Adrien barely got any sleep last night and he wanted to stay home since he's not in the mood to get up. Even Nathalie can see he looks like a mess in bed. Gabriel barely sees his son in the morning and Nathalie hates to tell Adrien his schedule like a routine instead of anything like a normal human nature.

"Just tell him I'm not feeling well," Adrien said before covering himself in his bed sheets, not wanting to argue about this.

"Very well," Nathalie said.

"And please tell him to stop changing every schedule because it gets on my nerves when he changes his mind too quickly without second thoughts" Adrien mumbled under other bed sheets.

"I'll try, Adrien" Nathalie replied. Under the sheath, Adrien took his phone out to chat with Marinette.

It was the only thing that kept him sane instead of lonely all the time. He had mixed feelings about whether he liked Marinette or the hero Ladybug. It was very new to him to love a girl. But it will come in time, he didn't know who Ladybug was behind the mask. He can't risk knowing or it will endanger her, even himself too.

After his chat and nearly almost did his flirty Cat Nour side, he still checks on his laptop for any signs of Volpina anywhere but still nothing.

"You won't be hiding for long, Lila," Adrien said.

Since he was sick, it was time for daylight hiding as Cat Noir. He may be nocturnal but he still loves to lurk around, even scare bad guys around. As much as he wants his cats to strike at his father but he would get too pissed and suspicious to believe his son is the thief.

"When I'm better I'll resume," He thought.

His cat jumped on the bed to see him, "Meow"

"Hello Plagg" He petted him.

"Meow, meow" He meowed for attention.

"Come here, Plagg" Adrien scratched Plagg's chin, "Is that my good kitty? Yes you are" He said and Plagg smiled and nuzzled Adrien.

Like a cat with a very emotional need for attention.

-

With Marinette, she couldn't stop daydreaming about Adrien. He was charming, handsome, and shy, but also too perfect. Even if he can't disown Chloe for her cruelty.

"Who am I kidding? An average girl like me has no chance of being with him" Marinette said.

She doesn't see him coming to class. She guessed he was sick or needed a day off for himself from all these photoshoots. It wasn't until Ms. Bustier came to inform the class that Adrien was indeed sick. It was the secretary who informed the teacher instead of Gabriel himself, making the class believe that the fashion designer barely ever had any respect in public.

"Oh, poor Adrien," Marinette said.

"Still worried that you can't impress him yet, girl" Alya knows that look.

"Yeah, hardly had time to hang out with him," Marinette said.

"You know his father. Barely makes public views face to face but only on the tablet" Alya said.

"But Adrien does with modeling ads," Marinette said.

"If only he got free time," Alya said.

After class was over, it was lunchtime at the cafeteria which is the worst day because Chloe is always a stuck-up brat to humiliate anyone in the cafeteria with no teacher faculty to witness it. Marinette tried to ignore her with Alya. The classmates never laugh because they know better than to give Chloe entertainment if she ruins an innocent student's life.

"Always a queen bee" Marinette rolls her eyes.

"Baker girl? What have you done to my Adrikins?" Chloe accuses her without fact-checking.

"I've done nothing. He's just sick that's all and he'll be back in a week or less" Marinette replied.

"You're pathetic! I don't know what he sees in you but I hope he forgets about you, Dupain Cheng! A prince like him doesn't go for pauper girls!" Chloe ranted her.

"Be careful what you wish for" A dark voice in the shadows startled everyone as they saw a silhouette figure with glowing green cat eyes in the shadows.

"Is that Cat Noir?" Alya got up.

Chloe was gonna call her daddy to send troopers but a whip snatched her phone to him, "Aww.....a scaredy brat gonna call her daddy? So pathetic. What's also pathetic is your foolishness leading you to a bad path to one day lose everything, my dear. I guess you don't know better than this" Cat Noir chuckled in the dark.

"Hey! Give me my phone!" Chloe demanded.

"So, you like getting into people's personal life but you don't like it when I invade yours? How delicious when karma strikes back at you. Did I remember you like the center of attention? Well, here it is" Cat Noir walks out of the shadows and everyone has their phones out to record.

"Smile for the camera, stuck-up brat. You want everyone to adore you, here you have it. Live on social media is a queen bee brat" Cat Noir chuckled evilly.

"No! Turn them off!" Chloe screamed.

"Like I said. Be careful what you wish for" Cat Nour smirked and said to Marinette, "Ah, what a lovely princess" He kissed her back palm, "Enchante"

"Oh, um, hi Cat Noir" Marinette blushed.

"Hey, step away from her!" Alya said.

"Really? What was I gonna do to her? A simple kiss on the hand is harmless. Next time, check your facts before posting on the blog" Cat Noir said before doing a blow kiss at the girls.

"Oh, this Cat is gonna steal my heart" Marinette acted dramatically.

"Yes, I'm Cat Noir, ladies and gentlemen. I heard all about Volpina the liar who cried fox. Doesn't get any better when she deceived you all. Especially that stuck-up brat over there who likes to satisfy herself with the only catchphrase she uses which is....ridiculous, utterly ridiculous" Cat Noir snatched an apple from the food pile and bit it.

"How dare you! My daddy will have your head for this when Ladybug captures you!" Chloe yelled.

"Watch it, brat" Cat Noir extracts his claws, "You don't want to get on my bad side. I can steal riches from the hotel and the city hall. Cross me again, I'll scar your face. And I did not come here for you, I came here to protect her" Cat Noir pointed at Marinette, "Yeah, I know how much you like to target her but also blackmail the principal to punish the wrong student. I'm more than just a master thief, brat. This is my city now and if I ever see you do something to my princess, I will haunt you in your nightmares" Cat Noir hissed viciously like an angry cat.

"Just don't hurt me!" Chloe yelps like a coward.

"You had no problem hurting my princess or anyone! When someone else like me for example, torments you, you don't like that but you like to see people suffer for your entertainment!" Cat Noir was this close to attacking her.

Marinette grabbed his hand to stop, "Cat Noir, please don't. Not in front of the world" Marinette begged him.

Cat Noir noticed they were still filming him. He sighed and calmed down just for Marinette, "Meow, how meow-velous for you all to film me. Ladybug, I can't wait to see you again. I'm always prepared" Cat Noir chuckled evilly.

"Still messing with Ladybug?" Marinette asked.

"I'm a curious kitty, princess. Wild cats always play with their prey. I always go after mice" Cat Noir smirked and grabbed another apple to bite, "Unlike Volpina, I never hurt people with lies. I never go after innocent lives. No, I go after heartless souls like her for example" Cat Noir pointed at Chloe, "But I don't kill, I torment them with haunting words to fear me"

Chloe just pouted, "I'm not scared of you, fleabag! Get the hell out of my school!"

"Oh, this school ain't yours. Toodle doo!" Cat Noir tossed her phone back and he disappeared using a smoke bomb.

Everyone coughed and as soon as the smoke died off, he was gone.

"I gotta admit, Cat Noir got style," Nino said.

"You're lucky he feels very protective of you, girl," Alya said.

"I just got myself a knight in leather," Marinette said.

-

Later that night, Cat Noir did almost spot Volpina me henchman from his cameras from his cats. He came to the nightclub to find him but it won't be easy with partiers and drunkards around.

He'll find him eventually but he can't cause a fight brawl in a nightclub. He took his seat at the bar table and stroked his claws on the glass table.

"White Russian, no ice, hold the vodka, hold the alcohol" Cat Noir instructed for a drink.

"Alcohol-free it is," The bartender said and began mixing.

"Hey, fleabag. I heard you showed yourself at school" Ladybug said while grabbing a seat.

"That's right, Bugaboo. I threatened Chloe as well" Cat Noir said.

"By endangering yourself that you're wanted dead or alive," Ladybug said.

"I got nine lives you know" Cat Noir replied.

"Bullshit. You always say that to satisfy your ego when in reality, you have one human life. Even criminals want you dead for being a wanted fugitive" Ladybug reminded him.

He received his drink and took a sip, "I'm bad luck, milady. You were the one to tell the forensic artist to draw my face and make me a fugitive. That's another reason why I'm punishing you with my seduction you can't escape from"

"Really Kitty? Just so you can get inappropriate" Ladybug said.

"No, to get even with you. Especially revenge for kicking my ass" Cat Noir warned her to not get on his bad side.

"It's my job to kick criminal ass, kitty. I let you live long enough but Paris still sees you as a nightmarish cat" Ladybug reminded him.

"I know. But I protect my princess" Cat Noir said.

"So I heard. Everyone believes she's the kindest girl in Paris" Ladybug said.

"She's really special, unlike Chloe the witch," Cat Noir said.

"Others believe she's a klutzy girl. No boy, not even you, can love a clumsy girl like her" Ladybug said.

"That doesn't mean I can't be her friend," Cat Noir said.

"You have no friends" Ladybug glared.

"I have my kitties as my friends. I'm the cat whisperer. Now, if you excuse me, I got my own job to do. So please stay out of my way, milady. This whip means business to cut skin wide open" Cat Noir chuckled evilly before finishing his drink and walking to the dance floor.

"One Pepsi please" Ladybug ordered her drink.

Cat Noir did see the henchman getting pleasures with women which disgusted him. It's always a sexual thing at a nightclub like this when they get drunk.

"Oh jeez" He rolls his eyes.

He needed to clear the crowd by pole dancing to grab everyone's attention, "Turn on careless whisper" He requested to the DJ.

The DJ turns it on as Cat Noir begins to pole dance in feline movements, Ladybug turns and blushes at the sight.

"Puuuuurrrrrrrrrr" He purred out loud in delight to do his moves with clawing and flexibility.

He pulls the zipper down to show his pecs and abs again. It was making all the 18-year-old women drool and swoon, especially two women who were paying more attention to him than the henchman.

"Still gorgeous as always" Ladybug stared.

The rest of the men were frustrated and jealous because all the girls paying more attention to him. Cat Noir does his catwalk style on stage and smirks at the girls fainting on the floor, even giving cash to him for the perfect performance.

"This Kitty needs to cash in, Bugaboo" He saw Ladybug stare at him.

Ladybug pouted at how she can't interrupt his job in a nightclub which is too dangerous with criminals and outlaws around.

"Care to join, Milady?" Cat Noir teased.

"What are you gonna do to me?" She grabbed his hand to get on stage, "Strip me naked and have sex with me in front of everyone?"

"No, too inappropriate. More like unleash your wild side" Cat Noir said.

"You want wild? You got it!" Ladybug let her hair loose and swung it.

"Meow" Cat Noir grinned.

"Is this wild enough?" Ladybug moves her shoulders up and down while swaying her hips.

"Very wild to buggy into boogey" Cat Noir purred before competing her into pole dancing, "For a woman like you, I'm also a poser"

"Oh boy" Ladybug blushed that she had to do this.

"Scaredy bug?" Cat Noir chuckled before gliding up to spin on the pole.

"Not today" Ladybug spun around the pole.

"Ooh, sexy" Cat Noir was very flexible to compete, like cats have very flexible back spines to twirl in midair and land on their feet.

Ladybug grabs the pole with her thighs and slowly slides down. Everyone else was cheering on who was more competitive to pole dancing, party lights flashing and the music blaring. Unfortunately, the cat has style since he's been doing this a lot more than her, so he won. Everyone applauded and he jumped off stage, twirling his whip for his sexy moves before smacking it to spook everyone out of his way.

"Well danced, Kitty" Ladybug fixed her pigtails.

"Thanks," Cat Noir said before smacking his whip to make people move out of the way. He whistles the Ride of the Valkyries to make this more intense and dramatic before approaching the henchman and smacks the gun out of his hand with his whip, nearly severing his finger.

"Don't even bother with using a gun" Cat Noir smirked.

"The bloody hell?!" The henchman yelled while holding his hand.

"Aww.....and you say my paws are filthy" Cat Noir approached and kicked him out the exit door.

He strikes at him but misses when Cat Noir claws at him. They kept doing it until Noir backflips to avoid him.

"What the bloody hell do you want? I got no jewelry on me!" The henchman tried to shoot him with his other gun but his hand got whipped, leaving a bloody gash, "Agh!"

"I just want to show you that Paris is my territory." Cat Noir said.

"You think I will listen to a psycho cat?!" The henchman yelled but got pinned against the dumpster, "Agh!"

Cat Noir gives out a vicious hiss to intimidate him, "Yes you will! Last time we met, you tried to shoot the back of my head that night. And for that, you know more about that vixen bitch I want to hunt. Tell me where she is or my claws will rip your dock and balls. Start talking now before my claws thirst for blood" Cat Noir extracts his claws near his groin area.

"Alright! Alright! I'll tell you where she is!" The henchman gasped.

"If you lie, my claws are going for your balls" Cat Noir hissed.

"She's at the catacombs! Everyone knows how prohibited it is! I swear! You know every hiding spot you define in the city but not the catacombs!" The henchman said.