Hey everyone, Happy Presidents Day! In celebration, (actually I got behind in this while writing 'Not so Typical Valentine's Day') I thought I'd post this latest chapter. Thank you all that have read and review. For the others that read, don't be shy in sending a review. I love hearing from my readers.

Challenge King: Thank you. It's kind of tricky to work with connecting them as there is so little interaction with them even in the crossover. I wanted to acknowledge that Freddie found Tori attractive in the crossover while also acknowledging that physically speaking, Tori could find him attractive. Now I just have to show the compatibility of the pair on an emotional and personality level.

About Jade/Freddie moments… I'm a Jedi shipper, I can't help it. On a more serious note, Freddie is trying to start over as a lot of college students experience their freshman year and as anyone that has read my Jedi stories, the pair surprisingly have a lot in common that one would not expect.

Fanfic-Reader-88: You hit the nail on the head: they aren't blind. Remember how Freddie described her in 'iParty with Victorious'? How will he change when he finds out the identity of Cat's roommate? You'll have to read to find out.

Boris Yeltsin: I'm not spoiling that.

darck ben: Actually, Liz cut her hair off during the progression of the final season of show and in the story; it is still the same dark brunette it was during the last part of the show. Liz's hair is about the same length right now, but in pics, she brushes it past behind her shoulders to make it look shorter than it is and of course she's back to her natural hair color.

Beck's hair really grew out near the end of the series run and I just added his recent fuzz on his chin.

Twilight Warrior 627: I tried to maintain the interaction as close to canon as possible at this point since I'm not assuming any real character growth from the Victorious characters since 'The Slap Fight' (the real last episode of the series), Freddie on the other hand since 'iGoodbye'? That is another story.

I wonder what could happen when they meet her roommate too… oh wait, I did and wrote it

Agent-M-0167: I hope it is going to be a good one. There are very little Teddie stories, so I'm hoping to make my mark. I think the stories might get better as one gains experience in writing, hopefully the material will get better.

I would respectfully have to disagree on making them my own, just taking what is there and fleshing them out as a consequence of their inner traits and not hitting the reset button after every episode so that they are learning and growing characters. Dan is not one for character development and I think quite frankly, despises it.

I think making my own would actually skip that enduring process and just getting to an endpoint character wise.

Pbow: I think the reason he portrays characters in that way is because he's a lazy writer who wants to write stories with set piece characters instead of the story organically growing out of his characters. For him, plot is God, regardless if it makes any sense in light of the characters he's established. I could go at length in examples across iCarly and Victorious where he's let the plot rule and outright damage characters in the process.

I'm not telling who Cat's roommate is; you'll just have to read the story.

You must be thinking of a different story, because a flyer is not the way he showed up. Once you figure out which story that is, let me know so I can read it.

Okay, on with the story, wait, one last thing: PD31 has posted I think two new chapters for his Tori/Freddie story 'Freddie Goes to Hollywood' in the last few days, so you might want to check it out.

Rating: T

Chapter 4

Valentine Apartment
Los Angeles, CA
Sunday, September 18, 2012

The quartet arrived outside of Cat's apartment at ten minutes to seven with Tori taking the lead to the door.

Jade wore a deep scrawl on her face with her arms crossed under her chest as she commented, "Let's just get this over with."

Beck raised an eyebrow at his girlfriend and slightly frowned in disapproval of the actress' reaction.

The dark brunette closed her eyes and softly shook her head as she responded to the slight admonishment, "It's not that I don't want to see Cat; it's her roommate that I don't want to deal with."

The aspiring actor rolled his eyes as he responded with a placating tone, "You don't even know her. Shouldn't you at least meet her before judging her?"

Jade answered with a clipped tone, "Assuming she really is a she and not a guy…" She threw a look at Tori with the brunette responding with a frown and narrowed her eyes.

Jade smirked at seeing that she had gotten under Tori's skin to relieve the bit of her annoyance she knew she was going to feel after meeting Cat's roommate. She finished with a bit of disgust to the rest of them, "…I don't want to have to adopt a stray. It was getting bad enough with putting up with Sinjin towards graduation and him trying to worm his way in."

Freddie let out a chuckle and shook his head at seeing that the girls apparently have a lighter and more subdue version of his former friendship with Sam. He looked to Jade and softly called out, "Do I count as a stray?"

The pale girl's mouth dropped open as if she had a response, but not a sound was uttered which left the singer confused for an answer.

The former tech-producer lifted an eyebrow to further press for an answer.

She quickly shut her mouth as she suddenly felt awkward in not knowing how to respond.

Beck tried to suppress a smirk forming on his face at seeing that Freddie was able to inadvertently silence his girlfriend.

Of all people to come to the dark brunette's rescue, it was Tori softly knocking on the door to distract from the awkwardness. A few moments later, the door opened to reveal Cat smiling ear to ear. She shouted for joy as she nearly tackled her brunette friend, "Tori!"

The brunette laughed and returned the hug, "It's good to see you too Cat."

The excited teenager pulled away and started giggling while playing with the end of her hair. Cat turned her gaze to see the former mean girl of Hollywood Arts and shouted, "Jade!" The shorter girl nearly tackled her pale friend, but Jade was able to hold her ground. She rolled her eyes but returned the hug instead of shoving the girl away.

She awkwardly smiled as she returned with a friendly greeting, "Hi Cat."

The redhead quickly pulled away then turned and gave Beck a hug while the long haired teenager let out a genuine laugh at the girl's greeting. "Hey Cat."

The three blocked Freddie from Cat's view as she insisted that they step inside, so she didn't greet him, but turned to introduce her roommate approaching from behind her, "I want you to meet my roommate."

Sam smile brightly at the recent graduates and shouted with a laugh, "Hello, so you finally decided to stop by?"

The three stopped in their tracks at seeing the troublemaker from Seattle. Tori's mouth dropped open and started blinking with the significance of seeing the dirty blonde.

The dirty blonde laughed out louder, "Surprised to see me?"

Freddie stepped between Tori and Jade and the pair froze as they saw one another. The brown eyed teenager whispered out, "That's one way to describe it."

Cat looked on in surprise at seeing from her view the Seattleite appear like magic from behind her friends while her former Seattleite roommate questioned in disbelief, "Freddie? What—what are you doing here?"

He cautiously answered, "I'm going to school at UCLA; what are you doing here?"

Sam hesitated for a moment then answered, "I got on the road and eventually found myself in Los Angeles."

He shook his head in disgust and muttered, "Yeah, you just got on the road and took off."

The former web-hostess frowned at his level of hostility then retorted with an annoyance filled voice, "I really didn't see the point in staying."

Freddie nodded and relaxed his tone as he responded, "I can understand that… I didn't have an overwhelming need to stay in Seattle either. I thought I'd get at least a goodbye."

Sam slightly bowed her head from the clear accusation, but refrained from commenting on it and instead saying, "I'd expect you to be in Italy right now."

He raised an eyebrow and nonchalantly asked, "Now what would I have in Italy that would be worth the trouble of going?"

Sam's eyes shot open in surprise at how dismissive he was at such an idea.

Tori pursed her lips at seeing the bitterness that Freddie had hid about Carly deciding to stay in Italy even if his tone didn't reveal any of it. Jade and Beck shared quick, confused expressions for Freddie for being so cold about his absent longtime friend. The confusion led to curiosity for the couple, but neither wanted to voice it as they saw that this was apparently a delicate situation for the reunited friends.

Cat wore a surprisingly enlightened expression about what was going on and surprised everyone by turning the conversation back to Tori. "I thought you were bringing your roommate?"

"I am—I did," Tori let out a soft laugh and grateful for the distraction. She pointed over to Freddie and finished, "Freddie is my roommate."

Sam gave him a disbelieving expression. "You're rooming with Tori?"

Freddie blew out an annoyed breath as he answered, "It was an accident and they don't have any open slots at the moment, so I'm staying." He looked to the brunette and gave her a playful admonishing expression. "I wanted to just rent a hotel room, but she insisted that I stay."

She raised her voice as she emphatically retorted, "I am not having you pay for my mistake."

Sam frowned while cautiously inquiring, "How did your mom react when you told her?"

The brown eyed teenager looked to the troublemaking blonde and answered flippantly, "I haven't because I know how she would react…" He knotted his brow and stared her straight in the eyes and finished with a cold tone, "Don't you dare go behind my back and tell her."

Sam looked like she was going to give him a smart remark, but Freddie gave her a deep frown and outright glared at her that caught her off guard. "I mean it Sam. Don't you dare tell her; you know how she would freak out and assume the worst. I am not dealing with that mess and I don't have the patience to deal with you."

Sam raised her hands up in surrender. "I won't tell her."

Cat gave her a look hopeful expression that she would keep her word.

She looked back to Cat and reiterated, "I won't tell her."

Freddie's brow relaxed as he looked on in surprise at seeing how submissive his ex-girlfriend was towards the redhead.

Cat happily shouted out with glee, "Who's ready for dinner?"

Jade and Beck had a seat on one side of the dinning table next to the kitchen area (Jade refusing to be separated from Beck in seating arrangement) while Freddie took on end with Jade on his right and Tori on his left. Cat took the seat next to Tori and Sam (after setting the bowls to allow them to make their individual spaghetti tacos) rounded out the group by taking a seat at the end of the table, directly across from Freddie.

Cat eagerly dug in to prepare her own as apparently to Freddie, Sam had introduced them to her redhead roommate at some point and knew how to prepare them. He looked on in surprise as the other naturally knew how to fix them as well.

Tori saw his confused expression and quickly explained, "We had them a couple of times at Hollywood Arts from seeing you guys on Ricky Flames show."

Freddie lifted his brow and answered with a wide mouth, "AH."

"Yep, they were pretty good," Jade commented as she finished preparing one of her own.

The brown eye former Seattleite raised a curious eyebrow to Sam and asked, "You cooked?"

She smirked. "Mama needs to eat?"

"That's one thing that hasn't changed," he laughed out.

Sam just shook her head as she wasn't in disagreement with that assessment.

The redhead looked between Tori, Jade and Beck and asked with a worried tone, "Have you heard from Robbie?"

Beck shook his head and answered with a regretful breath, "Nope."

Tori blew out and commented with a worried tone, "I hope he's alright."

Cat slightly frowned as she looked down at her plate.

Sam rubbed her hand up and down Cat's arm in a comforting gesture. "I'm sure he's fine Red."

The petite actress nodded her head then turned back to her meal.

Freddie couldn't keep the surprise off of his face at seeing Sam being comforting like that to the childlike teenager. His surprise quickly turned into concern as he didn't know what to make of Sam's behavior. He didn't get to raise it as Sam quickly asked, "So Fredward, how exactly did you end up as Tori's roommate?"

The former tech-producer glanced to Tori and silently asked whether or not he should go into any details. Tori answered by answering for him, "It was my fault. When filling out the housing application, I wrote Tori instead of Victoria out of habit. They thought I was a guy, so they paired me up with Freddie. Since there's such a housing crunch for all the new freshman, they don't have anyplace to move either of us."

Sam softly mocked, "I bet you're loving that."

Freddie narrowed his eyes and questioned with a tone mixed with annoyance and caution, "Why? Why would I be 'loving that'?"

The dirty blonde let out a hearty laugh, "Do I have to spell it out for you nub? You're sharing an apartment with a girl you think is hot… even hotter than Shelby Marx."

Tori's eyes shot open and her lips pursed with that revelation on how Freddie looked at her while the other suddenly felt awkward at the table with Jade being the exception of being annoyed.

He snapped back, "They're identical, so they're identically hot. I blame that janky computer for saying otherwise sending out crazy time waves."

Sam cocked her head to the side and gave him that soft scrawl of questioning his sanity. "Really? That's your chizzy excuse?"

"How did I pull up a picture of her that she wouldn't take for another few weeks? It isn't the first weird thing that has happened with us: Magic Malika, Gibby actually being able to date Tasha, you being as strong as an Olympic weightlifter and you constantly stuffing your face with food but not gaining any weight, and I can take beatings from you and nose dives out of trees without, you know… dying. Sam, weird things happen around us."

Sam frowned as she looked down at her plate and apparently conceding his point.

The brunette gave him a curious expression as she asked, "What photo?"

Freddie blew out a breath and rolled his eyes as he really didn't want to get into this discussion, "The one during your Full Moon Jam when you sung 'Begging on Your Knees'."

"What about it?"

"We saw it on TheSlap… before we met you."

Tori let out a nervous laugh as she darted her eyes about to the rest of them before landing on Freddie, "That's not possible. That happened after we met."

Freddie shrugged a shoulder. "Like I said… strange things happen around us."

Tori looked to Sam for an explanation and the blonde reluctantly nodded her head in agreement. The brunette shook her head as she tried to process that impossibility and for the moment ignoring the fact that Freddie thought she was hot. However, that was brought back up to the forefront of her mind with Jade's question to Freddie, "So you think Tori's hot?"

Freddie surprisingly ignored Tori's curious gaze to him and glanced Jade to calmly answer, "Yes."

The dark brunette looked at him with mild surprise of his casual answer and let it filter into her voice, "Just… yes?"

He knotted his brow and answered with a confused tone, "What else is there to say other than to say since you're both here, you and Cat are hot too?" He glanced quickly to all three girls, making sure he made eye contact with each. "I thought that was fairly self-evident." He looked to Beck and quickly asked, "You're not going to punch me for that are you?"

A soft blush formed on Tori's cheeks from the compliment while Cat let out a giggle. Jade was more impressed that Freddie so easily voiced the obvious in her case than actually being flattered by the comment. She also resisted the urge to roll her eyes at the concept that Beck could ever show any real jealousy if another guy had shown any interest in her and tried to push down the annoyance of such a lack of possessiveness on his part.

Sam chuckled, "He'd probably break his hand on your face like Gibby."

Freddie rolled his eyes as he recalled when Gibby was suppose to fake punch him to get them out of playing as a band in the Groovy Smoothie that Sam had arranged for them to play when it was only suppose to be a private gig for some ladies that Gibby had wanted to hook up with. The Johnny-come-lately to the iCarly crew however swung on Freddie at the wrong moment and actually punched him. The former tech-producer blew out a breath and verbally defended himself, "He only broke two of his fingers and we wouldn't have had to worry about it in the first place if you would have just kept your nose out of our business."

She dismissively laughed off, "Where would the fun have been in that?"

He stared at her with a cold stare and just remained silent for a few moments.

Sam lost her smile as she was actually growing concern for a moment before Freddie whispered out, "Yes… you find it fun sabotaging your so-called friends in relationships… you've always been good at that, haven't you?" He glanced to Cat and warned, "Careful Cat, she might find it fun to interfere with any relationship you have in the future… maybe even with Robbie."

Cat softly bit her bottom lip and gave Sam a worried expression while the blonde clenched her jaw tightly and looked to Freddie with a death glare. Freddie looked back without a bit of fear.

Sam took several soft breaths to calm her nerves then asked, taking a particular dig at him, "Speaking of Carly… have you heard from her?"

Freddie shrugged a shoulder and looked down to his food while answering, "A few text messages, a phone call or two, but that's about it, you?"

Sam looked down at her plate and mumbled out, "A few emails, a video chat, but not much else." She looked up and the former couple exchanged looks as each was thinking of sarcastic things to say about Carly and the situation, but both saw that it was pointless in making them as they already agreed with one another.

Jade asked with a not so subtle tone of annoyance towards Sam to break the potential staring contest, "So, how did you wind up here rooming with Cat?"

The blonde turned to her spaghetti taco and quickly took another bite. She quickly chewed the bit in her mouth then answered with only half her mouth stuffed with food, "Long story short? I stole some money from my mom, as if she'll miss it, then hit the road until I found myself in L.A. I met up with Cat. She wanted to move out of her Nona's for college and I needed a place to crash."

Tori curiously asked the pair, "How are you paying for this place?"

Sam answered, "We're babysitting to earn some extra money for rent, utilities and food with whatever Cat's parents are sending."

Jade frowned at how she perceived it as Sam sponging off of Cat for a place to stay.

Freddie's eyes shot open wide and spoke out before thinking, "You're terrible with kids and parents of our fans thought you were a horrible influence."

"I'm not that bad—"

Freddie leaned forward and hissed out in disgust, "You started up a sweatshop with nine year olds."

Sam shook her head. "Exaggerating much?"

"It was a sweatshop. You can't massage that Sam."

He looked to the rest and continued, "She got them so upset with the working conditions that they started producing their own shirts and tried to keep all the money themselves. Penny had to go through the trouble of suing their parents to get them to stop and recover the money they made off of her shirts. We're lucky that Penny is Socko's sister or she might have come after us for the trouble we put her through to get them to stop."

Sam rolled her eyes and lifted a hand to open it and close it rapidly as if it was talking to mock him.

"Mock me all you want, but it doesn't change the fact you don't have Carly to bail you out of trouble anymore, so you're on borrowed time before you start to have to answer for what you do. Your charmed life isn't going to last forever… speaking of another charmed thing, I never got a chance to ask you, but how did you get the motorcycle from Spencer?"

Sam frowned and glared at him. "I didn't steal it."

He had one of those rare occasions where he wasn't intimidated by gaze and calmly replied, "I didn't say you did. I'm just curious as to how it happened."

Her guarded demeanor dropped and was quickly replaced with a smirk then she proudly explained, "He said I was a great friend to Carly and that I have a good heart and I deserve to have it."

Freddie blinked a few times and stated without conscious thought, "Was he high at the time?"

Sam's brow knotted with confusion.

The brown eyed teenager hissed out, "You and I know that is a bunch of chizz."

The dirty blonde clenched her teeth and narrowed her eyes on him in hatred.

"You made my life a living Hell for years… you made a lot of people's lives Hell and he had the nerve to say that?" Freddie shook his head in disgust. "He can actually say that as he watched all the pain you put me and others through for your amusement?" He took a deep breath then let it out in the hope of taking some of his stress away, "You know what? Good riddance to him too. I'm not going to miss him as much as I thought."

Cat began, "Freddie, it can't be that ba—"

He cut off the redhead, "She nearly murdered me in cold blood twice and has threatened to break my legs if I said that Carly was a better kisser than her and that's just three things out of a long list of things you did to me over the years, so please Cat, I'm not going to believe that good heart chizz."

Sam snapped back in return, "You didn't think that way when we started dating."

Freddie relaxed back in his seat and answered with a flippant tone, "It's been a long four months without either of you and I did a lot of thinking in the meantime. That's what you do when you're alone and waiting for your life to start up again. It gives one a chance to look at one's life in an entirely new perspective. I only got with you because everyone pressured me to give you a chance and you put out."

Sam blinked in shock as that was the last thing she expected to say.

He laughed out as if that had been a great weight on his chest, "There, I said it, the truth and the truth with you was that you got with me because I looked cute bleeding on the ground. Let's not pretend it was anything deeper than that." He glanced to the rest and explained, "Before any of you start thinking it, no, we never went that far… thank God I had enough sense not to go that far with you, but you were quite eager to make out with me… even after we broke up."

Freddie got up from his seat and looked to the redhead. "You should kick her out Cat before she starts using you as a punching bag since she doesn't have me around anymore." He looked to Sam and whispered out in disgust, "That's what you turned Gibby into when you cut back on hitting me, but not stopping, when we were together. Lucky Carly covered for you again or you would have been in juvie for sending Gibby to the emergency room, but she's not here now."

He finally looked to Tori and tried to suppress his angry expression, but wasn't entirely successful. He questioned as he motioned his head to Jade and Beck, "I'm sorry, but I've lost my appetite. If you don't mind, could you get a ride back with them?"

Freddie headed to the door and exited without another word.

Cat looked completely dumbfounded at what just transpired in front of her.

Tori looked on in horror as the brown eyed teenager turned and headed out of the apartment.

Jade clenched her fists tightly and narrowed her gaze at Sam while whispering out coldly, "You touch her and I'll hit you with a bus."

It was barely a minute after Freddie had left that Tori was dragging Jade and Beck out of the apartment with a hasty goodbye to Cat and Jade throwing another threat to Sam. Tori dashed down the few flights of stairs in the hopes that she could catch up with her angry roommate.

The trio reached the lobby and Tori frantically looked around, but saw no sign of the former tech-producer.

Jade shouted with a mild disbelief and annoyance, "Why are you so bugging?"

Tori snapped around and explained with a hyperactive tone, "Because I don't know where he's going. I don't have a clue where he could be going."

Jade crossed her arms under her chest and sighed out before pointing out, "What does it matter where's he going to go? He just moved here and living with you. He's probably just driving around to clear his head as he obviously has a lot of issues with Sam." She flicked her brow up and commented with a dry tone, "And apparently for good reason."

Tori slumped her shoulders as she couldn't argue with Jade's logic. She felt a sense of helplessness start to seep through her body as she realized that Freddie was right, that there was a lot about him that she didn't know and for some reason, that embarrassed her. She shook her head as she wasn't going to let that helpless feeling dictate her actions.

She pulled out her phone and quickly pulled up Freddie's number on her call list then tapped the screen with her thumb to dial the number. The call went straight to voice mail and Tori quickly spoke, "Freddie, it's me Tori. Call me back please. Let me know where you are. Bye."

The brunette pressed the end call button and slipped the phone back into her pocket with a regretful expression.

Beck suggested with a tired smile. "Come on; let's take you back to your apartment. We can wait for him with you as long as we can." He was surprised when he didn't hear a word of argument from his girlfriend.

About fifteen minutes or so later, Beck pulled his GTO around Tori's apartment complex and the brunette was surprised at seeing that saw Freddie sitting out on the balcony to the pair's room, just looking out to the surrounding scenery. Beck quickly parked his vehicle and Tori was the first to dash out of the car and start towards her apartment. Beck and Jade were quickly behind her as Tori made her way up the stairs.

The brunette pulled out her keys and quickly inserted one into the deadbolt then to the door handle. Just as she was about to enter, Beck offered with a concerned laced voice, "Call if you need us. You look like you two need to talk alone… a roommate thing."

Jade spoke up, "You tell him I want to have a talk with him tomorrow."

The long haired inspiring actor knotted his brow as he glanced to his girlfriend.

Tori gave them a grateful nod then opened the apartment door and quickly slid inside. She shut and locked the door behind her before quietly cutting through the living room to reach the balcony.

The brunette took the other seat on the balcony next to him and looked out to the adequate view. He initially ignored her presence and she didn't push for an acknowledgement. She quietly asked in the manner that she was about to start a bit of small talk, "How did you get in?"

Freddie shrugged a shoulder and lamely commented, "A manager was kind enough to let me in."

She looked to him with a hesitant and sad expression while asking with a hushed tone, "Hey?"

"Hey."

"I was worried… you… dashed out so quickly."

He looked down regretfully and refused to meet her eyes. "Sorry, but the company soured the evening for me… I didn't want you to really see that kind of baggage, especially when I'm trying to start over."

Tori took a quick breath then answered, "It's okay… It must be awkward having problems with your friends being aired out. D-do you want to talk about… anything?"

Freddie shook his head and softly commented with a regretful tone, "Tori… we've know each for less than a week… dumping my life story on someone in all honesty I really don't know isn't high on my To-Do list."

She put on a hopeful expression as she asked, not consciously knowing why she would ask, "You could always take a leap with me even if it's only been less than a week?"

His voice was filled with bitterness as he turned his head away while answering, "No one has ever caught me before, why should I expect someone to start now?"

Tori looked down at the concrete floor of the balcony. She got up from her seat and reached into one of her jeans pocket. She gently took his right wrist and pulled his arm out and turned his hand to face palm up. He looked up to her with a curious expression as she dropped a set of keys in his hand and whispered, "Maybe it's just seeing you on the show for years that makes me think I know you, but I'm taking a leap with you."

He looked down at the silver keys then back up to the lovely brunette with an astonished expression.

She planted a soft kiss on his cheek then gave him a warm smile and softly spoke, "Goodnight Freddie." She turned and headed back inside as he looked at her retreating form until she turned the corner to their respective rooms. He looked down at the keys again then settled in his seat to look out to the L.A. night with a lost expression playing on his face.

Author's Note: I hope you liked this chapter. You get to see Tori see some of the inner workings and history of her roommate while having them connect more on an emotional level. You also got to see me poke holes in the premise and problems with the concept behind 'Sam & Cat', but who knows, maybe Dan can pull it off?

Also, I'm borrowing from myself the explanation as to how Freddie could say that Tori was someone hotter than Shelby: The Time Lord behind the curtain scrambling his brain.

For the iCarly fans, yes Sam was referring to iGet Banned, but obviously it played out differently in this story's history than in that episode. As any regular viewer of the show can see, Freddie can take a beating—mostly from Sam with her superhuman strength—so Gibby able to barely tap Freddie in the nose and somehow knock him clean out is absolutely ridiculous, so I'm one man invoking Fanon Discontinuity on that scene.

Special Guest Star Jennette McCurdy as Sam Puckett