(A/N: Hey everyone sorry this chapter is late again, writers block is a real bitch when it wants to be, but in the end I got it done and I rather like how it turned out so I hope you enjoy it, just a few quick things before we dive in though, first there is both a scene and a joke in this chapter that were and inspiration to me to add to this chapter, the joke is based off a fan made comic by an artist on tumbler called cat mom, or at least I think that's her screen name, and the scene itself was inspired by a picture I found on Deviantart from and artist called SaiyanGirlHeart, and needless to say I loved them both so much I just had to put them in this chapter, anyway you know what the scene is at the first mention of Plagg. And as for the other thing I've decided to ship two other characters in this fanfiction, because I thing they would make a cute couple, okay so without further adu lets get this party started right!)

Chapter 11: Full disclosure

Dallas was pacing around in Adrien's room trying to figure out a few things, the first thing he wanted to figure out was how to tell Adrien about his father being Hawkmoth, or at least that he had a feeling that he was Hawkmoth, and the other was how was he going to take Antonio down once and for all, he knew he couldn't just leave Adrien alone now, he was going to keep trying to hold him for ransom if he could.

"There has to be a way, come on Dallas think man think." He pondered feeling that he was unable to do anything to keep Adrien safe from the rollers, not that he really needed to protect him that much sense he was still a superhero, that's when he got an idea, he figured that maybe he could find a way with the spell book that Gabriel had shown him earlier that evening, he waited until everyone was asleep, that's when he snuck out of Adrien's room and made his way down to Gabriel's office, only to find the door was locked, and was wired with an alarm which was of course engaged at this time, which told Dallas two things, his hunch about Gabriel was right and that there were more than likely some security cameras watching over the inside of his office, both these problems were an easy fix for him of course.

"Guess you were right dad…" He voiced to himself in a half whisper. "Basic hacker skills and electrical know how can really make a difference during a heist." Dallas returned to Adrien's room to retrieve his WIFI pineapple then he linked it into the router closest to Adrien's room then hacked into the security feed for the entire house and played his first hand. "Perfect, now to loop old footage from the last two hours for about say…two hours sounds good." He typed away on his phone as he worked his magic, once that was over he then hacked into the power grid then shut down the silent alarm to the door. "And now it's time to say goodnight little door alarm…" He said with a smile, once he was satisfied that his work on both the cameras and door alarm were done he then pulled out a set of lock picks and proceeded to open the door, he slowly turned the knob to avoid making the click of the locking mechanism, but he suddenly stopped when the hinges started creaking. "Damnit…" He hissed in a whisper. "Forgot about the hinges, why do I always forget the stupid hinges?"

Luckily he had just the remedy for such a problem among his belongings as well. "This time I'm just gonna bring the whole bag, I'm tired of this crap." He opened his kit that he'd used when he was still technically a thief and pulled out an oil can. "Just a little bit of lubricant to get rid of that nasty little squeak." He squirted the hinges with just enough oil to get rid of the squeak, he then massaged it into the hinges with his fingers, once he was sure that no one would hear the doors opening he then proceeded inside the office. He didn't realize just how dark it was in Gabriel's office and chose to use a pair of night vision goggles to avoid anyone's suspicions. "Damnit he must've put it away, okay think Dallas if you were a billionaire who's as creepy as hell for no reason where would you hide a book that's over 5000 years old?" He asked himself as he rubbed his chin, he began to look around the room to get an idea of where he might've hidden it, he then stopped on the abstract portrait of Mrs. Agreste. "Maybe he's one of those cliché guys who hides stuff behind a painting?" He figured as he crept up slowly to the painting, as soon as he got over to it he found he was right. "Called it…" He said as he slowly pushed the painting away from the wall on it's own hinges, that's when he found that it was hiding a safe. "Ooh…an Xavier model 88-36 watch dog, pricey…he went through quite a bit of money to get this bad boy, no one can break in to these things, unless you've got one of these babies."

He reached into his kit and pulled out a device that was not easy to come by in the criminal underworld, a CIA code cloner. "Alright little buddy, work your magic…" He said to his tool as he attached it to the safe door and plugged it into the panel, he let the cloner run for about a minute until it was done. "Too easy, now lets see what we got." He read the code on the device and punched in the combination and was rewarded with a metallic click, he then turned the knob on the safe and pulled it open, and just in front of him he saw it. "Bingo…" Just as he was about to take the book he heard footsteps coming his way. "Shit…" He hissed as he closed the safe back up, removed his code cloner and closed the painting back on the wall. He then hid behind the couch with his kit and waited for whoever it was.

He heard the door open, then the lights flipped on and blinded him as he'd forgotten he was wearing his night vision goggles, he pulled them off and quietly groaned then prayed that whoever it was wasn't about to notice him, that same someone turned out to be Mr. Agreste who it would seem was only there to gaze at his wife's picture. Dallas took this as his chance to leave as he slowly crept over to the door which he was thankful that Gabriel had left wide open, he felt he was home free until he bumped the door and stubbed his toe, it was loud enough that Gabriel could hear it, Dallas quickly dropped his kit onto his foot and let it roll off of it onto the ground behind the door and stood as if he was just getting there himself for some reason.

"Having trouble sleeping too?" Gabriel asked with a neutral expression.

Dallas simply nodded his head and replied. "Yeah, it's about the whole your son nearly being sold into slavery thing that's keeping me up sir, that and the fact that I was akumitized by that jackass Hawkmoth, whoever he is." Just play dumb for now Dallas, he reminded himself mentally, you need proof first and you'll get it soon enough.

Gabriel knew he was lying of course but he didn't understand why, other than the fact that he had no proof and only suspicions to go on, but he chose not to worry about it now. "I understand son, I too know what it's like to be akumitized." Gabriel said in hopes of throwing him off.

Dallas obviously didn't see that coming, and oddly enough he actually believed him. "You got akumitized too? When did that happen?" He asked curiously.

"About two years back, I was…angry with my son for taking something from me without my permission, and it was nearly lost forever, or at least that's what I thought at the time…" Gabriel confessed with honesty. "I'd been turned into the collector, with the power to make anything I desired apart of my inspiration as a designer, I wreaked havoc all over the city, cause so much chaos, I even went after my own son." He made a sad face to try and sell his deception.

Dallas could tell that it was fake though, his skill as a thief made that easy enough for him, but he still just ran with it to try and convince Gabriel that he didn't know anything, or at the very least convince him that he no longer suspected him of being a villain. "Wow, was…Adrien hurt?" He asked already knowing the answer sense he'd just discovered Adrien's secret as well.

"Thankfully no, he must've snuck out of his room at the time because he didn't find out until after I was de-evilized by Ladybug and Cat Noir, I'm just thankful my son took off when he did otherwise I don't know what I might've done to him." That part was clearly a lie, Gabriel never would've harmed his son even if he was akumitized by someone else.

Dallas then gave a fake smile and said. "Guess your sons more of a rebel than I thought, I honestly assumed he was just a big softy." This of course was the truth, Dallas didn't often misread people when he met them for the first time but it wasn't often that he'd meet a superhero either.

"Actually I think he just did it out of fear, you see I…may have gotten a bit angrier than necessary and he more than likely saw this as a point in time that I might try to hurt him, which I swear I never would've done." Gabriel replied with a sad expression. "Of course we both know that I did end up hurting my son in the end, not as badly as it could've been but still…" He sighed as he closed his eyes and looked at the floor.

Dallas felt as though he should say something, so he just put a reassuring hand on Gabriel's shoulder and said. "Believe me Gabe, when comparing you to my dad you are way better than he ever was, even though he never went and hit me you're still better than my father ever was. For example, not many people know about this but he wasn't just an archeologist, that was his day job if anything but at night he was a master thief well known by every major player in the criminal underworld, there wasn't a job he couldn't pull or a score he couldn't touch, and to make things worse he wanted me and my brother to follow in his footsteps, my brother was of course way too eager to join up in his little life of crime and ended up in the Missouri state penitentiary because of it, I on the other hand had no interest in being a member of his gang and just wanted a normal life, I guess you could say that was the moment the rebel inside me had finally awaken."

"Forgive me but I'm afraid I've never heard of an archeologist by the name of Jones." Gabriel stated, he still had no idea why Dallas went by a different last name than his father, then Dallas explained.

"That's because his name wasn't Jones, it was Clearlake, Dr. Maxwell Clearlake." He clarified nonchalantly.

Gabriel looked up at him and asked sounding surprised. "As in 'the' Dr. Maxwell Clearlake? I've heard of him, he's well known throughout the world."

"I'm sure you have, everyone in both the archeologist field and the criminal underworld have heard of him at some point." Dallas pointed out before continuing. "You see my mom was a gypsy and she liked to roam around the world a lot while my father was from a Lakota reservation in southern Arizona, it was during that time of year when everyone in the reservation would get together and celebrate our heritage, that's how my parents met to be honest. But they never got married, mainly because dad didn't want to convert to being a gypsy, also because mom didn't want to give up her traveling life style, but that didn't stop them from conceiving me obviously, long story short dad had a thing for peyote and mom was willing to try anything once." He said with a neutral tone.

"I'm sorry but I thought you had a brother." Gabriel pointed out.

"Oh right, turns out dad had a wife before he and my mom uh…let's say hooked up, but sadly she died in a car accident when my brother was only ten years old, after that the good doctor met my mom then nine months later I came along and about seven or eight years later mom discovered the truth about dad, after she got a call from the St. Louis morgue."

Gabriel acted surprised by Dallas's sudden confession as he didn't want to hint that he already knew about his father's secret dark side. "I'm shocked, I knew of your father and his archeological finds all over the world but I never thought he was a criminal, but then again in a way he already was when he became and archeologist, in a way they're all thieves."

Dallas smiled and just rolled his eyes before saying. "Well I guess that's the truth, but all they steal is something from the past, my dad stole things from today and sold them on the black market, speaking of which and I know that this goes without saying but NEVER…trust anyone in the black market, those bastards are the biggest thieves in the world, they basically flip whatever it is they get, they only buy low and only sell high and they make a fortune doing that. Until someone like me comes along and robs them blind but that's a different story. Anyway if he found a client that wanted something bad enough then he'd take on the job, not for the money though, he was in it for the rush he'd get from a huge heist like that, needless to say he'd get high off of it, that's why he was a thief up to the day he died, not that I give a crap anymore."

That's when Gabriel asked him a question he wasn't prepared for at all. "So if your father wanted you to follow in his footsteps then how did it end so badly for him?"

Dallas hesitated for a moment, he knew all too well how it ended for his father that night, especially sense he had witnessed it all first hand, that's when he had a brief flash back of the entire event playback in his mind, the sound of guns cocking, the sight of sirens flashing, officers ordering him to get down on the ground and then finally the sound of gunfire filling the air and the distinct sent of blood reaching his nose, the sent of his father's blood. He took a deep breath and said sounding a little shaky. "He…he was cornered by the police while trying to flee the seen of the crime…it was supposed to be his and I quote…'last job' in which he'd be set for life, hell we'd all be set for life, but in truth there's no such thing as a last heist for someone like him, not even when he had a family to take care of, honestly though I kind of wish he'd turned out to be one of those dead beet dads that took off before I was born."

"You didn't love your father that much did you?" Gabriel asked casually.

Dallas looked away from him and said. "No…I loved him, I loved him so much that it almost killed me to see how it ended for him that night, if he'd just surrendered that night instead of pull a gun then…maybe…just maybe…he'd still be around and I…I might be able to see him in jail to just…actually…never mind, to be honest I don't know if I ever would've gone to see him in jail, and to be fair I never even went to visit my brother once before I was put into foster care…" Dallas let out a sad sigh then continued. "But then again, I don't know if that would've been a good idea, I can almost guarantee that, because like I said my dad wanted us to be just like him and my brother Simon would've probably expected me to try and break him out so we could start up our own gang, just for the fun of it. If anything I'm actually glad he went to jail, I managed to get what I've always wanted in the end, even if I have to deal with being tossed to different homes every six months, but to be fair that one's kind of my fault."

Gabriel then turned to Dallas and said. "Well for what ever reasons you've had for being sent to a new home every so often I assure you that you don't have to worry about leaving here if you don't want to, I promise you'll always have a home here."

Dallas smiled then said gratefully. "Thank you sir, I'm glad to hear that, well anyway I'm gonna head back to bed I'll see you at breakfast." Dallas walked back to the door and out of the room, he made sure that he was completely out of sight of Gabriel before he collected his bag. "Damn that was too close…" He said to himself. "But now I know where he hides it so tomorrow night…it's on." After Dallas returned to Adrien's room he found a very odd sight just sitting on the coffee table in front of the couch, it was Plagg wearing a little red bow-tie sitting at a barbie doll sized table with a table cloth draped over it and a tiny electrical candle and sitting across from him was a wedge of cheese, Plagg was pouring a tiny little pitcher of wine into two tiny little wine glasses meant for barbie dolls as well for both himself and his 'date', Dallas then began to snicker and said jokingly. "Wow…I know people serve wine with their cheese all the time but this is a first."

Plagg then growled while threatening Dallas as he just stared daggers at him. "I swear to god you say another word and I'll rip you apart!"

"I just have one question, was she on the menu too or is she a part of dessert? That is if you catch my meaning." Plagg just narrowed his eyes and held up one of his little hands, Dallas just cocked his head back and asked confused. "What are you doing? Pointing up?"

"No…" He answered casually. "I'm flipping you the bird."

Dallas then slapped his hands over his mouth, just to try and keep his laughter from waking Adrien, he slowly ended his laughter then continued. "I'm sorry…but how can you be flipping me off? All you have are tiny little nubs."

Plagg then scooted out from the tiny table and flew up into Dallas's face and threatened him yet again. "Don't forget kid that these 'little nubs' have the power to end your miserable life at any given moment, so you'd better sleep with one eye open…buddy!"

Dallas then smirked before he retorted. "Oh yeah, well guess what you shit stinking fairy, assuming that's what a kwami is anyway, I know your kryptonite now…soooo…" Dallas then whipped out a bushel of spearmint and just whipped Plagg in the face with it.

"AAAAH…SPEARMINT!" He cried as he flew away from Dallas and picked up his 'date' and flew into the bath room then locked the door behind him. "I'll get you for that Jones!" He threatened through the door.

Dallas then said in a hushed tone. "Payback's a bitch you little cat bastard, oh I am totally trade marking that!" Dallas then crept over to Adrien's desk then wrote down his trademark joke to save for later. Then he snuck back over to the couch where he'd chosen to sleep for the night. By the time morning came around both boys had showered and gotten dressed, eaten breakfast and left for school. Of course without Adrien's bodyguard they didn't have anyone to drive them to school, until Dallas revealed he had a valid drivers license, Adrien of course offered to drive but Dallas didn't hear him over his own self gushing over all of the cars in the Agreste manor's garage, he just kept drooling over each and every single one of them as he walked by them. "So many beautiful cars so little time, I've died and gone to heaven." He sang as he folded his hands and grinned like a kid in a candy store.

"Will you just pick one, we need to go and I doubt that it's a good idea to drive separately as I know for a fact that anyone could try to steal these cars if there out in the open." Adrien requested for Dallas to speed things up.

That's what brought Dallas back to being serious, not the part about the cars being stolen but the part where driving alone would be a bad idea, he knew that the rollers weren't too shy about doing their dirty work in broad day light so he just picked the car he was closest to. "Let's take the Enzo again then, she's fast enough to get us there and back in only a few seconds I'd imagine, or at the very least it's the best car to have to help get us away from the rollers if they happen to tail us."

Adrien nodded his head in agreement then retrieved the keys for the car, just as Adrien had sat down in the passenger seat Dallas had thrown the CD that he'd bought to try and help Ladybug and the others stop him from causing more damage to the city into the back seat without even caring if he'd broken it, he then ignited the engine and sped out of the garage at top speed. "WHOOOOOA! Dallas slow down, I wanna get there but I wanna be alive when we do!" He looked over to see that Dallas was just ignoring him, also that he was shedding tears as well for some reason. Oh god it must be because of the song, he thought to himself. Just then he looked back to the windshield and saw they were barreling toward the rear end of a bus. "DALLAS LOOK OUT!" Adrien cried as he pointed at the bus in front of them.

Dallas then quickly used the hand break and slid right onto the sidewalk and just drifted around the bus and back onto the road like a professional stunt driver. Dallas then said in a timid voice. "Sorry…I got distracted."

Adrien was just sitting there with his hand clenched to his heart as he took short breaths, eventually they got to the school, before Adrien left the car he punched Dallas in the arm, he didn't even flinch from it. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Adrien shouted with anger. "Are you trying to kill us or something?!" That's when Dallas did something that Adrien didn't expect him to do at all, he broke down into tears, he just covered his face as he sobbed. Well shit, Adrien thought suddenly feeling guilty for some reason. "Hey, Hey Dallas come on don't do that here people might see…" Adrien said as he tried to reason with his foster brother.

Who then spoke through his tears with a cracked voice. "I don't care…I don't care if anyone see's me like this I just want the pain to stop."

Adrien wasn't sure if it was his place to ask him what he was talking about, but he had a feeling that he had to figure out what was wrong with him. "Dallas, what's wrong dude? You can tell me anything right? Just tell me what's bugging you." Adrien asked only wanting to help Dallas out of his current state.

Dallas wiped his nose then said. "It's nothing…I just…don't like that CD." He tried to exit the car but Adrien quickly hit the lock button preventing him from doing so.

"Dallas, I'm not an idiot. I remember last night what you were saying, and that you were apologizing to your mother for some reason, and I think that song has something to do with it." Adrien pointed out.

Dallas took a deep breath then closed his eyes before he spoke. "Before my mom…died…I made a promise to her, you see…that song was one of her favorite songs of all time, actually it was her favorite song of all time considering she'd play it every single day when I was a kid, I actually grew to love the song around the ages of 5 and 7, it was also around that time she wanted me to learn to play that song on the violin, I hated the violin with a passion too just so you know but mom would still make me practice no matter how much I intentionally sucked she'd make me practice it every day…" He then shed another tear and continued. "Then she was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer three years ago, I watched as she slowly withered away into nothing day by day, so before she passed I promised her that I'd actually learn that song on the violin, I practiced day and night until I knew it by heart, and when she was on her death bed she…made one final request of me…" He then sniffled and wiped his nose trying his best to keep his emotions under control.

"I take it she wanted to hear you play that song before she passed, didn't she?" Adrien summarized feeling his heartstrings beginning to tug.

Dallas nodded his head before he continued. "I tried to play the song…really I did try, but…I just couldn't do it, for some reason I just couldn't remember the notes, I couldn't think, I couldn't concentrate, I just couldn't play that song for her, she eventually told me to just stop…said that…it was okay…said I didn't have to play it for her, so she just asked me to put on her CD, we just listened to the song over and over until she…she…oh god mom…" He sobbed even harder than before as he just let out his pain, but for the first time in along time he didn't feel angry with himself about his promise to his mother, it actually felt good for him to get this off his chest.

Adrien put a reassuring hand on his back and said. "I wish I could understand what you're going through, to a degree I kind of do, but clearly you had to deal with worse than what I have. So if you ever need to talk to somebody about this, just remember you'll always have a shoulder to cry on."

Dallas looked up and wiped away his tears then said with a smile. "You know that sounded so cheesy of you." Both boys began to chuckle a little bit until they noticed that one of them was still crying, and that someone was neither of the boys, Adrien opened up his over shirt and saw a very emotional Plagg with his face buried in his wedge of cheese.

"Plagg, are you actually crying?" Adrien asked looking down at his kwami.

Plagg then looked up at his friend and said. "I…have never heard such a sad story in my entire existence. If I'd known that a head of time…I never would've…" Plagg just broke down into tears soaking the inside of Adrien's shirt.

Dallas then began to realize that Plagg wasn't all that bad, in fact he reminded him of himself in a way, he then leaned in and said with a sincere tone. "Apology accepted…you obnoxious little pixy thingy."

Adrien then began to offer to the sad little kwami. "You wanna go shopping for some more cheese later after school? Maybe get something exotic?"

Plagg just sniffled then said what no one would've ever expected him to say in a million years. "I'm not hungry…" Plagg then paused and realized what he'd just said, and also what he was feeling in his stomach was genuine. "Wow…so this is what it feels like…it's oddly satisfying."

While Dallas parked the car Adrien was immediately swarmed by his fellow classmates, evidently they'd heard about him and Dallas being kidnapped the night before from a reliable source, and that source was of course Alya, they all kept asking if he was okay or if the rollers hurt them, he just told them that they were both fine and that they didn't need to worry about either of them. It was like this up until the beginning of first period, Dallas was especially quizzed for his endeavor of being akumitized by Hawkmoth, he didn't remember much of what had happened while he was the puppet of a super villain, but he did know one thing, the city was short about 85 gangsters and no one he knew were going to lose sleep over it, and neither would he. Serves them all right for what they do to this city, he thought to himself, just a bunch of parasites and nothing else.

"Dallas…Dallas?" The teacher called out to him while he was in deep thought, he didn't even realize that she had already started roll call.

"Huh…oh yeah right, sorry teach just a little distracted this morning, kinda had a rough night last night." He said as he shifted his focus back to the front of the class.

Sitting a few rows in front of him Marinette still felt bad about getting him so angry that he became a new victim for Hawkmoth. She couldn't even sleep because of it, and as a result she had slept through almost the entire class. "Marinette…hey Marinette…" Alya shook her to try and wake her up. "Mari…come on girl wake up."

Marinette finally woke up with a snort. "Huh what…?" She yawned as she began to stretch and wake herself up a little. "Is class over already?" She asked as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

"Yeah it is yah ding dong, how are you this tired? Didn't you get any sleep last night?" Alya asked back, seeing the visible bags under her eyes.

Marinette just shook her head no as she stood up and walked to the door almost like a zombie, even moaning like one as she just left the class, Adrien was quick to see this too as she just walked past him on the balcony, usually after class would end she'd stop and have a short kissing session with him, but this morning she was way too tired. "Mari? Are you okay princess?" He asked as he finally caught up to her.

"Uh-uh…" She groaned as she just kept trying to get into someone else's locker, Adrien was quick to help her find the right locker as it was only one spot away. "Thanks kitty…" She yawned as she entered the combination and opened her locker.

"Jeez Mari you look terrible, didn't you go to bed last night?" Adrien asked concerningly.

She just stared at him with an exhausted look and said with a tired voice. "I couldn't sleep, I felt so bad about what happened with Dallas that it kept me up all night long…" She yawned again as she grabbed her history book, then began to head for her chemistry class, that is until Adrien stopped her and pointed out that she had the wrong book, she covered her face with one hand then headed back to her locker to grab the right book, as soon as she entered the locker room she ran into the very reason for her sleep deprivation, Dallas took one look at her and saw how bad she looked.

"Mari? Dear god you look like crap…" He said a little too honestly, but he quickly realized what he'd said and immediately tried to apologize. "No wait I didn't mean that as a literal I just meant you look terrible, UH I mean you look bad, I MEAN…you don't look so good…is what I'm trying to say…" He then grinned dumbly as she barely registered anything he'd just said to her.

"Yep…" She said with an exhausted tone. "I do look like crap, I feel like it too." She then pushed past him to open someone else's locker, again.

"Uh…Marinette? That's my locker." He said as he pointed out she'd made the same mistake again. She looked up at the number and saw that he was right. She groaned then moved over to her actual locker and opened it successfully. Poor girl, he thought to himself, she must not've gotten any sleep last night when she found out about Adrien and me getting kidnapped, well lucky for her I have a remedy for that. He opened up his locker then searched threw his bag and found a tube filled with a light brown jelly like substance. He walked over to her and handed it to her a long with a spare bottle of water. "Here, this should perk you up a little bit."

She looked at the small tube for a brief second then asked. "What is it?"

"Just a little purée of fresh ground roots and herbs, just add this to water and you'll be as right as rain." He replied with a smile.

She looked up at him and asked again. "How do I know this isn't a weird drug or something?"

Dallas just frowned and said sounding a bit annoyed. "Seriously? I might want to sleep with you but I don't need drugs to make that happen, all I need is my bad boy rep, charming good looks and hot sexy bod, plus if I wanted to drug you it would be when you'd least suspect it."

Marinette didn't really trust that he actually wanted to help her, or his strange vial of jelly, but she was too tired to care so she took the vial and water bottle without a second thought. "Thanks I guess…" She said as she opened the water bottle and poured in the jelly, it just dropped inside slowly in small chunks until the tube was completely empty, then she closed the water bottle up and began to shake up the jelly inside the water until the drink turned completely brown, she then took a sip of the drink, just before she spat it out. "BLECH! What is that taste? It's horrible!"

She handed Dallas back the water as she began to wipe her tongue on her sleeve. "Yeah I know it tastes like shit, I forgot to mention that you might want to add a butt load of sugar to it to make it taste better." He confessed as she kept on trying to get out the bitter taste in her mouth.

"Well gee thanks for the heads up Jones." She said rather sarcastically, Dallas just shrugged as he returned to his locker and retrieved a container of low calorie sweetener then poured in a considerable amount for her then shook the bottle with his thumb acting as a cap.

"There, that should be good enough, try it now." He said as he handed her back her drink, which she wasn't really sure if she wanted it much anymore, but she was still super tired and needed it to stay awake as she was sure she would pass out in class again without some kind of pick me up.

She took another sip, it was still terrible but a lot more bearable in terms of flavor. "Thanks, so do you just carry around a bag of drugs where ever you go?" She asked as she closed her locker.

"Don't be ridiculous I don't believe in drugs, I'm a herbalist through and through, if I have a choice between home remedies or prescription drugs I'll take the home made stuff every time because I don't want to poison my body with anything unnatural like other people are willing to do, so I just use herbs and roots like my mom used to do for me." He laminated clearly.

"You know not all factory drugs are as bad as you think, some of them are actually helpful." Marinette argued with him.

"Maybe, but I'll still take herbs and roots over pills and syrups any day." Dallas stated firmly.

Marinette just rolled her eyes before she took another sip of her drink, she shivered every time she got another taste of the bitter liquid. "Ugh…seriously what is in this stuff?" She asked as she tried not to insult Dallas for giving her a way to help her get through the day.

"Family secret, if I told you I'd have to kill you…" He sang with a mischievous smile. As she tried to walk past him he stood in her way as he just leaned up against the lockers and said. "Of course, I could make you a member of the family…that is IF you agreed to be my future wife." He said with a grin as he gave a sly wink, but she just shoved him out of the way as she gave a very unimpressed frown, great line Dallas, he thought to himself sarcastically, what's next you gonna try to seduce her with a pole dance? He instantly regretted thinking of that. "OH GOD NO EWW GROSS WHY DID I GO THERE?!" He cried as he shook his head disgusted by his own thoughts of him in a certain profession.

"Hey Dallas…" Marinette called from outside the locker room. "You coming or what?" He quickly grabbed his chemistry book then slammed the locker shut, he then followed Marinette to their next class. There was a bit of an awkward silence as they just walked side by side, until she broke the silence. "Just so you know, I'm sorry about what happened to you." She said with an apologetic voice knowing this would most likely be the only way she could feel any better about what she'd caused him to do.

Dallas just groaned and said. "For god sake why is everyone making such a big deal out of this? So I got akumitized big whop, it's not like saying sorry is gonna change anything." He shrugged as he threw his head back.

"Still though, I just thought that…I should say I'm sorry, for the other day too." She said as she looked away from him and rubbed her arm. "I was so quick to judge you that…"

"Okay seriously enough of that crap pigtails…" Dallas said with a stern voice. "To be honest I don't really care what anyone thinks about me, I've dealt with this shit for as long as I can remember, people always take one look at me and say 'he's just a thief don't trust him' or 'he's a gypsy he'll put a curse on you' or even 'go back to your reservation you dirty little red skin', believe me when I say this Mari, I will never find out why life has dealt me such a crap hand or if life will ever get better for me, so I just have to try and make the most of it, sure I'll get pissed every now and then but what's that gonna solve? Nothing that's what, it's just better to accept the golden rule, life sucks then yah die."

Marinette was stunned by the fact that he said that so casually, like he'd said it a thousand times before. But she didn't really believe that he meant what he said completely. "Is it really all just black and white to you?" She asked nonchalantly.

"Hell yes it is…" He said with a similar tone of voice. "As far as I'm concerned life sucks all the time, sure you have a few brief days of happiness but those are short lived. Oh well…guess it's best to just take what you can get."

Marinette began to feel even more guilt pile up on her, she wanted to cry, she wanted to shout out her frustrations to the world and just let everything she felt about herself go in one dramatic moment. I wish I'd just kept my big mouth shut, she berated herself mentally, I'm the most insensitive person ever. She didn't even notice that a tear had escaped her eye as she just laid on the guilt of being the reason for him becoming a villain, even if it was just for a short while, and it didn't help that she'd come close to labeling him something that wasn't even justifiable.

Dallas took notice of her tears then asked her. "What's wrong with you?"

She wiped away her tear then said. "I'm a jerk, that's what's wrong with me, I'm a big fat jerk and I didn't even care if what I thought about you upset you or not, I try so hard to be a good person all the time but I just end up hurting people in the end."

That's when Dallas began to laugh at her, he laughed so hard he couldn't breathe. "Oh god…are you serious right now? I'm sorry but seriously pigtails you are far from being a jerk, if anything you are a sweetheart." Dallas said as he wiped away a tear.

"No I'm not, it's because of me that…" She stopped herself before she revealed that she was the reason behind him becoming akumitized.

"It's because of you that what Mari? What is it you did that was so bad that makes you such a jerk?" He asked sympathetically.

She thought about it for a moment then said. "I'm the reason that you and Adrien were taken last night." She made an excuse to rationalize her guilt.

Dallas of course didn't see how this was at all possible, or even relevant to the situation. "Uh…how are you responsible for the rollers coming for us last night?" He asked with a puzzled look.

She sighed then said with a sad look. "I posted that Adrien and I were going to the scarlet seahorse on my twitter account last night, just to make all of his fan girls jealous you know, they just hate the fact that he chose me over every one of them and they can't just accept it either that we're a couple, Adrien doesn't really mind it, but he doesn't really approve of it either, says that I should just ignore what others say about us and just try to be happy that we're together, and that's why I'm just a jerk, I'm no better that Chloe Bourgeois." She buried her face in her hands and just began to cry. That's when Dallas did something completely unexpected and random, he took one of her hands and just began to trace the inside of her palm. "What…what are you doing?" She asked as she sniffled a bit.

"Long life line, oh a strong love line, this one means you're a little clumsy, huh…that's so strange." He said pretending to be confused.

"What's strange?" She asked bluntly as she began to calm down.

"If what you say is true and you are just a big jerk then why doesn't it show up here on your palm? I see your life line, your love line, your wisdom line, but I don't see your jerk line anywhere." He said with a smile. "I guess there's only one conclusion to this mystery gorgeous, you're not a jerk, just really emotional…and super cute." There he is, Dallas praised himself mentally, now that's the smooth talking charmer I know and love.

Marinette began to blush as she giggled a bit, then she turned to him and said. "So you're a hacker, a thief, a herbalist and a palm reader too."

He shrugged as he began to smile then said. "I told you my dear, I am a man of many talents…" He then leaned in and whispered in her ear. "Another one of those talents I keep special in the bedroom."

In an instant her smile was replaced with a frown and narrowed eyebrows. "Really, and just when I was feeling sorry for you." She growled at him with disgust.

He then chuckled and said. "Oh come on babe I was just joking…mostly."

"Seriously, I would've thought that after seeing me and Adrien last night that you would've backed off." Marinette voiced her disgust in him.

"What? Just because your with someone else that doesn't mean that I'm just gonna give up on making 'us' a thing sweetheart…" He replied with a high level of charm and a cunning smile. "Plus just because your dating someone that doesn't mean I'm just gonna sleep with you behind your boyfriend's back, but that doesn't mean I won't try my best to win you over."

Marinette just stared at him in the eye and said. "So you actually would do that to Adrien, you would actually try to steal me away from him just so you could sleep with me?"

"Well when you say it like that it makes me sound like an asshole." He said with a shrug.

"Well it's not gonna happen buster I can tell you that so just forget about ever getting with this." She laminated as she gestured to herself.

Dallas just smiled and said. "That's what they all say sweetheart, right before I swoop in and give them the best night of their lives and they come back begging for…" She cut him off with a swift slap across the face, it was so loud the echo could be heard from every single corner of the blacktop. Dallas began to rub his cheek and said. "Okay, I'll be the first to admit I kind of deserved that."

"Yeah yah did you big dumb gypsy." She said as she walked away.

"That's gypsy Lakota pigtails." Dallas said back to her as she just walked off strutting and basically torturing him mentally as he stared at her hindquarters shift from side to side as she walked. God damn, he thought to himself, that is one hot piece of ass right there, whoa down boy. He mentally said to a certain part of his anatomy.

As soon as Dallas had entered the class room everyone's conversations began to cease, he just assumed that they were all talking about him becoming akumitized the night before. He didn't really care as he just sat down at his desk and next to a girl with blond hair wearing a pink shirt and white pants, she was caught up in scribbling something on a piece of paper, he leaned over to see what she was righting down, it looked to be the lyrics of a song, and they were very…unicorn based. She eventually realized that someone was looking over her shoulder and spying on what she was working on then she narrowed her eye brows and said with a grouchy tone. "You know it's very rude for someone to just hover over someone else when their trying to work on a new song."

Dallas then realized just how close he'd gotten to her then sat up straight as he apologized. "Oh sorry, didn't mean to crowd you."

"It's okay, I just like to have space when I work." She replied with a smile as her attitude had changed completely as if she'd completely forgotten that she was grumpy with him.

Okay she's one of those girls, Dallas thought to himself. "So you write songs, I take it your in a band." Dallas asked politely.

"Mm-hm…" She nodded with a smile. "I'm their lead singer too."

"Oh is that so…" Dallas replied as he took an interest in the topic. "So what do you guys call yourselves? The unicorn lovers?"

She giggled then shoved him playfully before saying. "No of course not, we're known as kitty section."

Dallas had never heard the name before so he assumed that they were new. "Uh…kitty section? I don't think I've heard of you guys."

The girl's jaw just dropped then she said with utter confusion. "How could you not know who we are? We even have our own music video." She pulled out her phone and pulled up the music video of her band playing their big hit single, 'I love unicorns'.

Dallas just stared at the screen and listened to the song, he wasn't exactly impressed by the song nor by their performance, he also didn't really care much for there choice in outfits, but he wasn't about to tell her that to her face. As soon as I open my big mouth she'll probably start balling like a baby, he thought to himself. "So what are you guys supposed to be some kind of unicorn cat hybrid or something, or are you supposed to be like a teenage version of kiss?" He asked jokingly.

But she didn't get it, she just looked at him with a weird look and said. "Huh…?"

Okay not gonna press this with her any farther, he thought to himself as he began to flirt with her slightly. "So is your name as pretty as your face?"

She began to blush as she shied away from him and a smile began to curve onto her face. "Oh, uh…I don't know about that." She said sounding a bit nervous.

Okay clearly didn't get what I meant, he thought once more. "You see this is the part where you tell me your name, so could you please tell me your name my dear?" He asked politely.

She turned back to him and answered casually. "I'm Rose, and you are…?" She asked curiously.

"Names Dallas, Dallas Jones…and it's very nice to make your acquaintance my dear." He said as he took her hand and kissed it softly.

She began to blush even harder as she placed her free hand on her cheek and tried to collect herself. "Oh…uh, it's nice to meet you too, so um…about before…" She began to ask innocently. "Would you say that my name is as pretty as my face?"

Ohhhhhh, he thought to himself yet again, she's one of those girls too, well better keep this simple. "Yes it is actually, but just so you know that was actually just a metaphor yah know?" He asked back.

She simply just shrugged and said. "If you say so, so have you been in our school long? I don't think I remember you being here until today."

This just confused Dallas, he remembered seeing her the day before but he never talked to her until today, is she really that oblivious, he asked mentally. "Uh…no I only just got here yesterday." He announced honestly.

"Oh…well I must not've seen you, or maybe you were in a different class or something, but just so you know you should be on the lookout for someone else who's new here too…" She then leaned in close and whispered. "This other new guy has a criminal record."

Is she for real right now, he asked himself mentally, or is she really that stupid? "Uhhhhhh…I am that guy sweetie."

Rose began to tap her finger to her chin while making an elongated hmm, until she came to realize that he was in fact the same new guy she was just warning him about. "Oh…sorry I didn't know it was you I never meant to upset you or anything I'm really a good person I swear." She said as she just apologized all over the place.

Dallas began to smile as he thought to himself again, well she certainly is a sweet girl, a bit of an air head but sweet none the less. "Eh it's okay, I've dealt with way worse than this before." He said as he waved his hand.

"So where did you say you were from again?" She asked curiously, and of course she had already forgotten this as well.

Really? Is she really this dumb? He asked mentally again. One would think it was obvious but apparently it's not, or at least it isn't for her. "I'm from the US sweetie, and before you ask no I'm not Latino or Indian, I am of native American descent on my father's side." He announced to her and laminating clearly for her of his true heritage so he didn't have to yell at her, if I go and scream in her face I'll bet anything the water works will start up faster than a gasoline fire.

That's when Rose's face lit up and said. "Oh you mean like those people who wear all of those pretty little feathers on their heads in those pretty little hats."

Dallas began to feel like she wasn't paying close attention at all, even though he was being painstakingly clear about everything. "Uhhhhhh…yeah, were just like those guys." He said with a dumb look on his face.

"So which of the Indian tribes do you belong to again?" She asked innocently, and accidentally spiking his ire.

"I'M NOT…" He started to scream, but stopped himself before he made a seen and started over a little calmer than before. "What I mean to say is honey, is that there are no Indian tribes in America okay? Just native American ones alright, there is a big difference between us and them, mainly because it's in the name of our races, but to answer your question sweetie I belong to the Lakota tribe, my people mostly live out in the Midwest, I lived there most of my life until my dad died and my older brother went to jail, so I basically stayed with my mom in her RV until she too passed away about three years ago, then I ended up in foster care and now I'm Adrien Agreste's new foster brother."

She suddenly gasped with surprise then asked. "You're the foster kid who's living with Adrien too?"

Oh my god is this girl living under a rock? He asked mentally again, or are her parents brother and sister? "Yeeeeeeeaaaasss…?" He said sounding a bit confused as to how she could be so far out of the loop of everything that only happened twenty four hours ago.

"Oh my gosh I heard that you got akumitized, I am so sorry to hear that…" She said as she put her hand on his shoulder, Oh sure that she knows about, he griped mentally. "It's really scary to think about getting akumitized, it's happened to almost everyone here in our school, it's even happened to me." She said with a sad expression.

"You know I actually believe that, and I don't blame you for being scared of that asshole Hawkmoth either, but I don't think I'll have to worry about him much longer." Dallas stated with confidence as he'd already found out who Hawkmoth was simply by connecting the dots.

"What makes you say that?" Rose asked curiously.

He shrugged and simply replied with. "I just have a hunch is all, and my hunches are usually right so I'm not worried." She then leaned back a little for some reason, which cause Dallas to ask. "What are you doing?"

She leaned back to her upright position then said. "I don't see any hunch on your back, are you sure you have one?"

Seriously, he began to ask mentally again, was she dropped on her head as a baby? This girl puts every single blond I've ever dated to shame. "That was a metaphor hun…" He said with a light chuckle. She let out another elongated hmm as she tapped her chin. He couldn't help but laugh lightly as she remained in deep thought.

"What's so funny?" She asked wanting to know why he was laughing for, and at what.

He obviously didn't want to upset her by saying that she was the reason for his laughter, She might just start crying her eyes out if I do that and I can't do that to a sweet girl like her, he thought as he came up with a good excuse. "Oh I was…just thinking of an old joke I'd heard when I was a kid."

"Ooh a joke, can I hear it?" She asked folding her hands.

Well that went better than I…oh who the hell am I kidding I was safe the moment I said it, he inwardly praised himself for his quick thinking before he told her a joke he'd heard from his childhood. "Okay, there are four people on a plane, a pilot, a scientist, a priest and a fourth grade kid, and the plane is crashing but there are only three parachutes, the pilot says to the other three passengers, I should get a parachute because my job is important and I am needed to fly people all around the world, so he takes a chute and jumps out, then the scientist says to his fellow passengers, I should get a parachute too because I'm the smartest man in the world and my brilliant mind is irreplaceable, so he jumps out, so it's down to the priest and the fourth grader, then the priest says to the fourth grader, my boy I am old and my life will come to an end soon enough as it is, but you are full of life and have yet to enjoy it so you should take the last parachute, so the kid goes over to were the chutes are and he comes back with two, then the priest says, I thought there were only three left, then the kid says, there were…smartest man in the world just jumped out with my backpack."

Rose only just sat still in her seat, not even smiling at the punchline, she then broke her silents with. "I don't get it."

Dallas just looked at her with utter confusion written all over his face. "What? How do you not get it? The scientist said he was the smartest man in the world and he mistook a simple backpack for a parachute before he jumped to his death. You see the joke is he wasn't as smart as he thought he was and it cost him big time." She just sat there staring at him with a deadpan look on her face. Wow, and I thought the cheerleader was dumb as hell, it's a damn good thing she's not on that plane, he mentally joked, good one Dallas.

About three hours later lunch rolled around and Adrien was having lunch with Dallas again, hoping that this time he wouldn't have to worry about Chloe coming around for Dallas to humiliate her again. "So…" Adrien started up a conversation to break the silence. "I couldn't help but notice that you and Rose were having a little chat." He said with a smile.

Dallas nodded his head then said. "Yeah, she's a real sweet girl."

Then Adrien made a suggestion. "Maybe you two should go out together you know, like on a date."

Dallas then chuckled lightly then said. "I mean no disrespect to her at all dude, mainly because she's a really nice girl to be around, but she's not my type, she might be sweet as heaven but she's a little too sweet in my opinion, meaning that if I tried to sleep with her it would be too easy for me as she's a bit of an air head, I personally prefer a girl who's a challenge to hop in bed with."

Adrien's smile quickly turned into a frown before he said. "You know there's more to a relationship than just sex."

"You only say that because your still waiting for Marinette to give you the time of day, if it were me in your position I'd tap that in a heartbeat." Dallas replied with a smirk, Adrien was quick to narrow his eyes with disgust in Dallas for his words, he began to sense this and tried to backpedal. "Okay I get it, poor subject to discuss about your girl, but I will say though she is a looker my man, you best be careful other wise she might fall head over heals for someone else, someone smooth, cunning, smart, crafty, obviously handsome and maybe a bit rugged too, also someone who's had more hot girls than he's had hot dinners." Dallas warned to his foster brother subtly.

Adrien of course picked up on this and asked as he crossed his arms with an annoyed tone. "You mean someone like you?"

Dallas shrugged with a grin before he answered. "Just saying, anything is possible my friend."

"Yeah well if I know Marinette as well as I think I do I think it's a pretty safe bet that she's never gonna fall for you." Adrien stated with a smile.

"Never say never my friend." Dallas objected as he tutted his foster brother.

"Okay…" Adrien began to rephrase. "She's not ever going to fall for you."

Dallas then smiled and said. "Challenge accepted my friend." He extended a hand out to Adrien, who didn't really understand what it was for until he explained. "Uh…this is the part where we make a wager."

"A wager? For what to see if my girl friend will dump me for you?" Adrien asked the obvious.

Dallas nodded his head once then said. "If your SO confident that Marinette would never leave you for a devilishly handsome smooth talker like me then lets see if your right. Give me until the end of the month and…no…the week…and she'll be eating out of the palm of my hand like a love sick puppy, but if I can't then I will…share an old secret of mine, one that I have never told anyone, one that only I know the truth about, and if I can get her to fall for me…well then you have to allow me to steal a kiss from her."

Adrien didn't like this idea, he knew if he went along with this and Marinette found out that he agreed to it then she would be furious with him, so he began to decline. "Sorry Dallas but I'm not interested in this deal, especially if it involves my girlfriend being led on by a guy like you, no offense."

"Oh none taken, and it's alright…" Dallas replied as he began to bait Adrien. "IF your TOO scared that is." He saw a look on Adrien's face that he had seen a thousand times before on just about every other guy he'd made this bet with, a look that said how dare you call me that, bingo, he praised himself.

"The last thing I am in this world Dallas Jones is afraid of you or your 'so called charm', I accept your challenge…" He took Dallas's hand then gave it a good firm shake, sealing the bet. "Remember, you have until this Friday to get her to fall for you, BUT just fall for you, remember that she's still my girlfriend, unless she chooses otherwise which I am 100% sure will not be happening anytime soon."

Dallas's grin grew even wider upon hearing those words, then he said in reply. "Oh I wouldn't worry about that…" Because this is all apart of my evil plan, he finished inside his head.

After lunch ended Dallas returned to his locker to collect his history book, just as he shut his locker another girl had stood before him, she had black hair with brown eyes and high lights in her hair, she had dark clothes and make up, her entire look spoke volumes about her, she had the look of a cover band rock star. Dallas didn't even notice her until she said with an aggressive tone which startled him enough that he almost jumped out of his skin. "Stay away from her buster!" She half shouted at him.

"Wakan Tankan and Deval, don't do that…" Dallas cried as he clenched his fast beating heart. "You just gave me a heart attack."

But the girl didn't apologize for anything, she just glared deeper at him and said. "Don't think I didn't see you talking with Rose in class Jones, stay away from her if you know what's good for you."

Dallas was about to ask who she was and how she knew Rose when he realized who she was, she looked like the base guitarist in the music video that Rose had shown him in the class room. "Ohhhhhhh…I know you, your apart of that band Rose said she was in uh what did she call you guys uh…" He started to snap his fingers repeatedly trying to remember the name of their band.

"Kitty section…" The girl answered for him. "And yes that's me, and just so you know I want you to stay away from Rose you pig." She said as she pointed her finger in his face.

"Okay listen uh…" Dallas began to explain to the girl as he tried to figure out her name, but he had no idea who she was until she introduced herself to him.

"Juleka…" She stated flatly not changing the look of aggression on her face in the slightest.

"Nice to meet you Juleka, anyway you'll be happy to know that I'm not interested in Rose in that way I can assure you of that..." Dallas stated honestly. "I mean don't get me wrong she is like super cute as hell, but she's a little…you know what never mind bottom line I'm not interested in her like that so you don't have to worry about your crush."

Juleka's eyes shot open when he said that, she was shocked by his sudden accusation. "What are you talking…" She began to ask before he cut her off.

"Oh don't play dumb…" He interjected with a grin. "I saw the way you were glaring at me while I was talking to her in class, you know with the look of jealousy in your eyes, and trust me I'd know that look anywhere lady vampire, I've seen it more times than I can remember."

During his talk with Rose in the classroom Dallas couldn't help but notice that this same girl was glaring at him with pure hate in her eyes, especially once he kissed her hand, it was safe for him to assume that Juleka either was jealous of Dallas or just wanted to cause him pain for even looking at her friend. Juleka on the other hand at this time was just dumbstruck by what Dallas was implying. "What the hell makes you think that I'm…" She pause when the very girl of their conversation came into the locker room and headed over to her locker to collect her history book.

"Hi Dallas, hi Juleka…" She mused as she waved at the two teens.

"Why hello little rose bud, we were just talking about you." Dallas greeted warmly as he shot a sinister smile at Juleka as he saw the look on her face, a look of longing and desire, Called it, he sang in his head. "Oh but don't worry though it was all good things…like how Juleka…" He paused with a giant grin only for a brief moment to make it seem as if he was going to expose her dirty little secret, but he wasn't that cruel, and he proved it once he finished his sentence. "…and you are in the same band, of course I had no idea it was her in the purple cat mask in your video until she told me, by the way love the outfits really screams I'm rebellious and I don't go by societies rules, so from one rebel to another I salute you."

Juleka breathed a sigh of relief, thankful for his discretion, that's when Rose stated with a chipper voice. "Our friend Marinette made them for us, she's an amazing designer, one day she's gonna be a big hit and when that happens I want her to make my wedding dress, well you know if I ever end up meeting that special someone."

Dallas took another look at Juleka and saw a big grin on her face most likely fantasizing about the two of them in a big fancy wedding, Okay I'll admit they would make a pretty cute couple, Dallas mused to himself, assuming that is Rose actually is a lesbian, or at least bisexual. Responding to her earlier comment Dallas then replied. "Wow, I had no idea that Marinette was so good with her hands, wait that came out wrong." He stated as he realized what he'd said could've been misinterpreted by the girls.

Or at least one of them as Rose then said. "Well it's not like she could've done it with her feet."

Dallas was at a loss for words, her response not making even a tiny bit of relevancy to his statement. Wow, vampire girl sure can pick'em, Dallas thought sarcastically.

"Well anyway I have to get to class, see you guys later." Rose said as she waved goodbye, leaving both Dallas and Juleka to themselves.

Dallas turned back to Juleka and asked with confusion. "Seriously what do you see in her?"

Juleka then looked up to Dallas then growled at him. "Who do you think you are calling me a lesbian like that? And even if I was it isn't any of your business who I'm interested in." She just glared at him eyes narrow and nostrils flaring.

"Oh…so you wouldn't mind if I went and asked her out on a date then because as I said before she is super cute." Dallas joked as he began to walk toward the door.

But he was suddenly halted as Juleka darted out in front of him and cried. "NO YOU CAN'T!"

Dallas then gave a very smug grin as he'd just tricked her into confessing the truth, but he still had to ask her, for arguments sake. "Why not? She's a free girl she's open to the public and you can't stop me from…"

She was quick to interject. "You just can't okay…I…I care too much about her to let just any guy come in and try to sweep her off her feet."

Dallas saw the look in her eyes, it was that of fear, fear that he might woo her away from any chance that Rose would ever have with her. "Then just admit it…" Dallas stated as he crossed his arms. "You're in love with her, it's pretty clear for me to see sweetheart, and don't bother denying it any further, I have an excellent gaydar and it's telling me that there be a young lass who loves the taste of other gals over that of laddies dead ahead upon the high seas dearest Juleka, in other words…stop hiding it and come out of the closet already."

Juleka then sighed knowing that he had figured her out so easily, then she closed her eyes and confessed. "Okay your right, I am in love with Rose, I've had feelings for her for…I honestly don't know how long anymore."

Dallas nodded with satisfaction then said. "There…now was that so hard, actually don't answer that, it's a stupid question after all." Juleka looked away from Dallas with a worried look, oh jeez she must think I'm gonna out her or something, he thought to himself. "Listen Juley…is it okay if I call you that?" He asked as he put a hand on her shoulder, she nodded yes before he continued. "I'm not the type to go around and just share other people's information, granted I could do it very easily just by hacking into your personal data but that's a different story, this is something way too important for me to just out you for so if you don't want me to tell anyone then I won't tell anyone, and that is a promise."

Juleka looked back up to Dallas then asked with a straight forward question. "How do I know you'll keep it to yourself?"

"I'm Lakota doll, we don't lie, we don't even have a word for lying either, in fact it's pretty much a major sin in the eyes of the spirits if you lie, true story." Dallas stated with honesty.

She didn't know why but Juleka felt that she could trust him, so she nodded her head and said. "Alright, I trust you."

Dallas then smiled and extended his hand for her to shake. "It's a deal then countess Dracula." He quipped playfully.

She took his hand then stated firmly. "And the name is Juleka thank you, Juleka Couffaine, not countess Dracula."

He shrugged then said. "Well maybe if you didn't dress like Bella from the twilight saga…" He stopped in mid joke as she started to growl and increase her grip on his hand. "Okay fine, no more vampire Jokes, bla bla bla…" He finished as he raised his hand up like he was a true vampire.

She just shot him a dirty look then left the locker room with a huff. "Wow what an ass." She growled as she adjusted her grip on her books. Once she was outside the locker room and on the black top she headed to her next class.

A few hours later school had ended, however Dallas and Adrien couldn't head home just yet as Adrien had a photo shoot he had to attend, it was the first he'd been to in weeks sense his father hit him. Dallas just sat close by as Adrien worked his usual magic as a model striking poses of every style the photographer asked for. "How much longer do we have to be here dude?" Dallas began to complain as he was getting board just sitting around with nothing to do. "I'm board as hell and I'm getting hungry to boot, if I'd known that posing to get your picture taken took so long in this career I would've just went to grab a slice of pizza or something."

"Oh stop whining Dallas…" Adrien waved off. "I only have about fifty more frames and then we can go home."

Dallas's jaw just dropped upon hearing how many pictures left he had to take. "Only fifty? How many did you have before?" He asked with shock clear in his voice.

"I think about three hundred and twenty, but who's counting?" Adrien replied with a smile as he saw the look on Dallas's face.

"Oh my gosh…" A voice cried out from not too far off, Dallas looked up to see about ten different girls on the other side of the park where Adrien was working. "It's Adrien Agreste, he is so dreamy!" One of the girls cried out as she caressed both her hands against her cheeks.

"Uh-oh, fan girl alert…" Dallas said to himself as he could already see what was about to happen. He stood up and prepared himself for what he knew he had to do, sense this job was usually up to the gorilla Dallas chose to fill in for the moment.

As the girls all raced over to meet Adrien Dallas just stood in the way blocking them all like a bouncer in front of a night club. He extended his arms as he prevented them from getting any closer. "Hey move it, we can't see Jose." One of the girls said as she tried to work her way past Dallas.

Once Adrien heard what she'd called him he began to think to himself, this is not gonna end well, and surely enough Adrien was right as Dallas just lost his mind, yet again. "I'M NOT A GOD DAMN LATINO YOU STUPID CUNTS I'M NATIVE AMERICAN NOW GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE BEFORE I SHOOT YAH!" He reached into his coat pocket acting as if he was about to pull a gun in the attempt to scare the girls off, lucky for him it worked as they all started to scream and run away from both him and Adrien. "Suckers…" He mused with a very satisfied grin on his face.

"Now was that really necessary?" Adrien asked as he took a brief look over at Dallas.

"No no no child don't look at him look at the camera…" The photographer ranted as he snapped the photos of Adrien.

Dallas then turned back to Adrien and said. "It's not like I was actually gonna shoot them, besides I'm not aloud to touch a gun while I'm…oh right I'm not on probation anymore thanks to your dad, still would like to know how he did it." Around that time Dallas saw someone from across the street, someone in a Romani rollers jacket, they were just leaning against the wall just waiting for something, Dallas could only assume that something was the right time to get Adrien, he looked around the park to see if there were any other surprises waiting for them, and sure enough he found three more of them all just standing around and waiting. Instinct told him to go after them and keep them from Adrien, but he couldn't keep Adrien from the others if he just went after one, so he waited patiently until the shoot was over, the two boys piled into the car and Dallas then began to explain to Adrien the situation. "We've got four gang bangers around here, I can get us away from them easily but you have to trust my skills as a driver if were gonna get away from them. But hey what should I expect from these idiots that I haven't already seen?" He said with a high level of confidence.

Before Adrien could respond Dallas ignited the engine and sped off at top speed, it wasn't long before he found the rollers had someone in a car following them, Dallas spotted the tailing thugs right away and began to take a rout threw some back alleys to try and lose them, they followed him coming at top speed but their SUV just wasn't fast enough for the Ferrari, Dallas then used the hand break like before to drift around the corner of the alley's exit then hit the gas and sped straight onto the road again. "Who the hell taught you how to drive?!" Adrien cried out with fear that they were going to die.

"Would you believe me if I told you it was Mario Andretti?" Dallas joked with a smile and laughing on the inside at Adrien's reaction to his driving skills. "Now hold on Agreste because this is gonna get crazy." Dallas announced as he put the pedal to the metal and drove into oncoming traffic, he began to weave in and out between spaces of oncoming cars as they honked their horns, Dallas just smiled as he kept up the crazy stunt driving to lose their pursuers, he had missed this kind of driving for a good long while.

Adrien began to dig his nails into the back of his seat's head rest as he was terrified that this was it, he was absolutely convinced that he was going to die. "ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US?!" He bellowed at his driver who he was now starting to wish he'd never allow to drive the car in the first place.

"Oh come on Adrien I know what I'm doing OH SHIT!" Dallas cried as he quickly darted the car out of the way of a large truck coming for them. "Okay that ones on me."

"GET US BACK ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD YOU IDIOT!" Adrien demanded as Dallas just kept on driving deeper into traffic.

Dallas just rolled his eyes and said much calmer than Adrien was being. "Alright sheesh yah big baby." He drove back onto the side of the road he was supposed to be on and just drove the normal speed limit as he checked to see if the rollers were still tailing them. "Yep, still there…well I think we've toyed around with them enough wouldn't you agree my friend?" He said to Adrien as he slowed the car down just enough for the rollers to catch up to them.

"What are you doing?" Adrien asked fearfully as he saw the rollers car get closer to them.

Dallas then unbuckled his seat belt then turned to Adrien and said. "When I tell you to, take the wheel for me okay?"

"Why? What are you gonna do?" Adrien asked twice in reply.

"You'll see in a second." Dallas mused as the car became side by side with the SUV, Dallas rolled down both his window and the passenger window then began to climb out onto the roof of the car. "Take the wheel pretty boy." He called out as he pulled himself out of the car and climbed onto the roof of the car, Adrien was quick to grab the wheel as Dallas had instructed, as Dallas stood crouched on top of the Ferrari he prepared himself for what he was about to do. "Here we go Jones, any last words…?" He said to himself. "Yes…I wish I didn't do stupid shit like this on a regular basis!" Hesitating no longer he jumped onto the SUV and climbed onto the roof, just then the sunroof of the car opened up revealing two of the gangsters to him. "Hello gents…" Dallas greeted with a British accent and a mock salute just before one of the gangsters pointed a gun at him. "For me? Why you shouldn't have." He said as he dropped down and crushed the gangsters hand into the side of the opening, he quickly grabbed the gun and pulled it out of the thugs grasp. "Oooooh…an Uzi five millimeter, nice." Dallas quickly pointed the gun at the engine of the car just at the back of the hood, oil began to spew out of the engine block and all over the windshield of the car, Dallas then jumped back onto the roof of the Ferrari and held on for dear life. "Keep it steady you idiot!" He called out to Adrien as the car began to swerve a bit.

"I'm trying to." Adrien called back as he tried to get the car under control. He then took notice of something less than a mile ahead of them. "Dallas…" Adrien began to call out.

"What? What's…oh shit." Dallas cursed as he took notice of a road block with several cop cars in front of them as well. "Stop the car stop the car STOP THE CAR!" He cried out thrice, as soon as Adrien hit the breaks he went flying forward off the roof of the car and just rolled bouncing down the road like a basketball. "OW…FUCK…SHIT…GOD…DAMN…FUCK…FUCKING COCK…COCK…FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!" He cursed as he slowly came to a rolling stop, he looked up to see officer Rodger standing over him, he smiled nervously and said. "Good afternoon officer, lovely day don't you think." I'm going to jail aren't I, Dallas asked mentally, but luckily for him he wasn't the reason for the road block nor were the officers after him or Adrien at all.

As luck would have it someone took notice of the rollers chasing a high end sports car and saw that Adrien Agreste was in it at the time, so they did what any sensible person would do and called the police making sure that even if they had caught him the police would come to the rescue. "You two are under arrest for two counts of attempted kidnapping and possessing an illegal firearm." Officer Rodger said as he cuffed the gangsters and loaded them up in the back of his squad car.

"See yah douche bags, have fun in prison, oh and don't drop the soap." Dallas joked as he returned to the car.

"Hold on now Jones…" The officer said as he stopped Dallas with a hand on his shoulder. "There's still a few matters we need to go over with you as well." He pulled out his note book and began to right out tickets. "That's a ticket for speeding, a ticket for firing a deadly weapon within fifty yards of inhabited buildings, a ticket for driving into oncoming traffic…"

Dallas quickly interrupted officer Rodger. "Are you fucking kidding me? Those guys were after us, I think my actions were justified."

"Another ticket for interrupting an officer while doing his job…" He continued righting out tickets as he saw fit.

"Oh come on that's not a thing." Dallas complained as he pointed a finger in Rodger's face.

"And another ticket for assuming you know more than an officer." He finally finished writing out the tickets then handed them all to Dallas, who immediately said.

"Are you for real right now you fat douche? Those last two aren't even laws." Dallas pointed out as he complained how unfair the officer was being.

"And another ticket for calling an officer a fat douche." Rodger stated as he wrote another ticket.

"I swear to god if you write one more ticket that isn't even enforceable by law I'm going to shove that pen and pad up your nose." Dallas growled with clear anger in his voice.

"And another ticket for threatening an officer of the law." Rodger finally finished writing out his last ticket and handed it to Dallas, who then narrowed his eyes and swiftly plucked a hair off of the officer's head. "OW! Okay you asked for it, that's another ticket for…"

"Hey look a Jaywalker." Dallas pointed in the opposite direction that Rodger was standing then he turned around to see that Dallas was telling the truth.

"Hey you stop right there!" Rodger called out as he forgot all about Dallas pulling out one of his hairs.

Dallas decided not to take anymore time than he had to, he walked over to the squad car where the thugs were awaiting officer Rodger to take them to jail, he opened the back door of the car and kicked one of the thugs in the face as he started his interrogation. "Why the hell is Lorenzo still coming after Adrien Agreste? Does he really want the boss to send me after him again? Because I will do it and I will finish what I started last night if I have to!" He shouted at the gangsters.

"We weren't supposed to do nothing to him we swear to god." One of them spoke up.

"Swear to me you fat sorry excuse of a gypsy!" Dallas shouted again as he grabbed the collar of his shirt and stared daggers into his eyes.

"Okay I swear to you man just let me go and I'll tell you what the boss knows." The thug bargained hoping that Dallas would accept his deal.

And as he'd hoped Dallas took notice of this then he asked. "What is it Lorenzo knows, and about what?"

The thug gulped loudly with fear on his face, then said sounding a little shaky. "He thinks he's found out who Cat Noir is so he told us to follow the kid until we knew for sure that it was Agreste."

Dallas's aggression quickly turned to fear, that's impossible, he mentally declared, how could he have any idea of...wait, Dallas quickly remembered that when Adrien came to help Ladybug and the others that he wasn't in his costume at the time, rather in his civilian form. Dallas then shoved the gangster back into the car and said. "You fuckers better keep your mouths shut when you get to the big house, because if I find out you blabbed about this to anyone…I'm coming for YOU next." He slammed the door of the squad car shut then returned to the Ferrari, only to find a very sick looking Plagg puking his guts out through the window, and much to Dallas's surprise…he had quite a bit of vomit for such a small thing. "God damn dude, where the hell did all of that come from?"

Plagg wiped his mouth off then said with a weak voice. "Don't ask…" Just before he puked again.

Dallas didn't notice at first, until he heard a sizzling sound on the ground, he looked down and saw that Plagg's vomit was eating away at the asphalt of the road, it would seem that Plagg's vomit was highly corrosive. "Dude, is destroying things all you can do?" Dallas said with shock and concern for the little kwami.

"Don't…get me started." He said with a green face, after Plagg had finally finish puking his guts out Dallas and Adrien drove to the nearest pharmacy and bought him a bottle of Pepto-Bismol to help ease his stomach ache.

Along the way home Dallas told Adrien what he'd learned from the thugs in the cop car, needless to say Adrien was just as frightened as Dallas was. "What are we gonna do, if Lorenzo knows who I am then I'm in big trouble, or worse…Marinette might be at risk too." Adrien said in a panic as he tugged on his hair.

"It'll be okay Adrien, all we have to do is lay low for a while until Lorenzo gives up on figuring this out." Plagg stated as he took a giant gulp of medicine from the bottle.

"It's a shame you don't like spearmint Plagg, it always works wonders for me when I have a stomach ache." Dallas stated both as a joke and with seriousness, as a herbalist he had experienced the affects of many different kinds of herbs over the years.

"Blech, keep your nasty stinky spearmint, I prefer this to the taste and horrific smell of that infernal plant any day." Plagg declined as he took another gulp.

"Seriously where does he put it all?" Dallas asked Adrien as he whispered softly.

"Oh don't even get me started on that…" Adrien stated with a groan and an eye roll. "I've been trying to figure that out sense I first got this gig."

After they got home Dallas and Adrien went straight to Adrien's room to discuss there next move, but first they would require something to eat. "Who else is in a mood for pizza? I am starving over here." Dallas said as he fished out his phone.

"Extra cheese please." Plagg asked as he floated over to Dallas's side.

"How about you Adrien, anything special you want?" Dallas asked just before he pushed the call button.

Adrien shrugged his shoulders and said. "I'm good for anything really, go nuts."

Dallas nodded his head just as the cashier answered his call. "Hi I'd like one large pizza with Italian sausage, mushrooms and extra cheese, oh and make it a stuff crust pizza please."

Not long after Dallas had given the Address to the pizzeria to deliver to the mansion Plagg asked Dallas a very casual question. "What's a stuffed crust pizza?"

Dallas just began to laugh at Plagg's expense. "Your kidding right, you're a cheeseoholic and you've never had a stuffed crust pizza?" He asked the confused little Kwami.

It didn't take Plagg long to figure out what was stuffed inside the crust from what Dallas had just asked him in return. "Are you saying…that the crust is filled with…" Plagg began to ask Dallas with baited breath.

"Cheese? Yes it is my little friend, three feet of it to be exact, oh and it just melts in your mouth once you bite into it, trust me my friend you have not lived until you taste this pizza, it is like manna from heaven."

Plagg quickly turned to Adrien and narrowed his eyes just before he growled. "We've known each other for two years and not once did you order us a stuffed crust pizza, NOT…ONCE! You didn't even mention that it existed you little sack of…" Dallas quickly grabbed the kwami and covered his mouth as someone was opening the door to Adrien's room, he quickly stuffed Plagg into his back pocket as he turned to face in the direction of the door, the intruder it would seem was Natalie.

"Dallas…" She started up flatly as she looked up for a brief moment from her day planner. "The wiring issue for your room has been taken care of finally so if you want you may move your belongings there when every your ready."

"Thanks Natalie I'll be sure to do that later." Dallas replied politely as she turned around and left the room, then he turned back to Adrien and asked. "Okay are we sure she's not a robot or something because she has like…no emotion half the time."

Plagg then flew out of Dallas's pocket and growled. "You stuff me back there again and I'll rip you a new one yah hear!"

"Ooh I'm so scawd…" Dallas quipped as he pretended to be afraid of Plagg's threat. About half an hour later the Pizza arrived and the two boys and one kwami all began to enjoy there dinner, sense it was Plagg's first stuffed crust pizza Dallas insisted that he take the first bite. "Please my little friend, after you." Dallas said as he held out the pizza slice for the little creature.

Plagg wasted no time at all on the pointed edge, he went straight for the crust and took a giant bite out of it, as soon as the taste of warm gooey mozzarella hit his taste buds Plagg's eye snapped open as wide as they could with astonishment, he quickly began to continue devouring the whole slice sending toppings and chunks of the crust flying everywhere. "Plagg come on that's sick." Adrien said as he and Dallas shielded themselves from the numerous flying chunks of food until Plagg finally stopped and let out a small burp, he then turned to Dallas and said with wide eyes and a slight whimper in his voice.

"Please sir…may I have some more?" Dallas just stared at him with shock, he just ate that whole thing in ten seconds flat and he's still hungry, Dallas wondered, how the hell does he do it?

After eating the last of the pizza Dallas moved all of his things to his room and began to unpack his clothes and other worldly belongings of his native American heritage such as knives, native American jewelry, small totems of spirits of his heritage as a Lakota, along with something in a lock box which he kept closed and a few gypsy based keep sakes like tarot cards, healing crystals and a crystal ball. "Finally, I am now…officially moved in." He stated as he put up a hoop like ornament over his bed, it had a net like weave over the opening of the hoop with long strands of leather hanging from it, they were each decorated with small blue and white beads and hawk feathers. "Thank god for that too."

"Hey Dallas I thought I might check up on…whoa." Adrien stopped to see every single item that Dallas owned, he was in awe of how many things he possessed that were linked to his heritage. "This is not what I was expecting at all from you." He said as he walked around the room.

"Well what did you expect?" Dallas asked as he hopped off the bed and onto the floor.

"Well you are a rebel after all so I kind of pictured you to have a few posters of rock bands or at least a rebel flag somewhere." Adrien narrowed down, upon hearing mention of 'the flag' Dallas was quick to denounce.

"Okay first of all that is NOT…a flag that is to be honored at all especially for what it represents, which is bigotry and racism and nothing else, and second I might be a patriot of my home land but I would rather cut my own wrists before I associate with those kinds of people, it's one thing if you rebel against society's rules, it's quite another thing if you rebel against equality of your fellow man based on race or religion, or homosexuality for that matter. Bottom line I am very liberal in those regards."

While he was too busy talking to notice anything Adrien noticed the lock box on Dallas's dresser, he walked over and letting his curiosity get the better of him he opened the box and what he saw stunned him with amazement, it was an old Lakota brave's tomahawk, the head looked to have a standard blade on one end with a hammer's head on the other, the shaft of the weapon was made of pure bone, most likely from a large animal of some sort, it had a leather weave acting as a grip for the weapon, and it was completed with a single leather strand hanging off the bottom of the handle with a feather and a bear's fang. "Cool…" Was all Adrien could say before Dallas marched over and grabbed his wrist as tight as he could grip then pulled him away from the weapon.

"STAY AWAY FROM THAT! DON'T TOUCH IT YOU HEAR ME? DON'T EVER TOUCH IT!" He shouted at full volume as he just glared into Adrien's face.

"Whoa calm down Dallas, I wasn't gonna touch it I swear." Adrien replied trying to smooth things over with Dallas.

Dallas took a deep breath then let it out to calm himself, he then let Adrien go and looked away from him. "Sorry…that weapon is really important to my family, it's an heirloom you see." Dallas apologized feeling ashamed of himself for yelling at Adrien.

"It's okay…I probably shouldn't be going through your stuff as it is." Adrien admitted as he realized that it was more than likely one of Dallas's most prized possessions, or at the very least his most important.

"It's fine really, I just get really defensive when it comes to my stuff, I was lucky that I could've smuggled that in through airport security in the first place as it's my responsibility to look after it now. But that's a different story."

Feeling that he should change the subject Adrien looked around the room for something else to learn about seeing as Dallas clearly didn't want to talk about the tomahawk any further, that's when he eyed the ornament hanging on the wall just over Dallas's bed. "What's that thing?" He asked as he pointed at it.

Dallas looked over to where he was pointing and answered. "Oh that? That's my dream catcher."

"Your what?" Adrien asked with a puzzled look. "Is that some weird Lakota thing you have?"

Dallas laughed a bit then said. "Well it's actually a part of native American culture in general, some people think my tribe originally made it but it actually was passed down by a different tribe called the Ojibwa Chippewa through trade or intermarriage between our tribes, but we all agree on one thing and that is it's purpose to keep away bad dreams and only allow good dreams to those who sleep beneath it."

"So what are you saying? That it's magic or something?" Adrien summed up what he thought Dallas was getting at.

"To us it is, and in my personal opinion it works pretty well as I've had pretty restful sleep with it ever sense I was a kid. If you want I could make one for you, sure it'll take me some time to finish it but by the time I'm done it will be perfect." Dallas offered seeing this as a way to apologize to Adrien for his earlier behavior.

"Oh there's no need for that, really I appreciate the gesture but I'd rather not put you through the trouble, especially sense that looks really hard to make." Adrien pointed out.

"Oh yeah it was hard for me to make that thing, and I did it when I was nine, took me like a week to get it done cause I kept screwing up, but by the time I was done I liked the way it turned out so I think taking my time with it was actually a good thing." Dallas admitted feeling justly proud of his hard work.

Around that time Adrien spotted something among Dallas's gypsy keep sakes, namely his tarot cards. "Hey aren't those fortune teller cards?" He asked as he walked over to the deck and picked them up.

"There called tarot cards actually, and yes." Dallas admitted having a feeling of where this was going.

"You practice this stuff?" Adrien asked feeling curious if they actually could tell the future.

"Yeah I used to dabble in it for a while, until my mom died that is, haven't really done a card reading sense then…" Dallas replied as he took the deck out of Adrien's hand then offered knowing there was no point avoiding it. "You want me to tell you what your future holds?"

Adrien nodded his head then said. "Sure, I've always wanted to see if they work."

Dallas quickly spread out the deck in his hands like a fan and held them out for Adrien. "Just take three out at random and I'll read them off to you." Adrien took the three cards as instructed then Dallas placed the deck on the dresser and placed the three cards out on the dresser as well. "Okay then lets see what we got, the card that tells of your past tells me you've been alone for a very long time, with no one as your friend to make you even the slightest bit happy…"

"That's not true…" Adrien denied bluntly. "I've had Chloe as my friend, she's basically like a cousin to me."

"The cards don't lie my friend, if they say you've had no friends then they say you've had no friends, but I guess you really should've guessed that sense she's kind of a…how do I put this?" Before he could finish he saw Adrien just glare at him, sensing that it wasn't a good idea to finish his statement he chose to just move on. "Uh…never mind, anyway the card that represents your present says that you have gained great things such as love, and a new friendship at that, of course I don't need the cards to tell you that." Dallas said with a smile, but upon the third card Dallas's face took on a look of shock.

"What…what is it?" Adrien asked as he took notice of Dallas's new found expression.

Dallas knew exactly what was coming for Adrien, and it wasn't anything good. "It says that…a great tragedy is coming for you, someone you have scorned will seek there vengeance upon you and in the end…they will succeed in hurting you and there is nothing you can do to prevent it."

At this moment Adrien could only think of two people he'd scorned who would want revenge against him, one of them being Lila Rossi and the other would be Antonio Lorenzo, Adrien stomach began to turn with worry as he could only imagine what sort of horrible thing could await him. "What's gonna happen to me? And how?" He asked hoping he could at least try and deny what ever it was that fate had intended for him.

"It doesn't say Adrien, all it says it that it's coming within the following year, when that will happen I'm afraid I can't say." Dallas said with a solemn expression.

"So that's it? Something bad is gonna happen to me and there's not a damn thing I can do about it?" Adrien began to panic.

"Well maybe you can't…" Dallas began to explain. "But maybe I can." Dallas then began to look through some of his old books, some of them older than him. "Ah-ha, here you are." He said as he pulled out a dusty old book which had Romanian writing on the cover, he opened the book and began to search for something to help Adrien if he could. "Ah here we go…" He stopped on the section he was looking for. "First I need a single hair…" Dallas quickly plucked a hair from Adrien's head.

"Ow!" He yelped slightly as he rubbed his head.

"Sorry, but it's necessary for the charm I'm gonna have to make for you." Dallas apologized with his explanation.

Adrien didn't know what he was talking about until he saw an illustration in the book showing a kind of good luck charm. "Are you sure this is going to work?" He asked feeling skeptical.

"Well we'll never know until we try right?" Dallas replied with a positive look on his face. Dallas then dug through his bag looking for a few other items he needed, mostly herbs and his mort and pestle. He ground them up until they were a fine powder like substance then he poured them all into a small bowl, next he poured water into it and let the herbs brew in it until the water turned dark, then he added the single hair he plucked from Adrien's head then returned to his bag and pulled out a Bunsen burner, a glass beaker and a lighter, he turned on the gas to the burner then lite the flame, then he poured the contents of the bowl into the beaker then added some other ingredients such as honey, a pinch of salt, juice from fresh pick blades of grass and the head of a chamomile flower, then he set the beaker on the burner and just let it boil until it turned into a thick paste like substance. "Mm-hm, it's ready." Dallas mused as he took a pair of tongs and took the beaker off the burner and onto a hot pad, then he placed a small wooden mold next to it, he then picked up the beaker again and dumped it's content into the mold, it began to hiss as it poured out and took shape inside the mold, once Dallas saw that some of the content was coming back up threw the hole in the top he stopped pouring and set it back down. "Now we just let it set here fore a few hours and I can put on the finishing touches, in the mean time you just try and get some sleep okay dude?"

"But I can't sleep now, not that I know someone's out to get me." Adrien voiced his concerns as he shook his hands all about.

Dallas rolled his eyes then reached into his bag and pulled out a few heads of lavender flowers. "Here, these will help you sleep, just boil them in hot water and drink it."

Adrien took the flowers and gave Dallas a weird look. "Do you just carry this stuff around everywhere you go?" He asked feeling awkward that his foster brother had just given him a hand full of flowers to help him sleep.

"Yes I do, and it's a lot better than sleep aids in my opinion, mainly because it's fresher, now go on get to bed there's nothing else you can do at this point, go on shoo shoo." Dallas said as he shooed him away and out of his room, a few hours later Dallas chose to continue his heist for the book, this time he made sure to bring his heist bag with him so he wouldn't make so many trips, just like before he shut off the alarm to the door and looped old footage to the cameras then just proceeded to the safe. "Okay ladies and gentlemen take two, and…action." He quipped as he plugged in the code cloner then let the program run, a few seconds later he had the combination again, then he punched in the code and opened the safe again. "We meet again my dear…" He said as he reached in and collected his prize, he then closed the safe and wiped off any prints he'd left behind on both the safe itself and the door knob, he then silently retreated to his room and began to read for anything useful, he started with the alchemy section as he tried to decipher the riddles, each ingredient just puzzled him. "Gah what the hell is all of this supposed to mean?" He growled as he kept reading each one over and over. "Stupid ancient Chinese writing." Just then his night vision goggles lost power and shut down. "Oh come on not now." He growled again as he took off his goggles and set them on the night stand, he then reached into his heist bag and searched for a flashlight, which he found but it too had no power. "Damnit…" He kept searching for some kind of light in his bag but all he found was his black light, which thankfully work just fine. "Guess this will do."

Once he returned to the book with the light he discovered something that not even he was expecting, invisible ink. "What the…" Each and every single riddle's answer was right next to it written in the same form of Mandarin that the rest of the book was written in. "Well well ancient Chinese secret seems to apply here, I'd better write this down." Dallas then got out a pen and pad, just before he got started he then realized something, if he was right after all about Gabriel being Hawkmoth then he couldn't right it down in a language that they both could read, and he didn't want to run the risk of him being able to obtain more power so he wrote it in a language that no one else in France could read or understand, a language native only to the united states of America, Navajo. "It worked in world war two so it should work for me too. You do us all proud wind talkers, tonight I honor your memory." After an hour or so Dallas had finished writing down the last of the potions in the book, now that he knew the ingredients for each potion he could fix them up easily. "That should do it for this chapter, now lets head for the next one." Dallas then flipped to the chapter that consulted something much more valuable than potions, and that was true magic spells, spells that could be used to empower the users of each miraculous in use to its full potential such as using the one time power more than once without turning back or even using the natural abilities of the beast that empower's the miraculous in question, Dallas was sure to copy each and every single thing down, he knew that he couldn't do magic like a sorcerer, but he had a feeling that who ever gave Adrien his ring could. "Looks like I'll be making a new friend then."

Dallas then closed the book and chose to return it to the safe, but before he did he saw something on the back cover of the book, something that he couldn't pass up, something that he new he could do to help Adrien and Ladybug take down Hawkmoth. "Can't waste this chance, I've got to write this down." He got out a fresh piece of paper from a note book he had in his backpack then he wrote down every last detail he could get down. "Okay, phase one is complete, now to get this thing back to the safe." As he made his way out into the hallway he tiptoed all the way back to Gabriel's office with the book and the code cloner. "Why didn't I just write it down?" He asked himself.

"Because your and idiot that's why." A voice said with a lot of sass from behind him.

Dallas jumped as he turned around and saw Plagg floating in front of him. "Jeez dude what the hell is your problem?" He whispered to the kwami. "Are you just trying to give me a heart attack? And what are you doing outside my room? Don't you have a date with your damn cheesy girlfriend?" Dallas sassed back.

"No I don't, because last night was date night, which by the way you ruined for me with your evil spearmint. And why do you have the book?" Plagg asked as he pointed at the book somewhat puzzled.

Dallas saw no reason to lie to Plagg seeing as this would involve him anyway. "Because I can read it." He answered casually.

Plagg's eyes went wide as he reeled from what he'd just heard. "Say what?" He asked again.

"I can read the book, and I was able to find a few very useful things from it that could help you guys beat Hawkmoth and maybe even take down Lorenzo once and for all." Dallas laminated everything to the tiny Kwami.

Plagg then flew in closer to Dallas's face and asked in a whisper. "Why didn't you say anything before?"

"Well gee I don't know little guy, maybe it had something to do with me being akumitized last night you little shit head!" Dallas fired back. "Oh and let's not for get that we got chased by a couple of gangsters today so excuse me if my mind gets distracted by certain things like that!"

Plagg then wobbled his head from side to side then said. "Okay fair enough…" Then he followed Dallas to Gabriel's office and just waited for him to open up the safe. "So what's this I heard from Adrien that someone is out to get him?" He asked Dallas bluntly in a whisper.

"I uh…did a tarot reading for him and well…let's just say the future looks a little too promising for him, and not in a good way." Dallas pointed out feeling somewhat responsible for Adrien now feeling a bit of panic in his less than perfect life.

"Wait…humans still use Tarot cards?" Plagg asked feeling puzzled.

"Well yeah, some of us use it as a means of income, along with palm reading or the crystal ball or even speaking to the dead." Dallas narrowed down.

"Okay first of all you guys should really stop waking up dead people just so you can have a friendly chat with your ancestors, second tarot cards are a joke and trust me I'd know, I've been around sense the late cretaceous and they don't work." Plagg pointed out dropping bombshells which he stood firmly with.

"Oh yah and how do you figure?" Dallas asked as he placed the book back in the safe.

"Ever hear of Pompei? Some fool I used to know did a tarot reading and it said his future was prosperous and full of good fortune, but in the end he got roasted alive like a hotdog on a grill. Mind you it was my fault but technically it was gonna happen even if I hadn't sneezed on Mt. Vesuvius."

Dallas's jaw just dropped when he heard that, he took a moment to collect himself then said. "You caused the destruction of Pompei?"

"Pompei, Chicago, San Francisco on several occasions, then there was Giza during the old testament, and yes I actually met your god real nice guy just don't piss him off like the pharaoh did, oh and then there was the titanic, then there was that one battle in feudal Japan when I made that hurricane that wiped out the Mongol hoard during their invasion of Japan at the time, and let's see am I forgetting one…oh yeah there was also Atlantis too."

Dallas cocked his head back upon mention of Atlantis. "Wait, Atlantis is a real place?" He asked puzzled.

"Was actually, I had a little too much cheese that day." Plagg admitted flatly.

"How does that have anything to do with it?" Dallas asked again.

"Remember earlier today after the car chase?" Plagg pointed out with his earlier stomach issues.

Dallas nodded his head and said. "Yep, that'll do it."

"Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that tarot cards are a joke." Plagg stated yet again.

"They're not a joke Plagg, and trust me I'd know that for a fact." Dallas stated equally firm.

"Oh yeah? Then where's your proof buck-oh?" Plagg asked with a smug grin, which disappeared when Dallas replied with a low growl.

"My proof is in a cemetery just outside of the reservation where I grew up back in Arizona, because the last time I had a tarot reading I was ten years old as I watched my father DIE!" Plagg just floated there with shock written on his face.

"Oh…well now I kinda feel like an asshole." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"When do you not?" Dallas asked rhetorically.

Plagg quickly shrugged and answered him anyway. "Honestly? Almost always, I really like me for who I am."

Dallas just rolled his eyes then said. "Of course you do, come on let's go before someone wakes up and sees what's going on in here." With that being said both the semi former thief and the kwami left the office and returned to bed, Dallas stayed up for just one more hour as he just studied the freshly made page from the back of the book he'd just returned to the safe. "I'd better not fuck this up…" He said to himself. "Because from what I'm gathering from this, I only get one shot so whatever I do I'd better do it right." He then when over to his bag and pulled out a pendent with a spider as the center piece upon it, it was black with a red outline surrounding the curves of it, the cord it rested on was made of black leather. "This should do as the vessel the incantation is talking about…" Dallas voiced as he placed the pendent in the same lock box as his family tomahawk. "Got the weapon and the vessel, now all I need is the suit, the bind, the beast to personify and the source, namely…the kwami."

(A/N: Yes everyone that's right the moment is almost upon us, Dallas is about to get his own miraculous, and it's gonna be a good one too, so what did you guys think? Did you like that I shipped Juleka and Rose together? Did you expect the spell book to hold such a well hidden secret? And did you like the fact that God asked Plagg to do what he does best for Moses, let me know in the comments below how you felt about this chapter, and if you want to guess what power his miraculous is going to hold feel free to leave your theories as I read every single message you guys leave, yeah I'm looking at you Rose Tiger and I want to know what your guess is especially and I'm not just saying that as I love reading your thoughts the most as they always make me smile, also just to let you guys know with that bit with how Rose is being a bit of an air head please know that I only meant it as a joke and that I don't think that all blonds are as slow as her, just like I know not all fat people are jolly but that's a different story, anyway I only wrote it out that way because of an episode of the show that I haven't seen in a while, it's the one where Hawkmoth akumitizes a baby, I mean seriously how in the HELL...did he think that was gonna work? Anyway that's enough of that, in the next chapter of WOS, Dallas goes on a hunt to find his remaining ingredients for his miraculous, he also agrees to help Juleka out with her trouble with Rose, and the ritual Dallas preforms is a little harder to do than he originally thought, okay that's all folks TTFN, tah tah for now, lol Winnie the Pooh references.)