A/N: Ok so the italicized stuff is Adrien's thoughts, I'm not sure if its confusing or anything. Also if you think I work fast, I don't lol I already wrote this when I published the first two chapters and I was nervous about it being bad. But then I was fuck it y'know, I'll publish it. :)

Adrien opened the ring's container and put it on his finger, Plagg flew out.

"Huh? Oh… I thought you might've quit or something, kid."

"Of course not. I need your help though."

"Ok. Jeez, what time is it?"

Plagg looked at the clock.

"2:36 am?! What do you need help with at 2:36?!"

"I couldn't sleep. I want to go into the atelier." (A/N: The fandom page said that that's what his dad's room was called so that's what it is)

"Why would you want to do that?"

"I feel like there's something I don't know about, something important in there."

"And you want me to help you break in?"

"Yeah. That's why I waited until it was late."

"2:36 am late! Isn't that way later than it needed to be?!" The line between sarcasm and annoyance in Plagg's words was fairly unclear.

"Better safe than sorry."

"Ugh."

Plagg flew into the door handle and unlocked Adrien's bedroom door. Plagg wondered why they had never done that before.

"What should we do about the security cameras?"

"I could fly through the wall and disable them? Maybe that'll work."

"Thank you so much Plagg, I really appreciate this"

"I better get a lot of cheese for this."

They looked at each other, even though that was a joke it was still a nice moment. Adrien looked like a mess, but somehow he didn't look as bad as one would expect. Considering that he was rejected and torn apart by the only girl he loved, the only girl he wanted to love. He was terrified, he had never done anything bad before. If he was a prisoner in his own home, why not take a look around the place.

The lights turned off of the security cameras. Adrien went into the atelier, which Plagg had already unlocked for him. The room was as empty as Adrien expected, it was a pretty accurate representation of his father. He looked around the room but nothing seemed to be there. Seriously? Why would he stay in here all day if there isn't anything interesting? Adrien looked around again, felt defeated and looked up at the painting of his mother. She would know what to do, she would have helped me with this. He realized he had seen his father studying it before too, but why? He remembered his father trying to cover up his actions before, but what was he doing? This was all so confusing to Adrien, what could his father be hiding? Ladybug would know how to figure this out, but it's not like I can tell her, that would risk my identity. His father usually stood right in front of the painting, and Adrien knew the painting swung open to reveal a safe. There must be something more than just a safe, there has to be. Adrien started to pace on the raised area of the room by the painting. As he took his steps he noticed that a certain area felt different, as if it had moved before or something. The area that felt different was directly in front of the painting. Maybe this leads somewhere, how do I get it to lead me there?

"Ugh! Why does this have to be so complicated!"

Shoot I shouldn't have said that out loud.

Adrien was incredibly frustrated and exhausted. He leaned against the wall in front of him, but he realized it wasn't the wall his hands were touching, it was the painting, and his fingers weren't just resting on it, they had pressed part of the painting in.What?! The pressed in parts of the painting were triangles, and he realized that there was another spot set for three other fingers, he tentatively placed his hand up to those as well. The ground beneath him spun downwards and opened up into Hawkmoth's lair. Adrien couldn't believe what he was seeing. This isn't what I think it is, it's just an odd extension of the house- yeah an extension. He thought this until he saw the butterflies. A sense of panic ran over him, this couldn't be true, his father couldn't be. Adrien thought back to when Ladybug proposed that his father might have been Hawkmoth, it was almost too easy to figure it out. This was hiding right under his nose this whole time, he was angry and incredibly upset. Adrien started to sob, the realization and the rejection of the day was just too much. His vision was blurry but in the distant area of the room he noticed something bright, he walked over to it. It was the coffin of his mother, she was down here.

"I'm the last thing you have of her? Yeah, right."

He laughed to himself, a laugh that resulted in a lot more crying. Adrien lowered himself to the floor, his father was a supervillain, he was fighting against his father every day to protect the city that they love. His father was responsible for so much chaotic destruction and emotional trauma to thousands of civilians, not just his own emotional neglect.

He heard a footstep behind him,

"Now, how did you get in here?"

There he was, in all his glory, Gabriel Agreste in the flesh.

"I can't believe you, father."

The intense anger and suffocating feeling in his throat changed the tone of Adrien's words to be shaking with emotion. He stood up to face his father, to face Hawkmoth himself.

"All this time, it was you."

"You don't understand, I'm doing all of this for you, my son!"

"For me?! FOR ME?! Terrorizing the nice civilians of Paris?! Preying on people's emotions so that you can get some nice magic earrings and a pretty little ring?! How, HOW AM I THE MOTIVATION FOR ALL OF THAT?!"

"If you bring the Miraculous of the black cat, and the miraculous of the Ladybug together you get a wish, a wish for anything, anything at all. Once I get those miraculouses I'm going to wish for your mother, I'm going to bring her back to us! She's going to come back!"

Gabriel spoke in a voice that was intended to be firm and calm, but with use, sounded like a madman with the insistence of bringing the dead back to life.

"You can't do that! There must be a price!"

"You need your mother to become happy again, I'm doing this for you!"

"No. YOU need her to be happy."

Adrien's voice began to tremble as his sobs rang through the empty hall.

"I-I just want everything to be normal, I want YOU to be a normal father! I want you to love me, not to buy me things that resemble love, not to revive my mother so that she can love me for you, I want you to love me yourself!"

Even if Adrien had wanted to say anything after that, he couldn't. He was so overcome with emotion he couldn't do anything but cry. Hawkmoth desperately wanted to akumitize him but he knew that it wasn't the time, something deep, deep inside of him told him he couldn't do that to his poor son.

"I suppose you will want to tell everyone my identity now."

In their argument Adrien had wound up on the floor again, he nodded his head in response. Sitting there he looked weak and helpless, he was incredibly distraught.

"You know I can't allow that, right."

The smoothness and coldness of Mr Agreste's words seemed as if he wasn't phased from what his son had said. He kneeled down to be level with Adrien, as he spoke he placed his hand under Adrien's chin and tilted his head upwards.

"You cannot go telling everyone who I am, can you. You know, I think that bad little boys that sneak around at night should be punished, right. I don't think a liability like you should be allowed out places, places like school, places where you could talk."

"I won't! If-if you let me leave, I swear over mom, I swear I won't tell anyone. I won't tell anyone if you let me leave this house, please I can't stay here I can't do this. I can't live with a supervillain!"

This was not what Gabriel wanted, but he still had a tiny bit of humanity in him. Adrien was sitting with his back against the wall. It was as if Gabriel had forgotten that Adrien was his son, he grabbed him by his neck and pushed him against the wall.

"Do not. Tell. A soul. I will know, and you don't want to know what I will do."

He held Adrien there for another second and then released sharply leaving his son gasping on the floor. Adrien didn't want to know what he would do, but Hawkmoth didn't know what he'd do either, he just hoped that Adrien would be scared enough to not talk. Hawkmoth turned around and left him in the room. Adrien sobbed for minutes on end, his father had never done anything that horrible before. He realized how evil that man really was, and how ashamed he was to be that man's son. He finally picked himself up and left the lair, and eventually made his way back into his bedroom. The events that happened seemed to take hours, but in reality the time was 3:29. It hadn't even been an hour's time, a lot can happen in 53 minutes, a hell of a lot can happen. He had to decide what to do next, he obviously couldn't stay here, but where in the world would he go? Adrien sat down on his bed. Plagg flew into the room, assuming his job was done.

"Soooooo, what'd ya find?"

Adrien didn't respond.

"Hello? What was in the office? Adrien? Are you ok? Jeez dude, you're shaking! What the heck happened in there?!"

"I don't want to talk about it. We need to leave."

"Now?"

"Yeah."