Chapter 23
Meowinfrench, I wish I knew about your birthday, I would have dedicated you the previous chapter (cries) I dedicate this part to you :3
Adrien sat on the wall railing next to the stairs on the exit of the mansion along with Kagami facing their friends Nino and Alya, which assisted Kagami in finding Adrien.
"You weren't really tortured in there?" Nino asked watching Adrien shake his head.
"I was just locked up in there, he brought me food and had left me a lot of water for me to drink. Otherwise, I just sat there all on my own," Adrien explained.
"Man, how could you hold it out so long, without going to the toilet?" Nino asked.
"I didn't, I just peed into the bushes as far as I could aim," Adrien mentioned earning a nod from the Moroccan man.
"Just like I taught you on our trip to the Hautes-Pyrénées" Nino mentioned making Alya chuckle.
"What are you laughing about?"
"I just remembered about that Truth or dare game we played in the camp and you were challenged along with Nathaniel to ran across the forest naked and had gotten a rash over your skin for the rest of the week," Alya pointed out making Adrien grin at the story.
"Really?" Kagami asked looking at Adrien, which nodded. Nino looked along with Alya down at the stairs, where Roger Raincomprix stood with another police officer holding Gabriel on his arms, while in front of him stood Emilie Agreste and Tomoe Tsurugi.
"Are we going to get interrogated too?" Nino asked making Alya shrug her shoulders.
"I would be expecting that" Alya responded earning a nod from the boyfriend.
Downstairs, where the mothers of the young Agreste couple stood Gabriel was explaining everything he has been cached away from her since her appearance.
"It's not Nathalie's fault first to be clear, she had just given me that idea and I thought about it and just went along with her idea. Officially I was the one, who had the idea to akumatize a few people in the hope I would manage to obtain the miraculous right away, with the time I got desperate as I kept and kept failing and she just comforted me. There were times she suggested me to just take a break and think about spending time with our son or tell what really happened. I…..was afraid to tell him the truth, I was afraid he wouldn't understand it and I postponed it again and continued it. I went on with it for about three years and I gave up as Adrien began to revolt towards me. Back then Goldybug was around I managed to contact her and gave her the miraculous back, then a few months later she and Cat Noir had retired and everything was normal. Adrien moved out shortly after his birthday away from our house and recently Nathalie was saved on a car crash on her way home by Goldybug and his new partner Jade Neko, explained them about my plan to bring you back to life and they came to our house…...then the rest I have already told you the other day on our dinner,"
"And why did you hide our own son in the basement?" Emilie asked.
"Besides Nathalie, Mrs. Tsurugi was the second person, who knew you and I could talk with her once in a while. The reason I wanted to split Adrien away from Kagami was that she was against him and her being together. She didn't like the fact they had gotten married without saying her anything," Gabriel answered.
"I knew your husband would try everything to keep his little secret safe, but I wasn't expecting how far he was going in this situation," Tomoe added. "This was more of a motivation for him to do it,"
"I believe, that Adrien and Kagami's decision to marry the other day was spontaneous or even planned as I've heard from him she and him shared a lower relationship with you or Gabriel," Emilie added.
"After all I did I wouldn't deserve it" Gabriel mentioned earning a nod from his wife.
"I still can't believe, that you were capable of doing such a thing" The wife complained making Gabriel sink his head down disappointed.
"If I could go back in time, I would have avoided all those terrible mistakes," Gabriel lamented, then Emilie left him back and walked towards a police car near the exit, where Felix sat alone in the back and Emilie knocked on the window to call Felix's attention. Felix noticed Emilie wasn't really fond of what was happening at the moment and sank his head down in sadness.
"Why did you join Gabriel in this?" Emilie asked watching the man shrug his shoulders. Emilie shook her head, then watched Felix look up at the woman and turn his head back to spot Adrien on the top of the wall railing, chatting with Nino and Alya. "Aunt Emilie? Can you do me a favor and call Adrien here?" Felix asked watching Emilie think for a second and she nodded and looked up at the four friends and waved at Adrien, then signaled him to come down to her. Adrien signed Kagami and she helped him walk the stairs down and followed him, making sure he wouldn't let him fall down per coincidence. The two stopped in front of the police car and Adrien glanced through the window at his cousin.
"Before all this…..before I did this to you and Kagami….Have you always seen me before as a friend?" Felix asked earning a nod from Adrien.
"We're family Felix. You could have talked to me. I would have helped you,"
"I should have," Felix replied. "I wish I would have done that. You're the kindest friend I have ever had and I did all this to you. I don't deserve your friendship for all the mean things I did,"
"Well….I don't know, what to tell you, but…...you know with good conduct you can get out earlier from jail," Adrien said a little unsure about, what he should say his cousin at this moment.
"I don't know your cousin well, but I like that he delivered himself to the police and told what had happened to you. That's also a good thing for him," Kagami told her husband.
"Really?" Adrien asked looking at Felix, which nodded.
"You know Adrien, I feel like after my father died, everything has changed around me, even I…..the friends I had back on that time left me as I began to treat them rudely so that I was alone. It was my fault, but I didn't want to put the blame on myself,"
"The time you were over the weekend at my parent's house here and made that video call to my friends, you did that out of jealousy as you knew I had what you lost?" Adrien asked making Felix shrug his shoulders.
"I saw you had so many friends, that cared about you and this just annoyed me. Even now you have them and you're also married to someone…..I have never seen someone so faithful and self-assured in a relationship as she was. She was obvious since the first day, that something was wrong as I showed up the other day styled like you telling about my disappearance. You're such a lucky man, cousin" Felix avowed making Adrien smile and look at Kagami, which copied his facial expression.
"I really am Felix" Adrien stated leaning his forehead on Kagami's then he looked back at his cousin. "Hey I know this will take you a little while, but you will find a light in your life too. Don't worry,"
"Yeah" Felix answered, then at the entrance of the plot of the Agreste an ambulance entered and Kagami noticed the ambulance, then nudged Adrien carefully on the shoulder to earn his attention and she pointed at the vehicle.
"Oh they're here," Adrien mentioned. "How long does a check-up usually take?" Adrien asked making Kagami shrug her shoulders.
"I don't know" The woman responded. "But I think you should take some clothes with you. You probably will have to take a shower there,"
"Yeah I guess so," Adrien agreed, then saw Gabriel entering into the back of a police car with the help of Roger Raincomprix, then Adrien glanced at Kagami, which noticed Adrien wasn't quite happy with what was going on.
"You're okay?" His wife asked making him nod.
"Yeah, it's just…...I kind of feel bad for my father,"
"I understand that Adrien, but you know your father should have known, that the things he has done would have consequences. This is what's going to happen,"
"Yeah I know" Adrien responded, then a paramedic of the ambulance came towards Adrien. "Hi"
"Good evening Mr. Agreste, please follow me," The paramedic asked walking with Adrien at the back of the ambulance and Adrien waited for the man to open the door while he gazed back at Kagami, which approached him then Adrien grabbed Kagami's hands and looked into her eyes.
"Will you accompany me?" Adrien asked making Kagami shrug her shoulders.
"If they don't mind it."
"I haven't talked with anyone for over 24 hours" Adrien blurted out giving Kagami sad eyes making her chuckle.
"Aww you're so adorable when you beg," Kagami confessed, then the paramedic offered Adrien to sit down on the back of the ambulance and placed next to Adrien the first aid bag and passed a wet napkin over Adrien's injury on his eyebrow he made a few days ago while Kagami stood there watching them.
A few months later Gabriel and Felix had been sentenced to jail for a few years to pay for the crimes they had done. Adrien and his mother got to know each other better after all the years she was gone, as well Kagami got accepted well by the mother-in-law. Adrien recovered really quickly and slowly began to get accepted by Kagami's mother as the husband of the daughter.
Adrien and Kagami had moved out of the commune and found a small house where they could live together. Their life was going well so far and they agreed on inviting their friends and their moms to have dinner at their new house to inaugurate the guests to their new lifestyle and additionally reveal to them all a special message. A message, which mostly delighted Kagami as she would finally tell everyone, what she was expecting.
Adrien and Kagami sat on the outside around a long folding table with their mothers and their old school friends from the Françoise Dupont school eating dinner. The major part of the guests were chatting loud and on the other end of the table sat Adrien together with his wife, his mother Emilie and his mother-in-law Tomoe Tsurugi.
"Did you really make those chicken breasts? Emilie asked looking at Adrien putting a bunch of grapes into his mouth, then he nodded. "I didn't know you had a talent for cooking,"
"Neither did I" Adrien answered. "I kinda like it to be honest,"
"We took cooking lessons together in the first year we began to live together," Kagami mentioned. "Madame Morane was a very skilled cook,"
"Isn't that the same woman, that taught your mother how to cook?" Nino asked looking at Alya, which was cutting her chicken breast.
"No, they were in the same culinary school back in the past and worked a few years together at Auguste's restaurant," Alya answered.
"Out of you, who do you think is the best cook?" Alix asked, who sat between Emilie Agreste and Nathaniel Kurtzberg.
"I'm really fond of Adrien's cooking, to be honest," Kagami answered. "He's also more entertained in trying out new recipes when he can, while I prefer to focus on the ones I know and improve them,"
"I have to say those sweet potatoes are good" Nathaniel mentioned. "Until now I only ate them as fried fries,"
"Same dude" Nino agreed. "No offense bro, but fries will always be better for me,"
"Yes I know, but they're not as healthy as potatoes" Adrien pointed out earning a nod from the Moroccan man.
"Yes, but I'm not eating them every day don't worry," Nino assured making Adrien smile.
Kagami looked at her mother eating normally, then she placed her hand over Adrien's then pointed out at him to his mother and smiled at his wife and slid closer to her on the folding bank and spoke at his mother-in-law.
"Mrs. Tsurugi, are you enjoying the meal so far?" Adrien asked watching the woman swallow the bit she had chewed, then answered.
"You know I'm not used to this kind of food, but I find it's good. I'm not really fond of sweet food thought, but it's good," Tomoe explained making Adrien smile a little.
"You know I'm making sure to help Kagami in having healthy nutrition for the rest of the months," Adrien mentioned watching the mother nod and continue to eat her food. Adrien sat down and looked a little perplexed at Kagami, which embraced him with one hand and he leaned his face on hers,
"I know I was a little severe towards you in the past about you and Kagami's relationship, but the last few times I've been here with you I have never heard Kagami so happy. I hope I have interpreted this all correctly," Tomoe mentioned making Adrien smile and glance down at his wife.
"I've told you, mother, he was the right one. I just realized it a little late," Kagami stated grabbing Adrien's hands to smile at him.
"Hey this just plumped into my head right now as I looked at you before" Nathaniel began. "Why is there a small open space on your eyebrow?"
"I hit my head" Adrien answered making Kim chuckle.
"Where?" Kim asked. "On the bedboard?" Kim asked making Adrien shake his head.
"You're taking the conversation into the wrong lane again," Adrien mentioned.
"You guys had all time to get used to it," Lila pointed out, which sat between Kim and Tomoe.
"Agreed" Max added.
"The issue here is her" Nathaniel whispered pointing at Mrs. Tsurugi.
"Come on, she's not your mother-in-law, Nath" Alix mentioned. "Why are you even afraid?"
"Who said I was afraid?" Nathaniel asked. "I have respect from women that kick other people's butts" Nathaniel mentioned making half of the woman laugh around the table.
"You should have from everyone" Nino mentioned watching Kagami trying to get up and Adrien noticed it and got up behind her then placed his arms around the woman holding her carefully on her medium-sized belly.
"You're not doing anything more, I'll do it" Adrien warned his wife, which shook his head and kissed him on the cheek.
"Hey, I can't just sit and let you to everything" Kagami warned watching Adrien shake his head.
"I know, but I want you to sit down and give our baby some rest" Adrien questioned his wife, which nodded.
"But I will at least carry the cake," Kagami began to walk away, then Adrien placed his hands around her shoulders.
"And I will help" Adrien said, then he looked back at his friend Nino, which gave the blonde a thumb up and began to collect around them the plates along with Alya.
Adrien and Kagami arrived the kitchen and Adrien opened the fridge and took out carefully the cake they had ordered from the pastry.
"Did Kim really think my scar happened during sex?" Adrien asked watching Kagami shrug her shoulders.
"He was probably joking as usual" Kagami answered taking out dessert forks from the drawer of the kitchen. "But if I need to be honest, I find the scar very attractive on you" Kagami mentioned as Adrien placed the cake beside the woman and both gazed at each other flirtatiously.
"That sounds nice" Adrien answered, then opened the counter over them to take out plates for the cake and Kagami counted them all for him, afterward Adrien closed the door and checked out their cake. "The cake is here, can I know the gender now?"
"You will know it at the same time as the others Adri, just like I promised" Kagami answered making Adrien sink his head down.
"Shouldn't daddy get a special treatment?" Adrien asked bowing down at the belly of Kagami. "Yes mommy" Adrien mimicked making Kagami laugh.
"Just hold on this one minute and you'll know it" Kagami responded, then she grabbed the cake and walked back to the outside, while Adrien brought the plates and forks passing by Nino, which carried the empty plates to the kitchen.
"There comes your cake, Marinette" Alya mentioned looking at the end of the table at a traditional dressed Marinette sitting vice versa to Luka Couffaine, which held their son Rouven on his lap.
"Can you film it?" Marinette asked. "If he doesn't mind it, I'd like to use it on my page,"
"You've got a lot of cakes on your site, what is so special on Adrien's?" Nino asked.
"You know to earn attention from other people. Rose and Juleka are doing the same with their salon, right girls?" Alya asked looking at the two women, which sat next to the Couffaines and Rose gave the Martinic woman a thumb up.
"I'll do it" Adrien answered. "You can start," Adrien said watching Alya start to film him, which grabbed the knife and looked at Kagami, which sat down on the bench next to him and nodded with a smile watching him cut the cake, which was decorated with pink and blue overlapping cream on the sides of the cake and on the middle on the top of the cake the top was white and had several lines on the cake forming the field from the fencing sports and on the middle stood two plastic figurines fencing each other, one colored in red and the other one colored in white and behind the character, there was drawn with a pen the gender symbol of each parent. On the upper corner, where Adrien was going with the knife stood the sentence girl or boy? Cut here to find out.
Adrien pressed the knife down, then moved a few centimeters aside to cut the other part of the cake and pulled it out and saw the interior drop out various colored smarties, confusing him.
"Uhm are we having twins?" Adrien asked watching Kagami shake her head, then Luka got up and looked into the hole of the cake, then shove the knife into the cake and pulled out a deflated balloon, which brushed over the small buttons a dark blue color, which made Luka chuckle.
"Lucky you, this was supposed to burst and cover your face with it" Luka explained, then Marinette facepalmed as her cake didn't work out as expected. "This was our first try anyway, we've got other chances"
"I can't believe you wanted to ruin my beautiful face like that" Adrien joked making Kagami shake her head playfully, then Luka grabbed the balloon and passed it over Adrien's face. "Hey!"
"The goal was to have your face painted and I just wanted to fulfill it," Luka said placing his clean hand over Adrien's shoulder.
"Ha ha ha," Adrien said sarcastically, then he began to cut down pieces onto the plate and his mother helped him distribute the cakes to the guests. Kagami emptied a bit water from her cup on a napkin, then began to clean Adrien from the side of his head making him giggle from the feeling he got from it.
"You're tickling me," Adrien mentioned.
"You didn't mind the other day I helped you bathe at the hospital"
"You didn't either," Adrien added with a chuckle making Kagami nod. "But I really enjoyed it" Adrien whispered making Kagami smile, which had his face almost cleaned more or less and spread the last two dishes to the side of her mother, before Adrien cut for him and her the last two pieces.
"Is it okay, if I share the video?" Alya asked earning a nod from the couple, then Alya worked on forward it to her best friend.
"Blue means boy, right?" Adrien asked earning a nod from his wife. "Wow we're having a son," Adrien stated gazing down at his cake. "I'm going to be the dad of a baby boy,"
"You're going to be a good father" Kagami stated placing her hand on his cheek. "I know it"
"I will," Adrien replied placing his left arm behind Kagami's back and the right arm on Kagami's belly. "Your daddy and mommy will give you a good childhood. Pinky promise" Adrien said pecking Kagami's belly, then she patted him on his hair and let him lay his head over it.
"But don't forget he needs also a good education,"
"Yes, I was more referring, that we won't be that strict like our parents, just when necessary"
"Of course, I don't think our son will give us a lot of trouble" Kagami stated earning a nod from her husband and moved her hand out to pick the fork, while Adrien kept his position over her baby bump. "You're not going to eat?"
"Just a few more minutes" Adrien replied carefully patting Kagami's belly and she sat there for a while watching her husband fondling her, then she carefully embraced his head and kissed him on it and lied her chin over him savoring their moment, soon both took their plate and joined the rest of the guests by eating the cake enjoying the evening while they can.
The End.
Finished this a little early. I've been off for a week and with the pandemic, I technically can't go out on vacation, except here where I live as long as the numbers of infects are high. I sort of didn't talk a lot about this as my days as the pandemic started were almost the same as I work in a retirement home and we could go to work normally as home office isn't possible. Even though I am an introvert, it was good, that I could leave the house cause if I had to stay for over a month doing home office or nothing, it would cross my mind. Even if I would use that time to work on fanfics or anything else, it would be the same.
Future plans? Technically I was supposed to start the AbominablexMiraculous crossover, but I could move along with this fanfic, so I kept working on it until now and will soon start my crossover. I don't have a full plot of the fanfic, I will just start it and see how it will go one, but it will be more of an AU or a canon divergence and takes place in the middle of Miracle Queen. The only characters from Abominable from now on will be Yi, her family and her childhood friend Jin. More will be revealed with the time.
Hope you enjoyed reading this fic as I enjoyed writing them (Mostly the lemons xD. Nah honestly, this was the first time I felt confident writing them and I was afraid it would be weird)