Sail Away With Me (Rory McCann)

You Can Leave Your Hat On

"Hello, earth of Tori".

Tori had been watching Rory practice a fighting scene with one of the stunt performers when Toby suddenly appeared at her side.

"Oh hey" she yawned sleepily.

Today was another on-location shoot, this time they had ventured even further north in order to have the right landscape, which had meant the actors and crew were forced to sleep in the trailers and RVs. 

"I'm just getting numbers together for the halfway party?"

"The what?" she asked, finally giving him her full attention.

"The halfway party. We do it every season. Meet up with the other two crews in Santander, Spain for a little party. We get two weeks off in full, gives the editors and producers time to figure out where we are and plan the second stage. Some folk head back to there families, but most show for the party. You down?"

"Don't see why not" she smiled. 

"Sweet and one last thing, it's my birthday tonight so there is a little party going on in the make-up cabins, just our department. See you there?"

"Of course".

Later that day, Tori was removing Rory's make up as Michelle sat next to him and waited her turn. "I suppose you are at this exclusive make-up department party tonight?" she asked.

"Yeah, Toby only mentioned it earlier on, it's his birthday or something" she shrugged back. 

"Poor bugger" Rory scoffed.

"Oh yeah, why's that?" Tori asked back with questioning eyes. 

"Come on, you know he's got those puppy dog eyes for you".

Tori instantly broke into a burst of mad laughter and snorted loudly. "You're joking me right".

Rory just shrugged his shoulders and stood up to leave. When it was only the two women left, Tori moved on to removing the hair pieces as she thought about what Rory had said.

"I don't think dear Toby is the only one with puppy love" Michelle announced after several moments in silence. 

"He's old enough to be my dad" Tori replied with a heavy sigh. 

Later that night, filming had officially ended for the day and both the cast and crew had gone off to their own trailers or RVs. Inside the make-up tent though the music was blasting and several bottles of tequila were being passed around the room.

"Come on, last time you had an actual descent shag?" Emily, one of the hair stylist asked Tori as they sat with Toby and another guy called Paul.

"Descent, fuck that's a tough one. Last shag was... erg... about 7 months ago".

They all knocked back another round of tequila shots and took turns in asking questions. 

"If you could choose one person to fuck in this room right now, who would it be?" Paul asked Toby.

"Apart from you of course... I'd say... Tori" he replied in a totally calm manner.

"What?!" she laughed, almost choking on her drink as the sound of her name.

"Yeah, I mean... if I had to choose" he shrugged.

The group continued to drink into the early hours of the morning when finally Tori announced she had had enough and was going head back to the trailer. Toby had instantly stood up with her and said he would walk her back. She had been dreading that, but nodded politely and followed him out and then across their little trailer village.

"You wanna invite me in for a drink?"

"Toby we're sharing a trailer. Your room is across from mine" she laughed and opened the door to let them in.

Once inside, she quickly headed to the bathroom to brush her teeth and change into her PJs when she heard music playing from outside the door.

Confused, Tori slowly opened the door to the bathroom and found Toby in the seating room, slowly stripping to the music as Tom Jones, You Can Leave Your Hat On played in the background. 

"What the fuck" Tori announced each word separately as her mouth hit the ground.

"You can leaveeee you hatttt on" Toby started to sing as he tried to pull off his jeans and almost fell back into the counter.

"Please stop".

"OOOOhhhhh, I know what love is oooohoooohoooo" he continued as he threw a sock in her direction.

Still, in complete shock, Tori quickly moved to the speakers and turned them off before he could take off any more clothes. As soon as the music stopped, Toby seemed to finally hear her and quickly stopped hopping on one foot as he had tried to remove the other sock. 

"Toby, I'm going to leave now. Drink some water and go to bed. Okay?" Tori asked him wide eyed.

Toby just nodded silently at her and didn't say another word as she quickly stepped out of the small trailer and back into the freezing cold night. Once outside she had no idea where to go , but standing in the dark in just some small sleep shorts and a tank top was not going to work out well. Quickly, she knew exactly whose door she could knock on at 3 am in the morning whilst slightly drunk and inappropriately dressed.