Truth

Luka was anxiously bouncing his leg as he sat in the car (Y/N) had sent for him, saying it was too late at night for him to bike all the way to see them. The driver very graciously had the divider up, leaving Luka to be alone as he wondered what they possibly could have seen in the vision, or if it was about a vision at all. What if something else had happened? Did they get hurt? A nightmare? Did someone do something?

The boy practically flee out of the car when it finally pulled up to the front of the house, and he made a beeline for the stairs before Owen or Milo, who were still up watching TV, could ask him anything. The two looked at eachother in confusion, Luka never came over this late and he always said hi before (Y/N) dragged him off.

"Ah," Owen groaned "They're at that age where they're beginning to sneak around, keep secrets," he took a sip from his wine "I can't decide if I should stop it and be hypocrite or let them be."

Milo nodded, they were both very clearly drunk "right because if your parents knew half the things you did in high school they would have a heart attack."

"I did you in highschool," Owen giggled, his drunken haze making him much more honest than he would normally be.

Milo's face just flushed "That's not relevant right now," Milo tried to hide his smile when Owen started peppering his face with kisses "we can't just be the cool parents, you know. (Y/N) should absolutely have fun- but don't you think we should..make more of an effort?" Milo asked "You're their legal guardian, you're the closest thing to a parent they have anymore. I don't wanna tell you how to do it, but we're gone a lot and I'm sure it gets lonely sometimes."

"You're right," Owen says "I'm just not sure how. Their mom was always great with making everyone feel included when she wanted to, I just don't want to try and replace them."

"You don't have to replace them, but you should talk to them more. Throwing money at them won't change what happened."

Owen sighed, "maybe we can invite (Y/N) to some wedding planning stuff? Make them feel included? They're going to be part of our little family, and they'll be the best big sibling any of our future kids could ask for." Owen laughed, smiling at the thought.

"That's a good start, maybe we can invite Luka too so they're not bored watching us pick fabrics." Milo nodded, "it's been over a year since everything happened, but it's never too late to make an effort."

***

Luka knocked on the door before opening up the attic access, climbing up and rushing to pull a now sobbing (Y/N) into his arms. "Darling, what happened?" He gently ran his fingers through their hair as he whispered soothing words into their ear.

(Y/N) tried to answer but they couldn't get the words out, their heart was racing a mile a minute and it was hard to get any air into their lungs. Luka's hands helped, giving them something to focus on, but words refused to form.

"Don't worry about answering right now, just breathe." Luka whispered, slowly rocking them back and forth "in and out, with me" Luka instructed as he took big, deep breaths as (Y/N) breathed with him. "You're doing wonderful, love, just focus on the air going in and out, that's all you need to do."

After a few minutes of silence, the only noise being the two breathing together, (Y/N) was finally breathing normally and their heart returned to a stable rhythm. Asra had long since disappeared back into the bracelet, fearful of Luka's reaction to the incoming news.

"I'm not really sure out to start, it's been...kind of a really bad night. I didn't even realize how late it was until after I called you- I'm sorry I woke you up."

Luka smiled, his hand on their cheek as he wiped their tears away with his thumb "You never have to apologize for wanting my help, love."

(Y/N) nodded, leaning into his touch "I know, but you were sleeping and I feel bad. But this is something I think you'd be pissed if I waited to tell you."

Luka nodded, a joking smile on his face as he adjusted "Well now you're making me nervous. You didn't meet some new guy, did you?" He was clearly trying to make light of the situation.

(Y/N) giggled as Luka pressed a quick kiss to their lips, Luka missed their laugh "no, never. But it's definitely not a joking matter. So...in my vision, I saw Asra talking to hawkmoth, but in his civilian form."

"So you know who hawkmoth is?" Luka asked, his shoulders and face visibly tensing. "Wait, why was Asra-"

"Yeah, but- uhm" (Y/N) bit their lip as they tried to find the words "Asra was given to me by Hawkmoth, it was a whole scheme to expose their identites from the inside. He- he had my parents killed to get me in Paris." (Y/N) choked back a sob, not expecting the urge to cry to return so soon

"Did asra give us up?"

"No, which is the only reason why I'm giving him a chance, he lied to Gabriel to protect us."

"Gabriel as in Gabriel Agreste?" Luka's eyes grew wide "as in Adrien's dad? As in the father of Chat Noir?"

(Y/N) nodded, "I feel like you're glossing over the he killed my parents thing,"

"No," Luka started, kissing them again "not at all, just appreciating the irony that one of the miraculous he's looking for is under his roof."

(Y/N) nodded, smiling a little "it is a little funny, maybe a little too funny."

"Are we gonna tell everyone else? Ladybug, Chat Noir? Take him down?" Luka asked, "we need to do something now that we know who's been doing this-"

(Y/N) could only nod again in agreement "but the thing is how do we tell them, how do we beat hawkmoth?"

"You could always go to the police as raven- tell them your powers gave you the knowledge" Luka suggested, "but I'm not sure how credible a moraculous-induced vision would be in a court of law."

"We have to tell Ladybug and Chat Noir, they can't be in the dark about this-"

"In the dark about what?" A voice asked from the window, making (Y/N) jump practically three feet in the air. A head with cat ears popped up as the silhouette, the features Chat Noir filling in as he climbed into the window "Sorry if I'm overstepping, I was on patrol and-"

"No, it's fine- uhm-" (Y/Nl struggled to find the right words, Adrien didn't know they were Raven and they didn't know Luka was Viperion, was telling him now really worth it? "I had a-"

Chat smirked "Cat got your tongue?"

Even Luka cracked a smirk at that one. "Let's just say it's been a very eventful evening, Adrien"

Chat smiled, laughing before his full sentence registered "you know who I-"

"Yes, I do, Raven here figured it out ages ago." Luka smiled, putting a hand on his partner's shoulder as (Y/N) sat there in shock at Luka's bluntness.

"So you must be-"

"Viperion, yeah," Luka said "there's too many things going on to keep these things secret anymore, I never cared for secrets. (Y/N) had a vision, we know who hawkmoth is, and he's the one that had their parents killed to get them into Paris to give them a miraculous he had in his possession to expose our identities from the inside."

Chat stood there in shock, his jaw wide open as he stumbled onto the seat by the bed "What?"

Luka nodded "that would have been my reaction too if I wasn't in bed with them."

Chat's disguise came off, and Adrien was sitting there in his place. There was no point in the leaving the disguise on if they already knew. "So, who's hawkmoth?"

"Adrien I'm not sure if you really want to-" (Y/Nl started, worried for how the Agreste may react

"I want to know, it's not like it's my dad or anything."

Luka winced "it- it actually is. Gabriel and hawkmoth are one in the same."

After the words left his lips, the room became a suffocating void of silence. The truth was often bitter, but the blond was left frozen in his place as Luka stared at him, so frozen he didn't feel the tears falling or his body shaking until (Y/N) was in front of him and keeping him from falling onto the floor as a silent scream left his lips.

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