I may have watched Quinton Reviews' Victorious videos more than once, so when I was brainstorming fic ideas for pride month I challenged myself to write something for Jade and Tori. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. A lot of headcanons I wrote were things Quinton mentioned in his video so if you don't agree with some of the stuff I won't be too offended, but I'm happy with it so I hope you enjoy!


Jade was mutilating a voodoo doll that looked like Tori Vega when it occurred to her to question her lifestyle choices. It was less, "What am I doing with my life?" And more, "Why am I spending all of this energy on her?" And that was when things began to click into place.

They were high school seniors, something it had felt like they were never going to be, and everything was going to hell. Their friend group had shifted so much that it was seemingly unrecognizable. Cat and Robbie were actually dating, whereas Jade and Beck had broken up yet again, this time for good. Tori was still putting out songs for her record label and Andre had gotten a record deal of his own. Trina had graduated, become a stunt woman, and refused to talk to anyone from her past, including family and so-called friends. Things really felt like they were coming to a close.

The only thing that felt unresolved was Jade's bitter hatred of Tori. But it wasn't really bitter hatred, was it? Because Tori was her friend. And Jade was guilty of acting hateful towards all of her friends, but Tori was the only one of her friends whom she had a voodoo doll for. Why did she have a voodoo doll that looked like Tori Vega?

"OH MY GOD!" Jade yelled, furious as the explanation dawned on her. She tossed aside the voodoo doll, then thought better of it and sat it down gently next to her rabbit cage, and then stormed out of her room and her house. She needed a second opinion and there was one guy she could always go to for honesty.

"Beck!"

"Did you just break into my RV? What if I'd been naked? What if I had a girl in here?"

"I've seen you naked, and you don't have enough game to have a girl in here. I need your opinion."

"My opinion is that you should get out of my RV."

"Beck, this is serious. I'm in crisis, I need your help."

Now Beck sobered up, "What's wrong? Did you kill someone?"

"What? No. Not yet. But…" Now Jade felt embarrassed, "It's going to sound stupid."

"I dated you for years, I'm used to you saying things that sound stupid."

Jade smiled a little, "I'm glad we didn't lose this fun, friendly back and forth when we broke up."

Beck snorted, "Yeah, it's a blast. Now, what's on your mind? How can I help?"

"I was thinking about Tori-"

"I'm going to stop you there, I am not going to help you pull some vengeful prank on Tori or some nonsense like that."

"No, no, this time I don't want to hurt Tori. Hear me out, okay?"

"Okay, I'm listening."

"I was thinking about Tori and, well, I was trying to figure out why I, you know, hate Tori. Because it's senior year and it seems like everything is resolving itself except for that. And I think that it hasn't resolved itself because until now I never figured out why I hated her. Obviously, at first, it was because she was cucking me with you, but that resolved itself pretty fast and my hatred didn't go away."

"Huh. I guess you're right. I thought it was because you were jealous of her, but when she ended up having no interest in me, why should you be jealous anymore? I mean, you're just as pretty and talented as her, you really don't have anything to be jealous of."

"Except I do, I do have things to be jealous of. I'm jealous of all the relationships Tori's been in over the years, not because I wanted to be with the guys that liked Tori but because… Beck, I think I like Tori. No, I think I love Tori."

Jade looked at Beck, expecting him to be shocked. He was not.

"That actually makes a lot of sense."

"It does? What do you mean it makes a lot of sense?"

"Your favorite horror franchise is about lesbians, Jade. You treat Tori like you used to treat me. You get upset when she's dating other people but you melt like an ice cream cone whenever she pays attention to you. You've got a crush on her."

"I can't believe it took me this long to figure it out," Jade said angrily.

"Me too. But now that you know you can act on your feelings."

"What? No, I can't, I have a reputation to uphold."

"The reputation of not being gay? Because I promise you plenty of people at school already think that you're gay."

"The reputation of hating Tori."

"Oh, who fucking cares, Jade? It's senior year for crying out loud. You like Tori Vega, you love her, you've probably loved her since you met her. After we graduate she's going to go off on tour and you may never see her again. You have to act now or else you're going to regret it for the rest of your life."

Jade took a deep breath, "You're right."

"Damn right I am."

"Beck?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you for being the best ex-boyfriend I could ever ask for."

"Thank you for being the best lesbian ex-girlfriend I could ever ask for. And hopefully the only one."

Jade laughed and turned away, steeling herself for what she had to do now.

Tori was understandably suspicious when Jade asked her to return to the place where they'd had their fake date.

"Jade? Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, I think things are finally okay. I have something I need to tell you."

"Okay…" Tori subtly reached for her pepper spray.

"First of all, I'm sorry."

Tori froze, "What?"

"I'm sorry for how horribly I treated you these past years. I know I'm mean to all of my friends but I took it too far with you and until recently I didn't understand why I felt so hateful towards you. I want to offer you an explanation and an apology, though neither will excuse my awful behavior."

Tori was touched, "I accept your apology, Jade. You're my friend, of course I forgive you. And if you have something to say to me, I'm listening."

"I realized recently that the reason I was so obsessed with you, the feelings that I thought were hate were actually… This is so embarrassing."

"You can tell me anything," Tori encouraged.

"I like you, Tori. I have a crush on you. I treated you poorly because I didn't understand my feelings and I didn't know how to express them. But now I realize I'm a lesbian and I have feelings for you. I don't expect you to reciprocate, but I had to take my chance and tell you before we graduate."

Tori sat in stunned silence for a minute, running her fingers through her hair.

"Jade… I had no idea."

"You and me both. Beck said it made a lot of sense, though."

"You told Beck about this?"

"I wanted someone's honest opinion, and Beck has always been honest with me. He's the one who encouraged me to be honest with you."

Tori nodded thoughtfully.

"Huh. Well…"

"You don't have to say anything, you don't owe me anything, I just wanted to tell you."

"I want to say something, Jade. Because you're one of my closest friends, and I think you're super talented and pretty and cool and…"

Tori laughed suddenly, "I'm honestly getting super flustered at the idea that you would have feelings for me. I never thought I'd feel this way but you make me so nervous, in a good way, and… I think I like you back, Jade."

Jade's eyes widened, "What, really?"

"Really." Tori put her hand over Jade's hand and squeezed.

Jade managed to smile, "So should we try it, then? Should we go on a real date?"

"I don't know if it'll ever top our fake date, but yeah. That sounds really nice."

Jade let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding and squeezed Tori's hand back. Holding Tori's hand was a lot more fun than trying to break it. Jade couldn't help wishing that she'd understood her feelings sooner, but she was going to make use of the time they had left together.