5 wishes🕯️❤️(miraculous Ladybug AU)

Chapter 48: Remember

"Please, even when I am dead... Keep me alive in your heart.

Please, even if you have to forget about me one day, just don't...please... I am scared... I am scared everyone will forget about me so remember me."

These were her last words and they were to him on the cell phone. It was just before she could finally give in to the fate she lived her life resisting and running away from. This day would come anyway, wouldn't it? This day should have come a long while ago, right?

Isabelle: When it's over, please... Take care of Melody and Peter for me...

F. Luka: Isabelle, don't you dare do something stupid. I am on my way, please. I will keep you all safe... No one can torture your kids...

Isabelle: I am sorry I accidentally fell for you, Luka. But... Who even am I to wish for more than the breath in me! I am sorry

She cried.

Isabelle: Goodbye.

Was the last thing she said.

F. Luka: Bella, No!! Don't you dare!!

He was just a few blocks away when the line between them dropped and he could see the fire coming out from behind the houses accompanied by an explosion sound.

He didn't want to believe that this was Isabelle. It might be anyone else. It might be another accident that happened there. It might be another person burning in there. No. That mustn't be Isabelle... Isabelle shouldn't die now. She can't die now. At least not before she sees what her hands had done.

This is so selfish, Isabelle. To choose comfort for yourself and leave us suffering behind. This is so selfish that it makes me want to hate you. But I can't. I can't hate you and sometimes... I hate that I can't hate you.

"We are both cowards."

"So we'll meet someday, Isabelle. We'll meet in hell."

He was there standing in his office and seeing it all behind his eyes. Hearing all the sounds in his head. Living this nightmare again in again in daylight. Yes, he let that memory come and go from time to time just to fulfill her request but...

"Sometimes, I wish I could really forget about you, Bella. The problem is: Can I? Please one day, let me rest in peace too, and get out of my head."

Yes! In everyone's eyes, Isabelle was just a selfish woman but who knows what she has gone through that made her this helpless. He knew that Felix's return wasn't the reason why she suicided. He knew that if Isabelle wanted to live, she could have found a way but she didn't. Not even her kids gave her a reason to live anymore. She was simply done with life and all the misery it brought her so she decided to give up.

"I wish I could have given her a reason to stay."

He thought but he knows that it's too late and that there's no use in crying over spilled milk but it hurts, it hurts, it hurts to still have this regret and self-blame towards himself even after knowing all this. And now, even Melody's eyes are cold to him. And it was only because he was once a coward. It is only because he couldn't fight Adrien that day and prevent him from using the miraculous. Maybe it's all just his fault and then, his mind flies to Melody again and he thinks.

"I am sorry I turned you into another miserable Isabelle, Melody. I envy you...

He's talking about his young self now.

" When it all comes to an end, you can forget about your Bella but will I ever forget about mine?"

And there he was again, wishing to forget about Bella and feeling scared of the thought to live without her. Maybe the memories he has of her are what keeps him company until his so few left days come to an end. Until cancer becomes one with his lungs and forces him to his last breath. He was looking forward to that day... To the day when they'll meet again.