A/N: Hi all ! I am knee -deep writing my Cabbie Hearts series as well as my Quogan Falling story when The Killer Tuna Jump arrived to us on Sam & Cat thus the appearances of Jade, Robbie, and Freddie kicked my ideas into overdrive . I have tried to purge the idea but I feel like Cat owes Robbie some truths and the only way that will happen is if I deal with it so here it is . I am also writing this within the Victorious world as I feel it will take the rest of the gang to help Cabbie deal with this debacle .

So enough rambling and onto the story, I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer ; I still don't own Sam & cat, Victorious or Icarly .

Robbie was hurt .

Her sweet , nerdy Robbie was hurt and Cat felt responsible for helping cause the horrible incident that had landed him and Freddie Benson in the hospital with hundreds of awful fish bites .

Cat twisted her hands together , worriedly , as she paced the waiting room of the hospital, thinking back on the horrible week that had led up to landing the boys here .

Sam had wanted to be alone with Freddie and even though she wanted to sit by Robbie, the redhead felt like she owed it to her friend , to give it to her .

If she hadn't gotten so jealous over Sam spending time and hanging out all of the time with Jade then none of this would have happened in the first place .

Why hadn't Sam and Jade just hated each other ?

It would have been easier if they had just wanted to murder each other but no, they were all best friends now and without her . Jade was her best friend , had always been .

Sam was her new friend . It had seemed like the practical thing to do , keeping them apart and keeping her life separate but obviously it had been just really, really bad .

Nona shouldn't have put the idea in her head about stealing friends .

Things had gotten a little too much out of hand with all of the friend stealing and the boyfriend stealing - too much stealing .

Cat wasn't sure what had gotten into her but she wasn't proud of her behavior -flirting with Sam's ex-boyfriend and acting like a gank . She wasn't a gank but with all her heavy flirting she should have just gone over to North Ridge and advertised her ganky ways .

She had been so wrong .

It had been Robbie and Freddie that had paid the price when they had gotten thrown in the tank with 1200 pounds of killer tuna fish from Kansas. And idly she wondered how she could make things right with Robbie .

He was looking forward to their date and she would make it just right for them .

" Cat ," called Tori Vega as she and Andre Harris rushed through the double doors of the waiting room to join her ," where is Robbie ? We just heard what happened ….why didn't anyone text us before the stupid jump ?"

Cat stared at her , confused . " What are you guys doing here ? "

Andre held up his pear phone for her to see ." How is Robbie ? Is he alright ? "

" How do you know he got hurt ?"

Andre and Tori shared baffled looks as they had expected Cat to be a hot mess freaking out over Robbie being hurt .

" Uh, Cat , " explained Tori, carefully," we heard that Robbie got hurt by tons of vicious man eating tuna . That did happen, right ?"

" Plus Jade posted the whole video on the Slap ," finished up Andre ," so we rushed over as fast as we could . Is Rob going to be alright ?"

Cat twirled a strand of hair, nervously, unable to meet Andre's gaze .

" Robbie got hurt all over and they have to make sure the bites don't get infected or anything ," says Cat, quietly ," but the doctor says that both Robbie and Freddie will heal .in a few weeks ."

" Oh, that's good ," Tori touched the redheads hand and noticed she was trembling ," how are you holding up, Cat ? You must be so worried about Robbie …I figured Jade would be here with you, keeping you company ."

Cat frowned and bit her lower lip, guilt and worry playing with her nerves and anxiety .

" It's all my fault that Robbie is hurt ! " She covered her face with her hands , distraught .

" I got carried away ! I made this mess , Tori ! It's all my fault ! "

Tori narrowed her eyes, suspiciously ." How exactly do you figure that, Cat ?"

Cat's lower lip trembled and she tried not to cry even though she really wanted to .

She had been no better than a North Ridge gank and she had known what she was doing had been wrong but she had been so angry she hadn't thought her behavior through at all .

" I did bad things , Tori "

Tori shared a puzzled look with Andre then urged Cat into a chair . " Why don't you tell me all about it, Cat, and maybe we can figure out what to do about it ."

" Kay kay " obliged Cat, picking at the pale pink of her nail polish ," it all really started when Sikowitz assigned me and Jade that project …"

Andre wasn't sure he wanted or needed to hear this and figured Tori would break it down for him later anyway . He had watched the video a few times already and figured that Robbie could probably use a friend about now .

" I'm going to go check on Robbie now "

He left the waiting room, found the room that his friend was sharing with the other guy who had also gotten fish bitten , and strode in, purposely .

A curvy looking blonde who was dressed in a pair of jeans and a tee shirt was sitting by the dude's bedside holding his hand and turned to stare at him .

" Hey "

This must be Sam Puckett, Cat's roommate, and the girl that Jade had been hanging out with this week . He had heard a bit about her from Beck while they were hanging out .

" Yeah " acknowledged Sam with a nod then turned back to focus on Freddie .

Andre nodded and slid behind the curtain that separated the two young men and found Robbie all bandaged up and looking worse for wear . He didn't have a lot of color in his face which made the bites on his face stand out even with the starkness of the bandages on his chin .

" Robbie , how are you doing ?"

Robbie sighed and managed a sad smile ." Andre, my buddy, my friend ," replied Robbie , the effects of the pain medication the doctors had given him earlier kicking in . He was feeling on the loopy side but it was reassuring to see his friend ," you wouldn't believe what happened to me ."

" You mean besides you almost being eaten alive by killer fish like in some freaky horror movie or something ?"

Robbie nodded , urging his friend to come closer . " I was used by a girl ," announced Robbie in a quiet voice so as not to disturb Sam and Freddie . He didn't trust that the blonde wouldn't hurt him as she gave off a similar toughness vibe very much like jade did ," Sam used me . I can mark that one off of the bucket list now ."

" I know I'm going to regret asking this ," said Andre but curiosity got the best of him ," but why would a girl you barely know want to use you ?"

" To make Cat mad because she was out cavorting and fadoodling with one Freddie Benson ! She offered herself right up to him ! Oh, and she has the nerve to get mad at me ! I'm the one who ought to be mad, Andre ! Me ! "

Now that he had time to think about her actions and her outbursts of earlier , Robbie felt an onslaught of emotions varying from the quick punch in the gut hurt right to angry .

Confusion was a given where Cat was concerned and he had gotten used to it but now that the week had settled he was feeling everything else , badly .

" Lil Red went after another dude in front of you ?" Andre wanted to make sure he was hearing correctly . That didn't seem like something Cat would do .

Robbie's expression was grave." Yuperdoo " He sighed , tired now ," Oh, and it gets better or worse ! You know the song I wrote for Cat ? "

" We all know the song, Robbie " Andre wasn't liking where this was going .

" I didn't even know that Cat was aware that I wrote it for her even though I sang it to her ! But you know what , she does and she has all this time ! It's been a long time ! "

Uh oh !

This was some bad chizz .

" How much pain meds they got you on, man ?"

Robbie held up two fingers in a gesture of how much then turned his head away, hurt .

" Little bit but all my hopes , my dreams of me and Cat, it's all been one big ole lie , Andre . I feel like such a fool …"

Andre patted his shoulder in sympathy ." Rob, that is probably the meds talking because lil Red is crazy about you ."

Robbie shook his head, depressed . " You weren't there , Andre, you didn't see . I'm wrong about a lot of things but not this …I've been wasting my time , fooling myself over my feelings about Cat when its all been a big lie ."

" I think you need to stop beating yourself up over this chizz and get some rest ," suggested Andre , helpfully ," things will look better in the morning ."

" I doubt it but thanks, Andre " said Robbie , closing his eyes and a vision of the beautiful , sweet redhead swam in front of his face making his heart hurt and who had him twisted up since day one .

He was suddenly so tired , tired of everything , tired of not knowing , tired of taking chances only to meet rejection and failure again and again .

Maybe it was finally time for him to stop everything and move on with his life .

Andre was contemplated Robbie's predicament as he made his way back to the waiting room and as he opened the door a canacophy of loud voices alerted him that Beck and Jade had now joined their little group and hoped it didn't get them kicked out of the hospital .

It looked as if Beck was reading his girlfriend the riot act , dang it .

" How could you have helped with this ? I know you enjoy seeing people in pain but Robbie is our friend and he is in the hospital " berated a disappointed Beck .

Jade folded her arms across her chest in defense ." Oh, come on, Beck, you weren't there ," answered Jade, blithely ," it was funny . Besides Robbie will be fine and I'm just mad that I missed out on Cat's big freak out over seeing Robbie with Sam ."

Cat jumped in the middle of the couple, alarmed and fixed Jade with a look.

" Jade, you told Sam about Robbie ? How could you do that to me ?"

" Oh,you had your flirt on big time with her ex-boyfriend , I couldn't resist evening the score " answered Jade , easily ," It was my idea for Sam to ask him about the song though ."

Cat hung her head , feeling pressure building behind her eyes along with the tears as she relived the events of the night before in her head in mortification .

It was true that she had gone all flirty and sexy with Freddie , not that he had noticed .

" It was my song ! "

" Wait ," Tori held up a hand and jumped into the mix ," I don't get why Robbie would want to sing that song to another girl even if you suggested it, Jade ."

A slow grin curved around her mouth ." To make Cat totally lose it and she did ."

Cat bit her lip, felt the familiar tug of hurt and swallowed the lump in her throat .

It had nearly killed her when she had walked in the apartment to find her Robbie singing her song to her roommate and he hadn't even looked sorry about it .

Now she was finding out that her best friend had helped Sam plan the whole thing .

It hurt, it really hurt .

" How could you take sides, Jade ? Don't you know how important that song is to me ? Robbie thinks I'm swell, not Sam ! Not other girls but me ! "

" Oh my chizz , you did get it ," Andre broke through the tension in the room and between the girls ," Robbie is pretty out of it in there and talking a lot of crazy but he did say that you got mad about his song . "

Beck flanked Andre's side in a show of support for their awkward nerdy friend .

Last year after Robbie had opened up to Cat about his feelings for her and had sang her the song he had written for her , her reaction had been the worse kind of rejection ever and had made him a wreck . They had spent hours talking him down from depression .

" Your song ," Beck was calm though irritation was on the surface in his tone and made Cat squirm under his hard gaze ," Cat, how long have you known it was for you ? It was oh over a year ago or so when Robbie sang it to you ."

" I know when he sang it to me , Beck ! I was there !"

" You couldn't have , I don't know, maybe told Robbie back then that you knew rather than bugging over another dude " finished up Andre for him .

" No, you don't understand about me and Robbie ," insisted Cat in her defense ," it isn't as simple as that ! "

" Guys , give Cat a break ," chimed in Tori who still felt bad for her part in the Blonde debacle last year ," she was heartbroken over Evan at the time ."

" Thanks, Tori " Cat was grateful for the help ," and you know the moment had kind of passed …between us ."

" Maybe but you know , Robbie's in love with you " added Jade , knowingly .

" JADE ! " glowered Cat, making a face at her . How could she think straight when all of her friends were ganging up on her and Robbie was hurt in a room down the hall ?

A girl needed time to figure out her feelings and what to do about them .

" We all know it ," finished Jade ," I thought this might help you deal with it ."

" Cat ," Sam poked her head in the door , took note of all of her roommates friends fighting and ignored them," sorry to interrupt your little shindig or whatever but I wanted to let you know that I'm gonna hang with Freddork for a while longer . You might grab a ride home from Jade …"

" Kay kay ," says Cat , understanding ," how is Freddie doing ?"

" About the same , I think ," said Sam ," I checked on your boy for you . Shapiro is sleeping like a baby which beats his stupid blubbering ."

" Robbie doesn't blubber ," muttered Cat, under her breath," but thanks, Sam."

Sam noticed the worry lines creasing the redheads forehead and though she wasn't like Carly and liked to meddle in other peoples love lives , she and Cat had kind of made a big hellava mess between them and their felllas .

" Sure ," said Sam ," you know, Cat, denial isn't just a river in Utah ."

Cat frowned, confused ." I don't understand ."

Jade , who had made a point of listening to them, moved to the other side of Cat .

" She means that you cant keep running away from your feelings for Robbie then get mad at him for being confused ," Jade pressed the point ," this one is on you, Cat ."

Cat was very afraid that they were right because Jade was always right .

Robbie had asked her out on a date so he hadn't seemed mad at her but what if it was the medicine talking ?

Cat didn't know what she should do but she knew she couldn't lose her Robbie .