"They say the way to a man's heart is—" and it's Sabine Cheng speaking and they are standing in a bakery, but the last time Adrien heard those words was on Ladybug's lips, and she finished the sentence between the ribs. At the time, fresh from identifying Hawkmoth and in the middle of trying to plot how to use that knowledge to take him down, Chat Noir's laugh might have been bitter, but it was sincere and his Lady had relaxed a notch at the sound.

Marinette is a warm strong presence bare centimeters from his side, carefully not touching him (this is a lesson they do not care to relearn), babbling on about the proper proportions of frosting to sugar cookie; she looks up when he touches the back of her hand, she hands him a cookie frosted to look like his heart a ladybug, and she smiles and says, "Eat."