"And here, " Beck jammed the key into the icy lock "we are." he smiled, pushing the door open as everyone ran into the warm wooden living room "welcome to Canada."
Everyone walked in and instantly felt the feeling of home, from the giant red Persian rug sitting underneath the brown couches and wooden table in front of a fire, one which unfortunately had not been made up yet, Beck hoped the one in the den had for all their sakes. And the more simple decor of a coat stand stood next to the door and a small table on which laid a record player and several records stored underneath.
The living room doubled up as a foyer with the wooden stairs coming up from the left and a hallway running down the right, boasting a selection of doors to choose from. A large balcony around the landing overlooked the dining area at the end of the room and the kitchen rested at the top of the sitting room, bringing in warmth and a smell of coffee as they walked in, a smell that Jade welcomed very much.
"You're late." Beck's uncle stood in the archway to the kitchen "you said you'd be here at 3, it's 6 and it's dark, the wolves could've gotten ya." He glared at the kids standing at the front of his living room, everyone but Beck shivering despite them wearing cable knit sweaters and coats.
"There are wolves here?!" Cat squealed, hiding behind Jade, wrapping herself around Jade's arm, pulling on her black sweater as she yanked at her coat sleeve.
"Nah, he's just messing." Beck smirked at Jade's annoyance.
"Yeah, I'm just messing!" He laughed.
"Oh," Cat sighed in relief "good." The girl smiled nervously, a little scared by Beck's uncle as she stayed behind Jade.
"You can get off me now!" She growled, pulling her arm from Cat's grasp.
"Cat, why don't you go and check out the rooms." Beck offered.
"Kay kay." Cat smiled, running up the stairs "come on, Tori."
"What?" Tori looked up "how come I'm being dragged into this, I just wanna sit by the fire and warm up." she pouted, folding her arms.
"Well then you should have brought a thicker sweater." Jade smirked, winding her up.
"You STOLE my thickest sweater."
"Did not."
"Uh, yeah you did, you asked to borrow it and I never got it back."
"Black's my colour anyway." Jade shrugged.
"It was MY sweater."
"What, you can't afford a new one?!" Jade raised her voice, holding her arms out.
"That's not the point..." Tori started.
"Fine." Jade pulled her head back in frustration, yanking her black fur trim hooded coat off and throwing it onto the floor before pulling the sweater up over her head "if you're gonna sulk this much about it, I don't care, have it back." She rolled her eyes, throwing it into the middle of the room, coughing out "child" under her breath as Tori stopped sulking.
Tori ran into the centre of the room, picking up her black cable knit sweater "Aww," she groaned, holding it up "you stretched it out."
"You calling me fat?!" Jade raised her voice, moving for Tori before Beck quickly pulled her back.
"What is wrong with you too?" Andre spoke up, surprised by Tori being irritable as well, "it's just a sweater."
"It was a long flight." Tori complained, rubbing her arms up and down slowly in embarrassment.
"Yeah," Jade spat, glaring at Beck's uncle "and the bus ride was even longer!"
"Bus?" Uncle Joe spoke up.
"Uncle Joe, you promised you'd pick us up from the airport." Beck sighed, wrapping his arm around Jade as she let out a little shiver, now only wearing a blue vest, black jeans and black snow boots
"Oh sorry," he shrugged, his body language not really lining up with his words "must have forgotten."
"Beck, can we please go and get warm by the fire?" Tori pleaded, making Beck roll his eyes a little, after all, Jade was now the only one without a sweater on and she wasn't complaining.
"Sure, " Beck smiled politely "there's a big fire in the den down there," he pointed down the hall "it should be lit but if my uncle's forgotten," he sent a small glare to his uncle who had most likely forgotten "then there's wood in a basket." He explained.
"Awesome!" Robbie cheered, following Tori down the hallway to the den before Beck heard her shout back "It's not lit."
"Ugh." Jade and Beck groaned together, Jade was much louder though so they could barely hear Beck complaining "Andre, go help them." He sighed.
"Sure," Andre smiled "wait up, Toro." He called, following her down to the den.
"Come on, Jade," Beck wrapped his arm further around her as they started walking to the kitchen "let's go find some food."
"Well well well," Joe spotted the goth under Beck's arm "Jade West." Beck's uncle looked the 17 year old up and down, making her feel uncomfortable "still with this bag of potatoes are you, well, that's a shame, you're just as beautiful as the last time I saw you, even if you were crying."
"Hey, Joe." She said awkwardly, moving further into Beck as Joe moved to hug her.
"Still got those walls up I see." He chortled.
"Uncle Joe." Beck said calmly, but his facial expression said different as he stood in front of Jade, holding his arm out in front of her protectively.
"Oh, don't take everything so seriously, Beckett, I'm just messing." He laughed, slapping the teenagers shoulder "Isn't that right, Jade?" Joe turned to her.
"A ha, ha." Jade faked a laugh, folding her arms over her chest as she caught Joe looking where her face wasn't.
"Jade!" Cat squealed, running down the wooden staircase "come and see the rooms, they're huge!"
"I know," she smiled, walking away, glad to be excused from talking to Beck's creepy uncle.
"Well, I best be heading off." He tipped a pretend hat, smirking as he added "have fun."
"Hey," Beck was gonna let it go until he added that final part. He grabbed his arm, squaring off against him "Why'd you have to talk to her like that?"
"Like what, Beckett, I'm just being friendly." He chuckled, looking the goth up and down as she ascended the stairs with Cat "those pants fit her good."
"That's exactly what I'm talking about!" Beck exclaimed, annoyed "and my name is Beck, not Beckett."
"I don't care what you call yourself son, just don't lose that bird of yours and you'll do fine."
"Seriously?" He stared at him in disbelief "the "creepy uncle," you have to be that cliche? If I catch you making any remarks like that this week, I..."
"Oh, grow a pair, boy!" He chuckled, slapping Beck on the shoulder "I'm outta here anyway, don't have to worry about me making your pretty little girlfriend "uncomfortable."" He mocked, rolling his eyes, trudging to the door in his brown snow boots, red flannel jacket and jeans. He threw a puffy blue coat over himself, grabbed a black beanie, and with that he was gone.
Victorious
"Okay guys, listen up," Jade clapped her hands together once, gaining everyone's attention as she sat on the bottom steps "there's only 2 rooms so we're gonna have to room together." Jade announced.
"3." Beck corrected her, drinking a root beer as he leaned against the wall. Jade looked at him confused "my uncle's not staying." she couldn't deny she wasn't glad about that.
"Okay," Jade smiled "then me and Beck will take the master bedroom," She began, excited to finally be sharing a double bed with Beck "and Tori, you and Cat can room in one twin room, and Andre, you and Robbie can room in the other." She announced "any questions?"
"Uh, yeah." Andre said, looking annoyed "why have I gotta room with Robbie?"
"Umm, I am here you know!" Robbie complained, offended.
"Because I'm not having Cat room with him." Jade said protectively as Cat smiled behind her on the stairs "any questions that aren't stupid?" Jade rephrased, making Andre roll his eyes at her abrasiveness.
Everyone murmured incoherently to one another but didn't ask any more questions "Good," she smiled.
Victorious
"Hey, it's really coming down out there," Jade noticed, catching a glimpse of the snowfall as she walked around the bed.
"That's actually light for these parts." He smirked, remembering Jade wasn't used to anything but a warm climate "come on, get into bed."
"Brrr." She shivered "my feet are freezing." Jade chattered, jumping into bed and laying them against Beck's exposed skin from where his nightwear had ridden up.
"Ahh!" Beck screamed, a shiver running down his back "your feet ARE freezing." He shivered, leaning out of bed to grab a pair of fluffy socks from the drawer.
"I did warn you." She smirked, trying to put the socks on as Beck kissed her neck "Beck, stop," she giggled "that tickles." She laughed, trying to scrunch up her neck.
"What's going on?!" Cat burst into the room, flustered.
"Don't you knock?!" Jade yelled as Beck stopped biting her neck.
"Sorry," Cat said, out of breath from running down the hall, she made her way back to the door and knocked, making Beck smirk and Jade roll her eyes.
"Too late now!" Jade shouted with frustration, earning a slap on the arm from Beck.
"What's wrong, kiddo?" He sighed, trying to sound like he wasn't annoyed also.
"I heard Beck scream, I was worried."
"Ha," Beck chuckled a little, rubbing the back of his neck "Jade just has cold feet."
"Oh." She held her head down "well now I feel all stupid."
"That's a real shame," Jade said sarcastically, adding as she turned out the light "...well, good night." She said quickly, rolling over.
"Can you take me back to my room, I'm scared of the dark."
"Then you should have brought a flashlight, night."
"I didn't have time."
"Then bring Beck, I don't care."
Beck raised a brow "you sure, Jade?"
"Yeah, whatever."
"Okay," He pecked her on the cheek "I'll be back in a sec, okay, babe?" She nodded and smiled, reciprocating the kiss.
"Okay, come on Cat, let's go."
Victorious
"I'm baaack." He sing songed, climbing into bed as he started kissing her exposed shoulders "You still need me to warm you up?" Beck teased flirtatiously
Jade ignored him, her back facing him.
"Jade, I know you're not asleep."
"Just leave me alone." She said softly, pulling her shirt back over her shoulder.
"Why are you being like this, you were fine earlier." He walked around the bed to Jade's side in an attempt to make her look at him.
"And then you had to go and tuck another girl in who's not me!" Jade sulked, turning around the other way before grabbing a pillow and placing it over her head as Beck switched the light on.
"I can't believe you're being like this, I asked you if you were okay with it."
"You didn't exactly try to disagree." Jade got up out of bed, taking the musky smelling pillow and pushing it hard into Beck's chest.
As Beck tried to reassure her, Jade ignored him, walking past the Canadian to watch the snow fall through the window, it wasn't something she was used to, she actually didn't hate it when it wasn't coming in between her and Beck in the form of a giant blizzard.
"Come on, get back into bed, you're freezing," he whispered into her ear, hugging her from behind as he held her arms, rubbing them up and down "you're not used to these kinds of temperatures like I am."
"Oh don't pretend you care, Beck." She said bitterly, turning around and pushing him off of her "you knew tucking in Cat would hurt me and you did it anyway!"
"Because then you would have had a go at me for not taking care of Cat." He argued back, grabbing her black cardigan from the chair under the window and wrapping it around her freezing arms whether she liked it or not.
"Don't try and pin this on me, you always have to go make me jealous!" The goth took the cardigan gratefully, pulling it around herself as she stretched the sleeves halfway up her fingers.
"You're being ridiculous, this is Cat we're talking about, she's your best friend, she'd never try and move in on me."
"I know that!" She growled, hurt he'd even insinuate Cat moving in on her boyfriend.
"Then what's the problem?"
"Tori was in there too!" Jade breathed heavily in anger, glaring at him.
"She was asleep for god sake!" He sighed.
"Whatever," She shook her head "This isn't about Cat, or even Tori, this is about us, you haven't taken your eyes off Tori since we arrived, are you getting bored of me?" She asked, shifting from anger to worry.
"No, of course not," he stroked her arm, pecking her on the side of her mouth as she moved her head away "I love you, you know that, right?"
She stayed silent.
"Right?"
"Are you seriously gonna tell me she wouldn't try and move in on you and you wouldn't let her?"
"She wouldn't." Beck shook his head "And I wouldn't, you're being ridiculous!" He raised his voice, pulling his fingers through his hair "did you not just hear me say I love you."
"Oh, bull! Shit! I saw you try and kiss her."
"What, when?! I don't even like her in that way."
"At the PMA's, I saw the whole thing through webcam."
"Are you kidding me, that was months ago, get over it."
"You say you don't have feelings for her but then you try and kiss her."
"We were broken up!"
"And why did we break up I wonder, because a certain boyfriend was too lazy to open a god damn door!"
"No, Jade, we broke up because you always gotta be so insecure about everything, it gets on my nerves!"
"So now I'M the one to blame 'cause you didn't open a lousy door?!"
"Well, I don't understand why you've always gotta freak out over every little thing."
"Oh, so suddenly I'm not hot enough for you anymore, well you weren't complaining last night in your RV!"
"What?!" Beck was genuinely confused "I never said you weren't hot."
"So you wanna break up?"
"No!" He shook his head, grabbing her wrists and kissing her passionately, she happily reciprocated as they deepened the kiss and made out for a good 5 minutes.
Borrowing breath from each other, Beck picked her up and Jade wrapped her legs around his hips, holding her tightly as she ran her fingers through his hair.
"Definitely not." He whispered breathlessly as they finally broke apart, the two of them forgetting what they were even mad at each other for in the intensity of the kiss "come on, it's late, we should get some sleep." He whispered into her hair, carrying her to the bed and placing her gently down on the mattress as she unlooped her hands from around his neck
"Grab that pillow." She murmured sleepily, laying down on her side as she watched Beck drowsily, struggling to keep her eyes open.
"You mean the one you threw at me." He teased, picking it up off the cold wooden floor and throwing it to on the bed as she grabbed it and placed it on Beck's side.
As Beck got back into bed, Jade turned over and cuddled into his arm, these were the parts of Jade that the gang didn't see, the times with just her and him, the times when she would finally let her guard down, the times when he would fall in love with her all over again and he would wonder why they ever broke up.
He thought she was asleep until he heard...
"Say you love me." Jade smiled a little, looking up into his chocolate brown eyes as she fiddled with a button on his shirt.
"Magic word."
"Please." She said in her much softer voice that she only ever used around Beck.
"I love you."
"Kay." A smiled perked on her lips.
Author Note: Hey guys, so I debated splitting this chapter in half as it's SO long, sorry about that lol, I'll try and keep the author note brief, but in the end I just went for it. I think I've already asked this before but do you prefer smaller chunks or all in one like this, let me know :)
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