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Disclaimer: I don't own victorious.


The start of the semester was definitely not as idyllic as any of them had hoped. Yes they were all in senior year but the work load was intense and relationships within the group were straining. School was extra hard for Tori and Andre as being around each other whilst still recovering from their break up was awkward at best. They were trying to make their friendship work but after being in a relationship for almost a year, things just felt wrong between them and they couldn't be alone together.

The first few weeks of school were also extremely tough for Beck and Jade. The couple had to get used to alternating between leaving their daughter for several hours a day and being a stay-at-home parent on the others. Because they were always swapping roles they found they were spending less and less time actually with each other and a lot of time just passing each other by. Nevertheless the one day a week they left Elsa with Beck's parents was proving to be the toughest of all.

It wasn't until 2 weeks into the semester that they made the leap and left Elsa at her grandparents for the night. They took their daughter over to Beck's parents early that Thursday morning along with a bag of her things and milk. They didn't want to make it an emotional or drawn out goodbye so they left after only twenty minutes, as soon as Elsa seemed to be settled in.

The whole gang knew this was happening and were completely aware how hard it would be for the couple. Tori received a text from Andre early that morning, both of them agreeing for their friends sake to try to act as normal around each other as possible that day. Even Cat and Robbie had formulated a plan to keep Beck and Jade occupied and take their mind off the fact they would be without their daughter for 24 hours.

That morning, Beck and Jade walked into school, side by side, school bags over their shoulders and the weirdest sense of what-used-to-be surrounding them. Their friends were stood in the corridor and smiled supportively when the couple joined them. They'd never looked so young before and it felt completely unnatural to see Beck and Jade without Elsa by their side. Tori wanted to ask Jade how she was feeling about it but the couple were evidently making an extra effort not to mention the six month old, so she held her tongue.

By lunch time, the nerves were starting to kick in. Elsa had never been away for them both this long and neither of them had received any word from Louise on whether Elsa was coping. Jade joined Tori, Andre and Cat at their usual table in the Asphalt cafe and immediately began shovelling her pasta salad down her throat. Tori frowned watching her and glanced up at Andre who looked equally concerned.

"Hey" Beck greeted the group as he and Robbie took their seats at the table. Fortunately Beck seemed to be looking a little less anxious than Jade did.

"Hi Beck, how are you?" Tori asked kindly.

"Great" Beck faked a smile, stopping to stand behind Jade. He casually placed his hand over her's preventing her from putting anymore food in her mouth.

"Stop it!" Jade shook his hand away.

"When I said we'll call Mum after lunch I didn't mean this. You're going to make yourself ill if you eat that fast." Beck said worriedly.

"Why don't we just phone her now?" Jade dropped her fork, asking exasperatedly.

"No we said after lunch." Beck insisted, pulling his wallet out of his bag, "Do you want coffee?"

"Yes." Jade grumbled, unable to even fake looking calm anymore. Beck kissed her on the cheek before leaving to get them both coffee. The atmosphere around the table went quiet, noone knowing what to say to each other.

"So what did you guys think about the Drama lecture we had before?" Robbie asked enthusiastically, trying to break the tension.

"I thought it was very interesting Robbie, I've never considered Shakespeare in that way before." Tori instantly replied, thankful he'd made the first move. "What did you think Andre?"

"It was definitely an eye opener." Andre nodded in awkward agreement. Cat shuffled closer to Jade who remained quiet and whispered a reassurance in her ear. Jade shrugged and pushed her lunch forwards unable to eat anymore.

"Hey would you two like to come over tonight? We can go through the pop vocals homework" Tori asked the two girls enthusiastically.

"I can't I have to go to my ballet class tonight, sorry Tori" Cat explained apologetically. Tori shrugged and turned to Jade.

"Errrm I don't know." Jade mumbled.

"Do you have plans?" Tori blinked innocently.

"You know I don't." Jade narrowed her eyes.

"I need your help, I'm useless at music!" Tori begged. "Pleeeeeeeasseee!"

"Fine! If it will shut you up!" The pale girl snapped.

"J.. play nice" Beck placed a coffee cup in front of her before sitting beside Andre.

"Hey do you want to come back to mine tonight since Jades going to Tori's? Andre suggested to the tanned guy.

"Yeah why not.. I've got nothing else to do." Beck shrugged. He eyed Jade cautiously because she seemed to be reaching her limit with the whole 'We're just normal teenagers', 'We have no responsibilities' act and she began to rub her temples in stress. The gang carried on talking but Jade didn't participate at all, keeping her head in her hands.

"Come on you" Beck sighed a few minutes later, taking a final swig of his coffee.

"Now?" Jade looked up hopefully.

"Uh huh." Beck nodded. Jade exhaled in relief and both of them stood up to find somewhere private to phone Louise.

Sitting under a tree in a quiet corner of school, Beck and Jade were reassured by the grandmother that Elsa was fine. She had just finished her lunchtime feed when they called and Louise even attempted to put the baby on the phone. The attempt was pretty unsuccessful given that Elsa had no idea what was going on but Jade in particular appreciated the effort.

"See she's fine" Beck said once they'd hung up and began walking back towards the Asphalt.

"I just wish we could pick her up after school." Jade sighed "A whole night is just.."

"Is just enough." Beck assured her "We both need extra time to focus on our studies after last year. This works for us."

"Does it work for Elsa?" Jade asked nervously.

"I think it does" Beck nodded. "You're doing well babe."

"Don't patronise me" Jade grumbled.

"I'm not." Beck assured her, taking hold of her hand "I just want you to know, you're doing good."

Jade exhaled glancing up at him vulnerably. "Keep me going with this."

"Will do" Beck smiled pulling her in for a kiss. The bell rang mid lip lock but they ignored it continuing to kiss. Eventually however they had to split up in order to go to their individual classes. The whole thing still felt completely weird but they were both much more relaxed now they'd had the chance to talk to Louise. The question was, how long would that last?


Around 10pm that night, Beck got back to the apartment after hanging out with Andre all evening. The two friends had ended up ordering pizza and playing xbox and they even managed to get their science homework done. Cat was just getting ready for bed when he arrived and was making herself a cup of camomile tea in the kitchen. Beck joined her making himself a cup before taking a seat in the living room and putting on a movie to wait for Jade. But it wasn't until almost midnight when Jade got home.

"Hey babe" Beck muted the tv, the moment Jade threw her car keys onto the side table and turned back to her.

"I can't do this. I want my baby back." Jade insisted, crossing her arms and looking determined. The apartment felt so empty without Elsa's presence. None of her things were out, none of her toys, nothing. It was almost lonely.

"Jade it's so late" Beck said softly, stepping closer to her.

"Please can we go get her?" Jade begged.

"No." Beck replied. He was sure his parents would have put Elsa down for the night by now and would probably be asleep themselves. It would be insane to go pick her up now, but Jade looked frantic.

"Baby, just come to bed, we'll pick her up first thing in the morning." Beck wrapped his arms around her waist.

"But please" Jade whimpered as Beck pulled her into his arms, pressing kisses all down her neck.

"No." Beck repeated in a firm tone, running his hands all over her body. Jade protested for a couple more minutes, insisting she wouldn't sleep all night without the baby, she would lose her mind if she couldn't hold her. But Beck remained stern.

"Beck..." Jade tried one last time to convince him but she was becoming increasing distracted by her boyfriends lips and wandering hands. Finally Jade gave up and allowed Beck to direct her upstairs to their bedroom where they quickly found themselves naked and in bed. His idea had originally been to just distract Jade from her anxiety but the couple ended up having sex four times that night. The sudden realisation that they could do this, completely, without worrying about the baby asleep in the next room hit them full force and by the end of the night they were both too exhausted to do anything but just sleep.

The next morning Beck went with Jade to his parents to pick up Elsa. The pale girl rang the doorbell and as soon as Louise opened the door, the sound of their daughters sweet giggling filled them both with instant relief. Once they made it into the living room they stood and watched for a minute as Frank played with the baby on the sofa. Elsa seemed completely happy and not near as anxious to be separated from her parents as they had felt about being separated from her. But when she caught site of her Mother she immediately put her arms out to her and Jade scooped her up into a cuddle.

"Was she alright?" Beck asked Louise as the reunited mother and daughter hugged it out.

"She was fine. She woke up twice in the night but went to sleep quickly once we came to her." Louise reassured them.

"That's pretty normal" Jade replied as Elsa pulled playfully on the rim of her jacket

"Then should we make Thursday nights a regular thing?" Louise asked enthusiastically. The young parents looked at each other and Jade bit her lip. Seeing how well Elsa had been taken care of here reassured her that perhaps Elsa didn't need them quite as much as they thought. And even though they missed her a lot, having the break gave them time to focus on other important things like school, friends and their relationship.

"Do you mind?" Jade asked nervously.

"Do we mind?" We've loved having her over to stay" Frank replied, giving the 6 month old a silly grin. Elsa immediately smiled and buried her face against Jades chest shyly.

"Then ok." Jade looked at Beck for confirmation. The tanned guy raised his eyebrows surprised that he hadn't had to persuade his girlfriend for the rest of the year to accept this.

"Ok?" Louise smiled widely.

"Ok!" Beck smiled widely, he had a feeling Jade was conquering her separation anxiety. From then on, the arrangement was permanent. Beck and Jade continued to alternate school and childcare and Thursdays officially became Elsa's granny and grandpa night.


"Have you got your shirt?" Jade called from the en suite. It was late one Sunday night and Beck was due to fly out to England early the next morning for the movie premiere. It was seriously a big deal and the trailer for the movie was everywhere. Beck was already starting to get recognised when he went out in public, especially one evening when he went into town with Calum. Paparazzi somehow figured out they were there and showed up to take pictures. It was surreal.

"Yeah I packed it last night." Beck shouted back, continuing to play with his daughter who was lying on the bed next to him.

"And your tie?" Jade called again.

"Yeah" Beck replied, snuggling Elsas kitten toy against her cheek.

"What about your passport?" Jade asked

"Yeah"

"Toothbrush?"

"Yeah"

"And the plasma screen tv?" Jade raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah" Beck called back again. He realised his mistake ten seconds later when Jade folded her arms and stepped into the doorway of the en suite annoyedly.

"I mean no, of course not." Beck corrected himself "I packed last night, everything is done." He assured her.

"Well you might have forgotten something" Jade folded her arms looking annoyed.

"Wait, aren't I meant to be your guardian? Shouldn't I be the one parenting you?" Beck teased.

"Shut up" Jade glared in the tanned guys direction.

"I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it!" Beck kidded, pulling her over to the bed. He kissed Jade on the lips and coaxed her down, placing a sleepy Elsa in between them. "Babe.. the guardianship thing really isn't that bad."

"It's twisted and makes me feel uncomfortable" Jade complained, stroking Elsa's hair as the little girl yawned and drifted to sleep.

"You think too much" Beck kissed her again, wrapping his arms around her waist and snuggling up to Elsa "I'm going to miss you both like mad."

"It's only a week" Jade shrugged.

"So you're not going to miss me?" Beck pouted slightly offended. Jade looked down not meeting his eye but focusing in on Elsa who was now fast asleep. Instead of replying she picked up the baby and carried her back to her bedroom to put her in her crib. She sat and watched Elsa sleeping for a few minutes before making her way back bed.

"You're seriously not going to miss me?" Beck frowned.

"You're an idiot if you think thats true." Jade shrugged.

"Say it then" Beck prodded.

"No" she replied. Beck frowned, turning away from her confused. Jade rolled her eyes at his and shuffled closer spooning him. She assumed he'd quickly forget about it whole thing and hold her back, but the tanned guy remained stoic.

"Beck..?" Jade whispered after a long silence.

"What?" Beck replied coldly. His annoyance with her was evident and she instantly pulled away from him.

"You're mad" Jade said simply.

"Well observed" Beck snapped. Jade sat up and quickly climbed out of bed. Beck didn't even attempt to stop her as she crossed their bedroom, half slamming the door behind her. This was possibly one of the most stupid arguments her and Beck had ever had and maybe storming out was an overreaction, but Jade just couldn't be around Beck when he was mad at her.

She went downstairs into the living room, intending on sleeping on the couch but only realised when she got there that she'd forgotten to bring the spare duvet. There was no way she was going back to their bedroom but it was so cold downstairs. After hesitating for several minutes Jade quietly pushed open Cat's door and let herself in. As predicted, the red head was already asleep so Jade just crawled under the bright pink quilt and snuggled in next to her.

"Jadey?" Cat rolled over, noticing the presence of someone else in her bed.

"Can I sleep here tonight?" Jade asked sadly.

"Whats wrong?" Cat asked, immediately worried. This hadn't happened since the infamous "nesting argument" that happened a few weeks before Elsa's birth and even then Beck had ended up sleeping in Cat's bed along with Jade. But Cat could tell this wasn't the same thing. Jade shook her head thinking about everything going through her head.

"I'm in love with Beck" Jade answered quietly.

"Yeahh.. So what's wrong?" Cat frowned looking confused.

"That's it" Jade whispered.

"But Jadey you've always been in love with Beck, that's the way it's meant to be."

"Then why does it hurt?" Jade asked vulnerably

"Hurt?" Cat repeated, completely lost.

"I love him" Jade repeated

"You're not making any sense" Cat shook her head "And this is me talking"

"I keep trying to slow down or catch my breath or something and I can't. I'm so, so scared of losing him because I just feel him constantly. He's like a part of me." Jade blurted out in staggered breaths, "And he asks me if I'll miss him when he's gone for a week but how can I explain that I miss him constantly? I love him so much it hurts and I can't control it!"

"Maybe you're not meant to control it?' Cat suggested, squeezing Jades hand comfortingly. Jade exhaled leaning her forehead on Cat's shoulder exhaustedly.

"Good night Cat." Jade sighed.

"Night night Jadey."


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