A/N: Hey everybody, thanks so much for your amazing reviews once again. I even cracked up at the hilarity and niceness of a particular review (I already PM'd you). Anyways, I'm updating tonight since I'm spending the whole day at my uncles townhouse tomorrow, helping him renovate it; so I'm not quite sure if I will have the time to update tomorrow. I might not be able to update until Tuesday, due to family stuff, but I'm gonna try my hardest to review before then. Keep reading and reviewing, and hugs to all of you.

I do not own iCarly, now on with the reading!

Chapter 7:

Sam's POV:

"Cat how could you invite Freddie over here?!", I shout at Cat later after her, Nona, Dice, and Beck and Jade get to the apartment later that night.

"I'm sorry I didn't know!", she yells back.

"How could you not have known?! You've watched iCarly for years and you didn't even recognize him?! Now he knows where I am and he's gonna eventually find out that Lilly is his daughter and he's gonna take her away from me!", I yell.

"How do you know Freddie's gonna take Lilly away from you? He seems like a really nice young man. I think that if he knew how good a job you were doing taking care of Lilly and how close you've gotten to her that he would be happy letting her stay with you Sam.", Nona says.

"Yeah I guess, it's just that I wanted to protect Freddie from the truth about Lilly. I didn't want him to feel obligated to take care of Lilly with me. Freddie's a real gentleman. If he had found out about Lilly when I was pregnant, he would've made sure he took care of me and her. I wanted Freddie to have the prefect life that he deserves. I just feel that he would be better off without me in it.", I say with a sigh.

"There's also that possibility that he could wanna take Lilly from me. I mean it's been a year since I've seen him last. He could've changed. If he tries to take Lilly away from me, I don't think I could take it.", I say.

"Sam that's not gonna happen. We won't let it.", Dice says as I wipe a few stray tears away.

I usually HATE crying in front of people, but all I care about right now is Lilly.

"My uncle is a lawyer. He specializes in cases like that.", Beck says.

"Do you think he could help her?", Jade asks.

"I don't know, probably. He specializes in child custody and child abuse cases. He's one of the best defense lawyers in Canada. He's been looking for an excuse to come down here and visit us. I'm sure he'd come if I have a case for him to work on. He can't legally take cases to court in the US, but he could probably make an agreement between you and Freddie. But even if you do have to take it to court Sam, you have everything for you and everything against Freddie. You've taken care of Lilly her whole life, you're all she knows. You have an apartment and a stable job, whereas Freddie's looking for apartments in the area & I'm assuming he doesn't have a job either.", Beck says.

"You're sure he could help me?", I ask him.

"Yeah of course! If you do in fact need a lawyer, I KNOW he would help you."

I slept in Lilly's nursery that night. I just wanted to see her living, breathing, & knowing that she's here with me.

The next morning I feed and change Lilly as I always do. I play with her for awhile and then watch her sleep later that afternoon.

Cat's still at school, but she said that she was hanging out with a friend afterwards. We were babysitting tonight so she promised me that she would be back early.

Cat's POV:

Finally! School's out! Now I get to hang out with Freddie Benson!

I rush out of the back doors of the school and find Freddie waiting for me.

We drive to the park nearby to talk about apartments for him.

"So Freddie, were y-"

"Yeah that's nice, so do you know why Sam came here to LA?", he asks me.

"Um no?", I lie.

Oh no! Maybe he doesn't want to talk about apartments but he wants to talk about Sam!

"Cat I know you know!", Freddie says.

"No! You tricked me! We were supposed to be talking about APARTMENTS!", I say.

"I think maybe Sam should tell you why she left.", I say getting out of it.

"Okay, sounds fair.", he says.

"So how long has Tori's baby been living with you?", he asks me.

"What?! Tori doesn't have a baby! Silly!", I say.

"But Sam said that you guys were taking care of Tori's baby and . . ."

"Oh Lilly? No she's not Tori's baby. She's Sam's!", I quickly clap my hands over my mouth and my eyes get huge.

Oh no. It's too late. He heard me! Sam's gonna kill me now!

"She's Sam's baby?!", Freddie asks.

"No I know nothing! Just leave!", I yell running off.

I can't go home! I KNOW that Sam's gonna kill me. I'm gonna go visit Nona over at Elderly Acres instead. Yeah! That's what I'll do!

Sam's POV:

Lilly's still asleep, I had just checked on her. Just as I'm about to start making dinner, a rapid pounding on the door starts. I roll my eyes. Cat's probably locked herself out again.

I head to the door to open in and find Freddie.

"You? No. Get out!", I say pointing outside as I attempt to close the door.

Freddie however, put his foot in the door to stop me.

"Let me in Sam!", he says.

"No! I will call the cops!", I yell.

"Sam please let me in. I know about Lilly.", he says.

I feel like my whole world just stopped as he said these words.

Freddie must've seen that in my expression because he whispers his next words. "Please Sam?"

I reluctantly oblige, slowly opening the door for Freddie to come inside.

"Sam? Can you talk to me? Can you just tell me everything that happened? I just wanna know Sam. I just wanna know that you're okay.", he quietly says.

"Okay.", I say back.

I gulp as I begin my story.

"The day that Carly left, I found out that I was pregnant with Lilly. I was gonna tell you and Carly, but that's just it: I didn't know how to tell you Freddie. So I was gonna tell Carly, but she was all depressed about her dad leaving. I was gonna go upstairs and tell her when she was finishing up packing. I was going to ask her how I should tell you about it. But I saw things, things that I wish I wouldn't have seen."

I pause and take a quick, shaky breath.

"I saw Carly kiss you Freddie. And I saw you, allow her to kiss you and not pull back. That's when I knew. I knew I couldn't stand in your way of being with Carly because if I told you, then you would've made sure to take care of Lilly and I. I knew that Carly could make you happier than I ever would, so I left. I came here and met Cat. She took care of me. I gave birth to Lilly almost 6 months ago. I couldn't abort her because I don't believe in that, & I couldn't give her up because I felt that if I gave her up, then I would be loosing the last little piece I had left of you.", I say, whispering the last part about Freddie.

"I fell in love with her after my first ultrasound. I couldn't even think about giving her up. Freddie please don't take her away from me. I love her too much.", I say beginning to cry again.

"I'll never take her away from you.", Freddie says walking over to me and wiping my tears.

"Now that I told you I need you to leave. I need you to go be happy, because I'm happy here. Please Freddie, just leave for me. I don't need you. I'll be happier knowing you'll be happy. Everything will be okay. I promise. Lilly'll be fine here.", I say, trying to put up my tough girl act.

Now Freddie looks like he might cry.

"Can I at least see her?", he asks.

I nod slowly, tears filling my eyes.

I lead him to Lilly's room and he walks over to her crib. He looks down at her peaceful, sleeping form.

"She's beautiful.", he whispers.

"Yeah she is.", I whisper back.

Freddie gently bends down and kisses our daughter on her forehead.

We then leave her room and head back out to the living room.

"Thank you for her. I love her so much.", I say to him.

"I know you do. Thank you for taking care of her so well.", he replies.

"Of course.", I whisper.

"So I guess this is goodbye?", he asks.

I nod.

He pulls me into a hug.

"I love you Freddie. I love you so much.", I whisper to him.

"I love you too.", he whispers back.

Then he leaves. I cry myself to sleep that night.