The Guardian

Feelings

"Hey, Nathalie... uhm will dad come to my tournament tomorrow?" the young Agreste looks hopefully at Nathalie, who was on her way back to the office with a big pile of papers. "What? Oh, that's tomorrow, Merde, I forgot about that in all the hustle and bustle, I'll see what can be done." "Oh, but you're coming?" "Ah, I have so much work that would just be overtime again" she consider, whereupon Adrien looked at her hurt "I was kidding, I would do anything for you no matter how much work it make me" she kisses the boy on the forehead " You are the best mom!" he smiles and runs to his room. The woman almost dropped the stacks of papers from her hand. "Aww, Miss Nathalie you are all red now" Her kwami ​​looks at her master happily who smiles "I can't replace the picture of his mother he has but that he still seems to be looking at me like that makes me very happy" " It's really a miracle you don't have children of your own," Duusu murmurs. Whereupon the assistant goes back to her office without a word. Mister Agreste isn't here again, he's been leaving his job a lot lately, but that's not strange, even before Emily's death he always looked elsewhere for ideas when he got an art block, then he disappeared without a sign. She remembers very well that she once found him in the garden pond because he had looked at the clouds and then stumbled. He had always been very eccentric and hotheaded, but at the same time, in a certain way, more loving and caring. It hurt her how he had changed, she knew it was Emilie forcing things on him that he didn't want or was suppressing his will. Unfortunately it didn't stop there and in a way, because of her, he became partially blind to his surroundings and to the people around him, especially when it came to his son. She looked at the portrait on the wall "Now you've lost control after all" whispers the assistant, Duusu grinned "Exactly old lady, you can stay away with your weird vanilla coffee, it doesn't taste good at all" with these words Nathalie couldn't help and giggle "Wow, that's why you don't like her?" "Well... the coffee was really horrible, and then there was a permanent smell of vanilla or lavender in the whole villa, these twins pissed me so much up" "Mon Dieu, I still have a lot of work to do," the woman now said and look back to the documents. "The guy should give you a raise!" "For chatting with my friend at work and make fun with his son?" "No, but you always work overtime, even continue to work in bed in the evenings. In addition, you take care of his son and at the same time you are a full-time mother for him" "Duusu, I live here. I hardly have any expenses, I can eat here for free, sleep, shower and do my laundry! He's already paying me so much that I could rent a second or third apartment in one of the most expensive cities in the world and still not go broke! More money wouldn't bring me anything, I'm sort of Rich Duusu If Mr. Agreste pays me any more then he'll be broke... well, that's unlikely for him... he'd rather go broke from your coffee consumption" "Or from Adrien's cheese consumption" Duusu interjects "What ?" "He's been eating Camembert a lot lately" "Mon Dieu, really? Then he'll probably be Plagg 2.0..." Duusu shrugs his shoulders. "Don't you have work?" "DUUSU WHY ARE YOU DISTRACTING ME FROM MY WORK?" Nathalie jokingly scolds her "Ey!"

The woman works engrossed in her documents for some time while Duusu has withdrawn into her jacket pocket. At some point, Mr. Agreste appears again and looks over her shoulder. "What are you doing Nathalie?" he asks, giving her another fright of her life. "SIR! Mon Dieu you scared me... um, I'm sorting through paperwork, mostly expenses, taxes, etc." "You doing that good" he praises her and smiles, Nathalie blinks at him irritated "Thanks? ... Where were you, if I may ask?" "Oh... for a walk, then I watched the heroes fight against another Akuma," he explains, "Oh, there was an Akuma attack? I didn't even notice." She looks at her cell phone and saw the message. "Yes, the heroes won without any problems as always, it's a shame I was hoping to see Mayura," he shares his thoughts with her. "M- Mayura? Why?" she stutters in surprise, he gives her a strange look, but then says nothing and goes to his desk. "Sir?" "I wonder who she is, that's all" "Probably a simple adult who doesn't have time to go to every fight?" she suggests, "I wonder why she's fighting with two children," he muses, "why are you worrying so much about some stranger?" replies the woman "This stranger is a heroine of the city and extremely attractive" "WHAT?" Nathalie jumped up from her chair and now looks at him in bewilderment "Nathalie?" "Pardon.." she then murmurs and sinks directly into the chair, ashamed. Now she'd really prefer it if he just kept quiet instead of telling her stuff like that, especially when it came to the fact that he's interested in some heroine in town, even if it's her. Gabriel doesn't say anything else. "What's my schedule for tomorrow?" "Nothing too special, just a meeting at 10 with an advertising agency and then a little later Miss Bourgeois asked to call them personally to clarify a few important things" "I know you can do that too, Nathalie" "Yes, yes, but Audrey is an important person, I think they should at least pretend to like her, after all you were friends once" "She was Emilie's friend" Nathalie clears her throat "I'll tell her that you don't have time and she have her requests address to me" "Thanks, Nathalie" "One more thing, your son has a tournament tomorrow, it's very important to him. Because you don't have any important appointments, I thought that maybe you.." "No!" "SIR! It's your son!" "I still have a few appointments to make!" "Then work overtime!" "NATHALIE! You're being really disrespectful today, maybe you should take some time off" he says, glaring at her "I... I'm sorry, maybe I should really take a short break" she murmurs and stands up to the to leave room.

Sighing, she leans against a wall and rubs her temples. The thing with Hawk Moth stresses her, so far she has been able to keep her feelings under control so as not to act rashly, but if he keeps running into her as Nathalie, maybe he could find out who she is in the end and it It's already hard enough to face him as Mayura and not lose her temper. "Mr. Idiot likes Mayura" Duusu giggles "Shut up, that's the last thing I need right now..."