Helena: Who also happens to work for me.

Bette: Tina told me Veronica Bloom was directing there now?

Helena: Oh yes.  She is Hell on wheels, but very effective at her profession.

Bette: She and Tee do not get along at all.

Helena: I suppose we’ll have to work on that.  One of my assistants is on set keeping an eye on her so if there is any trouble…

Bette: She’ll give you a beep?  See, you’re learning to have eyes and ears everywhere as well.

Helena: It appears that’s how the game is played in Los Angeles.

Bette: It’s how it’s played in life, Miss Peabody.

Helena: Please, Bette for the hundredth time, you may call me Helena.

Bette smiles.

Bette: I know.  I just like to needle you a little.

Helena: Oh.

Helena looks down and adjusts the bottom of her skirt slightly, extending it out for a second before tucking it down slightly toward her right knee, crossed over her left leg.

Helena: Perhaps you like needling with your eyes as well?

As she looks back up at Bette, she sees Bette’s eyes go down then suddenly up to Helena’s face.  Helena stands, smiling and it causes Bette to stand up from her seat.  They stand across the desk with Helena leaning forward.

Helena: It’s nice to know you still look from time to time.

Bette: Helena…  This is why you and I aren’t friends anymore.

Helena: Is that what that was?

Bette: I’m warning you.  Keep this professional.

Helena: Darling, this is professional.  It’s provoking, like Provocations itself.

Bette grins.

Bette: Please leave my office.

Helena: It’s been good talking with you as well, Bette.

Bette offers a cold stare.

Bette: Call me Miss Porter.

Helena backs away with a smirk.

Helena: Miss Porter… Hm, I remember that one time you insisted I call you that-

Bette: Fuck you, Helena.  Go.  Now.

Helena continues with her smirk, raising her right eyebrow as she backs away.

Helena: As you wish, Miss Porter.

As Helena leaves the office, Bette has a flashback to a different time in her life.  It is a time that even now she has mixed emotions about remembering and trying to forget.  She likes having everything under control, but with Helena looking to become a more permanent fixture in Los Angeles, that control may become a little harder to come by.

It is the last thing Bette Porter needs.