"You don't actually love me you just want to possess me."
The angry words ring once more inside her head as her phone vibrates even closer towards falling from the edge of her desk Ivy lets out a long breath and tries once more to concentrate on the invoice her mother had asked her to take a look at.
"You don't actually love me you just want to possess me."
Alright, maybe the accusation wasn't inertly a lie considering Drizella had decided to add her own nonnegotiable loophole clause into this newest dark curse Gothel and her mother had coursed Regina into casting.
But it wasn't all that bad considering that once upon a time Alice had willingly been hers for a while. And they'd been happy. For a while.
All Drizella wanted was for them to get that 'for a while' feeling back. Only this time for that feeling to last far longer than simply a while.
"You don't love me you just want to possess me."
Tilly just needed a little more space to calm down and get back into a more cooperative mindset thanks to a handy refilled prescription on the curse stabilizing medications also handily delivered by the Dark One's own curse self himself on her mother's orders Ivy wait until the afternoon before sweeping in and reminds the hazed blonde she adored just how right they were together.
Besides thanks to her demand that Alice's supposed love, Robin Mills be dropped somewhere as far as she could be from the quaint little town of Hyperion Heights Drizella could rest easy knowing nothing could spoil her attempts to steal back the woman she'd found herself falling for only after the clever blonde had thought to trap her in Wonderland.
She was right to wait considering how many times her phone had pinged with a new message in the last few minutes alone.
The weeks apart hadn't been a picnic for her either but then she'd give herself a comforting 'she'll come back to me. She always does in the end.' reminder before she drifted to sleep, and she at least has a restful sleep that night.
'of course, she'll come back to me. It would take an act of true love for her not to' she reminds herself yet again as Ivy tried her best to concentrate on her work and not what silken night dress, she'd be peeling from Alice that is to say Tilly's flushed skin later that night once she'd been allowed back into the couple's shared apartment.
The blue one. Drizella decides with a pleasing smile. Alice always did look so lovely in blue she remembered as her curiously finally got the better of her and Ivy reached for her phone to check the still incoming string of messages.
Thought you'd want to see this….
The first text from a number that distinctly wasn't Tilly's but the officer Ivy had tasked with keeping an eye on her for the time being estranged girlfriend was followed by several attached photo messages.
It wasn't until she'd scrolled to the third that Ivy stormed out of her office on a literal warpath before her phone had even landed from its hurled toss against the office wall.
To anyone else, the image would have been considered a simple comforting hug between two women. To Drizella it was worse than a knife to her heart considering just who it was that had had her arms wrapped around Ivy Belfrey's estranged girlfriend.
She'd thought she'd have more time than this. That she and Alice or rather that she and Tilly would have longer than two small years of roller coaster-worthy time together before she'd have to deal with the unwanted interruption now spoiling the currently estranged couple's rocky romance.
"I swear Mills I'll ship you back on a one-way trip to Timbuktu in a trunk of slow drying cement if need be." Drizella threatens under her breath as she stabs at the elevator call button. "I've done too much to lose her to you again."