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Green With Envy 2.0-Thanksgiving

By: Nellbell222

It took about 3 days before Blair finally came to Serena to ask permission to date Dan. Or so Serena thought. No, Blair was actually there telling Serena that Dan and her were dating and had been since the beginning of their trip. She literally couldn't believe what she was hearing but she was hearing what she had been dreading ever since she saw them on the escalator in the JFK airport.

It took another 3 days before Serena realized that she couldn't stay in New York and be insanely jealous of their perfect relationship that Serena could have had with Dan if she just grew up like Blair apparently had. So, Serena told everyone that she had a job in California waiting for her and the attention was reverted back to her and it was what kept her sane for her last week in New York. She took the red eye to Los Angeles and left her precious city in the dust.

But, after almost a year, Serena was going back. She deflected Blair's and her mother's pleas for her to return with work but it was the holidays and Blair wanted Serena to be home with her so she could finally talk about Dan and her's foreign excursion that lasted two extra months on top of the four and to spend some quality time with her best friend after a year apart. Her mother also insisted that she come home as well because they missed her dearly and Eric had a "friend" he was bringing home for the first time in a while. Lily had said that she missed her in such a weak voice that it made Serena's heart melt.

And that's why she now found herself in JFK, waiting for Dan to pick her up. Had he changed since the last time she saw him? Blair always mentioned very little of him on the phone and when she received one of Dan's few phone calls, he mostly talked about her and her job. But she never asked about the happy couple. Why put her through the pain? She didn't need that kind of stress in her life.

"Serena!" She whipped her head around to see Dan Humphrey…and Nate Archibald waving her over. Serena scowled; she wanted to talk to Dan by herself. Maybe even get up the courage to ask him what he saw in Blair and what he didn't see in her anymore.

"Dan! Nate!" She hugged Nate and then Dan, breathing in Dan's Armani cologne. She had bought the same kind for Luka the actor; her short-lived fling.

"Hey California girl! How've ya been?" She smiled up at Dan and giggled at his lame attempt at a joke. God, she missed him.

"I've been good. My job keeps me really busy." Dan smiled at her and picked up her suitcase.

"What do you do again?" She jumped at the sound of Nate's voice. Serena had forgotten he was there. Hopefully he didn't see the way she looked at Dan.

"I'm an agent for stars. One of my clients actually is Lindsey Lohan's little sister." Nate nodded his head like he knew what she was talking about but Dan smiled at her and she automatically knew he understood. Didn't he feel the connection they had?

"She was in that new movie about switching bodies, right?" She knew that Dan would know. Serena nodded.

"Yeah, that was a big deal for her career. She is getting all kinds of endorsements now." Dan looked impressed to see Serena taking her job so seriously and it made her proud to have his attention.

"That's great. Blair wanted to go see it after she saw that trailer commercial on TV. Only movie she wanted to go see in theatres ever since that Marilyn Monroe biography. Now that was a bore." Nate laughed along with Dan and she sensed an inside joke. She frowned but said nothing. Everything went back to Blair now. Serena remembered a time when everything Dan said went back to her.

"Yeah, but Jenny and I ended up seeing it with Blair instead. Dan had to work late so we were forced to participate. Blair and Jenny couldn't stop laughing during the WHOLE thing about something Blair said at the start of the movie. It was madness."

Jenny? Blair? Nate? Jenny and Blair? Nate and Jenny? What?

"Huh? You and Jenny are an item?" Dan laughed and Serena shrank. The laugh was demeaning and used for children when they did something extremely stupid. Thankfully, however, it wasn't for her, but Nate.

"Shut up Dan. Yeah, well, I've kind of been seeing her for a while. I must've told you on the phone! Jenny moved back to the city last Christmas and we've been dating since Valentine 's Day."

No, he hadn't told her. He, Blair, Dan, her mother, Rufus had said nothing about Jenny Humphrey being back in the city for a whole year. Or that Blair and Jenny made up. Or that Nate and Jenny had been dating for 10 months. Serena suddenly felt so alienated that she couldn't deal with it; it almost made her want to call and have her stuff sent to the city. That was, until, they had gotten to the Van der Woodsen's penthouse.

As she followed Dan and Nate into her home, she was a stranger. Serena surely didn't want to return to New York feeling like a stranger in her city. Blair and Jenny were sitting on chairs by the stove and arguing about the time it would take to make homemade whipped cream.

"You Humphries are all the same. Rufus says that it doesn't take a day to bake a Thanksgiving dessert menu. But it did. Dan said it wouldn't take him that long to get to the airport and he was late. And now, you are telling me that it would only take a minute to make fresh and perfect whipped cream. I think not."

Jenny laughed and shook her head. Serena smiled as well; that was her Blair. Blair spotted the trio walking in and first gave Nate a peck on the cheek and then kissed Dan on the lips. Serena's heart clenched but she focused on why she was here. To please everyone. Not to be a scorned ex-girlfriend.

"S! Oh my god!" She gave Serena a Blair-bear hug and kissed her cheek. "God, S, I have been dealing with all of these people without you! Archibald is just unbearably obnoxious, Humphrey 1 is just way too nice for her own good and Humphrey 2 doesn't know how to bake a proper pie. I love him but that's just ungodly."

Serena wrapped her arms around Blair for another hug. But Serena felt like crying. She figured Dan loved Blair but Serena couldn't admit to it. She wouldn't. You always still loved your first love. You always will; so Dan just needs some time to figure his feelings out for Blair, just like Vanessa and then they would be okay. She saw the way he looked at her in the airport; he had missed her.

"B, I'm so sorry I left. Being back…it's really great." Blair pulled away and had a huge smile on her face.

"Do you want to come back?" Serena nodded slowly, not sure but she only knew one thing she wanted for sure. Dan.

"Well, then, celebratory champagne for my best friend returning to where she belongs! Humphrey 2, will you and Nate go pick some up at home for us?" Dan smiled and wrapped his arms around Blair. Serena felt sick.

"Yes I would love to but you have my keys. Since you left your purse at home." Serena almost gasped. He had keys? Blair leaving her purse at home? Almost unheard of. Serena did those kind of things and that's one of the reasons Dan loved her. For her forgetfulness.

Blair held up a key chain. "There you are. And hurry back! I haven't seen you all day." Dan smirked.

"Oh, you will be seeing me a lot tonight. To catch up for five days worth of not seeing me a lot." He wiggled his eyebrows and Jenny snorted.

"Dude! Jenny's here!" More like Serena's here! Did anyone care? She sat down on the floor when she suddenly felt too sick to stand. Dan and Blair had sex. Lots of sex probably.

"Goodbye boys. Love you Nate!"

"Love you too Jen." Nate kissed Jenny and then they left.

Blair still looked happy from Dan's comment and was biting her lip; focusing on the pie in the oven. Serena didn't know how much more she could take.

"S! Picture with Dan, Nate and Jenny!"

Serena was on autopilot now. After a night and all day with "new" Blair, she was exhausted. New Blair did everything extremely fast. From making food to doing the dishes to trimming the flowers to talking about the new Gucci line while on the elliptical. She was full of energy and Serena was not. Serena was still in Cali-chill mode while Blair was New York's busiest bee.

How did Jenny, Nate and Dan deal with this all day, every day?

She finally gained the courage to pull Dan aside because, despite her feelings of anger and resentment towards Blair, she was genuinely worried about her best friend.

"What is going on with Blair, Dan? She is driving me up the wall." Dan laughed and Serena smiled, he was tired too. Maybe that would be a reason for him to leave her?

"She's a piece of work, isn't she? After her mother ad Cyrus moved to London last December, she has been so excited to have her own penthouse. She redecorated everything and moved out of her old bedroom, into her mother's old room. Reconstructed the whole penthouse really and ever since she has been doing that; there's no stopping her. Wait till you see the place though. She did an amazing job. God, you will see why she is like this."

Serena nodded politely and smiled when need be but she felt odd listening to Dan speak about Blair like this. With so much passion and so much-"I moved in about two months ago. Officially sold the loft about two or three weeks ago."

Serena was gob smacked. Dan was not in Brooklyn anymore? He was no longer Dan…from Brooklyn? She came with a thousand ways to intelligently ask more about it but all she came up with was, "Are you sad?"

He laughed and smiled beautifully at her. "No, I'm not really sad about leaving. Actually, I haven't been this happy since high school. When I dated you."

The way he said it was as if it was just casual dating. Like he hadn't lost his virginity to the woman next to him. Like he hadn't loved her. Like she hadn't loved him. It didn't break her heart as it should because she was too ecstatic that he had never been happier than when he was with her.

"That's good. And, I wanted to-"

"Serena and Dan! Bonding time is over! We are heading out!" Blair clomped around in her brand new pumps that she had bought yesterday at exactly store closing time. Serena had been trying to catch her breath when Blair tore out of Bloomingdale's and said they were off to the next stop.

Dan smiled at Blair. "Alright, alright," he turned to Serena, "She's been worried that we wouldn't get enough time to spend together. Now look what she's doing. Blair claims that she read that step-brothers and sisters should spend more time together than ex-boyfriends. I.e. Nate." Serena laughed with Dan but she secretly gasped.

She knew that he did technically consider her as a step sister but also as an ex-girlfriend as well. Had Blair forgotten in her bustle to make her dream home that Serena and Dan had dated for their whole junior year almost?

The pre-dinner arrangements went off marvelously efficiently in Blair…and Dan's new, beautiful penthouse. The floor plan was perfect. And Blair…and Dan's bedroom was gorgeous. Dan had made a very funny joke about the closet space but Serena had been too preoccupied with looking at the pictures in the room. Three were of Blair and her as kids, teens and adults. One was of Nate and Blair at their Colombia graduation. There was even one of Blair and Chuck at the opening at his new hotel that he half dedicated to Blair and half to Nate, The Archwald. But on the desk and on the bedside tables, there were three of Dan and Blair on each. Most of them were of them on their two trips to Europe. But there were a few of Dan, Nate, Blair and Jenny at balls and parties. They all looked so happy without her…and Chuck, she guessed. There was a new Non-Judging Breakfast Club and she wasn't in it.

After the preparations and Blair's wrath, the Waldorf…Humphrey penthouse was filled with guests. Anne Archibald, Serena's mother and Rufus, Eric and his boyfriend, Gregory, Dorota and her family of Vanya and her three beautiful daughters, Chuck with his "date" and a few other guests. As Serena watched Dan and Blair exchange their thanks and kiss each other throughout the day and night, it made her think of something. If it was so bad now, at Thanksgiving, how bad would be at Christmas? Mistletoes and gifts. Dan's Christmas spirit that matched Blair's Thanksgiving cheer.

Mistletoes…huh, maybe that was her way to finally catch Dan? She'd try it. She would try anything.

Review? XOXO, Nellbell222

And as I wrote this, I already decided that I am going to do at least six chapters but if you want me to stretch it out longer than that, just tell me!