First off all, it's my first fanfic for Gossip Girl, first of all English is not my first language, and I don't have any beta so I hope it won't be so bad.

I really like the relationship between Chuck and Blair, but I despise Nate and Blair, and also Chuck and Vanessa. I don't like the way the show is going right now, hopefully it will get better. We had to endure Nate and Blair to have only one scene of Blair and Chuck reunion.

End of my rant, this story will take place at the beginning of season 3, I took some spoilers of the rest of season 2 and I made up some other part. This story is stock is my head so I decided to write it down. It starts 2 months after the end of the second season.

Chapter 1 - Intro

As he stood on the balcony, he could feel the fresh air who announced the end of the summer, part of him hope he never had to go back to New York, where things always get mess up, always went to opposite off what he wanted.

Here he could just be, stop thinking, do what he wanted without anything or anybody to make him feel any unnecessary emotion. His summer, he came to the realisation that been him also meant, been second to everybody in this life and restored his fate is the fact that happiness is not and will never be part of his life.

"Chuck, the limo is waiting and so am I" She said frustrated as she entered his hotel room.

He turned to face her, just by the look on her face, he knew what she was thinking, he has deleted their departure for 1 week now, he tried everything to make her leave, but nothing work, damn she was stubborn, but also he knew that she didn't want to go back either, not after the fiasco she put herself in.

"You know you can leave without me, there are some interesting women in this hotel I haven't had the chance to… meet" Chuck smirked at her.

"Trust me, you meet every women in this city, time to go" She said without hiding her disgust.

She joined him on the balcony for what he think will be the same conversation as the last few days, but tonight was different, she had this determination in her eyes. "I'm so not falling for your crap tonight, we have to go back"

She was serious and piss off, which was funny because for the last week, at the exactly same time, they had the same conversation and she always end up saying she was leaving with or without him, and every time she stayed anyways.

"We can pass on the entire fake argument, we both know you won't convince me and you won't leave" He paused a second. "So what you do you think of going to the Millers party's?" Ok, she was not amused, she was acting strangely and she looked miles away.

He continued "Seriously, you were a lot more fun before you start this old go back home, fix things and every other thing you been babbling about this past few days" Still no responded, it was new, maybe she will leave, who know?

"Not interested, fine, good flight" He added, before going on this way out.

She was not in the mood the argued or to let him get to her. "Mom calls, Eric is in trouble" She gasped.

Chuck immediately turned back to look at her, hoping she was lying, but by the look on her face and the fear in her voice, he knew she wasn't.

"Serena, why did you just tell me before, what happens?" Now he was freaking out, Eric always sticked by him no matter how bad he treated him. And he really came to care for the young van der Woodsen.

"I don't know, mom just told me he's in the hospital, he was with Jonathan and they had a fight with some guys and one off them hit Eric head pretty hard and…" Serena just sat and tried to not panic, but he could see she was worry. "The doctors told mom that they don't know the extent of this injury yet, they have to wait for him to wake up, if he wakes up" she responded absently.

His voice grew hard. "Don't talk like that, Eric will be fine" He sat next to her and hesitated before saying anything else, comforting and reassuring people wasn't one of his best quality. She finally looked at him, trying not to show him how worry she was, but if he wasn't good with comforting, she was not good at hiding. So he did the only thing he could think of, he get up and gave her a glass of scotch. "Take it, you know it will make you feel better and we going home"

The flight home was long and unbearable, they finally landed in New York in the middle of the night, and they went directly to the hospital, they both stopped when they reached the waiting room, Lily, Ruffy, Dan, Jenny and Jonathan were all there awake, nobody seem to have notice them.

A voice from behind brought the attention on them. "We don't know more" Chuck turned to face him, the second person he didn't want to see, he been so worry about Eric that somehow he didn't have to really think about the fact that coming home also meant seeing them again.

He didn't have the time to ask or respond anything to Nate, Lily was already all over him and Serena. "I'm so happy you two are home, Eric will be so glad to see you when he wake up, he miss you so much, we all miss you" She hugs them one more time. Maybe it was the case for Serena, but he doubt anybody miss him aside from Lily and Eric of course.

Eric condition was the only one reason he will ever came back in New York or what he really wanted to believe.