Set sometime after 2x4 | I love Chuck and Lily's relationship on the show and thought that it would be nice if the two of them had more scenes. So here we go.

Tell me if you like it and if I should continue with the story? :)


The breakfast table was all set up and Lily, Bart and Eric have already taken their seats as Serena joined them.

"Good morning, mom. Bart.", she chirped, clearly in a good mood as she sat down.

"Good morning, Serena, dear." greeted Lily. "Have you seen Charles yet?"

"Um, no." Serena just rolled eyes, even if she was secretly grateful that she wasn't the one showing up to the 'family breakfast'.

"I think he's still fast asleep. I mean it's a Sunday morning. Doesn't he usually have some shady so called 'business' at night? Eric?"

Eric held his hands up in defense. "I'm not aware of Chuck's plans for a Saturday night. And nor do I wish to, but I know for a certain that he wasn't home when I went to the bathroom at -"

Serena interrupted him hastily. "And that is definitely one information I don't wish to hear about while having breakfast."

Bart shortly looked up but then returned his attention to the business section of his newspaper.

Lily sighted and got up.

"Well then I will go looking for him. We wanted to spent Sunday mornings as a family and Bart and I have something to announce."

"Something to announce? What?", asked Serena curiously but Lily just waved in her direction. Later. Her daughter would have to wait until all members of the family were present.

She hesitated in front of her stepson's door He wouldn't bring any girls would he?

Lily could imagine more pleasant things than catching her stepson with some random girl.

She exhaled a deep breath and knocked softly on the thick wooden door.

"Charles?" She waited a few more seconds but when she didn't get any response she entered.

It took her eyes a while to adjust to the dark room. She heard Chuck's even breath before she saw the dark figure on his bed. Alone.

Lily smiled without noticing and went for the curtains to let the sun in the room. Then she turned around half expecting to meet Chuck's hazel eyes but he was still peacefully sleeping.

She would usually let him sleep but Bart would leave for work soon -even on a Sunday- and she wanted him to say his part of the announcement to Serena and Eric.

"Charles."

This time his eyes flattered open. He moaned and turned but then he realized that it was Lily who was waiting next to his bed. He had half expected it to be Serena. He thought she would probably do that as some kind of payback for his morningly visit last week.

Now he sat up. Good that he was usually taking the girls to his suite at the Palace.

"Anything wrong?", he asked and felt that he was still half asleep. He didn't even remember which time he got home last night. Apparently late.

"Long night?", she asked indulgent.

Chuck tried to smooth his strongly disheveled hair with one hand and shrugged careless.

"Just the usual business."

"Well, Charles, we are having our family breakfast right now. I thought you would like to join us."

"The alarm is set for 10."

"It's eleven."

Chuck glanced to the clock and rolled his eyes when he realized that she was right. Great. His alarm seemed to abandon him quite frequently. That or his sleep was deeper than he thought.

"I will be right there, Lily."

Lily nodded and left to give him some time to freshen up.


"Was Charles in his room?" Bart asked as she joined the rest of the family again. His eyes didn't leave the -apparently very captivating- article about them the stock market.

"Of course why wouldn't he?" Lily asked puzzled. Even if Charles was out on almost every night and returned quite late, he always came home. Or at least he always joined them for breakfast in the morning.

But Bart hadn't time to answer her because Chuck just entered the scene. Now wearing silk slippers and a purple dressing gown over his pajama, he nodded towards the table.

"Family."

"Chuck, finally!", exclaimed Serena as he sat down between her and Eric.

"I didn't know you've missed me that much, sis." He smirked and took a sip of his orange juice. Serena rolled her eyes while Eric giggled.

"Well mom and Bart have to make an 'announcement' that they couldn't make it without you and I'm late for my shopping trip with Blair.", she explained quickly.

"An announcement, huh? Sounds serious." Chuck said without much interest while putting some eggs Benedict on his plate.

"What kind of announcement is this now?", Eric asked. "Mom, whenever you have to announce something it's usually an engagement or a divorce. And this is clearly not a scene here is way too peaceful for that."

"Oh that's not true.", Lily exclaimed and shook her head in disbelief. "Actually it's that Bart and I decided that we want to do some activities that will merge us as a family."

"Activities? What's that supposed to mean?" Serena didn't sound so happy.

"Well, Bart took a day off next week-end and he will do something with you and Eric."

"There's a polo match outside the city and I thought it would be nice for us to attend it.", Bart added with a firm nod.

"So this is some kind of bonding time?" Serena asked skeptical and Lily nodded. "I'm sure you three will have lovely time."

Chuck was unusual quiet during that announcement. Lily gave him a scrutinizing look when Bart informed Serena and Eric about his plans. It wasn't always easy to read Chuck but she was sure she saw some kind of surprise and then something that she never expected from him - envy.

She didn't know what kind of moments Chuck and Bart shared in their past but judging his look it wasn't something like that.

But he was fast to regain his composure and seemed like he couldn't care less about it. Just the way he was rearranging the eggs on his plate and that he wasn't eating them anymore gave away how he must feel inside.

"But what about you?", Serena frowned. "And what about Chuck?"

"I'm sure you will deeply miss my company, sis.", Chuck drawled. "But fortunately I already have plans for the next weekend. Russian ballet. You can't imagine what they can do with their-"

"Ew, Chuck! Stop it!" Serena hit his arm in disgust which caused a smug expression on Chuck's face.

"Well cancel, Charles, because we will be occupied all day."

The smirk vanished as Chuck's attention went to Lily. He seemed almost startled. "What do you mean?", he finally asked.

"Serena, Eric and Bart will spent the day together and so will we. We thought that would be a great idea to merge the family."

Chuck frowned, looked to his father and then back to Lily's expectant face.

"What exactly is your plan for the day?", his eyes slightly narrowing in suspicion. "I'm certainly not the best companion for one of your beauty trips."

"Charles..." Bart admonished but Lily quickly interfered.

"Don't worry I don't want to place cucumber slices on your eyes."

Chuck snorted amused. "So what is the plan then?"

"Yeah mom, what is the plan?" Serena was curious too. A polo match wouldn't be her first choice but maybe it could be fun, even if she still found that Bart's icy blue eyes could be very scary sometimes. But what on earth would someone do to have fun with Chuck Bass? Well especially if that someone was her mother - his stepmother- and not a member of the the Russian ballet ... or her best friend.

"You will have to wait." Lily said with a cryptic smile. "I want it to be a surprise."

With that she rose from her chair. But turned around before she left.

"Oh and Charles? Don't you dare set your PI on me. He won't find out anything about my plans."

"That option never even occurred to me, Lily." Chuck replied in his most charming way while he let go of the cell in his pocket. There were other ways to find out. He wasn't Chuck Bass for nothing.


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