2 months later
"I can't do this" mumbles Tori as she tries to stand up
"you haven't been able to eat solid food for a month Tori, what can't you do" asks Robbie sincerely
"I can't feel my legs, why can't I feel MY legs" cries Tori as she falls back on the bed feeling hopeless
"could it be the meds" asks Robbie
"it's possible yes, they had a problem filling her prescription for three dang weeks, her body no longer recognizes the medication, I'm going to cut her medication into quarters and she can take a quarter every few hours, Robbie how are her legs thermally" says Cally as she cuts up Tori's meds
"freezing by the look of it, yup ice cold" says Robbie as he checks the camera and touches Tori's legs to be sure
"take off her pants and wrap her in a heating blanket, I'd hate to tell her we have to amputate" says Carly as Robbie complies and Tori whimpers
"why did you need to take my pants off" asks Tori
"they act as an insulating barrier, if blood flow isn't happening because your legs are frozen you could loose them now shhhh" says Carly as Cat comes back from her final therapy appointment
"HI HI" says Cat
"peppy today are we" asks Jade
"I finished therapy, no meds required, apparently Joey trapped me in fear of loving my friends, I hadn't thought of it that way till my therapist brought it up, I'm doing a lot better, how's the situation here" says Cat
"Tori's doing better but not great, she could need amputation of one or both of her legs" says Carly
"maybe her heart is still too weak, maybe she needs a transplant" asks Cat
"not in this case Cat, if anything her heart is stronger than it has been in the past three years" says Jade
"so what's wrong then" asks Cat scared
"it's possible the full strength of her meds which used to be fine, now that it's been three weeks since her body had them in her system, it's possible its causing blood toxicity causing her arteries in her legs to clamp shut to attempt to save them, unfortunately its going the other way, her legs according to Robbie's thermal camera are ice cold which is bad" says Carly
"was it set for her skin tone because I know when he used it on me last week after the pool became a cooler it was off by quite a bit" says Cat
"to be fair Cat your skin is very very light, to a thermal camera it's like a mirror and makes it hard to find any heat information as your skin generally reflects it" says Robbie
"hey its not my fault I don't tan that well, in my opinion Tori tans maybe a little too easily, no offense Tor" says Cat
"none taken, I'm not fond of it myself" says Tori
"soooo Robbie, have you and Jade… you know…. done IT yet" asks Cat
"no, while we have talked about it Jade and I agreed to wait till Tori was better, that it would feel wrong to use her current situation to have fun, as a rule our relationships with Tori, Julia and Anne should come first, Jade had her first make-out with Anne this morning, I must say Jade is still glowing from it and its been hours" says Robbie
"Anne must be an amazing kisser" says Cat
"I mean it's still Tori's lips and body I'm touching but I must admit Anne had quite the drive when it comes to kissing me, barely beating out Tori's but not by much" says Jade
"figures, Anne is aggressive in everything she does, I was honestly starting to miss her vulgar interruptions during breakfast and dinner, Trina says Anne whines about being stuck in my body" says Tori
"sounds accurate to me, though she admitted having my lips be part hers made it livable, that she'd be willing to de-escalate her anger and mood if it means she can have more experiences with me" says Jade as David walks in
"you know what I find interesting girls and Robbie, nobody has EVER tried to negotiate with Julia and Anne, not once, in fact we were told not to, that they were nothing more than trauma, she was born with Julia by her side, Anne is the express result of trauma, however she is distinct in her own way" says David
"that would explain why Julia and Tori are so much alike, was it hard to tell them apart, like was it hard to notice when Tori became Julia or Julia became Tori" asks Cat as Tori falls asleep cuddling Jade
"yes and no, Trina was better at noticing the switch better than Holly and I were, Trina would always say look at her eyes, it shocked me that Julia has a speckle in her right eye and Tori doesn't, not in the same eye anyway, it's crazy but true, then she started wearing colored contact lenses to hide it" says David
"Robbie temperature check, she just fell asleep" says Carly as Robbie takes off the heated blanket and waits
"wait her legs were cold weren't they" asks David
"yes, I'm wrong about why though aren't I" asks Carly
"yes but to be fair she is sensitive to some medication so it was a good thought and you should definitely still slowly reintroduce her to the meds dose wise, she has the body of a runner, she's not the athlete type, think of her muscles like you would a lizard and a heat lamp" says David as it clicks for Cat
"oh I get it, she has that muscle condition that is affected by temperature, she likes our room to be cold but her body can't take it" says Cat
"exactly, being forced to lay in bed for nearly two months with only trips to the bathroom as a means of generating body heat her body's mean temperature plummets, causing her arms and legs, toes and fingers to freeze to keep the rest of her body warm" says David
"why hasn't this been a problem before now, it's not in her medical" asks Carly
"it was a specialist who got meds to block the signal for rationing heat, it's the brown pill, it's not covered by insurance so they refused to put it in her medical record, stupid I know but our insurance company sucks and I can't afford a better one yet myself" says David
"well she's on MY medical insurance now and I made sure they covered all her meds, I made a call and listed them all off and they said yes to every one, even the brown one, Jade and Robbie can go on it soon too, they call the relationship situation a system compromise relationship and they have no logistical problems with covering anyone in said relationship, they have amazing rates, I can give them a call and ask them if they'd cover you Mr. Vega" says Cat
"for the last time my name is David" says David
"I know, I just don't feel comfortable using your first name, first names are a personal thing and I don't feel it's right for me to do so right now, technically you're renting a room from me so I have to be formal" says Cat
"ok that does makes sense, will this mental evaluation process Carly is doing make her lose her job" asks David
"no it won't, as far as the UN environment council cares she's stable, their only disqualifying criteria would be things like schizophrenia and mental issues like that, I had informed them she has Dissociative Identity disorder and they said that as long as it doesn't interfere with her job it doesn't matter, that they agreed to be an equal opportunity employer and that as long as she could do the job they wouldn't let her go" says Carly
"I'm glad, I like seeing her make her own money, it gives her a sense of worth, especially when it comes to relationships, she hates feeling like she's dependent on the other person for food also she likes to be able to buy gifts at random for those she loves, Tori and Julia are both like that, Anne is a bit different, it's hard to pin down what she would do in a relationship because she's been solely opposed to it since forever" says David as Tori nuzzles Jade in her sleep
"Anne actually came up with a great idea for keeping track of how often and when they transition between one another, this whole house has cameras, she just has to walk up to whichever she chooses that month and put either one, two or three fingers on the back of her head so the camera can see who out of the three of them is active" says Jade nuzzling Tori back
"sounds like a Trina plan to me" says David
"great so I'm dating Trina in Tori's body, could you not have given me that mental image David" asks Jade
"sorry about that but seriously Trina is loyal as hell, sure she can be annoying and obnoxious but seriously when push came to shove with supporting Tori you bet your ass she put me in my place, Anne has been completely misunderstood since she formed as a part of Tori's system, Holly couldn't stand Anne being so angry all the time" says David
"speaking of Trina where is she, the agreement was you and Trina live here" says Cat upset
"Trina doesn't feel she has the right to barge into Tori's new life like that, she understands just how bad Tori has it and she still has attention entitlement issues, also she hasn't come to grips with the fact she's gay and the young lady she has feelings for hates her guts, she feels that after all the pain she put Tori through she needs to suffer to repent for it" says David
"that's nuts, Tori has been asking for her for the past week, so they can resume being sisters who trust each other, she refuses to believe Trina isn't here" says Cat
"in that case I'll let Trina know that Tori expects her to be here and that it's not optional" says David as he texts Trina
"don't make it seem like she's being forced" says Cat
"but Tori IS forcing her, that's the point, by refusing to believe her sister isn't here she's saying 'if she's not here then she hates me', trust me that's the last thing Trina wants Tori to think, don't forget the fact that Trina and Tori have a bond beyond most sisters, not sexual obviously but they're close enough that I never had a chance to talk to Tori about the birds and the bees before she ran off to university, the only education she got on the matter was health class and to be honest it doesn't go far enough when it comes to consent, Trina had to learn about consent the hard way, her ex beat her to hell when she told him she wasn't feeling up for love making, Holly and I never could agree on when it was the right age to talk about consent and sex with Trina or Tori, Holly died before she could have a heart to heart about it with Tori" says David
"Anne speaks very highly of Holly actually, Anne is basically a mini Holly from my point of view" says Jade
"that's a surprise to me considering how at odds they always were" says David
"ya to be honest in my opinion it's just her realizing how much Holly really cared about her as she had not been aware Holly had passed away till I informed her as such" says Jade
"oh wow, I mean I knew she retreated to the dark corners of Tori's mind but I thought for sure she knew" says David
