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In the morning

Cat's P.o.V

I slowly begin to stir from my deep slumber. I haven't slept so well in forever. My brain then reminds me of the amazing and awkward situation I am in. I slowly open my eyes revealing an all too familiar face next to me. But the face next to me is now different. The eyes are now hollow and have bags underneath them. The smile that usually adorns his face is replaced with an even scowl.

"Morning Robbie, no sleep?" I ask, getting the slightest of head shakes in response.

Suddenly my stomach lets out a tremendous grumble. Crap! In all that's gone on I have not eaten since yesterday morning. I pull up Mr. Longneck to hide my face, which is surely blushing. I feel Robbie pulls Mr. Longneck down; giving me a faint smile that I'm not sure will ever touch his eyes again.

Robbie climbs out of bed and slowly makes his way to the door. With his hand on the door he freezes. He moves to the chest of drawers to his right a pulls the draw open. What is he doing? He retrieves a towel from the draw and throws it to me.

"Shower's through there if you want to use it." And with that he left the room.

What is going on with him? It was evident that he hadn't slept. What did he think about all night? Maybe a shower will help. The shower is always a good place for me to think. Something about the water washes away the everyday troubles and lets you focus your mind.

Robbie's P.o.V

I am in the kitchen making some breakfast. The one thing my parents did teach me was to always be helpful. It is painful to think of them but I still have to grow to be my own man, a man that still has to discover who he is until then the old Robbie will still rule. Just for a little while longer.

My mind tried to battle with this all night. How am I? But every time I tried to think of it Cat would move and my thought trail would be lost. The furthest I got was: I am a weak man. I mean I can't even keep to my conviction of keeping those I care about at a distance. Even though I know that with them close I'll never be able to truly discover who I am.

From where I am I can see into the living room. My eyes fall on the abandoned picture that I held so close last night. Maybe I should tell Cat the whole memory, maybe going back to then will help me discover who I need to be now.

Just then I hear the water shut off upstairs great Cat will be down in a minute. Maybe I should get on with making some breakfast. She deserves that at least, even if I can't tell her everything, a thank you is needed for her at least trying to help.

Cat's P.o.V

Well the shower did help. It made me realise that I can't help Robbie alone. I just hope he'll let me get the others to help. Although I have a sneaky plan to get him to agree. Ah well suppose I should get dressed and go find Robbie.

I bound down the stairs, because I have now caught the scent of food in the air. I run into the kitchen but am unable to stop and slide on the kitchen floor straight into Robbie. I look up at him shyly, giving him an innocent smile. It's good to feel his strong arms grasp me.

"Thanks Robbie."

I walk over a sit at the counter. Before me is a feast of food. Why would Robbie go to so much trouble?

"Robbie why is there so much?" I ask beginning to pick at bits and pieces and putting them on my plate.

"It kept my mind engaged. Right now I can't think straight so it's just easier not to think," he explains, turning an apple over in his hand repeatedly.

This is worse than I thought. I might need to fire up my plan sooner than expected. I retrieve my phone from my pocket and mass text everyone to get to Robbie's as soon as they can, including his address but not the reason they need to come.

I soon get a reply from everyone all saying yes. Even Jade but that must be because I asked her I'm sure she would have just refused anyone else. I just hope they don't take too long to get here. If we have to start taking down the pictures first I'm not sure the plan will work as well.

After a few minutes sat in an uncomfortable silence, where I eat my breakfast and Robbie continues to turn the apple over and over in his hand, Robbie gets up placing the apple back on the counter. He walks out of the room and re-enters with an empty box in his hands.

"Shall we get started, no reason to put this off." Robbie asks.

"KK" I reply. Damn it why weren't the others here yet.

Knock knock, ding dong

Robbie put the box down and headed to the door with a confused expression on his face. Oh I hope he doesn't get mad at me. I gingerly follow him to the door. He opens it to reveal the rest of the gang waiting there. He turns to look at me a stern look on his face.

"I just thought they could help us with our job. They would make it go faster." I explain, battering my eyelashes. That wasn't the real reason but he didn't need to know that.

"Fine whatever," he says, walking back into the house not even bothering to greet the others.

"What up with the dork today?" Jade asks, "I don't need to be insulted by that freak!"

"Go easy on him Jade" I order trying to put strength in my voice.

"Why?" she demands, a look of disgust on her face at being asked to be nicer.

"He just lost his parents." I say, watching for all of their reactions. Tori lets out a slight whimper, Beck runs a hand through his hair and lets out a small sigh. Andre eyes widen in disbelief. But Jade is the one who has the most unusual reaction, she simply sags her shoulders and stares at the floor. Why did she react so strongly? I thought that she despised him.

"What job are we suppose to help with?" Beck asks.

This snaps me out of my head and I reply, "To take down all the pictures of his parents."