The way Victorious should have continued. The crew is back! Doing this is terms of "episodes" so you guys can use your imagination, as well as for the finale we never got. Picking up where the gang meet up the week before their final year at Hollywood Arts begin. Will probably be mature as the chapters/episodes progress, also femslash later.
Thankyou for all your support so far, and for everyone keeping the fandom alive. Hopefully you guys enjoy. .
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_PRECURSOR - NO ONE'S POV_
Tori stumbles into her room with several bags of "back to school" clothes that her mom kindly insisted on buying for her. She drops all the bags at once against her red plush carpet, sighing at the relieved burden. She opens the first bag, parting the plastic with the handles and begins sorting, carrying handfuls of clothing as she separates them from what belongs in the dresser, in the closet, and where specifically in which compartment it's going to go. She hangs up 3 pairs of skinny jeans that look pretty much exactly alike before she hears her laptop releasing a familiar chime. She tosses the remaining armful of clothes onto the corner of her bed and sits beside them, moving her laptop to rest on her legs and opening it, logging in and being greeted with a notification screen from their version of Skype.
Incoming call from AndreH...
Confused, she answers.
"Hola chica!" Andre greets, happy to see Tori.
She waggles her fingers back at the camera, "Hey Andre," she greets back, "What's up?"
"I was wondering if you and the rest of the crew would like to go to the carnival tomorrow night, you know, to hang out one last time before the school year starts,"
Tori cringes, "Ehhhh,"
"They're hosting a firework special tomorrow," he persuades, "And they'll have live music, maybe we can perform something,"
Tori Vega never turns down an opportunity to sing.
"Alright! Let's do it, have you asked the others yet?" Tori asks as she cruses the pointer across the screen, displaying her contact list to see who's online.
"Nah, I didn't.. I wanted to get everyone on here to talk to them about it,"
"Because it's hard to lie to a face?"
"Exactly,"
Tori chuckles as she adds people to the group call, a request is sent to HappyCat, ScissorLuv, GotBeck and RobRobster. The great thing about this version of "Skype" is that, it will keep ringing until someone answers, or the laptop dies, whichever goes first. It's very annoying but because of this broken feature, the chances of someone answering is pretty high.
HappyCat accepted your video chat request.
Cat is the first to answer, probably was on her laptop already, "Hi guys!"
They both greet Cat, who starts with 'Oh my gosh so let me tell you what happened today' before she's cut off with the sound of a new contact joining the chat.
RobRobster accepted your video chat request.
It's Robbie with Rex in his lap and an irritated look on his face.
"Hey Rob!" Andre greets, but Robbie's emotion doesn't change, "Hey" he goes, gruffly. Tori and Andre both look into the camera questioningly, "Is everything alright?" Andre asks, tentatively.
"Well no, everything is not alright because today-" and that's as far as Robbie goes because the chiming sound of someone else accepting the group request goes off.
GotBeck accepted your video chat request.
It's Beck, but the screen is very dim, and he's tossing over in his bed it seems, groaning a sound that, without words says, I'm slowly waking up.
"Hi sleepy head!" Cat goes, so blaringly loud that it causes the silhouette figure of Beck to jerk back from the screen, the sound of him sighing against the laptop mic clogging any sound for a second, "Why Becky so sleepy?" she goes, laughing as she references to the time Sikowitz asked him the same question when he fell asleep in class; when Beck had a relentless cricket keeping him up for weeks on end.
He sighs as he sits up, brown eyes squinting as he raises the brightness on his laptop so we can better see his face, "It's 11PM, a normal time to go to bed," he defends himself, "If I sleep later, it'll be a huge pain to fix my schedule again," he goes. That was actually a valid point. Beck came off as a cool guy, but he valued his grades and keeping a set schedule more than any of the gang- Robbie included. He likes predictability. He likes having control of his life.
"Are we missing anyone?" Andre asks, specifically to the Latina.
"Uh," Tori goes, counting down her friends and naming them off.
"Why are we here anyway?" Robbie asks, his voice seemingly less annoyed now.
"I think we're missing-" Tori goes, and then she's cut off by the chime of someone entering the chat again.
ScissorLuv accepted your video chat request.
"-My GOD does this ringing ever stop?!" Jade shouts as her face appears on the screen, teeth bared momentarily.
"... I think we were missing Jade," Andre mutters, not too intelligently.
Tori smiles at the camera, nodding in greeting to Jade who only quirks a brow in return, huffing as she sits back in her seat, twirling with the ends of her hair.
"So this meeting, what's going on?" Beck asks, trying to diffuse any potential tension that Jade may have brought to the table.
"Oh right!" Tori goes, forgetting about telling them of the plan, "Me and Andre wanted to know if you guys would like to go to the Carnival tomorrow night,"
"Oh yay I love carnivals!" Cat squeals.
Robbie's face ponders for a sec, "Yeah i'll go too," he smiles at the camera.
"So ya'll going to do your boy Rex dirty like that?" The puppet speaks, offended they didn't include him.
Tori rolls her eyes, "Sorry, Rex, you're welcome to come to the Carnival with us if you'd like," She forces out.
"I'll bring my guns with me," the puppet goes, raising his little plastic arms, "I'm gonna win us the biggest prize they have, haha!"
"Alright!" Andre goes, clapping his hands together happily, "What about you Beck.. Jade?"
Jade looks up at the camera at the mention of her name, her eyes sharp before returning back to fiddling with her hair, "Beck and I are busy tomorrow night,"
Beck looks off as if to think, and then back at the laptop, "We- We are?"
Her eyes lock back onto the screen, "Yes."
Beck's eyebrows furrow, "What are we doing tomorrow night?"
A muscle in Jade's jaw tightens, "Literally anything else,"
Tori and Andre both look at Beck expectantly, and he only smirks and raises and drops his shoulders, "I will be at the Carnival," he glances at us, agreeing to the plan.
Jade drops her hands and leans in to the screen, "Really?!" She shouts at her boyfriend through the computer, who only offers a sympathetic smile, "Fine. I guess i'll go too.. but only because I actually want to," she finalizes, leaning back into her chair.
"Awesome! So tomorrow at the Carnival, it's just down the road of The Premiere Theater, let's shoot for 7pm," Andre goes.
Beck raises a thumb at the camera, stifling a yawn, "See you then," and then he's logged off.
Cat squeals again, "I'm so excited! Wait, can I bring a friend with me?"
"I don't see why not," Tori offers reassuringly.
"Who's your friend?" Andre asks, questioningly.
"A guy from Northridge," She says under her breath while shying away from the camera, blushing.
"Yeah, a really big, muscular, good looking guy!" Robbie throws in, Rex looking up at him with his jaw dropped. Man does that boy really blur some lines.
"I don't see a problem with it," Tori goes, looking at Andre, "Andre?"
He shrugs his shoulders, "I'm cool with it,"
Cat claps her hands together so quickly it's just a blur on the screen, "Kay kay! See you guys tomorrow!" and then she's logged off.
Tori is looking back at Robbie now, his pout making another appearance, "That's what you're upset about?"
He only nods, fixing his glasses.
"C'mon man, she's never going to look at you that way unless you tell her how you feel," Andre tells the curly haired boy.
Tori nods in agreement, "Speak now or forever hold your peace," she chimes in.
"He's telling Cat he has a school girl crush on her, they're not getting married," Jade spits out with so much venom it takes everyone aback- and this is Jade we're talking about-someone who is walking venom. Tori honestly forgot she was even here, but doesn't dignify her statement with a response, only rolling her eyes.
"What's really stopping you from picking your phone up right now and telling her the truth?" Andre questions, "If she says she's not feeling it, you go back to being friends, if she ends up feeling something, then you have a shot and making something really worthwhile," Andre finishes. He's really good at relationship advice, actually. He believes in taking chances, and life being about the experiences, the chances we take, the moments that take your breath away- not the outcome,
"What do you have to lose, Rob?".
Tori notices Jade has paused messing with her hair, eyes not looking at the screen but looking at her lap, her gaze distant, listening intently to this conversation.
"I think you should tell her," Tori agrees again, "You're not going to relay this information to Cat are you?" She warns Jade.
Jade looks up at the screen, furrowing her eyebrows, "Like this hasn't been painfully obvious since the day they met," She retorts. She's right though. It's obvious to anyone that isn't the little spunky redhead, how insanely head over heels Robbie is for her.
Robbie takes in this encouragement and nods, "You're right. I'll tell her, thanks everyone, even you Jade," he forces out, Jade not responding, and then he's logged off.
"ANDRE!" The screaming tears through the laptop, all three of the remaining group visibly jumping in unison, "DID YOU FEED LARRY HIS DINNER!" Andre's grandma goes, in reference to her pet macaw, who they all met when he was used as a prop for a segment Beck directed.
"Dang, I gotta go do that," Andre huffs out, "Well, I'll see you two chicas tomorrow!"
"ANDREEEE!" Is all that's heard once more, and then he's logged off.
Tori and Jade stare at eachother in silence, the awkwardness burdening. Tori scratches at her head for the proper sentence to fill the silence, "You know you could've left as soon as plans were confirmed right?" She reminds Jade. I guess that works, she thinks.
Jade shrugs, "I was listening to what Andre had to say," she freezes, feeling increasingly uncomfortable as those just said words replay in her mind, "and I had nothing better to do, so.." She trails off, her hair curling around her fingers but her gaze never wavering from the screen.
Tori sucks in a deep breath and sighs, okay, this is really awkward now.
"Well I have stuff to do so, I'm going to go do them," She goes, "See you tomorrow?" She offers in a friendly tone.
Jades expression resumes it's cold, malicious appearance, "Whatever," and then she's logged off.
Tori lets this roll off her shoulders, nothing unusual about that departure, at least she said something this time before hanging up. Tori goes back to reorganizing her clothes, thinking about the outfit for tomorrow night already.
Jade, however, remains sitting in her chair as soon as the laptop closes shut, Andre's words replaying in her mind.
What do you have to lose?