"Well as far as I'm concerned your wife is dead." She had a smirk on her face.
"I-I can't just betray Emelie like this-...f-fuck Nathalie stop!" Gabriel tried not to give in to the seductive plan of his assistant, but he couldn't help falling for her.
By now she had cornered him in the office and was about to lean in for a kiss but then-...

Gabriel awoke drenched in sweat, and that's how his first day without Nathalie started.

Sadly this day wasn't going to be a happy one anyway since it was exactly one year ago that Emelie died.

The designer sighed before getting up and slowly making his way to his window where he miserably stared out to the garden,?onto the stone statue of his wife.

"Master?" A shy voice asked "Are you alright?"
"Not really Nooroo. You know today is-..."
"Miss Emelie's 1 year death anniversary?"
He nodded to the little creature's words whilst he made his way downstairs and now spotted his teenage son eating breakfast.

"Morning Adrien."
"Morning." The child replied with such disappointment in his voice that for a second Gabriel became concerned and even turned around to see his son absolutely exhausted.

Adrien could barely keep his eyes open whilst he titled his head against his arm, and he looked as if in a matter of seconds he was going to collapse of tiredness.

"Adrien is everything alright?" Gabriel asked worried. "Were you out with friends all night?"
"No, I came back at 8, like you asked. I just couldn't sleep, but I'm fine."
"If you say so."
The grey haired man turned away with a mug of coffee in his hands and started walking towards his office when Adrien stopped him with his words:

"Father! I mostly couldn't sleep because of you!"
"Pardon?" The designer turned to face his son who suddenly got up from the table with an annoyed expression.
"You were yelling something yesterday night!"
"Oh-...yeah...I-I probably had a nightmare."
"Mhmmm alright father, nothing else?"
"What do you mean Adrien? Should there be anything else to say?" Gabriel laughed awkwardly as he was very confused on why his son wanted to argue, but soon enough once Adrien said:
"Oh I don't know...you tell me! You were the one having that 'dream'."  The designer immediately understood what the teenager indicated.
And so he gasped:

"ADRIEN! How could you possibly think such a thing?!?!" Gabriel rolled his eyes "I'm not with anyone! And quit having dirty thoughts or you'll be grounded!"
With that the designer slammed his office door shut and locked everyone out.

-

Meanwhile Adrien hurried back up to his own room where his kwami was waiting impatiently.

"Got the cheese?" He smirked to which the blond boy sighed:
"Yes Plagg I have it, here."

The teenager gave a few small pieces of delicious cheese to his kwamis, and whilst Plagg was enjoying his lovely meal Adrien wondered:

"Don't you think father has been acting weird since Nathalie left?"
"Yeahhhh he must miss her."
"Exactly Plagg exactly!" He exclaimed loudly "I feel like...there's something between them, don't you agree?"
"Mhm maybe."
"No not maybe, definitely! Father was yelling some name that began with an 'N' in his nightmare, but it wasn't Nathalie...it sounded more like-...Noodle..."
"Noodle?" Plagg repeated before a strong wave of giggles took over him "Is your dad having dreams about noodles?" he now laughed hysterically, but his owner wasn't amused, instead the boy just shrugged it off:
"Haha hilarious, but I seriously need to find out whose name that was!"
"Noodle? Do you think anyone in this world is named Noodle?!?!"
"Nooo Plagg of course not! I obviously misheard the name! It's something which must sound similar to Noodle!"
"Oh so like Nooroo?" The black cat asked happily to which Adrien's eyes widened.
"Nooroo? That's an interesting name!"
"Yeah it is! Most kwamis have interesting names!"
"Kwamis? Nooroo is a kwami friend of yours?"
"Well-...he used to be-..." Plagg began as he got emotional all of a sudden and even started to tear up a little "...b-but then he got lost somehow and now Hawk Moth is probably manipulating the poor guy."
"PARDON?! HAWK MOTH?!"
"Yeah, since Nooroo is the butterfly kwami!"
"T-the b-butterfly k-kwami"
Adrien's voice shook but his friend didn't notice anything wrong with what he just said so Plagg happily nodded along, until the realization hit him.

"Wait a second-"
"PLAGG!!! ARE YOU SAYING MY DAD-"
"IS THE BALD GUY IN A PURPLE SUIT!"
"HAWK MOTH!"

Meanwhile all of this chaos in the Agreste mansion Nathalie was having her first day off and she already felt like she should be in the office helping Gabriel, but she knew she couldn't always assist him as if she was his slave.

Now the young woman looked at a address written onto a crippled piece of paper and then looked up to the door she was standing in front of.

She was at the right place, her brother's house.

"Go on Miss, knock." Duusu encouraged her with a wide smile, but Nathalie just shook her head hesitantly:
"I'm just scared, what if he won't remember me." She mumbled feeling a bit awkward but her friend simply laughed at that:
"It's only been-...20 years, not 'that' much time."
"Exactly, he last saw me when I was 15, I don't even have the same hair color."
"It doesn't matter, I'm sure he missed you, now go on knock!"

Nathalie took a deep breath and with all her courage she knocked on the door.

After a couple seconds of suspense the door opened to show a tall guy with dark brown hair and the same crystal eyes that Nathalie had.

"Hello?" He looked down at the (compared to him) short woman standing at his door step.
"Hello, brother." Nathalie gave him a shy smile to which the man's eyes widened and in a couple of seconds he hugged her tight.
"Nathalie!"

To be continued-