Sorry for delay you guys. School has been crazy these past couple of weeks and i'm only updating because i managed to finish my paper earlier that i expected. But good news, next week its thanksgiving break so maybe i can get the few chapters i haven't written out of the way. Bed news, iCarly is ending in like 9 days. I'm going to cry my eyes out.

Anyways here's the next chapter. More with Spencer. Hope you guys enjoy it-its kind of a short one.

Sam's Session

Chapter Seven: Second Little Sister

"He told me once that sometimes he forgets that he only really has to worry about Carly, the rest of us are just extras but that he can't help but care what happens to us too."

"When did he tell you this?"

"After Carly and I almost fell off the window washing platform." Sam answered casually not realizing that not everyone knew that story.

"You nearly fell from a window washing platform?" She looked shocked. Clearly none of her more typical patients had such a story for her.

Sam smiled. "Yeah, it's sort of a long story but basically Carly and I got into this huge fight and we both needed to go out on the platform for videos we were making, we got permission and everything, but the guy wasn't there at the time and I jumped out on the platform and Carly followed me and clearly Bushwell needs to invest in safer equipment because we ended up lopsided on the thing and the guys had to pull us in with a rope."

Dr. Bliss looked appropriately horrified but brushed it off with only a quick note on her clipboard. "So what happened afterwards?"

Sam sat on the couch staring at the TV that was glowing eerily in the Shay's dark living room. Carly hadn't wanted her to leave and figuring her mom wasn't home anyways she opted to stay the night. It was late but she couldn't sleep. Every time she closed her eyes the world was upside down again; she couldn't shake the sensation of falling. What if Spencer and Freddie hadn't been able to pull them in? They would be pancakes right now.

She tried not to think about it. She had come downstairs so she wouldn't wake Carly and had ended up in the refrigerator making a ham sandwich. She wished more interesting shows came on in the middle of the night.

There was thump behind her and she jumped. Spencer had just stumbled out of his room and tripped over the tie of his robe. He started mumbling mostly incoherent words but stopped when he spotted her blonde head over the back of the couch.

"Is Carly awake too?"

"Nah, she's still asleep, I didn't want to wake her so I came down here."

"You doing okay?" He asked. He shuffled over to the couch and sat down next to her. She wanted to laugh at his hair sticking up and his handmade 'world's best brother t-shirt' that Carly had made him when she was six. She couldn't bring herself to do it though; he had just helped pull her in a window after dangling what felt like a thousand feet in the air.

"I'm alright I just can't quite get the image of Seattle's skyline upside down out of my head."

"Must have been pretty scary, did you want to talk about it." The sincerity of his offer was cut short by a long drawn out yawn. Sam rolled her eyes and pulled her blanket around her tighter.

"I'm alright, you can go check on Carly now, that's what you got up to do right?"

"I was going to get the leftover pizza out of the fridge but what you said sounds better." He looked up the stairs and then over at the kitchen.

"I already ate the rest of the pizza, you might as well go check on Carly."

"Aw man," Spencer started to get up but stopped and turned back to her. "You sure you're okay?"

"You don't have to worry about me."

"I know I don't have to, sort of happens against my will, I think my brain forgets sometimes that I only have one little sister to take care of." Sam blinked. She wasn't really sure what to say to that. It was one of the nicest things anyone had ever said to her. Her mother hardly cared, her sister and the rest of her family made some effort to care but as the saying goes 'out of sight out of mind,' and her father of course didn't care at all. Spencer had no obligation to care but did it anyways. "I guess it's just a side effect of you being around so much, happens with Freddie too, I love Carly but sometimes I think it would have been cool to have a little brother instead."

"Thanks for the concern, I wouldn't mind being an only child but if I did have to have a brother I'd want one like you."

"Aww, well thanks." She curled up in a ball and went back to staring at the TV. She could feel Spencer staring at her. Finally he got up and went to the kitchen. From the corner of her eye she saw him turn on the oven and take a frozen pizza from the freezer.

He went upstairs while the oven was preheating and then came back down, tossing the pizza in the oven. He came back to the living room and plopped down next to her.

"If you're not going to sleep you could get a movie, I'll stay up and watch it with you."

"You sure, I'll pick something scary you know." She warned. He could be such a wuss sometimes.

"Bring it on."

"Spencer sounds like a wonderful big brother." Dr. Bliss told Sam as the girl lay back on the couch looking utterly exhausted. "I always wanted one."

"They're not all that great, the first time I fell asleep during the movie he woke me up because he was scared." She stopped to consider something. "The next morning I did wake up back upstairs though so I guess he was nice enough to not let me sleep on the couch the whole night."

"Speaking of sleep Sam, have you slept recently?"

Sam peered at the doctor through her droopy eyes. She didn't want to get into the story of the lock-in yet, but if she played it off casually maybe she wouldn't make a big deal of it. "My school had a lock-in last night, we stay up all night and work on projects, I left early but I only got a few hours of sleep."

Dr. Bliss scribbled down a quick note about a lock in. If it was just last night it may have been the location of where whatever event took place that convinced that she was insane. She glanced at her watch it was a little before noon. She felt the need to stretch her legs and Sam's eyes kept going in and out of focus.

"Sam I would like to suggest that we take a little intermission from our session."

"What?" Sam asked startled.

"I think we should take a short break Sam, I have some errands to run and to be quite frank you look like you could use a nap, I keep a blanket in one of these cabinets, comes in handy sometimes." She stood and searched the cabinets behind her until she found an old quilt. "You can take a nap here while I run out and do a few things."

"I just told you I had a criminal record and you're really willing to let me stay here in your office unsupervised?" Sam asked skeptically. She accepted the blanket that Dr. Bliss handed to her.

"Everything important is locked up and I'd like to think that in return for me helping you we've reached a point where we can trust each other." She was fetching her purse from her desk now. Sam couldn't help but think that she did desperately want to sleep. She wanted to eat too but without some rest she wasn't sure she'd be able to feed herself. "I can lock the door so that no one bothers you while I'm out, I think some rest will really help you at the moment."

Sam nodded. She started to readjust herself on the couch. Dr. Bliss moved towards the door but before she could leave Sam stopped her. "Dr. Bliss?"

"Yes Sam?"

"I know that most therapy sessions are only like an hour long and I've already been here way longer than that, you should know that I don't exactly have a lot of money and I'm not sure-" she started to trail off sheepishly.

Dr. Bliss smiled comfortingly. "I'll make you a deal Sam, you let me use our session as research, I won't use your name or anything identifiable like that and I won't bill you."

"You can do that?"

"It's my practice; I can do whatever I like as long as I don't break patient confidentiality."

Sam smiled as she lay back on the couch. She liked Dr. Bliss's way of thinking. She closed her eyes and was asleep before she even heard the door lock.

Did you guys enjoy this one. Hopefully it won't be two long before the next one is up. It won't focus on any character in particular more just Sam but after that its Carly for a couple of chapters and then we'll finally get to Freddie.