Okay… this is my new Bade one-shot, I know it is long, but please give it a try.

Disclaimer: I am a girl, and I am pretty sure Dan Schneider is a grown up man. If I owned Victorious, I would be rich and buy myself red hair extensions, but I am not, and my mother doesn't want to buy them for me. Phoey!

Jade's P.O.V:

I looked at Beck, who was driving us to Rachel's birthday party. She was his sister's daughter, and had become my official in-law last year after our wedding.

"I can't believe little Rach is turning eight." He smiled.

"I can't believe you woke me up so early." I smirked.

"You know she wants you to be there. In fact, he loves you more than me, and she is MY niece." He pouted.

"You know I'm cooler than you, and she is MY niece too, now" I said pointing at my wedding ring. He just smiled widely. Beck loved the times I talked about as a married couple.

"I love you." He stated, taking his hand of the steering wheel to kiss mine.

"I know, I love me too." He parked near the place where we were supposed to meet everyone. Beck's sister, Lexi, had a lot of horses and we were going horseback riding through the woods. As much as I hated to admit it, I loved the idea.

We got of the car and he took my hand. I smiled and started looking everywhere, and I found Rachel talking to her mom about something I didn't hear.

"Happy B-day, Rach!" I said when she saw us.

"Hey, kiddo, 'sup!" Beck greeted her as I gave the little girl a hug.

"Uncle Beck! Auntie Jade!" she yelled, climbing on Beck's arms.

"Wow! You've definitely grown up." He teased and Rach glared at him. I just smiled.

"So, how are you doing Rach?" I asked.

"I'm really excited! We are going horseback riding!" she smiled. I noticed Lexi calling Beck.

"Babe, I think Lexi wants to talk to you." I said motioning towards his sister.

"Yeah, I'll be back."

I sited in a chair and Rachel sat on my lap. "I really missed you, Auntie Jade." She said. "I´m glad that you and Uncle Beck are back from New York. My parents were really weird and I wanted to go stay with you."

"What do you mean your parents were weird?" I asked. Rach loved her parents, and they loved her. She had stayed with us a couple of times when they were on a trip, and she liked staying in our home, but she missed her parents a lot. She would never want to get away them.

"Well, when we were eating, they didn't talk to each other, or smiled like they used to. And mom is been sleeping in my room a lot." Rach frowned, she reminded me of Beck when she did that.

"I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, you know they love you a lot." I hugged her. "Just as much as me and Beck do."

"I thought that, but, haven't you noticed? Dad is not here, Jade." I saw a tear roll down her cheek. I noticed my phone buzz. It was a text from Beck.

Hey babe, we need to talk, it's about Lexi, I'll wait for you in the barn. PS: Don't bring Rach. Love you.

"Rach, I need to go talk with your uncle, can you go with Cat for a minute? I'll be back and we'll finish talking." I put her down and she ran towards Cat.

I found my way to the barn and saw Beck sitting next to my horse, Scissors. I sat down next to him and he put his arms around my waist, pulling me on his lap. I rested my head on his chest, felling in Heaven.

"Lexi told me something" he started. It was obvious that it was something bad. "I can't believe they are doing this to Rachel."

"They are doing what!" I snapped. I could get he was hurt, but it annoyed me that I was the one who didn't know what was going on.

"They are getting divorced." He sighed. I could tell he was more worried about Rach than his sister, but I couldn't blame him. Lexi was a great girl and all, but when it came to Beck, she wasn't the best big sister someone could ask for.

After he moved in with me 7 years ago- the same year we finished Hollywood Arts- she didn't even called him to say hi. We found out from Beck's parents that she got married and was pregnant. She came back to give birth and we went to see her. She needed someone to help her with the baby, because even though her husband was there, they traveled a lot and she figured out it wouldn't be the best for her daughter. Lexi asked Mr. and Mrs. Oliver to take care of Rach, but they were too mad at her. Beck loved his sister despite everything she had done and agreed to help her. I supported Beck and we took care of Rachel every time her parents weren't home.

But of course, Lexi was going to get divorced. She didn't care a bit about her daughter's feelings; all she cared about was her.

"They want us to take care of Rach; and of course Lexi doesn't wanna tell her." Beck continued.

"I can't believe it." I sighed. "After all we've done for her; she wants us to tell Rachel that she is not going to see her dad everyday anymore."

He hugged me tighter and rested his head on my shoulder.

"Promise me we're never gonna get there, Jade. I know we fight a lot, but I don't want us to end that way." He said.

"I promise you, and you know why?" I asked turning around so I could face him. "Because when I was a little girl and my parents got divorced, I promised myself I would find my prince and never, ever let him go away from me. I can't imagine my life without you, Beck." I felt his soft, warm lips in mine and I couldn't help but smile. Our lips moved in sync, like they had done so many times before and I just felt home. When we pulled away, his smiled vanished.

"How are we going to tell her?" He asked.

"While you were talking to Lexi, she told me her parents had been a little weird lately. She already knows something, and she is terrified." I sobbed. "I just can't believe we have to break Rach's heart as my parents broke mine."

Beck pulled me closer to him and I just cried in his chest for what felt like hours.

"You don't have to, babe. Lexi is my sister." He tried to comfort me.

"We are going to do it together, Beck. We are married know and she is our niece." I said wiping my tears with my sleeve.

"Okay." He kissed my forehead and got up. "Lexi is traveling to Paris for the week; we have to tell her then."

I tried to enjoy the rest of the party, but every time Rachel smiled, I remembered that we had to make her cry. Finally, it was time to go home.

"Bye uncle Beck! Bye auntie!" she smiled running towards me.

"Mom told me I'm going to stay with you this week! Can we finish the singing contest?" She pouted.

"Of course we can, lil' girl." Beck smiled. We got in the car and drove home. I stormed to the room and collapsed in our bed. He lay down beside me.

"Are you okay?" Beck asked pulling me closer to him.

"No, I'm not." I broke down. "This whole Rachel thing reminds me of my parents. What if… she turns out like me? You know… all dark and mean. I had good luck and found you… What if she doesn't?" I was really worried about Rach, she didn't deserve everything she would have to go throw.

"It's okay, babe." He said stroking my hair. "You know there is nothing we can do. We will help her." I just kept crying.

"I'm fine." I said. "She is coming tomorrow, right?" He nodded. "Well, we better decide when we are telling her, 'cuz we have all week."

"What about Wednesday? We take her to ballet class, go grab some ice-cream and then we tell her?" I agreed.

We got under the covers and felt asleep quickly.

…

I woke up next morning and saw Beck was still sleeping. I looked at him and smiled. I loved waking up every day and seeing him by mi side. I rested my head in my arms and started playing absent-mindly with my wedding ring.

"Good morning, beautiful." Beck smiled and kissed me. I put my hands in his hair and he placed his in my waist. We pulled away gasping for air.

"Don't be a sap." I snapped. He just laughed.

"We have to get going, babe. I told Lexi we would be there at seven o'clock." He said.

"Why would you do that?" I growled. "You know how much I hate getting up so early.

"It's about Rachel, Jade. She is a kid who needs to go to school."

"Well that's stupid."

"And of course…. I have coffee for you in the kitchen." He smirked.

I got up quickly and ran towards the bathroom. We got ready and he gave me my coffee.

"Hey guys!" Lexi greeted us when we arrived. As much as tried to like her in the past seven years for Beck and Rach, I couldn't help but glared at her. "You told her, huh?" she asked Beck.

"Of course I did, she is my wife." I smiled at the sound of that. I could see Beck was really mad at her too.

"Jade! Uncle Beck!" Rach screamed and hugged us.

"Hey kiddo!" I smiled and Lexi gave Beck her backpack.

"I'll be back next Monday, sweetie. Have fun!" She said kissing her daughter. We got in the car and drove her to school.

"Bye guys!" She hopped of the car. Beck drove me to work.

"I'll pick you up around six, 'kay?" He said kissing my forehead.

"'Kay" I muttered. I got of the car and entered my office. I was working on a new play called The Mystery of The Unknown.

"Hi, Jade!" I girl I didn't know greeted me.

"Get lost!" I hissed back. I wasn't in the mood for talking to some chick whose life was perfect.

…

It was 5:50 so I got my things in order and went downstairs. I immediately saw Beck's truck parked in front of me. Rachel was in the back seat playing with her IPod.

"Hey, babe!" I got in the car and he kissed me.

"Get a room!" Rach whined from the back. We laughed.

The next day passed away easily and too soon, it was already Wednesday. Rachel had a room in our house, so we could talk without her hearing.

"I don't wanna do this." I said getting up to make breakfast.

"We don't have a choice." Beck said, pulling me down in bed and hoping on top of me. He kissed me with so much love and passion that for one moment I forgot about the whole family drama.

"I know." I sighed when we pulled apart.

"Why don't we convince Rach to ditch school and take her to the fair?" He suggested. It seemed like a good idea, but…

"You know I don't like the fair!" I growled.

"C'mon, babe!" He smiled. "It will be fun I promise."

"Fine!" I mumbled. "I'll go talk with Rach; you take a shower and get dress." I ordered.

I got up and opened Rachel bedroom's door. She was still asleep with that smile on her lips only children have.

"Hey, lil' girl!" I entered the room. She moaned.

"Jade!" She smiled when she saw it was me.

"Your uncle and I got an idea; why don't you ditch school so we can go to have some fun at the fair?"

"That sounds great! But mom will get mad." She pouted.

"Your mother doesn't need to know." I smirked.

"You won't tell her?" She asked and I shook my head. "Okay, let's go to the fair!" She got up and started showering.

I went back to our room to find Beck dressing up. I showered and got dressed. I put my make-up on and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

"Where are you going?" I felt Beck's breath on my neck and his arms around my waist.

"To make breakfast, you dumbass!" I smiled.

"Why don't we have some decent breakfast today?" He teased. I saw Rach enter the kitchen and sit on the table.

"Oh so the breakfast I make isn't decent?" I snapped and got out of his arms so I could think strait.

"Oh, you make cereal and Jet Sky coffee?" He smiled.

"I made eggs yesterday!" I defended myself.

"You burned eggs yesterday." Rach piped in. Beck laughed.

"So you think you can make a better breakfast?" I challenged them.

"Of course we can. Right Beck?" Rachel laughed. They got everything ready to do omelets. Who knew you had to use flour? I watched as they started a flour battle.

"You know you'll have to shower again after that right?" I smiled. Beck started walking towards me, hands full of flour. "What are you doing? If you have any respect for your life, back off!" He chuckled and put his hands on my cheeks, "I'm going to kill you!" I yelled as we started running through the house like two teenagers. Rach just stood there and took pictures of us. But we weren't teens anymore and we needed to get ready to tell our niece something that would ruin her childhood.

I sat down on the couch, and Beck sat down beside me. We kept laughing so hard, Rachel thought we were crazy.

"We should probably get going." She suggested.

…

"Are you insane? I won't get into that horrible thing with you!" I yelled as my husband and niece dragged me to the staring wheel.

"Yes you will, and you know why? Because you love us." Beck laughed and paid for the tickets.

"Rach, please, don't make me do this." I begged her. She was my last hope. I was afraid of heights, Beck knew that, and here he was. Dragging me towards my biggest fear.

"I'm sorry." She smiled, as she hopped into the wagon, next to Beck, who patted the empty seat next to them. I gulped.

"Don't worry, I'm here to protect you." He whispered in my ear, once I was sitting next to him.

…

Okay, so… I have to admit the ride wasn't that bad. After we got out of the Wheel of Fortune, we went to eat candy cottons. Well… Rach and Beck did. Even after college I still hated pink stuff. We got to a couple more rides and Rachel and I couldn't convince Beck to come to the haunted mansion with us, so we entered alone. It was by far the best attraction of the day.

At 07:00 p.m. we were finally exhausted and practically dragged Rach to the truck.

"I don't wanna go!" She whined. If I didn't love her so much, I would have scolded her for whining.

"I know, Rach, but Jade and I are really tired. Why don't we go home and order some pizza?" Beck tried to put some sense into her.

"All right, but you gotta let me watch Bones with Jade." She said.

"You are eight!" Beck exclaimed. "Jade, why on earth did you show a little girl a show about anthropologists who investigate murders?"

"Because I knew it would annoy you." I smirked and winked at Rach, who tried to wink back, but ended up closing both eyes.

The ride home was silent, except for Rachel singing randomly the songs she knew on the radio. Beck and I knew what going home meant, and neither of us wanted to do what we were about to.

"We are here." Beck said, pulling into our driveway. Parking the car next to the silver RV we didn't have the heart to throw away. I was secretly hopping Rachel would fall asleep on our way here, but it was a lost cause with so much sugar and adrenaline running through her veins.

"Why don't you go get changed while Beck and I call the pizza restaurant?" I asked and our niece hopped out of the car, running to her room. I sighed and started massaging my temples as Beck got out of the truck and opened my door.

"Are you okay?" He asked while he closed the door and put his arm around my shoulders, guiding me towards the front door.

"No I am not, Beck. I can't stand not being able of doing anything." I mumbled. He knew better than to try to calm me down with kind words, so he just pecked me on the lips.

"Rachel! Come here! Jade and I have something to tell you!" He yelled

"Coming!" Rach came running down the hallway and sat down on one of the couches of the living room.

"Look, sweetheart, these aren't good news." I started explaining and Beck took my hand, trying to help. The smile that had been all day on Rach's face quickly wiped away.

"What happened is everything all right?" She asked. She was the smartest 8 year old I had ever met.

"No, kiddo, it is not." Beck sighed.

"You're parents…. they are…" I tried to continue.

"Rachel, your parents are getting divorced." Beck said. It was the first time I had heard him talk to his niece so seriously, he always smiled and joked with her like he was another kid.

"What?" Rach yelled. "Who told you that? Come on, Beck, you're kidding me, right? Jade! Tell him it is not funny!"

"Hun', he is not joking. Your mom didn't want to tell you so she asked us to do it for her." I explained. She started sobbing. I sat next to her and started patting her back. "Everything will be okay, Rach. It has nothing to do with you."

"Of course it does! I have a lot of friends with divorced parents, Jade. They don't look happy. I will have to choose between living with my mom or my dad and I don't want to! I hate them both!" She exclaimed.

"Please, Rachel, don't say that. My parents were divorced too, and I also thought I hated them, I didn't want to choose between them and there was a horrible audience where a judge decided I had to stay with my dad. I never had someone to support my dreams as a kid. Don't make the same mistake I did. When I realized I loved my dad, he had already re-married and didn't care about me anymore. Your parents love you, Rach. They just don't love each other anymore." I said. She smiled, but still sobbing.

"Hey, kiddo, don't cry." Beck said sitting down beside me and pulling her to his lap. "You now Jade and I won't ever leave you alone. You can live here as long as you want, right babe?" He asked me and I nodded.

"Thanks, but let me ask you something." Rach said looking at me. "How do you know you are not going to get divorced? How do you know you won't stop loving Beck and he won't stop loving you?" I looked over to my husband and it only took me to see his beautiful eyes, to know the answer.

"Rach, I have known your uncle since I was twelve and he was thirteen, we started dating when I was fourteen, but he has been my best friend for as long as I can remember. When I needed someone to believe in me, when my father didn't, he was there. The sad truth is that love can fade away if you can't put up with the other persons flaws, and believe me, I have a lot, but Beck and I have been together forever and will always be, because I married my best friend." I smiled looking at Beck.

"You know, Rach, I love your Aunt more than anything else in the entire world and I know she loves me too." Beck smiled.

"So, you are not going to get divorced?" Rachel asked wiping her tears away with her sleeve. We shook our heads. "Good, because, Beck?"

"Yeah?"

"You couldn't have found a better girl than Jade for you." She smiled and hugged me.

A/N: I can't believe it is finished! I have been writing and re-writing this one shot since March, and it is almost December. For those who are expecting me to update The Mystery of Haley Sheltter, I will don't worry.

I have a lot of ideas for Bade one-shots and song-fics, so let me know if you would want this to turn out into a collection of those.

Okay, I hate proofreading my stories so I am sorry for typos. If anyone is interested on Beta reading… PM me or just leave a review with your e-mail address.

So… did you like it? Loved it? Hated it? Please review and make my day!

Love
Andrea.