"Look Marinette, I know that you're Ladybug and I'm ok with it because I have something that I have to tell you I am Cat Noir and I always have been since we first teamed up to fight Stoneheart. I have loved you ever since that day"

"What, how could this be? I cannot believe it, I refuse to accept it our secret is now exposed and Hawkmoth could know now know who we are you idiot. I can't believe I ever liked you"

"What was wrong this time Plagg?" Adrien sighed as he was actually talking to Plagg in his room practising for his how he was going to tell Marinette his secret later in the day.

"Nothing, It's just funny as hell seeing your reaction to that" Plagg responded

"Oh ha ha very funny" Adrien replied sarcastically

"How come you're so nervous for this date and telling her your secret identity anyway?"

"It's really difficult to explain Plagg. I just don't want to screw this up"

"Ah yes I understand. It's like one of those classic clichés that you see on TV where the guy says or does something stupid and ends up getting dumped. I'm just glad society has evolved a lot since then"

"You know Plagg, maybe you're not the right person or Kwami to ask for dating advice. After all when I tried reading one of the simplest books on dating you just laughed your head off"

"Ah yes, The Complete Idiots Guide to Dating. That title still cracks me up"

"You laughed for 10 hours"

"Anyway let's get back to business" said Plagg "Maybe you should ease her into it, you know make her feel comfortable before you start telling her your secrets. Let's practice, come on ask me a question about me and I'll do my best to answer it"

"Ok" Adrien replied "Why do you like cheese so much?"

"Interesting question Adrien" Plagg responded "Kwamis can eat any sorts of food, but we mostly do tend to favour our favourite foods. As you know cheese is made from milk and since I am a cat; cat's love milk. But although milk might be thirst quenching it doesn't exactly fill me up so cheese is a good solution to the problem. Plus it's tends to be better for my owners to have cheese rather than raw fish lying around their house. A Kwamis digestive system is a complicated thing for humans to understand"

"Unfortunately; they don't teach things about Kwamis at school"

"Anyway if you make Marinette feel comfortable, she can build her trust in you and then you'll be able to tell her about your secret identity a little easier"

"Thanks Plagg"

"Pleasure to help Adrien" replied Plagg with a smile "Maybe you can also ask an adult about some dating advice. How about your dad?"

Adrien then went silent for a few moments.

"Adrien are you ok?"

"Yeah, it's just that my dad and I don't exactly have the best relationship right now"

Adrien then walked over to his desk to see a picture of him and his mother.

"I really miss my mother Plagg" Adrien sighed "I wish that she was here to help me out"

"What happened to her?"

"I don't know. She just disappeared one day and ever since my dad hasn't been the same. My mother's disappearance greatly affected him"

"Your dad might not be the same, but he's still your dad and he's also the only family member that you have here"

"You're right Plagg. I'll go ask him for advice" Adrien replied "Stay hidden Plagg"

Adrien went into his dad's office but there was no one inside. He called out for his dad but there was no response so this meant that Plagg was able to look around. Plagg then floated over to the big painting of Adrien's mother.

"Remember when we found that book behind this picture" said Plagg

"It's not a good time to bring that up Plagg, anyway I don't think he's in here we better leave"

"Or we can maybe wait here for him to return" Plagg replied as he leaned against the painting.

Just then Plagg felt something move as he had pushed one of the paintings buttons.

"Oops" Plagg exclaimed

"Plagg, what did you do?"

"I didn't do anything. I'm no artist but is a painting supposed to have a button in it?"

Adrien then walked over to look at the situation. Adrien was really confused by this.

"No; not really. Why would a painting of my mother have a button on it?"

Adrien began to feel around the painting for any more clues and realised that there were a few more buttons in the painting.

"This is really weirding me out Plagg. What should we do?"

"Push the buttons" replied Plagg "No one's around"

Adrien and Plagg looked at each other and gave a cheeky smile. Adrien then proceeded to push the buttons and the spot on the floor that Adrien was standing on started to lower and Adrien felt like he was on an elevator. Plagg followed and when they stopped the room they ended up in was completely dark.

"It's pitch-black in here. I can't see a damn thing. Plagg can you see anything?"

"I might be a kwami but I don't have night vision even though my eyes are green and look like they could glow in the dark. Night vision would be handy though but if I look into light I could end up blind and never be able to see a nice tasty piece of camembert again. Sure I could smell, taste and feel it but if I can't see it than my life would be ruined"

"Let's see if we can find a light switch, even though we can't see anything"

For a split second both Adrien and Plagg would hear a fluttering sound.

"Did you hear that Plagg?"

"Yeah"

All of sudden a blind started to open and would bring light to the room through the window.

"Wow" said Plagg "You can see the city from here"

Adrien didn't respond but both him and Plagg saw a white butterfly fly past them.

"Hey look a butterfly"

"Plagg that butterfly is inside the room" Adrien responded and looked both left and right as he saw more butterflies in the room

"Why are there so many butterflies a strange room in your house?"

"Wait a minute, these butterflies look familiar. The look like akumas"

Plagg then floated right in front of Adrien's face.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking Adrien?" whispered Plagg

"Is my dad Hawkmoth?" Adrien whispered back with a stunned look on his face

"Adrien!" said a voice from behind

Adrien then turned around to see that it was his father Gabriel Agretse standing there. He didn't look happy.

"What are you doing in here?" Gabriel asked

Plagg then floated out from behind Adrien head and floated next to Adrien as he then saw Nooroo appear next to Gabriel.

"Norroo?"

"Plagg?"

"Ah the Cat Kwami" Gabriel said with a smile "So you're Cat noir"

"And you must be Hawkmoth"

"Yes, I am Hawkmoth" Gabriel replied

Adrien was both shocked and confused at the same time. So much so that he had a hard time processing all this information.

"No this can't be possible I mean; you were The Collector"

"I figured that Ladybug was getting close to uncovering my identity so I took off my miraculous and evilyzed myself to throw the two of you off the trail. It worked didn't it"

"You had Gorzilla drop me from a building"

"I was hoping that you would transform into Cat Noir to save yourself. But since you weren't going to I had Gorzilla drop Ladybug to save you"

Adrien was even more confused as he now knew that his father had suspected him of being Cat Noir in the past. His confusion would start to turn to anger as his right hand was half way between being relaxed and being clenched into a fist.

"How long have you suspected me of being Cat Noir?" Adrien asked in an angry voice

"A while. I saw some pictures and then I realised that the ring that you're wearing and Cat Noir's Miraculous looked identical. But after the whole Gorzilla incident I then lost all my suspicion of you being Cat Noir"

A lot of things started to flashback in Adrien's memory. The time when Ladybug suspected Gabriel of being Hawkmoth, the clues that she told Cat Noir, being dropped from the building by Gorzilla and being akumatized into Chat Blanc. It was starting to make sense to Adrien and Adrien was angry.

"So what are you going to do now?" asked Adrien angrily "Are you going to attack me and take my Miraculous?"

"No, I would not hurt my own son" Gabriel said as he smiled "However; I am going to ask you to hand me your Miraculous"

Adrien was furious.

"If you want it; you're going to have to pry it from my cold dead hands" Adrien replied as he held up his fist

"Like I said before, I'm not going to fight you" said Gabriel has he walked to the side of Adrien and then put his right hand on Adrien's right shoulder "However since you now know my secret, I think you should know why I need both the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses"

Adrien was feeling unsure about the whole situation as his father walked him to the end of the room and the floor started to lower once again. This time they were in an elevator and they went down to another hidden room with a garden in it. Adrien looked and saw what looked like a glass chamber laying there with completely shocked him. When the elevator stopped and opened he ran to the chamber as fast as he could.

"Mom?" Adrien said in shock as he saw that in that his mother was lying in the chamber

Adrien then knelt down, leaned at the chamber and started to tear up. Adrien then turned his head towards his father and Adrien's eyes were a bit red from the tears.

"What did you do to her?!" Adrien asked in a loud angry voice

"I didn't do anything to her" Gabriel replied "Don't worry she's not dead, she's in a coma"

"How did this happen?"

"If you must know it all happened when your grandfather gave both your mother and I a gift. On one of his expeditions to Tibet he saw three things lying in the snow; a book and two pieces of jewellery which turned out to be the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous. He gave it to us as an engagement present and soon after we travelled around the world as superheroes. We worked under the radar as we kept both our secret identities and superhero identities hidden from the public. But one day while you were young; your mother and I were overseas stopping a criminal gang from smuggling diamonds across the border. During the fight one of the gang member's bullets hit your mother, but the Peacock Miraculous took the full hit which protected your mother but damaged the Miraculous itself in the meantime"

Adrien just stood there silently listening as all the information he was learning was starting to make his head spin.

"The worst thing was is that your mother decided to stay behind while I went after the criminal's truck. Had I instead chosen to stay with your mother I could have protected her but I made the wrong choice. Over the years the damaged Miraculous started to make your mother weaker and weaker so I decided to have her stay back while I tried to do all the heavy lifting. But she decided to use the damaged Miraculous one last time and that's what made her end up in this state. All because I wasn't strong enough, I failed her"

"And this is why you're trying to take the Miraculouses"

"Yes. I tried so many things to fix her condition but to no avail. So after I started looking through the book and found out about the power to make a wish when both the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses are joined together and I can use that wish to go back in time to protect your mother and stop that accident from ever happening. We can be a happy family Adrien"

Adrien was now more confused than ever, he started to have so many flashbacks of previous events and this started to make his brain hurt just like a malfunctioning robot that would often twitch. He would love to have his mother back and be a happy family again but he knew despite his father having somewhat good intentions, it was not the right way to bring his family back together. He also realised that it was almost time for his date with Marinette.

"I don't have time for this right now. I have to go I've got a date"

Adrien walked past his father with Plagg following him. Gabriel didn't turn around but Nooroo did.

"You know who Ladybug is don't you?" Gabriel asked which resulted in Adrien stopping on the spot

"I might" Adrien replied with his eyes closed and his head facing towards the ground

"Maybe you could convince her into giving you her Miraculous so we can bring your mother back"

Just then Adrien cranked his head up and his eyes opened angrily.

"HOW COULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT!" he shouted at his father and then turned to see his father with his back still turned "After all the things you done to me, my friends and the whole city you expect me to help you. Know let me guess; Nathalie is Mayura right? This means that she is suffering from the same things mom did. I know this because I noticed"

"I never told her use the Peacock Miraculous it was her choice she would have been fine if you just let me succeed in my mission"

"Your mission, your mission that's the only thing that you care about, all just to fix a mistake. You could have prevented it but you didn't you failed. This just proves one thing….. You are a failure! You're a failure as a protector, a failure as a husband and a failure as a father"

Both Plagg and Nooroo watched on in complete shock and silence. Nooroo was used to getting scolded by Gabriel and Plagg was also used to Master Fu reminding him about his past disasters, but they had never witnessed anything like this before.

Adrien had so much confusion, sadness and rage running through his mind that it was causing him not to think of what he was saying or how it would affect someone else. In fact; that much emotion could make anyone act completely out of character and this just proved that Adrien was no different from any other human being.

"You want us to make us a happy family again, huh?" Adrien said "We stopped being a happy family after mom so called "disappeared" and you stared to change for the worse. You lost your wife, I lost my mother, I lost my father and now you just lost your son. You are my father no more"

Gabriel didn't turn around; he just stood there in complete silence and Adrien angrily walked off towards the elevator. Nooroo then floated in front of his master and was surprised at what he saw. Gabriel was looking down, his eyes were closed and tears were running down his face as he now just realised that his desperation to succeed in his mission and bring his wife back had now left him as what he feared the most. Gabriel had now become a broken man.

Adrien got on the elevator with Plagg following him in and soon the elevator started to ascend. While the elevator was ascending Adrien looked down on his father in disappointment; completely unaware of how his father was really feeling. Adrien was so far out of range that they were not able to hear what Gabriel was about to say to both him and his mother.

"Emilie, Adrien. I'm sorry"