Chapter 22
Note: Contains minor NSFW hints.
In the afternoon Alya waited in front of the mansion of the Agreste's together with Nino both waiting for Kagami to get to the house.
"She must be here in a few minutes" Alya stated putting her smartphone back in her pants after she read a notice from their friend.
"Good" Nino answered. "I've been eagerly waiting for this moment. I really want to know how my dude is doing,"
"He is alright Nino, we will find him" Alya promised her boyfriend, which nodded and saw him place his hands on the grid of the door to look at the mansion, where his best friend grew up his entire childhood.
"I'm really astonished to know how far certain human beings can go to hide their bad deeds," Nino said. "Would Gabriel even come that close to let his son starve?"
"Who would have thought he could be Hawk Moth?" Alya asked making Nino shrug his shoulders.
"Nobody I guess," Nino replied, then saw a small city car stop behind them, where Alix sat on the driver seat sitting next to Kim and from the back seat Kagami got out and waved at the couple, which drove away and Kagami approached the two friends of her and Adrien.
"Are you ready?" Kagami asked earning a nod from the two, then Kagami entered first followed by her friends and Nino quickly ran behind the Sedan of the Agreste's and bowed down.
"I see if this sight is manageable" Nino stated earning a nod from Kagami, which continued her way to the entrance.
"How are you going to deal with Gabriel and Felix now?" Alya asked making Kagami shrug her shoulders.
"I don't even know if any of the two are home yet," Kagami mentioned, then she opened the door and shrieked as she encountered her mother being received by Emilie.
"Oh right the dinner," Kagami said facepalming.
"Oh look your daughter has arrived" Emilie stated. "Adrien must be coming home too or maybe he's delayed," Emilie pointed out making Tomoe furrow her eyebrows.
"You know some patients," Alya added.
"What happened to your voice Kagami?" Tomoe asked making Emilie chuckle.
"I'm here mother, you're talking to a….friend of mine, Alya," Kagami answered.
"Nice to meet you. I came here to get something I borrowed her" Alya stated seeing the mother still glance at the two with the same deadpan face. "She borrowed a book from me to read,"
"Yes I really liked that book," Kagami added earning a slow nod from the mother.
"Alright and I've heard you and Adrien have gotten married...when was it? Two weeks ago?"
"Yes mother," Kagami answered, then Alya's smartphone beeped receving a message making Alya giggle and take her smartphone out.
"Excuse me" She apologized putting it on vibration, while she checked the message, which was from Nino that informed her, that the office was occupied by Gabriel Agreste, which sat on the office using his computer. "Just an advertisement for a subscription for cellphones,"
"It's no problem," Emilie responded earning a nod from Alya, which grabbed Kagami by her arm.
"Is it okay, if she accompanies me up, so I can get the book?" Alya asked earning a nod from Emilie and Tomoe.
"We have enough time to talk later if you don't mind, Mrs. Tsurugi?" Emilie asked earning a nod from the raven-haired woman.
"I don't mind it, Mrs. Agreste," Tomoe responded, then Alya walked up the stairs along with Kagami.
"Would you like a tea or a coffee?" Mrs. Agreste offered earning a nod from the woman.
"Camomille, if you don't mind," The mother of Kagami answered, then Emilie placed her hand on the back of the woman to watch her walk heading to the dining room with the help of her cane. Alya glanced along the top of the stairs down at the hall, then typed a message to her boyfriend.
"Is he still in there?" Alya pressed the send button then received an Y, making Alya frown.
"He's still in there. No idea, why he's not out of there,"
"If you can I can go down, afterward and inform you about when it's free," The blue-haired woman suggested.
"No it's alright, Kagami" Alya answered, then the two girls observed the door of the entrance open up and Felix appear styled as Adrien again, then Alya looked up at the woman. "That's still Felix, right?"
"Of course" Kagami answered making Alya nod and sit down on the stairs, while the blue-haired woman looked down at the blonde head towards the office, then before he got in he noticed Kagami was on the stairs gazing down at him.
"Hey," Felix greeted making Kagami frown, then Felix moved at the stairs, while Kagami walked them down so they would meet in the middle of them. "Where have you been?"
"Why? Does it matter?"
"I'm just asking, Your mother is here after all and I thought you were worried,"
"Of course I am!" Kagami shouted. "My husband is the one who should be here, not you!"
"Calm down, you don't have to worry about all this afterward" Felix pointed out, watching Kagami cross her arms.
"What is your plan?" Kagami asked. "Faking a relationship with you? Not even in your dreams,"
"But at least act like a decent couple. We don't really have to kiss or anything, but just so, that everyone thinks it's not fake,"
"I want you to let them all know the truth or I'll be the one saying it,"
"Don't worry about it, everything will be okay at the end of the day, trust me,"
"Why should I trust you?" Kagami asked, then Felix held his hand in front of Kagami's mouth as he heard someone in the dining room.
"Is that you, Adrien?" Emilie asked. "You seem a little irritated, according to Mrs. Tsurugi,"
Felix rolled his eyes at Kagami, which gave him an annoyed glance, then Felix sighed and looked down at the entrance.
"I've had a bad day, mother, I needed to let my frustration out," Felix answered.
"Would tea help you?" Emilie asked.
"That would be great," Felix answered, then he looked at Kagami, which slapped his hand away scaring him. "Woah!"
"You remember, what I told you yesterday, right?"
"I do and don't worry, I'm delivering myself out too,"
"Adrien's still missing you know,"
"There you gotta convince his father to explain to you, where he is" Felix answered. "He's the one who hides him somewhere,"
"How high is the chance, that he's hiding him in his office?"
"Low obviously" Felix chided. "Of course, the house is really big he could have rooms or certain hideouts, no one knows besides him and they're only walkable if you know a certain code or anything else, that could lead to a secret passage, you know like in Tomb Theft,"
"I may have an idea, where to find a secret entrance" Kagami mentioned and the door of the office opened up and Gabriel walked out of it and looked up at the stairs to his daughter-in-law and nephew.
"Oh I didn't know, you two were already here" Gabriel answered watching Kagami walk the stairs down first, passing beside him without a word heading into the dining room while Felix stopped beside Gabriel.
"Did you do another try?" Gabriel asked making Felix shake his head.
"Impossible. She knows that as long as she doesn't know, where the real Adrien is or was, that I'm still me," Felix told the adult. "Also I don't think, the images I did with the prostitute before won't help either,"
"Don't worry about it, I made sure, that before she sends them that they would really look like it's Adrien on everyone,"
"Okay" Felix answered, then he walked into the dining room along with Gabriel and the two sat on the right side and took a seat next to Kagami. Emilie sat next to Felix and vice versa, where the entrance of the dining room was sat Mrs. Tsurugi.
"Mrs. Tsurugi, glad to see you again" Gabriel began, then Felix realized he hasn't told her who he was and got up and went to the woman and held out his hand.
"Good afternoon Mrs. Tsurugi, I'm Adrien Agreste, I'm your daughter's…..husband as you probably know"
"I know who you are" Tomoe answered. "I've heard you had a hard day at work. Is it always like that?"
"Well….you know how the days are in the clinic. Some are hard some are okay. There are days some patients make your lose your mind, others not at all" Felix replied with a fake chuckle, making Tomoe furrow her left eyebrow unimpressed. Kagami facepalmed at Felix's try to cover the argument from before.
At the meanwhile, Alya moved to the office and entered into it and looked out off the window giving him a thumb up and Nino pointed at the desk of Gabriel and Alya picked the chair and blocked the door with it, then pressed on the call button to call her boyfriend, which answered the call immediately.
"Turtle talking to Foxy. Everything's clear, over"
Alya chuckled at Nino's comment, then shook her head to stay serious and spoke into the smartphone.
"Good, keep watching. I will see, if I can figure out something at that painting,"
"Sure I stay watch," Nino mentioned.
Alya observed the pattern of the dress of Emilie in the image, pondering about a possible way to discover any secret buttons on the painting.
"I've noticed a major part of the patterns are small triangles in three different shades. White, Gray and black,"
"Can you see there anything else, that's suspicious?" Nino asked. "Or what about those triangles? Look if they feel a little slack"
"I will look" Alya answered passing her hands on the painting, then she encountered a button and smiled. "I found it!" Alya answered pressing on the button, then nothing happened. "Huh?"
"Did it work?"
"No, I think there must be another button" Alya mentioned. "I have to keep looking for me,"
"Babe I think you should look out for all you can find, then try them out" Nino suggested earning a nod from the woman.
"I will," Alya answered continuing to search for the buttons for a little while.
"Hide!" Nino shouted turning his smartphone off, shrieking Alya, which looked at Nino running around the car as the bodyguard of the Agreste's found him and Alya went down on her knees to head to the desk of Gabriel and looked out of the window to see Nino trying to trick out the bodyguard. Alya slowly sank her head down to avoid the bodyguard to see her in the office, then she looked at the computer of the fashion designer and pressed the space button to turn the screen on showing the desktop with an image of the house and down at the taskbar she saw the internet symbol active along with the photoshop symbol, making Alya curious, which pressed the photoshop symbol causing Alya to wide her eyes in shock as she saw an image of Adrien lying on a foreign bed naked and over his hips sat a foreign woman naked over his private area making Alya turn green in disgust at the image. Alya observed the body of the woman and encountered a small chain around the right foot of the woman, then Alya took out her smartphone and searched on her and Kagami's chatbox for the last picture she sent her and opened the one, where Felix stood at the metro station out with a foreign woman and she zoomed down at her feet to encounter the same pearl-chain she spotted on the image. Alya took a picture of the computer screen, then she slowly looked up at the window to see Nino and the gorilla were gone and she searched for Nino's phone number to call him, but she didn't attend him.
"Nino please call me back" Alya spoke into his voicebox and made her way back to the painting.
Back at the dining room all were listening to Felix telling about the honeymoon Kagami and Adrien had gone, which left Emilie confused, while Gabriel was perplexed about what he was telling Kagami's mother. Kagami herself, just had her hand in front of her eyes covering them feeling disappointed at how the last part of the afternoon was going before the evening would come.
"And I think that's it" Felix finished. "That was our honeymoon in Moldova, right darling?" Felix asked looking at Kagami, which stood the same as before. "Did I forget something important, didn't I?"
"But weren't you two in the Maledives?" Emilie asked looking at Felix a little bewildered with Felix's story
"Uh didn't I say that?" Felix asked a little nervous.
"You said Moldova" Emilie added.
"Oh,"
"You barely remember your honeymoon location?" Tomoe asked raising up her left eyebrow surprised at the story of the blonde.
"Maybe you should see a doctor Adrien" Gabriel added looking at Felix, winking at him. "After that accident a few days ago, I believe it's starting to get noticed and we should at least just make a check-up, to make sure everything is okay or if we can help you,"
"I don't know it, father. I don't feel bad,"
"What kind of accident was that?" Tomoe asked, then Kagami's smartphone received a message and she unlocked her smartphone to see a number she didn't know. Kagami opened the message at the same moment Gabriel and Felix took a look at it and it showed a picture of a side profile picture of a shirtless Adrien sitting on the edge of a foreign bed and a woman sitting on Adrien's lap with the legs around him and a bare upper body. The woman had her arms around the man's back, while she had her lips planted on his for a kiss. With that picture came a caption to that image, that belonged to the contact number of the person.
"Good evening bitch. I hope you like, what you see. This is what he likes and as it seems I'm the only one, who can give it to him,"
Kagami dropped her mouth seeing the images, then she received another image of Adrien lying on the bed naked with the woman on top of the waist and her hands parked over his chest and her back elegantly curved up so that Adrien had an ideal sight to her breast. The third picture was taken a few seconds later, which showed the blonde with his eyes closed and an open mouth seeming to be enjoying the situation while the woman was on top of him and had her body upright also having her mouth open as if she was moaning on the image. Another image came of the woman standing on the bed on the four and Adrien stood behind her holding her on the waist smirking at how he stood behind the woman as if he was about to penetrate her from behind.
Kagami's held her smartphone tight annoyed at the image, then Gabriel winked at Felix, which was shocked at noticing the improvements the pictures he asked to take to use for their plan seemed to work.
"Adrien, is that really you?" Gabriel asked looking stern at Felix. "Are you having there an affair with another woman?"
"Another woman?" Emilie and Tomoe asked at the same time.
"Huh?" Felix replied looking at the images surprised at seeing, that they had gotten manipulated to make him look like his cousin. "How is this possible?"
"Those pictures don't lie," Gabriel said taking the smartphone off Kagami's hands to show them to Felix. Emilie got up from her chair to see the images and shrieked as she recognized the man on the image.
"Adrien, how could you do this?" Emilie asked making Kagami wide her eyes annoyed at her mother-in-law not knowing she wasn't talking with her son. "You seemed so happy with Kagami, what happened?" Emilie asked and Kagami pushed her seat away calling the other's attention.
"This is not Adrien, for god's sake!" Kagami yelled. "The real Adrien is missing. He had disappeared last Sunday as he went out with Felix. Felix had been pretending to be Adrien the last days without our knowledge!" Kagami announced angered with the situation.
"That's impossible. I do know my son very well and this man on the picture is Adrien," Gabriel noticed. "You should be aware that my son has a flat and muscular ab, if you look at the image here he has it" Gabriel pointed out, then above the image appeared an image from Alya and Gabriel swiped on it accidentally opening it to show a picture Alya took of his laptop with one of the images the foreign number sent Kagami of the edited image, where Kagami could see the image was edited. Afterward, Alya sent another image with the original image, where the sixpack wasn't on the image, but a normal belly, the belly Kagami had seen the other day on Felix.
"Of course it was you, Felix, why are you even trying to convince me, that I have to trust you?" Kagami asked looking at the blonde.
"Just do it," Felix added, then the doorbell rang and all looked at the hall curious, except for Kagami, which smiled a little thinking she might know, who it is. Kagami ran at the door followed by Gabriel, which stopped at the exit of the dining room and Kagami opened the door with a smile, then it disappeared as she saw on the entrance two policemen and a policewoman.
"Uh good afternoon" Kagami greeted. "Can I help you?"
"Good afternoon Mrs. Agreste, we're looking for Gabriel Agreste and Felix Graham de Vanily," The tallest policeman said.
"In the dining room" Kagami answered, then Gabriel approached the woman and stood behind her.
"How can I help you, officer?" Gabriel asked.
"Mr. Agreste, we received an anonymous report, that you kidnapped Adrien Agreste and Felix Graham De Vanily was your accomplice, which also impersonated Adrien Agreste too," The man told. "You two have to come with me to the police station"
"Who said that? Gabriel asked faking a surprised reaction. "My son is in the dining room" Gabriel added, then Kagami stepped on Gabriel's shoe.
"No, he's not!" Kagami shouted. "That's Felix!" The police corps exchanged looks with each other at the woman's comment, then nodded and glanced back at Gabriel again.
"If you don't mind Sir, we have to take you to the station," The second police agent said taking his handcuffs off his belt. "You know the anon seemed really detailed and we would prefer to talk with you, you know to be sure about it"
Felix showed up to see the cops and approached the two Agreste's at the entrance and held up his hands at the taller police officer.
"I've heard you were also looking for me," Felix said and he adjusted his hair down so that the police would know who they're talking to. "I've been impersonating Adrien for the past few days so I could ruin Adrien and Kagami Agreste's relationship as Gabriel had ordered me to do in exchange for money and a job,"
"You're the one, who called them?" Gabriel asked earning a nod from Felix.
"Yes," Felix admitted. "Uncle face it, it's too late. Kagami already knows why we're doing that, everyone else there felt strange as I tried to convince them with the honeymoon in Moldova, the images Kagami received a few minutes ago have also been figured out quickly. Just tell them, where Adrien is and you may have a smaller punishment," Felix suggested.
"What's going on?" A voice asked and all looked at Emilie Agreste standing at the entrance of the dining room along with Mrs. Tsurugi.
"Emilie? What are you doing here?" Gabriel asked a little tense as the situation was about to get worse.
"Mr. Agreste just say the truth. Do you think she deserves to be lied to her entire life?" Kagami asked making Gabriel sigh and moved towards the door of his office, which opened up and Alya Césaire appeared and shrieked as she saw Gabriel along with two police officers.
"Uhm I've discovered a secret entrance and I can't manage to open it?" Alya added seeing the cops look at her.
"Gabriel Agreste, what is she talking about?" Gabriel walked in followed by the two cops along with Kagami and Alya, which all stopped around the painting of Emilie and Gabriel looked back at the ground, then pointed at one place.
"Get there, there's a secret door, which opens and leads you down to the repository, where Adrien is," Gabriel explained watching Kagami step on it.
"Daniel, will you accompany her?" The tall policeman asked earning a nod from the second policeman, which came closer to Kagami.
"You two better get a little closer together, cause it's a little slim" Gabriel warned watching the policeman gently turn his back towards Kagami to lean it against her, then Gabriel searched on the painting for the four secret buttons to activate the secret passage and Kagami decedent down with the policeman into a dark area, which they have never seen before anywhere.
"I wonder if this is are on the maps," Daniel said and they got out of the small passage and looked around the area, wondering, where to look for the missing man.
"Adrien!" Kagami called. "Adrien! Can you hear me?" Kagami asked approaching the bridge, then at the end, she saw Adrien's leg attached with a chain on the handrail and Kagami squinted her eyes and got excited as she recognized her husband. "Adrien!" Kagami ran over the bridge, followed by the police officer and she arrived finding him lying on the ground tired with his head over his hands. "Oh my god, Adrien, are you alright?" Kagami asked getting down on her knees turning Adrien around causing him to open up his eyes slowly as she placed her head on Adrien's chest hoping she would hear his heartbeat.
"Kagami?" Adrien whispered, then Kagami looked up at her husband and embraced him, making him groan. "Ouch,"
"What has Gabriel done to you?" Kagami asked looking around Adrien, which was still dressed in the same clothes he wore on Sunday. "Oh, you really need to take a shower as soon as you get out of here,"
"I missed you so much" Adrien whined leaning his forehead on Kagami's face. "I'm sorry for everything,"
"You don't have to" Kagami mentioned giving him another hug, making him yelp. "Sorry" Kagami apologized taking her arms off Adrien, then she watched officer Daniel trying to pick the lock off Adrien's foot.
Adrien grabbed a bottled water to take a sip, afterward Kagami placed her hand on his cheek to look into his eyes, which seemed to react well at hers making her own eyes get filled with tears at seeing the state of her beloved husband, then Adrien wrapped his arms around her to let her cry on his shoulder. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you so soon,"
"It's not your fault, Adrien. But now you're here and that's what matters" Kagami confirmed hearing the lock of Adrien's leg and Daniel removed it from the foot and Adrien tried to get up along with Kagami, almost losing his balance, but luckily he was held up by the policeman and Kagami.
"Come put your hand around me," Kagami offered helping him place his arm around her back while Daniel did the same on the other and the trio began to walk with Adrien carefully, so they wouldn't drop him off by accident.
"Is my father now going to jail?" Adrien asked, then Kagami nudged him on the cheek with hers.
"That's not important. Important now is that you recover. Just let's get focused on that. Is that okay for you?"
"Yes," Adrien answered as he continued to slowly walk with the help of his wife and the police officer.