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When is Jade not Jade? (A Victorious – Quantum Leap Crossover)

Chapter 1

Authors note. I happen to like the TV show quantum leap. So I decided to indulge my science fiction side and write a crossover. In this story both Jade and Tori are pretty much doomed unless a time traveling scientist from the future can set things right.

Prologue

Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett lead an elite group of scientists into the dessert, to develop a top secret project known as Quantum Leap.

Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the project accelerator, and vanished.

He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brain wave transitions with Al, the project observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear.

Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home.

Dr. Sam Beckett's POV

My name is Dr. Samuel Beckett, I have 7 doctoral degrees, a Nobel prize in Physics, speak 5 living languages, 4 dead languages and I travel through time. I had theorized that one can travel through time in their own lifetime and tried it out. Things didn't quite work out as planned. Now I am stuck leaping through time from person to person setting things right that once went wrong. Hopefully I can return home someday.

I'll briefly explain how it works. When I go back in time I leap into an actual person. More specifically I take their place in the past and they appear in my present. I sort of switch places with them as it were. But one thing is that I retain the image of the person I am leaping into. It is me in the past but I look and sound like the person I leapt into. I pretend to be them for a few days and fix what ever went wrong in their life. When all is set right, I leap out and the original person is restored with a few vague memories of being in the future. Usually they think they were taken by a UFO or something.

When leaping into a new situation you need to quickly assess your surroundings and circumstances as soon as humanly possible. That was the first thing on my mind when I leapt into my current subject.

The first thing that I noticed after the blue light faded is that he was sitting in a small classroom with about 15 students in it. A small stage was at the front of the class with a chalkboard behind it. Something about acting techniques was written on the chalk board.

Sitting on the left of the stage was an unusually dressed man who was sipping out of a cocoanut. He seemed to be supervising two young students who appeared to be involved in some kind of Improv exercise. One was a teenage girl with very red hair and the other was an attractive girl about the same age with long brown hair and Latina features.

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Judging by the presumed ages of the kids on stage and around I deduced was in a High school drama class of some kind. I enjoyed Drama class in high school, and was actually quite good at it. Being a child prodigy I had memorized Hamlet at the age of 9.

I then turned attention to the person I had leapt into. Looking down I quickly realized I leapt into a teenage girl who likes the color black, a lot. She was wearing black combat boots, had all black fingernails, black leggings, and a black t shirt.

I next reached into the girl's bag to find an ID or a mirror. So I could figure out who I leapt into and what she looked like. There was no sign of Al yet so I just had to wing it.

I have leapt into women before and discovered finding anything specific quickly in a woman's purse or bag was frequently difficult for anyone but the owner of the purse or bag. It's usually in an order only they can understand.

I began rummaging around in the girls big green bag oblivious to the class going on around me. I found, A well read book of HP Lovecraft stories, 4 pairs of scissors, what appeared to be a metacarpal bone from a human hand probably an index finger, an ID that had her as a 24 year old woman named Denise Blunden which was probably fake, and a second fake Id listing her as 21 year old Simone Foster and other assorted makeup and unknown items. I hadn't located a proper ID yet but finally found a small hand mirror and looked at myself in it. When I look in a mirror I see the image of the person I leapt into.

The woman who's reflection who looked back at him was a young girl of about 17-18 years old. She had raven black hair with a blue streak in it and an eyebrow piercing. The woman's face though pretty seemed to have a permanent scowl on it. "She must not smile very much" I thought to myself.

"Jade" a voice called out from the man sipping the coconut.

I was too busy looking at myself to notice I was being addressed.

The coconut man spoke louder "Uh Jade would you mind rejoining the class please?"

I looked up when someone poked me in the side. It was a young man with a ventriloquist dummy sitting in the next seat.

"Jade, He's talking to you" he muttered quietly.

Ok, I know now my name is Jade and I am 17 or 18 year old Goth girl in a high school drama class.

I looked at the cocoanut man. "Uh sorry, I got distracted."

"Jade then you can join Tori on stage for the alphabet improv then" said the cocoanut man with a slightly irritated look.

I slowly walked up onto the stage as the red haired girl walked off of it and sat down. She seemed to giggle as I walked past her.

I got on stage and faced whom I guessed was Tori. She shot me a very nasty look as if she was very mad at this Jade person I had leapt into."

"You continue Tori" said the cocoanut man

"Nitwit" said Tori. I could certainly detect some venom in voice as she said it.

"Oh Boy" I said as I couldn't help but wonder why Tori was so mad at this Jade and why I leap into her. I didn't even know what to do in this exercise.

"Good Jade" said the coconut man. Apparently Oh Boy was a correct response I surmised.

"Pick up and leave" spat back Tori

I realized this was some kind of alphabet improv, which I had done in drama class years ago. I realized I needed an R word.

"Relax" said Sam trying to calm down the young Latina.

"Save it" I could now certainly detect hostility from Tori. She actually seemed to be getting angrier.

"Tori calm down" I said taking a step back and trying to defuse this odd situation.

"Such Tension, I love it, Use that tension" said the coconut man rather enthusiastically.

I realized that Jade and Tori were getting some odd looks from the audience. I wondered if I was acting too out of character for this Jade person. Perhaps I needed to step it up a bit. I silently cursed Al for not being there. He was probably in the Girls locker room giving him self a show.

Tori crossed her arms and stepped forward to me

"Understand how I feel Jade"

"Ventriloquist boy has ugly shoes" I said trying to change the subject. They green sneakers and actually was kind of ugly.

The teen with the dummy yelled in protest "Hey, my name is Robbie not Ventriloquist boy"

"Jade's right, I told you not to buy those shoes." said the Dummy to the teen holding him.

A laugh went through the classroom which only annoyed Tori even further.

"What's with you today" said the Latina with a strange look of hostility and confusion.

"Xylocaine" It was an anesthetic and all I could think of for X

Tori looked confused for a second.

"You're a pig" She really must be mad at Jade I thought.

"Zoology is a subject I don't have a degree in." I casually tossed back at her.

"Are you for real" She said tersely.

I was starting to get annoyed with her and decided to have some fun with this Tori.

"By Doubting we come at truth" I decided to start tossing quotes and lines from poems at her. . That was a quote from the poet Cicero.

I noticed then I was getting very odd looks from everyone in the room. I guess that this Jade does not quote poetry.

Now Tori looked very confused but was still angry with this Jade, the person I leapt into.

"Can you ever be straight?"

"Dare to be yourself" That was a quote from the french playwright Gide. I was feeling particularly clever at this point. Though I started to suspect I was being too clever.

"Everything about you is a lie" she retorted.

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss" I casually said. It was a quote from playwright Jonathan Larson.

Suddenly the bell rang, and Tori stormed off, grabbing her bag as she left the classroom.

I looked over at the teacher. He took a sip from the straw that was in his coconut and eyed me very suspiciously. As if he knew I wasn't really Jade.

I walked to Jade's chair and picked up her bag.

"You just had to toy with her didn't you Jade"

Sam turned around to see a young African American teen standing there. For some strange reason I knew his name was Andre. I retain bits of memory and feelings of the person I leap into sometimes.

"huh" I said somewhat confusedly.

"Not cool Jade, I think you pretty much demolished your chances of getting her back. Where in the hell did you get all those quotes anyway."

"Sorry Andre I got a little carried away. I just read them somewhere" I sputtered out.

He then just turned and walked away. I suddenly felt like an idiot, here I am probably supposed to get this Jade girl back with Tori and I humiliate her in front of the class. That's just freaking great.

I exited the classroom feeling the suspicious eyes of the teacher on my back as I left.

Suddenly Al appeared out of a bank of lockers and appeared in the hallway. He was an older man with short black hair and was wearing a rather loud Green Teal suit. In his hand was a very colorful electronic device which was called a handlink. No one in the hallway seemed to notice him, in fact 2 students walked right though him. He is invisible to anyone else but me. Though there are some limited exceptions.

"Hi Sam" said all taking a puff of the cigar in his mouth.

The hallway was still full of students so I motioned to a nearby janitor's closet where he followed me.

Upon entering the Janitors closet I felt a strange sense of peace and comfort. As if Jade herself spent a lot of time here. I suddenly felt a strange need to hold a pair of scissors and start cutting something up.

"OK, Al why am I Here"

All pulled out the hand link "Ok you are 17 year old Jade West a student at Hollywood arts high school in LA. Jade is interested in Acting, screenwriting and film. She just broke up with her girlfriend Tori Vega 3 days ago."

I felt a bit sheepish. "Yeah I met her, I think I made her even madder, am I supposed to get them back together?"

I silently berated myself for getting cocky with Tori during the improv and starting tossing quotes at her.

The handlink Al was holding made a strange noise and he hit it on the side.

"Yes, but the big thing is that tomorrow night is a big talent showcase here at the school. There is some kind of accident during the show. This girl Tori, who wants to be a singer gets badly hurt and winds up paralyzed from the waist down. In the original history Tori never becomes a singing star which is her dream due to her injuries and ends up with some menial call center job."

"Jade West was accused of purposely causing the accident. In our time she is currently in her 9th year of a 20 year prison sentence for attempted murder."

"Ziggy says there is a 99.1 percent chance that if you get them back together and prevent the accident you will leap out."

Abruptly the door flew open and Tori herself stormed. I could tell she looked absolutely furious.

"I knew I find you here Jade, Is it bad enough that you cheat on me, now you have to humiliate me in front of class too!" With that Tori slapped me right across the face and then stormed out.

"I like her" Al added poking his head through the door to watch her storm off. "I think I just found my next ex wife."

"Your not helping Al, Get me Jade's class schedule so I know where the hell to go next." I said as I rubbed my Jaw where Tori slapped it.

"Ok, OK" said Al rather defensively.

"What do we know about this break up and did this Jade really cheat on Tori?"

"Verbina is talking with Jade in the waiting room right now.. I should have some answers soon." Verbina is a Doctor who works with the people who I leap into when the appear in my present. They are usually in a state of Shock and panic when they leap in.

"Ok, good, what do we know about this accident?"

"According to reports a large stage light broke loose and struck her. It broke her back and paralyzed her. A witness one Robbie Shapiro apparently saw Jade right near the light just before it fell. Ziggy says that according to news reports Jade West always maintained her innocence but no one believed her. Everyone assumed she was angry because this Tori Vega broke up with her and tried to kill her."

Sam nodded, "Anything else I should know at present?"

"Not much, oh your friends are a girl with red hair named Cat Valentine, Robbie Shapiro who has the dummy, Andre and Beck. Beck is your Ex Boyfriend though you two are good friends. I'll go and check with Verbina to see if she had gotten anything from Jade."

Before he left, Al filled me in on Jade's class schedule then pushed a button and disappeared.

I emerged from the broom closet and headed off toward Jade West's next class.

Yes folk's Dr. Sam Beckett has leaped into Jade West. Can he set things straight or are Tori and Jade Doomed?

I was thinking of what to write after I finished writing Gone but not forgotten and remembered I had a partially written crossover. I am unsure how many Victorious fans are familiar with Quantum Leap but I just wrote it for fun.

Probably not my best work but here goes. Should I keep going or should i nuke it?

It was pointed out to me that I mistakenly left out Q during the acting Improv exercise. My apologies for the error. It's not a major point so I will leave it as is.