First and foremost, my sincerest gratitude to both C’s, who assured me this wasn’t garbage despite knowing nothing about the fandom, and the delightful muccamukk who corrected my punctuation, my grammar, and my timelines, and overall helped make the whole thing a helluva lot better.

Any remaining errors are totally my own. There are probably quite a few of them, but I wanted to move on to the next fill so I'm posting now anyway. Forgive me.

This was written as a fill for the hc_bingo prompt “first transformation.”

Title is from the song of the same name by The Huntress and Holder of Hands. If you'd rather, you can also read this story on AO3.