The Greatest Secret

Disclaimer: Nope, don't own iCarly

A/N: This story details what it would be like if Sam and Freddie were secretly together during the series. Read it, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Chapter 68 (Bad Timed Date)

"Okay, iCarly is about to start," Freddie said as he and Sam sat on the couch. They were discussing the whole thing with the dating game, they were discussing worst case scenarios. Sam had a thought that maybe the girls wouldn't show up, what would happen in such a situation? In such a situation, there was a possibility that Carly and Sam might have to participate. If that happened, Freddie wasn't entirely comfortable with Sam participating.

"Well Freddie, you know it's only a worst case scenario, right? I mean, it's not like I have to participate…" Freddie nodded and crossed his arms, still unsure. Sam gave a gentle smile and kissed him on the cheek. "If that were to happen, which I don't think it will, I'll think of something. Maybe I'll leave while it's still going on or something, I mean I wouldn't want to risk having to date Gibby. I mean can you imagine what would happen if I had to date him?"

Freddie looked to Sam and smirked slightly. "Well, I'd go insane with jealousy. After all, why would I want my fiancé in another man's arms?" He lightly kissed her lips and then nuzzled his nose in the crook of her neck. Freddie then lightly nipped at the skin. She squealed and playfully slapped Freddie.

"Careful there, naughty boy." Freddie smirked and raised his eyebrow in response to Sam's statement. Two could definitely play at that game.

"If I'm a naughty boy, then you're my naughty girl. I should discipline you, you naughty, naughty girl." Sam laughed and placed her finger onto his lips. He blinked and stared at Sam.

"Not right now, Benson. We have to get up to the studio where Gibby, Carly and Shannon await us." Freddie nodded and stood up, it could be suspicious if they were both missing for more than five minutes. "You go first, tell them I got caught up with some chocolate."

"Yeah, I'll do that love." Freddie kissed her forehead and made his way to the studio. Shannon actually didn't know Gibby was there.

"Hey Freddie, have you seen Sam?" Carly asked while tilting her head. She thought Freddie and Sam went to retrieve something from downstairs that she had asked for.

"Sam got caught up eating some chocolate." Carly chuckled slightly and turned toward Shannon. They started talking until Sam walked in. Carly and Sam began talking, then the girls moved out into the hall where Gibby was. Shannon was supposed to be girl number two, and Gibby was too dense to catch the hints. Freddie wondered where Shannon's two friends were at, so he thought to ask. "Hey Shannon." Shannon gave him a dreamy look, causing him to give a brief sigh and cross his arms. "Where are your friends?"

"They can't show up, unfortunately. They got tickets to go to Girly Cow on ice," Shannon stated. Freddie paled, then winced. Shannon tilted her head and rubbed her chin. "What's the matter, Freddie?"

"Oh nothing, that just means…" Shannon raised her eyebrow, she knew what was coming up. Freddie didn't want a particular person getting involved. "That just means Carly has to participate…if she has to date Gibby, I'm going to be on the pissed side." Shannon frowned and Freddie let out a small sigh. "I'll go get the girls." He moved to the door and called them in. He told them the unfortunate news and Carly flipped.

Sam bit her lip and looked to Freddie, he simply gave her a comforting smile. She figured she'd go ahead and leave as they did their thing. Shannon flirted a bit with Freddie, causing Sam to roll her eyes. After some time, they had all become ready. Freddie found himself having to host the game show. At the very start of it, Sam vanished and found some chili. She returned and stood next to Freddie, that way she didn't have to participate. Carly could easily figure out that Sam obviously didn't want to have to date Gibby.

As the game show progressed, Sam and Freddie hoped Rueben was watching. Shannon was doing so well, she seemed so sweet and good for him. Carly was also trying her best to make it easy for Gibby to choose Shannon. Unfortunately, at the very end, Gibby picked girl number one, Carly. Everyone was in shock, that hadn't been planned. Freddie did have to wonder, if Carly did start to date Gibby, would that mean she wouldn't hope for him anymore? After the end of it all, Shannon left while the group talked to Gibby.

"You were supposed to pick Shannon!" Sam said with a sigh.

"I didn't know Carly was girl number one," Gibby said with a sorrowful tone. "It doesn't matter anyway, Shannon likes Freddie." Freddie scoffed and looked to Sam.

"Ah don't worry about that, I'm in love with someone else," Freddie said with a soft voice.

"Not happening," Carly replied. Though it hurt, she felt it actually wouldn't happen. She had to get over that, and so she would. She would start looking into dating other guys, though she'd already been doing that.

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"I don't want to do it!" Sam groaned as she threw her backpack on the bed. Freddie stepped behind her and massaged her shoulders, she was complaining about having been set up with Rueben for a date. Freddie hated it as well, he hated it more than anything, because that meant another guy, who was not Jonah, who was not role playing, would be flirting with, dating, and quite possibly hitting on Sam. They had to keep in mind that this was all for Carly, who did not want to be alone with Gibby for three hours. This was real, this was intense, this had to be one of the worst things that could have happened.

"Don't fear, my love. I'm sure nothing will happen." Sam tilted her head to the side and lifted her hand up to rest atop Freddie's hand. She loved his massages, they were always so relaxing. "We'll just go, date these people, then leave. It's not like anything's going to come of it." He turned her around and placed is hand under her chin, tilting her head upwards so she'd open her eyes and look into his. "Remember that in the end, you're the only girl meant for me and I'm the only guy for you. I will always love you no matter what and there is no girl in this world that's going to take me away from you. You, you always, and you alone hold my heart in your hands."

"Freddie…" She felt her eyes starting to water, she always thought Freddie was so sweet to her. "Oh Freddie, I love you so much." Sam wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his chest. She couldn't think of anyone arms she'd rather be in than his. So what if she'd be sitting next to some other guy for a while, it was only for three hours at most. They were coming right back home after that.

"I love you too, Sam. More than life itself." Freddie gently kissed her lips and slowly brushed his arm down hers. He tangled his fingers with hers and smiled into her eyes. "So what do you say we go and have a good time tonight with our friends. I'll try not to be jealous of you and Rueben if you'd do the same with Shannon."

"Are you sure that's not asking the impossible…" Sam smirked and gazed at Freddie. "For you?"

"Oh hah, hah, very funny."

"You know I love you."

"And you know I love you." Freddie kissed Sam and pulled her close, he decided to get one big kiss on her before they had to get ready to leave. They were passionate with each other, they always would be since they loved each other so much. They sat on the bed and continued to kiss each other, it felt so good, like relief and calm before the storm that was the triple date coming up. It felt soothing, something that would last a good through the date to make them forget who they were with.

Freddie and Sam laid back on the bed, Sam's head hitting the pillow. Freddie lifted himself up slightly and gazed into her eyes, she was so beautiful and precious to him. "I will never do anything to hurt you, Sam. Never. I will love you always."

"As I will always love you…" Freddie lowered himself and Sam wrapped her arms around his neck, both of them pulling into yet another kiss. It was in this heated, impassioned moment that they gave in to the tempting desire that all couples face.

-NEW SCENE-

"Freddie Benson, wake up!" Sam shouted. Freddie opened his eyes and moaned as he put his hand over his eyes. The painful light in the room pierced his eyes like daggers. He took a quick moment to adjust to the light and looked over to see Sam staring at him with wide eyes, she was holding a blanket around her body. Her eyes seemed to water, as anyone could tell, she was extremely confused by what had happened. It didn't take long for the events to register in Freddie's mind. While they wanted to wait until they were older for their first time, they had just made love. "Oh my god, Freddie, what did we do?!"

Freddie quickly jumped out of the bed and Sam looked away, he was naked. Sam was worried that they had done something bad, they had just broken what they had wanted to keep. What would Emily say? What would their friends say? Not only that, they had no time to even talk it over, since they had to get to the restaurant. Sam really didn't want to go, not now. Freddie was feeling the same way. He grabbed a pillow and covered his lower body. "We have to get dressed…We have to talk about this."

"We don't have any time, Freddie! We have to go, we can't be late and let Carly down." Sam was scared, that much was evident in her eyes. Freddie was equally confused, conflicting thoughts were running through his mind. He and Sam loved each other, they were going to get married, so it couldn't be all bad, could it? Then again, they wanted to wait till they were older, so was it wrong? They had just broken their own oath? How could they be so foolish? Freddie looked to Sam and sighed, he needed to comfort her, and he would gladly do so.

"It's okay Sam, we'll talk about this as soon as we can. It's going to be okay." Freddie wanted to hug her, but he felt too naked. He looked around and saw her clothes on the floor. He bent over and picked them up. "Here, these are your clothes…" Sam took the clothes and turned around to get dressed. Freddie found his clothes and began to put them on. Sam felt a slight pain in her lower body, she knew why it was, but she didn't think she'd be so incredibly sore.

"Let's just go...we have to go or we'll be late…let's talk about this after the date…" Sam hugged Freddie and sobbed once, she felt so ashamed of herself that she had allowed herself to give in to that desire. She felt more guilt than anything. She didn't know if it was a bad thing or not. Right now, Rueben was the last person she wanted to deal with, but she had no choice. The two started to walk out of the room, Sam winced slightly and Freddie noticed she was walking a little funny. He placed his hand on her lower back and decided to help her out.

They made it out of the apartment building and saw Jonah and Valerie waiting for them at the car. The two friends were going to drive them to the restaurant. "Hey guys, how's it going?" Jonah asked with a slight smile. Freddie chuckled lightly and Sam remained silent. Jonah and Valerie were a bit confused by their friend's silence, but felt maybe they were in a bad mood over the upcoming date. The group drove in what seemed to be an awkward silence for them.

Upon reaching the restaurant, Sam and Freddie figured they should try to act as normal as they could, but it might be hard to do so. They met up with Carly, Gibby, Rueben and Shannon. Rueben draped his arm through Sam's arm, causing Freddie to glare angrily. Shannon did the same with Freddie, which caused Sam to glare at her. The entire group then moved to the table. Sam really didn't like having to deal with this right now. Currently, there were two girls here who had a crush on Freddie, this was definitely not something she would enjoy.

After a while, the waiters brought their salads over. The group stared at the huge salad bowls and began to eat. Freddie, trying to lighten the mood a little, began to speak. "This has to be the biggest salad in the history of mankind," Freddie stated quickly. Carly laughed and took a bite of her salad, Sam snuck a glare at Carly and continued eating her salad. She was actually eating rather quickly, but she was stressed and food typically helped with that.

"I know, I'm already full and I haven't even made a dent," Carly said while swallowing her food. Sam blinked at her now empty salad bowl and lifted her head up.

"I'm out of salad," Sam said with a quiet voice. The others all stared in shock, they couldn't believe how quickly Sam polished off the food. Freddie knew it was because of stress, she always ate supremely fast when stressed. Rueben laughed and spoke one of his riddles once more.

"Wow, you can make a dog bark faster than a fish can climb a tree," Rueben stated. Freddie narrowed his eyes as he watched Rueben take a bite of salad. Sam glared at Rueben with annoyance, she frankly wasn't in the mood for his shenanigans.

"True that!" Gibby said as he bumped fists with Rueben.

"True what!" Sam exclaimed. Shannon, sensing some tension in the air, decided it was time to shift the subject onto something else.

"So, Freddie," Shannon started. Freddie leaned back away from her and Sam glared at Shannon with intensity. She really felt like hitting Shannon. The girl could sense something was up with both Sam and Freddie, but she didn't know what. "How did you get to know so much about computers?"

"Hah, that's easy."

"Well," Freddie started off. He didn't get far because Carly had started some weird coughing routine. She tilted her head toward Freddie, reminding him that he needed to pretend Gibby taught him everything. Freddie had almost forgotten, but his head was pretty much pounding. "Gibby taught me…didn't you, Gibby?" Gibby was confused at first, but he quickly got into it.

"Y-Yes, yes I did."

"Really?" Shannon asked with amusement. Rueben glared at Gibby, but decided not to worry about it. Sam would normally have caught this, but already had too much on her mind to think about. She needed to sort out her thoughts and emotions, but it was hard to do, and her head was pounding as though a hippo were crashing onto her head. "I didn't know you were into computers, what kind do you have?"

"Uh…" Gibby looked at the others as if asking for help, but Sam and Freddie were in no mood to say anything. This whole date just couldn't come at a worse time for them. Carly couldn't think of anything to say, Rueben was pretty much silent, and Shannon was waiting for an answer. Rueben did feel a little triumph at the fact that Gibby didn't appear to know a thing about computers. "Well, it's white." Freddie groaned and rubbed his forehead, he should have figured Gibby would say something stupid like that.

As time went on, they soon found themselves eating dessert. They had no clue how anyone could eat something so big. Sam was basically just picking at her cheesecake slice, she couldn't exactly eat with as much as was running through her mind. All she wanted was silence, peace and quiet, but she wouldn't be getting that. Freddie wanted that as well, he needed to sort out his thoughts. Both of them needed to talk to Emily about this, they couldn't bear this guilt that they might have done something wrong.

"I think Freddie's a cute name," Shannon said while trying to make conversation. Freddie sighed and looked over, it was the wrong time to say anything, and definitely the wrong time for something like that. Sam rolled her eyes and decided to quickly add that Gibby's middle name was Freddie. "Really? It is?" Gibby groaned and rolled his eyes, he was starting to want to give up on Shannon in the first place. After all, he was starting to lose that interest in a girl when she so clearly liked someone else.

"Sort of! It's close…"

"Well what is it?"

"Cornelius…" The group silenced after that, so Freddie decided to try and move the group away from the awkward silence. He didn't exactly want to have to think about everything at the moment, but he was definitely going to have a lot to think about and sort out when he got home. Sam would be doing the same with her thoughts and emotions.

"So, who could eat a cheesecake this big?" Freddie asked. He had been hoping to actually have a conversation with Sam while at the restaurant, but that hadn't happened yet. Carly laughed and Sam narrowed her eyes at her.

"Shouldn't there be a law that says my dessert shouldn't weigh more than me?" Carly joked while lifting her plate up. Sam chuckled inwardly at that, Carly must have been damn skinny if that cheesecake really weighed more than she did. So Sam was having some negative thoughts at the moment, but she couldn't help it. She was completely confused about things, her emotions were going haywire. Rueben laughed and Sam rolled her eyes, she knew something stupid was coming up.

"I know, you might as well tie a knot around two kangaroos, you know what I'm saying?" Rueben asked. That was it, Sam had had enough of Rueben. She'd also had enough of Shannon and Carly right now, but she wasn't going to say anything.

"No. No Rueben, I don't know what you're saying." Rueben stared at her with wide eyes and Freddie's mouth opened slightly. Normally she would have been a bit calmer, but naturally it wasn't going to happen tonight. "Pretty much nobody ever knows what you're saying, know what I'm saying?"

"Sam," Freddie whispered under his breath. He felt this wasn't going to end well at all. Of course, both he and Sam had pounding headaches and felt guilty that they may have done something wrong and their emotions were off of course, so no, it wouldn't end well at all.

"Come on Sam, let's be cool," Carly said quietly. She didn't really understand why Sam was in such a bad mood, but she hoped that Sam would tell her. Most likely though, Sam would not.

"Yeah Sam," Rueben said with a small smile. "You don't need bubble wrap to tell when it's chowder time."

"Oh god Rueben, you idiot," Freddie thought while rubbing his temples. Truly Rueben couldn't be that stupid.

"Yes!" Sam said as she quickly stood up. "That is so true! And you know what else is true?" Rueben slowly looked toward Sam and gulped, he didn't like to look into her eyes at the moment, they looked way too annoyed for his tastes. Sam smirked and continued to insult him. "I'm sitting here eating cheesecake with an Eskimo who has got ointment all over his bumble berry." She had made that up, but it seemed that it meant something to Rueben, as the boy now began to cry.

"What a baby."

"Oh I can't believe you just said that to me!" Rueben ran off and everyone stared with wide eyes. Sam had absolutely no clue what she said just then.

"What did you say to him?" Carly scolded. It was a bad time to scold Sam, but it didn't matter at the time.

"I don't know, but I'm glad I said it. Pass the whip cream." Sam sat down and Carly handed her the whipped cream. Freddie couldn't help but smile at the scene, it actually was funny.

"Isn't this cheesecake great?" Freddie asked, trying to change the subject. Carly then said Gibby invented cheesecake and Gibby quickly protested saying he didn't. Carly was trying way to hard, that's what Freddie and Sam thought. Shannon just seemed really confused by what was happening.

"Just love Gibby. Love him and never let him go!" Sam thought about those words and figured they worked with Freddie as well. She loved him, simple as that. She loved him and she was never, never going to let him go. After that, Gibby began talking about how he wasn't like Freddie. Then, he began to dance with his shirt off. At that time, it was really something Sam didn't want to see. Though, it did get Shannon to take the nearest exit from the restaurant.

Freddie wasn't too thrilled with what he was seeing either, he especially didn't want the music so loud since his head was pounding enough as it was. Gibby then started to shout something out, but Sam and Freddie weren't really paying much attention. He stopped and spotted Shannon's empty chair. He then asked where Shannon went and Carly said she fled the restaurant.

"Don't be sad, Gibby," Sam said as she stood up with Carly and Sam.

"Shannon's not so hot," Freddie remarked. It was true in his mind, he thought Sam was hot. He looked over at Sam and smiled. "She's the most beautiful girl ever, inside and out." He closed his eyes and remembered how sweet the moment was, how angelic she was when she blushed and he brushed her hair out of her face. "How can something that feels so good be wrong? But was it wrong? We wanted to wait…" Just then a girl got onto the table and the music came back on, the girl and Gibby continued dancing. The trio slowly exited the store, Gibby would be paying the tab, that was for sure. Sam and Freddie would be getting home and going to their rooms to sort things out. They needed to talk to Emily as soon as possible.

Well then, I bet you know what the next chapter is, they must tell Emily. I've had a rough past few days, but I'm doing well enough to write, haha. Let me know your thoughts on this! Reviews make me happy enough to do Sam's chili bowl dance, not really, but they do make me happy ^_^.