Hello everyone. I have a new story for you, but this is just the teasing first chapter. I don't plan on really getting started until sometime at the beginning of February, but I wanted to give you a preview for the upcoming year and celebrate.

iGuess We're Roomies

By OneHorseShay
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue. For God sakes, don't sue.
Pairing(s): Future Tori/Freddie, Established Bade, other pairings will be explored within iCarly, Victorious, and Sam & Cat.
Rating: T for now for any future Language, Adult Content/Themes and/or Violence; reserve the right to up rating.
Summary: Tori Vega and the rest have just graduated from Hollywood Arts and are setting out to make it in the world. However, Tori gets an unexpected and accidental new roommate on while she's starting college along the way to stardom.

Chapter 1

Venice/Barry Apartments
11811 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, September 17, 2012

Victoria 'Tori' Vega blew out a tired breath past her smiling lips as she sat a group picture of all her friends on the nightstand by her bed, the last item to put in its proper place after being unpacked in her new university apartment at the University of California at Los Angeles.

She brushed her fingertips over the top of the frame as she gave the picture one last glance then turned to head out of her bedroom. She blew out another breath as she stepped into the living room and headed over to flop down on the couch to take a moment to relax. She crossed her jean covered legs and grasped her sock cover feet while taking a few relaxing breaths. It had been a long and grueling day moving in and unpacking all her things into the apartment off the campus of UCLA, but she was quite happy and ready to relax for the rest of the late afternoon and evening.

Fortunately, she had dressed down for the day in her Hollywood Arts red and grey baseball t-shirt, a red bandana to hold her hair back and her glasses, to feel comfortable during the move and unpacking, so she could just relax without having to worry about changing.

With that worry out of the way, she let her thoughts drift as she didn't want to think about anything in particular or worry about the stresses of school starting later in the week, but her mind eventually drifted on one potential problem to being on her own in the apartment: her potential roommate. She didn't even know who her roommate would be as the school had such a time in scrambling for housing for the overflow of new incoming freshmen they had been behind in letting people know who their roommates would be for the fall quarter.

She hoped that her roommate would be pleasant and not be a constant fight or be the cause of some unnecessary friction. However, living with Trina for the last eighteen years made her think she was prepared for anybody… even if it had been Jade (which she definitely knew wasn't going to be).

The brunette was pulled out of her thoughts at hearing the lock to the door to the apartment unlock. She quickly looked towards the door in obvious curiosity on who could be entering. She wasn't expecting maintenance, so the only one it could be was her roommate arriving. She took a quick breath and jumped up from her seat to reach the door to try to make her first impression be a good one for the girl she expected to be rooming with for at least the quarter.

She put on a bright and welcoming smile as the door opened. Her friendly disposition immediately turned into one of surprise at seeing who was stepping through with a book bag, a suitcase in the left hand and dragging an upright rolling luggage case while gripping the keys.

Tori called out with mild disbelief, "Freddie?"

The brown eyed web-celebrity teenager from Seattle looked up and put on an equally surprised expression at seeing the recent Hollywood Arts graduate. "Tori?" He let out a cheerful laugh as he took a good look at her, "Tori?" He set his rolling luggage upright and sat down his suitcase beside him as he instinctively moved towards her with her doing the same.

The singer let out a surprised laugh of her own and quickly pulled the muscular teenager into a hug. She whispered into his left ear, "It's great to see you."

He wrapped his arms around her and easily lifted the slim girl off of her feet and he answered, "You too." He sat her back down on her feet and pulled away from her to take a moment looked her up and down then commented, "You look great; how have you been?"

"Busy," she let out a tired laugh.

He joined in her laughter and replied, "Tell me about it."

She looked him up and down and saw that he looked pretty good as well to her eyes as she saw that he was a little taller and little more muscular than the last time she had seen him in person during his visit down to see her directorial debut and Trina's unfortunate accident with the gimbals. She had of course had also seen him on nearly a weekly basis on iCarly (occasionally missing a show for some Friday night event at Hollywood Arts), but seeing him in person was a little different.

She continued to beam him a smile as she asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Oh?" He nodded into the apartment and casually answered with a bit of pride at the end of his statement, "I'm moving in, this is my apartment for the quartet." He cracked a smile as he finished, "What are you doing here? Not that I'm complaining with seeing a familiar and friendly face."

Tori patted him on the shoulder and let out another soft laugh, "You're going to UCLA too?" She softly rolled her eyes and laughed out at the absurdity of her own question, "Of course you're going to UCLA; you wouldn't be here if you weren't."

Freddie smiled at her bit of silliness and let her finish, "But that's a good one about this being your apartment because this is my apartment."

Freddie gave her a soft smile, "Oh? This is your apartment?"

She smiled along with him as she playfully answered, "Yeah, my apartment."

The former tech-producer raised a curious eyebrow then looked at his key still in his hand and commented, "I guess then we're neighbors and they gave me the wrong key? It was pretty busy down there with them handing out keys, so they grabbed the one next to it to give me and gave your roommate my key."

"I guess so, but that's great—we're neighbors; this'll be great."

He nodded along as his face reflected her joy of the serendipitous happenstance of encountering one another and finding out that they would be neighbors.

"I'm all settled, so let's go find your apartment."

He let out a soft laugh at her offer, "Okay." He turned and looked to the number on her apartment door and his brow knotted at seeing the number and mumbled out, "Wait a second, but this is my number." He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his PearPhone. He tapped the screen with his thumb. A moment later a PDF copy of his information on the apartment and he quickly rechecked the number on the form.

He slightly smirked with confusion as he held up his phone to show the lovely brunette. "Three sixteen, right there."

Tori gently grasped over his fingers and touched the edge of the phone to steady it as she read the text. She looked back to him with a perplex expression on her face. "Okay, this has to be some kind of weird mix up."

He playfully questioned her with a charming smile, "Are you sure you're in the right room?"

"Ha, ha, very funny," she playfully mocked with a role of her eyes. She turned and headed back to her bedroom while calling out over her shoulder, "I got my room assignment right here."

Freddie snorted out a laugh as he closed the door behind him and followed her. He stopped right at the threshold of her bedroom and watched for a moment as she went through a three-ring binder resting on her desk next to her PearBook. After flipping a few pages, Tori shouted, "Ha! Found it." She opened the clips to the binder and pulled the paper out. She walked back over to him and smugly held the paper in front of him. "See my apartment."

He laughed out and held out his phone in front of her face. "My apartment too."

"Hey, the phone bit is mine," she retorted with mock anger.

"What?" he quickly retorted with a knotted brow.

Tori shook her head the memory of waving her phone in Jade's face years ago when she wanted to try out for the fake ping-pong team and the pale brunette refused to even let her try. "Never mind, but this can't be right; they couldn't have purposely assigned us together."

"Unless we got married and no told either of us?"

She raised a questioning eyebrow.

Any other time he would probably put on an embarrassing smile and back off as he did when he made a joke too soon when she found out with Carly that they had been dating the same guy, but in this case he decided to continue, "I mean these apartments are usually reserved for married couples besides the transfer and graduate students, so…"

He kept on his boyish grin which broke down what little outrage she had actually felt from the statement. She retorted with a playful smile, "I think I would have remembered us getting married."

"Unless it was in Vegas? And you know what happens in Vegas…"

She just smirked and shook her head while she crossed her arms under her chest. "Getting married wouldn't have stayed in Vegas," she playfully countered.

He let out a soft chuckle and bowed his head.

"Anyway, I guess we have to check with the management and see what the goof up was and get this straightened out."

"'kay…" Freddie trailed off and his smile slid off of his face. He cleared his throat and averted his eyes away from the singer which Tori immediately caught.

Her concern immediately slipped into her voice, "What?"

He barely tilted his head up so he could meet his eyes then cautiously responded, "Until we figure out what's going on, do you mind if I at least bring my stuff in here? I don't trust people not to break into my rental or my mini-trailer."

She cracked a smile. "Of course not. You should have heard the lecture my dad gave me about watching out for people. I'll help bring your stuff up."

Freddie raised a hand. "Tori, you look exhausted."

She really didn't want to argue with him because she did feel exhausted, but she felt she couldn't stay silent in wanting to help. "I'll carry the small stuff…" She playfully pinched his left bicep. "You can do all the heavy lifting muscle man."

He cracked a smile at her playful joke. "Okay."

Freddie had surprisingly packed light for a major move with only a few boxes that he carried up by himself over Tori's objection. She insisted that they still divide up the work, so he had just haphazardly sat boxes in the living room and Tori had pushed them out of the way to keep the walkway clear for the room and to the rest of the apartment. After less than a half hour of moving the few boxes into the apartment, the pair was on their way to the apartment management office.

Tori led as they entered the office and made their way to the receptionist desk to see a young man (not much older than apparently Freddie) typing at the desk computer. The residential style reception area was nearly clear of people from the earlier hustle and bustle of students Freddie had encountered earlier when picking up his key. She put on a bright smile as she politely began, "Excuse me, hi, could you help us?"

The young man looked up and immediately smiled to the lovely teenager. He quickly answered with a bit of flirtation in his voice, "Yes, how can I help you?"

"Yeah… there's been a little mix up with our room assignments," she began and quickly pointed between herself and Freddie.

The receptionist politely answered while trying to hide his surprise at saying that they could have been mixed up, "Okay, how so?"

"We've been assigned the same apartment."

He knotted his brow as he looked between the pair. Tori handed her copy of her room assignment while Freddie held up his phone as she continued, "We have the same room listed for our room assignment."

He passed a quick glance over both their assignments then looked back to his computer. "Okay, give me one second to double check our records…" A few seconds later he brought up the proper database and continued, "Yeah, I have it right here: Tori Vega assigned to room three sixteen along with Fredward Benson. I'm not sure what's the problem, there hasn't been a mix up."

The brunette blew out a breath and patted the counter with the palm of her right hand in frustration. "I'm Tori Vega."

The receptionist gave her a questioning expression.

Tori blew out a breath and quickly reached into her jean pocket then pulled out her wallet so she could show him her driver's license.

He glanced to it then back up to the lovely brunette. "This says Victoria."

She blew out a breath and gave him a patient expression. "I go by Tori for short."

He held out his hand and asked, "May I?"

She gave him a slight nod of her head and handed him her wallet. He looked back to his screen and held the driver's license to compare information. His eyes widened and whispered out, "Oh?"

"Oh?" the pair questioned at the same time.

The secretary gave an embarrassing expression as he handed her wallet back to her. "I see what happened. On the application, the first name is Tori and the gender box was left unchecked. I guess whoever was assigning the rooms in that section thought you were a guy."

Tori palmed her forehead with her right hand and blew out a breath. She looked to Freddie with an apologetic expression and muttered out shamefully, "Oh my God… I was in a hurry and I just wrote Tori out of habit instead of writing out Victoria."

Freddie gave her a sympathetic expression as he tried to reassure her, "It's okay Tori."

She dropped her head and looked to him with an exhausted expression, "No it's not. I goofed up and now you don't have a room or…" She turned her head to look back to the receptionist. "Which one of us was assigned to the room first?"

He passed a quick glance at the computer then answered, "You were."

She looked back to the handsome Seattle native and muttered out with a regretful tone, "See, my fault—"

Freddie raised a reassuring hand on her upper right arm and whispered, "It's fine Tori…"

Tori looked up to meet his compassionate eyes. They and his soft touch were a relieving gesture for her guilt, but she wouldn't let him completely dissuade her remorse for her screw up.

Freddie turned to look to the receptionist and asked, "Anyway, is there any other room you could move me to?"

He gave them a lost expression. "There are no other apartments… that's why incoming freshmen are even allowed to here since they admitted too many this year. We're really swamped with housing, so it's not like there would be anyone to swap with because there aren't any other roommates in this situation."

Freddie continued to question, "Are there any of the larger apartments short a male roommate?"

The receptionist looked back to the computer to pull up another database then quickly answered, "No, all are booked up."

"What are we suppose to do?"

"At the moment, I'm not sure what you can do other than staying put… or not. We can't have you stay together; those are for married students and co-habitation is against policy for the moment. They're working on it for the gay, lesbian and transgender students, but we might be able to get you a waiver due to the circumstances if one of you were…"

Tori quickly interrupted, "We're both heterosexual." She quickly looked to Freddie for a quick confirmation after the fact. He laughed out loud and softly shook his head. "Yes Tori, I still like girls." She shook her head and continued, "Can we get that waiver anyway for the next few days until we can figure out how we can resolve this?"

Freddie put on a confused expression as he questioned, "Tori, we can't stay together. I'll see if I can get a hotel roo—"

Tori raised a hand to stop his objection. "No, you can't spend your money on my goof up. I'm not kicking you out. We have separate rooms; it'll be fine, just like when you stayed over at my house last year."

He softly laughed and was touched by the gesture but he continued to be insistent on the matter, "Tori, I'll get a place closer and just commute."

"Do you have a car?"

He bowed his head slightly, "No, just the rental which is up in a few days. I was going to go car hunting later in the week before classes started."

"Then just stay the night and we'll figure out something tomorrow or Monday. My parents should be back from New York by then and my dad will figure out what we can do."

He slightly frowned and raised an eyebrow as he questioned, "He's not here? Your parents didn't help you move in?"

"My parents are in New York. Trina is going to NYU… my dad was serious in hoping that Trina would go to a university far, far away."

The former tech-producer let out a soft chuckle at the statement.

Tori looked back to the receptionist that had remained quiet throughout the exchange. "Is there anyone that we can talk to that can do that for us?"

He gave them a polite smile and nod of his head. "I'll talk to the manager. You'll have to give me a few minutes." He got up from his seat and headed to one of the small offices.

Tori turned and beamed Freddie a smile, but the Seattle native didn't share the feeling of accomplishment.

A few minutes later and two signatures later, Tori held up her copy of a waiver form with a smile playing on her face towards Freddie while the tech-producer looked back with an apprehensive expression. She slightly frowned and gave him a puppy dog expression in an attempt to wear him down which succeeded a few moments later as he realized that she needed to do something to make it up to him in thinking she wronged him.

His next words instantly put a smile back on the lovely brunette's face and earned him an excited hug, "I guess we're roomies."

Author's Note: I hope everyone enjoyed this first chapter and that you'll come back to read more when I start in February. Also, I'm assuming that all the episodes after 'A Christmas Tori' takes place between Christmas and their graduation in June as that Christmas was in their senior year. Also, I'm making some assumptions about the characters not addressed in the show, such as Tori's faith. Don't be shy with the reviews. Thanks again, OneHorseShay.