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It was 36°c.
As soon as Gabriel left the Atelier, Nathalie slouched in her chair.
Instead of usual red turtle neck and blazer, she settled for a thinner red shirt. Hoping that it would be a lot more comfortable with the heatwave.
Much to her appreciation Gabriel had a few fans set up inside of the Atelier.
But is still felt way too hot.
Part of her hoped that Gabriel would just Akumatize someone who would make Paris colder. Even if it was just for an hour.
She rested her head against her desk out of exhaustion, unaware that Gabriel had reentered the Atelier.
“Nathalie, are you okay?” Gabriel asked, catching Nathalie’s attention.
“Oh- Yes.” She replied. After her health got worse from her using the peacock miraculous, the last thing she wanted to do was make him more worried about her. “I am just too hot.”
“Do you want me to get you some ice cream?” Gabriel asked, causing her to look at him with a confused look across her face. “I have some in the freezer.”
“Please. If it is not too much bother.”
“Of course it's not.
Nathalie and Gabriel were standing in the office, both eating an Ice cream cone. Nathalie couldn’t help but feel shocked that Gabriel was actually doing this, got her ice cream and now they were both eating it… in the kitchen.
As she glanced around at the kitchen, watching the fans Gabriel had set up inside of the kitchen. It felt like there was multiple fans in every room of the Agreste mansion she had walked through. “Sir, where did you get all of these fans?” She asked, but Gabriel looked over to her with a confused look across his face.
“We aren’t working, you can just call me Gabriel.” He replied, as Nathalie looked up into his eyes. “But I have stored these fans in storage from a few of the photoshoots last year,” His voice was in a slight laugh. “and they have been sitting in storage until now. Got to admit that this was a great decision of mine to keep these fans.”
“Yes it is.” Nathalie smiled at him, but she quickly broke eye contact and glanced down to the floor. “I started to suspect that you were going to akumatise someone to make it colder.”
“I did consider it,” He answered in a laugh, before swallowing the last of his ice cream cone. “But the base felt roasting and it is risky just becoming Hawkmoth in the middle of the mansion.”
Nathalie nodded her head, He was right. If he became Hawkmoth in the mansion, they were at risk of someone walking in to Hawkmoth, and while it didn’t mean that they would realise Gabriel Agreste was hawkmoth. They both knew how suspicious it would look.
The sound of Nathalie’s phone ringing caught both of their attentions. “Hello?” She asked down the phone. “Yes this is Nathalie, Yes of course.” Gabriel looked confused, wondering what had happened. “I will be right there,” As the phone call ended, Nathalie turned around towards Gabriel. “Adrien’s school has ended early because of the heatwave. I have got to go and pick him up.”
“I’ll come with you.” Gabriel offered, but Nathalie’s eyes widened. Shocked how the heatwave even made Gabriel decide to go with Nathalie to pick up Adrien.
The car ride to the school was quiet, as Nathalie drove throught the streets of Paris towards Collège Françoise Dupont. Relieved to be in the car with AC. “I do not want to leave this car.” Nathalie murmured.
“I agree. I cancelled Adrien’s photoshoots for the day.” Gabriel stated.
“Yes, that is definitely the right thing to do.” Nathalie agreed, nodding her head. “We really don’t need Adrien getting a heatstroke from modeling outside.”
“Yes, that was what I was thinking.” Gabriel replied, as Nathalie pulled the car up outside of the school.
They look out the window of the car watching as Adrien, quickly ran towards the car and opened the door.
“Oh father! I didn’t expect to see you here as well!!" Adrien exclaimed out of excitement.
“Yes… and you don’t have to go to modeling today.” Gabriel explained, but all Adrien did was smile, “Because the photoshoot would be outside I felt that it would be too dangerous with how hot it is. So it has been postponed until there is no risk of you getting a heat stroke.”
“Thank you father!”
That night, Nathalie lay in her bed with another one of Gabriel’s fans blowing cold air over her. While it was cooler than it was during the day, it was still 29°c… still too hot.
She lay on top of her blankets trying to find any form of comfort. But it felt impossible.
Suddenly the sound of someone knocking on her bedroom door caught her attention. “Come in?” She shouted, watching as Gabriel entered her room and sat next to her.
“Are you okay?” She asked, her voice in a slight laugh.
“Once this heatwave is over, I am going to figure out how to install Air conditioning in the lair.” Gabriel explained, his voice sounding annoyed. “No amount of fans can make it any less of an oven. So even if I want to I cannot Akumatize to make Paris colder.”
“Wait how many fans did you put down there?”
“Ten. It was extremely loud and it did not help the heat.” Gabriel answered, as Nathalie's eyes widened out of shock. ‘He put ten fans down there!?’
“Did you stack them up in the elevator? Or did you do multiple trips?” Yes Nathalie knew that it was not the most important question. But she couldn’t help but wonder what he did.
“Ten trips… and by the way while transforming with can protect from alot. It can only do so much against heatwaves.” Gabriel explained, Nathalie gently placed her hand against his shoulder.
“Oh there goes my plans.” Nathalie said as a joke, her voice in a laugh. But Gabriel instead looked at her confused. “Oh I was joking about Transforming into Mayura to stop myself from over heating. It was just a joke.” Nathalie shocked her head. “But are you okay?”
“Yes I am fine.” Gabriel replied, but Nathalie looked concerned. “I promise I am fine. Just tired from carrying many many fans around the mansion.”
“Okay.” Nathalie’s voice was soft, as she stared into his eyes.