Sorry it took so long.
I was kinda uninspired for a while.
I hope everyone will enjoy this chapter.
Thanks so much to Shrimpie, my lovely beta. Thanks sooo much!
Chapter 4: "Dan Humphrey is something you'll never be. A human being."
Dan is still cupping Blair's face with his hands, when suddenly the front door bursts open and a fully loaded Jenny enters. She throws one quick glance over to her brother, then hastily turns away to stumble to her room.
"Jenny it's not like ..."
But he can't finish. Jenny turns around one more time, like something is bothering her. She puts down the boxes and bags full of fabrics and accessories and takes a minute to look at the two people embracing a few feet away from her.
"Blair? Dan? What is going on here?"
Dan realizes that he still hasn't dropped his hands and he does so quickly.
Blair gives him an awkward smile and takes a step back.
He is surprised when he sees that she is directly addressing Jenny.
"Look Jenny, it's not like that. Dan is just helping me with something. Well actually it's not all about helping me... He isn't doing me a favor or anything. It's about taking revenge in general..."
Jenny looks at her in confusion. It's obvious that she wants to say something, but she doesn't. She lets Blair finish first.
"I am sorry. For the way I ... I treated you that day. It wasn't fair. It didn't have anything to do with you. You were just so easy to blame. And I couldn't bear being angry with me that day. I already had to be angry at Chuck and the world and ... I am really sorry."
Dan forgets to breathe for a couple of seconds, he being too overwhelmed by her speech.
It's not the speech itself, it's the fact that Blair Waldorf is standing in their apartment in Brooklyn, admitting that she screwed up and apologizing for it.
Jenny seems to need a few moments to process what just happened.
After what seems like an eternity to Dan, Jenny finally speaks.
"It's okay. I guess we both screwed up a little."
Blair nods in agreement, a weak smile crumbling across her lips.
"What you said about taking revenge 'in general', you did mean Chuck right?", Dan's sister then asks.
Blair gives her another nod.
"I wanna help", Jenny states carefully, trying very hard not to meet her brother's eyes.
Dan and Blair both react at the same time.
"Okay."
"No way."
Blair looks at Dan, seeming rather puzzled.
"Why can't she help? She has as much reason as I do."
"I don't want her to get involved with him anymore, okay?"
"Dan, I am not a little girl anymore. I can make my own decisions." Jenny throws in, but Dan ignores her.
He turns to Blair, his eyes pleading. "She is my little sister."
The worry and the hurt in his eyes get to Blair in a way that she would have never expected.
Dan really loves his sister, in a way that nobody ever loved her before. Always protective and caring no matter how badly she screwed up.
People always turned away from her when things got rough.
Nate.
Serena.
Chuck.
Eleanor.
Even her dad.
"Now... now you're like the Arabian my father used to own. Rode hard and put away wet. I don't want you anymore, and I can't see why anyone else would."
If only he had known, that she had come to him, because she had hoped he would know. Know a reason, why anyone else would ever want her again.
The tears are there before she can stop them.
She can't breathe. Her tongue is tied to her chest.
"Excuse me.", she sobs and runs to the bathroom, ignoring Dan and Jenny's eyes on her.
She shuts the door behind her with a loud thump.
When she closes her eyes she can still see him sitting there in his pink cardigan.
"I don't want you anymore."
She can still see him, down at the lobby in his black coat.
"You went up there on your own."
She can still taste Jack's kiss on her lips. It's the taste of humiliation.
More and more tears are rolling down her cheeks, ruining all her make up.
The door silently opens and Jenny joins Blair on the sink of the bathtub.
"Why does it keep hurting so bad?"
Jenny gently places her hand on Blair's shoulder.
"Because you genuinely loved him. He just didn't love you back the same way. Because you corrupted yourself in ways you never thought possible and you thought it was okay, because it was for him. Because you thought one day he would make it all worth it. But he never did."
Jenny chokes up on the last, her eyes glistening with tears.
"I guess now would be the part where we both realize that taking revenge will not help us and we should just move past this."
A single tear runs down Jenny's cheek, she is smiling.
"Honestly, taking revenge on Chuck Bass is gonna make me feel so much better. I really think we should do it Blair. You deserve to take him down. Once and for all."
"Who would have thought? Little J giving me advice."
Jenny laughs out loud at the memory of her times as being Little J, the cute little girl trying so desperately to fit in.
"I am totally not Little J anymore.", she says.
Blair smiles. "True. You've grown up. You've changed. You're more confident, meaner...going your own way. I like it."
The girls smile at each other.
"The whole threatening you was really stupid."
Blair is giggling now.
Jenny also giggles.
"I was really scared there for a moment, not gonna lie."
They share another warm hearted moment, until they realize that Dan is still waiting outside and probably worrying about them.
Jenny gets up rather cheerful offering Blair her hand.
"Let the games begin."
Blair smiles at Jenny devilishly : "Let the games begin.", she repeats and takes her hand.
"So...", Dan mumbles after twenty minutes of brainstorming, "What have you got? Jenny?"
Jenny takes a deep breath and starts reading out her list.
"1. Stab him.
2. Drown him.
3. Set his apartment on fire.
4. Set him on fire.
5. Shoot him in the head.
6. Run him over with a car.
him from a high building.
8. Poison him.
9. Send the Salvatore Brothers.
10. Make his plane crash."
Dan looks at his sister for a while, the utter confusion painted across his face.
"Jenny, those are simply 10 ten ways of killing him. We were going for a more..."
But Blair doesn't let him finish.
"I like Number 9, we could go on a double date with them afterwards. To celebrate."
"Oh my go, YES! Wait, which one do you want?"
"Well they are both really really really hot. And Damon is my type, but I think I should go with the good guy for once. Wait, we don't have to start a relationship with them right away, we can just take them home for the night...
"I totally agree, we can just go on the date and see who bonds with whom... I keep getting distracted at the imagery of having both brothers."
Dan clears his throat so loudly that even the people living next door could hear him.
Blair and Jenny wake up from their little day dream and stare at Dan, both blushing a little.
"Anyway, those were my 10 ideas", Jenny stutters, avoiding Dan's gaze.
"Okay I'll go next.", Blair says, "Mine says : Destroy the man by destroying what's important to him. The Empire. It will be some work, but nothing Blair Waldorf can't pull off in a week. Or less."
Dan and Jenny are both nodding in approval as Blair adds: "I should text my minions about this. Do go on, Dan."
Dan clears his throat again like preparing some grande speech at which Jenny rolls her eyes in annoyment.
"Well I got some stupid and rather immature things such as: putting laxative in his coffee, spray painting his limousine, show him that you moved on and that you're totally happy without him. Make all his clothes go pink, though I am not even sure he would mind... Yeah and maybe post some tasteless stuff about him on Gossip Girl. That was it though. Your idea is so much better Blair."
Her triumphing smile coudn't have been any brighter.
"Thank you Humphrey, but your ideas are not bad either. Actually that could be our intro. Strange things will happen to him. He won't know how or why and then it will hit him. And suddenly his life is a living hell. He hates green. We could make all his clothes go green."
She trails off for a while.
"Jenny, you need to meet up with Nate at the Empire for some reason. Grab a cup of coffee or something. I don't know. Get into the kitchen somehow. Get us a key."
Dan looks at Blair confused.
"It would make much more sense If I went to see Nate."
"True, but you won't be able to get him to sneak into the kitchen would you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Jenny is a charming girl, she can make guys like Nate do anything."