Hollywood Arts sees me

Summary: When Sikowitz invites Tori, Cat, Andre, Beck, Jade and Robbie to his house for method acting they not only meet his nephew but another student who lives with him. Jack Wilder.
Pairing Jack x Jade

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Victorious or the now you see me movies.


"Drinks, chips and liquid soap" Sikowitz says putting out the items for his soon to arrive in character guests.
A second later the doorbell rings and he goes to the door, saying "party time."
When he opens the door he lets Tori enter as she tells him, "I'm a police officer." Loudly, while stuffing her face with Raisin Bran, which spills onto her fake police uniform.

"Your name is?" Sikowitz asks.

"Officer Podesko. Do you have anything sharp or pointy in your pockets that could injure me?" She replies.

"I certainly hope not." Sikowitz tells her, looking thoughtful as he tries to remember if he has anything in his pockets.

Just then the doorbell rings and Sikowitz turns around, answering the door.

"Ah, good evening come in." Sikowitz tells Robbie and Andre, who are in the characters of a motivational speaker and a pregnant marathon runner respectively and enter his home.

The four have a small chat while staying in their characters until the others arrive. The next one to arrive is Cat, who is a 80's stand up comedian. After her Beck and Jade shows up. Beck is a Englishman who has no sense of personal space and Jade is an always happy farmgirl.

Once all of his students have arrived Sikowitz starts his plan to make them lose character and says "Oh oh, I spy a fly with my little thigh." He gets a fly swatter out of his fridge and storms at the window, stumbling and crashes right through it.

"Sikowitz! Are you OK?" Robbie yells concerned and goes to help his teacher.

"Who's there?" Sikowitz asks.

"It's Robbie." Robbie answers.

"EEEP, you broke character. You're out." Sikowitz tells him, pointing at his door.

"What the fuck was that?" Jack asks, coming down the stairs, leading to the second floor while only wearing jogging pants, having taken a nap.

"Oh Jack, sorry about that. I am trying to teach your fellow students the meaning of staying in character through method acting." Sikowitz tells his subtenant.

"And for that you felt the need to break the window, which no doubt I'll have to fix?" Jack asks, sighing at the man's antics.

"Yes. Wouldn't you?" Sikowitz yells.

"You know, sometimes I don't know how this house survived before I moved in." Jack tells him shaking his head and goes back upstairs.

"Who was that handsome man just now? I am a police officer and need to know this." Tori asks Sikowitz loudly.

"I can still hear you you know." Jack says, getting dressed upstairs.

"That is one of your fellow Hollywood Arts students." Sikowitz informs them before turning to Robbie.

"Robbie, what are you still doing here? Leave, you're out!" Sikowitz tells the skinny teen, who leaves while grumbling.

Moments after he's gone Jack comes back down.

"Can I interest you for some Raisin Bran?" Tori offers him, having waited at the stairs with Cat, since both girls were interested in him after seeing his fit figure. Jade liked the sight as well, but she's already in a relationship afterall.

"No thanks, don't mind me I'm just gonna take care of the window." Jack tells them and collects a hand brush.

Another teen a little older than them enters the room from the back and Tori blows in her whistle, asking "And who is that handsome young man over there?"

"That is my nephew Jason, he is staying with me while his parents are in Bangkok." Sikowitz answers.

"Does he have a girlfriend? Because as a police officer I need to know." Tori asks the blonde teen.

"No, I'm not dating anyone." He replies.

"Ahh, then we have much to discuss." Tori tells him, poking him with her baton playfully.

"Where are you headed?" Sikowitz asks.

"I'm going to see the wild dogs play at the Moxy." Jason answers.

"I'll go with you to see the wild dogs play at the Moxy, I'll go right now." Cat says excitedly.

"EEEP, Cat you just broke character." Sikowitz tells her, holding open the door.

"Yay, bye everyone I'll be at the Moxy." Cat says, leaving with Jason, who stops to ask Jack "Jack you want to come too?"

"Nah, thanks. This seems interesting, plus someone has to stop your uncle from overdoing it again." Jack replies, having finished collecting the glass shards.

"Alright, goodbye everyone." Jason says and leaves with Cat.

A few minutes later everyone is looking around, inspecting their teacher's stuff when Andre gets taken home by his crazy grandmother.

After their musically talented friend left Sikowitz asks Jade "Sweet farm girl, would you mind getting that tray of quesadillas from the kitchen?"

"I wouldn't mind at all." Jade says in her cheerful character and goes to the small kitchen area, picking up the tray with her right hand.

"Oh wait, that tray is just out of the oven." Sikowitz warns her but Jade already grabbed it and burned her hand.

"My goodness, that tray was hot. Oh, look at that my skin is starting to blister. And I do believe that is the sweet smell of my burning flesh." Jade says and moves to the front door.

"Jade, perhaps I should.." Sikowitz says.

"Jade? My name is Betty Sue Goldenhorn, a happy farm girl who is experiencing extreme pain right now." Jade replies, close to tears from the stinging sensation in her hand and leaves the house.

"And yet she never broke character." Sikowitz says impressed.

"I'm gonna bring her to the hospital." Jack says, getting a cooling pad and waving a quick goodbye to the remaining people in the house.


Once Jack steps outside he sees Jade, clutching her burned hand and looking for the fastest way to a hospital.
"Want a ride?" Jack asks her, handing the girl dressed as a farmgirl the cooling pad and opens the door to his mustang for her.

"Thanks." Jade replies dryly. Jack starts the car and drives away, heading for the nearest hospital.

"So, why do you live with Sikowitz again?" Jade asks him, cooling her burn with the pad.

"He found me performing street magic and thought I had talent, so he enrolled me in Hollywood Arts and offered me his free room." Jack explains.

"What about you and your friends? What caused this little bout of method acting?" Jack asks.

"He baited us by saying we are bad actors if we can't do method acting." Jade explains.

"Yeah he likes to bait people doesn't he." Jack says with a laugh.

"So how does it work? Isn't living with a student against some kind of regulation?" Jade questions.

"I don't know, I rarely take any of his classes and those I have to take are not graded." Jack explains.

"So, whose car is this? Sikowitz's?" Jade asks.

"Mine." Jack replies.

"Really? It must've cost a fortune." Jade says impressed.

"Yeah, that it did." Jack agrees with a laugh.

"Rich parents?" Jade inquires.

"No, poker. My parents actually died in an accident when I was six." Jack answers.

"Sorry." Jade apologizes for bringing up a hurtful subject.

"It's alright." Jack says and they drive the rest of the way to the hospital in silence.


"Alright, here we are." Jack says, opening the car door for her.

The two head for the reception and get a document for them to fill out.
"Here, let me write." Jack offers, taking the document and pen out of Jade's hand because she was struggling due to her injured favored hand.

Jade shoots him a quick grateful smile, which you could have missed if you blinked before taking on her usual controlling demeanor.

"So, name?" Jack asks, making her look at him like he was stupid.

"Jade West." She says expecting him to have known this.

"Alright, birthday?" Jack says filling out the form.

"26th July 1994." Jade replies.

"K, injury is burned right hand. Any of these illnesses in the past or currently?" Jack asks her, showing her the list and she points at the ones she had.

"OK, emergency contact?" Jack asks.

"Beck Oliver." Jade says and tells him his address and mobile number.

"OK, done. I'm gonna hand it to the nurse and ask when you're up. Want anything from the vending machines?" Jack says.

"Coffee, black." Jade tells him and Jack takes off to deliver the document and fetch the beverage. A couple of minutes later he sits back down next to her and hands her the coffee.

"Careful, it's still hot. Don't want to add a burned tongue to that hand now do we?" Jack jokes.

"Yeah yeah. What did the nurse say?" Jade asks, blowing into her coffee to cool it down.

"She said it might take a while, sorry." Jack informs her.

"Just my luck. I'm stuck here while that little she-minx is having a blast with my boyfriend." Jade curses.

"She-minx, boyfriend? OH, do you mean the other who were still at my place?" Jack asks.

"Yes." Jade almost hisses.

"Don't you trust him? Plus, my crazy ass, coconuts freak of a roommate is with them." Jack tells her with a smirk.

"Haha, that is the most spot-on description of Sikowitz yet. And to some degree I trust him, but he always lets girls flirt with him and Tori had her eyes on him from day 1." Jade replies.

"I see, must be hard." Jack says.

"Yeah, well anyways you can go now. I can take it form here." Jade tells him, expecting him to take off.

"Nah, I'm good. Not like I'd be able to relax back at my place anyways with Sikowitz testing your classmates." Jack replies with a sigh and leans into the chair to get more comfortable, expecting a long wait.

"Does it still hurt? You want another ice pack?" Jack asks the girl fiddling with her hands carefully.

"Since you're offering, I won't say no." Jade replies.

"Alright, be right back." Jack says and gets up to get her an ice pack. While he is gone out of nowhere Sinjin pops up and takes his seat.

"Hello Jade." He says creepily.

"Sinjin, what are you doing here?" She asks annoyed.

"I was just in the neighborhood." He says, disturbing her further.

"Leave!" She orders him.

"No, I think I'll stay with one hand you're not that intimidating." Sinjin tells her.

"You think you´re staying huh?" Jack asks having returned with the ice pack and overheard them talking.

"Who? Wha.. Jack. I think I'll take my leave." Sinjin says and quickly runs off into the hospital's corridors.

"What was that?" Jade questions surprised by the fearful reaction of the tech geek.

"Amongst certain crowds I have a reputation." Jack replies, handing her the ice pack.

"Sounds interesting, keep talking." Jade tells him.

"I don't think it'll interest you much." He says sitting down.

"Come on, just tell me." Jade says.

"Alright, when I first started Hollywoods Arts 2 years ago I came across some of the cooler techies bullying this kid with a puppet. Long story short I whooped their asses and got suspended for a while because they said I started the fight, ever since the techies are afraid of me. Apparently, they spread the rumor that I'm some gangster thug. Can't exactly say hanging around in casino's helps my case." Jack tells her.

"Kid with a puppet huh? You mean Robbie? The skinny boy who came to Sikowitz's exercise." Jade asks.

"I don't know, I didn't get a name." Jack answers. Just then a nurse comes over to her and tells her "Jade West? You're in luck, come with me the doctor will see you in a bit."

Jade gets up to follow the nurse and looks back at Jack, asking him expectantly "You coming?"

"OK." Jack agrees with a shrug of his shoulders and follows the two women to a doctors' office.

They don't have to wait long until a doctor arrives and treats the burn, putting on some cream to help with the healing and wraps the hand in gauze.

"Here, you should change your girlfriends' wrappings every now and then." The doctor tells Jack and hands him a couple of bandages.

"Oh, he's not my boyfriend." Jade says.

"My mistake, I just assumed. Anyways have a good night and don't scratch it or it won't heal properly." The doctor tells them and leaves.

The two teens head back to Jack's car and get in.

"So, where to?" Jack asks her, starting the engine.

"It's already late, just take me home." Jade says and tells him her address.

Jack heads to the address and pulls up in front of her home.

"This it?" Jack asks her, looking at the house in question.

"Yeah, thanks. You know I don't like people, but you seem OK." She tells him, collecting her bag and gets out of the car.

"Thanks I guess, you going to OK from here?" Jack asks her.

"Yes." Jade replies.

"Alright, see you around?" Jack says, starting the car back up again.

"Sure." Jade replies and waves a reluctant goodbye as he drives away.


AN: Review and let me know what you think.