Gabenath Oneshots [Discontinued And Completed]

Leaving: Valentine's Day

How can you win everything and still feel like a loser? Nathalie knew the answer because she had failed to win one thing she had truly wanted. She didn't know when she had fallen in love with Gabriel Agreste but now it was evident that she would have done and given up anything, just for him. 

Now she had been fed up with her job, she was tired of living her double life, and feeling like she was getting nothing in return. She had known this when she first accepted the role as Mayura but now it was all too much for. Her feelings had complicated everything and she didn't want to live with it anymore. 

Today was February 13th and she turned Ladybug’s earrings over in hand again and again. She had succeeded in something Hawkmoth had been trying to do for two years now. She wanted some satisfaction, maybe some pride, from them but she felt nothing at all. She took them from a teenager, a girl who she knew to be one of Adrien’s friends, who had a likely future career in the fashion industry. Nathalie knew Hawkmoth could succeed easily without the Ladybug in his way, Cat Noir wouldn't be able to own his own in battle and without Ladybug’s yo-yo, even if Cat Noir defeated the villain, the akuma couldn't be purified. 

Late that night she snuck into Gabriel’s office. She set the earrings on his desk, then the peacock miraculous, the brooch she had come to hate, and then her resignation letter. She reached into her pocket and felt the crumpled paper. The letter she had written near Christmas, the one where she confessed her feelings for Gabriel. She took it out and read it once more. 

“This is unprofessional and absurd

That's why I always hated feelings

I guess that's what you get when your last name means heartless but you have the kwami of emotion

I deserve it all

I deserve to be broken and shattered

And if you caused me all that pain 

I would take it every day

I liked to simply say that I love you Gabriel Agreste

But nothing is simple with us 

I should have known that from day one 

I am a coward

I am many things but brave is not one of them

I guess that's why I wrote this instead

I’m uncertain but pretend to be confident

I'm insecure so I pretend to be stubborn

I hide so I can pretend that nothing affects me but it all does

Somehow through it all, I'm still able to love you

I know you'll never say it back

That fear holds me back

That is why I write”

The letter ended abruptly there, Nathalie took a pen and went to conclude it more smoothly.

“I got her miraculous and I thought I would feel a sense of victory

Perhaps a sense of pride

The sense of triumph for being halfway there 

But I feel nothing

I hope you get his miraculous 

I hope you are able to make your wish

I hope your life is everything you dream

Because mine is far from

Goodbye Gabriel”

She didn't sign it, she didn't think it was necessary, only one person would know him that well, it was clearly her. Only one other person, alive, would have stolen the miraculous and then on top of that give it to Gabriel, and leave it with the cursed blue brooch she had worn on multiple cases, each hurting her more than the last, it was clearly her.