Fashion & fame

The baron wasn't how i thought he was..

You have no idea why Victoria has a whole file about you, there's no reason to get mad at her. You don't know what happened so you're not jumping to conclusions.

It's 11 pm and you're getting dressed and doing your make-up. You're applying your concealer when your phone rings. You put it on speaker and in the meantime you're blending your foundation.

'Hey, it's y/n'
'Hello darling'

You hear her British accent, "That's her" you think to yourself.

'Darling, I'm almost home are you ready?'
'Ready for what exactly?'
'The dinner!?'

You hear her voice changing, she's anxious.

'I was kidding love, I won't forget our dinner.'
She then replies with a cold tone,
'You certainly better not have forgotten.'
She hung up the phone.

You hear a car drive into Hellman Hall, you get up heading downstairs. You're in a happy mood surprisingly. 'Hey, Rodger!' You greet the lawyer briefly as you scoot past him. 'Good evening y/n' you walk towards the huge wooden door decorated with carvings of large flowers that are considered to be 'art' you open the door and approach her ladyship. 'Evening, how are you dear?' She gives you a kiss and looks over her back. 'Keep up!' There's a man with a HUGE, Flower bouquet. He handed it to the baroness and she gives it to you. 'I hope you like it' you gasp, 'Victoria this is beautiful! I love them so much!' You grab her face and kiss her passionately. John stands behind you, he clears his throat. The baroness gives him a dead stare, 'You're ruining our moment John.' she twitches her lips and takes the flowers out of your hands, and shoves them into John's arms. 'Place them in a vase, will you?'

She takes your hand leading you to the dining room, someone has fully decorated it. It's beautiful, with flowers, and wine, the whole table has been set up nicely with beautifully lit candles on it. 'Did you do this for me?' The baroness smiles, 'Of course I did, please sit I insist.' 'I've also brought wine.' you sit down and you smile. 'This is so thoughtful of you Baroness.' Dinner is served and it's delicious, it's a medium rare steak with a salad. The Baroness poured you some wine and you both began to eat. 'Baroness, might I ask something?' 'Of course, what is the matter?' You take the file out of your purse. 'What's this..?'

She stops chewing and swallows, staring at it, 'I uhm, I'm sorry I.' She uses a napkin to wipe her mouth then takes the file, she reads it through. The Baroness tosses it into the fire. 'Baroness what are you doing!?' You raise your voice at her and she looks... you don't know how she looks... it's a mix of scared and sad. You've hurt her in some way by screaming at her. 'Victoria I'm sorry, I'm just so confused.'
She looks at the file burning in the fire, the flames make her eyes sparkle, you can both hear it crackling in the fire, and turns to you.

'It's a long difficult story y/n'

'When you worked for me, there was something about you that I found appealing. I didn't want to show any emotions because I simply never did before. I've never cared about anyone except for myself. When you came into my life there was something about you, that made me feel different. I felt vulnerable and I didn't want to feel like that ever again. I got you to do all the terrible jobs I could think of to push you away, and I'm sorry. When you left me I was furious and stressed. The file was the plan I concocted to get my 'revenge' when I met you, everything changed, and I began to love. Love is one thing I've never experienced, I thought it wasn't possible for me, that I would only ever just be used and not loved.

She wiped a tear off her face the emotional crack in her voice, 'I'm sorry.'
You walked over to her in a rush. 'I'm so sorry love, I didn't know.' you massage her shoulders and you press a kiss on her head. 'Do you want to go upstairs love?' She is glad you are sympathetic and not running out the door you take her hand she leads you upstairs. 'I love you' you whisper. You bring her into her room and sat on the bed next to her. 'Victoria, what happened in your past?' she places a hand on your thighs. 'I don't really like talking about it... it's a lot. Ask your father.' you place a finger under her chin raising her face and you kiss her, 'I need to hear it from you Victoria, I won't judge you, I love you.'

'When I was a child, I lived with my mother and my father, but my father was always drunk and he wasn't a father figure. My mother was like me, she didn't love him and used him for his money, she raised me but that was it. She didn't love me. When I turned 18 she forced me into marriage Baron Von Hellman. He offered a lot of money if I agreed to be his 'wife' I was slender and beautiful, that's what the baron liked about me. I begged my mother not to make me marry that man, I was reasonably sure my interests did not lie in men. Still, she made me marry him. He was obsessive and didn't treat me like a person. I didn't love him and he didn't love me either. I didn't have any free time and I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without him being there to escort me.

The only thing I could do was create fashion. That's how my brand was born, it became my passion. One day the baron decided he would like an heir he wished to force me to him with a child. I didn't want to at all. He pinned me down trying to rape me, I screamed for help crying and crying, I've never felt such fear in my life. No one could hear me or maybe they did and chose to ignore my cries. I knew I had to do something I took the lamp because it was the closest object that I could reach and I smashed it to his head, he was unconscious and with all the strength that I could muster I pushed him off of me and dragged him to the window. I pushed him over the balcony. It is a 30-meter drop to the ground, he did not survive.

I told everyone I found him dead because the window in our room was open. They said it was suicide, John and I were the only ones that knew. Please, don't tell anyone, hold my secret, I don't want to go to jail for murdering a rapist. I've inherited his fortune and here we are.' she was crying and twitching her lips. 'I'm sorry that I'm such a horrible disappointing person.'

You didn't know about any of this, this was insane. She has been through so so much. You felt incredibly bad for her. You wipe the tears off her face trying to comfort her. You wrap an arm around her, stroking her hair from her face, and whisper. 'Darling, don't cry, you did what you needed to do I don't love you any less for having such courage. I still love you.' you take her in your arms and hold her close on her bed, you both still have make-up on and you were still in your clothes. But you didn't care, you were here for your girl now and that was the only important thing.

'Hey, it's okay, I'm here darling.' you notice she's shaking and you draw little circles on her hip trying to stop the shaking. 'It's okay Victoria, I'm here for you, you're safe with me.'