A new partnership

Two Minus

 Chapter 40

Nathalie entered into the office of Gabriel, which sat in front of his desk on his computer, then the assistant closed the door and approached her boss, which looked up at her stern.

„Have you got anything?" Questioned the blonde, then Nathalie showed Gabriel the same USB stick and gave it to his hand.

„I have recorded their talk before in my room and I think you will like to know, that this Nathaniel Kurtzberg actually is the one holding the snake miraculous with him. This proves then, that the bracelet he was wearing on that point is his miraculous,"

„Let me hear it first," Gabriel mentioned plugging the stick into the tower of his computer, then opened the first date on the top to reveal the recording Nathalie has brought him.

"You know yesterday was a little an unlucky day for many of us. Luka just did that because Ladybug needed someone to help her and Onyx out until Hydra came. In anyways your mother and Alya would have found it strange if we would just take your miraculous off or anything right in a situation like this,"

"I still don't feel like telling my mom all of this with the akumas. I believe Ladybug also wants to be present during the talk to help me out. How else can I alone explain why I got the snake miraculous. For some reason Ladybug picked me. It either was fate, fear or just a lucky shot. I never expected to have the chance of becoming a superhero and I did take the chance,"

"If I may ask dude, why exactly did you accept the miraculous?" Questioned Nino. "Did you just do that, because you always wanted to be a hero?"

"Yeah.....and sort of I had a crush on Ladybug since the day she saved me on my birthday and I hoped to be able to impress her. In the end, it didn't work out in any way as she was hitting on Onyx instead, afterward, she stopped and preferred to be single for the moment or just focus on her task,"

Gabriel fast-forwarded the recording stopping several seconds later to listen to the other bit of the record.

"Super Snake, I will pass by you tomorrow at some point of the day. Be ready to expect me"

Gabriel reversed two seconds back to get the full notice of that comment and nodded as he was right.

"Next morning a meet up on the top of the Trocadero. Topic: Absence of Super Snake. Super Snake, I will pass by you tomorrow at some point of the day. Be ready to expect me,

"It's for your Super Snake side," Nino warned earning a nod from the redhead.

"I check it out later, my phone is charging right now," Nathaniel advised. "I'm curious to know what the future plans of her are at the moment without my absence,"

"Same or what Hawk Moth will do next. If it gets worse it will be hard for them to deal with the akumas like yesterday with Lila and Marc,"

"Yes....by the way, didn't they say, they would come with you?"

"Lila's mom had the idea to arrange a bodyguard for her thinking that would solve the situation and Marc didn't want to come alone,"

"Okay, that's odd. We weren't alone here. He would have us or at least me,"

"You know Marc sort of has.....trust issues,"

"Oh......I thought we were good friends and that we could trust each other,"

"That's how far their conversation about the miraculouses went. The rest is only about someone's crush and the friend Nino left later and nothing is more to be heard," Revealed Nathalie watching Gabriel close the tab of the recording.