Ladybug leapt out the office window, swinging across the rooftops. She passed by her school, realizing that class had started a while ago, but she had been too focused on more important matters to care. Hopefully, this would be the last time she needed to come up with an excuse for her absence.

She made it to Master Fu's in record time, barging in almost before he answered.

"Marinette!" he exclaimed as she entered, seeing the look on her face, "What happened? Is everything all right?"

"We… Hawk Moth… Mother… Coffin!" Marinette stammered, waving her arms wildly in the air. She had so much to tell she wasn't certain where to begin.

"Calm down, Marinette!" Master Fu censured her, "Start from the beginning."

"Okay," Marinette took a deep breath, then briefly related all they had learned. She told Master Fu about how they found the secret lair, the battle with Hawk Moth, and then the secret Gabriel had been harboring and the wish he wanted to make. Master Fu listened with a grave expression, keeping his peace until the whole story had been told. When she finished, he looked thoughtful for a moment before speaking.

"So, do you think you can heal her?" Marinette asked hopefully. She knew he had powers beyond the miraculous, that was how he was able to heal Tikki when she was sick, but could he do more than that? The two kwamis in the room hovered nearby, waiting anxiously to hear the response.

"I do not know," the guardian admitted finally, "When you first told me someone might be sick from using a broken miraculous, I looked through some of my books on healing, and did find a brief passage on the topic. I am willing to try it, but I am afraid it will not work on someone who has already slipped so far."

"Oh," Marinette looked down, forlorn, "So there's no way Adrien can have his mother back without using the wish?"

"I believe so," Master Fu answered, his voice heavy with regret, "but I can still try. No need to give up hope yet."

"All right, I'll take you to Adrien's," Marinette got up, offering a hand to Master Fu.

"I can get there fine on my own," Master Fu said with a smile, "Do not forget I have a miraculous as well." With a smile, he lifted his arm to show off his bracelet while declaring, "Wayzz, shell on!"

Adrien stalked out of the office and into the main hall, sitting on the stairs with a downcast gaze. Everything had gone so wrong, he didn't know where to begin to sort his feelings out. His father was a supervillain, his mother was a miraculous holder, and now he felt both were lost to him forever. Father had always been cold and distant, but not like he had been since last summer. Now he understood why.

What's going to happen now? he found himself wondering. He always assumed that once they took the miraculous from Hawk Moth, everything else would be easy. The miraculous would be returned to Master Fu to be kept safe, Hawk Moth would be shipped off to jail, and he and Ladybug would finally reveal their identities to one another and were free to be together. Sure, Master Fu would get the miraculous, but the rest of that didn't seem so obvious anymore.

Did Adrien really want to see his father put in jail? They couldn't go back to life as usual, not after this. Both father and Nathalie would be put away, and that would leave Adrien all alone, more alone than he'd ever been before in his life. Even if they kept this a secret and didn't hand them over to the police, Adrien couldn't imagine living at home with them anymore. His life as he knew it was over.

He wasn't even sure what would happen with him and Marinette in the end. After the tumultuous few weeks they had, despite what she said, he wasn't sure if they would ever end up together. The one person he cared about most, and he was afraid she would leave him, too. The only one he still had left was Plagg.

The little kwami was floating nearby, watching his owner with sad eyes. Plagg was no good at comforting, so for the moment he kept a respectful silence, but looked ready to do anything to cheer his owner back up. Adrien considered transforming again and running away somewhere, but he didn't know where he could go.

With a sigh, he finally broke the silence, muttering to himself, "Is there anything left for me?"