AN: This story starts in the middle of 'Tori fixes Beck and Jade'. It's just a little idea I got while re-watching that episode.

Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious or any of those characters obviously.

„No, no, no, no..."

„But..."

„NO!"

„But..."

Andre silenced her with a gesture, but it lasted only a few second before they began arguing again.

"Come on, if you take Jade on a date it'll show other guys that she can be dated. And then more guys will start asking her out and Beck won't feel so bad about going out with Meredith." Tori repeated her whole plan with the same enthusiasm as before. She was a really stubborn person, especially when it came to helping her friends. She'd already decided that she would help Beck and there was nothing Andre could say to change her mind. Of course it didn't mean he didn't try.

"How about I ask out Meredith and Beck just buys himself a hamster or something." He shrugged indifferently.

At this point Tori realized she had to change her approach.

"Do you remember last year? You had a crush on Jade. You really liked her." She tried. It was a dangerous ploy, but at the same time her last chance. She wasn't thrilled to live through that particular part of their life again, but if it could possibly help Beck, she was more than ready to deal with Andre's crazy emotions.

"And when I was three I really liked my dinosaur underpants. Things change." He retorted ironically.

He had all rights to be sarcastic now. After all she was the one that had done everything possible to get Jade out of his head and show him that she was the worst person on the face of this planet to have a crush on. Funny that now she was trying to do exactly opposite.

"But Jade could be so much fun." She said hopefully, but before Andre was even able to replay loud shout startled them both.

Without another word they watched as Jade made two guys drop their equipment and run away in pure panic. Every person at the Asphalt Cafe flinched nervously, including Tori.

"This is hopeless." She concluded finally, earning a knowing gaze from Andre.

"Listen." He put down his drink with a little more serious expression. "Maybe you should not get involved? Even if you find someone suicidal enough to ask her out, she will likely just cut him or something. Do you really want to be responsible for a murder? And don't forget that she will go after you too."

"I know..." She sighed deeply and leaned more against their table. "I just want them to be happy. Both of them. Beck can't spend rest of his life being scared of Jade watching his every step and getting jealous. And... She also deserves a new chance. I'm sure there is something in her worth getting to know"

Once again, horrific shout interrupted her words.

"Sinjin! Fix this monitor before I make a necklace out of your ear!" Jade looked like she was about to throw her microphone at the creepy boy. Her whole figure just radiated pure anger and hatred.

"Whatever it is, it's definitely well hidden" Andre rolled his eyes, what only made Tori more irritated with the whole situation.

"You know what? The true problem here is that you guys are too big cowards." She stated agitated.

"Cowards? Great! So maybe you could find a girl, who is not afraid of dating her?" He crossed his arms with a challenge in his eyes.

"A girl?"

Had she just heard it right? Did this mean what she thought? That would be quite a news.

"Yeah! Beck said something once about her being bisexual. I'm not absolutely sure, but you can try it. If you think we guys are such chickens..." He rolled his eyes at her again, but she totally missed it, her mind wondering elsewhere.

She'd never considered something like that nor imagined Jade being with girl. Actually she'd kind of never imagined her with anyone else than Beck. But that had to change now and this news gave Tori a lot of new options.

"Maybe I could talk Cat into this? She did a lot of stupid things that made Jade furious in the past and she survived her wrath every time. Maybe she won't end up with a scissors in her belly?" Redhead was basically the first one that came to her mind. She wasn't that hard to persuade into something. Positively not as stubborn as Andre.

"But it's Cat. She probably won't be murdered, but Jade would never take her seriously. She'll ignore everything Cat would say and this not gonna change your position at all." Her best friend finally put his arms down looking slightly more alerted and curious. He realized she was truly thinking his words over.

"So..." She murmured thoughtfully.

Eventually there wasn't so many new options. She didn't even know which girls would be potentially interested in other girls not to mention Jade. Tori wasn't enough of a friend with any of them to convince anyone to give it a try. Suddenly a thought occurred to her.

"I will do this" before she could even consider what she's about to say it just slipped spontaneously.

"What?!" Andre's eyes grew twice a size, while his jaw hung open.

"I will ask her out" she repeated before her sudden courage could leave her. "She won't be... too cruel with rejecting me. We're friends." Andre threw her a doubting glance. "Kind of..." she added a little less confident.

"Jade hates your guts." he replied firmly. "Do you forget how she try to stole your part in "Steamboat Suzy"? How she sabotaged your prom? Spilled her coffee on you? Tried to cut your hair while you were sleeping? I'm quite sure you're at the top of her 'To kill' list"

"Yes, she can be... hard to approach, but she was actually a lot nicer to me these last few months." Tori'd never put too much thought into this, but now she truly realized that Jade indeed was nicer to her. Maybe there finally was a chance for them to work this all out. "She let me take her place at the Platinum Music Awards.. You know how big sacrifice it was for someone like her."

"Tori, just two days ago she was trying to push you down the stairs because you didn't borrow her your math notes."

"But she didn't kill me when she found out I went out with Beck on our opposite date. Well, she even was on a date with me, thanks to Sikowitz, and it wasn't completely awful." she took a peek in a Jade's direction but the Goth had already left a stage. After few seconds Tori spotted her next to enormous speakers with Sinjin. Jade's hand was around his neck while his arms were flying wildly in the air. His two friends were watching the whole scene with conflicted expressions on their faces taking one step towards them and then two steps back. They clearly couldn't decide if they were ready to help Sinjin and cross Jade or just wanted to run away like half of the other staff members had already did.

"You witnessed one miracle. You shouldn't push your luck for another one." Andre followed her gaze and sighed loudly. Singing at Full Moon Jam was making Jade even more violent than usual. If someone really spoiled her performance there would be blood and scissors for sure.

"Do you have a better idea then?" Tori face him, trying not to sound hopeful. She didn't change her mind, but a sight of Jade choking someone wasn't exactly encouraging.

"Umm... A hamster plan?"

"So it's settled then. I'm asking her out" Tori announced with a finality in her voice. This time she tried not to look over where Jade left Sinjin on the ground and stormed out of the Asphalt Cafe.

"Tori, wait" Andre try to calmed her down. Panic in his voice. "I know you want to help Beck and all but you really should think this over. Like a million times, until you change your mind. Do you even like girls that way?" He smirked and raised his brow knowingly.

"Of course no, you perv. I would tell you if I did. But it doesn't matter." She shrugged. "It just a date. I'll ask her out, go somewhere nice with her and then live till the next day to tell about it. I'll show all of you cowards that this is in fact possible" She got up with a rise hand and poked Andre in the chest with her finger. Then before he could utter a word, she left their table.

It wasn't like she had somewhere to go to. She just had to get away from Andre before he talked her out of this. Tori Vega was stubborn and full of dedication, but to a certain degree. It was easy to be so confident in front of her best friend in a heat of the moment, but inside she was truly trembling. She could nearly feel Jade's fingers on her throat. What was she getting herself into?

Her palms were sweating. Her stomach tied into knot and she was quite sure that she was visibly shaking with every step. Her resolve was melting like ice in the summer.

"Listen, maybe we can find some guy to ask her out. Pay him or something? We can even split costs." Andre grabbed her arm and pulled her behind a locker she'd barely found courage to walk out from a second ago.

"Andre!" Tori snapped at him, her nervousness taking over.

"Chiz, relax. I just don't wanna lose my best friend." He rose his hands in surrender.

"I would appreciate it if you show me at least a little bit of support" She threw him a glare, while trying to stop her hands from shaking.

"What do you want me to say? Go tiger, get your girl?"

"Ow, no. Maybe something along a line: I got your back. I'll stop her if she tries to part your head from your body with her scissors."

"No way, on this one you're alone. I'm not coming anywhere near that murder weapon of her." A young musician took a cautious step back from her.

"But you just give me a speech about us being best friends!" This time she gave him an incredulous look.

"That doesn't mean I wanna join you on the other side!" He replayed defensively.

"You're terrible!" Tori threw her arms in the air. "Whatever..." she added after a moment, not paying attention to him anymore. If she wanted to do this before they began next class she had to go now. She took few deep breaths and left her little hideout at the end of the corridor.

"I'll really miss you!" Andre shouted after his friend, making her roll her eyes.

It was really a five second long walk, but Tori managed to make it last nearly twenty. She stopped twice, brushing her hair nervously with her fingers and then wiping her sweating hands on her pants. The second time she even begun to freak out about really combing her hair and maybe applying some makeup. She should look extra attractive while asking someone out, shouldn't she? She'd flirted with the guys in the past, but it had been always them taking her on a date not the other way around. She had no idea what she was supposed to do or say. Was it always so hard for guys or was it only extra hard for her because she was a girl asking out another girl, not to mention that this girl was Jade West?

While Tori was suffering her little breakdown in the middle of the corridor, Jade who was looking for something in her locker, noticed her at once. She send her an exasperated look and crossed her arms impatiently.

"Vega!" she shouted suddenly, making Tori jump in surprise and terror. "Do you have fleas or something? Stop fidgeting!"

"Ummm..." Tori finally closed the distance between them with three steps and tried to hold her hands together to prevent them from shaking. "I want to ask you something."

"I've figured that out already. Spit it out and don't make me waste my time on you." Jade hissed with irritation.

"I was wondering..." The brunette stuttered. She cut her sentence in the middle not sure how to form her question. It seemed like every sane thought had already left her mind leaving her feeling dizzy and terrified. Why had she even thought it was a good idea? Andre was right she hadn't really thought it over.

"Five." Jade took a threatening step closer to her with a big scowl on her face. "Four." Another step. This time Tori had to back down a little. "Three."

"What are you doing after school today?" She blurted out suddenly in one breath. Surprisingly it worked enough to stop Jade from coming after her.

"It's a fucking question of the millennium Vega!" Goth's scowl grew even bigger. She rolled her eyes clearly irritated. "I have to make sure Sinjin is not gonna fuck up my performance even more and then prepare myself. You should be perfectly aware of that, considering you go through this nearly every month, torturing us with your voice and stealing the spotlight from the more talented ones."

"Jade!" Despite being deeply scared for her life Tori couldn't hold her growl, when she heard other girl's cruel words. Not to mention that she hated her cursing. But she had to act quickly and somehow made her point, because Jade looked like she was done with her and more than ready to leave. "What I meant to ask was if you maybe want to hang out with me. Go out and do something fun?"

She really wasn't planning just saying it like that. Actually she kind of prepared a speech about how they should spend their last months at Hollywood Arts doing something crazy and liberating, enjoying their time. One glare from Jade made her forget every word and all the reasons why she actually thought spending time with her can have anything to do with the word "enjoying".

"Go out with you? Like on a date?" For a split second Goth's scowl disappeared, replaced by a surprised look. Her blue eyes were completely unreadable.

"Yeah, a date." The brunette answered shortly, not being able to form a longer sentence under Jade's deep gaze. It didn't even truly matter. No arguments she could possibly come up with could change Jade's mind, so she could say non as well.

"What for fuck sake could make you possibly think I would want to go on a date with you, Vega?!" If the Goth had looked angry before now she was like the walking fury. She backed Tori into the wall with few quick steps and trapped her there. "I hate you!" she hissed after a moment, because terrified brunette wasn't doing anything to answer her question.

"No. You like…" Finally she stuttered, but she couldn't even think where she was going with this, not with Jade invading her personal space angrier than ever. "Umm… When I'm sad?" She was trying to find anything to remind Jade that they actually were friends and there were like a million reasons for her to a least not hate her, but of course the first thing that come to her mind was that twisted sentence Jade had said to her on their 'date'.

"Are you trying to tell me that dating me would make you sad?" Jade looked at her like she couldn't decide if she want to hit her or laugh at her. Probably she would go with both.

"No!" Tori denied quickly, but one look at Goth's murder glare made her realize that it was bad answer. "Yes?" Even worse answer. "I-I-If you want?"

Wait a second! Did she just give Jade permission to make her sad? This situation was turning into a disaster even faster then she anticipated.

Goth sent her a sarcastic smirk, making Tori's insides twist into a knot. Jade's clearly thinking she was pathetic and this somehow knocked brunette out of her stupor. She looked around them. At this point they'd already made quite a scene. People around them were watching them closely but no one tried to interrupt. Tori had specially decided to ask Jade out in the middle of the corridor to have at least half of the student body to rescue her if the Goth took out her scissors, but everyone around them was pretending like everything was completely normal.

Then she spotted Andre in the same place she had left him. His head stuck out behind the locker, his mouth forming a voiceless "run!". All of this made her realize that they truly were terrified of Jade. Cowards, all of them. Everyone deserved a chance and she would show them that Jade West wasn't only a pure evil… because she wasn't, right?

"Listen" Tori took a deep breath and gently pushed Jade at the arm length. Maybe she would be able to think straighter when Goth's face wasn't a few millimeters away from her. "We're not always on the best terms… Well we're usually just arguing all the time and it'll be totally ok for you to say no, but I really wish to spend a little more time with you. We can do whatever you want." She looked at her hopefully. She couldn't exactly tell her that she was trying to distract her from killing Beck and Meredith, but maybe that kind of explanation for her actions would be enough.

Jade took her time before answering. It gave Tori a chance to look at her a little more closely. Her whole body was tense, arms crossed and lips sealed in a thin line, but there was something aside from anger in her eyes. Something else. Anxiety? Insecurity? Maybe even fear.

But it was Jade West. What could she possibly be scared of? She wasn't the one trapped against the locker, while asking out a psycho. Probably Tori just began to see things that wasn't there out of her own anxiety.

"Ok…" Jade said suddenly, her voice barely above a whisper so nobody else except Tori would hear her.

"WHAT?!" Tori couldn't stop herself from looking at her like she grown a second head. She couldn't hear it right, could she?

"Don't make me repeat myself Vega!" This time the whole corridor heard her without a problem. Few guys passing by them even dropped their books in fear.

"Sorry, right…I-I-It's great. Just great!" Tori stuttered awkwardly, playing with her hands. What was she supposed to say? It was like the last thing she expected!

The bell saved her from saying anything embarrassing by announcing the beginning of the last period. Jade just smirked deviously.

"So, see you later." Her smiled grew as she turned around and walked away, scaring poor guys who tried to picked up their books with a low growl.

Tori stood there awkwardly for a few more seconds waving at the leaving girl, not even caring that she wasn't looking in her direction. Finally when Jade disappeared from her line of view, she lowered her hand slowly.

"Oh my God…" she whispered to herself when finally her shock decreased enough for her to acknowledge everything that had happened.