A/N: I'm so glad that you guys liked the first chapter. Thank you for your lovely reviews and favorites and follows. I'm sorry to those of you who thought that the first chapter was rushed, I do plan on showing the direct reactions of both family's to the news and to those of you who said it reminded you of the ABC Family's Switched at Birth, I got my inspiration from the show but I plan on telling this story different so don't worry I'm not going to copy it :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Victorious.
Chapter One: Oatmeal Raison
Tori paced around her living room as Trina talked on the other line of the phone. As soon as they'd found out Tori had called Trina in a fit of tears because she'd been raising someone else's baby without even realizing it. Now that they knew who the family were it didn't make things any easier.
"How could I not have known?" Tori asked hysterically.
"Because you trusted the doctors… and you'd been in labor for 48 hours... it's not your fault Tori" Trina reassured her on the phone.
"But Trina… I knew Jade… I knew what she looked like and still I didn't make the connection!" Tori reminded her sister. Trina sighed.
"Look Tori… it could have happened to anyone and they probably wouldn't have noticed either even if they'd known Jade… you didn't notice because you weren't looking for Jade in your kid you were looking for you… It's not like she bares no resemblance to you." Trina disagreed.
"I guess you're right, Trin" Tori sighed.
"Aren't I always?" Trina boasted, Tori smiled at her sister's confidence. Tori admired her sister because even after all these years she still managed to be confident and still auditioned for things after all the rejection still went and tried her best.
"So how's your family?" Tori queried.
"Oh there fine. Mike got promoted at work last night and the twins are out in the yard finger painting… the baby's fine too" Trina said and Tori imagined her sister was holding her pregnant belly right now.
"That's good, send Kyle and Kevin my love" Tori said before hanging up.
"Hey mom" Alex said as she walked inside the living room after school that day.
"Hey, Alex. How was school?" Tori asked. Alex shrugged and threw her keys aside.
"It was okay" She shrugged.
"The West family are coming over tonight" Tori informed her daughter. Ever since they found out Tori had been treading lightly on the situation as she didn't want to upset Alex any further. After they found out they'd been raising the others child neither Jade nor Tori had any idea what to do about it. They'd left it a few weeks before getting back in contact to allow their children to get used to the whole thing.
"Whatever" Alex mumbled heading up to her room and slamming her door. Alex wasn't exactly taking the whole situation well, she'd always felt like something was missing and had figured it was because she didn't know who her father was but she'd never imagined that her mother wasn't actually her mother.
"I think this is it" Jade announced looking at the address she'd written on a napkin. Patrick was sitting in the back playing on his Ps3 and barely looked up and Jennifer was in the passenger seat staring out the window.
"Wow that's a great house" Jennifer beamed. The house was a two storied house with flowers on the windows. The front yard had yellow daisy's growing in various places. There were rose bushes by the front door and a stone path leading the way.
"Yep, This is Vega's house all right" Jade muttered. Jennifer glared at her mother and hopped out the door.
"Come on, Patrick... We have to meet the fairy princess" Jade told her son.
"Mom. She's not really a fairy princess" Patrick said as they got out if the car.
"Well no but she sure acts like one" Jade commented.
"When did you know this lady?" Patrick responded. Jade tilted her head back and seemed to be lost in thought as they walked up the street.
"Uh... twenty years ago..." Jade guessed.
"That's a really long time" Patrick said his eyes wide.
Feeling nervous Jennifer West rang the doorbell, about two minutes later Tori Vega answered the door with a mixing bowl in one hand and smiled at them.
"Come in" Tori greeted. Slowly and reluctantly Jade followed her children, she wasn't quite sure how she felt about all of this. It was bad enough finding out that she'd been raising another child for fifteen years and she hadn't suspected a thing let alone that her child had been raised by none other than Tori Vega, a girl who'd she hadn't really had the best of relationships. By that she'd always kind of tormented Tori a little, Jade was still unsure to this day why she had done that.
"I'm making cookies" She informed them as she walked them to the kitchen.
"What kind?" Jennifer asked excited.
"Oatmeal raisin, it's Alex' favorite" Tori declared.
"Can I help? I love cooking" Jennifer asked. Tori smiled.
"Sure."
"Mom! can you proof read my Spanish assignment" Called a voice from upstairs followed by rushed footsteps cascading down the stairs. As the teenage girl got to the kitchen she froze. Jade stared at the fifteen year old in awe. Even though they'd met once before it was still a shock to see the resemblance in each other.
"Oh..." Alex stammered staring at the women who was supposed to have raised her all of a sudden she felt misplaced in her own home.
"Hi, Alex" Jade said holding out her hand, Alex shook Jade's hand cautiously then backed away.
"I'll come back later" She lowered her voice and looked at the floor.
"Alex, why don't you stay and get to know Patrick, Jade and Jennifer" Tori suggested. Alex shrugged and sat down at the table not really wanting to do what her mother had suggested but knew she should do.
"Jennifer do you want to place the mix on the tray?" Tori asked handing the girl the mixing bowl. Jennifer smiled and took the tray.
"Thanks" Jennifer beamed. Like her Switched buddy... Jennifer was taking the news kind of hard but she knew their was not a lot she could do about it and despite her mother not actually being... well her mother she was kind of glad she'd had Jade as a mom and she loved her little brother regardless of whether they were biologically tied or not.
"Do you have a TV?" Patrick asked Tori who just laughed at his remark.
"Yeah, Alex will show you... won't you Alex?" Tori announced then shot Alex a warning look. Alex rolled her eyes and lead Patrick to the living room.
"What a fine young lady you raised there, Vega" Jade chimed in. Tori smiled.
"Yeah".
The cookies were ready twenty minutes later, Tori had placed them on the coffee table in the living room where she'd let the children get to know each other better. She and Jade were in the kitchen.
"So... other than the obvious what's your life been like this past twenty years?" Tori asked.
"Well... I've published three screenplay's that have received good responses from the media..." Jade said.
"That's good" Tori praised as she broke apart a cookie.
"Yeah, so... what about you?" Jade turned the question around.
"I work for a music company. I did publish my own album but when I helped with it, I ended up falling in love with the other aspects of it. I'm an Artist Manager" Tori told her.
"Cool" Jade said for lack of a better word.
"Tell me more about your family" Tori changed the subject. Jade smiled as she seemed to think of her two kids.
"Well, Jennifer is the sweetest girl... and Patrick's a bit on the messy side." Jade answered.
"What about their father... your husband?" Tori asked not sure if she'd said the wrong thing.
"His name was Thomas... He died three years ago" Jade went quiet and her face was pale.
"Oh, I'm so sorry" Tori said placing her hand on Jade's who removed it after a second or two.
"We were divorced at the time actually... I mean I obviously still cared but I didn't lose a great love or anything..." Jade stated a bit viciously. Tori's face went red, she hadn't meant to say the wrong thing.
"How did Patrick and Jennifer take it?" Tori asked sympathetically. She hoped that Jade wouldn't mind her being sympathetic towards the kids.
"As well as to be expected I guess" Jade sighed.
A/N: To be continued... Hope you liked this chapter. Please review.