What The Future Holds

Backwarder

"Emma, it's time to go back," Hugo says as he watches the pouting girl, growing a bit frustrated as she crossed her arms over her chest and refused to look at him. "I won't last much longer here. Do you remember what would happen if we stayed?"

Without looking back at him, Emma turned her back to him before shouting out one word. "NO," was all she said as she held her miraculous tightly to her. "I don't want to go back yet. I want to stay with Luka and Juleka! I want to stay with mommy and daddy!"

"We don't belong here, Emma! This isn't our time. Mom and dad are not our parents yet!" Hugo struggled to remain calm, knowing how stubborn his sister could be with this. They've been here for too long. If they don't go back home soon, he might not be able to at all. Emma was safe from the side effects of her miraculous but he wasn't. "Emma, please. We have to go back home."

Emma shook her head no, still refusing to even look at him. "We never do what I want to do, Hugo. Ever since we got here, you made sure to keep me away from them. I want to spend more time with mommy and daddy too." The thought of leaving everyone behind now made her heartache. She wanted to stay behind just a little longer. Emma loves her brother very much, but she couldn't help but believe that she still has work to do here.

"Emma, we have to go back home! Why are you being like this?" Hugo asked his sister, unable to understand what is driving her to act this way. She's had plenty of time to hang out with both of their parents' younger selves, but it was time they returned back to the future. If he stayed any longer, he was afraid of forgetting everything. What would he be? If he stayed in the past, his parents wouldn't be his parents. They were far too young to have to take care of him. He couldn't put it on them to be responsible for him if he were to get stuck there. However, he couldn't ignore the fact that he wasn't born in this time. Would he disappear eventually if he were to ever lose the miraculous? It's impossible, right? He wasn't sure, and that uncertainty frightened him more than anything.

"No, mommy and daddy still need our help here. You just don't know it because you can't see it!" Emma shouted back at him, crossing her arms over her chest before moving away from her brother. "Honey and I are not leaving until I can finish my own mission. Then we can go back. If we don't help now, then what if no one ever does?"

"Emma, what you're asking for is impossible. We shouldn't be so reckless here," Hugo shot back before sighing. The little girl was close to tears now from arguing with him. He never liked seeing her cry, but what was he supposed to do. He couldn't let her do this. "Once we get back, we have to leave. I'm sorry, but we just have to."

The little girl couldn't help but cry now, stomping her feet a bit as she shook her head no. "I said no! No means no, mister!" Before Hugo could say anything else, Emma ran over to the door. "Leave me alone!" With that, the little girl ran out of the hotel room they were staying at.

Knowing where she was heading, Hugo wasn't worried as he simply shook his head no and threw himself back on the bed. "Why are you doing this, Emma? Don't you know how much trouble we could be in right now?"

Earlier that day...

"Girls! We have a very serious situation!" Marinette says as she's pacing back and forth in her room, her friends cuddled close to each other on the couch. Each of them, except Rose, was incredibly tired from the night before, having stayed up late on a Friday night, hoping to have been able to sleep in. After all, that's what the weekend is for. However, as soon as Marinette called them, they knew they just had to be there for her. "Adrien and his father have been invited to the Royal Wedding in England this weekend."

Alya wasn't too happy to hear her bff's reason for calling them over so early in the morning. She had stayed up late with her older sister the night before watching scary movies. All she wanted to do now was get a bit more rest. "That's the "emergency'' you called us over here for on a Saturday morning?" she asked, a bit annoyed with her friend.