-PROLOGUE-
Dear iCarly Gang,
Today it will be ten years since you did the very last recording of your web show iCarly. You said that it was 'Goodbye for now' and it gave me hope that one day you would return to the internet and make me laugh again. But that was the last the internet every heard from you. I wonder where you all are now. Are you all the same or have you changed? Do you even still talk to each other anymore? I guess I'll never know the answer. After you left the world slowly forgot about you, but I have never forgotten. iCarly was everything to me and it still is. I just wish one day you could return to the internet, just once more.
Lots of love, your biggest fan,
Lucy Summers.
-DISCLAIMER- I do not own iCarly or the characters used.
-CHAPTER 1-
It's been ten years since Carly moved to Italy with her dad. Ten years since the last ever iCarly web show. And as each of them woke up that morning they all knew it.
Los Angeles
'Freddie!'
…
'Freddie!'
Freddie walked in to see Sam lying in bed, still not dressed, and eating what appeared to be a piece of fried chicken that Freddie assumed she was hiding under her pillow; she always did that. He smiled a little at the sight before going over to her and sitting on the side of the bed.
'What can I help you with, princess puckett?' he smiled but quickly realized Sam was in no mood for cute. She had that look. The one that could kill a man with one glance.
He sighed, 'What do you want?' She looked down at her snack and quickly finished it before looking back up to him again.
'I need more chicken' she then smiled that devious smile she had when she wanted him to do something for her. And obviously he couldn't resist.
'Okay, I'll go get you some but this is the last time I go early morning chicken runs for you' he laughed, kissed her quickly on the forehead and got up to go. Just as he left the room, he popped his head back in, smiled, and said,
'I hate you'
She laughed and replied with the obvious 'I hate you too' .
'I won't be long' he said as he left the room.
Italy
The alarm clock would not shut up and she moaned as she was forced out of bed. Why she had 'The Joke Is On You' as her alarm tone was a mystery. As she glanced at the clock that read '8:00am' she sighed, if Charlie changes my alarm one more time I will kill him. Her boyfriend Charlie was her soul mate, her one true love (if that stuff even exists), but he always liked to play pranks on her. Like changing her alarm to an earlier time on her days off when he knows that her mission on those days is to sleep in as late as possible.
Although she was tired, she still smiled at the thought of him. He was already at work for the day and she wondered what time he would be home at. He knew what this day was as well. And how much she was dreading it.
She struggled to get ready that morning. After getting ready she looked at the clock, 8:40am.
She decided she would call them today. But she didn't know how to possibly start that conversation,
'Hey sorry I haven't talked to you in like 9 years but I've been busy, so do you want to talk about a web show that you probably don't even care about?'
It's hard to think that they were once best friends and now they barely know each other. 9 years… She didn't even know where they were now, who they were. Everyone was pretty mad at her when she stopped answering their calls and texts and emails or anything really. She just missed them so much, and she tried to visit as much as she could in that year, but it cost too much and she had college to think about, and her life plans and she just found no time to go visit them and they had no time or money to visit her. Not being with them was so hard and she decided it was for the best to move on from them. And they became so angry, they decided to block her from their lives, from Facebook, from everything. And so, it's been 9 years….
9 years, 3 months and 2 days to be exact…
And not a day goes by where she doesn't regret shutting them out.
And now here she was, on iCarly's 10th year offline, sitting on her sofa, phone in hand, shaking, deciding finally that it was now or never.
Seattle
'Mr Gibson we have the supplies you requested'
There he was, Mr Cornelius Gibson, founder of the most successful business in all of Seattle.
He was a big business man now, very professional, and certainly not the Gibby anyone remembers…
'Did you remember to get me everything?' he asked.
'Yes, 3 tubs of pudding, thirty bottles of liquid soap, three hundred t-shirts with the logo 'GIBBBAYYY' on them and the brand new One Direction album that has been signed by all members' Gibby nodded but then stopped,
'Wait you forgot something'
The woman checked her list again and realized what he meant,
'Your new head replica won't be ready until tomorrow, Sir'
…Okay so maybe he is the exact same Gibby that we know.
'Is there anything else?' he asks, trying to get rid of her so he can retreat to his secret room under his office to listen to the new 1D album in peace. It will be there 25th album now and each one in his eyes just gets better and better.
'Oh there was one other thing. You got an email this morning from Mr Shay, he wants to know if he can have lunch with you tomorrow.' Gibby just stares at her.
'Whose Mr Shay?' he simply asked trying to think of who that is.
'Spencer Shay' she helped him. His eyes opened wide as he remembered.
'Oh my god really? I haven't heard from him in a long time. Tell him I'll meet him at the Groovy Smoothie at half 4 tomorrow'.
'Right away Sir' she then left leaving Gibby to say just one thing.
'Gibbayyyy'.
Los Angeles
Freddie managed to carry the big tub of chicken up the stairs and grabbed out his keys. But stopped when he heard something coming from the apartment. It sounded like….
Sam was crying.
He quickly opened the door to find her sitting there on the couch, laptop in front of her and tears falling. He would still notice the iCarly home page anywhere. She was watching an iCarly web show. And he realized which one. The last one they recorded…
She didn't even notice him come in, and just sat there watching. It was strange seeing it now. After all those years. She felt an arm wrap around her and looked up to see Freddie trying his best to comfort her.
'Do you know what day it is today?' she said softly, more tears threatening to escape. He just looked at her softly and nodded.
They both just sat there for a while, comforting each other as they watched back old clips from iCarly.
'How come you never deleted the site?' Sam breaks the silence and looks up at him. He smiles and looks down,
'How could I?' was all he said. Sam wrapped her arms around him and just let it all out. Sam had opened herself up to Freddie so much over the years but never did he see her cry like this before. He just held her, wishing he could take away her tears.
The ringing of their phone interrupts their moment. Sam sits up straight as Freddie brushes away her tears. Sam takes a deep breath and tries to make herself sound like she wasn't just crying her heart out. She looked down at caller ID, but the number is unknown.
She wonders who could be calling so early in the morning.
'Hello?'
Italy
She was sitting there, still shaking wondering if she would ever find the courage to type in the number. She got it off Spencer and wondered if it was even the right one.
When she finally got the courage and started to type her phone started buzzing.
Caller ID – Spencer Shay.
'Hey Spencer! I miss you so much, how have you been?' she was so happy to hear from him even though they had talked on the phone only a couple of days ago. Spencer spent a few years living with Carly in Italy, but he eventually decided to move back home to Seattle. But Spencer still tries to visit on holidays and birthdays. It's not the same relationship as they used to have but they still were there for each other. And Carly always liked hearing from him.
'Hey Carls! I have some great news!' he cheered and his voice made Carly even more happy.
'What is it?' she asked.
'Well this big Art gallery place in Seattle is having a big thing tomorrow night where they are going to be showing off my work. My Art work has been doing so well lately.'
'Oh my gosh Spencer that's amazing!'
'Shh that's not even the best part!' he interrupted loudly, 'Do you want to know what the best part is?' he basically shouted.
Carly laughed, 'Just tell me!'
'Well I want you to be there! So I got you a plane ticket for you and Charlie to come out tonight so you can be there for it!'
Silence.
'Spencer I don't know about that. I haven't been to Seattle in 9 years. After everything that happened.. I don't know how I feel about coming back. I made a life for myself here, and I managed to forget about everything going on there. I don't want to go back'
'Carly, you have to come. Sam, Freddie and Gibby don't even live there anymore. Well Gibby does but I'm pretty sure he's traveling right now. Please? I really want you to be there.' He explained and used that voice of his that he knew she couldn't refuse.
There was a few moments of silence.
'What time is my flight?'
Los Angeles
'Hello?' she was still curious as to whose voice she would be greeted with.
Freddie couldn't hear the other person so had no clue who was speaking.
'Mrs B?' Sam looked confused and worried. Freddie whispered at her to put it on speaker so she did. And all he was greeted with was his mom crying.
'Mom, what's wrong?!" he cried.
'I just miss you so much.' This made Sam and Freddie look at each other weird.
'You were just here last week visiting' Sam sounded annoyed.
'I know but I just get so lonely in this house without my Freddie' Freddie sighed and looked pleadingly at Sam to which she shook her head and whispered,
'No absolutely not. Freddie, no way.' She glared at him, and he just looked from her to the phone and back again. When he looked back at her he mimed 'Sorry'.
'Look Mom, we're not busy this weekend so how about we come spend the weekend with you?' Sam just glared at him the whole time.
'Oh Freddie that's a great idea!' she cheered.
'Okay we'll leave tomorrow night then' and just as he was going to hang up his mother shouted back,
'No! You need to leave now!'
Sam and Freddie shared a look.
''Why?' Sam butted in, obviously annoyed that she would now have to spend the weekend with Freddie's mom.
'Truthfully there's something I need to tell you both and it has to happen as soon as possible!' she practically shouted out.
Sam and Freddie shared yet another look before giving in and saying,
'Okay we'll leave tonight'
As soon as Freddie hung up the phone, Sam slapped him right in the face.
'I deserved that'
She then proceeded to slap him again.
'And that'
She then smiled and quickly kissed him.
'And that' she mimicked and ran out the room.
Seconds later she came running back in shouting,
'Freddie!'
Freddie smiled, having already picked up his jacket and keys,
'Don't worry I'm on it, do you want a regular tub or a large?'
She just looked at him,
'Is that even a question?'
Seattle
'Okay then Freddie I'll see you soon' she smiled and hung up the phone. She turned the Spencer who was sitting with her the whole time.
'Was that okay?' she asked.
'That was perfect.' He cheered.
The iCarly gang were in for a big shock.
Authors Note –
So this was the very first chapter of mine and Beth's brand new iCarly fanfic. OMG it has been so long since I last wrote anything but I think this turned out okay. Anyway, lately me and my friend have been having major iCarly feels whilst re-watching old episodes. And I thought I'd start writing again. Me and Beth will be writing alternate chapters and will be getting help from our other two friends Danique and Shalena :) Tell me what you think!
