Sorry I took so long with this. Sometime soon, expect another crossover by me. This one will be 'VicTORious'/'Five Nights At Freddy's'. I have the first chapter started, and I'll hopefully have it finished soon and post it to see what everyone things of it. I tried to write a 'Terror On Cupcake Street' chapter for 'Jade Dumps Beck Alternate', but I can't get it to work out. For now, I'm taking a break with that fic. If I can get that chapter figured out, I'll add it. If not, I'll start working on chapters separate from episodes, and I'll finally, sorry for the long delay, get the Jori together.

As for this one, as I said at the end of the last chapter, takes place with the talk between Tori and Jade at the Vega house. I'll explain why Trina and Shelby aren't there.

I'm not a hundred percent sure with how this chapter went, but here we go.

Disclaimer: 'VicTORious', 'iCarly', or the characters are not mine.

Tori POV

"So." Jade says, sitting on the couch closer to the door as I sit on the one closest to the kitchen. "Where's Trina?" She asks, breaking the awkward silence.

"She went with Shelby to the gym to work on her karate, since Shelby is a black belt in that plus a few other styles of martial arts." I answer, looking at the blank t.v. screen.

"Oh. Didn't know Trina wanted to improve her skills." Jade says, sounding nervous.

"She didn't. Not really." I tell her, glancing over at her. "She just went to talk to Shelby and give us time to talk." I admit, shifting so I'm facing her. "Why did you think 'dating' my twin sister would get me to like you?" I ask a modified version of what I asked Shelby, tired of the awkwardness since we sat down almost ten minutes ago.

"We thought you'd get jealous and try to stop me from hanging out with her. We knew you wouldn't try to trash talk her or anything, but try to get my interest focused on you instead." Jade says, staring ahead. "It wasn't supposed to go the way it did. We were just going to make it look like we were flirting in the hopes you'd intervene, but I had the stupid idea to make it seem like we were a couple."

"If you liked me, then why do something like that to get my attention? Did you not think I'd be hurt or something, especially to learn that you two knew I liked you and got together to make me jealous?" I ask, shaking my head. "Shelby told me most of your texting conversations involved you two thinking of ideas. What does that mean exactly?" I ask her, resting my right arm on the back of the couch.

"When we first started this, the idea was just to seem like we were flirting." She repeats, closing her eyes momentarily. "After that, when I had the idea to make it seem like we were dating, she was against it at first. After a few texts, she eventually agreed, thinking you'd intervene faster if you thought I was no longer on the market over you thinking I was interested in her, as the other was supposed to be."

"Why her? Why did the two of you come up with this? Why couldn't you use a no-name Northridge girl or something?" I ask, interrupting her explanation.

"Because you'd never believe I'd be interested in one. Trina hated me then, much more-so now. And the only other person would have been Cat, and I wouldn't use her like that." Jade says, not realizing what she said at the end.

"So you used my almost identical twin sister instead?" I ask, scoffing a bit.

"I didn't mean it like that." Jade says quickly, finally looking at me. "She and I came up with the idea, but I didn't think using her would be smart because of you two being sisters. She pointed out that, because you two look so much alike, it would be good. I don't really know what she was thinking, but she convinced me that she would be the best for the flirtation."

"But you said you didn't think of her at first. Did you have someone else in mind?" I ask, slowly starting to glare at her.

"Honestly? I was thinking of Meredith, the girl who Beck tired to go out with before we got back together." She admits, looking away again. "I figured, with how agreeable she was, maybe she'd be able to play along. Then when Shelby and I started talking about it, she became the best choice."

"Why did you go as far as you did? Pretending to have sex in the gym? Did you think that would help or something?" I ask, hurt in my voice.

"That was a spur of the moment. We didn't really plan that." Jade says, sighing. "We were just supposed to pretend to making out, making flirtatious comments in the hope you'd push open the door or knock or something. But, again, I had the bright idea to make it seem like we were having sex." She says, slowly turning to face me. "You hate me, don't you? For all of this being my fault, my idea, and getting your sister involved?" She asks, thought it seems more like a statement.

"To be honest, I don't know. I should be, but I don't 'hate' you." I tell her, laying my head on me right arm. "I don't know if I can trust you, but I don't hate you." I say, closing my eyes.

"Better than I deserve." She says, looking back ahead of her. "I know there's no way we're even close to getting better, but thank you for listening." She says, standing up.

"Wait." I say, stopping her. "Earlier, while you were explain and I interrupted, what else were you about to say?"

"Shelby wanted to end it. Multiple times before the three of us worked out at the gym and we went to the private room." Jade admits slowly, her back to me. "I talked her out of it, thinking it'd be best if we kept it going instead of 'breaking up'. She thought it'd be best because then you might try to console me after another break up still so close to the first, but I thought you'd find it suspicious, so I told her we should keep it going."

"Why?" I ask, using that word more today that I thought I ever would. "Why did you think I'd find it suspicious? Why think it was best instead of ending it?" I ask, pushing myself up.

"Because of how quick it was after Beck and I broke up." She says, turning to face me. "If we ended it when she wanted, I was afraid you'd think she was just a rebound, and I thought you'd think I was turning to you as a rebound after her. I figured, if we kept it going, it would seem like we were in an actual relationship instead of a rebound one, and you'd try to stop it more."

"You're an idiot. You know that?" I tell her, crossing my arms. "You did everything wrong. You and Shelby starting this in the first place was stupid. But keeping it going, everything, after what you yourself actually saw with Steven and Ryder, you thought that would work?" I ask, shaking my head again. "It was stupid. I know I over reacted. I let my hurt get the best of me instead of thinking logically, I know. And yes, I'm sorry I acted the way I did, especially to Andre, Beck, Cat, and Robbie." I say, dropping my arms. "I over reacted a massive way because I liked you more than I did them. They were small crushes that I hoped would grow before they ruined it. But you? You were a huge crush since the beginning. I let you treat me the way you did, and I was always there for you, to prove I wasn't going to leave you or anything. To prove you could trust me. But now, I don't know." I say, ignoring the text tone from my phone.

"What do you mean, since the beginning?" She asks after a few moments of tense silence, the two of us standing still, facing each other.

"Since you broke up with Beck because of the whole Alyssa Vaughn thing." I admit, sighing. "When you came over to me, crying and a trashed kite in hand, I saw another side of you. From then, to when we talked in the janitor's closet about the dog, and up to when we put the dog in Beck's R.V., I slowly started to like you." I tell her, brushing some hair out of my face with my hand. "When you two started kissing when you got back together, I admit, my comment about not swallowing each other was kind of out of pain. I felt like you used me to get back with Beck."

"And nothing after that stopped it?" Jade asks, disbelief clear in her voice.

"A few times, it felt like it. But other times, like when we worked with each other on 'The Wood', not counting you trying to kill me, you helping me, in your own way, when Ryder was using me for a grade, they helped. I thought you were starting to see me as a friend, and even though there were times I hated you, like when you tried to give me bush daises or you pushed me off the set after Beck did it for me, I didn't hold them against you."

"You should hate me. You should've hated me since day one." She says, shaking her head.

"But I don't. I didn't." I tell her, voice firm. "Thought I doubt you did some of those things with good intent, I saw a different reason. Like when you pushed me off the set, you helped me get over my fears."

"Where does this leave us?" Jade asks after a moment of silence. "If I show up here with the others this Saturday, will I be welcome?" She asks, grabbing her bag.

"Don't expect me to forgive you, but yeah." I say, nodding as both my phone and Jade's go off.

As Jade goes to leave, I check my phone, opening the text when I see it's from Shelby.

"Uh, Jade?" I say, worried, after reading the texts, the current one and the one from before both from Shelby.

"Yeah?" She asks, turning around. "What is it?" She asks, seeing my face.

"Check your texts/" I tell her, eyes locked on the messages from Shelby.

"Why?" She asks, pulling her phone out of her pocket. "What's the prob…" She says, stopping when she sees the text. "What the hell?" She asks, eyes widening.

The message?

-I don't expect it to help, but I hope it does.-Shelby M. The first text reads. The second, the one she must have sent Jade as well reads:

-Tonight, there's going to be a video posted online. In it, I tell all. I tell them that I'm a Vega, about you, Trina, mom and dad. Everything. I hope this proves I'm sorry, and I hope it shows that I can be forgiven.-Shelby M.

"What the hell?"

And this is where I'm ending this chapter. Next chapter will most likely be the last, since I feel this has gone on long enough. I may or may not make a sequel to it, but I don't know.

Sorry if this chapter wasn't the best, and if it felt like filler.

Thank you for reading, I hope you review.

Who saw 'Scream Queens' last night? Kinda sucked how they killed Ariana's character off in the first episode I heard she was signed on for ten episodes or something, but I don't see how. I did kinda enjoy her death scene though. Kinda interesting how they had her able to text after getting stabbed in the shoulder (don't know if that's possible with where the blade enteres) and was able to get up after being stabbed in the back to post her status update.

Probably should have said 'spoiler alert' before the last paragraph, huh?

Blessed Be.