Disclaimer: Victorious STILL belongs to Nickelodeon and Dan Schneider. If it belonged to me: Jade and Tori would have been together and I would have not cancelled the show.


Chapter 7- I love you, for you.

Tori's recover has been one of the most exhausting things in my life. For the last 2 months and a half all I have done is be there for her, not like our friends who visit her every day. I have been by her side every possible second I could, catering to her every need. It feels like a cycle. I wake up, have breakfast, go to school, bring her lunch. Then she convinces me to go back to school, finish my afterschool rehearsals with Sikowitz, and head straight back to the hospital. I stay until the very last possible moment and then I go home, take a shower, fall asleep and repeat everything the next morning. Some might say that I am taking things to the extreme, but honestly all I want is for her recovery to go by as painless as possible.

She has made remarkable recovery in this time. She decided to try therapy first, before the phono-surgery. And let me tell you, her voice has returned. She can't speak to loud, or too low or yell. She obviously can't sing yet, but she can talk without using a dreaded white board. I missed hearing her voice, and her first words were "I love you". I smiled remembering that amazing moment in our relationship.

Right now, I'm on my way back to her room after my rehearsals with Sikowitz. I swear, that man has been giving us so much extra-curricular work there days. Every day it's a new monologue he wants me to work on, or a new song he wants me to record with Andre, or a new idea for a play that he wants to discuss. Yesterday, he had me edit a short film from one of his freshmen students because the dude is a complete failure at it, and today, he had me help some kids with designing the stage for the play they are putting up before the final showcase. It's exhausting; all I want to do is be with Tori and he keeps piling things on to me

Before I enter Tori's room, I hear a familiar man's voice coming from the inside.

"Toro, I'm running out of things to give her. Sooner or later, you will have to face her."

"But Sikowitz, you don't understand. She is just so… you know, JADE." Tori responds. "Just please, keep this up for a few more days, I will talk to her soon."

"Sikowitz is right, chica. You need to confront Jade. She hasn't been herself lately." That's Andre. I know that voice anywhere, and nobody else calls her chica but him.

I decide to interrupt right there.

"Confront me about what, Victoria?" I narrow my eyes at her.

"Jade! Hey, how was school?" she smiles at me.

"Don't change the topic, Vega!" she cringes at how I sneer her last name.

"Jadelyn, please. Calm down." She is trying to not have a discussion.

"Calm down? You want me to calm down? Is there really something so drastically wrong that you have decided to bring more people into the problem? Have you and I not been honest enough with each other that you can't say things straight to my face?"

"Exactly how long have you been standing outside of my room?"

"Long enough to finally figure out that Sikowitz has been bombarding me with work for the last couple of weeks on purpose. All of this because apparently, you told him to!"

"Jade. Please, Calm down. You know this type of yelling and stress isn't good for Tori's recovery." I look straight at Andre and realize what I have just done. I instantly regret it.

I look over at Tori, my beautiful Tori. "I am so sorry, honey. I didn't mean to yell. Please forgive me."

I did not expect what happened next. "See, this is exactly why I had Sikowitz keep you busy. I don't like this, Jade!" she is so angry at me.

"Victoria, what did I do? I just apologized. I'm sorry. I was just a slip of my control. I didn't men it. Please, baby" I beg. Why is she being like this.

"That's exactly it, Jade." She suddenly takes a deep breath. "Look Jade, I love you. I love you, so much. But ever since the accident you have changed. You're submissive and apologizing and" "-Are you breaking up with me?" I panicked.

"God, no, Jade. Of course not, silly." I breathed in relief. :I'm just saying that you don't have to tip-toe around me. I don't want you to be this new calm Jade. She isn't the girl I fell in love with. I want my Jade back. The extremely sexy hard ass that will stab anyone with her scissors if they look at her the wrong way. The one who teases me relentlessly because she likes getting a reaction out of me. I want that Jade back. I'm not saying that you have to go back to being mean and terrorizing people, mainly me, but I just don't want you to think that you have to change completely just because you are with me. I love you, for you, not anybody else."

I'm speechless.

"You're speechless?" she inquires.

I didn't ever realize I said that out loud. I can feel my entire body heating up.

"I admit I have changed drastically these last couple of weeks, but its only because I didn't want to hurt you. I just wanted to make things easier for you. You have enough on your plate without me being a gank all the time."

"Oh I know, Jade. But, I miss the old you. I miss the teasing, the fire in your eyes when you see something or someone getting hurt. I want my morbid-obsessed girlfriend back."

"Okay, Tori. I promise. I will start acting like myself again."

I turn to Sikowitz, but I realize that both him and Andre are gone. I shrug and lay down next to Tori on the hospital bed. I wrap my arms around her and kiss her, gently. She still has bruising on her neck.

She cups my cheek and kisses the corner of my mouth. "Well, now since I got that off of my chest, Let's try and get you back to normal." She pulls out her PearPad from under her pillow and goes to the video section. Suddenly the starting sequence to The Scissoring plays in the screen.

"Oh, yeah. My girl knows how to please me." I smirk at her. She kisses my cheek and snuggles into me while my favorite slasher-horror film plays for the next 2 hours and a half. She gasps and hides in my neck the whole time, and I laugh at her reactions and the fact that the film is just so perfect and so is this moment.

"So, did I risk my mental health for a good cause or do I need to replay this until you do." She asks me.

"Shut up, Vega. You talk too much." I kiss her rapidly.

"That's my girl." She smirks and kisses me again.


Authors Note:

Hey guys! I'm sorry for not updating sooner. This is just a little chapter I came up with in my literature class. I hope you guys enjoy it. As always, Respond and review. Give me ideas you would like to see and where to take this story, because I lost my way here a little bit. As you can see, Jade West is back and better than ever.

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