(A/N: *WARNING* Major intimacy ahead read at your own risk, if you don't want to read this part though continue to the next author note in bold print.)
Chapter 17: Precious moments
He hoisted her up and just held her in his arms as their moment of love progressed, he pulled away from their kiss for a brief moment and said lovingly. "You're the only one I want Marinette, I've told you this before, while I do love Chloe…my heart will only ever belong to you." He shoved her up against the side of the rooftop doorway as he continued to kiss her passionately, he slowly worked his way down kissing her neck gently and slowly leaving small hickies on her neck expressing to her very clearly what he wanted to do for her.
She simply became lost in this moment as he simply pushed onward with both of them giving into their desires of intimacy and romance, she moaned with pleasure with each tender kiss he'd leave on her neck, her satisfaction clear in her voice she locked her legs around his waste and reached for the zipper of his suit and pulled it down to his belt line revealing his well-toned torso to her and taking pleasure in the view of his body alone, she then pushed off against the side of the wall forcing him to fall backward with her landing on top of him, she then took one of his hands and guided it to the zipper of her suit so that he might undress her, he slowly pulled it down the length of her back and helped pull it off of her slowly to make their moment more intense with each passing second. She slowly laid down on top of him positioning him in between her legs and preparing herself for when they'd become one in flesh, she took both hands and pulled his head closer to her so she could whisper in his ear. "Don't hold back." She then reached for the front of her bra and unhooked it and peeled it from her torso then pulling his face into her bare chest and forcing him to pleasure her deeper.
He rolled them over then grasped her breasts gently and pushed them together, she began to let out a small whimper as he began to dance his tongue around her nipples and causing a surge of pleasure to fill her, she increased her hold on his head and pulled him in deeper, he then began to suckle her chest circling her nipple slowly with his tongue, he looked up to see the smile upon her face which reassured him that he was doing a good job, he picked up the pace a little just to make sure she wasn't getting bored, she then rolled them back over with her on top of him again, she released her grasp around his head then crawled up toward his face stopping with her pelvis just inches from his face, he then wrapped his arms around her lower back and pulled her in closer so he could continue pleasuring her, he slowly slid his tongue against the outer edges of her sex stroking it up and down the length of the opening like an ocean wave breaking against the beach, this made Marinette moan even louder, she quickly covered her mouth to try and muffle her voice as to not wake anyone who was sleeping at this hour, but this became harder as he slowly shoved his tongue inside of her covering each part of her insides that he could reach, she bit down hard on her finger due to how immense this new feeling was for her, if it hadn't been for his honest words she would've sworn he'd done this before as his tongue simply massaged her sex on the inside.
Slowly but surely he increased his speed as he enjoyed the sensation he felt as he increased his hold on her and pulling himself deeper, as his pace quickened so did her breathing, she could already feel that she was close to release, and he knew it as well, he then started to get a little rougher to try and help her finish faster. "I'm close…oh god…oh god…oh GOD!" She began to let out a loud moan as she fell over to her side and just lay there for the moment panting heavily with a satisfied grin on her face. Adrien was about to crawl back on top of her when she stopped him. "Wait, it's only fair that I do the same for you."
She shoved him back down on his back and started to kiss his neck and slowly working down toward his sex, she slid off the lower half of his suit and gently grasped the shaft of his sex. "Mari you don't have to do tha-AAHAAHAH!" She cut him off as she began to grace the side of his sex with her lips and providing him with the same amount of pleasure he did to her, he threw his head back and just allowed her to work slowly, she slid her mouth along the length of his sex giving him a new sensation of pleasure, eventually she'd completely engulfed it into her mouth and gaining a series of pleasure filled moans from her lover, he began to bite down on his fist as she quickened her pace faster and faster, small beads of sweat began to form on his forehead, his temperature rising until he could feel the inside of his ears burning from the sensation. She paused for moment simply to let him catch his breath as she could see she was a little too fast for him. "No…don't…don't stop…please." He panted while he protested as he arched himself up onto his elbows.
She then smiled up at him and said. "Oh we're not stopping…" She then gripped his sex in her hand and began to rub it slowly. "We're just getting started." She then engulfed the top of his sex into her mouth and gave it a small suck, he gasped due to this new combination she was using to satisfy him, he closed his eyes tight as he felt himself coming closer to achieve release.
With each passing second he felt himself getting closer and closer until he couldn't hold it back anymore. "Now…now…" He grunted just as he finished, he laid back and just looked up at the sky panting heavily as he slowly came down from his high, as he was distracted Marinette then crawled on top of him and positioned herself yet again, she gripped his sex in her hand again then aimed it for the opening of her own, both began to feel the warmth of each other's sex against their own, the feeling was intoxicating to them as she slowly slid every last inch inside of her.
She started out slow just rocking her hips back and forth as she finally began to make love to the boy she loved, Adrien couldn't help but pull her back down to his chest as he snaked his arms around her and brought her into his embrace, he then began to nibble on her ear for extra pleasure, he slowly slid his hand down the length of her back and groped her rear end tight in his hand while resting his free hand on her back pulling her closer to him, her moans filled his ear as she quickened her pace even faster, she dug her claws into his back deep causing him to hiss a little, he then pulled her back into a long loving kiss, both of their mouths fighting for dominance. At some point in that moment Adrien had rolled them over again only this time he hoisted her up and just held her in his arms as he stood on his knees and took control, he kissed her neck tenderly as his movement quickened, she instantly began to feel a familiar feeling from before, she was getting close to release again, the same could be said for him as he pressed onward and beginning to feel a familiar high as well, her moans became louder and louder as the two came even closer, just before she finished she whimpered. "I love you Adrien!"
Upon hearing those words he increased his grip upon her and grunted just as he began to fill her with his essence, she as well tightened her embrace around him as she felt her senses being dulled by the intoxicating sensation, with in that moment both lovers felt physically drained as Adrien cradled her in his arms and laid them both back down on the roof top, both of them drenched in sweat and breathing heavily.
(A/N: Okay it's over now.)
"Mee-yow, I never thought it would be that good." Adrien grinned as he pulled her in close and allowed her to rest her head on his chest.
"Totally…worth the wait." Marinette added just before she kissed his neck.
It was in that moment that Adrien chose to apologize properly for his behavior. "Mari…I just want you to know that…I'm really sorry for everything I put you through, I just care too much about the people I'm closest to. Even if they're…"
"Oh hush you…" She interrupted as she sat on top of him and kissed him deeply, then she pulled away for a moment and said with an exhausted voice. "I'm over it now, especially after…well I think it goes without saying how amazing you were."
He smiled up at her and said. "You weren't so bad yourself princess." He placed a kiss on the top of her head before he suggested. "Maybe we should do this more often."
"Like say…as often as every ten minutes?" She half joked. "Because I could get behind that pretty easily."
Adrien gave a very tired chuckle as he just rested his chin on the top of her head. "I hope you don't make me regret this, the last thing I want would be to resent what we did, especially with how…how would you describe it?" He asked with a smile.
She thought about it for a second and stated just how she felt about their moment of love. "Miraculous, that's how I'd describe it."
He chuckled softly at her pun and simply snuggled with her for the next half hour simply resting until they felt as though they could have another round, the two kept it up until the break of dawn finally rolled around, they were both sore and tired from the vigorous romp they'd shared together with hardly any energy from their romantic evening left to get them home, luckily for the two of them it was a Saturday and Adrien had no scheduled shoots for that day, so the two of them just headed home and slept through half the day. Marinette had transformed out of her Ladybug costume and just slept deep under the covers nestling her face into her pillow as she relived her moment of passion with Adrien in her dreams, but undenounced to her Alya had come over to talk to Marinette in regards of her relationship with Adrien, she like everyone else who was there that day when Chloe got what was coming to her were concerned that Adrien might not want to be with her anymore, but she'd soon find out they had nothing to worry about.
Alya made her way up to Marinette's room and found her still in a deep sleep, just as she was about to shake her awake she took notice of the marks on her neck, she gasped as she came to realize who'd placed them there, or at the very least she assumed he'd placed them there. "Mari? Mari wake up." She said as she shook Marinette's foot trying to wake her friend.
Marinette groaned and said back. "Leave me alone Alya I'm too tired for…whatever we're doing today." She clearly didn't have anything planned with Alya that day but she was too exhausted to remember that.
"We don't have any plans for today Mari, now get up because I have a few questions, for starters how you got those hickies on your neck." Alya said as she pointed at the visible marks on her skin.
Marinette slowly reached for a handheld mirror next to her bed and saw in her reflection that she was right, it would seem Adrien had left at least three visible marks on her neck. "Aw crap, well looks like I get to cake on a ton of makeup later." She said as she slowly tried to rise from her bed.
"Marinette, may I ask how it is you acquired those marks?" Alya asked as she crawled up onto her bed. Marinette just began to grin as she remembered every last detail of her long night with Adrien, Alya didn't need any further explanation, as she came to realize that her suspicions were correct, her eyes shot open wide with excitement, she gasped just before she squealed. "You didn't!"
Marinette simply nodded her head and said back with a satisfied smile. "We did, five times."
"Ohhhhhhhh Marinette you bad girl you, I thought you guys were never gonna hook up, what with how long you guys were taking to yank each other's pants down." Alya joked playfully just before Marinette shoved her, she laughed a little bit before she asked the biggest question. "Soooo…how was it? Was he good?" Marinette didn't answer her at first, Alya just assumed that she wasn't close enough to the truth so she asked again. "Was it okay at least?" But she still didn't answer, that's when she made a very inaccurate assumption. "Oh come on it couldn't have been that bad, wait was he that bad?"
Feeling that Alya deserved to know at least a little bit, also that she didn't want this conversation to keep going as awkward as it was, she chose to tell her the truth. "Actually, it was amazing...like…fireworks, I swear Alya that had to have been the best night of my life." She said with honesty.
"Well don't just sit there girl give me some details, what did you guys do? And don't leave anything out." Alya said with a smile as she leaned in and just listened to everything she had to say with baited breath, she couldn't help but feel slightly aroused by Marinette's tail about their romantic evening, she had experienced pleasure such as this with Nino as well but right now she was more focused on Marinette. "Well look at you girl, your just getting everything you want these days aren't you, super cute guy of your dreams becoming your boyfriend, a million girls super jealous fangirls who wish they were you, and now a crazy night in bed with said guy, you know what the next thing on the list is right?"
Marinette simply smiled and said. "Yeah, next stop's marriage, assuming we last that long, but with the way he was acting last night I think I'm safe. Though I wish he wasn't so rough cause I'm a little sore down there right now."
"Been to that dance honey, if I were you I'd get some Neosporin just in case it's too much for you to walk." Alya suggested as she offered her wisdom from firsthand experience with her lover.
"Thanks Alya, now can I go back to bed please cause I'm still super tired from being up all night." Marinette asked as she still felt a little tired.
"Sure thing girl, I'll see you later when you're a little more rested." Alya waved good bye and made her way over to the trap door to Marinette's room, she stopped as soon as Marinette halted her.
"Oh and Alya? DON'T…blog this!" She demanded as she clearly wanted to keep this just between them.
Alya groaned and said. "Fine, I'll keep it to myself, but if he ever pops the question or if you guys have a baby I'm putting that shit on line and you're not stopping me." She then proceeded out of her room and left the apartment.
Marinette giggled a bit as she flopped back onto the bed still in disbelief that she'd finally became closer to Adrien than ever, but upon hearing the word baby Marinette then realized something, they didn't use any kind of protection. She shot up and said. "Oh god this is bad."
"What's bad Marinette?" Tikki asked as she flew out of her hiding place.
She turned to her kwami and answered with a fretful voice. "I only just realized that neither of us used any protection last night, oh god how can I be so stupid?!" She flopped back down on the bed and covered her face with her pillow and just screamed into it.
Tikki just sighed and said. "Oh Marinette, how could you be so careless? Your smarter than this."
Marinette uncovered her face and just glared at Tikki before saying. "Well I'm sorry Tikki, but I got into a fight with him earlier that day and another fight later in his room so excuse me for being a bit forgetful that I didn't bring a condom."
"Why are you getting mad at me for? It's not my fault you forgot." Tikki stated as she began to feel her owner was becoming hostile for no reason.
Marinette just sighed and realized that she wasn't being very fair with her kwami. "Oh you're right…" She said with a sad tone. "I should've been more careful, oh why didn't I just start taking the pills? There's no harm in that, I mean if not for sex at the very least for the benefit of regulating my period every now and again." She wasn't really known to have irregular periods actually, she just used that as an excuse to make her feel better about her stupidity.
"It's alright Marinette you still have time, just take a morning after pill then you both can pretend it never happened." Tikki suggested as she sat down next to her owner's head.
Marinette shot up like a rocket and said. "Your right that'll work, my mom has morning after pills in her room too I can just borrow one and POOF, problem solved." She instantly began to calm down, she decided not to waste anytime in getting the pill, and sense she knew her parents were already down stairs in the bakery she had nothing to worry about, even though they still made it very clear that they wouldn't mind becoming grandparents she still felt she wasn't ready to become a mother just yet. She went into her parents private bathroom and found the pills in the cabinet, then she took one and popped it in her mouth and swallowed it with a gulp of water. "That's a load off of my mind."
"Just make sure that your prepared next time Marinette." Tikki stated with a firm tone as she already knew better than to believe that this was a one time thing with Adrien. Marinette nodded then she went into the kitchen to fix up breakfast for herself and her kwami.
Back at the Agreste mansion Adrien was also still sound asleep and snoring loud enough to be heard from down the hall, but thankfully Plagg wasn't bothered by it as he was a sound sleeper, also because he was already awake. He flew over to Adrien and began to try and wake him up as he felt that he'd slept long enough after his long night of romance. "Okay kid nap times over time to get up." He said into his ear, but sadly for him he didn't here him. "Adrien, get up it's past noon already." But he still didn't stir. "WAKE UP DAMN YOU!" Plagg blasted as he flew up to his face and just started slapping his face, but it didn't work sense being slapped by a kwami was like being swatted with a straw. "Damn it, WAKE UP…" Plagg then proceeded to start jumping on his chest in another attempt to wake him up. "WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!" But just as before there was still no response, he instantly started to get mad. "Grrrrrrrrr…what does it take to wake you up?!" That's when Plagg got another idea, one that he was almost certain would work flawlessly, he flew over to one of his many stashes of cheese and took a wedge out of its wrapping then flew up to his nose and stuffed each of his nostrils with the soft gooey stinky cheese. "If this doesn't work I'm getting a bucket of water."
He didn't have to wait long for Adrien to wake up, with the stench of camembert cheese jammed inside of his nose his eyes shot open and he shot up straight in a sitting position gagging on the strong sent of cheese stuffed in his nose. "Plagg what the fuck?!" He cried as he quickly took in a deep breath and shot out both blobs of cheese, both of which nailed Plagg right in the eyes.
"AAAH! I'M HIT!" He cried as he crashed to the bed, he then sat up and started to get over dramatic. "I'm blind…oh god Adrien I'm blind, I can't see a damn thing!" Adrien sighed as he picked up his kwami and picked the blobs of chees off of his face and in no way surprising revealing that he wasn't actually blind. "Oh…never mind." He then took both blobs of cheese and stuffed them in his mouth.
"DUDE, those were just in my nose!" Adrien said as he tried his best not to gag.
Plagg chewed them up thoroughly then swallowed them just before he said a little to casually. "So…"
Adrien's jaw just dropped, he was both shocked and disgusted by his kwami's nonchalant behavior toward this situation. He then shook his head and said. "Plagg, I know I say this all the time, but you are the most fucked up guy I've ever met."
"Big deal, cheese is cheese so what if it's covered in a little bit of hot nose goo and nose hair does that really mean you shouldn't eat it?" He asked a little bit too sincere.
"Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying you sick little weirdo!" Adrien stated with honesty.
Plagg just shrugged then said. "So what, once you learn to muscle your way past the gag reflex a whole bunch of possibilities open up like…"
"NO!" Adrien blasted interrupting Plagg before he could go down the list. "I'd like to get to sleep tonight and I can't do that if I'm imagining all of the sick things you've ingested over the centuries."
"Just between you and me though, the worst one was Dallas's 'oyster slice' that he tricked me into eating a month ago." Plagg shuddered as he recalled eating the tender piece of meat.
"Just out of curiosity, what did it taste like?" Adrien asked casually, he still had no desire to eat them himself as he couldn't ignore the truth about what it was.
Plagg then said with a casual tone. "It was tender, a little gamey, well salted too, personally I would've added a little bit of cheese. Not that I'll ever eat them again because…ick!"
"Yeah I can't say I blame you." Adrien agreed wholeheartedly. Just then they both heard a knock at the door.
"Adrien, you up yet?" Dallas called out from beyond the door.
Adrien sighed, he wasn't really sure if he wanted to face Dallas after everything that had happened yesterday with Chloe, even if he really did believe she deserved it for being so arrogant and rude as she always was, but he knew he didn't want to cause anymore trouble between the two of them. "Yeah…come on in." He said with a slightly depressed tone.
Dallas opened the door slowly and feeling slightly awkward about this whole situation that they were in and unsure of where things stood between them. He was also carrying a tray of food which he had made himself as a peace offering. "Hey…I uhm…I made you some breakfast, though it's past noon so I guess this counts more as lunch right now. Don't worry though it's warm." He said sounding a little sheepish.
Adrien looked upon the tray and saw it consisted of hash browns, bacon, a fried egg and sausage gravy on top, all of which were stacked on top of one another in layers, as for his drink he had prepped him a fresh cup of black tea, off to the side was a few slices of an orange all laying on their side all of which faced the same direction in a perfect circle, he placed the tray down on Adrien's lap and just stood back. "Uh…what is this?" Adrien asked with a bit of confusion due to the kind gesture.
"It's a…it's called a haystack, my grandpa on my mom's side would make this for us when ever we came to visit, it's pretty special for me to make." Dallas answered still feeling a bit sheepish.
"No I mean what's this for? Obviously it's my breakfast but why go through the trouble of making this?" Adrien asked again as he clarified.
Dallas looked down at the floor and answered. "I've…decided that you…might've been right about what happened yesterday, I could've…I mean I should've…done something to stop Val from what she did to Chloe, even though I still think she deserved it Val did kind of go too far with that. But it's not really like Valentina to just stand by and let a bully get away with what their doing, she's always been the kind of person to stand up for the little guy."
Adrien found this to be a bit admirable about Valentina, even if he was still a little bitter toward her. "I see, I had no idea she had a moral compass." He voiced as he started to dig in to his breakfast.
"Just because she's an assassin that doesn't mean she doesn't care about people, hell when we we're still together in the U.S. I saw her take down at least a dozen or so gangbangers trying to beat up this one guy just because he was dating a black girl, yeah…really nice bunch of guys, any who she just laid them all the fuck OUT, nearly killed one of them by choking him out with his own belt too, god that was funny as hell when he pissed himself, it was like nothing I'd ever seen in my entire life, but that's what happens when your trained by spetsnaz." Dallas recalled the memory perfectly.
Adrien found this tail to be quite interesting, but he didn't recognize the word Dallas had just used. "She was trained by a what now?" He asked bluntly.
"Russian special forces, and the best fighting force that mother Russia breeds, I'm not kidding they are fucking insane in a battle, trust me you don't want to fuck with these guys, they make Batman look like a pussy." Dallas laminated plainly.
"Are you speaking from experience or from what Val's told you?" Adrien asked again. Dallas just nodded his head once and said. "Yes."
"To which?" Adrien asked yet again. "Both." Dallas stated flatly.
"You mean to say that you've fought a spetsnaz before?" Adrien asked with shock on his face.
Dallas just shrugged and said. "Well technically Val is still a spetsnaz, she just uses her skills to kill people for money, and before you ask yes I fought Val, it was the same night we'd first met…and also the same night that we first…bow-chick-a-bow-bow."
Adrien was about to make a joke about their first ever intimate moment when Plagg cut in and opened his big mouth. "Funny you should bring that up…cause as luck would have it HACK!"
Adrien suddenly grabbed the little kwami and squeezed him tight so that he couldn't talk. "Uh…I know this is a weird question but why are you strangling him?" Dallas asked showing almost no concern for Plagg whatsoever.
"I'm not strangling him…" Adrien denied as he slightly chuckled nervously and held Plagg firm in his fist.
"Well it sure…" Dallas paused for a moment as a certain scent caught his attention, a smell he was quite familiar with. "Dude? Why do you smell like sweat, anger and shame?"
Adrien knew that there was no way out of this conversation, especially sense he just wanted to keep it to himself. "Welllllllll…" He mused as he tried to think of a good lie to tell.
But it was in that instant that Dallas simply put two and two together and realized what had happened, he just grinned and said. "Oh my god you and Mari hooked up last night didn't you?"
"Yeeeeeah…we…kinda did, a few times." He admitted as he released Plagg, who then began to cough as he caught his breath.
"Finally…you actually go out and bang your girlfriend, and here I thought you were never gonna get to it." Dallas stated feeling nothing but approval for his foster brother. "So…how was she? Was she a freak in the sheets? Or was it like a donkey vomiting in your face just after you brushed your teeth?"
Adrien didn't know how he knew what that felt like, or if he even did but he still had a good idea that he was just making a weird joke. He didn't really answer him with words, he just put both fists against his temples and opened them with a little explosion sound effect.
"Mind blowing huh, so did she enjoy herself too or did you let her down?" Dallas asked only half joking this time.
"Oh she was plenty satisfied with my performance, she made that very clear, all five times." He stated honestly as he much like his lover were reminiscing their first loving moment, and all the others to follow.
Dallas's jaw just dropped with the reveal of how many times they'd made love. "Five times? Dude, I usually tap out after three, your like a god damn machine, I'm surprised you two didn't die from a heart attack."
"Yeah, it was a crazy night, I honestly didn't want it to end." Adrien admitted with pride and love for the girl he loved. "We also agreed to try and make this a thing between us at least once a week, I don't know when we'll find time to with my work and with us being super heroes, but then again these days Hawkmoth has been a bit quiet of late so maybe we could find time on patrols."
"Or maybe you could try finding the time by doing this thing people call a DATE." Dallas summed up with one sentence.
Adrien instantly began to realize just how dumb he was and said. "Oh…duh." Then he bonked himself on the head.
"Seriously did the loss of fluids from your body drain your brain cells too?" Dallas asked rhetorically.
Adrien just punched him in the shoulder and said back. "Shut up."
"Well as long as you guys were being careful I guess it doesn't really matter." Dallas stated common knowledge, it was in that moment that Adrien realized the same thing Marinette did earlier that morning, Dallas could see the worried look on his face, then he asked the now burning question. "You didn't use protection did you?"
Adrien hid his face in his hands and just groaned. "URGH I'm so stupid, I can't believe I forgot the most necessary thing to prevent pregnancy."
"Hold on, are you sure that Mari isn't on the pill?" He asked again rather casually, Adrien simply shook his head no. "Then you're both idiots, you guys should know better than that."
Adrien then glared at Dallas and said. "Big talk from a guy who's only seventeen and already a father."
"For your information we we're using protection, it's just that one in every ten condoms fail is all, so I'm guessing the one we used was the one that failed." Dallas justified as he folded his arms. "Either that or it just expired and I didn't notice it."
"That's just an excuse, and excuses are like assholes Jones, everyone's got one." Plagg summed up as he took a bite out of Adrien's breakfast.
Dallas just grinned down at him with an excellent comeback to follow. "Everyone except you, you're the only one in the whole world with two assholes, one is where it should be and the other is right in the center of your face, and I know it is because you're always spewing a bunch of bull crap out of it, and it even smells appropriate too because of all the shit stinking cheese your always stuffing into it."
That was when Plagg had lost his mind and all sense of reasoning, he instantly just lunged at Dallas in the attempt to gouge out his eyes. "I'LL KILL YOU!" He roared just as Adrien quickly grabbed him and held him tight in his hands preventing him from making good on his threat.
"Hey, back off…" Dallas demanded as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a bundle of spearmint. "I've got spearmint and I'm not afraid to use it." Plagg's eyes shot open with fear just before he gave a very cat like hiss at the freshly picked herbs. "Yeah that's what I thought yah little cat bastard, oh and by the way that's trademarked now. Anyway I've got to get going." Dallas began to rise from the bed and make his way to the door.
"Hey wait a second, where are you going?" Adrien asked as he put his food off to the side.
Dallas turned around and answered casually. "To meet up with Val, said she had something she needed my help with on her laptop and needed my I.T. skills to fix it, if it's what I think it is then I'll probably be gone all day so don't wait up for me at dinner."
"Wait, she can't do it herself?" Adrien asked with a confused look. "I thought assassins knew how to hack computers and stuff."
"Not all of them have the same level of skills as others do you know, plus she's more of a dependent kind of person when it comes to computers, anyway I should probably get going before she calls me asking what's taking so long, see you later man, hope you enjoy your breakfast." Dallas waved good-bye and headed for his bike and put on his civilian helmet, he ignited the engine and drove off toward Valentina's apartment.
Back in her hideout Valentina was getting herself ready for visitors, she was simply putting on makeup just to touch up a little bit for Dallas, she then proceeded to dressing up in her Sunday casual sweat pants and Sailor moon anime T-shirt, she also was busy preparing snacks such as fish sticks, tater tots and apple slices with caramel dipping sauce along with a bottle of grape juice and several Styrofoam cups in a stack on the counter top. "Perfect, now all I have to do is…" She was cut off by a knock at the door, she crept over to the door and pulled a pistol she'd stashed in the umbrella stand then peaked through the eyehole, she would always keep several guns hidden throughout the apartment just in case another assassin had tracked her down to try and kill her, she immediately relaxed and saw that two of her guests had already arrived. She smiled warmly as she put the gun away and unlocked the door then opened it wide for her friend and her son.
"Mommy!" Yuri cried as he practically leaped out of his caretaker's arms to hug his mother, he was dressed in a green and orange striped T-shirt with jeans meant for a child his age, thankfully his mother was able to catch him just in time before he hit the ground.
"Oh my sweet little Yurochka I've missed you so much." She cooed as she held her child close to her chest and placed and onslaught of kisses on his cheeks causing him to erupt with laughter.
"Mommy top id dat tickows." He giggled as she continued showing her son her undying affection.
"You heard the boy Val give 'im some space love." The caretaker said as she was restraining a very large St. Burnard at her side, she was dressed in a steam punk Rockstar looking tank top which read on the front 'sexy as f #%' with a short skirt with the design of the British flag upon it, she also wore black and white striped leggings which fell into a pair of high top black leather boots, she also wore several nose rings and a diamond stud in her chin, her hair was dyed hot pink and was long and flowing.
"It's good to see you Megan, but I thought you weren't coming for another hour." Valentina stated as they had agreed she'd bring Yuri around after having a small talk with Dallas once he'd arrived.
Megan simply smiled back at her friend and said. "Well that was the plan, but once this little angel found out we were going to visit his dad today he resorted to using the puppy dog eyes on me."
Valentina laughed a little bit. "That was always your one and only weakness." All of a sudden they all heard a whimpering sound come from the dog as he simply looked up at Valentina with big pleading eyes. "Oh don't think I forgot about you Doof, I could never forget my son's best friend." She reached out and scratched the dog's head, his tail began to wag from side to side as he sat on the floor and happy to see his owner after so long. "Come on in, I've just made snacks."
Megan lead Doof inside the apartment as Valentina kept on holding her son for the first time in two months, she made sure that every so often she would come home and spend as much time with her son as she could for a four month period, then she would take off for work again and making sure that no one was following her back to her son's hiding place, which is why she entrusted Megan, who happened to be a close friend and former assassin herself, to keep Yuri safe from any of his mother's enemies. "So when's daddy dearest coming around to meet our little Yuri eh love?" She asked bluntly as she freed Doof from his leash.
"He should be here within the hour, I baited him with some I.T. work on my laptop so he doesn't suspect a thing, I can't wait to see the look on his face when he gets here and meets our son." She replied happily as she just imagined the whole moment unfold in her head.
"Smart move Val, hope you've got a camera for the big first meet between these two, that will be one for the scrapbook too." Megan grinned as she poured Yuri some grape juice in a sippy cup.
Valentina then realized what she'd said wasn't such a bad idea, especially sense soon enough Dallas would probably be moving in with her to help raise him like he wanted to, once he was eighteen he was no longer eligible to be in foster care anyway as he would soon be a legal adult and not have to be forced to stay in someone else's home. "You know I think I might have a camera, I'll be right back, oh and make sure Doof doesn't eat all the snacks before Dallas gets here." She laminated as she set her son down on the couch for a brief moment. "I'll be right back Yurochka." She kissed his forehead and left for her bed room.
"Auntie Meg, can I haf some fiss sticks pwease?" Yuri asked his caretaker as he began to feel a little hungry.
She smiled at him and said. "Sure thing love, you want some tots and apples too?"
"Yes pwease." He replied with a smile, she got a paper plate and placed a little bit of each snack on it, as she walked it over to him Doof instantly tried to steal the plate full of food from Megan.
"AH-AH-AH-AH-AH no Doof, this isn't for you, I already fed you when we left the bloody park." She said as she shoved the massive dog down and handed Yuri his snack and drink. "Here you go love, enjoy." Around the moment Yuri started to dig in there was another knock at the door, Megan turned toward the door then looked at Doof and said. "Doof, defensive mode." The dog then stood right in front of the door and took an attack stance while Megan walked over to the door and took out the gun in the umbrella stand, she then looked through the peak hole and saw someone with brown hair, half white half tanned skin with a scar on his right cheek, he was wearing a black leather jacket and a spider pendent which she already knew was Valentina's calling card for the people she killed gently. "Could be him, but just to be safe…" She swung open the door and bellowed to the dog. "DOOF SUBDUE!" The dog then charged Dallas and tackled him and pinned him to the ground and began to growl.
"WHAT THE HELL!" He cried out with both fear and surprise as a very large dog was holding him down and growling at him with what appeared to be the desire to kill him, he began to have a flash back to when he was attacked by the mountain lion as a child.
Megan then stood next to both the dog and Dallas and aimed the gun for his head and demanded. "Who the bloody hell are you and why are you here?"
Dallas wasn't really focused on Megan at the moment, he was actually more worried about the dog eyeballing his throat, but he still heard what she'd said and answered. "I'm Dallas Jones, Val called me to fix her laptop I'm her boyfriend and her baby daddy."
Most of that would've been simpler to just learn, memorize and just use as a lie to gain entry, but the only thing she knew that stood out sense Valentina had already told him was the part about her laptop needing fixed. "Okay your legit, Doof down." She ordered the large dog to stand down, but the dog refused to back down. "DOOF, I SAID DOWN BOY!" She bellowed to the dog but he still wasn't backing off.
As he watched the whole seen unfold from the couch Yuri got up and ran over to the door and started to defend his father. "Doof no dat's my daddy, bad dog…bad-bad-bad dog top it!" He ordered his pet and fulltime body guard as he swatted him on the snout several times. "Ged off of him, bad boy!" Doof suddenly began to do what he was told and slowly backed off of Dallas, he simply looked at Yuri with a puzzled look and cocked his head to one side as if he was trying to say what did you say. "Go sid on duh couts now!" He then swatted Doof on the head again and pointed at the couch with an angry look on his face, Doof then began to whine as he hung his head in shame as he started to walk back into the apartment and sit on the couch and just curl up into a ball.
"Sorry about that love…" Megan said as she help Dallas back onto his feet. "I had a decent description of you but I couldn't be too sure for Yuri's sake anyway, speaking of which Mr. Jones, I'd like to formally introduce you to your son Yurochka Dallas Jones." She gestured to the two year old standing next to them who was looking up at his father for the very first time with bright green eyes and the biggest smile he'd ever made in his short life.
"Hi Daddy…" Yuri greeted with a clearly happy tone. "I'm sowy dat Doof was naudy to you, he won'wn do'd id again I pwomise."
Dallas just looked down at his son, he began to feel so emotional as the moment he thought he would have to wait a while for was already here and standing right in front of him, he began to form tears in the corners of his eyes, he knelt down to look his son in they eye and just smiled warmly before he said. "Hi buddy, I'm so glad I can finally meet you, you're a lot bigger than I thought you'd be, I thought you'd be a little tiny thing about…this big." Dallas playfully gestured the 'assumed' height of his son to be almost three inches tall.
"Nope, I'm a big boy." Yuri replied still grinning from ear to ear.
"Well are you big enough to give your daddy a hug?" Dallas asked as he outstretched his arms so that he might hug his child, Yuri didn't hesitate to run into his father's embrace and squeeze him tight, it's even better than I could've ever imagined, he thought feeling the warmth of his son's love melting away at the years of bitter resentment toward the world for the horrible life he'd had to endure for the longest time. Dallas began to cry softly as he just held his son, he place a single kiss on the top of his head and praying that this wasn't a dream. "Damn it, I promised myself I wouldn't cry, well…promise broken."
Around that moment Dallas heard the click of a camera's flash, he looked up and saw Valentina standing with a polaroid camera in her hands, the picture slowly printed out and she started to shake it to dry it off and reveal the tender moment between her two favorite men in the world. "Perfect, oh you look so cute with him dorogoy." She cooed as she looked at the picture.
Dallas stood up with his son still held firmly in his arms he carried him into the apartment to meet the girl that both he and his son loved more than anything else in the world. "I take it your laptop never really needed to be fixed?" He joked as he just held his son close to his chest.
"Dah, I told a teeny tiny little fib just to get you here and surprise you with our son's presence, I trust that you don't mind the minor lie?" She asked already knowing the answer as she noticed his giant smile on his face.
"Not even in the slightest…" He admitted while looking down at his son as he rested his head on his shoulder. "Though I could've lived without steam punk Marry Poppins and Cujo attacking me as soon as I knocked on the door, speaking of which who are you and what's with the dog?"
"I'm Megan, Megan Roth, formerly known as Death metal the worlds only steam punk themed assassin." Megan introduced herself with a hand shake.
"Cool name, matches your look and profession perfectly." Dallas complemented as he shook her hand.
"Former profession, I retired after Val found out she was pregnant with this little sweetie so I could protect her and the baby, and when she's out working I'm babysitting the little tike all the time and making sure he stays out of trouble." She announced as she ruffled Yuri's hair. "As for the big, furry and way too protective couch potato over there, that's Doof your son's full time best friend and bodyguard for when his dear old auntie isn't around to smash someone's bollocks under my high heels."
Dallas just chuckled slightly and said. "Wait, the dog's name is actually Doof? Who ever came up with that name?"
"Your son did…" She answered him quickly. "When we first rescued him from the pound he was only a tiny helpless pup called Duke, this was also around the same time that Yuri was just learning to talk, so when we introduced them instead of calling him by his real name he simply called the little pup Doof, and it just stuck."
"Well I'd have to say the name fits, he certainly looks like a Doof to me." Dallas joked at the dog's expense, but as if though he could understand what he'd just said the dog just began to growl at him. "I can already tell he doesn't like me too much."
"Oh it's nothing personal, we trained him to be an attack dog when he needs to be to keep Yuri safe whenever we go out, he's only ever had to attack one person ever if I recall correctly, and in case you were wondering yes he was trying to abduct our son, needless to say he won't be doing that again anytime soon, mostly because he's…let's just say he's not with us anymore." Valentina explained as she sat down next to the large dog and scratched his large head to try and calm him down.
"Daddy? Somefings moving in your coat." Yuri announced as he felt movement underneath him, very frantic but small movement.
Dallas was quick to realize what it was. "Oh crap, uh…she can keep a secret right?" Dallas asked his lover who nodded her head yes then sat his son down on the ground and said. "It's okay Spizz you can come out."
And just like that the small black and red kwami flew out of Dallas's coat and just wheezed trying to catch his breath. "Bloody hell what is that thing?" Megan cried as she hopped back and freaked out because of what just flew out of his coat.
Before Dallas could explain Yuri just took one look at Spizz and cried out. "Iss duh toof faiwee!" He then snatched Spizz right out of the air and just hugged him against his cheek.
Spizz suddenly began to feel the pressure upon his little body yet again, Dallas just laughed and said to his son. "Yuri, daddy needs you to let go of Spizz okay? He can't breathe if your crushing him like that."
Yuri looked up to his father and said. "Otay daddy, bye-bye mistew faiwee." He released the kwami who started to gasp for air once again.
"He's not a fairy Yuri, or at least I don't think he's a fairy, he's a very powerful mystical being called a kwami, but you can just call him Spizz." Dallas introduced his son to his kwami.
"Hi Spizz I'm Yuwi, are you my daddy's fwiend?" The toddler asked as he just stared at the little creature with amazement.
After Spizz caught his breath he then took a brief moment to collect himself before stating. "Indeed I am Yuri, I'm also the source of power for your father's miraculous."
Megan scrunched her face then asked bluntly. "His what? What is he talking about?"
Dallas stood up right then smiled at her and said. "Prepare to have your minds blown, Spizz, web up!" And with his usual flash of red he instantly transformed into Iktomi before his son and his aunt's very eyes, Megan's jaw just dropped to the ground with shock. "Pretty cool huh? I'm just like Ladybug and Cat Noir and the rest of their team." He announced to her just before he knelt back down to Yuri who was awe stricken by his father's sudden reveal to him. "Which means you're daddy is a superhero buddy. Oh but you can't tell anybody okay, otherwise the bad guys might come to try and get you."
Yuri just kept staring at his father with utter amazement studying every aspect of his persona, the new knowledge that his father had a miraculous astounded him greatly that he almost didn't here what his father said. "My daddy's a supew hewo." He said as he came in and gave his father another hug.
"Great, at least we won't have to worry about your enemies coming to get him all the time, oh wait…never mind." Megan said sarcastically. "I mean seriously, who reveals their superhero persona to an almost complete stranger who happens to be a trained…'exterminator'?"
"Well you trusted me with your secret so I think I can trust you with mine." Dallas clarified. "Spizz, web down." He quickly turned back into himself and Spizz flew out of his miraculous and back into the open world, then Dallas reached into his pocket and pulled out only two pieces of popcorn. "Oh shoot I forgot to make you more popcorn before we left, sorry buddy."
But Spizz didn't complain, he just zipped over and ate what little popcorn he had. "You have to feed that thing after you turn back?" Megan asked puzzledly.
"He's called a kwami thank you very much, and yes I do because it takes a lot of his energy away just to turn me into Iktomi." Dallas laminated.
"Sorry, it's just…I wasn't expecting the secret behind the heroes Ladybug and Cat Noir to be a tiny little…I'm not even sure what a kwami is but it's nothing you'd normally see, and it's not what I was expecting to be the reason for your powers." Megan voiced her thoughts on the matter.
"Dallas, I know this isn't really the best time but…I'm still quite hungry." Spizz announced in a sheepish tone.
"Don't worry Spizz…" Dallas reassured his kwami. "I'm sure that Val has something you can chow down on right babe?"
Valentina nodded her head and said. "Of course, help yourself to anything on the counter Spizz we have plenty to eat." Spizz flew over to the counter and selected a fish stick from the pan and ate it one bite at a time.
"Daddy, can I be a supew hewo too?" Yuri asked bluntly as he kept on marveling his father more and more by the minute.
Dallas chuckled and said. "Well I suppose one day you can, but when your older cause being a superhero isn't all fun and games buddy, it's a lot of hard work, dedication, perseverance and focus to do what we do, and it takes years for you to be ready for hero work, but I promise you one day when your old enough I'll give you this miraculous, mainly because I don't really have a lot of options in who it goes to anyway sense there's a spell on it that prevents anyone who's not related to us from touching it."
Yuri smiled at his father and gasped with surprise that he was actually being serious. "Weawy?" He asked with a cheerful tone.
"Really, but only if you really really really want to be one." He confirmed with a warm smile. Yuri then began bouncing up and down with excitement and squealing with joy that he would one day follow in his father's footsteps. Compared to what my father wanted me to do I think this is a step up, he thought to himself as his child celebrated for himself.
A while later all three adults, Yuri, Doof and Spizz were all sat in the living room and each one of them enjoying a meal, Yuri insisted on providing Spizz with a large bowl of popcorn, even though the little creature said it wasn't necessary Yuri still felt as though they needed to act as appropriate hosts for all his mother's guests, though he would've preferred rocky mountain oysters he thought it would be simpler and easier to come by in her home, he thanked the toddler and ate his bowl of popcorn almost completely by himself as Doof chose to help himself to Spizz's lunch, due to this outrage Yuri scolded Doof for stealing Spizz's food but as a response Doof simply licked Yuri's face coating it with saliva causing Yuri to throw a hissy fit. "MOMMY HE DID ID AGAIN!" He cried with utter annoyance. Valentina stood up and picked up her son and took him into the bathroom and got him a towel to dry his face. "He's so yucky, why can'd he top being yucky mommy?"
"He can't help it sweetie, he's a dog it's in his nature to be a little yucky." She replied as she wiped the dog saliva from her son's cheeks. "There we go all cleaned up." She then kissed his forehead then took him back into the living room, but once they returned they found Dallas being pinned to the ground again by Doof who once again was growling at him. "What happened?" She asked with annoyance clear in her voice.
"I don't know, all I did was get up to help you with Yuri and then Scooby-doo over here tackles me to the ground." Dallas announced as he looked up at his lover.
She sighed and looked the dog in the eye and said with and aggressive tone. "Doof, patsan!" Doof reluctantly got off of Dallas and let out a very dog like groan as he just sat down on the floor. "Good boy, sorry about his behavior, he's part of the reason why I couldn't get anyone other than Megan to watch over Yuri when I'm away."
"Let me guess, he tries to maw all the sitters before they even get in the door." Dallas summed up.
"Pretty much…" She confirmed with a nod of her head as she helped Dallas on to his feet. "That's also why we have to hold his birthdays in public places like the park, mainly because I think it's not his territory to protect pray say and he just feels it necessary to protect Yuri."
"Speaking of which when is his birthday?" Dallas asked now realizing that he'd have the responsibility of providing his son with numerous presents to make up for his first two birthdays he'd missed, even though it wasn't his fault he still felt obligated, plus he felt like spoiling his son.
"A week from now, on the tenth." She confirmed with a happy smile.
"I'm gonna be twee dis yeaw daddy." Yuri added as he held up three fingers on one hand.
Dallas leaned down to meet his son's level and just cooed. "Oh is that so? Well your getting to be a big boy aren't you?" He playfully ruffled his son's hair up until Doof started to growl at him again. "Give it a rest Fido, also you'd best get used to me being around cause I'm not going anywhere." Dallas stated to the dog as he just looked him firmly in the eyes.
"Doof no, bad dog…" Yuri added as he pointed at Doof, then for almost no reason Doof just started licking Yuri's hand. "Eeeeeew…yucky." He said as he pulled his hand away from the dog's mouth and wiped it on his shirt.
"So where you throwing the party? Your gonna throw him a party right cause every kid needs a party." Dallas announced as he felt his son deserved to have a party.
"We haven't decided just yet but we're definitely having it here in Paris, we just need to find the venue, the entertainment, the cake, some good booze for the adults of course so that they don't go insane." Meg listed everything down on her fingers.
"I know where you can get a cake, from the best bakery in town too, if you want I can take Yuri with me so he can pick one out." Dallas offered at the same time as seeing a way to be able to bond with his son for a few hours.
Yuri then looked up at his mother and asked with gleaming green eyes. "Pweeeeeeeeease?"
Felling weakened by her son's powers of persuasion Valentina had no choice but to give in to her son's wishes. "Alright, but don't just fill up on cookies and cake while your there, I don't want you spoiling your dinner later."
Both Dallas and Yuri cheered in unison. "YAY!" Only to have the moment ruined when Valentina added. "You also have to bring Doof with you."
Dallas then looked down at the dog and just said one thing to express his feelings about this part of the plan. "Boo…" Following his disapproval Doof also expressed his opinion about the situation by growling at Dallas again.
"Here, your gonna need these just in case he drops a few bombs." Megan added as she handed Dallas a very large pooper-scooper and a box of plastic bags meant for larger dogs. "Also if I were you I'd bring some hand sanitizer just in case it leaks."
Dallas examined the tool and just gagged. "Good…god, what did you eat dog?" He asked Doof who didn't seemed all that interested in his question. "Also why do I have to bring him with us? He clearly hates me."
"Because if your going to raise Yuri then you'll have to get used to him being around just as much as he'll have to get used to you, plus if you don't he'll just break down the door and chase after you two." Valentina explained as she knew the dog better than Dallas did.
"She's not kidding, once I tried to take Yuri to the library to get a story book for bed time and chose to leave him at home, five minutes later he was outside the library tracking us down just so he could keep Yuri safe." Megan added as she recalled the entire experience.
Dallas sighed then said. "Fine, I'll bring the dog too, but if he bites me I'm going to cut his…you know what's off then I'm gonna fry 'em up and serve them to him."
Valentina sighed and said. "What is with you and frying up your rocky mountain oysters all the time?"
Much to his surprise Doof acted very well behaved when Dallas put on his leash, but he still growled at him and still showing his distrust of him as often as possible. He calmed down though when Yuri climbed on top of him and rode him like a horse. "Bye-bye mommy." He waved his mother good by as all three characters left the apartment.
"Good-bye my sweet angel." She waved back as they left the room. "Be safe…" She added as soon as the door closed.
Megan got up and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder and said. "He'll be fine love, Doof will keep him safer than the guards of fort Knox could, and his father is a bloody superhero there's no one in the world who could come close to touching him."
Valentina simply sighed and said. "I still can't help but worry Megan, especially with the chameleon being here in Paris."
Megan's jaw just dropped before she gasped. "That limey bastard is here? In Paris bloody France?" She asked twice with shock.
"Dah, he's also working a job, I have information on his target but I'm still trying to hack into the flash drive Dallas and I stole from his broker, it should've been done by now to be honest." Valentina said as she started to rub the stress from her temples.
Megan then popped her fingers and said. "Alright then love, let me see the laptop and I'll give it a go." Valentina went back into her bedroom and retrieved her computer and allowed for Megan to work her magic upon it, next to Dallas she was one of the best hackers Valentina ever knew and if anyone could help break into that flash drive it was her. But Megan would find out soon enough that this would not be as easy as she'd originally assumed it would be, but she didn't want it to be easy as she actually relished a good challenge.
About twenty minutes into the bus ride to the Dupain-Chang bakery Dallas was having a harder time keeping his son in his seat than he anticipated, Yuri may have only been a child as well as a very well behaved one but he was still a handful if you didn't know him as well as his mother or aunt did, he just kept running around like a miniature tornado running up and down the aisle of the bus from the front to the back while the bus was in motion, needless to say Dallas made a bit of an assumption that it would be easy to take care of a two year old, but quickly found out that it was comparable to controlling a tsunami. "Yuri! Yuri sit down!" He ordered as his son would run past him each time, but he was too busy having fun to even notice his father's words. "Yuri we're not supposed to be running while the bus is in motion now sit your butt down."
"I'm an aiwowpwane!" Yuri declared as he zipped past all the patrons of the bus. Dallas kept on trying to grab his son each time he ran past him but had no luck as it would seem Yuri was able to predict his father's plan of attack and dodge it, Doof wasn't much help either as he just sat there in the seat next to Dallas and holding his head out the window and letting the wind blow threw his fur.
"Fat lot of help you are, your responsible for him too you know so why don't you help out a bit instead of WHOA!" As if he'd used some kind of password Doof hopped out of his seat and out into the aisle then just as soon as Yuri had noticed his dog had hopped out he knew his fun was about to be ended, he came to a screeching halt and crashed into the large dog, while he had collided Doof then took that moment to pick him up by the waste line of his pants then carried him back to his seat very carefully.
"Doof pud me dooown!" Yuri demanded as he tried to shake himself free from the dog's grip, but it was no use as Doof had done this enough times to know just how to hold him, Doof then carried him back into the seat, he then dropped Yuri into his father's lap and giving him an almost smug look as if he were saying 'see how easy that was'?
"You suck mutt." He said back to the dog as he made sure to grip his son tight in his arms, over the loud speaker the driver of the bus called out their next stop, Dallas then prepared to stand as this was where they needed to get off. "Okay Doof I gotta put your leash back on now, so please don't chomp off my arm, unless you really want to traumatize my son for the rest of his life." He said hoping that reverse psychology would keep the dog from acting on his instincts, thankfully Doof behaved and let Dallas put the leash on his collar. "Good boy, now if only you'd stop growling at me every time I wanna hold my son." Dallas carried Yuri in his arms as he led Doof on his leash out of the bus and onto the sidewalk and onward to the bakery, along the way Doof managed to bark at several passers by as they continued to the bakery due to his protective instincts to keep Yuri from coming to harm. Each time he did this Dallas had to apologize to them for his behavior and explain he was just doing his duty as a guard dog, it didn't really help much but that was the best he could do.
Around the same time they'd arrived Adrien had just arrived as well in a red Lamborghini so that he could see Marinette, as well as discuss a few things they'd done a few hours earlier. As soon as he got out of the car Plagg flew out of Adrien's pocket and just started to glare at him with folded arms. "I hope your not actually considering another twelve hour session of the horizontal tango while her parents are home." He stated with slight disapproval.
"Relax would you, I'm not up for that right now anyway, mostly because I'm still kind of spent from the last few hours." Adrien admitted just before a familiar voice called out to him.
"Hey pretty boy…" Adrien looked around and saw his foster brother holding a blond two year old in his arms with a large St. Burnard at his side on a leash.
"Dallas, I thought you were helping Valentina with her laptop." Adrien stated as he remembered specifically what he'd told him a while ago.
"That's what I thought too, turns out it was just a lure to get me out of the house to meet this little person, speaking of which Adrien I'd like you to meet my son Yurochka Jones, Yuri this is daddy's foster brother Adrien Agreste."
Yuri turned to face Adrien and smiled at him. "Hi Adwien." He said with a wave.
"Hi Yuri, it's nice to meet you WHOA!" Adrien then found himself being barked at by the massive dog as it stood in between him and Yuri, Doof began to tug on his leash trying desperately to get at Adrien, but thanks to Dallas constantly drinking braves brew he had the strength to hold him back.
"Doof NO! He's a friend you idiot now back off!" Dallas ordered as he held the leash firm in his hand.
Around that moment Plagg flew in front of the dog's face and said. "Listen Cujo, you mess with my owner and I'll cataclysm you so hard you'll look like an inbred chihuahua!" Doof stopped barking for a moment as he was caught off guard by this strange looking floating cat like creature in his face, he didn't realize that he was a kwami like Spizz was but he still found him just as strange as him, he then started to sniff Plagg to try and figure out what he was. "HEY what the heck are you doing?" He asked as he tried to shove the dog away, then out of nowhere Doof just gave him a giant lick coating Plagg in saliva and signaling to him that he liked Plagg quite a bit due to the way he smelled. "Eeeeew…this is disgusting." He declared as he tried to shake off the dog drool.
By all rights Adrien should've been more focused on the large dog staring him down, but he was more concerned that Plagg had just exposed himself to a child just a few feet in front of him. He looked at Yuri and saw that he had seen Plagg just as he was afraid of, but Dallas was quick to clear up everything. "Relax Adrien, he's already met Spizz he knows about kwami's now."
"WHAT?!" Adrien and Plagg both cried in unison.
"You have got to be kidding me Dallas you let him know about your secret already? You only just met him and…" Adrien just began to berate him for his actions when Dallas just cut him off.
"Oh come on Adrien, he's only two who's gonna believe him? Odd's are they'll just chalk it up to a wild imagination." He stated logically, even though he wanted to retort Adrien couldn't help but agree that he was right.
He sighed and said with a defeated tone. "Fine, but as for you Plagg you need to be more careful where you expose yourself."
"Oh well excuse me for trying to keep this big slobber factory from trying to eat you…" Plagg fired back just before Doof started to sniff his hindquarters. "Hey, would you knock it off?" Plagg then swatted Doof on the nose, as if in retaliation Doof then sneezed right in Plagg's face. "Aaah gross my mouth was open." Dallas just began to snicker at Plagg's expense, while he was busy laughing Plagg flew up to Dallas's face and growled. "Shut your hole or I'll…"
"Kitty!" Yuri cried just before he snatched Plagg into his hands and squished him against his cheek.
"Gaaah not again!" He wheezed as he felt the pressure of a toddler squeezing him tight in his hands. "Why does this keep happening to me?"
Adrien was confused as to what he meant, so he just asked plainly. "How often does this happen to…Ohhh god!" Before he could even finish Doof started sniffing Adrien now, he managed to push him up against the car as he continued to search for the sent he was looking for. "What the heck are you even HEY!" Without so much of a warning Doof grabbed Adrien's over shirt and tore it's lower half off with all his strength. "Are you out of your mind? That was my shirt do you have any idea of how expensive this was?" He began to complain.
"That's kind of weird, why would he…oh that must be it." Dallas then pointed out to what Doof was after the whole time which was Plagg's wedge of camembert after he shook it out of the inner pocket then snatched it up in his massive jaws.
Just as the dog began to chew the wedge of cheese Plagg then began to scream with fright. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! MY CAMEMBERT!" He cried as he watched in horror as the dog ate his favorite food. "You monster!" He sobbed as he buried his face into Yuri's fingers.
"He did all that…for cheese?" Dallas asked with confusion, that's when he realized Plagg was just the same as the dog and figured it wasn't too strange to him.
"Doof weawy wikes teese…" Yuri began to explain his dog's behavior. "Auntie Megan gives him teese all duh time, his favwite is duh stinky kind…yuck!" As Plagg continued to cry Yuri just held him close to his face and hugged him gently. "Aww…kitty sad." He said as he placed a small kiss on Plagg's head.
Dallas just smiled down at his son for the adorable sight. "Oh god I wish I had a camera right now this is too cute." He said as he cooed over the adorable sight of his son with Adrien's kwami.
"Wouldn't matter if you did, kwami's can't be filmed or photographed, trust me I'd know." Adrien announced to his foster brother.
"Aw man, oh well I guess it's still a cute story to hold onto though." He said feeling only slightly depressed that he couldn't record this moment at all.
Spizz then flew out of his hiding place and tried to comfort him as well. "There-there Plagg, it's alright you still have plenty of cheese back at the mansion." He said as he patted his friend on his head.
Plagg then looked back at Spizz and said. "I know…but that cheese was special, it came…all the way from…Italy…and it…was…almost…a hundred years old…and HE…ate it." He then burst into a loud whale of sorrow for his loss of cheese.
"Oh get over it will yah?" Dallas stated as he'd already become annoyed with Plagg's whining. "Just be happy that he didn't eat you instead."
After deciding that he wasn't going to calm down for a while Adrien decided that it would be better to just leave Plagg in the car until he finally stopped sobbing over his cheese, Spizz chose to keep Plagg company to try and help calm him down. As for everyone else, Doof included, they all went into the bakery for whatever reasons brought them there, almost as soon as they'd gotten through the door Doof instantly began to go nuts as he ran up to the counter and hopped on top of it to start Barking at Mr. Dupain, who as one might've guessed was startled by the large dog. "WHOA, easy boy take it easy." He said as he cowered away from the dog.
"Doof, stop it will yah, this place belongs to him we're the trespassers here you little idiot." Dallas ordered as he yanked hard on the leash pulling the dog off the counter, Doof then stood back up and started shaking himself as if he was covered in water then he returned to Dallas's side. "Sorry about that, he was trained to be a guard dog for my son, he literally can't go anywhere without him otherwise…well let's just say it's better to just bring the dog everywhere with him."
Tom was no less calm from when the dog was barking at him a moment ago as he still had a feeling that he wanted to eat him. "Well I'd still very much like it if you got the dog out of my store for a while." He insisted as he saw the dog was still glaring at him with an almost murderous intent.
"I'll try to see if I can't get him to stay outside, Adrien would you mind watching him for a second?" Dallas asked as he sat Yuri down on the countertop.
"Not at all, but are you sure you can handle that beast?" He asked back as he knew already how strong the dog was.
Dallas just waved him off and said. "Oh please, I can handle anything this slobber monster can dish out, alright Doof outside with you." As Dallas began to walk toward the door he felt a tug on the leash, he turned to see that Doof was being considerably stubborn. "Doof, come." But Doof just snorted in response as he refused to Leave Yuri's side. "Doof by all rights your not even supposed to be in here now come on." Dallas began to tug on the leash, but Doof wouldn't budge.
"You can handle anything he dishes out huh?" Adrien said with a smirk.
"Shut up I know what I'm doing, Come on…you…stubborn…old…mutt…move…your…" Doof then grabbed the leash and yanked Dallas back over to the counter causing him to faceplant on the floor, Yuri just giggled at the sight of his father being bested by his dog so easily, but this would not cause Dallas to give up so easily, he just stood back up and said. "Alright you big drooling literal son of a bitch…this means war." He then popped his knuckles and approached the dog without a hint of fear and just scooped up the large dog under his front legs and started to drag him to the front door all the while Doof was struggling to get loose but Dallas held him firm no matter how strong the dog was or how much he fought to get free, Dallas managed to get him over to a street lamp and tied a basic slipknot in the leash preventing the Dog from getting loose. "Take that yah furry bitch, American rebel 1, Doof the big annoying ass guard dog 0." But little did he know this was far from over, especially with how determined Doof was in terms of protecting Yuri. Just as Dallas began to walk back toward the bakery Doof began to tug tight on his leash using all of his strength and weight to try and break free from his restriction, around that same moment the bolts holding the street lamp in place began to creak and pop until Doof had finally caused the street lamp to fall over and shatter the top against the sidewalk, Dallas stopped dead in his tracks and jumped slightly due to the loud crashing sound, he turned around and saw Doof panting up at him with a look that basically said 'how do you like me now bitch'? Shocked and amazed at the same time he looked down at the dog and asked even though he knew he couldn't answer. "How…just…just how…did you do that?"
"Well if it isn't Dallas Jones." A familiar voice announced from behind him, Dallas slowly turned to see the face of officer Rodger himself.
He began to grin nervously as he had a feeling that he was in trouble. "Hey…officer, it's wonderful to see you again, it's been a while sense I last saw you, have you lost weight?" He said in the attempt to try and butter him up a little bit and maybe convince him that he wasn't actually responsible for Doof's actions.
Officer Rodger simply looked at the fallen street lamp and the dog next to Dallas and made a reasonable assumption. "Is this your dog Mr. Jones?" He asked bluntly pointing at Doof.
Dallas just grinned nervously and said. "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? No he's…he's not my dog, I've never seen this dog before in all my life sir." Around that moment Adrien and Yuri came out of the bakery to see just what kind of destruction that Doof had done, oh come on guys, he thought to himself, you have the worst timing ever.
"Dallas what happened, we all heard a noise and…what…happened to the street lamp?" Adrien asked as he discovered what had caused such a commotion.
Yuri then looked at his dog and just glared at him after he put his little hands on his hips. "Doof what'd you do?" He began to scold the dog. "Bad dog, vewy bad dog." He said as he waved his finger about tutting his dog, but instead of acting submissive Doof just licked Yuri's face again. "Eew, Doof…dat's yucky."
Officer Rodger then looked down at the toddler then asked bluntly. "Young man, is this your dog?"
Yuri looked up and said with honesty. "Uh-huh, his name is Doof."
"I see, well young man your dog is clearly responsible for the destruction of city property which means your family has to pay a fine to have it repaired, now where might your parents be so I can speak with them?" Rodger asked as he knelt down and looked Yuri in the eye.
Being the good and honest boy he was taught to be Yuri of course fingered Dallas as his father and said. "Dis is my daddy wight hewe."
Rodger then looked up at Dallas and said with slight anger. "So this IS your dog then."
"Well technically sir it's his mother's dog, and also my sons dog but…" Before Dallas could even finish Rodger began to write out more tickets to him.
"That's one ticket for lying to an officer of the law, a ticket for destruction of city property, a ticket for setting a bad example for a child…" He kept on going down the list of things he thought were worthy of writing out tickets.
Dallas had already grown sick of him writing out unenforceable tickets, so he did something he thought he'd never do to anyone, he reached in to his back pocket and pulled out a voodoo doll that he'd made with the single strand of the officer's hair he'd stolen over a month ago. "Time to see if this thing works." He whispered to himself as he pulled out a pin from his wallet, then he proceeded to stick the doll with the pin in the face of the doll.
"OW!" Rodger whined as he dropped his pen and pad to the ground. "What was that? OW!" He whined again as he felt the same sharp pain.
"You alright officer Rodger?" Dallas asked as he stuck the pin into the doll again.
"OW! What is doing that to me?" He asked just before he was stuck again. "OW! Alright what's going OW!" Then just for the hell of it Dallas then flipped the doll over and stuck it in the backside. "OW!" He whined again as the pain had found it's way to his rear end. "Okay this is getting really annoying, if this is some kind of a prank it's not funny Jones."
"What exactly makes you think I'm doing anything to you?" He asked just before he performed a rapid fire of strikes into the dolls rear end.
Following such an action the officer began to hop about as he felt the sharp pain as if he was being stung by a thousand bee's all at once. "OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW! He squealed as he swatted at nothing in particular. "What's happening to me?!" He began to panic.
"I don't know sir, perhaps you should just go home and lie down and see if you don't feel better tomorrow." Dallas insisted just before he stuck the doll just one more time.
He needed no convincing as the pain just got worse and more rapid. "I think your right, OW! I'm just gonna OW…go home for a while and rest OW!" He hopped into his squad car and just drove off and completely forgetting all about his pen and pad. Which Dallas picked up and tossed inside of a nearby trashcan.
Adrien then looked at Dallas and just glared at him knowing very well that he had done something to do with everything that had just happened to the officer. "Okay what did you do?" He asked bluntly and he folded his arms.
Dallas just grinned and said. "Oh nothing too permanent, I just used a little bit of gypsy voodoo on him, just to mess with him a little bit." He presented Adrien with the doll and showing him just how capable he truly was at his craft as a gypsy.
"Dallas?" Adrien scolded his foster brother and showing his clear disapproval of what he'd done.
"Oh come on the guy was being a pain, plus half of that stuff wasn't even enforceable by law and you know it, besides he'll be fine as long as nothing happens to the doll." Dallas explained his knowledge.
"Still don't you think that wasn't really the best kind of example to show your son?" Adrien added while motioning to Yuri, who was busy fighting off a very slobbery St. Burnard's kisses.
"No…no…Doof top id…NO!" He whined as he tried his best to shove his pet away, in an instant Dallas just picked him up and out of the dog's reach.
"There you go kid-o, now he can't GAH!" He was interrupted as the dog then jumped up on Dallas and went straight for Yuri's face with more kisses. "Dude knock it off, clearly he doesn't like your slobber." Dallas said as he shoved Doof down, and also noticed that Doof had also gotten some of his drool on his leather jacket as well. "Ugh great, this is my favorite jacket." Doof just looked up at Yuri panting with a face that basically said 'I love you', but even though he loved Doof just as much he still didn't like being coated with dog spit. "I don't suppose you think that Mari would be kind enough to help get him cleaned up? I just have a feeling that his mother wouldn't want him to come back to her covered in dog drool."
"I don't think she'd mind at all. I'll take him, I was gonna go up and see her anyway WHOA!" Just as Adrien started to reach for Yuri Doof began to bark at him again. "Seriously what is your deal dog?"
"He's Yuri's bodyguard what did you expect Adrien?" Dallas explained. "I guess he's just gonna have to come with us, do yourself and Mari a favor and warn her of what's to come."
Adrien texted Marinette of the situation and all three boys and one large dog headed up stairs to her home, she was a little nervous about the dog after Adrien said that he barked at basically everyone he didn't know, and the fact that Dallas added he was also trained as an attack dog didn't exactly boost her confidence. But she figured that if she could face down giant sized Akumaas all the time then a dog was nothing to be afraid of, even if it had been trained to kill if need be. Marinette made sure that she looked presentable for her boyfriend one last time before she opened up the door for her guests. When she heard a knock she opened the door wide and smiled warmly as she saw her true love standing before her. "Hi kitty…" She greeted as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him lovingly.
"Eew dere kissing yucky." Yuri pointed out the obvious as he covered his eyes to avoid the mushy sight unfolding before him.
Dallas just chuckled and said. "You'll change your tune one day kid-o, you're my kid after all so god knows you will."
After a moment or two had passed before they ended their tender moment, Adrien was the first to break the silents. "I take it you had a great time last night?" He asked casually knowing that they could stay very much under the radar in the presence of a child.
"Like you wouldn't believe, I'm so glad we waited for a while before we went to see that show." She replied in code knowing he'd understand her meaning by 'show'.
God damn, Dallas thought to himself, how good of a night in bed did these two have? "Hey uh…I hate to ruin your moment but my son still has dog drool on his face." He announced to his foster brother and his girlfriend.
Marinette nodded her head and led them to the bathroom. "Alright it's just this way AH!" She was then cornered by Doof for the first time, all of a sudden her earlier resolve of not being scared of a dog went out the window, Doof jumped up on to her shoving her back into the wall but instead of barking or even going for her throat like everyone thought he'd do he simply started licking her face as if she was someone he knew. "Okay…okay I like you too…could you…please stop, guys could you get the freaking dog off me please?"
As Adrien came in closer to help her Doof then jumped down and started barking at him in a similar protective manor to that of Yuri. "Ohhhhhhhh I get it, he must like girls more than guys, unless it's Yuri of course."
"That doesn't make any sense." Adrien retorted as he held up his hands in an defensive manor, he couldn't see how Dallas's statement added up at all.
"Well think of it like this…" Dallas began to explain. "The only actual male he's ever around is Yuri, and the only adult like figures I've seen Yuri around are his mother Val and her friend and his care taker Megan who of course are women, so it stands to reason that with less male interaction he seems to trust women more than men, in other words he only likes Mari because she doesn't have…oh you get what I mean he likes girls not dudes."
Sensing that just leaving the dog alone with her lover was a bad idea just waiting to happen Marinette just walked up to Adrien and wrapped her arms around him and showing Doof that she didn't see Adrien as a threat, or at the very least get him to understand that she liked him and didn't want him to hurt him, Doof of course saw this display but was still weary of Adrien for Yuri's sake, but he knew as long as Marinette was around Adrien wasn't a problem, or at least that was his mental state he'd come to terms with given that his owner was an assassin and he'd seen her defend her son only once from someone unsavory. However Doof still couldn't leave Yuri alone with any of them, so he just sat outside the bathroom and just watched just in case Yuri needed him to jump in and protect him.
"Is he just gonna keep on staring at us like that?" Marinette asked as she got a washcloth and wiped Yuri's face with it.
"Well it's been like this sense we left Val's apartment so I'd have to say…yes, I think he is just gonna keep staring at us like that." Dallas confirmed as he saw the look on Doof's face, a look that spoke volumes of warnings, warnings such as 'if you hurt him I'll kill you'.
"Iss otay, he'w be nice if I tew him to be." Yuri assured as he let Marinette wash his face.
After she finished she then jokingly said. "So there is a cute little boy under all that mess." She then proceeded to tickle his tummy causing him to erupt with laughter, she did this as a way to hopefully show Doof that he was in no danger, but it would take more than that to convince him.
"Okay that's enough Mari, I'd rather my kid doesn't crack his head against something hard and start whining." Dallas announced as he picked up Yuri and held him in his arms. "Anyway, we need to get back to the reason we came here before we forget right little buddy?" Dallas asked his son.
"So what are you guys doing here? Was it to show off this cute little guy?" She asked twice before she started to playfully poke Yuri in his tummy repeatedly and causing him to giggle again.
Dallas was quick to answer. "Actually we came here to place an order for his birthday, he's turning three next week on the tenth and we want to see what kind of cake he wants."
Marinette's face lit up as she heard him mention his birthday. "Oh is that so?" She asked Yuri directly. "My boyfriend's birthday is on the tenth too, you guys are like little birthday twins."
Adrien then over heard the conversation and got an idea. "Hey, sense Yuri and I share the same birthday maybe we could share a party too, would you be okay with that buddy?"
Dallas seemed to like this idea, so he chose to roll with it. "Yeah that's a great idea, it would also save his mom finding a place to hold the party, also wouldn't have to worry about finding the entertainment either."
Yuri then looked up to Dallas and asked. "Wiw my fwiends be dere?"
Dallas gave a reassuring smile and said. "As long as you want them to be there they will be bud."
Yuri then looked back at Adrien and gave him his answer. "Otay Adwien, but Doof will have to be dere too."
Adrien looked down at the dog and just felt a little nervous, he knew the dog still didn't trust him and might never trust him unless he gave him a reason to, he then knelt down to his level and just held out his hand hoping that his idea would work, Doof then started to growl at him but he showed no fear as he placed his hand directly on Doof's snout, no one moved, no one spoke, nobody even breathed as they all had a feeling what Doof was about to do to Adrien in an instant, but to everyone's astonishment Doof's growling just stopped. Doof then began to sniff Adrien's hand as he slowly came to realize that Adrien wasn't a threat to Yuri at all. "Yeah, I don't think we have to worry too much about Doof anymore." Adrien announced to the group.
Everyone else just stood there slack jawed and completely confused by the entire endeavor that they'd all just bared witness to. "If I hadn't seen it I never would've believed it." Dallas added as he just looked in awe at what his foster brother had accomplished.
After everyone else had calmed down, and Doof had actually made some new friends who he'd just met, everyone including Doof returned to the bakery to finally sample some birthday cakes, when Adrien told Yuri that the cake they'd order would be twice the size of him he became excited as he'd never seen such a cake before, ultimately though they still had to agree on what kind they wanted, thankfully they both enjoyed and picked out the same flavor, chocolate. After their order had been placed and paid for by both parties, with a little help from Valentina's credit card, Dallas then declared that he, his son and his dog had to go as Dallas wanted to take his son out for ice cream. Yuri became excited and nearly ran out of the bakery before even knowing where he was going, until Doof grabbed him by his belt line again much to Yuri's inconvenience as he still didn't like being treated like a baby by his own dog. After retrieving him from the gentle jaws of the dog Dallas led Doof and Yuri out of the store and off to their next location and leaving Adrien and Marinette to finally discuss a few things, specifically their romantic evening together which Adrien was still worried about due to their lack of protection being used, as well as lack of common knowledge, he immediately calmed down once she told him she'd taken a pill earlier that morning giving him peace of mind.
Not long after that Adrien felt the need to call his father for obvious reasons to inform him of the existence of Dallas's son as well as the fact that they wanted to share the venue for their party, after ensuring it wouldn't cost him his father a penny to add on to the party especially sense Yuri's mother already ensured them that she'd pitch in to foot the bill Gabriel agreed and wished his son a wonderful day, however he was still faced with the same problem he'd been facing for a while now, now that Dallas was on to him he couldn't ask him to read from the book anymore for fear that his suspicions would be proven correct, and once that would happen then everything he'd worked for all the struggles he'd been through would be for nothing, he knew he had to do something to either throw him off or find another way to figure out how to decipher the book and sense Dallas didn't seem that easily fooled he was limited to one option, find another person to read the book for him.
He stood in his office building awaiting a phone call from a university professor in Japan who he specialized in ancient texts and writings from all around the world, after a while he received the call he was waiting for and answered it quickly. "Hello…?" He answered appropriately. "Yes this is Gabriel…ah yes professor Takemoto, did you have any luck?" He asked with baited breath, only to have his hopes dashed upon the professor's answer. "Oh…I see, no I understand…thank you for trying at least…good bye." He hung up the phone and began to rub the stress from his eyes.
Around that moment Nooroo flew up next to Gabriel and tried to comfort him. "Master please don't do this to yourself, this is just like the first time you went in search of a specialist for this text, it's nearly impossible to find someone with the knowledge required to break the code." He begged as he hated to see his master in turmoil over this endeavor.
"I…refuse to admit defeat Nooroo." Gabriel replied showing his determination on his sleeve. "I have to try and save her, I must save Emily no matter the cost." He stated as he closed his eyes and prayed that he could find a solution to his problem.
Around that moment Natalie walked in with a woeful look on her face. "I just got off the phone with the professor from Oxen Fert university in London sir…" She announced sounding saddened for her employer. "She said that…this code was beyond anything she'd ever studied and couldn't determine what it said."
Gabriel sighed and said. "It's alright Natalie, we'll just keep trying, have you gotten any calls from the national history museum of China yet?"
"I have sir…" She paused knowing that her answer wouldn't be to his liking. "But I'm afraid…they've had no luck either sir, I'm truly sorry, perhaps we could try someone from the united states again that seemed to work well enough the first time." She suggested with a hopeful expression.
"I've already exhausted my list for the united states Natalie…" He replied with a sad expression. "No one on my list could ever hold a candle to Dr. Clearlake."
That's when Natalie got an idea. "What about his son sir." She said as she placed a hand on his shoulder.
He looked back to her and said. "I already told you, we can't use Dallas anymore otherwise he'll find out the truth and everything will have been for nothing."
"With all due respect sir, I wasn't referring to Dallas…" She replied with a hopeful grin. "Didn't he say that he had a brother back in the united states?"
Upon hearing that Gabriel then began to put his mind to work and formulate a new plan in his mind. "Natalie, I think you've just given me a new idea, but for this to work it'll require a certain bit of cunning and an even greater level of deception, I don't know if it will be enough to deceive Dallas in the end but hopefully it will provide me with enough cover for what I need to do."
She nodded then asked casually. "Whatever you need me to do I'm yours sir, what do I have to do?"
Across town Mrs. Couffaine along with Juleka, Luka and Rose were just outside of Rose's parents home, Mrs. Couffaine looked as though she was about ready to break bones and crack some heads with the anger expressed on her face, the reason that Juleka and Rose were there because she felt it necessary for them to face Rose's parents together and hopefully convince them that they belonged together, as for why Luka was there was it to keep his mother from killing Rose's parents as soon as they opened up the door. "Mom please just promise me that you'll keep this civil at least, the last thing we need is for this to go so out of hand that we can't fix it." Luka begged feeling just as afraid as his sister and her Girlfriend.
"Don't ask me to make promises I can't keep sonny boy, also you might want to step back a bit." He replied just before she started pounding on the door to Rose's apartment. "HEY! OPEN UP IN THERE YOU YELLOW BELLIED SEA SWINES!" She bellowed as she continued to pound on the door and making as much racket as she could.
Juleka just groaned with embarrassment as she knew just how bad this would go. "Oh this is not gonna end well." She said as she covered her face.
Eventually the door opened up and out came Rose's father, he was a black haired tall burly man in a red wool sweater with a black Dimond pattern lined in a row around the torso and black dress pants and matching dress shoes, he took one look at them all and just glared at Mrs. Couffaine. "What in god's name are…?" Before she could finish Mrs. Couffaine just decked him right in the face with an amazing amount of strength sending him back into the apartment and laying him out in the front hall.
All three teens just winced as they saw Rose's father hit the ground. "That's for kicking Rose out for no good reason you bigoted little bastards, now where's Sara, I owe her a fresh made knuckle sandwich with a side of arse kicking too, on the house." Mrs. Couffaine declared as she popped her knuckles.
"Do you think she killed him?" Juleka asked to literally either of the other two teens standing next to her.
Luka just walked up to him an nudged him with his foot then Ben began to groan. "Nope, he's just a little banged up, I'd say he got lucky though, remember what she did to her last boyfriend she caught cheating on her?" He asked as he reminisced the sight of his mother beating her ex with a pipe wrench.
"I still have no idea where she got that wrench." Juleka added as she helped Luka drag Rose's father into the next room and sat him on the couch.
Around that moment Rose's mother Sara had come out of the laundry room to see what was all the commotion, she was dressed in a simple little white sun gown with a floral print on the lower half of the skirt, she was blonde like her daughter with blue eyes and much longer hair, she just narrowed her eyes at Rose and said. "What are you doing here? We made it very clear OOF!" She was then cut off by another punch from Mrs. Couffaine right to her gut, then without so much as a warning she grabbed her hair and dragged her to the couch and forced her to sit down next to her husband.
"Now you listen to me Sara and listen well…" She growled and making it very clear that she wasn't going anywhere until she'd either talked some sense into the two of them or beat it into them, though at this point the ladder was much more likely.
Sara then began to counter. "I don't have to listen to anything you have to say, also I'm calling the AH!" She was once again cut short with another punch to the face.
"Shut it yah scurvy sea dog, cause I'm not going anywhere until we've hashed this out and until you've seen reason and sense I work from home as it is I've got nothing but free time on me hands so the sooner we solve this the better so either you shut your gob and listen or I'll shut it for you and make you listen, understand Sara?" She ordered with a firm and aggressive tone and making it very clear that she wasn't letting this go without a literal fight if necessary.
"Are you out of your damn mind? You break into my home, assault me and my husband and now you're making threats against us? Do you have any idea of…" She stopped when she noticed her raising her fist again.
She then folded her arms and stated very casually. "I didn't come here to fight, nor did I come here to express how I feel about this, I came here to get you two to see reason as you aren't even trying to understand that this is what makes your daughter happy."
Sara took another look at Rose and just scoffed. "The fact that you actually support this is appalling to me, how can you even still look at Juleka even after finding out what she is?"
That's when Mrs. Couffaine leaned up into her face and growled. "Because if I acted the way you are now then I'd be just as shitty a parent as you are." She just cocked her head back as if she had been offended by her remark. "The truth hurts doesn't it, and I know you're a shit parent because a good parent accepts their children for what they are, gay, lesbian, transgender, doesn't matter what the circumstance is because if you can't accept your daughter for this choice then you clearly were never a good mother in the first place."
"How dare you!" She shouted back. "I am a good parent, it's you and your damn daughter's fault for fucking with Rose's head and making her feel this way! You and your freedom is the most important thing ever philosophy, she was just fine before your whore daughter AH!"
She was once again punched in the face by Mrs. Couffaine. "Firstly, never call my daughter a whore again, secondly, don't even think that anyone is to blame for how Rose feels, she can't help who she falls in love with anymore than you can control it." She said as she leaned up into her face and pointed her finger in her face.
After rubbing her already sore jaw she then stated firmly. "She's not in love, she's just confused because of what she did to my daughter, it's just a phase that she needs to…"
"A phase? HA! That's not at all how you treated it when you kicked me out mom, you even said it straight to my face just before you slammed the door in my face, we're not your family anymore, were those not your exact words?" Rose recalled correctly.
She was right after all, but she wasn't backing down. "Rose, even you have to agree that this isn't you, you just need time to…"
"Oh will you shut up already mom!" Rose snapped at her mother who was surprised at her sudden outburst. "That's exactly what you said about me becoming a Rockstar but I never grew out of that."
"Well at least that wasn't a sin against god." Her mother retorted and finally getting to the root of the situation.
"Oh so that's what this is, is it? A religious matter, it's not just stupidity but your using the bible as a scape goat to run away from this situation, well it that's what this is then let me tell you a little verse from the bible that should help you IDIOTS…realize just how foolish your being, John 15:12 says this word for word, My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Do you know what that means? That means if this was truly as bad as you say than why would the good lord command us to love one another even if it was taboo? I don't know about you but I think that the lord would rather see your daughter happy and with someone rather than lonely and miserable, even if it just so happened to be another girl." Mrs. Couffaine stated while dropping some extremely big truth bombs all over the place. "Knowing this, do you really want to lose your daughter over something as trivial as this? Is your pride so important to you that you have to forsake your own daughter just because your afraid to accept her for what she prefers? I clearly can't force you to make that choice but if you ever want my respect again then you'll make the right call the next time I see you, come on kids let's go, I've gotten most of it out of me system."
Without so much as another word Mrs. Couffaine and the three teens all left the apartment together leaving both of Rose's folks to think about what she'd said, it was clear that they weren't being given much of a choice in this matter, they simply assumed that she'd grow out of it and come begging for them to take her back, but now that they knew what she felt was genuine they had to make the choice that would either make or break their bond as a family forever. However they knew that this wouldn't simply be done on their own, so they chose to call for a family therapist to try and figure out the best course of action, after a two hour chat over the phone they had made their decision and chose to give their answer at the earliest opportunity.
It was around nine o'clock and Dallas still hadn't returned with Yuri, this made Valentina extremely worried, she paced back and forth as her anxiety just kept getting stronger by the second. "They should've been back by now." She worried aloud. "Where are they?"
"Oh stop being such a worry wort love, Dallas can take care of the little tike I'm sure of it, now that being said could you please hand me another taco?" Megan asked politely as she sat with crossed legs on the couch still working like a maniac to break the encryption on the flash drive.
Valentina had ordered her several different kinds of takeout ever sense she started working on the drive, which was over twelve hours ago, she grabbed the last of her taco's she'd ordered and handed it to her friend. "Any luck yet?" She asked as she sat down next to her.
"Not much I'm afraid love, this little bugger is locked down tighter than her majesty's nickers in an updraft." She said half-jokingly as she took a bite out of her snack.
Around that time she heard a knock on the door, Valentina got up and crept slowly to the door and reached for the gun in the umbrella stand then took a look through the whole and saw she had nothing to fear. "Oh thank god it's just them." She said as she put the gun back and opened the door to see her lover holding a very unconscious toddler sleeping on his shoulder with an equally tired dog standing next to Dallas. "Did he give you any trouble?" She asked as she carefully took her son taking care that she didn't wake him.
"Nah, compared to Cujo he was a saint." Dallas replied as he stroked his son's head softly, around that moment Doof simply growled at Dallas for his remark. "Well if you weren't such a dick I wouldn't have to give such a negative review." He said back to the dog.
"YES!" Megan cried as she'd finally accomplished her goal, both Dallas and Valentina looked over to her and just glared at her as she clearly didn't see that Yuri was trying to sleep. "Oh…bullocks, sorry I didn't notice you'd come back finally, so how did everything go?" She asked as she closed up the laptop.
"Everything's great, also Val I don't think you need to worry about finding a venue anymore, as luck would have it Adrien's birthday is the same as Yuri's so he suggested that we have the party at the same venue at the same time. Of course we'll need to pitch in to make a place for him there so we'd best get digging up some cash." Dallas said hoping that she wouldn't mind too much.
Before she could even state how she felt Megan then added. "To be honest love I think we'd best go along with it, as I've just found out that the patsy for this hit just so happens to be Adrien Agreste himself." She opened up and turned the laptop around and showed Adrien's picture on the screen.
"Wait what? Well if he's the mask then who's the hit itself? It can't be his father, he's literally the only one to benefit from his death and if he goes to jail then he won't get his inheritance until he gets out after who knows how long." Dallas stated the facts as Gabriel only had one heir and this was well known to the people of the city.
"Well you'd be right about that love, it's not daddy dearest…" She added just before she scrolled down a little bit to another picture. "It's this lovely little lass right here."
Dallas's jaw just dropped and saw just who it was on screen, a girl who looked to have black hair with pigtails and was descendent from an Oriental background. "Oh god…I know that girl, that's Marinette Dupain-Chang, she's Adrien's girlfriend." He clarified as fear began to well up within him. "But I don't get it, who'd want Marinette dead? And how the hell could they afford the services of the Chameleon?" He asked twice trying to figure out who on earth would want to hurt Marinette.
"No idea love, the only indication of who it might be is a codename, right here see?" She pointed at the screen showing one word in Italian.
"La Volpe? Who could that be?" Valentina asked as she'd never heard of anyone with such a code name before.
Dallas began to put his mind to work but came up short as well. "Beat's me, but who ever it is it's irrelevant now, we know who the targets are now which means we can start to formulate a plan of attack against that fucker." He said as he felt the sudden urge to punch something coming on.
"One thing at a time love, for now just worry about your foster brother and keep him and his girlfriend safe." Megan voiced as she began to make digital copies of the information she'd broken through onto the laptop.
Dallas nodded then turned to his girlfriend and said. "I'll let them know asap, until then you girls keep on working on this and see if there's anything else that's useful in there like time schedules or hideouts he likes to frequently visit."
"Agreed, I'll see you soon dorogoy." Valentina replied as she gave her lover a tender kiss.
Dallas then bent over slightly and whispered to his sleeping son. "Good night buddy, daddy will see you tomorrow." He kissed him on the head and simply walked out quietly to not wake his son from his sleep.
Valentina couldn't help but feel the joy she wanted to feel for so long in seeing her family finally coming together, but she had to shove that aside for the moment as she now had serious work to do and that needed all of her attention to end everything in a successful attempt to take down her rival and finally have her revenge. "Soon you little ublyudok, soon you'll pay for what you did to me, just you wait." She said to the photo of her target on the wall.
"Hey easy girl, remember what we talked about." Megan reminded her friend to stay calm.
She sighed and said. "I know, I won't get carried away this time, and he won't get away either, I'll make sure of that."
(A/N: Alright that's a good stopping point, I hope you guys like this chapter, and yes everything that Yuri said was written on purpose so there and I don't care if anyone doesn't like it, he's two he has a speech impediment and I think it's cute and that should be good enough for you guys. Now for the spoiler, in the next chapter of WOS Dallas warns Marinette and Adrien of the plot against them, Adrien and Dallas come face to face with Hawkmoth and he makes a demand that they find hard to refuse, now before I end this I want to take this time to say that I've decided to make the next Akumaa in this story based off of a monster from native American lore and I've even posted a forum about it to decide and try to get a vote going for it, also it's titled after the fanfiction itself to make it easy enough for you guys, there's no invite code yet nor have I wrote out the chapter or even come close to it yet as I want to wait until you guys have picked out the monster you want to see in my story and if I need to I'll take some time off, intentionally this time, so if you want to go to the forum just head to the forum that I've simply dubbed Web of secrets forum by Hong-gui, or if nothing else just feel free to private message me on my page, I really don't mind either way alright that's all for now everybody, hope you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you enjoy the next one too.)
