The Wedding Planner

Chapter 25

A nurse passes by the doorway to the room, seeing Adrien pacing back and forth. He pokes his head in, "Are you okay sir? Can I get you anything?"

"I'm just waiting for my wife to come back from getting some exams done."

A concerned look comes across his face, "Marinette Agreste, right?" He pulls a file off the main desk in the hall, and reads "She was rushed into surgery in the middle of the exam because she started crashing." He regretfully informs. "I'm sorry no one told you."

He feels his heart stop, all his nerves firing at once.

He tells his feet to move, forcing his way past the nurse, "I need to see her." He says defiantly.

The nurse grabs his shoulder, "She's already being taken care of, there's nothing you can do, and you can't see her while they're operating." He says regretfully.

Adrien squeezes his eyes shut, holding back his instinct to find Marinette no matter what. His shoulders ease a tad, "Just, can you tell me if she'll be okay? Is this a normal procedure?" He maintains his composure.

The nurse guides Adrien to the side of the hall, so as to not block the walkway, before dropping his hand from Adrien. He scans over the rest of Marinette's chart, his face growing more remorseful, "The infection had spread further than expected, into her blood most likely. Along with everything else, she probably has a 50/50 chance of her and the baby getting through this operation."

Blurry eyed, Adrien storms down the hall without another word.

"Wait, Mr. Agreste, I said you can't see her!" The nurse calls out but doesn't have the heart to follow.

But Adrien wasn't heading towards the operating ward.

His left hand reaches into his pocket and plucks the Ladybug Miraculous from inside. He palms them as he speed walks into his mom's room and locks the door behind him, pulling a curtain over any of the windows looking in.

Plagg emerges frantically, "Adrien, bud, let's keep it together, no need to do anything rash,"

Adrien simply answers with the look of a broken soul-ed man, his jaw trembling from his shallow breaths. "P-Plagg...claws out."

"Don't do it-" Plagg warns as he's sucked into Adrien's ring, causing the black leather suit of Chat Noir to materialize.

He stares at the Ladybug earrings in his left hand, his palm tingling from just their proximity to the Cat Miraculous on his other hand.

He looks to his mother, her peaceful expression sending a shiver up his spine.

Trying to shake away the feeling, his eyes return to the Miraculous. His hand shakes as he rolls the earrings into the palm of his right hand. His ring glows green and the earrings light up red in turn. "Plagg, Tikki...unify." He declares softly, squeezing his hand tightly over the earrings.

A blinding white light fills the room, causing him to stagger back against the wall. His right arm stiffens as if he's being electrocuted, unable to drop the Ladybug Miraculous even if he wanted to. Even with his eyes closed against the light he can feel his suit changing, and even a feeling of weightlessness come over him.

When the light finally fades, he gasps for air, realizing he had been holding his breath the entire time. Looking down, he sees his suit has changed to a royal violet color, with glowing golden vines running through his core and down his extremities. "Oh my god," he says under his breath, feeling the power coursing through his veins.

He looks to his unmoved mother, ashamed he's using the wish to save Marinette, "I'm sorry, mom," he picks up her hand and holds it between both of his, "I'm sorry."