"An update? It's a miracle 0-0)..."
I'm sorry, I'm such a slacker when it comes to updates...
I'd like to thank the oscars...no, just kidding :P
Actually, I'd like to thank Invader Johnny, ScottyBgood, and Lushcoltrane for reviewing on this fic, on every chapter even though I suck at updating. I know they are like three of the active and best writers in the Jori fandom, so that is pretty awesome.
Also to everyone else who encouraged me to continue this and reviewed, as well as those who faved and followed. THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS
And thank you for bearing with me, haha
Now here's the update. I guess it's a teensy bit fast-forward. It's a little short but it's nice. I hope xD
Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious.
"Will you stop staring at my girlfriend?!" I held Tori tighter against me. Glaring at Beck who had not, as I said to him, stopped staring at my girlfriend ever since he entered and he's still at the door.
"Really Beck, it's getting kind of uncomfortable," Tori shifted on her spot, my arm still around her.
"I-I'm sorry Tori, I just…I can't believe this," a wide grin finally made it to his face and he made quick, big steps and wrapped my girlfriend in a hug. "I can't believe all this, it's really you." He hugged her tighter.
"Three, two-" and they quickly separated, Beck holding up his hands in the air as if in surrender.
"I…Wow," Beck exclaimed again.
"Stop ogling my girlfriend Oliver!" I led us to the couch and Trina wrapped her sister in a hug again, Beck smiled as he sat on the other couch.
"I can't believe this either," said Trina and hugged Tori closer, my girlfriend looked like she was about to suffocate. But I understand how Trina feels, she missed her sister dearly and now, here she is back in the flesh. Even I'm having a hard time wrapping all this in my head but she's here and that's all that really matters.
"I'm so happy to be back, too." Tori hugged her sister equally hard.
"I'm glad that you're back Tori, but-" I directly look at Beck with a glare. "How are we going to explain this to others? You can't possibly just coop up in her for the rest of your, well, second life here."
"My parents said they have it figured out." Tori and I, along with her parents hatched out a plan earlier on how to deal with this. "My dad and Mr. West will change the files of my case in the police record and my Mom's friend at the hospital altered the information. They'll change it to some unknown profile since my face could…hardly be…" Tori stopped and breathed in deep trying to continue. I took her hand in mine and gave it a squeeze. Her sister pulled her in for a half hug and she smiled gratefully at both of us.
"Anyway, they'll pass it off as mistaken identity and wait out for a week and see how it goes," she gave a small smile.
"But do you think they'll believe it? It's been almost more than a month since your funeral," said Beck.
"Well, my family knows, and that extends to my mother's side but not my father's, at least yet, and you guys, too. This is all I really need. Family and friends."
I pulled her in for a kiss which obviously caught her by surprise but responded back anyway. I would've deepened it if it weren't for the others around. She smiled softly at me and I gave her one last peck on the lips.
"I know my life will never go back to the way it was," she said turning back to the two, "I'm not sure if I want to go back to HA, my parents said they won't have trouble of home-schooling me and you'll be graduating soon anyways, so." She trailed off and gave a shrug.
"What do you mean?" Beck raised a brow then smirked. "We will be graduating. We are not going to leave you behind." Tori got a little teary eyed but gave a huge smile at that thought. "It doesn't matter if you'll continue in HA or not but we're all in this together."
"Did you just quote High School Musical?" I raised my brow at him and he shrugged.
"It's true-" Beck cut off as a flurry of red came bounding in the house and tackled Tori. Trina, Beck and I quickly stood up but Tori was practically strapped down on the couch.
"I can't believe it! I can't believe it! I can't believe it! I thought my brother was telling me another one of his crazy stories but no! It's real! You're real!" When the blabbering mess of red finally let go it showed that it was our good old crazy friend, Cat.
"What are you doing here?!" I moved to remove the redhead from straddling my girlfriend but Cat wouldn't budge and hugged the brunette again.
"Cat? H-how?" It took a few seconds but Tori's arms slowly moved from her sides to around the body in front of her, finally hugging the redhead. They stayed like that, almost glued to each other.
Cat moved away a bit to speak, "I heard from my brother, who said that Mom had told him that you were brought back to life!" She proceeded to hug Tori again.
"Yes, she has been returned to life and she needs air to breathe." I got the redhead's arms off of my girl and Cat started hugging me instead. I let it happen with a scowl on my face for three seconds, "Get. Off." I finally said through gritted teeth.
"Alright, time to calm down Kitty-Cat," Beck got Cat off me but the redhead had now clung to him. He held Cat by the waist and smirked, "I'm gonna go on a whim here, but Cat has powers, too?"
As he asked this, Trina moved to remove Cat- that was now clinging to Beck like a koala.
I rolled my eyes before answering. "Why do you think she's all rainbows and glitters?"
"Because she's Cat?" he questioned, "and that's how she rolls?"
Cat giggled, "I don't roll silly." She shook her head lightly.
"Yeah, partly…" I looked at Cat mildly disturbed. I took my seat back with Tori, I kissed the side of her head then she leaned her head on my shoulder. I don't care if I'm being sappy, I am going to be as affectionate as fuck with my girlfriend, so whatever.
"So how did you come back to life Tori?" Cat,who has finally sat down like a normal person, asked with a seriousness that mildly surprised Beck but not me nor the sisters.
"With some help by her jerk of an uncle." Jade rolled her eyes.
"Stop that. He was…you know, just...yeah, he was a jerk," Tori conceded.
"Was it the one that creepily looked a lot like a guy version of mom?" Trina asked. "You know long shaggy hair, black jeans, black denim jacket, almost like a 2000's dark, modernized kind of fashion?"
"Yes…how'd you know?" Tori raised her eyebrow at her sister. But instead of answering, Trina went to their television stand that had a drawer below the DVD player and started rummaging through it.
"Told you she was crazy," I muttered to Tori who slapped my arm. "I think I like the movie ghosts better. They just pass through people." I pouted.
Tori rolled her eyes at me, "Oh please, they can touch you if they're high-leveled or powerful enough" she said.
"They have a level?" I asked, but before she could answer Trina came back with an old looking album.
She set it on the table and the rest of us gathered close to it. She flipped through some pages, they were the early 90's kinds of pictures colored but still old-looking.
"Meet Uncle Harrol." She tapped on a picture of a young Vega family that consisted of the members from Mrs. Vega's side. Tori's grandparents were behind the young looking Vega couple, David had little Trina sat on his left leg and there on the left side of Holly, who was holding a baby Tori, was said man.
He wasn't looking at the picture but rather scowling down to a baby Tori. The Tori now swallowed at the sight of the picture. The other pictures weren't any better but they weren't the worst. He was just scowling or had an impassive face on them while looking at the camera.
"So, you know him?" I asked. Trina is actually two years older than us.
"No," she answered, "Dad wouldn't let me near him. He…He was odd…" she finished unsure, "He…"
"What Trina? What did he do?" Tori asked.
"He didn't do anything. Actually, he disappeared when I was four and you were two back then. "
"Disappeared?" Beck asked, confusion on his face, but to be honest I'm pretty sure it was on mine, too. He looked like he had a personal grudge on Tori or maybe even with their whole family. If I remember Holly's story right, he hated the fact that Holly didn't marry that dude from the Demetrus family. And they had a small agreement of what the payment for his 'help' will be.
These pictures were taken years after David and Holly's marriage, Trina and Tori are already here and it seems he stayed for a year more. But why would he leave all of a sudden, had he nothing to gain here anymore? Did he finally realize that Tori and Trina's mom wasn't going to marry the guy she was engaged to from the Demetrus family? Or is there a much bigger picture we can't see here. I get the sick feeling that things are just starting to get complicated.
I know it's short, like I said from my top A/N. But I felt like this was a good place to stop.
I think I keep ending these chapters with not-so-much-of-an-ending thing, it's like the whole mystery is just getting bigger and bigger. I kind of have an idea of what will happen but things can still change so, even I'm in for a surprise of what could happen. See ya in the next chapter ^-^) Let's all hope it's soon. xD
Oh yeah, to the Jori fandom, what are Jade and Tori's GENDERSWAP names?
Actually, what would the Victorious gang's name be if genderswapped?
I don't think there are any genderswap story in the victorious fandom, and since Jade and Beck are the canon couple in the show and most others basically ship Andre & Tori and then Cat & Robbie, I kind of get why they wouldn't genderswap them...but still let me know.
The reason I asked this is because I've been writing this story at school in my notebook and I changed Jade to Jay in my writings because I don't want my friends to know that I'm writing femslash xD
I don't think they're ready to know about that. Ever.
Again, 'til next time. :)