"I do."

"Do you take Dan Humphrey to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

"I … yes … I do … of course I do."

"Uncle Nate, think fast," Henry screamed from across the room throwing one of his bouncy balls over to his uncle.

"Huh?" Nate looked up too late and the ball hit the side of his head, bouncing off and hitting one off Blair's vases, this time Nate was paying attention and grabbed the vase before it fell to the floor and shattered into pieces.

Nate looked up at the four year old to see him covering his eyes and waiting for a crash, when it stayed silent he slowly uncovered them and dramatically fell to the floor in relief because the disaster was avoided.

"I saw that, don't throw things in the house," Blair said as she made her way through the room.

"Yes momma," Henry said quickly as Blair past him and patted his head, she looked over at Nate almost staring him down and he held his hands up in surrender.

"Come on, you're in your PJ's already, time to sleep, it's been a long day," Blair said holding out her hand to her son, she was right, even Nate was exhausted and he wasn't part of the cleaning crew neither did he send off all the guests like Chuck and Blair did.

"But Uncle Nate's here and it's still early," Henry said pouting.

"Yeah Blair it's still early and I'm here," Nate said pouting as well and Blair just shook her head and laughed.

"Fine but I expect you to be paying more attention Nathaniel," Blair called out.

"Yes ma'am," Nate said softly and Henry laughed at him. "Come on little man, let's go to your room where we can't break anything."

Henry squealed as Nate picked him up and threw the little boy over his shoulder to carry him to his room. "Daddy!"

Nate turned to find Chuck looking at them amusedly, "Don't let me spoil the fun," he said with a chuckle as Nate pulled Henry up and placed him on the ground so he could stand on his own. "Nathaniel we haven't spoken to you since you arrived this morning, we should go for a drink."

"Sure, do you want to leave now?" Nate asked looking down at Henry.

"No, you and Henry enjoy your bonding time," Chuck said smiling at the excitement that popped up on both his son and best friends face at the prospect of a few more minutes of playtime. "We'll leave in half an hour."

"Don't make it sound like we're leaving you out," Nate said laughing and Henry nodded quickly.

"Hmmm," was all Chuck said with a smirk before turning and walking in the direction Blair had just gone.

"Come on Uncle Nate," Henry said tugging at his sleeve and running to his room. Nate smiled and followed, he could never be in a bad mood with his godson around no matter how torn he felt inside.

"Do you want to play with the bouncy ball again," Nate asked taking off his tie and throwing it onto the dresser before sitting on the floor next to Henry. "Only this time maybe not aim for my head," Nate said making a face and rubbing the side of his head and Henry laughed.

"It hit you on the other side Uncle Nate," he said giggling and Nate quickly switched hands.

"I knew that, I just wanted to see if you did," Nate said covering and Henry laughed again, going to his toy box and pulling out a huge box from behind it. "What's that little man?"

"It's the train set you got me for Christmas," Henry said dragging it to his uncle and opening it.

"Why don't we wait until the weekend to build it? I'll ask your mom and dad if you can stay with me and we'll set this up in my living room how cool would that be," Nate said tickling the little boy and looking at the mess of pieces in the box that Henry wanted him to help with. "We're not going to have time to finish it before your bedtime."

"But you're sad now Uncle Nate," Henry said looking at his uncle curiously and Nate looked at him a little startled at his words. "And this will make you happy."

"What makes you say I'm sad?" Nate asked throwing his arm around Henry and pulling the little boy close to his side, he figured he shouldn't be surprised at how observant his godson was, considering who his parents are.

"I heard momma and daddy talking, they said you were sad coz Aunty S got married today," Henry said and Nate smiled, making a note to let Chuck know that his discussions with Blair were falling on little ears. "Are you sad Uncle Nate?"

"No way, I'm never sad when you're around, I'm happy now, see," Nate said smiling wide for Henry's benefit, Henry looked at him curiously and nodded. "But you shouldn't worry about all of the old people problems, you should worry about how to fit this with this," Nate said holding up two pieces of the train track.

"Ok," Henry said reaching out to take the pieces, Nate could tell that the little boy wasn't satisfied with the answer he got but how would he explain the history he shares with Serena and the reason he's sad to a four year old, he has enough trouble dissecting it himself.

"Hey look here, Aunty S and I are best friends, like me and your daddy," Nate said and Henry looked at him funnily waiting for him to make his point. "I'm just a little bit sad that I'm not going to see her as much as I used to," because that was the truth he didn't want to lie to Henry but he couldn't tell him much more and he really wasn't going to see Serena now that she was married to Dan, at least not the way he wants to see her, he'll never be able to just look at her or spend hours alone with her because she was married to Dan.

"Will I see her I much as I used to?" Henry asked, his eyes going wide at the thought of not seeing Serena as often as he'd like.

"Of course you will, you know Aunty S will always make time for you, you are her baby boy," Nate said squeezing Henry and mentally scolding himself because he was not saying anything right.

"I know," Henry said smiling and then yawning. "She said I'm her baby too coz momma's her sister and daddy is her brother like Uncle Erik is but I mustn't tell him she said that."

Nate smiled and nodded, looking at the open box in front of them. "Let's put all this away and I'll read you a story, we can show your mom that if you stay with me this weekend I can make sure you get to sleep," Nate said standing up and pulling Henry with him.

"But I stay with you all the time," Henry said frowning because he didn't know why they needed to show that his uncle could take care of him.

"I know but after we almost broke her vase I think we should be on extra good behavior," Nate told him and Henry thought about it for a second before agreeing. "And then this weekend we can have fun."

"Yeah and we can build the train," Henry said smiling excitedly, his worries about Nate's sadness and Serena's absence lost for the moment.

"And we can play video games and go for ice-cream and we can get your dad to come over and have a boys night," Nate said pulling down the sheets on Henry's bed and waiting for him to get in. "How does that sound?"

"That sounds cool," Henry said jumping in and covering himself.

"Ok so which story do you want?" Nate asked and Henry pointed to the fairytale book at the end of the shelf, the one with a story for each day of the year.

"Is he asleep?" Blair asked poking her head into the room halfway through Nate's story.

"Yeah, yeah I think so," Nate said looking at Henry.

"You didn't have to make him sleep Nate," Blair said switching the light off. "Just tire him out enough for me."

"I just thought I'd be helpful," Nate said as they crept out of Henry's room.

"Chuck's waiting for you downstairs," Blair said giving him a look that told him she knew he was lying to her about everything he felt.

"Why aren't you prying?" Nate asked with a smile, he knew from Henry that she knew how he felt but Blair loves her reasons and she would want those from him.

"Because you wouldn't tell me anything if I did," Blair said shrugging. "But you'd tell Chuck and he'll tell me."

"Of course," Nate said chuckling as he made his way downstairs, he put his tie back on and found his coat before finding his best friend. "Blair tells me it's your turn to interrogate me."

"I call it drinks," Chuck said slapping Nate on his back as they walked to the elevator. "Makes it sound less intimidating."

"Henry thinks I'm sad," Nate said as they sat at the bar nursing their drinks 10 minutes later.

"Now what will make him think that?" Chuck asks smirking.

"You and Blair actually," Nate said and watched Chuck's face twist into confusion, it didn't happen often and this may be only the second time ever that Nate's been the one to bring that look to Chuck's face, it was oddly satisfying.

"I don't follow," Chuck said raising an eyebrow at Nate.

"He heard the two of you talking," Nate said with a half shrug. "It's his new mission to make sure I'm happy."

"That's my boy," Chuck said to himself proudly and Nate smiled. "What does he have planned?"

"We're going to assemble that train set I got him," Nate said and Chuck grimaced at the mention of the toy. "What?"

"Where did you find that thing Nathaniel?" he asked. "There are so many parts, he's just going to lose all of them before you have a chance to do anything with it."

Nate laughed and shook his head. "We'll take care not to, you can supervise," Nate said and Chuck nodded ok. "My point was that you guys need to be more careful with what you say now."

"I didn't know you were making a point," Chuck said with a smirk, teasing Nate and Nate sighed. "We'll talk to him about the horrors of eavesdropping tomorrow if it makes you happy."

"Very," Nate said draining his glass and Chuck shook his head, Nate worried way too much about Henry.

"Now you can tell me exactly why you're sad," Chuck said and Nate sighed again, hanging his head and chuckling to himself. "I know it's not just because Serena married Humphrey because you would have done something about that if it was."

"She called me, this afternoon before the wedding she called me, she sounded … different, unsure or scared or something and then she changed, she pretended like she was perfectly fine, it was like she needed to convince herself to do it," Nate said calling the bartender over to fill up his glass again. "I should have stopped the wedding, or spoke to her face to face before she left with him."

"What exactly would you have said Nathaniel?" Chuck asked, he knew that Nate was set against telling him things but he also knew how much his best friend needed to get all this off his chest.

"I don't know but maybe she could have reassured me that she was ok with getting married to him and maybe if I heard her be sure about this I wouldn't be feeling this … this … afraid for her," Nate said burying his head in his hands.

"You think Humphrey is going to hurt her?" Chuck asked, his voice tense because if Nate had even the slightest worry of Serena being in danger he would have people following her every move so he knew when to step in.

"Not physically," Nate said watching the grip on Chuck's glass loosen as he relaxed. "She just … I know how she gets when they fight, I've picked her up enough times to know how low he can push her."

"That marriage can end," Chuck said and in his mind he thought of how inevitable it was that it did. "In fact Blair and I have a bet on exactly how long it's going to last."

Nate didn't say anything he just stared at his best friend incredulously.

"They have broken up so many times over the past few years that it's inevitable," Chuck said with a slight chuckle. "I don't know how a marriage was supposed to survive that when a simple relationship couldn't, it doesn't help that there was only two months between the engagement and wedding."

"But she's happy now because she's with him and she thinks marriage is forever," Nate said thinking of the way Serena smiled when she and Dan were happy. "Dan has always been the love of her life, it doesn't matter that she's always been the love of mine, it's never mattered … and now it never will."

"You are much too selfless Nathaniel," Chuck said staring at Nate and wondering how he could do what he's doing, to this day Chuck couldn't think about the time in his life when Blair was supposed to marry a prince and her romance with Humphrey, it was the darkest time he'd ever been through and he knew he handled his emotions much better than Nate did. At least he internalized them better, Nate had never been good at masking his feelings but not when it came to Serena Chuck realized, Nate was always able to mask his feelings for her and the further she slipped from him the better Nate got at it, if Chuck wasn't looking for it he would have missed the sadness in his best friends eyes every time she was mentioned.

"Yeah I know," Nate said. "Next week, before they come back from their honeymoon, I'm leaving."

"Where to?" Chuck asked, he knew this was coming.

"Not sure yet, I just need to clear my mind," Nate said shrugging. "I'm not ready to see her again, them again, at least not for a little while."

"I understand, Blair may try to stop you," Chuck warned him, his wife was not as understanding as he and his son has never been away from either of his godparents for longer than two weeks at a time. "And you know Henry won't let you go for long that easy."

"I know," Nate said stretching his arms out in front of him. "That's why I'm going to steal him this weekend, you and Blair look like you need time to yourselves anyway and I want to have some time with my godson before I tell him my plans."

"That sounds fine," Chuck said contemplating telling Nate his own secret. "Blair and I have some news that we wanted to tell everyone when Serena got back but you look as if you could use some good news right now."

Nate smiled wryly and nodded at his best friend, "You've got that right."

"Blair's pregnant," Chuck said and Nate's eyes widened in surprise before he laughed and hugged Chuck.

"Congrats man, this is so exciting," he said breaking away and slapping Chuck on the back. "Baby Bass number 2, I can't wait."

"Well you're going to have to wait another 7 months," Chuck said smiling.

"This was definitely the best news," Nate said with a grin almost as big as Chucks, he was really happy that two of his best friends were getting everything they ever wanted. "As long as I'm still the godfather, I don't care if Dan's part of the family, I call dibs on godfather."

"You have nothing to worry about there, Nathaniel," Chuck said laughing and shaking his head at Nate for even thinking that he'd make Dan Humphrey his child's godfather. "Nothing at all."

A/N : Isn't Henry the most perfect little boy ever? Yeah I write him adorable because in my mind he's super adorable and perfect lol

Hey guys I'm back with my post season 6 story, this story is basically everything that happened in the show and my story '5 years later' so if you haven't read it, you should, it basically fills in whatever the 5 year gap left out, and this story starts from after the wedding where Nate doesn't stop it

I haven't worked out all the little details with this story so it may seem a little ridiculous in places but just bare with me please

I have a programming exam in the morning but I got onto fanfiction and realized how long its been since I posted anything and I did promise you guys a post s6 fic, my exams only end at the end of this month so the next update may only be after my last exam

Thank you guys so much for all your support with 'Those Blue Eye's', I'm thinking of doing another Au-ish story in the future hehe. Please let me know what you think about this chapter and I really hope you enjoy it

Until Next time (^^,)