Author's Note: Hey guys SnivyLord here, and I just wanted to tell you that this specific arc of their story is called "The Dream Chronicles." This chapter is specifically Louis' dream, and I absolutely love all of your reviews because I take so much pleasure from finding out what you guys think of how this story is going. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and from this moment on, only one chapter will be released a day up until Chapter 24 because I'm trying to write out the rest lmao. Anyways! Enjoy!

He felt like his body was burning even though he knew nothing was happening. Even though he knew nothing was happening, he still felt like he was moving towards an end, the climax of his story. Maybe now was just his time for him to go, nothing was stopping him from finally giving into the abyss of sleep. However still, Louis managed to groggily open his eyes to find himself on a white, cold floor as he could make out people walking through him, around him, and over him, but they don't notice that he's there. Louis heaved himself up as he looked around, it looked like the lobby to a hospital of some sort.

"So it's a hospital huh? Is this my challenge?" Louis asked aloud as he noticed that the people that were walking by were a little more faded out as he was. He was the only one that looked like he was actually physically there, even though the hospital itself looked faded out as well, almost like static. However, one thing that freaked him out was that there was one more person that looked just as vibrant as him, and he was extremely familiar. The weirdest thing though was that the other person that was standing directly across from him with a blank yet calculating look was a young boy with a familiar head of side swept blond hair.

"I suppose you can call a challenge of sorts," The young boy looked around at the hospital and sighed as he walked so he was right in front of Louis and squatted down so they were eye level, "how are you feeling?"

"Alright I guess, but you... there's no way..." Louis murmured as he looked into the boy's sky blue eyes as the boy smiled that smile that he knew from a mile away. After all, it was his own million dollar smile, "you're me...WHAT THE HELL?!"

"Yeah, that's right, to be precise, I'm you when you were 6 years old," The boy explained as Louis looked at him questioningly and noted his proficiency at speaking.

"Really? Then how are you so good at speaking French?"

"It's a dream Louis, well, older me, there's two biological identical copies of the same person from two different times, are you really that surprised that I can speak fluent French? Would you rather I talk to you like a 6 year old?" The boy rolled his eyes as Louis shook his head slowly.

"Uhhh...No?"

"Then don't question it, do I seriously get that dumb in the future?" Younger Louis asked as Louis frowned and smacked the younger boy over the head, with the younger Louis holding his head with a yelp.

"Well, glad to know I'm such a smart-ass, and that I can still hit you in this dream world matrix thing," Louis sighed as he stood up and Younger Louis looked up at him incredulously.

"I get that tall?" Younger Louis asked with stars in his eyes with Louis smiling proudly at his height.

"Yeah, I'm almost as tall as our dad, you proud yet?" Louis asked as Younger Louis pressed his finger to his chin and nodded.

"Yeah, and I'm kinda surprised we get to meet our dad in the future, but we have to get to your challenge," Younger Louis explained as he walked into the hospital through the lobby doors, gesturing Louis to follow. Louis looked around as nurses and doctors rushed past him without giving the two any mind.

"These people can't see or touch us can they?" Louis concluded as they continued walking as the other Louis nodded.

"Yeah, we're sort of on a plane of existence of our own, we're just observing as the dictator of the events that are going to transpire here today," Younger Louis continued to explain as Louis stopped and processed those words.

"Wait... events that are going to transpire... younger me, what exactly am I doing here?" Louis asked as Younger Louis turned around and suddenly, the hallway stretched and sped past the pair and they found themselves in the lobby again.

"You're reliving some of the more traumatic memories of our life as an outsider, do you recognize this hospital yet? It was burned into our memory after all," Younger Louis gestured to the entrance doors as they moved apart and Louis saw a young woman with familiar blueberry hair getting wheeled in on a stretcher with a young boy, crying and sobbing next to the cart as they wheeled her past the emergency doors and out of sight.

"Wait... that was... Mom... and us right beside her... this is... no no NO NO NO!" Louis realized as he looked at the clock at the front of the lobby and he ran to the counter to look at the date: May 22nd, 2010, the day Mom got wheeled into the hospital. Ultimately, it would end up taking until the next day at around midnight to actually birth the twins so their birthday was really the 23rd. The details were getting sharper in Louis's mind with every second he spent staring at the date, eventually stepping back, losing his balance slightly as Younger Louis steadied him and looked up at him worryingly.

"Today's the first day, when our siblings would be introduced into this world. It's not exactly a pleasant day for both of us," Younger Louis murmured as he looked at the emergency room doors. Louis felt himself hyperventilating as he struggled to grasp that he's reliving this day all over again, "now... for your role in this challenge." Younger Louis brought his two fingertips up and make a wagging motion as if he was swiping through a phone except it was in midair. Suddenly, the hospital activity sped up and the natural lighting began to change, "I'm going to speed up the day to the time when the twins are born. Now your job is to change what happened."

Louis looked incredulously at his younger self as the younger self in question looked outside to make sure the timing was correct and he stopped swiping his fingers, "Change... what happened?"

"You can change the events that happens today by changing the circumstances of what happened. You will succeed when you successfully prevented Gabriel from traumatizing you and our family. However, there are a few rules concerning how you can do this and listen closely since we don't have long until he appears," Younger Louis explains as he stares at the door, waiting for Gabriel to arrive and Louis leans down to listen.

"You cannot interact with the people in this plane of existence because you cannot interrupt the natural flow of time for people as they go here and there, so you can't murder Gabriel as soon as he walks through the door," Younger Louis explains as Louis rolls his eyes and scoffs.

"Yeah I figured it wouldn't be that easy, what else?" Louis muttered as Younger Louis mirrored his older self's disappointed look and continued.

"You can however change the circumstances as in, you can block the doors, trigger the alarm, hide things, and practically anything with an inanimate object as long as you don't DIRECTLY hurt a human being, because memories in that sense can not be changed by simply murdering someone," Younger Louis looks back and forth between Louis and the door, and Louis could feel the anxiety radiating off his younger self. It was unsettling.

"I guess so... you're just as afraid as I am aren't you?" Louis asked as Younger Louis nodded.

"Yes... the purpose of this challenge is for you to learn a very important lesson that has to deal with changing our memory of what happened, and- wait... he's here," Younger Louis stopped as he looked back towards the door and Louis just stared as Gabriel walked through the entrance doors. He always carried that insufferable air of arrogance and superiority, acting as if he was entitled to attempt kidnapping. Louis grit his teeth and clenched his fist as he fought against walking up to Gabriel and punching him.

"He's here... and he's just asking to be punched..." Louis growled as Younger Louis held his hand out to stop him.

"Hurry... you can lock the doors to delay Gabriel getting in, the doors are electronic and only the receptionist can unlock the door and let you into emergency," Younger Louis pointed to the front desk counter that Gabriel was approaching.

"On it!" Louis nodded as he ran to the counter and discovered he could levitate and fly, another perk of being in dream plane of existence he thinks. Louis flew behind the counter and looked at the computer, noting the sign-in records of people that have entered the hospital. Louis looked around as he found the button on the touch screen that unlocked the door. Louis then saw the receptionist nodding and pressing the button, and hearing an audible unlocking of the door, Gabriel headed towards it. Panicking, Louis pressed the button again to lock it and noticed a coffee mug filled with coffee. Suddenly having an idea, Louis tipped the cup over so it would spill all over the receptionist and the floor. Louis looked up at Gabriel to find the man physically annoyed as Gabriel looked even more mad and he tapped his foot impatiently, "Alright, I just to permanently lock the button to prevent it from opening. Is there even a button for that?"

"No, Gabriel's going to get in eventually... there's no avoiding it," Younger Louis looked sadly at the emergency doors as Louis became even more agitated by the second.

"No, there's a way to keep him in the lobby, maybe if we somehow lead the receptionist away from the desk?" Louis wondered as Younger Louis shook his head and looked over at Gabriel.

"Considering the type of person that Gabriel is, wouldn't he just sneak over to the desk and unlock it himself? So there's really no point in trying to stop the doors," Younger Louis deadpans as Louis stepped back, thinking about it for a second before nodding his head.

"Yeah, he does seem like the type of person to do that," Louis said quietly to himself but his younger self heard it anyway.

"Wait, can't I just keep locking the doors after each time they press the button?" Louis asked but his younger self already had a rebuttal for that.

"As much as I would like to say that the doors ONLY have electronic locks, they don't. Look closer at the doors, you see the key holes on the press bar thing?" Younger Louis asked as Louis looked closer to find the keyhole in question, "So that means you can also unlock it manually so eventually, the receptionist is just gonna give up and unlock the door for him."

"You know... one thing you haven't learned yet is that what matters isn't the result... but what you did in between. So stop telling me to give up, but the important thing right now is that I'm stalling for time," Louis huffed as he pressed the button to lock again as the receptionist wiped his shirt and Gabriel's patience was starting to be tested by God.

"What do you think stalling for time will accomplish?" Younger Louis asked as Louis sighed and shook his head in annoyance.

"I'm literally making this up as I go so give me a little credit. Mom had to stay in the hospital for a few days to monitor the twins' condition as well as rest. So yeah... eventually Gabriel will eventually make it in. But that doesn't mean I still can't stop him," Louis explained as his younger self looked aside and Louis noticed how his eyes looked glassy and distant, as if he had already lost hope from the beginning. Louis continued the same cycle of locking the door every time the receptionist unlocks it until the receptionist finally gave up and came over to Gabriel to unlock the door himself.

"Ok, Louis, we gotta move," Louis murmured as he reached over to grab his younger self's hand, who yelped out in surprise because he really wasn't expecting that at all. Louis then flew through the doors as the receptionist unlocked the door and looked around at anything he could use to deter Gabriel. A thought however gnawed at him from the back of his mind: Gabriel is going to get in eventually but what is he going to do when he does? How will he change the events of what happens in the room? Louis clenched his hand tighter around Younger Louis' arm as he came to terms with the fact that what he said was right: he was just making things up as he goes along.

Adrien and Marinette stepped out into Louis' world as they looked around to take in their surroundings.

"This looks like a hospital, everything looks faded out and like static," Adrien looked around as Marinette narrowed her eyes at her surroundings, she knew that there was a special reason why Louis' challenge takes place in a hospital but she couldn't place her finger on it. There was something very familiar to this place to Marinette but after a moment of seeing people walk by and people sitting in the waiting area, she finally realized what this place was.

"This place... it's like a discordant, static tapestry of something Louis wishes he could forget... that's why this world looks the way it does..." Marinette thought aloud as Adrien adorned a look of confusion on his face as he tried to piece out what she said.

"What? What does that have to do with what his nightmare is?" Adrien asked as Marinette bit her lip and steeled herself.

"This world is most likely the reenactment of the day when Hugo and Emma were born. To think... Louis' challenge would be this, oh God," Marinette brought her hand to her head, using her index finger and thumb to massage her head.

"You think so?" Adrien asked as the all too familiar voice rang out throughout the air.

"Yes, Marinette is correct, this is a fabrication of the world when your twins were born. It is Louis' job to change the circumstances of the incident however he can in order to change what happened," The voice explained as Marinette's mood sunk even more and Adrien was lost in thought about Louis' challenge.

"You know... if there's one thing I learned about experiencing all of this hell, it's that the past cannot be changed. Even if Louis somehow manages to change his own memory about what happened, the fact that it still happened the way it did stays the same, no matter how much you wish you could forget and redo what happened. Louis won't escape his nightmare that way," Marinette sighed as she held both her hands to her chest, praying that Louis somehow manages to figure out that lesson, but she knew that Louis wasn't the type to just lay down like a dog and take it.

"To give you a little context, I will show you a snippet of what happened in the room when your twins were born," The voice explained the world suddenly spun quickly around them and suddenly, the pair found themselves in a hospital room with a Marinette holding a pair of twins in her arms, her tired eyes shining with adoration and joy as she leaned back against the bed. Soon, the door opened and the pair turned around to find a young Louis rushing and bouncing to his mother's side, looking over her arm to get a glimpse of his new siblings. Adrien felt his heart swell as he and Marinette watched the scene unfold.

"Did you name them?" Louis asked brightly as he had his hopes up about naming his siblings

"Yeah, I only named your brother. Meet your baby brother Hugo," Marinette smiled as she handed the small baby over to Louis to hold, "the trick is to cradle the head so he won't cry," Adrien reached over to grab Marinette's hand, who smiled gently at the gesture as she continued to watch herself.

"Hey Hugo! It's your big brother Louis I promise to love you, our sister, and Maman with all my heart. I will never let anything happen to you... ever, and that's a promise," Louis whispered as Hugo, half conscious, reached out with his small hand to grab Louis' finger, who felt like he could burst from happiness. Adrien felt his eyes tear up at how beautiful this scene is and how sad because he never got to be here to experience this with Marinette.

"Do you want to name your sister?"

"Yes! Oh my god yes! Ok, let's see... I think I'll name her..."

"I trust you Louis, please don't name her something weird."

"I won't I won't. Trust me," Louis smirked at Marinette, who held a nervous smile as Adrien and Marinette chuckled at the scene, "I think I'll name her Emilia."

"Oh! That's a beautiful name! Let's call her Emma for short."

"Yeah!" After Louis said those words, the world spun around again and the pair found themselves back in the lobby of the hospital. Marinette held a curled finger to her chin as she thought about the psychological effects that experience had on Louis; she was aware of it before but she never discussed it out loud until now.

"You know... I feel like this experience, systematically taught Louis that he should be responsible for everything and absolutely everything. That's why he's such an overachiever in school, kinda like you," Marinette thought aloud as Adrien nodded in agreement, with a slight smile at that last part.

"You know... I can't really tell if that's a bad thing or a good thing that he got it from me," Adrien chuckled as Marinette smiled softly before taking another once over at the hospital. She folded her arms and narrowed her eyes at her surroundings and thought about how it must have felt for Louis.

"He really is your son you know? You lost your mother and it shaped you into who you are. When you look at Louis, he never had you, and it made him so much like you. Feeling as if he needs to fufill that role of being a caretaker in order to stop his family from falling apart," Marinette remarked quietly as she felt Adrien tense beside her, and she could feel the anger and discomfort radiating off him.

"When you put it like that, I wish he never turned out like me..." Adrien muttered as Marinette turned her head to face him.

"What... do you mean?" Marinette asked as Adrien sighed out harshly and the two made their way into the hospital, their legs supposedly moving on their own to where Louis was.

"I told myself that if I ever had kids, I would never, ever make them go through what I experienced. The emptiness of not having a loving and supportive father figure. You know my father, he was never intuitive enough to know that his son was suffering after the "death" of his mother. He was cold, he was indifferent and calculating. The absence of my mother just made it worse, she was in a permanent vegetative state and it seemed like she was never going to wake up. It's been what? Over 20 years since I last saw her alive? I still visit her several days a week but thinking about my entire family situation made me want to be better for my own children. To really be there for them... and now look... we're all in some sort of subconscious reality within our dreams fighting to not die in our sleep, do you know how crazy that sounds?!" Adrien breathed out as he felt his frustration and his bafflement reach a high point. Marinette cocked her head to the side as she thought about it.

"Yeah I know, it does sound crazy, but we have to take this shot if we're gonna make it back. Wait Adrien, were you even in a coma to begin with? I would assume that all four of us are in a coma because of the "eternal sleep" thing but how did you get here?" Marinette asked as Adrien looked down at the floor while bringing a curled finger to his lips.

"I'm not really sure... I was talking to the doctor about your conditions and then later, I fell asleep next to you. I suppose our dreams were connected somehow? But seriously, even that voice thing that rules this world agrees that this is some sort of Silent Hill thing," Adrien answered as Marinette giggled and the pair continued walking down the hospital hallway, making a turn towards another hallway.

"I hope you know Adrien, that none of this is your fault, it's Gabriel's, he took too many steps too far and he needs to stop," Marinette murmured as she felt Adrien's mood sour.

Adrien scoffed as he smiled ruefully, "Of course, it's NEVER my fault, never. And that's exactly the problem."

"Problem?" Marinette asked slowly as Adrien grit his teeth and looked straight ahead as he talked.

"Yes! I don't want so that just because I'm kind and emphatic and a gentleman that I never have to be blamed for anything. I want to take responsibility when things are my fault. Because even though things are my fault, people act as if I never have to take any of the blame and I feel so powerless and guilty about it! I want to save Louis and the twins with my own two hands, because I owe that to them as their father," Adrien almost yelled as he felt his voice break from the emotion. Marinette looked at him in shock, feeling the determination radiating from him. Reaching her hands on either side of his face and turned him towards her and she looked at him in his beautiful emerald green eyes.

"We are saving them together, and then you'll be the man you were always meant to be, I promise," Marinette stared into his shining green eyes as she saw his mouth slowly break into a smile and lean in so he could peck her lips.

"Right, thank you, alright, now let's go find our son," Adrien grinned at her before they both hurried down the hall to where Louis was.

"He's coming..." Younger Louis turned around towards the door after the two watched their mother and themselves cradle their newborn siblings for a time, "somehow, you have to stop him, or at least, help us in a way that the events turn out different."

"Give me a sec, I'm working on it," Louis looked around as he remembered how he was slammed back into the foot of the hospital bed and that's how the bed lurched forward in the first place, "hmmmm... I just have to somehow remove this button from the equation." Louis took the scalpel from the bedside table and carefully took out the plastic cover for the button, "ok, now I just need to block it." Louis looked up and around for anything and he spotted a cart sitting near the sink on the far left of the room. Quickly, he pushed it so it was right in front of the bed, gaining a weird look from Marinette and the Louis from the projection.

"Did that cart just move on its own?" Louis asked as Marinette looked questionably at the cart that seemed to stop right in front of their bed. Odd, there's practically nothing in here that could move that cart.

"Yes I believe it did," Marinette replied as she unknowingly clutched her son tighter.

"You think there are ghosties in here?" Louis asked as the other two Louis's fought a chuckle as they continued to look around for ways to change the circumstances.

"No I don't think so," The two boys heard their mom say as the door suddenly opened and the two boys whipped around to find Gabriel standing in the doorway.

"Your nine months are up, there is a decision to be made..." Gabriel said as he quietly shut the door behind him and the four could only watch in horror as he inched closer to the bed.

"First, let me ask you something Gabriel, does HE know you made this hospital visit?" Marinette asked quietly as Gabriel looked at her for a moment before answering. Louis looked frantically around the room for something else he could change but the man was already in the room so what could he do?

"No. No he does not, Marinette, you have to make a decision, you either give the kids obediently to an adoption agency that I have arranged or keep them and or I'll get rid of them by force," Gabriel said coldly as Louis felt his eyes widen in horror as the memory started hitting him with the force of a tsunami. He watched as his younger self in the projection get increasingly furious with the man.

"Knowing you, it's probably some suspicious, underhanded, seedy adoption agency isn't it, do you really think I trust you?" Marinette asked.

"Mister! If you think Maman is gonna give our family to you, then you're wrong. I dunno why you want to get rid of them, but getting rid of people who can't defend themselves makes you a meanie, A BIG MEANIE!" Louis yelled as the other Louis watched forlornly at himself. When he said this, he knew that he would suffer the consequences YEARS into the future. He meant every word though, he just didn't realise how he would come to suffer because of them.

"You don't understand boy, your mother never meant to have you or your siblings. You were a mistake, you and your siblings have no business in even being alive," Gabriel muttered lowly in a voice that made Louis want to cry. Louis looked down at his own hands and clenched them, wondering about what Gabriel said.

"Hey... younger me..." Louis asked slowly as younger Louis looked up at him, "what are we doing here?"

"What do you mean?" Younger Louis asked as Louis continued to stare at Gabriel, who lunged forward for the twins and the pair could hear their mother's screams.

"Our purpose... our reason for being in this world? If you think about it hard enough, Gabriel's right... we were a mistake. But regardless of that... what are we? What's the point of living if, we were never meant to enjoy life in the first place?" Louis asked as his younger self turned back towards the scene as the Louis within the projection kicked the metal cart forward, slamming into Gabriel's pelvis and incapacitated him for a moment before charging his entire body with Gabriel, sending them both to the floor, "in fact... why are YOU even here? Helping me?"

"Well... I don't know any better than you do to be honest, but the reason why I'm here is because I represent your past, your past mistakes and fears. If I'm gonna be honest, compared to me then, we haven't changed," Younger Louis explained as Louis walked over to the bed, grabbed a pillow and discreetly placed it in front of the cart. Suddenly, Gabriel pressed his foot against Louis' stomach and launched into the cart, where the pillow cushioned the blow.

"Where did this pillow- ACK!" Louis wondered as Gabriel kicked him again in the stomach as Marinette screamed out in horror, moving to get up from the bed. Louis then caught Gabriel's foot before it hit him again and used his other foot to sweep Gabriel from under and trip him to the floor.

"We're still that scared, scarred kid who can't let this go... ever. It's like a curse you haven't been able to break for 7 years," Younger Louis gritted his teeth as Louis noticed his tone become more angry and irritated.

"So is it my fault then? You have every right to be mad..." Louis murmured, flinching as he heard from his younger self, his voice turning into a yell.

"OF COURSE I'M MAD! You're supposed to demonstrate to me how we've changed! That you're not me from 7 years ago! And now look! You're just as terrified as I am! And what should I expect from a bigger coward than I am?!" His younger self practically screamed as Louis shrunk back slightly in fear. His younger self was right: he was pathetic, "Here you are, trying to change the past when it will always turn out the same way! You haven't realized it yet either!"

"Realized what?!" Louis asked as he glared down at his younger self, who kept his furious look without a hint of hesitation or even fear at his imposing older self. However, the Louis in the projection was about to get up after tripping Gabriel before he noticed Marinette tucking in the newborns in the bed before turning around and charging at Gabriel, bringing both her and her saline rack to the ground, "Enlighten me! You claim you have this big lesson that I am supposed to learn, but you don't have any idea what it is do you?! You're just tagging along, making sure I fail and lose hope to even make it out of here! You've been doubting and ridiculing every single action or thought I make and if that doesn't raise a red flag, I don't know what does!" Louis yelled as his younger self took a step back, disheartened by his older self's words.

Marinette grabbed one of the saline bags and found the scalpel that Louis had used to remove the button and stabbed the spare saline bag. Then, she turned around with a face bordering on lividly insane, squirting it all over his face and beating him with it. Both Louis' winced at their mother's battle scream as Louis in the projection was kicked back by Gabriel, who had pointed his attention at Marinette. Suddenly, Gabriel kicked Marinette off and she crashed into the saline rack, temporarily incapacitated by the pain in her back. Gabriel then stood up and walked over to the bed where the twins were crying.

"No..." Marinette wheezed as she struggled to get up. Gabriel was about to grab the twins when a weight pulled him backwards and Gabriel looked back to see Louis latching on to him and throwing his own body backwards to get him away from the kids.

"You insolent little brat!" Gabriel snarled as Louis mirrored his snarl and latched his arms around Gabriel's neck and pulled him down to the ground so that Louis would be on top.

"Get away from them! I will stop you! Just watch me!" Louis screamed as he started pounding away at Gabriel's face, putting all of his force behind his punches. Gabriel huffed as he blocked them and he countered back by socking Louis right in the face. Suprisingly though, it was as if Louis couldn't feel any pain as through tears, he kept pounding with his fists and joined his fists together and hammered down on Gabriel's face. Finally, with blood streaming from his nose, Gabriel punched Louis as hard as he could and knocked the boy unconscious with a thud to the floor. Gabriel then stood up and looked at the boy with disdain before he started towards the twins. As if miracles kept happening in this hopeless time, Gabriel felt a pair of hands grab his arms and spin him around until there was enough momentum to launch him into the door with a loud thud, his back painfully hitting the door knob.

"I will never let you... take them away from me... you hear Gabriel?! Attacking a mother and her child in the middle of a hospital of all places! You're clinically insane! Seriously! What kind of person does this?! I'll never know because no one can read the mind of someone that's not even human," Marinette groaned as she struggled to get in gulps of air. Gabriel looked up at her with malice and hatred that could burn her alive. The two other Louis' watched as Marinette charged forward and kneed him in the stomach, forcibly opening the door and sending them both out into the hallway, grabbing the attention of the people in the hospital. Soon, there were nurses and a doctor rushing into the room to check on the vitals of the children and other nurses helped Marinette back to the bed while Gabriel was taken away. The events were changed, but somehow, the result still remained the same. Louis may not have stabbed the scalpel into the hand of Gabriel and burned the image of the blood into his mind but he was still traumatized by watching his mother fight, get beaten mercilessly, and fight a man in a way that terrified him. Marinette heard him call out as he disappeared from view.

"You think you can keep them safe? Don't make me laugh... enjoy your so called peace while it lasts Ms. Dupain Cheng. Your existence will be erased by my hands I swear it," Marinette heard him say as she felt a cold wave of blood wash over her body, her vision becoming steadily blurry and she couldn't remember gripping her arms tighter around herself in her life. She was truly terrified of him.

"You changed the events of what happened... but is the end result really all that different? We still failed to protect her..." Younger Louis murmured as Louis watched Marinette beg the nurses to save her son.

"No matter how I change things... it will always end up with the result it always had. And I will never let go... the past? It's impossible," Louis felt tears rush out of his eyes as when he brought his hands to wipe his tears away, he saw blackness throughout his surroundings, "wait... what happened to the hospital?"

"It's time for your next memory..." His younger self said as the world suddenly appeared before Louis and he found himself inside a recital hall, the world spinning rapidly around him before coming slowly to a stop.

"This is... my last recital... and I played my song with my dad... So this is the other memory, burned into my mind is it?" Louis asked without really needing an answer, "So be it."

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Marinette and Adrien were running through the halls trying to find the hospital room that former's past self was in. The hospital halls were unnaturally twisting and winding, almost like a maze. There were so many corrridors, each with a different set of paths. After a very long period of time, Marinette and Adrien finally found the room that was marked by an overflowing darkness that seeped from the door cracks.

"So this is it... the room where it happened," Marinette breathed out slowly as Adrien looked at her worryingly as she gave him a quick nod before pulling open the door to find a completely different setting on the other side of the door, "What the?!" Adrien looked closer to see that on the other side of the door was the upstairs corridor of the recital hall Louis performed at.

"This must be a doorway to another memory, Louis must be through here if the door was exuding that darkness from it," Adrien surprised as Marinette gave him an agreeing nod. Suddenly a voice rang out that surprised both of them.

"The reason why you find a different memory beyond this door is because Louis has already dealt with this memory and failed," The all too familiar voice rang out throughout the halls of the hospital.

"What do you mean he failed?" Adrien asked as the voice immediately replied.

"He failed to understand that the past cannot be changed, he himself admitted that letting the past go was impossible even though he cannot change it. Beyond this door is his final chance before he sleeps forever," The voice explained as Adrien and Marinette's eyes widened in horror as they looked at each other quickly, and with no words exchanged, they rushed into Louis' next memory.

"So what I supposed to do here? I suppose I should stop the bomb from going off? Gabriel sets the bomb off anyway so what's the point?" Louis asks as he walks straight into the theater hall to find himself alone on the stage playing the piano. His younger self followed him inside and saw that nobody was in the audience. It was just themselves alone on that stage, "Wait... this isn't what happened, why am I alone?"

"It's strange... but what's even more strange is that we can't hear ourselves playing the piano," His younger self pointed out as Louis' eyes widened in realization: the place was completely quiet even though he could see his own fingers dance across the keys.

"I wonder if there's a reason for that..." Louis wondered as suddenly, a brilliant flash entered their eyes and the two boys covered their eyes for a moment before looking back up to see the whole place in flames. Instinctively, the boys covered their mouths and nose to block the smoke but there was smoke, just the heat of the explosion and the air whipping itself around. Louis looked at the stage to see himself completely burned, his clothes burned and his skin burned almost to black. He saw himself reach his hand out for the two boys and mouth the words:

"Save me..."

Louis immediately sprung into action as he stepped further into the flames, dodging the falling debris before realizing that the debris just went through him. It was just the heat that was getting even hotter by the second. He felt his younger self follow behind him and he reached his hand out for his own hand. All Louis could see was the other hand reaching out to him, the rest of his vision was just flames and smoke.

"I have to save him... he's me... can I even save myself?" Louis asked mentally as his hand inched closer and closer to his other hand and just before their finger tips touched, Louis felt two arms wrap around him and pull him all the way back into the lobby with him and his savior both on the floor. Louis could hear the panting of the other person and another person's gasp and he looked up to see his dad on the floor with him looking relieved at him.

"You can save yourself Louis... you don't have to ask yourself that mentally... we could hear your pleas for help just fine. Are you okay my son?" Adrien asked calmly as Louis registered his words and felt himself tear up and throw himself into his father's arms.

"You're here... Mom too... you guys are really here! Thank you... thank you so much Dad... I was so terrified," Louis sobbed into his dad's coat and he felt Adrien relax and wrap his arms soothingly around him, resting his chin on top of his head.

"I know... and I'm sorry Louis... for everything. It's the least I could do... as your father, to save you from yourself," Adrien separated himself from Louis so he could look as his son in the eyes, which were red and swollen from crying.

"I know Dad, and I love you for it... please... stay..." Louis sniffled as he saw Adrien give him a blinding smile before pulling him back into a hug.

"I love you too and I promise... I won't ever leave you or Marinette or our family ever... you guys are my everything, and I'm sorry I never found out sooner. I should have been there for you. It's been tough I know," Adrien murmured comfortingly as Louis continued to listen and sob into him, "and you have done a great job, shouldering everyone's burdens on your shoulders on your own, but you're not alone anymore. You have me and your mom and we would be more than happy to take your burdens off you. And we will make it through. Together. Okay?" Adrien asked as he felt a nod from his son. He then pulled back to see his son smiling brightly at him.

"Yeah... I believe in you Dad, until the end," Louis wiped away his tears and smiled at him. Marinette knelt down beside them and caressed her son's face.

"You can rest now Louis, we'll take it from here," Marinette whispered as Louis nodded and closed his eyes with a small smile on his face.

"Oh great... That's a... relief... good luck..." Louis whispered as his body withered away into golden sparkles and the pair watched in shock as they were now back in the pitch blackness with the blue floating orbs.

"Louis has now been freed, don't worry, he will make it back even if he isn't here to aid you in your next dream," The voice rang out again as Adrien and Marinette sighed in relief as the two dreams remaining floated around them.

"Alright, Hugo's next," Marinette decided as Adrien gave an encouraging nod before they proceeded into the next nightmare.