It was 9:30 and Cruella was getting ready for her date with Isaac. She still couldn't believe that she had agreed in going out with him. She had chosen a long black dress and a pair of red high heels. She looked at her reflection in the mirror for a moment and then applied her devil-red lipstick. She was ready -at least on the outside-. Inside she knew she would never be quite ready to absorb all this rapidly changing situation that she found herself into. For the moment, she knew that she had to deal with him all through the night and that caused her an unexpected feeling of nervousness.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. She casually opened it only to find Isaac standing in front of her, smirking and holding a bottle of gin.
"Are you trying to impress me, darling?"
"Not exactly, but I gathered you would appreciate gin more than flowers". There was a tone of amusement in his voice.
Cruella smiled at him. Either he knew her far too well or she had underestimated him. She took the bottle of gin from his hands and placed it on her nightstand.
"Are you ready?", Isaac asked with courtesy.
She wrapped her fur coat around her shoulders and looked at him with a sarcastic, questioning smile.
"The question is, darling, are you?"
In fact, Isaac didn't feel ready at all, but he wouldn't allow Cruella to see that. He put on a big smile instead while she took him by his arm and closed the door behind them.
Isaac had chosen a not so loud nor quiet spot for their date. The Poisoned Apple was an excellent choice since the heroes, for obvious reasons, didn't go there that much. They sat on a table next to the dance floor. Cruella immediately ordered a glass of gin while Isaac was still trying to ''recover'' from his car experience with Cruella as a driver.
"Do you like it here?" he asked breaking the awkward silence.
"It's better than that bloody diner! Actually, it's better than I expected" she said casually taking a log sip of her drink.
Silence prevailed again. They just kept looking at each other for several minutes. Isaac didn't really know what to say. He hadn't seen her for at least 15 years. Practically, they were strangers. He didn't know anything about her life all those years. There were millions of questions running through his mind and at the same time he was too afraid to ask.
Suddenly, a familiar sound came to her ears. Her pupils dilated in surprise. It was a song. The song they had danced to, many years before. She hadn't heard that song since that night.
That was his chance to break the ice and rekindle this old flame. Surprisingly, he stood up and took her hand.
"Come dance with me" he said, reminding her of that night back at Murray's.
They had both changed very much since that night and he knew that she wasn't the angel he had fallen in love with back then. But he wanted to dance with her once again. Only this time he wanted to dance with the real Cruella.
"You can't be serious!" she said sarcastically.
"Do I look like I am joking?" his big smile revealed just how serious he was.
She smiled back and surprising her own self, removed her fur coat and stood up. She took his hand and they started dancing at their own rhythm. She didn't move very close to him though. They were dancing from a safe distance -at least for that moment- They continued dancing even when the song had stopped. 2 hours later they found themselves dancing like they had many years before.
"I wish this would never end..." he whispered to her ear.
Cruella didn't want this to end either. Then she placed a soft kiss on his cheek. He was speechless. He had never expected Cruella to do that. He looked at her astonished.
"Ι guess it was my turn to make this night a memorable one" she said with a trace of smile.
