A/N: I can't even remember the last time was updated, that's how long its been since I worked on this chapter and half of the next chapter instead of doing work due the next day. Hurray! I apologize if I haven't gotten to replying to reviews / messages, let this be one huge reply. I've moved house about 3 to 4 months ago and lost internet with it.
Congratulations to "saberstorm", "thekageofthenight", "MiraculousLadybugFan995" (from fan), "Lemon_Dropz", (from AO3) for getting it right.

Chapter Summary:
Screw the entirety of the content of this whole chapter.
And the next one too.
Screw them both. Have tissues and something to scream into. You may need both.

Take your time, think a lot, why, think of everything you've got: for you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. How can I explain, when I do he turns away, again? It's always been the same, from the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen: Now there's a way and I know I have to go away. All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside, it's hard, but it's harder to ignore it. If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them they know, not me. Now there's a way and I know I that have to go away.
I know I have to go away.

-Cat Stevens

Part VI:

The whiteness left them in a desolate place they had no idea where it was, with a white ball of light of the side to Adrien which dimed slowly to reveal what looked like a small colourful feathered peachick with now white glowing eyes.
Tikki flew about Marinette and gave a gasp seeing it. "Pyaar!" She exclaimed in shock.
It caused the rest to gasp in shock as the newest kwami blinked its eyes back to normal purple irises, it shook its head as if confused, but then looked around and stalled seeing something off in the distance. "Aubrianne!" It squealed, causing the males to flinch as it rushed off.
"Excuse me?" They both muttered before they chased after the peachick.

They followed the colourful peachick to a collapsed woman.
"Must be its wielder…" Marinette pondered.
"Maman!" Adrien called out, stalling everyone in shock as he rushed over to the collapsed woman as the peachick floated around her nervously.
"Aubrianne!" It called.
Ladybug fluttered by her shocked partner. "Is…?" She asked, and he nodded faintly.
Seeing such she flew over to the unconscious woman. "Can I?" She asked Adrien, who looked at her desperately, taking that as permission, she reached out to turn the woman over and cradle her in her arms, searching for life, which she found.
"Pyaar…?" She questioned.
The peachick looked to her, and recognition rushed over its expression. "Kyam poe!" It stated, not quite in French, seeing Ladybug blink, it tried again. "…Madame Coccinelle…?" It questioned, seeing Ladybug nod, it became calmer. "So French like Paon." It muttered.

"That's right, what happened, why is she like this?" Chat steam rolled ahead.
Pyaar looked to Chat and smiled. "Chat Noir!" It called out happily, then looked rather downcast. "What happened? Not good. My fault. Lost control. My fault." It admitted guiltily, looking almost ready to spill its tears.
"Did you mean for this to happen?" Ladybug asked gently, still holding onto Aubrianne.
Pyaar looked affronted. "Never!" It cried.
It caused Ladybug to smile. "Then it wasn't your fault. I'm not sure what's wrong with her, but she's not dead." Ladybug told Pyaar.
Along with Pyaar both versions of Adrien gave out what sounded like a breath of happiness. "But what actually happened? What was that light?" Adrien asked.
Tikki swirled around and hugged the peachick happy to see her friend again. "Pyaar has the ability to sometimes have foresight, alongside her usual powers of transportation, that white light was Pyaar transporting us here. …Wherever here is…" Tikki looked around unsure.

Plagg took this opportunity to float up. "Yo, Blue, seriously, where are we?" He asked, munching on cheese.
"Foresight and transportation sent Paon here without me, it was too much power to do at the same time," Pyaar told. "It must have knocked her out when we were forcibly separated." She continued.
"Wait, does that mean Pyaar knew what would happen with Gabriel before it happened?" Adrien asked, incredulously.
Pyaar blinked. "I couldn't stop what I saw, Paon was taken as I saw it." She said sadly. "If Paon hadn't been taken, leaving me in his hands I would have helped stop him, and save Nooroo. But if it hadn't happened, everything that came about because of Papillon wouldn't exist." Pyaar said with conviction in her voice.
Still, it was hard to wrap their heads around that if Pyaar had been able to stop Aubrianne from disappearing there wouldn't have been a Papillon to deal with: the future Pyaar had seen would have been null voided. There was a high chance that if Papillon hadn't existed, there wouldn't be a Ladybug or Chat Noir.
Adrien looked thoughtful. "She doesn't look much different to what I remember her as." He said.
Pyaar looked to him, and floated over to him, causing him to sneeze, Pyaar yelped and backed off.
"Feathers," Adrien groaned, annoyed.
"I forgot petit Poussin doesn't like feathers! I'm sorry!" Pyaar yelped.
Plagg snickered.
"Did Pyaar seriously just call me a little chick?" Chat asked, incredulously.
Plagg's snickering turned into full bawl laughter. "You're a chicken!" He clucked.
Pyaar glared at Plagg, which shut him up.

"Okay, this is nice and all, but, uh, how do we, you know, get outta here?" Marinette asked nervously.
This caused Pyaar to look at Chat. "You have the other version of me?" She asked Chat nodded. "Other me will help us get back, I used my powers getting here, she can help us get back." Pyaar told.
Ladybug gathered Aubrianne in her arms as Chat changed back.
"Before we go! You need to change back!" Pyaar screeched in alarm. "People will be there to see!" She said in alarm.
They all nodded and made sure to be in uniform, with both Chat's having taken off the peacock pin to hold them, as soon as they did everything went white.

They weren't back in atrium, but in the foyer of the Agreste family Mansion, facing Gabriel Agreste on the top of the stairs, with Elder-Chat's bell bombs still dangerously alarming, the ringing out further as the man had dropped to his knees between the time they had gone and come back, behind them they knew were police and reporters, while off to the side they saw Nino and Alya looking at them with awe. At once Elder-Ladybug saw the scenery change she immediately had Aubrianne back on the floor, aware she wasn't meant to hold much weight in her condition, she flung her head back.
"Hey! I need a medic!" She yelled.
One of the many officers that were stalled scrambled over each other in an attempt to get out the door to alert the medics outside.

Out of both Chat's, the younger had crouched protectively in front of his Ladybug, mother and consequently Elder-Ladybug to make sure no harm came to them while Elder-Chat stood up and hissed at his would-be-father.
"I told you not to move." He hissed.
Gabriel finally looked up, his expression surprised. "You came back." Was all he could say.
Elder-Chat blinked, but then put together what was missing. "You've seen that light before." Gabriel could only nod, not taking any chances to move or to stand, especially with both Chat's being defensive, and an entire army behind them: he couldn't even move to see if his wife was alive in the other Ladybug's arms.
"You know what happens now, don't you?" Elder-Chat asked, still with his arm stretched out to his baton defensively, everyone knew should Gabriel even twitch, he would have his baton out in the same amount of time it would have taken Gabriel to think about moving.
He was shocked when the man in front of him sighed resignedly.
Nothing about his old man was resigned.
Nothing about his old man was guilty. Ever.
"I can guess I will never see you again." The man replied softly.
Elder-Chat looked like he had just been slapped, and looked to his partner for help. He couldn't deal with a helpless father.
His old man had always been angry.
Especially at him.

But it wasn't his Ladybug that called out, she was too busy with a medic that had rushed in, she had put her younger self up to the task.
"You were trying to right a wrong, with a wrong." Ladybug started, getting up from behind her defensive Chat, who looked to her in confused warning, but stood up with her. "Weren't you never told two wrongs don't make a right?" She continued, aware of the cameras, aware of the many people around her.
The man surprised them again, by sighing. "Hindsight is a wonderful thing; it can always tell you the wrongs you've made that you thought were right at the time." He told them, his eyes wandering from one Chat to the other, to his unconscious wife he wasn't able to call out to. "I can see that now. If it's any consolidation, I apologise immensely." Gabriel replied pain laced in his voice.
He knew what he had lost trying to regain what he thought he lost most. He had thought seeing Aubrianne disappear and never coming back, was what he lost most: but once he had seen his son(s) being taken by the very same light, he had never known loss like he thought. His revelation came to him painfully, and most likely to late: he had missed his son grow up, he had missed his son's life, he had missed out on being a part of his son's life.
Both Chat's looked to each other, highly uncomfortable, both having no idea how to handle this.
Elder-Chat gave out an uncomfortable groan and recalled his bell bombs, but by no means was he any less defensive as he watched this man get up gracelessly.

"Mon petit Chaton," Elder-Ladybug called, both Chat's looked to her, they had Aubrianne on an emergency ambulance gurney, with an oxygen mask on. "I need her pin." She told him, he only nodded and gave the pin over. "You're not to remove this from her person, understand?" She told the medical personnel, pinning the brooch to her cardigan while stuffing something under the bed.
"Yes, Ma'am," They reported, "It will stay with her." They told her.
They did not notice her flinch at the address, but both Chat's did and marked her warily.
"You will need to notify Adrien Agreste and Madame Sancoeur of what her state is." Elder-Ladybug ordered. The medics had nothing else to do but nod their heads, then rush the women to the hospital. Elder-Ladybug turned around to give a pat to Chat, who smiled in understanding, and then went to her partner to stand by him looking thoughtful to the man who hadn't moved, except for getting to his feet.
"Minou?" She asked.
Elder-Chat tore his eyes away from Gabriel to look at her helplessly, then looked to their youngers, Chat looked just as confused.
"This is out of our control now." Elder-Ladybug said, noting that the police behind them were getting antsy about Gabriel being free.
Elder-Chat sighed. "And no longer is it up to us, it's up to them," He nodded to their youngers, and Elder-Ladybug smiled.
"They'll do fine, I'm sure." She told him.
Elder-Chat still looked a bit unsure, but he trusted his Lady before anyone else. "Alright." He told her.

With a glance to Gabriel, who understood the glance as a you-will-not-move-or-it-will-make-this-worse glance, nodded, and did not move, then they looked fully to their youngers.
"This is where you need to make decisions, this is different for us, we can't make decisions for you." Elder-Ladybug stated, with Elder-Chat nodding.
Chat almost looked pleading for help, before everything came crashing down for him, he let out a dry sob, and dived into Elder-Ladybug searching for what she was able to give him, a mother figure for the past several days, he wouldn't have been able to do this without her, how he had done it the first time without two of her he had no idea. He shook more when he felt her arms encroach him softly.
"Oh, mon petit Chaton," She murmured, seeing the cameras she glared at them until they turned away or turned them off, with the help of her Chat growling at them.
"I need your help, Mimmy," Her Chaton whispered brokenly to her.
She blinked down to her kitten in amazement: Mimmy was an English term to call someone who represented a mother figure. "How do I—? I can't—?" He tried breathing out, it just made her hold him tighter.
Elder-Chat sighed. "You know, all this could have been avoided, you know." He told Gabriel.

They watched as the man slightly cocked his head in confusion.
"You could have told us why you were doing what you were doing in the first place before things got so bad. My Lady, if he had told you he wanted to rescue someone from a different realm, would you have helped?" He asked, and surprising to Gabriel both females' nodded. "As would have I." He told Gabriel.
Gabriel nodded and looked away: him being told that didn't help his guilt, all for it, it had made it so much worse.
Elder-Chat gave a soft signal to the police, who nodded and came up to Gabriel who let them restrain him without fighting back.
"What happens to you, will no longer be in my hands, understand?" Elder-Chat continued, causing Gabriel to look at him, and nod silently. "It's up to those who handle you, and them," Elder-Chat gave a nod to his younger self who was still buried in his Lady's arms in seek of comfort, with the younger Ladybug by his other side, with a hand on his back supportively.
Gabriel took in his son, it made him crumble for the first time in years: he had done this. He had caused this.
Coming down the steps with the officers beside him, he was resigned to never seeing his son, or his wife again, as Ladybug had said: Two wrongs don't make a right.
And didn't he regret every single action he took since finding Nooroo?

Once down the stairs, he looked at the man his son had become. "May I ask only two things?" He questioned, seeing such the man stalled the officers, and he saw his son turn his head towards him, as if he still wanted to see him, it didn't do wonders, it just made him ache worse.
"You may," His older son told him.
Gabriel nodded gratefully. "How will Aubrianne and Adrien…?" He trailed off, not really knowing how to ask after his son's welfare, when his son was right there, not doing well at all.
Elder-Chat shook his head. "This is completely different because of us being here, maybe, for us, we don't know an Aubrianne, I'm assuming that's the name of the woman we saved?" He asked, Gabriel had to admit, his son had become good at stretching the truth when he needed it to be, with good reason since he was Chat Noir. Gabriel nodded, without changing face, he wouldn't argue with him. "We didn't come into contact with Aubrianne the first time, so that is different, and Adrien is….?" He trailed off with a question.
Gabriel couldn't help but smile proudly. "He's my son, he wasn't aware of what I was, Aubrianne is his mother." Gabriel told him.
There were many gasps from the peanut gallery, but Elder-Chat nodded and ignored them. "He'll most likely see this on the news, you're aware of this, yes?" He asked Gabriel nodded. "He'll be aware of what you are now, don't be too surprised if he doesn't want to talk to you." Elder-Chat warned.
This was the longest conversation he had had with his father for the past twenty years. It felt like his father was listening to him for the first time ever.

He watched as Gabriel nodded with resignation, he had an idea how long, if ever, it would take for his son to talk to him again, he didn't even know if Aubrianne ever would. Perhaps if she was well enough she would be a better parent then he ever would be.
"Was that both your questions, or…?" Elder-Chat asked, making Gabriel look back to him and shake his head.
"Apologise to him and Nooroo for me, if you could?" Elder-Chat blinked in amazement. "Even if they don't take it or believe me to be sincere." Gabriel told him
Elder-Chat continued to look flabbergasted, and picked his mouth of the floor, he was saved by his younger Lady, who nodded for him. "We will try and get your message out for you, sir. It may take a while." She told him.
With that Gabriel allowed the men to take him away without qualm, he would not fight, nor would he harm whatever verdict they and his son lay on him and with that; the rest of the adults that had stormed his home left with him.

It left the superheroes with Alya and Nino in the large empty mansion.
Seeing everyone gone, Chat pushed himself away from Elder-Ladybug to palm away tears. "I can't deal with that." He stated heavily.
Elder-Ladybug took hold of his chin to make sure he looked her. "Then don't." She said simply, causing tears. "Deal with it piece by piece, one step at a time, slowly. Each day handle that little bit more, if it gets too much, settle it later. Consider more that your father is the man that spent his last ten minutes regretting his actions, asking about your welfare and trying, in the only way he saw he could attempt to get your mother back, and once caught, he did not fight. Does that make sense? Think of him in that way, not as a man consumed by anger and grief." She voiced, gently, he nodded, she also saw her husband nod as well. "This doesn't mean you need to condone his behaviour if you didn't like it, which you don't, you don't need to tell me," she reminded, seeing his retort, and looked to her Chat. "What would you do, if a mysterious light took me away?" She asked him, he flinched and looked away thoughtfully, but he didn't answer.
He didn't need to.

She sighed and transformed back, making sure she was on the ground first.
"Now you, mon petit Chaton, have to go find Nathalie and go find your mother, take Marinette with you if you need to. Deal with your father at the inquiry, you will need to do it both as Chat and as Adrien. He helped you out, by saying you had no idea he was Papillon in the first place, you will need to cement that fact. Even if this isn't on the news yet, your best friend had a front row seat." Marinette told him, acknowledging Nino and Alya's presence for the first time and he nodded, changing back as well, picking up his phone and dialled Nathalie.
Chat turned to Ladybug. "Go with him, won't you? He'll need you." He asked of her.
Ladybug nodded, and changed back, her Tikki flying into her purse.
"Here," Elder-Marinette started, holding out the butterfly brooch. "Nooroo will want to stay with you, he'll come out when he feels safe." She told her younger self as she took the brooch. "He won't want you to wear it, but keep it on your person." She advised.
Marinette nodded and placed the brooch in her purse alongside Tikki.

While Adrien was talking to Nathalie, Pyaar came out of hiding.
"There you are!" Elder-Marinette stated warmly to the peachick, who smiled greatly back. "What to do with you," She continued to wonder.
"This me has no Paon to return to, I would like to continue to stay with Poussin, but he will sneeze." Pyaar remarked, looking actually acutely saddened by this fact.
Elder-Adrien reached out his arm to nudge the peachick affectionately, at arm's length he wouldn't sneeze, Pyaar smiled at him.
"I'll still keep your pin, but how about you stay with Mari, she can house you alongside Nooroo and Tikki." Elder-Adrien mused.
Pyaar looked thoughtful but looked to Elder-Marinette for an answer.
Elder-Marinette sighed in happy annoyance. "I'm going to need to make a bigger purse." She muttered.
Pyaar laughed happily, and zoomed over to her and nuzzled her happily.

Nathalie came into the foyer of her employer's home, looking for her charge, as he said he was there, just as shocked as she was over the whole situation that had led the boy to call her in a frenzy of words and pleas. Walking in she saw that there were two versions of her charge: one a child, the other, a man: she made the connection just as quietly that in the news report there were two Chat Noirs and two Ladybugs.
"Adrien," She called, ignoring for now that the man had automatically looked to her as well.
"Nathalie!" He called, running up to her frantically. "Is—How—?" He tried to get out, he sounded worse in person then he did on the phone.
"That's him asking about his mother." The lady she assumed to be Ladybug in civilian form told her informatively. She immediately remembered her to be the voice of the woman who called the night previously about Adrien's whereabouts, now presumably to keep the boy safe away from his father.
"Thank you," Nathalie told her, then looked back to Adrien. "I can take you to the hospital in which she was taken to, I have no details about her severity yet." Nathalie told him, not one to lie to him.

Adrien nodded. "Can Marinette come to?" He asked her.
Nathalie blinked but saw a younger version of the women come out of the woods.
Huh. So Civilian Ladybug had a name. Fair enough.
Nathalie nodded. "I think only she will be admitted with us; you won't be able to take Nino." Nathalie told him, surprising him that she had remembered his friend's name.
"Nah! That's cool, bro, text me when you can!" Nino was the first to jump in, and the first time in speaking, as he held Alya's hand, she had stopped recording the same time the reporters got the glare from Elder-Chat out of respect. With that, she looked to the other Adrien and Marinette. "Will you two be alright?" She asked. Even though that Adrien was a man, she could still see the full blown panic attack waiting to happen.
Elder-Marinette nodded warmly as she took Elder-Adrien's hand. "We'll be fine, won't we?" She asked, and he nodded.
"I'll go where you lead, my Lady." He told her.
Nathalie smiled. Definitely Chat Noir and Ladybug. She then looked back to her charge. "Shall we?" She asked, Adrien nodded while taking hold of Marinette's hand and followed her out.

Elder-Chat looked to Nino and Alya. "Maybe you should head home, there's nothing here for you guys. Adrien or Marinette will tell you all about it when they can." He advised.
They nodded mutely and headed out.
Elder-Marinette sighed and turned to her husband. "Shall we go?"
Elder-Adrien nodded. "Sure, but can we eat first?" He asked.
"Cheeky. Fine, we'll stop by my place." She told him then they transformed, and took flight out of the empty mansion that never quite felt like home to either of them.

Aubrianne's condition wasn't the best, nor was it the worst, but the doctor's had no clue what was wrong with her, or why she was the way she was. For all intent and purposes she simply just needed to wake up.
It didn't bring much comfort to Adrien, but saw happily that they had listened to Ladybug: they had placed her peacock pin on her hospital gown, so Pyaar should be around somewhere, seeing that Nathalie had taken the medics out the room, and actually closed the door behind her, he looked around for the peachick.
"Pyaar?" He called softly.
From underneath the hospital bed, the colourful peachick zoomed into focus, but at arm's reach in knowledge Adrien would start sneezing should she come closer, which would in high possibility alert medical staff.
"Poussin!" She cried out happily.
"How is she?" Adrien asked as Pyaar zoomed around him and nuzzled Marinette in welcome, who giggled.
"She will be fine. She needs to wake up." Pyaar told them.
That made Adrien feel a little bit better.
"Do you know when she'll be able to?" Marinette asked curiously.
Pyaar shook her head. "No, I'm sorry, the medics know more, sorry." Pyaar kept apologising.
Adrien shook his head. "It's not your fault, Pyaar." Adrien told her, and the peachick shuddered and looked about ready to cry.
"You should be mad at me!" Pyaar cried, tears falling.
Adrien looked as equal amounts of devastated that he couldn't hug this creature and that he couldn't comfort her.
Something which Marinette saw, and hugged Pyaar for him.
"We don't blame you, we don't blame Nooroo. I may not like some of the choices Gabriel made, but I can now understand them." Marinette told the bird.

There was a crying that turned into a wail that didn't come from Pyaar, but from Marinette's purse, Adrien siding up to Marinette (mindful of how close he was to Pyaar), and opened the purse to reveal to crying butterfly clutching Tikki, who as soon as saw Adrien, zipped out of the purse to clutch Adrien leaving a trail of tears behind him, and many apologies in repeat.
Plagg leapt out the way from wherever he was hiding with a yelp. "Whoa!" He cried, then realised who was crying. "Oh," He sighed, seeing Pyaar, he flew into a pocket Adrien had his cheese in, and offered it to the peachick (silently shocking Adrien). "Here," He said, holding out the piece of cheese to the crying peachick.
Pyaar looked to him and wiped his tears only to accept the cheese and nibble on it.
Plagg, seeing Adrien's stunned face. "Pyaar can eat cheese too!" Plagg said.
Adrien literally groaned. "Great. Yay. More cheese for me." Adrien said sarcastically, making the kwami's laugh.
Plagg looked to Nooroo who was trying to stop crying. "I don't have any juice fruits," He said sadly.
Marinette and Adrien distantly remembered that the elder's had out cheese, cookies with an assortment of citrus and juice fruits for their kwami to eat too that time they had dinner together.
Marinette looked thoughtful. "Hang on, I'll see if I can find any," She said, then looked to Adrien. "You'll be alright for a minute?" She asked.
Adrien nodded, the kwami had settled around him, like they were protecting him, not the other way around.
Seeing him nod, she giggled and slipped out of the room, and didn't get caught by the talking adults that didn't notice her leave through the other patient's door via the interconnecting bathroom.

Marinette literally ran down to where she had seen the little shop across from the main cafeteria at the start of the hospital where she and Adrien had been brought in, hopefully, it would have berries or fruit of some kind. Nearly tripping over a magazine stand, she righted herself with a small yelp.
"Can I help you?" A surprised voice called.
It wasn't every day someone ran and tripped into the store.
Marinette froze and turned to the lady manning the store. "Hello, Ma'am!" Marinette squeaked, quick to reply.
"…Are…Are you looking for something?" She asked.
Marinette nodded. "Fruit, juicy, like an orange?" Marinette questioned the staff member as well as herself.
The store lady blinked, but pointed to the fruit stand next to her, it had an orange.
Marinette lit up. "That'll do! Thanks!" She answered, running up to the vender, taking the orange of the stand and giving it to the lady. "I might need a plate…" She muttered, eyes darting across the store again, seeing the stacked recyclable plates, she dashed over to grab a stash and ran back to the vender. "This too please!" She called.

Marinette then dashed with her plate and orange into the cafeteria and ran up to the man manning.
"Excuse me!" Marinette asked in a not yet yelling voice.
The man turned to her, in surprise. "Yes?"
"Hi! Can I borrow your knife for a second!" She asked, holding up her orange.
The man blinked, but handed over a cutting knife.
"Thanks so much!" She yelled, bowing, and dashed over to an unused table, cutting open the fruit and peeling it, once she was done she dashed over to the man. "Thanks!" She said, the put her rubbish in the bin and ran off back to Adrien, making sure to use another plate to cover the orange.

She crept in the way she had crept out, the other patients looked at her weirdly, but she just waved her hand at the nervously.
"Mari!" Adrien welcomed back while she was away he had gotten out the roller trolley that both Plagg and Pyaar were eating cheese on, Tikki flew out of her purse with a cookie as Marinette came in closer, she smiled at Adrien who was still comforting Nooroo and placed down the plate of cut up oranges.
"Look what I found, Nooroo!" Marinette said happily, taking off the plate she had used for a lid.
Nooroo who hadn't seen actual fruit for a long time actually squealed in delight and raced over to the oranges to take one up and use it like a drink.
"Yum!" He cried.
It caused Marinette to giggle, and Adrien to chuckle as their kwami eat peacefully.

There was a knock on the door that had the children (and kwami) rushing about to dispose of evidence: Pyaar shot underneath the hospital bed while Plagg hid in one of Adrien's pockets, Nooroo and Tikki both sought refuge in Marinette's bag as Marinette gathered up the plates and leftover food to stash them in the bin, plate side down as Adrien moved the table back to its original position. They were both able to get back into position calmly as the door opened to let in a medical man, without Nathalie present.
Adrien looked about, confused as to why Nathalie wasn't present, but it didn't take precedent when the doctor scanned Aubrianne's condition.
"How is she?" He asked nervously.
The doctor looked at him and smiled, in that doctor non-emotional way, that actually made Adrien flinch back automatically. "We're running tests to find out the cause and nature of her comatose state." The doctor replied, then zoomed in on Marinette with a fixated concerned stare. "I apologise, you, are?" He asked, sternly.
Both children stiffened. "Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Adrien asked me to be here." Marinette told him, gesturing to Adrien.
The doctor actually glared. "Miss, you are not a relative?" Marinette shook her head. "As in such, you should not be here." He told her, causing both children to become alarmed.
"Wait, she was—" Adrien stalled when the man glared at him, and he yet again automatically quietened and flinched.
The doctor's glare turned back to Marinette. "I'm going to ask you to leave, now." He ordered.
"W-When will I be able to come back…?" Marinette asked.
The glare deepened. "When you are family." The doctor hissed, coming in close to her side.
Adrien hissed protectively, looking to Marinette in alarm, but they knew they had no power, and no say over this man's words.
"I'll see what Natalie says," Adrien murmured to her only.
Marinette gave a teary nod before the doctor grasped her arm and pulled her out the room.

Nathalie wasn't outside when Marinette was pulled out the room, and no one was present when the doctor shoved her towards the exit.
"Let the professionals handle it from here, little girly." The doctor told her sternly.
Marinette looked back to him as he made sure she got on the lift.
Marinette had no clue what either male meant, by either being "family" or what Nathalie could do in this situation.
But just as that doctor had implied: she wasn't needed.
Marinette stalled half way down a corridor that led to the hospitals exist: she wasn't needed, not by the civilians, and not even by Adrien anymore.
She picked up her suddenly heavy feet and pushed through what felt like fog as she clutched one hand to her chest while fighting away tears once she started to run.
She wasn't needed anymore.
That much was certain.
She wasn't needed as Ladybug: there was no threat.
Adrien didn't need her: she'd been replaced.
She was, once again just Plain-Old-Boring-Marinette. And no one had ever needed her in their life.