When she finally returned Adrien was asleep, still in his wet clothes, but Nathalie didn't bother to wake him up so she just laid the blanket over the child and watched.

However, soon this peaceful moment got interrupted by two loud knocks which woke up Adrien, and also got Nathalie back into reality.

When she opened the door Gabriel stood there, his head tilted down, and his eyes focused on the floor.

"Good job, you woke up Adrien."
She spat looking at her superior who then proceeded to apologize:
"I'm sorry...I just wanted to see my son."
"Wow, now you care of him!" Nathalie rolled her eyes before stepping aside "Whatever, come in."

And so he did.

The designer awkwardly entered the room with a shy smile that was mean to comfort Adrien, but instead it rather worried him.

"Everything okay father?"
"Y-yes...everything okay-...son?"
"Mhm yes."
"Good, good." Gabriel stepped closer now smiling even more, and also worrying the boy, even more.
But before anything else could've happened the designer 'accidentally' spotted his child's scar which ran down the kid's entire arm, and so with a shocked gasp he couldn't help but ask:

"How did you get this?"
"Well..." Adrien looked at Nathalie "I've been waiting to tell you this-"
But well before the blond haired child could've said anything else, his 'mother' jumped up and exclaimed loudly:
"-OKAY OKAY!!! That's enough family time!! Thank you for dropping in Mr. Agreste, it was a pleasure to have you. Alright bye!"

And with that the dark haired woman dragged her boss out of the room so fast that he couldn't even react before the door got slammed in his face.
So for a second Gabriel didn't know what to think of her behavior...
Was she going insane or did Adrien say something he shouldn't have?

Either way it was certainly weird how he couldn't exchange a word with his son before getting kicked out of the room.

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But meanwhile Gabriel was lost in his deep thoughts Adrien looked at his 'basically mother' with the most confused expression ever, and before she could've had the chance to explain the child shouted:

"What the hell Nathalie?!?!"
"We don't talk about that with your father!!"
"Why?!..." The boy laughed "...Is he Hawk Moth?" but the stern look on Nathalie's face slowly made his laugh come to a painful end, where instead of a smile a bunch of tears filled his eyes. "Is he?"
"No-no-no!"
Replied the woman in a hurry to cover the truth whilst she rushed over to the teenager who by now began crying.

"Then why did you look so serious?!?!" Adrien sobbed "God Nathalie you scared me!"
"Sorry, I just tried to imagine your father as Hawk Moth, hilarious."
The assistant said to distract the kid from the original conversation, and soon, after she started laughing Adrien joined her, then completely forgot about the crazy idea of his father.

"He's got everything, so he wouldn't be Hawk Moth! But I wonder who's that sick psychopath that's behind the mask...or should I say...helmet?..." They both giggled "...oh and also that nasty bird lady, Mayura."
Nathalie just agreed to whatever he said whilst feeling the guilt inside her getting stronger and stronger. After a she was that "nasty bird lady" Adrien described just a second ago, and although she knew it was simply a stupid joke, the kid's words cut deeper than they should've.

And so, to stop herself from hearing anymore of this shit talk the assistant eventually stood up:

"It's getting late Adrien, you should go to bed!"
"Alright." He smiled back obediently "Good night Nathalie! And sweet dreams!"

Yeah right, the last thing she was going to have was "sweet dreams" after an hour long preach of how ugly Mayura was.

In fact Nathalie wasn't planning on sleeping, and even if she wanted to she couldn't because she still had 'millions and millions' of e-mails to respond to.

So like the workaholic she was, Nathalie made her way to the office and started responding to the 'millions' of e-mails that have pilled up.
But before she could've gotten further than logging onto the computer a near by, familiar voice caught her attention.

"Nathalie you're on a holiday. You shouldn't be working!"

"Sir?!" She jumped "What the hell are you awake for?"
"Well-...apparently I look like a can is stuck on my head huh?" The designer joked after overhearing his son's insults on the villains.

"Oh...well he might say that but I think you look quite decent. Better than the 'infected blueberry'." Nathalie mocked herself, in fact, she even laughed about it, but what she didn't expect was for Gabriel to also laugh along.
And when he did, she felt rather hurt.

"That was hilarious!" He began before coming across the teary expression of his assistant, then the designer completely switched and immediately began mindlessly apologizing"Oh-no-no-no Nathalie please I didn't mean to insult you! You look gorgeous in that dress!"
"Y-yeah right..." She wiped her tears away with the sleeve of her red turtleneck, and focused back onto the emails.

"Please!!...Mayura's legs are really nice, plus have you seen how she just jumps around in those heels like it's the easiest thing ever. She's beautiful and talented."
"NO!! NO!! AT LEAST I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A NORMAL HAIRSTYLE, BUT NO! I LOOK SO DUMB WITH SHORT HAIR." Now she completely broke apart "And what's that dress?! It's so-"
"Stunning on you."

Gabriel interrupted whilst he laid a hand on her shoulder and when she jumped to see how he'd gotten there he was already hugging her.

"Don't complain about your hair-...I don't even have any." That made Nathalie laugh a little which was much needed. "Now does that bird lady wanna come on a late night patrol with the can-headed villain who looks like a tall grape?"
"Mhm"

She didn't think much and just took his hand.

To be continued-

Sorry I haven't updated this for a while.