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Chapter 3: Part 3. The Woes of Nathalie

Summary:

Nathalie processes about learning Adrien's identity. Warning: includes depictions of death/attempted murder.
Originally posted here.

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Runaway Catwalker, Part 3. The Woes of Nathalie


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Shot of Mayura lying on the ground, hand clenched.

Hawkmoth (through communicator): Mayura, status update. Mayura? Mayura!

Hawkmoth carries Mayura to Nathalie’s bed.

Hawkmoth: I knew letting you use the peacock miraculous was a bad idea… I’m taking it back now. Please rest.

Nathalie (voiceover): I was this close.

Cut to shot of Mayura’s hand trying to hold onto Chat Noir’s staff as it disintegrates during his detransformation.

Nathalie (voiceover): If his staff hadn’t disintegrated beneath my fingers…

Mayura falls aside as Plagg helps Adrien to escape.

Nathalie (voiceover): …if my enhanced strength hadn’t failed so quickly…

Cut to Nathalie sitting in bed, angrily grabbing at the blankets.

Nathalie (voiceover): …I would have been this close

Shot of Adrien dead, throat crushed.

Nathalie (voiceover): …to killing Adrien.

Shot of Adrien looking up wide-eyed as Mayura holds Chat’s staff above him.

Nathalie (voiceover): What would I have done if I’d actually succeeded?

Shot of Chat Noir getting disintegrated by a flash of green and white.

Nathalie (voiceover): How many times have we killed him?

Shot of a distressed Ladybug next to a dead Adrien as she tries and fails to summon a lucky charm.

Nathalie (voiceover): What will I do if Ladybug ever fails to bring him back?

Nathalie looks down at her hand in guilt.

Nathalie (voiceover): And now that I know it’s him…can I even keep going through with this?

Shot of Gabriel with his hands behind his back, looking away.

Nathalie (voiceover): Gabriel wouldn’t understand. He never takes Adrien’s defiance well. And Chat Noir would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes.

Shot of Emilie’s statue.

Nathalie (voiceover): But I don’t think I can go against him. I pledged myself long ago to help Gabriel in any way I could.

Shot of the painting of Gabriel and Adrien in mourning.

Nathalie (voiceover): And I still want to help him. I still want to help both of them.

Shot of Shadowmoth standing between Emile in her stasis pod and Adrien in a casket.

Nathalie (voiceover): Could I protect Gabriel from having to choose between his wife and his son?

Shot of Adrien happily throwing up peace signs as he is halfway between transforming into Chat Noir.

Nathalie (voiceover): If Gabriel never learns Adrien’s secret identity… If Chat Noir never comes to serious harm again…

Shot of Shadowmoth and Chat Noir rushing towards each other, Shadowmoth with cane raised above his head and Chat reaching forward with his Cataclysm.

Nathalie (voiceover): Maybe their confrontation is inevitable…but I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t try to avert it.


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