Title: Happily Never After
Author: etgoddess
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Pairing(s): Nate/Jenny
Rating: T
Summary:  The white noise in his heart, the sum of all his colors, the metronome to which he beat -- was she.
Author's Note:  Music credit goes to "If You Asked" by Longview.  Because I dearly miss all my fellow NJ-loving friends. There just isn't ( Read more... )

 
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Jenny Humphrey was in the kitchen.  Jenny was in Chuck’s kitchen.  Jenny was standing in front of him.  Something chirping in the back of his mind was telling him this should probably be some profound, movie-esque scene where two friends are reunited after a lengthy separation and music crescendos as they finally makeup.  Except Nate still ( Read more... )

She woke to the driver rattling the barricade that divided the car.  She jerked upright at the sound of his voice.  “Miss.  455 Madison Avenue, the Palace,” he dictated in broken English, pointing out the window.

Jenny nodded clumsily and shuffled outside.  Closing the cab door threw off her precarious balance and she stumbled back a few ( Read more... )

Her head was throbbing.  “Jesus,” Jenny mumbled, forcing her eyes open, “That was quick.”

A brunette leaned over her, filling her view.  “Quick?  Is that what you’re in this for?  Oblivion?  Stat?”

The brunette sauntered away and Jenny sat up gingerly.  The white room was unfamiliar.

“Where’s-“ she began, her voice cracking.  She ( Read more... )

She dances with anyone, everyone who asks.  And there are many.

(don’t, won’t let him just take the place of me)

Paris leaves her fresh-faced, glowing; bubbly Little J is nowhere to be found.

(does he really know you like I know you, all the little things?)

Queen J is mature, reserved, hard.

(cause I’ve already bled so much for you)

She ( Read more... )

She is lost.

(“I don’t want to be alone.”)

And this time, she’s sure not even he can find her.  So she takes solace in one more lost soul.

(And tries not to think about it.)

And tries to forget how to feel.

(And tries not to remember she loves and wants some idiot named Nate and this name doesn’t start with “N” at all.)

She gets ( Read more... )

He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

(“Let’s just go back to the suite and get hammered…you up for it?”)

He has no idea what he’s saying.

(“She’s still just a kid.”)

He’s not fooling anyone.

(no matter what I say or do, I still feel you here, till the moment I’m gone)

Serena may be self-involved but she’s not falling for it

(A woman knows when a ( Read more... )