Okay, first of all I am so sorry this took so long. I mean to update sooner but I have actually been so busy it's unbelievable. Just last week I got mugged, they took my phone and it was freaking scary! But that's besides the point.
I'm really happy with how this chapter turned out. I've realized I'm good at writing about evil characters. Lol. So anyway, there's a bit of swearing in hear but I hope you like it.
p.s.
I didn't I'm too tired and lazy to proofread so just ignore any mistakes. But if they confuse you feel free to ask for an explanation.
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Chapter 10 - Georgie's Misdeeds
Phoebe Sparks looked around the school courtyard to find her boyfriend. She spotted him in one corner sitting with all his friends. Jake was always quite popular while Phoebe herself didn't really have friends, all she had was Jake. So of course, it didn't help that she and Jake weren't the same as they used to be. Ever since his mother had said those things to him about her mother, things between them were just awkward. Phoebe wanted to blame Mrs Humphrey but she knew it really wasn't her fault. She must have some reasons for those accusations on Georgina, Phoebe just hoped that those reasons weren't too accurate. Phoebe had heard stories about her mother, she knew for a fact that her mother had done horrible things. She just didn't know what exactly those horrible things were. She'd never bothered to find out, mostly because she was afraid of the truth though.
She strutted up to her boyfriend and greeted him with a deep kiss. Several of Jake's friends wolf-whistled at them while others clapped jokingly. When Phoebe pulled away Jake gave her a sweet smile he had inherited from his mother.
"Hello" he said unable to wipe the smile off his face.
"I need to talk to you about something" Phoebe told him. She wanted to get this Georgina issue dealt with as soon as possible so she had no other option but to be straight forward with Jake.
"Okay" he said hesitantly and Phoebe led them to a pillar nearby.
"Things have been awkward since the concert" Phoebe stated. Jake just nodded along, he wasn't exactly sure what to say to that.
"I want it to stop" Phoebe demanded.
"Okay" Jake said, still unsure of what to say.
"Well what can I do to make it stop?" Phoebe asked him.
"Talk to your mother" he answered. That, he had something to say about.
"If she hasn't told me in all these years why would she tell me now?" Phoebe said.
"Because you asked her" Jake said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. He was right, the only reason Phoebe didn't know anything about her mother's past was because she was afraid to ask questions. She was afraid that the truth would be too much to handle. That's why she never asked her mother who her father was and why he wasn't around, or why all the Upper East Side parents hated her. Phoebe was afraid of getting hurt so she avoided awkward situations, like asking her mother personal questions.
Phoebe sighed.
"Fine. I'll ask her" she told her boyfriend. He gave her a satisfactory smile and rejoined his friends.
Phoebe sighed again. She wasn't looking forward to this one bit.
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Jenny stepped out of her favorite coffee shop into the New York morning air. She loved mornings, they were always so refreshing. She couldn't help but notice, as she walked down the street in her expensive stilettos, that she was extremely happy for some strange reason. She liked feeling like that though. It was a bit of relief since the whole Eric being gay issue with her kids. She walked a few blocks taking small sips of her coffee, seeing as it was still rather hot. she turned a corner and then saw two familiar people in the distance. She wasn't one hundred percent sure, but she had a feeling that it was Chuck Bass and Georgina Sparks. That's weird she thought. She thought it was just people who looked like them seeing as Chuck and Georgina weren't really friendly, but as they got closer she saw that it really was them. Jenny herself didn't go unnoticed because Georgina spotted her when they were a few meters away from each other.
"Hello Jenny" Georgina said politely.
"Hey Georgina, Chuck" Jenny said cautiously. She didn't quite know how to react to this duo. Not only did Jenny dislike Georgina but she also was unfortunate enough to know that Georgina was the reason Bart Bass was dead because a drunk detective told her at the Humphrey's New Year's party.
"I didn't know you two were friends" Jenny said. She knew that it was a bit of a strange thing to sya but she wanted to know how Georgina had manipulated her way back into Chuck's head.
"Well, we ran into each other a few weeks ago and we've been catching up" Chuck explained.
"Turns out we have quite a lot in common. Both single parents, grown out of their tumultuous habits of self-destruction" Georgina said. Jenny knew what she was talking about. Chuck had been a bit of a drinker in his youth, as Georgina was a coke head. Jenny could believe that Chuck was over it, or at least not as much of a heavy drinker as he used to be, but she wasn't sure what to believe when it came down to Georgina Sparks.
"Well, that's nice" was all Jenny could say. She felt horrible. She wanted to tell Chuck everything she knew. She wanted to warn him of the dangers that the elder Sparks carried with her. But she knew she couldn't. When you were up against Georgina you had to be sneaky and wise with everything you said and did. After all, she was one of the most sinister people anyone could ever come across in their entire life.
"You know, I should be getting to work. I guess I'll see you two around" Jenny said.
"Bye" Chuck and Georgina said simultaneously. Jenny nodded goodbye and rushed past the two friends. She didn't know what to do now. She was worried for Chuck, but somewhere in the back of her head, a little voice inside of her was trying to convince her that maybe Georgine had changed. And although Jenny didn't want to take that risk she just went along with the voice, at least until she figured out what to do.
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Jake sat in his bedroom in front of his laptop. He'd been on the internet for hours now looking through old Gossip Girl archives to see what he could find out about Phoebe's mom. He trusted Phoebe to ask her mother but he knew that Phoebe sugar-coated the truth whenever it was unpleasant, so he was going to do a little research for himself just in case that happened. There was also the small chance that Georgina would lie to her daughter and Jake didn't want to take that risk. He was very loyal to his family, they were important to him, so it mattered to him if his girlfriend's mother was a bitch who messed with his own mother's life. He clicked back through his parents teenage years. He found that there was many things he didn't know, not only about Georgina Sparks but about his parents and their friends. It was strange reading all the old blasts. There was things here about his parents that he would never dream of doing, it amazed him what type of people Serena and Dan really were.
He clicked back a few more months and found a few things about Georgina. He learned that she had messed with his mother for a while towards the end of her junior year. She had come between her mother an father. And then Jake saw it. It was a picture of his seventeen year old father and a seventeen year old Georgina kissing. It creeped him out. Not only was Georgina evil but she and her dad had kissed. It sent shivers down his spine and not in a good way at all.
"Jake, what are you doing?" His mother's voice asked from the doorway. She walked over to see what Jake was looking at on his laptop. He tried to exit out of the page but she caught a glimpse of it before it was gone.
"Why are you looking at that?" She asked a little more sternly than before.
"Things between Phoebe and I have been a little awkward lately. I find it kind of hard to trust her with her mother's past so I asked Phoebe to ask her mom about it. Unfortunately Phoebe has a habit for making things a little less serious then they really are so I'm doing my own personal research" Jake explained. Serena nodded along understandingly.
"Honey, you should trust Phoebe. Just because her mother was a sinister witch doesn't mean her daughter is the same" Serena insisted to her son but the fact that she used the words sinister witch to describe Georgina just made him uncomfortable.
"Well could you tell me some things about Georgina, just so I can be sure" he asked his mother. She sighed and flicked back a blond clump of hair.
"She was very manipulative" Serena began explaining. "She could get you to do something you didn't want to and you wouldn't notice it until the deed was done. She liked seeing other people's messed up lives, I think it made her feel less screwed up. Kind of like a defense mechanism sort of thing. It all seems quite pointless though, she's fucked up from the inside out down to her soulless core of evil."
Jake flinched as his mother described the Sparks mother. His mother had never talked like this about anyone ever, It only made Jake more and more nervous about the outcome of his whole trust issues with Phoebe.
"Don't worry" Serena assured him, "I'm sure Phoebe's not like that, I've met her. She seems sweet."
"Did Georgina seem sweet when you first met her?" Jake asked letting Serena know just how paranoid he was. She didn't reply, the truth was Serena didn't like Phoebe dating Jake. She had a pretty good idea that any child raised by Georgina Sparks was as evil as her mother, if not worse. Serena just couldn't believe that anyone in the Sparks family could be at all good, after all, Georgina was practically Satan herself in flesh and blood.
"Just don't worry about it, okay?" Was all the reassurance Serena could give her son and she walked out of the bedroom.
Jake sighed. He had a feeling that this was the beginning of the end.
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Phoebe heard the loud clacking of her mother's designer heels on the expensive marble floor of the Sparks home. She looked up from the homework she was pretending to do to see her mother standing gracefully in front of her staring down at her daughter. The two women were very alike in appearance with a few exceptions. However, neither of them knew just how far apart they were in personalities.
Georgina's mesmerizing, blue eyes stared into her daughters tropical, hazel colored ones. Phoebe saw pride in her mother's stare, almost as if Georgina was happy to see that Phoebe didn't turn out as messed up as she once was in her past.
"We're having the Basses over for dinner tonight" Georgina finally announced to her daughter. Phoebe simply nodded. She knew who the Basses were. She was very aware that Chuck Bass and her mother had become very close friends in the past month or so, and she had heard countless rumors and stories about eh Bass daughter. Phoebe didn't mind the company, it wasn't like she had many friends outside of Jake. And then she remembered the questions she had to ask her mother so that she and her boyfriend could finally move forward.
"Mom can I ask you something?" Phoebe began.
"Sure" Georgina said simply, completely unaware of what sort of questions Phoebe had in mind.
"Well, I know that you did some bad things in your past. I was just wondering what sort of stuff they were and would you ever do any of those things again?" Phoebe mumbled loud and clear enough for Georgie to hear. Georgina hesitated a moment with her answer, she wanted to make sure that she explained everything right.
"I did a lot of bad things in my past. I don't want to tell you what they were but I did do drugs and manipulated people, let's just leave it at that. But I regret a lot of the things I've done, and I wouldn't consider doing them again" Georgina explained. She was as blunt as possible. She figured it was easier for her daughter to take it all in if she used silly half-truths.
"Okay, well, I just needed to know" Phoebe explained her purpose.
"It's okay, I expected you to eventually ask me these things" Georgina said.
"Who's my father?" Phoebe blurted out randomly. It was kind of a spontaneous spur of the moment type thing. It was just a burning question that had always been in the back of her mind and now seemed like the appropriate time to ask.
Georgina froze. She wasn't quite sure how to react to this. She knew from the moment she found out she was pregnant that this question would come she just never really knew how to answer it, mostly because Georgina herself was as curious to know as Phoebe was. Georgina could remember the night it happened extremely well for some one who was stoned out of her mind.
She was at a club one Saturday night. She was completely out of it. The room was already spinning violently and there were no people, only colorful blobs. She remembered some blob whispering sweet nothings into her ear for a while, she remembered thinking how pointless this was. She was high, he could just fuck her and leave, it's not like she would remember. Funnily enough, she did. After a while of uttering dirty suggestions into Georgina's ear the blob pulled her into the gentleman's restroom and tried some of those dirty suggestions with her in the third cubicle. Georgina couldn't remember the rest of the night. She just remembered a pattern of morning sickness and the realization dawning on her that she'd screwed up real bad this time.
Georgina shook herself out of her memories and stared at her daughter's features. She had a few of her blob father's features. If Georgie wasn't so wasted on the night it happened she might have been able to remember at least a silhouette rather than just a blob.
"Your father didn't know he had a daughter" Georgina said truthfully.
"Why didn't you tell him?" Phoebe asked curiously. She was desperately trying to understand her mother but realized that she was a lot more complex than she let on.
"He would have denied it anyway" Georgina said. Phoebe had many more questions for her mother but something in her eyes told her that she didn't have that many answers. Phoebe hated how unclear her mother's answers always were but she had to live with them. They were all she was gonna get and at least they were something.
"Okay. Thanks mom" Phoebe said and carried on pretending to do algebra.
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Dan, Serena, Eric and Jenny all sat around the Humphrey dinner table enjoying the dinner that was especially made for the two married couples. They had one of these dinners at least once a month. It was their way of family bonding. Usually the kids were involved but tonight they all seemed to be busy with something, God know what. The parents tried not to get too involved, they had their own scandalous pasts and it would be hypocritical of them to stop their children from doing the same. After all, that was the way they learned anyway.
The two couples were in a conversation about old friends and people they never saw often anymore and then Jenny remembered the interesting duo that she had run into that morning.
"Oh my God, you'll never guess who I ran into this morning" she told the other three.
"Who?" her older brother asked curiously.
"Chuck Bass and Georgina Sparks getting coffee together. Apparently they're friends" Jenny said.
"That's ridiculous" Eric said. He and Chuck were quite close so he found it hard to believe that Chuck was gullible enough to re-friend Georgina Sparks.
"Why is it that Georgina seems to come up in all my conversations today?" Serena muttered to herself. The other three looked at her strangely.
"Well today Jake was looking through old Gossip Girl archives to find out stuff about her. He's dating her daughter and is getting a little paranoid. Honestly I don't blame him. I've met the girl and she seems nice but then again so did Georgina. I don't know maybe she has changed but I wouldn't put my money on it" Serena rambled on.
"I wouldn't either" Jenny said simply. The simple facts that she knew about Bart Bass' death was starting to eat her up from the inside out. She was trying to figure out a way that she could simply slip it into the conversation but it wasn't something you just mentioned and forgot about.
"Maybe she has changed" Dan suggested.
"Dan, seriously?" Was all Serena could say to her delusional husband.
"Have actually talked to her since she returned?" Dan asked the blond bombshell sitting next to him. Serena didn't answer. She just rolled her eyes at him.
"I agree with Serena. Chuck's having dinner with her tonight and I have half the mind to go down there and tell him to forget about that witch and go home" Jenny said having another attempt at the subtle revelation.
"Well she's done bad things but you know maybe she's grown up. I mean, what's the last bad thing you can remember her doing?" Eric said.
"She killed Bart Bass" Jenny uttered under her breath unable to contain herself any longer. She didn't mean for the rest of them to hear her but unfortunately they did and they all gave her confused glances.
"What?" Serena finally asked the question that was on all their lips.
"She hired a hit man to crash into Bart Bass' limo. That's how he died. An investigator told me at your New Year party."
Serena, Dan and Eric looked at Jenny with appalled expressions. This was all so bleak and confusing.
"You've known this since New Year's and you never told me?" Eric finally said to hi wife.
"I didn't know how to tell you. It isn't really something you just blurt out" Jenny defended herself.
"Well, after this it is kind of" Dan said but no one listened to him. that was besides the point.
"Jenny, don't you realize just how dangerous this makes her at this point? And to think Chuck's having dinner at her house right now" Serena said.
"Not to mention the fact that our son is dating her daughter" Dan added.
"We have to go down there and tell Chuck" Eric said. Jenny looked reluctant but the other three gave her a look that told her it was the right thing to do.
"I guess this dinner's cut short then" Dan said and they all went to get their coats.
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Georgina and Phoebe both laughed at the funny baby story Chuck had just told about Taylor, while Taylor blushed from beside her father.
Chuck and Georgina both sat with a glass of red wine in hand while the two teenage girls just had some soda. They had just finished dinner and moved into the living room to finish their drinks. The night had gone okay. They had talked about old times, the girls had somewhat become friends and everything seemed fine. It was the typical friendly dinner that they had all been to many times before.
Sometime in the night they heard a knock on the door. It was quite late for visitors so they were all slightly wondering who it was. Georgina clacked her heels to the door and opened it to see who their late night visit was.
Before her brain could process the image of who it was that was at the door Georgina got a cold hard slap right across her face.
"Serena, what the hell!" Chuck shouted at the raging blond. Serena ignored him. She just stared down at the brunette on the marble floor covering her face from anymore damage.
"You bitch!" Serena shouted to Georgina. "How dare you do that to Bart and then act like his friend, just because everyone else knows how fucked up you are so they don't trust you! Who could blame them?! You're shit Georgina so don't you dare start acting all innocent and changed because you're still the whoring coke head you were twenty-two years ago!"
Dan tired to pull his wife back but once Serena had gotten started she couldn't stop. She was absolutely furious. She cared about Chuck, she had grown to love him like he really was her brother. She remembered how sad Chuck was after Bart's death. She remembered how depressing the whole experience had been for all of them. Serena never really liked Bart but she would never wish death on him, or anyone for that matter. Anyone except for the blue eyed demon lying on the marble floor before her.
"Serena what is wrong with you?!" Chuck shouted walking over to Georgina's aid.
"Tell him Jenny. Tell him what the investigator told you" Serena said to her sister in-law. Jenny and Eric stepped out from behind the explosive, tall blond and looked at Chuck sympathetically. He helped Georgina back on her feet and turned to the two married couples to find out what was going on.
"At Serena and Dan's New Year party I was talking to this drunk investigator and he accidentally told me that he worked on a case about Bart Bass. He said that Bart Bass was actually murdered. Some one had hired a hit man to crash into the Bass limo and that some one was..." Jenny trailed off. She didn't have to finish herself. Everything made sense to Chuck. He turned his head to look at Georgina for confirmation. Georgina looked guiltily to the floor. A disgusted expression came to Chuck's face.
"You cruel, heartless bitch" He muttered to her. She winced at every insult. Chuck had been her first proper friend in a very long time and now her own stupid past had come back to bite her in the ass.
"Chuck you have to understand that I had reasons for doing it" Georgina begged.
"What possible reasons could you have for killing a man?!" Serena shouted while Dan tried to keep her from pounding the brunette yet again.
"I was pissed off to an extreme extent! I wanted revenge! I wanted to get Waldorf back for sending me to that hellhole of a school, I wanted to get you back for helping her and I wanted to get Serena and Dan back for ruining everything I worked so hard to accomplish. And I knew that getting rid of Bart Bass was the perfect way to do it and make it affect all of you!" Georgina shouted.
"Everything you worked so hard to accomplish?" Chuck said in a disgusted way. "What do you mean everything you tried so hard to accomplish? You didn't try to accomplish anything you tried to ruin Serena's life!"
Georgina looked at the Humphrey wife and the Bass man before her and wondered how it was that they had come to this. In the last few minutes she'd never seen to people who weren't even that close friends stick up for each other so nicely. Just the way Serena had done for Chuck and Chuck for Serena. Georgina realized that she wanted a friend. She'd lived her whole life alone without anyone in the world who would ever want to stick up for her like that. That's why she nearly screwed up Georgina's life over twenty years ago and that's why for the first time in her life she was truly sorry for everything she had done. She wanted Chuck to stick around. He had been the first person in a very long time to treat her like a normal human being instead of some monster. And now he could barely even look at her.
"I was lonely" Georgina whispered, her voice cracking half way. "I needed a friend. Some one to believe that I was more than just corruption and lies. I didn't want to ruin her life, I just wanted her to be a part of mine."
Georgina thought she saw a flicker of pity in Chuck's eyes but before she could double check, it was gone, that is if it was even there to begin with. She turned her head to see her daughter and Taylor both looking at her with appalled expressions. Phoebe walked slowly up to her mother, tears starting to form in her eyes.
"You killed a man?" Phoebe whispered hoping with all her heart that it wasn't true even though it pretty obvious by now that it was.
"Phoebe, you don't understand..." Georgina began but she was cut off by her daughter.
"You killed a man" Phoebe repeated. This time she was stating it to herself more than looking for confirmation.
"Phoebe please" Georgina begged but her daughter couldn't look at her. Her hazel eyes had tears pouring down them.
"Everything Jake had doubted about you was true!" She shouted angrily at her mother.
"You're a cold, selfish bitch and you deserve to be locked up in solitary for the rest of your life, because no human being on this planet deserves the punishment of knowing you!"
Phoebe ran out the door into the cold night air. If she stayed in that house any longer she would explode.
Georgina watched her daughter go tear almost coming to her own eyes. Georgina couldn't stand this. She could lose Chuck, that she could live with. But she needed Phoebe. She couldn't go on with life without the unconditional love. She brought her legs up and wrapped her arms around her knees like a frightened child in a haunted house. The others around her just pretended she wasn't there.
"Grab your coat Taylor, we're leaving" Chuck commanded his daughter. Once Taylor was ready they all left the house, leaving Georgina crouched on the cold marble floor, all alone. Just like she'd been her whole life. All alone in a huge expensive house that everyone knew she didn't deserve.
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Phoebe knocked on Jake's blue bedroom door. The Humphrey maid told her that he was in his room so Phoebe just ran up their with no hesitation. When Jake opened the door he gasped a little at the sight of his girlfriend. Her hair was affray, her mascara was running long streaks of tears down her face, her clothes were ruffled and messed up. She looked like she'd been running. Jake had no idea how to react to this sight. He'd never seen Phoebe so messed up in her life.
They both stood there staring at each other for a while, then out of nowhere Phoebe threw her arms around him and hugged him tightly. He could feel her warm tears on his shoulder. He wanted to know what was wrong. He wanted to know who it was that hurt her this way and he wanted to kick their asses. He never wanted to let her go. In the state she was in he had a feeling it wouldn't be safe if he did anyway.
"Shh" he whispered soothingly into her ear. It seemed to calm her a little.
"What happened? What's wrong" he asked her quietly. She gave a little sigh and looked into his eyes. He looked like a dream, or an idea of perfection in her imagination. He had most of his mother's angelic features so it was impossible for her to not to get lost in him. She knew that if she told him the truth he wouldn't want her anymore. He'd be too disgusted, after all, who wouldn't be. For a second she considered not telling him, but even if she didn't Serena or Dan would. And even if they didn't it's not like she could lie to him, she loved him too much.
"My mother killed a man to get revenge on the people who had foiled her schemes" Phoebe told him quietly not looking at him. She was too afraid of what his reaction might be.
Jake didn't speak he just stood there with a shocked expression.
"Please say something" Phoebe begged. The silence was louder than any words he could have spoken.
"Leave" he whispered hesitantly. The tears returned to her eyes.
"Jake please, you know I'm not like her. I would never kill anyone" Phoebe said.
"You wouldn't but she did, I can't live with that so please just go" Jake whispered. Phoebe sighed and let a few tears roll down her face. She didn't beg any further. She knew it was a lost cause. So she turned around and left. She walked slowly down the stairs. She walked past a confused Dan and Serena but she didn't acknowledge their presence, she just kept on walking. Now she really and truly was alone in the world. Jake didn't want her, just like everyone else and she couldn't bare to forgive her mother. She was all on her own, just the outcome she had expected.
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What did you think? Do you feel sorry for Georgie or not?
Personally I'll always feel a little bit sorry for Georgie, after all there must be something that made her what she is today. And Chuck was her first proper friend in a long time and now he's gone so I feel sorry for her for that.
And also poor Phoebe. I'm afraid to say that her life only goes downhill from here but she does make a friend so that's good.
-Marina
In The Next Chapter: A suicide attempt, a rape attempt and a father/son showdown.