I apologize for previous chapters, I'm usually a slavedriver when it comes to parting off the chapter so you can clearly follow who's the character of the moment. I just saw that my ** has disappeared in the formatting from .doc to uploaded, and I am so sorry if it's been an awkward read! But I am going to go back an fix it, and hope the coming chapters will be easier to read!

Brutal Honesty

Chapter 11. If you could see

Jenny finally picked up her phone and laughed into it the first thing she did. "I'm going to Norway," she giggled and was greeted by a confused silence. "To get Nate to come home."

"I knew I shouldn't have left," Katie muttered.

"How's Harry?" Jenny asked, remembering the reason for Katie's sudden departure.

"He's tired, but good. Back together with Nick by the looks of it," she said with a smile. "How's Manhattan?"

"Big and scary without you and Nate," Jenny said in all honesty.

"Jen, are you sure going after him is a good idea?"

"Yup." This she was sure of. If she had ever been sure, this was it. But Jenny couldn't actually head Katie blink on the other end of the phone, so she laughed. "He told me he loved me," she told her.

"He did?"

"More or less," Jenny corrected herself.

"Wow."

"Yeah, I know."

"Well, good luck then, Jen."

Jenny narrowed her eyes and shook her head quickly. "Wait, what? You're not gonna argue?"

"Nope," Katie replied, popping the P. "If you want Nate, then you should go for it."

Jenny stared at the phone. "Who are you and what did you do to Katie?"

Katie laughed. "Do you know where in Norway he is?"

"Uhm…"

"Have fun!" Katie chirped, having put a hug dose of reality in Jenny's head and clearing up some issues with her supposed plan. She then hung up and decided it was time to go see Jenny's mom about New York.

"You're really going through with this?" Eric said from her doorway. Jenny nodded eagerly.

"I have to. I have no clue how to actually find Nate, but I have to."

He nodded in return and came in to help her pack. Which was code for sitting on the bag while she tried to get it shut.

"This is…" Chuck mumbled.

"Heaven?" Blair filled in and he smiled that gorgeous, warm smile of his. She kissed him softly, not even hesitating this time.

"Mm," he agreed, again with that smile. He was melting her as only he could.

"Does this mean, you and I are…?"

"We're a we again," he confirmed. "Officially."

"That's great," she said, flinging her arms around his neck in a passionate kiss. But still, Blair couldn't shake the feeling he wasn't all there.

"Katie!" she laughed, seeing the girl on her porch.

"Hey, Mrs Humphrey."

"How was New York?"

Katie sat down on the chair opposite of the one Jenny's mom sat down in and made a half-hearted shrug. "It was different. And I can see why Jenny was like she was when she got here. She is, actually, on her way to Norway right now. Chasing after the boy that broke her heart, because now, apparently, he loves her."

She blinked a few times and then said "Excuse me?"

"Jenny. I know she used to love New York, and in some ways I think she still does, she loves the idea of what New York has to offer, but she's so much better off here, and Norway, Nate, him finally 'fessing up to everything he feels, it's messing with her head. Again!"

"You said my little girl is going to Norway? Alone?"

"She didn't say. But I think Dan might be going, he is Nate's friend."

Katie looked at the mother in front of her, the wide eyes and the slight panic in her voice. She had never seen her mother like that. Not even when her sister had died…

"Look, I know Jenny. She won't do anything stupid without thinking about it, not anymore. She's different. I just hope Nate can see that, and not try to take all of her otherness and keep the hole in her chest from gaping too much."

"Does she- Uhm, does she love him too?"

"She has always loved Nathaniel Archibald. And I think," Katie said with a soft smile. "He's always loved her too. At least, that's what I'm hoping, since she's going off on this crazy adventure."

"I think I have to call her-" She got up.

"Quickly. I don't know when she leaves," Katie said, giving the confused woman a hug and then leaving her so she could call her daughter.

Katie however, was heading in the direction of the cemetery.

Dan picked up his phone and called Nate.

"The number you have dialed can not be reached-"

He hung up. And tried again. And again. And again.

Until he finally gave up.

"I'm going with her, if she's going," Dan demanded, his father nodding.

"I was about to suggest the same thing. You are Nate's friend after all."

"No!" she shouted.

"Why not?"

"Because, that little-" she paused then spat it out. "BITCH down there-"

"Watch it Serena," Lily snapped.

"She's going to Norway? To do what? Come between Nate and me even more? She's out of her mind! You can't let her go!"

"And here I was thinking you and Nate were history, in your own words."

Serena glared at her mother and then stomped out of there screaming "She's not going to get away with this!"

Katie placed a small, plastic sunflower on the grave and smiled. "Hey baby sister." Her eyes welled up as she reached out and touched the headstone. "Have I got a story for you…"