Beck had been sitting there on her living room floor, talking for two hours straight, and Tori still wasn't entirely sure what he was talking about. In fact, at this point, she'd given up the notion that he was even talking to her and accepted that he was talking to himself, and would soon need to be checked into some sort of institution.
For awhile, Tori had thought that he was just in shock and would eventually come too his senses and go after Jade; or at least leave her apartment. Now she had given up on that idea, and was simply at a loss for what to do about the seemingly mentally ill boy in her home. Her parents were out of town for the week and she certainly couldn't physically remove Beck from the premises if he just refused to go home. She got out her phone to call in reinforcements.
As soon as said reinforcements arrived, their facial expressions were a mirror image of what she was sure hers was two hours ago. They seemed to be feeling a strange, previously unknown emotion that existed somewhere between disappointment and amusement. Even Cat's attitude was solemn as she inspected the damage.
"I think it's broken." Rex was, of course, the first to comment.
Cat seemed extremely offended by this because of reasons known only to her. "Beck's not an 'it' Rex. That was mean! You need a time out!"
This was what finally brought Beck out of his new found psychosis long enough to communicate with the outside world.
"Time outs are a bad idea. They only cause trouble. Don't give Rex a time out, because then he might leave you."
Okay maybe he hadn't left his psychotic state of mind completely, but at least he was speaking in coherent sentences. That was real progress.
Andre's extreme confusion finally bubbled to the surface. "What the chiz is going on here?"
That was all the prompting Tori needed to regale the entirety of what was now to be referred to as 'the incident'.
"He did WHAT?" was pretty much the collective response, and Tori was momentarily impressed by their perfect synchronicity.
Beck, who had in fact turned back into a functioning human being some time during the recounting of his stupidity, rushed to change the subject. "I know! it was stupid and wrong! Will you help me get her back?"
Cat walked up to him, smiling sweetly, and promptly slapped him in the face.
Beck kept waiting for some sort of apocalyptic event, because, well… CAT had SLAPPED him.
Everyone else stood in open mouthed shock at what had just occurred, including Cat, who was looking at her hand as if it had acted of its own free will.
Tori was the first to regain the power of speech. "Cat? Why did you slap him?"
She looked towards the floor bashfully, like a small child who had just been chastised. "Well, he deserved it."
Not even Beck could argue with that reasoning.