A/N: Again thank-you for your reviews, I couldn't do it without your support. I think you'll be happy to know that Cat's in this chapter, Hope you like it! :)
Disclaimer: Of course I do not own Victorious or it's wonderful Characters
Chapter Two: The Talk
Cat sighed. Jade had taken the day off of work to meet her at costa.
"Wow, that's intense" Cat said, eyes wide after Jade had finished telling her about her situation. Jade nodded in agreement, it was a lot to take in.
"It certainly is that" Jade agreed. She took a sip of her coffee and stared into it as if it was about to tell her something.
"How is Jennifer taking it?" Cat wondered.
"I'm not quite sure. We all went to Tori's house the other day and she was chatting away to Tori… I kind of felt replaced actually… Alex barely uttered a word to me" Jade filled in her oldest and best friend Cat Shapiro.
"Give her time… This is big for her, for all of you. Alex was raised by Tori I'm sure she'll get there eventually…" Cat assured her.
"How are Robbie and the kids?" Jade asked, desperately wanting the conversation to end. Cat beamed and looked excited.
"They're great! Leo's walking now and Miranda lost another tooth, she got a dollar from the tooth fairy… Nina has a boyfriend, he's really cute actually… and you know what Charlie's like, a little menace" Cat's face lit up as she explained the events that had happened this week.
"That's good, at least someone's life is good" Jade groaned.
"You'll get there in the end, don't worry… there hasn't been a situation that Jade West hasn't been able to pull herself through" Cat reminded the former Goth.
"I know. I just don't really know how to get there yet and it really frustrates me, you know?" Jade complained. Cat shot Jade a look.
"Come on, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out… talk to Tori about it, she is going through the exact same thing" Cat reminded her.
"You're right" Jade realised. Cat smiled.
"Yep, I didn't become an advice columnist for nothing" Cat boasted.
"How is that job of yours?" Jade asked.
Cat gave advice for a newspaper that was run by a radio station that Cat co-hosted a Saturday night show with her former babysitting buddy; Sam Puckett.
"Great, the media loves us!" Cat proclaimed using her old endearing voice she'd used all through high-school. She'd grown up a bit since high-school (well she was like thirty-seven and a half) sometimes she would revert to her old ways.
"anyway, I've got to go… mouths to feed, advice to give and all that" Cat announced picking up her things and getting ready to leave. They hugged goodbye then headed in their separate directions. when Jade got in her car she decided to follow Cat's advice… if thousands of people took it, why should she be different?
"Jade" Tori seemed to be shocked as she answered her front door.
"Vega" Jade countered, not as intimidatingly as she'd have done in high school but very much up there.
"Are you going to let me in?" Jade wondered.
"Yeah, sorry" Tori mumbled stepping aside to let Jade in.
"So I spoke to Cat today and…" Jade was interrupted before she could finish her sentence.
"You spoke to Cat?" Tori's face lit up. "How is she? I miss that red-head" Tori looked sad.
"She's fine… she has four kids… we're both the god mothers of each other's children" Jade told Tori.
"I haven't seen her in seventeen years" Tori sighed.
"Seventeen years?" Jade was shocked.
"Yeah… we tried to keep in touch but I suppose life got in the way" Tori explained.
"Well she's coming over for dinner on Friday night if you and Alex want to come?" Jade offered. Tori smiled.
"Thanks".
"So… about what I was going to say… Cat and I were talking and she suggested I talk to you… since, well you're… in this situation too" Jade explained. Tori offered a warm smile and they headed to her living room.
Jade and Tori sat on the black leather couch in Tori's living room for what seemed like a century. The living room was small and cosy, the floors were wooden and the walls had brown wallpaper with black flowers on them. Tori also had a 14 inch flat screen TV placed directly in front of he living room couch.
"Alex hasn't exactly been the same since we found out." Tori breaks the silence. Jade says noting letting Tori continue.
"She barely even leaves her room, unless she has to. Our car rides are silent... It's unusual for her, she usually talks a lot, a mile a minute" Tori admits her head hung low as she shared at her hot coffee, suddenly she wished it was wine... but it was only half two in the day.
"Oh really? Tell me more about her" Jade says, suddenly feeling conflicted. She wanted to know more about the daughter she'd missed out on raising yet she felt guilty because regardless of DNA, Jennifer was her daughter.
"She works really hard, she's never failed a class in her life... She loves science mostly. Actually that's how and why we found out about the Switch" Tori described her daughter with fire in her eyes.
"What happened?" Jade wondered, concerned.
"Well Alex'... well I guess, Jennifer's father" Tori stopped in her tracks and looked at Jade unsure if she'd said the wrong thing but Jade gave her a nod and she continued.
"Well, he left whilst I was pregnant. Alex wanted to know more about him, like who he was... I just couldn't bring myself to tell her and so she went searching and I suppose she found out through Trina and Andre who her father could possibly be, there were three possible matches according to her... she had a science fair and some how she managed to get their DNA and create a testing station to see who was a match but when her search was empty she pulled out a strand of my hair and there it was in front of us..." Tori looked sad as she described the events.
Jade placed a hand on Tori's shoulder in an attempt to make her feel better, Tori smiled.
"So how is Jennifer taking it?" Tori asked, changing the subject.
"Actually better than what you'd expect. It worry's me actually" Jade sighed.
"Have you talked about it?" Tori asked.
"Yeah. When we found out we were at her field Hockey game. I got the call and missed her winning shot and felt guilty enough about that. She ran up to me excited and happy and it broke my heart knowing I had to tell her this bad news... She looked sad at first, then she hugged me and said we should meet the other family but she and I were still mother and daughter. It was like she was the parent and not me" Jade explained.
"How about your son, Patrick?" Tori questioned. Jade smiled.
"He just saw it as gaining another sister" Jade told her, Tori smiled. That was sweet.
"So Jenn's Bio-Father?" Jade quizzed Tori.
"His name was Ryan, we'd been together for a year or two... He was distant when I got pregnant and by the time I was six months pregnant he was gone" Tori sighed.
"He sounds like a douche, You didn't need him though. I'm guessing, no one needs a guy like that?" Jade tried to sound sympathetic. Since she'd become a mother it was easier for her to sympathize... It hadn't always been though, during her teens especially. She'd been a bit of a nightmare. Tori laughed.
"No but it would have been easier to have someone there during labor and the first few weeks of parenting" Tori admitted.
"Wait... You were alone during labor?" Jade asked, shocked. Even she couldn't have done it alone.
"Yeah. I was at least a week early and when my waters broke my parents were on a cruise, since they'd been child free for a while and all. Then Trina, she didn't pick up the phone so... yeah I was alone" Tori remembered.
"That sucks" Jade said giving Tori a hug without thinking.
"So tell me more about Thomas" Tori said as she pulled away.
"We were happily married for at least six years of the ten years of our marriage. He was kind of an addict but not just on one thing. He was addicted to drugs, alcohol and gambling and so after a while I didn't want him around me or the kids so I moved in with Cat for a while and divorced him, then we all moved to where we live now... He died of an overdose two years after our divorce" Jade explained. It was Tori's turn to comfort Jade this time and she hugged her tightly. They'd both had it bad.
A/N: Let me know what you thought about the chapter, As always reviews are very much welcomed :)