...
Time flew by, and those two days until Alice's wedding were over so quickly that almost no one could even process anything.

Everyone was confused, anxious and exhausted.
Especially Gabriel who agreed to take care of all the kids, meaning Adrien alongside with the two smaller boys, and Felix with his girlfriend, but they didn't really consider themselves 'kids' although they were just as immature as the others.

So it was safe to say that everything was one big chaotic circus.

In addition, as if this trouble wasn't already enough, the grey haired man himself struggled a lot, due to the presence of a very special guest.

Emilie here, Amelie there, the designer still felt some type of way about his no longer wife.
He tried his best to focus on his now 'almost girlfriend' Nathalie, but Gabriel couldn't help to occasionally ask Felix about how his 'mother' got along with her boyfriend.

However that only worsened the situation since the blond boy said everything was fine and they very much loved each other which totally enraged the designer.
He felt furious that someone else got his Emilie acting so happy, but with a little reassurance that 'this was all just an act' Gabriel managed not to do anything too stupid.

"So, how do I look?" A sudden giggle brought him back into reality, and when the man looked up to see who was talking to him, he saw his very beautifully dressed assistant.
She looked gorgeous and stunning all at once, making the designer blush in an instant and jump to his feet.

"You, my love, look very appealing!"

"Appealing really?" She scoffed "Is that what best describes me? Because I wouldn't want to ruin-"

"Nathalie! You won't ruin anything!" Gabriel interrupted, placing his hands on her shoulders and like that pulling the woman close "You look very, very beautiful! In fact can't even find the right words." He placed a kiss onto her cheek, before pulling back and continuing to admire her for a little longer "Don't worry everything will be fine, and nothing can ruin this wedding!"

"N-nothing-" Nathalie nodded in agreement, however behaving rather skeptical "r-right-" She tried to sound confident, but her stuttering gave it all away and clearly told her soon to be boyfriend that something was not right.

So automatically Gabriel couldn't help but wonder:

"Nath why are you so worried? It's not even your wedding. We're both just gonna sit there and simply watch the ceremony." He explained, but his employee didn't even look at him, she just shook her head, which forced the man to admit: "Okay, maybe I will have to walk Alice up to the altar because I'm her father and all that complicated stuff, but you my darling love, my precious life, my one and only, you don't have to do anything!"

"W-well y-yeah-...I-I guess-...b-but-..."

"But?" The grey haired man questioned "Tell me what's bothering you!"

"Fine!" She sighed "Fine I'll say it!!" Nathalie by now was yelling "I'm scared of what you'll do!"

"Me? What would I do?"

"I don't know! And that's the problem!" The assistant screamed "You might propose to me in the middle of your daughter's wedding, with that completely ruining her mood alongside with everyone else's mood, or you might go and cheat on me with goddamn Emilie! I have no clue what your next move is gonna be, and that scares me!"

Gabriel sighed after he heard his Nathalie go on such a ridiculous rant like this.
He just couldn't believe that right now this was the actually reason as to why she was looking so frustrated.

To him all of this sounded so unbelievable that without realizing the man began laughing, but before he could've stopped himself, his Nathalie stopped him faster with a slap and a yell:

"Oh Gabriel you never take anything seriously!" She began "You don't know how much any of your affection mean to me! Y-you j-just m-mess around with my feelings as if you were a kid and they were your toys!"

"Love I-"

"No! Hush! I don't want to hear an apology! Instead I want you to promise to me that you won't ever cheat or purposely hurt me! Got it?"

"Yes, I got it." The designer said with the most serious face ever, staring straight into Nathalie's soul "I won't ever cheat-" he began to recite her words "And I won't ever purposely hurt you-" Gabriel smiled "But..." the man began to carefully lower himself onto the ground, before getting on one knee, unexpectedly pulling out a ring from his pocket, and then looking up right at the completely terrified face of his woman, Gabriel said: "I will have to ask-"

"No-no-no please don't do it now!"

"Will you marry me Nathalie?" He said it anyway. Still looking at her eyes, trying to make eye contact but the tears in the assistant's eyes were too strong. They completely blurred her vision, smudged her mascara, and ruined her eyeliner, all at once.

Nevertheless Gabriel kept his head high whilst continuously holding the ruby ring in his hand, and patiently waiting for her answer.

"Fuck!" Nathalie exclaimed all flustered and crying "I-I told you not to do this!! Why don't you ever listen to me!!"

"So? Is that a-"

"Yes!" She now screamed "Goddamn it, of course I will marry you!"
Nathalie cried hugging her new husband well before he could've even placed the ruby ring onto her finger.
But that didn't matter right now.
All that was important was that they were together and Nathalie said 'yes'.

Gabriel felt like the happiest man ever, whilst the gladly sobbing assistant in his arms felt like the happiness woman ever.
She just wasn't in the right state of mind to show that.
In fact Nathalie could only cry on as she couldn't bring herself to believe that this was really happening.

To her this was all just a ridiculous dream.
A dream which realistically should've never come true.

Yet here they were now.
Incredibly freshly engaged, and happier than anyone could've ever been on this whole entire planet.

The couple didn't even realize how much time had passed when they heard a quiet little knock on the door which was from Adrien himself.

"Father? Nathalie? We have a problem-" But the boy couldn't even finish his sentence when he found the two adults hugging each other on the floor, Nathalie all in tears, her makeup running down, whilst the grey haired man also had tears, yet also a smile on his face.
"What happened?!?!" Adrien asked anxiously as he kneeled down next to the two work partners. "Nathalie are you okay-"

"Adrien-" she interrupted "Y-your dad-...h-h-he-"

"He what?" The teenager shouted, looking at his father with an aggressive stare that was full of anger, thinking that Gabriel did something mean.
However as the grey haired man took a hold of his fiancé's hand and lifted it up a bit, his son could then see the very brightly shining ring on the assistant's ring finger.

"I proposed!" Came a little laugh from the designer who then kissed Nathalie's hand before placing it where it was before. "Now she's your mother Adrien!"

The boy couldn't even process what happened before he without hesitation hugged both of his 'parents' and completely forgot about the reason as to why he came there in the first place.

-

After a few minutes had passed they were still hugging each other, but now, once again, a knock interrupted the cute moment.

"Adrien?" The voice of Alice asked "Adrien did you tell dad to-...What happened here?!" The blond woman exclaimed in shock as she stepped in to see absolute chaos just an hour before her wedding ceremony.

She was already dressed up, looking perfect and without a flaw, but in the meantime Nathalie's hair had fallen out of that organized bun and her mascara got completely washed off by those many tears she shed not so long ago, and just like the assistant, the designer himself wasn't looking so much better, his neatly gelled down hair was standing in all different directions and his suit got completely crumpled because of both Nathalie and Adrien hugging him so tightly.

"W-wha-"

"Alice look!" The boy shouted before grabbing his new mom's hand and pulling it up so that the ring became very visible. "Nathalie is basically...our mom now!!" Adrien laughed with tears in his eyes, and the bride herself couldn't help but do the same as she realized what just happened.

So Alice carefully sat down onto the floor, not to damage her dress, and hugged everyone there who were all as equally overwhelmed as her.

"This is wonderful!" She smiled looking over at her father, very proudly "I'm so happy, for the both of you! And I'm so proud of you dad!"

"Thank you." A faint whispered came from the grey haired man who was not able to say anything due to the fact that he now had achieved what he wanted for so long.

To move on.
To forget his old life, his old love, his old feelings, and instead start with a new life, a new love, and a new relationship.

So with a smile Gabriel kissed the top of Nathalie's head before slowly getting up, pulling his fiancée up and then grabbing the hand of his daughter.

"Alice." The designer said whilst he pulled her up "I can't believe that right now I'm at your wedding, watching you start a happy and new life..."

"Oh dad-" she smiled "Don't make me tear up!"

"Well-...I wouldn't want to, but I just can't help myself whenever I think back to how tiny you used to be!-"

"Dad! Stop it!!"

"No Alice, you really were a baby once-...a-and now-...you're an adult with your own life and family, I can't even believe it. I'm so proud of you!"

"Dad!" Alice exclaimed before falling into her father's arms and hugging him as if they were about to part forever.
Yet they weren't.
This hug was like any other ordinary hug, but to Gabriel and Alice it felt like more.
It was as if they would've missed this hug from one-another throughout their entire life, and now they finally had it.

"Oh my beautiful daughter-" the designer said after he pulled back. "Oh my-" but before Gabriel could've further expressed his feelings his daughter covered his mouth with her entire palm.

"Dad please!" She looked at him "I-I s-shouldn't c-cry b-because-...my wedding. You know!"
The blond woman smiled, looking at her father, then her brother, and lastly her new mom who instead smiling back, smirked back.

"Let's not waste any more time because you still have to get married today!!" The assistant commented slyly to which her 'basically' daughter sighed sounding more than exhausted:

"Oh god that's what I'm afraid of!" Alice laughed "But let's go anyway!"

Nathalie nodded, kissed her fiancé goodbye and hugged her 'son' goodbye, then sweetly pushed them both out of the room so that her alongside with Alice could get fully ready and fix whatever damage the tears did to their makeup.

"Wait here." The assistant said as soon as they were alone "I'll just quickly fix my makeup in the bathroom!"
However as Nathalie turned away she got held back by the quite desperate and strong grip of the young woman who didn't want to let her go.

"N-nath w-wait!" She whispered "I-I n-need t-to tell y-you something-"

"Okay? Then come explain it to me whilst I'm fixing my makeup!"

Alice nodded and followed the dark haired woman into the bathroom.
Then when they were completely alone she shut the door behind them and even locked it, which did worry Nathalie a bit.

She didn't like the fact that her friend was acting so strange, almost as if they would've been in serious trouble.
Especially not on the day of her wedding which was supposed to be 'the best day ever'.

So after a bit of awkward silence between the two women, Nathalie began:

"Well you wanted to tell me-"

"Yeah-...something serious..." Alice gulped, staring at Nathalie, who in the meantime was wiping off the mascara which her tears ruined "...so-...I-...I haven't t-told anyone this-...a-and I need your help because y-you know Martin probably better than I do...s-so-...I-...I need to tell him that-..."

"That?" The assistant repeated in a confused voice as she opened her eyes after washing off her makeup "That wha-" but before she could've asked again she spotted the blond woman's hand moving around in circular motions on her belly.
"No fucking way-"

"I know! I know! I-...I fucked up haven't I?"

"Well...yes you did 'fuck', I don't know if it was up though or down, but you did fuck for sure."

"Oh Nathalie come on!" Alice whined "I need help, not your humor right now!"

"Well I don't know how to help, I'm sure Martin would be happy to hear because he has always loved children, b-but are you sure you want to have a third child at the age of...24?"

"Almost 25 to be fair...and yes you're right I'm crazy...b-but his face! Awh you should've seen Martin when I said I wouldn't mind having kids with him. He looked so adorable!"

"I bet." Nathalie rolled her eyes sarcastically, but not in a mean way, she did it with a joking manner, because in reality the assistant was honestly very happy for Alice, and for Martin of course.
She knew he always wanted a family, and after hearing these news, Nathalie knew that the man she once was with would now be happier than ever.

To be continued-

Shitty chapter sorry.