Felicity loved waking up to the smell of pancakes on a Sunday morning. It was her favourite thing about living with her Aunt and Uncle.
When she walked into the kitchen, Felicity noticed that her Aunt Rose and Uncle James were absent.
"Morning" Felicity said as she took her pancake from the side and put some Nutella and blueberries on it
"Did you have a nice time at the party?" Her Mum asked.
"I did, well until a supervillain showed up," Felicity said. She noticed the look on her Mum's face, "Don't worry, I hid with Leah until Wolfette and Tawny Owl turned everything back to normal"
"That's good. I'm glad that you didn't try and film it as Mia did. Her parents grounded her for the weekend when they found out" Felicity's mum told her.
"Oh, that explains why she never answered any of my texts. I guess she won't be able to come over to revise then" Felicity said.
"I'm sure you can work on it another day this week," Felicity's Mum said. "Since your not seeing Mia today, we are going to Hyde Park if you want to come. It's a nice day"
"Sure, it sounds like fun" Felicity replied. "Where's Teddy?"
"Your father is helping him get ready to go out"
"Oh, ok then. Is it just the four of us today then?" Felicity asked.
"I think so. Your cousins have are going to a birthday party."
Felicity soon found herself sitting on a blanket in the middle of Hyde Park, one of Central London's largest green spaces. Originally used as a hunting ground by Henry VII. During WWII it was used a potato field. *
The unusual sunny weather made the park a popular place for tourists and locals to soak up the sun. Children played with each other and adults talked or read books. Teddy went off with their dad to play in the playground.
"I forgot how nice this place is," Felicity said. "It's so pretty"
"The sun is lovely today." Her Mum added
"Yeah" Felicity agreed. "It's nice to be able to escape reality. Do you ever find yourself missing Paris?"
"Sometimes," Her Mum said.
Benjamin Russo wasn't looking forward to the family dinner party. His Uncle would be there and he hadn't seen him since he was seven years old. Ben spent most of the morning pacing around his room and texting his school friends.
"You're going to make a hole in the floor if you keep walking around," Oona said. "I still don't understand why you're so worried about seeing your Uncle"
"My Uncle hasn't made contact with my dad or this family since I was seven. He doesn't send us Christmas or Birthday cards. It doesn't make any sense as to why he shows up now" Ben said. "There has to be something that my dad is hiding"
"Ben, I don't know that much about your family but from what you tell me, your father seems like a nice person," Oona told her chosen.
"I wish that I could skip the meal," Ben said to himself as someone knocked on his door. Oona hid in Ben's hood before he opened the door. Luke stood outside.
"Father sent me to tell you that it's time to come to the dining room," Luke said.
"Ok, I will be there in a minute," Ben told his stepbrother.
When Ben walked into the dining room he was surprised. Sitting next to his Uncle Marcello was another lady that he had never seen before. Ben's Uncle and his father are identical twins so they both had light brown hair and hazel eyes. The only way to tell them apart was that Marcello had a pink heart tattoo on his right hand. The tattoo was a tribute to his late wife who passed away a few years before Ben was born.
"Benjamin, wow, you've grown up so much. How have you been?" Uncle Marcello asked.
"I've been good," Ben said. "Are you planning on staying in London or are you going back to Italy"
"I've started to like London. I think I might stay awhile," Uncle Marcello said.
"I knew that you wouldn't be able to resist staying with me," The lady said.
Ben didn't understand what was going on. His father only mentioned his Uncle. There was no talk about another lady.
"Allow me to introduce you to Anna. Anna, this is my Uncles son Benjamin"
"It's nice to meet you, Ben," Anna said as she held her hand out for Ben to shake.
"Shall we take our seats. Dinner will be ready soon" Ben's Dad said.
Ben's father hired a group of catering staff for tonight's event. He often did this when Linda hosted meetings to discuss her next project. Ben took his seat next to Luke. This was going to be a very awkward dinner.
After what felt like ages, Ben was finally allowed to escape from the dining room.
"I'm glad that's over. I can't believe that he's staying. He hates London" Ben said. "What's so important about this Anna person?"
"Ben, calm down, you can't judge someone that you've only met once," Oona said.
Ben wondered if the Kwami was going to say anything else but realized that she probably knew he needed time to calm down.
Ben sat in silence for a few minutes before grabbing his phone from the side. He looked at the time and suddenly jumped up.
"What's going on?" Oona asked.
"Nothing, just remembered that there's a TV programme that I wanted to watch," Ben said as he turned his TV on.
The rest of the weekend went by without any trouble, apart from the weather changing. It had started to rain as Felicity left school on Monday morning, she was lucky that she remembered to take an umbrella.
Felicity looked at Alya's Ladyblog a few times. It seemed like Hawkmoth's Akuma's got stronger and Ladybug recruited some new heroes. One of them had the fox miraculous and the other had the turtle.
"Seems like things are heating up in Paris," Felicity said as she continued looking through until she stopped at a picture of Ladybug and Chat Noir wearing Ice Skates.
"Where did the Ice Skates come from? Rikki is it possible?" Felicity asked.
"I don't know. Only a guardian or a person with expert knowledge of the Miraculous would know that. We Kwamis are not supposed to know about ways of modifying our powers" Rikki replied.
"Actually while we are on the miraculous subject, my friend Mia has been doing some research to find out if London had Superheroes in the past. So far she's found nothing." Felicity said. "Mia wants me to help her and I said that I would"
"I don't like where this is going," Rikki said.
"Mia thinks the might be something important in the Museum of London. The Museum teaches you about the history of London from ancient times to the present day including information about events that happened in-between the two world wars, and they are showing a special display on important people during that time. Isn't that when you had your last holder?" Felicity said.
"It was 1909," Rikki told Felicity "London was very different to what you know today. My holder was a boy who lived on a farm outside the city but he would often find himself delivering goods to markets in the city. I think you've been to one of them with your parents, Spittlefields"
"I figured that the city would be different. They teach us about that in History class" Felicity said. "Yes, I've been there a few times."
Felicity wanted to ask more questions but her parents called her down for dinner and by the time it was over, Rikki had fallen asleep.
Before Felicity went to bed, she texted Mia.
Hey Mia,
It's a shame we couldn't have our study session today. Your Mum is right tho, you put yourself in danger last night. Lena and I got very worried about you.
Also, I'm up free next weekend if you wanted to go to the museum.
* Information taken from Lonely Planet London.
