli."

"Oh, happiness is blooming all around her

The daffodils are smiling at the dove.

When Zoe holds your hand

You feel so grand

Your heart starts beatin'

Like a big brass band!

Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Zoe

No wonder that it's Zoe that we love." Zoe now understood what was happening, and while Eli walked off with her, he sent Jaay to possess those statues of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

"Is she doing it to spite us?" Manon asked, "Perhaps it's all a plot."

Chris groaned "I'll tell you what, she seems so different. But I bet she's not! There is nothing to excite us in the park." The statues came to life and the kids looked up.

The statues looked to each other, "We thought Zoe would never let us get down from this plinth!"

"Each man out with his dog, will stand agog,

To see two statues, take a gentle jog."

Random civilians then decided that they had nothing better to do and joined into this song and dance routine.

"Let's go for jaunty saunter

You are bound to make your mark

Looks like all of you were all born to

Take a promenade in the park

With our finely-chiseled features

We can look down from above!

Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Zoe

It's no wonder that it's Zoe that we love

No wonder that it's Zoe that we love!"

The routine was over, and everything set back to normal with some assistance from Blazze.

The children were now laughing and dancing around while Eli and Zoe laughed together as friends. She looked at her watch,

"Damnit, I'm late for my date."

"With Mockingjay?" Eli asked playfully, earning a nod from her.

"I figured out how to change my transformation into a dress, which is really cool. But I better dump these kids on Marinette."

OoOoO

The next day, Adrien and Zoe and Felix were back at the mansion. But it was different this time, because Zoe went into her room and saw Gabriel with a playful smirk on his face.

"How was your date? Adrien doesn't tell me anything about his dates, so I need to hear! And after that lovely void incident, I am curious."

They sat down together with some of that chocolate they had gotten in London that had been living in the fridge.

"What about how you fell in love with him?" He asked, and Zoe found herself surprised that he cared—and he had no other intent in his eyes, and that was what made her relent,

"I remember that night, I just might dream of that night for the rest of my days. I remember that dreamlike candlelight like a dream that you can't quite place. But Mockingjay, I'll never forget that time I saw his face, I have never been the same. Intelligent eyes in a hunger-pang frame, and when he said 'hi' I forgot my dang name." She grinned, "Set my heart aflame, every part aflame. It was not a game. I remember thinking, this is what it feels like to match wits with someone at your level! What the hell is the catch? It's the feeling of freedom, of seeing the light. It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right? Everything we said in total agreement, it was a dream and a bit of a dance. He's a bit of a flirt, but that's my type." Her mood darkened,

"I asked about his family, do you know his answer? His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance." She sighed dreamily, "Handsome, boy, does he know it! I wanna take him far away from this place! He loves to fly around and play jokes, just like I do! He's funny and witty and goddamn he's hot." Gabriel chuckled,

"Zoe Agreste, smitten. Didn't think I would ever hear that. What about tonight's date."

"We rented out a bowling alley, so the paparazzi wouldn't go near us. We had a little competition. I won the first and third time, and he won the second."

"Let me guess, you would kill me if I hurt him." Zoe narrowed her eyes and nodded. He sighed, "I was the same way with Emilie. Totally lovestruck. You and I have quite a bit in common." He got up, and held a piece of paper in his hands, "I didn't know you did design."

"Oh. I was in plays, remember? The director needed help with costume design, so I do that in my spare time as a stress relief."

"You really are quite talented. Certainly have potential."

"Are you complementing me?" He shrugged.

"Maybe you're not the worst thing ever." Zoe chuckled as he kept flipping through her sketchbook, "What is the appeal of you killing barbies?!"

"Wanna waffle a barbie?"

"…. Yes actually."

They went in her death closer and pulled out a petite barbie. Zoe glared at it.

"Okay, since that is literally my body shape, lets give Barbie a Zoe makeover, and it will be like murdering myself." So, they prepared the doll, and Zoe pulled out a blowtorch.

"Okay, let me teach you how to use a blowtorch while the waffle iron heats up." She torched the barbie, then stuck it in a waffle iron, then the deep fryer, then put it on a plate and fed it to poor Adrien.

Whenever Gabriel and Zoe united, Adrien would pay the price.

OoOoO

Eli fell on his bed like a lovestruck schoolgirl. Date after date and Fireheart was falling for him, the real him.

Eden came in, "How was your date?" Yeah, he knew about that. They had a mutual agreement that they would keep their various secrets. Go down together.

He sat up,

"It was so good!" he went on and on, and Eden got sad.

"Eli, you need to tell her who you are. You could be free!" She knew everything.

"I know…" He sighed, "Douglas is right, I'm a coward and scared of losing her. You understand, it's been months and you haven't told her."

Eden sighed.

OoOoO

Kelly Carpenter woke up with a start on Monday morning, clasping a hand to his chest and taking in a sharp breath of air. The light that would normally comfort him was hidden away behind heavy shades. He looked at his alarm clock. 7:00am. Standing, he shook his head and tried to rid himself of the memory of the nightmare.

It was the same thing every single night. He asked for help to save Amelia, went to Paris, got an agreement to help, then he was banished to this blasted world without magic. And then he was gone. Gone forever.

After showering, changing into his stiff gray suit, and drinking a quick cup of coffee, he grabbed his car keys and headed out to his car. He ate a breakfast bar on the way to work. It wasn't much, but he didn't have the time or money to make himself a decent breakfast right now. Not after Maeve kicked him out upon him finding out about the abuse of his eldest daughter.

It had been six years since Zoe went missing, three since Eden went missing. He knew where they were all too well, but it was how to get back there himself that bothered him. That was why he had taken up a job as a police officer in a small town in Tibet.

He was a wreck, and he knew it. He had covered the dark bags under his eyes with heavy amounts of makeup, but he knew that some of his closer co-workers would notice his state and inquire about his life. He could imagine what would happen if he said something.

"I'm sorry. I'm still not handling the loss of my daughters and I'm not quite myself."

He could already picture their sympathetic smiles and soft "I'm sorry."

Me too, He thought. Me too.

Pulling into the parking lot of the small police department, he parked in the back of the staff area and headed in. The receptionist, a plump, smiling woman with a bushel of curly brown hair, waved to him with a cheery smile.

"Good morning, Kels!" she called. Kelly waved back, forcing the edges of his mouth upwards into a smile. Kels, the nickname Amelia and Harrison had for him, both of which he hadn't seen in twenty years, and he was annoyed people had taken to calling him that.

"Morning, Eliza!" He responded before moving over to his desk and sitting down. Sighing deeply, he logged into his computer and pulled up his work for the day. His job was partly as a record-keeper and occasionally he did research. He mainly proof-read, filed, and stored all of the police reports. If they had a case come up and they needed someone to run background checks, he was normally the one asked.

It was kind of an unexpected and seemingly unimportant job, but Kelly felt like he was helping somehow. Even if it really wasn't much. Somebody needed to do this job. He got a decent pay out of it, they were a tiny station and didn't get too much government money, but it was sufficient.

Sitting there with his fingers clicking away at the keys, Kelly found he wasn't even paying attention anymore. He was just going through the motions. Click, read, check labels, save, direct into the correct folder. In the background, his mind was far away. Very far away, considering that it now resided in memories from thirty years ago. Those were the good old days…

Suddenly, he felt a tug of curiosity. The police claimed they had completely shut the investigation for his daughters down—and since he had at one point been a United States general, it had been a worldwide search—but there were still some people, such as Sam McCall, who were fascinated with the disappearances and were doing searches on it. Maybe someone found out how one could get to the Quantic Universe. He pulled open the police departments main background search engine. He typed in Zoe's name, then Eden's. No result. He typed in the names of every single person of interest on the subject he could think of.

This was not the first time he had done this, and he spent hours there, searching names and addresses, but he found nothing.

"Hey Kels, several of us were going to head out for lunch at the restaurant around the corner. Would you like to join us?" Eliza asked, sitting on the desk. Kelly crossed out his tabs and switched to his screensaver, a picture of a lion. And he found himself entering Eliza's mind, listening to her thoughts.

"He seems really upset. Must be his daughters again. Everyone has accepted that the girls are dead, but Kelly refuses. I wonder if he will ever stop. But maybe lunch will cheer him up."

It was a nice little power he had had since he was fifteen: to invade other peoples' minds. It sounded passive, but it really wasn't, because he could plant thoughts, erase them, enter minds and see through the eyes of his target, and could destroy minds too. He could also locate people by looking in the memories of his target, which made him a very good cop. He couldn't control, just influence.

"Um, no thanks Eliza. I have a lot of work to do." Kelly replied with a completely neutral face. Eliza looked at him quizzically.

"Is everything all right, Kels?" "Is he okay? Is he thinking of doing anything… rash?"

"Yeah," Kelly replied, glancing at his empty screen and reminding himself that there were no enemies, they couldn't find him anymore. No more threat. Just his missing daughters and people worrying about him. "Yeah, everything's fine. You know what? I think I will join you. I'm starving!"

He stood and grabbed his backpack, following Eliza as the plump lady waddled across the room, to where several other co-workers were waiting, her red heels clicking on the marble floor. Kelly took a deep breath and reminded himself that everything was okay. He'd find his daughters. He would be with them.

Everything was going to be just fine.

He couldn't have been more wrong.

A/N: And Zoe's father has mind powers. And the Quantic Universe is the universe Miraculous Ladybug takes place in.

And Zoe's monologue going on about Mockingjay, it's from a song. First person to guess correctly which one gets internet hugs.

So I am probably gonna wrap this story up soon, because it's already split from the original story and honestly, I am not patient enough to wait for more episodes. And there are more plot things happening now.

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