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I OWN NOTHING; I DO NOT OWN VICTORIOUS.

Chapter twenty-five

. . .

Have you ever shared memories with a friend and then suddenly asked them 'what if . . .'?

Have you ever felt like you lost everything? You feel empty inside? You feel broken and lost inside?

Have you ever watched someone slowly slip away right before your eyes? Everything was going just fine and then suddenly, they're gone?

Did you ever have to tell someone you deeply care about that their best friend died?

Has something unexpected ever happen to you and it leaves you in a state of shock and confusion?

. . .

Cat and Andre both stare at Tyler with wide eyes. Neither of them could fully understand what Tyler just told them. Beck? In a coma? Tori's heart stopped? No. It can't be true.

Tyler walks over to the side of Cat's bed and sits down on the chair that is placed beside her bed. "Cat," he begins in a gentle voice, "everything is going to be okay."

"My best friend's heart just stopped and my boyfriend is in a coma. How is everything supposed to be okay, Tyler?" Cat snaps. Tears are in her big, chocolate brown eyes and her voice are filled with anger, sadness, and confusion.

"Um, when c-can we see them?" Andre asks as he looks away and his eyebrows are knit together, a confused look on his face; Tyler could tell Andre is in shock.

"They said they're taking visitors so anytime you both feel up to it." Tyler says with a slight shrug.

Cat's head snaps up and she instantly looks at Tyler with a hopeful look on her face, "Can you take me to Tori's room?"

"Tori's room?" Tyler asks a bit shocked that she would want to see Tori before Beck, "Don't you want to see Beck first?"

"I-I don't think I could handle that right now . . ." Cat whispers, "I just want to see my best friend first."

"Where are Tori and Beck's families?" Andre asks Cat's brother.

"Tori's mom and sister are with her in her room right now and her father had to go to Hollywood Arts and help the other officers out." Tyler starts off, "Beck's mom and dad are out of town, but the doctor called them and they are getting the first flight back here."

"Alright, Little Red, so you go see Tori and I'll go check on Beck." Andre says with a small smile and Cat just nods her head.

"Hey, Tyler?" Cat suddenly asks as she begins batting her eyes at her older brother.

He raises an eyebrow at his sister, "Yeah, Cat?"

"Do I get to ride in a wheelchair?" Cat asks with a wide smile spreading across her lips.

. . .

"Cat, get back here!" Tyler yells as he is chasing Cat down the hallway. Once Cat got into the wheelchair, she first went slow, but then she started wheeling the wheelchair as fast as it goes down the hall.

Cat is giggling and shaking her head, "Yaaaaaaaay! He, he, this is so much fun, Tyler!"

Tyler rolls his eyes and continues chasing the redheaded girl down the hallways. However, as he is running, his cell phone rings. He huffs, rolls his ocean blue eyes, and answers his phone, while still chasing his sister who is younger than he is by two years.

"Hello?" Tyler answers his phone; he is also panting from running so much.

"Tyler, honey, why do you sound like you're out of breath? Where's Cat? Is she okay?" Tyler's mother asks her son with her voice filled with concern.

"She's, um, sleeping. Yeah, she's sleeping and I just, um, went to go take a jog around the hospital." Tyler lies. He rolls his eyes and shakes his head; he knows that is a horrible lie.

"Uh-huh, sure, alright then. Well, how is your sister? How's Caterina?" His mother asks.

Tyler almost trips over a nurses' foot and he manages to tell his mom, "She's okay, a bit upset with this whole event and all, you know?"

"Of course, I'm sure she is. Are you sure we shouldn't come over there and see her? I feel horrible; she's my daughter and I want to make sure she's okay." His mother says with a hurtful and sad voice.

Tyler chuckles, "She's fine, mom. Don't worry; just take care of Chance and Dad."

"Alright then, well when do you think she could come home?" His mother asks.

Tyler rolls his eyes, not really having the time to talk to his mother when he is chasing Cat down each hallway. "Um, not sure. I'll ask the doctor later."

"Why not now?" His mother asks and he could tell she is raising her eyebrow and pursing her lips, waiting for an answer.

Tyler eyes the phone, "Because, mom, I-" However, before he could continue, he runs right into a nurse and falls flat on his face.

"Honey, are you still there? Hello? Tyler?" The mother starts asking with a worried tone.

Tyler moans and slowly picks up his phone, "I . . . got to go." Then without waiting for an answer, he hangs up the phone. He slowly stands up and quickly says sorry to the nurse he ran into before going, once again, to chase his sister.

Finally, after what seems like forever, Cat stops wheeling her wheelchair, turns around, and smiles at her brother who finally caught up to her.

"You finally stopped wheeling yourself all around this hospital and making me chased you?" Tyler mockingly asks Cat, who in return just giggles and gives him a wide smile.

Tyler rolls his ocean blue eyes and then asks, "Are you ready to go see Tori now?"

Cat nods her head, "Yup."

"Alright then, let's go." Tyler says and Cat nods, "Kay, kay."

Then with that, Tyler begins to wheel Cat towards Tori Vega's room.

. . .

Tyler and Cat arrive in Tori's room moments later. He knocks on the door and once Cat and he exchange looks, he opens the door.

When the two enter the room, they see Trina and Tori's mother sitting beside Tori's bed. Tori is lying there on the bed, under the white hospital sheets, unconscious.

As soon as Trina and Tori's mother sees Cat and Tyler enter the room, they both stand up and walk over to them.

"Hey, how are you holding up, Cat?" Trina asks and then raises an eyebrow at Tyler and gives him a wide smile, "Oh, hello there."

Tyler's eyes widen for a brief second and he gives her a small wave, "Um, hello."

Holly Vega, the mother of Trina and Tori, rolls her eyes and softly slaps her daughter's arm, "Trina! Your sister is lying in a hospital bed; not the time to be flirting with her best friend's brother."

Trina huffs and Holly then says to Cat, "Hello Cat, how are you feeling? I'm so glad you all are okay."

"I'm okay," Cat begins with a slight shrug, "healing, but I'm really worried about Tori."

"We all are." Holly responds with a frown.

Trina looks around then notices someone is missing, "Hey, where's Andre, Beck, and Jade? I know about Robbie . . . eh, never liked him anyways."

Cat instantly looks away and fights hard to keep the tears from falling. She bites her lip and closes her eyes and that's when Tyler speaks, "Beck . . . Beck is in a coma and Andre is staying with him while Cat and I are here with Tori."

"Oh, alrighty then." Holly says, "Well, Trina and I will leave you guys here to stay with Tori. The two of us could go check out what they have for lunch here."

"Ugh, but hospital food is gross!" Trina whines, but Holly just rolls her eyes, "Let's go."

"You know, I can't believe Jade hates Tori so much that she can't even come to see if she's alright." Trina mumbles as she grabs her bag and is about to leave the room with her mother.

Before Trina and Holly leave though, Cat snaps in a defending tone, "That's not why Jade's not here!"

Trina and Holly exchange a confused look and Cat then looks away, biting her lip. Tyler places his hand on Cat's shoulder and says, "That's not why Jade isn't here."

"What? She got badly hurt too?" Trina asks with a raised eyebrow and a curious look on her face.

"She . . . she," Tyler says, trying to find the right words, "Jade died."

There is a moment of silence before Holly and Trina both scream in unison, "What?!"

Cat wheels herself over to the side of Tori's hospital bed and just stares at her unconscious best friend.

Trina slowly looks over at Cat and frowns, "I'm so sorry . . . I didn't know."

"Can you just all leave so I could spend a little time with my best friend?" Cat quietly asks, her eyes still never leaving Tori's face.

"Of course." Holly says and then turns to Tyler, "Would you like to come with us?"

"Yeah, thanks." Tyler says and then turns to his sister, "You'll be okay?"

Cat nods her head slowly and Tyler nods back at her, "Alright, but if you need me for anything, call. We'll be back later."

"Kay, kay." Cat mumbles and then with that, they leave.

Once Cat sees they're all gone, she lets out a long, deep sigh. The redheaded girl wipes her eyes that are just beginning to tear up again and she quietly begins to speak to Tori's unconscious body.

"I miss you, Tori." She starts off with, "I'm glad that you're okay though. I was really worried about you. Tori . . . can you please wake up? I lost Jade . . . I lost Beck . . . I lost Robbie . . . I can't lose you too." Cat then thinks about what she just said and she lets out another sigh, "Well, I didn't actually lose Beck . . . he's just in a coma. Robbie . . . he's a traitor and I could never forgive him for what he has done. Oh . . . and Jade. How am I supposed to tell you that Jade died? I know you and her never really 'got along' and all, but you still considered her as a friend."

"Andre will be visiting you later, by the way. I just wanted to see you first . . . I don't think I could handle seeing Beck in the state he is in." Cat whispers and slowly a tear rolls down her cheek, "Tori . . . I need you. Please don't leave me. I need my best friend. Please, just, wake up already. Please? I'll even give you a red velvet cupcake?"

Cat lets a few more tears run down her cheek before asking her unconscious friend, "Do you remember the first time we met? You and I met on your fist day of school . . ."

*Flashback*

Cat was walking down the stairs in Hollywood Arts, minding her own business and smiling to herself.

Suddenly, Cat is stopped when a girl with brunette color hair, large chocolate brown eyes, and a wide smile with a confused, but friendly look on her face stops her.

The girl stops Cat and says, "Hey, um-" However, before she could continue, Cat cuts her off and cheerfully says, "Oh my God, you're Tori, right?"

The girl, Tori, then smiles widely at Cat and nods, "Uh-huh."

"You were so awesome in the big show case!" Cat says, smiling and her eyes are wide with excitement.

Tori's smile widens and she cocks her head a little to the side, "Aw, thanks."

"My name's Cat." Cat introduces herself with a friendly smile.

Tori giggles and points at her with a smile, "Like the animal!"

But with that comment, Cat gets offended and yells at Tori, "What's that supposed to mean?!"

Tori's eyes widen and she shakes her head and quickly says, "Nothing! I . . . I love cats."

Cat's smile then returns and she giggles, "Oh, me too! They're so cute." Then with that, before Tori could say anything else, Cat walks off, still smiling widely.

*End of Flashback*

Cat lets out a small giggle and then blurts out, "Oh, or remember that time when we did that stage fighting and Jade said that you hit her with your cane?"

*Flashback*

After Jade, Beck, and everyone else left the room, Cat turns to Tori with a frown and an upset look, "Why'd you hit Jade in the face with your cane?"

Tori, who was frustrated with the whole situation, rolls her eyes, and snaps, "I didn't!"

Cat jumps a little and quickly says, "Okay, I believe you! Don't hit me!"

*End of Flashback*

"Yeah, I thought you were going to hit me when I said that. But, you just shook your head and didn't!" Cat says, a small giggle escaping her lips. "We had a lot of memoires together, didn't we? We're best friends, Tori."

"Remember when I put that Zombie makeup on you and it wouldn't come off because I used Gorilla glue? You sent Trina and me to go and get that stuff to help get it off. Yeah . . . fun times."

"Or when I was obsessed with SkyStore and I got that Snowbee and it made fake snow come out? It made pretend snow come out and it went all over your pizza and everyone else's food."

Cat then remembers one event that even though she wasn't there for, she was told the story and couldn't stop laughing ever since about it, "Remember when you guys all got stuck in Beck's R.V. when it was extremely hot out? I had to go pee and then I kind of didn't come back for a while and you were all dying inside?"

"Or . . ." Cat begins with a quiet voice, "when Daniel and I started going out and I found out he was your ex-boyfriend? Then later on when I saw you both kissing I ran away, upset?" Cat looks down and then smiles a little, "And then I tried avoiding you and when you finally found me you chased me until you caught me?"

*Flashback*

After Tori finally caught Cat and dragged her into the janitor's closet, they both stand up and face one another.

Cat frowns and yells, "Let me out!"

Tori, who is standing in front of the door, making sure Cat can't get out, shakes her head and yells back, "Cat!"

Cat pouts and folds her arms across her chest, "This is kidnapping! . . . Or Cat-napping." Cat then starts giggling, but when Tori begins talking, her face gets serious again.

"I swear, Cat, if I were you, I'd just punch me right in the face-" However, that is exactly what Cat does. The redheaded girl punches Tori right in the face and she screams, "OWWW!"

Cat, who is twirling her hair with her fingers, blinks a few times, cocks her head to the side, and innocently asks, "What?"

Tori's eyes widen as she holds her bleeding nose and yells, "You just punched me in the face!"

"You told me to." Cat says in an innocent voice.

"I know, but that's just something people say wh-" Tori starts saying, but cuts herself off by yelling, "OWWW!"

*End of Flashback*

Cat giggles at the memory and then says in a serious and quiet tone, "We've been through a lot, Tori . . . I don't want to lose you."

"I-I-I don't . . . I don't want to l-lose you either." Tori chokes out and Cat's eyes widen when she sees Tori, who still has her eyes closed, but she's speaking and awake.

"Tori!" Cat yells with a shocked expression on her face, "You're awake!"

"I'm awake." Tori says with a small chuckle.

Cat smiles, "I was just reliving some of our memories together."

"Y-yeah, I-I heard." Tori says, now finally opening her eyes and looking at her friend.

Cat raises an eyebrow and gives her best friend a confused look, "What do you mean you heard?"

Tori tries sitting up, and with the help of Cat, she does, Tori then says with a guilty smile, "I've been awake since you made the deal that if I wake up you would give me a red velvet cupcake."

Cat gasps, but she eventually starting smiling widely at her best friend, "What? And you haven't said a word?!"

"You started talking a-about when we first met and the memories we had together a-and I wanted to continue listening without interrupting." Tori says with a slight shrug to the shoulders.

Cat smiles and then gives Tori a huge hug. Eventually the two pull apart and Tori says as she cocks her head to the side, "Hey, where is everyone?"

"Tyler, Trina, and your mom are getting lunch, your dad had to go to Hollywood Arts and help out, Andre is with Beck, and Robbie was arrested." Cat says, hoping she won't ask about Beck and Jade.

But . . . she does.

"Oh . . ." Tori says with a small nod and then she asks, her eyes getting wide with worry, "Oh my God, is Beck okay? The thing I remember is him and me being in the school and he was unconscious and there was fire everywhere."

Cat looks away and tries to fight back the tears that are once again forming in her eyes.

"Cat?" Tori asks in a quiet voice, "Is he okay? What happened? And where's Jade?"

Cat knows she shouldn't get Tori all worked up and scared. She knows she shouldn't put all this stress on Tori when she just woke up. However, she also knows if she doesn't tell Tori, she will find out herself and Cat can't risk her friend getting out of bed and hurting herself.

"Fire fighters got you both out, but by the time you both got to the hospital . . . things didn't go so well." Cat begins and Tori nudges her to continue, which she does, "They brought you into surgery and were able to save you. You should make a full recovery, but that was after your heart stopped-"

"My heart stopped?!" Tori cuts Cat off and yells with wide, scared and worried eyes.

Cat nods and wipes her eyes, then continues, "Then, Tyler went to go find out how Beck was doing a-and they said that . . . that Beck is in a-a coma."

" . . . " Tori stares at Cat with a blank expression; she is shocked. How? How could this happen? "What?"

Cat nods and tears slowly slide down her cheeks, "Mhm."

"So, is Jade with Beck and Andre or is she hurt too?" Tori asks Cat, who in response, winces at Jade's name.

"Cat, answer me." Tori says with worry and concern filling her eyes.

Cat takes a deep breath and then says, "Jade . . ." Cat begins, but can't find the right words to explain, "I'm so sorry, Tori."

"What happened?!" Tori finally snaps, fear in her voice.

"Jade died." Cat blurts out and when she sees the look of horror on Tori's face, she instantly says, "I'm so, so, so sorry Tori."

However, Tori stays expressionless. She says nothing and she just stares ahead with no emotions in her eyes or on her face.

"Tori?" Cat quietly asks, but then that's when it happens.

Tori's body starts to violently and uncontrollably shake; her eyes go behind her head, her chocolate brown eyes replaces with pure white.

Cat gasps and screams in horror at the sight. Instantly, Cat presses the button that is next to Tori's bed that is there for emergencies.

Suddenly, the door swings open and a doctor and two nurses rush inside and instantly start working on Tori, pushing Cat out of the room.

Tears are streaming down Cat's face and she is worried for her friend. Then, the redheaded hears the machines go off and she hears a doctor yell, "Her heart is stopping!"

Cat shakes her head and wheels herself down a hallway, as fast as she can. As she is going down the hallway, she has to stop short when she almost bumps into two doctors and three nurses who are wheeling a man on a stretcher into the hospital.

Cat's head tilts to the side a little as she looks at the man and she gasps when she realizes who the man is.

"Oh my gosh!" Cat screams and pulls on one of the nurses arms, "Is he going to be okay?!"

Cat prays that the nurse will say 'yes' to her answer, but she doesn't.

"We don't know for sure, yet, ma'am." The nurse says quickly and with a shake to the head. "We're taking him into surgery now."

Then with that, the nurse helps take the stretcher towards the elevator and to the O.R.

Cat is sitting in her wheelchair, in the middle of the hospital room, with wide eyes and a blank expression. Tears are falling down her cheeks and she is sitting there, still.

Finally, after moments of staying silent, Cat whispers, "No . . . please, please don't die."

Cat closes her eyes and the only thing she could picture is the man who was on the stretcher with blood covering his entire body and skin.

The man who was on the stretcher Cat is now waiting for and hoping he is okay is . . .

Sikowitz.

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