In the morning whilst the assistant was sleeping soundly, her boss had woken up.

Gabriel opened his eyes to see himself still fully dressed in the suit he wore yesterday, his shoes on, and his hair still styled the same way, all this looked great, but it sure didn't feel great.
In fact getting up with a horrible hangover and the most ridiculously uncomfortable clothes ever had the designer wanting to die.
But then when he looked to his side and saw his fiancée peacefully sleeping, he suddenly didn't have those bad thoughts anymore.
They all just disappeared as he admired Nathalie.

"Good morning love." Gabriel whispered "I hope you slept well because I sure didn't."

The woman didn't answer though, she didn't even move at all, but the man knew that she just must've been exhausted, so he didn't bother with waking her up.

Instead the designer silently made his way to the bathroom to somehow fix himself, because the state he was in, was absolutely unexplainable.

So Gabriel took a shower, dressed himself in some better clothes which were less fancy and more comfortable, before brushing his hair out of its gelled down form, which it has been in for a day.

And just when he looked nothing like he usually did, a knock was heard on the bathroom door.

"Sir?" Nathalie's voice asked "Are you in there?"

"Y-yes? W-why? Do you need to use the bathroom?"

"Well-...I'd like to, yes."

"I-oh-one second." He hurried to grab all his stuff before opening the door and giving his assistant a smile. "Good morning Nath."

"Good morning Gabriel." The woman returned, sounding very tired as she entered the bathroom and didn't even hug or kiss her fiancé.

This also made the designer himself feel somewhat sad, but because he didn't want to disturb her morning routine, he just left without a word.

So whilst Nathalie was doing whatever she was doing, the grey haired man himself packed
his suitcase for the trip and also began to pack his soon to be wife's suitcase, but just when he opened it, a small paper flyer flew out of one of the inner pockets and landed right before the designer. So although Gabriel didn't want to be nosy, he still couldn't leave the flyer alone, plus he couldn't have ever imagined the paper to be anything bad or too disturbing for him.
In fact he only thought it was some circus ticket which the assistant would've used to surprise Adrien, as he liked those stuff, but when the man picked up the flyer and turned it around, then, his jaw dropped.

It was an advertisement for a nightclub, the place where he could never ever imagine Nathalie going.
Yet as she had this in her suitcase she must've been somehow involved.

Maybe it was just all an accident and an old flyer, but the date on it said otherwise, so then Gabriel simply assumed that someone random who didn't at all know her must've given his fiancée this paper, because no sane person who she knew would give the woman such an advertisement, especially not since now she was engaged to her boss.

No one would dare to do such a thing to Gabriel Agreste's most loyal assistant and soon to be wife, no one would risk their lives like that.
And therefore this left the man to consider the possibility that his very own fiancée got this flyer for herself, without anyone else's influence, but before he could've thought much of it, the paper suddenly got ripped out of his hand by the assistant herself.

"GABRIEL!" She exclaimed loudly in shock "WERE YOU LOOKING THROUGH MY SGUFF?!?"

"What nonono! I-...I just wanted to do something nice for you and decided to help you pack your clothes...b-but t-then that thing flew out of the suitcase." He looked at the advertisement in disgust "So...are you-...doing something I don't know of?"

"What? No! Why would I?"

"I don't know...I just thought that's why you'd have a nightclub advertisement with you...or maybe...you're the one putting on a show for other people?"

"Gabriel!" Nathalie gasped "I-...I most definitely don't do that!"
Yet the man didn't believe her, and it was clear to the assistant that her boss was not having any of the words which came out of her mouth.

Even when she shook her head vigorously and tried to give him a hug, Gabriel simply took her hands off of him and stepped away.

"Don't touch me." He said coldly "Don't even come near me."

"B-but I-I swear I d-don't-"

"Stay right there!" He said it again, this time louder and shouting "Stay right there Nathalie and do not lie to me! I won't have any of that! Understand?"

"I understand, but please know that I'm not lying! I would never do such a thing, and I couldn't even! So believe me when I say that I wasn't involved with whatever you were thinking of because first of all I don't have the confidence, and in addition pleasing such disgusting men makes me sick to my stomach! So Gabriel I-...you're the only one for me and this flyer is something completely different then what you thought it would be. Please believe me." She begged looking up into her superior's pale colored eyes which didn't stop staring at her in a stern manner.
He just kept his cold expression and shrugged a bit.

"Okay whatever" the man uttered "but I'm still skeptical."

"May I hug you though?" Nathalie wondered with a weak whisper that her boss heard very clearly, but he acted as if he wouldn't have, so Gabriel turned his back to the woman and walked away to continue with packing his bag, leaving the assistant completely heartbroken and with a pool of tears in her eyes.
"Gabriel!" She tried to say a little louder "Gabriel please answer me! Don't act like I'm a ghost!"
But the man didn't move and Nathalie was still staring at the back of her fiancé who didn't feel like her fiancé anymore, instead the man acted as if he would've been a complete stranger to her.
"GABRIEL!" She finally screamed, so loudly in fact that the designer jumped around in an instant and hurried to cover her mouth.

"Okay hush!" He spat covering her mouth with his hand "No need to yell like you're getting slaughtered!"

"Well maybe if you wouldn't ignore me then I wouldn't need to scream!"

"Alright I'm sorry damn it! You know I'm bad at holding grudges too! So you shouldn't have gotten this worked up over nothing."

"Right, I really shouldn't have." The woman realized "But I'm also horrible at dealing with people being mad at me, so...neither of us are great with these sorts of stuff, a-and you just know that I wouldn't want to make the person whom I love the most angry."

"Oh...I know. And you know too love that I wouldn't want to stay mad at you...but what was that flyer about anyway?"

"Well." She sighed, sounding tired "You know your dear wife's boyfriend whom I was talking to at the wedding? The 'random guy' as you've referred to him before."

"Y-yes...what about him?" Gabriel questioned not having a good feeling about the conversation.
He didn't like it when his assistant would be talking in such a tone, especially when the topic was also about other men.

Usually it didn't have a good outcome.
Either she'd end up crying, or he'd end up shouting, so neither was great.

But despite feeling so skeptical about it all, the designer still listened to what she had to say before he would jump to any conclusions.

"So...you know how that side of the family is greatly involved with all kinds of bad stuff." Nathalie began to which her boss shrugged in an unsure way.

"Umm-"

"Illegal clubs, drug overuse, abuse, slight incest-"

"SLIGHT INCEST?!?!" The grey haired man almost had a cardiac arrest after hearing such a thing  "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SLIGHT INCEST?!?!" He shouted again completely shook.

"Uhm-...I-...well-...technically Felix and his lovely girlfriend are half-siblings...s-so-..."

"THEY ARE?!?!"

"Yes, their father is the same man."

"I-...holy fuck..."

"Well...let's just hope they won't have a kid, but anyways that's  besides the point, what I've wanted to tell you most importantly is that Ron, 'the random guy' gave me this flyer as he knows I've been searching for more information about a man named Tom."
The assistant stopped her sentence there to look up at her superior, and as she saw him trying to keep his expression as stern and emotionless as possible, she couldn't help but admit that he was failing at it horribly.
Especially the moment in which Nathalie shook her head chuckling. Then Gabriel totally lost it and he couldn't appear like he wasn't worried to death anymore.

"Nathalie!" The designer said "Nathalie don't do anything stupid or get yourself involved in such sketchy things!!"

"Oh sir, you worry too much! This isn't going to get me involved anywhere!" She laughed innocently "He just gave me this advertisement with which I could get into the club, and there I can meet Felix's not biological father...but he thinks he is the biological father..."

"Isn't he dead?"

"Apparently not. Apparently from what I've heard he just ran away and faked his death so that he could 'live freely'...but well...I assume that he wanted to sleep with lots of people and not ever commit to a relationship. Plus him 'dying' soon after his wife got pregnant with 'his' child gave both him and Amelie a great chance to cheat on each other."

"Wow." Gabriel gasped as he couldn't even believe how strange his own family was.
He knew they were weird and had a lot of problems, but this twisted story just couldn't possibly get worse.
Well, if only he would've known how much more complicated and messed up the family was.

They had more to them other than the insanely forceful and abusive attitude, they enjoyed manipulating people and making deals which could get one into jail.
So it was understandable how the designer tried to not be like the rest, and instead be 'better'.

He attempted to treat people kindly and not take advantage of them, however having such parents whom constantly treated him horribly and made the poor guy feel worthless,
made things hard for Gabriel to grow into someone nicer, someone else.

The designer sighed as both him and his mind got fed up with all of these thoughts, he simply couldn't escape his past and he hated it, but as he thought of the worst things possible a sudden warm touch on his shoulder made him look up, and fortunately enough for the grey haired man, it was his assistant who's smile immediately made him forget his bad thoughts.

"Sir you're alright?" Nathalie asked a bit concerned, however as soon as her fiancé placed his hand on top of hers, the woman's worries dissolved into thin air.

"I'm fine." Gabriel answered "Just stupid things in my mind."

"Oh...is it because of what I've said?"

"Well...y-yes...but don't blame yourself! You have nothing to do with it!" he shook his head, with that also changing the topic "Anyways, forget this all and just continue with your story."

"Are you sure sir? I don't want to go on if it hurts you or anything-"

"It doesn't." The man cut her off "I'm completely fine! In fact I'm interested in what you have to say next, so please-"

"I-okay...so...well...I thought that Amelie and her old husband were smart about it!"

"Smart about it, really?" Gabriel scoffed under his breath thinking his employees wouldn't hear, except she did.
Nathalie heard it loud and clear, making her also scoff and reply.

"Yes, smart about it because all those horrible and traumatic years which you and Emilie had to live out together, they didn't because they both figured out a way to get away from each other, and it worked, the parents got fooled."

"Well-...yes...b-but their family is still a mess!" The designer interrupted "Amelie's kid is literally fucking his half sister, meanwhile MY WIFE is acting to be my nephew's mother. How messed up is that Nathalie?!?! Do you really think that they fooled the parents? Do you really think that they got away with it?!?! Because I can't help but disagree."

To be continued-