-Julian's POV-

"Julian. Juuuuulian!"

Snapping out of my daze, I realize that I have been staring blankly at the kitchen wall opposite of me, the spoon that I thought was securely in my hand had fallen into my bowl of cereal, handle included.

"Sorry Os, did you say something?" I ask, grimacing as I dip my fingers into the cold bowl of milk in search of the lost silverware.

"I was askin' if you're feeling alright. I know it's been stressful for the past couple weeks but today ya look even worse."

I sigh. Ossi was right, not only am I already feeling absolutely terrible for snapping at Ladybug and Chat Noir, but also thanks to my little stunt during particle physics last week, I was grounded by my parents again. Usually when this happens twice in a month I would consider maybe changing my methods of torture for my child, but I guess I'm not important enough for my parents to even consider that.

Decidedly losing my appetite, I pick up my bowl and head towards the sink. "It's about school..."

"Ya miss goin' to school?"

"Well you don't have to sound so surprised." I grumble, giving my Kwami a short glare before washing my bowl. "And yeah, kind of… It's just... Today is Career day…"

"No! Not Career day! ...What's Career day?" Ossi asks, landing on top of the sink so that we can talk face to face.

I give him a small chuckle. "It's where the students' parents come to school and explain what they do for a living." I explain as I place the bowl on the dish rack. "I've always wondered whether it's exactly as it's shown in the movies. Leave it up to my parents to ruin it though…"

"Were ya expectin' them to show up?" Ossi asks, flying to the top of my head now as I leave the kitchen to head back to my room.

This time I actually laughed at his question. "Gods no, they're too busy for that. I just wanted to see what my friends' parents do for a living. In the movies they usually bring something cool to share too, like good food, I heard that Marinette's father is a baker."

"What!? Now we hafta go!" Ossi exclaims, practically drooling at the mere thought of warm pastries.

I boop him in the snout, laughing at his slightly annoyed expression (he hates it when I do that). "And how do you expect to do that? My parents will be notified if I disobey them."

Ossi gives me a smirk that just screams trouble. "Not if ya attend as Faon Vert."

"No." I said simply, opening my laptop and ignoring the Kwami's indignant shout.

"Whaddya mean no!? It's the perfect plan!"

"I mean that I did not become a superhero to secretly sneak out and go to school, I'll become that person if I did that."

"But! What if ya go to talk about your career!"

That got my attention. "What are you talking about?"

"Ya were there when WiFi Lady attacked right? Just say it's a check up, and ya can give a talk about superhero work as well!"

"Lady WiFi's attack was weeks ago, it'll sound like I- Wait, no! I'm not entertaining this idea anymore." I say again, standing up and diving onto my bed, using my pillow as a shield to stop Ossi from persuading me more.

It's not a bad idea… My traitorous brain can't help but think.

I've been going crazy as Julian lately with the whole yelling at everything that moves, being Faon Vert is the perfect way to help me vent.

Ossi's pleas only grow louder even when my ears are covered by my pillow.

This is something Faon Vert would totally do, besides I owe Alya an interview…

...

And it's not like Ladybug and Chat Noir would be there...

I peek my head out towards Ossi. "Just for a few minutes…?"

"Just for a few minutes." Ossi nods. Letting out a sigh, I stand back up and grab my pen, but still… the thought of sneaking out to finally attend Career Day, is making me feel quite giddy.

"I knew you would change ya mind! Let's get some bread!"

Laughing, Ossi's excited voice encourages me even more as I point my pen towards the Kwami. "Ossi, Horns Drawn!"

-At School-

Landing on the school's rooftop, I peer down to see one of the school assistants currently cleaning up the courtyard. My classroom is on the second floor so it should technically be right under me now. However, just before I could land, a familiar voice reached my ears.

"Hi father, it's me. It's Parent's Career Day at school, remember? I was hoping that you were gonna show up. Call me back." Adrien's voice rises to me, he sounds disappointed. Frowning, I silently jump down, landing in front of him as he lets out a gasp.

"Faon Vert?" He asks, surprised and another emotion I can't quite place.

I smirk "That's my name, don't wear it out. Mind if I drop in?." Leaning against the railing in front of the blond, I look at him worriedly. "Are you okay?"

Adrien's surprised look suddenly changes to a more guarded one. "Yeah, why are you asking?"

"I was flying over the roof and can't help but overhear your phone conversation, these ears can be a hindrance sometimes, sorry if I heard something private…" I apologize sincerely, gesturing to the ears attached to my hood, they don't work like normal ears, but they do amplify volumes to my actual ears under said hood.

The blond sighs. "I'm fine, it's nothing new."

An awkward silence follows after that and I sigh internally, alright Julian, Adrien needs cheering up, what can you do?

"When I was younger, I married my pillow." Was what I ended up blurting out.

To be fair, that did bring the model out of his slump as he looked at me with wide eyes. However to my chagrin, he ends up asking the question that I hope he wouldn't-

"Why?"

Cringing, I scratch my neck in embarrassment. "I was a kid! A-and I just finished watching Enchanted, which is an amazing movie by the way, nine out of ten would recommend. So I married the Prince of Dumas, got a problem with that?" I end with a glare.

Adrien looks like he's seconds away from bursting into laughter, but he takes a deep breath. "Y-You mean, Dumas Paris the beddings manufacturer?" He finally squeaks out.

"W-well, that's- I-It's an empire!" I sputter, face heating up and looking away before hearing the blond erupt into laughter, and I slowly feel a smile breaking on my face, he should laugh more, even if it's at the expense of my own embarrassment.

"You know, you look like a goody-two-shoes but you always seem to be laughing at me." I huff, but smile at him all the same. As the blond finally calms down, I give him a relaxed look. "Listen Adrien, I'm not gonna pry but, if you ever want to talk, I'll be here." I offer sincerely. "It'll make you feel better, I know it sounds hard to believe but trust me, even I feel better when I talk things out with a close friend."

Adrien's eyes widen by a fraction, seemingly thinking about something before smiling back at me. "Thank you, Faon Vert"

"Anytime fawn." I say warmly, ruffling his hair and laughing at his annoyed look again.

"I should head back to class." Adrien says his goodbyes before walking towards the door, however it opens before he could reach the handle.

Alya barely spares Adrien a glance before looking at me with reverence. "Faon Vert! At our school! What're you doing here!?"

I give her my best smile. "Adrien called me."

Laughing at the blond's shocked look, I shake my head. "I'm kidding, I can't resist the smell of freshly baked pastries, so when I did, I just followed my nose, and here I am." I peek past the two of them and notice that the entire class is now staring at me with equally surprised looks, judging by Marinette's frazzled look, she had tripped and dropped the delicious pastries she's holding, guess I'll just have to suck it up and eat them myself…

I truly am a Hero of Paris.

"Marinette's dad is the best baker in Paris! You have to come in and try them!" The reporter claims. Raising my eyebrows at her clear attempt at getting me to stay longer, I follow her and Adrien into class anyways, giving the teacher of the current class, Miss Bustier, an apologetic smile.

"Sorry for interrupting your class Miss Teacher, I can leave if I'm interrupting."

The teacher looks surprised before shaking her head. "You're not interrupting at all, Mrs. Cesaire just finished her talk about her job as the Head Chef of Grand Paris hotel, it's Career Day today."

I gasp. "It's Career Day!? ...What's Career Day?" I ask, acting as confused as possible, tilting my head slightly for added effect. It seems to be working, Alya is probably typing "Faon Vert doesn't know Career Day!?" furiously on her phone right now, which is hilarious.

Miss Bustier to her credit only looked caught off guard for a second, before she explains. "It's a day where our students' parents visit school to talk about their occupations."

I give her a sagely nod. "That sounds really fun, especially if they're all giving out delicious food…" I can't help but give Marinette's tray another particularly longing look, the bluenette seems to be staring at me with both bewilderment and something else that I can't quite place.

"You should give a talk too!" Alya gasps, now holding her phone up and recording the entire thing.

"Now now Alya, let's give the other parents their chance to speak first, I'm sure Faon Vert doesn't mind waiting until they're done, right?"

Snapping out of my daze at the teacher's words, I give all of them a bright smile. "Of course not! I'll just be in that corner, you won't even know I'm here." I say again before hungrily grabbing a croissant, whisperings thanks to Marinette before leaping to the back of the class in a single jump, drinking in the awe of my classmates.

"Thank you Faon Vert, anyways let's continue, next up on the list is Sabrina's father, a policeman. Officer Roger!" Miss Bustier announces as the entire class and me clap. Sabrina and her father walk to the front of the class, the man is wearing his police uniform, maybe he'll let me blow the whistle if I ask nicely…

"I've been a police officer for 15 years, and I firmly believe that every citizen is innocent until proven guilty." Officer Roger claims, sounding pretty honest. I can't help but feel a surge of excitement wash over me, this is it, my first Career Day, finally I can experience it in all of its glor-

"My bracelet! It's gone! I had it a second ago!" Chloe gasps, looking around wildly before pointing at Marinette. "You! You stole it!"

Marinette looks at the blond with wide eyes. "What? What are you talking about!?"

"You purposely tripped on my bag so you could steal my bracelet!" The blonde accuses, before glaring at Officer Rogers. "You're a policeman! Arrest her!"

"My daughter is not a thief!" Marinette's dad says.

Wondering if I should intervene in this chaos, a loud whistle rings throughout the classroom.

"Hold on a minute, Miss Bourgeois, we don't accuse without proof! Now, everyone, calm down, please. Maybe you simply misplaced your bracelet." The Officer tries to explain.

Chloe seems to have taken it the wrong way though. "You're calling me a liar?! Daddy!"

The mayor looks panicked for a second before glaring at the officer alongside Chloe. "Roger, I demand you search this girl!" He orders, his daughter giving Marinette a smug look.

"Hang on guys." I leap next to Miss Bustier to try to diffuse the situation calmly, but both Chloe and the Mayor are way too worked up for that.

"Need I remind you that as mayor of this city, I am your superior!" The mayor states haughtily, stepping towards the Policeman.

Officer Roger looks extremely conflicted, I don't envy his current position. "But sir, it's against the law! I can't just go-"

"All right. Then you're no longer a police officer!"

I look at the entire situation unfolding in disbelief. "Mayor Bourgeois, don't you think you're being too harsh, over a missing bracelet?"

The mayor whirls around to glare at me, I gulp, thankfully he can't fire me from being Faon Vert, I hope...

"This is my daughter's bracelet we're talking about! This man is incompetent and he's fired!" The Mayor decrees, scowling at the policeman before pointing at the door. "Get out!"

Officer Roger doesn't even look like arguing anymore, instead he just starts walking towards the door dejectedly.

"Good!" Chloe scoffs before glaring at me. "Call Ladybug! I'm sure she'll actually do something!"

Well, that stings. I wince at the comment but otherwise let it slide, we don't need anything else to argue about right now. Times like this I really wish that I'm better at talking to people; I bet Ladybug or Chat Noir could do better than me in this situation right now.

That thought further cemented the longer the argument went. Try as I might, I just can't seem to break this apart, to the point that Marinette's dad and the Mayor are now standing face to face in front of the class, Miss Bustier and I standing helplessly between them. I probably would handle this better if they do get into a physical fight, but that's already the worst case scenario.

"Don't even think about getting near my daughter or her bag!" Marinette's dad growls.

The Mayor looks affronted. "Do you know who I am?"

"Please gentleman! This is a school here!" Miss Bustier pleads.

"Yeah, I'm sure the bracelet is here somewhere if we just look harder…" I joined in.

Marinette and Alya move to stand behind the former's father. "It probably just rolled out of her bag or something!"

"If I were her bracelet, I'd try and get as far away as possible from that crazy brat too." Alya says, causing a giggle to erupt from her friend.

"This is so not the time for jokes like that." I think to myself, feeling an eyebrow twitch, my smile straining.

"Hey! Nino's been filming everything this whole time! We can see what really happened!" Marinette exclaims, and soon all of us are crowding around the glasses wearing boy as he plays the video. Nino fast-forwards the video before pausing at Sabrina holding up the bracelet.

"Well there you have it! Sabrina was holding Chloe's bracelet!" Marinette concludes, the entire class turning to stare at the suspect.

"Yes! But I gave it back straight after!" Sabrina defends.

"Chloé, why don't you take a look in your BFF's bag?"

"Are you saying I'm a thief!?"

"Nope! Chloe's the one calling people thieves without proof. I'm simply going from what's on video."

I give the self appointed junior detective a tighter smile. "Marinette I don't think this is the best way to-"

"Grr!" Sabrina growls before turning away, accidentally knocking into Nathaniel, causing him to drop all of his papers on the floor. Hearing Sabrina and Chloe's gasp, I look down to realize that one of Nathaniel's drawings is of the bracelet.

The redhead kneels down to grab it, pulling all the papers close to his chest as he looks around wildly. "Yes, I did sketch the bracelet, but I didn't do anything else!"

The crowd erupts into arguments after that.

After Miss Bustier and I calm everyone down again, Marinette continues her 'investigation'. "See, Chloé? I tripped on the bag, but Sabrina held the bracelet, Nathaniel sketched it, we are all suspects!"

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean? I didn't swipe her bracelet!" Nathaniel argues.

"And neither did I! But when it comes down to it, Chloé can accuse anyone and everyone!" The bluenette holds her ground.

"Okay! So there's suspects!" I give an awkward laugh to cut the tension before anyone sparks an argument again. "Marinette, since you're a suspect too why don't I search your bag first, vigilante lawlessness and all." I try to joke, thinking that she would be easier to reason with that Chloe, but the girl ends up glaring at me now too, looking like I just stabbed her in the back (a little bit of an overreaction but who am I to judge).

"Fine! But as long as you also search everyone else's too!" She demands.

"No one's searching my bag!" Nathaniel yells.

Marinette's dad interrupts too. "Marinette, let the adults and Faon Vert handle this."

"Papa, she called me a thief! I'm just defending myself." She argues again.

"You're also accusing all of your friends like Chloé's doing to you!" Her father finally points out, thank gods.

"I'm Chloe's BFF! I wouldn't steal from her!" Sabrina exclaims, wrapping her arm around Chloe's and I stare at her in shock. Didn't her father just get fired thanks to her supposed BFF? Is she brainwashed by Chloe or something?

Max stands up from his seat. "What about Adrien? He was in at least 4 and a half seconds of that video!"

"And we haven't seen him since!" Kim adds in and huh, he's right, where the heck did the blond go?

And then Marinette goes weird again, like how she always does whenever Adrien is brought up. "Oh, not Adrien! I mean, why would he need to steal a bracelet? If anyone's guilty, it's gotta be one of us." She smiles at the class even though her words are nothing but friendly.

"What? Are you accusing us?"

"I want an attorney!"

"Marinette, stop already!"

"We should speak to the parents too!"

"WHERE-IS-THE-MAYOR?"

All of us turn to the door, a robot with lights on its shoulders stomps into the room.

"Dad!?" I hear Sabrina say in shock.

"Everyone, get back." I whisper to the class, slowly stepping forward to the Akuma, I can't fight it in here, there's too many civilians.

"Heya robot person! I think the Mayor is in another castle." I try my best to smile, to appear as non-threatening as possible so that he won't attack out of the blue.

The robot cop's emotionless gaze lands on me. "WHERE-IS-THE-MAYOR?" He asks again.

I gulp. "You just missed him, he left the class a while ago." Please just leave the room and into the courtyard.

"ARE-YOU-LYING?"

"Not at all, why would I lie to you?" I ask innocently.

The robot cop doesn't buy it. "IF-NO-ONE-SPEAKS-UP, I'LL-PUT-YOU-ALL-UNDER-ARREST!" He points his wrist guns at the class, turning to look at Chloe. "WHERE-IS-YOUR-FATHER?"

The blonde huffs and crosses her arms. "I don't know!" She lies, and I have to give her some credit for helping her father like that...

Of course all that effort is wasted when the Mayor's voice rings down to us. "Mr. Principal, I demand that you find who stole my daughter's bracelet ASAP! Or your job is on the line, sir!"

The Akuma immediately walks out of the room. I spin around to face the class. "Stay in here and barricade the doors, I'll make sure he doesn't come in again, I promise." As I say that, I jump out of the nearby window, climbing onto the roof and arriving at the large window leading into the principal's office.

Thankfully the windows seem to be unlocked, I quickly pull it open and jump in. "You two need to hide, under the table, NOW!" I order, the seriousness in my tone kicking them into high gear as both the principal and the Mayor hide underneath the desk. Running to the door, I take a deep breath before kicking it open, the Akuma is still walking towards the entrance.

I quickly fire a few shots from my weapon, the bullets harmlessly bouncing off the Akuma's metal plated armor.

"FAON-VERT, YOU-ARE-BEING-ARRESTED-FOR-OBSTRUCTION-OF-JUSTICE" Robot Cop declares before firing his own shots from his wrist guns.

Quickly diving out of the way, I immediately jumped to him. "Then arrest me as a normal officer!" I yell before trying to smack him over the head with my staff, unfortunately the monster is faster than it looks, grabbing my staff with his hands and throwing it and in extension myself to a nearby wall.

Colliding against the wall with a gasp, I fall to the floor with a thud, my flinch proves to be fatal as the Akuma aims his wrists at me.

Chat Noir, Ladybug where are you? I think to myself as I hear his wrist powering up.

As if hearing my thoughts, a bright red yo-yo wraps around the Akuma's arm, pulling him to face the new adversary.

"LADYBUG" He identifies. "PARIS-HAS-A-NEW-WRITER-OF-WRONG. YOUR-SERVICES-ARE-NO-LONGER-REQUIRED." He says before firing at her, the superheroine quickly dodges his shots before jumping over and landing next to me.

"I can't let you go around accusing everyone of any little wrongdoing!" She says as I stand up beside her, ready to jump back into the fray.

The robot cop fires again, this time the two of us jump into the courtyard, I follow Ladybug's lead as she brings us to hide behind a nearby wall, away from the Akuma's sights as we both let out a sigh.

"We need to stop him from attacking the Mayor, follow me." Ladybug orders as she leads us to the entrance of the school with me awkwardly trailing behind her, it didn't seem like what happened last week is bothering her that much, is it just me? The both of us hid beside the school entrance, waiting for the Akuma to show up. Soon enough, the Mayor quickly exits the building, running towards his car, the Robot Cop right behind him.

"Now!" Ladybug yells, wrapping her yo-yo around the Akuma as I grab onto the string, doing our best to pull him back, but the Robot proved to be too strong even for the both of us, as he drags us along with him, making us to trip and fall over each other.

Watching him take aim at the car, my brain whizzes past any possible action I can take before the Mayor falls into the Akuma's clutches, but that was unnecessary, as Chat Noir lands onto the robot's firing arm, knocking his shot off course before landing in front of him, giving the Mayor just enough time to drive away.

The Akuma turns to look at the cat superhero. "YOU-ARE-OBSTRUCTING-JUSTICE, CHAT-NOIR. YOU-ARE-GOING-TO-PAY-FOR-THIS." He aims his wrist gun at the blond.

"You can add bodily harm to the charges!" Chat taunts before leaping at him, dodging all the shots as he climbs to his head and attempts to smack the monster with his stack. But just like me, the Robot Cop grabs onto his weapon and tosses the blond into a nearby trash can.

Ladybug and I, finally getting our bearings, run out to face the Akuma.

"Roger! Sir! You don't want to do this, remember everyone is innocent until proven guilty? You believe that because you're a good cop!" I try to reason with him, because at this rate he is going to wipe the floor with us if we don't come up with a plan soon.

Ladybug nods beside me. "He's right! Don't let the evil person who gave you these powers make an evil cop out of you!"

For a second, it almost looked like it worked, he's actually hesitating a little! But the butterfly image covers his face again, completely removing the hesitation as the Akuma looks back at us with a bland expression. "JUSTICE-MUST-PREVAIL-IN-THE-STREETS-OF-PARIS." He immediately loads his guns and fires at the two of us.

Immediately we split up, Ladybug sliding down the railing and jumping at him, but the Akuma simply grabs her legs and spins her around, throwing her back into the school.

"Ladybug!" I yell, glaring at the Robot Cop before launching my own attacks, this time I was more careful with my strikes, making sure to attack him quick enough so that he won't grab onto anything. It almost seems like I was winning too, I think to myself as I land on the road in front of him after managing to hit him on the head, but the Akuma wasn't phased. Instead, he snaps his fingers, and suddenly out of nowhere, a police car comes charging towards me.

Not having enough time to jump away, I end up holding my blowgun in front of me, bracing for impact. The weapon took the brunt of the damage, but the hit ended up launching me far away from the school. I hit pavement, rolling a few meters before finally landing with a thud and a groan.

"So not crash…" I mumble to myself before standing up, dusting myself off, ignoring the incredulous looks on the nearby civilians and jump for the nearby rooftop to look for the police car. Strangely enough, it's not on any of the roads in the area. Frowning to myself, I extend my hearing a little, before finally picking up Chat Noir's voice… in the air?

Quickly looking up, I gape at the scene. Ladybug and Chat Noir are fighting the Akuma while standing on a flying police car! Snapping out of my own astonishment, I quickly chase after them, the car is currently too high up to meet up with them unfortunately, but maybe I can do something on the ground.

Keeping an eye on the fight as I jump from rooftop to rooftop, the two superheroes seem to be neck and neck with the Akuma, before the latter makes a small jump, spinning the car around and causing Chat Noir and Ladybug to run on it like a treadmill, the Robot Cop staying in place with his magnetic shoes.

"Where'd you get those shoes? I could use a pair like that!" I hear Chat ask, before a loud smack .

Robot Cop had knocked Ladybug off the car! And despite her efforts to stay on, she's still failing!

" No! Ladybug!" I hear Chat yell. Muttering a string of profanities, I quickly try to intercept the falling superheroine.

"Faon Vert, I know you can hear this! Don't worry about me, don't let the Akuma take Chat's Miraculous!" I hear Ladybug shout, looking back at the car with wide eyes, the Robot Cop grabbing a hold of Chat.

"You better not make me regret this…" I mutter to Ladybug even though I'm sure she can't hear me. I hold up my staff.

"Sticks can act as a bow, with blunt arrows, Mind's Eye!" I focus really hard on picturing a curved wooden bow, surprising even myself when it actually works, a bright green arrow with a stopper on it forms as I pull back the string.

"Okay." I whisper to myself, looking up at Chat who is now dangling off the car by the Akuma slowly reaching for his ring. Jumping as high as I can, I aim at one of the two exhaust pipes of the car and fire. The arrow lands snugly inside it. Chat Noir himself lodges his staff into the other pipe and the car suddenly stalls, sputtering out black smoke, startling the Robot Cop enough that he lets go of Chat.

Which leaves us with another problem.

"Why can't cats fly." I grumble as I sprint towards his estimated landing zone, the blond falling faster than I anticipated.

I won't be able to make it! I think frantically to myself, putting more and more strength into my leaps, getting closer to the blond who's getting closer to the floor. Just as he's millimeters away from smashing into it-

I grab him.

Shoving him roughly to the side, I try my best to skip across the road, slowing Chat's momentum before finally skidding to a halt, the concrete completely destroyed by my feet, it might even be smoking a little.

"Are you okay?" I ask the cat hero, who responds with a quick nod and a smirk.

"Guess I've fallen for you deer." He jokes, I roll my eyes and gently lower him onto the ground.

"You should save these lines for Ladybug." I say, before feeling my heart fall at the mention of her, Chat Noir doesn't seem to be affected too, I thought he and Ladybug would never talk to me again.

"Speak of the devil" I think to myself, hearing the sounds of a wire yo-yo.

"Are you two alright?" Ladybug asks as she lands in front of us.

I huff. "We should be asking you that, how did you even survive that fall?"

"Yo-yo."

I snort, giving her a shaky smile. "Well it was a close call for the two of us non-yo-yo users, but I think that car's worse off." I point towards the Akuma's police car as it leaves a trail of black smoke in its wake.

Following it, the three of us land at the Eiffel Tower, watching the car loop around it before flying away.

"There's no point running after him anyway. He's way out of our reach now." Ladybug says.

Chat crosses his arms in thought. "Well, if it's the mayor he wants…"

"He'll be heading straight for the City Hall." Ladybug finishes.

The blond smirks at her. "Do I sense a plan?" I look at the two of them, they really would make a fantastic superhero couple, the fanbase would go crazy over them.

A loud beeping brings me out of my thoughts, I look at the green bow as it ticks down the time.

I turn it back into a staff and strap it to my back and sigh. "Looks like I need to go, I'll meet up with you two at City Hall?" I start to leap away before feeling a hand grab my arm.

"Faon wait, we need to talk." Chat Noir says, looking uncharacteristically serious.

I sigh, taking out my blowgun again and checking my remaining time. "Do we have to do this now?" I ask petulantly.

The blond nods. "Yes, please? It'll make all of us feel better."

"Well he's not wrong." I think sadly. "Fine." I concede, sitting down on the bars, after a while, Chat Noir takes a seat on my right, and Ladybug on my left.

Gods can't we just wait until I don't have a three minute time limit? Granted this is the best scenario to actually get me to talk about these things.

"I'm… Incredibly stressed." I start, feeling my teammates perk up at my voice but opting to not say anything yet. "I'm stressed because two weeks ago Ladybug said that your Kwamis don't trust me, and- I don't know, I thought we were getting along. Plus I saw Plagg during Lady WiFi's attack a-and he seemed cool, so I started thinking, w-what if all of this was just... a lie?" I finish, unwanted tears already welling in my eyes as I sniff.

I feel a hand on my left shoulder. "Faon, you misunderstand, when Tikki said that, it was when we were fighting Stoneheart. She thought that only Chat Noir would show up, and when both him and you did, she was just surprised."

"Yeah!" Chat agrees. "Plagg just said we shouldn't be careless around you, not to pretend to be your friend and babysit you, you're just as capable as Milady and I."

I feel the blond's arm wrap around my shoulders, and whether he means it as a reassuring gesture, or just using it as an excuse to hold Ladybug's hand which is only on that side of my shoulder (probably both), I feel something in me finally relax.

"Okay… Thank you." I whisper, not daring to look at them due to the shame. My blowgun beeps again and I feel both their hands leave my body.

"Sorry, I just need time to process this. I'll meet you guys at City Hall?" I ask again. Receiving reassuring nods from the both of them, I quickly said my goodbyes and leapt home before I could be seen crying in front of them again.

Jumping into my room just as I start detransforming, Ossi slowly floats down onto the bed.

"Kid… I can't-"

"Go on, I know! I also know that it takes more energy to slowly float down than to just fall so stop." I give him a small smile, lifting Ossi up on my head and quickly running down to the kitchen. Tossing Ossi a bag of madeleines and taking one for myself, I turn on the News channel to kill time while the Kwami recharges.

The Mayor's terrified face displays on the screen, and I feel a deep chill run down my spine.

"Paris has a new superpower. His name is Rogercop. I hereby relinquish all authority to Rogercop. All citizens are ordered to answer to him." The Mayor decrees.

The Akuma called Rogercop pushes the Mayor's chair away, focusing the camera on his face. "Ladybug, Chat Noir, and Faon Vert are now outlaws. They must be hunted out and taken into custody immediately."

I feel the pastry dropping from my hand as I look at the TV with wide eyes. "I'm a wanted man…?" I mutter to no one.

"Relax kid, not like the people will listen to an Akuma anyway-" Ossi's point was interrupted as the TV shows the National Parisian Guards immediately turn on Chat Noir and Ladybug as they flee from the scene. "Okay, maybe they will."

I groan, "How does this even happen !? Was it because I wasted too much time talking about my feelings or something!? Haven't we suffered enough!?" I wail dramatically, falling on my knees and cursing whatever deities that still exist out there.

"Kid, first of all, talking 'bout feelings is never a waste of time. Second, it's not too late, we can still save everyone!" Ossi says reassuringly as he burps. "Alright I'm ready."

Nodding mutely, I raise a hand still shaking with despair, holding the pen to Ossi.

"Ossi, Horns Drawn!"

Ossi immediately dives into the tip of the pen, causing a deer head to appear in front of it. Swiping the pen across my eyes, the mask gets drawn and materializes onto my face, I drag the pen from my left hand back to my right as a brown suit slowly starts to appear from my arms towards the rest of my body. Twirling the pen around effortlessly as it slowly grows longer, I toss it upwards before reaching towards my back and pulling up a newly made hoodie, ears on its side and antlers on top as I catch the pen which has turned into a slingshot the length of a staff as I lean against it with a frown and a peace sign raised in the air.

By the time I arrived near City Hall, the sun had set. The entire building is swamped with national guards, armored vehicles, and helicopters, so many helicopters. I gulp, I doubt that Chat Noir or Ladybug had been captured already, but with the amount of noise in the area I won't be able to pick out their voices with my hearing. I guess I'm just stuck here until something happens.

Taking a seat against a chimney, I sigh for a second before letting out an embarrassing squeal, this is exactly like the movies! The heroes now turned villains of the state must work together to clear their names against a corrupt tyrant, I love my new life.

Suddenly the helicopters' lights converge on a single point, peeking over the edge, I finally see Chat Noir performing a jig.

"Something about Paris, just makes you wanna dance." The blond admits with a smile.

"YOU-WON'T-BE-DANCING-AFTER-I'M-THROUGH-WITH-YOU" Rogercop points at him through the screen. "ARREST-HIM!" He orders, the guards immediately charging at the cat hero.

"Does that mean you won't be joining me?" Chat Noir pouts before leaping onto a guards head.

Laughing a little at his behavior, I leap into the fray, while I would rather stay back and provide cover fire, my slingshot might be too strong to leave them unscathed…

Landing on a guard's shoulders with a crunch as he hits the floor, I give the surprised cat hero a small smile. "I'm no Robot Akuma, but I'm a pretty good dancer... If you're still looking." I jump away as another guard dives at me.

The cat hero smiles so bright it nearly blinded me. "As a matter of fact-" Chat kicks one of the guards out right in front of me. "I am."

I laugh, the two of us continue beating up innocent national guards for a while (it was unavoidable okay! I try to not bruise them up too badly).

It takes us a while, but eventually we managed to pile up all the enforcers in a lump in front of us.

"Okay, show's over. Sorry, no encore tonight." Chat says before turning to me, "Good job deer." He continues, holding a fist out to me.

I raise an eyebrow. "Umm, thanks…?" I slowly grab it with my hand and shake, somehow this doesn't feel right-

"Oh, sorry, you wanted a fist bump." I mumble before fist bumping, face slowly heating up. My brain just stops working at the most random of times...

The blond for his part doesn't look as weirded out by this as me, opting to just laugh at me instead. Before I could even feel offended, the sound of more helicopters making their way to us hits my ears.

I groan, spinning my weapon around. "Chat, you should go help Ladybug, I got it covered."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive, do you think my stick can turn into a chainsaw?" I ask, before laughing at the blond's horrified reaction. "I'm fine , now go!" I push him further through the entrance.

"Alright, but be careful!" He says before diving out of view.

I smile, flourishing my blowgun. "Alright everyone, let's dance."

It's a lot harder, I realize, to fight so many people without Chat Noir by my side, but eventually I manage to make a larger unconscious human pile next to the other one.

"Sorry… But… You kinda deserve it, for listening to… An Akuma." I pant, learning against the helmet of one of the unconscious enforcers and fanning myself. Finally the swarm of ladybugs burst out front the building to fix everything the Akuma destroyed in Paris.

I smile to myself, all's well, ends well, and as much as I want to see my teammates, the need to sleep overpowers that and I leap back home.

"Hey kid, you feeling better?" Ossi asks as he finishes the rest of the madeleines.

I smile into my pillow. "Yes, I am. I don't know how much you remember when I was Faon Vert, but Ladybug and Chat Noir said it was all just a misunderstanding."

The Kwami lands on the pillow in front of my face, dual color eyes glowing in the dark. "I see, I'm glad that you all talk it out."

Letting out a yawn, I slowly pet Ossi's head with a smile. "Me too Os, me too…"

That night, I slept more comfortably than I had in weeks.

-The Next Day-

In my opinion, rain is the best weather, the quiet pitter patter of water against the surface and the all around lower temperatures make it the perfect environment to read a book or watch a scary movie.

Unless of course if you're still stuck in school.

Huddled up in the corner of the courtyard where it's under the roof (who in their right mind designed a school with a large hole in the center?), I try my best to watch movies on my tablet despite the uncomfortable sitting position and the sucky quality of my earphones. The movie's a classic, with top notch suspense, which is the only thing that's stopping me from shifting around violently in hopes of finding a more comfortable spot.

"Did you know, the actress wasn't aware that the scene would be as violent as it was, so her scream when the Alien burst out of his chest was actually genuine?" I whisper to Ossi, who has taken to peeking over my jacket collar with one of the earbuds in his possession.

"W-Whatever kid! Why are we watching such terrifyin' movie anyways!" The Kwami finally speaks. Oh, I get why he hasn't said anything in a while now, he's scared.

"Rain is the perfect weather for scary movies! Normally I would be watching it on the big screen at home but for some reason the driver is late…" I mumble before looking back at the screen, feeling significantly more grumpy, maybe I should just watch a musical or something.

"Julian?"

Looking up with a jump, I notice Adrien standing in front of me, the rain making him stand closer than what I'm typically comfortable with but I can't really complain.

"Adrien? W-what are you still doing here?" I ask quizzically, usually the blond would be gone the moment school ends but it's been close to thirty minutes now, most of the students are gone too.

"Didn't you hear? There was an accident on our street, that with the rain is causing a really bad traffic jam." Adrien explains.

Processing this, I nod. "That makes sense, I guess we are technically neighbors huh." I muse, if you count two mansion estates standing side by side, it would probably take a bike ride to get from my house to Adrien's…

"I hope everyone is alright…" I mumble. The blond nods before taking a seat next to me to look at my tablet.

"What are you watching?" He asks curiously.

"Shoot." I quickly exit the video player, giving him a sheepish smile. "It's a horror movie, but you might be too young to watch it…"

Adrien frowns. "We're the same age…"

"Technically I'm younger." I tease, remembering the dates of our birthdays. "But I can watch it because not watching such a classic would be a dishonor to my family, me, and my cow."

"What?" The older boy asks, concerned and confused.

I look at him with the most surprised and disappointed look I can muster. "You… You don't know what I'm talking about…?"

The blond thinks for a moment before shaking his head. "Sorry, is it another movie?"

"Is it another-" I scoff before clicking into my library and scrolling. "We need to watch it now. I can't believe there's a human being who hasn't watched-"

"Wait, stop!"

Freezing in place, I turn to look at him in question as he clears his throat.

"Can we umm, can we watch this one first?" He points at one of the thumbnails.

I feel my heart stop and speed up at the same time.

"You… You want to watch Enchanted…?" I ask quietly.

"Yes, have you watched it before?" Adrien looks at me curiously.

I gulp. "Y-yes, I have, not a lot of people know it exists though."

"I don't know about that, but someone recommended the movie to me. Can we watch it?" The blond gives me a pleading look with a smile, and I can feel my heart nearly explode.

"Y-yeah! Of course, I-I love that movie anyways." I squeak out before clicking on the movie and unplugging the earphones. As the logos play, I can feel the blond slowly sit closer to me and my face heats up so much I'm surprised he hadn't noticed.

Deer gods what is happening to me?