~They Belong Together~
Chapter 1 .Coming home.
I do not own Gossip Girl or any of those characters.I am just using them for fanfiction.Posted after season 4.
Summer had past as expected...Blair was with Louis in Monaco and Dan with Eric at the Hamptons. Blair lost in her big pink bubble of a royal wedding and Dan lost in his misery and desperation.
Yet, they interacted.
They kept the promise they made before summer and every Monday found them together, online, discussing about the movie they had seen.
Nothing broke the newfound routine they had, even when he returned in Brooklyn. Except for yesterday, the last Monday of the summer. Blair had emailed him that she couldn't make it to their usual meeting, because she would be making her luggage to come home.
In Manhattan.
He couldn't help but feel anxious. Blair was returning home but he didn't know the reason. She hadn't mentioned anything in her mail indicating the cause of her arrival. Maybe she was coming home for good? She wasn't telling him much about the wedding in their sessions as if she was trying to hide something from him. And definately she was hiding something. The Blair he knew would had made him dizzy with the details of her now royal life and all the things about the palace she lived in, and the wedding she was organizing. But no. All she kept saying again and again was that her life couldn't be more perfect..He of course had asked her sometimes but there always seem to be something else she wanted to talk about at the minute. After, he stopped insisting, so basically he didn't know a thing about her life in Monaco all those three months of the summer.
But she was now returning sometime this week and it felt weird. In one hand he was yearning to see her again after all this time and he was curious to know why she was coming back. On the other hand though, he didn't want to see her. He didn't want to renew his crush on her by having her close again. He wanted to move on, to forget her and if she was here he wouldn't make it.
She had demanded to see him upon her arrival. Dan didn't reply on her mail. He wasn't sure of what to write, so he left it on her to make the first move to meet him.
And that happened on Wednesday night. She texted him.
Aren't you going to welcome me home? She wrote.
Yeah sure.So you're back ha? He replied.
Of course I am back Humphrey!I did let you know this,didn't I?Tomorrow afternoon.Come at the penthouse.5pm.
I'll be there.Goodnight to you too Blair.
And that was it. He had agreed to meet her the other day.
Damn! He didn't even know how to behave in front of her after all. Was he supposed to act like her friend? Of course he was, although he didn't felt like it. If only she had told him why she came back, it would be a lot easier for him to prepare himself for their encounter. He decided that the first thing he would ask her tomorrow would be if she came alone. At least that would give him a clue. Of course Blair would certainly explain everything by herself in the end but he was supposed to chat right? And it would be for the best if he went prepared.
In her penthouse she had wrote. Where all started when she invited herself to the movie he was going to watch after his disappointing talk with Serena.
And also, where they first kissed.
A memory, held in the back of his mind, flashed before his eyes very vivid. He tried hard to shove it down and think of something else. When the betrayal of Vanessa and his book came in mind instead, he winced in annoyance and desperation and resigned.
He lied on the bed with closed eyes and prayed for his sanity to remain.
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It was 4:56 when he entered her penthouse. All day he was toying with the idea of being late or even standing her up but he decided against it so here he was.
With his heart beating loud he stepped off the elevator and found Dorota waiting for him.
"Mister Humphrey! Miss Blair is waiting for you in her bedroom. I will show you the way."
"Its fine Dorota I've been there before so I know the way. There is no need to show me. Thanks"
"Well then you should go " She said with her thick accent. "Miss Blair is waiting"
"Yeah right. I am on my way" he said moving towards the stairs.
He stopped in front of her bedroom door and took a minute to breathe and prepare. Then he knocked.
"Well, come in Humphrey! You are already late you know!"He heard her familiar voice with a hint of mocking underling.
The first thing he noticed was how beautiful she looked.
And the second was that she was still wearing her engagement ring in her left hand.
He could almost hear the noise of his groundless hopes, crushing on the floor. He didn't know why, but he was not expecting to find it there.
He felt the disappointment rush through his veins and he couldn't think of something to say.
Blair was standing there studying him. She could swear that a lot of thoughts passed from his mind but he seemed unable to speak.
"Humphrey, are you going to just stand there?"She rolled her eyes and added "We don't have all day you know! And I have plans for us today."
That seemed to make him connect with his brain again.
"Wow Blair! You're...your tan looks great!" he ended up saying."You..."he continued with hesitation in his voice" ..You look amazing..I... I mean…Well welcome back!"He stuttered as if he had a problem with talking.
They both made a move and Blair hugged him like she would have done if she was with Serena.
"Thanks Humphrey! Summer in the Hamptons has done its miracle on your taste of clothing I see. Those trousers look rather tolerable" she teased.
"Glad to see you again Waldorf."
She smiled at that and the room faded a little. At least in his point of view.
"As I said I have plans for us for today so we should probably get started."
"Plans?" he asked. "What kind of?"
She rolled her eyes again and raised an eyebrow.
"Well I have a wedding to plan- My wedding- and you are going to help me with that."
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Two days now they were wandering around the city, trying to find the things Blair was looking for the wedding. The list was quite big, but what they had bought already was nothing. Except for a pair of Marc Jacobs of course, which actually wasn't in the list. If before Blair was looking only for the best to buy, then now nothing was good enough or equal to a soon-to-be princess.
Dan was founding it more and more difficult to be around her only as a friend and on the top of that to help her organize her wedding with someone else. However, he couldn't find a good enough excuse to refrain from her activities. This situation was killing him slowly and he had to do something about it. The only thing that was coming on his mind though, was to tell her the truth. His true feelings about her all this time. But he could very well predict her reaction. She would act like she never heard his confession, remain calm in front of him, find an excuse to leave and after that, never meet him again. So he couldn't risk it. From the moment he saw her again, he instantly knew that he couldn't move on. He was far too deep in his crush on her, to be able to forget her. If the only thing he could get was her friendship and her company when she happened to be in New York, then so be it.
It was the next night, on Sunday, that he began to think that maybe, maybe there was something that wasn't so perfect, as she claimed, in her relationship with Louis.
They had planned a movie night in his loft, since the shops were closed that day. She had arrived with a bottle of wine and was now searching his DVD collection to choose the movie for tonight. Dan was in the kitchen making some popcorn for later and unwrapping the delivery boxes to plates when he asked the question.
"So where is Louis? Isn't he going to come in NY to be with you? I can't imagine that he will be that far from his fiancé for long, will he?"
She remained silent for some time. Dan's curiosity started to rise but then came her answer.
"He is fine. Too busy with his obligations as a prince to have time to spare here Humphrey." she said with a warning tone. "It's not that I'm gonna stay here too long anyway, so he doesn't have to follow me doing useless things, you know."
He felt his anger rising dangerously. Basically she was saying that he had the time to spare, doing useless things but useless things weren't for Louis, for a prince.
He didn't think twice before he spoke.
" You are saying that I, only a friend of yours, have all the time to help you organize your wedding but him, your future husband, doesn't care enough to put aside his responsibilities and help his future wife to plan their marriage?"
When he saw her expression change, or even before that, he knew that he had gone too far with this.
Uncomfortable and alarming silence settled between them. He could tell that that was the silence before the storm and wished with everything he had to turn back the time and never let those words out of his mouth. But of course this couldn't happen.
He saw her open her mouth only to close it again right away. She probably couldn't believe what she heard.
He shallowed and started apologizing.
"I...I shouldn't say that Blair..I am sorry"
"You are right. You shouldn't" she said sharply.
"Look I know it's none of my business to mess with your relationship.."
"The hell IS NOT!" she almost yelled.
"Can we just... I don't know...erase that?" he pleaded her.
"Consider this as your last opportunity to be my friend." she said after a while. "We are not going to discuss my relationship with Louis, unless I say so. I am not going to give you another chance here Humphrey. You do realize that, don't you?"
"Absolutely"
"Fine." she turned to the DVDs again. "I don't like any of those movies. We have seen most of them and the others are definitely low quality"
He breathed in relief and turned back to his work. "I know Waldorf. I haven't bought anything for a while. We have to compromise with one of the rest ones."
"How about Serendipity?" she suggested." At least it is filmed in NY so it has to have some class in it"
"That's fine by me. The food is ready so let's start with this."
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a/n Well that's the first chapter. Do you like it?It is my very first story not only in fanfiction but in general so I am very anxious for your thoughts and opinions about it! Also English is not my native language so I apologize for any mistakes I made or I will make. Please notify me if you notice any so as to fix them.. Let me know if you want me to continue or not..Please read and review!
