Thank you for the follows, faves, and reviews. This is the final chapter, and hopefully leads in well for the final part, which I will start after finishing 'Seduction of a Geek', which is my next focus.
I know I have a few other things to work on, but some of them are giving me some writer's block, so I'm going to focus on what I can for now and work on them later.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'VicTORious', 'iCarly', or any characters or places in this.
Shelby POV
It's been a few weeks since Maya beat me for the CFC women's championship and left the CFC, a tournament for the next champion starting the week after. Because of Maya damaging my ankle, I've been spending the last three weeks keeping weight off of it. The doctor said the damage wasn't too bad, but I had to keep it wrapped and couldn't do much with it, i.e. no training, jogging, running, fighting, etc. until it healed enough.
Since then, I've been hanging out with the family and our friends. After the bout, I've been accepted as a part of Tori's group of friends, and though Tori and Jade have kept their distance from each other, I've noticed that there's no ill will between them, just Tori not able to trust Jade fully and Jade not wanting to push Tori.
"Where's your head at, girl?" Rex, Robbie's annoying, perverted puppet, asks me while we're hanging out at home and decided to have a cookout, Beck and Andre at the grill.
"Elsewhere." I answer simply, remembering how he 'volunteered' to massage my injured ankle a couple of weeks ago, and his comment about it being clothes optional had me tempted to punch his head off. Hey, the doctor said no using my feet for a month or so. He didn't say anything about using my fists.
"How's your ankle feeling?" Cat asks from beside me, wet in her light pink bikini after getting out of the pool, her red hair looking darker from the water.
"Better. I feel weird though, not able to go jogging or train or anything though." I say, staring at her. "How's the pool?" I ask, subtly scanning her body, the two-piece fitting her well.
"Tori kept it heated, and it's a lot of fun." Cat says with a giggle, sitting down beside me. "You should go in. Maybe the heated water will help your ankle." She suggests, grabbing her pink princess towel and drying her hair.
"No. I will be getting into the Jacuzzi soon though." I say, glancing past her at the Jacuzzi uncle David bought a few months ago for us to relax in. Though I doubt he intended it to be used by his daughters and their friends for no real reason other than to relax.
"Can I join?" Rex asks, making Cat and I give him, and Robbie, disgusted looks.
"You know she can still punch you, right?" Andre asks after coming back from the kitchen, some plates in hand for the food he and Beck just finished grilling.
"And she can punch your head off." Tori adds in, following Andre with a pitcher of pink lemonade in hand and plastic cups in the other.
"Noted." Robbie says, looking anywhere but us.
"Hey, where's Jade?" Beck asks as we head over to grab some food for lunch. "She was invited, right?" He asks, glancing at Tori.
"Yes. I invited her when I invited everyone else." Tori answers, avoiding his gaze. "I told her when to meet us here, and she said okay."
With that, the eight of us (Trina's sunbathing and trying to get Beck to stare at her in the tight, maybe a size smaller than it should be, bikini she's wearing to show off her hips and chest) relax in the sun, some of us chatting as we eat, and Cat and Tori sit in the pool as they talk.
A few minutes after we finish eating, the back gate opens, revealing Jade dressed in a thin robe, her messenger bag resting over her right shoulder, large sunglasses covering her face, and her hair resting over her shoulders, a brief glimpse of her bikini top straps on her shoulders through the material.
"You're here." Cat says, almost dropping her plate of food as she gets up to hug Jade.
"Yeah yeah. Let me go, you're all wet." Jade says with a barely hidden smile. "I see you all started without me." She says after Cat releases her and jogs back to her food.
"Hey, you were told when to be here." Beck asks, never one to be afraid of Jade, from what I noticed.
"Shut it. Is the Jacuzzi on?" Jade asks, setting her bag beside Cat's and removing the robe, revealing her dark purple bikini.
Looking over at Tori, I see her barely not eyeing Jade's body, the bikini showing her body well, the guys also barely looking. Though I find it funny how Cat seems more interested in her food and drink than Jade's body, but it's not surprising.
"Yeah. Has been for a few hours." I answer, knowing why Jade wore that particular bikini. (We may or may not have planned it for Tori's sake.)
"Good. Please tell me Trina forgot suntan lotion." Jade says, grabbing her towel from her bag and walking over to the Jacuzzi, setting her sunglasses on the table beside it and putting her hair in a ponytail.
"Ooh, I knew I forgot to remind her." Tori says, groaning.
"I'll wake her up." Jade offers, smirking when she goes to poor the remainder of the pink lemonade on Trina.
"Just because I find her annoying, and would find that hilarious, she is still my sister." I warn, smirking when Jade stops heading for Trina.
"Spoil sport." Jade says, setting the pitcher down and climbing over the edge of the Jacuzzi, sitting down.
"Let's play Marco Polo." I suggest after all of us, minus the sleeping Trina and relaxing Jade, finish eating. "Talk to Jade. You need this." I whisper to Tori on my way to the pool, Cat already in the pool with her eyes closed, calling out 'Marco'.
"Keep an eye on Cat." My twin tells me. "She tends to get handsy in certain games in the pool." She warns me, clearly Cat has felt up her, possibly Jade, and even Trina I bet, during a game.
"What about the guys? Has she 'handled' them?" I ask, fearing the answer.
"No. It was always above the waist and below the neck. That's why is girls have to be careful." Tori says, walking past me and heading for the Jacuzzi.
Tori POV
"Hi." I say, climbing into the Jacuzzi across from Jade.
"You're not gonna risk getting felt up by Cat again?" Jade asks, looking at the pool with a small laugh. Looking over, I see Shelby barely dodge getting her breasts groped by Cat's roaming hands, the redhead's eyes closed as she looks around.
"No. Besides, I think we need to clear the air between us." I tell her, knowing why Shelby wanted me to talk to Jade while everyone else was busy.
"I'm sorry about that, okay?" Jade says softly, so no one would hear us. "I know it was stupid, but we thought it would help you. We didn't really think fully about what we were doing."
"Why did you go along with it?" I ask, wanting to hear her say it. "Why pretend to make me jealous by pretending to date my twin?" I ask, just as soft to keep it between us.
"Because I like you, and I was hoping that making you jealous would have you intervene and get me focused on you. We didn't anticipate, though we should have, you thinking we were messing with you or something." Jade answers, her arms moving from the back of the Jacuzzi to over her chest. "Just to let you know, nothing happened. The worst that ever happened was we showered in the same room, on separate sides of the shower room, after training. The least I ever saw her in was her work out gear." She says, looking into my eyes.
"I can't say we'll be super close, or start dating, because what you did still hurts." I start, looking away from her. "But I would like to get past this fully, and start as friends."
"Deal." Jade says, getting up and moving to my right side. "If Rex tries anything, tell your father to ignore the lump of dirt that'll appear behind the grill." She says, giving me a quick hug with a smirk before getting out. "Now, let' go interrupt the game and play something else."
"What do you have in mind?" I ask, remembering when Jade wanted to play a game she called 'Jaws' Revenge'. Which, as we found out because we were all stupid enough to accept, was her grabbing us, dragging us under water, and holding us there until we almost couldn't breathe anymore. "No 'Jaws' Revenge', okay? I think you made Cat pee in the pool that day." I tell her as we head to the pool, remembering my dad having to clean it.
"Relax. Girls against Boys game." Jade says simply, diving into the pool. And I did not stare at her butt.
Oh, and next time Jade wants to play a game in the pool, no matter what it is, decline. Poor Robbie passed out.
And that's the end of this crossover.
The next, and most likely final, part of this series won't be a crossover. We might see Shelby, but not too much, so I'll keep it a regular 'VicTORious' fic.
Sorry if this wasn't a good way to end the fic, but I wanted to leave it for the next part.
Thank you for reading, hope you liked it and review.
Blessed Be.