The Cursed Clock

[Cece Ryder]

"I still can't believe it." Cece said softly and shook her head. "Although Alice throwing Nick off the top of their building, that didn't happen, those two are so loyally in love with each other, but I wouldn't be surprised if they kicked everyone out and had a long argument that evolved in a civilized discussion that resulted in Nick ringing up a rather large bill for something followed by literally hot and steamy sex."

"And I'm sure Alice contributes to that." Victoria said with an amused smile. "See Abbygale, I could be your Alice, the hot, sweet First Lady has a killer body and looks amazing in next to nothing."

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. You're both still complicit in working with Dominus." Cece said and sighed heavily. "BUT you're not killing me and we're trying to be civil adults here." she gasped when she saw the 'guest room'. "You realize that I could entirely charge you with theft. Isn't this entire room the old Lincoln bedroom?"

"Hey, finder's keepers. And it's for guests I don't completely love and adore like family, hence the Lincoln stuff. Pisses off all the 'good ol' boys and girls'. Tells them right off not to fuck with me." Victoria said with a wink. "That dress is in the closet as well as some of our non favorite shoes and such. You're about our size, despite being so blasted tiny."

"RJ didn't complain." Cece said with a soft, sad sigh. "She killed him right?"

"Comatose as far as we know." Victoria said softly. "Not our call there. That was entirely Ophelia."

"Yet another thing I get to kick her ass for." Cece replied darkly.

"Word is your mom killed her too, but then again, this is a daughter of Dominus, she's probably got a clone or a hundred." Victoria gestured with her hand. "Bellatrix has a lady hard on for clones."

[Abbygale Porter]

“Complacency isn’t exactly the word I would use,” Abby said with an edge to her voice. “We are survivors first and foremost. Our contributions to Dominus’ cause were entirely involuntary. Could we have defeated him? Maybe, but his allies outnumbered our acolytes ten to one, and we don’t have any troopers. Could we have challenged Dominus and won? Possibly, but in truth probably no. I have endless amounts of faith in Victoria, and Ashley has become quite skilled with a kliden, but as for me,” She shrugged and gave Cece one of her grins that usually disarmed a situation, “Unfortunately my skills come up decidedly lacking against a head to head confrontation with Dominus, Bellatrix, Ophelia, and Ian. So, we sat by, and bided our time. Waiting for an opportunity. An opportunity has presented itself in the form of yourself. And, Victoria is correct. Bellatrix has come into an impressive number of clone troopers to augment her old troopers that came with her from her reality. Not to mention she has been siphoning off our acolytes to their own cause. I'm afraid that even with our help, and that of the Klingons, and possibly the Imperium we will still come up lacking. I hope I don't have to employ my backup plan, I rather like this reality, but that's the reality of the situation. Without allying ourselves with the Alliance we're both defiantly dead, and with an Alliance it's just a probably dead."

[Victoria Underwood]

"You're also the one who's going to be able to smooth things over with the Alliance." Victoria said as she looked out the window. "And it's time... sooner than later this would go away and I would rather it be on our terms than either your Presidents Prices or Dominus and the Four Horsemen."