"This is Chuck. Leave a message and I might listen to it."

BEEP!

Right, okay, after one very long afternoon of feeling he was taking crazy pills because no one, not even Gossip Girl, knew who Dan or Nate was, Chuck realized that there was something going on outside the normal UES weirdness. And then when Eric disappeared out of sight and mind on Sunday he realized that it was the kind of weirdness he couldn't handle himself.

Which was why his bags were packed and he had booked a portal to Fandom. Sure, Lily was upset that he'd be missing Thanksgiving but, really, what was a Thanksgiving without Nate, Eric and Dan?

Oh god he included Dan in that, something must really be wrong with the world.

[Establishy 'cause Chuck's just coming to Fandom for his last hurrah anyway. Also I posted this in the right universe and not in Luke's at first rly]

Chuck really wasn't one for practical jokes. Like, at all. Especially when they involved Dan Humphrey. First the dweeb wasn't answering his calls even when Chuck knew he had no social life to speak of and now when he called his crappy Brooklyn hovel the only answer he got was from his stepfather.

"Rufus, seriously, this isn't funny," Chuck said. "If he's trying to avoid talking to me tell him it's a Serena problem that I don't have time to handle."

Which was a lie. Serena did have a problem and Chuck did have the time to fix it but he just plain didn't want to deal with it himself.

"Oh don't give me the 'I have no son' spiel. Personally I don't blame you because god knows I'd pretend Dan didn't exist if he were my son, but this is important," Chuck asked. "...Are you high? What are you putting in those waffles?"

Chuck hung up his phone without a goodbye and looked towards Nate's room, wondering if he had woken up yet. "Nathaniel! Call Dan!"

When there wasn't even a bleary response, Chuck walked over and knocked on the door loudly. "Nathaniel, rise and shine. I can't handle Serena's latest drama by myself. It's super boring."

"Seriously---" Chuck cut himself short when he opened Nate's door to find nobody in there. In fact there was nothing in there that belonged to Nate. It was like he had up and moved out in the middle of the night, leaving no trace of himself behind.

"...Nate?"

[Mostly establishy but it can be open for calls, texts. etc, sure]

Chuck was less than twenty-four hours away from being released from the hospital and he was practically counting the minutes. In his own (uninformed) opinion, he had been fine to leave since Friday. He would have been able to convince the doctors of that too if his stepmother hadn't been there to step in and take precautions to make sure he was completely okay blah blah blah, whatever, he was fine. Just ask him.

If he had to watch another episode of Maury he was gonna kill somebody.

[Expecting one call, but open for other calls/visits/what have you]

Okay, well, he wasn't dead. Chuck hadn't exactly been expecting that. He also hadn't expected for the family to magically start talking to him again out of pity. The papers were even making him seem like more of a victim than a jerk who got what was coming, which was another surprise. If it hadn't been for the weird hospital smell, the fact that Francine's cupcakes had been placed out of his reach and the fact that the doctors weren't sure if he'd walk normally again, this getting shot thing wouldn't be too bad.

Maybe that was the morphine talking. God, he loved morphine.

[Open for calls/visits or whatever]

With Chuck unconscious in the ICU and Lily fretting around in the hospital it was up to Nate to get the word out about what happened in a sensitive non-Gossip Girl-y way.

This should be interesting.

Lucky for Fandomites, Chuck trusted Nate with his e-mail password. Well, either trusted him or thought he was too dumb to use it to his advantage. Either/or.

From: Chuck Bass [cbass@bassinc.com]
To: Fandom Friends List
Subject: Important regarding Chuck

( Saving your flist )

[Nate is so sensitive. Anyway, if you think you go it, you did. You can react here if you want and if you e-mail/call Nate I'll answer back as soon as I remember what the hell the password is to the journal I used at graduation last year. And omg I don't know hospitals so if that's a bad one to use just pretend it isn't]

Chuck was someone who had made a lot of mistakes in his short almost-nineteen years. A lot. Thousands. So to say that sleeping with Jenny Humphrey was the biggest mistake he had made in his life was saying something huge. He really couldn't think of anything that topped it. While the sex had been consensual, it had been a mistake and, thanks to Jenny, it wasn't even a secret mistake.

He had no idea why Jenny told Eric what happened but once he knew, everybody knew. And everybody immediately blamed Chuck for everything. Blair blew up at him, Serena was ignoring him, Dan had taken the opportunity to finally punch Chuck in the face after years of threatening to do so and Rufus made it clear he didn't want to see Chuck again. Which was a big deal considering he was married to Chuck's mother. Add that to the fact that Jenny was leaving the city because of what happened and it was pretty much the worst day Chuck had in a while, and it didn't look like it was going to get any better any time soon. He didn't think he had ever felt so lonely in his life. He toyed with the idea of calling someone from Fandom to explain what happened but he didn't know what he'd do if they yelled at him too.

All he could think of to do to deal with it was get incredibly shitfaced and then maybe pass out in one of the empty rooms in the Empire so he wouldn't have to deal with Nate.

( Warning: Extreme violence under here )

[LET ME JUST SAY AGAIN THAT THERE IS SOME VIOLENCE IN THIS POST. NFB, NFI but OOC is OK. Don't worry, he'll be okayish and you'll get an IC e-mail over what happened to him either tomorrow or Friday]

Chuck was already two drinks in when Jenny showed up at his door, crying because Nate had predictably chose Serena over her. If he hadn't been spending so much time with her over the last few weeks he might've told her she had the wrong doorstep to cry on and send her off to Lily, but he had spent a lot of time with her and knew just how much she did care for Nate, as misplaced that feeling was. So he let her in and gave her a drink since that was one of two ways he knew how to comfort people.

He wasn't even thinking about the other way as he watched Jenny try to not make faces as she sipped the glass of scotch he had given her and told him about how stupid she felt over this whole situation. Chuck tried to offer some comforting words and made disparaging remarks about both Nate and Serena all while handing Jenny tissues so her makeup didn't run too bad. At some point she stopped crying and leaned her shoulder against Chuck's and told him that she didn't want to be lonely anymore.

A few minutes later, when Jenny tilted her head up and pressed her lips against his, Chuck couldn't help but think that, well, he didn't want to be lonely anymore either.

[Establishy. I feel dirty and I didn't even go into detail]

Like the title says I am stepping down as admin for the game. Not much to say other than stress is coming at me from all sorts of places (as I am sure you have heard me complain about elsewhere) and I have graduation and finding a big girl job to focus on so it's best if I drop some responsibility. I had a good almost 3 years but it's time. Believe you me, I was surprised as hell when Erin asked me to be an admin 3 years ago because I felt like people would do the Her? Arrested Development reference when they found out. But it came at me at a good time because I had needed something like this while my personal life was getting out of hand, so I'm glad I was asked and I'm glad I did it. Now I have different things I need to focus on so it's time for me to go (from admin'ing, not the game).

I wanted to thank the admins, both past and present, for putting up with me (and for continuing putting up with me in the future 'cause I am really annoying). I know I can be ditzy as hell sometimes and I'm thankful you guys were so patient with explaining stuff to me and putting up with me changing subject on you 100 times during a conversation when we were trying to get something done. It's been fun and I'll miss you.

I'll still be around IG though! Luke will be here for a while and Chuck is coming back to take Wallace's place for the summer once I get off my ass and shoot the little brat. And I'll still be doing memes 'cause I love me some memes. So you won't be rid of me completely just yet (I ask you keep your disappointment to yourselves ty). As fickle as I am about things, this game is one thing I can't seem to be rid of. I mean that in a good way, don't worry.

Anyway, that's it. Tracy found the right way to conclude these things.

When Lily asked Chuck to spend more time with Jenny she probably meant dinner or a play or even taking her to his club (but never telling Rufus about it) all in an effort for one rebellious family member to bond with another. Chuck doubted that she meant playing detective, trench coat and all, to figure out why the van der Bassphrey's neighbor at the Palace was accusing Rufus of having an affair with her. Somehow Lily bought the story and the fighting had Rufus moving back to Brooklyn but Chuck knew better, as did Jenny. So they partnered up to take the bitch down.

What? It totally counted as bonding. He was actually kind of having fun scheming and committing fraud with his stepsister. It was like the good ol' days with Blair, complete with Nate issues. He had been trying to firmly stay out of the Serena/Nate/Jenny drama but the more he heard of Jenny's side the worse he felt for her. So he decided to spend as much time as he could with her in order to get her mind off Nate's stupid, yet gorgeous, ass.

Surely this wouldn't end badly.

[Establishy]