Freddie's Trade
Freddie doesn't know where he is. One minute he's surrounded by the darkness next it's disappearing and he's in white room. His eyes go funny and the scene shifts. He is standing at his door looking through the peephole, except it's not Freddie. Well it is him but not now. He looks about 13. Freddie instantly realises what is about to happen next.
13 year old Freddie gets a dopey grin on his face and suddenly he is pulling the door open. Freddie watches embarrassed by how desperate he was.
Running and picking up Carly's water before it barely hit the ground.
"You dropped this " handing it to her. "Um thanks"
"I was going to walk you home but I couldn't find ya" Stop talking Freddie begged. "Hey!" his 13 year old self said waving stupidly. Sam had every right to beat me up! He thought.
"Freddie! Were you just looking out your peephole waiting for me to come home?" she inquired.
"No!" he lied. He spent every day looking at her. "Freddie..."she pressed. He sighed "Yes"
"I thought we talked about this? We can be buds but you gotta get over this crush thing!" she said.
"I am over it...seriously! I'm in love with you and you just want to be friends and I'm totally cool living with that constant pain" Older Freddie put his head in his hands and sighed. "Oh god" Carly walked to her door.
Young Freddie and Carly disappeared, but Freddie vaguely remembered what happened next. He offered Carly his camera but ended up trying to give her his phone!
The scene changed. That was weird! He said. Now he was watching as Sam and Carly run from elevator "20 seconds" Carly throws her bottle at Freddie. The girls check each other. Sam says Carly has something in her teeth. She freaks.
He watches as his 13 year old self picks up his camera. "IN...5...4...3...2..."
"Hey there people of earth...I'm Carly Shay, and the is the very first webcast of a little show we call iCarly"
"She's Carly..." Sam says. "And Sam" but once again the scene changes again.
Now he, Sam and Carly are watching Jake Krandle singing. Oh, now my ears hurt! Thankfully the viewers can't hear him. I look over and see myself and Carly with headphones on listening to the digitally altered Jake singing. He had to laugh as Carly said "Give me that nose" kissing him quickly.
The scene again shifts. He standing at his apartment door. Sam and Carly are trying to tell him about Valerie.
"You're talking about my girlfriend" he yelled.
"She's not your girlfriend she's just using you!" Carly said.
"Then I enjoy being used!" he stated. Suddenly Spencer appears and asks Cary about girl scout cookies. She turned back to Freddie.
"You've got to believe us!" Sam cut in "She tried to get me on her webshow too"
"You're lying!"
"I don't lie!" Sam yelled. "Yea Sam may be irresponsible and obnoxious but she doesn't lie" Sam gave her a look. Older Freddie had to laugh. "You know I love you" Carly stated.
Again Spencer asked about cookies. He is so random! Freddie thought.
"Fine I'll go ask Valerie myself." His younger self said.
"She's not going to tell you the truth!" Sam stated.
"Valerie's using you!" Carly said. "She is not!" "She is"
"Believe us..." "We've been your friends' way longer than she has!" Carly finished. Quickly the scene changed. He was now walking into Valerie's room.
"Hey pumpkin! Ready to do the show?" She walked over and kissed him on the cheek.
"Yea...Valerie...Can I ask you something?"
"Sure...what is it?"
"Did you ask Sam to leave iCarly and join your show?"
"Um, yea why?"
"What! Why would you do that!"
"Because with Sam we would be even better. Why don't you try and talk her into joining out show!"
"No!"
"Why not! Without you and Sam, Carly will plummet, and then we could have the best show on the web."
"Hey! Carly's my friend!"
"Yea. And I'm your girlfriend"
"Not anymore. Get yourself a new boyfriend. I'm out of here!" He heard the door bang and the scene shifted again.
Now this scene he has seen over a hundred times. He is sitting on the fire escape, his laptop on his lap watching iCarly. Sam and Carly are just about to have a meatball war when Sam stops the show.
"On the last iCarly, I told you guys that Freddie never kissed anyone, and that was really personal, and I shouldn't have said it on the show!" He looked the disbelief on his young face.
"And for all you people out there who've been teasing Freddie about it, lay off, because I bet a whole lot of you haven't kissed anyone either! Including me!" He didn't think it was possible, but his eyes went even wider!
The scene fast forward slightly. Now Sam in sitting on the window.
"I was gonna say..." "That we should kiss?"
"Your gonna break my arm now right?" Older Freddie remembered that this seriously entered his mind. "No" she replied.
"Well should we? Just so both of us can get it over with..." She thought for a moment.
"Just to get it over with!" Sam said.
"Just to get it over with" he agreed. "And you swear we both go back to hating each other as soon as it's over" she said.
"Oh totally" he agreed. "And we never tell anyone!"
"Never" she said. There was a second pause. "Well lean" she said. He obeyed and their lips met. Freddie had to smile at the awkwardness.
"Well that was..." he began. "Nice?" she finished his sentence.
"Yea..nice..." The next line always made him laugh. "Good work" she mumbled.
"Thanks...you too" She turned to leave. He stopped her. "Hey!" she turned.
"I hate you!" I said. She smiled. "I hate you too"
Then the scene shifted but instead of turning into a new scene, The darkness came again. Only now it wasn't alone. Standing about 5 feet from him was Sam. She smiled at him. He had to smile back. He closed the distance between them but as he went to touch her she disappeared.
She's mine. the Darkness whispered. Turning he saw Sam again.
"Freddie help me!" she begged as the Dankness swallowed her. "SAM" but she was gone.
"LEAVE HER ALONE" he shouted to nothing. Want to trade? The Darkness asked again.
"What do you want?" Sam had now reappeared to his left. She was looking at him scared. "Freddie!" she reached for him. "Sam..." she said wanting so much to hold her."What do you want?" he asked again. It replied You!
"And If I don't?" He heard a laugh somewhere around him and watched in horror as Sam screamed. She was on her knees crying. "Freddie..Help me!" This it whispered.
"Sam!...Alright. OK! I swap with Sam, just please...Let her go." The laughing started again. Sam stood and stared at Freddie. "No Freddie... Take me...Freddie..." She began to walk forward. He simply smiled as best he could.
"I love you Samantha Puckett!" She was now crying "I love you Fredward Benson" The last thing he saw was her eyes. And then black!
"He's crashing...I need to stop this bleeding..." Dr. Stevens said. The surgery was almost done and everything was going fine. And then this.
"I can't stop it" He said. "He's bleeding out" One of the nurses said. "We're losing him"
"Come on Freddie, Stay with me!" Stevens begged.
On the other side of the hospital Samantha Puckett woke screaming.
