The Greatest Secret

Disclaimer: Nope, don't own iCarly

A/N: While the events of the Christmas episode in the beginning take place, it will be basically an entirely different scenario happening. Mitch will appear to someone else, not Carly. The events at the end may happen, but that will not be explained as Mitch, rather Carly having a nightmare or something. We'll see when I get to it. Trust, my fellow readers, trust.

Chapter 91 (Where Are They?)

Freddie stepped into the juvenile detention center and frowned, this couldn't be where Jonah was. Jonah wasn't a bad kid at all, he was a good guy. This was just wrong. Why would Jonah be here? Mitch appeared next to Freddie and sighed. Freddie turned toward Mitch and stared at him with disbelief and shock. "Why…is Jonah here? What did he do to get slammed into this place? He's perfectly innocent!"

"Yes he is," Mitch said with a quiet voice. Mitch crossed his arms over and let out a small sigh. "Though he's also an accessory. Someone was trying to off you by planting detonates in your car. He was the closest person there…" This clearly meant that Jonah was framed, and perhaps the person intended to frame him.

"What? Who would do such a thing?" Mitch frowned and slowly shook his head. Freddie had a fear that Tyrone was behind it. "Mitch, I want you to change everything the way it was, now! I don't give a damn what you have to say, this is just wrong!"

"I can't do that." Freddie's nostrils flared angrily at the statement. Mitch looked toward the ground and shook his head slightly. "You've got to change things around here. Make things for the better, you know? Oh, and by the way." Mitch pointed to the window separating him from the visitors, the guard was leading Jonah over to the window. Freddie picked up the phone and waited as Jonah picked his phone up.

"Freddie Benson?" Jonah asked while raising his eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"

"No, the question is what are you doing here?" Freddie asked with a quivering voice. Jonah looked toward the table and frowned. What did he care? He didn't know anything about him. "Jonah, I'm your best friend. Some stupid guy changed the world all around, we're friends. You shouldn't even be here!"

"We are not friends."

"Yes we are. Maybe in another life, but we are friends!"

"Hah, please…prove it." Freddie decided to think of several things to say about Jonah that would prove they were friends in another life.

"Okay, if we weren't friends, then how would I know that when you were little, you used to always have both your mom and dad sing goodnight to you?" Jonah raised his eyebrow and Freddie went on. "Your dad enjoys taking you out every night and showing you the stars. Your favorite color is brown because your last name is Brown. You've always wondered why people couldn't believe it wasn't butter and your dad has a tattoo of your mom's head on his upper thigh!"

"Whoa, that's…" That was all right. Jonah went on to ask him a few questions, and Freddie answered every single one of them correctly. Somehow, the fact that he never met Sam meant he'd never met Jonah either. Freddie remembered that when he met Jonah, it was when they were really young. Freddie had been playing tag with Sam and she ran into Jonah. That's when the friendship blossomed between the three. "I don't know how or even when we were friends, but that's just weird that you know all of those things."

"Jonah, you're innocent. I'll find a way to prove that, I know you're innocent."

"Why do you even care?"

"You're my best friend, that's why. You're a good guy, you would never harm a soul in your life."

"Yeah well a lot of good that does me." Visitation hours were over and the guard took Jonah away. Freddie could feel his eyes beginning to water, he couldn't believe something like this could ever happen. Freddie turned to Mitch and glared at him.

"Mitch, what kind of person am I?"

"Well you're not exactly a killer, but you are a harsh person," Mitch answered with a nervous chuckle.

"Who would try to kill me?"

"Well…"

"Was it Tyrone?" Mitch shook his head and Freddie raised his eyebrow. He watched as the angel kicked the ground.

"Actually Tyrone is dead."

"Hm, I can't say I ever thought I'd see that day. There's one good thing about this world."

"Well if you think so. I mean he did have a heart attack."

"Then he'll leave mom alone!" Mitch winced and Freddie raised his eyebrow once more. It was true, wasn't it? Tyrone wasn't around to create harm for Emily. "Actually you live by yourself."

"What?" Freddie narrowed his eyes and Mitch gave a small sigh.

"Your mom's dead, Freddie." Freddie paled at the statement, he immediately wanted to know how his mother died. What did not meeting Sam have to do with whether his mom lived or died? "Do you remember that letter a long time ago that Sam accidently dropped when she took it out of the mailbox…it fell into the water in the curb and floated away." Freddie gave a brief nod, that envelope didn't seem very important when they found it. They had chased after the envelope and managed to catch it, but it was so gross that nobody wanted to touch it. There was some strange substance on it.

"Okay, what about it?"

"Well…" Mitch took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. "Sam wasn't around to drop the envelope, so your mom got a hold of it. It was addressed to her from Tyrone, he had put some poisonous dust inside of it and it hit her. She died the next day. Tyrone was later arrested for it, but he had a heart attack while awaiting trial."

"Oh my god…"

"Yeah, and you managed to live alone, no one ever saw you and decided to take you home. That's when the fights broke out between you and Carly."

"Carly?" Did Carly hate him in this world? Why was she against him now?

"Yeah, she blamed you for her father's death…"

"F-Father's death?!"

-NEW SCENE-

Freddie walked through the rows of tombstones until he came to the Shays. He saw Tyrone, Robert and even Spencer all next to each other. He couldn't believe it, they were all dead. He didn't even know how or what had happened. Mitch appeared leaning against a tree, he looked over at Freddie and frowned.

"Robert killed himself when Emily died, he just couldn't take it," Mitch stated with a quiet voice. Freddie rubbed his forehead and groaned, he never thought Robert would do such a thing. He immediately wanted to know how Spencer died and prayed he wasn't the cause of Spencer's death. "Remember that death that Jonah was framed for?" Freddie slowly nodded his head and Mitch pointed to Spencer's grave. "Spencer was attempting to take your car, he wanted to trash it after his father died. He blamed you for his dad's death as well. The only problem was Carly had rigged your car with explosives and hadn't told Spencer about it…"

"Oh my god…" Freddie's eyes widened and he fell to his knees. Carly did hate him. Carly's malice ran deep. She should be in prison, not Jonah. Freddie needed to fix things, he had to make things right.

"The only thing that could have set Jonah free was Valerie." Freddie looked over at Mitch with added confusion, he didn't have any clue how Valerie could have made a difference. "She had spotted Carly rigging the car, but she had been too afraid to tell you at the time. Therefore she was too afraid to go to the police for it when Jonah was framed."

"My god…I'm a bastard, aren't I?"

"Well, I wouldn't exactly say that."

"Because I never met Sam, I became an asshole and everyone's afraid of me…because I never met Sam, practically all of the Shays are dead, my mom's dead, and my best friend is in jail for something that Carly did while the girl who's supposed to be his girlfriend is mine. Valerie's too afraid and timid-"

"It was Sam that toughened her up. Which is odd, since Sam also softened you up. You just became who you were because when your father died, you were filled with sadness, darkness. You never had a friend, you became angry and then finally here we are." Freddie clenched his eyes shut and he felt his eyes beginning to water once more, he just couldn't believe this was his world. He didn't want to believe it.

"Yes, Sam has always been my better half. She's an angel, she deserves to be treated as such."

"Hey, I can't say you treated me like an angel should be treated." Freddie glared at him and Mitch quickly silenced.

"You've messed up quite a bit of things here, angel. Because I've never met Sam, thanks to you, I seem to be making life miserable for everyone."

"Yep, and only until you make things right can anything return back to normal."

"What? This is your fault! Not mine! I didn't even want this!" Freddie quickly grabbed Mitch's shirt and glared into his eyes. Mitch chuckled nervously and vanished, he then reappeared behind Freddie.

"You seem pretty angry." Freddie scowled and turned around to face Mitch.

"No, what tipped you off?" Mitch took a step back and Freddie took a step forward. They continued this walking for a few seconds until Freddie growled and finally grabbed Mitch's shirt. "Now tell me. Where is my girlfriend?"

"Oh Valerie? She's probably-" Freddie shook Mitch and growled with more anger.

"Not her, the love of my life. The girl that's supposed to be Valerie's best friend!"

"Heh, Heh…you don't mean Sam do you?"

"You're really starting to piss me off here, Mitch."

"Okay, okay, just let go." Freddie released Mitch and stood up straight as the angel dusted himself off. Mitch sighed and shifted his eyes to the side. "You really don't want to see Sam."

"No, I really do want to see Sam."

"Er…well you know when her mom died, she didn't have anyone to go to. Emily and Sarah never had that conversation and Sam went to live with one of her uncles…"

"Okay, tell me more." Mitch gave a slow sigh and slowly shook his head, he was starting to regret messing with Freddie.

"Well her uncle basically thinks she's dead now because she was abused a lot…"

"Is she dead?" Freddie's muscles were tightening with more anger and malice than before. This display was really frightening Mitch. "Because if she's dead, then you and I are about to have a little spat."

"No, no, no, Sam is very much alive! She faked her death, though…she did it in order to get away from her Uncle and her Aunt. It worked, but now she's still not doing her best in life…"

"What do you mean?"

"Maybe it's best you forget about her."

"Mitch." Freddie's tone was actually a dangerous one, he was letting Mitch know that he wasn't playing around. Sam meant everything to him, and he wasn't going to go another moment without knowing about her well being.

"Did I mention that Sasha and Lisa are very much alive and both have offered to care for you?"

"Great, I'll think about that while I gaze at your head resting upon my wall. WHERE IS SAM?!"

"Oy…" Mitch snapped his fingers and Freddie found himself standing on what seemed to be a brown patch of grass. In front of him was a very small mobile home. Could it be that Sam was actually in there? He had to find out, he had to know what had become of the girl that he loved.

Now if you paid close attention, you'd see that Freddie's experience with Jonah was similar to Carly's experience with Sam. Seems Carly's REALLY worse off, and apparently she was the one that Freddie must have fought with at the apartment. Mitch, Mitch, Mitch, ya just keep ticking off Freddie...Well you know what to do! Hope you liked this chapter.