Title: Disbound
Author: Jonathan
Rating: M (covering my bases this time)
Chapter: 3 A
Category: Robbie/Tori
Spoilers: Post 'Bound,' 'Unbound,' 'Rebound,' and 'Boundles' Still will follow season 2 canon.
Summary: Sequel to Boundless.' Tori and Robbie have been together now for three months, and continue to throw themselves into each other more and more. Now, it might of gone too far, and now they are trying to deal with their lives by themselves. Can they succeed in life by themselves? Or are they in over their heads?
Disclaimer: Victorious and Zoey 101 are owned by Dan Schneider, Danwarp, Nick, Viacom


"Tori!"

No answer. She opened the door, and tried again.

"Tori!"

Again, no answer.

"Tori Vega! Come back here!"

When no answer was coming, Holly closed the door behind her and looked at the hall that her daughter ran down all but moments ago. Holy Vega began to sprint down the hallway herself, hoping she could catch sight and stop this madness that was surely about to happen.

But as she reached the corner, Holly turned around the bend and her daughter vanished. Slowing down her pace, she walked down trying to get any glimpse of her youngest. Glancing at windows that were built into doors along the way. Even going as far as going inside the women's restroom and even the men's; both of which was a no-show.

Tori Vega was gone.

"Dammit. Tori…" She whispered. Taking out her phone, she quickly dialed her husband. If anyone was going to be helping her, it would be him. Normally she would try and call Tori first, but judging by how the conversation ended, she knew Tori would not answer any call from her mother.

"Holly?" She heard from the phone. Looking at the screen, she noticed she must of dialed his number absent-mindedly. David Vega was her 'go-to'' guy when it came to crucial matters. "Holly?"

"She's gone, David." Holly said quickly.

"Who's gone? Holly? What's going on?"

"Tori. Our daughter. She left. She's gone." Fear in her voice, tears brimming her eyes. Her heart beating a million miles a minute.

"Holly, what? What's going on?" He asked, his voice growing impatient. "What happened?"

And with that, Holly Vega detailed the story about what happened within the last hour of their visit to the doctor. She told him about everything after the doctor stitched her head up to the moment that he left the two women alone to go to another appoint. Not to mention the way it ended between them.

"So she just up and left?" David asked.

"I told you what happened, David." Holly told him.

"I know you did." He replied. His voice was stern. "But I need to know the specifics. If we're going to get her back, I need to know everything. Like how was she feeling. How was she coping? How did you word everything that you said?"

"David, our daughter ran away. She's gone. I mention her blindness when it came to Robbie and she lost it. She upright lost it."

David let out a sigh. "Y'know it's always fragile with them, Holly. Whenever you question their feelings or their attachment to the other, they go in full defense mode and lose all sense of reason."

"That doesn't justify what happened, David." Holly growled. "That doesn't give comfort and rational thought. You know how stubborn she gets. What happened just now is possibly the worse-case scenario of what could possibly happen. Our daughter just left and she upright has it high in her mind that she won't ever come back."

"Holly, I've seen this a number of times." He told her, trying to reason. "Being a cop, I've seen a number of girls who run away who return home that night. Once they realize that they can't deal with the 'real world' then she'll come back. The moment I go publicly looking for her, then it can be run for national coverage. And that, we don't need."

"Don't give me any of that police talk, David." Holly told him sternly. "Tori just left. And I'm guessing she's going to get in touch with Robbie rather soon. And once she gets a hold of him, then who knows where they'll go."

"Ok… look Holly. I'll tell you what I'll do. The whole 'waiting 48 hours' is a myth. But I won't lose my head over this. Once I finish here then we'll figure this out. Until then, go home. If Tori has any sense then she'll know she can't cope out there."

"And you really think that's going to work, David?" Holly questioned. "You really think that she'll just come home like that?"

David let out a breath, and thought for a moment. "Ok, then how about this. She'll come home if we get our hands on Robbie first. Once we have him, and she doesn't, she'll come running back to the house. We'll use their relationship against them."

Holly relaxed when he came up with that idea. "That could work."

"Good." He told her. "Just go home and I'll bring Robbie to you. He's finishing up his statement and then we'll head back. We're just about done here."

Holly nodded, hoping that was the case. And she had to admit, having Robbie with them would be the best way to deal with this problem…


"Oh my God, Jade. What are you doing?"

She turned around upon the comment, and placed her finger on her lips. Shaking her head, she returned back to what she was doing. Climbing to her feet very slowly, she kept her eyes forward. Trying her best to remain inconspicuous.

Time stood still as she took her hand and placed it on the counter that she was hiding behind. Raising up, she very gingerly reached for a clipboard. But as she was about to have her fingers graze upon the contents on the clipboard, she quickly recoiled when she heard a sudden noise.

Ducking once more, she waited until the obstacle passed. When it did, she rose again, and allowed her hand to reach across the counter once more. This time, her hand reached the clipboard. This time, her fingers grabbed the plastic baggie. Smiling to herself, she pulled the bag she left the counter and joined the source of her recent intrusion.

"What did you do?"

Jade grabbed her hand and pulled her away from van, and toward an open area where the police were cleaning up the yellow tape from earlier that day.

"I took back what's mine, Lola." She opened the bag, and withdrew her scissors.

"You can't take back evidence." Lola pointed out.

"Do you really want to get into this now?" She smirked. "Lola, you're new to this. But trust me, you don't want to get into an argument with me. I'll win every time."

"Really?" Lola asked, not believing her claim.

"You really want to try this?" Jade gave her a stern glare.

Lola let out a sigh. If anything that her time within the jewelry store heist taught her, getting into a fight with Jade West could last a long time, and then she'd never hear the end of that.

And that, was not what she needed to go through.

"All I want to do is get Robbie, go meet up with Tori's dad, and finally get out of here. At this point, I just want to get back to PCA tomorrow. I'm done. I need a vacation from this vacation."

Jade smirked. "Welcome to life at Hollywood Arts. It's never boring." She thought for a second. "As for Shapiro… um… you're not going to be able to get a hold of him."

"What happened now?" Lola asked, annoyed that yet another issue arose.

"I dunno if I should tell you." Jade said in a lower tone. Giving the scene around them a once over, she made sure the coast was clear. Satisfied, she added. "Something happened. And if I tell you, you might be asked about something you don't want to know about."

"What?" Lola asked. Shocked. "What happened?"

"Are you sure you want to know? Once you do, there is no turning back. if asked, you're going to have to lie. And I don't know if you can actually pull off a successful lie."

The tone in Jade's voice wasn't the usually smart-alecky tone. It was actually straight to the point, and determined.

"I can lie, Jade." She defended herself. "It is one of the skills of being an actress."

"Y'know, for someone who wants to be an actress, I'm surprised you didn't get into Hollywood Arts." She said matter-of-factly.

"It wasn't in the cards." She said honestly. "I wanted to come there, but my parents said the acting classes at PCA was just enough for me right now." She shook her head, clearing her mind. This wasn't the time to get into something like this. "Just tell me what's going on, Jade."

"Fine…" She said slowly. "Robbie and Tori left home. They're no longing living at the house. "

"What?"

"They're gone." She said simply. "And for the time being, they're not coming back. And you can't tell Mr. and Mrs. Vega anything. They're going to ask you if you know anything. You can't let them know that you even know what I just told you. So, prove to me you are an actress, Lola Martinez. Prove to me, for the sake of our friends, that you don't know anything."

Lola just stared at her…

"You think you can do that?"

"Oh, Lola, Jade…" Jade turned around and saw David Vega approaching them. "You see Robbie around? I need to talk to him…"

Lola was going to find out if she was a good actress once and for all.


"We lost him."

"What?" Holly yelled into the phone.

"Robbie's gone, Holly. He was here one moment, and then gone the next."

She immediately sprung up from the couch an hour later after she initially talked with her husband. "What do you mean you lost him?"

"I don't know." David replied. "After we talked, I went for the girls and they told me where Robbie was. I went to where they said he would be, and he was gone. Robbie's gone."

"Great…" She whispered and slumped back into the couch. "I guess that means Tori got a hold of him."

"That makes the most sense." He pointed out over the phone. "And if Tori does have Robbie, then she really does have her mind set on not coming back."

"Which is what I told you, David." Holly reminded him. "I told you that she was going to be gone for good. But did you listen? No. You said we get Robbie back, and then we get Tori back. But now we don't have any of them."

"So what do you want me to do?" He asked, anger finally starting to rise. "Are you really blaming this on me?"

"You are the one who said to follow your plan, David. And because we did, Tori's gone. Robbie's gone. And who knows what's going to happen."

"So what are you trying to say, Holly?" He asked, trying to get her point of view. "Are you saying this is my fault? We both know that questioning either Tori or Robbie about their relationship leads to trouble. ESPECIALLY when our daughter was just nearly raped!"

"They need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them, David. They can't keep living in Yerba and thinking because of their shared jail-time they can cut off the whole world."

"I'm coming home now, Holly. We need to talk about this."

Then David Vega hung up the phone.


TBC in Chapter 3B