Voodoo Curse

Disclaimer: Don't own Victorious

A/N: The second chapter I post close in time so that you can get more of a sense of what is happening. Remember that David messed up in the incantation, he doesn't know nor took seriously the kind of magic Holly worked with. This may have led to their teenage forms, but you're going to start to see a mental side effect as well as their minds and memories may begin reverting as well. How they are on the show is essentially how Beck and Jade here were in their teenage years...

Chapter 2 (Mental Side Effects)

"What are we going to do?" Jade was trying her best not to lose her composure while following Sikowitz through the halls of Hollywood Arts. The school was relatively new, according to him, and Beck was stunned to see his old friend no longer worked at the other high school.

Like a child he was examining everything they passed by, but Jade was too focused on their current circumstances and couldn't understand the fascination. "I don't honestly know what's going on," Sikowitz replied softly, "But I can get the principal to enroll the two of you here if you need me to…"

A student walked by them and Jade froze in horror. The girl was wearing a white spaghetti strap shirt with her midriff showing, and short jeans that barely ran beyond her butt. More shocking was the flat device that she was holding up to her ear.

She started to point when Sikowitz pushed her hand down. "It's called an Android, a very new type of cell phones."

"Cell phone?" Beck scratched his chin for a second before reaching into his pocket. He removed a long black device with numbers and an antenna. It was large, bulky, and barely fit into his pocket.

Sikowitz scratched his beard and carefully took the phone, staring at it with the fascination one might have with finding an ancient piece of history. "My god, you two really did pop out from the past."

He handed the phone back and crossed his arms. "Those phones haven't been around since '95. When the two of you disappeared." The man's shoulders fell and a sigh rushed from his lips. "God that Christmas was rough on everyone. Just a month short of your daughter's first birthday."

"Our daughters." Beck stepped forward, seemingly more interested now in what was going on. "Where are they? What happened to them?" Beck's eyes filled with concern and his hands grasped the brown scarf around Sikowitz's neck. "If it's been fifteen years-"

"Relax." The man pulled his scarf from Beck's grasp and raised a bushy eyebrow at him. "Last I heard they're with family. Your sister-in-law." Jade felt her heart shooting through her chest and started to pale as Beck turned his head towards her.

"We have to find her," she said under her breath. "We need to find Holly. Figure out what happened-find a way to fix this." She didn't count on it being easy, especially if this was what her sister wanted. Holly might not be willing to undo anything.

"But why are you teenagers again? That I don't understand."

"It was the curse she used." Jade swept her fingers across her chin and carefully paced to the right while dipping her eyes to the ground. "I remember her shouting that David had done something wrong. It might have to do with that." She was almost certain David knew little about the type of magic that Holly had gotten into, and it was likely he had only been playing along and didn't think anything was going to happen. "Something went wrong, we lost fifteen years of our lives because of this…"

Beck fell back against a locker, and the crash echoed into the air. Jade's head jerked up and she rushed to his side, watching as he placed his hand over his stomach. "Beck, are you okay?" He was sweating and breathing heavily.

He looked up to her with half-lidded eyes and mustered a tiny smile. "Just a little nauseous. Nothing to worry about." Her muscles tensed and she breathed a sigh of relief. Her stomach was twisting into knots and she felt nauseous as well, so surely it was only a side effect. Beck slowly stood to his feet, straining himself in the process. "I have to ask, if we're fifteen again physically, do you think it'll happen mentally as well?"

"I hope not." It was something she hadn't thought about, and she truly didn't want to think about it. If they were to truly turn fifteen again, then she couldn't be sure what that meant. "We were too different when we were fifteen." A nervous chuckle left her lips and she heard a bellowing laugh from Sikowitz.

"That would be entertaining to see, if it wasn't so serious," the man chimed. She rolled her head towards him, narrowing her eyes and pulling her lips back into a brisk scowl. "Ah memories. The days of chasing the women around, we were all stunned when Beck decided to finally lock himself down on just one."

Beck's eyes widened and Jade felt a strange urge to strike her husband. "Try not to remind me."

At fifteen years of age, it was difficult to see the future that she and Beck had together. Those days she'd been paranoid and mad with jealousy, and Beck had been a reformed playboy. Every time he so much as looked at a girl, Jade would become enraged and jealous. They fought often because of it, but by some miracle Beck decided to settle down and she sought help for her own problems.

Sensing a pulse of the ancient jealousy, she stopped walking and turned towards Beck. "Beck? What made you think of that just now?" She certainly hadn't entertained the possibility.

"I'm not sure." Beck's brow started to furrow and his eyes darted in the direction of the student that passed them some time ago. "If I'm honest. You know I haven't even thought about another woman since we were in high school, and I've certainly never felt any of those urges I had when I was a teenager, but just a moment ago there was something…and it startled me."

Her heart began to sink and she held onto her breath while raising her hand over her mouth. Sikowitz moved past her, looking into the eyes of his old friend with sincerity. "What do you mean, Beck? What do you mean you 'felt something'."

"It was almost like…" He ran his hand vigorously through his hair and shut his eyes, groaning softly. "You remember how we used to kind of pump ourselves up whenever a girl walked by?" Sikowitz chuckled once and Jade started to frown.

"Yeah, all posing and posturing. I remember those days. Trying to look cool to attract the ladies." Sikowitz placed a hand over his bald head and sighed. "I'm afraid I can't do the hair flip anymore, but I remember."

The man's eyes glazed over and rose towards the ceiling. He snapped his fingers and gasped fondly. "We were wild and free, couldn't be tamed or tied down." Beck ran his hand over his neck while looking to Jade. She folded her arms across her chest and swallowed the rising anger in her throat. "I remember we were all shocked that you were the first to find the old ball and chain, Beckett."

"Yes." Beck dropped his hand and flashed a loving smile at Jade. "But that was the best thing that could have ever happened to me." Her heart skipped a beat and she unfolded her arms, sighing heavily.

"Just don't start acting like that again," she warned, "I'd better not catch you glancing at another woman." The flickering in her heart ceased and she threw her hands up over her mouth, shocked by what had just come out. Beck and Sikowitz stared at her with widening eyes, and a hush fell over them as a dense fog. "Oh god, I haven't worried about that in years…what's happening to me?"

Beck approached her without word and wrapped his arms around her in a loving embrace. "We'll fix this Jade. I promise you." She hugged him back and felt goosebumps forming on her skin like a rash. Her eyes welled up with frightful tears and each breath she took was shaky.

Sikowitz scratched the back of his head, watching the two of them solemnly. "I'll do everything I can to help," he said, "But I don't know how to do that."

His presence could be a benefit, if he was able to keep them grounded or to help them remember who they were. They didn't know what other side effects there might be, and the possibilities were terrifying.

"You two are going to need a place to stay though, I don't have room at my place, but I do know your fathers are both still alive." They pulled apart slowly and Jade turned an uncertain gaze onto the man.

Their dads would be older and possibly wrought with grief if the entire 'fifteen years missing' was accurate. Not to mention, as teenagers again, showing up at their fathers' homes might be a bit rough.

"It's worth a try," Beck replied, "We don't have money, and I assume our bank accounts are no longer open…or employment…" Jade had been a stay-at-home mom while Beck worked at the local high school. There was little chance of him being able to go back to work there.

"Yeah, and the two of you probably don't have any reliable documentation either. So unless the two of you like cuddling up on a messy sofa in my living room, we're going to need to get you to your parents."

Jade rolled her eyes and spoke with a flat, sarcastic tone. "Great. I'm sure my father's going to just love seeing teenage me again." She was a handful at fifteen, there was no denying that. At fifteen years of age, her mother passed away and she started to act out and rebel. Her father, though he loved her, did everything to make things right and to be there for her, but she wound up pushing him away at every turn.

He'd been a stern businessman, so he came across as hard and unloving even when he was. Beck's father was softer and easier to connect with, but it was hard to say which father was going to have an 'easier' time with their fifteen year old child.

Beck tapped his chin and shook his head slowly. "My father's older than hers, we need to handle this carefully." His father had a history of heart problems and was about ten years older than her father. Her father had been born around 1944 while his was born in 1935.

Her stomach rumbled loudly, drawing the attention of both Beck and Sikowitz. She looked down with a nervous chuckle and put her hand over her abdomen. "I guess I am a bit hungry, but there's so much we have to do." Sikowitz waved his hand in the air and spoke over her.

"You've got time, let me treat the two of you to dinner!" He spread his arms out and grinned. "It's been a long time, and I've missed the two of you, so it's the least I can do. It's the most amazing thing, I was just thinking about you guys a lot lately." Jade mustered a gracious smile and Beck nodded his head.

Perhaps his having been thinking about them was what led them to appear in front of him all these years later. Though whether their appearance before him was random or not, it didn't matter.

With all that she was worrying about; whether it be finding her children or figuring out how to reverse whatever it was her sister had done, Jade knew they needed time to actually sit down and think. So she was eager to take their old friend up on his offer for dinner.

"I'm all for it."

"Good," Beck said as he rubbed his stomach, "I feel like I could eat an ox right now…not sure if that has to do with her sister's weird spell, or my teenage body."

So in an interesting way, their bodies are changing. Again. Thumbs up to anyone that gets that joke. What are your thoughts? How do you think their fathers are going to handle this, and what about their children-or more-Jade's sister? Do you think Holly expects this, or does she believe her sister and brother-in-law to be long gone? Does she regret it? Will she help them or hinder them? How much time do you think they have? If their minds and personalities start to fall back to match their physical ages, what could that mean for them? Could they forget everything they had, and how will they be able to reverse the curse? Jade knows very little of the dark arts her sister got into, remember that. They may need help, do you think?