A/N: This is my favorite episode. the one that got me hooked on this show in the first place. I hope you like what I did with it because this made me realize how HARD it is going to be to bring these two together organically. Enjoy

The one with the Blackout

At the Coffee shop, about a month later. They had an open mic night. Cat had signed up to sing, so Jade got up to introduce her. Tori leaned back she ran her hand over her tummy she was starting to show a little.

Jade got to the mic and it squealed. but no one but the friends stopped to pay attention. "Everyone Shut up!" she stated annoyed. "Listen, This open mike night is kicking off with the music of Cat Valentine."

The crowd applauded as Cat got up to the mic. "Hi!" Cat said sweetly. "I'm gonna start with a really deep song about life." She picked up her guitar and strummed a chord and the lights went out. "Okay thank you very much!" Cat said.

There was a bit of panic in the Cafe. "Everyone, It looks like there is a blackout in the entire city. It's dark outside. The Cafe is closed you don't have to go home but you have to get the Hell out of here." Jade stated as people began to filter out of the cafe using their phones as flashlights.

Tori stood very carefully and walked over to her sister. "Lets go up to my apartment. make a party of it." Trina said taking her sister's hand. She was always so careful around her and especially now that there was a blackout. "Be careful Tori, you could trip and fall."

"Okay, Okay." Tori said standing Just outside the door waiting for Andre, Beck, Cat and Rachel joined them.

Once they got to their apartment, Trina got a call to her phone. Jade headed straight for the big window by the balcony and grinned. "The Whole city is out."

Trina looked at the rest of the friends and nodded. "Mom says it is All of Manhattan, parts of Brooklyn and Queens, and they have no idea when it will be back on."

"That's huge." Jade said with a smirk, and sunk into the sofa next to Tori.

"Pants and a sweater!" Trina said to her mother on the phone. The gang turned to face her confused. "Why, mom? Who am I gonna meet in a blackout? Power company guys, eligible looters?" she paused and scoffed. "Can we talk about this later? MOM!" she just pulled the phone from her ear and tossed it on the coffee table.

"Oh that reminds me," Cat said pulling out her phone from her cleavage. "I need to call my nana to make sure she's okay… What's my number?" All the friends looked at her incredulously. "what? I never call that number."

"It isn't in your contacts?" Trina asked.

"Maybe…" Cat says and searches. "Wait! Nana has her own phone!"

They all roll their eyes and begin to raid the fridge for perishables. Just then Beck and Andre walked into the apartment with a menorah with the candles lit. "Hey guys," Andre said setting it down on the coffee table.

"And officiating at tonight's blackout, is Rabbi Harris." Tori said with a chuckle.

"Well, Robbie is Jewish, and these are the only candles we have, so Happy Chanukah everyone." Beck said sitting in the chair at the corner of the living room.

Tori's phone rang as she sat there. "Hey, it's Robbie!" she said and answered. "Hey are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm good." Robbie said.

"Where are you?" She asked

"M stk in n lvtr with Kt pton." He said trying to cover up what he is saying.

"You're where?" Tori asked. He repeated himself three times and she couldn't understand him. "Oh my god just TEXT ME!" she shouted. he hung up and did just as she had asked.

ROB: I am stuck in an elevator with Kate Upton.

"Oh my god Robbie is stuck in an elevator with Kate Upton!" Tori said excitedly.

With that all of the guys picked up their phones and texted him.

Andre: Take A Pic!

Beck: Prove it

Tori: That's pretty hot.

"Lets play a game!" Cat said

"These blackout games get so deep." Beck said.

"Oh please." Tori said rolling her eyes.

"Oh no… someone always ends up revealing deep down secrets and thangs." Andre said, and paused a moment. "I'm in."

"Me to…" Beck agreed.

"Fine." Tori said.

"Yay!" Cat said with a clap

"Why not?" Trina said. "I really have nothing to hide."

Jade only looked at her nails. she was curious, but really didn't want to reveal things about herself to these people. If they saw how truly vanilla she was compared to her persona she could never live it down. "Alright, I have a question. What is the weirdest place you have ever done it?" She figured she could probably make something interesting up.

"Okay I'll go," Trina said. "Senior year of college… on a pool table… at the student union." everyone was awed.

"Gross, Trina." Tori said.

"I'll go." Beck said sitting up straighter. "My weirdest place would have to be… The women's room on the second floor of the New York City Public library."

Jade laughed. "Wow, wild man."

"What were you doing in a library?" Tori asked

"Okay Cat Go." Jade asked.

"Milwaukee." Cat answered simply.

"Okay…" Trina said… "Andre!"

"New York City Cab." Andre answered proudly puffing up his chest.

"Nice…" Jade said then looked at Tori with her pregnant belly. "How about You Vega?"

"Disneyland, The small World Ride… " Tori said blushing. Jade looked at her impressed and knew she couldn't top that at all. because she hadn't done much at all.

"MY GOD! is that why you never want to go to Disneyland anymore?" Trina screamed.

"How did that happen?" Beck asked.

"Spill girl!" Andre added.

"Well… The ride broke down. So Carl and I went behind a couple of those mechanical dutch children… then they fixed the ride, and we were banned from the Magic Kingdom." Tori said pressing both her hands to the side of her stomach as if to cover the baby's ears.

"Wow," Cat said. "I can never ride that ride again."

"How about you Jade?" Tori asked softly

"I already went." Jade said quickly.

"Did not!" Andre said.

She looked at Beck, and Blushed. Beck started laughing. Tori looked between the two of them remembering that in fact the two of them had been together before. "Me and Beck did it on my front porch while my Dad and brother played football in the yard on Thanksgiving."

"What!" Tori said in shock.

"Her mom walked out to call us for dinner and caught us."

"Step Back!" Andre shouted. "We have a winner!"

Tori sat alone in the corner of the room. Brooding a little about the whole front porch thing. Why Beck had the pleasure of being with Jade. Then she looked at Beck and agreed he was hot as hell and she didn't really have a chance since she was lacking a penis.

Jade sat down beside her and bumped a booted foot with Tori. Tori looked over at her. "Your front porch?"

"Well… That's nothing like the Magic Kingdom." Jade said. "I just never had a relationship with that kind of passion, you know, where you have to have someone in the middle of a theme park FULL of children." She drunk from her beer bottle and shook her head. "Great example for the fetus there Tor."

"Luckily, I won't be doing that again, so…" Tori said realizing she really shouldn't brood about it at all… she had done worse herself.

"It's why I couldn't marry Alex." Jade said. "I thought I'll marry an old Rich guy that still looked good enough to sleep with you know, I'd definitely live longer than him and have all the luxury in the world. But Alex didn't even have a romantic bone in his body, and I found out that sometimes I need a grand gesture."

"I get that." Tori finally said

"I couldn't go through life not ever getting passion, you know?" Jade continued.

"Well… Passion is overrated." Tori said with a shrug.

"you think so?"

Tori nodded. "It is. Eventually, it kind of… burns out. But hopefully what you are left with is trust, and security. In the case of Carl rainbow colored. So If you do miss out on passion, there is all this other great stuff."

Jade sighed and took a swig of her beer. "Okay, I guess."

"But I don't think think that's going to be you." Tori asked. "Cause I don't ever see you as passionless. You have a lot of passion for your work Jade, so I see no reason passion should bypass you in your future."

"Yeah?"Jade asked. Tori nodded. Jade reached out and patted Tori's thigh. "You're cool Vega. I was wrong about you when we were kids." Then she got up and went off to talk to Cat and Trina.

Beck shook his head. as he sat on the couch across from where Jade and Tori had been sitting. "It's never going to happen."

"What?" Tori asked.

"You and Jade." He answered.

What makes you think I want something to happen?" Tori asked

"Don't you?"

"Well why not?" Tori whined more than asked.

"Well, she's straight… and even if she weren't, you waited too long to make your move. you were in a better position when she hated you. you could have gotten in on passion alone. Now you are totally Friend zoned."

"But that's what I had been trying to do all these years. Tori said.

"For you, the friend zone would never work." Beck stated crossing his legs at the ankles.

"I'm taking my time okay. I am laying the groundwork. Yeah, I mean every day I get just a little bit closer to-

"The convent!" Beck interrupted. "Look Tor, she has no idea what you are thinking. If you don't ask her out soon, you are going to be friend zoned forever."

"What is a right time to tell a straight girl you want her?"

"How about now?" Beck asked.

"Now?" Tori asked.

"Yeah, I mean… look around. there is wine, candles, moonlight. Just go up to Jade and say-" Beck begins to say and is interrupted by Tori as she shushes him.

"What are you shushing." Jade asked coming up behind beck.

"I'm trying to hear something… Listen." Tori said. everyone grew silent. "Don't you hear it?"

"Damn it Vega, I don't want to hear our neighbors down the hall do the sweaty monkey." Jade said.

"That's not what I was listening for!" Tori said and Jade walked out to the balcony.

"Go talk to her!" Beck stated.

"Okay… here I go." Tori said.

"Do you need help?" Beck asked.

"I swear if you come out there, you are a dead man." Tori stated. Beck smiled and gave her a little shove to the balcony.

Jade was looking out at the darkened city. "This is so cool." she said.

"Jade?" Tori asked.

Jade turned to face Tori. "What Vega?"

"For a while now I have been wanting to , um."

Jades eyes went wide as Tori talked "Oh wow." she said.

"Yeah… I mean… " Tori said thinking that Jade was getting all of her hinting and finally figured out that she loved her.

"There is a cat just behind you." Jade said.

"What?" Tori asked just as the cat jumped on her shoulder. "OW!" It attacked Tori and pulled at her hair. Jade reached out and sort of Knocked it off of Tori. She turned to kick it away but story stopped. her. "Wait Don't kick him."

Jade turned to face the girl and picked the cat up and cuddled him. "He scratched you pretty bad." Jade said.

"It's okay, Jade won't hurt you." Tori said

"Well you should get Trina to help you with those scratches." Jade said and they both walked into the apartment. Tori forgot what she wanted to tell her.

Tori sat at the kitchen table, and Jade asked for Trina's help taking the cat from Tori's hands. "This is Bactine. It won't hurt." Trina said putting some on a cotton ball while Andre held the candle over her.

"Ow!" Tori exclaimed. "I thought you said it wouldn't hurt?"

"Sorry that was wax." Andre said.

"Poor little kitty." Cat said reaching over Jade and petting the cat on the head. "He's scared to death."

"I'm putting him out in the hall." Jade said standing and headed toward the door.

"During a black out?" Tori protested. "Jade, he'll get trampled!"

"Your point?" Jade asked.

"Jade lets go find it's owners." Cat said pulling jade toward the door.

They began to walk the hall and stopped at the first door. "Oh no… not here Jade these guys are meanies." Cat said.

Jade rolled her eyes and headed for the other door. Cat knocked and Mr. Heckles answered the door in his robe. "We found this cat, is it yours?" Jade asked.

Mr. Heckles looked out around the hall then at the cat and nodded. "Yeah it's mine."

Cat held the cat tighter to her chest. Jade narrowed her eyes. "This cat hates you, are you sure it's yours?" Cat asked.

"Yeah it's mine… Give me my cat." The grungy old man said.

"What's his name?" Cat asked.

"B-buttons… uh yeah." The man said.

Jade quirked a brow. "Bob Buttons?"

"Yup." He said then calls the cat to him. "Bob Buttons. Here Kitty." But the cat struggled and jumped out of Cat's arms and ran away disappearing in the darkness.

Cat gasped and looked at the man. "You're horrible!" She said and darted off in the direction of the cat. Jade followed sauntering.

"You owe me a cat." Mr. Heckles said and slammed his door.

"Cat, Let's split up." Jade said after a while. "You look at one end of the hall, and I'll look the other.

"Okay kay." She said and headed off looking for the cat with her candle. Jade headed the opposite direction.

"Kitty, here Kitty." Jade called "Where did you go you little fur ball?" she said bending down to peer into the darkness. She ran into a set of legs, and as she followed the legs up to a muscular torso and the most handsome face she had seen in a long time. He was also holding the cat. He said something she couldn't understand but she knew it was Italian. She exhaled. "Wow." and her candle blew out.

In the apartment the gang has set up a monopoly set, and Tori was rolling. "Yes! double sixes!" She shouts just as Jade walked into the apartment with the sexy italian man at her arm.

"Hey guys, This is Paolo." Jade said and everyone turned to look. Tori and Trina stood staring at him stupefied. "Paolo, meet my friends. Trina, Beck, Andre, and Tori."

Both Trina and Tori melted when he spoke to them in Italian. "Hi…" They said in unison.

"He doesn't speak much English." Jade said giving Paolo the same stupid grin the other two girls were giving him. That was when Tori realized The woman she was about to ask out, found someone else.

"Monopoly!" The idiot shouted and Tori glared.

"Where did he come from Jade?" Tori asked.

"Uh… Italy Vega…" Jade said.

"I meant tonight, in the building. Suddenly into our lives?" Tori asked folding her arms over her chest.

"Oh Bambini!" Paolo said signalling to Tori's little bump. she dropped her arms angrily and waited for Jade to answer.

"That cat! It belongs to him." Jade said thankful that Tori had insisted she go find the owner.

"Oh great!" Tori said and turned away from the fawning Jade. She stomps over to Andre. "She keeps touching him." She puts her head on his shoulder and he pats her head.

Just then Cat walked in sad. "I looked for the kitty every where and couldn't find…whoa daddy." She trailed off when she saw Paolo standing there in his simple white T. "Who is this hot cup of Java?"

"He's the Cat's owner." Jade answered.

"You mean to tell me I have been looking for this cat all over and it's already safe at home? You didn't come and find me!" Paolo came toward Cat and said something that of course no one understood but it served to diffuse the Catsplotion that was about to happen. She melted as he took her hand and kissed the back of it. "You betcha." She said once he was done.

"Hey Paolo, check out our Balcony, this is where I found your cat." Jade said pulling him away from cute little Cat.

Tori watched as Jade and the infuriatingly handsome person with a penis talked to the woman she loved in his language. "Fuck he's hot."

"I don't know I think you have him beat on the hotness factor." Andre stated.

"But he has a penis."

"That is true…."

"How am I supposed to beat that?" Tori said.

"You might have to let it go."

They watch as Jade walked away from the man laughing. "What was so funny?" Tori asked her.

"Fuck if I know Vega." Jade said slight blush coloring her cheeks.

"Right." Tori said joining the three women at the kitchen table.

"Oh my god… I just want to mount him." Jade said holding her head in her hands.

"Girl if you don't I will." Trina said with a smirk.

"Ugh I just want to bite his bottom lip." Cat said, Jade glared at her. "I won't! I just want to." she clarified.

"His stupid smile was enough to make me wet myself." Jade mumbled. Tori quirked a brow and dropped into the chair to listen to this. "We don't know each other, we don't speak the same language, and it is all about looks… should I go for it?"

"No!" Tori said. but was overruled by Cat and Trina's very loud "Yeeeeeees" and "GOD Yes!"

Tori got up in a huff and went over to the man of the hour. "Hey." she said to him trying not to sound angry.

"Tori!" he said in his accented way and kind of sent a thrill into her especially when he added that stupid panty wetting smile.

"Yeah, um I think you should know… um Jade and I...we...are kind of together." She said

"Lesbica?" Paolo said. "Have the sex?"

"Um…. yes… well no."

"we.. terzetto?" He asked putting his hands together entwining his fingers. "The sex…"

God yes… wait what? she thought. "No!" she said out loud. "I want you to leave her alone. she's mine. Capice?

"Si." he said looking a bit confused.

"You do understand a little English right?" She asked.

"A leetle." he said pinching his fingers to signal just the little bit he understood.

"You understand the word asshat?" he shakes his head no. "Well you are a huge asshat!" Tori said and patted him his bicep in a friendly way. fuck he is hot. she thought as she walked away from him.

A short while later they were down to the last candle. They all gathered in one area of the apartment. The phones had long run out of charge. Andre brought over his guitar and the talented friends began to sing to songs that they used to perform when in school.

Jade is settled on the couch cuddled up with Paolo, he played with her hair as she sang and finally the last candle blew out. The friends began to laugh maniacally. "I got you beat guys." Tori said standing up and began to laugh maniacally as the lights came back up, the first thing she saw was Jade and Paolo making out. "Oh god." she whispered and backs away. "I'm gonna go home now good night."

A/N: That was that! I hope you enjoyed this. I did. I know I have had a pretty hard time making this more Victorious than Friends. I hope this chapter makes up for it. Let me know what you think. I post these chapters every Tuesday (hopefully) and on Thursday we have the next MBM chapter. 'Til next time, much love!- S.K. MUAH!