and the best part about it is I'm the only who can do somethin' about it

[bye_felicia]

It hits her out of nowhere. One minute, she's berating a waitress for serving someone else before her, the next she's sitting there, staring open-mouthed at a girl near tears, the words still buzzing around in her head, sitting on her tongue, with surprise the only thing keeping them at bay.

The girl doesn't deserve this, she realizes suddenly. This is just the way that things are.

They're not home anymore. She can't treat people like this.

The girl runs away, escapes, and Victra doesn't see her again until she delivers her plate of food, so hot and fresh it's ready to burn her tongue.

But Victra can't pay any attention to her now. She has more important people in her life that she needs to apologize to. Her phone's already out and she's sending a mass text message with her location to everyone in her neatly cultivated contacts list.

I'm back to normal. Sorry.

And to Lincoln, an added:

Please forgive me.

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[makeafairfight]

Sounds good. See you there soon.

It is, at least, somewhere Cameron already knows of, and a place not all that far from home. He lets Jenny know where he's off to and sets off shortly thereafter, soon arriving at Bondurant's. It's a little weird, admittedly, to be meeting with Victra now, but he's taking her apology at face value anyway.

[bye_felicia]

The wait between receiving the text message response and seeing Cameron walk through the door of the diner feels like an age despite the short time frame. Victra wants things to fall back into normalcy as quickly as she did, as if with a snap of her fingers. But that's impossible. Even with forgiveness, there's bound to be an awkward stage.

She waves down Cameron and gives him a tight, small grin. "Thanks. Promise I won't bite."

[makeafairfight]

"I'm not so sure of that," Cameron admits wryly, but he takes a seat opposite her all the same. He's here to figure out what happened and to give her the benefit of the doubt, not to make this worse. This is Victra. She can be tough, even sharp, but she's not usually cruel. This was something else.

"But I'll take my chances."