Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious. Dan Schneider does.

Summary: When Jade has nowhere else to go, she finds she has to turn to Beck. But in doing this, what will Beck find out about her and how will he deal with it? How far will someone go to take care of the one they love?

Author's Note: So I'm preparing for things to get thrown at me again but there is something very VERY vital that happens at the end of this chapter and I think you'll be proud of Jade for it.

Also, this is hands down my favorite first line of a chapter.

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Chapter 26

"Fuck off."

"Kristy, not appropriate," Dr. Coulter said. Kristy had been admitted the evening before, due to extreme anger and an eating disorder. And she was not adjusting well.

"Fuck you."

"I remember those days," Jade whispered into Barry's ear.

"Aren't you Miss High and Mighty!" Kristy shouted at Jade. "You think it's easy being here?"

Jade smirked at Kristy. She finally realized just how much fun Barry had antagonizing Molly.

"I never said it was easy."

"My parents hate me. They wouldn't have done this if they really cared," Kristy huffed.

"You're wrong," Jade said softly. "I wished I had parents who did care. My Dad threw me out when he found out, said he never wanted to see me again, and my mom wants nothing to do with me."

"Then let's trade parents."

"Get it through your overinflated head before I pop it like a zit! You have people who care about you! The only person who I thought cared about me hasn't come to visit in over three weeks! How do you think that feels?" Jade shouted. "To think that the one person who did put me here-"

"Jade," Barry said softly. "Calm down."

"It hurts. I would give almost anything to have the support you have because I don't have anywhere to go after this," she whispered, wanting to cry. "I don't really have anyone out there."

"Jade, did you dad actually kick you out of the house?" Evan asked.

Jade nodded her head. "And then Beck doesn't visit. It makes things really hard, you know?"

"You've got us. You're sort of stuck with us really," Barry pointed out.

There was hardly a thing that came out of Barry's mouth that didn't make Jade smile.

"Do you want a relationship with your parents, Jade?" Dr. Coulter asked.

"Doubt it. They've never been supportive anyway so why start now?" she retorted.

"Who else here thinks they have parents that don't support them?"

Jade was surprised when she saw about half the teenagers raise their hands, and even more surprised when she saw Barry and Evan raise their hands. It wasn't just her.

"See? You're not so different from each other after all. You're dismissed."

Beck walked the all too familiar corridor to Section D as if it was yesterday, despite the fact that it had been close to a month since his last visit. A month without Jade. Beck wasn't even sure how he managed that long. He wondered how Jade had managed to deal with that. They rarely spent time apart and he practically forced them to have to. He wondered how Jade was going to react now that he was back too.

"You came," Cat said when Beck rounded the corner. Beck wasn't all that surprised to see the redhead sitting on the bench. Beck joined her.

"You know I've never seen you threaten anyone but I knew when you threatened me, you were serious."

"I told you: Jade's my best friend and I wouldn't let you hurt her."

Beck smiled. He loved how protective Cat was over Jade; it was actually a bit funny to him.

"Today's going to be tough on her, me being back," he said.

"You're back. She'll be happy."

Beck wasn't so sure. He had said some pretty hurtful things they day he left and he was positive that Jade hadn't forgotten them. He sat down on the bench with Cat and sighed.

"Cat, I said some things to Jade that I'm not exactly proud of and I need to fix that…alone," he said.

"You just want it to be you and her, huh?"

Beck nodded his head.

"Be nice to her," Cat said.

"Don't worry. I will," he promised.

"Good."

As Cat left, Beck looked down at his phone and realized it was four. Visitations had started and now it was time for Beck to right what he had wronged.

"Jade?"

Jade knew that voice. She turned around to find Beck standing there with a smile on his face. She was caught for a moment. Beck came back…but Beck had left her…but he came back. He sat down on the couch with her, happy to be near her again.

"I'm mad at you by the way," Jade stated very matter of fact like. She kept her distance but she wasn't sure how long she would be able to do so.

"Why? I thought you'd be happy today. I'm here."

"I didn't say that. But you didn't visit. You left and didn't tell anyone where you went. You didn't tell me-"

"Sikowitz technically knew where I was."

Jade's eyes widened. Sikowitz?

"Sikowitz knows about all this?"

"We ran into each other while I was in Vancouver."

"Vancouver? You went all the way to Vancouver? And you told him? I thought I could trust you!"

"It just happened, okay? Jade-"

"Don't Jade me!" she shouted and then her entire expression softened as she wrapped her arms around Beck, unable to resist the urge to hug him any longer. She wanted him to hug her. "But don't do it again. You can't leave me like that again. The last thing we did was fight and I thought you broke up with me. Don't do that again."

"I love you," he said. He kissed her and never wanted to stop but this was not the place to do it.

"Why did you stay away?" Jade asked.

Beck wanted to avoid this subject.

"Tell me," she ordered.

"I can't."

"Yes you can!"

"Jade, I had asked him to stay away. Don't get upset at him for something I asked him to do," Bianca stated as she walked up.

"You knew! You did this?" she shouted.

"He called often to ask how you were doing, to make sure you were alright. Don't for a moment think this was easy for him. It wasn't. I told you that he cared about you."

"You did?" she asked. She looked up at Beck, wanting to find the truth in his eyes.

Beck nodded his head and kissed Jade again. He missed kissing her, being around her, just her in general. The last few weeks had been difficult for Beck. He wanted to be by Jade's side the entire time and it took him a great deal of self discipline to do what was best.

Jade pushed him away. How could he do this to her? Didn't he realize how much she needed him? How having him near made her feel better? She was so caught though: she had Beck back but he had hurt her too. She was such a collision of emotions; she didn't know want to feel.

"I love you so much, Jade. So, so much."

"We both agreed that while he does care for you, the best thing he could for you was to step out of the picture so you would focus on recovering. And it worked."

"You lied to me though. Both of you did. How…why would you do that? How could you do that to me?" she shakily whispered. Jade was hurt by what they did. They lied to her. They wanted her to be honest and they lied to her.

"I had to do what was best for you," Beck explained. "You've got to believe that."

"What's best right now is if you leave because I don't want to see you right now. Not after you lied to me like that," she said stoically. She turned to leave, only to have Beck run in front of her.

"Jade, I didn't want to do this!" Beck practically shouted.

"But you did so…just go," she whispered.

She fled back to her room and grabbed her notebook that had partial scenes from Big Fake Smiles and Stupid Lies in it and started to write what she knew was going to be the roughest scene. As long as she was writing, she wouldn't cut, and that needed to be her focus right now.