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The public knew the end was nearing, but in hopes to make it go faster the celebration planning was not made secret. This celebration would happen all over Paris with music, food, and parades that no on would be able to avoid. Hopefully, it would demoralize the villains and motivate their defeaters. Of course, with all of this to be done, there was a need for a lot of manpower and Kitty Section offered to provide some of it.

A wrench was thrown into the band's planning, when two weeks later on LIVE TV, Gabriel Agreste and Nathalie Sancoeur were put into the back of police cars. The Agreste's son and bodyguard watched from behind the mansion's iron gate, suspicious water coming from Adrien's eyes.

"We can't expect Adrien to perform with us." Luka said to his band as he paced the length of the houseboat. "Does anyone know another piano player who can play with us?"

"Well, we will never know if Adrien will preform with us if" Nino cut Rose off.

"No way dude, the guy has enough on his plate! He just lost his Dad and pseudo mom. It doesn't matter how much WE hate them, HE cared for them. He then learned that his real mom has been found brain-dead. And to top it off people are attacking him for something his Dad did. We DO NOT need to add more stress to his life with "band duties." If he wants to do this, he'll reach out to us. The dude runs a tight ship. He knows this is coming up." Nino finished as he slumped back against the houseboat's mast, turning his face away to wipe away a stray tear. As chill as Nino was perceived, he was wasn't afraid to break this image when it came to his friends.

The group was silent for a moment as they took in the teen's words.

"So we are back to finding a back-up piano player then?" Juleka asked.

"No, I am going to do it." Everyone turned to see Adrien and Marinette come on board, hand in hand. He gripped her hand tighter as he continued on. "But I won't feel comfortable until I can make a statement. Will you work with me on that?"

"I think I speak for all of us," Luka began, "when I say we will."

Three days later, Adrien was backstage. Today was the start of the two-week long, city wide celebration, and he was going to be the first singer for Kitty Section. His friends were out on the curtained stage doing last minute checks as he was nervously fiddling with the cuffs of his suit jacket. That's when Marinette came up and silently slipped her hand into his, gentle smile on her lips.

"Thanks for doing this with me, Marinette."

"No one deserves it more than you, Adrien." She said taking this from your hand into her's as well. "Don't think about the crowd. Just remember why and for whom you are doing this." They paused for a moment remembering the battle we fought together.

"You're up, Adrien," Luka called backstage as he slipped his guitar over his head."Knock their socks off."

You walked onto the stage and got behind his keyboard. With a deep breath you studied his hands. To his right, Rose, Juleka, and Marinette held their mic-stands confidently. Just off stage, Nino stood at his booth, waiting for Adrien's signal to start the backtrack.

The curtains opened. Adrien hit one sustained note. Nino started the backtrack.

His hands flew over the keyboard as the backtrack was turned up. He allowed the familiarity of the instrument take over his nerves as he started singing.

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 You can never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely night that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use

And did you think this fool could ever win?
We'll look at me, I'm coming back again
I got a taste of love in a simple way
And if you need to know while I'm still standing, you just fade away

Don't you know that I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a (aaaaa) true survivor, feeling like a little kid (aaaaa) (aaaaa)
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the (aaaaa) pieces of my life without you on my mind (aaaaa)

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He leaned into his microphone breathing the words out in pure emotion. The three girls supporting him by something certain words into focus with repeats and long A's. Even if you looked up, he won't be able to see the crowd, not through his soft angry tears. His heart beating roughly in his chest as he remembered clutching the butterfly and peacock miraculous. He clutched them as Ladybug held down two of the most important people in his life in from missing mother's glass tomb. The basement he didn't know existed in ruins all around them.

Yet his lady still stood, the beautiful city still stood, and everything be darned he was going to stand to.

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...And if our love was just a circus you be a clown by now

Don't you know that I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a (aaaaa) true survivor, feeling like a little kid (aaaaa) (aaaaa)
I'm still standing after all this time...

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He got to close to the end of the chorus once again as he could feel his voice getting ready to crack. However, he pushed it down and instead used it to lengthen the last word of the verse as the girls picked up any of the slack. Luka stepped out onto the stage to drop a guitar solo, letting Adrian collect himself. During the time between Adrian's crescendo and Luka's solo, Marinette was able to make her way over to the blonde's side. She placed one hand on his back in silent support.

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Don't you know that I'm still standing better than I ever did

Looking like a (aaaaa) true survivor, feeling like a little kid (aaaaa) (aaaaa)
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the (aaaaa) pieces of my life without you on my mind (aaaaa)

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah
I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

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The crowd joined in as Adrien rapidly glissandoed down the keys. As the backtrack finished, he stepped back, raising his hand and microphone up into the air.

Sure, he had cried, and maybe it wasn't professional but for now the statement have been made. It didn't matter what anyone else thought because, frankly, he was done with their opinions. And with that, he brought Mari up for a kiss as the curtains dropped for the bands member to get ready for the next song.

"Thank you, Mari. Paris wouldn't still be standing if it weren't for you."

"If it weren't for us." She corrected, lifting herself onto her toes to kiss him again. "Now come on, we need to get you into some non-Gabriel Agreste approved clothes." She said, throwing him a black and green Kitty-Section mask.

"Gladly."

And for the first time since Hawk moth and Mayura's reveal, Adrien truely smiled.