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Watch out, Tabula Rasa. The queen bee has returned to her throne, and the buzz is, she's down an enemy. Looks like blackmail doesn't pay after all.
Serena had waited a long time for this.
She hadn't known it would end this way, never would have guessed that all that had weighed on her for a year and a half would come to a head on an island in the middle of nowhere, but however it had, it had. What Georgina Sparks had held over her - any fascination, any old secrets - were gone now with the girl herself. The pretense was done. She was alright. She was better than alright. Georgina had disappeared, and she'd taken all of Serena's burdens with her.
Blair and Chuck, Octavia and Eric, they'd helped ease the old hurts and made her feel better about that long ago night that had changed everything, but that didn't make her any less relieved now that Georgina would never tell her secrets. If ever she shared, it would be on her own terms now. There was nothing left to hold over her head. She'd never go back to being her old self, but she had back some of that old confidence, that sense of freedom.
She didn't really know how to celebrate here, except that the party she and Georgina had been planning had become considerably more appealing without Georgina to help throw it. That was a few days off yet, though. It was evening and she'd taken herself down to the beach to walk out alone, barefoot in the sand and the moonlight, her shoes abandoned a little closer to the path. She considered stripping down and swimming, but there was no one else around she could see, and she thought she would save it for the next day. She had all the time she needed now to do whatever she liked. She wandered back down toward the path. There would be people to see in the Compound and she didn't have to worry anymore if Georgina met them or told, and in the meanwhile, she could take her time heading lazily home. Even walking alone, she couldn't keep from smiling.
[From the beach to the Compound, she's celebrating and happy for the company.]