Beck groaned and squinted his eyes in the sun. He loved Cat like a sister and he knew she was Jade's best friend, but he really didn't want to take the time to explain this. She deserved to know but come on, the boat was right in front of them, they were so close to getting to a doctor!

"I'll tell you about it on the way Cat, alright?" He asked as calmly as he could. The redhead just stood there, her bottom lip quivering, twisting her hair around her fingers. Beck tried to walk towards the boat, but Cat stepped in front of him.

"Will she be okay?" Cat asked. Her voice was soft and it cracked on the word 'okay'. Beck felt bad for her but all he could think about was Jade.

"I don't know, Cat! Could we please get going now? I'll tell you on the way!" Beck immediately regretted his sharp tone of voice, and when Cat's eyebrows knitted together he knew she was going to cry in about 5 seconds. "Look Cat, I'm sorry. But Jadey needs to get to the hospital really fast okay? So help me get everyone on the boat, and then you can find out what happened."

Beck felt like he was lecturing a three-year old about stealing someone else's crayons, but it worked because Cat wiped away the few tears that had already escaped her eyes and started running around to her friends and dragging them up the ramp to the boat. Beck followed them and sighed in relief when the boat started and they were headed away from the godforsaken island. He prayed he would never come back.

As soon as they were on the boat, the entire gang, minus Andre, looked to Beck for an explanation.

"Will she be okay?"

"How badly is she hurt?"

"What happened?"

Beck was bombarded with questions from Tori, Cat and Robbie. He was sitting down on the hard wooden bench that went around the deck of the boat, still cradling Jade in his arms. Everyone was crowding around them, and asking him what had happened. Jade had stayed asleep through everything. Beck looked down at her and frowned. Her breathtakingly beautiful face was etched with pain, and even in her sleep she was biting her lip and whimpering. He felt his heart ache, a sensation that had become all too familiar every since Jade had gotten hurt. He longed for her to be alright, go back to being his strong, brave, outspoken Jade. Her injury was hurting him too, and it scared him how much he needed her. Why couldn't this boat go any faster?

Andre looked at Beck, who was obviously lost in thought. He cleared his throat.

"Jade's not doing too well." Andre started, knowing Beck wouldn't be able to explain Jade's injury to their friends. But Andre wasn't sure how to break the news himself. He decided to just go for it. "She uh, well she got knocked out by a Jet Ski then almost drowned, and she hasn't been able to keep any food down since we got to the island. And she's been fainting and unconscious half the time. And she has a huge gash where the Jet Ski hit, which is pretty badly infected."

Andre looked at his friend's faces, which displayed shock, worry, and sympathy. Maybe he should've sugarcoated things a little bit, but hey, they wanted to know the truth. Cat's tears spilled over before Andre had even finished speaking.

"Aww, come on Lil' Red, don't cry." He soothed. She looked absolutely heartbroken.

"But-but Jadey's hurt and we took so long to save you guys and I shouldn't have asked Beck to take us to the beach and-" Cat's rambling was cut off by a helpless sob. Robbie rubbed a hand up and down her arm in attempt to soothe her, but it didn't do much.

"Hey, hey it isn't your fault!" Andre felt terrible Cat was blaming herself. "You guys did save us, and Jade will be okay."

"You promise?" Cat sniffled, her eyes filled with hope.

"I promise." Andre lied, complete with a reassuring smile which Cat answered with one of her own.

Tori and Robbie sighed and made eye contact. This was exactly what they predicted would happen when Cat found out their friends weren't okay. Then Tori looked over at Beck and Jade. Beck's eyes looked glazed over, like he hadn't slept in days. He never looked away from Jade, except to look up and see how far away the coast was from their boat. Tori wanted to say something comforting, but she couldn't think of anything that would make the situation better. Beck wasn't as easy to comfort as Cat, and Tori knew the only thing that would satisfy him was Jade being taken care of. She stood up and got a blanket from the cabin of the ship and brought it to Beck. He carefully wrapped it around Jade's unconscious form, and gave Tori a strained smile.

"Thanks Tori." He whispered.

"No problem, if you need anything, I'm here." She answered sincerely. Then she patted Beck's arm and went to sit down next to Andre. She had realized something in the past few days. When people say you don't know what you have until it's gone, they aren't kidding. Tori didn't know what to do, or when this had happened, but she knew she had feelings for Andre that were a bit more than friendly.

"Andre…" Tori didn't know how to start. She was confident, she had been told she was pretty, and she usually could get a guy wrapped around her finger in no time. But this was so different. This was Andre. Where could she even begin? She looked around; making sure no one was listening.

"Yeah, what's up Tor?" Andre was smiling and eating some old granola bar that Robbie found in his pocket. It was gone in seconds. Of course Andre was worried about Jade, but he was exuberant they had finally been rescued. He looked at her with expectant eyes, curious as to why she seemed so fidgety. She just bit her lip and continued to twist her fingers together until they seemed to be in a knot. She chickened out…more like totally spazzed out to be exact.

"Did you enjoy the scenery on that beach? The wildlife looked exquisite." Tori mentally face palmed herself. Smooth line, idiot.

"Uhhh…yeah. That wildlife….was something else?" Andre responded, extremely baffled by Tori's behavior. "Look Tori, you know you can tell me anything. I know there's more on your mind than butterflies and palm trees."

His voice was so patient and kind. Tori looked into his warm brown eyes and decided to just go for it. And that's when the boat abruptly ran into the long wooden dock they had left just this morning.

"Land ho!" Shouted Cat with a giggle, who was in a much better mood now after being convinced Jade was a-okay.

And thus, Tori's moment was ruined. Next time, she thought, definitely next time. Then she stood up and got off the boat with her friends. Andre hugged a telephone pole, excited to be back in civilization. After his 5 second mini-celebration, the mood was tense again. The group hurried to the parking lot where Robbie had parked his mother's minivan earlier when he, Trina, Tori and Cat had come to get on the boat the first time. As soon as everyone was buckled up, he sped to the hospital. There was so much to say, but the car remained silent.

Beck was still holding Jade, sitting in the way backseat of the minivan. One hand was on her upper back, feeling her heart beat slowly and steadily, causing a small smile to form on his lips. With his other hand he stroked her hair lovingly.

"You're so close Jade, it's all gonna be better soon." He whispered into her warm forehead before placing a gentle, drawn out kiss there. "I love you."

A/N: Heyyyy pary people! SO SORRY! again man, im the worst:(. woopsie haha i just had writer's block FOREVER and it was so hard to write, not to mention this was exam week my school...like woohoo...not. Anyways i finally sat down and wrote something not horrible so here ya go!:) Hehe i added some TORI/ANDRE action...tell me ur thoughts! if you still read this..you should definetely REVIEW:) all ur reviews are so incredibly nice and i love reading them, thank you:)! hope you still like this! xoxo