That night when Gabriel got home he couldn't even process it himself, how sad he was.
Not even a whiskey felt strong, everything was just plain, and emotionless, and boring.
He felt empty, almost as if a piece of his own heart would've been ripped out.

Just like when he lost Emilie, that was the last time that he felt such utter pain form at the bottom of his heart which he couldn't cure, no matter what he tried or did, nothing eased the pain that left him feeling absolutely worthless and as if he was a nobody.

~

"LOVE!" Gabriel shouted hopelessly as he held the cold, lifeless body of his wife "LOVE WAKE UP!" He yelled, not wanting to let go, he just didn't want to believe it. "EMILIE PLEASE! LIVE FOR ME!!"

Never has she not woken up after fainting a little from a dizzy spell, except this time.
This time the whole scenario was different.
This time the blond woman was breathing no more, and the color from her face began to fade, she started to become insanely pale, all while her husband was watching this, devastated.

Of course though, he wasn't so innocent in this, he was the one who their whole fight was about, as Gabriel was a cheating man in the past.
He wasn't loyal to Emilie at all, and not just because of 'work' as Audrey usually put it, but also because the designer himself liked to see other women.

So naturally, when his wife found this out and also heard that her best friend Nathalie was one of those women, she began screaming her head off.

"GABRIEL HOW DARE YOU!!!" And "YOU FUCKING WHORE!!!"

She screamed all that, yet unfortunately enough for her, the man she married wasn't a patient one either, so just those few true words got him feeling all angry and frustrated, which was never good, plus by then the grey haired man have had a few drinks, so he wasn't quite himself either.
And almost predictively, Gabriel without thinking slapped his wife so hard that she straight up crashed into the wall and hit her head so bad that blood dropped out of her mouth.

"EMILIE!" The designer screamed as he came to his senses and saw what he has done "FUCK EMILIE NO!"

But it was already too late, the woman's eyes closed and the life from her body was drained away in a blink of an eye.

"Emilie my love please I beg you breathe darling! Breathe honey please I can't lose you!"

However all those words were totally worthless, she didn't wake up anyway.
No matter how much he shook her or tapped her cheek.
The pulse from both her neck and her wrists were gone and the woman no longer even had a heartbeat.

She was dead

~

Of course now this situation was a bit different,
now Nathalie wasn't dead, she was still alive, she just didn't want to see Gabriel.
So both their love and their relationship was dead.

And this wasn't the worst of it all.
The worst for Gabriel was that he knew his no longer assistant didn't even want him to be there to see their kid.
That crushed the man's soul like nothing else.

He was sobbing, crying, and shouting at himself so much that the teenager who was before peacefully sleeping upstairs, now heard all of this and came down to the kitchen to see his dad having a full on tantrum.

Adrien was even scared to say anything at first, because he worried that his dad might hit him or throw something at him. Although he has never done anything like that before to the kid.
He only ever ignored Adrien, but never in his life has Gabriel hit or harassed the child.

Despite that the blond boy was still shaking a bit.

"Should I go?" He turned to his little friend, the floating cat whom just shrugged.

"I don't know Adrien...your dad is like a cheese...but one that had been left on a grill and is burning. You know."

"Plagg!! That isn't helping! I didn't ask for a cheese reference, I asked if I should-"

"Adrien?" Gabriel questioned once he heard his son's voice from not so far away.
"Adrien who are you talking to?"

"I-...uhm-...father!" The boy greeted trying to not act scared or worried at all.
He simply walked into the kitchen smiling.
"I-I was talking to myself...you know."

"Oh-...well-...alright then. Why are you here anyway? It's the middle of the night?"

"Well I can ask you the same thing! Why are you all alone drinking...apple juic-"

"-Whiskey." Gabriel cut him off with a serious stare that made the child gulp before he awkwardly chuckled:

"Whiskey!" The kid tried to sound confident "Ah yes...I hear it's not so good for-"

"ADRIEN!! What do you want?! Get to the point!"

"Well father...to be real with you I was worried as I heard shouting and yelling coming from downstairs so I thought you were arguing with someone."

"Well I'm not."

"Yes I see that...so what's the issue?"

"It's complicated son, you shouldn't get involved!"

"But I want to help." Adrien put on a faint smile before he attempted to place his hand on his father's shoulder to show him some support, but well before the boy could've even placed his hand down, his father flinched and like that dodged the teenager's hand.

Then after Adrien had missed so badly and embarrassingly, he tried to laugh and hide his awkwardness but then again his father ruined it.

"Son get out!" Gabriel spat "I want to be alone!"

"B-but-"

"-I said I want to be alone!" He shouted this time, scaring the boy so bad the he immediately teared up before running away and only leaving his father more angry.

Now he had hurt all the people whom he loved and he couldn't fix anything because he was a total loser.

What a unfortunate day, for an even more unfortunate man.

...

Meanwhile this Adrien had ran back up into his room where he locked himself in.

"What the hell was that Plagg?!?" He mumbled anxiously "I-I almost d-died!"

"Almost." The cat rolled his eyes sarcastically, instantly earning a little punch from his owner.
"Ow what was that for now?!?!"

"That was for being an idiot and joking around! It's not funny at all Plagg! Neither are your cheese jokes or references! So stop it and take life a little more seriously!"

"Please, how can I take my life seriously? I'm immortal!" The kwami whined as he floated up and down all whilst throwing a fit "I can't die!!" He rambled on and on, making his owner almost fall back asleep.
But then, as Plagg continued with his rant, the very next few words sparked an idea in Adrien's mind:
"Nothing has any consequences for me! Everyone else dies, but not me! I live!!"

"Wait a second..." Adrien thought "...that's right! Nothing has any consequences for you!"

"S-so? What do you want me to do? Comfort your father?"

"No you stupid cat! I need someone to comfort my dad who he won't ever get mad at...and that's Nathalie!! All I need to do is call her! She'll fix everything!!"

To be continued-