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"Mom, I'm bored," Jason, Sam and Freddie's twelve-year old son sighed, sitting down next to his mom on the couch.
"You can watch this show with me," Sam offered.
"It's just some boring cooking show, though," Jason said.
"Hey, nothing with food is ever boring," Sam said firmly. "But if you don't want to watch this, then go play with Tyler."
"Tyler's four, mom," Jason said. "He only likes to do boring things that four-year olds like to do."
"Hmm, seems like you're out of luck then, kid," Sam said. "Why didn't you go with your dad and the twins to the movies?"
"Because the move they were going to see looked-"
"-Boring, right?" Sam said knowingly, grinning at her son.
"Yeah," Jason nodded. "There's nothing to do around here."
"Well your dad and your sisters should be home any minute," Sam said. "When they get back, you can ask your dad if you can play those special edition Galaxy Wars games he bought."
Right on cue, Freddie walked through the front door with his and Sam's eight-year old twins, Emma and Ashton.
"Hey, how was the movie?" Sam asked.
"Awesome," Emma said. "The kids in it had this really cool tree house that did all sorts of things!"
"Yeah, it could fly and turn into a car," Ashton nodded.
"And," Emma continued. "Daddy said that he'd make us a tree house in our backyard, right daddy?"
Sam scoffed. "Em, you do realize who your dad is, right?"
"Hey, I can build my kids a tree house," Freddie said.
"It's going to be so cool," Ashton said. "Emma and I can play up there all the time! We can invite Clarissa over! And there's going to be no boys allowed. Well, except for Jason and Tyler…sometimes. Oh, and Quincy."
"Ick, Quincy Gibson is not coming up in my tree house," Emma cringed.
"Okay, guys, why don't you go play upstairs," Freddie said, sitting down next to Sam.
"Hey dad, can I go play your Galaxy Wars game?" Jason asked.
"Sure, just create a new player file," Freddie nodded.
"Sweet!" Jason said excitedly, running out of the room.
"So," Sam said once Jason was gone. "How are you going to manage to get out of building a tree house? Those two were so excited…I think the only way you'll be able to make up for it would be to buy them a pony."
"Why would I need to get out of making the tree house?" Freddie asked.
"Oh, come on," Sam laughed. "It's you! You can't do anything that involves tools!"
"Hey, I happen to take offense to that," Freddie said indignantly.
"Baby," Sam said. "You got about twenty splinters just trying to fix the railing on the stairs last month."
"It wasn't twenty," Freddie mumbled.
"Freddie," Sam said, shaking her head. "I know you were probably just trying to make the girls happy, but building them a tree house?"
"I can do it," Freddie said.
"Okay," Sam said, clearly not convinced. "Whatever you say."
"Besides," Freddie continued. "I wasn't planning on building the thing by myself. I was going to have Spencer and Gib help me out. That's three guys building one tree house. How hard can that be?"
"Well, considering that the three of you barely qualify as men…"
"Ha, ha," Freddie said, rolling his eyes. "You'll see. Once I build our kids the best tree house ever, I'll be the cool parent."
"Please," Sam said. "You couldn't be the cool parent if you tried."
"Just wait and see," Freddie said, grinning. "Just wait and see."
….
"Alright, I've got the wood, hammers, nails, screws, power drill, and paint," Spencer said, looking through the large pile of materials he had just moved into the Benson's backyard.
"Nice," Freddie said. "I'm thinking we can build it in that big tree over there."
"You know, me and Guppy had a tree house when we were kids," Gibby said. "I remember those days…staying up late in there, watching the stars while our mom would come up and comb our eyebrows."
"Your mom combed your eyebrows?" Freddie frowned. "Dude, that's so weird."
"Yeah, almost as weird as a mom giving you tick baths into your teens," Spencer pointed out.
"Alright then, I'll shut up," Freddie said quickly. "So how do we get started on this? What do we do first?"
"Well, as a professional sculptor, the first thing you need to do when building something like this is to make the base," Spencer said. "Man, you building novices are so lucky you have me around."
"Yeah, but just do me a favor and stay away from the power saw," Freddie said. "Or anything potentially flammable."
"Oh come on, I'm past that stage where I set everything on fire," Spencer said, bending down to begin picking up a large wood board. "It's been a long time since I've-Ah!"
The board he had just picked up suddenly burst into flames.
"Well, I've got to appreciate the irony in that," Freddie sighed.
…
"Wait, where do I put this nail?" Gibby asked.
"Hammer it in right here," Spencer said as him and Freddie heaved up one of the walls of the tree house.
"Wow, you guys, I've got to say, this is coming along really nicely," Freddie said.
"Yeah, the kids will really love it," Spencer agreed.
"Uh-huh," Freddie nodded. "And more importantly, I'll be able to rub it in Sam's face that I did manage to get this thing built."
"You?" Gibby frowned. "You made me do most of the lifting!"
"Yeah, and I was the creative genius of this whole thing!" Spencer said.
"Guys come on," Freddie pleaded. "You're all married; you know how rare it is that we get to prove our wives wrong! Let me just have this, please?"
"Okay," Spencer said. "You can take all the credit. Once this thing is done, you can tell Sam Gib and I were just your little worker monkeys."
"Could we not be monkeys?" Gibby asked. "I'm still not a fan of them. Not after that trip to the zoo…"
"Wow," came Carly's voice as her and Sam walked out to the backyard. "This thing actually looks like it'll turn out decent."
"We're almost done," Freddie said proudly. "We just need to bring up the last wall that has the door in it and then we're done. See, Sam? I got this thing built."
"Gibby and Spencer probably did most of the hard work," Sam said, crossing her arms.
"They did not!" Freddie said. "Did you guys?"
"No, we were his little worker rhinos," Gibby said promptly.
"Worker rhinos?" Sam repeated.
"What? You guys know I hate monkeys!" Gibby exclaimed.
"Go inside and get the kids," Freddie said as him and the others got down from the tree to get the last wall. "I want them to see the finished product of their father's labor."
"You really need to get over yourself, Fredbag," Sam said, rolling her eyes.
"Jealous?" Freddie smirked.
"No," Sam snapped as she turned to go back into the house.
"She's jealous," Freddie said triumphantly as the men began to screw in the final wall.
…
Sam came out with the kids a few minutes later.
"Wow!" Emma exclaimed, looking up at the majestic looking tree house. "It's so big!"
"It's bigger than my room!" Tyler said.
"It looks just like a little house," Ashton said.
"You really built this, dad?" Jason asked.
"Well, your Uncle Spencer and Uncle Gibby helped a little," Freddie admitted.
"Can we play in it now?" Emma asked, jumping up and down with excitement. "Can we? Please?"
"Yeah, go ahead," Freddie nodded. "Just be careful."
The four kids sped over to the tree house and began climbing up to it.
"Wow, they're like little monkeys," Carly commented.
"Hey, can we cool it with the monkey talk already?" Gibby said.
"Dude, so the monkey at the zoo stole your fudge pop," Spencer said, rolling his eyes. "Get over it."
"I didn't see you getting over anything when your taco got spat on by the donkey at the petting zoo," Gibby retorted.
"Hey! That was a twelve dollar taco!"
"Well…anyway," Freddie said, turning to Sam. "Seems like our kids are really enjoying their new tree house, huh, Sam?"
"Yeah, well, they'll be bored with it after a few months," Sam mumbled.
"This is the best tree house ever!" Ashton called down from the tree. "Daddy, you're the best."
"Or years," Freddie smirked.
…
"Mommy, can't we please sleep in the tree house?" Emma pleaded.
"No, Emma, it's forty degrees outside, you'll freeze," Sam said. "Now come on, it's already ten o'clock. You and Ashton need to get to bed."
"Can we go play in it as soon as we wake up?" Ashton asked as her and Emma climbed into their beds.
"Yeah, sure," Sam sighed, tucking the girls in. She gave them each a kiss on their heads. "You really like that thing, don't you?"
"Yeah, I can't wait to tell our class about it," Emma said. "I bet none of them have one."
"Just get some sleep, okay?" Sam smiled, turning off the lights and closing the twins' door.
After checking to make sure Tyler was still asleep, Sam went down to the living room, where Jason was sitting on the floor by the coffee table.
"What'cha up to, kid?" Sam asked.
"Dad gave me one of his old model train kits that he never used when he was a kid," Jason said, looking up from the train he was assembling. "I think I'm almost done with it."
"Wow, that nub's really pushing it today," Sam said under her breath. She looked at her watch. "Hey, remember that robotics club trip at six o'clock tomorrow. You might want to get some sleep."
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that," Jason said, getting to his feet.
"That crazy club mom's going to pick you up," Sam said. "Your dad's going to get up and meet her. I packed you a lunch in the fridge."
"Okay, good night," Jason said, gathering up his train kit and heading upstairs.
Sam was just about to head into the kitchen make herself a snack when suddenly, her pear phone beeped; she had a text message. She looked at the screen and saw that it was from Freddie, which was odd, because as far as Sam knew, Freddie was still home.
She opened the message, curious as to why her husband would be texting her when he could easily walk over and ask her anything he needed.
Meet me in the tree, the message read.
Sam rolled her eyes. So the nub was still hanging out in his little tree house? Figuring Freddie wouldn't stop texting her until she went outside, she got up and headed to the backyard.
"Yo, Fredward, what do you want?" Sam called up, stopping at the base of the tree house.
"Come up here," Freddie called back.
"Are you serious? You're going to make me climb a tree?" Sam said. "You know I hate exerting energy!"
"Just do it."
Sighing, Sam climbed up the ladder.
"This better be important," Sam said, pulling herself into the tree house. "Or I'm going to-Oh. What-what is all this?"
She looked around the tree house. There were candles everywhere, and sitting in the middle of the tree house was a blanket with a picnic basket that looked like it contained Sam's favorite chocolate cake from the nearby bakery.
"Well," Freddie said, walking over to Sam and helping her to her feet. "I figured the kids shouldn't be the only ones to enjoy the tree house." He held out the hand that he had been keeping behind his back and handed Sam a red rose.
"So you turned it into an overly-romantic date spot?" Sam grinned.
"Uh-huh," Freddie nodded. He pulled Sam closer to him. "So what do you say? You want to stay up here in this tree house you seem to hate so much?"
Sam smiled. "Well, let's see if you can make me hate it less."
…
AN-Well…Here we are. iCarly is officially over. I personally thought that iGoodbye was very funny. They brought back a lot of old jokes and I laughed a lot throughout it. I also thought the bit at the end, where all the characters remembered back to when iCarly first began was very touching and sweet. Definitely a great closing. And of course, finally seeing Carly's dad was great.
However, with all that said…in terms of shipping, I'm still VERY confused, and I'm sure a lot of people are too. First of all, I do NOT believe that Creddie was end game, despite what creddiers seem to think. Yeah, they kissed, but clearly nothing else was going to happen in that relationship. I think it's fair to say that Carly and Freddie parted as friends. I mean, if there was really something going on between them, I think their final goodbye would've been more than a hug before Carly got into the elevator. But I don't understand what happened between Sam and Freddie? All us Seddiers were just totally left in the dark about what happens to those too! Sam never said she DIDN'T want to get back together with Freddie, and Freddie never said he didn't want to get back with her either! The whole thing just left the fans totally clueless!
Plus I was also confused about the fact that they kept saying that it wasn't goodbye. Unless they plan on doing a big reunion episode…but whatever. As I said, despite the shipping, I really liked that end to the show. And we still have Sam and Cat to come. I'm hoping we can see Freddie on that, even if it is just for a few episodes.
