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“I can’t believe you’ve been friends with a fucking hellhound!”
Octavia yells, “Why the fuck does that matter?”
Stella screams, “Don’t talk back to me, young lady! Start acting like a noble woman for once in your life!”
The young goetia retorts, “Who I hang out with is none of your fucking business, mother!”
Stella growls and says, “I have spent my life trying to teach you basic manners so you can become a noble woman just like me. But you refuse to follow the most basic instructions!!”
Octavia screeches, “LIKE YOU!? Why in the seven rings would I want to be like you!? You’re shallow, selfish, and you only care about your reputation! You’re not my mother, you’re nothing but a cold heartless bitch!”
That was the last thing she said before her mother slapped her in the face and across the room. Octavia grunts after impacting a column and holds back a scream as she realizes she’s seriously injured. She hears the clicks of heels as the shadow of her mother looms over her. Octavia can only clutch her stomach in pain with a frightened expression on her face as she looks up at her mother. Stella spits out, “If I had done that when you were younger, you would have turned out well. You are a disgrace to the Goetia name.”
Octavia seethes in pain a little, glares up at her mother and says, “I was gonna say the same thing to you.”
Before Stella can strike her daughter again, she hears a distant yell.
“STELLA!!!!!”
Octavia hears another crash and a few moments later, she feels herself float off the ground, suspended by the feeling of her father’s magic. She whispers, “Daddy?”
Stolas seethes at his ex wife in anger, but momentarily drops it as he levitates his daughter over to him. He kisses her forehead and whispers, “Rest for now, my owlet. Get some sleep and let me deal with your mother.”
Stolas snaps his fingers, teleporting his daughter to the hospital. He then turns his attention back to Stella, who gets up and screams, “What the fuck are you doing here? You’re trespassing on my property!”
He glares at her and says, “In all the years I have known you, I never would have thought you would stoop to capital punishment, and on Octavia!”
Stella snaps, “I was trying to teach that girl some discipline and respect, qualities that you have an extreme lack of! I’m trying to give our child a behavior adjustment after the 17 years of clowning around you have been performing around her!”
Stolas glares at her and says, “You really don’t have any love in your heart, do you? The only thing that’s beating inside you is your compulsive need to show off to every upper class twit you meet!”
Stella screams, “At least one of us gives a damn about our reputation!”
She then exclaims, “Now what the fuck are you doing here!?”
Stolas crosses his arms, narrows his eyes, and says, “I’m here to take back what I deserved while we were going through our divorce; full custody of Octavia!”
Stella growls, “And what makes you think I’ll hand her over?”
Stolas continues, “Because I had a few guards of my legions sneak in here and plant several miniature cameras around the property. So I can keep an eye on you and Octavia.”
Stella barks, “You’ve been spying on us!?”
Stolas remarks, “No. I’ve been spying on you, to make sure you don’t abuse my daughter.”
He then says, “Now that I’ve recorded your little psychotic episode, Octavia will be moving back in with me.”
Stella snaps and yells, “Like hell she is! I get partial custody of her! That was the agreement! I’m her mother!”
Stolas narrows his eyes and screams, “You gave up the right to be her mother the moment you hurt her!!! I was there for Octavia far more then you ever were!!! I fixed her hair, I sung her lullabies, I taught her how to talk to boys, and the only time you ever gave her your attention was so you could parade her around at some formal to those spoiled brats of your so called friends!!!”
Stella exclaims, “Octavia is royalty, you idiot! I’m trying to prepare our child for the future! You let her parade around in that vile attire unbefitting someone of her status, let her fraternize with imps and hellhounds, and you take her to the most ghastly locations like Lulu Land!”
Stolas pokes a finger into his ex-wife’s chest and growls, “No, you’re trying to doll up my little girl so you can pawn her off as a trophy wife to some self entitled royal brat you know!”
He then says, “If you don’t hand over custody, I’ll take this footage to court and make this go public.”
Stella exclaims, “No you won’t. You’ll make yourself the laughing stock of all of Hell!”
He raises an eyebrow, and says, “I couldn’t give a damn about reputation.”
Stolas then smirks and says, “But I know you do.”
Stella widens her eyes, and says, “I beg your pardon?”
Stolas continues smirking, saying, “I may not care for the affairs of upper class society, but I still know how to play it. We were married for quite a while, Stella. I know every tiny little thing that sets you off. I know reputation and your desire to show off to your so called friends at those tea parties you attend are the only things you care about. If I were to bring this footage out to the public, you’ll be the laughing stock of the upper class.”
He then snaps his fingers, making a document appear in the air. He then says, “You can avoid all that drama and embarrassment if you just hand over custody of Octavia. One way or another, I’m getting my daughter back.”
Stella narrows her eyes, looks at the document and Stolas several times, until she growls, snatches the document out of the air, furiously signs it, pushes the contract into Stolas’ chest and yells, “Fine. Keep the brat, Stolas! She’s nothing but a disappointment anyway!”
She storms out of the room, destroying furniture as she screams her head off. Stolas rolls his eyes at her predictable mannerisms, and snaps his fingers, opening a portal to his palace. He sits down on the sofa after leaving and rubs his head, trying to get rid of the migraine coming on. A few minutes later, his head butler, Albus, says, “Tea, sir?”
Stolas lifts his head, and takes the offered cup of tea, saying, “Thank you.”
Taking a sip, he sighs as the headache starts to fade. A few minutes later, he stands up and says, “I am going to the hospital to check on my daughter. Stay in touch with me, Albus.”
The Goetia demon then pulls out the document, hands it to Albus, and says, “Have that document mailed out immediately and put in express mail. With a little luck, the courts will register that I have full custody of my daughter, and won’t bother us.”
Albus nods, and says, “It will be done, sir, and give my regards to Lady Octavia. I will inform the staff that the princess will be moving back in.”
Stolas snaps his fingers and opens a portal to the hospital.