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-DEFINING INSANITY-

"Um... Robbie, are you okay?"

Robbie looked up from his lunch. Tori Vega, who had asked the question, was looking at him with concern from across the table. It was his lunch hour, and it was only him, Tori and Andre Harris at the table. Robbie noted how close to each other the two seemed to be at that moment, what with their elbows touching and the fact that they were the only three there.

"Yeah, of course," Robbie replied, raising an eyebrow. "Why do you ask?"

"Well," Tori hesitated, looking for the right words. She normally didn't care about how blunt she was with Robbie Shapiro in general, but she wasn't sure now was a good time for that. "You look sorta... I don't know..."

"She's trying to say you look like crap."

Robbie didn't bother acknowledging Jade's arrival as she sat at the table next to Andre, Beck joining her a second later, his arm quickly making it's way around her shoulders. Tori and Beck gave her a look.

"Jade," Tori said quickly. "I was trying not to hurt his feelings!"

Jade could only snort at that. "Since when do you give a chizz about Shapiro's feelings?"

"He doesn't look well. I don't want him to take it the wrong way."

"She has a point, babe," Beck nodded.

Jade glared at him. "Why are you siding with her?"

Beck raised his hands. "Hey, I'm just saying, you could've been less blunt."

Jade let out an over dramatic sigh. "Fine," she turned to Robbie and when she spoke, it was in her famous 'Tori voice.' "I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but you look like absolute bullshit." She'd said the last word in her own deadpan voice.

Robbie almost laughed, but simply continued to eat his pizza.

"Jade," Tori gave her another look. "That wasn't any nicer!"

"Right, right, because all you do is treat him with respect and love!"

"So you're just going to use this as another excuse to insult me?"

"Of course I am! I thought you'd have caught on with the programme by now."

The boys at the table all shared looks as they let the girls banter and the insults fly.

"I don't recall you treating him any better than I do!"

"What about those times he made a move on you?"

"That's different, I don't want to date him!"

"Well, it's bad enough there's already someone who constantly rejec-!"

Jade's retort was interrupted by the arrival of the sixth member of their group of friends.

"Hi!" Caterina Valentine seemed to radiate happiness as she took in the sight of her friends. "What are Jadey and Tori arguing about now?"

The girls in question didn't get to answer as the guys all said "Nothing important."

Jade frowned. "I thought we agreed you'd stop calling me that." Cat ignored her as she turned to Robbie, who was seated next to her.

"Oh, Robbie," Cat's eyebrows furrowed in concern. "You look horrible."

Robbie could take Tori and Jade's takes on his appearance, but the mere thought of Cat commenting on his appearance would've, in the past, left him stuttering, his cheeks red and his heart beating like crazy. But he could only nod at Cat's words, not even bothering to look at her. He knew how he looked.

His eyes were red and had dark rings around them, his curly hair seemed to have become more unkempt than was humanly possible, his skin was eerily pale and he looked as he hadn't eaten in days, which was strange considering the fact that everything about him, looks, habits etc., had been normal up until that day.

Not that he was ever really normal.

"I think the girls have got a point, Rob," Andre spoke up. "You ain't looking too good, man."

"I'm fine," Robbie answered, staring at his pizza.

"But, Robbie, y-"

"I said I'm fine!" Robbie finally looked up. "My apologies for not trying to look like the hottest thing out there, okay? Please, just leave it alone."

He closed his eyes as he heard Cat's voice. "But, Robbie, we're worried about you." He stood, slinging his backpack over his shoulder.

"That's a first," he muttered, before walking away. "Just... leave me alone." The gang was left there, staring after him.

A few moments silence.

"Dibs on puppet boy's pizza," Jade said curtly, reaching over and grabbing a slice.

"Jade!" the others were giving her looks. She was getting tired of that.

She sighed. "Alright, fine." She lay the pizza slice in the centre of the table. "You can all have a part of this slice. Except for Tori. Tori gets nothing."

"I'm worried about Robbie," Cat turned, looking in the direction Robbie had gone. "What should we do?"

"Nothing," Jade answered, eating another slice of pizza. "He said he's fine. I'm going to take his word for it."

"Babe," Beck just stared at her for a second. "We should do something."

"Beck's right," Tori said. "We have to do something! We should investigate, Robbie doesn't normally look this bad."

"It's not like he ever looked good in the first place," Jade muttered.

"Jade!"

"What, I'm right! Just ask Cat!" Everyone looked at her.

"Whaty?" Cat asked, uncomfortable with sight of them staring at her.

"Well," Beck began, not wanting to her to take his words the wrong way. "Nothing between the two of you has been the same since the whole Killer Tuna thing."

"Yeah," Cat nodded. "So?"

"We thought you'd have done something about that by now."

Cat just stared at him blankly. "What do you mean?"

Everyone at the table sans Cat let out a sigh before continuing with their respective lunches. "Never mind, Cat."

-Defining Insanity-

Robbie sat on the edge of his bed, looking out the window. He wasn't sure how to feel about his friend's probing. He was grateful for their worry, glad that they cared, but he couldn't let them find out about what had happened to her. He couldn't let them see him either.

Speak of the devil... Robbie thought, noticing movement in the corner of his eye.

"Hey, Rob, you left your phone behind."

Robbie turned to look at the speaker. "So?"

Travyl's grin returned. "So? Heh, well, you missed an update on Smash. Check out this trailer. Came out just this morning."

He made his way over to Robbie, taking a seat next to him and starting a video up. Robbie watched as the trailer began. Despite the pessimism that had been surrounding him all day, he felt his inner nerd react to it's contents.

"Charizard? Hm. Fitting, he's popular as hell."

"I know right? But, that's not it."

"... Who the hell's Greninja?"

"New guy, from X and Y, you haven't played that yet. He's a ninja frog, that scarf around his neck? That's his tongue."

"Cool. He uses water?"

"Yeah, direct contrast to Charizard. He's small, looks pretty fast, uses water and doesn't have a Me-"

"Mega Lucario! And Mega Charizard!"

"Yeah, those are their new Final Smashes."

"Okay, thanks for showing me," Robbie nodded at him. "Looks cool."

"I'm sorry, he 'looks cool?'" Travyl gave him a look. "He looks fucking OP, that's what."

"Hey, you really think Sakurai would make a Pokemon character OP?"

Travyl opened his mouth to retaliate, but hesitated. "Um, are we really talking about this?"

Robbie shrugged.

Travyl shook his head. "Anyway, I think you should clean up around here."

"Why?"

"Dude," Travyl grabbed his shoulders. "This place looks worse than fucking Hiroshima."

"That's not funny."

"Just clean! Isn't Valentine coming over to work with you on something or... something?"

"No, we're going to Tori's."

"Ooh, is little Miss Red-headed Ditz gonna be there?"

"Don't call her that!"

"Fine, fine... what about Rosy?"

"What about Rosy?"

Travyl gave him a look. "What?" Robbie asked.

"My... apologies, but when the fuck do you plan on telling them about Rosy?" Travyl inquired.

"I don't plan to." Robbie said, exiting the room.

"What?" Travyl quickly made his way after him. "So, this is nothing to you? That's great! That's fucking brilliant! After all these years you finally get it!"

"What do you mean?" Robbie was curious wherever Travyl was concerned. Travyl never lied, but there was always something ambiguous to what he said. He was hard to read.

"Nothing, nothing, just get going," Travyl attempted to shoo him out the door. "Just don't expect me to start cleaning."

Robbie grabbed his keys and began making his way out the door when Travyl stopped him.

"Oh, and Rob?" Robbie looked at him. "Where the fuck's Rex?"

Robbie gave him an incredulous look. "I don't know. I left him somewhere. I guess you'll have to fill the roll of my personal tormentor until I find him."

Travyl looked happy at that remark. "Aw, thanks, man! I'll do you proud, man."

Robbie waved him off as he left. "Whatever." He slammed the door shut.

Travyl turned and sat on what was left of Robbie's couch. He ran his hand over it, taking time to appreciate how destructive Robbie was.

"You know," he said out loud. "I don't see the point in hiding. If you have a fucking problem, just ask him. I won't stop you from trying to talk to him. I'm not crazy."

"I know that," a voice rang out. "But it's not healthy for him to think I'm here at all. I'm supposed to be dead."

-Defining Insanity-

Pssh, this seems rushed and so did the last part, didn't it? Aaaaand maybe a little lame. I'm working on that. But whether you find this entertaining or not doesn't bother me. I need an outlet for my inner mad man, and Travyl is perfect for that.

This entire thing so far is probably really confusing. Cool. It is for me too.

I'll work on developing the whole Cabbie thing too. And because Cabbie is my all-time favorite ship, I will try and not disappoint in that area.

Travyl is basically a psycho. But in that awesome, can't tell at first way. He seems normal now but I'm telling you, he's going to be absoluely nuts in later chapters. He's about Robbie's age, and (I know, I said I wouldn't say, but I feel obliged to say something) he is the one speaking in the summary. Sorry about that btw, if you thought the summary was lame... and the title... I thought about for about five minutes.

Travyl, in all honesty, will be a non violent composite character, inspired by many others in modern media. But he'll be taking heavy inspiration from Vaas Montenegro. I love that guy, and the thought of Rex having to compete with someone than him at tormenting Robbie?

I couldn't pass that up.

Rex will show up at Tori's place. And Trina'll be there.

CabbieFluffQueen, if you're reading this, Travyl is new, isn't he? Yeah, oh, this is going to be a fun write...