Paint the Silence

A/N First Gossip Girl story I have ever written (excitement!) and I have already written this comment but it's lost for some reason, oh well.
I own nothing, title based on the song Paint the Silence by South, it's awesome, just thought you might like to know.
Oh, and if you're a Twilight fan, don't be offended by what is below, I just didn't care for the books or the movie, personal opinion... I hope at least someone agrees with me when I say that Twilight totally sucks...

Please review so I know whether to continue the story or not. Thank you (:

Chapter 1

"Mom!" Serena called to her mother, who had just walked through the front door. "Why aren't you ready yet? We're supposed to meet Dan and his dad in an hour!"

"Why hello to you too." Lily sighed and set her bags down on the kitchen counter, unlike her daughter she wasn't in a hurry at all. "I just got home and I still have an hour to get ready. Why is it so important for me to meet his father anyway?"

"Would you just get ready?" Serena begged and then quickly added. "Please."

"Alright, but if I already know him then it was all a big waste." With that Lily walked off to get ready. She had no idea who Dan's father was, considering she didn't even know his last name. Maybe she should have asked.

Twenty minutes later Lily came downstairs in jeans and a T-shirt. "Seriously, you wanna wear that?" Serena raised her eyebrows. "You never wear that!"

"So?" Lily sighed. "We're going to see a movie and to dinner at some pub in Brooklyn, it's not like I could wear a ball gown to that."

"Fine, let's just go..." Her mother in jeans, this meant that Lily just didn't like Dan and that she had absolutely no intention to meet his family. At least it did to Serena.

"And it does not mean that I just don't care enough." Lily told her daughter as they walked out of the door. She knew her daughter and she actually did like Dan. There was something about him that she found endearing, maybe the way he always talked too fast and too much when he was nervous. He had always reminded Lily of someone she used to know pretty well, but that didn't have to mean anything. At least that's what Lily kept telling herself.

A while later they arrived at the little pub in Brooklyn Serena and Dan had chosen for dinner tonight, well if this could be referred to as dinner...

"We're on time. And this is... lovely, quite charming with the... ashtrays." Lily scrunched up her nose, this was the kind of place she had liked when she was younger but it just wasn't up to her standards anymore. Even though she could maybe possibly forget about those for just one evening.

Serena had to laugh, she knew her mother was trying. "I know mom, but it's actually really nice and the food is good." She tried to reassure Lily. "Oh, they're here." Serena walked up to Dan and... Oh no, it couldn't be!

"Mom, this is Dan's dad." Serena introduced and Lily wanted to die in that very moment. What were the odds. Dan's father really was Rufus Humphrey.

"Hi, I'm Rufus, you must be Lily." He extended his hand and grinned at her, apparently getting over the shock a little quicker than Lily had, who still tried to at least appear calm. Without any luck.

"It's such a pleasure to meet you..." Lily shook his hand, looking absolutely miserable as she was doing so. This evening was meant to be doomed. She was about to have dinner with Rufus, former love of her love- oh who was she kidding, former wasn't exactly the right word and then there were Dan and Serena who had no idea about what had happened between their parents. Yep, this would work out perfectly.

After a bit she noticed that everyone was looking at her and that she was still holding Rufus' hand.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was lost in thought." She mumbled, quickly letting go of his hand.

"I bet you were." Rufus whispered to her as they all sat down, causing Lily to give him a look. No, she didn't care for him being cute or funny or whatever he was trying to do.

"So, Lily, do you like this place?" Dan asked, already knowing the answer would probably be no.

"It's nice." She gave him a smile. "It reminds me of a place in Ireland I've been to in my twenties. This guy dragged me there and I got food poisoning." She looked over at Rufus, she hadn't forgotten about that awful place with the illegal alcohol. Of course she hadn't cared back then, up until the point of the food poisoning.

"But he probably was a perfect gentleman and held your hair back for you." Rufus said, causing Serena and Dan to look at each other in confusion.

"That he did." Lily gave him a smile, she would have loved to talk to him in private for a little.

"So, how about we order?" Dan quickly suggested, something was clearly wrong with his dad, he seemed to... flirt? No, that really couldn't be, his father didn't flirt.

About an hour later they had eaten and all of them had enjoyed it, without food poisoning.

"Now, off to the movies?" Rufus asked, his hand on Lily's lower back, already falling back into old habits.

"Well, actually we have other plans..." Dan started, looking at Serena.

"Yeah, I told Blair we would come over."

"Blair? Dan, really?" Rufus looked at his son in disbelief, after all he knew how Blair Waldorf could be.

"Yeah, she really can be a decent human being. Shocking, I know." Dan shrugged his shoulders.

"Alright then, have fun." And with that Dan and Serena left.

"So, I guess that means we go home and you get to leave Brooklyn." Rufus chuckled.

"Very funny. And, if you want to we can still go and see that movie. After all the kids already ordered the tickets online." She gave him a smile and tilted her head to the side, looking at him.

"Oh, so Lily van der Woodsen likes Brooklyn?" He teased, smiling at her. Rufus had missed her and they both knew that.

"No, I don't like Brooklyn, but getting home alone would be far to dangerous. So, movie?"

"Definitely and we don't have to pretend not to know each other anymore." Lily laughed at this. "I had absolutely no idea Dan was your son! Out of all people!"

"How ironic is it that both of our children are now dating?"

"Don't even go there." They walked to the movie theater, his arm around her waist.

"How could they do this to us? Twilight, they should know us better than that." Lily whispered to Rufus, already disappointed with the plot, which was non existent and the actors, if you could call them that.

"I never would have thought Dan watched Twilight." Rufus grumbled, looking at the screen where Edward and Bella were running, but from what? Maybe they should have paid some more attention.

"What are they even running from?"

"I have no idea, talent maybe." He rolled his eyes, making Lily laugh. "If that was me I would have fallen hundreds of times, I mean they are in a forest and it's night..." This movie didn't make any sense to Lily.

"Shh!" A few teenage girls with braces shot them an annoyed look.

"Come on." Lily mouthed to Rufus as she got up, taking his hand in hers. They left the theater rather quickly, glad to be out of there.

"Thank you!" Rufus exclaimed dramatically and hugged her. "Thank you for making this end!" Lily laughed, she could definitely understand why he was so relieved. Why were millions of teenagers reading those books or watching the movies? Oh well, let's just say it was good that she had money and didn't depend on the Twilight watching generation to pay for her retirement. When Rufus pulled back from their hug he still stood close to her. He ran his fingers along her cheek and smiled softly, Lily could feel his warm breath on her lips and closed her eyes, moving a little closer towards him. Just when she thought he was going to close the gap between them and kiss her Rufus leaned back and she saw him grin at her when she opened her eyes.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why would he have kissed her? And why would she have liked him to kiss her?

"Are you up for an adventure?" Without waiting for an answer Rufus pulled her with him.

"And what kind of an adventure?" She had gotten over her embarrassment and now was somewhat nervously excited what kind of an adventure he meant. "Oh ha ha ha. Aren't you just the funniest." Lily gave him a look when they were in front of the stairs that lead to the subway.

"Isn't that an adventure to you?" He feigned shock. "It's not like you ever ride the subway, Lil."

"Alright." She agreed, knowing he in fact was right, she preferred her town car or at least a cab but the subway was dirty and it was usually quite packed with people so no one could move and Lily hated people getting into her personal space.

Since it was already late not that many people were in their train, just a few teenagers who, to Lily's discomfort, were playing with a knife. Rufus shook his head and laughed when he saw the expression on her face, feeling safe whenever he was riding the subway. He wrapped his arm around her "They won't kill you unless they see that diamond necklace you're wearing." He whispered in her ear.

"You think you're so cute." Lily tried to ignore the tingles surging up and down her spine. It all felt so familiar and she cursed herself for reacting to him this way.

"I like to try my best." Rufus chuckled. He had missed her, more than he liked to admit. Spending the evening with her had brought back so many memories he thought to himself when they got out at her stop and walked to the building she currently lived in building.

"I get that you don't like Brooklyn." Rufus told her, admiring the neighborhood. She tilted her head to the side and looked at him. "It's not that I don't like Brooklyn..." she noticed the look he gave her. "I haven't changed that much, Rufus!" And then he kissed her. Lily was taken aback, she would have expected a sarcastic comment or a comeback of some sort. A verbal comeback and nothing like this. When he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close Lily got over her shock and started to kiss him back. Her teeth were tugging on his bottom lip whilst she ran her fingers through his hair, pulling him closer. "You're right, you haven't changed that much." Rufus had pulled back from their kiss, grinning rather smugly.

"Rufus..." She started, causing him to look at her, expecting her to say something but instead her lips were on his. "I can do that better." She whispered, only briefly breaking their kiss. Rufus brought her closer, not getting enough of her. Lily slid her hands from his neck to his shoulders and down his chest before she rested them on his waist. She moaned softly as he slipped his tongue into her mouth, sending a shock through her entire body. That was the moment Rufus knew that he needed her, he couldn't help himself, she was addicting and always had been. Lily slowly pulled back from the kiss, not fully stopping though. She pecked his lips a couple more times before taking his hand in hers and leading him towards the front doors of her building.