4 Times Dan Humphrey Wished Chuck Bass Dead (and One Time It Almost Happened)
Spoilers: up to the finale?
A/N: Wanted to do one of those # Times [SOMETHING] and do it in a drabble. Word count came in around 95-97 on different word count tools.
Over some childish slight, anger bright and young, felt bad for it after. Hasn't since. Over Jenny and her bruises, her wrists, skin, innocence. Over Jenny again, another punch, seeing Blair's face and realizing something else died instead.
You tell her.
News from Prague and he doesn't know what to think.
After Thorpe, he does. Blair rescued, singed, soot and of all things a cut (his life now, noticing everything about her). Touching her, in his life of circling women, knows the tint of concealer.
He closes his eyes and thinks briefly of fire.
Should have been-