If things were ideal, that would be how things played out.
But in an ideal world, Adrien never would have gotten shot in the first place. Hoping for the best didn't always make it so, and Marinette realized that. There was a high likelihood that this was going to backfire, somehow.
There was an even higher likelihood that Gabriel would not change his mind about how he'd be proceeding.
She nodded, inwardly hoping that he wouldn't ask. She would dance around the answers for as long as she could without actually lying, but if his questions got more specific, she would have to tell him - even if there was a big part of her that didn't want to.
"Thank you." For not making me lie.
The part of her that didn't want to lie won out over the part of her that didn't want to be the bearer of bad news, though.
"And, uh... sorry. For... not getting out of there and giving you two privacy sooner. I should have..." Her voice trailed off. "...I wasn't thinking."
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But in an ideal world, Adrien never would have gotten shot in the first place. Hoping for the best didn't always make it so, and Marinette realized that. There was a high likelihood that this was going to backfire, somehow.
There was an even higher likelihood that Gabriel would not change his mind about how he'd be proceeding.
She nodded, inwardly hoping that he wouldn't ask. She would dance around the answers for as long as she could without actually lying, but if his questions got more specific, she would have to tell him - even if there was a big part of her that didn't want to.
"Thank you." For not making me lie.
The part of her that didn't want to lie won out over the part of her that didn't want to be the bearer of bad news, though.
"And, uh... sorry. For... not getting out of there and giving you two privacy sooner. I should have..." Her voice trailed off. "...I wasn't thinking."