"Okay," Alix instructed as she skated around Chloe, "just maintaining you balance. Don't be afraid."

Chloe adjusted her helmet. "Are you sure I…" she moved her leg too quickly and fell over.

Alix was by her side immediately and grabbed her, "Maybe we should focus on your balance first." She dragged Chloe over to a wall, the blonde's brand new expensive looking rollerblades allowing her to glide with no resistance.

"I guess it's not as easy as it looks," Chloe said as she said as she braced herself against the Courtyard wall.

Alix glanced at the Ladybug themed band-aid Chloe had arrived in school wearing on her forehead. "So… why did you want to learn to rollerblade?"

Chloe thought about her answer. "It seemed exciting."

That made Alix laugh, "Don't get me wrong, I find it exciting, but you don't strike me as the kind of girl who'd find it exciting. It's a pretty physically involved activity."

"I know… I just like the idea of moving fast."

Alix stared at the rich girl. Then she smirked. "I do too."

"You can do it Chloe," Mylene cheered from her position on the stairs sitting with the other girls. The only addition was Sabrina, who was talking to Juleka about something or the other.

Chloe glanced at the girls watching her practice, feeling mortified as they watched her struggle to stand up straight.

"Don't look at them," Alix said, "look at me." She pushed off the wall and skated around the courtyard, picking up speed as she went along before skating back and sliding to a stop in front of her. "Keep practicing and I'm sure you'll get the hang of it. And if it's any consolation, you've only fallen over twice. That's better than Marinette when she tried to learn."

Both girls glanced at each other before looking away. The other girls looked at each other awkwardly. Chloe, for all her attempts to mend burned bridges, avoided Marinette like the plague. And when they had to interact, looked a hairsbreadth from snapping back to her old personality. There was clearly something there that only Chloe knew. And Adrien knew, given how he often put himself as a buffer between them.

Attempts to interrogate Sabrina and Marinette came up with nothing and no one was brave enough to ask Chloe. Nino had asked Adrien, only to receive a very serious look and a shake of the head.

Whatever had increased Chloe's desire to make friends with others had clearly also increased her animosity for Marinette.

Marinette, while curious, had decided that it would probably be better to give Chloe the space she clearly needed. In all honesty, she found Chloe's ignorance of her more pleasurable than her ire.

Alix showed Chloe some basics for maintaining her balance, mildly surprised by her attentiveness.

Once they were done, Chloe took great pride in the fact that she could skate in a straight line without falling over.

"Just practice what I showed you," Alix said as she and Chloe changed their shoes. "We'll make a speed demon out of you yet."

Before Chloe could respond, Sabrina ran up to them with Chloe's bag. She handed Chloe her phone, "It's your dad."

Chloe brightened up as she took her father's phone. "Hey Dadikins."

Alix tuned out the girl as she talked to the mayor. Then jumped when she shrieked. "What?"

Everyone in the courtyard had already been watching the spectacle that was Chloe Bourgeois learning to skate, so they didn't need to turn their heads to look at the source.

Chloe was staring straight ahead, one hand holding her phone to her ear. She looked horrified.

"Chloe?" Sabrina asked.

"You alright?" Alix asked.

Chloe turned and stared at Sabrina, then she looked at Alix before she got up and ran out of the school. Sabrina grabbed her discarded rollerblades and followed.

"What was that?" Juleka asked.

"Probably something for her trainer to handle," Alix remarked.

"Where is Adrien anyway?" Rose asked.

"I think he has a modelling shoot, he left school as soon as classes ended," Marinette answered.

Everyone shot her a brief look that made her blush before Alya spoke, "Well, I hope he doesn't have too much trouble dealing with that."

/

The next day it became explicitly clear Adrien had never found out about what happened by the shocked face he made when Chloe called everyone's attention to the younger blonde girl standing by her side.

"Everyone," she said with a strained smile. "This is my half-sister Zoe."

Marinette made a choking sound.

Chloe gave her an annoyed look.

Zoe gave them all a once over, before settling for also looking at Marinette, with an identical annoyed face.

"Well," Alix said. "This can only go poorly."

/

Zoe! She's like the secret boss monster of Chloe's redemption. And don't worry, she's going to have a very different story than her canon counterpart.

Zoe's existence is pretty freaking careless when you think about it. Is she older than Chloe? Did her mom immediately have an affair immediately after having Chloe? She doesn't look older or younger than her sister. Will she and Chloe be retconned to be twins like Luka and Juleka (Now that I say it, is seems extremely likely)? Andre's campaign must have been phenomenal (or staggeringly corrupt) to get around the public image poison that is your wife living in another country with the child she had with another man. Let's be honest, her being Chloe's sister is just petty as fuck, which is odd to say about the writers, but they just ignored every problem it could cause so they could specifically replace Chloe with her nicer sister that we've never heard of. It also reeks of insinuations about how children of neglectful parents are supposed to act to be worth sympathy.

So… Perfection and Emotion are both episode that happened. I can only imagine how the hardcore shippers reacted to the sudden change in status-quo. Argos was great. Crazy, but great. Kagami is probably - and must be protected at all costs.

And apparently, all the rich kids in Paris apart from Kagami, Zoe and Adrien are just Chloe clones. What kind of Illuminati shit is Paris' elite society on anyway, with their masked balls in dark rooms? Was that a gala or a meeting of the Court of Owls? It wasn't even televised. Who exactly were they showing off their heirs and heiresses too? Each other?

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