This is both based off the television show and the books. However I stopped reading the books after book 6, 7 or 8 (I cannot, for the life of me, remember which one). The pairings for this story are N/B, C/K, S/D with mentions/subtle hints of C/B and S/N, V/D. I own no one you know and love. And guess what? Gossip girl isn't IN this story! So sue me, okay? Deal with it.

Audrey, Graham, Gabriel, Juliet, Brooke, Lea and any others you see that are unfamiliar are mine. Steal them, and you'll get PM'ed majorly.

Also, these are one shots about word associations (feelings, colors, etc.) about the character Audrey, who is the daughter of Nate and Blair.

The Many One Shots of Audrey

(or the longer title: The Many One Shots and Word Associations of Audrey Rose Archibald)

Calm

Audrey stretched her legs out onto the yacht. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. She slid on her Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses and smiled. The cool breeze lightly touched her bare legs. She loved the ocean.

It was funny.

She was born in New York City in a priviledged upper-class family (her mother often reminded her - two families, the Waldorfs and the Archibalds), yet she wished to live by the sea forever. She went to an all girls school in the City, spent most of her days there and shopped until she dropped. While she did enjoy those things, she would rather spend her days on her father's yacht.

The ocean just calmed her. Whenever she was having a bad day when she was a kid, her father would take her to the Hamptons and sail away. They'd sit on the yacht for what seemed like forever and eat little sandwiches someone packed (most likely her mother but she never said anything about it) and listen to the waves.

Maybe that's why she felt closer to her father rather than her mother. Especially now.

Audrey tried to shrug away those thoughts. She didn't need them now. It was not the time or place to think about that, but she couldn't help it.

It wasn't really her fault she was not doing so well in Physics. Science just wasn't her thing. Plus, she didn't get the point of it. She knew that she was never going to major in science in college, and never get a job relating to that. It was stupid that she had to get all A's, just because her mother wanted her to be 'perfect' and have their reputations stay 'good.' She was thankful when her mother was lecturing her, her father stepped in.

She bit the inside of her lip really hard. She smiled when her thoughts of her mother and science faded away.

She listened to the ocean and closed her eyes. The sound of the waves was so calming to her. The blue and green were symbols of relief, calmness and the fact that nothing could go wrong here.

She once told her mother that she wanted to live by the sea forever and become a mermaid.

Maybe she'll do just that.