Thank you for the follows, faves, and reviews. Early update, compared to my usual update schedule, since I finished early. Hopefully it won't be too long until the next.
Can't say I'm surprised everyone knew who Tori took the pic for. I didn't make it hard to figure out, did I?
This is the first part of the 'Cell Block'episodes. This chapter is mainly showing Tori after Yerba and setting up the 'no technology' bet of Sikowitz's.
Thanks to Invader Johnny for inadvertently giving me an idea for where to continue where the last left off.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'VicTORious' or any characters.
No POV
A few days after returning home from Yerba, Tori has taken to avoiding Jade and Cat when she can, the memory of what happened their last night in Yerba forever stuck in her mind.
Flashback
"It's for…" Cat says, the rest being mumbled behind Tori's hand, the half-Latina quickly covering Cat's mouth after the redhead said she knew who the pic is for.
"Well, that's not suspicious." Jade says, raising an eyebrow at the other two, collecting the cards and chips. "Cat. Who is the picture for?" She asks, staring the redhead down, not caring about Tori's hand over her mouth.
"Why do you care so much?" Tori interrupts, surprised Cat hasn't bit her hand yet or started moving her head away, things Trina does when Tori tries to shut her up the same way.
"Because it's pretty racy, especially for you. I mean, hell, I can almost see your areola in it." Jade says, pulling out her phone and flicking through it before stopping.
"You sent it to your phone?" Tori says, staring wide eyed at Jade, afraid of what would happen if the picture got out to the school.
"No." Jade quickly denies, putting her phone down. "I took out your camera card from your phone, uploaded the pic onto your laptop, put my camera card in and transferred the pic to it, and put it back in my phone." She explains, shrugging.
"Why?" Tori asks, unaware of the knowing look in Cat's eyes, knowing full well why Jade took the picture from Tori's phone.
"Stop changing the subject." Jade says with a smirk.
"It's for you!" Cat screams from behind Tori's hand, slightly mumbled.
Flashback End
Since that moment, Tori was quick to avoid looking at Jade, not even able to be mad at Cat for telling Jade because it is for Jade, Tori just never had the courage to send it.
"What's up, Chica?" Andre asks Tori while they're hanging out at the Vega house, the two working on a song for one of Andre's classes.
"Huh?" Tori asks dumbly, forced out of her thoughts about the look on Jade's face after Cat's admittance.
"Where's your head at?" Andre asks, putting the notebook he had his lyrics written down in on the table, giving her a curious look. "You've been kinda weird over the last few days since we got back." He comments as he watches her.
"It's nothing. Don't worry about it." Tori says, shaking her head. "How are the lyrics coming?" She asks, clearing her throat.
"They're fine. Seriously, what's on your mind? You, Jade, and Cat have been weird since the flight home. Cat's not that much of a difference, but you and Jade are." Andre asks, shutting off his keyboard. "What happened?" He asks, staring at her.
"It's nothing you should be concerned about, okay?" Tori asks him, staring back. "Let's just finish the song, okay?" She asks hopefully.
"It's almost done, relax. Just need to flesh out the chorus and bridge, and some of the piano and guitar needs to be changed a bit to fit the tempo, nothing I can't handle in a half hour." Andre assures her, watching her as she starts to fidget nervously. "Did something happen between you and Jade?" He asks after glancing around, not wanting any of the other Vega's to hear him, though he knows Trina's our with friends for a few hours.
"Kinda." Tori admits, sighing. "Nothing bad, just something I don't want to talk about right now. Okay?" She asks him, leaning against the back of the couch.
"Okay. I can accept that. But if anything happens, let me know. Okay?" Andre asks, going into his 'protective brother' mode.
"Don't worry. I will." Tori says with a grateful smile.
For the next hour, Tori and Andre work on the last of his song. And like he said, he had the lyrics and instrumental fleshed out in less than a half hour, the rest of the time spent messing around with potential lyrics and ideas, before he got ready to leave before his grandma locked him out. Again.
"Sure there's nothing I need to know?" Andre asks as he puts his keyboard in it's case.
"Nothing yet." Tori assures as she stands up and walks to the door, Andre behind her.
"Okay. See you in school tomorrow?" Andre asks as Tori opens the door for him.
"As long as I don't kill Trina for her 'morning routine'." Tori jokes, rolling her eyes.
"Hey!" They hear from the kitchen, Trina walking in from the back door, her heels in hand.
"I don't want to know." Andre says, turning and leaving.
"Neither do I." Tori mumbles as she closes and locks the door behind him. "Why are you coming in through the back door?" She asks, staring at her sister.
"Well, I wasn't sure if mom and dad were home yet…"
"So you decided to sneak through the back door, where, if they were home, they'd notice you if they were down stairs?" Tori asks, interrupting Trina. "Never mind. The less I know, the better." She says, her thoughts going back to their last night in Yerba.
The next morning, as Tori and her friends sit in the Black Box as Sikowitz goes over his new play, Andre and Tori get into a texting conversation, Andre wanting to find out what's wrong after Tori was quick to leave her locker when Jade walked in, leaving a stunned Andre to close it for her. On the other side of the room, Beck and Jade are texting each other, Beck trying to figure out what happened in Yerba while they girls were in their room (Cat likes to tweet, and her tweet that night consisted of them hanging out and something happening between Tori and Jade), and Jade ignoring him and watching random videos on her phone. Beside her, Cat looks at funny pics and videos online, as Robbie texts Rex. How, no one knows.
"Did any of you hear me?" Sikowitz asks after a moment of silence between the small group.
"Huh?" "What class are we in?" "Nope." The gang say, Cat with confusion and Jade blankly.
"Then I'll say it again." Sikowitz says, staring at his students. "My next play will be a crime drama in a submarine, and I was announcing your parts." He says, sighing when some of them (Cat, Jade, and Tori) glance at their phones again. "Robbie, you're the submarine captain, Beck is the first mate and murder victim." He starts, ignoring Robbie's 'sweet' and Jade's 'cool'. "Cat, Tori, and Andre, your members of the crew. I will admit who the murderer is towards the end of practice, after covering the rest of the play first." He says, getting upset when they all start looking at their phones again.
A few minutes later, after trying to explain more of the play to them, he loses his cool with a loud 'Enough!'
"What's your problem now?" Jade asks, glancing at Tori before giving her attention to Sikowitz.
"Enough with the phones." Sikowitz says, walking down the line and grabbing the phones from everyone's hands, putting them in his shirt, which he's holding open to create a bowl for the phones. "All morning, you six have been on your phones, not paying attention to anything. So, I have a challenge for you." He starts, ending with a smirk as he walks to his messenger bag and tosses the phones in them.
"What the hell, Sikowitz?!" Jade asks, glaring at the balding man. "Give us back our phones." She demands.
"No. Not until you can go a week without technology." Sikowitz says, closing his bag.
"Why would we accept that?" Beck asks, showing more curiosity than anger at losing his phone. "I mean, yeah, we shouldn't be using our phones in class no matter what, but this is the first time we've done it." He notes, relaxing into his seat.
"Because none of you are paying attention to what I'm talking about, and this performance is twenty-five percent of your grade." Sikowitz says, staring at the students.
"What's in it for us if we do?" Andre asks, curious.
"If you can go a week without using any form of technology, no homework for the rest of the year." Sikowitz tells them, knowing he has their attention. "Do we have a deal?" He asks them, smirking.
"What happens if anyone bails out?" Jade asks, raising an eyebrow at the teacher.
"Anyone who breaks and uses a phone, laptop, anything with technology outside of a calculator or something like that, will get double the homework until the end of the year." Sikowitz says, crossing his arms over his chest. "Anyone in, raise your hand now." He says, watching them.
With a smirk, he watches as everyone, though slowly, raise their hands and let him know they're in. 'Good.' Sikowitz thinks to himself.
"Now how am I going to look at that pic?" Jade mumbles as the bell rings and they leave, only Cat hearing her.
The next one might be longer and will take place just before it becomes boys against girls. Also, the change Sikowitz makes about the teams, i.e. winning team passes the semester, may happen. I haven't decided yet.
I have a question for all of you. Do you think I'll follow the episode and have the boys win, or change it up and let the girls win? And should I keep the change of the winning team passing for the semester?
I will also give an explanation on how Tori contacted Jade and asked her to come over to help watch Cat, since the episode doesn't explain how she did so without calling, texting, e-mail, whatever.
Thank you for reading, hope you liked it.
To any fans of Disney Channel's 'Girl Meets World', I'm planning a one-shot to two-shot of the episode 'Girl Meets the Forgiveness Project'. It'll follow the episode to a point, but I was wondering what it would be like if Shawn was in town, how different it would be if he was there for Maya. I plan on writing it this week as I work on the next chapter to this, and will hopefully update it the same day. It'll be my first attempt at something like that, since the focus will be the father/daughter bond between Shawn and Maya, with the only hinted relationship being between Shawn and Maya's mom. (I don't know how to spell her name. I think it's Katie, but I honestly don't know, so if someone does, please let me know.)
I'm also planning a 'VicTORious'/'Girl Meets World' crossover, and I hope the one or two-shot helps me get the 'Girl Meets World' characters in character enough.
Blessed Be.