I've decided to re-write the Blackbox closet (attic?) scene from 'Star-Spangled Tori' as I'm not keen on how it ended for Cat. Also, this re-write is crucial for how I want to structure the rest of my writing!

Hopefully you'll enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. More chapters will hopefully follow once I've finished my exams!

xx

Jade ascended the ladder first, with Robbie following behind her. She knew that Robbie was getting much too close to her for her liking but as uncomfortable as she felt, Jade was fixated on the idea of finding her red-headed friend. As they reached the top of the ladder, both Jade and Robbie were left totally confused.

"Where on EARTH could Cat have got to?! There is literally nowhere up here where she could be, but I swear Shapiro, I saw her come up here!"

"Wait, listen…" Robbie replied quietly, as he heard the sound of a familiar voice singing to herself. As he turned to his right, he stared at the small wooden door beneath them, wondering how Cat could've fit through such a tiny space.

"Are you waiting for tomorrow to roll around Shapiro?" Jade demanded as she grew more and more frustrated, deciding that she would take charge of rescuing her friend.

However, Jade was not expecting the sight she saw when she climbed through the doorway, finding Cat sitting on her mattress placed in the small store closet alongside the majority of her belongings.

"Hi Jade, hi Robbie! ...what are you doing in here?" Cat asked nervously, wondering how her two friends had managed to find her.

"No, Cat, I think the more important question that needs to be asked is what are YOU doing in here?" Jade exclaimed as she scoped the room. She knew that Cat could be spontaneous and ditzy, but she also knew that Cat had some sense in her and would not be hiding in the Blackbox store closet unless something was really wrong. As both friends took in the now pretty pink atmosphere of the store closet, they simultaneously realised that this wasn't a temporary hiding place for Cat.

"This is an, uh, cool condo you've got here Cat... but why the Blackbox store closet?" Robbie asked with a confused tone.

"Um, well, it's kind of funny, actually!" Cat replied, "well my parents aren't exactly... living at home right now." Cat could feel her throat closing up as she spoke, wishing that she had never asked Jade to drop her off at Hollywood Arts that evening. She knew that she had been too obvious and had made her friends suspicious, but she also knew that if she didn't accept Jade's lift home, there would have been no other option but to walk the excessive distance from Tori's house to their school.

As Cat struggled to speak, Jade realised that something was obviously wrong. Cat had been her best friend since their first year of Hollywood Arts, which meant that Jade could read her like a book. Sitting down on the mattress beside her, Jade placed her hand on Cat's shoulder to console the red-head, who was struggling to explain her current situation.

"Hey, Robbie? Do you mind leaving us alone for a bit?" Jade asked quietly, to which Robbie left the room almost immediately before any subsequent threats were thrown in his direction.

As the door closed, Jade looked straight into Cat's eyes with a serious expression. "Cat. It's just us now, tell me what's up. There's something obviously wrong and we are not leaving this room until this problem is fixed."

Cat's eyes started to well up, but she held herself together as she replied "Well... you know my brother? He's had to visit the special place in Idaho again. And this time my parents had to go too. He's getting worse, Jade. And my parents think that I'm responsible enough to stay at home on my own but I'm scared. I'm really, really scared." Tears started to stream from Cat's blue eyes, which alarmed Jade as she wiped Cat's tears away carefully with the sleeve of her shirt.

"Why didn't you tell me, Cat?" Jade asked. She couldn't help but feel guilty, like she'd had something to do with this. "You know that I'm always here!"

"Well, it's just... you and Beck are so happy now that you're back together! I didn't want to ruin that for you, so I explored the Blackbox and found... this room," to which Jade's stomach twisted as she realised that she did in fact play a part in Cat's new lifestyle choice.

"I am so, SO sorry, Cat," Jade pleaded, as her guilt turned to annoyance, "but don't think that you're going to stay here, you can't live like this. I won't let you. How long are your parents gone for? They must have told you that, at least?" Jade snapped.

"Maybe six months. Maybe two years." Cat sniffed.

"TWO YEARS?! Two whole years? And they expect you to live on your own for that long?! Cat, you're seventeen! No seventeen year old can live on their own with no income for THAT long."

As Jade pondered over Cat's accommodation options, she came to an almost immediate conclusion.

"You're living with me. I have a spare room and my Mom's never even at home anyway since my brother moved in with my dad and his wife. It'll be like you're coming for an... extended sleepover." Jade winced at her idea of an 'extended sleepover', but knew that it would be what was best for her friend.

"But Jade-"

"Absolutely no arguments. You move in tonight." Even though Jade was demanding, Cat knew that she wanted the best for her and she proceeded to hug Jade tightly and meaningfully. Jade felt slightly uncomfortable having someone other than Beck invade her personal space to such an extent, but also felt a sense of warmth towards the red-head as she hugged her back. Seeing Cat upset or hurt was one of Jade's least favourite things. She knew that Cat was independent and less naive than everyone else seemed to think, but Jade nonetheless felt a permanent sense of protection towards her friend, however much it contradicted with her character.

As Jade pulled away from the hug, she proceeded to explained the plan that she had quickly devised.

"So, we'll load up my car with the things that you have here. We'll stop off at mine on the way to getting the rest of your things so we can drop all this off. Once we've picked up the rest of your stuff, you can move into mine. Is that okay?" Cat nodded thankfully as Jade continued to explain.

"There's three of us here, which will make the job quicker, though Robbie's more useless than us doing this alone with our hands tied behind our backs-"

"Wait, speaking of Robbie, where'd he get to?" Cat interrupted, knowing that Jade wouldn't really care much if something had made its way into the Blackbox theatre and eaten him alive. As Cat had predicted, Jade shrugged in response with a careless look in her eyes.

"You stay here," Cat instructed as she rolled her eyes. "I'll find Robbie."

As Cat left the tiny room, she spotted Robbie in one of the audience chairs, watching the video of Tori being dragged along by the Saint Bernard on his PearPad for the tenth time that evening. 'Why does Robbie take that PearPad everywhere?!' Cat thought to herself, a thought that crossed many of the Hollywood Arts students' minds daily.

"Hey, Robbie! Still laughing at Tori?" Cat giggled, startling Robbie so much that he almost fell off his chair.

"Cat!" Robbie shouted back eagerly, "You shocked me! How are you feeling?"

"Yeah, I'm fine I guess. But I'm moving in with Jade! Isn't that exciting?" Cat beamed. Robbie smiled up to Cat in response but secretly felt disheartened, knowing that he wasn't to thank for Cat's happiness.

Cat peered back into the store closet, where she found Jade carefully packing Mr Purple on top of her belongings so he wouldn't get crushed in the huge duffel bag. Cat smiled to herself, knowing that contrary to what everyone else thought, Jade did have some kind of heart.

"Robbie, could you please help us with the mattress?" The read-head shouted politely as she turned back to the theatre. "I have no idea how I even got it up here on my own in the first place."

Almost two hours later, all three friends had successfully moved Cat's belongings into Jade's spare room. Jade sighed with exhaustion as she fell onto the sofa in her living room, calling Beck on her PearPhone to explain what had happened that evening, as Cat led Robbie to the front door.

"Thanks for everything, Robbie. See you in class tomorrow." Cat said in a tone full of appreciation, knowing that they wouldn't have been able to complete the move without his help.

"Anything for you, Cat." Robbie replied, as he awkwardly hugged her, not realising how much Cat appreciated his gesture.

"If you dare tell anyone that I let you inside of my house Shapiro, sleep with one eye open!" Jade threatened from the living room mid-call, as Robbie realised that it was his cue to leave, releasing Cat and opening the door. As he half-ran down the path, Cat closed the front door and breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that she wouldn't have to spend another night in the Blackbox store closet.

I hope you liked my decision to have Cat live with Jade. I love reading fanfictions where they live together so wanted to include this in mine.

Please review and let me know what you think!

The next chapter won't be a re-write and will (hopefully) have some actual plot with more of the characters included :)