I want to get something straight with you guys before I start this. I LOVE Chair. There's no way I am hoping off that ship, it hasn't sailed yet. BUT Chuck seems to always have a way of hurting the hell out of Blair Waldorf, and there's only so much a fan can cope with.

Selling her to his uncle, manipulating her, then blaming her, and trying to force her to act as if she's happy, that's not what a relationship should be.

And well I always liked Dair, but this episode when he made her happy after she had broke up with Chuck just made me like them more, she deserves to be so happy. So I hope there's some Dair in the show, and I hope it pans out like this :)

SET ABOUT A MONTH AFTER 3X18 (enjoy? R&R :D)

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Blair Waldorf wiped her mouth before progressing out of the loo and heading towards the sink. As the smell of the soap on her hands drifted up to her nose she made a face of disgust and sighed. Of course the soap in NYU would be bad, it went well with the under-budget pizza eating and high-street clothes wearing girls that didn't mind the awful stench on their not manicured hands.

She turned the tap off and walked to the hand drier, daring a look in the long mirrors that stretched down the full width of the bathroom. She looked... defeated. And god it wasn't like Blair Waldorf to look defeated. She quickly looked down the erase the look of herself.

It had been weeks since she hadn't emptied her stomach out into the inviting porcelain bowl. It had been a month since she had lost the one person that had kept her going through her unhappiness at her school, and it had been 2 weeks since her bestfriend had walked out of her and left town again, on a search to find out her father and mother's secrets.

She was completely and utterly alone in a place which related a lot like hell.

"Of course my hell would involve awful smelling soaps in a place full of normal people." She muttered to herself and then swore under her breathe. Wasn't that why she was alone? Didn't she break up with the love of her life because she wanted a simple, pure and normal life without Chuck's twisted games?

She was being a hypocrite and it was doing her no good. She had lost everything in order to be normal, and now she was cursing people that were already normal.

Maybe it's because I'm jealous of them. Blair thought to herself, Jealous of the fact they can leave their house wearing fur boots or leg warmers and not care that their hair hasn't been washed for days on end.

Jealous of the fact their boyfriends wouldn't sell them to their uncles as high-class whores. Jealous of the fact their best friend wouldn't leave them behind to travel the world when their lives were falling apart. Jealous of the fact that they were able to make friends and have people in their lives which were important to them when Blair had no one.

She hadn't realised the heat was now making her hands red as they had been dry for several minutes. She pulled them away, grabbed her handbag and walked out of the girls toilets with a huff. She was pulling her phone out of her pocket, praying that maybe Serena would have called to tell that she was coming back.

That's why when Daniel Humphrey was walking through the double doors into the building she didn't realise and collide head first into him.

"Ow." Blair complained as she dropped her phone and rubbed her head, "Watch were you're going Humphrey."

"Sorry." Dan laughed slightly, not even bothering to comment that she was the one that had bumped into him, he knelt down to grab her phone and handed it back to her, still in one piece.

"What are you doing outside the girls toilets anyways?" Blair rose her eyebrows, "I always knew you were a pervert, but I thought you were a bit more subtle about it then that."

Dan rolled his eyes, "Yes Blair I hang around the girls toilets in my spare time, it's not like I don't have classes to go to."

Blair shrugged, "Well to each their own." She then sighed, "Now if you don't mind Humphrey," She looked around and made a face, "People can't be seeing me with you."

She walked past him towards the doors.

In actuality she was scared that he was going to notice something was wrong and she didn't want to seem weak.

"Wait, Blair."

"Too late." She murmured almost silently to herself before turning around.

"Are you... ok?" He smiled slightly, "Serena's not back yet and..."

"Thanks for the concern lonely boy, but I'm fine." She bit back an angry remark because he was probably the only person that had sparked an interest in her life for a really long time, and somehow it made her feel that little bit better.

Then she sighed, "You finally saw the light and called it quits with Abrams then?" She was trying to sound nonchalant but failing miserably. This the first talk she had with something that wasn't her minions, mother or a professor. She was incredibly interested in what was happening in the lives of others, even if that other person was Dan Humphrey.

Dan nodded and Blair felt a twinge of guilt inside of her. Maybe it was better off not bringing up the subject of either of their exes.

"I'm sorry." She said after a moment, softer then she had wanted or expected to, "We all know what a bad breakups like."

"Chuck Bass and Vanessa Abrams are meant to be completely different and yet they are so similar." Dan muttered and Blair rose an eyebrow.

"You know, as much as I dislike ... ok that's a bit of a soft word, as much as I really dislike that bohemian-wannabe I don't think she's like Chuck Bass." Blair shrugged her shoulders, "It's hard to be able to go down to that level."

Dan bit his lip slightly at her remark. He knew she was trying to stop the emotion showing through on her face but she was finding it extremely hard. He shouldn't have brought up Chuck.

After a moment Dan sighed, "Do you want to get coffee or something later?"

Blair looked at him in a silence, and then made a face, "Ew."

He pushed his head back and laughed, "Oh come on admit it Waldorf, I am not that bad. In fact, even though you are definitely not my favourite person in the world, we might get on if we tried."

Blair laughed at his comment, and then shrugged, "Maybe." She finally agreed, "If you did something with your hair, threw away that awful shirt, and don't even get me started on those shoes. I told you never to wear shoes like that, and yet you still manage to walk out of your house with those on your feet and not be humiliated."

Dan laughed again. Only he could take Blair's comments on and not be offended.

"Ok, so if I change my shirt and my shoes will you have coffee with me?"

"Nope." Blair said defiantly, "But you'll be doing yourself a favour. If you got your hair cut, then I might consider letting you buy me some tea."

Tea was easier to pass back out.

"Well, I'll see what I can do."

"Don't call me." She remarked and then turned off on her heel.

"Oh I wouldn't dream of it." Dan laughed, shaking his head before turning around and walking off towards his classroom.

As Blair stepped out of the double doors she felt her smile fade. Had she really just agreed to have coffee, or tea, or whatever with Dan Humphrey?

"What is the world coming to?" She muttered under her breathe. She wouldn't have agreed to that in a million years a few months ago and yet here she was seconds earlier smiling because of something Humphrey-Dumpty said.

Smiling. Blair thought to herself silently, Me? When was the last time I smiled?

And there she had it. The reason why she had agreed to get coffee with Dan. Because for the first time in too long, she was able to smile and not feel completely and utterly alone.

The next chaper is going to have the coffee/tea meet up, and then things will start to get exciting...

Look out for the return of the infamous Bass, a FIST FIGHT, a little blonde with her daddy, and something quite sinister.

EXCITED? ;)

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