"M-Marinette?"

The bell on the door sound was still vibrating in the air when the bluenette looked up to find the source of the voice who stuttered her name. Sabine rubbed her eyes hastily, blinking a few times before her eyes widened at her lost daughter returning home after just over two decades. "Hey mum." Marinette smiled, remembering that she saw her mum only a couple of days ago before she left for her camping trip with Alya. "Alya? Nino? Adrien?" Sabine listed the teens names, eyes still wide in shock. "Where have you been?"

"The woods. And then the police station. And now here." Nino explained, and all of the teens nodded their heads in confirmation, all seeming to forget that they were in the future.

Marinette was the first to catch on. She wouldn't have if the moon light coming from the bakery window didn't highlight her mother's greying roots. She'd be fifty. "Why do you all still look so young. It's as if you still are teenagers!" Sabine exclaimed, reaching her hand forward to touch her daughters hair, to see if she wasn't just seeing ghosts.

"Y-you're real."

"Well, duh." Nino replied with sass.

"Hey mum. We're just gonna bring this guy--" Marinette gestured to the Akumatised civilians limp form between her and Adrien, "--up to my room and we'll leave in the morning. We'll probably visit other people along the way. I think these guys want to see their parents still--" I don't, Adrien thought glumly, "--so, we'll be out of your hair."

It was then that Sabine noticed the fifth person, other than her, filling up the baker's entrance. "Oh. Whose he?"

"The person who created this cool place. He also stole our aging abilities, so we need to get Mar-- Ladybug and Cat Noir to de-Akumatisation him so we can go back to 2017." Nino explained hastily.

"But Ladybug's dead." Sabine recalled.

"No she's not." Alya concluded and with a quick smile pushed Marinette forward. The bluenette caught on to her friends gestures and with Adrien's help, hauled the Inventor up the stairs to her bedroom.

Sabine stood in complete shock. But you were meant to be dead.

What do you think of this chapter?

Also, in this fanfic Alya, Nino, Adrien and Mari are born in 2001. and because they just finished Year 10, which would make them 16 it would be 2017 when Mari and Alya went on a camping trip; hence, Nino saying he wanted to go back to 2017. 😊