So I got the idea to write this fanfiction a year or so ago, and I'm just getting started now because I thoroughly enjoy procrastinating. Out of all the characters on Victorious, I think Jade is by far the deepest and most complex, which opens her up to many storylines that never happened. Basically, this fanfiction will be fifty chapters, each exploring another layer/story about Jade and her life.
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Chapter 1
Revenge
From an early age, Jade West was a bright individual: she knew how to get what she wanted and how to hurt others who prevented her from getting what she wanted. Almost all her plans were foolproof, and she hesitated trusting anyone, as most people ended up breaking her trust.
It all stemmed from her father's actions after he left her mother for a young blonde woman when Jade was only three. Throughout the years, he remained distant from her, and although the custody arrangement allowed Jade to spend time with him on some holidays, weekends, and a month during summer break, he spent little time away from his job and with his only child. By the time Jade was in fourth grade, she had grown sick of how little her father cared about her life and the fact that after leaving his family, he had dated about six other woman, four of whom he ended up cheating on. The cold, emotionless man never seemed to care about who he hurt because he always believed his issues could be solved with money, lawyers, or bribery.
Jade couldn't be bribed to stay with her father, who was never home anyway, to respect his values and goals in life, or even to love him. After years of being with her father almost every weekend, she decided to prevent him from wanting her in his house to begin with. This, she decided, would help cause the custody arrangements to change. Since Jade's relationship with her mother was rather close, she desperately yearned to spend more time at her real home, where she could decorate her room however she wanted, take part in the arts programs at school, and most importantly, be with someone she actually loved.
On the second Saturday in October, Jade put her plan into action. By getting revenge on her father for basically being a horrible person, she figured the custody arrangements would drastically change. To start off the weekend right, she hid her father's car keys, so he'd be late for his Saturday morning meeting. He walked around the house yelling for twenty minutes until he finally found the keys and walked through the front door afterward complaining about how awful the meeting had turned out.
Later that night, Jade used cellophane wrap and covered her father's shampoo bottle with it, so he no shampoo would come out when he opened it. About half an hour before he usually took a shower, she decided to use all the hot water in order to make him even more mad. By then Jack West was furious and knew perfectly well what his daughter was up to. He punished her by making her stand in the corner and thinking about what she did wrong.
Her third trick was the nail in the coffin: She set his alarm clock three hours ahead, so instead of waking up at eight, he woke up at five. Immediately after waking up, he stormed into Jade's room and began screaming with her. At a more reasonable hour, after his work meeting, he called Jade's mother and demanded that his daughter leave his house early. Miss West obliged the divorced parents met with their lawyers only a few days later. The custody arrangement was drastically changed. Jade would only see her father on a couple holidays and for a week or two in the summer.
By making her dad sick of her by tricking him, Jade realized that revenge was the easiest way of getting what she wanted. The more she hurt people, the easier it would be to make them give in. It was a lesson Jade West never forgot.
