Chuck is worried. Blair is pale and clammy. There is sheen on her face when she comes out of the bathroom and climbs back into bed. He know that she has been under a lot of stress with trying to expand Waldorf Designs into a more high end fashion house and that she had castings yesterday for the runway show. Being around all those skinny models just might be making her image issues resurface. As he cuddles her against him, he contemplates how to raise the question about whether she is purging again when things have been so good between them. The last three month since their marriage has been good. Scheming, sex and success. Chuck's three favourite things after his wife, but since he does or achieves them all with her he supposes it's the same thing.
Leaning down to press a kiss on her brow he opens his mouth to tell her he loves her when the bedroom door opens and Darota burst in tray in hand. "Miss Blair, I have perfect thing for you…plain toast, crackers and tea." Ignoring Chuck, Darota places the tray around her mistress's lap. "I don't think this is what she needs Darota" Chuck says. "Blair isn't feeling well this morning"
Giving him a smug look Darota says "All pregnant woman not feel good in morning…tea and crackers is good" Chuck and Blair look at each other doubting, then horrified and finally accusatory.
"You Basstard…you did this on purpose! I'm building an Empire and you just had to be jealous of the time I wasn't spending with you, so what now you knocked me up to tie me closer to you!" Blair yells irrationally. "What the hell Waldorf, of the tow of us I certainly am not the one with the history of getting knocked up. I'm careful about these things." Chuck answered "Well that first pregnancy scare I had involved you!" Chuck sighs "Not really. We both knew the timing was wrong. I, well I just wanted it not to be Nate's" "See! You did this! You wanted me pregnant!" Blair is back to being accusatory.
Inside Chuck is seething. A baby is the last thing he wants. Blair has been working crazy hours, but he'd been patient. She had a career to build and so did he. When they were home, they devoted all their time to each other. Babies would require her attention. They are demanding and useless. Fuming he yells at Blair that he doesn't want a baby before slamming out of the room.
He and Blair don't talk to each other the rest of the day. Darota sends him a text with the time for the doctor's appointment to confirm the pregnancy set for later that day. Every time he thinks about a baby he feels this overwhelming jealousy. He has never had someone who was just his like Blair is. They had only reunited for good last year and been married 3 months. He thought that children were off in the far distance. The very, very far off distance. He's sat at his desk all day and gotten nothing done. His vp's and secretaries have all taken one look at his face and found an excuse to back out of his office without saying what they came in for. So he's surprised when the door to his office opens and Nate walks in. "Dude.. why is your floor so deserted? There's like no one working for you." Chuck just shrugs his shoulders and says nothing. "So uhh Serena called." Nate says giving Chuck puppy eyes "A baby huh? That's kinda nice. A little terrifying, but nice." "It's not real yet Nate. We're having the test tonight." Chuck grumbles. Nat looks a little confused and looks at his phone for a minute as if confirming something. "But Serena said she and Blair had tried every test they could get Darota to buy and they all came back positive."
Well if that doesn't deserve a scotch, he doesn't know what does, so Chuck gets up and pours them each a full glass. "This is nothing to be happy about Nathaniel. I don't want to have to worry about another person. I don't want Blair to either. I want her focus not her paying attention to some mewling creature." Chuck hadn't felt this insecure since he and Blair had gone all in. "I want to be able to get up in the morning and fly to Paris, because I feel like it. Or keep Blair out late at Victrola's. I certainly never want to be one of those people with the screaming child at a restaurant." He says the last with a shudder.
"Chuck," Nate says in that calming tone of his "this child is going to be yours and Blair's. You need to face this. It's not going away. You need figure out how to deal with these fears."
Seriously thinking about what Nate said Chuck comes to the conclusion that the child is not going to go away. That being the case, this pregnancy and the raising of the child is going to be done his way.