Turning Leaves

by Jaemlyn

A/U Mayoral Election - Dorian campaigns to be mayor and fights for equal rights under false pretenses (with David and Amelia by her side) but she is forced to explore the nature of her relationships and personal life while facing adversaries, her past, and her future. Are the Cramer women the key to her success, or will unexpected complications change everything?

2. Resignation Part 1

Dorian told "the children" that she was going to get dressed and leave to tell Mayor Lowell that she was quitting his campaign - withdrawing her support - finito. She had even promised that she would get him to resign. His advisors, his lawyers, no one could get him to agree to that. Langston had wondered if he was having some kind of egotistical delusions.

Dorian was making it her personal mission to take him down a notch. After what he'd done to her family, to her reputation, it would be her pleasure to put the man in the deep, dark hole where he belonged.

She picked a shimmering red jacket and sat down on the corner of her bed as she unpinned her hair. This was going to be an eventful day, and she needed to look her best.

Calmness descended upon her psyche, unlike any she had felt for some time. It was true that while serving as Lowell's campaign manager, she had been on a sort-of power trip, and would even admit to herself that she relished the idea of going head-to-head with Viki during the campaign. After news broke that the mayor had put a hit out on Cole, her assurance had spun to panic, and then near-illness while Starr and Hope were missing. The whole ordeal made her sick, and she'd carried a horrid pit in her stomach since … although admitting her misstep to Cole, Starr, and Langston and obtaining their forgiveness had helped somewhat.

Now, as she calculated her wardrobe, hairstyle, jewelry and makeup, the wheels in her mind turned, cranked, and churned out her next move.

The police knew that Dorian had blown Cole's cover, and the young man would have heard about it from someone else if not herself, yet no one from the Llanview police department had so much as tried to contact her for questioning. Perhaps it was out of respect for her family's situation, or perhaps they were waiting to subpoena her … who knew?

Everything was a mess, but it wasn't going to stay that way. She would see to that….

Dorian called Bo on her way to the police department and he told her he'd been expecting to hear from her. She anticipated a media presence but not the swarm of reporters that filled the station. She made her way through them toward Bo's office, where a podium was being miked up for what appeared to be an impending press conference. There was something familiar about the chaos that brought her an unexpected calm.

It reminded her of Mel.