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So to the person who said the comment about whether Beck was with Cat only because he felt like he had to be. I see why it comes off that way because their relationship gets really complicated and it gets difficult for him. I think in the beginning as her friend he felt obligated to be there for her because nobody else was, but then when he started seeing her as more than a friend he was there because he wanted to be. And now he loves her and he just wants them to be happy together, but he's realizing that being with Cat comes with a lot of baggage that he doesn't always know how to deal with. And situations he doesn't always know how to handle because he's only sixteen, and he's sort of taking all of her problems and making them his own. So it starts to wear him down at some points where he doesn't know what to do but still knows he's got everyone, especially Cat depending on him and expecting him to fix things. But I think the fact that he's willing to do everything he does for her in the first place says a lot about the way he feels about her. And I think any relationship where one of the persons is mentally unstable is gonna end up being a little one-sided with one person doing most of the work, especially when (spoiler alert) the other person starts to really lose their mind.
Anyways that's just my interpretation, but no worries. No harm done as I welcome all interpretations :) Gosh, I wrote a lot there. Sorry I just wanted to clarify in case anyone else was wondering.
I don't own Victorious.
[Love comes with sacrifices.]
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Beck was probably crazy for doing what he was gonna do next but in his defense, love tends to make you do crazy things. And once he'd gotten his plan together, everything after that just seemed to fall right into place. Like it was all meant to happen, like he was meant to rescue her.
For everything to work they needed to wait a few days until spring vacation was coming up. Beck told his parents he was going to be spending this spring break camping with Robbie and his dad, but of course that was just a lie meant to throw them off track. That way there wouldn't be any suspicion after he and his RV went missing, at least not for awhile. His parents trusted him so they agreed to let him go and his dad even let him borrow his pick-up truck to hook up to the RV. It was almost too easy.
In reality Robbie and his parents were going to Aruba for spring break and Beck and Cat were going...well, he didn't really know yet. And he didn't know how long they'd be gone, he just knew that he needed to get her far, far away from there and that was exactly what he was going to do.
To get Cat out of the hospital he was gonna need a distraction. Luckily he had some really great friends who were more than happy to provide one. At first he was hesitant about asking them for help because he was afraid they would try to talk him out of it. But he knew he wouldn't be able to do it without them and in the end they happily agreed and even helped him come up with the plan.
But on the day when everything was supposed to go down, when he arrived at the hospital there was a minor setback at the front desk.
"Hey, I'm here to see Cat," Beck said.
The receptionist smiled. "I figured that much. Just give me one second.." She began flipping through sheets on her clipboard until she stopped at one and scanned the page. After a moment she paused and said, "I'm sorry...Cat's only allowed to see her immediate relatives." She looked up at him and frowned, probably realizing the mistake she'd made last time.
"Oh."
"I'm sorry, it's her parent's request. I didn't realize-"
"No, it's cool. Thanks anyway," he said, although he wasn't really sure what he was gonna do next. He turned his back and started towards the door, looking at the ground as he walked, feeling slightly defeated. And that must have been enough to guilt her into feeling sorry for him.
"Wait," she called. And he turned around. "Did you say your name was Michael?"
For a moment he just looked at her, puzzled. "Umm..."
"Michael...you're Cat's brother right?" she said slowly. She winked and then he caught on.
"Oh yeah...right."
"You can go ahead in," she told him. "She's in the rec room right now with everyone else. We're having live entertainment today."
"Really?" he asked, feigning curiousity.
"Yeah, a couple of really nice kids from that performing arts school volunteered to come in and put on a show for the younger patients. I think one of them's a ventroloquist and the other one is a singer."
"Oh alright, well thanks again."
He headed over to the big room where a large group of people were sitting in chairs watching the performance. It was mostly younger kids and some of their parents were in the room too. Tori was at the front of the room singing a song, accompanied by Andre on the keyboard.
Cat was sitting in the back of the room like she'd been instructed to do, holding her tote bag stuffed with whatever belongings she could fit inside of it. When he spotted her, Beck came around and stood beside her, and then gave Tori the signal to let her know to wrap things up. The next act was the one that they were waiting for.
Getting the message, Tori finished her song and everyone clapped. "Thank you so much! That's the last song I'll be performing. And up next for you guys, we have Robbie Shapiro and his pal Rex with their stand-up routine."
Through the scattered applause she and Andre stepped away from the front of the room and went to the back where Beck and Cat were.
Robbie and Rex took their places, sitting on the stool and began their act.
Tori whispered to Beck, "So what should we do?"
"When it happens just keep lookout and make sure nobody's eyes are on me and Cat. Keep everyone distracted and try and make it look good," Beck said.
They both nodded. Andre said, "Don't worry it'll be good. Robbie and Tori are great actors."
Beck could only hope so.
Robbie and Rex went back and forth with their banter getting a few laughs here and there, until eventually the moment they were waiting for came. To demonstrate his skill, Robbie put a handful of gumballs in his mouth and had "Rex" tell the remainder of the jokes.
Beck gave Cat's shoulder a squeeze in anticipation. "Are you ready?" he whispered.
She looked up at him.
And suddenly Robbie started coughing and clutching at his throat. He dropped Rex on the ground and started waving his arms around, letting the gumballs spill out of his mouth. Then Tori jumped up and said, "Oh my god! He's choking!" Robbie fell to his knees and everyone stood to attention, gasping and whispering all around the room. The nurses in the room quickly rushed over to tend to him.
And Tori continued her freaking out to make it look extra dramatic. She started towards Robbie, screaming and crying, trying to grab ahold of him until one of the nurses had to call the guard over to hold her back. "Miss, please calm down. Everyone just calm down!" the nurse tried. The room was beginning to fill with panic and chaos, with kids getting upset and parents trying to calm them down.
"He's gonna choke to death! You have to save him! Robbie? Robbie can you hear me?" Tori shouted.
Andre, who was on lookout duty, scanned the room to make sure the coast was clear. Everyone was too focused on the chaotic scene in front of them to worry about the two kids in the back standing together side by side, slowing inching away from the scene. He gave Beck the signal to let him know it was okay to go.
They needed to move fast though, before anyone saw them. Beck grabbed Cat's hand and they quickly, but quietly stole out of the room without looking back. They headed out into the long hallway that lead to the back entrance where they'd make their escape. They had to pass a few office rooms with glass windows, but they managed to sneak past by ducking underneath them. And then they reached the large door with the red exit sign on top of it and booked out the door. Once they were out of the cold building and into warm air outside they were able to pause and catch their breath. There were people in the parking lot so at that point they had to play it cool. A man in a delivery truck was unloading things and carrying them over to the door they'd just ran out of but he didn't pay them any mind. They slowed to a casual walk until they got to Beck's car and then quickly got into it.
As he turned the key in the ignition, Beck finally he felt like he could breathe again. He turned to Cat, smiled at her and said, "We did it. You're free now."
Cat held her hand against her moving chest with her eyes shut, trying to calm her beating heart. Once she was able to relax she rolled the window down and rested her chin on top of it, and as he pulled out onto the highway she stared outside watching the cars and trees go by.
"Still nothing, Cat? You're not gonna say anything?" he asked.
Apparently she was still playing the quiet game.
Beck didn't know what was up with her but he didn't like it. He'd gotten her out of the hospital and yet she didn't seem happy or excited about it at all. He thought after he did what he did everything would go back to normal, that she'd be her talkative, bubbly self again. But something was different about her now. She had changed since she'd been admitted back into Evergreen.
Even though they were now a good distance away from the hospital, being out in public was still dangerous for them while they were still in the city. It wouldn't be long before someone realized Cat was missing and everyone started looking for her. And it would've been smarter to take her directly back to his trailer like he'd planned on doing, but there was another stop he decided they needed to make. There was something they needed that was more important than making a smooth getaway, even more important than not getting caught.
"Why are we here?" Cat asked him. Those were the first words she'd spoken to him since...a really long time.
They were at the park, one of Cat's favorite places. It was close to sundown so there weren't many people there. Just a middle aged couple and their daughter in the distance, strolling along the trail.
"Because you love it here," he said. He got out of the car and walked around to the passenger's side where she sat back lazily in her seat, gazing out the window. Beck wanted her to look at him like she used to. He wanted her to light up and get excited about something. "Come on," he said. He took her hand and helped her out of the car.
When they were kids they both used to love the swingsets. Beck used to stand up on the swing and pump himself back and forth until he'd start to go really, really fast and then Cat would beg him to slow down because she was always afraid he was gonna fall. He never listened to her though. He'd wait until he gained lots of momentum and then he'd jump off and Cat would watch him soar through the air, and she'd cheer and clap when he landed safely on the ground. When they were little Cat was always Beck's biggest fan because in her eyes he was fearless in all the ways that she wasn't. She was too afraid to jump off the swing herself, but she'd always watch Beck do it. And when she was too scared to go down the big, twisty tunnel slide she'd always wait for him at the bottom and tell him how cool it was that he could do it. Then he'd grin and say he could do whatever he wanted because he was practically a superhero. Like the superhero gene probably ran in his family.
Beck of course knows now that there's no such thing as a superhero gene. He knows he never had any superpowers that he could attribute his fearlessness to. And the more he thought about it the more he realized that Cat was probably the reason he always felt like he could do anything. Because she always believed that he could. He was never a superhero but he always thought he was because Cat made him feel like one.
And maybe now it would take a superhero to get her to learn how to be herself again. When she hesitated to go near the playground he scooped her up in his arms and carried her like a bride over to the merry-go-round. He set her down on the large metal fixture and she stood up immediately, holding onto the bars for balance.
"Are you ready?" he asked.
"Beck, don't.."
She tried to get off but he stood in the way, blocking her from jumping off. "It's okay, just hold on tight," he said.
Cat bit her lip.
And then he pushed on the bars, sending her spinning around and around, slowly at first. Every spin she moved away from him she'd turn her head to look back at him and make sure he was still there. He pushed harder, making her go faster, her red hair whipping around her face in the wind.
Beck grabbed hold of the bars one last time and this time he ran with it as fast as he could. He let it go and sent her spinning once again, and then he stood back and waited, until he heard the sound of something he'd been waiting to hear this whole time, she laughed. And when he saw she was finally smiling he thought Thank God.
He saw her letting go of the bars and putting her arms out in the air, feeling the breeze as she moved. "I'm not scared anymore," she said, still spinning around like she was finally free.
"Are you gonna jump?" he called out. And then without warning she threw herself off of the merry-go-round and into his arms. He stumbled backwards and they ended up falling in the grass with all of her weight ontop of him.
"Sorry!" She apologized covering her mouth, trying to hide her laughter but couldn't keep a straight face. "Thanks for breaking my fall," she said.
He couldn't help but smile a little too even though he was in pain from the landing. "Warn me next time, please," he said.
"That was so much fun. I forgot how fun those were."
Then Beck turned her over on her back so that he was on top of her, and he pressed his lips against hers. And he rained down maybe six or seven kisses all over her face. "Beck!" She hit him in the chest playfully.
He smiled. "What?"
"What was all that for?"
"I'm sorry, I just..." She watched his face turn serious for a second. He paused and started playing with the strands of hair at the base of her scalp."...I thought I lost you, Cat. You were acting so different before."
She looked at his eyes, saw how worried he must have been and she touched his face, gently. "That won't happen again. I'm happy now, I promise."
He put his hand over hers and decided to take her word for it.
"Okay. We'd better get out of here soon, before...y'know."
"Wait, but we didn't even get to go on the swings yet!" And yeah Cat was definitely back now.
Afterwards they left the park and went back home to his trailer where they'd be spending the night before they started their journey. He already had it hooked up to his dad's pick up truck so they'd be ready to leave right at the crack of dawn.
When they got inside the first thing Cat noticed was the small tank in the corner with her yellow guinea pig inside of it. "Harry's coming with us?" she asked, excited.
"I figured you wouldn't want to leave him behind," he said.
"But how did you...?"
"Same way I got him the last time. You know your brother'll do pretty much anything for a bag of candy."
Cat had taken him out of the tank and she was petting him now. She smiled. "It's because he's never allowed to have it. It makes him bounce off the walls. Like literally. My mom and dad are probably gonna freak when they find it and..." she trailed off quietly as if she was just thinking of something, probably having to do with her mentioning her family.
Beck understood what she was feeling at that moment because he felt it too. And he'd thought about it so much when he'd finalized his decision about running away. It was a mixture of guilt and almost sadness because of the people they were going to be leaving behind. He knew his parents loved him more than anything. And he knew Cat's family, even though they weren't perfect, loved her too because no matter what they were still her family.
"Do you think they know I'm gone?" she asked.
"I don't know. Do you think the hospital knows yet?"
"Maybe. They'll at least know when it's time for bed check."
Hopefully not too long after that they'd be far, far away from there. Too far for anyone to catch up to them.
"We don't have to do this if you don't want to," he told her. "I'll take you back if you changed your mind. I won't be mad."
Cat shook her head almost immediately. "I can't go back there. I wanna stay with you."
He patted her on the head. "Alright then tomorrow's gonna be a pretty big day."
Later that night after he was sure his parents were asleep, he snuck her into his house so she could use the shower. While she was doing that he stocked up on a few things for the mini fridge in his RV, and said goodbye to his old house even though he hadn't really lived there since he was 14 years old. And then afterwards they went back to the trailer to get some sleep.
Cat tied her wet hair up in a messy bun and she plopped down onto his bed. Beck was already lying down, propped up on his elbow.
Cat bit her lip, nervously.
He noted her expression and said, "If this is weird I can sleep on the floor...I mean if you're uncomfortable or anything."
She smiled, shaking off any nervousness. "Don't be silly," she responded, cuddling up beside him. "If you slept on the floor I'd probably still end up next to you like last time. And anyway this is how it's gonna be now. Just me and you."
He pressed his lips against her forehead. He like the idea of that. Just the two of them. No more people and no more problems.
Early the next morning before Cat was even awake, Beck went back inside and showered, said goodbye to his parents and told them that if they called and he didn't answer it was because it was practically impossible to get good cell phone reception at the campsite.
Then he came back around and woke up Cat so they could get in the truck and go wherever the heck it was they were gonna go.
Okay that was a pretty quick update I know. I wrote this all in like one night. So yeah. Hopefully I'll update again soon cuz I got a million ideas swimming around in my head.
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