(A/N): Wow. It's a long chapter! Thank you to xSuperChickx, Milkamoo97 and treehillgirl1 for your reviews! I don't own Big Time Rush.

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Chapter 14: Impossible Demands

The next day, Katrina and Brandon were in Katrina's apartment, packing the few items she had in boxes to bring over to the new headquarters of Penny's Pet Care.

"I can't believe Griffin put us right above Rocque Records!" Katrina complained, "I'm NEVER going to be able to get rid of those guys!"

"You like them," Brandon responded. When Katrina opened her mouth to say something, Brandon continued, "Don't deny it."

"Fine," Katrina admitted, "They're not that bad."

"You have a crush on Logan," Brandon accused.

Katrina dropped a cage causing a crashing sound as she looked over at Brandon with a shocked look on her face, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Brandon laughed, "We're best friends. I know when you have a crush on someone and you have a crush on Logan." They stared each other down, not moving until they overheard footsteps from the hallway outside the apartment.

"Don't say a word of this to them," Katrina insisted, not denying her crush.

"My lips are sealed," Brandon pretended to zip up his lips. Katrina smiled at him before she went back to her packing.

The silence didn't last long because the door to her apartment burst open as Logan, Carlos, James and Kendall came barging in.

"You called us, Katrina?" James asked her.

"Yep," Katrina answered. She picked up a box and stuffed it into James's arms. "Can you guys help me put these boxes in Brandon's car?" They began to complain, but when Katrina pouted, they agreed. Each of them picked up a box and headed downstairs.

"I can't believe you've been living here for two years," Brandon told Katrina. "If I had known, I would have asked my parents to let you move in with me."

"Which is exactly why I didn't tell you," Katrina responded, "I don't want to be a charity case. I've been saving up for a place to expand my business and now Griffin's given me this chance. I can't refuse and I can live there instead. It's much safer than living here."

"Now you're owned by him though," Brandon reminded her, picking up the second to last box.

Katrina picked up the last one before she turned to him, "Yeah, well. Things could be worse."

"How?"

"I could be staying here," Katrina answered, "Or I could be dead." Brandon didn't seem to know what to say after that. So, he just nodded his head and left. Katrina stayed for a minute and looked around the apartment, "Meeting those guys got me out of here. Maybe they're better than I thought." She gave a small smile as she closed the door for the last time.

Kendall, Carlos, James, Logan, Katrina and Brandon all stopped on the floor that Katrina now owned. The entire floor was empty with no room divisions. The walls were painted white and the floor was wood. The teenagers stared at the completely bland headquarters.

Suddenly, all six of them dropped their boxes at the same time.

"Oh," Katrina spoke first, "I have so much work to do."

"We'll help," Kendall offered, "After all, we are friends now." The others nodded, saying that they were up for the job.

"Thanks," Katrina accepted with a smile, "I think I'm going to need it." The boys began to wander around the floor right as Katrina's cell phone rang. She answered it on speakerphone, "Hello?"

"Katrina, it's Griffin," his voice rang out in the room, "How do you like the place?"

"It's very… empty," Katrina told him. Everyone had gathered around her and her phone.

"I wanted to let you design it as you wish," Griffin responded, "Now, onto business. I want the Penny's Pet Care headquarters to be up and running in two weeks."

"TWO WEEKS!" Katrina yelled. "THERE'S NOT EVEN ANY ROOMS IN THIS PLACE!"

"Time is money," Griffin replied, "I expect it to be amazing. Make sure to add in rooms for boarding. I also want an animal spa, a play area for animals being watched and an area for animals to be adopted out. Don't forget an area for waiting and reception. But have fun with it!" This seemed to be his goodbye because there was a click and the call ended.

There was silence as Katrina and Brandon exchanged wide-eyed looks. The guys didn't seem shocked.

"Did we forget to tell you that Griffin likes to make impossible demands?" Logan asked the two surprised teens. They nodded their heads.

"It's okay," Katrina was trying to calm herself down, "I can do this." She began pacing the room, mumbling under her breath. The boys watched as she pulled on her hair in frustration.

"Is she okay?" James asked Brandon.

"Yeah," Brandon told him, "Eventually. She's got this pattern when she deals with really stressful stuff. I would put your fingers in your ears now." He put his fingers in his ears and the guys did the same, wondering what was going to happen.

They got their answer when Katrina let out a scream that could rival Gustavo's, causing James, Carlos, Kendall and Logan to jump in shock. When she stopped, she began to beat against the wall. Brandon pulled his fingers out of his ears indicating that the others should do it too.

"Are you sure she's going to be okay?" Carlos asked.

"Yep," Brandon assured, "And here comes the crying." At that, Katrina laid down on the ground, bawling her eyes out. The band stared at her with wide eye while Brandon looked bored.

Suddenly, the crying stopped and Katrina sat up, saying, "I got it." She picked herself up off the ground and ran over to her boxes.

"Does she do this often?" Kendall asked Brandon.

"Only around me," Brandon answered, "She must be starting to trust you guys! Good job! Now, let's see what Katrina figured out." He turned to face Katrina to find that she had a notebook and pen in her hands.

"Okay everyone," Katrina addressed them. "Here's the plan. We're gonna need to measure this place and find out how much space we're working with. Then, we're gonna need to make up a design of the rooms. After that, we'll get materials to build the walls. We can probably find some type of instruction on it online or in a book. It shouldn't be too hard. Then, we'll need doors. We'll need to go with paint, not wallpaper. Cats could claw wallpaper off. We'll need to put in some flooring, get electrical and plumbing put in and then get the furniture. If we start today, hopefully we'll be done in two weeks." When she finished, she found all five boys staring at her.

"In English please," James spoke up.

Katrina sighed. "We need to go out and get some measuring tape so I can find out how big the rooms can be."

"Sounds good," Kendall noted as he led everyone to the elevator.

The rest of the day was spent measuring the large room, designing and picking up supplies.

During the measuring, the group split off into teams to get things done faster. Carlos and James automatically ran off as a team, but when Katrina was about to pick Brandon as her partner, he shoved her over to Logan and ran off with Kendall before she could do anything about it.

"So, I guess we're partners then?" Logan formed the statement as a question as though asking Katrina if it was okay.

"Y-Yeah," Katrina fumbled with the tape measure in her hand.

"We should probably get started," Logan suggested.

"Oh, of course," Katrina shook her head to make herself focus on the task. She led him over to a corner with a ladder. "We need to measure the length from the floor to the ceiling."

"Got it," Logan grabbed one end of the tape measure, accidently brushing his hand against Katrina's. They both shivered on contact. Realizing what they did, they looked into each other's eyes. They started to lean slightly towards each other.

Their moment was broken by a sudden snap and scream from the other side of the room. They looked over to see Carlos wrapped up in the retractable tape measure.

"CARLOS!" Everyone in the room screamed at him.

"What?" Carlos asked them, "It's not my fault this thing is possessed by demons!"

"I highly doubt that," Logan called out to him as James tried to free the boy.

Katrina and Logan looked back at each other, laughing. Their laughing soon stopped and they went on to do their measuring in silence.

After the measuring was done, the boys quickly gathered around Katrina as she pulled out a large sheet of paper. She pulled out a pencil and began sketching out a draft.

"How are you going to pay for everything?" Kendall asked her, concerned about how much all the supplies was actually going to cost.

"When Griffin and I made the deal," Katrina began, "He gave me this business credit card with my name on it, but it gets charged to him." As proof, she pulled the card out of her pocket and showed them.

"Aww," Carlos observed, "It's got kittens playing on it!" Katrina looked down at the card and, sure enough, it had two kittens on it playing with a ball of yarn.

"Yeah," Katrina mumbled as she stuffed the card back in her pocket, "He told me that he overheard Gustavo saying to Kelly that I reminded him of a cat, which I don't really get."

"Gustavo likes to call people as animals," Logan told her.

"Yeah," James agreed, "He calls us dogs!"

"I know that," Katrina responded, "Remember, I thought I was going to be watching four dogs in his mansion, not four boys."

"Right," All four of them looked up to the ceiling. Katrina recognized their zoning out faces and took this opportunity to concentrate on the sketch in front of her.

"What are they doing?" Brandon asked.

"I think they're having a joint flashback to the day I first met them," Katrina answered.

"Joint flashback?" Brandon looked confused.

"Yeah," Katrina nodded, "It's weird." It was silent for a few seconds before all four boys turned to look at Katrina, smiles on their faces. She looked back, an eyebrow raised, "What?"

"You've really changed," All of them answered.

Katrina scowled, "Can we just get back to designing?" They nodded and focused their attention to the paper in front of them.

After tons of erasing, redrawing, thinking over, another stress dealing fit from Katrina and crumpling up the paper to start over with a fresh one, the group finally decided on a final design. This led them to go to the nearest home improvement store. Before splitting up again, they decided that it would be a bad idea to let James and Carlos be on the same team again. They also realized that Katrina being a girl made none of the boys want her to do any heavy lifting, no matter how much she insisted that she was fine with it.

"I call Katrina on my team," James announced. He grabbed Katrina and pulled her to his side. She glared at him.

"I should probably join them and make sure that James doesn't do something that will cause Katrina to kill him," Kendall suggested. Logan seemed to be upset with it, but did agree.

"HEY!" James yelled, "Doesn't anyone trust me?"

"No," The other five told him. James looked insulted at this.

"I thought we were working in twos again," James changed the subject.

"Well," Katrina began, "Since none of you will let me do any heavy lifting, I need two of you to help me. So, splitting in threes is better." She pulled out a sheet of paper and handed it to Logan. "Here's what you guys need to find. If you have any questions, just call."

Logan had enough time to nod before James pulled Katrina away. Kendall sighed and then ran after them.

"I don't see why you can't hire someone to build these walls for you," James complained as he and Kendall were hauling wood onto a cart.

"You don't think I tried?" Katrina answered, "No one would be able to start until next week. I don't have time for that." Katrina was leaning up against the wall, watching the boys strain with the wood.

"We don't mind," Kendall insisted, "How hard could it be?" He and James put a piece of wood on the cart before he added, "What I'm really worried about is you staying there overnight. Why don't you stay with your parents?"

"Staying with my parents would be impossible," Katrina told them. "And I don't want to be a charity case for Brandon's family."

"Why don't you stay with us?" James offered. "You can stay in my room, perhaps even sleep in my bed." Katrina glared at him again.

"Or," Kendall stood in between them in case Katrina decided to attack James. "You can stay in Katie's room. Just until you finish up your building."

"Have you forgotten that your sister hates me?" Katrina reminded him.

"She doesn't hate you," Kendall responded. Katrina raised an eyebrow and Kendall adjusted his words, "Okay, so she does hate you, but maybe she could be more accepting now."

"She wants the truth, doesn't she?" Katrina asked him.

"We all do," James let her know.

"It might help," Kendall added.

"If she and your mom don't mind," Katrina began, "Then it would probably be healthier if I stay with you than if I stay at my place." Kendall and James actually high-fived at this causing Katrina to tell them, "Now, if you don't get back to the wood, I'm going to take it back." They quickly went back to hauling wood.

"You know," James smirked, "You can always stay with Logan." Katrina slid down the wall, accidently hitting the wood before she hit the floor in shock. She quickly stood up and glared at James again. She noticed that he wasn't the only one smirking. Kendall was too as the two boys shared knowing looks.

"I don't have a crush on Logan," Katrina denied, but her blush said otherwise.

"We never said you did," Kendall joined in the teasing as both his and James's smirks got larger.

"Good," Katrina told him, "Cause I don't." She fixed her outfit before she leaned up against the wall again.

They laughed at her denial, but then Kendall got serious, "You know that you probably have some competition then."

"I'm going to pretend that I'm not hearing this," Katrina pulled out her phone and began to play a game on it.

"I'm just saying," Kendall continued as if she hadn't said anything, "You've met Camille, right? Well, she's got a thing for Logan." Katrina froze for a second, but then began humming as she continued her game.

"Don't worry about it," James assured her.

"I'm not," Katrina answered, but there was an edge to her voice.

"Logan doesn't like her back," James told her. "And I have a way to get you to stand out."

"I don't want to know!" Katrina insisted, putting her phone away and put her fingers in her ears.

Kendall reached over and pulled one out, "You might want to know this. We're finished with the wood."

"Finally," Katrina let out, "Let's go. We have a few more things to pick up before we meet up with the others. It's a good thing that Brandon borrowed his dad's truck." She led the way as James pushed the cart with Kendall walking beside him.

After dropping off the supplies, the group decided to call it a day. Brandon went home while the boys took Katrina to the Palm Woods. As soon as they walked into 2J, they found Mrs. Knight and Katie there. Mrs. Knight was cooking while Katie was on the laptop. As soon as Katie saw Katrina, she narrowed her eyes.

"Hey Mom," Kendall went up to her with the guys. All of them were giving her large smiles.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"Well," Kendall began, "See, Katrina finally moved out of her apartment."

"You mean the dump?" Katie commented.

"Yeah," Kendall didn't feel the need to contradict it, "And her new place needs some renovations."

"So, she moved from a dump to another dump?" Katie spoke harshly, "Nice move on her part. Or was it her elusive parents' choice?"

"Katie!" Mrs. Knight warned when she saw Katrina looked insulted. Katie went back to the laptop.

"Anyways," Kendall continued, "She needs a place to stay until it's finished."

Mrs. Knight looked at the teen girl for a second and then sighed, "How long?"

"Don't I get a say in this?" Katie piped up again.

Before anyone could say anything, Katrina was right next to Katie, holding a flash drive out for her. Katie looked at it with an eyebrow raised.

"This flash drive," Katrina explained, "Holds the truth. It has one document on it with a website listed on it. In order to get access to the website, you need a password. The password is also listed on the document. The website gives every little piece of information on the Wolff Family Tragedy, including my own recount of it. You can share it with your mom, but please don't share it with the guys. I want to tell them myself." Katrina was holding the flash drive so tightly that her hands were shaking.

Katie took a longing look at the flash drive before locking eyes with Katrina, "You've been really hurt, haven't you?" Katrina gave a slight nod. Katie looked back at the flash drive for a second. Then, she gave the teen girl a smile, "I don't need to see it. You can stay in my room. I doubt you want to sleep anywhere near these guys. Tell me about it when you're ready."

Katrina gave Katie the biggest smile any of them had ever seen on her face, "Thank you." Katie waved it off.

"I'll go get a sleeping bag," Mrs. Knight announced, leaving the room.

Katrina turned to look at the guys. They were watching her with smiles. "What?" Katrina asked them.

"You care about us," James accused.

"You know what?" Katrina teased them, "I was going to tell you the story tonight, but now, I don't think I will."

"WHAT?" The boys yelled. Then, they groaned and walked over to collapse on the couch.

Katie laughed at their reaction before turning to Katrina, "You weren't going to tell them, were you?"

"No, I wasn't," Katrina answered.

Katie laughed harder, "I like the way you think." They bumped fists before Katie offered, "Why don't I show you my room?"

"Sounds good," Katrina agreed. She followed Katie out of the room.

(A/N): Okay, so this chapter was a little cheesy, but I needed to get Katrina at the Palm Woods for upcoming chapters, but moving her in completely would be too much, too fast. Anyways, I really can't wait to write the one for the episode Big Time Party. It's coming up soon and it's going to be awesome!

And here are the choices for the voting contest again:

1. A girl bully.

2. A boyfriend for Brandon.

3. A stray animal.

4. A boyfriend for Katrina.

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