A/N: Okay...I know this first chapter is short...I am sorry...but I was watching 'Hi, Society' last night and I noticed Carter saying something about waking up and S being gone and I was like OMG I've got to write about that...

Being with Dan wasn't as she expected considering he had come to her rescue at the ball. Serena van der Woodsen knew it had something to do with the fact Carter Baizen had been her escort, thanks to her way to nosy grandmother. She couldn't stop thinking of him and Santorini as she spent the rest of the night with Dan. And when she finally went to sleep, it was Carter, not Dan, who she was dreaming about. So by the next morning, she wasn't surprised that it was Carter's not Dan's face on her phone's screen as it's persistent ringing woke her.

"Hello?" Serena asked, sleepily into the phone.

"I think we need to talk." Carter's voice was cold sounding…like he was mad.

"When?" She replied.

"Now. My room number is 1414 at the Waldorf-Astoria." Carter hung up before she could say anything.

Surprising even herself, Serena was in a taxi and at the hotel in ten minutes.

She only had to knock once.

Carter's face was grim and Serena was jerked in, barely getting out of the doorway by time Carter slammed it.

"What's wrong?" Serena's voice was a little unsteady considering Carter didn't appear to be in that great of a mood.

"Why?" He asked, "Why did you run?"

"Run?" Serena was confused now, though she should have been when she was woken up by Carter calling.

"You ran from me that night."

Serena understood, and her eyes shifted as she tried to think of something to say back to him.

"It was a one night stand. It wasn't meant to be forever." She said quietly.

"It was more than one night." Carter replied.

Serena crossed her arms, trying to look anywhere but into his eyes which was hard because some how she was backed against a wall and he was unbearably close.

"You've ran from me and I want to know why?" Carter's face was so close to her, that it didn't take much for his lips to take control of hers. He pulled away, "Is it because this is too much for you?"

Serena didn't answer. Her breathing was choppy and she had no idea what to do.

"Was it because you felt more than you intended to?" He took a hold of her wrists. "Was it because you were finally realizing that it wasn't Nate you were in love with?"

"Why does it matter?" The words weren't together, in fact it took her a minute to say it.

"Because I need to hear you say it." Carter replied using his hands around her wrists to jerk her to him. "I need to hear you say that you love me."

"What?"

"You ran from Nate because you loved him, just like you ran from me." Carter said firmly before his mouth descended to hers.

She pulled her mouth away, "I don't."

"Yes, you do. You fell in love with me like I fell in love with you that week we were together. And you know as well as I do that that week shouldn't have ended, but you got scared and ran." Carter replied.

"Carter, you don't understand-" She started the word heavy in her mouth, "Maybe there was something but I'm with Dan and I just can't-"

"Dan…I thought you'd be with Nate, that's why I held the grudge when I first came back and ruined Bass's weekend thing." Carter interjected.

"You did that on purpose?" Serena asked her mouth drooping.

"Of course." Carter shrugged, "I thought you went back to him. But you didn't."

"I forgot about him in Santorini." Serena whispered, wishing she could make herself lie.

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