Chapter 25
This is in between concert 2 and 3 for reference
One and a half weeks later at noon
"hey cat can we talk about something" says Tori
"surly girly" laughs Cat
"you have been falling asleep despite having six cups of coffee during Concert 1 and Concert 2 it concerns me" Says Tori
"it wasn't coffee, I prefer tea now but it has the unfortunate effect of lulling me to sleep, but man I love the taste, but if you can find me a coffee that tastes fruity, I'll gladly try it" says Cat
"but it was in a coffee cup" Says Tori confused
"yes, because they don't have any tea cups here, plus I get a fruitier flavor, I guess I can drink less of it if it will lessen your concerns" Says Cat
"no cat but I will be the one monitoring how much you drink now when we are performing, while Freddie and Carly will be looking for tea cups before the last concert, our practices will only allow for you to have three tea's max, one before, one during and one after but they will be filled to my level not yours Cat ok" Says Tori
"as much as it hurts, I agree to the terms, but yes I agree that I may have gone overboard on the tea on concert 2 but only because I really needed something to calm me down" Says Cat
"Why would you need to calm down?" asks Tori intrigued
"I was starting to get scared by the amount of eye's that were watching me, we had over fifty million on the second concert day, ten million I can handle but just barely but twenty million was just too overwhelming and fifty million had me outright scared I'd break and hurt someone, and while kissing you was helping, the fruity taste of my favourite tea really helped bring it down even more, and Freddie was announcing the growing numbers way too fast and that is the main reason I needed so much" says Cat
"well I guess you will have to kiss me more, and I will let Freddie know that if he stops announcing the viewership past ten million that you will be fine, he was concerned the most as it happened every time he announced the viewership numbers, I'm not sure what he thought but I will be happy to tell him his new restrictions when you are performing or there at all for that matter" Says Tori
"thanks Tor, I love you so much, I don't want to hurt anyone and I appreciate that Freddie was concerned, will you tell him that for me, I need a nap" Says Cat as she heads off to bed
"I will" Says Tori
"hey tori, were you talking to cat about her falling asleep during the concerts" asks Freddie
"yes but first she was flattered that you were concerned but the issue actually revolves around you, it was Fruit flavoured Tea not coffee and she was getting wigged out by the viewership numbers, she said that ten million is fine but twenty million was overwhelming for her but at fifty million she was afraid she was going to break and hurt someone, so what I said I'd tell you is that you need to stop announcing the viewership numbers at ten million, she didn't say she had any issues mentioning the Fundraising numbers though so you are fine there, unless we raise more what we raised on day one she shouldn't have an issue but as last week was only seven million I highly doubt it unless some big company donates a lot of money" Says Tori
"well noted, I will do as you suggest but I will be telling Carly and Sam the reason I will be doing so" Says Freddie
"I would expect nothing less from you, you seem to care about all three couples here without judging us at all, not something I normally expect and never happened a lot during high school, I gotta go see cat and nap with her, she doesn't ever like taking naps alone anymore" says Tori
"no problem, enjoy your nap" Says Freddie
In Carly's office 10 minutes later
"why did you call us here Freddie we were in the shower making out" says Carly sassing Freddie
"tori figured out why cat was falling asleep for minutes at a time during concert one and two and it appears while we thought she was drinking coffee she was drinking fruit tea that calms her down when she is stressed but tends to put her to sleep and she only did so during the concerts because of me" says Freddie
"please explain fredward" Says Sam making fun of Freddie
"Sam No this is serious for Cat and Sam, please don't joke about it" Says Carly Sternly
"sorry Freddie, I miss making fun of you sometimes, but Carly is right it wasn't the right time" apologizes Sam for the first time since iCarly broke up 6 years ago
"I could tell by your voice that you were remembering when Carly left for Italy Sam, however you must realize that Cat is self conscious and that because I was used to boasting about our viewer count I didn't see an issue doing what I was used to but however I failed to take into account how she would respond, hearing ten million she can barely handle but she can indeed handle it but twenty million was overwhelming and we saw the result of that in concert one but oh boy fifty million she definitely can't handle it , she told tori she was afraid she would break and seriously hurt someone on while on camera and get put in an insane asylum or worse jail so to prevent this she was religiously drinking the tea in a coffee cup, one because we have no tea cups because and two she was protecting us" Says Freddie
"…Wow I have a lot more respect for her now, what were you instructed to do to prevent said harm to us all" Says Sam
"yes, please tell us Freddie" says Carly
"I was instructed to avoid mention of any growth in viewer count after ten million but tori mentioned that unless some big company donates and rockets us past twenty million dollars raised, and our money raised stays below twenty million she should be fine, at least as long as she doesn't hear or see the numbers" Says Freddie
"may we go back to our make-out session now" says Carly
"yes may we please" says Sam I swear Carly is changing me to be nicer, I really have to ask her if she is doing It on purpose or if I'm the one changing
"I guess, I have said what I needed to say so bye"says Freddie as he leaves Carly's office and hears the door lock and bolt lock as well, I swear Sam is getting nicer not that I'm complaining though
10 minutes later in the dining hall
"hey Freddie, is Carly or Sam available, I saw you leave their office, I had a short nap" asks Cat
"unfortunately, not likely when I left they locked and bolted the door, especially since I apparently dragged them out of a shower make-out session to tell them about your conditions handed to me by Tori to have you on the show, or at the very least the concert, I don't see them being available for an hour or so" says Freddy
"ok thanks for that, they really like the shower don't they, I've caught them ten times and Tori caught them five times, but at least this time no-one can walk in on them, and thanks for being nice, we didn't always get that in LA, it's nice to have friends that care" Says Cat smiling for the first time today at someone other than Tori
"I completely understand, Sam always used to punch me, for the first time she actually said please to me not just to Carly or Spencer but actually to me, mind you it wasn't directed at me as it was about them continuing to make out but hey it's a start, and hey I am one of the nicer people on iCarly, Carly being by far the nicest, that is until I met you and Tori, Beck, Jade, Andre and Robbie with jade definitely being like Sam but you and Tori are like Carly and Andre and Beck are like spencer, and I can't place Robbie on that scale" says Freddie
"yea Robbie is an odd duck but he has come quite a ways and has helped tori understand me even more by helping her act around me in a way that won't set me off because she did do that on occasion after we graduated but I mean that is the course for any relationship, you are always bound to say something wrong at some point but with tori and I it can have bad consequences if you say the wrong thing" Says Cat not running out of breath
"well I have to go shower" Says Freddie
"oh, me too I just wanted to talk to them about something but it can wait a week or so" Says Cat as she runs to their new suite to shower with Tori
"I swear she is hard to understand when she talks so fast but hey it's cute" says Freddie to himself
A/N I was going to make this chapter a 3 week gap but I mean you would have no back story as to why Tori was being so controlling over Cat's tea consumption or why they were kissing so much so I wrote a filler chapter I mean there will be no concert 3 chapter but there will be plenty of mentions of what happened though so it works out