(A/N: *WARNING* MAJOR INTIMACY AHEAD READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. Mainly because I thought that this story needed a little bit of spice to it, but I discovered that as long as they are at the legal age of consent which is the age of 16 which promise you all everyone who's having sex in this fanfic are definitely older than it should be all good, alright let's get to it.)
Chapter 15: Moving forward
Midnight had finally rolled around, Gabriel was up late waiting in his office for the Black widow of Chernobyl to arrive with proof that she had in fact done what she'd set out to do, he was sitting at his desk sipping on a cup of tea as he just waited for her, when he heard a knock at his window. "Finally." He said as he put the cup down and walked over to the window to allow the assassin in. "It's about time you showed up…" He barbed feeling slightly annoyed that she kept him waiting for so long.
"My apologies Mr. Agreste but my quarry was not as easy to acquire as I'd originally anticipated, but in the end…" She reached around to her back and grabbed a bloody bag, she opened it up and reached in then pulled out the head of Antonio Lorenzo and presented it before her employer. "I did as you asked."
Blood was still dripping from Lorenzo's head; his face was frozen in a permanent scream of agony from when she'd finally finished decapitating him. A smile began to curl upon Gabriel's face, satisfied that the famed crime lord was no more. "What goes around comes around Lorenzo, you never should've came after my son…or my foster son for that matter. Thank you again Ms. Widow, as agreed…" He pulled out his phone then sent her 8,000,000 euros for the job. "Your payment, it's been a pleasure doing business with you, now please don't take this the wrong way but I hope that we never meet again."
"A feeling which I assure you is most mutual sir…" She replied with a slight bow, she stuff the head back in the bag then turned back to the window but before she left she just had to ask. "Mainly out of curiosity, are the rumors about you true? The ones about you being a supervillain I mean?"
Gabriel's smile turned into a frown then he asked back with a chilling voice. "Well what do you think?"
"I think…that is a question that is better left unanswered, do svidanyia Mr. Agreste." She might've been curious, and the second deadliest assassin in the world, but their was one thing she wasn't, stupid. She then ran out the window and leapt over the surrounding wall of the mansion, she then walked toward a trashcan then dropped the head into it then continued onward, she turned into an alley where she'd parked Iktomi's Specter bike. She was about to hop back on it and head back to her hideout when she stepped in it, a net trap. "'Tchyo za ga'lima?!" She cried just as she hit the ground.
"Whoa you kiss your mother with that mouth?" A voice said at the same time it quipped as its owner dropped down with a thud. "Because I think a lady such as you shouldn't be using such foul language."
She looked up and saw that it was none other than Iktomi, she gasped just before she asked. "How did you find me? I was invisible the whole time."
"Here's a hint, it rimes with GPS." He held up a tracking device that showed her exact location on the screen.
She groaned as she just came to realize that she'd forgotten to check the bike for a tracking device. "Derr'mo…" She cursed. "I can't believe I forgot to check for that, alright dorogoy you win, you may have your bike back."
"Good, now I'm gonna let you out of that trap and you'd better behave yourself missy." Iktomi laminated just before he snapped his fingers and making the trap disappear.
"Blagodaryu vas dorogoy, now if it's not too much trouble for me to ask, could you be a dear and help me get back to my apartment?" She asked as she stood up then walked over to him very seductively then she slowly slid her hands up the length of his chest then wrapped her arms around his neck. "Or…would you prefer if we go back to your place? After all…" She then hooked one of her legs around one of his and whispered in his ear. "I did make a deal with you."
"What, you don't want to do it right here?" He asked jokingly as he grinned mischievously.
She shrugged then said. "Well normally I would, but I'd rather not risk exposing your secret identity here."
"Well thank you for that curtesy." He replied as he scooped her up in his arms bride style and carried her over to the bike.
"I had no idea you were so strong." She said feeling a little more aroused.
"I work out every now and again." He admitted as he sat her on the bike's back seat. "So…where are you staying?" He tore out of the alley like a bat out of hell with her holding on to him, she rested her head on his back as he drove off at break neck speed, god I missed her, he thought to himself as he just kept going toward her apartment. The drive only took about 15 minutes at most, he parked out in front of a very nice looking building, it was well kept and was far from gang territory, a perfect hideout for someone like an assassin. "Nice place, so how are we supposed to get inside without anyone seeing us?"
The Black widow turned to him and grinned. "I am one step a head of you dorogoy." She walked over to the wall and grabbed what appeared to be a clip hook on a very thin but strong enough wire to get up to her apartment from the ground in a hurry. "Shall we?" She asked as she hooked her belt up and opened one arm for him to join her.
"Nah, I'd rather race you." Iktomi replied as he hopped on the wall and ran straight up to her apartment window. "Last one their gets naked first!"
"Hey no fair!" She called out as she zipped up after him, he'd managed to beat her to the window just by a few seconds.
"Ha, I win…" He bragged as he slid open the window and crawled inside her apartment, the room was rather dark, the only kind of light was that of the alarm clock on the night stand. "Wow, you must really like it dark in here." He said as he helped her inside.
"Just so you know I prefer doing it with the lights on, I love to see the look on my lover's face when they achieve release." She admitted with a grin, of course he knew that already, he was just trying to sell the deception that he was someone she didn't know. "Now then…I believe I lost so that means I have to get naked first yes?"
She reached around to her back to unzip her suit when he snaked his arms around her then slid one hand up to the back of her neck where the zipper started. "Please, allow me." He insisted as he slowly pulled down her zipper and stared deep into a pair of green eyes. He attempted to kiss her neck but found that was quite impossible with the mask. "Shit, forgot about this stupid mask." He said as he pulled away.
"Just take off your miraculous then." She suggested bluntly.
That would've been the obvious choice of course, but he didn't think that was his best idea considering he wanted to keep his identity a secret. "Uh…I don't think that's a good idea on my part."
"But then how will I kiss my true love after all these years?" She said with a flirtatious grin.
Iktomi's eyes shot open upon hearing that remark. "What?" He then started to laugh to try and play it off. "Now hold on sister, I'm not gonna lie your drop dead sexy and all but we only just met don't you think you're moving a little…"
"Dallas don't insult my intelligence I know it's you." She said bluntly as she gave an annoyed scowl.
Two words came to his mind upon hearing this remark, well fuck. "You…you knew the whole time?"
She started to chuckle then explained. "Of course I knew, I've been keeping tabs on you ever sense I left you…just to keep you safe." She laminated. "But it wasn't too hard to figure out that you were Iktomi, I mean you gave your persona a Lakota based codename personally on the internet, and you clearly forgot that I was the one who gave you that pendent as a way to remember me by, I don't know how you made it into a miraculous but I knew it was you."
Dallas sighed then asked. "Is it really that obvious?"
She kissed his cheek and replied. "Only to those who know you I think. Now then…could you please turn off your suit so I can make love to you properly?"
"Alright…just…don't freak out when you see the little guy." He asked hoping that is kwami wouldn't scare her too much.
She laughed then said. "Why would I freak out over my favorite part of you? I've been thinking about him for a long time you know."
"I'm not talking about the spear." He replied flatly.
"Your still calling your 'Khu-i the spear?" She asked with a slight chuckle, rather then add on to the topic he just cut to the chase.
"Spizz, web down…" With a flash of red light he reverted back to Dallas Jones, and out flew his kwami Spizz who looked very dizzy from all the magic he'd used that night.
"Bozhe moi what the hell is that?!" She cried as she jumped back a little bit.
"Valentina Volkov…meet Spizz, my kwami and the source of my powers. Spizz…meet my ex Valentina, the black widow of Chernobyl." He introduced his friend as well as his former lover as he fed Spizz a few kernels of popcorn.
(A/N: Let's be honest it's more practical and less questionable than you know what.)
"Mello ma'am…" Spizz greeted with his mouth full of popcorn, then he swallowed his snack then continued. "It's nice to meet you, Dallas has told me a lot of nice things about you, and also…some things that I find rather…concerning."
Valentina had no idea how to even respond to this strange creature, whom she just assumed was a figment of her imagination, slightly. "Dallas? Please tell me I'm going crazy." She asked feeling slightly scared of the tiny floating creature just hovering in front of her.
"Your not going crazy Val I promise what you see is legit, but you don't have to worry about Spizz really he's pretty cool, Plagg on the other hand…he's a little Khu-i almost all the time." Dallas replied as he tried to calm down his ex-lover.
She then pointed at him and asked. "Where did he come from exactly?"
He just shrugged and said. "No clue, but if I had to guess I'd say from the spirit world or an alternate dimension."
"So…he's harmless?" She asked again.
That's when Spizz answered her himself, in Russian. "Ne volnuytes', mem ya ne sobirayus' delat' vam bol'no, kvami prednaznacheny tol'ko dlya togo, chtoby suluzhit' balgu chelovechestva." (Don't worry ma'am I'm not going to hurt you, kwamis are only meant to serve the greater good of mankind.)
Both Dallas and Valentina looked at Spizz with utter confusion. "You speak Russian?" Dallas asked plainly.
"Kwami's know all of the languages of this world." Spizz laminated bluntly.
That's when Dallas remembered seeing a lot of illustrations in the book depicting of so many heroes with miraculous from around the world, so it wasn't too hard for him to believe. "Okay I guess that makes sense given how many people have had the miraculous before today. Anyway little buddy Val and I are gonna spend a little time…getting reacquainted let's say, so I'm gonna have to put you and my miraculous away for a bit okay buddy?" Dallas told as he pulled out the jewelry box.
"But why? What are you going to do?" Spizz asked twice.
Dallas then said as he shifted his eyes away from him. "IIIIIIII…think it's better if you don't know." Dallas then took off his pendent and Spizz flew back into the spider center peace, he then put the pendent back in the box and closed it up then stuffed it back into his pocket. "There, now he won't feel traumatized by seeing our sweaty naked bodies." With that said Valentina took this as her chance to leap on top of him as she could no longer control herself. "WHOA!" She then shoved him down to the floor and just stared into his brown eyes with both love and passion.
She then leaned down and whispered in her native tongue. "YA budu trakhat' tebya, koka ty ne brosish' svoyego sumasshedshego ublyudka." (I'm going to fuck you till you drop you crazy little bastard.)
His eyes snapped open upon hearing her declaration, I think…I might be in for more then I expected, he thought to himself just before she pulled one of her knives off of her lower back then brought it up to the bottom of his shirt. "WHOA-WHOA-WHOA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" He cried as he instantly became startled by the razer sharp blade, she then answered him by cutting open the front of his shirt all the way to the collar.
"What? Did you really think I was going to kill you?" She asked back as she pealed both his leather jacket and torn shirt off of his torso slowly.
He breathed a sigh of relief as he realized her true motive for the blade. "Don't ever do that again." He begged as he felt his heart still beating faster than normal. "You scared the hell out of me."
"Well then now we're even." She said back as she just grinned down at him.
Dallas's face adopted a weird look then he said. "How are we even?"
"Because you scared me several weeks ago, I heard you'd been shot and I thought you were going to die before…before…I could…" She trailed off for a moment.
Dallas then put his hand on her cheek then said. "Before you could say goodbye for real this time?"
She then stared down at him and asked feeling slightly nervous. "Are you still mad at me?"
"Well all things considered you left me handcuffed to the top of the Seattle space needle, naked might I add, and you didn't even say goodbye to my face, I mean I get that you had to leave to protect me but you could've at least told me to my face instead of runaway like a coward…" Dallas stated nothing but the truth to her, each word he said cut her to the core, until he finished. "But to be honest I can't say I blame you, I'm not really sure if I'd have the guts to do that to you either, plus…I never really got over you, not from a lack of trying that is, I just couldn't get over you, no matter how many girls I…dated, they all had the same problem it seemed." He finished as he began to peel off her suit slowly.
"And what was that?" She asked flatly.
He finished pulling off the top of her suit then reached around for her bra strap and said. "None of them were you. Oh god I sound so damn stupid right now."
She just chuckled a bit as she leaned back down to him then said. "I missed you too dorogoy."
(A/N: This is where it starts, if you don't want to read it skip ahead to the next bold print.)
She then slipped off the rest of her suit as she just laid on top of him kissing him tenderly on his lips, once he'd popped the bra strap free he pulled her bra off her shoulders and just squeezed her breasts as he began to stimulate both her and himself, he then rolled them over and positioned himself in between her legs then slowly slid down the length of her front and stopping at her chest, his tongue just danced around her breasts as she breathed heavily, he gently began to nibble on her nipple as he used his tongue to add extra pleasure to it as he simply twisted the other in between is fingers and thumb, she closed her eyes tight due to how intense the feeling was, and the fact that he was taking his time made it that much better, she bit down on her bottom lip as she just laid there and allowed him to have his way with her, she didn't even notice his free hand slid down even further toward her sex until he pressed his fingers against her, ever so slowly his fingers traced the outer edge of her sex as the sensation washed over her filling her with a familiar feeling he'd given her a little over three years ago. "S-stop teasing me damn you…" She demanded as she stuttered due to the fact that she was getting a high from him touching her. Feeling that she'd had enough waiting he slowly pressed his fingers inside of her, she gasped and threw her head back due to the penetration of her sex, he slowly began to massage his fingers against the inner walls of her sex making her squirm, he smiled as he saw a familiar look on her face, he knew as well as she did that she was getting close.
He slowly pulled his fingers out of her entirely then said. "Don't worry, I'm not done yet…" He slowly slid down the length of her front stopping in between her legs, he then wrapped his arms around her legs and pulled her waist in close to his face as he continued to pleasure her with his tongue, she started to moan as he licked the lips of her sex and around her clint ever so gently, that's when he pressed his tongue as deep as he could inside of her and wriggled it around with great speed.
She giggled playfully as she just enjoyed this new feeling inside her. "OH DOROGOY THAT'S NEW!" She cried out signaling that she was more than satisfied with his hard work, she then hugged her thighs against his head as she just kept getting closer to release. "YES-YES-YES…" She then let out a loud orgasmic scream, she laid back and just breathed heavily, she rested her head against the floor as she slowly came down from her high.
As Dallas licked his lips he crawled back up to her and said seductively. "Breathe while you can babe, we're not done yet." He scooped her up in his arms as he carried her to the bed and laid her onto the mattress, he began to unbuckle his belt and undue his pants just as he slowly pulled them off of his waist and down to his ankles, he kicked off his shoes then stepped out of his pants then crawled onto the bed just hovering over her, he leaned down and kissed her neck as he wrapped her back into his embrace, she squirmed and shuffled slightly as she tried to position him into a position for him to continue this romantic moment. He then stopped kissing her and asked. "I don't suppose you have a condom?"
She just grinned up at him and said. "Don't worry, I'm on the pill." She then pulled him into a kiss as she wrapped her legs around his hips, she began to drag her claws down the length of his back causing deep scratches into his flesh, he hissed slightly as he closed his eyes tight, he then pulled her into a deep kiss just as he made the final push, she began to moan again as he began to fill her, his motion was moderate and controlled slowly shifting back and forth, her breathing became heavy, she just held him tight as he rocked her to her core, she then bit down into his shoulder as his pace began to quicken slightly, she bit so hard she drew blood, he yelped slightly but didn't stop, she then began to nibble on his ear providing him with a stimulant.
His breathing began to quicken as his pace increased even more, he then increased his grip on her as he managed to achieve release, she moaned a loud as she felt him fill her with liquid heat, the very feeling causing her to lose all rational thinking, he slowly opened his eyes and grinned down at her just as she grinned back up at him. "Babe, you haven't lost your touch." He said as he pulled her in for one final kiss, the two then turned on their sides each and simply spent the next few minutes spooning one another, he kissed the back of her neck as he just held her in his arms thankful that the woman he loved was back in his life, but for how long he didn't know, until then though he chose just to enjoy it while it lasted. "I've missed you so much Valentina." He admitted as he nibbled on her ear then slid one hand back down in between her legs.
She moaned as his fingers broke through moist flesh. "Dallas…please…" She gently gripped his wrist then pulled his hand away. "I need to rest, I can't breathe."
He needed no more words, even though he didn't want to stop he wasn't going to push her past her limits. "Alright babe, I'll give you a breather, but could I just…" He snaked his arms around her pulling her in close to grind with his body.
She could feel the throb and heat of his sex pressed against her back, she grinned as she reached behind her and wrapped her hands behind his head and pulled him over her shoulder. "You sneaky little man." She said just before she gave him a long loving kiss, his tongue danced around the inside of her mouth as she sucked it deep into her mouth curling her own around his as well. Never again, she thought to herself, I will never let anything come between us again, I've missed this too much to let him slip away from me again.
(A/N: Kay it's over now.)
After they'd caught their breath they shared a few more rounds of love until both of them were completely spent, she just rested her head against his chest and placed tiny kisses on the small scars of his pectorals. "It seems you've gotten a few more scars sense I last saw you my dorogoy." She stated as she found each and every single one of his old wounds arousing.
"Yeah, trouble seems to just follow me around everywhere I go, even when I'm on a completely different continent." He replied as he held her close up against his chest.
She then looked up to his face then reached up to his right cheek tracing the scar upon it with her finger. "I remember when I gave you this…" She said as she scooted up to him. "It was the night we first met, when we first fought…and also first made love." She then licked his scar slowly and causing him to tremble slightly as he felt how arousing she was being with just the smallest of actions. She then took notice of something else, something that she hadn't until now. "Did you cut your hair again?"
"Yeah…" He nodded plainly.
"What was it for this time?" She asked curiously. "Was it another loss in the family?"
He grinned at her and said. "Nah, just another sin I committed, I tried to screw Lorenzo out of a million euros for the last big bank heist his gang pulled by hacking into his computer, also had to go into incognito for a while, but it didn't work out, then I got into a fight with Cat Noir, kicked his ass by the way…"
She grinned as she nestled her head into the crook of his neck. "I expected nothing less from my sexy little brave, so…is he as skilled as they say he is?"
"Yeah he's pretty good, definitely one of the harder fights but nothing I couldn't handle." Dallas admitted as he placed a kiss on her forehead, he then looked at her neck and took notice of a scar that he didn't notice until now. "When did you get this one?" He asked as he pointed at her neck.
She slowly reached up to her neck and gripped his hand. "I'd…rather not talk about this one just yet…"
He rolled onto his side and looked her in the eye as he asked. "It was because of that one guy wasn't it? The one you had to leave me for?"
She tried to look away from his gaze but he just placed a gentle hand on her face and guided her eyes back to his, she started to shed a few tears signaling that he was right. "I'm so sorry Dallas, I swear I didn't make that choice lightly, if I had a little more time to figure out a plan to…"
"Val…shut up and kiss me." He silenced her with a long tender kiss as if trying to tell her that she was forgiven for her past actions, time I let that go anyway, he thought to himself, she's clearly paid enough for it, and so have I.
Half an hour later the two of them simply drifted off to sleep, it was around six in the morning when he woke up, she was still sound asleep, or so it seemed, as he attempted to leave the bed she reached over and grabbed his arm. "Don't go…" She begged trying to bring him back to bed. "I don't want you to leave yet."
"I'm sorry Val, but I've got school in a couple hours otherwise I'd spend all day with you too." He replied as he took her hand and placed a kiss on her knuckles. "But I promise first chance I get I'll pay you a little visit."
She sighed then said. "I don't know if I'll still be in town by that time…" Her face took on a sad expression. "I've another job in the states that I must attend to, it's probably going to take me a while to take care of, I'm sorry…but these days I am much busier than I used to be."
I knew it wouldn't last. Was is first thought, he let out a sad sigh as he just sat on the bed and stared at the wall. "I guess this means…we're still broken, aren't we?" He asked rhetorically feeling the same hole she'd left in his heart reopening all over again.
Much to his astonishment she rose up and knelt down just behind him and wrapped her arms around his torso pulling him into a hug just before she said. "Is that the way you want it to be?"
He turned his head to face her to see a look of sorrow grow on her face. "No…god no I don't want that…" He replied as he turn completely around and hugged her back. "Val I just got you back I don't wanna lose you again if I have a choice this time, the only question is…do I have a choice this time?"
She smiled at him, surprised by his answer but happily so, she then put her hands on either side of his head then said. "Yes…you do beloved." She then pulled him into a long tender kiss, thankful that he was still just as madly in love with her as she was with him, she broke the kiss so that she could explain her next step to him. "I promise you though when I get back you and I will have all the time in the world for making up for lost time."
"I'm gonna hold you to that." He placed one last kiss on her cheek as he stood up and collected his pants, after he'd gotten dressed he quickly put his miraculous back on.
Spizz quickly flew out and saw his owner looked rather exhausted. "Dallas what happened to you?" He asked with concern. "You look like death."
"Trust me Spizz…" Dallas started up with a smile. "I might look like death but I've never felt more alive." Before Spizz could even ask about what he'd done the night before, or why his shirt was torn open for that matter, Dallas quickly transformed into Iktomi then he took off out the window and dropped down to his bike below.
Valentina then stood by the window and just watched him disappear from sight with a happy smile upon her face. But it was short lived as she received a call on a burner phone she'd used for business. She picked up the phone and took the call. "Privet? This is Volkov exterminating service how may I help you?" She answered formally as she always did.
"Hello Ms. Volkov…" A voice greeted over the phone. "It's me Mr. Roland, I called you about that 'pest problem' a week ago?"
"Ah Mr. Roland, yes I remember your request, you needn't worry about a thing sir I'm heading out to assist you today." She replied with a saddened expression knowing that she'd have to leave France without telling Dallas goodbye, or so she thought.
"Actually I don't think you'll have to my dear…" Mr. Roland admitted with a cheerful tone. "Turns out that nasty little lizard is actually in Europe as we speak working a job of his own, or at least that's what my sources tell me."
Her eyes shot open upon hearing this, she began to smile devilishly. "What part of Europe darling?" She asked with a grin.
"Paris France…" He confirmed, she wasn't sure if this was fate or just pure dumb luck but either way this meant she no longer had to leave.
"Really, well then I guess I'd best get started then, I'll give you a call once the job is done, do svidanya Mr. Roland." She disconnected the call then turned toward a cork-board hanging on the wall with the pictures of several targets she'd been tracking for several months, the picture she looked upon was that of a white male in his late forties, his face had a series of scars collected over the years as a professional killer, he was also very well trimmed and wore only the finest suits available say when he was doing a job. "Kiss your crown do svidanya mu'dak…" She said as she pulled a shuriken and threw it at his picture embedding it in his face. "Because soon…I will be known as the greatest assassin in the world."
Dallas managed to get back home without anyone other than Adrien knowing he didn't come home the night before by the skin of his teeth, thanks to the stealth tech on his bike he was once again able to sneak back into the garage without anyone knowing, he then used his super hero persona to get back to his room through the window, after he got inside he quickly transformed back to normal without anyone being the wiser. "Perfect, now no one will know about me being out all night." He said to himself.
"But Dallas…" Spizz started to show his concern for his friend. "If you keep seeing her like this won't anyone get suspicious of you sneaking out late at night?"
"Relax Spizz, between that new bike, my miraculous powers and my skills as a former thief no one will ever find out." Dallas reassured as he changed out his torn shirt for a new one. "I've gotta say though Spizz…I feel great, it's like I feel whole again, like a small piece of me has finally came back to me, and when the time is right buddy…we're finally gonna have what the two of us have always wanted."
"More rocky mountain oysters?" Spizz guessed as he started to feel hungry.
Dallas just laughed and said casually. "A life together, a real one to be honest." Around that moment Dallas's stomach began to gurgle. "But with that being said, how does breakfast sound to you buddy?"
Over across town Rose was sitting at home on her bed just twiddling her thumbs, her thoughts had been on constant loop for only one topic, why didn't she feel bothered by her best friend kissing her so deeply? She'd never considered kissing another girl before let alone her best friend, but when ever her mind went back to that moment when Juleka first kissed her she just felt so confused, and yet at the same time so…endeared, happy, satisfied, even curious. "Could I actually like girls instead of boys?" She asked herself, she thought and thought about it for so long that she almost didn't realize that school would start in about an hour, she decided to look into this a little more later when she had time, she wasn't sure how to do this but that wasn't what concerned her at this time, what concerned her was how was she going to convince Juleka that she wasn't mad at her for doing something so reckless let alone suddenly out of the blue. After what seemed like the longest bus ride ever Rose stepped off the bus and headed up the front steps of the school, but she stopped when she saw the very reason for her sudden questioning of her sexuality standing near the doorway of the school, normally she would rush over to Juleka and they'd walk to their lockers together then do the same all the way to class, but that became impossible to do now that Juleka was intentionally avoiding her. Every time Rose would walk up to her Juleka would just take off in the opposite direction, this whole endeavor was driving a wedge between the two of them, but no matter what Rose would not give up on her friend, not until they had fixed everything, she spent so much of her time caught up in her thoughts she bumped into Chloe while she was trying to reapply her lipstick.
"Ugh, watch where your going you dimwit." Chloe snapped as she shoved Rose backward toward the stares, but instead of falling down and hurting herself someone had caught her, she looked up to see who was her savior and saw a girl with green eyes and long blond hair with silver braided highlights running through her hair, she also wore a long sleeved blue shirt with a long black skirt underneath and a pair of black open toed high heels, she also wore a pair of pearl earrings that dangled from her ear lobes and a pendent that held a very small dream-catcher on a light brown leather cord.
The girl helped Rose stand up straight just before she walked up to Chloe and forced her to look at her, her face had a stern look of anger on it as she began to rage at Chloe up right. " You little 'suka, what's wrong with you? She could've gotten hurt because of you." Valentina scolded right in her face.
"Well she could've messed up my lipstick too but I'm not crying about that." She said back as she began to turn back into the school but before she even got two feet away she felt her ponytail being pulled back hard. "AAAAH!" She screamed in pain as she instinctively reached around to where she felt pain.
"Maybe I was too subtle for you, allow me to clarify…" Valentina stated with a growl in her voice. "You intentionally tried to hurt that girl simply because she bumped into you while you reapply that cheap whores makeup to your overpriced bloated cock pillows that you use shamefully with every single fifty year old John Doe you meet in a back alley so you can save up enough money to finally buy yourself a pair of breasts that don't look like they've been run over with an eighteen wheeler so that way when men look at you they don't mistake you as a man who's simply cross-dressing, as if her safety means nothing compared to yours, at least what she did was an accident, what you tried to do was unnecessary and cruel, I absolutely hate stuck up little piz'das like you so much that I just want to rip out your hair extensions…LIKE THIS!" She then kicked Chloe in the back of the knees one by one as she just pulled harder on her hair making her scream even more.
"OOOOWWW…" She screamed. "LET GO OF MY HAIR YOU LITTLE RUSSIAN BITCH!" She demanded as she tried to pry Valentina's hands off of her hair.
"Not until you apologize to…what's your name darling?" She asked as she turned back to the girl she'd just helped out.
"I'm Rose…" She stated flatly.
"It is wonderful to meet you Rose, I am Valentina, Valentina Volkov, but you can just call me Val…anyway…" She turned back to Chloe then seethed with rage. "You are going to apologize to Rose or I will rip out your spine and just leave you to the buzzards." She demanded as she tugged harder.
"ALRIGHT-ALRIGHT JUST LET GO OF MY HAIR!" Chloe demanded back.
"Nyet, I know your type, if I let you go you'll just pretend you never heard a thing, you will apologize to her now while I'm holding your shabby out of date hair style you little slut, NOW SAY YOUR SORRY!" She demanded as she tugged even harder.
"ALRIGHT ROSE I'M SORRY I SHOVED YOU NOW LET ME GO ALREADY!" Chloe said giving in to the pain.
Valentina grinned devilishly just before she released her and said. "Good girl, but next time I catch you doing something like that…" She quickly shoved Chloe down onto the ground and stepped on her neck so she could look her in the eye as she delivered her ultimatum. "You're going to wish that you'd never enraged me, now get…lost."
But Chloe wasn't backing down that easily, sadly. "Excuse me, who the hell do you think you are to threaten Chloe Bourgeois?"
"Should that name impress me?" Valentina asked back. "Because it doesn't, not even a tiny bit…which means your…no one really, just some stuck up little prep school BRAT that no one gives a damn about and finds to be completely obnoxious even if she doesn't open her big fat mouth which if I'm being honest is not surprising."
"Sister if you don't get off of me right now…" Chloe was about to make another threat when Valentina threatened her again.
"If you're going to threaten me you little piz'da then you'd best be ready to die because I will kill you if I have to and it will be easy for me and NO ONE...will ever find your corpse when I'm done with you." Chloe could see the fire in her eyes, usually she didn't allow anyone to talk to her like this, but this was the first time that anyone had ever actually forcefully put her in a position where she was vulnerable and defenseless over her behavior. Valentina finally let her up and she took off for the principal's office.
"I'm getting the principal, then I'm calling the police to have you arrested for…" Valentina was quick to cut her off again.
"I'm not a student here, and I'll be long gone before the police arrive so it would be a wasted effort." Chloe just growled at her then continued forward.
"No one treats me like that and gets away with it, not even that little Russian whore." She seethed as she began to plot her revenge.
Valentina then turned back to Rose who then began to look a little nervous toward the girl who'd just came to her aid. "Did I scare you?" She asked concerningly. Rose simply nodded as she hid slightly behind her books. "I'm sorry about that, I just…really hate bullies like her so much that I just can't help myself sometimes, so I just have to do something about them, even if that means I have to hurt them a little, but I won't lose any sleep over it, anyway uh…what was your name again?"
"Ro…Ro…Rose…" She repeated feeling terrified that this girl might hurt her next.
"Right, Rose…I promise I'm not going to hurt you, I'm actually just visiting to speak with my dorogoy, perhaps you know him, he's about this tall…" She began to describe him in perfect detail. "Weights about 190, brown hair and brown eyes, native American ethnicity, has a sexy little scar on his cheek, loves to dress like a biker and shows off his American patriotism literally on his sleeve."
Rose began to realize very quickly who she was talking about. "Oh…your dating Dallas?" She asked sounding a little calmer.
"Dah, that's him…" She confirmed with a nod. "I just wanted to pay him a little visit before I had to go to work."
"You have a job?" Rose asked plainly, she nodded her head yes just as Rose continued. "So what do you do for a living? Hopefully it's not beating people up for a living."
Valentina just laughed and said. "No I don't beat people up as a way to make money, all though I think that would be preferable to what I actually do."
"Then what do you do for a living?" She asked again.
"I guess you could call me…an exterminator of a sort." She stated a half truth, she obviously couldn't just go and tell her that she was an assassin especially out in the open with dozens of other students about.
"Oh, so you just kill bugs, bet that's a really nasty job to do all the time." Rose summed up.
Valentina just shrugged and said plainly. "Some days are more disgusting and messy than others, but I've gotten used to it."
"How bad does it get sometimes?" She asked yet again.
Valentina rubbed the back of her neck and said somewhat sheepishly. "Uh…I think it would be best if I do not elaborate that little detail, anyway I don't suppose you've seen my dorogoy anywhere?"
Rose just shrugged her shoulders and said. "Usually he comes to school with Adrien but for some reason he came by himself today."
"Adrien? Who is this Adrien?" Valentina asked casually.
"Oh he and Dallas are foster brothers, he's been staying with his family for a few weeks now." Rose elaborated to her, she then turned toward inside the school and pointed at him and Marinette simply enjoying a loving kiss before class. "That's him over there, the blond boy kissing my friend Marinette, the girl with the pigtails."
She turned toward the couple and her jaw just dropped when she realized just who this boy was. "Bozhe moi, that's Adrien Agreste, he's one of my favorite models, and so cute too, but where are my manners? I already have a boyfriend." She said trying her best not to go over and kiss him passionately, even if she hadn't found Dallas again she wasn't about to go out an just make out with another boy, after she'd left him she promised herself she would never show any kind of romance to anyone else ever again, not even to her targets, she still killed them gently but she no longer slept with them despite what the roomers suggested Dallas was the last person she would ever allow to sleep with her, her love for him was just that strong. "Well anyway it was nice to meet you Rose, now if you'll excuse me I'm going to ask Mr. Agreste over there where to find my beloved." She waved Rose goodbye then headed over to speak to Adrien who in this moment was caught up in a very deep kiss with Marinette. She chuckled at the two lovers before saying. "Careful you two, you wouldn't want to accidentally swallow each other now would you?"
The two parted from their kiss due to the girl standing before them and interrupting their romantic moment. "Uh…can I help you?" Adrien asked somewhat confused as to why some random girl with silver braided highlights had just so casually came up to the two of them.
"I'm truly sorry for interrupting you two, I'm just looking for my boyfriend Dallas is he around?" She asked with a smile.
Neither Marinette or Adrien were prepared for the mild shock that came with her confession, nor did they believe her to actually be his girlfriend as most of the girls in the school found Dallas to be slightly irritating. "Wait…your Dallas's girlfriend? Like…on purpose?" Marinette asked plainly.
Valentina began to laugh and said. "Well of course I am, I've loved him for the past three years of my life, and also the last three hours of last night."
"Well that explains why he didn't come home last night." Adrien said shaking his head with disapproval. "So who are you exactly because I don't think Dallas has mentioned you yet."
She was about to answer when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her from behind, acting on instinct she wrapped her arms around the back of the stranger's head then she used all of her strength to toss him over her back and slammed him to the ground. "WHOA!" He hit the ground with a loud thud just before he groaned. "Sorry babe, I forgot you like to go John Cena on people who sneak up on you."
Valentina then gasped as she looked down and saw that she had just judo flipped her very reason for being there. "Bozhe moi, dorogoy I'm so sorry I didn't know it was you." She then helped him back on to his feet.
"Oh please, compared to that damn cougar that tried to eat me when I was eight that was nothing." He replied just before he pulled her in close and put a finger underneath her chin and placed a loving kiss on her lips, she then hopped up and locked her legs around his waist at the same time locking her arms around his torso, he barely had time to put his arms under her legs and catch her as she did this, the pair's lips began to fight vigorously for dominance over the other, every single thought outside of their romantic moment just melted away.
"And you told us to be careful not to swallow each other." Marinette barbed as she found this girl to slightly be a hypocrite.
Dallas quickly parted the kiss for a moment and said. "Give her a break we haven't seen each other in three years."
"Why are you talking when you should be kissing?" Valentina asked with an annoyed tone.
Dallas then replied with. "Good question why am I?" Then he returned to the kiss being just as passionate as before.
Adrien and Marinette just exchanged a look of uncomfortableness as they just bore witness to the public display of affection. "Do you think this is how people feel when were acting like this?" Adrien asked bluntly as he leaned in and whispered to Marinette.
"Maybe, but at least I'm not grabbing your junk out in the open." Marinette pointed out as she bore witness to Valentina's…'bold' display of attraction toward Dallas.
He pulled his lips away and said. "Val…as much as I'd love another go today I've got to get to class soon."
She sighed then said. "What a shame, I suppose I'll have to wait until later to feel your…"
"Please don't say anymore miss, I'd like to be able to sleep tonight and I'd rather not imagine…his…naked person on top of you while I'm trying to sleep." Marinette begged as she shied away from the couple.
"Aw what's wrong Mari? Are you feeling jealous that my drop dead sexy ex and I are back together?" Dallas asked jokingly as he set Valentina back on the ground.
"As if, like I said I wouldn't go out with you even if you were the last boy on earth." She then turned to Valentina then continued. "He's all yours…uh, I'm sorry I didn't catch your name."
Valentina extended her hand and introduced herself. "Valentina Volkov of Chernobyl, and you are?"
Marinette took her hand and introduced herself back. "Marinette Dupain-Chang of…well here actually."
Upon hearing the name Valentina and the word Chernobyl Adrien then began to realize who she was. "Wait, Valentina? As in the Valentina? Thee one you told me about Dallas?" He asked with a bit of concern.
"Yep, the very same." Dallas confirmed as he pulled her into his side, she smiled as she snaked her arms around him and kissed his cheek.
Adrien suddenly felt slightly scared of her, and for good reason, Valentina managed to pick up on this as she noticed the look on his face. She then said with a calm voice. "Mr. Agreste, I promise you that I'm not going to hurt you if that's what you think, I don't bite…hard." She then gave a sly wink just to toy with him.
"Tell that to my poor shoulder…" Dallas pulled his shirt away from his shoulder and revealed that she wasn't being as honest as she should be. "I mean look at this bite, you broke the skin for god sake girl."
She then put both hands on his cheeks and said. "Oh I'm sorry my dorogoy Dallas, but to be fair you were the one who made me do it, what with how rough you were last night, not that I'm complaining that is." She then pulled him into a small kiss before she continued. "Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I won't have to leave town after all, turns out that client who wanted my services said that his…friend that he wanted me to entertain is actually here in Paris on business, so I won't have to go anywhere which also means that you and I can keep on seeing one another even while I'm working, the only problem is finding him now, he's very good at hiding." Dallas's face grew the biggest smile he could muster as he picked her up and spun her around celebrating that she didn't have to leave him, he was even close to tears of joy due to the fact. "I take it this makes you happy?" She asked rhetorically.
He didn't answer her with words, just a loving hug and a long tender kiss. Marinette just shook her head at them. "Jeez get a room you two." She said to them, Valentina flipped her the bird just before she broke off the kiss so she could just stare into the eyes of the one she loved.
"YA lyublyu tebya dorogoy…" She whispered lovingly, to which Dallas replied.
"I love you more." Then he pulled her into another hug and just held her and praying slightly that this wasn't a dream.
Around that moment the warning bell rang, Valentina took this as her cue to leave. "I'd best be going, I'll see you after school dorogoy." She gave him one last kiss before parting, then she turned to Adrien and Marinette and said. "Also it was nice meeting you both, you make such a cute couple, oh and Adrien…I loved your last swimsuit shoot you did especially the shot with the speedo."
His face just blushed and he buried his face into his hand with embarrassment. "I really wish I didn't agree to wear that one."
"Wait…?" Marinette began to ask. "You wore a speedo?" He looked away from her and just rubbed the back of his neck. "When was this?" She asked again, she wasn't as interested as she was just confused by his sudden reveal.
"During his father's summer collection, he accepted a two week contract for a swimsuit magazine along with twelve other models his age, none of them were as cute though, anyway I must go now, do svidanya everyone." She waved goodbye to her lover and his friends and left the school.
During any other day Dallas would simply give Adrien a hard time for his slight embarrassment, but it would be slightly hypocritical of him to do so sense he wore speedos on occasion, mostly because he felt no shame when it came to his body. "Dude, there's no shame in wearing a speedo, I've even worn one on occasion just to show off for the girls at the beach, also to make other guys feel insecure about themselves." Dallas admitted with pride.
Neither Adrien or Marinette wanted to continue this conversation so they just went straight to class, Valentina made her way out of the school and took off down the street walking casually when she was paged by someone on her phone, she pulled it out and read the message, she saw that Dallas had sent her a selfie, a half-naked selfie, just for her enjoyment. "Oh Dallas…" She chuckled as she admired the pose he'd taken for her. "I've missed your crazy little stunts."
A few hours after school had started Max Kante was trying to think of the best way to break the ice with Alix who up until now he had no romantic feelings for, until this point in their lives she was just like a sister to him, but until he'd seen her in a whole new light, and with a whole new look he started to develop something new for her. "Max…" Markov started to address his friend and creator about the issue. "You won't accomplish anything if you just sit here and stare at her all day, you need to talk to her other wise she might get the wrong idea about your true intentions of just sitting here and gawking at her for the past ten minutes."
Max quickly shook his head as he realized that he'd been sitting there for a while and just staring at her for almost no good reason. "Has it really been that long?" He asked to his friend.
"Yes, it has been approximately ten minutes and twenty-nine seconds sense you got your lunch, sat down and began staring at her." Markov confirmed as he just floated around in midair. Max began to groan as well as feel stupid for not realizing it until now, he banged his head on the table once causing the rattle of his silverware on his tray of food.
Around that time Rose came up to his table and asked casually. "Is it okay if I sit here Max?" He didn't look up at her as he still felt so embarrassed by his awkwardness, he just mumbled something that just barely came out audible to her, but miraculously she still was able to understand him. "Thank you." She sat down next to him then began to eat her lunch, almost a minute into eating she finally noticed that he was upset over something. "Max? Are you okay?" She asked bluntly.
"To describe Max at this moment in time is complicated Rose, he is internally conflicted by his emotions as well as his feelings for…" Markov almost exposed Max's problem to Rose completely when he grabbed the tiny robot and hit his built in mute button. So glad I put that in when I first built you, he thought to himself.
"I'm fine Rose really it's nothing at all." He lied of course, but not very well though as she still called him out on it.
"Max, you've never really been a very good liar, could you please just tell me what's going on with you?" She asked flatly.
Max just sighed and asked back. "Is it that obvious?" She nodded her head yes then he answered her honestly. "Fine…I'll tell you, but please just keep it to yourself right now, I've…sort of developed feelings for someone in our class recently."
Rose then gasped with this sudden reveal of information, she then asked him up right with excitement and a giant grin. "Who is it? Is she cute? Ooh I'll bet she's cute."
Max tried to relax himself knowing that she might get over excited and expose him in front of everyone in the room. "Like I said you need to keep this to yourself for now." He took a deep breath and said calmly. "It's Alix Kubdel."
She gasped again and squealed a bit before she pulled him into a very tight hug and said. "Oh I'm so happy for you two."
"ROSE…CAN'T…BREATHE!" Max said as he felt her physically squeezing his wind pipe, she then let go and he began to gasp for air. "Thank you…" He said as he rubbed the soreness away from his neck, but when he looked up he saw Juleka staring at the two of them then she quickly looked away as if she'd never did it in the first place, he then turned back to Rose then asked. "What's up with Juleka these days? She's been acting really weird for the past few weeks."
Rose's face took up a sad expression then said. "It's…complicated." She subconsciously rubbed her arm as she looked away from her friend whom had accidentally caused Rose to question everything that she'd known about herself up to this point.
Max took notice of this then asked. "Did something happen between you two? You guys aren't fighting are you?" She shook her head no contemplating whether or not she should tell him the truth, she didn't want to upset or embarrass Juleka in anyway, but she knew that staying quiet about her new feelings wasn't the way to go either. "Rose if something's going on between you two then maybe you should talk about it with someone."
She sighed then looked at him with pleading eyes. "You have to promise me that you won't say a word to anyone about this." She said hoping beyond all hope that he could keep a secret.
"I promise no one will ever here about this from me." Max replied with honesty and ready to keep a secret.
She took a deep breath and hoped she was doing the right thing by confiding in Max. "I…just found out that Juleka…likes girls…the same way that…you like girls."
Max gasped upon hearing this news. "Juleka is a lesbian?" He asked bluntly. "I never would've guessed, when did she tell you?"
"Around the same time that she…kissed me." She admitted sheepishly.
At that moment Max's jaw just dropped, he was completely surprised that Juleka had actually gone that far so quickly. "She…kissed you? Wow…bet that was an awkward moment."
Rose nodded then continued. "But you know what the weird thing is? I think I liked it actually, or at the very least I wasn't really bothered by it that much I know but…I've never felt like this before about anyone before, let alone another girl or even my best friend."
"Wait…you mean you might be in love with her?" Max added plainly.
Rose just shrugged and said. "I don't know, I know for sure though that she has feelings for me, especially with the way she kissed me it doesn't surprise me as much as the actual kiss itself." She then sighed then added. "I just don't know how I'm gonna deal with this, even if we can't be a couple I'd at least like to still be friends."
"Wait what?" Max began to ask. "You mean you really are considering being her girlfriend?"
She paused for a moment then said. "I don't know, I'm still only just figuring things out but I don't know for sure how to do it."
That's when Max came up with a not so brilliant but literally the easiest way to determine whether or not she was in fact interested in girls. "I may have a solution, it's not really the best way but it is the easiest, and maybe even the quickest."
She looked at him with a hopeful look then said. "I'm willing to try if it means that things will go back to normal with Juleka. Well…relatively, I understand that things will never go back to the way they were before but that doesn't mean our friendship is over."
"Okay then, I would suggest…and I'm not kidding you in anyway at all just to be clear, that maybe you should just watch…uh…" He then leaned in close and finished in a whisper. "Porn."
She gave a weird look and asked. "Porn? How will that help?"
"Well it will help you figure out if you truly like boys more or girls more, also this way you can do this at your own discretion if need be."
Rose thought about it for a second and realized that this was in fact the best and only option she had. "Okay I'll do it, but on one condition…" She said with a slight bit of confidence. "You have to ask out Alix."
"That's what I'm trying to do, or at least figure out a way to break the ice to her about how I feel." He said still pondering how to make this work without exposing his identity.
"Why don't you just write her a letter? Girls love romantic letters from a secret admirer." Rose suggested casually.
That's when Max realized that her idea was almost perfect, he looked at her with a smile and said. "You know what? I think I might just try that, thanks Rose you've really helped me out.
"Your welcome Max, oh and good luck with Alix." She said as she stood up and walked off.
"Wait, Rose where are you going?" He asked sort of confused.
She turned around and said. "I'm gonna try to do what you suggested I do in the girls room."
His jaw dropped upon hearing this, he was about to ask why but suddenly decided that he'd rather not get into it over such an embarrassing subject. "Nope, not touching that one with a fifty foot pole." He declared as he continued to eat his lunch.
Several hours after school had ended Luka was preparing himself for his date with Kagami, or more accurately Viperion was getting ready for his date with Ryuko, there was only one problem however, he wasn't sure what kind of things she might like, primarily because he only met her through their work as superheroes and had no idea if anything he did would change that. Once he made himself seem presentable enough he made sure that everything was alright with his sister before he took off, even though he didn't want to leave her alone she insisted that he go out as she knew deep down that he needed to move on from Marinette as soon as possible. Once he was out of sight of his house he ducked into an alley to transform into Viperion, then he started to parkour off the walls of the alley and up to the roof tops then he headed off to the meetup point they'd agreed on, as soon as he got there he found that she was already waiting for him. She sat on the ground simply meditating until he arrived, once she sensed his presence she opened her eyes and said with a neutral tone. "You're late."
"Sorry…" He said sheepishly. "I needed to make sure that my sister would be okay if I left her at home by herself, especially sense our mom is out for the evening with her sorority sisters, she's…kind of in a midlife crisis."
She stood up then turned to face him. "I see…" She replied with the same neutral tone. "Well in that case I suppose I can be a bit more lenient." She let a small smile curl on her face. There was a bit of an awkward silence between the two for a moment, then Ryuko made it a little more awkward. "What's your favorite color?" She then gave a very awkward smile.
Viperion found this to be a bit strange that she just asked such a random question right out of the blue but he knew they had to start somewhere. "Uh…blue I guess, and you?" He asked back.
"White because it represents purity and new beginnings, what's your favorite food?" She gave the same awkward smile as before, this awkward behavior only made Viperion feel slightly uncomfortable.
"I guess…chicken alfredo, what about you?" He asked again.
She answered again just as quickly as before. "Grape and walnut salad, it gives me enough vitamins and minerals that I need to stay healthy and strong, what's your…"
"Whoa-whoa-whoa hold on…" He stopped her in mid-sentence. "Are we just going to have a random Q & A all night long? Because I think were going about this all wrong." He said bluntly just before he added. "Maybe…we shouldn't just ask about small details like that, maybe we should ask something about each other that defines our personality a little like…oh I don't know…let's say…your favorite type of music, and yes that's what I'm asking you."
She could see the logic behind his reasoning for taking control of the subject, she then answered him bluntly. "Classical…but I am optimistic in trying new things."
"Okay, well that's a good start." He said casually.
"And what is your favorite type of music?" She asked back and once again giving the same awkward smile.
Seriously what is up with that weird smile, he thought to himself. "I'm into rock and roll mostly, I even play in a band in my spare time. Lead guitar in case you were wondering."
"I play violin, it's elegant, relaxing and is cultural to the majority of the world." She then flashed the same odd smile that she did before.
Okay that's it I can't take it anymore, he thought to himself just before he asked. "Why do you keep doing that?"
"Doing what?" She asked almost puzzled.
"You keep making that same painfully obvious forced smile almost every time you talk, are you…nervous, wait…I'm not making you feel uncomfortable am I?" He assumed and suddenly feeling bad for asking her such a question.
"What…no you're not making me feel uncomfortable, I've just…never really dated a lot of boys, I have gone out with one boy…once, but he found someone else, not that it matters really, to be honest I think we're better off as friends, mainly because he mostly saw me more as a friend rather than a romantic companion." She admitted with a sad expression.
Viperion took notice of this, he then realized that she agreed to this date to try and help herself move on as well. "I know how you feel…" He said as he put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "I was in love with someone before I met you too, but sadly she fell in love with someone else, I've been trying to move on ever sense, though personally it's my own fault for not trying harder to win her heart, but if she's happy with him then I'm happy for her."
Ryuko smiled genuinely upon hearing him say that. "You certainly are honorable as well as a good sport." She said politely just before she continued. "Speaking of which…do you enjoy any type of sports?"
"Well I do occasionally enjoy a good game of basketball. What about you, do you enjoy any sports?" He asked curiously.
"Fencing and kendo, sword fighting is in my blood, I come from a very long line of swordsmen and women, dating back centuries to feudal Japan, my family personally served under the great lord Oba Nobunaga during his campaign to unify Japan during the late Sengoku period." She replied proudly.
"Wow, that's pretty cool, I never would've pegged you to be a samurai…" He said feeling fascinated with her family history.
"I wouldn't say I'm a samurai really…" She stated plainly. "More like a kunoichi."
He was suddenly puzzled by the word she'd used to describe herself. "A what?" He asked with confusion.
She giggled slightly before she answered. "That's the term used for a female ninja, or at least a practitioner of ninjutsu."
This began to peek Viperion's interest quite a bit. "Really, so you're a true ninja then, I don't suppose you could give me a demonstration of your skills?" He asked casually.
She was taken back by the question a bit then said. "But you've seen how I fight already. Why would you…"
"Let me rephrase that…" He started up again. "I would like to personally see just how well you fight in a one on one sparring match with me." He said knowing that this would make things a lot more interesting.
She was intrigued by his proposal then asked. "Are you sure you want that? Because I'm pretty sure I'll win." He simply nodded his head yes then she continued. "Alright, if that's what you want."
"First lets establish the rules, no weapons and no magic, just us and our skills as fighters." He said as he walked over to a far side of the roof they stood upon and took his stance after putting down his harp.
"Very well, I can accept those terms." She replied as she took off her sword an stabbed it into the ground and took her stance as well. "I'll try to go easy on you."
"Funny, I was just about to say the same to you." He replied as he charged at her, he threw a right hook at her just as she ducked down and swept his legs out from under him, he fell backwards and landed on the flat of his back, he just stared up at her and saw a very smug smile on her face.
She leaned down and said. "I didn't think you were going to go that easy on me."
He smiled back up at her then said. "I'm just getting warmed up." He hopped back up then performed a round house kick which she jumped away from then ran in and threw a well placed punch to his face. "Sneaky…" He said as he rubbed his cheek.
"Such is the way of the ninja after all…" She replied as she ran forward and performed a series of punches and kicks that he barely had time to block as she moved like lightning. She eventually leapt into the air and kicked him in the chest ending the fight and knocking him back a few feet, he suddenly fell over backwards do to the edge of the building, but just before he went over the side she managed to grab his wrist and pulled him back up, but it was a little too strong as he crashed into her toppling the two of them over.
She stared up at him like a deer caught in the head lights just lost in his eyes, the same could be said for him as he just looked down at her completely mesmerized by her vision, the atmosphere seemed to become very magnetic as she suddenly felt a spark between them, something in her told her to drag him down into a very passionate kiss, before the two could even act upon this new feeling of attraction they heard a cry for help down below. "Looks like we're gonna have to put this date on hold, come on." Viperion said as he rose up off of her and handed her back her sword. They both ran toward the direction of the cry for help and found a skinny white male in his early twenty's being beaten by a blond girl with silver highlights wearing a black suit. "She doesn't look so tough, I'll bet we can take her easy, but just to be safe." He activated his second chance ability just in case things didn't go the way they'd expect. "Okay let's go. Please, ladies first." Viperion gestured with a wave of his hand.
Both he and Ryuko leapt off the building and down to the ground to confront the black widow of Chernobyl. "I don't have time for your derr'mo you little mu'dak, just give me the damn drive and I'll let you go." She barbed as she held out one hand for the drive he had in his pocket while holding him up against the wall with one of her karambits under his chin.
"I can't give you the drive, if I do that crazy fucker will kill me!" He said back trying to persuade her to let him go. "Please, just let me go…"
She pulled the knife slightly across his throat causing a small bit of blood to come out. "I am not a very patient woman comrade, now give me the drive or I swear to god…" Her sentence was cut short as she was kicked in the side by Ryuko with full force, she rolled sideways a bit then hopped back up and saw who it was that'd attacked her.
"Touch him again and you'll regret it." She said as she spun her sword in a figure eight and held it over her head as she took a tie-chi stance.
"It is unwise to get between a spider and her pray little girl." Black widow replied as she stood back up and pulled two guns. "Now move aside or I will have no choice but to end you." Even though it sounded genuine her threat was very much empty, she would never end the life of someone who didn't need to die, and that included people who were willing to sacrifice their own to save another, but if she had to she would most definitely hurt them.
"I refuse to let you kill this man, now put your weapons on the ground and surrender, you have no way to escape." Ryuko barbed as she leveled her sword at the assassin.
"She's not lying…" Viperion added as he announced himself from behind their opponent, he was stood on a fire escape just one level above her. "And I promise you this sister, you might be able to out run us but you can't out run time."
She didn't know much about Viperion or Ryuko's abilities but she knew enough that Viperion could travel back in time to prepare himself for what was to come, also that Ryuko could control the elements if she needed to. This is going to be a tough fight, she thought to herself, but I can't afford to be captured, she quickly formulated a plan, luckily for her she had just the thing for a situation like this. "You think you can take me down so easily do you? Clearly you two don't know who I am. I am Chernaya vdova Chernobyl the greatest assassin in the WORLD!" She shouted as she threw a flash bang on the ground and shut her eyes, as it exploded on the ground both Viperion and Ryuko were blinded by the bright light, she then pulled out a magazine of rubber bullets and swapped it out for another magazine already loaded, she quickly popped the loaded shot already in the chamber then took a few shots at Ryuko, she fired five shots in total hitting her in the chest with each shot, she went down and started groaning in pain. "Now for the boy…" She quickly turned around and saw that Viperion was already gone. "B'lyad…" She cursed, just before she was kicked in the stomach with such force that she almost blacked out.
"You know that old saying about a snake in the grass?" Viperion asked rhetorically as he popped his knuckles. "Cuz I think I just redefined it."
She stood back up and popped her neck and said. "Boy…you know not what you have unleashed in me." She pulled her knives off her lower back and took her stance at the same time she tapped the toe of her right boot on the ground and deploying a shoe knife that she only ever used when she was in trouble, and being in a one on one up close fight with a superhero qualified. She rushed at him like a speeding bullet and started slashing at him with a flurry of attacks using her ballerina style of knife fighting, in any other situation he would use his mamba strike spell to slow down time and disarm her, but there was one drawback with the new spells and abilities of the entire team, they needed thirty seconds to recharge, and sense he'd already used it he had no choice but to fight to the best of his abilities without it. He tried as best he could to dodge or block her attacks but suffered multiple cuts on his arms, his legs, his back and his front until she finally used a leaping kick on him and knocked him down. He winced in pain as he felt the sting of every single cut, fearing for his life he reached for his miraculous to try and reset time, but he found that he couldn't move his fingers to reset everything. "It seems I've severed a few nerves in your arm, don't worry it's treatable, and you have nothing to fear from me…Viperion isn't it? I'm not going to kill you, that was merely a threat to try and scare you away, but clearly it didn't work, either you and this girl are very brave or very stupid but either way you never had a chance in beating me."
He looked up at her and said with a grin. "That's what you think...COIL!" He quickly stretched out and wrapped her up as if he were an actual snake wrapping around a rat and increasing his grip on her and slowly squeezing her until she passed out from lack of air, as soon as he felt her going limp he loosened his grip on her and just tried to catch his breath. "God that was a bad idea, especially with all these cuts."
"You two look like you could use a hand or two." A voice stated from behind, both heroes turned around and saw the figure of Iktomi standing over them with the same man the black widow was interrogating all wrapped up in a net trap.
"Iktomi? What are…" Viperion asked just before he winced in pain again, Iktomi set his captive on the ground and walked over to his team mate.
"Jeez dude you look like hell, but I'm not surprised…" Iktomi said as he inspected his wounds. "What the hell were you thinking going up against the black widow of Chernobyl? She's the second deadliest assassin in the world she could've killed you guys."
"Wait, she said she was the greatest assassin in the world." Viperion corrected.
"Well she's the greatest when it comes to fighting, as for her rank on the top ten list of assassins she's only number two, but she's working on becoming number one that much I know." He said as he started to rub his hands together for some reason.
"What are you doing?" Viperion asked just before Iktomi's hands started to glow with a bright white light, Iktomi placed his hands on Viperion's shoulders and closed his eyes, with in an instant all of his cuts closed up and his pain quickly disappeared, he was amazed at this sudden reveal of new power that he'd just witnessed. "Your miraculous has healing powers?" He asked again with astonishment. All of a sudden Iktomi started to feel lightheaded and dizzy, he almost fell over if not for Viperion catching him. "You okay Iktomi?"
"I'm okay…the book warned me about this, it's just a small side effect to the healing spell…takes up a lot of your energy…but I'll be okay in a few minutes." Iktomi just tried to sit up as he caught his breath.
"What book? Do you know something that we don't?" Ryuko asked as she slowly stood up and made her way over to the others.
Iktomi didn't like keeping secrets unless they were critical to himself or the ones he cared about, but he felt that they might start asking about his secret knowledge of their powers sooner or later. "There's a book…a spell book for the miraculous, I've read from it and learned all I could learn from it, then I passed down everything I found to you guys, some spells are a little harder to master than others which is why I'm only teaching you guys your private spells for now, until you guys are used to those spells you won't be able to learn the universal spells such as healing or telepathic communication, at least not without suffering from mild exhaustion like this, I'm still trying to master my private spells myself but I'll be able to use them just fine soon just you wait."
"Wait…" Ryuko asked with surprise. "Universal spells? Meaning anyone of us can use them if we wanted?"
"That's right, but those are the most powerful spells in the book which is why we need to take it slow before we try to use them." Iktomi confirmed as he started to feel a little better.
Then Ryuko asked again. "So what's this telepathic communication spell you mentioned a bit ago?"
"Well it's how it sounds actually…" Iktomi began to explain. "It's basically how the original people who created the miraculous communicated with one another over a long distance, before each miraculous had their own ear pieces, but over time each miraculous takes on a little more modern traits just because, however I think having a spell like that would be more than useful to us in the future, but until then I'm just gonna keep practicing for a while."
"Uh guys…where's Black widow?" Viperion asked as he took notice that the assassin had just disappeared. "Crap, well looks like I'm resetting this…" He was cut off by the sound of his miraculous beginning to beep. "What the…I don't understand I only activated it I didn't use it yet." He said with confusion.
"That's another issue with the healing spell, it doesn't just drain the energy of the caster but it also drains the energy of your miraculous, and also the energy of the injured party's miraculous…" Iktomi said as he began to explain. "You see for the spell to work it requires the focus of the caster's energy, an active miraculous casting the spell and a passive miraculous to focus that energy on to the injured, this in turn drains both our miraculous down to the five minute mark just before we lose power and change back, there's no amount of battle meditation that we can muster to keep our energy like I taught you guys to keep your miraculous energized after using your onetime powers, bottom line we have to be extra careful with that spell, especially in terms of where and when we use it."
"Well in that case I'll go after her, you two take this time to…" Ryuko was just about to take off when Iktomi halted her.
"You'll do no such thing, she managed to take you down without even breaking a sweat do you really think you can handle her now that you know what she's capable of, and on your own for that matter?" He barbed while trying to stand up. "Any other time I'd jump in and help you guys with a problem like this but I don't have the strength and we don't have time to summon everyone to start a man hunt all across town for one woman in a cat suit, especially when said woman is as deadly as she is."
He made an excellent point, but Ryuko was too stubborn for her own good. "But I can do it, I know I can just…" She started to argue with him but was halted yet again.
"Ryuko listen to me, I don't doubt your skills at all, but to even have a hope at beating her you'd need Viperion's second chance ability to take her down, plus I need someone to take this jackass to the police station for me sense I'm kinda spent." He gestured over to the netted up crook on the ground.
"Yeah I've been meaning to ask, why'd you net him up and not her?" Viperion asked the burning question.
Luckily Iktomi was prepared for this. "Two reasons, one…I kind of thought you'd already knocked her out, and two…this guy is an information broker that the Chameleon hired to gain information on a target he's after."
Ryuko and Viperion just looked at him with confusion. "The Chameleon? Whose that?" Ryuko asked twice.
"The world's deadliest assassin for sure, and he's in Paris working a job, but before he ever works a job he always gathers more information on his targets such as their daily routines or their closest friends, and he always kills you the same way, he'll disguise himself as someone you know and wait for the right possible moment to finish you off, and leave your loved ones left holding the bag as he makes his escape." Iktomi elaborated everything he knew about the Chameleon to his friends.
"So who's he after?" Viperion asked bluntly.
Iktomi shrugged then said. "Don't know yet, but I'll bet you anything that who ever it is we'll find them on this flash drive." Iktomi held up the drive before his allies before he continued. "But if I'm guessing it's probably heavily encrypted so breaching it won't be easy, but I know a guy who can help with this, it will only take about a day at the most, but until then…" He nodded to his teammates and started to take off just before Viperion stopped him.
"Hey wait a second Iktomi, if he was working for this…Chameleon then why was the black widow after him?" He asked bluntly.
"Because one of the Chameleon's old clients is angry with him for screwing up a job and now they want him dead so they hired her to take him out." Iktomi explained deeper. "Which is why she tried to steal this drive from him, so that she could make his job harder by tipping off the police and his targets forcing them to go into witness protection and possibly take him down easier."
Ryuko suddenly grew suspicious of how up to speed he was about the black widow then asked. "How is it you know so much about her?"
Iktomi was prepared for this as well and casually asked. "I fought her once, I also…slept with her on the same night to be honest." Both Ryuko and Viperion's eyes shot open with surprise while he just narrowed his eyes at them and added. "Don't you judge me, I saw the two of you about to screw on top of that building up there, oh and FYI…next time you guys even think about doing the horizontal tango make sure you have a condom at least, unless you guys want to become a part of the next casting of teen mom." He criticized as he began to walk off.
Around that moment Ryuko turned back to Viperion and began to feel a bit nervous about what Iktomi had just mentioned. "Um…Viperion?" She began to ask. "About what happened…on the roof, you didn't want to…go that far…did you?"
He rubbed the back of his neck as he began to blush. "I…I'd like to think not to be honest…I mean we only just started to have a real date tonight, even though it was cut short by…all of this."
He looked just as nervous as she felt, she didn't know why but for some reason she felt as though she was obligated to do something to calm his nerves, also because she still felt the spark from before within her, so she walked up to him and planted a single kiss on his cheek when he least expected it, his eyes shot open wide as he just stood stiff as a board, his brain taking almost a minute to register the fact that she'd just kissed him, no matter how small or insignificant it might have been. "Don't worry about it, I had fun none the less, I look forward to seeing you again, although…" She began to think of a proposal. "I don't think that seeing each other in our persona's will work out if we keep having to do what we did here tonight, which is why…I propose we…share our numbers with one another."
Viperion almost didn't hear her upon her saying that as he was still stunned a little by the kiss, but he then snapped out of it as what she said began to register in his mind. "You mean…you want to share our identities with one another?" He asked bluntly.
She nodded her head yes then replied. "I know it's dangerous, but we are allowed to keep our miraculous with us now so we should be safe enough to share this information with each other. Unless you'd rather we waited a while before…"
"No-no I think that would be a great idea, as long as your really sure this is what you want." He said with a smile.
"It is…I don't know why I'm doing this to be honest, I'm not usually this reckless for something this important but…there's something about you that tells me…it's worth the risk." She said as she wrote down her number for him to take home and in turn he did the same. "If you'd like I could try and talk with you tonight." She offered suddenly feeling slightly excited that things were heating up so fast.
"I'd like that, well I'll just…be going then." He said as he turned toward the alley's entrance, but just before he took off something inside him said he couldn't leave until he did one thing first. "Aw what the hell…" He quickly turned around, wrapped her into his arms and kissed her passionately. She felt her cheeks begin to warm with a blush, she didn't fight him at all, she did the one thing she'd sworn to never let herself do in any situation, she let her guard down, she slowly closed her eyes and snaked her arms around his neck and pulled him in closer. Sadly the two of them had to break off their kiss as his miraculous began to beep again, he then looked at her and began to contemplate whether or not it mattered if she found out at that moment or not.
"I know what your thinking…" She said with a smile. "But now is not the time or place, for now just keep it to yourself, until next time." She kissed his cheek one last time before she grabbed the netted up information broker and activated her wings then flew off to the nearest police station.
He subconsciously put his hand to the spot she'd kissed him and just smiled. "It's her…" He said with glee. "She's the one that the cards mentioned, I just know it's her." He then began to parkour up the fire escape and started running back home feeling overjoyed that he'd found the girl he'd been looking for.
"Wow, talk about a couple of love sick idiots…" Iktomi voiced his opinion from the roof top.
"They're not idiots, nor are they love sick…yet." Black widow argued as she joined him. "But I have a feeling that the two of them are meant to be don't you?" She asked as she wrapped her arms around him and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Well she's smart, beautiful, strong willed, independent, decisive, very sure of herself and has a fighting spirit, just like it said in his tarot reading." Iktomi pointed out.
Black widow just groaned and said. "Your still using those stupid cards?"
"Their not stupid, they actually work and trust me I'd know that for a fact." He said as he scooped her up in his arms. "Cause they told me that I'd be getting lucky again soon, in more ways then one." He tried to kiss her but she shoved his face away.
"Later darling, right now we have a drive to crack open and an assassin to kill." She said as she hopped down, then walked over to her gear bag and pulled out a laptop, she took the drive and plugged it in then allowed the program to run. "Alright, it should be done deciphering the codes by this time tomorrow yes?"
"That's right…" Iktomi confirmed with a nod. "As soon as we find out who the targets are we warn them, then we gather the team and plan our next move from there."
"Speaking of plans…" She began to ask with a slight bit of anger. "It wasn't a part of the plan for me to get caught up in a fight with superheroes. Why the hell didn't you help me when your friend was crushing me like a grape?"
"Well I couldn't let them know we're working together on this, they're just beginning to trust me Val, if they even suspect that we're working together then all of this will be for nothing." He explained flatly.
She rolled her eyes then said. "Whatever, I need to go now, I'll call you later my dorogoy, do svidanya." She kissed his cheek then began to leap from roof to roof and back to her place.
Iktomi just smiled and said. "Thank god for second chances." He leapt down from the top of the building and back down to the ground just before his miraculous lost power and turned back into Dallas Jones. "You doing okay there buddy?" He asked his kwami who looked to be exhausted.
"Dallas, can we please try not to use that spell again for a while? I'm absolutely pooped." Spizz asked as he simply dropped into Dallas's open hand and rested.
"Don't worry buddy, we'll work on it." Dallas replied as he set Spizz inside of his pocket where he kept the baggy filled with his popcorn, he walked down the alley toward his bike that he'd kept hidden when he stepped on something solid, he looked down and saw that there was an active burner phone, he picked it up and saw that there were code-names for every single contact in the phone, most of which he recognized. "This must be Val's business phone. I'll just hold on to it for now…huh?" That's when he noticed a contact that had been contacted over fifty times within the last week, the name the number was listed under was simply put as Yuri, which in Japanese meant ghost. "Seriously she has a contact named ghost now? Wow how cliché, I'll bet it's some computer geek who picked the name just to sound cryptic and cool for people who don't know him, wonder why she's calling him so much though?"
"Mahhaps thee's cwos fwends wiff hem?" Spizz suggested with a mouth full of popcorn.
"How many times have I told you not to talk with your mouth full? It's disgusting, no one wants to SEE-food." Dallas pointed out as he made his way to the bike. "Besides if he was her friend she'd put him in her smart phone instead of her work phone, he must really be good at what he does for a living, whatever that is."
Back at her apartment Valentina had just gotten out of the shower and dried off, when she heard a buzz from her smartphone, she turned and read the screen and saw that she had a new text message from Dallas.
Dallas: Hey Val I found your work phone in the alley, gonna hold on to it for until tomorrow see you then.
She smiled at the text then put her phone down, she then reached into her purse sitting on the nightstand and pulled out a picture of herself in a hospital bed smiling down at a newborn baby with thin blond hair and slightly lighter tan coloring cradled in her arms. "Goodnight my sweet little Yurochka." She said just before she kissed the picture and stuffed it back in her purse, then she turned off the light and went to sleep.
Meanwhile Dallas was also getting ready for bed, he'd just stripped down to his boxers and prepared to slip under the covers, when Valentina's phone rang. "Crap…" He got up and picked up the phone then answered it, he also had a pen and paper ready just in case it was a client calling. "Hello? Valentina's extermination service how may I help you?" He said knowing that was how she answered this phone, but instead of it being a client wanting an up date with her work he was surprised with one single word he wasn't expecting.
"Mommy?" The voice said, it sounded young and high pitched.
Dallas suddenly realized it wasn't a client at all, more or less a child calling the wrong number, he chuckled to himself and said. "Kid I think you have the wrong number, maybe you should get your daddy to handle the phone for you."
"Daddy?" The voice spoke again sounding curious.
Dallas chuckled again and said. "Yes your daddy, go and get your daddy if you want to talk to your mommy."
"Mommy…" The child spoke again starting to sound a little mad. "Mommy…wherwe's mommy!"
Before Dallas could answer him he heard the phone on the other end being rattled about by someone who knew what they were doing with it. "Yuri give me the phone I think you called the wrong number…" Dallas took notice of that name, Yuri…is a kid? Dallas asked mentally. "H-Hello? I don't know who this is but I think my nephew called the wrong number, he just wanted to talk to his mum." A woman apologized from the other end of the line, she sounded British.
That's when Dallas's jaw just hit the floor, What the fuck? He cursed mentally, Dallas quickly decided to dig a little deeper into this. "Well that depends, is his mother's name by chance…Valentina Volkov?" He asked with a casual tone.
There was a sudden pause on the other side of the line, then the woman on the other end began to threaten. "I swear to god if you hurt my friend Val I'm gonna…"
"Calm down I didn't hurt her, in fact I'm her ex-boyfriend, well actually I'm pretty sure I'm just back to being her boyfriend now because we sort of made up so…" Dallas was interrupted when he heard the phone drop to the floor on the other end. "Uh…hello? You still there ma'am?"
He heard the phone being picked up again then heard the woman ask with puzzlement. "Who is this?"
"Uh…my name is Dallas Jones? I'm currently in Paris France as I am in foster care and why the heck does this matter to you?" He asked sounding even more confused than she did.
"Dallas? As in…the guy that Valentina fell for and…oh my god how did you get this phone?" The woman asked back.
Dallas just answered her truthfully. "She dropped it while we were working on her latest job, I'm holding onto it for her, now could you kindly explain to me how Valentina has a kid now?"
"Uh…actually Dallas, I think that's better for her to explain to you." The woman said back.
Dallas then grew suspicious. "What do you mean? Wait…is she seeing someone else now? Why that little…two-timing two-faced little…" He was about to call her so many different horrible things when the woman on the other end of the phone began to explain a few things.
"Now hold on Dallas, I can assure you she's not seeing anyone else, hell the last time she even slept with anyone was after she left you in Seattle…" She then slap her hand to her mouth only realizing too late that she'd said too much to him.
Dallas took notice of two things, the first that she wasn't seeing anyone else, and second was what she'd said about Valentina not sleeping with anyone else after Dallas, to which he was sort of flattered by, but slowly he came to realize just who Yuri was to him personally. "Are…a-are you saying that…" His mind just began to form a blank as he slowly came to realize the most confusing, most shocking, most joyful thing in his entire life had happened to him completely by accident.
"Like I said you'll need to talk to Val about this, anyway I'm sorry to bother you Dallas…" She was about to hang up the phone when he shouted on his end of the line.
"WAIT! Please don't…don't hang up, please…just…let me talk to him for a little bit, please…let me talk to…my son." He pleaded as he slowly sat down on the bed.
The woman was reluctant to do so, but she granted Dallas his request and let Yuri talk to him. "Mommy?" He asked again.
Dallas was close to crying, he felt so many things at once, confusion, a little bit of anger, sadness, but the one thing he felt most of all…was joy. "No buddy, this isn't mommy, this is somebody else who loves you…" He took a deep breath before saying something he never thought he'd ever say about himself. "This is…your daddy." He simply talked with Yuri for almost an hour talking about how old he was or how much he knew about his father, to his surprise Yuri was a very bright two year old and a lot smarter than Dallas was by far in his personal opinion, knowing this made him feel proud of his son who at this moment he desperately wanted to meet face to face, eventually the care taker had to end their call which saddened Dallas quite a bit but simply knowing that he was a father of such a sweet and polite little boy made him feel like his life had meaning again. The only sad part about it all to him was that Valentina, the mother of his child and the woman he loved more than anything in this world, had kept him a secret from him after all these years. "I wanna here her justify this Spizz…" He said as he wiped away a few tears. "She had no right to hide my son from me and I wanna here it from her mouth." He wanted to believe she had a good reason for hiding this from him but deep down he still couldn't help but feel a sting of betrayal.
Back at the house boat Juleka was sitting in her room just reading a book, it was a lesbian romance novel that she'd grown to love over time, but sadly this book only managed to help sadden her mood, she closed the book then rested it between her knees and her forehead and began to cry. "Why…can't I just talk to her?" She asked herself, the shame she'd felt for what she'd done was eating away at her day by day. She stopped crying for a moment when she heard a knock at the door. "Coming…" She called out as she set her book down. She opened the door and felt a wave of shock wash over her. "Rose? What…what are you doing here?" She asked feeling shaky.
Rose seemed to be a little upset for some reason as her eyes had visible tear trails streaming down her face. "I forgive you, not that you have anything to be sorry for." She asked out right.
Juleka was confused by the question then asked back. "What? What in god's name are you talking about?"
"My…" She sniffled a little bit before saying. "My parents kicked me out."
Juleka gasped by this shocking information. "What? Why would they do that to you? Of all people…" She asked feeling a large amount of anger well up inside her.
Rose wiped her nose before admitting. "Because…I…I've figured myself out…for you..." She let out a small tear before she continued. "I just want you to know that…I wasn't bothered by the kiss, to be honest…I liked it, so just to be sure I…decided to explore myself a little bit, and ultimately I discovered that…I'm bisexual."
"Figured yourself out for me? What do you mean?" Juleka asked feeling more confused.
Rose then looked up at her and elaborated. "I know how you feel about me Juleka, but I wanted to be sure that I could feel the same way about you first, so I started to explore myself a little like I said and…the more I thought about it the more it made sense to me…and sense I didn't want to lie to my parents about this I…came out to them, then they just…." She buried her face into her hands and sobbed heavy tears. "They said they blamed you for…the way I felt, said it would be better if I never spoke to you again, but I didn't want to say goodbye to you…I…I just couldn't do it."
"Why not?" She asked feeling the pain she felt was more then she could bare. "Why couldn't you just end things with me like that? That probably would've been better for you."
Rose wiped away the tears and said. "Because I told them…that…I loved you."
Juleka's heart began to flutter with those words, she…loves me? She thought to herself. "You…you do?" She asked her crush.
"I think I do at least, but as soon as I told them this…they kicked me out and said never to comeback, said that…they were no longer my family." She then dropped to her knees and started sobbing even harder.
Juleka knelt down and took her in her arms and began to sooth her. "It's okay Rose…" She whispered softly. "I'm right here." Rose looked back up to Juleka then hugged her tight in her arms, under any other circumstances Juleka would be jumping for joy that Rose actually wanted to be with her, but after learning that she'd sacrificed her place in her family just to be with her she could only feel sorry for her, she blamed herself for what her parents had chosen to do.
"Rose?" A voice asked from the gangplank, both girls looked up to see Juleka's mother about to board the ship. "What are you doing here this late lass?"
Rose was to upset to explain again as Juleka could clearly tell so she just chose to explain for her. "Her parents kicked her out mom, because she…came out to them, she has nowhere else to go either, would it be okay if…" She began to ask her mother for her help though she didn't even need to ask.
"Rose, you can stay with us for as long as you like, make yourself at home dear." Ms. Couffanie offered as she helped her on to her feet and ushered her inside.
Juleka offered Rose her room until they'd finished preparing the guest room for her, but Rose was too upset to even consider sleep at the moment, she just sat on the edge of the bed still crying her eyes out, around that time Juleka came in with some of Rose's favorite ice cream to try and cheer her up, it was also topped off with some of her favorite toppings such as sea salt caramel, marshmallows, oreo cookie chunks and pink sprinkles just to make it look pretty. "Here, I thought that…this might make you feel a little better." She said as she handed Rose the bowl, however she didn't take it, she just stared blankly at the floor. Juleka just sat it down on the nightstand then sat next to her on the bed. "I'm so sorry about this Rose." She pulled her into a hug, to which she accepted wholeheartedly.
"Why can't they just be happy for me?" Rose asked rhetorically. "They always told me to do whatever makes me the happiest in my life no matter what it is, and now that what I want is…being more than your friend they just turn on me like a pack of wolves."
"It's not you Rose…" Juleka began to sooth. "It's them, they're just having a hard time accepting this, I'm not gonna lie I had a hard time accepting this too at first myself, but I came to realize that this is who I am and I'm happy the way I am."
Rose sniffled a bit before asking. "But how did your mom take it?"
"You know my mom…" She stated firmly. "She's a very liberal woman, she doesn't care about whether or not if your straight or gay, she believes that everyone has a right to be happy no matter what anyone thinks of the way you live your life you only need to remember one thing…" She put her hands on Rose's shoulders then forced her to look at her. "Your happiness should be your number one concern, not what others think of you, and if your parents can't see that…well then they're the ones with the problem not you." She wanted so badly to give Rose a loving kiss in that moment, to show her just how much she truly meant to her, but she felt that now wasn't the time given the situation.
But as if she could read her mind Rose then pulled Juleka into a kiss, Juleka began to feel her cheeks burning red, then she pulled her crush in closer to her and the two just melted into themselves. Finally both girls had what they wanted, Juleka had the love of the girl she'd grown up with sense they were kids all to herself and Rose no longer felt alone and felt what she never felt before, true love. Rose pulled away from the kiss for only a brief moment and said. "I love you."
(A/N: Aww isn't that nice, now I know what you're thinking, what's gonna happen between them next? And why did Valentina hide the fact that Dallas was a daddy? Well all will be revealed in the next chapter. Speaking of which, in the next chapter of WOS, Dallas confronts Valentina about their son, Rose and Juleka come out to their friends about their new relationship, and Valentina show's Chloe once again just who's top bitch, how's that gonna end? You'll have to wait until the next chapter, bye guys hope you enjoyed.)
