One old smoke bomb later, Varian is passed out on the balcony of one Marinette DuPain-Cheng, with no recollection of how he got there. Meanwhile, Nathanael is struggling between her not at all platonic affections for her comic book partner, Marc, and her gender dysphoria and fighting her parents to be seen as female. She doesn't have time to get dragged into another problem! Marinette has no idea how the strange boy got on her balcony, but she's going to help him as best she can, though at this point it's only giving his as many cookies and clothes as she can. Co-written with Persassy9001.