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[im_chuckbass]

Chuck's head was buzzing as he retreated into the relative silence of his own, empty room, having left Dan, Blair, Jenny and Eric behind. He'd stayed in there as long as he could stand it - long enough to say everything that had come to mind and some besides, anyway - but there inevitably came a point where you had to cut your losses, and for Chuck

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[learnwhatsreal]

Jenny had shoved Dan and headed off after Chuck as soon as she could. Her head was still spinning a little; the drink she'd had before they left had been both a good and a bad idea, and everything that had happened since was still just sinking in. She knew where she wanted to be, though, whose side she was on, weird as that was to think about.

Once back at the room, she was a little relieved to find Chuck still there, to see that she hadn't missed him. She lingered for a moment at the door frame, trying to figure out what would be best to start with, but in the end, she just gave in and spoke. "I'm sorry about Dan," she said, the disdain for her brother evident in her voice. "He shouldn't have done that." She was very deliberately not mentioning what had been said about Blair. That wasn't the point.

[im_chuckbass]

"If we want to start talking about things Humphrey shouldn't have done," Chuck says, opening up his bottle and taking a deep swig, "what happened in there isn't the at the top of my list." He grimaced at the taste of it, but the burn was sweet, and just about the only thing he really embraced feeling at this moment.

It was clear that no one in that room had been very happy with Jenny, when all was said and done, but Chuck still had no problem with what she'd done. It hadn't been her secret to keep in the first place, and in his opinion the only thing she'd done wrong had been keeping it for as long as she had. But the truth was out now, and everyone was going to have to face up to the consequences that they should have been hit with two months ago.

"You alright?" he asked, raising an eyebrow at her. He didn't mean it as an invitation for her to really go into detail about her feelings, but given the situation it was only right for him to ask.

[learnwhatsreal]

Jenny couldn't disagree with that. The question, though, made her pause. Ordinarily, she might've shrugged it off and said she was fine, at least until she knew with more certainty just where she stood with everyone, but she had a pretty good idea of what people thought of her now. At least Chuck seemed to be on her side, or maybe she was on his; it was difficult to be quite sure.

"Well, I think I've lost most of the people I was friends with," she replied almost wryly, head tilting to one side. She crossed a little further into the room, though, taking a seat on the bed much like she'd been sitting earlier. "I'll be okay, though. I don't regret telling you." That, really, was the important part. Dan and Blair and whoever else may have hated her, but she'd done what she should have long before.

[im_chuckbass]

"You shouldn't," he said, as though the alternative would be ludicrous. "It needed to be told." The thought of how long he'd gone around not knowing about it nauseated him. He'd simply been going on, business as usual, while Blair and Dan and Jenny lived with it every day, probably thought about it every time they ran into each other. It humiliated him, and there was no better way to inspire a Bass to incredible levels of malice than to humiliate him. If Blair and Dan hadn't known that before, he was sure they did now.

"You can stay here," he said, gesturing to the room. Eric would be back, but he was far from the type to kick Jenny out because of what had just happened. "I'm not." Where he was going, he didn't precisely know, but he thought he'd probably have figured it out by the time he got there.