AUTHOR NOTE

PLEASE READ!

This is meant to be a historical Jack&Blair story. I started to write it a long time ago and just finished. Unfortunately, caused by the way the show turned out lately, many more people hate Jack. Be that as it may - if you do hate him or Blair or just the AU couple of Jair, maybe reconsider reading this because it will be a love story. And yes, I intend to show a tender side of Jack. Chuck will show up too but I'm not sure yet if I should let him intervene within Jair's love.

If you read the story and like it, please review and let me know what you think. Thanks.

Beta'ed by the amazing Shelby.

"Aaaah, dear sister-in-law! It's a pleasure to meet you again." Jack smirked at a very angry Lily.

She didn't like her brother-in-law. In fact, she hated him from the very first moment she saw him. Yet she owed him, big time. When Bart Bass, her second husband, died she could have lost everything. But it was Jack, not her step-son Charles, who gave her the home she lived in. The money on the other hand – he took it all. But money was never Lily's problem. Ever since her first husband, William van der Woodsen, died she had more than enough for her and her children's lifetime. William had been the last heir in a legacy of old money. Substantial amounts of old money that is.

But losing one's face could cost so much more than money. So when Jack learned about Lily's indecencies with the musician from the village pub when Bart was ill, he had blackmailed her. Eventually Jack got what he wanted – a treasure so exquisite that all Bass men longed for it. But Bart didn't even let them take a look at it. Not even his own son, who waited since the day he learned about the treasure for his father's depart to afterlife to own it.

Yet, the treasure was just some bundle of old, yellow paper and some ink. Ink which was used to keep a woman's thoughts on record for good. Now, one could think that some stupid diaries weren't worth anything. But those diaries written by Evelyn Bass meant the world to Bart, Chuck and in some twisted ways to Jack Bass.

Everyone of them had their interest in reading them caused by the different bases of relationship to her.

Bart Bass, as the husband who fell in love with her on their very first meeting and the five years they shared as husband and wife.

Charles Bass, commonly Chuck, as the son who never had an opportunity to meet his mother. She died in childbirth.

Jack Bass, as the man who loved Evelyn too but was rejected by her since her loyalty belonged to Bart, her husband.

In the end, Lily had to choose between Jack and Chuck to gave those diaries away. She gave them to Jack and Chuck never forgave her for this and never would. All of them knew it. He went away when she did it and hadn't come back ever since.

That was two years ago now.

Jack stood next to a window. He spotted two girls running down the hill from the house to the nearby river. One of them tall and blond, clearly his lovely niece Serena who loved him with a passion. But the smaller brunette one, with her long, brown, curled hair got his attention soon.

"Who's the brunette one?" Jack as Lily.

"That's Blair Waldorf. Why?" Lily asked.

"She's beautiful." Jack declared.

"She is. Unfortunately that will do her no good." Lily bit her bottom lip, she'd said too much.

"What's the story?" Jack quirked an eyebrow.

Lily knew that Jack was even more curious now. But it wouldn't help. He wouldn't stop until he knew and both of them knew it.

"Her father. He ran off. With some company." Lily said.

"What? Her father eloped with his mistress? How does that make her a fallen woman?" Jack asked confused.

"It makes her one because her father's company wasn't a mistress but a mister. He ran off with his male company." Lily explained.

Jack's sleazy grin widened. "I see. Poor thing. How's her mother holding up?"

"Forget it. Eleanor Waldorf is a woman of noble behavior. She wouldn't let you near her." Lily stated.

"Who said anything about the mother?" Jack asked before he looked out of the window again. "It's sure hard for the mother to find a proper companion for her child now that her father pulled something like this, isn't it? Luckily I know some bachelor in his best years who wants to settle down and build a family…" he grinned.

"You wouldn't dare. The girl is half your age!" Lily said shocked. What had she done?

"Don't YOU dare to tell me what to do, whore. " Jack yelled as he made his way towards the door. "And don't forget, Lily dear, if you let yourself get knocked up by this lowlife from the village pub I'll throw you out myself."