User blog comment:FearlessStatic/"Carly Sent You To Find Me?"/@comment-4096687-20110721135741/@comment-799379-20110721140303

Agreed. I think it's both the reasons you described. The fact that Freddie took it upon himself to find her shows that he does care about her and doesn't need Carly's instructions to go look for her unlike at the beginning of iCarly.