This story takes place in the gang's senior year of high school. Jade and Beck aren't together and this story will be Jori. It is my first Victorious/Jori fic so bear with me. Also this entire story is being written on my phone so I apologize for and grammar and/or spelling mistakes.

Prologue

Tori Vega always liked little kids. So when Sikowitz assigned 20 hours of community service due by the end of the year it was a no brainer when she decided to volunteer at Sunshine Valley Daycare and Preschool.

"Miss. Vega you seem like a fine candidate for a volunteering position. If you would go into that office over there you can discuss your hours with Mrs. Parker," An older lady with thinning grey hair instructed.

"Thank you." Tori grabbed her stuff and quickly made her way to Mrs. Parker's office.

"Sweetie it's fine. I don't mind Matthew staying an extra hour i know it can be hard sometimes," Mrs. Parker said into the phone, "Okay I'll see you later. Bye." Mrs. Parker turned to Tori, her brown hair falling loosely around her face.

"I'm Tori Vega."

"Nice to meet you Tori."

"Likewise," Tori said with a smile, "I don't know what your plans are but I can work week days after 3:30 pm and on weekends in you need it."

"I'm glad to hear it but if you're not busy would you mind starting today?"

"Yeah I can start today. That's great," Tori exclaimed, "I thought I wouldn't be able to start until next week."

"Normally that would be the case but we're short one today and can use the extra help," Mrs. Parker explained as she stood up and led Tori out of the room.

"I can't thank you enough for letting me start so soon." Mrs. Parker stopped outside a large oak door before turning back to Tori.

"Thank me if you survive the next two hours," She joked before leaving Tori to venture into the room alone. 'What the hell did she mean about if you survive?' Tori thought before a loud girlish sheik brought her out of her thoughts and she entered the room.

A young woman, a few years older than Tori, with short choppy orangish red hair was being dog piled by at least ten toddlers. Tori stood for a moment, slightly shocked by the scene before her babysitter skills kicked in.

"Who wants candy!" She yelled and in three seconds flat all ten kids were lined up at her feet begging for the 'candy', "How about you guys go play while I look for it?" Some of the kids looked disappointed but nonetheless left to go play.

"Hey thanks um," the girl paused for a moment, "Who are you?"

"Tori Vega."

"Well Tori Vega thank you for saving me from the little monsters and I'm Claudia Donnavon."

Tori laughed, "No problem."

"Give it back!" Someone yelled. Claudia and Tori turned to see a little boy with raven curls framing his pale face struggling with a larger boy with short blonde hair over a toy car.

"No I want to play with it!" The blonde boy yelled and pushed the other boy down before happily walking away with the car. Tori moved to go see if the little boy was okay when she saw him glare at the other boy before he ran over to him and punched him in the stomach, hard.

"Brandon, Matthew!" Claudia yelled and both boys looked up in shock, "Front and center."

"I'll take one of them," Tori said. Claudia looked at Tori then down at the boys.

"Matthew go with Tori." The smaller boy with dark hair walked slowly towards Tori with his eyes trained on the floor. Tori sat down on the floor in front of Matthew and patted the ground in front of her so he could sit down.

"So why didn't you just tell us instead of hitting him?" Tori asked gently. Matthew looked up and her eyes widened in surprise when she met a pair of very familiar icy blue orbs.

"My mommy, well she's not really my mommy but I like to call her that when she's not around, says that if someone hits me I can hit them back," He explained quickly and Tori couldn't help but think of a certain raven haired girl.

"Okay but next time tell me or Claudia," Tori said.

"Okay," He agreed, "What's your name?"

"My name's Tori." Matthew grinned.

"My momma and uncle know someone named Tori. Do you know my momma and uncle?"

Tori laughed, "No I don't think so." Matthew looked somewhat disappointed but quickly got over it.

"Do you think you could get Claudia to put on a movie for us?" Again Tori laughed, she was starting to really like this kid.

"I think I can manage that if you promise me one thing."

"What?"

"No more hitting."

"Okayyyy," He dragged out the 'y' like he was reluctant in his decision.

"Pinky promise?" Tori held out her tanned pinky and Matthew intertwined his almost translucent one.

"Pinky promise." They grinned at each other before Matthew popped up and 'helped' Tori up. So they could make their way, hand in hand, over to Claudia.

"What'd he get you for," Claudia asked Tori.

"I don't think I know what you mean."

"I saw that pinky promise action over there. What's the verdict?"

"If you put on a movie he promises to stop hitting." Claudia stroked her chin for a minute before nodding her head.

"Sounds like a solid deal to me." Matthew did a little happy dance that made both Claudia and Tori burst into laughter.

"Okay small child what movie do you want to watch?" Claudia asked.

"Cars!" He exclaimed.

Tori smiled as the small group of kids gathered around the TV to watch the movie. By the time the second movie was nearly over every single kid had been picked up except for Matthew and he had somehow managed to squeeze himself into Tori's lap.

"Whoa did you see that?" Matthew whispered, referring to the explosion.

"Matttttty," An oddly familiar voice sang while entering the room.

Matthew was up and running towards the door yelling "Jade!" before Tori had time to blink.

Tori got up and turned toward the door only to come face to face with a VERY familiar raven haired Goth. "Jade?"

"Vega?

Thank you so much for reading! I will award everyone with a cookie that knows what TV show I stole Claudia from.

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