Chapter 4
Note: This is an AU. Just wanted to note that 😅 If you wonder why Snowflake speaks.
The next morning Gabriel walked downstairs inside his manor, then glimpsed into the kitchen to see Adrien have breakfast and Gabriel move toward his office and opened the door to encounter Nathalie put down the earphone of the telephone.
„Did the hospital call?" Questioned the fashion designed earning a nod from the assistant.
„The two teens we've found woke up last night. They seem to know who they are, but don't have any memory from what led them to the state that they were frozen," Explained Nathalie. „They will pass by a few more analysis and the social work will pass by to talk with them as well,"
„Okay so this means we will have to look for another plan," Gabriel replied. „I assume they're what do we call it…..decent citizens,"
„We didn't have the chance to get to know them. Maybe there is a chance to use them?" Suggested Nathalie.
„I think this is risky for our identities, we could…..pass by them and just check on them and make sure, they're really good people. Also, I think they should know, who owed them a second life.,"
„Is a good idea…..oh, by the way, I got something here," Nathalie mentioned taking from under the desk a box, then opened the box to show him the wreath and the belt, the monk had taken and Gabriel grinned and made his way back to the door to close it. „The monk has done its task and confirmed, that it worked well. Now if you want, we can take a look at it,"
„Good. If you'd like I'd like to give you the honor for you to be the first one trying it," Gabriel asked making Nathalie nod and take the wreath out, then before she set it on her head she looked up at Gabriel.
„But we're not the ones, that will use it in the future?"
„No, but we need to make sure they actually work," Mentioned Gabriel watching Nathalie place it on her head, then the wreath turned aquamarine and icy blue, then in front of her appeared a light-blue spirit with an ice-blue dress with a transparent silk coat attached on her back and its end was attached on the spirits' arms. The spirit wore similar to the Snow Queen a large crown with snowflake-formed spikes formed around it.
„Hello, I'm Snowflake," Greeted the spirit making Nathalie smile enchanted at the cuteness of the little spirit.
„Hello Snowflake," Greeted Nathalie, then looked at Gabriel, which gazed bewildered at the creature.
„Isn't she able to communicate?" Questioned Gabriel, then the Snowflake made a few noises confusing the blonde.
„Only the person, that wears this is able to understand me. Anyone else won't" Explained Snowflake making Nathalie nod.
„She says only a holder understands her, anyone else doesn't" Explained Nathalie making Gabriel nod.
„That's good I guess," Commented Gabriel, then someone knocked on the door and Nathalie looked at Gabriel, which made his way to the door. Nathalie placed her hand on the wreath and looked at the spirit.
„I wanted to make sure everything was fine. We're not going to use this for now," Explained Nathalie earning a nod from the kwami, then Nathalie took the wreath off seeing Snowflake disappear into the object. Gabriel opened the door to see his son standing there.
„I just wanted to tell goodbye, before I head back to school," Adrien mentioned earning a nod from Gabriel, then Adrien noticed Nathalie look at a belt, which she took from the box, making Adrien curious, then Gabriel stepped aside to block his sight.
„Have a good day at the school," Gabriel wished earning a nod from Adrien, which walked towards the exit, where his bodyguard stood waiting for the boy, then placed his hand on Adrien's shoulder to follow him to the outside.
At the school, Kim sat along with Max, Rose, Juleka, and Luka at the stairs together chatting with each other.
„So you say, she trusts you and admits she lied, but she can't tell you that one truth, even though she trusts you with all your heart?" Questioned Kim making Luka furrow his eyebrows in confusion at the sentence of the raven-haired boy.
„Yes...I told her I do understand her if she doesn't want to tell me what is going on with her life, but…..this with the breakup, this…..this just doesn't make any sense. I don't get why she decided to go this way. I could help her out more if she could speak about it,"
„Maybe something happened to her and she can't tell anyone that?" Rose suggested. „Maybe…..she's got a disease or a family issue,"
„I think she would tell anything of that at least Alya. 96% of every girl tells her best friend everything when there is trouble bothering them. 90% do this to their moms," Max pointed out making Kim nod.
„Alya doesn't know it either," Commented Juleka making Rose nod.
„Yes. This must be something very serious if she isolating herself away from us," Commented the blonde girl.
„Have you girls tried to speak to Marinette about it?" Questioned Max making Rose nod.
„Yes, but with Luka's story and Marinette explaining her complication in knowing what she wants or her low confidence, this confuses me a little. It doesn't really come together," Responded Rose.
„I would suggest you for now on not speak to Marinette about it. Forcing her to tell something she doesn't want to isn't also good for both sides. Give her some time and see how all this will evolve," Suggested the nerd making the blonde nod.
„Heard that Jule? We leave Marinette with her choice and when she really needs to tell us, what's going on she will eventually,"
„About this love thing with Marinette….Jagged Stone probably has some tips or advice on how to move on," Kim pointed out. „The only person, that has broken my heart yet was Chloé, but we never have dated, so I'm not quite good at helping you out,"
„This between my mother and Jagged was years ago, even if he wanted, he couldn't help me out, but comfort me," Luka commented. „I will get over it with the time. Hopefully,"
„Don't worry Luka, maybe one day Marinette and you will return to each other," Rose commented making Juleka shrug her shoulders.
„She could go to Adrien instead," Commented Juleka. „Because she loves him too,"
„I know, that's also possible,"
„Look Luka, maybe Marinette isn't the girl that is meant to be with you, it could be anyone else. Maybe she's not in this school, maybe not even in Paris," Said Kim watching Luka raise his hand to stop the Vietnamese. „Sorry man, I'm trying to be positive. Not everyone's life goes perfectly. My mom was my dad's fifth girlfriend before they had me, yet 15 years later they got divorced even though they believed to be each other's soulmate,"
„You guys believe in that?" Questioned Max watching all nod, except for Kim. „I'm just curious, not everyone does,"
„The thing about this with the word is, everyone interprets it differently or has a wrong picture of it," Commented the dark-skinned boy taking out his smartphone, then frowned. „For some odd reason, my internet connection is not working,"
„Really?" Asked Kim taking out his phone then smiled. „Mines works, do you need it?"
„Sure, just want to search some facts about this," Max explained taking the smartphone of his best friend to look for it.
„I believe that each of us has a soulmate and that he is out there somewhere waiting for us," Rose commented leaning her head on Juleka's shoulder making her smile a little.
„Maybe you've already found her," Mumbled Juleka quiet making Rose shrug her shoulders.
„Who knows, maybe we know each other or are even friends," Rose commented making Kim chuckle.
„You know who would be a good fit for you? Nathaniel," Added Kim making Rose giggle.
„He's more of a fit to Alix or Lila. Like most of us both are the quite opposite of each other," Rose commented.
„I would have thought Nathaniel would be cute with Juleka or even Marc," Max added. „Or that girl we saw in one of Mrs. Bourgeois' pictures,"
„What do you think about Nathaniel, Juleka?" Questioned Rose. „You two already get along pretty well, right?" Questioned the blonde making the tall girl shrug her shoulders.
„At the moment not," Juleka responded quiet, making Rose chuckle.
„That wasn't the question, but it's okay. It's not important for now, but if you ever need someone to talk about it, I'm here,"
„Sure," Responded Juleka looking down at her hands, while Rose took out her smartphone to surf on the internet and Luka placed his hand on Juleka's leg and gave her a short smile to advise her his assistance to help her out.
At the hospital, Gerda sat alone in the patient room reading on the bed a book she got from the hospital. Gerda heard the door open up to see Rollan enter into the patient room, then took a glass of water from the bottle next to the lavatory.
„Ay, I'm getting really tired of all these exams," Rollan commented. „I'm slowly beginning to think this isn't a real hospital,"
„Why did your exams take so long?" Gerda asked. „Didn't you follow their instructions, as they told you to?"
„After dinner, they got me some medicine and I had diarrhea. Then they had this stupid idea to shove some weird thing up my butt. Do you think that's normal?"
„I know this all here is so weird, but they're just doing their job. We're over 100 years away from our time. Things have surely changed over the time for the best,"
„I can't believe we're going to stay a few more days in here. Me vuelvo loco!"
„Calm down. You're not alone. We're together here and will leave together in pieces. Just….hold on," Gerda said sitting up on the edge of the bed, then grabbed him on his arm. „This is all now advanced technic or technologic. This new development progress deals with anything better than it did back in our time," Gerda explained looking at Rollan, which was a little tensed from their medical care, then Rollan rolled his eyes back at Gerda and widened his eyes.
„Together? Then let's get out of here, right now!" Warned Rollan grabbing Gerda on her arm, then Gerda used her other free arm to stop him from pulling her.
„No Rollan, we can't leave right now. We're hospitalized,"
„I can't take it any longer here with their tests. I feel like a strange creature getting analyzed for experiments,"
„Don't be such a fool, Rollan. They're helping us only. Didn't they explain to you, why they're doing those exams to you?"
„Where should I know that? I thought they weren't talking to me,"
„Oh dear, you got to be kidding me,"
„Are you coming with me?" Asked Rollan pouting at the girl. „I can't take it another second here. This fear I feel inside me isn't even the one I fear from natural dangers or anything,"
„I'm not coming Rollan," Responded Gerda. „Where do you even want to go at the moment? We barely know anything about Paris,"
„I do!"
„Let me guess…..you know the exact way to the Eiffel tower?"
„Si….uh no….."
„Please Rollan. We have better chances here to explore the world if we wait until the last day here. We will meet the guy from the social work again and he will find us a place to stay. It's not as terrible as it was before. I promise,"
„That's fine to me if you don't mind, but you know I won't be able to be there with you. As you already know I'm 18 and I'm not able to stay there with you, because at my age I'm supposed to leave and fix life by myself. There you at least got two years to prepare yourself for it while need to do it somehow right now or at least figure out, how to handle this world,"
„I could ask them to keep you for a few months to help you," Gerda commented grabbing him on his hands pulling him closer to the care bed. „I say something like we only know each other and it would be great if you could stay a few months until you find something or at least a job, so you can afford a place to live,"
„But if I go now I can already begin to look for a job. With a bit of luck, I'll find something,"
„And while you've got no job, house, or anything, where are you going to sleep?" Questioned Gerda. „We've got a bed here and food. How are you going to get that without money?"
„I think about it, when I'm out," Commented Rollan and placed his other hand on the girl's hand. „Don't worry, I'm able to take care of myself,"
„Okay….." Gerda responded, then sat back on her bed and lied with her face directed to the other side covering herself making Rollan roll his eyes down at the ground assuming the girl felt sad now.
„Mira…... I'm really don't like all this I have passed through the hospital. If you want I will stay with you here. At least we can make each other sure, there's nothing harmful happening to us and if we leave together we could get to know everything here better…..and we wouldn't be doing this alone….you know only me or only you," Rollan said, then walked around the bed to spot Gerda with a sad facial expression, then he went down on his knees, so he could look into her eyes. „What do you think if I stay here for you?"
„You really will stay back?" Questioned Gerda quietly making Rollan nod.
„I would rather leave if you want me to be honest, but Si…..I stay for you," Rollan answered making Gerda smile a little and sit up on her bed.
„I'm glad you thought otherwise about it," Gerda said earning a nod from the raven-haired boy. „When the man from the social work comes, I promise I'll do my best to convince him to take you for a while,"
„Sure and if it doesn't work, I'll just have to move on by myself,"
„If that's the case I hope we still can see each other," Added the blonde.
„I will try to see you every day or at least more often," Rollan commented. „What do you say?"
„I'm good with it," Commented Gerda replied and held out her hand at the boy, then he gave out his to shake it. „You can count on my help any time you need,"
„Gracias, I will make sure I won't abuse it,"
„De nada," Responded Gerda with a giggle.
„You knew how to respond in Spanish?" Questioned the Spaniard surprised.
„Duh, you taught one of the nurses this midday," Mentioned Gerda making Rollan nod.
„Right…..But hey, if you want, I can teach you a bit as well, if you want to"
„I'd love to," Responded Gerda watching Rollan walk up to the lavatory to get a glass of water.