Chapter 24
Angelina's P.O.V:
'Damnit... where can Clockwork be!?'
I stop my running as Nathaniel releases his grip on my shoulder. Some dizzy swirls in his eyes as he shakes his head. I hold my arms together as I hear behind me my Kwami, as he drifts closer to me. The tips of his fox ears brush against the side of my cheeks as I peek into his ocean blue eyes.
"Oh god Nathaniel... where can I even start to look for Janis? Satoru? For all I know they both can be in completely different places!"
"Honestly, that can't be so likely... since he wants to both keep Satoru close to him. But also he wants to make sure he has the advantage against you with Janis... I don't think that Clockwork would risk it..."
A small lump in my throat chokes me as I smile and I cover my mouth with my hands as I release giggles from the small cracks in my hands. Nathaniel awkwardly looks at me as he stares at the top of my head as I hunch over as I hold my stomach. I continue with my giggling as Nathaniel simply clears his throat to me.
"Angie... come on... just calm down, I'm sure that both Satoru and Janis will be alright! But... I don't think this is the time to start to flip out..."
I stop my giggling as I let off a soft sigh.
"Sorry... it's just I'm still not so used to this type of stuff yet..."
"Oh?~ Not used to this stuff Angelina?~ Ehehehe~ I can fix that for you right away~"
I shiver at the male voice near me as I turn around with Nathaniel behind my shoulders. Clockwork with a twisted grin on his face as he glares down at me with a hand to his clock pendant. I back away slowly as he suddenly lifts his free hand into the air, a single finger up as he circles it over his lips.
"Now~ I wouldn't do that now... Would you?~"
He shifts his hand from his pendant away as he holds something behind his back. A swift pull he holds Janis in his hands. She struggles in Clockwork's place as I stare in shock. Shortly, a wave of anger drowns me as I growl at the boy in front of me as he holds my little bunny Kwami in his hand. With a small glance at her. Jana is inside a gold-like hour glass with sand pouring over her. She struggles in the sand as more and more pile over her face. I growl with frustration as the boy looks at me evilly.
"This won't change what mistakes you did!" I inform the villain in front of me as he freezes. He growls as he leaps off a building, just a few meters away from me. With my Kwami still by his side. The sand still pours on her. I struggle to keep on a strong face as I stare at he walks up to me.
"Well... we'll see about THAT! Once I erase you from history itself!" He exclaims to me as I growl at the obvious boy in front of me as he keeps on a evil smile. I struggle with my chains as I look into his ocean blue eyes.
"In your dreams Clockwork!"
"In my dreams?~ Now don't be bluffing!~ This IS my dreams coming true! And there is nothing you can do to stop any of this now Angie~"
Damnit.... Clockwork is straight out of his mind! With my own force, I move my legs right to Clockwork as I curl a hand into a fist. I swing at him as he swiftly dodges my attack. A single kick into my back as I fly face first into a wall. I back away as I hold my bloody nose. With a hand of mine on the cracked wall as I pant heavily.
"This... None of this.... will fix what happened to you and Satoru! In fact... this is going to change everything he sees in you now!"
I stare into Clockwork's ocean blue eyes as the gear around his head spins around rapidly. Jana by his side in mid air, he walks to me as he grips at my tang top. I keep my eyes on him as the pendant around his neck glows as he points the end of the now clock staff at my neck. I still breath heavily as Clockwork's eyes glare at me darkly.
"How the hell are you so sure about that?! HUH?!" Clockwork questions me as my nose still bleeds.
"... Satoru could never have been happier with anything more but the blonde boy he knew for so long! Now look at this damn situation! All this is doing is making him feel like that special someone he knew for a long time and loved is no longer with him anymore! Don't you see that?! ALL HE WANTS IS US TO GET ALONG AND CLEARLY YOU SHOWED HIM YOU COULDN'T DO THAT! SO THE TWO OF YOU NOW BROKEN UP IS YOUR FAULT! IT'S NOT MINE!"
I shut my eyes shut as I wait for the stick to plunge clean into my throat. I curl my fists up as I nervously continue my breathing, ... What? I reopen my eyes as Clockwork's eyes widen in a mix of all confusion, sadness, and frustration as the end of his clock staff lowers insanely slowly. His breathing grows far more heavier as the staff drops completely out of his hand. His fingers dig into his blonde hair with soft brown tips as tears well in his eyes. I sigh in relief as I forced my legs forward to him.
"Clock- I mean, Tokumi... You can still fix all of this! Please... I can help you! All I need for you to do is simply free both that bunny creature and Satoru... take us back to the present time, then Ladybug can purify you! It'll all be fine then, you can even make it up to Sato too..."
A long, honestly... a pretty awkward silence mutes everything as I fiddle my fingers together. Is Clockwork... or Tokumi at this point... even better? Or what?
"I... I JUST WANTED HIM TO BE WITH ME AGAIN!"
Clockwork shouts at the ground as he falls to his knees, A strange noise surrounds the both of us as everything slowly fades all around the two of us. My heart begins to race faster as whiteness surrounds the both of us.
"I CAN'T BE ALL ALONE AGAIN WITHOUT HIM! I CAN'T STAND BEING ALONE ANYMORE!"
The whiteness shallows everything up as a sudden force rushes into me with Nathaniel on my shoulder for dear life. My eyelids feel heavy as some drowsiness weighs my conscious down. Nathaniel quickly springs to my face with his little 'hands' on my cheeks.
"Angie! Stay up! .... A...Ang-!"
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'What? What just happened? Oh right, Clockwork had a meltdown and something went wrong...'
I sit up as I place my hand down onto... some cold tiles? I stand up off the floor as I dust my blue jeans. I look all around me as I stare at this random school. Where is this? Sure... I know for a fact this is definitely no school I know of in Paris... I stare across from me as Clockwork buries his face into his knees. I sigh as I walk over to him, he stares up to me as his eyes still water slightly.
"... You don't understand how much Sato means to me... Everyone thinks that about me..."
I open my mouth as no words come out. I lower my eyes to the tiles in defeat as I close up my mouth.
A soft sound of some sketching echoes into my ears as Clockwork right in front of me releases a sad sigh. He stands up to his feet as he walks causally to a slide able door, his ocean blue stare blankly through the glass of the classroom door. I walk up to him as I struggle to the window in the door, thanks to Clockwork's stupid gear in my face... I spot inside the classroom immediately a young boy in a Japanese like uniform. He tugs at one of his sleeves as hard as possible. With his other hand holding a mechanical pencil with some sheets of paper under his hand.
"Sato...? Where are you?"
I snap my gaze away from the boy inside the classroom as I turn my head around to a young blonde boy with glasses as he swiftly enters into the empty classroom with 'Sato', this boy's body with zero effort goes through me as my eyes widen wildly. What the ever living hell?! I stare to Clockwork to my left as he peeks at my eyes.
"To keep this logical and maybe understandable.... long explanation short... this is a memory I accidentally, somehow took us back in time to a memory... and because this is a memory back in time, us like this don't exist, so we're just like ghosts over in here..."
I nod to Clockwork as I stare back into the classroom. Wait... if this is Clockwork- err, Tokumi's memory. Then this is Tokumi and Satoru as younger boys. Satoru stares at the younger Tokumi as he holds onto the straps of his backpack. Satoru drops his mechanical pencil shyly as he rises back onto his feet.
"Hey... what did you want me for?" Younger Tokumi questions this younger Satoru as he clears his throat shyly. Younger Tokumi crosses his arms as he stares coldly into Satoru's emerald green eyes. He flinches at him as he forces himself still in place, "Come on... I don't have all day! I need to get home soon too..."
"A-Alright! I-I j-just wanted t-to talk t-to y-you... s-since w-we're... 'friends' right?"
Younger Tokumi sighs as he nods to this younger Satoru. Younger Tokumi slips off his backpack as he sits next to Satoru in a different desk right to him. A pause of silence in between them as Satoru awkwardly continues his drawing.
"... What are you drawing anyways?" Younger Tokumi questions Satoru as he immediately stops drawing on his blank sheet of paper.
"O-Oh... J-Just drawing... W-Well... us..." Satoru confesses with a soft blush on his tan cheeks as on Younger Tokumi's cheeks burn a rose red. Is it really this embarrassing to him? A drawing of Satoru and Tokumi together? Well... maybe... to some extent at least? I shake my thoughts away as I continue watching the two boys. Satoru shyly passes the paper with his drawing on it to younger Tokumi as he takes a good... long glance at it, "I-I'm sorry i-if this i-is weird f-for you-."
"I've never been drawn like this before... you know that right?" Younger Tokumi informs the younger Satoru as his emerald green eyes widen to him.
"R-Really-?"
"Yes," Younger Tokumi informs younger Satoru as he hands back the drawing of the two. I breath against the glass window in front of me as a soft toothy grin comes out of the younger Tokumi as he peeks back at his future boyfriend sheepishly, "You know... your honestly a really good artist, I mean, your basically the only artist I know of..."
Younger Satoru snaps back to Tokumi as both exchange a sheepish smile to each other. A sincerely bright and hopeful smile plasters onto Satoru's light tan lips as he nods to younger Tokumi. With a hopeful and bright smile too.
The inside begins to fade back into a pure snow white as suddenly a force of gravity roughly pulls the two of us. Including Nathaniel down with me as I release a quick scream of panic. Before I hit a hard surface. I elbow myself back to my feet as I stare all around me...
'We're back home?'
A soft glow of gold erupts in the air behind Clockwork as Satoru still in the same chain appears unconscious with Jana right next to him as the hourglass caging my friend in breaks into oblivion, her body falls to the floor as she still keeps her eyes closed. I rush to both my friends as I take Jana from the floor and I pass her small unconscious body to Nathaniel as he holds her close. I move to Satoru as I fiddle around with the chain around him.
'Come on... there has to be a way to free him from these stupid chains!'
I grab onto the golden chains all around Satoru as Clockwork pants extremely tiredly on his knees. Ladybug and Chat Noir finally appear with both there weapons ready. I stand back onto my feet with Satoru in my arms as I stare at the two heroines in front of Clockwork. His ocean blue eyes all tired like as he struggles with himself. Clockwork's hands to his pendant as his legs barely stand. Ladybug and Chat Noir with pure confusion in both there eyes as Clockwork simply growls at them both.
"I... I'm going to take your miraculouses! So give up any hope and hand them over!" Clockwork exclaims with any strength left as Ladybug and Chat Noir lower there weapons in hand. Ladybug calmly walks to Clockwork as she gently moves his hands away from his pendant. The same dark and serious like look in his eyes as she sighs and snaps the pendant off his neck. Clockwork struggles to take it back as she simply turns back to Chat Noir with the pendant. She breaks the clock charm as Clockwork's eyes widen in shock and heartbreak.
"NO! NO HOW COULD YOU!" Clockwork yells at the two heroines as Ladybug proceeds to purify the Akuma as the dark purple butterfly flutters out of the charm.
"No more evil doing for you little Akuma!" Ladybug says as she catches the butterfly in her ladybug yo-yo as she brings the string back to her. She releases from her yo-yo the now white Akuma. Clockwork turns back into Tokumi as he holds his hand to his head. Confusion and a headache on him as Ladybug and Chat Noir fist bump. Though... lets be real here for a second, neither of them can possibly catch Tokumi's Akuma without me... I just want to put that out here... Ladybug and Chat Noir both leave as the chain around Satoru vanishes in a cloud of gold dust. His green eyes open slightly as he supports himself with his feet, with his hands on my arms as I hold him up mostly. Tokumi stands back onto his feet as he turns to Satoru.
I stare at the two as the two make quick contact, Satoru whimpers as he helplessly falls to his knees with tears down his eyes. I come down with him as he attacks me in a very tight embrace. I quickly stroke his back with my hand as he soaks my tang top.
"S-Sato? What's the matter all of the sudden?" I question him as he still hides his eyes in the neckline of my tang top.
"... T-Tokumi... C-Clockwork... I-I'm so s-scared n-now A-Angie..."
Satoru informs me as he still breaks zero contact with our hug. I stroke his dark brown strands of hair as I stare straight to Tokumi. His ocean blue eyes widen in confusion and worry as he steps back onto his two feet. Satoru's eyes widen in fear as he holds on tighter on me.
"Sato? What's the matter-?"
"YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW WHAT'S THE MATTER?!" Satoru exclaims in panic and shock as he refuses to let me go. Tokumi's eyes struggle with it's causal look as he curls his hands into fists.
"What do you mean? I... don't remember doing anything bad to you..." Tokumi confesses to Satoru as his emerald green eyes glare softly at Tokumi.
"... F-Forget it..." Satoru plainly says as he stands back onto his feet wiping away the last of his salty tears. He takes my arm with his as we quickly walk away from Tokumi. What actually did Clockwork do to Satoru to make him act like this all of the sudden?! Satoru continues on with our aimless walking as I awkwardly just play along. I mean, what can I do in this situation? Satoru turns his head over his shoulder as his emerald green eyes gently look into my deep dark brown orbs, "A-Angie... I... I c-can't h-handle t-this o-overwhelming s-stress, confusion, and f-frustration anymore... I-I thought I c-could trust a-and l-love someone f-for once, b-but clearly I-I'm wrong about i-it a-all..."
"Sato... Your not wrong! Tokumi loves you with all his heart! And he just wants to protect you from anything negative in your life! He wants you to be happy... and he's happy whenever you two are ever together! Please... You need to face up to him yourself and make sure that he get's why you broke up with him in the first place..."
Satoru shuts his eyes as he releases my arm from his. I carefully take it back as Nathaniel still tries to wake Jana back up. The researcher in front of me walks away like nothing happened as he hurries off into the distance. I reach my hand out to him as I simply withdraw it back in a snap. I release a soft sigh as Nathaniel perks his fox ears up to me. His ocean blue eyes on Jana a second longer before he stares back at me.
"Angie? What's the matter this time?"
"Something tells me... that Satoru didn't take my advice for him at all... And that Tokumi is going to start to hate me for life now..."
Satoru's P.O.V:
I hurry back to my facility as I run into the laboratories and I throw all my stuff behind. I search through all my papers and my test results in my previous experiments as I pull out of my piles of paper work and testings a wood box with a cover over it. I remove it as I dig my hand into it. What is the meaning to any of this anymore? Tokumi is gone... Angie already is taken by that Nino guy... Who else can I even trust here? I pull out a tube of some custom pills by me as I pop open the lid. I pour into my palm a few pills as I take them with a quick drink of water. Stupid me... stupid fucking life... All this betrayal and loneliness is driving me totally insane...
'... I'll face Tokumi tomorrow like Angie said... I guess... I mean, what's the point of wanting to try again anymore? Maybe It's all for the heck of it...'
I close the lid of the pill bottle in my hand as I walk back to my backpack. I throw it into my backpack as I zip the zipper back up.
I can't believe any of this... Why can Angie care about some guy like me? How is Tokumi first my only friend, then my boyfriend, and then I just break up with him just like that? Wow... maybe things are too much for me to handle...
What next? Angie betrays Tokumi and I in the end?!
Tokumi's P.O.V:
I hold my pillow close to my face as I both scream and I soak the fabric of the pillow case. My Kwami Liam sighs as he facepalm himself. I lift my face from my pillow as I wipe my tears and of my snot away with my arm. I flip back onto my back as I start blankly into the ceiling. Liam peeks into my view as I slowly flutter close my eyes.
"Listen Tokumi... I already know your sad about your boyfriend and all... but still! You shouldn't be too beat up about this! After all... it's not like he's going to start to hate you after all that!"
"Are you serious with me right now?! Did you even see how Satoru's eyes look like when he first sees me out of my akumatization!? How is he not going to be scared of me this time?!" I question yell at Liam as I release a heavy sigh. I turn my head to my left with my Miraculous back on my wrist. How can I even take my work seriously as 'Raton Laveur' when I can't even take my mind off Satoru for a single minute? Well... one thing is for sure...
...Angie is going to straight to hell as long as I live...
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