Hey, I really enjoy your writing, it's unbelievably good. What I lack a lot is Victoria and Michael fluff. Idk sth where Victoria is upset because aof a problem maybe at her workplace and Michael calms her down (we all know he can solve problems)
Thank you so much!! 🥺🙏🏻 Yessss, we need all the Victoria and Michael fluff! I’m all about their casual intimacy and time spent together! That includes all the love and support for Victoria's career. 🤗💖
“I thought I’d find you here.” You hear Michael’s velvety voice speak out by the doorway to the study.
“I’m sorry, baby.” You pout, looking up from your stack of paperwork over your desk. “Everytime I think I’m finished up, there’s just something else. I don’t even want to spend another minute over this but…”
“It’s about that case against one of the family’s Ricci family’s caporegimes?” Michael raises a brow, approaching you.
“Yeah, that one.” You rub your temples tenderly before pushing aside the documents and paperwork. “There’s just nothing I can do. It’s not like there’s a legal loophole, and none of my colleagues know what’s going on either. The judge is bought off, he has to be.”
“I’m not surprised.” Michael comments, wrapping his arms around your waist from behind and embracing you lovingly. “A button-man isn’t worth the trouble but one of their top caporegimes having their reputation smeared with criminal charges changes everything.”
“I assume it’d be the same for Clemenza and Frankie?” You blush, placing your hands over top of Michael’s.
“Somewhat.” Michael agrees, eyeing the papers upon the table. “Only that the Ricci family lacks the manpower to silence witnesses permanently.”
“I saw this one coming.” You groan out of annoyance, “and because I’ve dealt with the Ricci family in a case before, this has become my responsibility but what am I to do if the judge is bought off?”
“Will there be a preliminary hearing?” Michael squeezes your hips gently.
“Yeah,” you roll your eyes, “the capo’s attorney is rather insistent on it. At this point…” You nibble on your bottom lip nervously. “There’s a high chance this could get out control and become a media frenzy issue. I don’t want or need the attention on me before people start putting two and two together.”
“You give Tom a run for his money with your legal work, Victoria.” Michael takes your hand, gently turning you to face him. “Relax, darling. You’re better than taking on any petty case from crime families. You have the prestige and experience to do anything you wish. Why do you limit your career to this?”
Your eyes widen a little at the bitter realization you needed to hear. “Because… Because before you and I met, I was under the impression my father was going to make me his consigliere.”
Michael’s eyes light up with interest. “A consigliere? Interesting.”
“How could I live up to the standards of one during times of rivalry and war if I couldn’t use the judges, juries, and police force under my father’s payroll to eliminate his enemies. It’s what I’ve always done.” You explain to him, “what I’ve always known and been good at. It’s a type of power no others can say they have.”
Michael laces both hands with you. “What meaning does corruption have if you don’t have it to your advantage? The courtroom is your own playing field. If the judge is bought, that means nothing. You will press for a trial by jury and even go to the media if you have to until the pressure breaks through, and then you’ll find that even this judge in Ricci’s payroll won’t realize the jury will agree with your every word.”
“You’re suggesting…?” The idea of buying off a perfectly selected jury seems difficult, if not impossible to do.
“I am.” Michael nods. “And leave it to me and Tom. We’ll take care of it.”
“But—”
“Just like you said, sweetheart,” Michael pulls you in closer against his body. “All of this is being done for a media frenzy and I don’t want you in the middle of it. That’s what Alphonse wants—what he craves. This is his way of getting back at you for sentencing his brother. It won’t work, and he’ll find out the hard way.”
Blushing, you nod up at Michael and calm yourself. “You're right.”
“However, you would have made a hell of a consigliere, darling.” Michael caresses your cheek, “what made you change your mind?”
“Because the Corleone family already has a consigliere, of course." You say back as Michael listens to you with intrigue, of course only considering you a Corleone and not a Ferrari since the day you two married. “I know who I am and what role I have in our family at the end of the day."
"They've never seen you coming, and they fear you." Michael replies, "that will never change."
My toxic trait is acting like it’s been forever since I watched an Al Pacino film even if the last time I watched one of his movies was less than 24 hours ago.
Cate Blanchett and family attend The Ghostlight Project to light a light and make a pledge to stand for and protect the values of inclusion, participation, and compassion for everyone. January 19th, 2017.
