Hey there!
Another of my fics that got put on the backburner this summer, and that I've decided to try and complete in order to post. I don't think the chapters should be too long, and there shouldn't be too many of them, but we'll see ;)
Enjoy…
(Also, if anyone's wondering if all my time's being spent on new fics, don't worry I am planning on updating Through Mist & Elegance tonight, or this afternoon possibly ;) – and yes, that was shameless plugging for anyone who's not read it :P )


Title: Pietas
Disclaimer: I own nothing of Gossip Girl, sad that it is, I really and truly don't ;)
A/N: Loosely based on the alternate ending of the finale, though some things have been unaltered. So, SLIGHT SPOILERS if you haven't seen the finale or the alternate ending. Nothing of Season Two here though :)
Summary: Saying goodbye to a man he never knew; a father who was never there; a Daddy that never truly loved him, that he could do. Saying goodbye to a misconception was something different entirely. CB. Based on alternate S1 ending.

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are of words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Prologue

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."
- Erica Jong

It is early when she gets the call. Well, early by Tuscany's standards anyway.

Bart was dead; her mother was in hysterics, and Chuck… "I need you," she tells her. "I don't know what to do," she admits, and the brunette can hear the tears in her best friend's voice even before the river has begun it slow meandering.

She takes a moment to compose herself; compartmentalize. Try to take in the fact that her best friend's stepfather is dead barely a day after his wedding, that the woman he just married is suddenly more likely to be admitted to the Ostroff Center than her two wayward children; that the boy she loved, no loves, is indescribable in his grief; inconsolable without her by his side.

She is Blair Waldorf; she can do this.

And so she nods in confirmation, even though her best friend cannot see her, and says, "I'll be on the next flight."

She's about to hang up when she pauses for a moment, adding, "Hang in there, S."

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus


TBC…


Thanks for reading, and please let meknow what you thought - it means alot!
Steph
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