Summary

For all intents and purposes, it looked like Beck was pinning Jade to the wall and smacking her around. And now, everyone had seen it. This wasn't bruises on her wrists that she could hide with bracelets, or a bite mark deep on his shoulder which meant he couldn't wear his usual 'vest and open shirt' combo for a week. This was a look into the deepest, most private part of their relationship; and it was broadcast for everyone to see and judge. And judge incorrectly.

When a video clip of Jade and Beck gets released on 's gossip page, it causes the entire school to judge Beck and Jade's relationship. With Beck now looking like public enemy number one and Jade being treated like glass by the student population, they have to figure out a way to get out of the mess with their reputations still intact.

A (hopefully) realistic view of teenagers in an unconventional sexual relationship.

Chapter Summary

Jade and Beck have to deal with school again. A meeting with everyone's favourite guidance counsellor is appropriately mortifying and they finally come up with the bare bones of a plan of action.

Authors Note

So the first discussion with an actual adult about the whole 'rough sex' thing. I know in most of my stories, Beck is a year older than Jade (and the rest of the gang) due to a weird schooling glitch between USA and Canada (I'm not aware if that's an issue in Canada and America to be honest. I'm basing it on the weird glitch that happens between Scotland and England schools). It's actually one of the main points in my one shot 'Why Robbie Shapiro Snoops No More' - the fact Jade is 17 and classed as a minor and Beck is classed as an adult at 18. HOWEVER if I made Beck 18 in this one and Jade still 17, there'd be a whole mess of legal issues (as mentioned in the snooping one shot) due to age of consent, and Lane might actually have to report it to authorities, which isn't where this story is going, so...for the sake of this story alone, let imagine Beck isn't 18 quite yet and Jade is still just 17.

OK so there's minor references to my first work in Victorious, A Kiss With A Fist Is Better Than None. The gist of it is, in Stage Fight, Tori did hit Jade for real and broke her eye socket - an orbital rim fracture. In the story, she manages to manipulate Lane a little bit and he now has quite the soft spot for her, thinking she's just a troubled little girl who is just shielding her poor fragile heart.

After hanging out with the gang for most of Saturday, Beck and Jade managed to finally get some alone time that night, and had spent Sunday discussing the whole 'abusive boyfriend' affair. Beck had to admit, without just coming out and saying it, he didn't see much of an option to clear everything up. Both of them could deny it till they were blue in the face, but it didn't matter if no one would believe them about it. They'd think Beck was covering his own ass and had manipulated or threatened Jade into going along with it (laughable, because despite their dynamic during their 'sexy times' as Andre jokingly called it, there was no way anyone, including him, could threaten or manipulate Jade freaking West) . But Beck was still adamant that they kept quiet and hoped it would go away.

"I just don't understand why you won't just be honest about it." Jade shook her head as they sat in his car in the HA parking lot Monday morning. It had been the same discussion all of the night before, and the basis of most of their talking on the ride from Beck's to school.

"Jade...I just..." He sighed. He knew Jade wasn't a fan of his reasoning; she could take care of herself and didn't give two shits if some asshole meatheads spread rumors around about her. But he'd been ducking the question all morning and knew she wouldn't give up until he told her the truth. "If this gets out, people will start...talking and stuff. I hate the idea of someone even thinking about you sexually, never mind spreading rumors about you. I know you don't care, but...it's the same as you being more annoyed than me about the idea I'm abusive..." Which was true. Yes, Beck was pissed off and annoyed about it, because it could cause major problems in his career, but Jade was angry and wanted nothing more than to beat the life out of whoever had been holding that camera. "People can say what they want about me, but if they say stuff about you, I'll lose it. And think of it as me being selfish; if I get in another fight like last year, they could suspend or expel me."

Jade bit her lip but, in the end, Beck won out; she understood that he got more mad about stuff being said about her, than her. Because it was true; it's easy for her to not care or take the high road when people were talking about her, but when people were talking about Beck or one of her friends, she got a lot angrier and more involved. So why wouldn't it be the same for Beck?

"Fine...but we need to think of something to stop this whole thing." Jade told him with a heavy sigh, climbing out of the car, him quickly following. He grabbed her hand and tugged her to him lightly, placing one hand on her cheek and pressing a kiss to her lips, her own hands going up to grip his shirt.

"Don't worry about it. We'll figure it out, I promise." Beck told her softly when he pulled back a little, and he couldn't help but give her his boyish grin when she looked up at him with her eyes loving and a tiny smile tilting the corners of her lips up.

"OK." She nodded, letting go of his shirt and taking a small step back, before they turned to head into the school, fingers entwined. Much like the previous Friday, people stared at the pair, whispering and glaring, and ignoring it was a lot easier said than done.

All the people staring at her made her feel on edge; normally, Jade would never object to the attention. As an aspiring actress, singer and director, she loved being the center of attention, with people clamoring for even just a scrap of recognition. But right now, she could really do without it – probably because the attention she was getting was filled with pity and remorse; not awe and fear and respect. They'd timed their arrival to be just as the warning bell was ringing, meaning they didn't have to deal with too many stares, and instead could pretty much just go straight to class. They weren't together for the first class – Beck had Method Acting and Jade had Dialogue Analysis, and normally Beck would walk Jade to her class before heading to his own. Today however, it was reversed – Jade had adamantly refused to let Beck go anywhere in school on his own, and to his annoyance, the others had agreed; meaning he was effectively being babysat all day. While he didn't share Method Acting with anyone from the gang, on Saturday it was agreed that Andre, ideally and if possible, would meet Beck after each class, along with whichever one of the group was free/close by. All to stop him being jumped again.

Although judging by the looks he was getting from his class mates, the whole 'baby sitting' thing maybe wasn't such a bad idea. He was midway through the lesson, taking notes and trying to ignore the glaring, when a student came into the room and went straight to the teacher, handing a slip of paper.

"Beck? The guidance Counseller would like to speak with you."

He couldn't hold back a wince. There was only one reason Lane would want to speak with him; unlike his lovely girlfriend, Beck wasn't often in trouble; he rarely had detention (the three weeks at the end of the previous year an exception) and none of his fellow students had ever really had a problem with him, so there was no need to speak with Lane. But right now? Admittedly, Beck and Jade had mentioned the idea of teachers finding out, but they'd hoped that it'd just continue like Friday did, with teachers being none the wiser.

But of course, Lane would find out, if any of them did. So, with as much pride as he could manage with his classmates smirking and glaring at him in equal measure – because they obviously knew why he was getting pulled out of class – he grabbed his bag and headed straight for Lane's office, blinking in surprise when he spotted Jade too, sitting outside the counselor's door on one of the uncomfortable plastic seats. He didn't think Lane would have called them both out to meet him together – if he truly believed that Beck was abusive, surely he'd want to speak to Jade separately first?

"I already spoke with him." Jade stated, rolling her eyes. "He grabbed me when I was walking from your class to mine. But I just said I wouldn't speak about it until you were there too. He tried to fight me on it, but it's not just mine to tell." She shrugged a little, biting the inside of her lip in worry. It was piling up on her, Beck could see that; with her past, she could have been viewed as a victim for her whole life and no one would fault her. But she'd refused that, had wrapped herself up in a cloak made of venomous barbs and violent reactions to being touched, and made sure no one knew the truth – or at least, a very small amount of people knew the truth. To be honest, Beck still wasn't fully sure he knew the whole story of the six years she lived with her mother after her dad had left, before she died and Jade was shuttled to her father for the rest of her childhood and adolescence.

"He probably thinks if I'm here, you can't be honest." Beck sighed, sitting next to her on the line of uncomfortable chairs, wrapping an arm around her shoulder and pressing a kiss into her hair, at the side of her head, before she ducked her head under his chin and rested it on his shoulder.

"I hate this. I hate that idiots would actually assume you would be...like that. That you would be that kind of person. And I hate that in order for you not to be kicked out of school or have the police called, we're going to need to tell Lane about...us."

Beck felt his stomach drop at that. He hadn't thought of it as of yet; that he'd have to tell Lane that the reason for that little video that seemed intent on ruining their lives (or at least their last year of high school) was actually just their foreplay. There was no way they could talk their way out of it; they'd discussed alternatives over the weekend, and the best they'd come up with was it was part of a play they were rehearsing. But that was quickly discounted because it would be too easy to figure out it was a lie; Hollywood Arts wasn't putting on anything remotely touching that subject matter, and the likelihood of an actual theatre putting on a show with that topic and casting minors would be microscopic, and once again; easily researched and it would be found out that no such play was being done in LA anytime soon.

Lane poked his head out of his office and raised an eyebrow at the pair, with Jade curled in to him, his arm secure around her shoulders, chin resting on her head. "Come on in, you two." He stated with a nod, and Beck was thankful that it appeared he was reserving judgement – there was no glare or anger, his face was carefully blank.

They followed him into the office and sat on the lumpy yet comfortable couch across from Lane sitting in his hanging basket chair, Beck's arm not once leaving Jades shoulders as she hooked one finger into one of his belt loop, chewing her lip a little.

"So, I'm going to assume you both know why you were called in here." Lane stated, raising his eyebrows at the pair. "There's some very serious allegations going around about you two, and I need to address them. Ideally, I wanted to speak with you alone Jade.." He let out a long sigh, cutting himself off and Beck could tell that he hadn't been too pleased with Jade's adamant refusal to discuss this without Beck there.

"And I told you; Beck isn't abusive. There's an explanation for that video and... I don't feel comfortable telling you myself." Jade snapped back, pulling her hand away from Beck's belt loop to crossed her arms defensively over her chest, as Beck's arm tightened around her, knowing how uncomfortable she felt; because he felt it too. Lane was pretty chill and cool. He was a hard ass when needed and often didn't seem to care that much about his students' issues, but was always there to help out if things got rough. Talking about this with Lane felt like one step down from talking to their parents about it. So needless to say; it was horrific.

"Then why don't you both tell me now? Because I have students making complaints that they don't feel comfortable in school because of this. And it's now reached Helen and she's breathing down my neck to sort this out. So how about you tell me how the video – which I have also seen – came about, if it's not abuse?" Here he gave Beck a sharp look, and Beck knew that despite his apparent reserving of judgement earlier, he was pretty pissed. Lane had a soft spot for Jade, after all; especially after the whole Stage Fighting thing, where Tori hit Jade and broke her eye socket.

Jade shifted a little, biting her lip before nudging Beck, as if he should be the one to tell Lane the truth, which he felt was pretty unfair; he didn't want to fess up either and would prefer if Jade did it. But one of them had to, so he decided to bite the bullet and man up, removing his arm from her shoulders as he lent forward a little to speak, propping his elbows on his knees.

"The video was...I mean to say, me and Jade..." He let out a sigh and burrowed his face in his hands, muffling his words. "We like rough sex." Although the words didn't really come out like that, it sounded more like 'Wefluckrogspeck', which obviously did nothing to help Lane understand. When Jade nudged his thigh with her knee, he sat up and looked at the ceiling lights instead, intent on not making eye contact with Lane. "Me and Jade like...uh...we have um..." He let out another sigh, this one louder than the last as Jade rolled her eyes, but still didn't look like she was opening her mouth to spare him the embarrassment. "We like rough sex." He managed out through gritted teeth. "The video clip it...yeah."

"It's not abuse." Jade stated pointedly, but also didn't make eye contact with Lane, instead preferring to keep her eyes on the holes in her black skinny jeans, on her knee, picking at the loose threads around the hole. "We know it shouldn't have been... done in school. We get that. Normally, it's only ever in private but we slipped up. But Beck isn't abusive."

Lane didn't seem to know what to say – he may have expected a few different things, of course; he'd doubted things were as clear cut as they looked on the video clip, as he thought he knew Beck pretty well and didn't think he had it in him to be abusive. But the optics weren't great and he was prepared for the worst.

And whilst thing wasn't the worst by far, it was still pretty shocking. He almost wished it was abuse, because at least then he had a set game plan, an idea of how to handle it. This? He never thought it'd be something he'd ever have to discuss, especially not with two of his favourite students.

"Oh. So you mean to say that what was seen on the clip was...fully consensual?" He asked, his voice surprisingly steady and even. He was a professional after all; he decided that instead of viewing them as two of his favourite students, he'd view them as two teenagers who he had no former relationship with.

"Yes." The pair said in unison, Beck nodding his head and Jade continuing to stare at her knees, picking at the frayed edges.

"Jade? Can you please look at me when you say that? Just for my peace of mind?" Lane asked, raising an eyebrow a little. He needed to be 100% sure that she was telling the truth, and it was hard to lie when staring at someone straight on.

The darkhaired girl rolled her eyes a little, but met Lane's with a defiant look. "Yes. It's 100% consensual."

"And you know about the risks of...those types of activities? Not just the...type of sexual activity you partake in, but the actual risks of intercourse?"

"Oh my god." Jade uttered under her breath, it now being her turn to burrow her face in her hands.

"Yes Lane. We know about...safe sex." Beck nodded, pushing his hair out of his eyes. "We're both 100% clean and healthy, both physically and psychologically." Well, as psychologically healthy as any two teenagers trying to make it in Hollywood could be. "And during our...type of sexual activity-" It was easier to refer to it as that in front of Lane; Beck figured he and Jade would be using it a lot over the next week or so, when explaining things to people. It sounded a lot less crude than 'Rough Sex' and a lot less intimidating and misleading than 'Dom/Sub' or the like. "We use a safe word and a hand signal, just in case. We discuss anything we are curious about and only do it if both of us are 100% sure. If someone doesn't like something, it's never brought up again." He rattled these things off, now almost thankful for his friend's curiosity over the weekend, as it gave him an idea of what people wanted to know.

Lane let out a long and slow breath, massaging his temples lightly. "OK. I understand. I hope you both know I'll need to inform Helen about this, and then let her decide if she's to take action and speak to the other teachers, so they know the truth and don't have any thoughts of making your life harder." Lane said the last part to Beck, and he had an unsettling feeling that the teachers had possibly been discussing ways to punish him for his apparent transgression, and the easiest way was to unfairly take it out on his school work. If Helen chose not to say anything, he was pretty sure he'd be getting graded extra hard for the rest of this year. But to be honest, he wasn't sure if that wouldn't be preferable; getting some bad grades or teachers knowing about his sex life? It wasn't much of a choice.

"Oh God." Came from Jade again, her voice clear but a little muffled due to her face still being buried in her hands.

"I'm also obligated to say that you're both not legally of age to consent to sexual intercourse for another few months." He gave them a pointed look. "If either of your parents desired it, they could press charges against the other for statutory rape."

Jade let out a scoff and rolled her eyes. If that wouldn't be mutually assured destruction, she didn't know what would be. If her dad tried to press charges against Beck, Beck's parents could, although they never would, press charges against Jade. But to be honest, their parents must have known they were sexually active, even if it was never brought up. They spent a huge chuck of their time alone in his RV. What else did they think the two of them got up to? Boardgames and bible study?

"Have you thought about what you're going to do about the students?" Lane asked, wisely moving away from the legal and parental aspect for now.

"I want to just own up to it. Beck won't." Jade stated bluntly, ignoring the narrowed eyed look from her boyfriend.

"Because if we do, you'll get a whole load of shi-" He stopped himself, remembering that their was a 'responsible adult' (with a lotion obsession) in the room with them, who wasn't really his biggest fan at the moment and had the power to give detention. "Crap from the idiots in this school. Well, more crap."

"Crap?" Lane perked up at that. If one of his students was getting hassled from other students, then that was something he could deal with far easier and less awkwardly than the whole...'two of my underage students like to have rough sex'.

"It's nothing. Just stupid rumors no one believes." Jade cut in, sending a warning glare to Beck that clearly said 'Shut up now, idiot.'

"What type of rumors?"

"Stupid ones." Jade reiterated through gritted teeth, digging her knuckle into Beck's outer thigh when he looked like he was about to open his mouth. This whole sex thing was bad enough, she didn't need Lane hounding her about being 'bullied' or 'harassed' too. There was a reason she never liked playing the victim unless it directly benefited her or her plans. It made her feel vulnerable and uncomfortable. Plus, she really didn't care; boys were gross about stuff, she already knew that – had known since 8th grade. She just didn't let them bother her anymore. It never went further than idiots spreading rumours that no one really believed. And every guy knew better than to even think about touching her or trying something; not just because she had a boyfriend (who apparently had a very well-hidden violent side if that beat down he gave a senior last year was any indication), but because they knew if they tried, they'd end up with scissors and her boot somewhere very unpleasant and painful.

"We're hoping if we just...ignore it and continue as normal, people will eventually see that it was...well, misinterpreted. Andre, Tori, Cat and Robbie all know the truth." Beck explained, lacing one of his hands with Jade's, squeezing lightly when he heard her mutter under her breath 'Hah. Sure. We'.

Lane let out a long exhale, grabbing his lotion from the corner of his desk and applying it to his hands, rubbing it in carefully. "I won't lie. I'm not sure what to do in this situation. Of course, I'm extremely upset with you both for being so reckless in school grounds and I'm not quite sure how Helen will react when I speak to her. But if this is fully consensual then there's no real action that I can take other than offering counsel and guidance if you need it for any emotional issues that arise."

"Emotional issues?" Jade scoffed, rolling her eyes. "My 'emotional issues' aren't anything to do with my sex life. Believe me. I don't like... that stuff because I lack self-worth or self-confidence – because believe me I don't lack either of those things. I just like rough sex."

"And I'm not secretly yearning for control of my life and a way to assert dominance over others." Beck added in, shaking his head as if to say 'Honestly, I have to put up with this?'.

"Can we go now? First period is almost over and I don't want to miss out on Advanced Improv." Jade snapped, now totally fed up with the whole thing.

"Almost - we may need to have another meeting at some point but for now, let me give you these..." He reached over to his desk and pulled out two purple paper bags, that looked kind of like old fashioned lunch sacks, and handed one to each of them.

The pair peered inside and blanched, Jade's brow furrowing as she saw about 5 little metalic squares, along with glossy pamphlets that no doubt gave painfully dry and medical sounding details of sex. "No." She stated, grabbing the bag from Beck as well and forcing them back to Lane. "Nope. Don't need it."

"Jade-"

"She's on the implant." Beck interrupted, knowing that if Jade said something, it'd probably be a lot worse or crude. Or she'd spin some tale about how they wanted to get pregnant or some bullshit just to mess with Lane.

"And even if I wasn't, those shitty little 'Regular' condoms wouldn't be of any use." She blinked with fake innocence. "When we did use condoms, we needed to buy magnum or kingsize. So, pointless."

"God damn it Jade." Beck hissed through gritted teeth, a very slight blush across his cheeks as Lane blinked hard before his lips went into a thin line and he pushed the bags back towards them.

"Just take the bags. You mentioned you're sexually active in this meeting. I'm obligated by school guidelines to give you these. I don't care what you do with them, but I have to give you them." Lane stated bluntly, before massaging his temples again. "You can go now, the bell will ring in a few minutes and I need to figure out what to tell Helen."

Jade grabbed her little bag and violently shoved it into her over the shoulder satchel with a frown on her lips, as Beck put his own little bag into his backpack, not nearly as violently as his lovely girlfriend did. With that, Jade stormed out of the little office, stomping as loudly as her shoes would allow her – today she wore little suede booties instead of her combat boots, so it didn't have as satisfying a sound to her.

She and Beck both sighed as the door closed behind them, and Beck tugged Jade to him by the hips, taking advantage of the empty hallway to rest his forehead against hers as her arms wrapped around his neck.

"We'll be fine babe. I promise...we just need to not give them anything else to feed on." He whispered, his thumbs lightly stroking back and forth over the sliver of exposed pale skin between the waistband of her skinny jeans and tank top. "And Andre made a good point when we were talking on Friday night. The others, especially him and Tori, are popular enough to give us some protection from it. If they're still treating us like normal, then it'll make people second guess the rumour."

"Maybe...we should try and find the person who filmed it? Or find out who's behind the blog? Make them post a retraction or something?" Jade suggested, and Beck's eyes widened. It was a good plan and he didn't know why none of them had thought of it till now.

"How do we do that?" He asked, on board with the overall plan but not too sure about the logistics of it. Robbie was the best at tech, but not in a 'hacking' way, more in a 'how does it work' way. Jade was next, because she was ridiculously smart and could pretty much learn anything she wanted too if she applied herself, but didn't extend to hacking either.

Jade gave him a smirk. "Who do we know that is good with computers and hacking? And more importantly; is completely obsessed with me and would do anything just for a chance to touch my hand for 30 seconds?"

Beck's eyebrows raised. There was only one person they knew who fit that description. "Of course. Sinjin."

Jade's smirk turned a little wider as she leaned in to press a kiss to his lips. "Exactly. Sinjin."