You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry... (One Shot)

The flurry of work that came in the moment after Victoria had let Jackson go was enough to keep her... preoccupied. Her mind was in overdrive as she hurried to get things ready for Jackson's speech that would be taking place in a matter of moments.

For a moment, the man had not moved to follow her, and Victoria had been confused as she looked back, only to find the man ensnared by the woman... the... Victoria's mind hadn't known how to label anything in that moment, instead turning away from Jackson and Tessa. The suit jacket was brought forward, the neatly printed second copy of Jackson's speech in the folder he would be able to read it from. The small team who would ensure Jackson's features didn't look tired in the early hours of the morning were ready and waiting for the man who joined them a few moments later.

Jackson was briefed, reminded to keep everything he said about Mrs Jameson cordial, short and sweet, and to ensure he thanked everyone for voting in the polls, not just for him, but for whomever they had chosen.

By two am, the politician was ready, and stepping out the front of the pizzeria to give his first speech as the re-elected Senator of Wisconsin. The questions had been standardised, as they'd expected. No curve balls came, and after a good ten minutes of questions, thank yous to the public and all round good spirits, Victoria was ready to call it all an evening, wrap everything up, pay the pizzeria and then head back to her apartment and...

No she couldn't think about that right now.

Nor was she allowed to.

"And, finally, I would like to make a personal announcement this evening, Jackson told the crowd gathered there in that moment. Victoria's heart rate quickened in that moment, looking to Mac who shook her head in return to denote she didn't know what was coming any more than Victoria did. "You will all have noticed how Tessa Greene of Fox News is here today, but I would like to officially announce that the two of us are trying out the dating scene. We both got jilted, and now we're both willing to give this whole love thing another chance."

The ground around her seemed to shift in that moment, but not to swallow her up whole.

"Are you okay, Victoria?" Jenna asked, catching her arm and supporting her. "You've gone pale."

"I'm tired, do... do you think you could wrap everything up here tonight?"

"Of course, let me get you an Ub-"

"I'll be fine, I promise." Victoria insisted, moving back in to the pizzeria to collect her bag, and then out of the side door, all the while fumbling with her phone as she tried to get the app up on her phone for the taxi service. The whole system was a blur, though, only just making sense long enough for her to manage to book her trip.

Five minutes passed, if that, before the black Lexus pulled up. Climbing in to the back of the car, Victoria barely registered her driver's comment on the night being a good one for the town. Nor the continued tirade of questions, or the glances in the mirror. Tears rolled down the witch's cheeks and splashed upon the door panel as they moved, the exhaustion of everything making it too hard to concentrate.

The apartment building came in to view twenty minutes later, and after the driver had insisted he give her number a call and she save it so she could let him know she was alright, Victoria rushed up towards her door. George gave his usual hello from behind the desk, and Victoria returned it softly without stopping like she usually would, before climbing to her apartment.

The whole place was as she'd left it that morning, nothing had changed, and it was in the moment that she closed the door and leaned back against it that she realised how stupid she'd been.

Feelings didn't just change in the space of a day.

They were built over months, and months.

Believing Jackson would ever feel the same way she did had been idiotic, at best.

The witch's body slid down the back of the door as she dialled the number of the only person she could talk this through with. The tears only coming through faster as the groggy sound of Azalea's voice came through the phone with the question of did Victoria know what time it was. A voice that was suddenly awake when Victoria's breath had hitched with the tears she'd been trying to hold back.

"How could I be so stupid, Azalea..?"

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