Title: Outbound
Author: Jonathan and ZenNoMai
Rating: M (covering my bases this time)
Chapter: Seven A
Category: RADE, RORI, RORILOLA, RADELOLA
Spoilers: Post 'Bound' and 'Unbound,' sit will follow season 2 canon.
Summary: Spin-Off of 'Rebound'. Everyone has a double. But do doubles always act the same way?
Disclaimer: Victorious and Zoey 101 are owned by Dan Schneider, Danwarp, Nick, Viacom

Alright guys. I'm sorry it took over a month to get this out. But, there are times in my writing career when I go through dry spells. And no matter how much I want to get something on paper, I can't seem to get it out. It took a while, but I think we finally were able to move on with this story.

And before we get on with it, I want to congratulate all the winners of my contest. There were so many people who took part in it, and I'm glad you all did. To all those that didn't win, I want you to know that your stories were excellent regardless. But, like I said, the winner, which happens to be Circuswheel, will have her story cameo in the final chapter of Outboud. So, without further delay, here is the new chapter.

Sarah Shapiro slumped into the chair with a huff of fresh air. She turned around and noticed her brother looking back at her, a shocked expression on his face. "You alright?"

Sarah looked at him, "Fine… it's just…"

He gave her a smirk. "Trisha, again?"

She rolled her eyes, "And Dustin thought he had it bad."

Robbie Shapiro smirked. "I do remember Zoey telling me some interesting stories between them." He chuckled. "It was actually a pre-Zoey/Chase relationship moment."

She groaned, "Robbie… please… I'm not in the mood to compare you and Tori with Zoey and Chase moments."

Robbie couldn't help but give her a look. When she looked at his reaction, she couldn't help but wince. "I'm sorry, Robbie. I didn't mean it like that."

He let out a sigh, "It's okay, Sarah." He reasoned. "I get it. Just a bad day, huh?"

Sarah nodded. "Yeah…" She looked at her brother, defeated. "My alarm clock never went off this morning. My faucet was busted. My roommate broke it this morning. We ran out of hot water. I was five minutes late for my history class, and of course I ran into Trisha Kirby." She shook her head. "Some kid compared her to Sam Puckett, and she freaked." Robbie actually thought about Trisha and Sam, and couldn't help but smirk. "I wonder if that's how Lola acted when people thought she was Tori."

Robbie shrugged, "Probably…"

Sarah gave him a look, shocked by his response. She always figured he would have a heightened response when Tori's name was mentioned. Not just as a passive one as he just displayed. It almost seemed like something was wrong between them, and she knew that she should probably ask him what was on his mind, but whenever Trisha was involved, Sarah couldn't help but feel a little stressed. So, she knew she had the right to feel this way. She had every right to feel this way. She had the right too to feel agitated at times. Robbie wasn't the only Shapiro that was product of a broken home.

"Sarah?"

When she didn't answer, he tried again.

"Sarah?"

Again, she didn't reply.

Robbie shook her shoulder. "Hey, you okay?"

She soon snapped out of her inner musings. He looked at her, "You okay?"

"Yeah…" She said slowly "I think so at least… this whole Trisha thing just has me so…"

"Wonky?" He reasoned with a smirk.

"Willy Wonky." Sarah said shortly. "No matter what I say, she won't let up." She looked at him, "It's almost like Trisha is my 'Jade.'" Robbie stiffened when he heard that, but it seemed like Sarah was in her own issues to notice his shrug. "She just drives me crazy…"

He shook his head, "You could go talk to her." Robbie took a second. "Believe me. It took a while for me to finally grasp the notion."

She smirked. "Your girlfriend, right?"

He shrugged, "Well… yeah…" Robbie smiled. "She did see me at my worst, and she didn't run away or anything."

Sarah gave him a look, "Robbie, you were in jail. There wasn't anywhere to run." When she saw the hurt look in his eyes, she clarified. "You know what I mean, Big Brother. It worked in your favor. You got the love of your life, you moved out from mom and dad, you took me with you, showing me the love that you have for your friends, and I thank everyday for that love, but this is something else… this is something that I don't have the luxury where if I do come out on top, I don't see anything being so grand as a result."

He let out a sigh. "I get what you mean. I know that this is small, and that circumstances were different…" Robbie let out a breath… "But regardless, you should go talk to her. You never know until you try." He took a moment. "It could be the moment that might turn things around for you. My moment is when I finally talked to the guys at Hollywood Arts. I finally released my anger, and I finally became a person that my girlfriend saw in me. And that moment was when I left the school, started another, reconnected with you, and then came to PCA. If you think about it, it was just a small moment that spunned this all out." He smiled. "So, just go talk to Trisha. You never know where it could lead." He smirked. "And if it does go south, just come to me, and I'll be there faster than you can say 'Nanu Nanu.'"

Sarah smirked at his stupid saying at the end. "You really need to lay off 'TV Land.'" Robbie gave her a fake innocent look. "But you do have a point."

Robbie nodded, "See, I do have purpose."

"I never said you didn't have purpose." Sarah told him. "I just mean that you actually have merit. Don't think that you're not worth getting to know." Robbie smiled at her comment. "But like I said. I do see your point. And I should think about talking to Trisha. But that doesn't solve the mundane problems I had this morning."

Robbie thought for a second. "I think we should give a call to Beck."

It was just a few short hours since Sarah left her brother at the tables. She and him had a little more to discuss and worked on their homework together. A simple task that the two of them have begun since they both began their semester at PCA. Just something the two of them shared. Something only for the two Shapiros. No Tori, No Lola, and no one else. Something the two siblings held onto and was able to keep a close relationship; one that they both cherished and enjoyed thoroughly.

That being said, began her trek to her next class. She just had two more classes for the day, and then she would be done. She would have to go through Geometry II and English Lit. Two classes that she relatively enjoyed and hoped that these two would be the classes that turned the day around. Being with her brother just now was a good start, and now she just hoped the next two classes would fly by easily and actually hold some interest for her.

Taking a breath, she took a sip from a water bottle from her bag and continued to make her way to the class when she suddenly hit someone. Taking a moment to clear her head, she shook it and looked at the reason for her collision.

"Hey…watch it." Sarah told the person who hit her.

"Hey. Why don't you?" She heard from the assailant.

Looking up finally, she glanced at the person. Her eyes widened, "Robbie?"

Robbie Shapiro looked at her, and then smiled, "Hey, Sarah. Guess I didn't see you there."

She looked at her brother. Confusion washed over her, "Didn't I just see you?" She looked at him again, taking in his appearance. "And weren't you wearing something different?"

He looked at her confused, "Different? Sarah, I was wearing this the whole time."

She shook her head, "But… but… you were wearing jeans and a blue shirt. Now… you're wearing green cords and a white shirt."

Robbie gave her a look, "Are you alright, Sarah? Are you sure you were talking with me ealier?"

Her brother looked at her, a strange look gazing upon her. "Yeah…" She looked toward the table where she sat earlier. "We were…" Sarah shook her head, "We were… sitting over there…" She pointed to the table in particular. "We were doing our homework. And you were there. You were quoting 'Mork & Mindy' of all things. I know you were there."

"Uh huh…" He said slowly. Not knowing if what he was hearing was making sense. "Really?"

"Yeah…" She told him, certain. She looked at him, "Don't look at me as I'm crazy."

He shook his head. "I would never think that." He approached her. "You know I will never pull the 'crazy' card."

Sarah had to agree. She knew beyond anything, Robbie would never call her… or anyone crazy. "But I do remember we were sitting over there. You were talking to me about Trisha. And how to handle my situation with her."

He thought for a second. Shaking his head, he added, "Sarah, I wasn't over there just now. I was over with Michael and Logan. Helping them with some tech work."
She shook her head, "But I just saw you!"

Robbie looked at his sister. He hadn't been anywhere near her today. Then something hit him. He hadn't been near her for four days. He had been too busy with Tori, and even trying to help make Jade and Rob's time here in this dimension more easy. Bringing their trapped time here more comfortable. None of them knew when exactly Quinn was going to get the power cell for the ring to work again. True, she said two weeks was the deadline, but knowing the possibility of lateness and the luck of any 'Robbie Shapiro,' the chance of actually pulling off the chance of the said time was truly going to be a miracle…

"Robbie?"

Robbie snapped out of his inner musings. "Huh?"

"I was there… with you… doing our homework…" Robbie gave her a confused look. I know we've only been doing it for like four days, but c'mon… you were there… with me…"

Four days? Sarah has been working with him for four days? How? His eyes widened, realizing the truth…

He shoved his hand in his pocket and pulled out his pear phone. Flipping it open, he looked at the time. "I think I can get you to figure this out. Meet me at my place in an hour."

"Robbie?"

"Just do it. One hour." Robbie then flipped his phone shut and headed for the one place where he knew he could get this started. Still can't believing that it had been four days since he last…

"Ok, I want the key back."

Jade groaned as she closed the door back. "Vega will get the key back when I'm good and ready." She smirked at her boyfriend. "Just because we're stuck here for at least another 10 days doesn't mean that I can't enjoy my time here."

"But that doesn't mean that you had to steel the key from Tori!" Robbie Shapiro declared. The room soon turning bright after Jade flipped the light switch.

"So?" Jade asked. "Robbie wanted us to be here. He didn't say anything about how we got in?"

"All Robbie said was he wanted me to be here." Robbie told her. "He never said that you had to be here. And he never said that we can invite ourselves inside."

She rolled her eyes, "Please. You've been spending too much time with Vega." She shoved the key back into her pocket. Turning back to face her boyfriend, she loosely wrapped her arms around his neck, looking into his deep brown eyes. "I swear. Back in our reality, you wouldn't care if I stole off of Vega or anyone."

He clarified, "This isn't our Tori." He wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her to him. "This is their Tori, Their reality. They don't deserve the same treatment that we give our Tori and the others." Jade let out a sigh. "I thought you two were making an effort to get along."

"You know that in order for Vega and I to get along is going to take a lot more time then just a couple days." She lowered his head slightly and kissed him briefly. "It's going to take allot of time for us to really understand each other." She smiled. "We're talking two years of maintenance."

"That still doesn't give you the right to steel her keys." Robbie attempted.

Jade groaned, "Will you just drop that?" She kissed him again a second later. "Look, I dunno when Vega or the other you are going to be here. But I do know that we do have the room to ourselves, and I do know that if Vega ever did find out that we did it on her bed it would truly fuck her up." She grinned. "And I'm more than willing to do my part in order to make that happen."

"God, Jade. You're too much." Robbie told her. "Look, can you at least keep it in your pants for another few hours? Once we're done here, then we can go screw for as much as we want to. But right now? I just want to…"

But before he could further expand on that, the door flew open. The two of them looked on in as the form of the younger Shapiro sibling walked inside. "Sorry Guys, the door was open."

She looked up a second later and saw her brother with his arms wrapped around another girl. "What the hell is going on here!?"

"Sarah?" Robbie asked, as he pulled from Jade. "It's not what you think."

"It's really not." Jade reasoned.

"What are you doing with Robbie?" She growled. Sarah turned to Robbie, "How could you cheat on Tori?"

"I'm not cheating on Tori." Robbie declared. "Jade's my girlfriend."

Her eyes widened, "Girlfriend?!" She pulled him off of Jade. "Tori must be going insane with grief. How could you do this to her? How could you brake up with your girlfriend?"

"Because she's my girlfriend."

Sarah turned around and her eyes widened. But even before she could register a response, Sarah felt a sudden wave of confusion wash over her and she collapsed on the floor. Fainting upon impact.

"That went well." Tori said as her Robbie went to go help Rob take Sarah to their couch.

TBC in Chapter 7B