Day 2

"This weather would have been good for exploring when I was younger."

Cruella stared down the shore as the tide pushed forward and dragged itself back out, her gaze no longer focused on the seen in front of her but somewhere far from her reach.

"Darling, I don't see how this is any of my concern, you not taking the risk to defy dear daddy and enjoy the sea." Cruella snipped while turning toward Ursula, "I have come to the point where if doing something you enjoy causes others to draw back, then it's not their opinions that matter. I'd much rather be happy on my own terms than someone else's." She felt a sense of pride in her new logic, but a small sneer spread across her face in the wake of her statement, who was she to give advice she couldn't even accept for herself.

Ursula glanced toward Cruella and then turned toward the water, she felt a frown creasing her feature's as she thought over Cruella's little speech, "It's not the same for me anymore, being around the water without my voice. Perhaps losing it was a sign that I wasn't meant to find happiness on my own terms."

"Uhhhgh." Cruella groaned out, "Darling, stop with the self-pity, it's not helping. The only thing that can help us now is to fight for what we want, because if we don't no one will do it for us." Cruella breathed in and turned back toward Ursula, a quick movement that caused Ursula to turn and face her as well, "You and I are the same, we want something we can't have, so I suggest we work together to get the endings we want."

Cruella watched as a tilted smile began to grace Ursula's lips, "You're right, the only way to win is to fight together. So, I'll make you a deal, if you stay and help me I promise to stay with you until we both have our happiness." Ursula spoke with indestructible sort of will, a type of earnest that made you want to believe anything was possible, and Cruella for that moment she believed.

"You have a deal, darling." She believed she could find happiness. "Now we must be on our way, Maleficent won't rest until her guards are on watch," she believed maybe she had already found part of it. Yet, watching Ursula begin to turn and walk back to the cave, she knew, she'd found someone who wouldn't leave her this time, and as she placed her hand on Ursula's back to guide her, she felt her heart pick up that extra beat. She felt hope.

"Oh what a fool I was Ursula, believing. Hope and love, villains don't get those kinds of endings." The breeze swept Cruella's hair across her face, allowing for the desolation to be seen on her sharp features to anyone who looked close enough. "Well, most villains, but you weren't most villains you got your happy ending and then you left. You said you'd stay until we both had our happy endings, not just until it suited you." Once again feeling the burn of tear's Cruella furrowed her brow, she'd said she was done crying and this time she meant it, so refusing to let the tears fall she breathed in. The sea though was a tricky thing, and the salt in the air smelt like the woman she was trying to find, and maybe the beach wasn't the best place to come and forget, because the tears wouldn't stay and they wouldn't stop, and Cruella was broken.

"You were my only ally, my only support and you left. I thought you knew.. I thought you knew you were my happiness, I thought that'd be enough to keep you with me." The tears slowed and the anger stayed for a moment, but the ache in her heart wouldn't fade, "You were my happy ending, Darling. I didn't need some man to write it out for me I knew already, and now I just want you to come back."

"Please, come back to me."

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