Cat Noir was in a lot of agony to get his stabbed leg healed and patched up, despite wearing his catsuit. He never trusted anyone to help him as a teen. Only his mother was more kind and affectionate to him his whole life until she died. It made him no longer trust anyone because none were like his mother.

"Hold still, kitty! Jeez, when was the last time someone aided you?" Ladybug held his leg still.

"No one! Ow! Are you done yet?" He asked.

"Barely. Hold still!" Ladybug said before putting the cloth around his leg.

Cat Noir panted after she finished bandaging, "I told you that Mime was dangerous. His gesture mimicking is for real"

"Yeah, especially the ropes," Ladybug said.

"Seeing is not believing" Cat Noir carefully stands up.

"No kidding. And aren't you gonna say thank you for patching your wound?" Ladybug asked.

Cat Noir sighs in defeat that she did save him, "Thanks"

"You're welcome, Kitty," Ladybug said.

"Nine lives again," Cat Noir said, a little shaken but trying to remain strong.

"At least I stopped the bleeding," Ladybug said.

"Saving my ass is a lot to process," Cat Noir said, trying to walk a bit so that he can try to get back home soon, "But at least I got my job done" He held out stolen money.

"Sneaky thief" Ladybug replied.

"Like I said, I'm very dangerous to steal anything out of nowhere" Cat Noir chuckled before putting it away.

"Why can't you be like a normal teenager?" Ladybug rolled her eyes.

"There's no fun in being normal or puuuuurrrrrrrfect, bugaboo. Why can't you be more like a lady without fighting? Very unladylike of you" Cat Noir teased.

"If I don't fight, Paris has no hero," Ladybug said.

"Then you'll lose your lady rank, milady" Cat Noir said, feeling himself purr to heal.

Everyone always thinks that cats purr when they feel happy but they don't know that they can purr when they feel hurt or in pain which is a healing factor for cats.

"How are you doing that? You're a man, not an actual cat" Ladybug asked.

"My origin remains top secret, milady," Cat Noir said.

"Right of course" Ladybug replied.

"If it's not too much for you, can you bring me to the nightclub?" He asked, not in the mood to be on the roof.

"Maybe one day but your leg needs to heal," Ladybug said.

"Right," Cat Noir then used his whip to swing.

Still numb in his leg but he remained strong to fight the swelling. He just hoped no one would notice him limp the next day as Adrien. He came through the window of his bedroom and headed to the bathroom, removing his mask and catsuit to take a look at the wound.

"That's gonna leave one ugly scar" He quickly gets changed in sleepwear and heads to turn on the TV if the crooks are arrested for bank robbery. And sure enough, it's been revealed they have been arrested.

"Foolish criminals" Adrien chuckled.

The headline read Magician and The Mime finally behind bars. Reporters believed that Ladybug stopped them but what they didn't know is that Cat Noir helped her stop those crooks.

"Pity, she took the glory to let me go," Adrien said.

-

The next morning at school, Nino noticed that Adrien looked like he was in pain but didn't know it was Adrien's stabbed leg.

"Dude, you all right? You're limping a little" Nino asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a.....bruise on my hip from fencing" Adrien lied.

"Looks like your fencing partner hit you too hard then," Nino said.

"Yup. Anyway, I just hope Chloe is on her best behavior this time. I can't force her to be nice but she has to stop getting foolish of herself around people" Adrien said before taking his seat.

"She's very tough to learn how to behave when nothing makes her see the outcome," Nino said.

"I worry that she'll go completely out of control," Adrien said.

"Girls can be overly dramatic at times but for her, it's definitely not one" Nino said.

"What can I say? She's too dramatic" Adrien said.

Then Marinette came in with Alya, chatting about Magician and the Mime, "No one knows what really happened but I think Ladybug handled it" Alya said.

"I guess she did. There was no footage available for the news" Marinette said.

"And yet she hasn't captured that sexy thief these girls are talking about," Alya said.

"What? Cat Noir has no fans. He's a wanted thief" Nino said.

"My blog are stating that all girls think he's sexy which I highly believe," Alya said.

"Seems like thieves these days got charms, like Catwoman does with Batman," Marinette said.

Adrien covers his growing smirk with his hand, hearing that his alter ego is having fan girls swoon, "Oh, that's right" Adrien said.

"What's your opinion, model boy?" Alya asked.

"I can't deny that cat got style," Adrien said.

"Fanboy much?" Alya smirked.

"Uh, no way" Adrien denied.

Marinette sat at her seat, "You boys gonna side with those two?"

"I'm not siding, I just wanna see how that cat burglar can survive without getting caught," Nino said.

"Okay," Alya shrugs.

Their day only went from good to a nightmare when news got out that Lila Rossi escaped prison and police were on the chase to find her. No witnesses saw how she escaped but they believe it was Cat Noir, without evidence or proof.

"Seriously?! Is there anything that can contain that vixen?!" Marinette said in shock.

"Cat Noir freed her!" Alya pointed out.

"Are you sure? Lila had no accomplice" Marinette said.

Adrien turns away, knowing how he remembers that he was once an accomplice to her until he was betrayed by her to almost died. Until he finally got revenge on her that night when Ladybug captured her.

(Flashback)

Cat Noir has so much rage to go and find Volpina but she is too shifty and cunning. He can't get caught by Ladybug since she's never faced him yet. So instead, he goes into the abandoned store filled with acting and performance stuff that Lila likes which will be a good opportunity to lure Volpina into a trap by the time Ladybug shows up.

He comes through the broken glass window store and pretends to rob just so Volpina can think she has more time to rob than him. But what he didn't plan on was that she had minions to do the work for her.

"Get your filthy paws off that jewelry, now!" The henchman cocked a gun at his head.

"Why? My paws are very soft to touch lovely fake jewelry but still my good taste" Cat Noir chuckled before moving his hands away from it.

"That's right, away from our trophy," The henchman said.

"You mean hers? Not gonna happen. And for that, I have nine lives to shove my claws right up your ass when you mess with a territorial cat" Cat Noir bares his claws ready.

"I like to see you try when we kill all your nine lives straight to a living Hell!" The minion laughed.

"You're in my Hell world now!" Cat Noir used his superhuman speed to claw them all so fast that they had no time to react fast enough in the blink of an eye.

"Shit! Shoot him! Shoot him now!" They fired but missed each shot as he dodged them.

Cat Noir laughed evilly to get them startled at how dark it is for them to see when he can see well with night vision, "Meow, such fear I love to smell and consume"

One by one, they all went unconscious by getting clawed painfully until the leader was standing. He felt a gun near his head as payback for the same way he tried to do the feline.

"Where is Volpina? If you lie, I can rip your tongue out than the phrase everyone knows" Cat Noir hissed impatiently.

"I don't know!" He said but got punched in the gut but was forced to sit up which makes it more painful.

"Don't lie to me! If you're not gonna talk, I will continue torturing you until you beg for mercy!" Cat Noir was about to claw him in the chest until his senses alarmed him that it was a distraction, "Damn it!" He punched him out and ran to the abandoned lobby and saw Volpina but lucky for him he was fast.

"TRAITOR!!" He tackled her down.

"ARGH!" Volpina crashed.

"You are so gonna get your ass punished for betraying me!" Cat Noir said but got kicked to the side, "Agh!"

"You're so naive, Kitty," Volpina said.

"Don't call me kitty you backstabber!" Cat Noir's lips back up and strikes her with his whip in anger.

Volpina staggered back and saw she received a cut from the impact, "It wasn't my fault you trusted me!"

"This time I won't make that mistake again!" Cat Noir tackled her down and fought, pushing her against the wall and punching her gut three times before he got pushed roughly to the side.

"Then prepare to die!" Volpina picks her weapon up.

"Not today!" He strikes her weapon with his whip.

He then throws two punches before Volpina kicks at him before trying to hit him and then attempts to sweep him off his feet when he rolls over and punches him before sweep-kicking at her. After a few attempts of bicycle kicks Cat Noir grabs her in a headlock and flips over.

"Yield! Yield now!" Cat Noir demanded.

"Never!" Volpina refused defeat.

His senses tingled that someone was coming, "Fine! This is for leaving me to die! Your turn to suffer!" He used his paralysis technique to stun her.

"See you in hell, Volpina!" He looked down at her and cackled like a maniac before leaving.

(End of flashback)

After class was over, Adrien came to his locker until Chloe had to get in his personal space.

"Adrikins!" Chloe said.

"What is it now?" Adrien asked.

"Shop with me" Chloe begged.

"No" Adrien refused since he knew she was only using him to carry bags.

"Why not?" Chloe asked.

"My leg's sore from a fencing class" He pulled a white lie.

"Fine, I'll go with Sabrina then" Chloe pouted.

Adrien scoffed and closed his locker, knowing that Chloe thinks highly of herself.

"Oh jeez, but at least my lie was convincing," He thought and nearly sounded like Lila who likes to lie in her life.

But he used his lie for a good reason. A white lie to be harmless so it was like saying half a lie. Nearby he saw Marinette chat with Alya. Using his enhanced cat vision-like binoculars to zoom close to her at what she's talking about. It sounded like she didn't believe Cat Noir would release Lila out of jail because Cat Noir is a lone wolf and doesn't take sides with anyone. At least she believes he's not her accomplice.

"Dude!" Nino startled him.

"YIPE!" Adrien yelped and nearly jumped, "The hell?!"

"Sorry for that Adrien" Nino said.

"What are you doing?" Adrien asked.

"Correction, what are you doing?" Nino asked.

"Just wondering what the girls are talking about," Adrien said.

"Aww....model boy has a crush on baker girl" Nino can tell by that look.

"What?! No! I.....just care about her" Adrien denied.

"Your face is the definition of love, lover boy. Same as the definition of caring" Nino said.

"My definition is totally different, Nino. I just barely know her for less than a week. Sometimes it's hard to get to know people you never had in your childhood" Adrien said, dragging him in the boiler room.

"Agh! Okay, I get the point!" Nino said as they were alone, "If you've known Chloe for years as a kid, you probably know the meaning of socializing a friend"

"For now, I hardly consider Chloe a friend, after hearing what she has done," Adrien said.

"Why did you become friends with her in the first place?" Nino asked, wanting to know.

"I didn't. My father was friends with Chloe's father for a long time. He chooses a friend for me. My mother.....she wanted me to decide my own future when I'm 13. But that is over and when she died, my father made too many decisions for my life that I never wanted. Chloe was the only friend I had and despite her self-proclaimed behavior, I was afraid to have no friends at all if I chose to end my friendship with her" Adrien explained why he's been stuck being perfect his entire life because he was too obedient and wanted to make his parents proud of him.

"Well, it's not too late to get new friends," Nino said.

"So far, you're my first new friend. A guy friend, I think. The point is, that everyone only loves my image rather than like me as my own person being. Like Chloe only thinks of herself as being adored by everyone when in reality, she doesn't check people's perception and their points of view. As for me, I just wanna be a normal teenage boy without having paparazzi following me around like crazy stalkers. Being a model boy is not an easy life to be" Adrien explained why he wanted a normal life, not a famous celebrity life.

"I understand, Dude" Nino said.

"At least you get me. No one else does. Not even my own father ever listens to how I feel because he barely ever spends time with me" Adrien said.