Tori Metaxas

He nodded at her suggestion to get some Kool-Aid. “Maybe it wasn’t exactly spicy,” Atticus continued. “It had a weird spicy-like taste. You know, it could have been the artificial ingredients. Now that I think about it.” He frowned, stopping as Tori grabbed one of his items of the shelf. “Do you make dinner a lot?” Atticus asked her. “Or do you usually order out? Just wondering, since you’re mostly getting basic stuff.”

“The weirdest responses.” Jolene chuckled as she pushed herself off the floor and brushed her pants off, “It shouldn’t be but – seriously, they’re all so precious, how do you choose just one?” she asked as Sue hopped up onto her leg, basically trying to climb up her. “Laugh at them?” she chuckled as she bent down and picked up Sue, letting the ferret wiggle its way onto her shoulders. She could see how she would just… laugh at any ferret she had. They were so strange and goofy. The ferret bounced around before basically jumping off her and onto Tori. “I hate to take all your time –” she said smiling at Tori and Sue her words dropping off as Sue playfully nipped at her fingers and she scrunched up her nose making a face at the little ferret. 

Kassandra rolled her eyes at Tori, nudging her with her foot. “You’re officially now a pain in my ass it seems. But that’s completely fine because I plan on kicking your ass in this scrabble game and I for one do not plan on backing down from a–” The brunette stopped as soon as she watched a squirrel move in their general direction. Before the words ‘oh no’ could leave her mouth, she watched in horror as Nugget yipped in excitement at a potential friend and immediately began to chase after the squirrel. “Tori! Help!” Kass yelped in horror as she watched her puppy begin to sprint off after the squirrel. “Fuck, shit, fuck!” 

Anouk threw the cash on the counter. ❛ Sounds fun. ❜ To pay her bill, and all the drinks Tori had and stood up. ❛ Let’s go… ❜ She picked up her phone texting her driver that she’s leaving, and when she spots her limo on the entrance, entering inside of it, giving space for Tori to join her if she wants, warning her driver the location she’d go.

Kassandra felt triumphant as a few minutes went by where Tori looked positively stumped. ….Until she wasn’t. Mother fucker. “Feisty? Feisty? Really? I am not….” Kass trailed off, huffing for a moment before deflating. “Okay, fine. I am. But that’s just simply cheating. Somehow… Someway.” It really wasn’t but she was only slightly grumpy that she didn’t see that whole move coming. Pulling out four more tiles, she immediately frowned at her new additions. ‘SFTN’. The fuck was she supposed to do with those when her other letters were ‘CMI’. It was her turn to take up a long chunk of time, even going so far as to stand up and rotate around the board a few times before she grinned widely. Quickly she placed the tiles down, using the previously offending 'Y’ as part of her latest victory. “M-Y-S-T-I-C. Thanks for the help, Tori!”

“Nah, I don’t think you, Tor.” Kass smirked before re-focusing back on the board. Sure, she liked scrabble well enough but Life was always more fun to her. Or Clue. This was neither of those games, sadly. “So we really are doing wordplay. You intrigue me, Tori. So with the jig being up, why don’t you tell me how the Isle has been going under your oh so dutiful watch over it?” She pulled out two more tiles, blinking as she noticed the I and E. Great. More vowels. After several moments of hesitation, she used the ‘F’ from ‘GOOF’ and began to spell out ‘FEIST’. “I think that’s a word…”

Allie couldn’t stop her body from shaking as she laughed. The two had watched a fair few movies together, but this was really topping the list that she kept on the phone of the worst movies of all time. She looked up at Tori as the text came through to her phone, and raised her eyebrows at her. Oh yeah, I took them as different species! Didn’t you? Maybe it’s a twist, maybe they are the same thing - or perhaps they’re the big thing that fight each other at the end? She trapped back, a laughing emoji following shortly. Oh, they definitely beat Sharknado, but they’re not as good as that alien-mermaid thing we watched a few weeks back.

“Briar likes you. We’re friends, she likes you and trust you. Did I tell you that we told each other we loved each other? That was a huge step. Just after she called me old, you know!” He spoke, rambling off at Tori without even realising. “Wait, what? Oh, water! Mhmmm…” He mused before then shaking his head. “Nah, I don’t fancy any. Lets just go, hopefully the fresh air makes me feel better, and not worse.”

Tori couldn’t help but laugh a little at Finn’s excitement about Briar. It was sweet, okay? Really sweet. “Aww. I don’t think you told me that. Unless you told me today... No, I don’t think you did. But congratulations! I promise you that you’re not old,” she said, shaking her head. If Finn was old, then there was nothing good in store for Tori. There might still be nothing good in store for Tori if Finn refused the water, but she couldn’t force someone to do what they did not want to. “That bodes extremely well. We shouldn’t be outside for too long, though.” She gestured for him to follow her so that they could get out of this place.

“She just left the house – no idea where she’s gone to. I came back from dropping Feliks off at the airport and she was nowhere to be found.” He grumbled. “I mean, I’m happy if she’s getting out and about doing things, but after the whole thing with Zeus and Weston’s death – she’s been very off and not wanting to leave the library.” He explained resting his head on his hand as he sunk lower into her seat. “I just want to make sure she didn’t go out the main door today because we’ve moved four times since this mor-”

Kai furrowed his brow when she snapped at him. He pulled his head back and slowly raised one eyebrow. “Well that was uncalled for,” he said after a moment with a bit of a chuckle. His instincts turning more fatherly instead of an annoyed friend who could get mad at being told something like that. “What suddenly snapped your attention so far right you lost your senses?” he asked after another few moments of silence.

Tori was more distracted than anything else, glancing out of the corner of her eye to hear if there was anything else. She didn’t even remember who Kai was talking about anymore. His daughter? A cat? It could really be anything, but she was very far away mentally at the moment... Were cats allowed in the library? No, she didn’t have time for fun questions.

“Nothing. Nothing! Everything is fine. I wasn’t able to follow what you were saying anymore.” She felt really bad about the momentary lapse in judgment, but she was still more focused on trying to hear if there was anything else. Unfortunately, she couldn’t just say ‘someone’s talking about my little sister that doesn’t know I exist and I have to get all of my intel from eavesdropping and awkward questions’ without causing a huge disruption. “I’m sorry for being mean. It was getting to be a long story. Is everything okay with... your kid?” Tori was guessing here, and really hoping that this was not about a cat after all.

“Right?” Jolene said shaking her head as she picked up the ferret and pressed a kiss to its nose. “I guess we’re going to have to start asking around – just to see.” she chuckled leaning her head onto her hand, her fingers drumming on her cheek as she set it back down and watched it run around in circles. “Uh – God.” She let her head fall from her hand and rested it on the floor as Tori’s fur child ran around and played with her hair. The one creature she never minded touching her hair without asking. “Cinnamon, the little black ones that sorta look like pandas, Dalmatian, and the  black ones. But let’s be real, they’re all precious and I love them.”

Jane’s brows furrowed as she looked at Tori. She was confused by what she was saying. “The hospital does fix people but they didn’t have to fix me, which I think was confusing. Well, maybe teaching me new things is fixing me.” She hadn’t considered that. “I don’t know what a repair shop is or maintenance.” Jane was getting used to being very confused. “What’s snow? I really like the rain a lot.”

“Uh, I guess that is confusing. Is it like a powers thing why they didn’t have to fix you?” When something seemed impossible, Tori tended to assume it had to do with someone’s powers. Just about everyone on Icaria had weird superpowers, so she thought this was a valid response for most occasions. “Oh, have you never seen snow? Snow is rare down here, but it’s interesting to see. Snow is like rain, but if it was colder and more delicate. I don’t think I can do it justice to explain.” Tori thought it was definitely odd that someone did not know what snow was at all, but she thought it was rude to point that out. It was way easier to just explain, she figured, so that everyone was on the same page here.

Kass quickly pulled the 7 tiles she would be working with, immediately frowning as she looked at the hot mess that she’d pulled. CSMOGIT. The utter fucking hell was she going to do with that? “Yeah the most I can do is some weird British slang and uh… Some other things that might make something naughty depending on what you lay on the board.” Kassandra chuckled before raising an eyebrow and looking down at Nugget who was now laying belly up, passed out. “Nah, I taught him real quick to not eat anything that wasn’t his puppy food. Or a treat. Thankfully he’s a quick learner.” As she eyed the board, she bit her lip before pulling at some of her own tiles. With a chuckle, she placed her G and O tile down in front of Tori’s ‘OF’. “Goof. Totally a legit word.”

Anouk pondering for a second, rolled down her last glass of her alcoholic beverage. It’s not like she had anything else to do. ❛ What do you say, right now? If you haven’t finished your drink, I’ll wait, and then we leave to my place or yours. Whatever you want it to be. ❜

Watching Tori meticulously set up the scrabble board and the pieces was honestly quite adorable. The woman just seemed so at ease with everything while upholding a unique sense of charm. It was honestly quite refreshing. With a smile, Kassandra leaned forward, her elbow resting on her thigh as she let her palm cup her chin. An eyebrow raised as soon as Tori began to shuffle a tile back and forth between her hands. Once she was finished, she brought her hands back into view, fingers clenched into fists. “Left.” Kass didn’t care if she was right or wrong, first or last, this was already proving to be an interesting game of Scrabble.

Kassandra blinked slowly; Tori had to be utterly bullshitting her about this whole wind currents and piece placement. “I… We’re going to unpack that at a later date. But first–If you played in high-school and watch teams play then you’ve got some knowledge of sports.” The brunette smirked before sitting down where Tori had been, her puppy jumping into her lap immediately. “Alright, so… Wind patterned scrabble. I’m ready!”

Tori had a reputation for not staying employed, but the thing was, Ezra had to remember he had a reputation too, and it was a lot worse. He knew Tori was working hard and really trying to make a good impression, so maybe it was better not to judge a book by its cover. “If I’m being honest…” he answered her, “Me, too. Otherwise Noah or I could get the idea we need to fill it. And inventory day is the worst.” He wondered if she’d had to endure one of those yet. “It’s a lot more fun than stuffing flowers in a refrigerator, anyway.” And some part of him did want her to like her job, only so they didn’t have to go through the hiring process all over again. “Let me know if you have any issues, or need to find something.” Ezra turned to open another box, but not before hearing her last thing. “Hey, don’t thank me yet,” he looked over his shoulder. “We still have a full day.”

A snort escaped her, immediately wishing that she hadn’t just done that but it wasn’t like she could take it back. “You? Have an unfair advantage? Pffft that’s definitely not the case. Home turf typically means I would be the one with the unfair advantage.” She smirked, crossing her arms over chest as Nugget began to run in circles around their legs. “Am I beginning to get the sense that you’re not into sports?”