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Disclaimer: I do not own ICarly or any of its characters. The character Jennette Shay was Movies And TV Shows AU's idea.


"Jennette…" Freddie said, speaking slowly, as his three other siblings walked up the stairs, leaving him alone with his older sister.

Jennette sighed. "Oh, no. That's your I did something wrong face. What'd you do? Please don't tell me you hand cuffed Sam to Gibby again."

Freddie shook his head. "No."

"Good," Jennette chuckled. "I do not want to take you to the emergency room again. Anyway, what'd you do?"

Freddie swallowed before handing her his biology test- the one with a gigantic F written at the top with almost every question marked wrong.

Jennette pursed her lips. "Why am I holding this, Freddie?"

Unsure of how to answer, Freddie fired off a guess, "Because… I just... handed it to you?"

Jennette laughed. "I mean, why did you fail the test?"

Freddie rocked back and forth on his heels. "I stayed up all night with my lap top instead of studying."

"What were you doing on your lap top?" Jennette questioned.

"Editing some videos to put on the ICarly fan page," Freddie answered, wondering where this was going. He expected to be yelled at, sent to his room, something. He didn't expect to have a fairly normal chat in their living room. "Why aren't you yelling at me?"

Jennette chuckled. "I'm not going to yell at you."

Freddie gaped. "You're not?"

It had been a long time since Freddie was so shocked. Jennette had never just talked to him after he did something wrong. She did with Carly and Spencer, but never him or Sam, so why wasn't she sending him to his room or admonishing him like she usually did?

Jennette shook her head. "Freddie, I see the way you try to impress Sam and Carly. You pull all nighters to edit videos, miss out on clubs to film the Web show, even though Gibby would be happy to do it. It's like you think you owe them something, so instead of punishing you, I want to figure out why you do all these things for the Web show. You skip meals, skip sleep, and I want to know why this Web show seems to be your whole life when it's barely half of Carly and Sam's lives."

Freddie sighed. "It's just… I can't help but think I'm the weak link in the Web show. Sam and Carly are what make the web show enjoyable. I'm just the guy behind the camera, and everyone treats me like the web show wouldn't change if I just up and left. Even Carly and Sam, so I do all this extra work to prove them wrong."

Jennette sighed. She should've expected that. Freddie had had an inferiority complex for as long as she could remember.

"Freddie, Carly and Sam don't feel that way. They tease you, yes, but they know that if you quit ICarly, the show would fall apart," Jennette told him. "Remember that time you got sick the night of ICarly and Sam's friend Jeremy tried to do it?" (totally made that up)

Freddie laughed. "Yeah. Sam and Carly are still embarrassed about that, and I still laugh at them for it."

Jennette chuckled. "See? You are important, so don't think that you're not. You shouldn't have to make ICarly your whole life, giving up clubs, failing tests… Sam and Carly don't give up everything they love for the web show, and you shouldn't have to either."

Freddie grinned before Jennette wrapped her arms around him, and the two siblings embraced, finding comfort in the conversation they'd just had.


Nobody knows my siblings better than me. That's why I knew there was more to the story when Freddie said he stayed up all night with his lap top instead of studying, which wasn't like Freddie at all. I understood his inferiority complex, and I knew that he needed someone to talk to, someone to comfort him, someone to assure him that Freddie Benson was important to ICarly and to our family. He didn't need a punishment for failing the test; he needed someone to tackle the reason behind why he failed the test. He needed someone to understand him, not someone to punish him.

Freddie didn't even know that was what he needed. Nobody knows my siblings better than me, not even themselves.


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