Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious or else it would have another season.


Twenties Have Never Been so Fun


Prologue

The man walked into his house, a depressing type of silence following after him. Behind him his hired hand Melissa walked in closing the door and guiding the man to the nearest couch. Both held sad looks on their faces and both were really afraid to break the silence. But it had to be done.

"Have you thought about what you're going to do?" The man doesn't answer. "I know you have no family but maybe you should have a will in place and have you thought about funeral arrangements?" Again the man had no answers. "Is there anything you want that will make the rest of your time comfortable? Anyone you want to see. You said you used to teach I'm sure you had favorite students or something. Suddenly the man looked up a smile on his tired face.

"Actually there are a few old students I would like to see." The smirk on his face was cause enough to give her pause, but she simply nodded, besides Melissa was long used to Sikowitz's crazy antics.


The moment Jade West walked into her house she headed straight for her bed. She had been up for 24 straight hours and in desperate need of sleep. Diving face first into her mattress she clothes her eyes and began to embrace sleep. Fortunately for her (sarcasm) the world seemed to hate her as her phone began to ring. She tried ignoring it but after the third ring cycle she realized it wouldn't stop.

"What?"

"Wow, someone sounds cranky."

"Rita, I'm serious. Either get to the point or hang up so I can sleep." While Rita was a great assistant she tended to be a little too peppy for Jade's liking.

"So, this woman named Melissa called and said that she's been helping this man named Sikowitz. She said he's your old teacher." There was a long pause

"Keep talking."

"Right, she says he's sick and he wishes to see you."

"She called because Sikowitz has a runny nose? Do me a favor and don't call me unless someone's dying."

"That's just it. She says he has terminal cancer, and that his dying wish is to see his favorite student Jade West." Jade felt her heart drop for a moment. Sikowitz was dying?

"Okay book me a flight for tomorrow morning to Hollywood. Tell no one." She didn't wait for Rita's answer and hung up immediately. For a moment she just sat thinking over the news she had heard. She hadn't seen Sikowitz in over 10 years, so she didn't know why the news made her so sad. Laying back down she eventually drifted off to sleep. A life she long left behind played in her head.

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Her flight left first thing in the morning and she was thankful the flight was so long. It gave her a chance to think more about the situation. She avoided Hollywood at almost all cost. Unless she was there shooting a movie or at an award show she stayed away. Everything about that place was just unwanted memories. She hadn't talked to her parents since the day she moved out and the same went with her old friends. She had left a girl with big dreams and she would return a woman who succeeded. She spent the rest of the flight catching up on sleep knowing she had a busy day ahead of her.

/

In hindsight she should've expected this. Nothing was ever really easy and simple when Sikowitz was involved and she shouldn't have expected it to be. The first clue came when she arrived at her hotel only to see it surrounded by paparazzi. She had told no one she was coming into town, and she appreciated her privacy. It was the reason she lived in a small town in Paris. The second hint came when she checked in and the counter guy mentioned something about a few other celebrity clients checking in unexpectantly. Still she had not really paid attention to the warning signs. Instead she went straight to her room for a quick change. Rita had sent her the address to Sikowitz's house and she hailed a cab there. It had just so happened that Sikowitz never moved out of his strange apartment. It gave her a sense of Déjà vu, and she could almost remember the last time she was here dressed like a cow girl. She had also been surrounded by people she had once called friends, and a small wave of nostalgia washed over her. Distance had a way of separating people.

When she knocked on the door a woman who she assumed was Melissa opened. "I'm Jade and I'm here to see Sikowitz." The third hint should've been the amusement in Melissa's eyes.

"Yes, right this way." Jade followed Melissa, while taking in the fact that Sikowitz's apartment still looked the same after all these years. She followed her all the way to a close door, and Jade expected to see a sick Sikowitz lying in bed, instead she saw five other people arguing.

"No I'm his favorite."

"Then why did my letter say I was his favorite?"

"You guys are both wrong I'm his favorite, his assistant told me so." As she said this, the girl pointed in the direction of Melissa, which meant in turn that all attention went to Jade. A simultaneous yelling of

"What are you doing here" and one "Jadey" (Cat obviously) rung through the room.

"I'm here visiting a dying Sikowitz's because I'm his favorite or so I was told." Her eyes went immediately to Sikowitz who was trying desperately to hide under his cover. "Do you want to explain yourself?" Said man peeked from under his cover before sitting up.

"Oh look the whole gang is back together." Jade noted how he sounded really tired and he had deep bags under his eyes.

"We want an explanation Sikowitz." Jade was surprised that even after all these years Tori's face could still make a surge of annoyance go through her body."

"Actually, kids it's time for your teacher to sleep, but maybe I could do some explaining." With that Melissa escorted them to the living room, before going back to do some last minute things with Sikowitz. Nobody spoke and the tension was thick. Of course it had been years since any of them had sat in a room together like this.

Yeah, if anyone had told her she'd be in a room with Tori Vega, Cat Valentine, Andre Harris, Robbie Shapiro, and Beck Oliver, she would've thought they were lying. But here she was and here they were. This was going to be a long trip.

AN: Okay guys as you can tell it's a future fic. It will be much happier than the summary sounds. Reviews are love.