Songs for this chapter:
1. Slipping through my fingers- ABBA
2. Until I found you - Stephen Sanchez
3. Good looking - Suki Waterhouse

After the dark haired woman had waited until her superior was fully sleeping, she quietly snuck out of his room and tiptoed into the blond boy's room, quietly pushing the door open.

"Adrien?" She whispered not turning on a light, only walking in the dark "Adrien are you awake?"

"Y-yes." A depressed little sniff came from under the blanket "I'm awake Nath."

As soon as the assistant had heard how broken her sweet child sounded she knew she had to help because she simply couldn't bare seeing the innocent boy so sad and hurt.

"Adrien can I sit on the edge of your bed and talk to you for a bit?"

"Y-yes..." he muttered "p-please d-do that. I-...I really need you Nath."

And indeed he did, because as soon as the woman lowered herself onto his bed, the teenager immediately threw his arms around her and began sobbing.

"N-nath I-...I miss her s-so m-much-"

"Emilie you mean?"

"Y-yes! My mom! I miss her!!" He screamed all over again. "I-I f-feel so l-lost and l-lonely without h-her!!"

"Oh my sweet boy." The assistant whispered as she carefully wrapped her arms around the kid and pulled him into a tighter hug "I promise to take care of you like she would've done, okay? And no one will ever hurt you!"

"T-that's so nice of y-you to say Nath! I appreciate it a l-lot...b-b-but you know that's not my only problem." Adrien stopped speaking, wiped his tears away, and pulled back from the hug.
Then he watched as Nathalie herself lifted her head to look at him, and once she did he reached out to grab the woman's hands.

"You know Nath...since mother's death...my father had also been left lonely."

"Yes I know Adrien." she responded without hesitation, trying to maintain a calm face, yet in reality the assistant was trembling.

"A-and y-you know he is not just lonely in the sense that he no longer has a wife...I mean that he is touch starved now."

"I-oh-"

"I know I know it's weird that I care, b-but sometimes I try to give my dad a hug, maybe even ask him to watch a movie with me, but he always rejects! A-and I-...Nathalie I mean this in the most respectful way possible towards you b-but-..since I assume that you're single...a-and since you know my father so well-"

"ADRIEN!" She all of a sudden screamed, right before covering her mouth and realizing she'd overreacted too much "Adrien how do you know I'm not with anyone?!?!"

"I-...I didn't mean to insult you b-but-"

"But?!?! What about me screams 'single'?!?!"

"I-...N-Nath I didn't mean it like that!!"

"DO I LOOK LIKE A SINGLE LOSER WHO ATTRACTS NO MEN?!?! D-do I-..."

"No!" A very confident voice uttered, yet it was not the blond boy's, and before the dark haired woman could've even reacted, she felt the warm touch of a hand on her shoulder that turned her around and made her face Gabriel, whilst she had teary eyes.
"Nathalie I'm sure you attract many men!"

"I-...s-sir!"

"Please!" He scoffed with a smirk before turning to his own son and switching to a much more strict, upset look "Now Adrien would you care to explain why you'd like to get me and Nathalie together?!"

"I-I-...f-father-...I only want good for you!"

"And so you try to find a woman for me?!?! Why do you think I even want anyone?!?!"

"Oh come on! I see you look at mother's portrait wishing she'd be back to care for you! You're lonely father! Admit it!"

"I-...ADRIEN GO TO BED! A-and N-Nathalie c-come with me!"

The grey haired man grabbed his assistant's hand, dragged her away, and slammed the kid's door shut.

"I'm so sorry, he is out of his mind!" Mumbled Gabriel as he still held onto the hand of his employees very firmly.
In fact so tightly that it was sort of cutting off Nathalie's blood circulation, however she didn't care, all she did was look up into her superior's eyes, and whilst enjoying the view she had, she smiled innocently.

"Don't worry sir, I-...It's not like I would ever date you! I mean that's just silly! P-plus I-...I am seeing someone!" She lied, she completely lied.

"Oh you are?" A intriguing voice asked coming from the designer who before could never imagine his assistant dating, although that was simply because he never tired to imagine her.
All his mind ever thought of was Emilie, his dear wife, and any other thought about some woman would automatically never even exist in the man's mind.
Yet this time everything was different, he could very clearly imagine his assistant loving someone, being with them, and taking care of them.
After all she was always that caring, kind, and wholesome type of soul who became extremely selfless whenever it came to helping others.
So the more Gabriel thought of it, the more clear it became to him.
"You're...with someone?"

"Well...no not really...you know just seeing each other...as in...friends!"

"With benefits?" The designer looked at his assistant with a smirk, however she didn't return one, she only gave back a flustered head shake.

"I-well-yes-not quite-...I mean-.."

"It's alright Nath, I don't need an answer if you're not comfortable with giving one. I'll be perfectly fine with only knowing that you're seeing a friend-"

"-who I love!" She blurted out all of a sudden not even noticing that she did that, but as soon as the dark haired woman came across her superior's weirded out face she knew she messed up.
"I apologize sir...I-I didn't mean to-..."

"T-that's alright" he responded, a bit skeptical "At least I'm sure now that you very much love this friend of yours!"

"Right...right..."

After this tremendously awkward conversation Nathalie tried to look away from her boss for the most part as they walked back to his room, however once the assistant came to her senses and actually realized that she was now her superior's bedroom, Nathalie couldn't help but stare at the man worried, and utter:

"Sir why are we in your room exactly?"
Wondered the woman to which the man beside her shrugged:

"Well to be totally honest with you I don't know myself. I only wanted to thank you for helping me and Adrien get through these tough times, a-and..."

"And?"

"And well I wanted to drive you home." He admitted "But it's quite late now, and as I'm exhausted plus gorilla isn't here, I don't know how you'd get home, safely."

"I could take the metro." Nathalie herself suggested, but the designer immediately shook his head vigorously

"No no no!" He shouted "That's way to dangerous! And I won't let you get caught by a group of creeps who specifically search for vulnerable women!!"

"Pardon sir but I look vulnerable to you?!"

"I-...well" Gabriel was unsure how to answer as he didn't want to hurt his assistant by saying that she looked weak and easy to hurt, however he also couldn't lie to her by saying that she looked intimidating, because in reality she didn't at all.

That stone cold glare she always had on would not be too scary to the group of dangerous men searching for victims.
So as much as it was a risk to say, the designer still muttered:
"Nath to be completely honest you don't look too scary. I mean if I consider seeing you alone in a dark metro station at night...then I'd definitely think you'd be easy to kidnap or-...of course just to make it clear I don't think like that! I have no bad intentions to hurt women or anything! I would never! Nath you know that you're safe with me, right? You trust me, right?"

"I-...sir-..."

"Nathalie you don't think I'd harass you or do anything bad to you, do you now?"

"S-sir-..n-no I-of course not!"

"You sound hesitant!" Gabriel sighed feeling a bit guilty that he had scared her "But please know I wouldn't ever do such horrible things to anyone, especially not to my most loyal and helpful assistant, you Nathalie. I would never ever hurt you! Okay?"

"Okay, alright sir." She nodded embarrassingly.

And now the atmosphere became more tense than it already was.

Complete silence, whilst the two adults were staring at each other, cluelessly.
Neither of them knew what to say, or what the other wanted to say, so with only a few awkward gestures the two communicated.

Gabriel looked at his assistant, then at his bed, and Nathalie looked at Gabriel's bed before staring back up at him.

"Sir-"

To be continued-