(A/N: Hey everybody I hope you enjoyed the last chapter; how did you guys feel that Dallas is a dad now? I know it was a bit sudden to just throw that in there but I have made it very clear that he has trouble keeping it in his pants in a lot of the earlier chapters so I guess it's not surprising that he made a baby with Valentina, also there's going to be a lot more of the little guy in the future so just you wait, alright let's get to it.)

Chapter 16: No holding back

Juleka and Rose spent several hours caught up in each other's embrace as Rose simply allowed the pain of her parents disowning her and kicking her out of the house simply for having different tastes than they'd prefer her to have, but with Juleka by her side she didn't feel as bad and with what she'd said to her the night before she knew that she'd made the right choice in returning her love to her, when Luka got home his mother had told him about Rose's current problem and that she'd be staying with them for a while, Luka felt happy for his sister but also felt sorrow for Rose who he'd come to love as a sister as well.

By the time morning had come around the girls were still in bed bringing comfort to one another. The two each lay on their side spooning and dreaming sweet dreams, Juleka's mother came into the room to wake the girls for breakfast, she only paused for a brief moment to see the two wrapped up in each other's embrace, she cooed at the sight as she felt joy for her daughter finally getting what she wanted. "Girls…" She called as she started to rouse them. "It's time for breakfast, I've made chocolate-chip pancakes just like when you were kids."

Juleka yawned as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "What time is it?" She asked plainly as she rose from her sleeping position.

"It's ten after six which means you girls had best get ready for school." She aptly replied. "I also took the liberty of getting a few things for Rose this morning, just the essentials of course, a few extra clothes, a toothbrush, the usual must haves."

"Thanks again mom…" Juleka said before turning to see her lover still sound asleep and curled up with a pillow. "Rose? Time to get up."

She moaned and said. "Five more minutes…" She nestled her head into the pillow a little deeper, but sadly Juleka couldn't grant her request as she knew they had to get ready.

"Come on Rose, we need to get ready for school, plus if you don't get up now my brother will eat all of your pancakes, and in case you didn't hear her mom says there chocolate-chip." She laminated with a smile, then she simply counted down on her fingers waiting for her to register the word pancakes. 3…2…1…0

"Pancakes? Out of my way!" She hopped out of bed and ran straight to the breakfast table, even when she wasn't in the best of moods she always had one thing that could make her feel better in this world, a fresh stack of pancakes.

"Well at least that still works." Juleka said with a smile as she and her mother followed her out to the breakfast table where Luka was already sitting along with there guest who had already taken about three pancakes and topped them off with fresh made chocolate sauce. Juleka sat down next to her new found lover and enjoyed breakfast with her. "Feeling a little better Rose?"

She nodded her head yes as she was unable to speak with her mouth so full of food. Luka smiled and said. "I'm glad you two are finally talking again, and that you guys are together, but…I'm really sorry about…you know." He felt it was better not to finish his sentence the way he'd intended, sense it was such a poor subject to discuss especially sense it only happened less than twenty-four hours ago.

Rose frowned a bit. "It's fine…if my parents can't accept that this is what makes me happy then that's their problem." She said sounding a tad bitter toward her parents for being so unreasonable. "But enough about me and my problems, Juley says that you went on a date last night." She added feeling a bit gossipy.

"Yeah I never got to hear how your date went last night, how did that go?" Juleka added as she wanted to try and lighten the mood a bit, as well as learn the name of this mystery girl he went to see.

His smile returned as he said. "Well I'd like to think it went pretty well, she even gave me her number and we even…" He trailed off for a moment as he just knew that both girls and possibly his mother would explode with excitement.

"Yeeeeeeaas…she gave you her number and whaaaat?" Rose asked with an excited look while resting her chin on her hands as she leaned forward.

He could see the look on all of their faces, as he expected they were about to explode in a fiery fury of joy, well I might as well get it over with, he thought to himself as he braced himself for the cries of excitement and joy. He took a moment to collect himself and finished his sentence slowly. "We…kissed."

And as expected his sister and her new girlfriend started squealing with joy for his successful first date, if one could call it that anyway. "Oh my gosh Luka I'm so happy for you!" Rose cried as she and Juleka rushed over and sandwiched him into a hug.

"So when do we get to meet her?" Juleka asked as she pulled away for a moment.

Luka wanted them to meet her as soon as possible as he had never felt such passion for one person other than Marinette, but he knew it was still too soon to jump to any conclusions about this working out already so he just told them the truth. "I don't know honestly, maybe after I get to know her a little more I'll bring her around."

"Well just be sure that you don't scare her off before then, also if the two of you choose to do anything please be careful, I might want to be an aunt someday but not while I'm still in high school." She replied as she placed a small kiss on the side of his head.

Luka just rolled his eyes and groaned. "Really Jewels? I'm not that interested in her." He said feeling slightly annoyed.

"That's what you said about Marinette and yet you always carried around a condom just in case you got lucky." Juleka pointed out with a smirk.

Luka gasped just before saying. "I told you that in confidence."

"Well here's another secret, we already knew about that so don't look so embarrassed about it." Their mother added with a smirk. "But at least you were being smart enough to carry around protection even if you knew you probably weren't going to use it." After everyone had finished their breakfast Juleka and Rose took off for the bus stop closest to their home, Mrs. Couffaine just couldn't help but feel such joy for the two of them, but at the same time she was angry, angry with Rose's parents for their narrow minded view of the situation. "Absolutely shameful…" She seethed as she and her son started to wash the dishes from breakfast. "How can they be so heartless? And to their own daughter for god sake!"

"I couldn't agree more mom…" Luka replied as he dried a plate. "I mean I get it, it's taboo but that's the world we live in and that's how it's always gonna be. So why are they so bothered by this? I mean it's not like they're the first lesbian couple in the world."

"I'm just disappointed in Sara and Ben, they had no right to kick her out let alone disown her, I'll admit it wasn't easy for me to accept your sister's choice when she finally told us but she's still my daughter damn it and she has the right to be happy, plus it would go against my philosophy of freedom and I'll be damned if I betray my beliefs." She stated as she gripped a plate tight in her hand and just squeezed it until it snapped in two.

"Uh…mom?" Luka pointed at what she'd done, she looked down and began to groan.

"Ugh…what a dumb thing to do." She declared as she took the broken plate over to the trashcan. "I can't even begin to tell you how mad I am at her folks for this, I believe that everyone has a right to their own opinion but to kick her out over this? I will not stand for it."

"So what are we going to do?" Luka asked as he stacked the plate in the cupboard.

She turned to her son and said. "I'm going to have a little 'chat' with the two of them later today is what I'm going to do."

Luka looked over to his mother and asked. "What do you mean by 'chat'?"

She looked back to him and said. "Don't worry about it, let's just say I've already thought long and hard about what I'm going to say to them."

This didn't sit well with Luka, he knew his mother wasn't usually one for violence but when it came down to it she was a force that not even the fires of hell could match, he instantly became nervous about what his mother said and he had a feeling that what ever she was going to do it would end with someone getting a black eye. God help them, he thought to himself.

"But enough about them, I'd like to here more about this mystery girl your so fond of all of a sudden." She said as she turned toward him with a smile.

Luka smiled as his mind drifted off toward the girl he'd fallen head over heels for, before he'd finally went to bed he was about to speak with her over the phone, they managed to learn a lot more about each other than what they did on their 'date' just before it had to be cut short due to their encounter with the black widow. He turned back to his mother and said. "Well her name is Kagami, she's from Japan, she's smart, beautiful, charming, a little awkward but she makes up for it with personality, she's also into fencing and kendo, she's even nationally ranked, she also knows ninjutsu, she's pretty good at it too, and trust me I'd know that for a fact sense I asked her to give me a demonstration. I know I might be calling it a little early mom but…I think she might be the one I'm looking for. But I promise that I'm not gonna rush into this just yet, I'm gonna take things slow and just see where it goes from there."

She smiled at her son and wrapped him into a hug and said. "I'm sure the two of you will make a wonderful couple sweetheart, just remember to treat her right."

"Oh no need to worry about her there, trust me…" He replied as he still felt the force behind her kick from their sparring match the night before. "She is not someone who's bad side I'd want to be on."

Usually their morning ride to school together was much more talkative, but this morning Dallas was just quiet, he was just hung up on the fact that he was now a father, to a child that he didn't even know about until the other night, Why didn't she tell me? Was the one thing that was on his mind more than anything in that moment. "Well your awfully quiet this morning, usually I can't get you to shut up about anything, I half expected you to tell me about another story about your sex life this morning." Adrien joked as he finally broke the silence, but Dallas paid him no mind as he simply looked out his window. "Uh…Dallas? You okay man?" He asked with concern.

"Dallas isn't really feeling well this morning Adrien…" Spizz stated as he just sat on his shoulder next to Plagg, who was still eating his breakfast. "He sort of found out about something that…upset him quite a bit."

Adrien wanted to know what was going on, or what it was that seemed to upset him, so he tried to spark up a conversation with him. "Is that so? So what happened? Did you and Val get into a fight or something?" He began to speculate, but Dallas just ignored him just trying to ignore the truth about his true love keeping their son a secret from him for so long. But Adrien didn't like to simply be ignored so he tried to get Dallas's attention with the only thing he thought might work. "Hey Dallas look a naked girl." He fibbed just to try and snap him out of his trance, but his depression was too great for him to even care.

"Wow, I think he might be broken if not even that doesn't grab his attention." Plagg said with surprise as he finished off his cheese.

"What's wrong with him Spizz?" Adrien asked bluntly.

Spizz then began to fumble his little hands around one another as he said. "I…don't really know if…I'm at liberty to tell you."

Adrien began to realize just how serious this whole thing was. "Is it really that bad?" He asked with a concerned look, Spizz nodded his head once.

Adrien was about to ask Dallas again what was wrong but before he could Dallas interrupted him as he took notice of one of the reasons for his mind to be so strained. "Oh good, I don't have to wait to tear her a new one." He seethed as he saw the smiling face of his lover standing outside of the school. "Spizz, do me a favor and stay with Adrien and Plagg for the moment, and Adrien, stay out of this…this is between me and her." As soon as Adrien had pulled up next to the school Dallas hopped out and marched over to Valentina who's smile disappeared as she began to notice that he was less than happy to see her.

"Dorogoy? Is something wrong?" She asked with a confused look.

He just glared at her for a moment and asked with a low growl. "Why didn't you tell me?"

Her face adopted a weird look before she asked back very casually. "Why didn't I tell you about what dorogoy?"

"Don't you give me that darling crap!" He snapped at her with clear anger just before he stated. "I know about Yuri." Her eyes widened with shock as she gasped, he then continued still enraged. "Three years…we've been apart for THREE god damn years and during two of those years you and I apparently conceived a child and you didn't even tell me about him! So I wanna know why right now why you kept him a secret from me and I swear to god if you so much as LIE to me…"

She was quick to cut him off. "I did it to protect you both Dallas!" She shouted, tears began to form in the corners of her eyes, she then began to explain herself. "Believe me Dallas I've wanted to tell you for so long, but do you have any idea of how risky that would've been? I have so many enemies that if they ever found out about our son they might hurt him to get to me and telling you through any means could compromise his safety in any number of ways, that's why I couldn't tell you, you have every right to be angry with me Dallas, but I had to do it this way to protect you and our son."

Dallas slowly began to understand, but it didn't calm him down. "So you were just never gonna tell me is that what I'm to believe?" He asked with anger.

"Don't you dare assume I'd be that cruel, I was going to tell you…after…" She began to trail off for a moment.

He narrowed his eyes and said. "After what? You retired? Or he grew up and I missed his entire child hood? Not that it matters because I missed all of the most important parts of his life because of you Val, his first steps, his first words, his birth for god sake, I missed…ALL OF IT!"

"DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT!" She shouted back. "I hated myself for what I did to you back in Seattle, and the fact that I got pregnant with your son didn't really make me feel better about hurting you the first time, I suffered just as much as you did Dallas, whether you want to believe me or not I was in more pain than you could've EVER IMAGINED!" She began to sob heavy tears before she continued. "If you hate me then I can live with that, but let me ask you something, if you had to sacrifice one thing that you cared about in your life to protect another that couldn't be replaced…what would you choose? I wanted you to be there when he was born, when he started walking, talking, even when he first went to pre-school, but if you were in my position could you honestly say that you would've done anything differently than what I did to keep him safe?"

Dallas just hung his head in shame, it was only in that moment that he realized that she had a harder time than he did because of their time apart. He sighed and said feeling defeated and also disgusted by his own behavior even though it was still justified. "Okay…I get it. You've had it rough, I guess I can't say I wouldn't do the same, but you still could've told me somehow, I mean knowing about him at least would've been enough to keep me content."

She wiped away the tears and said. "I know, I truly am sorry Dallas, I know you deserve better than this, but I promise I will make this up to you."

Dallas then pulled her into a hug and just held her. "I want to meet him, I wanna get to know him, I wanna help raise him up right, if you can make that happen…then I'll forgive you for every last thing I've been through because of our separation." He said with sincerity.

She looked up to him and said. "I promise you I'll make that happen, but first we need to deal with one problem." She laminated firmly.

"The Chameleon…" He assumed, she then nodded confirming his suspicions. "He doesn't know does he?" He asked with a slight bit of worry.

"I doubt that he does, but that's not the reason I'm going to kill him, if I manage to kill him then my status would be moved up to the number one spot on the top ten list, giving me both fear and respect from all other assassins in the world, which would also deter anyone from trying to hurt our son as they would know that I always return to seek my revenge against those who've scorned me." She stated flatly as she imagined herself finally killing the Chameleon and taking the number one spot on the list, revenge will taste so sweet by the time I'm done with him, she seethed inside her head.

"So that's why you've been working so hard to become number one…" Dallas assumed again. "Alright then, I guess we don't have a lot of time to screw around then, the sooner we take out that fucker the better."

"Agreed, now that we've taken care of that…" She held out her hand and asked. "Can I have my work phone back now?" Dallas reached into his pocket and handed her the phone, she then placed one kiss on his lips then took off down the street.

As she faded from sight Adrien finely stepped out of the car then asked. "Okay what was all of that about?"

Dallas saw no reason to lie, he figured that he'd have to tell Adrien and his father about this eventually. "I just discovered last night that…Val and I…have a son." He said slowly, still in a bit of disbelief about actually being a father.

Adrien's jaw simply dropped, he was silent for almost half a minute due to the shocking news he'd just learned. "You have a kid? But how do you…actually don't answer that it's pretty clear how, especially sense your just a huge sex hound." Dallas then turned toward Adrien and punched him in the arm. "OW! What it's true, especially sense you never shut up about getting laid all the time."

"Dude…shut the hell up okay? This is a big thing for me right now, now I have to get a job, find a house, send my kid off to school…" He began to narrow down all the things he'd have to do in order to take care of his son.

Adrien was surprised at his foster brother, he'd never really seen him take anything this serious before in the time he'd known him unless it was about the gangs or if it was during his moments as Iktomi. "Wow, I never thought you'd actually take something like this so serious Dallas."

Dallas turned back to Adrien and said. "Well it's not like I have a choice, I have to grow up some time, plus now that I'm a father…" He paused upon hearing himself say that. "God that sounds so weird, and…at the same time, it feels…great, I actually have something to live for again, I actually have meaning in my life now. I think I even have butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it." The joy Dallas felt in his heart for his illegitimate son was beyond measure, he knew that soon enough that would double when he'd finally gotten to meet him.

Adrien couldn't help but feel happy for Dallas too, in fact he was almost envious of him. "So…how does it feel to be a dad?" He asked bluntly.

Dallas simply closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. "It feels…amazing, like…I've been blessed by god, and no matter what happens I am NEVER…letting anything happen to Yurochka." He stated with a serious tone.

"Uh…Yurochka?" Adrien asked with a dumb look.

"That's his first name genius…" Dallas replied with slight annoyance.

"I gathered that, it's just a weird name to me is all." Adrien said with honesty.

Dallas started to glare at him and said. "Call my kid's name weird again and I'm going to rip out your heart and roast it on an open fire."

Normally Adrien would take a threat like this seriously, and he did of course, but it was overwhelmed by the laughter that came out due to how protective Dallas already was toward his son. "Oh my god dude…" He chuckled as he held his side from how hard he was laughing. "You only just found out that you're a dad less than twenty-four hours ago and your already showing signs of being an over protective parent."

"I'm not being…" Dallas began to deny Adrien's claim when he came to realize that he was actually closer to the truth than he thought. "Oh my god your right, oh Jesuses my lord and savior please don't let me turn into a helicopter parent after I finally meet him." He covered his face with one hand and began to blush with self embarrassment.

"Oh I can just see you now…" Adrien began to joke. "You'll probably become one of those soccer dads dropping him off in a mini-van every day for practice after school and if anyone tries to bully him I'll bet you'll probably cut their throats or something and embarrass him in front of all of his friends or worse yet…his first real crush."

"Oh god if that ever happens please promise me you'll kick me in the balls." Dallas begged as his shame just grew.

Plagg then pocked his head out of Adrien's shirt and said with a smirk. "You heard him that is legally binding."

"Plagg, get your butt back inside there!" Adrien demanded at half volume as he shoved his kwami back inside his over shirt. The two boys made their way to their lockers then headed straight for class after meeting up with Marinette and a few of her friends, as they all made their way up stairs the group all paused when they came face to face with a sight that none of them were entirely prepared for. "What the…" Adrien voiced as he was dumbstruck by a very passionate display of affection made by Juleka and Rose, both of whom were caught up in each other's embrace as well as sharing a deep kiss with one another.

"Juleka? Rose? What the flying fuck…?" Dallas added as he too was confused as to what he was baring witness to, even though he already knew about Juleka's preferences he was still surprised that Rose was returning her feelings, even when she didn't even hint slightly about how she felt.

The two lovers halted their kiss for the moment as soon as Dallas spoke up, Juleka shifted nervously as they had come to realize that they had been caught red handed. "Um…hey…guys." She started with a sheepish smile. "This is…a little awkward."

Rose then cleared her throat as she too felt a bit embarrassed by what the two had been doing for the past five minutes. "We were gonna tell you guys about this later, but seeing as you've just walked in on us…" She took Juleka's hand and squeezed it tight in her own. "I guess there's no point in waiting any longer."

None of them said a word for the first few moments as they all just stood there processing this new knowledge they'd obtained, Marinette was the first to break the silence. "You mean to say that…you two are…lesbians? Also that your…a couple?"

Juleka was quick to correct. "Actually I'm a lesbian, Rose is just bisexual, but we are indeed a couple now." She said with a smile.

Dallas then began to become even more confused, then he asked both girls. "But how…how is this…I mean…I thought I'd ruined everything between you two, and yet you two are now a couple? How is this possible?" That's when all attention from Marinette and her friends was shifted to him.

"What did you do Jones?" Marinette growled, she looked as if she was about to lunge straight for his throat if he said the wrong thing, as did all the other girls standing behind her.

Before he could say anything Juleka was quick to defend him. "Mari please, he's just being modest, you see what happened was this…" She began to explain every last bit of what had happened between them starting from that day at the tower and ending with Rose's parents kicking her out and the two officially becoming a couple.

Their friends felt happy for them both, they even felt as though a celebration was in order, until yet another unexpected event happened, from Milan, she immediately began to feel sick, she ran over to the trash can and started to throw up. "Are you really bothered by their choice that much?" Dallas assumed that was her reason for suddenly feeling sick.

She looked back over to everyone then wiped her mouth and said. "No…it's not this at all, I've just been like this for the past few days…" She stopped just before she threw up again.

"Oh I get it, probably food poisoning, or maybe you just caught a bug, fortunately I've got just the thing for you in my locker, I'll be right back." Dallas announced as he headed back to his locker and returned with a cup of ginger tea and vitamin C pills. "These should help boost your immune system and the tea should help with your stomach a little bit, lucky for you I happen to be a herbalist who knows everything there is about natural medicine."

He handed her the pills and the tea which she didn't hesitate to use, at this point she was willing to try anything to fix herself up a bit. Marinette then folded her arms and smiled at Dallas then said with an almost smug tone. "I thought you didn't believe in pills?"

Dallas was quick to retort. "I said I didn't like to poison my body with anything unnatural like most people Marinette, vitamin supplements are one hundred percent natural thank you very much and I'll use them before I use factory made meds any day so there." He then finished his argument by sticking his tongue out at her.

She rolled her eyes at him and smiled back at him. "Whatever you say Mr. Herbalist, it still seems a tiny bit hypocritical of you." She said smugly.

"How am I being a hypocrite?" He asked flatly.

She was quick to reply with a smug tone. "Because you said over a month ago that you'd use herbs and roots over pills and syrups any day did you not?"

"This is different, vitamin C is a natural supplement that you can ingest from a number of things. If it happens to be in the form of a pill then so be it." He retorted with a firm tone as he crossed his arms, he would've continued his argument when he received a text message on his phone from Valentina, he pulled it out of his pocket and saw that it was a prerecorded video with a single caption on it which red two words that just made his heart melt, Hi daddy.

He didn't hesitate to open up the message and watch the video containing his first look upon his sons face. "Alright Yuri it's going now love, do you know what you want to say to your daddy?" The British woman from before asked as the camera was focused on a two year old with slightly tanned skin with green eyes and long blond hair tied into a ponytail, he was wearing a dinosaur t-shirt which read hear me roar on the front and a pair of sweat pants meant for a child his age.

"Hi daddy…" Yurochka waved as he smiled at the camera, it looked as though he'd lost some teeth recently as he grinned happily and held a teddy bear close to his chest. "Iss me Yuwi, mommy says dat I can sees you soon, I weawy wanna meet you daddy, ann I wanna hug you and tell you tories about me and my fwiends as school, I'm so happy dat I can meet you daddy, I wove you, bye-bye."

Once the video ended Dallas couldn't help but shed a few happy tears as he heard his son say those three little words that when used together carried so much wait behind them, he sat down on the edge of the desk behind him and just cried softly as he smiled down upon the bright and smiling face of his son Yuri. As he was busy wiping away the tears everyone else was peering over his shoulder to see what was getting him so emotional. Alya was the first person to read the caption. "Hi daddy? Who's calling you daddy?" She asked twice.

Dallas took only an extra second to explain with a high amount of pride in his voice. "Well as luck would have it, it turns out that I have a son, and this is him…" He showed everyone his frozen image on screen, everyone in the room began to coo and feel nothing but happiness for Dallas at this moment as he now had a child who had already confessed his love for his father and who he was looking forward to meeting, Dallas closed his eyes and just imagined holding his son in his arms for the first time. "His name is Yuri, it's short for Yurochka, his mother is Russian so naturally she picked out his name, if I'd known though I probably would've been there to help her with every last thing in terms of raising a kid, but now I'll have that chance because his mom and I both agreed to something which will benefit my son, myself and his mother who just to be clear to the rest of you I'm still plenty mad at her so don't even bother asking, but she told me why she did it so I'm gonna get over it, eventually."

"Aw he's so cute, he looks so much like you…" Rose complemented as she just gushed over the two year old on the screen. "How old is he?" She asked plainly.

"About two I think, and he's incredibly smart too for his age, way smarter than I am too and I have an IQ of 356." He confirmed happy to know that his son had a bright future ahead of him if his intelligence was allowed to flourish. "Evidently he's also on a list to be admitted into a school for children with gifted intelligence, he already knows how to do basic math, that's just amazing for a two year old to do."

"Hey why is his hair tied in a ponytail?" Adrien asked as he pointed at the picture.

"Oh that? It's kind of a religious thing for native Americans to grow our hair long, you see our culture like many other's believe that our hair possess magical ties to the universe, we don't really cut it either unless the need arises." Dallas explained casually. "We only really cut it if we've committed a great sin which we want to shed from our person or if we've lost a member of the family to signify a loss, after words we either burn, bury, or drop our hair into a river as a final farewell to that moment of our lives, as for why it's in a pony tail, well that's just because it's not the right time to let it flow freely, when it's in a ponytail then its just to show calmness and restraint, but if its loose and flowing then that's when were going to a celebration like a pow-wow to let our wild sides be free for the evening."

"So is that why your hair is so short?" Marinette asked plainly.

Dallas nodded and said. "I kinda tried to screw Antonio Lorenzo out of a few million euros before I was taken in by Mr. Agreste as his foster kid, I kinda screwed up though and ended up getting shot too, but that's a different story, now I get to wait until my hair grows back before I can wear it the way I want it again, I really miss my hair." He rubbed the top of his head and added. "I feel naked without my hair, and not in a good way."

"So did you just where it with a tie or did you braid it?" Alya asked curiously.

"I braided it, I always liked having it in one solid form." He said casually.

That's when Adrien asked yet another question. "So when are you going to meet the little guy?" Before he could answer the first bell rang and the rest of the class began to poor into the class like a flood. "You know what, just tell me later."

Everyone began to take their seats just before the tardy bell rang, just as the teacher entered the room someone from behind him tapped on Dallas's shoulder and asked. "Hey Dallas…is it true that you have a kid?" A boy with ginger hair and freckles asked, he wore a black over coat with a red shirt and purple pants.

Dallas looked back to him and asked back. "Okay who told you about my kid?"

Nathan gasped with surprise and said. "So it's true, you really do have a kid."

Dallas simply rolled his eyes and said back to him with a groan. "Yes I have a kid okay, now keep it to yourself alright uh…what's your name again? I know you're the cartoonist kid but I'm afraid your name escapes me."

Nathan then extended his hand and introduced himself. "I'm Nathan, but you can call me Nate if you like."

Dallas took his hand and gave it a good firm shake. "Nice to meet you, now like I said keep the existence about my kid to yourself okay? I don't want too many people to know about him just yet, he'll be safer that way."

"Uh…safer, I don't think I follow you." Nathan replied with a dumb look.

"It's probably better that way, just please don't tell anyone about my kid for a while." Dallas requested again.

"Don't worry, I can keep a secret." Nathan promised as he returned to drawing a new comic, Dallas took a brief second and saw just who he was making this comic about, himself, or rather his superhero persona fighting off a large werewolf looking creature, possibly an Akumaa.

"Is that Iktomi?" He asked curiously. "What's he supposed to be fighting? Some kind of werewolf?"

Nathan nodded his head and said. "Yeah, I kinda pulled a little bit of inspiration from native American culture for this comic. Also a little bit from the twilight saga, you know cause of that tribe that believes they're part wolf, I figured that sense you gave him a native American based codename I figured why not make the comic that way too."

Dallas knew which tribe he meant right away but he had to set him straight. "Just so you know that idea about werewolves being an original idea for native American culture is much older than the book series, also it's not just one tribe that believes in being descendant from wolves, in fact some of the lore behind werewolves in our culture are seen as protectors, but for this guy I'd recommend you portray him as a naaldlooshii."

Nathan just gave Dallas a weird look as he had no idea as to what he was talking about. "A what?" He asked plainly.

"It's a kind of shapeshifter from Navajo lore, it means he who goes on all fours, though a more common name is the skin-walker." Dallas explained up to the point when the teacher called his name.

"Mr. Jones, eyes front please." Ms. Bustier called out to him from the front as she began to write out their lesson.

"Oh sorry ma'am promise it won't happen again." Dallas replied as he shifted his focus back to the front, he then whispered back to Nathan. "We can talk more about it at lunch if you're interested."

A few hours after class Nathan had agreed to meet up with Dallas out on the black top for lunch, but before they began to talk about the skin-walker legend Nathan insisted that they wait on his friend and writer Marc, to which Dallas understood perfectly, he also didn't want to have to repeat himself. "Where is he?" Dallas asked as he grew impatient. "Shouldn't he have been here by now?"

"He said he needed to do a little corrective editing for our latest comic, but he should be…oh there he is." Nathan pointed out to a boy with black hair with a red hoodie sweat shirt with blue jeans carrying a note book under his arm.

Dallas took one look at Marc and thought, is this kid constipated or just super nervous either way he needs to relax. "Are you the kid we're supposed to be waiting on?" He asked trying to seem less intimidating than usual as he could tell this kid seemed to be on the defensive in his mind.

"Uh…yeah, that's me…I'm Marc by the way, I'm the writer of the comic." Marc replied being slightly cautious of Dallas as he was present the first day he'd arrived to school and still was one of the few kids in the entire school who feared him, which of course Dallas understood perfectly as he had a feeling his confession about his past would basically divide the school about how they felt toward him.

"Nice to meet you Marc, I'm Dallas, the guy who's gonna help put a few things about my people's cultures into perspective, as well as provide you guys with a little extra information about our monsters and legends." He replied as he guided Marc over to the bench, as Marc sat down Dallas began to tell the tail of the Navajo skin-walkers. "Alright now listen up you two…you especially Marc should pay attention, meaning you might want to write this down as I hate to repeat myself." Marc nodded and readied his pencil and note book. "This is the legend of the naaldlooshii, the skin-walkers, ever sense the days of old the Navajo have feared great and powerful shapeshifters known as the naaldlooshii, the tails say that at one point in their lives they were the highest ranking medicine men and women of the Navajo tribe who abused their power and used them for dark purposes like summoning evil forces to plague their people, but what truly made them into the dark beings they are today is how they became skin-walkers in the first place."

Nathan and Marc were already caught up into the tail of the shapeshifters of the Navajo, seeing that they could definitely benefit from the legend for their comic. "What did they do? Did they sell their soul to the devil or something?" Nathan asked with peeked curiosity.

"No, but they might as well have, what they did…" Dallas paused for a moment to add dramatic effect just before he continued. "Was kill their closest family and loved ones." Both boys looked shocked at this dark reveal for how they gain their power.

"Dude, that is messed up." Marc stated as he put his pencil down and awaited for Dallas to continue. "So how do they transform in to a werewolf?" He added wanting to know more about these dark beings.

"Well it's not just wolves they turn into, they're most commonly known for becoming wolves that much is true, but it's not just wolves, they also turn into foxes, coyotes, bears, eagles, ravens, owls, well actually I think its safe to say they can become any animal they want simply by obtaining their skins." Dallas told the facts.

"Skins? What do skins have to do with it?" Nathan asked again.

Dallas was quick to answer. "Everything actually, if the skin walkers wears the skin of any animal they find then they become that animal, hell sometimes they don't even need that, sometimes all they have to do is look you in the eye to steal your form, which reminds me, never look them directly in the eye as they can do that as well as take control of your mind, and because they were once human they can mimic the sound of your loved ones and lure you out into the open so it can unleash it's horrible vengeance upon you for daring to speak of them, which is one reason why the Navajo don't really talk about them publicly for fear of the skin-walkers in their community, or just because they don't want to be ridiculed by their friends and neighbors."

"Whoa, this thing is incredible, almost impossible to beat, multiple abilities, seriously messed up background, this comic is gonna write itself. Do you know of any kinds of weaknesses they have? Cause you know every bad guy needs a weakness." Marc stated as he continued writing out the legend and it's details.

"Well there is one method I know that works, it's pretty simple, and at the same time overly complicated." Dallas confirmed. "All you have to do is say the name of the skin-walker in question, and then…POOF…the beast is no more."

Nathan and Marc then exchanged a weird look then asked in unison. "Huh?"

"Names are a powerful seal on all living creatures, if you utter the name of the skin-walker in front of them then they'll be bound to the sins they've committed over the years and they'll be forced to atone for their crimes, usually threw death, which I think is another reason why they kill their loved ones to be honest, the less people that know your name the less likely you'll be killed by anyone." Dallas pointed out.

"Okay I guess that makes sense, you know I think this comic might be a best seller with this story alone, thanks a lot Dallas, this would've been a lot harder to write out and make it sound believable without your help." Marc said as he finished writing down everything he needed.

Dallas smiled and said. "No problem, if you need any more information on native American folklore don't hesitate to ask."

Before he left Nathan grabbed his shoulder then asked sheepishly. "Actually, could you please tell us about a few more monsters from native American folklore sometime? It would get pretty boring if it was just one monster to fight all the time don't you think?"

Dallas felt very flattered that they wanted to know more about the legends of the native Americans and was more than happy to tell them more. He spent the rest of their lunch period simply telling them about some of the most famous of native American monsters and legends such as the mishipeshu (the water-panther), the kanontsistonties (the flying heads), the tah-tah-kle'-ah (the owl-women), Chenoo (the ice giant), the Skudakumooch (the ghost-witch), the wendigo (the evil that devours), the Teihiihan (the little cannibals), and the Uktena (the horned serpent). With all of this new information the cartoonist and writer now had more than they needed to make their new stand alone comic about Iktomi, they even told Dallas that he would be allowed to read the first rough draft once it was finished, this made Dallas excited, not only would he be getting his own comic book written about him but he also would be the first to read it.

After school Dallas, Adrien, Marinette, and all of their friends decided to hang out and celebrate Juleka and Rose coming out as a couple, seeing as this moment was about them they chose to hang out at a popular ice cream parlor, all except Ivan and Milan who sadly had gotten sick again and had to go straight home and sense he didn't want her to go alone Ivan decided to help her get there safe and sound, being the nice guy that he was Adrien offered to buy for everyone, seeing as he could afford it no one argued, mostly no one anyway sense no one wanted to take advantage of him. But he didn't see it as them taking advantage of him, more like he was just being a good friend.

Juleka and Rose were both sharing a hot fudge chocolate sundae topped with whipped cream and sprinkles, and simply enjoying each other's embrace while they ate, Marinette couldn't help but coo as she felt such joy for her friends. "You guys really do make a cute couple." She complemented and clearly showing her support for their new relationship.

"Thanks Mari, it's good to know that some people I know are willing to accept us as we are, unlike my folks." Rose replied with a slightly bitter tone.

Juleka then rested her hand on her lover's shoulder and said. "Don't let them get to you Rose, you don't need their approval to be happy, you just need your own." She then placed a light kiss on the side of her head and just held her close.

"I still can't believe your parents just kicked you out with nowhere to go, that's so unfair, I mean I understand that it's not exactly normal but that doesn't mean it's bad, I'll bet they didn't even bother listening to what you had to say." Alya added feeling ashamed for what Rose's parents had done to their daughter.

"I swear to god I am just so ANGRY right now…" Dallas added as he fought to keep his anger in check. "If I ever see them in a dark alley I won't hesitate to kick their asses and you all know I'd do it too."

"Take it easy Dallas…" Adrien attempted to smooth things over. "Don't get yourself worked up, I'm sure that we can work things out with her parents somehow."

Dallas just shook his head in disagreement and said. "You just don't get it Adrien, their simple minded view was confirmed the moment that they kicked her out of the house, but it'll be fine in the end after I go over their and knock some sense into her parents…literally."

"Jeez you sound like my mother right now." Juleka added just before she realized that her mother might very well be doing the exact same thing that Dallas said he'd do. "Oh god I hope she's not taking things too far."

Dallas then leaned in toward Marinette and asked. "Is her mom really that much of an ass kicker?"

She simply shrugged her shoulders and replied. "I don't really know her mom that well so I guess I'll just have to take her word for it."

"Excuse me…" A female Russian voice spoke up from off to the side, everyone looked up to see Valentina Volkov simply standing there with a strawberry milkshake in her hand. "Do you mind if I sit next to my boyfriend please?" She asked politely.

"Oh…not at all Val, please sit down." Marinette stood up along with Adrien who'd been sitting next to her and allowed the Russian girl to sit down next to Dallas in the corner booth of the parlor.

Alya, Nino and Juleka had no idea who this girl was nor did they have any idea of how Marinette or Dallas knew her, as for everyone else they knew her well enough. "Hey baby…" Dallas welcomed her as he pulled her in close and placed a kiss on her cheek just before he introduced her. "To those of you who don't already know, this is my girlfriend Valentina Volkov, Val, these are Nino, Alya, Kim, Alix, Max, Juleka and…"

"Hi Val, nice to see you again, how's the exterminating going?" Rose interrupted Dallas just as he was about to introduce her.

"It's good to see you again Rose, and it's also good to meet you all as well." She added with a smile.

Juleka then asked bluntly to the strange blond girl sitting across from her. "How do you know my girlfriend?"

"Oh you two are a couple? How adorable, you two look so cute together." Valentina said back. "But to answer your question I stood up for her when some little stuck up snobby selfish blond piz'da tried to shove her down the stairs and needless to say I wasn't too thrilled with her inappropriate behavior."

None of them knew what piz'da meant other than Dallas as he spoke Russian, but none of them needed to know as they figured that it was better to just assume it was an insult, and who it was being pushed toward was clear to everyone with her description of her. "Let me guess, she wears tacky designer clothes that look like she got them from a dime store, and that they came from a bargain bin." Alya stated as she burned Chloe behind her back.

Everyone other than Adrien began to snicker, he just frowned his brow at her and replied. "Alya come on can't you just say something about her that isn't entirely mean for once?"

"Adrien, you need to listen to me dude…" Dallas interrupted. "There's an old saying, behave the way you want to be treated, well if she wants to act like a cunt then she's gonna be treated like one, so until she stops acting like a bitch then you might as well see her for what she is, in other words Adrien you need to accept the fact that not everyone is going to act all nice and sweet to her if she chooses to fire the first shot, and sense her parents didn't crack the whip a little more when she was younger it's basically enabled her to act as poorly as she wants and if someone has to put her in her place until she realizes that the world doesn't revolve around her then so be it."

"So your saying that it's probably better to keep throwing fuel on the fire than to try and put it out?" Adrien said back with a frown.

Dallas was quick to retort. "No, I'm saying you need to kick the fire's ass until it stops raging on like it's been for too long, especially if that means giving her a taste of her own medicine because as I've told you before people only change if they want to change, and to be fair…well she needs to be forced to change if people are ever gonna start respecting her."

"Or you could just treat her the way you would want to be treated, did you ever think of that?" Adrien asked rhetorically.

Dallas then asked back just as rhetorical. "And how's that worked out for everyone else?"

"Okay fine, so maybe she's not the easiest person to get along with…" Adrien began to defend her only to be cut off by Dallas.

"Understatement of the year Adrien, she's a selfish, greedy, prideful, arrogant, manipulating, dishonest, crewel, overly entitled little brat who needs her ass paddled a little bit to figure out that…"

It was around that point that Adrien began to get mad. "Okay you know what? You guys are all entitled to your own opinions about her but that doesn't mean I have to sit here and listen to you bad mouth my friend." Adrien stated as he stood up about to leave.

Marinette then stood up and said. "Adrien please just listen to…"

Adrien just shrugged her off and said. "No Mari, I know Chloe will never be your favorite person but that doesn't mean I have to hear you all agree on how much you hate her."

It was at this moment that Marinette had become fed up with his stubbornness, as he began to turn toward the door she narrowed her eyes and gripped his shoulder then pulled him back to the table with force. "Sit! Down! Now! You might not want to hear any of this, but whether you like it or not you need to hear this!" She said as she pulled him back into his seat with authority.

He slowly began to stand back up. "Marinette, I don't want to argue with you about this okay, but I'm not gonna…" Before he could finish she grabbed the collar of his shirt and screamed in his face.

"SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL SIT YOU DOWN MYSELF AND YOU WON'T LIKE IT!" She just stared right into his eyes showing that she was not putting up with his crap anymore.

The entire room was silent, no one said a word due to her outburst, until Dallas broke the silents. "Wow, I didn't think she had it in her." It's pretty clear who wears the pants in this relationship, he added mentally.

Adrien gulped loudly as he instantly felt fear surge through him, mainly because he'd never seen her like this before, as Ladybug or Marinette for that matter, feeling two inches tall he just sat back down and did so without making a peep. "Good boy, now then Dallas I believe you had a point to make." She said to the young rebel.

Dallas then snapped out of the trance he was in from Marinette's outburst then he continued. "Right, like I was saying it doesn't matter how people treat her because she's always acted like this and she's always going to be like this unless she actually wants to change, but that's probably never gonna happen because she's been allowed to act like this sense child hood and now that she's practically and adult she'll probably be like this forever, unless someone sets her straight and forces her to change she never will, in other words and I'm not saying that it's gonna be me, but someone needs to kick her ass big time."

Adrien was in shock by his sudden remark, for him to think that what Chloe actually needed to be set on the right path was actually a beating rather than a stern talking to didn't sit well with him. Around that same moment the very reason for their conversation and Adrien's slight turmoil with his friends and girlfriend had just walked in to the parlor, she walked straight up to the counter and demanded the attention of the attendant. "You, I want a triple scoop of butter pecan, pistachio and vanilla ice cream with hot fudge, toasted peanuts and a cherry on top served on a waffle cone, and if you want a tip then you'd better make it snappy." She demanded as she placed both her hands on her hips and turned her nose up in the air.

"Oh look there's little miss Muppet now and doing what she does best, being a CUNT." Dallas laminated without a hint of remorse.

The attendant handed Chloe her order, but before he could return to work she began to complain. "Excuse me, but what the hell did you put on my ice cream?" She asked with annoyance.

"Hot fudge, peanuts and a cherry miss." The attendant answered without even a slight hint of interest in her ranting.

"I said I wanted toasted peanuts, these are not toasted." She said as she threw the cone on the floor.

The attendant simply replied with his own annoyance and a hint of sarcasm. "Oh well I'm sorry princess, I'll make you another one right away just let me…oh would you look at that, I'm all out of give a damns."

Chloe then narrowed her eyes at him and said. "Haven't you ever heard of the customer is always right?"

"Have you ever heard of we don't carry toasted peanuts alright? There too expensive for us to carry." The attendant said back obviously not fazed by her arrogant behavior.

"How hard is it to simply make toasted peanuts?" Chloe asked rhetorically. "All you need is an oven."

"This is an ice cream shop not a bakery, my product could melt from the heat it puts out, plus ovens cost money so unless your willing to donate some extra cash sweetheart take your sour attitude and get lost."

"Do you have any idea of who I am?" Chloe growled as she just glared at him with anger.

The attendant just retorted with. "Did you not hear me when I said I'm all out of give a damns?"

Chloe then frowned her brow and said. "You think your so clever don't you?" She then pulled out her phone and started to call her father. "Well lets see just how clever you are after my daddy shuts down your stupid store for good." It was around that moment that Valentina decided that Chloe needed to be put in her place.

"Excuse me everyone but she needs to be taught a lesson in manners." She said just before she summersaulted over the table and out of the booth without spilling anything then she walked over to the unsuspecting Chloe.

"Hi daddy it's me Chloe…oh I'm doing alright thank you for asking…listen I need you to do me a favor and HEY!" Before Chloe could finish Valentina then pulled the phone out of her hand and took over the call pretending to be a prerecorded message.

"We're sorry, your call has been disconnected, please hang up and try again, goodbye." She said with a plain American accent, she then disconnected the call and threw the phone on the ground and crushed it under her heel.

"Are you out of your damn mind?!" Chloe shrilled as she just watched as her brand-new phone was crushed under the heel of the same girl who'd humiliated her just the other day.

"I understand that you have every right to be frustrated with the service, but that doesn't give you the right to bully someone by shutting down their store, especially over something as stupid as peanuts." Valentina stated as she prepared herself for the inevitable fight that she was looking forward to.

"First you humiliate me at school and now you have the audacity to break my property while I'm trying to call my father and report this man's injustice?" Chloe retorted without any kind of accuracy whatsoever.

Valentina looked her in the eye and said. "You humiliate yourself just by wearing that tacky outfit every day, along with your piss poor attitude, oh and by the way your upper lip could definitely use a good waxing because it's hard to tell you apart from a man with that flat chest of yours."

Dallas just chuckled to himself in the booth. "Ooh burn." He said just before the parlor was filled with the sound of an audible slap, a slap that Chloe had placed upon Valentina's face, Dallas's eyes widened with realization and knew exactly what Valentina was about to do next. "Ohhhhhhhhhhh…this is not gonna end well for her at all." He said as he braced himself for the savagery he and everyone else were about to be subjected to.

Chloe's slap was so hard it caused Valentina's head to turn to the side, she slowly turned back to meet Chloe's gaze and grinned a devilish grin, one that sent a chill down Chloe's spine. "If I were you, I'd start running." She said with a smile.

Chloe needed no convincing as she could already tell that this girl was about ready to kill her, she then ran out of the parlor screaming at the top of her lungs as Valentina chased after her. "Val wait!" Adrien tried to get up and go after her when Dallas simply stopped him.

"Adrien, remember what I said, if she's not gonna learn respect on her own she needs to be taught, by any means necessary." He laminated as he sat him back down.

"Oh I am not gonna miss this." Alya said as she ran out of the booth.

"I'm going too." Marinette agreed as she too got up and rushed for the door.

Nino also hopped up and said. "Hey wait for me!"

Alix then stood up from her seat and grabbed Max and said. "Come on lets go, no way am I missing this." She dragged him out of the seat.

"Wanna watch Chloe get her ass kicked?" Juleka asked her girlfriend casually.

Rose simply shrugged her shoulders and said. "I guess, it's not like we have anything better to do."

"Hey I wanna see this too." Kim added as he and the girls all took off out of the parlor.

Adrien just glared at them all as they all took off out of the store and down into an alley just across the street where it could be seen by all that Valentina was beating Chloe like a rented mule. "Oh come on dude…" Dallas voiced his thoughts. "She's had this coming for a long time and now she's getting what she deserves and you know it."

Adrien then looked back to him and said. "Are you kidding me right now? She's an assassin, she'll probably kill her."

"Relax dude, unless she's been targeted for an assassination, which wouldn't surprise me in the least if it ever actually happened, she's not gonna kill…uh-oh." Dallas stopped once he noticed Valentina reach for something on her lower back.

"Uh-oh? What's uh-oh?" Adrien turned around and saw that Valentina was kneeling over Chloe holding one of her knives as she held her hair. "AND DO YOU STILL THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO LET HER DO THIS?!" He shouted back at Dallas as he stood up and rushed out of the booth with Dallas close behind, he didn't think his girlfriend would actually kill her but it had been a while sense he'd seen her and didn't know just how much her life had changed after having their son.

"HOLD STILL YOU LITTLE 'SUKA!" Valentina bellowed as she pulled tighter on Chloe's hair.

"NO PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO ME PLEASE!" Chloe begged as she tried desperately to crawl away but to no avail.

"I SAID HOLD STILL OR I MIGHT CUT SOMETHING I DON'T WANT TO CUT!" She replied as she began to cut.

"NO…NO...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Chloe's blood curdling scream filled the surrounding area for almost half a mile. The entire mob just watched as the assassin did her handy work upon her victim. The crowd of teens had completely blocked the view of what Valentina had done to Chloe, which made Adrien worry.

"Chloe! Chloe are you…?" He stopped in mid-sentence as he looked on in horror at what Valentina had done.

Valentina simply stood up holding Chloe's hair tight in her fist as she stood over her victim. "What? All I did was shave her bald."

Chloe then sat up and started to feel the top of her head, it felt slightly cold and smooth, she then pulled out a small mirror from her purse and looked in horror at her own reflection, she then began to sob as she stood up and ran out of the alley shoving her way through the crowd of teens. "DON'T LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" She cried as she ran down the street. "DADDYYYYYYYYY!"

Adrien then glared at the crowd of teens and just said with anger. "Not one of you, NOT even one of you even bothered to help her."

"Dude, she has a knife, we're not that stupid numbers or not I'm not messing with someone who's holding a knife end of story." Nino justified for himself and the group as well.

"He's kind of got a point Adrien, and it's not like calling for help would've done anything to stop it at that point anyway." Dallas pointed out.

Adrien then turned to Valentina and said. "And you, she slaps you and you answer her with a knife?"

"Oh come on, I didn't hurt her, and believe me I wanted to do more than shave her head, and I could've done it easily too believe me." Valentina stated without a hint of remorse.

"Still though, you went too far!" Adrien raged at her.

"It could've been worse Adrien, a lot worse…" Dallas laminated casually. "But to be honest this is a good thing, she'll finally learn some respect, and there is no better teacher than humiliation."

Adrien just started to get mad again, but rather than yell at everyone he just left feeling enraged, he got in the car he and Dallas drove there in and took off without his foster brother. Of course this was only a miner inconvenience as he could just use his miraculous to get home. He tried to talk to Adrien but he just refused to talk to him, even after he picked the lock to his room, he just sat at his desk doing his homework, dinner was especially awkward as he just kept glaring at Dallas with clear anger written on his face, luckily Gabriel didn't seem to notice at all, later that night Adrien was playing one of his arcade games to try and distract himself from what Dallas had said and what his girlfriend had done.

"Adrien, are you really not gonna talk about this with anyone?" Plagg asked as he just hovered next to his owner, who simply ignored him, Plagg had no part in the entire endeavor but he still made it very clear to Adrien that he had agreed to what had happened to Chloe, not just because he thought it was hilarious but also because he agreed that she needed to be disciplined for once. "Really? Are you just gonna pout all night about this? Look she had it coming, and you know it."

"I didn't ask for your input Plagg." Adrien seethed as he maintained his focus on his game. Plagg then growled as he didn't like being shrugged off so easily, so he just flew back behind the game console and pulled the plug, the screen just went black and Adrien began to complain. "HEY!"

"Listen you little brat, I don't care if your angry or how sorry you feel for Chloe, she's had it coming for a long time and whether you want to admit it or not that's the damn truth you spineless little shit!" Plagg shouted at him as he too was tired of his behavior.

But Adrien wasn't backing down so easily. "Even so that wasn't the way to go Plagg and YOU know that!"

"Well if it were up to me she wouldn't have gotten off so easily." Plagg stated firmly. "If it were up to me, she would've gotten ten times worse than just a shave."

"Well it's a good thing it wasn't up to you." He seethed as he switched to a new game, which Plagg unplugged as well, along with all the others. "You are really testing my PATIENTS right now Plagg!" He growled as he turned his attention to his kwami.

"Good, then you'll finally pull your head out of your ass and put it back on your shoulders where it belongs, now pay attention buster because I've got something to say and whether or not you wanna hear it isn't up to you because if you so much as try to ignore me so help me god I will personally kick your stubborn little ass, you need to stop protecting Chloe and let her take the consequences for her actions for once, because all you do is enable her to get away with stuff just like her poor excuses of parents do all the time." Plagg laid down the law the only way that he could, with the truth.

"I don't protect her." Adrien denied casually.

Plagg rolled his eyes and said. "Oh my god, are you really that naïve? You might as well be a god damn shield that she holds up in front of her to protect her from her actions."

"I really don't want to talk about this anymore Plagg, I've already had enough of this to last a life time." Adrien stated as he tried to walk away.

But Plagg wouldn't let him off the hook so easily. "Don't you walk away from me pal, we still have a lot to go over." He said as he flew up in his face.

"I've got a better idea Plagg…" Adrien went over to his desk then pulled out a wheel of camembert and shoved it into his face. "Just take this stupid cheese and…"

"Cataclysm…" Plagg uttered as he touched the packaged cheese and reduced it to nothing, which left Adrien stunned. "That's right buster, I'm so mad at you I don't even want cheese, and I always want cheese, but right now what I want is for you to wake up and smell the roses and see Chloe for what she is instead of pretending that she isn't as bad as you know she is."

"You wanna agree with the others so much? Fine by me, you can do it from inside the damn ring." Adrien said as he pulled his ring off and put it in its jewelry box causing Plagg to disappear, he set the box on his desk and just went into his private bathroom and stared at his reflection in the mirror. He then heard his window creaking open, he marched back into his room about to scolded whoever it was, he assumed it was Dallas in his superhero persona but to his surprise it wasn't Dallas, rather Ladybug come to visit him. "Go away Marinette, I didn't want to talk to you earlier and I don't want to talk to you now." He stated as he crossed his arms and turned away from her.

"Fine then, I'll talk and you'll listen to me mister, you are being completely unreasonable about this." Ladybug stated firmly.

Adrien then turned back to her and countered. "Me? Unreasonable? Your kidding right? All of you just stood there and watched as Chloe was assaulted by Valentina."

"Technically Val acted in self-defense as it was Chloe who assaulted her." Ladybug corrected.

"Still though you didn't have to let her go that far, it'll take months for her hair to grow back." Adrien fired back.

Ladybug then shouted in his face. "What was I supposed to do?! Turn into Ladybug and say 'don't worry Chloe I'm here to save the day' or something like that?"

"Don't give me that crap!" Adrien shouted back. "You still could've done something to stop her, but you didn't because it was Chloe she was doing it to, I'll bet if it was Alya or Rose you wouldn't hesitate to rescue them."

"WELL AT LEAST I'M SMART ENOUGH TO SEE HER FOR WHAT SHE IS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS TOWN!" She bellowed in his face. "YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO SEES WHAT HE WANTS FROM HER NOT WHAT HE NEEDS TO SEE!"

"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MARINETTE!" He shouted back. "I DO SEE HER FOR WHAT SHE IS, ALL THE TIME I SEE HER THE SAME WAY ALL OF YOU SEE HER, BUT I'M NOT JUST GOING TO GIVE UP ON HER LIKE ALL OF YOU HAVE!"

"Is that what you think? That we didn't even try to get her to change? You are so naïve if that's what you really think!" She laminated plainly. "We've just come to peace with the fact that she isn't a good person and that she will NEVER change, you need to wake up and see that the world your living in with her will never change."

"It's not that simple Mari." He pointed out. "She was there for me before I ever met any of you guys, she was literally the only true friend I ever had."

Ladybug was in disbelief at what she was hearing. "You mean to say that you're only protecting her because you feel like you owe her?" She asked rhetorically. "I don't believe this, and here I thought you were just being stubborn and simpleminded but no, it's far beyond that, you actually feel sorry for someone like her even when she's done nothing to earn it you still give her your pity."

"Well let's see you try and make new friends with the way I lived for most of my life Marinette, she was all I had growing up, she was like a sister to me for the longest time." Adrien pointed out.

"Oh well la-dee-dah, that's no excuse for you to take her side and protect her from everything she's guilty of." Ladybug countered.

Adrien then got up in her face and Growled. "I am so sick and tired of everyone saying that to me today, why can't you all just understand that she's just…difficult to understand."

"See? You hesitated there, you know as well as I do that it's easy to describe her whether it's negative or not." Ladybug stated as she folded her arms.

"Well what do you want from me Marinette? A confession? Fine Chloe is a bitch, she's a cunt, she's the worst kind of person alive and even I'm confused as to why I put up with her all the time because any person with even half a brain can see that she's a terrible person and doesn't deserve to be my friend!" Adrien shouted finally confessing everything, especially the truth. "I believe what happened to her had been coming to her for a long time, I believe that she deserved far worse than that, but it still doesn't change the fact that…she was always there for me when I needed her and she and I will always be close, because even though she doesn't show it nearly as often as she should, deep down…I know that she is a good person, and that's why no matter what…I'll always love her like a sister, and I don't want to see her get hurt in anyway, even if she brings it upon herself."

Silence then gripped the room for a moment, Ladybug didn't even know what to say as he finally admitted to her just how much he truly cared for her. She simply turned away from him and said. "I think I get it now, I'm sorry for not understanding your reasons, I'll just be going then." She walked over to the window and only paused for a moment to say with a half sobbing voice. "I'm sure that you two will be happy together."

This caught Adrien's attention completely, he looked up to her and asked. "What do you mean by that?" Before he could even get an answer she threw her Yo-yo and hooked a nearby building then zoomed off. "Marinette WAIT!" Fear instantly dominated his mind due to her final words, this can't be it for us, he thought to himself, this is just a bad dream and when I wake up… "I've got to go after her." He rushed over to his desk then slipped on his ring.

"So have we finally decided that maybe…" Plagg was about to continue nagging when Adrien cut him off with a transformation.

"Plagg, claws out!" He shouted as he held out his hand

"Wait hold on a second what's going ON!" Plagg cried out as he was sucked into the miraculous.

In a single green flash of light he transformed then took off after Ladybug hoping beyond all hope that she would listen to him. "LADYBUG!" He called after her, but she just ignored him as she flew down the street at top speed, she swung through some back alleys in the attempt to try and lose him but he was hot on her tail as he was able to keep up with her very well. She managed to break his line of sight for a brief moment to hide behind a standing doorway atop the roof of a building, he landed just on the edge of the building and searched for her. "Princess? My lady? Please Marinette come out and talk with me." He begged still fearful that this was the end, but he knew she wouldn't simply come out of hiding, that's when he got an idea to use his cat phone.

"Just let him pass just let him pass just let him…" She was cut short by the sound of her bug phone ringing and giving away her position. "Shit…" She hissed as she tried to take off again, only to be cut off by Cat Noir as he leapt out from over her and landed right in front of her and catching her in his arms. "LET GO OF ME GOD DAMN IT! LET GO!" She shrilled as she demanded him to release her from his arms, but even with her enhanced strength he was still stronger than her.

"Not until you tell me what you meant Marinette!" He shouted back to her as he just held her tight.

"What do you think I meant?" She sobbed as she continued to try and push him away. "You love her, she's been there longer for you, she makes you happy even though she's not perfect you still loved her longer than me! You two belong together, I know that now, so please just…be with her and make her your true love if she's so loyal to you."

He couldn't even begin to understand what she was getting at, but he understood enough that she thought she wasn't worthy enough of him anymore, but in his mind she was wrong. "Then say it to my face!" He dared her as he pushed her back just enough to look upon her, she simply looked away as he spoke. "If you can admit to me while looking me in the eye and say that you want to end things like this then I'll do it, I'll just go back to being alone and pretend that everything is okay but in truth…I am so broken it's not even funny, if you can actually admit to me that you no longer love me then we'll end everything right here right now." She slowly looked up to his face, she looked as if she wanted to speak to him, to say what he'd just dared her to say back to him, but she was both physically and mentally unable to do so. "Well?" He uttered one final word before she broke down into tears and cried out.

"I don't want this to be over yet!" She then wrapped him in a tight hug and just sobbed aloud as she buried her face in his shoulder and let the tears flow. "I don't want to lose you Adrien, I couldn't take it if I lost you for any reason, but you still deserve…" He cut her off as he pulled her into a deep loving kiss to show her that he didn't hold anything against her for her previous actions of the day.

I promised myself that I'd find it in my heart to forgive her, he thought to himself, now I need to apologize, and I think there's only one way to do that.

(A/N: And that's all for this chapter folks, that's right I'm leaving you on a cliff hanger just before they're about to get busy, not sorry, but I hope it will be worth the wait for anyone who doesn't mind it and wants more of it, also just curious about one thing, how do you guys feel about me adding all of this native American folklore into the story? Do you want more of it or have I done enough, please let me know, also in the next chapter of WOS, Marinette and Adrien are closer than ever, Valentina finally introduces her son to his father, and Mrs. Couffaine shows her frustrations to Roses parents about their single minded views, well that's all folks I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Also sorry it's late again, writers block hit me hard again, also I've been doing a lot of corrective editing for all the chapters I've already posted, for which I apologize for, I'm slightly dyslexic and sometimes I screw up with the grammar. Alright for real now, I'll see you all later, bye-bye.)