Gem assumed that false was doing the same thing she was. Empires was just a game to her after all.

E!false, having remembered little bits of her past, became more and more possessive over hc!false. E!false still had her original clothes and had come up with a plan. Of course, there were still differences but they were hidden enough that not many people would know the difference.

Katherine and gem were meeting up in glimmer grove in the evening. E!false met up with katherine an hour before that, pretending to be hc!false and flirting with katherine. It ended in a kiss, just outside the museum. (E!false was slightly annoyed that she had to do it, but as long as she got hc!false in the end it was worth it)

Gem was looking for katherine as it happened and saw it. Needless to say, she was crushed and left without meeting with katherine.

E!false went home and changed back, hiding the clothes again

Gem and hc!false did break up. Gem wouldn't listen to a panicking hc!false who was trying to explain that she didn't do that.

When the hermits got to Empires, Gem immediately knew she screwed up and E! False knew she had Hc! False ensnared in her trap.

E! False pretended to not notice Hc! False stalking around Cogsmeade, pretended to not notice how Gem stared at her and how she scrambled to apologize to Hc! False who didn’t want to listen to a word Gem had said.

And then she planned, she had to fully separate Hc! False from the hermits, the ones who will get in the way of their love. E! False paid Sausage to mess with Hc! False, while she tracked down the “safe” room Hc! False had made.

She waited hidden, was wearing her gas mask, as Hc! False had walked back and had laid down on her bed, just as Hc! False was on the verge of sleep, she struck.

E! False had moved quick, grabbing Hc! False’s wrists, as she straddled Hc! False’s lap, keeping her pinned to the bed, she carefully moved her hands so she can, throw her narcotic potion that would make Hc! False drowsy and paralyzed, to where E! False can move Hc! False to the room she made specifically for her Darling.

The potion took affect quickly the widened eyes become half-slitted with sleep, her body relaxes and she watches as minuscule panic from being unable to move, drain away, the only emotion that Hc! False would be able to show is a sleepy version of peace, one that allows E! False to do whatever she wants to her.