Miraculous - The New Guardian

Part 140 - Grown ups

With Alya and Nino, who were, thanks to Adrien's ability to plan from some distance, already dressed like all the others, who were participating the ceremony, getting to the altar with them and taking their places next to the couple, who were to be married in  couple of minutes, they eventually began with the whole event.

It was Gabriel, who started to speak, surprising his wife and bride with the speech he had prepared:

"Nathalie, for all those years, that we have known each other, we've grown closer and closer, even before Emily got sick, you were the one person I could trust. Or let me say, we could trust, as she set all her hopes into you, to protect Adrien and me from everything, knowing, that you would be willing to sacrifice your life for us. What she didn't know though was, you would almost die, to help me bring her back from her comatose state.

But not only were you willing to sacrifice your own wellbeing, you also took over Emily's role as a mother for Adrien and, when it was almost too late, I finally saw you, noticed you, was able to give in to the incredible deep love I had been burying inside of me, to stay loyal to the woman, I still love dearly, just not like that anymore.

I am very sorry for hurting you so many times, until, well, Emily told you that on our first Christmas together, if I had not been, what was it Em?", he directed the question to his ex wife, who immediately shouted:

"I said back then, if that long, blond moron hadn't been so stubborn, you could have been happy for ages!"

The guests all laughed to that, just as he had planned. He looked back at Nathalie, taking one of her hands into his, as they were both holding one of their daughters still, and kissed it tenderly, before he continued to speak, interrupted by Aimée, who had watched him kiss her mother's hand and wanted to do that to. After a quick exchange, Nathalie taking the toddler, while took Virginie onto his shoulder, not even caring about the possible stains, she would leave on his tuxedo, he continued, trying to hold back his grin, because the toddler was now pecking his wife's cheek with her wet lips, smearing her makeup all over her little mouth and nose.

"Well, as our daughter is just showing so vigorously, you are not only the most beautiful, loveable, caring, hot woman in the world for me, but you also are my best friend and my soulmate. I can't even imagine, to spend even another day of our life without you, and I certainly hope, you can forgive that old moron, for not giving you the chance to prepare a speech of your own, because all of that was a huge secret and it wasn't easy, to not let you figure it out before. So, if you want to, you can say something, but if not, we will just get to the next part of this little ceremony, though I hope, you will at least answer to the last sentence:

"Nathalie, though it has been Agreste for almost two years now, Sancoeur, my love, my dearest friend, I love you more than anything, except for those and all the others we are going to have", he pointed at the two children in their arms, "and the boys of course, but they are grown ups, they don't need us that much anymore. What I wanted to say, I love you more than anything in the world and you're making me incredibly happy, by becoming my wife again today!"

Torn between laughing over Aimée's stubborn attempts to keep pecking her face all over and crying because she was so touched by his speech, Nathalie handed her daughter to Alya, who was standing beside her and kissed her husband passionately. Then she pulled back, her lips showing a wide smile, as she said:

"I could make it short and tell you, that I love you too, or I could take out my phone and read the speech, I already finished for our planned wedding in August to you, because I sadly didn't find the time to memorize it already. Your choice, though it's mostly for a more private ceremony, there are elements, I could tell you in public!"