(A/N: Told you, and you all doubted me, alrighty then here we go my people, enjoy.)

Chapter 26: Blood brothers

After about a minute after Simon had shown up at the safehouse Adrien called agent Menendez and told her the safehouse had been compromised, so she sent an agent to pick up the boys and Marinette of course, who had yet to return to the safehouse as well as she, Valentina and Megan were still out shopping at a very pricy high end boutique at the local mall. Which wasn't a place that Marinette usually shopped because it was a store that sold pieces of clothes from all the top name designers in the fashion industry. "What about this one? It's a Henrietta Wallis all the way from the U.S." Valentina said as she held up a beautiful sunset orange mermaid dress.

Marinette clearly wasn't complaining that Valentina was trying to buy her a designer dress by someone from out of the country let alone in the country, especially when every dress in the store cost over fifty grand. But she didn't think it was necessary, it was good that she was trying to apologize but she felt as though she was over doing it, all she really felt that she needed was for her to say she was sorry. "I don't know, I mean I love the way it looks but that color? I don't really think it would work for me." She said as she shot down what had to be the fourteenth dress so far.

"Well we have all day until they close, and we're not leaving until we find one you like." Valentina declared as she headed for a different rack and pulled off a velvet green strapless dress with a floral pattern on the chest. "What about this one? A Jose La Grande original fresh from Spain."

Marinette gave the dress a good look, but just shook her head. "Nah, that one's not really my color either."

"What about this one then love?" Megan called over to her from across the store. The dress she held up was a baby pink dress made with Japanese silk, it's entire front was decorated with an oriental floral printed pattern.

Valentina quickly gasped as she headed over to see the dress up closer. "A Rieko Takemoto, and it's from her spring collection, I thought these were already bought up."

"Wow, you're really up to date with all the latest fashion trends." Marinette chuckled slightly while at the same time she was absolutely surprised at how knowledgeable she was about the fashion industry. Especially sense all she had to do was take a look at an outfit and determine who designed it and where it came from.

Valentina smiled as she replied. "Well fashion always has been a second love to me. When I was young my mother always wanted me to be a ballerina, and my father wanted me to be a soldier like him, so I tried to do both. But the one thing I wanted to be more than anything was a runway model."

"Really?" Marinette replied sounding very interested in the subject.

"Yep, when we first met she tried getting to change my get up by bringing me to one of these stores, she just would not shut up about how many designers she knew about and whose clothes would look great on me." Megan added as she put the dress back.

"And I would've became a model too if I could. But then…my life was changed forever…because of…" She trailed off for a moment as she felt the haunting memory of her parents and childhood love being murdered flashed inside her head and a single tear fell from her eye.

Marinette could see the pain on her face, before she knew about Valentina's past she was so enraged by her actions which should've ended differently but luckily didn't due to the miraculous. But now all she felt was sympathy for her, she had no idea what it was like for her to grow up without her parents and wouldn't know how to cope if she did. She then walked up to Valentina and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder and began to comfort her. "It's okay Val, soon your Parents and Yurochka Romanov will finally be able to rest in peace, even though I don't really approve of the way you want to do it but still…soon you'll have a normal life."

Valentina's smile quickly returned upon that remark. "Thank you Marinette, I am truly fortunate to have someone like you as a friend." She stated as she wrapped Marinette in a warm hug. Then the two simply returned to shopping. "Ooh an Anabel McPhairin, it's almost impossible to find her work in a store."

As soon as Valentina pulled another dress off the rack and held it up to Marinette she quickly saw why this particular designer's work was so hard to find, this dress was definitely one of if not the most beautiful dresses she'd ever seen. It was a princes dress colored with an elegant shade of light blue with a diamond encrusted neckline and shoulder straps, the skirt was among the biggest she'd ever seen on a dress before. Her first thought when seeing this dress was how much it reminded her of Cinderella. Megan's first response when she saw it was. "She's definitely gonna make you try it on so don't try to refuse."

Before Marinette could even have a chance to speak Valentina grabbed her wrist and dragged her off to the dressing room. "Come on let's go, you're going to look FABULOUS!" She sang as they entered the first available dressing room. About a minute later Marinette exited the dressing room so her spectators could see how she looked. Valentina just gasped as she saw Marinette standing with such a beautiful gown. "Bozhe moi, Marinette you look beautiful!"

"Yeah I'll admit you do look pretty cute in that dress Mari." Megan added as she found the way she looked was very stylish, even though she had a very particular type of fashion.

"Oh really you think so?" Marinette asked as she gave a small twirl. "I mean I like it but I'm not sure if it's for me."

To which Valentina aptly replied. "Ty chertovski sumasshedshiy?"

"Uhhhhhh…what did she say?" Marinette asked as she clearly didn't understand Russian.

Thankfully Megan was all too happy to translate. "She literally asked if you were fucking crazy, which I have to agree because that dress looks great on you. I'll bet if your man sees you in that he's going to have a heart attack."

After Marinette turned to see herself in the mirror behind her she immediately saw what they were talking about. "Oh…my…god…" She quickly turned back to the other two girls and stated. "I love it."

"Hmm…but it's missing something." Valentina added as she began to rub her chin trying to figure out what else she needed to look perfect. After giving her a quick glance she snapped her fingers and said. "I've got it, be right back." Valentina quickly walked off to a different part of the store and started searching for a pair of shoes to match the dress Marinette wore. She soon returned with a pair of sparkling light blue open toe high heels each with a silver looking rose stitched onto the ankle straps. "Try these on." She said as she handed Marinette the shoes.

After trying them on Marinette felt that there was no way she could look any better than this. "Well Val there's no denying that you know your way around fashion." Marinette declared as she marveled the way she looked.

"Oh you're too kind." Valentina replied happily. After a little more convincing from Valentina and Megan, Marinette finally agreed that this was the dress she wanted, especially sense it was on sale and would likely be gone soon enough. After paying for the dress and the shoes the girls all headed straight for the food court and simply enjoyed what ever they craved. Valentina opted for chicken curry and chapati, all Megan wanted was a Philadelphia cheese steak sandwich while Marinette had a particular craving for…everything. It didn't really bother Valentina too much that she was grabbing a tray full of just about everything she could get her hands on in the food court, mostly because she could afford the sizable dent in her bank account and also because she wanted to treat it as a part of her apology. However she was surprised that she ordered so much, she somehow managed to fit four slices of pepperoni pizza, three bowls of ice cream, the flavors of which were chocolate, tiger tail, and sea salt caramel, nine chili dogs, a plate of jalapeño nachos, a boat of cheese fries, another boat of mozzarella sticks, two bacon cheese soft pretzels and a large cherry coke all on one tray.

The sight of which made both Megan and Valentina's jaws drop. "Good lord Marinette, your going to make yourself sick eating all of that junk food." Megan stated wondering where she was going to put it all.

"Hmm…" Marinette voiced as she looked up at her with her first chili dog hanging out of her mouth. After she took a bite she chewed it thoroughly then swallowed just before saying. "What do you mean?"

Megan was just surprised at how nonchalant her words were as she replied. "Are you kidding? Look at all that food, it looks like you have enough to feed an army. I mean don't you eat when you're at home?"

"I don't know why I got so much, I mean sure I'm hungry but I just didn't know which one I wanted the most." Marinette replied as she took a fry and dipped it into her chocolate ice cream and popped it into her mouth. Then she started to sniff the air and asked. "Hey do you guys smell cheesecake?"

"You're unbelievable, you have all that and your still not satisfied? Mari if I didn't know any better I'd say you had a bun in the oven." Megan stated with a slight chuckle.

Upon hearing that remark Marinette just began to groan. "Please don't say that I've already had enough of that from Adrien this week." She said as she covered her face with her hands.

"What do you mean?" Valentina asked as she broke off a piece of chapati and dipped it into her curry.

Marinette just sighed and said. "The other day Dallas pretty much got the idea of me being pregnant into Adrien's head, all because I had some kind of dream that he calls a vision quest, and in that dream I heard a baby crying and now Adrien thinks I'm going to have a baby, even though I already took a pregnancy test which said negative by the way. But he won't be satisfied until I take a few more tests."

"Ohhh I see…" Valentina voiced. "Well if you want we can go to the drug store and get a few tests just to prove it to him."

Marinette smiled warmly and said. "I appreciate the offer, but you've already done enough for me today. Besides I've still got another test at the safehouse so don't worry about it."

"Well that's hardly enough in my opinion. Let's play it safe and get a few more, you never know when you've got a defective test." Megan added.

"She's got a point Marinette, it's better not to leave it to chance." Valentina stated from her own personal experience. "You see…before my last job in Taiwan I thought I was pregnant, so I took a test and it was negative too. But it wasn't until after I'd been shot and needed to go to the hospital that I found out it was a false negative and found out that I really was pregnant. So I called in all the favors I could and got back to England where I stayed with Megan and eventually gave birth to Yurochka."

"The point she's trying to make Mari is that it's better to find out at home rather than risk it in the field, especially if what you do tends to get you shot at." Megan stated once again.

Marinette just rolled her eyes and said. "Fine, we'll go get more tests. But first I'm finishing off this food." As Marinette began to dig in once again her phone began to buzz, she managed to fish it out of her pocket while popping about four of her nachos into her mouth. "Mello?" She answered with her mouth full.

"Mari, I hate to interrupt your special time with the girls but you need to come back to the safehouse right now we're being moved to a new one." Adrien declared on his end of the phone.

Upon hearing this Marinette's eyes shot open with shock. "Why what's happened?" She asked sounding frantic.

"Dallas's brother found the safehouse, turns out he planted a tracer on him so now we have to be stashed in a new safehouse." He admitted while packing up his suitcase. "Also agent Menendez sent somebody our way and they'll be here soon enough so you may want to get back here as soon as possible."

"God damnit, and I just started eating. Fine I'll be there soon, love you Adrien I'll see you soon." Marinette quickly put her phone away and started eating much faster than she normally would, in fact she ate so fast that her food was almost gone in less than a minute.

"Whoa slow down Marinette otherwise your going to choke!" Megan warned as she scarfed down her food. But she simply ignored her, and somehow avoided choking all together as she finished in record time. One she was done she hailed a cab, which Valentina paid for much to Marinette's protests. But after quickly explaining that she needed the cab after her to take Yuri home back to her place she figured it didn't matter.

The cab managed to get back to the safehouse just before the agent had arrived to relocate the three teens, also Valentina managed to get Yuri and Doof out without anyone else seeing them. Once all their things had been packed up the agent moved them all to the new safehouse location without any difficulty. This time it was just a regular looking suburban household which had been well kept and in an area which was heavily patrolled by police, making it the perfect place to hide with safety and security. But despite the neighborhood being relatively safe they were completely unaware that they'd been followed there by someone who was being too stubborn for his own good. After getting settled back in Dallas started making dinner for everyone. "Food's on guys." He called as he pulled a steaming hot lasagna out of the oven.

As soon as Plagg flew into the kitchen his jaw dropped as he saw the main course. "A four cheese lasagna…" He whispered as tiny drops of drool began to form. He then began to sniff the air to try and determine what cheeses he used. "Mozzarella, asiago, cheddar and…gouda! COME TO PAPA!" Like an air bomber from world war two he dove down onto the lasagna, only for Dallas to grab him by the tail and halt his advance.

"Save some for us Plagg, I worked hard on that hoping that I'd get some before you scarfed it down and I swear to god if you try to eat the whole thing I'm going to squash you like a bug." He threatened the tiny kwami.

Plagg just rolled his eyes as he groaned. "FINE!" With that said Dallas let him go and Plagg just floated down to the table and started to pout as he folded his arms and crossed his legs. But his attitude changed when Dallas cut out a slice for him and he pounced on the lasagna and just dug in like there was no tomorrow.

As everyone finally began to flock to the table Dallas began to serve everyone a slice of food, however Marinette was somehow hungry enough for three slices. To her every bite was beyond delicious, it was almost like she was eating a small bit of heaven. "Well it seems someone loves my cooking a lot more than I would've expected. Or are you just trying to feed a tape worm." Dallas joked as he handed Marinette her thirds slice.

Upon hearing that Marinette just shot him an annoyed look for some reason, which somehow made Dallas a little nervous especially sense she could beat the tar out of him and he knew it, from personal experience. Sensing this Adrien tried to distract them. "So Mari, what did you and Valentina do today?" He asked sounding curious.

Marinette then turned to him and replied with a cheerful tone. "Well we went to the mall, looked at some dresses. Which reminds me that she got me this beautiful princes gown from Anabel McPhairin."

"As in THEE Anabel McPhairin of Ireland? Now that had to be expensive." Adrien stated, it was all too natural for him to know the names of several different designers from all over the world, especially when one of those designers happened to be one of his father's biggest competitors.

How ever Dallas had no idea who they were talking about at all, if they didn't have a noticeable reputation in the criminal underworld than it was more than likely that he wouldn't have a clue as to what or who they were talking about. "Uhhhhhh…who?" He asked puzzledly.

"She's a famous designer here in Europe, she and my father have been going head to head for almost ten years now." Adrien stated what he knew about her, then quickly added. "Which reminds me when my father get's back don't let him know that you have one of her dresses because he will flip out."

"Really, well if it's that good looking then let's see it Mari." Dallas requested as he grew curious. Marinette agreed and went off to her room and returned about a minute later after putting the dress on yet again just to show off. As soon as both boys and their kwami's caught sight of her their jaws all dropped. "GOD…DAMN!" Dallas voiced as his eyes just bulged out of his head.

The piece of cheese that Plagg was holding fell to the floor as his eyes became glued to Marinette. Spizz was also without words. Adrien felt his heart literally skip a beat, the only time he'd ever felt relatively close to this feeling about her was when he'd seen her in the red dress she'd made herself and wore when they went to the Scarlet Seahorse. That dress of course was beautiful and would always hold a special place in his heart, but when compared to this one there was no question that it blew her dress away. The same could be said for Dallas, even though he didn't have any reason or desire to try and get with Marinette anymore he still couldn't help but feel attracted to her. Tikki also thought the dress was beautiful, but she had already seen it so the shock of seeing her wearing it had worn off.

"Judging by the way you're all staring at me I'd say you all approve." Marinette joked with a slight giggle at the shared expression among every single male in the room.

None of them said a word, until Adrien finally managed to snap out of his daze. "You…look…amazing." He uttered dumbly.

"Yeah…what he said." Dallas added just as dumbly, as Dallas began to examine the dress more closely he saw something about it that he wasn't expecting. "Are those real?"

The question he asked was obviously misinterpreted as he was referring to the diamonds on the neckline of the dress. But Marinette clearly didn't realize that. She then grew so frustrated with him that she marched over to him, grabbed the collar of his shirt and forced him to look her in the eye. "HOW DARE YOU! YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO SNEAK A PEAK AT MY UNMENTIONABLES YOU DISGUSTING LITTLE PERVERTED SON OF A…" Just as she was about to finish Dallas quickly explained what he meant.

"THE DIAMONDS!" He cried suddenly feeling scared of her, he'd seen her angry plenty of times before but this was an all-new level of anger even for her. "I was only talking about the diamonds nothing more and nothing less. So could you please let me go?" Marinette slowly let him go, but she didn't calm down, her rage was just through the roof. But her anger was the least of his problems at the moment. Undenounced to him he began to feel a slight bit of friction, in his jeans. Crap! He cried mentally. "Uh…I'm gonna…take a shower now." He quickly walked as fast as he could to the nearest bathroom, stripped down faster than he'd ever done before then hopped in the shower and turned it as cold as he could get it. The sound of "OH JESUS!" could be heard from all corners of the house.

After that awkward exchange Adrien decided the best thing to do would be to distract Marinette from her anger somehow. "So…feel like a movie princess?" He asked with a smile. But all she did in response was cross her arms in annoyance for what Dallas had said, even though it was just a huge misunderstanding. Adrien then walked up behind her and snaked his arms around her waist. "It's okay princess, I don't think he meant any offense."

Marinette sighed as she just leaned back into his embrace. "I know, it's just so…frustrating to have to deal with him sometimes. I know he's only joking but…it's hard to have to deal with him sometimes." She replied plainly.

"Oh you don't have to tell me, I've been dealing with it sense he moved in. Though I do wish he'd tone it down at times." He stated the truth. "But I have to admit, what you just did was pretty hot." Adrien then started placing tiny kisses on the back of her neck as his hand slowly began to wonder all over her figure.

Marinette began to giggle as he slowly slid his hands where ever he pleased. "You know…I don't think I ever gave you your birthday present the other night." She said with a seductive tone.

"Oh yeah? What'd you get me?" He asked with an equally seductive tone.

She then turned around to face him with an aroused look and said. "First you'll have to help me get this dress off." She then placed a tender kiss on his lips and just melted into him. Without even thinking Adrien then reached around her back to the zipper, only for their moment of passion to be interrupted by a knock at the door. "Oh for the love of…who the hell is that?" She then marched for the door with a frustrated look on her face. As she opened the door she just froze as she saw Simon standing before her.

"Hi, uhm…can I see Dallas for a minute?" He said sounding nervous. All Marinette could do was panic as she slammed the door right in his face, literally, as he was standing way to close to the door. "OW! Son of a…BITCH that hurt!" He cried as he held his nose which he was almost certain was broken.

"Call the cops!" Marinette whispered to Adrien as quietly as she could.

Adrien just sighed as he walked over to her and said. "I don't think he's here to hurt you princess, but I do agree that he has to leave."

"Who has to leave?" Dallas asked as he returned to the living room. He also noticed that the two of them were both at the door for some reason, he was about to ask what for when he quickly came to realize who was standing beyond the door. "Let me guess…it's my damn brother isn't it?" The two other teens both nodded as he just began to growl with frustration. "Stand aside." He requested as he marched for the door, he flung it open and shouted right in Simon's face. "THIS has to stop Simon! This is only the second time you've shown up at a place that's supposed to be secret that you're clearly not supposed to be anywhere near but it's already old as fuck now please…just…go! I've already told you I'm not helping you and that's final!"

But what Simon had to say in response caught him completely off guard. "This isn't about that." He stated calmly. Dallas then crossed his arms, he didn't believe him but he was willing to hear him out. "Dallas, I get it. Your done with this life and you don't want anything else to do with it, but I still just want to be with my little brother again. I mean didn't grandpa always say that the bonds of brotherhood were too important to allow to be broken?"

"OH no-no-no-no don't you DARE use grandpa against me you smooth little shit!" Dallas demanded, mostly because he knew his brother didn't exactly respect their grandfather.

"Well he did have a good point Dallas, and the way I see it you and I are the only family that the other's got so what's the point in severing that connection?" Simon asked rhetorically. "All I want…what I really want Dallas, is to be with my little brother again. If you don't want to pull another job with me then that's fine, all I ask is that we can be a family again."

Dallas had hoped that he was lying about everything he'd just said. But after checking out his body language and hearing his tone of voice he had deduced that he was in fact telling the truth. "God damnit…" He voiced. "Fine, I guess we can HCK!" His sentence was cut off by a surprise bear hug as Simon pulled him in and thankful that Dallas was actually considering to bring them closer to one another. "Okay…you can let go now…please!" Dallas begged as his brother crushed all the air out of him.

Marinette still felt a bit uneasy around Simon because of her vision, which he understood completely and agreed just to give her space. Adrien was a bit nervous around Simon as well but not out of fear like Marinette, he felt a bit more on guard as if he was planning something. He had no clue what it might be or for what but he was not taking his eye off Simon for even a second. And it didn't take long for him to get to the issue in question. "So like I said back at the hospital I've heard that your working for Ladybug and her team, care to tell me how you did it?" He asked bluntly.

Dallas had a feeling this would come up, so he just gave a typical default answer for this sort of situation. "I'm afraid I can't tell you that Simon, that information is confidential, such was the agreement with Ladybug."

"Aw come on little bro, you can trust me I promise I won't tell anybody about it." Simon asked again trying to sway him.

But Dallas just shook his head. "I've already told you about the book Simon, that alone was too much in my opinion. Why do you even care how I did it anyway?"

Simon obviously couldn't tell Dallas that he was working for Hawkmoth for a multitude of reasons, one of them being he didn't think that would go so well with his brother. But their was one thing he felt he could share with him about it which was the god honest truth. "I wanna see if I can make my own miraculous."

Dallas did worry about what might happen if Simon ever got his hands on a miraculous, knowing that he'd use it to pull all of his heists was something that he couldn't allow. But at the same time he had nothing to worry about as he already knew about the failsafe in terms of making a new miraculous. But he obviously wasn't going to tell him that even if he did find out how to do it. "Yeah…I don't think that ship's gonna sail bro, because according to Ladybug the miraculous can only be used for good and nothing else. Sure they give you superpowers and all but the reason they were created was to protect mankind from the forces of evil and to use them for anything else would be inappropriate."

"But there is a way to make a new one right?" Simon asked again.

Dallas just threw his head back and sighed. "If there is a way I don't think that Ladybug would just let you have it so you can pull off a heist or two. Trust me when I say this she is a stickler for rules."

Simon just groaned with annoyance. "Well what if you got me one of the…" He stopped in midsentence as he remembered that Dallas wouldn't under any circumstances steal anything for him anymore, especially not from Ladybug. Also because he saw the glare beginning to form on his face just for mentioning it. "Uh…you know what never mind."

"That's what I thought." Dallas stated as he folded his arms. "So I've been meaning to ask you, how did you get out of prison anyway?"

"Well they're was a prison riot; the whole place just went crazy so in the midst of the chaos I saw my chance and I took it." Simon replied partially lying, which Dallas picked up on naturally.

"What is it your not telling me?" He asked again as he leaned in close.

Simon was afraid he might be watching for his deception, so he tried to play it off with a small bit of the truth. "Okay I may have had a little outside help from somebody, and before you ask no I didn't plan for him to come there and help me, he just sort of showed up and said he'd help me find you and well…here I am."

Dallas sensed that there was more to it than that, but for the moment he was content. "So what does he get out of helping you find me and breaking you out of jail? I doubt he just did it out of the kindness of his heart." He pointed out.

"He said that he had some work for me here in Paris, which I am working on at the moment but it's not easy to do on my own." Simon stated a half truth, he had been having a tremendous amount of trouble trying to figure out the book and was hoping that maybe Dallas could help him figure it out, without letting him know that he was working for the enemy of his employer.

"It's not illegal is it?" Dallas asked sensing that what ever he meant by 'work' it wasn't something very acceptable.

"Well I don't think it is, so far he hasn't really hinted that there's anything shady about it." Simon stated the truth, simply reading and translating the book for his boss wasn't exactly illegal, and Dallas didn't suspect a thing from it, but it was still very cryptic.

"Well yeah but what is it?" He asked yet again feeling annoyed that his brother was avoiding the subject.

Simon tried to think of something quick. "He wanted me to take a look at some old artifact from China, you know like terracotta warriors and stuff like that, he wants to be sure if they're authentic or not. Apparently he's been scammed by forgers before and wants to be more careful this time round. He would've asked you to do it but then you went into witness protection so he had to get me to do it."

"Wait-wait-wait, you expect me to believe…that some guy who I'm assuming works in a museum broke you out of jail just to appraise a few old statues just because he couldn't get me to do it and promised to help you in return to find me?" Dallas asked with an unconvinced tone.

But Simon quickly said something that he thought would make it more believable. "I never said he worked in a museum, and I never said he was a legitimate business man."

Dallas then sat back in his seat and folded his arms. "You know this seems a little elaborate just to get someone who knows how to spot a fake statue from a real one. But then again it does make sense to do it on the down low, and sense he went to the U.S. to get someone like that it would leave fewer people who are local to ask questions about it, or get asked about it for that matter, but why does he have a bunch of statues?" He asked curiously.

"He's a collector of ancient artifacts, mostly from Asian cultures. But he wouldn't say why, just said that was his business and not mine and it would be best to keep it that way." Simon replied feeling relieved that he'd finally bought it.

"Well at least that's settled, now kindly do me a favor and leave while you still can." Dallas added as he motioned toward the door.

Simon just looked at him a little confused and asked. "What for?"

"So when agent Menendez gets here she won't cart your ass to jail for trespassing or perhaps breaking out of prison and fleeing the country along with being here without a passport." Dallas replied plainly.

Simon just looked at him with even more confusion. "You mean you told her about me?" He asked feeling a little betrayed.

"Well what was I supposed to tell her?" Dallas asked back. "That I invited my brother here to visit us while we were staying in a police safehouse for a friendly chat even though a supervillain and an assassin is after me and my foster brother and his girlfriend? It's not like I had much choice, and now that you know about this one too she's gonna have to move us to a different one now which means you'd better not tell anyone where we are because I'm tired of moving around, and that's coming from a guy whose descendant from a people who love traveling the world."

Simon just groaned knowing that he would have to resort to phone calls only in order to talk to Dallas. "Fine, I'll go. But can I at least tell the kid goodnight?" He asked hoping that he'd get the chance to see his new nephew.

"Well maybe you would if he was here too, but he's not in witness protection really, he's with his mother and his aunt. Oh and the dog is with him too so if you ever go and see him you'd best be prepared to get mawed if you don't show up unannounced." Dallas replied plainly.

"Yeah I've been meaning to ask, why the heck does he need a guard dog that big?" Simon asked cluelessly.

Dallas just stared at him with an annoyed look and stated. "Because his mother is an assassin, she has enemies and they'd do anything to get to her and that includes hurting our son. Which is why she got Doof in the first place to act as his full time body guard. So don't try anything when your around him."

"Yeah…not really sure if I want a repeat of last time." Simon stated as his memory of nearly being mawed by the dog were still fresh in his mind. Not long after Simon took his leave and headed back to his hiding place provided by Gabriel.

After having a cup of jasmine tea to try and relax himself a little bit from his brother's second surprise visit, as well as prepare himself for the most likely rant he'd have to endure from agent Menendez about the new safehouse being compromised within such a short period of time, which didn't last as long as he'd thought and was informed that they'd be moved again to yet another safehouse in the morning, Dallas gave Valentina a quick phone call to warn her of his plans for the next day with their son. Dallas had planned for the two of them to have a day completely dedicated to father and son style bonding and nothing was going to keep them from doing so. But Adrien wasn't really sure if he wanted Dallas to go out without anyone to watch his back, so he insisted to come along. He got a little grief from Dallas for it however, but he hardly found any kind of argument from Yuri about it as he'd come to love Adrien's company just as much as his father's. So he was persuaded to let Adrien come along. The first place Dallas took Yuri was the zoo, specifically the monkey cage. "Daddy wook at duh cute wittle baby monkeys!" Yuri cried out with excitement as he pointed at a pair of very small monkeys clinging to their mother's back as she walked along the branches of the tree within the enclosure.

Dallas just tickled Yuri's tummy and said jokingly. "I know an even cuter little monkey and his name is Yuri." Yuri then erupted in a spout of laughter as he tried to fight off his father's onslaught, but completely out of nowhere Yuri received help from his usual protector in the most cruel of ways. "AH! GOD…BLESS IT!" Dallas shouted as he felt a vice like grip on his rear end. He turned around to see Doof's jaws latched on to his backside while emitting a low growl as if to say 'STOP IT MOTHER FUCKER!'

"Doof NO!" Yuri shouted as he began to scold his dog yet again after his father let him down slowly. "Bad dog! Bad-bad-bad dog, wet go of my daddy's butt NOW!" He then began to swat Doof on his nose to get him to release his father from his teeth. Doof did just that as he stepped away from Dallas and looking rather guilty as he hung his head in shame, even though he knew Yuri loved Dallas he still didn't fully warm up to him yet and still didn't really trust him. He then began to let out a very apologetic sounding whimper as he averted his gaze from Yuri's cold glare.

It was around that moment that Adrien had returned to the father son duo holding an ice cream cone for Yuri and wondering just what had happened and also why Dallas was applying pressure to his rear end. "I was only gone for a minute what happened?" He asked as he stared at Dallas with slight worry, and also a slight grin as he began to realize what Doof had done.

"That…damn…dog!" Dallas replied through gritted teeth while trying to be as quiet as he could so Yuri wouldn't hear him cursing. He began to hobble over to a park bench not too far from him so he could sit down, which only made it hurt even more. "GAH…BAD IDEA BAD IDEA!"

"Maybe we should take you to the zoo's nurse or something." Adrien pointed out the best option to go with, especially sense he had a feeling that he would need stitches right away.

Dallas slowly stood up wincing in pain and trying not to scream out loud. "Yeah…I think you might be right, hopefully they don't mind helping out some poor fool who isn't an animal." He said aloud.

"But daddy I wanna go see duh ewephants." Yuri declared as he began to tug on Dallas's sleeve.

Dallas obviously didn't want to disappoint his son, but he really needed someone to take a look at his bite. But that was quickly put on hold as someone he wasn't expecting showed up to lend some aid. "Don't worry kid-o, I've gotcha covered." All three character's and the dog looked toward the direction of the voice and saw Dallas's brother who it would appeared had been following them yet again.

Doof let out a low growl as he stood in front of Yuri showing his clear distrust of Simon once again. Dallas just glared at his brother with annoyance for yet again showing up when he wasn't wanted or even invited, Adrien shared the same feeling as Dallas did as he just narrowed his eyes at the older Lakota, the only one among the group who seemed to be somewhat welcoming was little Yuri as he just looked up at his uncle and waved at him while greeting him warmly. "Hi uncle Simon." He greeted.

"Hey shorty…" Simon replied as he waved back. "Good to see you again buddy." As he tried to take a step forward Doof then charged forward and started barking at Simon trying to keep as much space in between Yuri and his uncle as he could. "Hey easy there fide-o I'm not gonna hurt him, I just wanna say high."

"Really Simon again with this?" Dallas stated with annoyance. "This has got to stop, it's one thing if it's just me but for you to intrude upon my special time with my son…"

"Oh come on it's only fair that I get to take part in this too bro, I am his uncle by blood after all aren't I?" Simon pointed out. "Plus if blondie gets to be here then so do I."

Adrien just crossed his arms and stated with an annoyed tone. "I have a name you know."

"Good for you champ, now why don't you make yourself useful and go take my bro to see a doctor to get his butt checked out." Simon stated as he attempted to take Yuri off to see the elephants, only for Doof to stand in his way and let out a deep warning growl. "Didn't I just tell you to relax? I'm not gonna hurt him stupid, now get out of the way would ya?"

"He's not gonna let you go unless he comes with you Simon." Dallas stated what he knew from firsthand experience. "Trust me, it's impossible to separate these two from one another so if I were you I'd pick up that leash and bring him along."

Simon just looked down at the dog, who was still growling at him, then he looked back to his brother and said with disbelief. "You've gotta be kidding me."

"I kid you not, last time I tried to tie him up he literally pulled a streetlamp down and I ended up having to pay a fine up to five hundred euros. So unless you want to pay a ridiculous fine for something he does I'd suggest you just bring him along." Dallas warned knowing full well that Doof could not be contained or restrained by anything, he even believed that if Doof had to he'd more than likely smash a brick wall in order to get to Yuri.

Simon just sighed and said. "Fine I'll bring the dog, but he'd better not give me trouble or I'm gonna neuter him."

"What does nooder mean?" Yuri asked curiously.

Simon instantly began to think of something to tell him, he had a feeling that if he told the truth that it wouldn't go so well with his brother. "Uh…it's…kinda like a haircut…I guess." He said hoping that he'd buy the minor fib.

And he did. "Doof doesn't wike gedding his haiw cut." Yuri said in response.

"Well he'd like that even less I'm pretty sure." Simon mumbled under his breath as he picked up the leash. "Come on you over sized mutt let's go."

As he began to lead Doof away Adrien then turned to Dallas and asked him with a gigantic level of concern. "You're not actually letting him walk away with your son all by himself are you? I mean sure he's probably not gonna get too far if Doof has anything to say about it but…"

"Relax Adrien…" Dallas began to ease his foster brother. "I'm not so naïve to think that my brother won't try something while he's got my son with him, which is why we've got two very small critters that can be unseen and unheard when they need to be." He opened up his jacket and quickly whispered to Spizz. "Follow them and make sure my brother doesn't take Yuri out of the zoo, and if he does come and get me."

Spizz nodded his head and took off without another word, even though it wasn't necessary Adrien quickly did the same. "Go with him Plagg, just in case."

"But I just started eating." The kwami wined to his owner.

"Do it and I'll get you a fresh wheel of cheese before we head back." Adrien offered to him as payment.

Dallas quickly added. "And I'll even throw in two…no…four stuffed crust pizzas with extra cheese on top. Oh and mozzarella sticks as well."

Truth be told Plagg was already bought when Adrien had mentioned that he'd buy him a fresh wheel of cheese, but he obviously figured that he could talk him into getting him more than just one. But it was unnecessary when Dallas offered him more pizzas along with mozzarella sticks. "Be right back!" Plagg stated as he flew off after Spizz.

"He is too easy to manipulate." Dallas snickered as he watched the kwami fly away. As Dallas and Adrien headed to the zoo's infirmary to get a doctor to take a look at his bite, their kwami's kept an eye on Simon and Yuri as instructed.

At first things were going smoothly and it truly looked as if Simon was only trying to bond with Yuri while his father was temporarily gone. That is until Simon started to look just across the street from the zoo and saw a jewelry store, and as expected from a thief he felt a familiar itch coming on inside him. And it was an itch that had to be scratched, but he knew that he couldn't just hold up the place without the proper gear, that's when he realized he didn't have to hold it up or any gear for that matter, all he needed was a mule to get a few small things out. "Hey Yuri, does your mommy like jewelry?" He asked casually to his nephew.

Yuri just turned to his uncle and replied. "I tink so, mommy's a girl and girls wike jewwys."

"Well do you think she'd like some jewelry? You know as a present, cuz I wanna buy her something nice when I meet her, and I see a pretty good place to do that." He only lied a little bit, he wanted to get his mother a gift for when he'd finally meet her, but he had no intention of buying it.

Yuri of course didn't think this was suspicious at all, mainly due to the fact that neither Dallas or Valentina had told him about his father's shady past or even that Simon had a similar past, which he was trying to get back into. But sadly Yuri was too young and innocent to understand when he was being played like a fiddle. "Otay…" He said as he nodded his head. "Wets go see if dawes anyting my mommy would wike."

As Simon began to carry Yuri out of the zoo Spizz and Plagg looked at each other and began to enact upon their orders. "You get back to Adrien and Dallas, I'll follow them and see what's happening." Spizz said as he flew off after Yuri and Simon. Plagg saluted him and flew off in the opposite direction in search of their owners.

As Simon and Yuri reached the store he set the toddler on the ground and said. "Alright now buddy, you go in there and see if you can find anything that your mommy would like and I'll pay for it on credit okay?"

"What does dat mean?" Yuri asked puzzledly.

"It means that you don't have to pay right away, you just go in and say that you wanna buy something and then they'll send you a bill and then you pay for it when you have the money. Understand?" Simon replied knowing that this would be relatively easy as long as he kept Yuri in the dark.

Yuri nodded his head yes then said. "Otay." Then he proceeded into the store with his uncle close behind, Doof as well followed them in but just brushed past them both to start barking at one of the clerks as he often did. "Doof NO, stob dat wight now!" Yuri demanded as he marched up to Doof and tutted him for his poor behavior.

While the clerks were all distracted with the dog Simon saw the perfect opportunity to snag some jewelry from a velvet pad that had just been left out on the counter for no apparent reason other than to be refilled with a new collection of jewels. Simon slowly made his way over to the counter and casually leaned up against it and plucked a few pieces of jewelry out then quickly headed back over to Yuri. As he simply made it look like he was just trying to pick him up Simon quickly dropped every single jewel into the front pocket of Yuri's overalls without anyone being the wiser. "I'm so sorry about that everyone, you see he's a guard dog and he's been trained to protect my nephew from anyone he doesn't know." Simon stated as he grabbed the leash and started to pull Doof away from the counter. "We'll just come back another time, again really sorry about…"

"SIMON!" A voice shouted with fury from the doorway, it was so loud that Yuri practically jumped from fright. Simon slowly turned around and saw Dallas and Adrien with arms crossed and angry looks on their faces, the former looking madder than he'd ever looked before.

"Hi daddy." Yuri waved at his father not even realizing just how angry he was, or that he was even mad at all.

"Oh…hey little bro…" Simon began to sweat bullets knowing fully well that this would throw a giant wrench in his plan.

"Simon…what the hell…do you think…you're DOING…with my son…in a jewelry store?" Dallas asked with fuming rage.

Before Simon could even think of what to say as a good cover Yuri practically outed him in a split second. "Uncle Simon said he wanted to get mommy a pwesent on cwedit, but Doof was a bad boy so now we hafe to weave." He said still unaware of what his uncle's true intentions were.

Simon just gulped knowing that he was now officially in neck deep trouble with his brother. "Oh really…" Dallas voiced as he reached into Yuri's front pocket and pulled out the jewels his uncle had planted on him. "And I suppose you just wanted to keep these warm for him until he paid?"

As Yuri looked at what his father held in his hand he instantly began to panic as he came to realize just how bad this looked for him. "Daddy I didn'd do id!" He cried as tiny tears began to form in the corners of his eyes. "I sweaw daddy I didn'd! I didn'd!" Unable to control his emotions any longer Yuri began to break down into tears thinking he was in trouble for something he didn't even do.

Dallas then bent over and looked Yuri in the eye and said. "Yuri, look daddy in the eye. Did you know what he was doing or not?"

Yuri sniffled a little bit as he wiped his nose on his sleeve before he said honestly. "No daddy, pwease don'd be made at me daddy pwease."

After reading his body language and hearing the tone of his voice Dallas ultimately came to the conclusion that Yuri was in fact telling the truth, Dallas inwardly breathed a sigh of relief that his son didn't willingly or knowingly help his uncle steal anything. "Okay, I believe you buddy. But as for you Simon…" He then turned his attention to his brother as he ripped Yuri out of his brother's arms and turned Yuri away from him. "I can't believe you! I have never been this ashamed of you in all my life! I mean it's one thing to ask me to help you with stuff like this and not get the hint that I want nothing to do with this but to use my son as a mule? To try and take his innocence? I am so angry with you that it sickens me to my very core!"

Simon almost didn't know what to say, or what to do at this point. Not that it mattered. "Dallas I…" Before he could even begin to try and salvage this Dallas just cut him off.

"NO! No…more…excuses! I knew it would be too much to hope that you wouldn't try to pull something like this!" He shouted in his face. "I don't even know why I'm surprised! It's like I've always said, people don't change unless they want to, and I know now that you either can't or just plain won't but either way…it doesn't matter! Don't you ever come near me or my son ever again Simon or I swear to god the police will be the least of your worries!" After marching over to the counter and slamming down the hand full of jewels Dallas stormed out of the store with his son cradled in his arms along with Doof and Adrien close behind.

Simon quickly took off as well as one of the clerks started to call the police, as Simon began to round the corner he watched as Dallas hopped into a cab with his son and Doof. Just as he began to run up Adrien stopped him by punching Simon as hard as he could in the face. Simon fell to the ground as he began to rub his jaw. "Damn!" He winced as he started to stand up.

"Who the hell do you think you are?!" Adrien bellowed with rage. "It's bad enough that you want to drag Dallas back into this life but to try this with his son? You crossed a line today Simon. I'm surprised that you would actually go that far."

"Don't act as if you know me!" Simon shouted. "Someone has to keep the family legacy alive so that everything dad worked for doesn't disappear forever!"

"Oh my god do you even hear yourself? What you're saying is just crazy! This kind of legacy is not one that should be honored!" Adrien stated firmly. "Dallas knows that for sure, so why can't you just wake up and see that?"

"That's none of your concern buster so stay out of this, you don't know Dallas at all you're not his brother!" Simon declared with anger.

"Correction…" Adrien fired back. "I'm not YOUR brother, but as far as I'm concerned Dallas IS my brother, and on another note I've been more of a brother to him in the past few months than you ever were in his entire life. Granted you've been locked up for a few years but you were clearly part of the problem of him becoming a criminal, and what makes it worse is that your trying to drag him back into it, even after he's told you very politely that he doesn't want anything else to do with your way of life. Now just do him and his son a favor and leave. I obviously can't tell you not to come back but I can call the police if you do, now leave…him…alone." And with that said Adrien hopped in the car and slammed the door and the cab drove off.

As Simon just stood there in silence he just clenched his fist and gritted his teeth in anger. "Now I see what the problem is." He began to murmur to himself. "That little…pompous…self-righteous…blond…prick turned him against me. Well we'll see about that." Simon then stormed off without another word feeling a fresh new hatred for Adrien, he didn't know how he would do it but he would do whatever he could to make him suffer, it didn't matter if it was physically or emotionally but one thing was clear to him, he blamed everything about Dallas's transformation entirely on Adrien and he wanted revenge for it and he would stop at nothing to get it.

After they were a few blocks from the zoo Dallas turned to Adrien and declared with a calm tone. "You didn't have to do that."

Adrien simply turned to Dallas and replied. "Yes I did. What he did was unforgivable especially because he tried to use Yuri to steal something."

The toddler in question was still very distraught, and feeling very betrayed by his uncle as well. He didn't say a word the entire ride back to his mother. Once Dallas had told Valentina what Simon had done she became outraged and wanted to show Simon just how big of a mistake he'd made in terms of using her son to try and rob a jewelry store. Mostly with a knife, but the entire time Yuri was still convinced that he was in trouble with his parents even though they made it very clear that he wasn't and showed him nothing but love the entire time he was still nervous that he was going to get a spanking. But he received no punishment of any kind. The most that could be done to ease him was his father simply putting him to sleep. After finally calming him down enough so he'd rest Dallas gently closed the door behind him as he returned to the living room of Valentina's apartment. "He's finally asleep." He whispered.

Valentina breathed a sigh of relief that her son might actually get some rest, and hoping that by morning he'd finally stop thinking he was in trouble. But that didn't mean she herself was over what Simon had done. "I swear when I find that little mu'dak I'm going to take my bare hands and rip out his genitals through his ASS then strangle him with them just before I gouge out his eyes! Then I'm going to cut off his cock and stuff it down his throat then pull it out the other side!" She growled as she gripped a glass of wine much tighter than she should.

God damn, she's madder than I am, Dallas thought to himself. "I'll never forgive him for this one, he's done a lot of bad shit but this is an all new low even for him." He voiced aloud. "I mean if he wants to fuck up his own kids then fine, but he should've known better than to use our son. But from now on I'm not going to let him anywhere near our son, as far as I'm concerned he is not allowed within a hundred feet of Yuri EVER again!"

"I still say you should've kick his arse!" Megan added as she too was furious with Simon for what he'd pulled. "If I were there you know damn well that's what I'd have done! But props to you Adrien for smashing his bloody gob in the way you did."

"I just did what I felt I had to do." Adrien stated with honesty. "I mean I understand that he wanted to reconnect with Dallas after all these years but there's just know excuse for him trying to turn Yuri into a thief, even if he didn't know about it."

Dallas smiled at his remark more than thankful that he cared enough about him and his son to actually stand up to Simon as well as call him out on everything he'd done. "You truly honored me today Adrien, and you know what else? You were right, you've been more of a brother to me than Simon ever was." He stated his beliefs to his foster brother. "Which is why I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are indeed worthy of the gift I'm about to give to you. That is…if you'll accept it."

Adrien didn't understand what he was talking about, but he was curious what his gift to him might be. "Uh…okay, I didn't realize that you'd gotten me anything otherwise I'd…"

"It's not that kind of gift, this is more of a symbolic gift. One that will cement our bond in the eyes of Wakan Takan…as true brothers." Dallas stated as he took a knife and cut the palm of his hand.

Adrien looked at him with shock and asked. "Why did you do that?"

Dallas calmly answered. "Because…this is the only way for us to become blood brothers."

"Blood brothers?" Adrien asked still no less confused. "I don't understand, are you trying to welcome me into your family or something?"

"In a way…" Dallas stated plainly. "My people used to do this when they found someone who they truly respected and knew they honored them in return, and today you've honored me and my wishes for myself and my son when my own brother wouldn't. So I feel that this is necessary to do this, if your willing to accept it that is."

Adrien felt honored that Dallas wanted to share an old tradition of his people with him, but wasn't really sure if he was worthy of it. "But how do you know I deserve this?" He asked doubting his statement.

"Because you've proven it to me, you didn't judge me for who I was after you got to know me, you were willing to accept me as I am and you even forgave me for something that most people would never forgive, and not only that but you have shown great respect to my culture and my ways so for that I feel you are worthy of becoming my blood brother." Dallas stated firmly as he held out the knife for Adrien and still hoping that he'd accept his gift.

After hearing such a speech Adrien didn't want to insult him by refusing the gift, even though he knew it would hurt a lot he took the knife, took a deep breath, and in one swift motion…SLICE. "Ah!" He voiced as he shook his hand.

Dallas smiled as he too Adrien's bleeding hand and connected it to his then said in his ancestral tongue. (May the great creator bless this bond sealed in blood, and recognize you as a true friend of the Lakota.)

After which he let go of his hand and Adrien asked. "So is that it? Does this make me like an honorary Lakota now?"

Dallas just shrugged and said. "More or less."

"So do I get a tribal name?" He asked again curiously with a smile.

Dallas just chuckled and said. "Sure, how's about from now on whenever I feel like it I'll call you Wicasa?"

Adrien then asked bluntly. "What does that mean?"

"It literally translates to, of wealthy parents." He replied with a grin.

Adrien just shook his head. "No, I don't really like that name, it's a little too on the nose for my liking. Got anything else?"

"Well I do have one other that fits you." Dallas stated with a smile. "Witko sapa-igmu."

"And what does that mean?" Adrien asked again just as bluntly.

"It means…the crazy black cat, because you pretty much turn into a black cat on your own and your crazy enough to wanna hang out with me." Dallas replied jokingly, but as he looked at Adrien he saw him giving a weird look. "I take it that's a no too, okay then how's about…"

"No-no-no…I kinda like that one, it actually kinda sounds pretty cool." Adrien replied.

"Then the crazy black cat it is." Dallas announced proudly. "Now as tradition dictates before you can be fully accepted as a member of the tribe you must hunt down the biggest bear you can find, kill it and bring it's head back as proof that you did."

"Wait what?" Adrien asked hoping that he was just kidding about this part.

That's when Dallas just started to laugh confirming it was only a joke. "I'm kidding jeeeeeeez."

Adrien felt a little annoyed by his comment, but at the same time found it slightly humorous, either way he punched Dallas in the arm playfully in response. After quickly bandaging their hands Adrien decided to take his leave while Dallas stayed put, he felt as though he had to be close to his son during this time, just in case he was needed. As Adrien made his way down to the street he received a call from Marinette asking him to bring her an entire strawberry cheese cake. As odd and sudden as it was he did as asked and returned to his love with the cheese cake. But once he'd walked into the newest safehouse Adrien walked in to the sight of his princess throwing up in the sink. "Mari are you okay?" He asked with concern as he walked over to her and set the cheese cake down.

She wiped her mouth off and responded with a labored voice. "I'm fine…I'm just felt a little nauseous for a second." Then out of no where she threw up yet again right into the sink.

Adrien felt concerned for her, the last thing he wanted was to see his lady sick for any reason. Without even thinking he called Dallas and asked him what he could do to help her, after instructing him to go to his herb bag in his room he returned with a fresh ginger root. Then he chopped it up into small pieces and stuck them in a colander which he had already placed in a small sauce pan with boiling water, after letting the ginger boil for a while Adrien then poured it into a cup and handed it to Marinette. "Here…Dallas said this might help." He said offering the cup to her.

Marinette smiled at her boyfriend thankful that he was being so kind to her. "Thank you kitty." She replied as she took the cup and took a sip.

"So do you have any idea why you got so sick all of a sudden?" He asked as he sat down next to her on the sofa and stroked her back gently.

"I don't know, but I do know the cause of it was a certain kwami's platter of cheese stinking up the refrigerator!" Marinette barbed as she turned an angry eye toward Plagg.

The kwami in question just crossed his arms and harrumphed. "Oh sure blame the only guy in the house who happens to like cheese for YOUR tummy troubles." He fired back.

"Oh I get to blame you alright mister, especially when your cheese stinks so bad that it could kill a pigeon with just a whiff! OH…and another thing, when you're not eating it maybe be a little more considerate of others and put it back in its box so we don't have to gag on that shit stinking mess because as far as I'm concerned it should go in the trash if it smells that bad! SO FROM NOW ON YOU'D BETTER KEEP YOUR DAMN CHEESE SEALED AWAY WHERE I CAN'T SMELL IT OR SO HELP ME GOD I'LL RIP YOUR LITTLE HEAD OFF!" Marinette declared as she rose from her seat on the couch with an angry look.

It was in this moment that Plagg started to feel a little scared of her, he may have already been smaller than her by a lot but started to feel even smaller than he already was, about the size of a fly to be exact. "Okay." He squeaked with fear as he cowered away from her behind Tikki.

"Good!" She growled through gritted teeth, then she marched into the kitchen, grabbed a fork, then picked up the cheese cake then took it with her to her bed room.

No one dared say a word as they feared what she might do next, they'd only ever seen her this made at Dallas simply for a miner misunderstanding, now she was focusing on anyone who dared to spike her ire. He didn't think that Marinette would find a reason to aim her rage on him, but he chose to give her some space until she cooled down which is why he chose to sleep in Dallas's room seeing that he wasn't there to use it. He was about half way asleep before he heard the door open, he looked up and there standing there was none other than his lady waring her lingerie. "Marinette? I thought you'd be asleep already." He voiced not taking her eyes off of her for even a second.

"Well I tried to, but I found it a little harder todo without my favorite kitty next to me." She replied as she walked over to the bed seductively, once she'd reached it she began to crawl on all fours up to him until she was sitting on his lap. "Plus, I still haven't given you your birthday present yet."

Adrien just began to blush, he found this erotic display very enticing. His heart began to beat a little faster, he then slowly snaked his arms around her and started to kiss her tenderly as his hand slid down her back. Around that point Marinette then used all her strength to force Adrien down onto his back and pinned him by his shoulders. "Have I ever told you how much it turns me on when you act all aggressive like this?" He asked with a satisfied grin.

She just grinned back at him and said. "Oh you haven't seen my aggressive yet kitty." She slowly slide her hands to the collar of his shirt then ripped it open revealing his chest to her.

"Mari come on that was a GACK!" His sentence was halted as Marinette then pinned him back to the headboard with force as she held firmly on his neck, not enough to chock him but enough to let him know that she was in control.

"Shut up and do me!" She ordered through gritted teeth.

Her aggressive tone was all he needed to understand that she was not fooling around so to speak. "Yes ma'am." He replied with a slightly nervous tone just before he was enveloped by her and the two began to engage in one another with their moans filling the safehouse.

"For the love of god do these kids ever take a break?" Plagg asked rhetorically. "They've been going at it every night sense they went into witness protection, this isn't suppose to be a honeymoon for them it's supposed to be them hiding from someone trying to kill them."

"Oh hush you, let them enjoy themselves while they can. Though they could be a little quieter I will say that." Tikki stated as she lead Plagg outside of the safehouse so they two of them might get some sleep.

Elsewhere in Paris Mayor Andrei Bourgeois was desperately try to get his daughter out of police custody as he had been for the past three days demanding that Interpol release Chloe effect of immediately. "This is an outrage!" He shouted to agent Menendez over the phone. "My daughter has done nothing but try to help this city you have no right to hold her for anything!"

"Let's agree to disagree Mr. Mayor…" She replied with a cold tone. "The fact of the matter is your daughter is in the eyes of the law a vigilante therefor your daughter is guilty of taking the law into her own hands along with these other so called heroes who will be joining her soon enough."

At this point Andrei was beyond furious with agent Menendez. "Now you listen to me Menendez, I don't care what I have to do or how many lawyers I have to get because I will not rest until my daughter is free for being unjustly imprisoned." He declared with anger.

"You speak as if your daughter's never done anything wrong." Menendez replied coldly. "She may not have turned people into the monsters that are forced to serve the terrorist Hawkmoth but she certainly doesn't hold back when she knows very well that she's just throwing fuel onto the fire, as far as I'm concerned I'm doing the city a favor by locking your daughter up. It might not be admissible as evidence in court but I don't need it to be to put her away for the numerous counts of vigilante activity which we have dozens of clips of already provided to us by the news. Now kindly Mr. mayor stop calling me and making demands that you cannot enforce for once and actually do your job."

Without another word agent Menendez hung up the phone, feeling defeated and useless Andrei just hung his head and began to cry unsure of how to help his daughter. "You don't think you're gonna help Chloe out of jail by just sitting there and crying your eyes out are you?" A voice asked from the window.

Andrei looked up and became startled by the figure of Iktomi standing there just causally leaning up against the widow frame. "I know you, your Iktomi the newest member of Ladybug's team."

"DING-DING, you got one right." He replied as he hopped down from the window and casually walked over to the mayor's desk. He then pulled up a chair and kicked up his feet onto the desk and just made himself comfortable.

"What are you doing here?" Andrei asked bluntly.

Iktomi smiled under the mask and said. "Mr. mayor, today is your lucky day. How would you like to get your daughter out of jail and keep her from ever getting arrested for vigilante activity ever again?"

(A/N: And that's all folks, I hope you enjoyed this chapter because it was a pain to write out, now for the spoiler. In the next chapter of WOS, Iktomi and the mayor work together to get Interpol to release Chloe, Dallas goes back to interrogate the Chameleon and discover something he hadn't noticed before and Marinette is surprised with something that not even she knew about. That's all for now folks, see you in the next chapter.)