three is a magical number (1)
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thegraduate09
Word Count: 840
Fandom: iCarly
Pairing: Sam/Freddie/Carly
Rating: Mature
Summary: He's starting to think she may even be able to take over the world if she weren't so lazy.
Author's Note: This... I don't even know. I sat down to write the next part of Therapy, and got distracted drawing on my ankle, and that led to the title and the first line, and then it exploded. This may honestly be the longest single chapter to a story I've written so far. There's going to be at least one more part, probably two. Enjoy.
♠
It's all Sam's idea, of course. Her fault, depending on your point of view. Which isn't to say that he's never thought about it, only that he'll never say he thought about it.
There's a certain amount of applauding - not literally, he's pretty sure that'd be awkward and Go Over Badly - that she deserves, though. She's pretty subtle about this, plans it out over a period of time, clearly.
The funny thing about Sam is as much as everyone knows she's a criminalmastermind, no one thinks she's a criminal mastermind.
It starts at the end of an iCarly rehearsal, just one little side comment from Sam,
"You know, three's a magical number."
He and Carly just glance at each other and shrug, she's been weird since just before the Nora incident and he'd bet cash money that neither one of them thought about it again for about two weeks.
Now he gets it. Groundwork.
♥
The next piece doesn't even come from her, at least, not directly. But everyone knows Ripoff Rodney and Wendy, the gossip queen, are 'close' and Sam hung out with him only a couple days before Wendy came up to him and Carly in the hallway. It's not hard to follow that trail.
He tries for "horrified" when Wendy says "Rumor is all three of you iCarlies are screwing each other," but he's well aware he doesn't accomplish it nearly as well as Carly does.
He's not even sure if he says anything before he heads off in the opposite direction from his next class, and it's screwed up the way the first thing he focuses on is when did 'iCarlies' become the accepted name for him, Sam and Carly.
♣
When he gets to school the next day every guy he passes on the way to their lockers - he doesn't even think about how this makes him, them, look guilty - pats him on the back and congratulates him.
Carly's clearly freaking, he catches the end of her high pitched question, "-don't you care?," but Sam's just leaning against her locker.
She shrugs, "Way I see it, you and I just got hotter, Shay. I agree it sucks we're linked to that," she nodded in Freddie's direction, "though, we totally wouldn't need him."
And then she's off, who knows to where, and Carly's just staring, shocked. Obviously she's never thought about it.
Now, he can pinpoint that moment as when Sam's plan got too big for her and everything began to spin completely out of control. Now, it doesn't do any good.
He thinks she kinda got that it was newer to Carly, though, 'cuz she backs off a bit. It's not really a surprise, they're not joking when they joke about Carly being a priss, and there are more separations between the three of them than anyone else would guess, and they never talk about them, but this is the biggest one. Carly hates change, and the switch from kid to teenager and middle school to high school was one she preferred to ignore. He and Sam, though, they were just waiting for the exit sign to light up, as much as they didn't want to be away from Carly, they wanted to be away from their mothers.
None of those thoughts, not even knowing how visceral and physical a person Sam is, or how impatient, made him prepared to walk into the iCarly studio and see Sam pinning Carly up against the wall with her hands and her hair and yes, everything that goes along with that picture.
He's a little amazed he didn't pass out.
When Sam does pull back to breath and give her weak explanation (Everyone's saying we are, so why shouldn't we?), he can't tell if Carly's shocked or- or into it, she's not saying anything, not saying no, but she won't meet his eyes at first. But once again she's steps ahead of them, and in a blink Sam's pulled Carly away from the wall and pushed - no, guided, Sam's being gentle, Carly in front of him, into him, and he thinks he hears her whisper into her ear, 'you know you want to, it's okay,' but words aren't making any sense to him at all right now.
♦
If only everything didn't start better than it finished. Next morning, it's just him and Sam waking up in the studio and Carly's long gone and the two of them aren't touching at all until he gets up to leave and Sam puts up her hand to stop him, "Trust me. Don't go after her. She's got to think through this and have her little freakout with someone who isn't us before she can talk to us again."
He's not entirely sure she's right, but she's known Carly longer than he has, or at least better than he has, and he's not going to lie, it's pretty tempting to stay when she's stretching like that. Should've known the girl would be shameless.
They'll find Carly later.
Author:
thegraduate09Word Count: 840
Fandom: iCarly
Pairing: Sam/Freddie/Carly
Rating: Mature
Summary: He's starting to think she may even be able to take over the world if she weren't so lazy.
Author's Note: This... I don't even know. I sat down to write the next part of Therapy, and got distracted drawing on my ankle, and that led to the title and the first line, and then it exploded. This may honestly be the longest single chapter to a story I've written so far. There's going to be at least one more part, probably two. Enjoy.
♠
It's all Sam's idea, of course. Her fault, depending on your point of view. Which isn't to say that he's never thought about it, only that he'll never say he thought about it.
There's a certain amount of applauding - not literally, he's pretty sure that'd be awkward and Go Over Badly - that she deserves, though. She's pretty subtle about this, plans it out over a period of time, clearly.
The funny thing about Sam is as much as everyone knows she's a criminal
It starts at the end of an iCarly rehearsal, just one little side comment from Sam,
"You know, three's a magical number."
He and Carly just glance at each other and shrug, she's been weird since just before the Nora incident and he'd bet cash money that neither one of them thought about it again for about two weeks.
Now he gets it. Groundwork.
♥
The next piece doesn't even come from her, at least, not directly. But everyone knows Ripoff Rodney and Wendy, the gossip queen, are 'close' and Sam hung out with him only a couple days before Wendy came up to him and Carly in the hallway. It's not hard to follow that trail.
He tries for "horrified" when Wendy says "Rumor is all three of you iCarlies are screwing each other," but he's well aware he doesn't accomplish it nearly as well as Carly does.
He's not even sure if he says anything before he heads off in the opposite direction from his next class, and it's screwed up the way the first thing he focuses on is when did 'iCarlies' become the accepted name for him, Sam and Carly.
♣
When he gets to school the next day every guy he passes on the way to their lockers - he doesn't even think about how this makes him, them, look guilty - pats him on the back and congratulates him.
Carly's clearly freaking, he catches the end of her high pitched question, "-don't you care?," but Sam's just leaning against her locker.
She shrugs, "Way I see it, you and I just got hotter, Shay. I agree it sucks we're linked to that," she nodded in Freddie's direction, "though, we totally wouldn't need him."
And then she's off, who knows to where, and Carly's just staring, shocked. Obviously she's never thought about it.
Now, he can pinpoint that moment as when Sam's plan got too big for her and everything began to spin completely out of control. Now, it doesn't do any good.
He thinks she kinda got that it was newer to Carly, though, 'cuz she backs off a bit. It's not really a surprise, they're not joking when they joke about Carly being a priss, and there are more separations between the three of them than anyone else would guess, and they never talk about them, but this is the biggest one. Carly hates change, and the switch from kid to teenager and middle school to high school was one she preferred to ignore. He and Sam, though, they were just waiting for the exit sign to light up, as much as they didn't want to be away from Carly, they wanted to be away from their mothers.
None of those thoughts, not even knowing how visceral and physical a person Sam is, or how impatient, made him prepared to walk into the iCarly studio and see Sam pinning Carly up against the wall with her hands and her hair and yes, everything that goes along with that picture.
He's a little amazed he didn't pass out.
When Sam does pull back to breath and give her weak explanation (Everyone's saying we are, so why shouldn't we?), he can't tell if Carly's shocked or- or into it, she's not saying anything, not saying no, but she won't meet his eyes at first. But once again she's steps ahead of them, and in a blink Sam's pulled Carly away from the wall and pushed - no, guided, Sam's being gentle, Carly in front of him, into him, and he thinks he hears her whisper into her ear, 'you know you want to, it's okay,' but words aren't making any sense to him at all right now.
♦
If only everything didn't start better than it finished. Next morning, it's just him and Sam waking up in the studio and Carly's long gone and the two of them aren't touching at all until he gets up to leave and Sam puts up her hand to stop him, "Trust me. Don't go after her. She's got to think through this and have her little freakout with someone who isn't us before she can talk to us again."
He's not entirely sure she's right, but she's known Carly longer than he has, or at least better than he has, and he's not going to lie, it's pretty tempting to stay when she's stretching like that. Should've known the girl would be shameless.
They'll find Carly later.
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