A couple of months have pasted since the last Akuma and Adrien was slowly getting back to his normal self. Although there were nights that he still cried himself to sleep. Marinette didn't know what to do for him. He had lost everyone he had ever known until he went to high school in tenth grade. He had lost his mother before he had met her and then right before his eyes he lost his father. So now he didn't know what to do nor did any of the others. Master Fu had also refused to take the Miraculous back when they went to return them saying that it was up to them to make sure that they didn't fall into the wrong hands. So now Adrien was left with something that he couldn't even use anymore. He felt as if he betrayed himself when he saved his fiance and daughter over his father.
Marinette had continued to make her dress while she watched Emma, the little girl had mellowed out a bit since turning 5 she didn't know what it was, whether it was the way Adrien was acting or if it was just a personality change at 5 years old, but the little girl would often sit in a corner looking at picture books or doodling in a sketchbook of her own. The doorbell to their home rang and Marinette quickly pulled Emma out who had been looking at her mother's designs in the corner and admiring them since she'd seen alot of them in reality. Marinette closed the door to the giant design studio and carried Emma downstairs opening the front door. Nathalie stood there with an envelope and the black haired woman smiled at Marinette and Emma, Nathalie and Marinette had always gotten along better than Marinette and Gabriel. "Nathalie, I'm glad to see your doing well, do you need to speak with Adrien?" Nathalie nodded and Marinette allowed her into the home. "Emma go get your daddy." Marinette set Emma on the ground and the little girl ran back to the office in the back and knocked on the door then opened it slowly. "Daddy, someone's here to see you." She mumbled, she hadn't felt comfortable talking to her father like she used to, that was cause she could sense he wasn't as happy as he used to be, she didn't know why he had a sudden mood change but it had surely triggered hers.
"Thank you princess." he said solemnly and left his papers that he was working on at the desk. He would just have to finish the paper work later. It was the one thing that Marinette didn't know about and he wasn't going to tell her unless he had to, but he was leaving everything he had to her and Emma if anything were to happen to him. He couldn't leave them alone with nothing the way his father had done him. Sighing he walked into the living room and saw Nathalie standing in the room where Marinette was and he was a little nervous to see here there. "Hello Nathalie." he said looking at her. She still had some small signs of where his father hurt her, but Adrien was glad that she was at least healing. "What brings you here?"
Nathalie handed the envelope to him and looked at him with a small smile. "Your father left this to me to give to you if he were to pass away, I think your family will be very well off from now on. Little Emma can go to any school you and Marinette want her too when she's old enough." That gave Marinette a massive hint and she gasped, she hadn't known that Adriens father had left him anything, she thought all of his father's belongings we're going to the city.
"Wait w-what?" Adrien asked opening the evelope and looking through the papers. It was true and it was even dated after Gabriel disowned him. "I-I thought...I thought he didn't want to have anything to do with me or my family." Adrien said looking through the papers more and more becoming like his old self.
Nathalie shook her head and looked at Emma who was at Adrien and Marinettes feet. "He cared for you, he wanted your daughter to have the best education money could buy. And he gave you the company as well, for your fianceé to design for, he said she has alot of talent." Nathalie smiled at Marinette then looked at Adrien giving him a smile.
"What?" he said clearly confused, "But he said that he didn't...Now i'm completely lost." Adrien sighed. he didn't know what to do anymore first his father accepted Marinette then he didn't but yet left everything for them. "Why did he say all that in the bakery that day then?"
Nathalie sighed and looked to the little girl in between Marinette and Adrien. "He was shocked and a little threatened that you had all he ever wanted. He also assumed because of the both of you growing up an only child you would want a big family, so he gave you the money so that you could have that big family, he also put thousands aside for your wedding." Marinette covered her mouth, she was so happy that he had left Adrien everything, they thought his father had really not cared about him.
Adrien stared at the woman he had known for years. Until he went to school she was the only one he ever really had known and he couldn't believe it. His father really did care about him and his family. He smiled and started to laugh silently at first but then they gradually got louder causing Emma to look at her father confused at the sudden change in his attitude.
Marinette smiled hearing him laugh again, it had been a while since he had laughed so genuinely. She ran and hugged him tightly. "Oh and Marinette, he'd designed an array of dresses for you if you'd want them." Marinettes eyes widened and looked at Nathalie. "Seriously?" Marinette was very shocked that Gabriel left her dresses.
Adrien laughed harder and hugged Marinette very tight as Nathalie watched them happy for Adrien, but there was one last thing that his father did for him that he didn't know yet. Just then there was another knock on the door and the two looked at one another. "Are you expecting anyone else?" Adrien asked and Marinette shook her head, then Nathalie looked at Adrien. "Maybe you should get it." she said. She had told her companion to wait in the hall until she mentioned the dresses then knock on the door. Adrien frowned and walked over to the door, opened it and couldn't believe what he was seeing, or rather who.