Sooo I do not own Gossip Girl or anything pertaining it.
This story starts where 4.17 left off but I am taking it somewhere completely different after. Not sure exactly where I am taking it, but I doubt the Prince will appear.
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3 Gloria
And I do want you to know
I'll hold you up above everyone
And I do want you to know
I think you'd be good to me
And I'd be so good to you
Mariana's Trench- "Good to You"
"Nothing" Blair Waldorf spoke after a kiss Dan Humphrey convinced her would be a good idea. He stared deeply into her eyes, his arms still laced around her waist and a blank look on his face.
"Nothing?" he restated and she felt something leap into her throat to prevent her from actually speaking.
She nodded and he pulled away, wiped his lips, and walked towards the elevator slowly. Blair felt like it was the longest walk she had ever seen.
He turned around and said something she never thought she would hear him say:
"I think your scared of this. And that fear will keep good things from happening Blair."
"Humphrey..I-" she spoke but was interrupted by the arrival of the elevator and him disappearing inside.
She wasn't even sure where she was going with that sentence.
Blair sat on her stairs and buried her face in her hands, attempting to recollect herself before Serena made herself present.
"Pull yourself together Waldorf, you didn't feel a thing...you didn't feel a thing..you didn't feel a thing" She chanted it over and over, hoping it would make the feelings from that kiss dissipate cause to her, it wasn't just a kiss.
She made her way upstairs, changed out of her dress, removed her makeup, and put on flannels. She washed her face over and over, but the tingles from the kiss remained on her rosy lips. It was a useless feat. She finally made her way to her bed and flipped open her laptop, putting on an old black and white before bed. Blair decided on one but heard a familiar voice downstairs, Serena. And then another, Chuck. This couldn't be happening. She threw the blanket off her and made her way downstairs.
"Chuck, what are you doing here?" she asked, her arms crossed and before he even spoke she realized he was inebriated.
"I needed to see you." he spoke in a tone that she could barely look at him.
"Serena, would you grab the blankets out of the closet upstairs, we are going to put Mr. Bass to bed." Blair said maturely and looping his arm around her neck for support.
"Blair, your such a good person. How I ever convinced you to fall in love with me...I will never know." he said and she looked at him snarling.
"Chuck, you can't help who you fall in love with. You didn't convince me of anything." she said sitting beside him on the couch.
"Blair, I have to tell you something about my father." he started, placing his hand over hers and she didn't move it, but listened intently on the shocking truth.
Dan arrived back at his loft to find Ben loading up and putting his duffle bag in the living room
"I was about to leave a note." Ben said picking up the paper and pen to show he was in fact doing so.
"Where are you going?" Dan asked walking in the kitchen and grabbing a soda out of the refridgerator.
"Im not sure, but I don't think I will be back." he said shrugging and Dan nodded sitting on a bar stool, somewhat out of it.
"You okay?" Ben asked sitting at one of stools beside him and Dan gulped his soda and shook his head.
"Not really man. But I will be." he spoke. Dan never felt like he needed to bond with Ben, but since he was leaving...maybe Ben's parting gift could be advice.
"Is it about Serena?" Ben asked.
"No. For the first time, its someone else." Dan said with a small chuckle at that last part.
"Well, anything I can do?" Ben said finally and Dan spilled his guts to Ben. He told him about their history, her and Chuck, which led to him discussing the brutal awkwardness of him and Serena, but more importantly how Blair and him begun their non-friendship, and how they had spent so much time together, and the kiss and Ben sighed loudly.
"Wow. Well..this city never runs out of drama, does it?' Ben said half joking-half serious.
"I live in Brooklyn and I get my fair share." Dan said slightly sarcastic and he continued "What should I do?" Dan asked somewhat hoping he could give him a non-biased answer.
"This Blair Waldorf, well you have feelings for her so I think you need to go for it." Ben said simply.
"Didn't you hear me? She kicked me out of her penthouse with one single word. How can I go for someone who is also my ex girlfriend's best friend, my enemies ex girlfriend, and everything I hate!" Dan said with hyper-tension in his voice.
"She may be someone you thought you hated-" Ben started but Dan interrupted.
"No, I hated her, she is literally this small, doe eyed, Audrey Hepburn obsessed, life ruining, sabotaging, evil dictator of taste." Dan huffed loudly, letting it stammer out.
"Well she may have been someone you HATED, past tense, but she isn't that same person anymore, and if she is, well maybe you see her in a different light. You see some of those horrible flaws as positive traits." Ben spoke and Dan motioned for him to continue. "She may have been evil and a life ruiner, but now she is the girl who you stayed on the phone with for hours watching Rosemary's Baby and seeing Film Noir together. She is important to you Dan, and whether or not you choose to see that...its true." Ben said looking at the watch and standing up.
"You leaving?" Dan asked.
"Yeah...plane to catch, but I hope I helped." Ben said putting his jacket on and reaching to give Dan a handshake.
"You did. I have a lot to think about. A whole lot." Dan said and Ben nodded.
"Well sacrificing isn't easy. I sacrificed a lot to be with Serena and it may have not worked out, but I wouldn't change it." Ben said grabbing the duffle. With a final goodbye he was gone and Dan was left in thought.
Blair woke up to a note left on her pillow beside her that read:
Blair,
Thanks for hearing me out last night and letting me sleep on the couch. I will call you later.
Chuck
She had spent all night listening to him discuss his father, Russell Thorpe, and the big secret that was tearing him apart. It wasn't that she didn't like to hear Chuck out, but the fact was he wanted to be there when it was convenient. Blair was a lot of things, but a 24 hour service wasn't one of them. She was up for 5 minutes before her phone dinged, text message.
I need to talk to you - Dan
Blair looked at it and rolled her eyes. She wasn't sure why she was rolling her eyes because she knew she wanted to talk to him, she knew it was a matter of hours before he wanted an explanation, but she didn't have one. She just knew she wanted to kiss him again.
Okay, meet me at the coffee shop. -B
She sat back in her bed and waited for a ding:
Be there in an hour.
He replied and she stood up and rushed around her room trying to make herself presentable. She needed to look nice, because her insides were mush.
Dan didn't even have to ask which coffee shop. It was the Dilworth near the Film Forum that they considered common ground. Place to meet in the middle. He arrived right on time. 11 on the dot and she came in shortly after. He never noticed how adorable she could be when looking for someone. She glanced around the busy coffee shop and saw him and he stared at her. She was wearing a floral skirt and an oxford tucked in it, her hair in flowing curls. He always saw her as Serena's friend who liked to get in the way, which a loud voice and malacious intents, but now...now he didn't know.
"Stop staring Humphrey, its rude." Blair interrupted his thoughts with that same loud voice, but he smiled at it.
"Sorry Blair, didn't realize I was doing it." Dan said, lying and she shook her head with a classic eye cut.
"Why am I here Dan?" she said a bit more serious, with some reasoning in her voice, he knew he needed to let her know what he was feeling. He wasn't even sure what he was feeling.
"We need to talk about that kiss." he spoke and Blair inhaled and exhaled loudly. She didn't want to discuss it, whether or not she felt anything. It would have been wrong beyond comprehension.
"There's nothing to discuss." she spoke bluntly, calling the waitress over to order a latte.
"Yes there is. I felt something Blair, and I know you felt it to." Dan spoke in a daring manner that even Blair was taken aback.
"You don't know what I feel. Don't act like you do." Blair said glaringly at him.
"I know that your scared of being with me, taking a chance on me, and I can't change that, but I can let you know that I am a good guy. I feel something for you and I would be good for you and to you. I know that you would be good for me to." he said it with such sincerity, and he put his hand on her face cupping it and she looked at him with her big doe eyes, but within 30 seconds she pushed his hand away and stood up. "Wait. Where are you going?" Dan said somewhat frazzled.
"I don't want to discuss this anymore. Ever." Blair spoke laying down 5 bucks for a latte she didn't even drink and leaving a confused Dan Humphrey behind.