In a matter of days, Gabriel's life had been falling apart around him. Nathalie and Adrien ran off, he lost the miraculous, and now he'd finally gone down to the basement and realised that Emilie was gone.
The sight of that empty coffin made something in him snap, he knew where she'd be and in a fit of utter rage and fury he marched himself down to the household of Jagged Stone and despite it being midnight, pounded on the front door.
The noise woke up the boys, who stirred from their sleep cuddle together and took a moment to realise what the noise was.
"Is that banging?" Adrien asked, still half asleep.
"I think so..." Luka replied.
"What's... it's midnight?"
Luka got up and went to go look out the window but the sudden sound of yelling stopped him in his tracks. He knew that voice, and so did Adrien, all too well. They shared a nervous glance and the two of them were quick to rush into the hallway and peek around the corner from the top of the stairs to see what was going on. Sure enough, it was Gabriel.
Jagged had woke up to the noise, opened the wooden door, but not the screen door so he could see and talk to Gabriel but Gabriel couldn't get in.
"Get off my property Agreste, it's midnight" He scowled.
"I know she's in there, GIVE HER TO ME" Gabriel snapped.
Adrien immediately knew what was going on, so did Luka. It wasn't hard to figure out. Luka wrapped an arm around Adrien protectively and pulled him against his body, providing some contact comfort and instinctively wanting to protect him. Nathalie and Emilie were quick to wake up to the noise and rush down the hall as well, coming up behind the boys and ushering them away. Nathalie was furious at not only being woken up but having to deal with Gabriel again. She was quick to March down the stairs and tell the man to fuck right off.
"Sweetie go back to bed, we'll deal with this" Emilie said.
"No, I wanna make sure you're all ok" Adrien replied.
"We'll be alright Adrien, I don't want you having a panic attack from all this"
"But what if he-"
"Adrien..."
Emilie put her hands on her sons shoulders, giving him a gentle look.
"It's ok, we'll be alright. Look if you want to watch and make sure everything is ok... at least stay up here and out of the way. And if things get too much go back to bed, Luka take care of him ok?" She said.
"I will, don't worry" Luka replied, pulling Adrien in closer.
Emilie headed down the stairs, furious and overtired. As soon as Gabriel saw his now undead wife, he immediately switched to manipulation mode and softened his tone.
"Emilie, darling are you-" he began.
"Save it. I know what you did to my baby, I can't BELIEVE you Gabriel. You're a monster, I never should have trusted you, I never should have been anything to you. Get off the property and leave me alone" She spat.
"Emilie don't say that, I'm your husband! Don't tell me they've all gaslit you into thinking-"
"YOU are the gaslighter here. I regret ever marrying you, you know how much Adrien means to me and you FUCKING HIT HIM GABRIEL. YOUR SON, MY BABY BOY-"
"Emilie-"
"NO GABRIEL, WE'RE DONE. I WANT A DIVORCE AND I WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER" Emilie exclaimed.
Adrien couldn't help but smile a little hearing those words, finally he could get Gabriel out of his life for good and just spend it with his mother. Although the joy was short lived, as the silence that rang in the air after those words left Emilies mouth told everyone that all hell was about to break loose. Luka instinctively held Adrien tighter, knowing something bad was going to happen.
"Adrien... we should go" Luka said.
"But mum-"
"I know, you're worried. But if you stay here he's gonna trigg-"
Before he could finish, all hell broke loose.
"A divorce..? Emilie you can't be serious. AFTER EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN THROUGH?! AFTER I SPEND YEARS OF MY LIFE TRYING TO GET YOU BACK?! AFTER I SUFFERED DAY AFTER DAY CHASING THOSE FUCKING MIRACULOUS TO SAVE YOU? WELL FUCK ME I GUESS! WAS THAT ALL FOR NOTHING?!" Gabriel exclaimed, angrily banging against the door.
Jagged took a second to process what he just said, miraculous? He was chasing the miraculous? It clicked, Gabriel was so worked up he had no idea he'd just outed himself as hawkmoth.
"Hang on! You chased the miraculous..? YOU ARE THE ONE THAT AKUMATIZED HALF OF PARIS? MY DAUGHTER, MY SON, ME??" Jagged exclaimed.
The secret was out, and while it was partly a good thing, he could get arrested for the crimes now. It wasn't going to end well right now.
There was another moment of silence, as the situation set in Gabriel's mind. He just had his wife tell him to go fuck himself and he'd outed himself as Paris' resident supervillain. The silence was deafening, everyone was frozen. Until they heard it, laughter. Slowly building like the winds before a massive storm, getting louder and louder. Maniacal laughter, insane laughter. He'd snapped, he'd lost it.
Adrien watched in terror, he'd never seen his father this... evil. Even when he got hit, it was nowhere near as terrifying as hearing the insanity burst out of Gabriel like that in the form of a truly villainous laugh.
As if he were Light fucking Yagami getting outed as Kira.
Adrien gripped onto Luka tight, panic threatening to attack him.
"Adrien we need to go, now" Luka said.
This time, he didn't protest. Luka pushed him down the hall and back into his room, locking the door and sitting Adrien on the bed.
"Stay there, don't listen" he said.
Luka quickly went over to the window to watch the scene unfold, hearing absolute chaos downstairs. Yelling and screaming, heated arguments, Gabriel having a full on psychotic breakdown and desperately trying to ram in the door to either attack them or try and take Emilie and Adrien back. It was loud enough that no matter how hard Adrien tried to block it out, he could still hear him.
Tears threatened to spill from his eyes, his breath quickened and he couldn't help but see flashes of the time he got hit rush through his vision. Immediately noticing the distress, Luka pulled Adrien into his arms and held him tight.
"Hey, don't listen to it. Focus on me, focus on my voice" he said.
Adrien buried his face into Lukas chest, gripping him tight and shaking like one of those tiny yappy dogs. Even Plagg was speechless at the situation, having woken from his slumber in a pile of Adriens clothes.
"It's gonna be ok, just listen to my vo-"
The sudden sound of glass shattering downstairs cut him off, and immediately his blood ran cold. Had Gabriel broken in? Had he broken something outside? The yelling and screaming only got louder. He could hear his dad trying to get Gabriel to leave the property, Emilie screaming about how he was the worst person she'd ever met and Nathalie in a rage admitting that she indeed, had slept with his wife and taken her love and affection too.
Whatever was happening, it was getting worse. The only think Luka could do was keep Adrien safe, and even with his own stress being high, he was level headed enough to know what he had to do.
"Fuck, Adrien block your ears. Keep close to me" Luka said, reaching for his phone.
Adrien did he was told and pressed his hands to his ears, snuggling into Luka. Luka gripped him tight, feeling tears soaking into his shirt. He never thought he'd have to call 112, but here he was, dialings emergency services.
"112 what is the nature of your emergency?"
"I need police, maybe an ambulance I don't know" Luka told the dispatcher.
"What's going on over there?"
"My boyfriend has an abusive father and is staying with me and my dad. His father found us and is trying to break in, there's a lot of yelling and banging and something is broken but I'm staying locked in my room with my boyfriend so I don't know what's going on"
"Is your father trying to deal with it?"
"Yes, and my boyfriends mum and her uh... girlfriend? who is here too" Luka explained.
"What's the address?" The dispatcher asked.
Adrien couldn't make out everything over his beating heart, the yelling and his panicked sobs. But he knew Luka was calling the police, and he was thanking the gods Luka was level headed enough to do so. The dispatcher assured that help was on the way, and told Luka to stay on the line until the police arrived.
The next few minutes were a blur, between the fight downstairs and Luka trying to talk to the dispatcher and keep Adrien calm. Finally when sirens and flashing lights could be heard outside, he could hang up and focus on Adrien.
The two listened to the commotion, keeping huddled in each other's arms. There was a lot of noise, police yelling to get on the ground and stay down at Gabriel and him trying to fight back. Slowly all the noise died down, and from the window they could see Gabriel being forced into a police car in cuffs. Rushed footsteps came up the hall and Emilie immediately shook the handle wanting to be let in. Luka reached over and unlocked the door, Emilie going right for her distressed son.
"It's ok sweetheart, mamas here, it's ok. He's gone" she assured, pulling both boys into a hug.
Following her up the hall and into the room was a police officer, who had several questions.
And was very shocked to see that all of this commotion was coming from the world famous Agreste family who were hiding with the also world famous Jagged stone and his son.
There was a lot to get though, but first everyone needed to calm down.