You should know better than to show your face here

Location: The Serpents
Date: 22th of March 2021
Time: Afternoon
Outfit: Link
Topic for:  @Elena Ahlers
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It wasn't like she had been avoiding Elena - or actually, she had. It had been months by now, and Victoria still had managed to avoid running into her. And she hadn't given up on telling Jack it was a bad idea. Elena was bad news, and there was no way she would make this easy for him. No matter what story she had told him. However, the scent tonight told her that it was time to finally look the she-devil in the eyes. She picked the whisky from the shelf and turned around. "Sorry, we don't serve liars here.. can I give you a cup of bullshit for the road?" Her eyes darted at Elena. She had nothing to say to her, or that wasn't true either - there was plenty of things for her to say. She lifted a brow a little bit, waiting for what Elena would do or how she would react. It was ages since they had seen each other last, and Victoria wasn't a scared little teenager anymore who had just lost most of her family.

Victora plainly rolled her eyes at Elena as she found a glass and filled it with whisky. She pushed the glass towards the demon. "Don't worry, I didn't have time to poison it," she added with a big fake smile on her lips. To say Victoria was angry at Elena was an understatement, she was both hurt and angry by what she had done. "You have some nerve to come back here after everything you've done," she placed her hands on the desk, still having her eyes darted at Elena. There was no room for Elena here, and for one, Victoria didn't want her here. "Jack is not even home, he is out with Pearl," she narrowed her eyes a little bit. Actually, she wasn't sure Jack was out with Pearl, but it could as well be. "I know you think you have Jack wrapped around your little finger, and you just come around here like it will undo everything you did.. but It won't. And I'm for one not going to be wrapped around your finger, we aren't your fucking toys to play with Elena," the anger started to set in her and she shook her head. "Which one of us will get a knife in the back next, Jack again? Me? You are fucking selfish coming back here," she took a step back and grabbed the bottle once again to fill another glass, that she downed quite quickly.

"Yet you are still here," she replied in a colder voice, a voice that didn't really suit her and it was mostly used whenever she was done with people. Then she pulled out a letter which made Victoria lift a brow and she moved her eyes to Elena. "A letter, really?" Victoria took a deeper breath in, but didn't pick it up. She didn't care much for Elena's written words from back then. "You didn't? Could have fooled me," Victoria kept her eyes at Elena like an enemy she didn't trust having her back towards in this moment. "You left me," finally there it was, what she was most angry about. "You left me with nothing," her voice a little louder, as she placed the bottle of whisky a bit harder down on the desk. "You fucking took everything I had left - like it was nothing. Like I was nothing." Victoria took a deeper breath in feeling the angry tears that burned in her eyes. "You know what you are? You are a coward. Fucking coward and a liar.. you manipulate.. you betray.. and what does it cost you? Nothing, because you just run from all responsibility... as long as you get out of this alive. Jack doesn't deserve you." She shook her head and took a deeper breath in. There wasn't enough alcohol in this world for this conversation.

Victoria stood by not wanting Elena by Jack side, and to be fair. Pearl was much better for him, she wouldn't even mind him with Grace. "You have nothing to offer him," her voice had finally calmed a little bit down - not really because it was a good thing in this matter. "You weren't here. And you don't belong here, and for a fact. I don't want you here." She took a deeper breath in.

She was right. Victoria could just have thrown her out, she didn't even need the other members of the gang to do just that. I told you, Victoria snorted and rolled her eyes at the demon. "You also told me that you understood the part of your heart being ripped out and not understanding how to fix it again," she replied and lifted a brow. Yes, Victoria didn't mind painting Elena as the bad guy. Because she was the bad guy. "Oh please, spare me," she snapped back. "Don't try to turn this to something else. You screwed up! You got him into trouble. It was you. All fucking you. You and your fucked up life," not many people got to see this part of Victoria, and she didn't like when angry consumed her. It was the worst side of her and it had been in need of explosion in ages. At this moment she was just happy they were standing inside, making it more difficult for her to bend any Earth elements, even through some of the plants in the room had soil and stones - she didn't feel like making a mess. Victoria took a deeper breath in and licked her lips. "You shouldn't have come back here," she added in a way more collected voice. "The right thing? You are not doing the right thing Elena. The right thing would have been to stay the fuck out of our lives and not make it worse."

Victoria knew she was ruthless and maybe her words were too cruel. Rafael, Lucas and Jack wasn't here to keep her calm or to remember her to breathe. She couldn't even recall if they ever had seen her so pissed, so angry at someone. Not like this at least. It should bother her seeing Elena cry, and it did, but she didn't want it too. She didn't deserve the goodness of the shapeshifter's heart. Victoria looked over at some of the Serpents who looked prepared for what the demon might do, she gave them a simple nod to let them know she got this. Even with all the yelling and tears.

The only real good thing that came out of this, was the fact she got to express how much Elena had hurt her. No one had been there to really understand that, or Mono had. Mono had been their to the year after, before they had agreed they needed to work a bit more on themselves before they could be together again. The again however had never come, but it was alright. Some things weren't meant to happen, and she had no hard feelings towards him this day. The world just isn’t as black and white as we want it to be, she almost chuckled a bit, it sounded like something from one of Lucas' speeches. Victoria took a deeper breath in and held it there while Elena kept talking. The shapeshifter watched the demon as she placed money on the table. Money the shapeshifter didn't really want, mostly because they belonged to the demon. "Elena?" She looked at her saying her name to get her attention. "I never said I regretted knowing you. Because I don't," she pointed out - it was true. If it wasn't for Elena, there was plenty of things she wouldn't have learned to deal with. Even if some of the lessons had been harsh. There was still the time that Elena had saved her from that group - and Victoria didn't forget. And she didn't regret.

One thing she didn't like was when people left angry. It was the same thing whenever she had an argument with Rafael, there was no way she wanted anyone to leave angry - because even if she was angry at Elena - she didn't want her wake up tomorrow and hear Elena was gone - letting her last words be in anger. "Tony cover the bar for me will ya," she then moved out to the bar and gave Elena a nod to walk outside. Either way Victoria made her way outside.

Things had went down the hill ever since Elena had left Jack, and it was first now the last few years that things had turned out to be better. Now she was back, and everything started to tumble down around them again. Silence, the bitter sweet silence that seemed to make all the words in her head clouded. Victoria didn't even know why she was standing here, why she had followed Elena outside. For a short moment she just felt like the teenager back in the day who had spilled out her heart to the demon about all her worries - and the next second no one had been there for years. Victoria took a deeper breath in, cursing lightly at herself. There was no need to dig up the past, but how could she move on to the future when she still felt the knife in her back? Victoria took a deeper breath in. Her mind still slightly haunted by the encounter with the other pack in the woods in February, but she moved her thought away from it again. There was way too much that haunted the young shapeshifter's mind, but Elena didn't have the privilege of learning about it. She didn't deserve that, not yet.

The silence was like a heavy fog around them, and she didn't have the words to form a sentence. All she could do was look at the demon and feel her own heartbeat beat more heavy in her chest. Why couldn't she speak? Why was no word unable to leave her lips, it seemed impossible. She couldn't even think.

Trust didn't come easy to either of them. And if anything Victoria's trust had been brutally broken the day everything had changed, and all the events after that. She was lucky to still be in one piece, but from one survivor to the other - they both knew they were lucky to be standing here today. It however didn't make any of it alright. Victoria didn't know how much would have changed if she hadn't showed up, Jack wouldn't have been distracted. Gemme wouldn't have followed him, he could have showed up faster when the strange pack had attacked Rafael's instead of coming in almost before it was too late - all because he was running around making sure the she-devil was alright. I know all of the things you are already thinking about me, the shapeshifter shook her head a little, she had no idea what thoughts went on inside her head.

And that is a lot more than other people would have done, and you know that. Victora clicked her tongue and massages her forehead a little bit. It hit harder than the demon perhaps intended and made the shapeshifter take a sharper breath in, as Victora's thought by instinct rushed to the fact that her father avoided her constantly. "You don't get to say that," she hissed feeling the tears beginning to burn in her eyes. "You've been back for months.. and you first come to see me now, most likely not even looking for me, did I matter that little to you?" Victoria asked almost breathlessly. It hurt in her chest like a sharp pain. Just reminding herself of the pain that Elena had caused her by leaving, then she hadn't done anything herself to seek Elena out - then again, Victoria wasn't the one who had left. "I swear. If you break his heart again," she took a step closer looking way more serious than just two seconds ago. It wasn't like her to look this serious, with her eyes darted at the demon like a snake waiting for the attack. "I will come for you," she added looking into the demon's blue eyes, " and I will tear you apart. Are we clear?" Back in the day Victoria still had some childish innocence left, the parts of her that had been in love and happy for that sake. The part of her that hadn't grown up at the time, but it wasn't completely gone, but build up by the girl who had needed to fight for herself. To live on her own and build a living in this world, getting used to people treating her like crap till she found people who would fight for her again. She wasn't naive anymore nor scared to put her own points across. On the good note, she hadn't said Elena should stay away from Jack.

Victoria snorted a bit, it was true however - Jack had terrible taste in women, or at least he had Pearl. But Pearl was also green in all of this, compared to the storm of strong personalities that Jack had managed to dig up around town. "Yeah, you don't say - he sure has a type," she replied a bit snarky. Victoria had heard about the thing with Gemma. Gemma and Victoria had even talked back in the day, Victoria had the pleasure of knowing all Jack's bedwarmers - or whatever he liked to call them. He never really did put much emotion into relationships, he wasn't passionate about it. "Jack did tell me you had the pleasure of running into Gemma, my bet was that you would met Grace first - but hey," Victora replied with a smaller shrug knowing it wasn't her place to even call names out. But then again, she wanted Elena to know that Jack had options. "Gemma is possibly worse than you, so I will give you that," she pointed out and licked her lips shortly. Other than Rafael not liking the vibe from Grace, telling her there was something that didn't make sense - then she had no problem with the blonde hybrid. Now, thinking about her she couldn't even recall where the heck she actually was. Quickly Victoria managed to shake that thought out of her head.

She was right. It wasn't a pleasure, and if it wasn't for the sour feeling Victoria had towards the demon, she would have empathized more. Everything relating to guns were a no go for Victoria in general, just the sight could even make her freeze - and she blamed her bloody childhood traumas for that. "Yeah, well if you stick around long enough, you might," she replied a tiny bit more snarky. Victoria didn't particularly enjoy arguing with people, but she definitely like putting a bitch in her place. "Nah, I guess I should have warned you about Gemma. Not that I knew she was around, the brunettes doesn't seem to stick around for as long as the blondes," she chuckled a bit to herself and rolled her eyes at the demon. It was a good thing Victoria was stubborn when it came to holding her mask and aggression towards Elena, reminding herself of the list of reasons why she was mad at her. A list she had memorized incase Elena ever should be close to sneak in under her skin. She wasn't going to go soft on the demon. "But, give him a break. Can't you see that you being here is confusing to him? God, he doesn't even know how to feel or be around you, and it's distracting him from his actual job," she pointed out shifting the attention away from Jack's flavor of the month. Jack was usually very focused and lately he had been distracted. It all took her back to the day the other pack had attacked Rafael's, Jack was late in the game - if his head had been clear then, perhaps no harm would have happened that night.