First of all I'm sooooo soorrrryy for the long wait! Please forgive me! Hopefully some of you will still be reading this! Please! Finally got some time and inspiration!


Freddie thought it was strange. Everyone knew that he was the more responsible of the two teenagers. And he was pretty sure that Miss Briggs knew this too, so why on earth was she indulging Sam like this? He wanted to shout at his teacher, say something about how ridiculous this whole situation was, but he held his tongue and waited for Sam to begin with her opening statement.

"What up y'all?" Sam started but changed her tactic after taking a glance at Miss Briggs. "I mean...Good morning fellow classmates. Unfortunately, I'm sure that you all know why it has come to this. And I'm not going to insult your intelligence by assuming that some of your don't watch our web show Icarly."

At this point Miss Briggs tried to interject but Sam shot her down with a raised eyebrow. "Really Miss Briggs? You going to try to deny it?" She waited for her teachers reply but the older woman just shut her mouth and pretended to read some papers on her desk.

Sam smiled before continuing. "We all know that Freddie didn't treat me right. He was going to leave me for Carly and even more importantly he was going to leave behind his son, Scott. What kind of a husband just leaves their son and wife for a hot girl? I'll tell you, a guy that doesn't deserve a wife and child." Sam pointed towards her nemesis. "A guy called Freddie Benson that's who. We all know that this is just a formality. And we all know the outcome. I just want to hear what he has to say for himself." Sam folded her arms across her chest and looked at the boy along with the rest of the class.

Freddie shook his head in disbelief. The class was falling for her wounded victim routine. "First of all wasn't it obvious? Sam set me up. Obviously I wasn't going to leave Scott. I'm not stupid. I want a good grade. And if I left it all to Sam we would both have F's."

Sam decided to interrupt. "OH! So all you care about are the grades? You're a heartless pig you know that! Your boy loves you and this is how you treat him?" Freddie was beginning to lose his cool. At least he had had the decency not to interrupt her speech.

"Oi! Would it kill you to not interrupt me as I'm speaking? Some of us are trying to take this seriously Puckett!"

Sam saw his insult as an opportunity. "See? Look at the way he talks to me. I've had to put up with this for 5 weeks. And FYI it's still Sam Benson. I'm still married to you dipthong!"

"Would you just shut your mouth, you demon!"

Miss Briggs had planned on having an orderly hearing. "Fredward Benson, please refrain from talking to your classmate in that tone. And Samantha? Try not to disrupt Fredward while he's trying to speak."

Sam ignored the woman. "PUNK!"

Freddie threw his insult right back. "CRAZY!"

"DWEEB!"

"DEADBEAT!"

"AGH! I hate you!"

"I hate you too!"

Miss Briggs got up out of her chair. "Right this is getting nowhere. I suggest we all take a ten minute break to stretch out legs and clear our heads. I want to hear no more bickering from you two when we get back!"

Freddie followed Sam out of the classroom silently. He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't even notice that Carly and Kyle were walking towards them.

"Hey guys!" Carly said with a cute little wave.

"Hey. What are you guys doing? Shouldn't you be in class?" Freddie was a little confused. Carly never ditched class.

"We both have study period. I have some news." Carly said smiling.

"Yeah?" Sam asked, even though she didn't really look like she wanted to know.

Carly's grin widened. "Well Kyle and I were talking and we realised that we have tons in common. Anyway, Kyle just asked me out for a smoothie date after school. If you guys have kissed and made up, you wanna tag along and double?"

Sam looked at Carly like she was crazy. "Carlz! We can't double date. That's just weird. He's my ex-boyfriend you know? But he's really nice, so have fun guys."

"So? Freddie is technically my ex and you and he have your little thing going on."

Sam groaned to herself more than Carly. "Don't remind me. Besides, Freddie and I have no little thing." On that note she stormed off down the hallway.

Freddie turned back to Carly and Kyle and realised that they looked cute together. Kyle wasn't a bad guy. And he seemed even nicer now that he wasn't dating Sam. "You guys seem cool together, but I don't think that Sam is in the mood to join you. Have fun on your date though," he said with a genuine tone. As he walked away realisation hit him. He didn't hate Kyle. He didn't want to kill Kyle even a little bit. He was pretty sure he hated every guy that Carly dated. And he was pretty sure that he was still meant to be in love with Carly as well as Sam. When had that changed? He had to talk to Sam.

Freddie practically ran down the hallway to catch up with the girl. "Sam!"

He knew she had heard him but she just carried on walking.

"Sam!" he tried again.

"..."

"I need to talk to you." He had finally caught up with her and managed to swing her around.

"Get the hint Fredderly. I don't want to talk to you."

"Ask me again."

Sam was confused. "Huh? What are you on about now?"

"Ask me what I would do if Carly told me she was in love with me."

Sam rolled her eyes, but she couldn't help noticing how cute the nub looked all flustered. "Fine. What would you do?"

"I would tell her that I was sorry but I was in love with you." Freddie smiled triumphantly, proud that he knew he was telling the truth this time.

Sam looked at him like he was the biggest nub in the world. "That it?"

Freddie's face fell. "What?"

"What do you want from me? A gold medal? A pat on the back?"

Freddie threw his arms in the air in disbelief. "I just told you I loved you."

Sam did a slow clap. "Well done. I'm going back to class."

Freddie furrowed his eyebrows. "What do you want me to do?"

Sam looked at him with a pained expression. "Nothing. You can't do anything. You can't fix the fact that I don't trust you. Besides, how do I know that you're not just saying it because you think that's what I want to hear?"

Freddie ran his hands through his hair. "I just can't win with you can I?"

Sam shrugged and walked away.


"Freddie?" Miss Briggs prompted.

Freddie jolted from is thoughts. "Huh?"

"It's your turn."

Freddie looked at Sam and then at the rest of the class. It was now or never. "You know what? I had this whole list of things in my head. Of things that make Sam a bad mother. But in all honesty, I don't think she is. She protective. Sam would never let anyone hurt her son and she would stop them but any means necessary, even if that means violence. " He paused as the class chuckled. "Sam's loyal. She would stand by her son through anything. She's honest. She would share her whole world with Scott. She's stern; she wouldn't let Scott get away with naughty behaviour. She wouldn't let him turn out like me." That got him another chuckle. "Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, given the chance she would be an awesome single mother to Scott. She doesn't need anyone, least of all me. But I don't want her to be a single mother. I don't want to get a divorce. I'm so sorry for what I did to her and Scott. But I promise with all my heart that if she takes me back I will never think about another girl ever again. I love you, Sam. What do you say? Please take me back?"

You couldn't even hear a pin drop as the rest of the class and their teacher held their breaths waiting for Sam's reply. She looked at him and shook her head. "No."

Freddie shut his eyes slowly, and could almost feel his heart breaking in his chest. He smiled sadly. "I forgot to mention stubborn. She's stubborn." Turning to Miss Briggs he mumbled. "I'm not feeling too well, Can I please be excused?" Without waiting for an answer he picked up his backpack and left.

All eyes were on Sam, as if they expected her to call him back, make some dramatic gesture like he had done. Twice now.

All Sam did was glare back. "What!"

No one dared to reply.


Two days.

It had been two days since Sam had seen or heard from the stupid nubhead. He hadn't attended any of his classes and he had left Scott behind. Not that that was an issue because the class had unanimously voted that she have custody. But he still had visitation rights. He had missed Icarly rehearsal too and on asking Carly about his whereabouts she had just replied, "What did you expect?"

But at least Carly didn't hate her like the rest of her classmates. Apparently she was some cold-hearted monster that broke poor little Freddie's heart. Didn't they realise that he was the one that broke her heart first?

Her cell phone buzzed indicating a call but the number on the screen wasn't one she had recognised. "Hello?"

"Sam? It's me. Marissa Benson. Freddie's mom."

"Hey Mrs B. What can I do you for?"

"Um...can you please tell me Freddie is with you right now?"

Something didn't feel right to Sam. Mrs Benson's voice sounded a little too worried.

"What do you mean? Hasn't he been at home for the last two days?"

"No."

Sam felt her stomach tighten. "WHAT? WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU! SHOULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN A BIT MORE WORRIED BEFORE NOW?" What was Mrs Benson playing at? She normally texted him at least seven times a day.

"Hey lady! Don't question my mothering skills. He text me to not bother him for 2 days. I figured you two finally made up and wanted to get to know each other a little better."

"Woman! We've been friends for years. We already know each other," said Sam in a tone that said 'you're a dummy'.

"Obviously in the other way. You know, spend some alone time together?" Said the mother hinting at something else.

Sam's eyes widened. "Wait. You thought your son and I were sleeping together? And you didn't think to come over and stop us?"

"Well, I don't know do I? I don't know anything about that sort of stuff," said Marissa aghast.

Sam scoffed. "Well you must know something. You had a Freddie because of it."

Marissa sighed. "I just want to know if my Freddie is there and if you two slept together."

"He's not here. I'm not discussing our sex life with you." Sam shuddered at the thought of Mrs Benson being involved in their relationship.

"YOU TWO HAVE A SEX LIFE!" The older woman screamed down the phone.

Sam screamed right back. "SHOULDN'T YOU BE A LITTLE MORE CONCERNED THAT YOUR SON IS MISSING!"

Mrs Benson went quiet. "Oh...Yeah. I'm going to have to ring the police."

Suddenly it hit Sam. "I think I might have an idea where he could be."

"Please ring me if you find him," Marissa said in a worried tone.

"Will do. Later Mrs B." said the girl ending the call and grabbing her jacket before heading to the front door.

Sam was confident that he would be on the fire escape at the Plaza. That's what he did when he was upset. Like the first time they had kissed. She smiled at the memory.

But he wasn't there. And he wasn't at Groovie Smoothie or the park or the Tech Score.

By now she was getting very worried. He was responsible. He would have rung his mom to tell her that he was okay at least once a day. So what was he doing?

Was he hurt? He couldn't be hurt. But that was the only explanation. She would never forgive herself if he got hurt after all the horrible stuff she had said. He had to be okay.

WHERE THE HELL WAS HE!

As she arrived back home from a full 3 hours of searching for the boy she was ready to start ringing around the local hospitals. Opening the front door she dropped her keys.

There in her kitchen was one Fredward Benson with not one scratch on his body.


Okay so between med school exams and parties and hangovers (Yes, I'm twenty two, and am studying to be a doctor but I still love Icarly :P) I've had no time. But now summers here I'm BACK!

Okay so even though I've had no time to write, I have the plot finished in my head so I think the next one will be the last chapter. But then I have an epilogue in my head too so i'll probs have two more chapters.

Again sorry for such a long wait! Won't be surprised if everyone's given up on this story :S

And sorry for minimal funny bits in this chapter. It's just Freddie being angsty and all that Jazz! Next chapter will have FREDDIE'S EPIC ROMANTIC GESTURE! Hopefully it's in character and you guys like the ending! And hopefully it's epic enough for SEDDIE.

AND OMG 111 REVIEWS FOR 9 CHAPTERS! THAT'S JUST CRAZY! I love you guys! :D

Keep up the reviews and comments!

SEDDIE FTW even if ibeat the heat wasn't what I wanted it to be.

DDF

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