"everything is fine Marinette, honestly, ill tell you when you get here, it may be easier to explain that way, no Louie is fine," Sabine soothed her daughter down the phone.
Still on the phone to her, Marinette burst through the doors of the living-room above the bakery and looked around frantically for her son. Her mother shook her head and put the phone down. "I told you everything is fine, please you two, sit down and let me get you a drink. Louie has had a tiring morning and Tom has taken him to see if he wants to nap"
Marinette looked at her mum confused. "Louie hasnt napped in the day for over 2 years, much to my dismay sometimes, not unless he is ill, oh the gods, mum, is he ok-" Sabine held her hand up to silent her daughter once more and held out a beverage to her.
"ok, let me talk and then questions and I will answer if I can. Tikki plagg I need you to." Tikki and plagg came to sit on their chosens laps confused as to why they maybe needed but suspecting it had to do with the surge master fu had felt.
Sabine breathed deeply "not long after your disappearance to see to the explosion, Louie was playing. He was being very cute and pretending he was his daddy and mummy and he was a super hero, he said 'nana im cat-bug, claws out' and then he-"
"mum, please what happened" Marinette loved the stories of how cute Louie was but thought there was a pressing issue her mother was neglecting to tell her.
"well" Sabine continued "you had been gone for about 30 mins and his excitement died down. He started getting scared and we couldnt console him. His eyes, they turned into cat eyes, he seemed to grow a soft black fur over his body and he grew antennas which started twitching. His nails grew longer and thinner and became just like cat claws. I thought I had imagined it at first because it happened and then he was back to normal but less scared. He did go quite though and he turned to face the front door. His tail twitched and ears pricked up on his head, and then the tail left and he had wings on his back, it was like his body couldn't decide if it wanted to be a cat or a ladybug. Just as his body seemed to decide on something it was gone and replaced by something else. Then all of it left and he was Louie again. He told me 'grandpa is coming' and pointed to the door, I told him papa was just in the next room-" Sabine stopped as if remembering something awful and gulped before continuing
"he said 'no nana not papa, grandpa, hes not happy with nana and papa. Did nana and papa do something bad to grandpa?' I was trying to understand what he meant and Gabriel came in. he knew Marinette was ladybug and he wanted to kill us or hurt us, I don't know. But he saw Louie. He mistook him for Adrien (of course) wondering what happened to make his son small once more. When he realised it wasn't Adrien he pushed him into the wall"
at this point Adrien was pretty much hissing and Marinette had her fists baled and shaking with rage..
"he made to come at me and Louie, he pounced on him and scratched at his face, hissing like a cat but with ladybug wings and antenna. Before we could do much else the ladybugs came and Gabriel was gone and Louie was back to normal." Sabine finished and took a long drink from her glass before setting it down.
The room was silent in thought and the only noise to be heard was the occasional thumping from the room upstairs where Louie was most obviously not taking any form of nap at the moment.
"Tikki" Marinette stared in a small voice "what, what does this mean?"
Tikki looked in deep thought and with a look at Plagg they both nodded and flew up to face the couple at eye level together.
"when Louie was conceived" Tikki started "you were both superheroes, infused with our powers, this obviously had an effect on his conception and now he isn't a normal human like you two, he doesn't need a miraculous to transform and use powers. He has a natural magic. Its not something that has happened before. Its been theorised. I had my suspicions with his natural telepathy abilities with the two of you. It seems he has those abilities with other magical presence. That why he could sense your father Adrien and the two of you and me, but doesn't have that sense with Marinettes parents who don't possess such strong auras. He will have to learn to control his powers. It will be long and arduous. A lifetime of learning and in some cases painful. You are lucky, it is theorised that a child conceived under magical transformation may have these abilities or they can be born with no human abilities. Sight, hearing, movement, taste, basically a shell." Tikki looked sadly at Plagg "You mustn't risk it with your other children"
Adrien and Marinette both nodded knowing that even if the risk was small it was not worth it. Marinette was worried about Louie and how he was going to learn to control his abilities and how hard it will be for him and Tikki had mentioned painful. With those thoughts buzzing around her head Adrien was tugging her arm. "Adrien, what is it?"
he was looking up gawping at the ceiling, when Marinette looked up her expression became the same. It wasn't just thoughts of Louie buzzing around her head but Louie himself was buzzing around. He smiled cheerfully and with a pop his ladybug features were gone and he looked like a rather large kitten that fell into Adriens lap.
"daddy look what I can do!" he stated proudly showing off various aspects of his transformation he could change at will.
"Maybe it wont be a long and arduous and painful journey after all" Tikki said smiling next to Marinette.
She gave the small kwami an affectionate hug to her face "no maybe not in that aspect but I think we have a lot ahead of us to think and talk about in the next few months." she sighed