Paternal Bonds
Disclaimer: I don't own iCarly. I keep it simple.
A/N: Thoughts in "Italics" and regular speech in "Regular font." It's only applied if in quotes.
A/N: You've just entered ten years later, you figure out why the story is continued, you see where I'm going with this. Trust me when I say this, Chapter 36 will be the end, for anyone who may be getting impatient.
Chapter 32 (Freddie and Johnny Talk)
Ten years have passed, Angie was still best friends with Cara and Johnny, and there was something even greater that these friends had. Angie walked into Cara's home and found Cara's dad cooking some food, Cara's mom had disappeared years ago, nobody really knew what happened to her and now it was just her dad. "Yo, is Cara here yet?" Angie asked with a smile.
"No, she's not home just yet," Mr. Shad said with a smile.
"Then is Johnny here?"
"Not quite." Angie rolled her eyes and put a video on the television. She turned it on and saw a dance video of a very attractive student; just then Johnny walked into the house and sat on the couch.
"You're watching that…chump dance?" Johnny asked with a raised eyebrow. Angie rolled her eyes and Cara walked into the home.
"Oh cool! It's Drake!" Cara exclaimed as she sat down on the couch.
"Yeah, look how he dances," Angie said with a chuckle. "He's totally hot."
"Yeah, he is!" Johnny scoffed and crossed his arms.
"Yeah right, he's a total chump!"
"Well if he is, then I want to be Mrs. Cara Chump," Cara said with a grin that caused Johnny to roll his eyes. "You have to admit the video we saw the other day was horrible."
"Yeah, it was."
"Weird that you'd agree with Cara," Angie said while rolling her eyes.
"Well…I love her." Angie rolled her eyes and stood up.
"Listen here tech geek, Cara will never love you."
"Yeah I know that…do I care about her? Not entirely…" Johnny coughed and stood up.
"Well Chump Drake will never love you, so there!" Cara rolled her eyes and slapped her forehead.
"Well I have a better chance with him than you have with Cara!" Cara stood up and walked over to her dad.
"Hey dad, you got the thing?" Cara asked.
"Yep, feel free to use it," Mr. Shad stated. Cara grinned and pulled out the water sprayer from the sink and turned it on, she pointed it toward Angie and Johnny and sprayed them with water.
"Ah! Cara!" They exclaimed as they leapt back.
"Come on guys our webcast starts now," Cara said as she started to walk into the other room. Angie and Johnny looked at each other with narrow eyes and growled; they shrugged and walked into the other room. They did have a webcast of their own, it was actually called iCara. That was only because it sounded better than iAngie, iJohnny, or all three names together.
"Hey Johnny, don't get the equipment all wet," Angie said with a smirk. "I wonder how your mother will take you being soaked!"
"I'd rather not be around my mother right now," Johnny said flatly. His mother annoyed the crap out of him, and Angie joked about it all the time. "You haven't ever told us why you still pick on Timmy."
"Johnny, come here a minute," Angie said while curling her finger. Johnny shrugged and walked over. "The reason I pick on Timmy is because he's the second easiest to pick on."
"Do I even need to know who the easiest is?" Johnny narrowed his eyes and felt Angie's hands wrap around his waist, he sighed and then grunted as Angie pulled his underwear up. "I have one question…"
"What's that tech geek?"
"Must you?"
"Yes, yes I must. Now get your dorky rear over there and count down from five."
"You think my rear is dorky? You're the one with a butt shaped like ham!" Angie raised her eyebrow and Johnny walked over to the camera and counted down from five.
"I'm Cara."
"I'm Angie, and someone's going to get my fist shoved down their throat very soon!" Johnny gulped silently, wondering if she was talking about him by any strange possibility.
"Was that entirely necessary, Angie?" Cara chuckled and rolled her eyes.
"Yes it was, and it will be so worth it and necessary when it happens!" Angie laughed and Cara shook her head slowly.
"How long have we been doing iCara, Angie?"
"For about three or four years, why?"
"How long have you been picking on Johnny like this?"
"About three or four years…" Angie took a sandwich and bit into it.
"No, I think you were doing it when we were six actually. Any reason why?" Angie chewed her bread very slowly and thought for a minute, she had a full mouth so she thought why the hell not.
"I think I'm falling in love with Johnny," Angie said with a full mouth that nobody could understand.
"What was that?" Angie swallowed and shrugged.
"We have something new for you!" Angie grinned deviously and gestured for Johnny to come onto the screen, Cara raised her eyebrow and he walked over. "You know Johnny; you're the only one that seems to ever have a comeback…sometimes."
"I kind of have to when it comes to dealing with you," Johnny said with a sigh. Angie smirked and patted Johnny's back.
"You're a momma's boy who lets his mom dress him up every day."
"Thank you for that. I dress myself just fine, unlike you who seems to have raggedy clothes on quite a bit." Angie's mouth fell slightly and she looked at her clothes.
"You little…" Angie narrowed your eyes and Johnny shrugged his shoulders. "Well you're a freak that's obsessed with someone who will never love you!"
"That's what I'm afraid of, Angie." Johnny shrugged, he had a crush on Angie since they were really young, it actually started when they were eight. "You're the one with the crush on someone who doesn't even notice you."
"I don't have a crush on that guy at school! Cara does though…Which brings me to another reason why Cara will never love you." Angie smirked and Johnny sighed. "Cara wouldn't…but I'm a different story, aren't I? I guess it makes since that no one would like me over Cara when they might figure out that I'm the product of an incestuous relationship…even if it is rape." Angie clenched her teeth inside her mouth and kept the tears from dripping down her cheek. Johnny crossed his arms and stared at Angie.
"I bet I could get the girl I like to like me back before you could even dream of getting that chump to like you back!"
"Oh, you want to bet?"
"Don't bet, please don't bet," Cara said with a sigh.
"Yeah, let's bet!" Johnny said with a smirk.
"Great and they bet…"
"If I win…you have to kiss me."
"And they bet a kiss." Cara slapped her forehead and sighed.
"Ew, gross, I'd never kiss you! You're a dork!" Angie exclaimed. "It won't happen, I can get the 'Chump' to like me and if I win…you have to…tell Cara you don't love her as more than a friend and then dance around in a pig uniform for a full day, including school! Not only that, but whenever a teacher asks you a question, you must oink." Johnny's mouth fell open and Cara's eyes widened.
"When did I become a part of this?" Cara asked with a sigh.
"Fine, it's a bet," Johnny said. Angie spit on her hand and shook his.
-NEW SCENE-
Sam and Freddie were watching the iCara video with raised eyebrows and slightly open mouths. "Uh, Freddie, do you think…"
"I'm going to have to have a chat with that boy," Freddie said with a sigh. Sam raised her eyebrow and Freddie chuckled. "Don't worry Sam; I know what I'm doing."
"What are you doing?" Sam asked with narrow eyes.
"Don't worry about a thing." Sam shook her head slowly as Freddie walked out of the room, she turned her eyes back on the screen and saw Angie take out her cell phone.
"Uh, Johnny, it's for you," Angie said from the screen. "It's…my dad…" Sam blinked and chuckled as Johnny took the phone.
"Uh what is it?" Johnny asked. "You want me to do that? You need to talk to me? Okay…fine…" Johnny hung up and awkwardly walked to the camera. Freddie walked back in the room and Sam looked at him.
"What exactly are you planning to talk to the poor boy about?" Sam asked.
"Some things that will be very important for this kid to know."
"You're going to tell him to stop being an idiot like you, right?" Sam smirked and Freddie rolled his eyes and chuckled. They watched the webcast until it was over, and ten minutes after that both Angie and Johnny walked through the door.
"Dad, do you want to explain to me why the dork had to come here?" Angie asked with a sigh.
"Just let me talk to him for a bit," Freddie said as he grabbed a hold of Johnny's shirt and dragged him into his study. "Well, have a seat." Johnny shrugged and sat down as Freddie sat in his chair.
"Did you want to talk to me about something?" Freddie took a picture frame and looked at it, it was of him with both Sam and Carly, he chuckled and looked up at Johnny.
"Yep, I do have something to talk to you about actually, it's about Angie. You like the girl, don't you? Personally I think she's better for you than that one girl you dated before."
"I wasn't interested in Vixen to begin with," Johnny said with narrow eyes. "Cara and Angie practically begged me to go ahead; they thought it'd wind up doing some good for our webcast…would you believe it did more damage than it did good?"
"Yes, just like that guy that Angie dated…"
"Do not bring up the bastard, Noah…such a bastard." Johnny cringed and Freddie rubbed his chin with a raised eyebrow. "Oh hey, did you know my Dad's actually paying a visit for once! I haven't seen him in the last ten years!"
"Really…he's not a sex offender is he?" Freddie asked in a joking voice. Johnny blinked and raised his eyebrow, Freddie waved his hand across and winced at the bad memory. "Nevermind, that left a bad taste in my mouth actually."
"Uh…"
"Sorry, you know, Sam's father…"
"Yeah, well my dad…I don't know, he really likes iCara," Johnny said with a shrug. "He thinks Angie's pretty cool. As for being a sex offender…"
"I did just say forget it, didn't I?"
"Well yeah…so what did you want to talk to me about?"
"You like Angie, I can tell it in your eyes."
"That's it? You think I like your daughter?" Johnny shifted nervously as Freddie smirked. "Okay, yeah, I can say that. I'm falling for her…I mean; she's just so…strong."
"Well she has been through quite a bit. A lot of her life is impossible for her to forget, that Timmy boy at the school is a lot like Gibby, the boy Sam used to pick on and one of the three men that held her hostage." Johnny's eyes widened and he let out a sigh.
"That's too bad, poor Timmy is the butt of Angie's jokes because of that. He doesn't realize though, she just needs an outlet, you know. She's still strong no matter what, she's been through so much, and most girls would seem to crumple under it all. I guess using Timmy as an outlet probably just kept her sane for a while…"
"She's tough, just like her mother, that's a good thing."
"That's what I love about her, is that she's so tough." Freddie raised his eyebrow and smirked, it was the same reason he fell for Sam.
"Runs in the family, like mother like daughter."
"She's beautiful…so why the hell am I constantly saying that I like Cara?" Freddie raised his eyebrow and Johnny snorted. "I mean, Cara's great, she's been my best friend since I was five or six, but that's it, it ends there. I've never had real feelings for her."
"She's a dream to you."
"Huh?" Johnny raised his eyebrow and looked at Freddie.
"She's a dream to you, Angie is real."
"Well…"
"Happened with me. Exactly, straight to the bare bone, I would say I loved Carly when in reality I fell in love with Sam. Why Carly? It was because she was just about any boy's 'dream girl' and she was easy to say when trying to say someone's name as a cover up to hide the feelings for the real girl."
"Yeah, that sounds…right." Johnny blinked and sighed. "I got so used to saying Cara that now it seems I can't say Angie."
"It happened to me as well. I got over it though; it's easy once you know what to do. Though sometimes it's not, but once I realized Sam really felt the same toward me, it wasn't hard. Let me tell you this though, Angie is falling for you as well." Johnny's eyes grew wide and he had a shocked look on his face.
"But, how? I mean…we always fight."
"Again, cover up." Freddie crossed his arms and sighed. "Angie tells us constantly that she has strong feelings for you and wishes nothing more that you'd like her better than Cara. She honestly has feelings for you, and I would actually approve."
"So…So Angie likes me also?"
"Yeah, you're the only one who seems to stick with her no matter what she does or says to you, but I'll let her say that for herself." Johnny blushed lightly and looked downward.
"Hey, is it Angie that hates movie theaters?"
"No, Sam hates them. Angie loves going to the movies, Sam actually allows her to."
"Well maybe she'd like to go with me to the movies, my dad's actually going to be here and he's taking me to the movies. I think it'd be cool for her to meet him."
"Yeah, if he's a good man then I have no problem with it." Johnny thought for a minute and his mouth formed a flat line.
"Actually, I'll probably take her to a different cinema than my father's going too…"
"Why is that?"
"Without telling my dad, there's just something…creepy." Johnny crossed his arms and shrugged. "So, what do I tell Angie? I mean…if she really likes me back…"
"She does, just take it naturally."
"Yeah, you know…there's a kid at our school with an itch problem, you think you know any good cream to give the dude?"
"An itch problem?"
"Yeah, he's always scratching himself. His name is Gregory, odd name."
"Eh, it's just a name."
"Yeah…"
"So have you heard from that one kid lately?"
"You mean Landon? The very confused boy who wants Cara to kiss him and to have his webcast be better than iCara?" Johnny narrowed his eyes and chuckled. "Yeah, he hasn't bothered with us for quite some time actually."
"Good, that kid was annoying to begin with." Freddie closed his eyes and sighed, he opened them and blinked. "Uh…so what's going on with Cara?"
"Not much, she got a letter from some famous guy a while back, but she's not too interested in the job."
"A famous guy?"
"Uh…director I guess." Freddie glanced at his door and sighed.
"So she got a letter from a director…"
"Yeah, she's going to talk about it next week on iCara and she's going to tell Angie about it then too. It's a surprise, but Angie was mentioned in it! They could both get an acting job, and probably with Carly!"
"What…the hell!" Freddie crossed his arms and sighed. "Okay, well we'll talk to her about it when the time comes, I'm not sure if she's all that interested in it though. Are you going to confess your feelings to Angie on iCara?"
"Actually I might get Cara to do a special iCara, and I can do it tomorrow!"
"I see you're eager to tell my daughter your true feelings."
"I have to! I mean I can't possibly not tell her how I feel about her…I mean what if something was to happen? I don't think it's possible for anything to happen, but look at you."
"I told Sam how I felt about her before she ever got kidnapped." Freddie blinked and sighed. "Anyway, I approve, I think you're a very good person and I think you're right for Angie. She deserves someone like you who she can trust and respect, you seem to make her happy and if you make her happy, I'm happy."
"Are you saying if I don't make her happy then you're not happy?" Freddie nodded and Johnny smiled. "I will never do anything to hurt her. I will always make her happy, though we'll have fights and stuff...everyone does, but I will try my best to make her happy."
"Good, I'm happy." Freddie smirked and looked over at the window. "Because if she's unhappy, then I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy…"
"I get it, I get it…then nobody is happy."
"Including you." Freddie patted Johnny on the shoulder and exited the room.
"Now I just need to find a way to tell her."
There's that chapter!