Remember? [DISCONTINUED]

Gabriel Agreste?

Swearing warning!

Luka and Zoe gasped. Felix looked surprised. The room erupted into noise, everyone confused on what I had just said.
Why were they confused? I'm the one with amnesia!
Zoe and Luka, holding hands, pushed through the crowded room to me and Adrien. "Let's get out of here," Luka said.
Felix agreed, "Sure, but I'm coming with you."
Adrien and Luka exchanged a nervous glance before looking to Zoe. Her hands went up in defense, "Don't look at me! Yeah, Felix is the worst, but he knows about your identities."
Adrien, tugging me along, led Zoe, Luka, and Felix to another room.
Once inside, Felix spoke up, "Okay. Since when does your lady know less than we do, Adrien?"
Luka pushed back my hair. "Marinette, where are your earrings?" he asked, concern spreading across his face.
Zoe took a look before helping, "Oh my god! Mari, you never take off your miraculous! What's wrong?"
Adrien swallowed a sob. "Guys, could you just-"
"Miracu-what? Why does everyone keep saying that?" I interupted.
"What?" Luka said. "Marinette, you're the guardian!"
"Actually, she's not."
I looked at Adrien. Apparently, everyone was just as shocked at the words as I was.
"She reliquished the Miracle Box this morning, while I was- I didn't even get to say goodbye. Marinette lost her memory."
Say goodbye?
Felix stammered, "Damn. Sorry, cous'. Guess you shouldn't have been visiting your stupid father."
"Don't talk about my father," Adrien muttered.
Luka winced, "I know it's not the time Adrien, but Gabriel was really a piece of work and you know it."
"You don't know why he did it!" Adrien snapped. His eyes widened before continuing, "I- I need some fresh air."
Adrien pushed past me, leaving the apartment.
Nino, Alya, and Kagami joined Felix, Zoe, Luka, and I in the room.
Nino, a worried look on his face, said, "What's up with Adrien?"
Felix rolled his eyes, "He got his tail in a bunch because we basically called his father an asshole."
Kagami changed the subject, "Let me guess. I've been kept in the dark while all of you knew Marinette is, er, was Ladybug, huh?"
Everyone went silent. I spoke up, "I'm confused. You all know I don't have my memories now, so can you please explain what the hell is going on?
"What did this father of Adrien's even do to be labeled a terroist and get arrested? What are these miraculous that have been brought up a bagillion times? Why did Felix throw Adrien a peacock brooch? Why do I have all these bug nicknames? What is the Miracle Box? And what is so important about these earrings I'm not even wearing?"
Silence.
I felt bad interrogating these people who were practically grieving for me, but I needed answers.
Alya spoke, "We aren't supposed to tell you, girl. I'm sorry."
"I'm a rule follower," Kagami protested. "But I think we all know those rules are bullshit."
"Yeah! And it's not like Mari has never broken the rules before. Guardians aren't even supposed to wear a miraculous! And she and Adrien were kids when they got the miraculous! Kids aren't supposed to be holders! Yet we all were!" Zoe exclaimed.
"No. She can't know. It upsets the balance!" Luka shouted.
Nino nodded, "Alya and Luka have known the longest. They know best."
"If I may mention," Felix intruded. "It's Marinette's life. She doesn't deserve to be kept from that. No one does. Adrien would agree, and not just because he loves her. If you have all forgotten, he has first hand experience. Not only was he imprisoned in his own house, but his father manipulated him."
Alya scoffed, "You have no room to talk, traitor."
"None of us believed Marinette," Nino muttered. "She told us about Adrien's hatred of modeling, but none of us believed her. If we did, Felix wouldn't have gotten the chance to betray them." After a few seconds, Nino said, "I agree with Felix."
"Excuse me? You can't listen to him! Gabriel is his uncle!" Alya yelled.
"Gabe is Adrien's dad," Nino pointed out.
There was more silence.
"What did Adrien's father do?"
No one would answer me. It was clearly a touchy subject. I was about to drop it, change the subject, when someone spoke up.
My eyes darted to Luka as he said, "We can't explain that. Not without telling you who you are."
"Well, who am I? And why exactly can't you tell me? Was I dangerous? What rules are you all trying to decide whether to follow or break?" I challenged him, which only made the boy avert my gaze.
"You were dangerous. But you were always a good person," Alya started. She turned to the others, "I think we all know this isn't our right to tell. We don't even have the miraculous anymore. There's only one person who gets to choose what Mari will know, and that's Cat Noir."
Everyone seemed to agree to that, either reluctantly or not.
"Who... Who is Cat Noir?"
Nino gasped, "Dudette, I know you can't remember anything, but you really don't know just how unsettling it is to hear you say that."
"You love him," Zoe teased.
Kagami rolled her eyes, "More like he loves you. He's gonna be heartbroken when he finds out."
"He already knows," Alya muttered.
"What-" Kagami said, before sudden realization hit her. "Oh my god. What the actual hell you guys."
Alya assumed a defense position. Nino, Zoe, and Luka all averted her death gaze. The only sound in the room was from Felix, who had somehow gotten popcorn. Apparently this whole thing entertained him. When Kagami looked to him, he said, "Popcorn?" Sighing, her eyes finally landed on me.
"Everything makes a lot more sense now. Of course they got together. Marinette is the Ladybug, crime fighting badass, and Adrien is Cat Noir, her annoyingly loyal accomplice. Creation and destruction Yin and yang. Of freaking course."
I paused, "So I'm a cop? An agent for some super secret government business?"
"No, you're a fashion designer," Kagami deadpanned.
"But you just said-"
"Excuse me," someone exclaimed, sadness cracking through the voice. "I'd like to speak to my fiancé. Alone."
In the doorway stood Adrien, a small smile growing on his face when we made eye contact.
His golden hair was dripping with water and so was the rest of him. If he had really stepped outside, it must've been raining.
I also noticed, through keen observation (aka checking him out), that a bruise was forming under his left eye.
Everyone began filing out of the room. Soon, it was just me and Adrien.
"Hey," he said it so innocently, almost like he was trying to get me to not notice the bruise.
I pursed my lips together, moving closer to him to touch his eye. "You're hurt. Why are you hurt?"
Adrien grabbed my hand, pulling it away from his eye. "Our friends... They never knew me very well. All except Nino. And you. And Felix and Kagami, of course. They didn't know I was Cat Noir. So, they, um, think I was in kahoots with my father, Gabriel Agreste. Ivan punched me for it."
"Adrien... I'm sorry," I said.
He squeezed my hand, "Don't be. It's not their fault. They don't know what happened. They don't know me. That's my fault, not theirs."
"What did happen?"
"I trust you with my life, M'lady. I'm not supposed to tell you anything, but if there's any chance I can help you trust me again too, I will. I vow to get your memory back. No matter what. Now let's go tell everyone the truth."