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This is the most emotion Adrien has seen from his father in a very, very long time.
"I don't know what happened to her, Adrien!" Gabriel yells, and Adrien flinches. His voice echoes loudly throughout the large entryway of their home. "One day I woke up, and she wasn't there lying next to me! One day I woke up and she was gone, and she never came back!" Gabriel's breaths come out hard. "Do you think I don't care?" He walks down to the second stair. "That her loss doesn't hurt me?" To the third, closer to Adrien. "That I am not doing everything—" fourth step— "in my power to bring her back?" Here he pauses, and there is earnesty in the way he looks at his son. But his gaze is still full of anger. When he speaks again, his words are quieter than before. "The day I lost her," he says, his eyes shining with unshed tears of madness and heartbreak, "I died."