Hi dear readers! :) When I saw your rewievs I was so happy, because you all wanted me to continue, and it gives me that warm feeling... You know what I mean, I think. So now, I decided to write this chapter as fast as I can... Let's see how will it work! I don't own Victorious.

Tori swallowed nervously as she slowly opened her eyes, though the feeling of wanting to kill just became stronger, no matter how hard she tried to block it out from her mind.

"V-Vic, are you okay?" Julie asked worriedly, and reached out her hand to put on her grandchild's to calm her down, but Tori slapped it.

"Yes, I... I am." she said stuttering, sweating all the time, and without noticing, she crawled towards the knife on the table with her hand. Her fingers were shaky yet stiff when she grabbed it and slowly lifted up.

"What are you doing?..." Julie asked again, and pushed herself backwards with her chair. The fear and scare reflected on her face when she saw Tori standing up and walking to her wobbling, tightly squeezing the knife, insanity sparkling in her eyes.

"I'm... just... fulfilling my... destiny..." she whispered and held up the knife high. She was about to hit Julie with it, when she felt another click, and her head tipped to her right shoulder, letting her arm falling down to her side, letting go of the kinfe, which landed on the floor, making a quiet, jingling sound. Her grandma was probably shocked, and Tori was just as confused as a poor horse in a war – before that, he, or she was just rode calmly, carefully, was beloved, and all of a sudden, he, or she gets to see a person just killing the person on his, or her back, and finds himself, or herself between many other horses and people stabbing each other.

"I-I... what happened?" she asked more likely herself than Julie, and gasped when she saw the knife next to her on the floor. Tori jumped up a bit and immediately ran to her room, opened the door roughly and shut it loudly behind herself. She turned the key in the lock and leaned her back against it, then slowly slid down to the floor, her face buried in her palms. "What the hell did I do?..."

The next morning she woke up to the beeping of her phone. She slowly crawled out from her bed and walked to the seat where she kept her school bag with her phone. Tori yawned, then opened her bag to find the thing which made all the noises, and when she found it, she surprisedly noticed that she got an SMS from an unknown number. She curiously clicked on the screen on the phone to read the new message, and immediately smiled when she read the text.

Hey Tori! Wanna meet me after school? -Beck

"How does he know my number?" she asked herself, but didn't care much. Tori sighed and walked to her bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth, then make her make-up and hair. When she finished it all, she went to her wardrobe, and not caring too much, she took the first pair of jeans and the first top she found. She threw a scarf over her shoulders and twirled it loosely around her neck, then grabbed her bag and slipped her feet into her black sneakers, and without tieing them, she left her room. She didn't find Julie anywhere in the line between her room and the front door, so she could left without feeling that bad remorse.

Later at school, at lunch time, the gang was sitting at their usual table, talking and joking, just as always. Tori bought some food for herself and started to search for an empty table to sit at, when someone yelled at her.

"Hey, Tori!" She heard the familiar, friendly voice calling her on her new nickname, and that could only be Beck. Tori turned around to face him, and the others, too. She thought they will smile at her, but instead of that, the only smilling face was Beck's, the others looked at her coldly, like they were just reading her mind, her past, maybe even her future, all in a stare. "Don't you want to sit with us?"

"Are you really asking her to come here?" Jade grumbled and grabbed his wrist to become able to squeeze it, just to get his attention.

"Why not?" he asked back and pulled back his arm to set it free. Tori forced a slight smile on her face and walked up to their table.

"Hi!" she greeted them shyly, even though she tried to sound confident and friendly, like they didn't have to be afraid of her. Though she didn't know why would anyone be afraid of her – except Julie –, since she never told anyone about her insane side.

" 'Ello... Whatever." said Jade and looked down at her lunch.

"Hey." Cat smiled slightly at her, Andre only waved, same as Robbie. Beck patted the seat next to him, indicating to her to sit down. Tori blushed a little bit, then put down her lunch and sat down beside him, still keeping a gap between them.

"So... how's the.. weather?" Jade asked, the boredom and suspicion was clearly showing in her voice.

"Good, I guess." Tori answered after she figured out that Jade asked her.

"We don't even know anything about you! Why don't you... tell us some infos?" asked Robbie as he forced a smile.

"Well... I'm Tori Vega," she started, and at this point Beck smiled at her, probably without noticing, but he was happy because she used the nickname what he gave her. "and I live with my grandma, Julie... My parents and my older sister died in an... accident..." she continued, but her voice unintentionally dropped and she was only murmuring.

"You know, you don't have to talk about it, if you don't want to." Beck told her, when he noticed that she was about to cry.

"Why not? I want to hear the whole story." replied Jade with a vicious grin on her face. Beck shot a glare at her, then, under the table, he put his hand on her arm and looked at her encouraging.

"I'm 16 years old... I was in another school before, but I didn't have any friends at all, so I decided to come here, to start a new life..." Tori said finally, and even though she was smilling, her voice was still shaky.

"How could your whole family die in an accident except for you? Because I guess it was a car accident... then you probably weren't in the car, but how could anyone leave their child alone?" Jade asked again, and looked at Tori with a stare, which was clearly telling her that she was about to kill her by bringing up the things that hurt her.

"Jade, stop!" Beck hissed at her angrily, but it couldn't help the fact that Tori was about to cry anyways.

"I'm just curious!" she answered offended, and stabbed her lunch with her fork.

"Will you mind if I leave now?.." Tori asked with tears in her eyes. She tried to hold them back, at least until she could leave their table, but it looked like it won't really work.

"If you feel like that..." Beck sighed and gave her a tissue. "I think you will need it."

"Thanks.." she whispered, then grabbed her food and quickly left their table.

"Awesome, you made it!" he growled at Jade, then continued eating without saying a word, even though the others started talking again.

Later that day, after school, Tori was about to go home, and almost walked out the door, when someone yelled after her. That voice was kind of familiar, but at the moment, she couldn't put it anywhere, so she turned around to face an angry Jade.

"Oh huh, Jade... Hi." she greeted the gothic girl, forcing a smile, which turned out more likely a grimace than a smile.

"Hey... Vega." she looked over her, then put her phone into her pocket and continued talking. "Just to let you know, I'm not your friend. And I will never be, no matter how hard Beck tries. Okay? Just leave us alone, we don't need your company. I and others don't want a depressed bunch of mess to be between us, do you get it?"

"I-I get it." Tori mumbled as she felt like her heart shattered to a billion pieces. Even though she remembered how mean Jade was to her at lunch, she still thought that they can become friends – maybe if she gets stronger a bit, and Jade gets gentlier a bit.

"Awesome." Jade answered with a threatening look on her face, then turned around and quickly walked away. Tori swallowed trying to hold back a teardrop from coming out of her eye, and when she thought she's okay, she walked up to the entrance and pushed the door opened. She almost left the school, when someone yelled after her again. She turned around with a nervous face, thinking that Jade got her again, but for her biggest surprise, it was Cat running to her.

"Hey, Vic!" she screamed her name. Tori sighed – she was called Vic again.

"Yes, Cat?" she asked. Even though her smile wasn't real again, she clearly enjoyed the redhead's company a way more than she did Jade's.

"I just want to say sorry." she told her on her high, bubbly voice. Tori choked a little bit.

"But, why? You didn't do anything bad."

"I know but I just... I saw you talking with Jade in the hall and after that she was very angry so I thought I'm gonna apologize to you. Instead of her." she smiled, and at that moment, she really looked like a cat.

"Ooh... Well, thanks..." Tori said surpirsed, and patted the redhead's shoulder a bit.

"Kay, now I got to go, bye, Vic!" she giggled and turned around, and at the next moment, nobody was standing on the street with Tori. She blinked a few times, trying to understand how could Cat run away so fast, but she didn't care much, just continued walking home. It wasn't even unexpected, when someone called her again about a minute later.

"Tori! Wait, Tori!" It was the most familiar voice of all, and she unintentionally smiled brightly when she heard Beck calling her.

"I'm waiting." she grinned playfully, what made him smile, too.

"Did you get my text in the morning?" he asked as he walked up next to her and followed her back to home.

"Yes, I got it. And I'm curious, how could you get my number?" she asked back, and took a barely visible step away from Beck. She couldn't really trust in anyone, even though she knew he wasn't going to do anything with her.

"Oh, it's easy. Lane told me. He asked me to come to his office, because he thought you were alone and left out in the school, and he saw us talking in the Blackbox Theatre. He asked me to help you with getting used to the school and he told me your number, too, so I can call you." he explained. Tori nodded.

"At first, I thought you were a spy or something." she chuckled, what made he laugh, too.

"And anyways, if we are already talking about it, how are you getting used to the Hollywood Arts?" Beck asked with a bit more serious face. Tori sighed and looked down, watching her feet while walking.

"I don't really know. I mean, it's awesome and stuff, but... Jade is just... really mean. At least Cat apologized to me, though she didn't do anything bad." she sighed. Beck bit his lower lip and nodded.

"Jade is just like this in these days. I don't know what happened to her, but in the past few weeks, she was sometimes ridiculously angry for no reason." he shrugged. This time Tori nodded, and for the rest of their walk, none of them spoke up, until Beck took a sharp left turn.

"Where are you going?" she asked confused, and she became even more foxed when he grabbed her hand. She felt her face burning in a red tone, but she didn't say anything, just tried to stop blushing before he could notice it.

"I know a beautiful place near this street, and I thought you would like it, so... do you want me to show that to you?" he looked at her with a shy smile on his face as he ran his free hand through his hair. Tori's lower lip dropped in the big surprise, but a huge smile immediately spread across her face as she nodded.

It wasn't a long walk to get at that place, but Tori thought it would worth a way more than that. The sight was beautiful: it was a park on the top of a small hill, with a fence at the edge of it, which reminded her of those friendly farms which she has seen in movies. There were a lots of weeping willows and many other trees on the border of the park, giving a „frame" to it, and in the middle, there was a small pond with gorgeous blooming water lilies. A few benches were around it and next to the fence, and it all looked like they were in a dream. Tori even forgot about that her hand was still in Beck's – and about him, nobody knew if still holding her hand was done on purpose or it was just a hap.

"Oh my god, it's beautiful!" she gasped, and took a step forwards to see the sight from the edge, when she noticed that they were still holding hands. She quickly let his hand go and blushed again. "Ah man, I'm sorry, I just forgot about it and-"

"There's no need to apologize. It's ok." he smiled slightly, and when he saw her nodding relieved, he walked up to one of the benches at the pond and sat down. For a few minutes he just watched her looking around all amazed, then picked a small rock up and threw it into the lake. It wasn't quite loud, but it dragged Tori back to reality, so she sighed and looked around again, then sat down next to him. She felt that uncomfortable feeling which she was used to feel before her „attacks", but she tried to avoid it as much as she could.

"I see you like this place." he smiled and put his left leg on his right knee. She nodded excitedly.

"I don't like it, I love it! It's so beautiful! How did you find it?" she asked looking around again.

"My mom always took me here when I was a child. As the time passed she became more into her job than into her family, and she didn't really care about me that much after that. I almost forgot about this place, but once my dad was watching a photo album, and I asked him about a place with trees and a pond, and this sight, which I saw in a picture. He told me about this park, 5 years after my mom took me here last time, and I immediately wanted to come here. He showed me where to go, and since that, I'm spending most of my free time here. This sight, and air... just inspires me." he explained, and even though he didn't notice, he smiled at these memories.

"It's a little sad story, isn't it?" she sighed as she quietly kicked the bottom of the bench, trying to get rid of her overwhelming desire to do something that she would regret immediately.

"It is, but... I don't mind it. At least I had, and I still have a family, and I'm happy because of it. I feel really sorry for the people who don't..." he said looking down, but he quickly realized what he actually said. "I'm sorry."

"It doesn't really matter. I'm used to it." she whispered in a cracking voice, which was the sign of crying. He tried to look at her face, but she always turned away.

"Are you crying?" he asked worried when he heard her sniffing. "Look, I'm really sorry, I forgot about it. Are you mad at me?"

"No, I'm not." she said finally, forcing a sad smile as she shrugged. He gave her a tissue to wipe her eyes and blow her nose, and after she did these, she felt a bit better. Even the early signs of that certain click went away, so she was a bit more relieved and she could talk properly.

"Shall we go home?" he recommended, but she shook her head.

"No, it's fine. Just don't talk about happy families, okay?" she chuckled slightly, and it made that single teardrop left in her right eye flow down on her cheek. She quickly wiped it away.

"Okay, then... What shall we talk about?" he asked, and even though it sounded a bit rude, he meant it as a normal question.

"I don't know... Maybe... But anyways, don't you have any idea about why is Jade so mean? 'Cause you said she was like this only in the past few weeks... Don't you know about something that could effect her mood?" she asked, taking a sudden change in the themes that they were talking about.

"Well... She had a break-up two weeks ago. But I don't really think that would change her, since she never became depressed after things like this." he said, trying to remember everything that happened on the latest weeks.

"Maybe she still loves him." she pointed out suddenly, what made Beck choke a bit.

"Why do you care so much about her? She was mean to you, and you try to help her." he asked, and she could clearly hear the embarrassment playfully hiding in his voice.

"I don't know. I just want to help her, since I can't really help myself." she shrugged, trying to look like she didn't care about her own life. But she cared, maybe even too much. The actual reason to be helping Jade was basically that she wanted her to be her friend, even though she saw Jade wasn't very nice to her. Not even herself knew why did she want so many friends, but what she always said to herself to chase away the wrong thoughts and feelings was that if she was surrounded by a lots of people, she felt less need to kill or destroy.

A long, awkward silence came after her words, Beck bit his lower lip again, and looked down sadly. He felt like it was his fault, that she was sorrowful, so he tried to encourage her by gently stroking her arm, but she immediately pulled it back. After that, she felt sorry, too, but couldn't really say anything, so she just stood up and dusted her clothes.

"Where are you going?" he asked quietly, and grabbed her wrist to pull her back for a little bit.

"I'm going home. See, this meeting just didn't turn out as we wanted... At least, as I hoped it will. I'm happy because you showed me this place, but I think I should go home now... Later, Beck." she sighed and forced a smile, but it was barely visible. He nodded resignedly, and let her go. He looked after her for a while, until she walked away in the sunset, and when he couldn't see her anymore, he sank his face into his hands.

"How could I ruin it like this..." he mumbled to himself, digging his fingers into his dark hair. He felt like it was only his, and no one else's fault that she was shy, looked depressed, and didn't want to talk about herself, even though he didn't hurt her, just tried to help.

At the same moment, Tori was running home, the tears of despair flowing down on her face as she realized that she almost came to the moment when she could lose her mind and hurt Beck. Or anyone else around. She wiped her eyes and sniffed, and decided to slow down a bit, but she heard footsteps coming from behind her, though from really far away. She quickly ran to a tree and tried to hide behind it, taking breaths as quietly and as slowly as she could.

The person, who had been stalking her stopped on the road, sighed and looked around. It looked like he couldn't find anything, but he suddenly took a sharp turn and walked up to the tree which Tori was hiding behind. She bit her lower lip, holding back a scream as she pushed herself against the tree and closed her eyes, like it could make anything better.

"Hey, is this Victoria Vega?" asked the man laughing, on a loud, rough voice. Tori pressed her back against the tree, but she had to admit that there was no way out: if she even tried to run away, the man would catch her.

"M-Maybe?" she said shyly, what made the man laugh harder.

"You are so stupid, little girl. Do you know who am I?" he asked again, but Tori shook her head. "Don't worry, I won't tell you. Let's say only that I was one of your father's „friends". He lost a bet what we made when you and that brat were little babies, and he still didn't give me what he promised he will if he loses the bet. And since he is no longer alive, you are the one who will pay for his stupidity!" he told her, but it was more likely yelling than talking. A single teardrop flowed down on Tori's cheek when he talked about her dad and the stuff he did, and she had no idea what was going on, but it was the first time in her life, when she wanted that certain click to just come and let her become a psychopath to get rid of the man.

"What do you want from me?" she asked quietly. He laughed again.

"The thing what your father promised me that I will get!"

"What is that? M-Maybe I can give it to you..." she said, her voice was shaking, but she couldn't care much at the moment.

"Money, little girl. Money."

"H-How much?" she asked, closing her eyes again.

"One million dollars." he said, as a huge grin spread across his face.

"What?!" she screamed disappointed. She thought it was going to be about a hundred bucks, which she could pay to him if she could find a job, but it was a way more than what she expected.

"You heard me. And I want my money now."

"And... what if I can't pay you now?" she asked awkwardly.

"Then some things will happen... and they aren't nice at all." he smirked. She forgot to breathe for a second when he pulled out a knife from his pocket and held it up high in the air, getting ready to stab her.

Beck finally decided to go home, too, after watching the sight for over 10 minutes. His thoughts were running in his head, and he couldn't really think anymore. He just stood up from the bench he was sitting on, when a bloodcurdling scream filled the air...

I'm sorry for the long waiting again, I'm really, really, really sorry! :( But I hoped you liked this chapter anyways :) And I have to ask you two questions this time, but I will try to make them short. Please answer them in your review or in private message, that would mean so much to me.

So, since you probably know, Victorious is ending this weekend (I'm already so pissed off and sad, I don't know what to do with myself right at the moment... When I try to look at the future, in the coming two weeks, I see only myself yelling with everyone and being mad at everything for no reason, so I hope this time I'm wrong... :P), and I have a feeling that after about a month after the show ended, there won't be anyone readign fanfictions, so I don't know what to do with an idea what just came up to my mind about a week ago. So here is my first question: Will you read fanfictions even after the show ended? If not, don't even read the next question, if yes, please take a moment to read that, too. :P

I have this idea in my head for over a week, and at first, it came up as a Victorious fanfic, but I realized that I wouldn't be able to finish that story in 3 days, and that I should get used to writing with another characters, too... But here is my question anyways: Would you be interested in a crime/drama/romance themed fanfic?

So these are my two questions :) I know this A/N turned out pretty long, but these things are really, really, really important for me, so I would appreciate if you answered them. Oh, and I almost forgot, thank you for reading! P.S.: Next time I will be seriously faster with writing, I promise.