Someone Like You (Cat Noir)

Chapter 63 Thicker Than Water

Hello all! Some heads up for this chapter! Zoe arrives! Zoe is a character that, like a lot of people apparently, I don't really care about. And that has nothing to do with anything she says or does, I really just hate how they took away Chloe's redemption ark and then threw in this random-ass half-sister who is her complete opposite to take over the Bee Miraculous. I have made up my own back story with the information provided about Zoe in the show, which is almost nothing outside of the fact that she went to boarding school, had no friends, and her father is not a present parent, in order to hopefully give her character more depth and contrast her with Chloe in a way that makes sense.

I also hate her hair. The animation of it I mean. It's choppy and it looks like bad Sims CC. The kind that doesn't sit right on the neck and back and kind of just floats above it. I hate that.

But anyway, we'll get to see some more Chloe! I know you've missed her!

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Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide a reference. Andre stared absently at his food as his wife expressed he annoyance with a phone call she had gotten a few hours prior. Zoe had called. Zoe was Chloe's younger half-sister. The result of an affair between his wife and a business associate of hers that transpired shortly after she returned to work in New York.

Andre had never met Zoe. He had never laid eyes on her. Audrey never talked about her to him, and not once had she ever had Zoe come out to visit. A part of him had always been grateful for that. After all, her existence was a reminder of his wife's infidelity. However, when she was first born, Andre couldn't help but inquire about her. He thought that maybe, Audrey would find his interest to be a kind gesture of forgiveness. That she would appreciate his effort.

Instead, she shut him down, giving him short answers and telling him not to worry about it. Eventually, he gave up trying. After all, he had his own daughter to worry about. In passing a few years later it came up that Zoe had been enrolled in boarding school. Unlike Andre, Zoe's father was equally absent as Aubrey was. With neither truly having time for the girl, she was shipped off, and it was this knowledge that Andre couldn't help but pity the girl.

Once again, Zoe became an afterthought until a few more years passed. Now, he sat while Audrey ranted about Zoe's call. Apparently, something was amiss with her boarding school. Zoe's father was someone who was near impossible to get in touch with, even for Audrey, and now Zoe was requesting she come stay with them in Paris. His wife went on about how ridiculous it was for her to ask, giving every excuse in the book on why it wouldn't work out, and of course, she tried to make it out as though he was the one that wouldn't want Zoe in Paris.

"Darling," He interrupted her muttering and harsh stabbing of her lunch. Her eyes shot over to him from across the table in a bit of surprise, as if she had forgotten he had been there listening in the first place. "I think you should let her come."

Audrey raised a brow. "And why on earth would you think that?"

"Because she's your daughter." He answered simply. It seemed so obvious to him.

"But she's not yours." She reminded. As if he had forgotten.

"I think...one can never have too many daughters," Andrea said thoughtfully. "Besides, it could be good for Chloe."

Audrey tilted her head as she looked over her husband in an almost calculating way. As if trying to figure out what game he was playing at.

"Is that so? She hummed. "Fine. I'll have my assistant get in touch with her boarding school. You can handle the arrangements for her stay here." Audrey finally agreed absent-mindedly.