"Nathalie! I still need your help though!" Alice said as she was smiling at her mother who directly smirked back at her.

"Well-..." the assistant began "...I don't think you need to think much of this matter, because whenever you tell Martin, it'll be perfect. He'll always react happy and will most definitely be excited to receive such news."

"I-okay-..." the blond woman smiled before wondering again "so...what a-about my father and Adrien? N-neither of them l-like Martin a-and if they find out that it's his kid then-"

"I'm sure they'll be delighted to hear the news." Nathalie reassured by turning around and placing a hand on her 'daughter's' shoulder "even if the aren't exactly 'friends' with the father, Martin is still better than the last one, isn't he?"

Alice suddenly gasped to the sound of that.

She had no idea if Nathalie knew who she was talking about, or if she was only making assumptions. Either way though, that sentence rather shocked the blond woman.

"I-...well-...o-of c-course M-Martin is b-better!" she blurted out without hesitation "but-...how do you know?"

"Oh-...well-...Alice I know a lot of things! That's just the way of mothers!"

"Right, mothers are definitely magical but right now I want to know the truth behind your magic ways of knowing such things!"

"Uhm well-" the dark haired woman swallowed hard before looking around the room, trying to hide her awkward face which knew that now there was no turning back or lying.
Alice would eventually find out that Tom had done some things to Nathalie too.
However, whilst she could, the assistant played dumb:
"...a little birdie told me-"

"Nathalie!!" Alice shouted all of a sudden, grabbing her mother's shoulders and furiously shaking her by it "Nathalie this isn't a joke!! I must know where you know my previous husba-...boyfriend from!! And do not lie to me!"

"A-I-...I-...I can't!" She struggled to say "I-...I seriously can't t-tell you-"

"-why!?!? Did he threaten you?! "
Nathalie shook her head 'no'
"Do you know him in person?!?"
Nathalie shrugged with an uncomfortable glare
"Do you-...wait-..." Alice's voice faded out there because as she came to the last option of her quiz game she realized that her mom was about to nod.
Yet before Nathalie could've done so the younger woman fell into her new mother's arms and hugged her tight.

"Did he?" She asked "Did he hurt you mom?"

The assistant stayed quiet for this part.

She didn't disagree or agree to the truth, she simply shrugged again and said:

"You shouldn't worry about that!! Especially not on your wedding my darling, just have fun!"

"Oh but Nath-..." The blond woman whispered in disbelief "You should've told me!!"

"I-...you shouldn't even know! It's embarrassing!"

"No! There's nothing embarrassing about it! It's not your fault, it's his fault! He is the abuser are you're the victim!! You shouldn't be the one feeling guiltily, instead that hideous monster should be rotting behind bars, yet he is still out there somewhere-"

"Well actually Alice..." Nathalie interrupted with a smile thinking back to just a few days ago "Your father solved that problem!!"

"Which problem?"

"Tom showing up to your wedding, or him harming anyone."

"I-..."Alice went speechless "Y-y-you know his name and everything?" She asked with a trembling voice.

"Well of course, how could I not.
But anyways as I was saying-...Gabriel-...he-...well-...nicely speaking he got rid of Tom."

"G-got r-rid o-of?"

"Mhm" Nathalie nodded happily.

"So my dad killed another man-..."

"Well when you phrase it like that-"

"-Hey!!" A man's voice interrupted "did I hear my name?!" The designer could be heard from behind the door, and after just a few second he pushed down the handle to enter.
"What were you two discussing?! And why was my name used?! Did I do anything bad?" He wondered with a curious, childish face.

"Oh sir it's nothing you should stress over!" Nathalie began with a smile as she made her way over to the man and placed one of her hands on his chest. "Your name was used in a good way, not a bad one!"

"Great to know but I'd still like to know the topic of discussion, if you two don't mind sharing a little 'tea' with me."

"Well the fact that you used the word 'tea' is really making me doubt if I should-"

"Nathalie!!" Gabriel's worried and frustrated voice warned her that it was not the right time to joke around.

"Okay, okay sir. You know that I only meant that as a joke!"

"Right, now tell me because I'm getting worried!!" He spat before sniffing a little to hold back those tears which were uncontrollably forming so fast in his eyes that the designer couldn't help but take out a handkerchief from his pocket and dry his eyes.

"Oh don't cry!" Nathalie whispered as she saw this, and stood on her tiptoes whilst leaning forward to give her superior a kiss on the cheek, and wipe his tears away herself
"Me and Alice only talked about...someone no one likes."

"Audrey?" He questioned which made both women giggle a lot.

"What no!! I meant Tom you idiot!"

"Oh right! Him!" Gabriel nodded and now it all made sense.

"Yes exactly him! So I explained to Alice how you...had a conflict with him recently and by that basically...got rid of him."

"Oh yes I remember! I hope I killed him because he truly doesn't deserve to take another precious breath of oxygen!!"

"R-right-...a-and y-you got away with it?" Alice asked sacredly "D-did n-no one find the b-body?"

"Don't be scared darling!" Nathalie giggled grabbing her daughter's arm and dragging her out of the bathroom "Especially not on your wedding!" The assistant smiled "Now let's go because you can't be late to your own ceremony!!"

"Shit!" Alice exclaimed anxiously "You're right!"

With that the young woman didn't hesitate to grab both of her parents and run full speed down the stairs, whilst wearing her heels and her very delicately designed wedding dress.

Nevertheless that didn't stop Alice from hurrying like never before, and luckily they made it just in time.

...

"My love?" Asked Martin looking all around himself because he had his eyes covered with both of his hands "Are you somewhere here?"

"Yes!" The blond woman laughed "Right here!"

"O-okay great! I just didn't want to look because-...you know! Seeing the bride before the wedding brings back luck! So I wouldn't want to risk it-"

"Oh stop!" She teased "You're too cute for doing that! Just why I love you so much!!"

"No you stop!! Now I'd kiss you but I can't even see you so-"

"You're welcome." Alice said right after cutting off her almost husband with a little kiss on his cheek. "But now I gotta go! You know after all we have to get married!"

"Yeah yeah go my love!" Martin encouraged "I can't wait to already call you my wife!"

The blond woman smiled after she'd heard her boyfriend say such a sweet thing, in fact she would've loved to tell him and even show him how honored she felt, but she couldn't, so Alice just sighed annoyed and quickly made her way to the place where Gabriel waited for her.

"Alice!" The designer exclaimed as he saw his daughter running towards him "We need to-"

"Go!" She finished his sentence "Yes I know that we need to go and I need to get married!"

"Alright, so you're ready?"

"Well-..." Alice hesitated "I'm more like overwhelmed but who cares, I just want to get married already!"

"Glad to hear. Now shall we?"

"We shall." She nodded, took her father's hand, and was ready to walk down the aisle.

"Oh isn't she just gorgeous?" Nathalie whispered nudging Adrien who was anxiously holding onto the two engagement rings.

"Y-yeah!" The young boy cheered smiling up at his mother, then glancing onto the aslie on which Alice was walking down on.

"Oh isn't he just obsessed with you!" Gabriel whispered over to his daughter whilst holding her arm tight "I mean would you look at the way he is staring at you right now!"

"Oh dad stop!" Alice nudged him back "I'm already nervous enough!"

"Right sorry."

With that little whisper apology the designer and his daughter had arrived at the altar, and right then and there was no way for the poor young woman to ease her stress.
She just simply blinked a couple of times and sniffed up her tears which could've potentially ruined her flawless looking makeup.
The Alice awkwardly smiled and already hoped for everything to be over.

-

Thankfully everything concerning the ceremony went well, and after both engaged people had said their vowels the worry upon everyone's shoulders was lifted.
Now the whole family could finally enjoy the rest of the wedding whilst not having to worry about everything turning out the way that it should.

However, of course the designer was still stressed.
His previous wife was still there, Felix was still there, and all those other people whom he despised were happily talking with the newly married couple.

At one point the grey haired man did consider walking up to Emilie and starting a conversation, but as he knew that he has just proposed to Nathalie, he instead went to search for her.

The only issue was that she couldn't be found anywhere.
She wasn't with Adrien, she wasn't with Alice or Martin, the assistant was simply lost somewhere in the house.

Gabriel had almost checked every room by the time that he heard some innocent giggling behind the corner, and when he carefully tiptoed his way there, he could at last see his fiancé talking to another individual who didn't quite seem familiar.

It was a man, for sure, but Gabriel didn't know this one from anywhere, or at least he didn't remember the guy from any family gathering.

So the designer attempted to take a closer look by leaning a bit further out from his 'hiding spot' however as he did so, he slipped on the marble ground and almost fell face first, right in front of the two adults chatting.
Except, that unknown man grabbed Gabriel's arm before he would've landed.

"A! Thank you!" The grey haired man smiled in his embarrassment, then turned to his fiancé and gave her an upset look "I was searching for you! My love!"

"I-...well-...sir!" Nathalie chuckled trying to make the conversation less awkward "I-...I was simply talking to Amelie's boyfriend! You know him! We've met before."

"Right, we have." Gabriel spat as he remembered their last encounter and all the mistakes which he had done there, however before he could've processed that at all, a hand appeared before him, and the next thing that he heard was:

"It's a pleasure to meet you once again Mr Agreste! I'm Ron if you were wondering."

The designer took a few seconds to respond as he was not only too shocked but also too stubborn to answer back nicely, but after a not so joking nudge from Nathalie, Gabriel was sort of forced to smile and say:

"Nice to meet you too! I'm obviously Gabriel, but you already knew that!"

"Yes, right, I did!" The man smiled, infuriating the designer even more.

"So what were you and my wife-FIANCÉ I mean, talking about?"

"Oh nothing much!" He gave a look over to Nathalie which made the woman giggle, and filled Gabriel with absolute rage.
"We were simply chatting about past events and how complicated this family is!"

"Yeah exactly." Nathalie added "Forgive me sir but I just had to know! Plus isn't it great that now I know your family better?"

"It's delightful." Gabriel rolled his eyes before aggressively grabbing his assistant's arm and with a firm, strict look, he tightened his grip.
"However unfortunately now we must leave!"

To be continued-