A couple of hours and snores later Gabriel finally began to open his pale looking eyes.

Nathalie was almost shocked to see him conscious again, but to be honest she knew he didn't die in the first place, it wouldn't have been that easy to get rid of him.

Anyway, as she stared at the hungover boss of hers, the designer himself tried to process and remember how the fuck he achieved such things.

He woke up on a chair, his head straight against a table, and with alcoholic beverages all around him, but when Gabriel lifted his head a little higher he saw his assistant staring at him and not another whiskey bottle half empty.

"Nath?" He questioned with a stupidly sounding voice that even made the woman herself chuckle.
"Why are you here? D-didn't you quit?"

"Well yes I did, and like that I also hoped that since we're both responsible adults we could take care of ourselves after a split...looks like someone couldn't though."

"You're making me look bad, but I bet you were doing just the same! Or maybe crying your eyes off like you usually do!"

"I-..." the assistant was left absolutely speechless.
She suddenly couldn't believe that her boss was talking back to her in such a way because she's never witnessed him being too mean to her.
Yes he'd occasionally say rude things, but then instantly apologize.
However here Gabriel did look like he was planning to apologize at all.
"Sir that was very-"

"Nathalie!" A voice cut her off before she could've scolded the man "Father is alive?"

"Yes he is, but he chose to wake up as a rather bitchy and immature boy instead of the man he used to be before all this nonsense!"

"Shut up!" Gabriel groaned tilting his head back onto the table and trying to forget about everything frustrating.
His headache, the woman next to him talking back, and his son who had just entered the kitchen, so although Adrien had appeared only now, he was already getting on his father's nerves.

"You see what I mean." Nathalie spat "Your dad isn't himself Adrien, maybe we should wait a day or two until he figures himself out, and until then you can live at my place. How's that?"

"That's amazing!!" The teenager cheered happily and before the assistant could've even smiled in approval, the blond boy hugged her tight.
"Thank you so much Nathalie! You're the best...best assistant!"

"Oh Adrien, you're the best kid I've had to take care of."

"Aren't I the only one?"

"Yes, but I'm also your only assistant...aren't I?"

"Right." He chuckled "I didn't think that through." Adrien admitted and was about to say something else, except the loud slam of his father's fist on the table made both him and Nathalie's laugh go quiet, instead it got the two worried, especially as they laid eyes on the furious man who looked like he would yell at any second.
And indeed he did to no one's surprise.

"Oh shut up for fuck's sake!" Gabriel had to ruin things again with his infuriating voice "You're not taking my kid away" he spat looking angrily at his previous assistant "and you Adrien" the man tilted his head to the side, like that he was able to give the exact same grumpy expression to his son "you!" He yelled "you aren't going with her! Understand?"

"No father!" The boy suddenly said completely shocking both adults "I'd rather not stay with you who is still under the influence of alcohol and acting so aggressively! I'd rather be with Nathalie."

"ADRIEN!"

"GABRIEL!" Nathalie interrupted "He is making a fair point! You're not doing well right now, and you aren't yourself. It's better if we leave."

"No it isn't!"

"Yes it is! Look at you. Does this seem like a responsible father to you? Do you even think you could keep an eye on your child and make sure he is safe? No! So now don't argue further."

The woman grabbed the hand of the teenage boy who without hesitation held onto her tightly, yet before they could've made it far, by some unknown strength the designer managed to get up from his chair, and although he was very drunk which meant he could barely navigate himself, he managed to grab the hand of his son and pull the child back so forcefully in fact that Adrien fell onto the floor.

"Gabriel!!" The assistant shouted seeing this chaos "What the fuck?!?!"

"I said you're not taking my son away! You don't even work here anymore so fuck off!"

"Oh really? Is that how it is?" She turned to him enraged "Because you surely didn't want me to fuck off just a day ago! In fact you were begging me to stay because you said you couldn't live without me or your future child!!"

"Future what?!?" The blond boy exclaimed loudly, and in that moment Nathalie realized she'd accidentally let their little secret slip out of her mouth.
"A baby? Your baby? My father's baby?"

"I-..." she didn't know what to say, and looking up at the expression of her superior didn't at all help.
In contrast, it made things worse. Much worse as he shook his head in disbelief.

"Good fucking job." He spat "Now everyone knows."

"I-...I didn't mean to-"

"You surely didn't, yet you still screamed it all across the house. Loud and clear. So I wonder now who can't control themselves anymore?"

"Well you fucking grabbed your kid as if he would've been some rag!" Nathalie argued "Adrien could've gotten seriously injured!"

"At least I didn't make it this god fucking damn obvious that we 'accidentally' fucked so now there's a child in your stomach who we've been trying to hide from the public!"

"Shut up Gabriel!" The assistant teared up hearing those mean words which her boss was constantly shouting.
He didn't even think to hold back with the swear words, and this got Nathalie crying.
"They would've figured it out sooner or later! I couldn't just hide for nine months in my tiny ass apartment!"

"S-so...she's pregnant"Adrien interrupted "...w-with your kid?" The kid looked up at his father still not being able to process how the two adults who he thought only worked together now were apparently much more.

Never in a million years would've the blond boy though that his dad and his assistant considered themselves more than friends or that they've even done such things together.

He did see a slight possibility, and occasionally Adrien would smirk whenever seeing the two together, however now that it was all a reality, the teenager didn't know what to think, if he liked it or not.

"Wow Adrien." Gabriel's sarcastic voice made his kid forget almost all his strange thoughts and instead focus back into the real world
"...either you're deaf or it's the blond in you. But yes son you've managed to figure it out. Nathalie is currently pregnant with my kid. Accidentally if I may add."

"I just-...I didn't know you two were close like that."

"Great, now you do."

To be continued-