It was the night of the party, and Katrina felt as if everyone were staring at her and Nate. Though, she knew it was shocking to be seen with Nate Archibald because he was Chuck's friend, but she was getting annoyed with the looks. She also knew they were watching her…waiting to see if she was a train wreck again. Oh, how they would be very disappointed.
"Are you sure about this?" Nate asked feeling a little self-conscious with all the stares.
"Yeah…I'm sure." she said as she saw Kirk on the other side of the room hitting on one of the most insecure of girls, and she knew he was just doing that to fuck with her head.
"Okay…" he said hating that she was ready to destroy a guy's life, but he wasn't feeling sympathy for Jason or anything. He destroyed Katrina's life first, but, thankfully, he was there to pick up the pieces Jason left behind.
"Well, hello, Nathaniel. It's lovely seeing you again, Katrina, and might I add you look amazing." Chuck said as he greeted them and Nate rolled his eyes. He told Chuck to be nice, but he was pushing it to the point of nausea.
"Chuck," Katrina began, "you can stop being nice. Just tell me if Jason is here. I see Kirk." she said wanting to drop the formalities.
"Jason is here somewhere. But, I have something to show you. Nate, do you mind if I borrow her for a moment? It won't take long, I promise."
"Sure, I see Dan and Serena coming in anyway…and you two play nice…" he said and Katrina rolled her eyes. "I'll see you." he said as he kissed her cheek and she, reluctantly followed Chuck to a small office in the club he owned. She was shocked to see Shane there.
"Shane?! What are you doing here? I thought you were in rehab."
"I am. I just made a deal with my drug counselor to be here to test myself. That part is true, but there was something I found out about. Look at this." he said as he spun his laptop around to an article from a New Zealand paper with a picture of a girl named Maka. She was very pretty with shoulder length brown hair. She was reported missing by her mother after she hadn't heard from her daughter for more than a week after her arrival in the U.S.
"Is this the real Cromwell heir…heiress?"
"That's what I'm thinking. She's half-Maori and she came to New York. The article didn't specify which part of New York. It could be a coincidence, but I doubt it."
"So, what do you want to do with this information, Chuck?"
"I think we should leak this as well. Why not do a double destroy?"
"I don't know…I think what we have on him now is good enough. I mean, what if we can't prove that he killed her? We would look like we were making it all up to attack him."
"Katrina, we know that it's true. He knows that it's true, so it wouldn't matter. You do want your revenge, right, Katrina?"
"Yeah…but I didn't want to do it your way. Remember this is my revenge, not yours, and since this is your fault, you don't have a say in how it goes down."
"So, you want to destroy him, but you just want to do it nicely. Get a grip, Katrina. The guy made it seem like I raped you just to get to me. He deserves it."
"Look who's talking…you know you deserve far worse."
"Uh, guys…" Shane said as he stared at the security monitor and saw Nate and Jason engaged in a very fierce argument. It appeared as if they were close to an actual fist fight.
"Damn it…" Chuck trailed off as he and Katrina went into the main area and saw Nate get into Jason's face. Kirk was standing at his side while Dan stood at Nate's trying to pull him away. "Nathaniel, he's not worth it. This isn't your fight."
"Yes, it is. He hurt Katrina, it's my fight."
"Nate," Dan said pulling him away. "Just let Chuck handle his own bullshit for once."
"Mind your own business, Humphrey." Chuck said glaring at him.
"Whatever. Fuck it…" he said as he let go of Nate and walked off with Serena after him. He was clearly upset with Nate for this, but he knew to just get out of the way when it came to things that involved him and Chuck Bass.
"Nathaniel…I'll handle this. Just walk away, and I'll handle this asshole." Chuck said trying to calm him down. Nate's little fight with Jason could ruin it all.
"The only asshole in here is you, Bass." Jason said not taking his eyes off of Nate. "You and your little bitch, Archibald, here." he said and Nate launched forward to attack him, but Katrina and Chuck held him back.
"Fuck you, poser!" Nate said and Chuck sighed in frustration at the sloppy delivery of the shocking news. It was going to be hard to clean that up. Though, the words did have the desired effect…Jason's anger faded because he knew he was screwed.
"Shut up, Archibald." Jason said in a warning, yet cautious tone.
"What's the matter, Jason?" Shane said with a smirk, and Jason looked shocked and betrayed. Kirk was shocked and so was everyone else. "Are you scared of the truth getting out?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Jason said shrugging. Katrina knew he was trying to appear unnerved on the outside, but she knew he was scared on the inside. "You must be high out of your mind or something." he said laughing, but the only person laughing with him was Kirk. Shane was right, he was extremely loyal to Jason.
"Oh, I think you know what I'm talking about…and so does Chuck and Katrina. Face it, Jason, you're done. I don't even know why you thought that fucked up plan would work, but it came back on you, tenfold. You must have been high to think that it would work."
"Oh, shut up you pussy!" Kirk said glaring at Shane. Katrina could tell that underneath that tough exterior, Kirk was threatened by the presence of Shane because he would lose his coveted high ranking.
"Kirk, you're so fucking clueless…I don't even know where to begin." Shane said laughing at how stupid Kirk could be.
"What the fuck are you talking about?!" he said getting angry, and Katrina had had enough of the guessing game…it was now or never.
"He's talking about Jason's father killing a man and taking his identity, you idiot!" she said and she smirked when she heard the many gasps of the audience. Jason's eyes grew with rage, but he didn't move because Nate was standing right in front of him and he knew that if he went for Katrina, he wouldn't even make it an inch towards her. "Yeah…you all heard me. His father killed a man in Australia and pretended to be him, and Jason knew about it. You are nothing but a fake and so is your father. You knew about what your father did and you covered it up and went on as if everything was normal. You're pathetic."
"You bitch!" Jason yelled as he punched Nate and launched at her. She was saved by security tackling him down to the ground and escorted him and Kirk out of the club. Katrina went to Nate's aid and helped him off the floor.
"Are you okay? You took a pretty nasty punch…" she said as she touched his bloody lip.
"I'm okay. Are you okay?" he asked and she nodded ignoring the stares she was getting.
