As she tried to get away from him, he grabbed her by the wrist! He watched her wince in pain and try to cover it up! He had her right in his reach. He knitted his eyebrows together and frowned at her as he began to slowly pull up her sleeve. With her other arm she pulled it back down before he found proof of anything! He looked at her through slanted eyes and gripped on tighter to her arm. She cried out in pain this time, he pursed his lips and shook his head before finally grunting
"Show me"
She swallowed, and tears built up in her eyes as he once again began to pull her sleeve up. His breath caught in his throat as uncovering her arms revealed her once flawless ivory skin to be a purple palette, a mixture of different shades of purple covered her arm in bruises of different varieties. He let her wrists go on reflex.
"does he know?"
Silence
"does Chuck know?... about this?"
A tear escapes her eyes once again and she looks to the floor. It takes her a few moments to muster a voice in order to answer, and when she does it shows weakness.
"he had his chance"
"what does that even mean Blair?"
"I've waited too long for him Nate, you wouldn't understand, even if you tried too"
Nate scoffed "thats right, do you know why, because I let love in, I open my heart to the ones who love me, I allow for their mistakes, do you think me and Serena would still be together now if I didn't, sure we may have fallen at the first hurdle, but do you know what we did? We picked ourselves up, brushed ourselves off and tried all over again"
"don't lecture me Nate, if it wasn't for me and Chuck, you guys wouldn't even be together"
"oh so you can say his name then?"
"Of course I can say his name Nate, it no longer makes my heart rip in two, it no longer starves me of oxygen, I can cope without him, whats in a name?"
"do you realise you just said cope? Doesn't that imply you don't want to have to?"
"what do you know Nate, your telling me to allow for the mistakes of people who love me! Thats' what I'm doing!" with this she once again pulls up the sleeve of her bruised arm, followed by the other one!
Nate gasps!
