Chapter 41)
"Marinette is not in her room!" Tom was upset. "She even didn't sleep there this night."
"Try to guess, where could she be?" Sabine was calm. "You may guess three times."
"Do you mean?" Tom stopped himself. "Do you mean THERE?"
"Where else?" asked his wife. "I checked her wardrobe and there lot of her clothing is missing. So I believe, she moved some of her things to his place. Do you want to bet about her reasons?"
"That's futile," said Tom. "Easy guess. In fact too easy. But I believe, we should better check, whether we're right, shouldn't we?"
"Right, let's go!" Sabine though, it was almost too easy.
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Nathalie woke up being in hug with Gabriel.
"So it was not a dream?" asked Gabriel.
"Definitivelly not a dream," nodded Nathalie. "Do you regret it?"
"I'm glad," Adrien's father was lost in thoughs. "Maybe I'd better do it two years sooner!"
"That way you possibly wouldn't have Marinette as perspective daughter-in-law," Nathalie was even in intimate situation able to think rationally and calculate. "Past is past."
It was moment, when door-ring started its noise.
Nathalie grabbed her tablet and opened view to security camera.
"Sabine and Tom, Dupain-Chengs are here," commented Gabriel. "Do you think the same as I think?"
"If it means, Miss Dupain-Cheng is in Adrien's bedroom and almost for sure not decently dressed, I agree," smirked Nathalie.
Gabriel though, Nathalie smiles too scarcely, and it is a shame. He dressed bathrobe and moved to entrance door. The Gorilla was there with sleepy face, but ready for action.
"OK Etienne," Gabriel said. "I don't want black-eye, could you please open to them?"
Bodyguard nodded and opened the entrance.
"Good morning, Mrs. Cheng, Mr. Dupain," said Gabriel. "Nice from you to come…"
"Anything, Gabriel," Tom almost growled and stormed inside. "Is Marinette here?"
"Honestly, TOM," said Gabriel, who made two steps back and waved on bodyguard to let Marinette's parents in. "I don't know, you just woke me up…"
That was moment, when Nathalie appeared, looking as usual, a little bit androidic-like assistant with tablet in her hand.
"Adrien's bedroom is locked from inside," she said. "I don't have a key. His phone is not functionous and phone of Miss Dupain-Cheng is probably on silent mode, as nobody answers it. I could either invite locksmith, as his room has fortificated door and even you two with Etienne together would not be able to open it violently. Or I could ask Mr. Lahiffe to use his quadrocopter to 'knock' on his window."
Sabine smiled and wordlessly she offered to everybody croissants from their bakery.
"I guess, Nathalie," she said. "Calling Nino would be wisest choice now. It would avoid photos with them in delicate situation to go public. None of us for sure wishes that."
"Excuse me for a moment," asked Gabriel. "I just redress myself into something more casual, the photoshoot is to start in less, than two hours."
"Gabe, you're the boss here, you could ask photographer to make photos a bit later," Tom smacked jovially Gariel's shoulder.
"Better not… Tom…" Gabriel decided not to lose his composure. His son most likely just deflorated this man's only daughter, so naming him ignorant or demanding for some more respect would be really unwise, especially after yesterday revelation of Hawkmoth and Mayura. "According Vincent the best light for photoshots is either in the morning before noon, or close to nightfall. And he prefers morning. Maybe he's just a really morning person."
Nathalie dialed Nino's number. His phone rang quite a long time, till he answered.
"Nino Lahiffe, what's up?"
"Mr. Lahiffe, Nathalie Sancoeur speaking. We'd appreciate, if you could come here, please. Ideally with your quadrocopter. I believe it was repaired by Miraculous Ladybugs."
"Is it an emergency?" asked Nino. "Gosh, it's just half past seven Sunday morning!"
"Well, it's kind of emergency," explained Nathalie. "We believe, Adrien is with Miss Dupain-Cheng in his bedroom, but the door is locked from inside and they don't react on phone. The photoshot is soon to start."
"Sounds like an emergency," agreed Nino. "OK. Expect us in thirty minutes. May I ask for a breakfast on your place? Well… breakfast for two?"
"I'll manage it," promissed Nathalie.
"Fine, see you," said Nino and ended phone call immediatelly, causing Nathalie a bit discomfiture.
In that moment Gabriel returned. He was cleanshaved and his 'casual' was his usual dark grey three-piece business suit with necktie and patent shoes…
"Gabriel, could you wait here for a moment, I should arrange some breakfast for quadrocopter operator…" asked his assistant.
"Nonsense, Nathalie," said Sabine. "I have here enough croissants and other pastries from our bakery, enough for all presumptive guests I strongly believe."
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When both Alya and Nino get quickly dressed, Nino's mother called:
"If you are not much in a hurry, I have breakfast also for Alya."
"Mothers always know," said Alya. "I snaked inside doing my best not to be observed, but she's more observant, than we both thought."
"Do you think, she knows?" asked Nino sotto voce. "I speak about, well… our fox and turtle things…"
"You could ask, but it would be the same, like reveal us…" smirked Alya.
"Sorry mum," Nino opened door and answered. "We need hurry to Adrien. I's emergency."
"Will you go by Metro, or in costume?" asked Nino's mother. "Just being curious…"
"OK," said Alya. "Mrs. Lahiffe, can you keep a secret?"
"Off course, Alya."
"So can we both," answered Alya, what cause Nino's mother uncontrollable laughter…
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In same moment, when Rena Rouge and Carapace reached Agreste Manor, Burgeois limousine arrived there too.
"Thank you, Jean-Claude," said Chloé. "Could you wait for us? I hope not for too long."
"No promises," said Kagami. "Hard to say, how quickly Mr. Agreste is able to think during soon Sunday morning."
"You're right, Miss Tsurugi, thank you," agreed butler Jean. "I have a book to read."
Chloé turned to Kagami, who pointed to main entrance of Agreste Manor.
Rena Rouge and Carapace sneaked into garden.
"Wayzz! Shell off!" asked Carapace.
"Could we meet under Adrien's window?" as Nino he dialed Nathalie.
Chloé with Kagami observed Marinette's parents together with Gabriel Agreste and Nathalie still Sancoeur moving quickly into garden.
"Let's follow them!" said Kagami.
"Do you think…" started Chloé.
"I don't have enough information for thinking, but I believe, Marinette finally claimed her possession of Adrien using most natural way to do that."
"You mean…" Chloé gulped. "You REALLY mean, Adrikins slept with her?"
"Don't be such a baby!" recommended Kagami. "WARRIOR must accept inevitability."
"Right now I feel tired to be warrior all that time…" lamented Chloé.
Kagami silently hugged her for comfort both of them.
"I would myself also prefer Adrien be with me," Japanese girl sadly smirked. "Well, better Marinette, than Lila The Great Liar."
"OK," sighed Chloé. "That's true."
Nino's quadrocopter was already in air and Nino guided it to see into Adrien's bedroom.
"So?" asked both Tom and Gabriel.
"They are both in one tangle, hard to say, whose hand belong to whom," said Nino with amused smirk, looking into quadrocopter console display. "I'll try to knock…"
His quadrocopter made two punches into window. I was relatively silent noise.
"I have more effective way," said Rena Rouge and used her flute. "Mirage!"
They heard Alya's voice from inside of room.
"GET UP! RIGHT NOW!"
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Adrien was just happy. In his dream they had a picnic in rose garden. He felt warmth of Marinette's body cuddled up to him.
Alya appeared out of blue and started screeming…
Adrien winked several times his eyes just to recognize, he is in his bed, nude and nude Marinette was REALLY cuddled up to him.
What was a really disturbing element was Alya, who stand near his bed and screamed on him. Strange was fact, she looked rather towards entry to his bathroom. Maybe she did not want to see his and/or Marinette's nudity.
"GET UP! RIGHT NOW!"
Adrien subtly shook with Marinette, but she resolutely refused open her eyes and hanged on him. Before he was able to shake with her again, Alya yelled again.
Marinette stared on her in consternation.
Slowly levitating Plagg appeared from somewhere and slowly moved to Alya, yawning loudly.
"Shut up!" demanded kwami of Destruction and touched Alya, who disappeared.
"Only Mirage," said Plagg giving short sigh. "I need MY Camembert! I need it NOW!"
Adrien's kwami moved to window.
"What a shame, kwamies are invisible on camera," he pointed on quadrocopter spying them through window glass. "As pigtails' parents are here, I recommend you to wear something. Welcoming father of your mistress with your dick pendulating free in the wind is quite unwise, I really think."
"Is he such… well… how to say it… often?" asked Marinette.
"All the time," said Adrien and Tikki unison.
But Adrien decided better to wear boxers, before opening window.
"Good morning!" he said with his sweet model smile on his face. "Good morning, all of you!"
Tom elevated his left eyebrow and made really angry face, Sabine on the other hand threw him two croissants wordlessly. Adrien was surprised, but caught both of them.
"Adrien, have a shower and have also a shave!" ordered his father.
"Yes, father, but why?" boy did not understand.
"My beard usually grows faster after having sex," said Gabriel. "I believe, it's genetical attribute, so you'll need to anticipate that also."
Nathalie gestured towards main entry and all that group standing on turf moved there.
Adrien sighed and turned to Marinette, to give her one croissant. She wored his shirt on nude body and she looked damn hot that way. He was unsure, whether it is ritual of kind, but it was almost cliché, girl wearing her lover's shirt...
"You look so beautiful!" he said sotto voce and offered her croissant. "From your mum…"
"Thanks, but, please, may I use your shower as first?" Marinette made puppy eyes.
"Sure," nodded Adrien. "You know, I'd do anything for you right now."
After several minutes he heard hammering on his door, so he opened it, blocking entry to bathroom.
Tom stormed inside like a deluge. Adrien needed all his courage to make a step towards him and not run away. On Tom's heels were Sabine with Alya and Nino. Alya, if not having ears, would smile probably around whole her head…
"Nice to have you all here…" Adrien tried to be perfect host, but it was zero chance.
Tom grabbed him in hug and immediately whispered (loudly enough for everybody to hear it) into his ear:
"Break her heart and I'll break ALL of your bones!"
Gorilla grabbed Tom's right trapezius and pressed nerve ending under it, causing enormous pain to big man. When Tom turned to him, Gorilla shook his head.
"That was a dirty trick!" said Tom.
Gorilla smiled and nodded. He showed to one chair in Adrien's bedroom. Tom helped his wife to sit at table and sat himself. In that moment Marinette reappeared, towel wrapped around her hair. She was again in Adrien's shirt, but now with bra and panties.
"Your shift, Adrien," she gestured towards bathroom entrance.
Adrien disappeared so quickly, that biased observer could name it escape. Minute or two later Nathalie entered with two suit-bags. One she placed on Adrien's bed, second she offered to Marinette:
"Miss Dupain-Cheng, would you agree to cooperate during today photoshoot? I mean as model."
"Do you really want ME to model Gabriel's together with Adrien?" Marinette seemed to be surprised.
"As Adrien quite strongly demanded on your being involved in his activities, and as you should be in near future a member of 'the inner ring', I would appreciate, as let's name it goodwill… if you do your part of work too."
"Not without us," it was Kagami, who stormed inside, with Chloé on her heels.
"I go to Mr. Agreste to inform him, that we'll have two more potential model girls," Nathalie glanced on both girls, but smiled and nodded. "Especially contrast between Miss Burgeois and Miss Dupain-Cheng should look well on photos, I believe…"
Nathalie gestured to chairs.
Kagami cocked her head, observing Marinette.
"Should we congratulate?" question was more playful, than one would expect from Japanese girl.
"How do you mean it?" asked confused Marinette. She did her best to eat her croissant quickly but understated.
"It's quite obvious, why you're here right now," Kagami gave amused smirk. "Are you going to deny that?"
"Deny what?!" asked Marinette, making fake innocent face.
Sabine and Alya bursted into laughter, Tom looked angry and Nino covered his face, probably to avoid laughing same as is his girlfriend or maybe to avoid seeing almost nude Marinette, what could later result in angry Alya. Chloé shared look with Kagami and they both shook their heads.
"Such a hypocrite," said Chloé. "Looking for this bed, one doesn't need to be CSI expert to KNOW."
Adrien wearing bathrobe peeped inside of his room just to grab suit-bag from his bed and quickly 'evacuated' himself back to bathroom.
"So, what father wants me to wear…" said Adrien and looked inside of suit-bag.
To his surprise, it was 'Black on more of Black'. Black and white striped T-shirt looked more like for a prisoner, than for a navyman. Black shirt was with big 'Jolly Roger' on back and smaller one on pocket. On several places were silver studs and chains, on other places patches made from maybe even darker black leather. Same could be said about dark black trousers...
"Does your father think that you're Robert Surcouf or what?" asked Plagg.
"Hard to say," shrugged Adrien his shoulders. "Maybe he plans to expose me publically as Chat Noir."
"Don't think so," said Plagg. "Most people didn't recognize true even when you actally wore Chat's costume. Maybe he wants fleece biker gangsters manipulating them to buy his overpriced suits."
"Bingo, I guess," laughed Adrien.
"Will you wear it or keep staring on it?" asked Marinette, who stormed inside with her suit bag. "Nathalie asked me to be your partner model, maybe you will partner on photos even with Chloé and Kagami."
"Chloé and Kagami here?" Adrien shook his head. "Let's name it 'a day'!"
But he wore all prepared things and observed Marinette, who wore off his shirt and checked black shirtwaist, also with silver studs and chains, arranged to accentuate her boobs. Dark black skinny jeans were shortened to show more, than half of her calfs. There were patches of dark black leather, similar to those on Adrien's trousers. Marinette observed herself in a mirror.
"I can't go public in it!" she sighed.
"Nonsense!" protested Adrien. "You look gorgeous in it!"
"You'd say that I look gorgeous even in potato bag now," smirked Marinette. "But it's nice from you to say it."
"So let's show ourselves!" encouraged Adrien not only Marinette, but also himself.
They left his bathroom hand in hand. Alya shrieked by good joy.
"I appreciate quickness you both wore," said Nathalie, who returned with two more suit bags. "Miss Cesaire, I will need your signature on oath of silence. Same I will need from all of you but Adrien, who is involved for a long time. You will be allowed to make photos, said Mr. Agreste senior. But these photos you must keep out of public eye till Wednesday, when campaign is to start. Will you agree with this arrangement?"
"We will," said Sabine serious tone and silenced Alya's protest by sharp gesture.
"Fine," nodded Nathalie.
"Nathalie, say Mr. Agreste to come here!" said Chloé. "It's important, there's something I need to tell all of you."
"OK, we'll be here in a few minutes," to everybody's surprise Nathalie agreed without fight. "You and Miss Tsurugi could use that time and wear your 'costume' for photoshot too."
With that she left.
"Johnny Silver?" asked Tom with wide smile, pointing on 'Jolly Roger' on Adrien's shirt pocket.
"Maybe rather Blackbeard, coming from that colour," said Sabine.
"Maman, what do you think, can I wear THIS for photoshot?" asked Marinette.
"After THIS night yes, for sure," answered Sabine. "It suits you in fact, surprisingly well."
That was a moment for Chloé and Kagami to left Adrien's bathroom. Chloé's outfit looked like that Marinette's, well, with a lower cut and more accented boobs. Kagami wore something derived from traditional kimono, in combination of red and black colour, with a big picture of red rose on her back. Adrien caught himself by surprising idea, that without his love to Marinette he would chose Kagami right now. She probably caught his glance and gave him a bit seductive smile, what surprised Adrien, who gave a groan, when Marinette hit his ribs by her elbow. When he turned his glance to her, she grabbed collard of his shirt and moved him closer:
"You're mine! Remember it!"
"Sure, M'lady!"
Marinette moved him, so she could kiss his forehead.
"Well, that's one of postures I want to have on photos during this photoshot," commented Gabriel, who managed to come that moment into Adrien's bedroom. "What is so important, that my presence is required so inevitably, Chloé?"
"Well, Gabriel," Chloé decided not to let him have upper hand. "Yesterday evening I have an unexpected visit. From Secret Service..."
TO BE CONTINUED...
Author's note: As Coronavirus infection became really serious pandemy, the reasonable carefulness is reccommended. Do not kiss person with unknown epidemic history and later do not have a sex with person potencially infected by HIV...
