Author's Note: Wow, a week turned in to four months really quickly. Sorry about that. I hope that you enjoy this comedic chapter that wraps up the story as a bridge way to the next story.

I hope everyone enjoys.

Chapter 36

iBlooptorious: Jade Likes Nice Guys Edition

Starring Victoria Justice

Leon Thomas III, Matt Bennett, Elizabeth Gillies, Ariana Grande, Avan Jogia, Daniella Monet, with Christopher Cane

And Nathan Kress as Freddie Benson

Special Guest Star: Miranda Cosgrove

Special Guest Star: Jennette McCurdy

Special Guest Appearance by Jennifer Connelly as Ruby West

Christopher Cane (in the form of Rex Powers) sat in the large cushioned chair as Leon departed and his next guest took her seat off camera. He spoke happily as he held his apple juice in one hand, "She plays the most unique kind of nasty girl on Victorious. I recall the first time I met Elizabeth. It was at our final audition and she asked me if I could point her to the ladies' loov. Prior to that, I had the good fortune of seeing her perform on Broadway in the musical 13. Now she plays Jade West, a wicked thorn in the shapely ribs of Tori Vega. I give you Elizabeth or dare I say Liz Gillies."

The audience started clapping and cheering as Liz smiled at Christopher sitting in a couch that replaced the chair the other actors had been sitting in for their interviews. The dark brunette wore a dark red, almost burgundy colored top that zipped up to just above her cleavage with slightly puffy and pleated shoulders. She wore a loose black skirt that reached down just past her mid-thigh with pair of black heels that accentuated her legs with her hair was pulled back behind her ears.

She answered with a bright smile, "Thank you for that sweet introduction."

He snapped off a quick question, "If you were a bottle of shampoo, what would be your fragrance?"

Liz put on a perplex expression as she asked, "My… my, fragrance?"

"Yes, in a perfect world, you'd smell like what?"

She laughed out unsure of what he meant, but answered, "I, I don't know, maybe a combination of vanilla and mint?"

"Wrong!" he answered frantically with a motion of his apple juice filled glass.

The dark brunette put on a perplexed expression as she asked with surprise, "Wrong?"

"You'd smell like of lilac and roasted nuts."

She let out a soft laugh as she replied, "Ah, okay, that sounds pretty cool too."

"Let's talk about socks."

The actress was caught off by another one of the host's odd questions and asked for clarification, "Socks?"

He slightly motioned to her with his glass as he asked, "Should socks be more like gloves with small sleeves where each toe could be inserted?"

Liz's brow slightly knotted and softly laughed, "Ah, no not really, I think normal socks—"

"Shall we view your bloopers?"

She let out a soft laugh as she asked, "Ah, okay, yeah sure do you have them here? Do you have the cued up?"

"Yes including some from the miniseries, view them with me by gazing into this high definition monitor."

"Sure," she agreed with a bit of a smile on her face.

The pair turned to look at the monitor situated between them.

Vega Residence

Tori took a seat on the couch and pulled an arm back to rest on the backrest with André following suit. She wore a black wig with green hair extension and other dark blue and black clothing to make her look like Jade. She answered his question, "Deal with it." She leaned forward to meet his eyes and finished in a menacing tone, "if you and I are ever boyfriend/girlfriend, I'll be way meaner to you."

André leaned towards Tori and closed his eyes.

Tori started in concern as she saw what he was starting to do, "Ah, hey now, what are you—"

"Oh Jade," he whispered with a husky voice.

Liz poked her head from behind the couch to be beside and between the pair and shouted, "What are you doing?!"

"Whoa," Leon shouted as he slipped off the couch then to his feet walking off trying not to laugh.

Liz wore a smug look on her face as she leaned forward against the couch's backrest with her arms spread out on either side of her and her hands gripping the backrest. She softly clapped the next moment while Victoria's mouth dropped open and pointed up at Liz with her pointer finger. Liz leaned down to wrap her arms around Victoria's shoulders as both girls smiled and Victoria jolly asked, "Hey?"

Freddie's Hotel Room

Jade opened the light brown door of the hotel room and rested the side of her head against the open door edge. She was wearing Freddie's blue and white flannel patterned shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows and the hem that went just past her rear and wearing a pair of his blue boxers. "Hi Carly," Jade greeted her with a curt tone.

"Ja—Jade?" the brunette puttered out at seeing the unexpected face.

The paler teenager replied flippantly, "Yes, it's me. What do you want?" She eyed the brunette as she poked just the tip of her tongue out past her lips and licked out the corner of her mouth and thumbed over her bottom lip with the pad of her right thumb. "You're interrupting my breakfast."

Miranda asked with a straight face, "I thought I was interrupting your dessert?"

The raven haired teenager shook her head as she broke her stern expression with a barely contained laugh and raised a hand to wave everyone off then took a step back inside and shut the door.

Miranda took a step back backwards and covered her mouth as she started to laugh as she looked over her shoulder to the camera. The brunette shook off the laughter and put on an even expression as she retook her mark.

After a moment Liz opened the door against and rested her head against the edge to try to start again, but at seeing Miranda's smiling face, she just broke into another laugh and completely shut the door.

They could hear from the other side of the door from Liz, "I'm going to have a little more of my dessert and get some pants on. My legs are freezing!"

Miranda started laughing again and shaking her head.

Black Box Theater

Cat eagerly approached, passing several other students eagerly preparing for the shoot, to greet the dark haired teenager, "Hi."

Jade raised a curious eyebrow at the redhead and asked, "Hi… why are you here?"

Cat laughed as she replied obviously to her mind, "We wanted to see you perform and hang out this afternoon."

Tori and André had caught up with Cat to meet up with Jade. Tori picked up with a grin, "You know, just like you were there for me to watch me land on the air sack."

Jade put on a sour expression and narrowed her eyes on the cheerful brunette.

Freddie approached from Jade's right just in time to hear the last of Tori's statement. Freddie gave the arriving trio a friendly nod then asked with a curious expression and raised eyebrow, "Air sack?"

Jade sighed with a half roll of her eyes, "When she… ah stunt work… she fell in a sack… a sack full of air okay?"

Nathan grinned and nodded trying his best not to laugh, "Right, sack filled with air, air sack. She fell in it, because that's what you do: fall in it."

Ariana covered her mouth to suppress a laugh as Victoria shook her head.

Liz blew out a breath then rattled off the line, "She fell on an air sack for the stunt work she did."

The director shouted from behind the camera, "Take it from the top."

Freddie's Hotel Room
Saturday, July 23, 2011

…Carly looked to Freddie and started with a tired tone, "Look, having Sam in your life is like owning a wild chimp."

Freddie cocked his head to the side and wondered if he heard the brunette correctly.

Jade resisted rolling her eyes at what she knew was going to be some kind of ridiculous explanation.

Carly began whimsically, "Sure she is unpredictable, she can go berserk and chew your foot off, but you keep her clean and well fed she's adorable…" Carly wrapped an arm around Sam's shoulders and smiled towards Freddie, "and cool and tons of fun."

Freddie replied calmly, "No, she's—"

Carly spoke up, "She said she was sorry! And she really meant it."

He frowned and looked coldly at the brunette. Carly's smile faltered as the coldness of his stare sent a shiver through her and her arm slipped off of Sam's shoulders.

There was a chill to his voice that Carly had never heard and stirred a bit of concern inside her heart, "As I was saying… no, she's not a wild chimp… she's a mean bitch that will jank me over any way she can. I can't seem to get it through your thick head how much she hurts me and now she is willing to screw with my life plans. You may be willing to accept all that from her and love her unconditionally, but I'm not and I'm not dealing with her or you anymore. You've shown me with your attitude about my feelings with me losing my trip to NERD camp and my chance to go to any college I want that you don't give a damn about me and you don't care what she does to me." He pointed to Sam and continued, "And that bitch outright hates me and will never be genuine sorry about anything because she'll never see what she does is wrong and you'll always excuse it and enable her behavior further. If you think what she does to me is what friendship and love is about then you need some serious psychological help and just as janked up as she. Now get the out of my life!"

The blonde grabbed his wrist of his outstretched arm pointing at her and yanked forward. The next moment Freddie was being flipped over Sam's right shoulder.

He growled in pain as his back and the back of his head smacked the carpeted living room floor. He rolled on to his left shoulder as he coughed trying to catch the breath that was knocked out of him. His hearing was muffled and his right shoulder felt like it was on fire as his left hand palmed it. He rolled over with a groan onto his right shoulder he was sure was dislocated and looked up at the cold blue eyes and hate filled face. He saw that look once before: the time she nearly killed him by beating him over the head with a tennis racket in Fred's tree house. He grunted as he pulled himself up into a sitting position and glared right back at her.

"So I'm a bit—AHHH!" Sam screamed in pain as her head jerked upwards and looked to the ceiling.

"Yes you are!" Jade's voice shouted enraged behind the blonde and grabbed hold of Sam's blonde locks at around her neck for dear life. The pale singer jerked her body around and flung Sam by the hair towards and downwards at the square dinning room table. Sam's forehead smacked hard against the wooden table and the sound reverberated throughout the hotel room. Jade yanked the web-hostess up and twisted around putting her entire weight into flinging Sam around her and towards the kitchen. Jade let loosened her grip, but did tear some of Sam's hair out as the blonde went face first into the linoleum floor.

Sam's vision was blurred and her head was ringing with pain, but she found the strength to pull her face off the floor and turned over slowly just in time to see Jade's left fist come at her face. The singer clocked the blonde good on the right side of her face and Jennette shouted, "OW! You really hit me."

Liz sucked in a breath and covered her mouth as she stepped back. She knelt down an instant later and shouted in concern, "Oh my God Jen! Are you alright?"

Jennette sat up and started laughing as she cupped her right cheek. The blonde waved Liz off along with Miranda, Nathan and some of the crew that were instantly by her side. However they ignored her and decided to let Liz and Miranda hold her by the arms to help her to her feet. She laughed as she looked to Elizabeth on her left, "Jez girl, you got a mean left hook."

Liz started opening and closing her left fist. She hissed out with a soft laugh under it, "Your face isn't exactly that soft either."

Miranda whispered out with soft admonishment of her co-star, "I told you that you should have used a stunt double."

"Yeah, yeah, I'll remember that next time!" She massaged her right cheek and looked past them to Dan to ask, "Do I get worker's comp?"

Hollywood Arts High School
Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Jade shrugged her left shoulder and answered without much care, "I guess so."

Freddie's smile faulted as he nodded his head and tried to keep his voice up just as cheerful as when he approached her, "Okay, I'll see you after class."

She moved in for a kiss, but he slightly pulled back. She stopped and something just snapped in her head.

Jade pulled back to give him a hard glare and a deep frown then grabbed him by the wrist. She started dragging him down the hall and past the stairwell towards the janitor's closet as he wore a look of complete shock on his face as he asked, "Jade?" The movement and his voice caught the attention of the other students in the hallway and stairwell, but she ignored them as she opened the door and dragged him inside, however Liz stumbled as her feet hit something in the dark room. Thankfully, Liz still had a good grip on Nathan's wrist to halt her fall just enough for him to realize what was happen and was able to grab her with his other arm to stop her fall by quickly pulling her back to him.

He instinctively wrapped his arms around her as she laughed out while softly patting his chest. She blew out soft breath to blow away some of her curls fell in her face. She looked around his muscular arm and sighed out loudly, "I can't make out with my boyfriend in peace when someone decided to use the closet as a closet!"

The extras and the crew started laughing at her complaint.

"And why is it that dark? I don't remember it being that dark!"

Nathan laughed out, "I guess they didn't want anyone playing 'Seven minutes in Heaven'?"

The teenage extras particularly laughed at their co-star's joke.

Liz raised her fake pierced eyebrow as she commented, "You need more than seven minutes."

An Evening with Victorious Set

Christopher commented with a cheerful tone, "Well Liz, it seems even a professional actress such as yourself occasionally flubs her dialogue."

She slightly titled her head to her right shoulder and warmly replied, "You know, I think the whole cast of Victorious is usually pretty good about knowing their lines, but for whatever reason—"

The puppet form of Christopher rudely interrupted her, "Now let's meet someone really interesting."

Liz blinked then looked off to her right off stage with a perplexed expression, but it was quickly replaced with a warm smile at seeing the handsome young man having a seat next to her. He warmly smiled in return as he got comfortable in his seat.

"I'd like to introduce our next guest. You know him well as the Technical-Producer Freddie Benson on the hit Nickelodeon show iCarly and having just starred in TeenNick's original iCarly/Victorious crossover miniseries iActually Like Mean Girls. I'd like you all to give a warm welcome to the newest cast member of the Victorious family, Nathan Kress."

The crowed behind the camera started clapping and cheering for a few moments as Nathan waved with a smile to the audience, gave a polite nod to Liz then nodded to Christopher.

"I'm glad to be here. Thank you for the warm welcome."

Christopher softly laughed, "I have to be nice to you or Nick Cannon said he'd have me fired regardless of how much Dan would want to keep me and they'd strike a deal with Disney to replace me with a Muppet."

Nathan and Liz simultaneously made an O shape with their lips as they glanced to one another. The young man softly laughed, "Well, you may want to be nice to her too for the same reason."

Christopher paused and the pair stared at one another. The shorter actor was the first to flinch. "Anyway, what made you decide to dump iCarly and move over to our fabulous show? Mmm…" Christopher asked and motioned towards him still holding his apple juice.

Nathan nodded with an awkward smile as he answered, "Well, it was big decision to move from iCarly over to Victorious, so I wouldn't describe it as dumping the show—"

"You left the show you've been working on for the last four years to jump on to our fabulous ship."

Nathan gave him a slight frown and gave him a slightly disapproving expression. He started off with a dry tone, "It was a risky move," then picked up with a more cheerful tone, "but it was decided near the end of filming the miniseries that having Freddie stay in Los Angeles opened up a lot of creative possibilities both on iCarly and Victorious with built in crossover potential. As I was able to come back for a few episodes already which was a lot of fun to be back."

Chris softly laughed in the attempts to provoke a response from the actor, "And some of those creative possibilities included having a very steamy on screen romance with Liz Gillies."

Nathan let out a nervous chuckle and looked way from Chris for a brief moment. He looked over to his co-star who was grinning at him apparently enjoying that Chris put him on the hot seat. He finally diplomatically answered with a big grin on his face, "Working with Liz is a real joy and pleasure. I can't praise her enough in how much she has helped me just slip right into the cast who really are a family and her shear professionalism is inspiring."

Liz bowed her head slightly and started showing a little bashfulness. She reached over and patted his hand resting on his knee and answered, "Nathan just showing how kind and sweet he is."

He chuckled, "It's not being sweet Liz, it's the truth."

Christopher interrupted, "Speaking of your on screen romance, some of those scenes during the miniseries must have been quite tricky to film with you and Liz."

Nathan chuckled and quickly raised his brow and dropped it. He glanced over to Liz who was softly biting her bottom lip and softly shaking her head. He took a breath and answered, "Yes, quite tricky… but like I said, Liz is such a professional and as tricky and awkward it could have been to film such scenes, we got through them just fine."

Liz laughed to interrupt, "I'd say it was due to how much of a gentleman he is. I've never filmed such scenes and Nathan made me feel quite comfortable and I think that's something we're always going to disagree on."

The pair shared a smile as Chris pointed out, "In any case, I guess that's why it was on TeenNick instead?"

Nathan answered, "Of course, we obviously couldn't show some of those scenes on regular Nick, but I understand that they may show it on Nick at Night at some point, possibly during some holiday weekend."

Liz laughed out, "They can finally see it in HD."

Chris laughed along with her then pointed out, "Yes, see you two in those scenes in HD."

The dark haired teenager looked away embarrassed while Nathan frowned at the puppet.

Christopher laughed at his own joke and continued, "Let's see some of your goofs."

The pair quickly answered together, "Yes."

Freddie Benson's Hotel Room
Extended Stay America
6531 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

As Freddie started pulling out their takeout and sitting them on the table, he pointed over, "I even have a separated bedroom instead of the studio arrangement."

"So this really is going to be a home away from home for you?"

"Yep and I intend to enjoy every moment of it," he laughed as he sat out her order beside his intended seat.

Jade noticed that he sat her and his meal in seats cattycorner instead of across, but didn't comment. "Then why are you hanging out with me instead of all the happy go lucky people that want to jump you for being the famous Freddie Benson?"

"Maybe I actually like nice girls that'll treat me as Freddie instead of Freddie 'iCarly' Benson," he replied as he took his seat.

"I'm not nice," she replied with a mischievous smile as she took the seat to his right.

He let out a soft chuckle. "Then I actually like mean girls that will treat me as Freddie, satisfied?"

"You think you can satisfy me?"

Freddie chuckled then leaned over so that their faces were just inches apart. "Is that a—"

The Rolling Stones song 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction' started blaring from behind the camera.

Liz and Nathan turned their attention towards the camera and without missing a beat started swaying their respective shoulders in time with one another and singing smugly, "I can't get no… satisfaction. I can't get no… satisfaction." The pair turned to each other and continued to sing, "'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try…"

"CUT!" Dan shouted from somewhere from behind the camera.

Wok Star

Jade shook her head in disbelief to the childish answer. "You forget to find out that you were going to the worst country on Earth before you booked your trip and depended on the word of the guy that talks to himself in his trailer as if someone else is in there with him? I think you have a little responsibility for what happened."

"Hey!"

Beck glanced to Jade and raised a hand slightly. "Maybe you need to chill or—"

She glanced hard at her ex and snapped, "Or what?"

"I'm not going to speak to you for the rest of the night. You going to chill?"

Jade frowned as she turned her attention to her plate.

The rest of them at the table remained silent for moment until that uneasy silence was broken by the sound of something snapping. They looked to Freddie and saw that the plastic fork was broke in two, pressed between the top of Freddie's pointer finger and thumb of his right hand.

Jade looked to Freddie and saw the determined expression on his face as he looked directly at Beck. She was confused about it for a moment.

Beck wore an apprehensive look as he returned the look Freddie was giving him: a guarded stare directed at him by the shorter teenager. Freddie didn't take his eyes off of Beck as he commented, "I think I just cut myself."

Everyone at the table paused for a moment then busted out laughing as Nathan let of the fork then sucked on the pad of his thumb. He mumbled through a chuckled response, "That really hurt."

Liz covered her mouth with one hand and laid her other hand on his shoulder in an attempt to comfort him.

Nathan looked passed Liz and asked still laughing, "Can I get another fork?"

West Residence

At first Freddie didn't think he knocked loud enough, however, a few moments later the door opened and he took in a quick breath as he saw Jade on the other side of the threshold. She wore a black spaghetti strap top with an apparent seam cut down the center from the hem of the shirt to just under her breasts and underneath the shirt a visible black bikini top. She was wearing a long dull dark blue skirt that reached her ankles and sandals on her feet. On top of her head sat a large brim black hat.

"Hi," he was able to choke out as he finished his once over glance of her then met her eyes.

She smiled bashfully and nodded as she replied, "Hi."

They just looked at each other for a few moments as neither apparently knew what to say. Jade pulled her bag tighter on her right shoulder as he held his stare upon her. She looked down at herself and was apparently self-conscious about her appearance as she quickly replied, "I burnt last time instead of tanned."

He blinked as his gaze broke then spitted out with surprise, "What?"

She cleared her throat and continued to look down unable to meet his eyes as she spoke, "The outfit… after we got out of the RV the last time we went to the beach, I kind of burned instead of tanned that afternoon."

He knew he was probably going to insert his foot into his mouth, but he had to say it anyway, "Oh, I was just thinking how… sexy you looked in the outfit." Nathan closed his eyes and shook his head as he realized he just sabotaged Liz's next line.

"That's her line! It's suppose to be 'hot'!" the director shouted with a laugh from somewhere behind the camera.

Liz shook her head then lifted it up with a smile playing on her lips.

"I know!" he shouted as he looked over his shoulder. "I know, but doesn't she already know she's hot?"

"Don't forget she thinks she's cool too," Liz readily agreed then stepped backwards inside and shut the door.

"I guess that's why she doesn't sweat either!" he shouted through the door with a laugh. He took a quick breath and blew out it then retook his position ready to try again.

Liz opened the door and put back on her bashful expression, but instantly broke at seeing Nathan still smiling. She stepped back inside and shouted with a hint of frustration, "Nathan!"

The young man softly laughed.

Lane Alexander's Guidance Counselor's Office
Hollywood Arts High School

"That's what really happened," Rex finished confidently.

Jade glared at Robbie and Rex.

Lane turned and looked to Freddie. "Freddie, would you care to share what you saw before the play?"

André stood up clearly irritated with the situation. "So none of you people want me to have a pretty girlfriend is that it?" They looked to him with bewilderment as he continued counting off with his fingers, "I find myself a Keeko, I make myself a Keeko date and nobody cares. Well that's cool, go on Freddie tell us what happened and start from the beginning. Just start from Adam and Eve and go from there!" The irate songsmith in disgust took a seat beside the Seattle native.

Lane motioned to Freddie and instructed, "Just tell us what happened."

Freddie shook his head and replied calmly, "No."

"No?"

Freddie shrugged a shoulder, "I told you already: you're just going to blame me anyway and I'm not wasting my breath telling you what happened 'from my unique point of view'." He thumbed over to André. "I'm not wasting time and having André miss out on his date with Tori even if I think he can do better with someone else."

Leon grinned while pointing to the prop phone as he corrected, "Keeko. I'm going on a date with Keeko; Freddie wants me to date Tori."

Nathan bit his bottom and shook his head then shouted, "Wrong girl."

Christopher spoke with his British accent as he sat on Robbie's lap, "Way to go, completely mix up the girls."

Nathan rolled his eyes and laughed, "Oh how sorry that I jumped the gun. You want to switch places and deliver my line?"

Matt raised his left hand to wave off that suggestion with an even tone, "Hey, I don't want you sitting on my lap."

The cast instantly broke out laughing at Matt's ability to deliver the line with a straight face while Rex/Chris' mouth dropped open in surprise.

Shay Apartment
Seattle, WA
Saturday, November 5, 2011

The three went back to eating their lunch with Freddie wearing a satisfying expression on his face.

The multiple hissing sound of blowing up balloons finally caught Carly's attention. The brunette looked over her shoulder and over the kitchen counter with a raised eyebrow at seeing what Sam was doing with the helium tank. She stood up and walked around the counter and curiously asked the blonde, "Sam what are you doing?"

Sam casually replied, "Oh, just tying Freddie's phone to a balloon."

Freddie brow furled in an instant and reached into his HA athletic jacket pocket hanging on the back of the chair. He found his pocket empty and turned to glare at her. He immediately stood from his seat and walked around the counter to stand beside Carly in the living room.

The dirty blonde smirked as she released the balloon and it floated to the ceiling.

Freddie calmly asked, "Sam?"

"Oh alright," she smiled out her response then raised a straw directed at the balloon then blew hard on one end of the straw.

The balloon popped and the phone dropped on the wooden coffee table then harmless bounced off the table.

The teenagers looked at the sight for a moment then Jennette looked over to the crew behind the camera and laughed, "Ah… it didn't break."

The teenagers started snickering as Jennette picked the prop off the floor to look at it then started hitting the bottom of it on the coffee table. It bounced off each time she hit it on the table and complained, "Why won't you break?"

"Jen, Jen, JEN!" Dan shouted from behind the camera.

The dirty blonde lifted her head with her arm in mid-swing with the pear shaped prop. "What?"

"I think they gave you the wrong prop!"

Jennette looked to the prop in her hand and saw that it looked like all the other PearPhone props they used on both shows, but with now several dents on the bottom.

She raised her hands up and shouted innocently, "Not my fault!"

The rest started laughing at her innocent face.

He quickly focused on the task at hand, "Okay, camera is set and we are ready to go when they are."

Black Box Theater
Hollywood Arts High School

Freddie raised a quick finger as he interrupted Sinjin, "Actually, we're going to use an additional camera." He turned back to the case and fully opened it. There was a playful grin on his face as he picked up the old workhorse of a camera he had used for years on iCarly. He whispered to himself, "Hello old friend."

Sinjin's jaw dropped as he pointed at the camera in the more muscular teenager's hands. "Is that the camera?"

"What?" Freddie turned his head and asked in a sharp tone.

"The one you used on iCarly?"

Freddie answered in a slow tone, "Yep."

"Can I hold it?" Sinjin asked almost like a child that just saw a new toy he desperately wanted.

Freddie cracked a smile. "Later, let me set up for a second camera. We just have a few hours to get this done."

"Okay," Sinjin answered and brought his camera up ready to go as soon as the cast walked on stage.

"Are you ready?" Freddie heard Jade call out from behind him.

Freddie looked up from the laptop and the camera as he answered, "Almost, I just have to—" Freddie stopped as he saw Jade standing in the center of the forested set.

Freddie swallowed nervously as he saw the teenager in the mixed Renaissance and Gothic style dress. A darker interpretation of Snow White indeed.

Jade was wearing a black wig of various knotted braids and a red bow tied in the hair. Her face was made up with light blue eyeliner and ruby red lipstick with just a touch more makeup to really enhance her naturally pale complexion for the 'Snow White' effect. The top half of the dress consisted of a form fitted, dark blue leather bodice with spaghetti straps going across her collarbone and behind her neck and allowing a nice view of her cleavage. On her shoulders were blue, puffy shoulders with red streaks just like the traditional Dingo Studios interpretation of Snow White. However, they were not actually attached to the dress, but held on with tide red ribbons around her upper arms. If he wasn't mistaken, underneath the three to four separate pieces of silky and nearly transparent gold and burgundy veils that made up the skirt, she was wearing black boy-shorts.

He tried several times to clear his throat as he eyed his girlfriend.

The pale actress gave him a knowing smile. She walked to him to invade his personal space and leaned forward as if to whisper into his left ear so he was the only one that could hear her. He could smell the faint perfume she had dabbed on her neck and feel her soft breath tickle his cheek. "Why Freddie Benson, is that lust in your eyes?" she asked in a delicate tone, and a playful smirk.

Freddie gulped like a fish out of water for a moment then cleared his throat. In a thick voice, he whispered back, "Maybe?"

She surprised him by wrapping her hands behind his neck and planting a pouty kiss on his left cheek then pulled back with a grin on her face. She left a perfect print on of her lips of red lipstick on his cheek. She started softly laughing at what she did while Nathan looked back in shock.

She released him and took a step back as he tried looking around to see if he could find anything that would show what she did. Ava conveniently had her cell phone and raised it to take a quick snapshot then handed it to Nathan. He started laughing as he looked at the photo.

He pointed with his left pointer finger at his cheek and laughed out as he looked over his shoulder to the director, "Can we just keep that? I think I'll wear this for the scene."

Liz laughed along with the rest then took a step forward to stand on his right him and wrapping her arms behind his neck and over his chest to lock her hands together on his left shoulder. The pair smiled as Ava raised her phone and took another picture.

Nathan laughed out, "I'm serious; we should edit this into the scene."

Hollywood Arts High School
Thursday, December 8, 2011

The girls simultaneously dropped their coats to reveal some revealing and sexy Christmas outfits and André's band started playing behind them.

Freddie started in a slow whisper when he got a good look at Jade, "Oh my Go—" Freddie closed his eyes and slightly shook his head. He whispered, "Freddie… naughty thoughts lead to naughty actions…"

Beck's jaw dropped open and blinked looking at the shorter teenager. He raised his voice higher than normal conversational volume and snapped, "Oh my God indeed."

Nathan turned his head and gave Avan a curious expression and the pair soon broke into a laugh.

Avan raised his hands in apology, "Sorry—" Nathan pointed to Avan and interrupted with a laugh, "It was his fault. Entirely his fault for drooling over them."

The taller teenager softly punched Nathan on the side of his arm and complained with a soft laugh, "Thanks for the loyalty man."

"No problem!"

Chris shook his head and complained in Matt's arms, "Such on professionalism."

Hollywood United Methodist Church

Anna looked directly into Freddie's eyes as she whispered again with a hint of desperation in her voice, "Fear not."

He took a sharp breath as the lights in the church dimmed overhead and his attention was pulled to the lightning suddenly flashing outside the stained glassed windows when it was suppose to be a clear night. The corner of his eyes caught movement from behind Anna and saw that two shadows beginning to form behind her on the wall, but he realized that form was not the proper description. The shadows began to unfurl behind the redhead's back and he realized that the shadows were in the shape of a pair of feathery wings like those of an eagle. He took a step back as he saw a pair of shadow wings extend out in all their glory against the backdrop of the altar and the cross over her right shoulder with one last flash of light.

The brown eyed teenager held his breath and swallowed down the real fear he felt as he met the redhead's eyes.

Anna sympathetically smiled to the teenager as she took a step towards him and softly rest a hand on his shoulder. She commented with a disarming voice meant to comfort the teenager, "I prefer this method in letting people know instead of Mitch's talking card trick. It's far more what people expect and I don't mean to criticize my brother, but his method is a little too Chris Angel for my tastes."

Freddie attempted to clear his throat several times as he looked into her soft eyes.

She slightly nodded her head and answered his unasked question, "Yes Freddie, I'm an angel."

The next moment a tall candle stick holder fell over and reverberated throughout the church.

Julie dropped her hand away from Nathan's shoulder and mouth slightly dropped open and her eyes shot open as she looked passed Nathan's other shoulder. She tried not to laugh, but broke into a soft fit of laughter as she looked at the director and someone came rushing over to pick up the fallen piece of set. "Did my wings knock something over?"

Nathan joined in her laughter which caused a few of the set people to laugh at her joke.

"I don't have to extend them all the way for the next take," she stated with a wide grin which brought further laughter from the crew. "I could just make them baby wings?"

Benson Residence
Los Angeles, CA
1:22 A.M., January 1, 2012

Freddie looked down to the floor then back up to Tori's concern eyes. He gave a soft nod as he answered, "I think I might be… what are you doing here?"

She cracked a hesitant smile and shrugged a shoulder, "I'm your friend… where else would I be?"

He cracked a thankful smile and gave her a grateful nod. She walked over and pulled him into a hug. He wrapped his arms around her slender frame. The friends held each other for a few moments before Tori pulled out of his embrace and a step back to look him up and down again. "Are you alright? Physically?"

He gave a brief nod then answered, "Yeah, I'm fine."

"We were worried…" She let out a relieved breath, yet wore a confused expression on her lovely features, "You just took off."

"Thanks, I just…" He let out a tired breath. "It's a story."

She softly bit her bottom lip and gave him a sympathetic expression. "Okay, you can tell us on the way back."

"Back?"

"Home, we've come to see that you're alright and take you back home…" She asked him with a fearful expression, "You want to go home right?"

He surprised the younger Vega sister by pulling her into another hug. She wrapped her arms back around him as she whispered, "Yes, I want to go home."

Tori smiled as she pressed her lips on his bared shoulder. She pulled back a moment later then they heard Trina purr out seductively at the entrance to the bedroom, "Yummy…"

Tori turned to see her sister standing at the door. Her mouth dropped open and looked back and forth between Freddie and her older sister and realized that she was gawking at Freddie's bare chest. She looked over at her sister in outrage and was about to shout, but the girl ran to them and Daniella shouted, "Group hug!"

The young woman ran to them and wrapped her arms around the pair. Victoria and Nathan both sighed then shouted at the same time, "Group hug!"

"CUT!" the director shouted.

West Residence
Los Angeles, CA
1:22 A.M., January 1, 2012

Dusty looked up at the brunette with an indignant expression and snapped softly, "What would you have me do Cohen? Go home and go to bed and pretend everything is alright? You can do that, but I can't and the only thing left I can do is to sit, so I sit and I wait. It may be pointless and useless and may not make one bit of difference, but I have to try."

The short brunette blew out a soft breath as she studied the teenager for a moment and contemplated her choices. She made up her mind by taking a seat on the swing next to the quickly becoming brooding teenager. He refused to meet her eyes as she cautiously looked to the teenager staring out to the other side of the street watching as the others got into their cars, particularly Beck with the actor staring back. The actor finally broke eye contact as he got into his car with Robbie getting into the passenger seat.

The director shouted, "You did it again Matt! Wrong car!"

Matt blew out a breath through clenched teeth then shouted, "I know! Sorry!" while he stepped out of Beck's car.

Dustin shouted from the porch, "What's that, number five Matty!"

Matt mockingly laughed in return. "You're hilarious Dustin!"

"That's high praise coming from a professional like you!" he laughed in return as Ava softly patted Dustin on his arm.

An Evening with Victorious Set

After the last clipped played, Nathan smiled and pointed to the screen and laughed out with an awkward tone, "Ah… neither of us was in that scene."

Christopher motioned with a hand. "I know; I just wanted to show how much Matt is a screw up and I like Dustin."

Liz whistled out then softly laughed with a soft shake of her head.

Christopher then continued while looking back at the camera, "We have one more very special guest for you this evening as she has been our special guest for several episodes of Victorious playing Jade West's mother, Ruby Lynn West, please welcome the beautiful, the talented and unfortunately very married, Jennifer Connelly."

Nathan and Liz got up from their seats as Miss Connelly walked onto the platform and she exchanged warm greetings with the teenagers and a cheek kiss with Liz. Nathan took a seat at the end of the couch while Liz took a seat in the middle with Jennifer sitting closest to Christopher.

"Thank you for that warm introduction," the very dark brunette smiled and nodded to Christopher as she had her legs crossed and resting her hands in her lap.

"Oh you are quite welcome. I would love to ask you your view about socks, but I'm told that we're pushing the clock and I need to ask you the question that must be on everyone's mind: 'Will there ever be a sequel to Labyrinth?"

Jennifer softly laughed and bowed her head.

"No, no, in all seriousness, what made you decide to grace us with you presence on our humble little show?"

Jennifer tilted her head back up and to the side slightly as she answered, "It was almost by accident really that I found out about the role. I was aware in passing of Dan's shows when I happen to run into him in L.A. We got to talking and he told me about the character and her history. I thought it was quite an interesting role, especially with the history of the character and what he has planned for her in the future."

She looked over to Liz and Nathan as she continued, "Then you have these two teenagers struggling, like most teenagers, to fundamentally find themselves, but with the risk that they could fall so easily back to what they know." She looked back to Chris as she continued, "I wanted to be a part of that story as much as my schedule would allow me."

He answered with a sweet voice as she looked at the famous actress, "Yes, quite fascinating. I know I'm always happy whenever you're set."

"Thank you Christopher, but I'm happily married," she replied picking up his flirtatious manner.

Liz leaned over to her TV mom and whispered, "You noticed that too; he did the same thing to Vic before us."

"But isn't Chris married?"

Liz shook her head and smirked.

Nathan laughed as he asked, "So do we have some clips of Miss Connelly?"

Christopher laughed for a few seconds then quickly stopped to answer in a completely serious tone, "No, we don't. She is such a professional that we have absolutely no bloopers of her… I wouldn't dare attempt to embarrass this angel."

The teenagers looked to one another and thought on that statement while Jennifer laughed. Liz asked with a surprised expression, "None? You have none?"

Jennifer whispered over, "They're saving them for the DVD extras when they release the miniseries."

Liz nodded along and smiled at the explanation.

The camera panned back to Christopher and he finished, "The show is over. I thank you all for joining me in this behind-the-scenes look into the inner workings of the television show, Victorious. And now, as you might hear my alter-ego, Rex, say on the show… I'm spiked out and I handle my bidness. Goodnight."

The crowd started clapping as the screen faded to black.

Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed this little bit of comedy and I hope some of it was funny since ironically for a comedy show/shows, I don't do much original comedy.

Also, PD31 was the one that originally pointed out how I messed up in the chapter about which car I had Robbie get into and that I make that into a blooper. For the record (since I never went back and changed it in the story), Robbie got in Sinjin's car, not Beck's car.

Thanks again to all my readers that have stuck with these stories. I hope you continue to read 'We Love Each Other' in the Victorious section.

Take care,OneHorseShay