Title: Survival Instinct
Chapter: One
Author: Jonathan
Rating: M
Category: Robbie/Tori Robbie/Jade
Spoilers: Anything's game. This fic takes place post Hollywood Arts
Summary: Robbie faced his mortality and did the only thing he could do to survive.
Disclaimer: Victorious is owned by Dan Schneider, Danwarp, Nick, Viacom

A car pulled into the parking lot at Mount Grant General Hospital. After finding a parking space in the visitor parking space, two doors opened. Out of the driver side, Tori Vega left her seat and closed the door behind her.

She then turned around when she heard a sudden slam coming from the passenger side. She watched as her roommate left her side of the car. "I texted Andre." She told her friend. "They know we're here."

Tori grinned, "Good." She watched as Cat went around the back of the car and made her way to join her. "As soon as we get in, we got to find where they have Robbie so I can give them the blood they need."

She nodded, "Kay. Kay." Together the two of them left the car, shortly after Tori locked it via the key ring in her pocket. They heard a sudden beep signaling the locking of the door as they made their way to the hospital front entrance.

They passed through the lobby until they reached the receptionist sitting behind a desk. Tori looked at the young woman behind the desk. "Hi." Tori greeted. "My name is Tori Vega. I was called earlier to give some blood for Robbie Shapiro."

The receptionist said, "Alright, let's check where you need to go." She went through her computer and did a couple commands, her eyes scanning the screen as she found the needed information. "Mr. Shapiro is in the ICU. Just go to the waiting room, and let them know who you are. They'll call Doctor Masters and get you set up for the blood transfution."

"Thanks." Tori said to the receptionish.

"Where's the waiting room?"

The receptionist answered, "Take a left over there, walk down the corridor, and take a right by the elevators. Go to the third floor, and the waiting room will be on your right from there."

"Which way?" Cat asked, not understanding the directions.

"I got it." Tori said to them. "Thanks."

That being said, the two of them made their way to the elevators. Tori immediately pushed the up arrow, watching the button turn orange. They then began to wait for the elevator to arrive.

"C'mon…c'mon…" Tori whispered to herself, waiting anxiously for the elevator to arrive.

But of course, it wasn't coming.

She couldn't help but feel helpless, knowing that right above them, and to the right, their friend was fighting for his life. Waiting for Tori to come and save him, giving him the blood that only she could provide for him. Knowing that Tori had Robbie's life in her hands was heart wrenching.

The fact that their friend cut his own arm off, severing the nerve, breaking the bone, tearing the tissue away, only to pull himself away from a rock, only to escape with his life. And to only come out of that incident with one fully functional arm scared the crap out of Tori.

Ever since the doctor called her, she couldn't get the image of her friend, her Robbie lying on the dirt path, fainting from the lack of water, feeling the heat above him beating down on his crumbled body. One arm severed in half, blood escaping, beginning to cake in the Earth's ground; praying that somebody would find him, help him escape his own personal hell.

Tears welled in her eyes, her heart breaking at the thought that they might be too late. That by taking that second right on the interstate instead of the third could be the cause of Robbie's death. Knowing because of a simple misreading of the map, Robbie could be moments away from dying.

"Dammit…" She whispered. "Can't this thing go any slower?"

Her foot continued to tap, her eyes gazing at the lights above, watching the number get lower and lower to the ground floor. Her heart beating slowly and her thoughts of Robbie being moments from death berating her imagination.

"We'll get there, Tori."

Cat's simple sentence brought her out of her funk. She looked at her friend, "I'm feeling the same way."

"This is crazy…" She said to her. "This is insane."

"I know…" Tears welling in her eyes too. "I can't believe what Robbie did to himself…"

"I can't believe he actually did it." Tori agreed. "I mean, I get it. I know why he did it. But to actually do that to himself?" Tears welled in her eyes. "This is…this is…"

Cat wrapped her arm around Tori's shoulders, pulling her to him. "The elevator is going to open, we're going to go inside, go to the third floor, and meet up with the doctor. Then you give the blood, and Robbie will live."

"With only one arm…" Tori said, whispering.

"But at least a working arm…" Cat told her. "He's alive Tori. Just remember that…"

She let out a sigh, "At least for the moment, yeah."

The elevator dinged.

"They're here."

Beck looked up from his seat, listening to his friend tell him something. "Who's here?"

"Cat just texted me." He replied, looking down at his pearphone. "Tori and Cat just got out of the car. They're on their way here."

"Good." Beck said, his foot tapping anxiously. "That's good."

"Of course it's good." Andre reasoned. "Why wouldn't it be good?"

"I dunno." Jade smirked. "Try telling Tori and Cat that their friend ended up falling off a cliff, getting his arm stuck, and cutting it off to survive."

"You really know how to paint a picture, don't you?" Andre asked, getting more nervous by the moment.

"It's a gift." She smiled. "I'm not the one who got passed out and then lost track of their friend."

"Hey, it's not our fault that our drinks were spiked." Beck told her.

"No." She said. "But it is your fault since you knew something was off, and you still continued to drink."

"We didn't know where Robbie was at that moment." Andre pointed out.

"Which should've been your first clue something wasn't right." Jade told him. "You're the one who decided to do a guy's week in Nevada."

"Only because you wouldn't let Beck have some guy time back at school." Andre yelled.

"So now you're dragging me into this?" Jade asked, her voice rising slightly.

"You are the reason why we couldn't go to the poker game last week."

"Guys!"

"Because that weekend was our fifth anniversary!"

"Which I would think could be put on hold for a night!"

"Guys!"

"You're just upset that Kiko dumped you!"

"Kiko!" Andre yelled aloud.

Jade smirked. "Her name still causes you to yell out her name?"

"Guys!"

They then glanced at Beck. "It's nobody's fault." He lowered his voice. "No matter how many times we look at it, it still happened." He sat down in his chair. "Robbie is fighting for his life, and what are we doing? We're fighting because we don't know who to blame." Beck then noticed Jade going for her pearphone. "And I'm not in the mood for text fighting."

"Who said anything about text fighting?" She asked, amused.

"I don't want to go through that again." He reasoned. "We didn't start talking again for another week since the last time. And I will not go through that when our friend is hurting in there!"

"Fine." Jade finally agreed.

Andre let out a sigh. "You're right." He took a seat across from Beck. "We're all on edge."

"A sharp edge." Jade replied. She sat down beside Beck. She soon felt his arm wrap around her shoulders. "But still an edge…"

It was at that moment when the elevator dinged. All three of them watched as the doors opened and let out a much needed breath of fresh air. They watched as Tori and Cat came out of the elevator.

"Hi!" Cat smiled and rushed over. She engulfed Andre in a big hug. "It's so good to see you!"

Andre couldn't help but smile at the moment of the hug, "Hey, Little Red."

"Hey Beck." Tori said, approaching the friends.

He smiled, "Hi, Tori."

Cat pulled out of the hug. "How's Robbie?"

"Still in a coma." Beck answered.

Tori sighed. She started to look around the room. As she did, she spotted the desk. "I got to go tell them I here." That said, she turned around and headed for the desk.

"How was the drive over?" Beck asked.

"Quiet." She answered. "She didn't say much of anything." She looked at Jade, "Hi, Jade."

Jade smirked, "Hey Cat." She grinned, "So did you let Tori know you were an excellent driver?"

Cat gave her a look, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Beck smirked, "We were watching Rain Man last night."

"Cat, don't ever change." Andre smirked.

"How would I change?"

It was at that moment when Tori returned from the front desk. "They told me to wait here; the doctor should be here soon."

That being said, the five of them found their ways back to their seats. Beck and Jade sat beside each other, her head on his shoulder. Andre and Cat sat across from them and Tori sat alone, a few seats away from Cat

"Did anyone hear from Trina?" She asked, first time bringing up her sister's name. They shrugged, "I told my mom to call her. I kinda figured we hear from her by now."

"Maybe you can call her after we take the blood."

Tori and the others looked up from their seats, seeing the doctor arriving. "Hi, my name is Doctor Masters." He grinned, "I believe we talked on the phone earlier."

Tori stood up, "Yeah, we left after we you and I talked." She approached him. "Any news on Robbie?"

He smiled, "You came at the right time." A breath escaped her lips. "If you come with me, then we can start taking the blood."

Tori nodded as she made her way to the doctor. "I'm coming with you."

Tori turned around and gave Jade a look, "Why? So you can steal another pint of blood?"

She smirked, "I just want to make sure Robbie's fine, alright?"

Beck, Andre, and Cat looked at her strangely. "What?" She smirked, "I can't care for Shapiro?"

"We're just surprised, that's all." Andre announced.

"Yeah," Cat agreed. "You usually end up hurting him or making him do things."

She shrugged, "That was when he had Rex." A moment passed, "No arm, no Rex. No stupid jokes."

"That actually makes sense…" Beck said, surprised.

"Yeah, maybe now he can be a normal person." She told them.

When Jade said that comment, she couldn't help but remember the time when Rex was in the hospital. Maybe in some twisted bizarre way, this was supposed to happen?

That couldn't be true, could it?

Tori sighed, "Alright, c'mon."

That said, Tori and Jade followed the doctor to where they would take the blood Robbie needed to survive.

It truly was a weird sense of déjà vu.

TBC

I'm so glad the prologue got well received. I hope you all liked the first chapter. Thanks for reading.