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This is a short prologue to get the story started. I'm not familiar with writing about such a subject, but I'm hoping that I'll learn along the way and I won't offend anyone.
I'm sure there are many stories that already have the same subject matter, so please review so I can know if there's any demand for one more.
Summary
A story of how Blair loses everything, and how Dan helps her put herself back together.
Set after 5x10, following Blair and Chuck's car accident. Includes various excerpts from Dan Humphrey's Inside.
Dan sits in the hospital waiting area alone. He has no idea what time it is, or how long he has been there but he knows that he is unable to move from where he is.
It's surprising how used to a hospital you can become. The clean white walls don't scare him like they used to. And he no longer wants to gag when he takes in a breath of disinfected air. He can't tell if it's because he has become accustomed to his surroundings or that there's a broken girl in the next room that he can't get his mind off of.
It's pathetic really; sitting alone while the girl you're in love with waits by the bed of her epic love pleading for him to wake up. He's sure there's a story in there somewhere.
He'd seen her for a short moment. And he swears he caught her eye for an even shorter moment. It's between her being squeezed by a hysterical Serena and Nate declaring that he'll find each last paparazzi member that did this to his two best friends. Dan's standing at the back of her hospital room, careful not to intrude on her moment with her childhood friends. The moment their eyes meet lasts half a second. He thinks he might have even imagined it.
He's never been more sure that he's in love with her until he sees her on the hospital bed. The pillows envelope her and blood is drying through the cloth wrapped around her delicate head. And yet, he's never seen her look so strong.
He feels regret at not being able to tell her his feelings earlier in the day. And yet; why can't he now?
It's when she asks about Chuck that he gets his answer.
Serena's eyes water up as she explains to her that Chuck hasn't woken up, and that he lost a lot of blood. Blair calls her doctor in then, and orders to be able to sit by Chuck's side until he wakes up (Dan knows there's a part of her hoping that Chuck will wake up because of her). After a few minutes of argument, the doctor finally relents to her demands. Blair Waldorf was always good at getting her way. If only Dan could find a way to get his.
Nate had taken Serena home after that, and Dan had told them that he would be leaving soon as well. But here he sits, hours later, alone in the waiting room of a hospital.
He's not sure what he's waiting for, only that he hopes that it will come.
He wakes up to a scurry of doctors running into Chuck's hospital room. He tries to ask what's happening but he gets pushed away each time. He tries to glimpse inside the room to see what the commotion is about. He expects to hear loud beeps coming from Chuck's monitor, but instead he manages to hear the doctor utter one word that causes Dan to freeze.
Miscarriage.