Title: Lullaby
Pairing: Chuck/Blair; futurefic
Summary: "I'm Charles Bass and I need to report a missing child…my daughter."
Disclaimer: I don't own Gossip Girl.
A/N: Yep, new story. Definitely different to 'Cross My Heart', but hopefully you'll enjoy it. The next chapters should be longer.
Reviews are appreciated. Tell me what you think and if anything's confusing :)
Update: This used to be a prologue, but now it's Chapter 1.
you are my sunshine, my only sunshine
Chuck Bass knows he should've called the police an hour ago, but every time he picks up the receiver, he simply slams it back down again.
There's a reason why he hasn't called yet.
It's because the minute he calls he'll have to admit that there is a chance she's really missing. That he'll never get to see her smiling face or hold her in his arms again.
He wants – needs – Blair to come bursting through his office door with his little sunshine in her arms, but with every second that passes by the thought slowly drifts away from his mind.
Truth is, he's afraid.
Yes, the Charles Bass is afraid. He's afraid that in the next few seconds Blair will, in fact, come bursting through his office with tears streaming down her broken face. And he doesn't know if he can handle that.
He doesn't know if he's strong enough to face losing the two most important people in his life in one day.
He should really call.
you make me happy when skies are grey
He looks outside his office window, ignoring the magnificent Manhattan landscape and instead focuses his attention on the dull, grey sky that blankets the city in melancholy.
It's as if Mother Nature is mirroring his mood or simply giving him a break because he knows that if he saw the city sprinkled with sunlight, he'd break down and cry.
Chuck Bass isn't usually one for emotion but when it comes to her, he'll evoke any emotion at free will because she is the fire in his soul that keeps him breathing that extra second.
And with her gone, he knows he'll simply choke.
And he's not sure even that Blair will be able to save him.
Because, deep down, he knows that Blair would be choking too.
you'll never know, dear, how much I love you
It kills him that if she truly is gone, then his last words to her weren't 'I love you'. Instead his last words were merely, "Be a good girl."
If he finds her – no, when he finds her, he'll make sure to tell her every night as he tucks her into bed that he loves her. That he and Blair love her with all their hearts. It'll be the last thing she hears before she drifts off to the land of Nod, but at least she'll know.
With trembling hands, he finally picks up the phone and says to himself, "This is it". Because with every second he wastes pondering the 'what ifs', is a second he loses trying to find her.
He furiously dials the number and waits impatiently as someone picks up. Ignoring their formalities, he cuts them off and with a clear, but urgent voice, he says the words that no parent ever wants to say, "I'm Charles Bass and I need to report a missing child…my daughter."
please don't take my sunshine away