Sail Away With Me (Rory McCann)

Forgive

"What do you mean I've been pit with the Belfast unit?" Tori snapped at Toby after their morning meeting.

"I know, I know, but there was nothing I could do. The producers higher up set the teams. They need you in Belfast, you've been working with them last season and they don't want to throw out the flow".

"And Rory?"

"Like I said, I know. I don't know if he knows yet, maybe you could try tall with him again. Smooth things out before shooting starts in a few days".

"Right, sure I'll just go smooth things out with the one person who hates me most in the entire world" she scoffed and stormed out of the building to get some fresh air.

When she reached the exit, she stood by the railings, her hands clinging onto the cold metal as she closed her eyes and tried to meditate her breath back to a normal rate.

"You look like I feel. Drink too much as well last night?" Liam, who played Davos, chuckled as he appeared behind me with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

"I wish. No, I've just been told I'm working with you guys on the Belfast unit".

"Ah come on, we weren't that bad last season were we?"

Tori opened her eyes and smiled softly as she turned around to face him. "No, but a certain someone might not be too happy with having me so close. I think we were both hoping I'd be sent with the Croatia unit".

"Ah, yeah I can see your problem here. You guys didn't seem to friendly last night either. Hey, want me to talk to him? Maybe I can get him to cool down a bit, make him see there's nothing either of you can do about it".

"You can try, he's still pretty cold and angry, justly so, but I'm not sure there's anyway we could bring him back from that. It has to be something he does in his own time" she shrugged.

"And it starts with him facing it though, and learning to forgive you".

"Forgive? Hell, I'm not.even sure I've forgiven myself".

"Well, maybe nows the time to start focusing on that" he smiled and with one last drag on his cigarette he walked back inside the building behind us.

The next few days were spent planning and packing for the trip to their first film location. Tori was almost thankful when she heard Rory's scences would not start for another three weeks, which would give her enough time to get back into the rytheme of work. Those three weeks seemed to fly by in a fast blurry though, and before she even knew it, it was the night before Rory was due on set.

"Well hello stranger" Richard, who played Beric, announced that night as she sat in a local pub with Kit and Liam.

"Richard" Tori smiled and stood up to hug him.

"How you doing treacle?"

"Ah, over worked and underpaid, but much better now I've seen you".

"You always did know how to put a nice on this old mans face".

After some food and a several pints of cider, Tori decided to call it a night a made the short walk from the pub to the trailer she was sharing with a few other crew members. She had an early call tomorrow, but it wasnt the time that bothered her, it was who she was waking up for.

The next morning as her alarm went off at 3am, Tori left out a long groan and slammed her hand down on her phone to stop the annoying alarm. With another deep sigh, she finally stretched out her arms and legs before crawling out of bed to start the day she had been dreading for weeks.

By 4am, she was in the make up trailer, setting up her station as she waited for her first cast member of the day, one Rory McCann. In a panicked call to Toby last night, she had assured her that Rory knew she would be here and just wanted to get on with doing his job. Whether this would be true when they were both alone in a trailer, she had no idea.

The set up for filming was she would do a lot of the start up works getting the actual prosthetics and hair on. The more junior members of the team would then go off to the two different filming locations (all within a few miles from their base) to do touch ups on set. Tori had been told she would need to travel with the crew who were filming Rorys scences though as she had the most experience with his setup. So when the door to the trailer finally opened and he walked inside, she readied herself for a day of uncomfortable silence.

"Morning" she spoke with a struggled smile as he headed straight for the chair and pulled out his book.

He never replied to her small gesture, and stayed in brooding silence as she began to prime his face.

"Are you nervous about your first day back?" She asked after half an hour, unable to deal with the silence much longer.

"Can we not" he grunted without looking up to her.

"Not what?"

"Make this stupid fucking small talk like were just some work acquaintances".

"Silience it is then" she mumbled and went back to work.

Another half hour past in silience as she moved around him, finally finishing up the prosthetics and getting ready to do the make up. To this bit she had to face Rory, and he seemed to remember as he turned his chair to the side. Nervously, she nodded a thank you, and went about dusting his face with fake dirt.

"I know you don't want to talk, but I am going to thank you. You are one of the main stars of the show, you could have got me kicked off if you really wanted to, so yeah, thanks".

"Who said I didn't try" he grunted.

Tori's patience had officially been tested now and she scoffed loudly and slammed her brush down on the side. "Are you fucking for real right now?"

"Fine, I didn't. Don't mean I didn't think about it though".

"You really hate me that much? Can you not see or understand that I was going through pain as well. Yeah, i fucked up and ran away from it, but it's been years, can you not now looking back at it all understand how my mind was working, can you seriously not forgive me?"

"I don't need to forgive you. Like you said back then, if you hadn't got knocked up we wouldn't have got back together anyway. It was just a few months of shit. I'm over it and fucking indifferent about you. Jm just here to work, I don't need to go forgiving or making friends just to make your guilt go away" he spoke  this time his voice louder than before.

"Fucking prick" she hissed under her breath and picked her brush back up.

"Yeah well, I could have told you that years ago baby".

After another hour, he was finally done and stormed out of the trailer without another word to Tori. When the door slammed behind him, she finally dropped to her knees and began to sob. She had never imagining him being so cruel or cold. Of course, she knew he was a grumpy bastard, but never this.

Her moment of despair was interupted when the next cast member came in for their make up.

"Shit, Tori are you okay?" Sophie called out as she saw her sat on the floor.

Quickly, Tori jumped up to her feet and aggressively wiped the tears from her face. "I'm fine, everything is fine... just perfect".

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