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********* had set up this whole thing. Apparently the cat had finally located Sailor Victoria. She sent Ellie a vague text message stating "Found Victoria. Sending to your house to meet you tomorrow at 3pm."

Seeing as the tomboy was more or less stuck at home, it didn't make a difference to her that this new girl was going to show up at her place. It was easier, since the blonde was still trying to get herself and Aque used to being around each other. The dog had practically been her shadow since she got him. He was crated before, so in the evenings, he was pretty good. Yet if she needed to go somewhere during the day, he began to cry very loudly. In the vague amount of research she had done about separation anxiety, she had found that one of the things she needed to do whenever she got home was not make a big deal about all of the adoration the dog gave her.

Which was very difficult for her, since she LOVED dogs.

The tomboy found herself sitting on the couch downstairs playing a game of tug-of-war with a rope toy she had gotten as a gift from Hank for Aque. However, before there was even a sound of a knock or a doorbell, the dog's ears perked up and the fluffy mess abandoned the game to go to the front door. He began to bark, letting the blonde know someone was there.

"Yer a loudmouth, Aque," she said with a chuckle as she got herself up and moving towards the door. Soon enough she was swinging the door open with her good hand.

"..."

What was behind that door was not what she expected.

Cue laughter.

Aque didn't get it. He just stood to his person and barked at the newcomer cluelessly. It wasn't a protective bark, but more of a curious one.

"REALLY?!! OH MY F*CKIN' LORD YA GOTTA BE KIDDIN' ME!!!" Victoria was a guy! She thought that Parthenope had it bad, but at least Parthenope wasn't a girly as hell name as a senshi. Victoria was ridiculously girly, and though this guy had somewhat long hair, he most certainly was not a girl.

"F*CK... I CAN'T BREATHE..." Heavily she leaned against the edge of the door, trying to hold herself up. She was still laughing way too hard to actually say for him to come in, but she used her good arm to haphazardly signal for him to enter. Once he was in, she shoved the door shut, then made her way back to the living room.

The mostly gray dog wasn't about to be left at the door, and quite quickly forced his way to being next to the girl's side as she made her way to the couch. Though Ellie knew she was going to have company, she wasn't the sort to clean. So the living room was just as messy as it usually was, with stacks of magazines and papers on the nearby table.

"...oh god..." she coughed out before adding "Um... sit wherever ya want, Vicky..."

Insert more laughter here.

Eventually Ellie managed to turn off her laughter, though she would keep looking at this guy with a hint of amusement in her eyes. "Well, ya probably shouldn't go by any of that when yer like this in all honesty... what was yer name again?" All the tomboy could remember was the fact she had called him an insulting curse word. It had been hilarious at the time, but it didn't do her any good now that she wanted to know his real name.

The dog was busy trying to shove his face into Ellie's lap, demanding attention. Lazily with her good hand, she flopped his ears slightly between her fingers. "Jus' got'im..." she mentioned off hand, though it wasn't like this guy would need to know the whole story.

As he asked about her secret identity, the tomboy glanced away, as if she was trying to make certain it was safe to answer. It obviously was, since her parents weren't home and she didn't exactly leave windows open about the house so the nosy neighbors could listen in. "I have been known t'go by that... but not recently. Cat took away my pen."

It was a fact, she was a senshi, but she was also grounded. Which made sense considering the large bulky cast she wore.

"Feliks." Now was not the time to make fun of his name. Her hand abandoned the dog's ear (which Aque seemed to sulk about with two mismatched puppy eyes on the girl's face) and was thrust out in the boy's direction.

"I go by Ellie... Ellie Spectre." It was good that her right hand was the uninjured one, for it meant her first impression handshakes would still be as strong as always.

Once that matter had been taken care of, she glanced to the cast. "Um... no sh*t because of th'cast... I'm pretty sure this would disappear if I tried t'transform... and considering how f*cked up my shoulder and arm are... probably best not t'change." Her comment about the cast just disappearing might have seemed strange, but after Iris had been carting a cat about like she had been and saw the cast disappear off of the cat whenever she changed to her other form.

Rather than linger on the subject of the cast itself, the tomboy tried a subject change. "So... did th'cat have like... a heart attack when she found ya? Ya know ya are the last one of the team that needed t'be found, right?"

Face, meet the palm of Ellie's hand.

"...dude... figure of speech..." With a heavy sigh, she lifted her head from her palm with an uttered "...whatever..."

Doggy eyes were still trying to demand some attention, and though the blonde's gold eyes didn't look to Aque, she began to pet him again, which caused him to calm down slightly. "So... what exactly is it ya do as Victoria? What are yer powers?"

"That's useful." It was a simple assessment, but it got the point across. He had a decent power. It wasn't quite like Eunomia's somewhat lame ability that she didn't even understand yet.

However, the moment the word tactician escaped the boy's mouth, Ellie's brow seemed to fall slightly. "Ummm... right... I forgot yer a nerd..." Her gold eyes were on the boy's face. "Seriously... who th'hell calls themselves a tactician like... outta nowhere?" She shook her head, then stood herself up.

The dog let out a small grunting noise as his head was moved from his cozy place. For a moment the dog gave the boy a passing glance. It was perhaps the first time the dog looked at someone other than Ellie. Yet as the girl began to walk towards the stairs, the dog quickly began to follow her as well.

"Stay there, Feliks..." she warned the practical stranger. Last thing she needed was some guy she didn't really know go to her bedroom. "...if yer such a good planner... then I've got somethin' fer ya t'look at." With that, she vanished up the stairs, leaving the boy alone for a bit.

Unfortunately, most of the magazines on the table belonged to her parents. She usually didn't leave her stuff downstairs. There was a stack of various old cartoon DVDs in a rack. The signs of family pictures were greatly lacking, but that mostly had to do with how messy the house was.

The sound of her steps went up the stairs, there was a pause as she began to sort through her things in her room, and then she began to head down the stairs again. The whole time the dog was pretty much at her heels.

Once she was back to the living room, she had a set of index cards in her hand.

As she made her way back to the couch, the tomboy asked in passing "So how much did the cat actually tell ya 'bout th'team?"

Thanks to a certain cat, a certain team captain had all of the team member names memorized. Quite easily, she began to list the names.

"Iris, Metis, Parthenope, Irene, Hygiea, Egeria, Eunomia and Victoria." She sat her rump down and the dog already had set his head in her lap, expecting petting right off the bat. Unfortunately, Ellie had to put the cards down before she could tend to Aque's needs.

"...me and Metis were th' first ones t'be found by th'cat. Even back then, th'cat knew all of th'names and insisted that we were all her girls. Her team." ********* was pushy about certain things, and it was usually anything related to the team.

"Of course, we noticed that the cat got it wrong when the next one t'show up was Parthenope... who is very much a dude." A half smile managed to find a place on the girl's face. Yes, Feliks wasn't the first one to be mis-gendered.