Earthquake

Chapter 12 - Don't say anything to mom

Until the end of the day, in the whole house of Dupain-Cheng happy songs and shouts of joy could be heard. Mixing 'I've became a grandmother before forty!', 'I have a daughter!' and 'Please, shut up!' was stopped just when Master Fu came. The old-man checked both, Marinette and Félicité and stated that everything's alright. He didn't know how the child's magic will manifest so he warned that everything can happen. They got to know about the child's true character at the same night, when the girl, letting herself finally go to sleep, felt a delicate weight on her chest. She almost screamed, seeing the little girl, who just moments ago was sleeping in a specially made by Drach crib on the other side of the room, calmly getting into her shirt. After satisfying her hunger, Félice hiccupped and behind her back appeared a dozen of soap bubbles which made a circle around the room and burst, falling to the ground. As if it was completely normal, the girl just laughed in joy, what shouldn't even be possible at her age, and fell asleep, drooling over her pajamas.

The next day, the child was two times bigger than after birth. Terrified with this Marinette brutally woke Adrien up by pushing him off the bed. Sleepy boy looked at his daughter and then at his girlfriend, then again at Félice and his head fell onto the ground.

'She's growing like on yeast,' he summed up the situation, and a little later was back asleep.

In a week, the child was the size of a four year old, could walk and even run, and was saying single sentences. As if that wasn't enough, depending on the strong emotions she felt, strange things were happening around her. When Adrien refused to give her a cookie, because she hadn't finished her dinner, the plate with food caught on fire until it was empty. At one of the baths with Marinette, in the water started to appear small geysers which she was trying to catch, while laughing with her whole body. At the first visit of Alya and Nino, who were so shocked by the sight of a child that they didn't react on any stimulus, seemingly she wanted to show them all of her toys, because every time when they were shifting their sight from them, they started attacking them.

And then came the time to go back to school. Considering the appearance of Félicité, Master called off the final showdown, sent the twins back home so they could take care of their things. However, he announced that he can call them back at any time. Minako and Lucette, who firmly denied going back, were living with Gabriel, who almost had a heart attack when he saw his dead wife fully functioning and as beautiful as always.

'Listen,' she told him, that time, looking at the ground. 'I know that you said to me that I shouldn't accept Miraculous, because I'm putting my family in danger. However, I found out how massive problems they have in China and I just couldn't say no. I'm sorry, that I didn't warn you, but I thought that if you'll think that I'm dead then you'll forget about me and start a new life. Maybe it was dumb, but...'

Gabriel didn't let her finish.

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'I don't want to go to school!' Marinette groaned, picked up her backpack and handbag, and leaned over her daughter that was playing with her mother in the living room. 'Behave well, Félice. We'll be back as soon as the lessons will be over, okay?'

'Come back quick, mom,' the girl's unearthly beautiful voice made her want to hold her once again and never let go. But then, on the horizon appeared a storm cloud.

'We're going,' Adrien mumbled, grabbed her hand and pulled her with him. 'We have enough absences in this year, we don't have to additionally be late.'

The first lessons were dragging on. The beautiful thing was that Chloe didn't show up to school, however even this didn't improved her mood for long. It was the break between the third and fourth hour, on which they had math, when a long squeak sounded on the corridor and a yellow blur pounced on the boy, almost knocking him off of his feet.