"Is she better?" Gabriel asked shyly.
"Huh?"
"Is she better than me?"
"W-what no-"
"You're lying, aren't you...she probably makes you feel so special and much better than I ever could, because all I am is a disappointment."
"What no! You're very-...amazing."
"Please don't lie. That hurts even more."
"I'm not lying Gabriel! You're not a disappointment, if you were I wouldn't have suffered this much to be with you." Nathalie put down her coffee mug and walked over to comfort Gabriel. He seemed very crushed because of the Emelie situation.
Poor guy just wanted someone to love him, but love isn't an easy matter for the Agreste family. He's never been really loved, yeah sure he married Emelie, but soon after their marriage it became very clear that Emelie had eyes for someone else, he just couldn't figure out who it was.
"When did this start? The 'thing' between you and Emelie."
"Uhmm about...15 years ago?"
"Oh..."
So it was her. The mysterious lover Emelie always spent more time with then her husband. No wonder Nathalie was so eager about bringing her back to life, she must've missed her just as much a Gabriel did.
"But it was nothing-...Emelie used to be 'together' with everyone back then." Nathalie tried to ease Gabriel's thoughts but he looked even more troubled.
"Everyone?"
So it appears there were more lovers.
"Mhm, I was more of the unimportant ones."
"Who is everyone?" Gabriel came closer to Nathalie and he desperately shook the poor woman for an answer.
"I don't exactly know"
"Yes you do! Otherwise you wouldn't have brought it up! Who is it?!?!?"
"I don't know, probably like André-"
"ANDRÉ?!?!?"
"I DON'T KNOWWWWW IT WAS A GUESS"
"ANDRÈ?!?!?!"
"I DON'T KNOW!! PLEASE LET ME GO." Nathalie got very dizzy and slowly slid out of his grip down to the ground, her whole body shaking and having the urge to throw up.
Gabriel quickly realized what he'd just done to this poor little lady.
"Gosh no-no I'm so sorry." He tried to help her up, but one of Nathalie's hands covered her mouth whilst the other one held her trembling body up.
"Uhhh pardon, but I heard shouting?" A kid's voice interrupted.
It couldn't be Adrien since he'd already left with Emelie so then who was it?
"Felix?" He was the last person Gabriel expected to stand in the door.
Poor kid has been forgotten, and he'd just overheard everything that has happened in the mansion for the past couple of days.
Gabriel's focus shifted back to Nathalie when her hand started to shake and she couldn't hold herself up properly.
"Can you go home alone? Or-...never mind I'll drive you. Give me second Felix, first I have to-"
"Yeah yeah, take care of her, until then I'll go pack my bag"
Gabriel nodded and returned to help Nathalie.
"Please just leave me, go take care of F-Felix."
"Hushhh, I'll be here until you're fine."
"You don't need to"
"I do."
So then Gabriel waited 5 minutes until Nathalie managed to stand on her own legs without falling down.
By the time the two adults made it to the front door Felix was already waiting in one of the cars. Gabriel gently placed Nathalie onto the passenger seat whilst he got in the drive's seat himself.
"Why is Miss Nathalie coming? Isn't she sick?" Felix asked as he looked at Nathalie sitting in the passenger seat whilst she was trying her best not to throw up.
"After I take you home I'll take her to the hospital."
"What no! Gabriel I'm completely fine."
"Hush, we're not going to argue over that."
"You're exaggerating my sickness, it's just from the peac- I mean"
As Nathalie looked in the review mirror she could see the puzzled look Felix gave her.
"From my injury." She corrected herself.
"What injury?"
"Uhhh I fell down the staircase!"
"So that's why you have nausea?"
Nathalie agreeingly nodded and then looked away from the kid's direction so he wouldn't see her embarrassed face.

*later*

After the adults took the kid home Nathalie could see that Gabriel started to drive towards the hospital, and there was nothing that she could do to stop him.
"Gabriel please!"
"Nathalie you're not fine! Plus a little check up won't hurt."
Nathalie would have protested and explained how that would be unnecessary but she eventually gave in.
After arriving at the hospital Nathalie alongside with Gabriel walked in. Whilst Gabriel walked up to the receptionist Nathalie stayed behind and waited. After a minute has passed the receptionist called over a lady dressed in a nurse uniform, and she guided them over to a small room with a hospital bed.
The nurse told Gabriel to wait until the doctor would show up and he would check on Nathalie.
It didn't take long before a slightly tall person with a white cloak stood in the door, and he introduced himself as "the doctor".
"Do you have any idea why you felt sick?" The doctor asked Nathalie.
She looked over to Gabriel, and the poor man who didn't understand what she wanted just shrugged.
"No."
"Alright, well then we'll just take a little blood test and as soon as the results are back we can figure out what's wrong."
Nathalie nodded as she obediently gave her hand over to the doctor so he could take her blood.
Whilst the middle-aged doctor was focused on finding the right vein to poke Nathalie gave a stern look over to Gabriel who was sitting on the chair beside her bed.
With her scary stare she mumbled the words "miraculous" and Gabriel immediately got what she was trying to communicate.
Gabriel nodded back to Nathalie, and she quickly smiled at him but as the needed poked through her skin she flinched a bit. Gabriel was thankfully there to hold her other hand whilst the doctor took her blood.
"Excellent! Now I'll hurry back with the results! Just a few minutes."
The man with the white cloak quickly ran out the door, leaving the two adults alone.
"So you think the peacock miraculous still affects you? You haven't used it in quite a while."
"I know, it shouldn't have a long term affect but-" and the rest of her words were cut off by Gabriel's phone ringing.

~incoming call from Adrien~

Gabriel was surprised at the identity of the caller, but he picked up the phone and instead of a "hey dad" he got a "Father!!! Mom passed out on the floor!!".
Poor Adrien sounded traumatized.
"What happened?!" Gabriel got up from the chair and nervously walked around in circles. Nathalie couldn't hear a thing he was saying so she anxiously waited until he was finished with the call and he could report back.
"Emelie. S-she's unconscious, and Adrien is all alone with her. Nathalie I love you but-"
"Go find her-"
"Alright, thank you. I love you Nath-" she couldn't hear the rest of her name being pronounced because of the door slamming.
Though Nathalie was stressed because of what had happened to Emelie she was also stressed because of the blood test, and what the results would show.
"So Miss your results are back, and although we didn't find anything too serious we did see your immune system is much weaker compared to the average, I've already prescribed some medication for you. We will keep you in the hospital for the night but after that you're free to leave." Nathalie felt relieved for a second that nothing was seriously damaged with her health, but she knew Gabriel would make a huge fuss about how she needed rest and she wouldn't be allowed to work for a whole week.
Nathalie always believed that his protective behavior was because of how he still had trauma from Emelie's passing away.
The memory of when he overworked her so much that one day she just collapsed and fell into a 2 year coma must have affected his whole life greatly, so no wonder he always made sure Nathalie wouldn't work too much.
The fact that Emelie also collapsed now wasn't helping either, so Nathalie might have been even more anxious about Emelie's health than Gabriel.

*meanwhile with Emelie*

Gabriel quickly arrived at the new house Emelie had moved into and once he flung the door open he could see Adrien trying to hold his mother but miserably failing and falling back to the ground with Emelie's unconscious body.
"Father please help."
"It's alright Adrien, I'll take care of her, you just call an ambulance."
The kid nodded whilst intensely sobbing.
"Adrien-Adrien...I need you to calm down, I know it's horrible to see her like this but-"
"But I don't want to lose her again!"
That 'again' made Gabriel's heart ache, because he knew he was the reason she fell into a coma the first time. So he couldn't allow it a second time. He wouldn't be able to forgive himself, and most likely Adrien wouldn't forgive him either.
"We won't lose her you hear me? Adrien stop. She still has a pulse so everything will be fine. I promise."
"Your promises don't go far!" The kid shouted back. His whole face red and the tears streaming down his face burned his skin even more. Once Gabriel tried to reach out to stop his tantrum Adrien started to weakly punch his father and scream all types of swears at the poor man holing Emelie in his arms.
"It's all because of you that we're here now! You couldn't have just loved her for a little longer!! You couldn't!!! You got 'bored' so you went with the only other option."
"Don't you dare talk about 'my' Nathalie as an 'option'"
"That's what she is! A person so desperate for love she'll marry anyone, and a man so bored of his 'dead' wife he'll find any side chick just so he can fulfill his own desires."

To be continued-
Hah you thought Nathalie was pregnant didn't you, and I also bet you guys were really disappointed once you found out she wasn't.
Not for now, but maybe later *wink*.