Nori — Family dinner (and Dominic)

[nola_sirius]

Dominic wanted to make a good impression. He tied his long hair back into a neat bun and wore a collared shirt and not even a hint of eyeliner. He came to the purple house with strawberries dipped in chocolate and a genuine sense of enthusiasm for meeting this wild, wonderful family. He was going to, he hoped, make a good impression. And he was going to hold Gavin’s hand under the table.

After dinner, when things were more relaxed, Dominic finally had a chance to talk to everyone one on one — and he caught Nori’s eye. He didn’t have a read on Nori yet, but he suspected they might understand each other a little bit. “Hey, Nori,” he said easily, comfortably. “You look like you’ve been sizing me up.”

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[nola_sirius]

Dominic heard the affection and noted it with pleasure. It was nice to see, or hear, something about a person’s feelings, he thought. “I do well with nerds. Always have. Not sure why.” Well, he did know why: he was a relatively decent person underneath the partying and cool posturing. “You tend bar, right?”

[nola_faith]

"I don't, and the universe finds that hilarious," Nori noted wryly. None of them were people she'd be close to if she didn't have anything tying her to them. Well, maybe Maggie, but only in small doses. But there they were anyway. "Yeah. The bar I usually work at has a lower than usual number of douchebags, even, so I only have to poison two, three people a night."

[nola_sirius]

“Those are great odds. I was a bartender for like, six months, and it was not, let’s say, something I was suited for.” Turned out Dominic was better at drinking than serving drinks. “I may have poisoned people accidentally.”