Summary: Alternate Universe in which people find their soulmates through a mapping process known as LoVEChrome. Mapped out for over nine years without finding her soulmate Blair's last hope was that her match was Chuck Bass. He promised her years ago he would never be mapped out so she believed there was always hope. But for the past nine Blair obsessed with falling in love rather than waiting for LoVEChrome to alert her she dates man after man only to find them leaving after they are matched with others. After Chuck's departure of from New York City nine years ago, he returns to help Nate and Serena celebrate this engagement a changed man. But Blair learns that he was mapped out prior shattering her teenaged dream that he was her soulmate. Yet the attraction and feelings she felt for him prior has only increased. Could our LoVEChrome be wrong? Why did we start using science to tell us who to love and when did we stop falling in love? Can we wait around for fate or should we go out in search for it?

Disclaimer: Do not own GG characters.

A.N: Different type of fic that I have ever done. I am going to try to keep the characters as true to their characters in the show but their lives are of course on very different paths here. Please review and let me know if there are any questions. I tried to flush everything out but I know it may be confusing so if there are things I did not answer about the mapping process (LoVEChrome) let me know.


I heard in the past, looking for your soulmate could be seen as impractical or foolish. Everything is different now that LoVEChrome was created. Now everyone is waiting for the moment that they are told they found their soulmate. But I was here twenty-five, alone and tired of it. I wanted to find my true love just as much as anyone did but I just wanted to find him walking into a room or sharing a cab rather than be told. Yet it seemed like I was doomed to be alone. Some days I wondered if I already met my true love and he/she/they just never got the LoVEChrome mapping sequence done because they were not romantic or if they were already died. With a 100% guarantee of happiness after matched LoVEChrome was what everyone believed in.

Back when the human genome was mapped out researchers found in each DNA sequence what they have now called the LoVEChrome. It was determined that everyone had a LoVE Chromosome that paired with his or her soulmates. In the same way, that you can get your DNA mapped out you can pay to have your LoVEChrome 'discovered'. When it first began, you would go into a database until your mate was placed into the database. One call or email from LoVEChrome later and happy ever after.

Love in a test tube the protestors, free love movement, called it. They celebrated free love and I was one freaking birthday away from joining their cult. Well not really they do not deep condition. But my point being love was overtaken by commercial business. It felt like everyone just sat at home waiting for the call or email address at least where I was from. In the Upper East Side getting your LoVEChrome mapped out was a rite of passage at sixteen. It cost a fair bit of money and was still controversial in a large part of the world so most people did not get them until their early to mid twenties. Well that was what the website said. Most my friends, who are very wealthy, were already matched up and married. But here I was nine years later alone and lonely sitting in a bar in Upper East Side. It was pointless really, because anyone that was rich enough surely would have been mapped at this point. Sine there was no way in hell I was going to marry a poor Brooklyn or worse Midwestern. Well everyone but Chuck Bass I told myself. It was foolish but out of all the men in my life, he was not mapped out and I was hoping that he was my soulmate. Of course, I never spoke those words aloud and I have not seen him in like eight years but I still carried a flame for him. Newly single after a two and half year relationship I still wanted my first love. I was probably the only person in my generation who had a first and second love but I loved that I did. Those experiences were important for me and made me stronger and surer of my person. It was something I knew Serena and Nate would never have.

So I waited for Serena and Nate my two very engaged in love best friends. Serena was of course matched with Nate. At the time, Nate and I had just begun dating when Serena had her LoVEChrome mapped out in August on her birthday. I followed in November and then Nate on his birthday, April 5th. I was with Serena nervous about the mapping process while Nate was getting his. It goes without saying it was very weird when Serena got the call. It was the only time I heard a call from LoVEChrome and I have reoccurring dreams that I was receiving the call since. It was an automatic message alerting her that her match was located and to press one if she wanted to know the name. She did and boom her soulmate was Nate. I was left alone forever the third wheel. We were able to all be friends because I was not one to stand in front of true love and after a very classy Waldorf meltdown gave them my blessing. So I waited in the Palace Bar for my two best friends. I was on my second martini when they arrived very in love and obviously red in face from probably having sex. You would think after almost a decade it would get old but no but no, they are still going strong.

They apologized and I glared annoyed that they would leave me here alone then again I am not sure it was worse than being force to be the third wheel. If I could, I would plan their engagement party without them but alas, they wanted to pretend to have input even though they knew they were going to get vetoed. They never felt the rush to jump into a wedding since they were happy just being together but I think Anne and Lily finally wore Nate down until he proposed. Serena wanted to do it on a wedding and have everyone barefoot. I refused to attend if she did so the wedding will occur in the city.

"You table is ready or are we waiting for the last person to arrive?" the host asked us. I was surprised and looked at Serena in my questioning way.

"I didn't tell you that Chuck was joining us. My bad," she smiled and I knew she actually probably forgot but I was still annoyed. I told the bartender to make sure my drinks were coming to the table especially now that Bass was joining us. I wanted to hyperventilate or just hide in a hole. I knew Chuck was going to be the best man but I thought I was going to be better prepared to see him again.

Chuck was Nate's best friend in grade school, middle school, and for some of high school. In the junior year after too many stomach pumping, arrest, and underage everything illegal thing Bart Bass had enough and Chuck was sent to rehab and then military school. He last about four months before he ran away and was disinherited from the Bass family. It was scandalous and everyone was talking about it. I was concerned more for him while everyone seemed to care about the gossip. It was a few months spending all their time together that Chuck arrived back in New York City. He begged Bart to take him back but Bart refused and could not 'watch his son throw his life away'. I ran into him by accident, I was feeding the ducks when I saw him. He was dirty, skinny, but even in his dismal state he still had an aura about him that was Chuck. I think that was what I noticed first. We were friends for years and there was no way that I could leave him there. So I brought him home. He was so out it I do not think he even knew it was me. I bathed him and clothed him. My mother must have been away because I took off three days from school to watch over him as he came down from whatever high he was on. He came off it was very angry with me but I begged him not to go back to the way he was living. So he stood and he lived secretly in the spare bedroom for three months. Secretly until Cyrus found out. Cyrus and my mother were recently LoVEChrome paired up after my mother finally caved and was mapped after her divorce from my father. In her time, mapping was still new and experimental so she married my father without being mapped out. Cyrus said he would have continuing waiting his whole life for just one day with her. So Cyrus being the wonderful man he was helped Chuck gain access to some of his trust fund through a legal loophole.

Chuck was my best friend in those months. He knew all about my anger concerning Serena and Nate. We both complained about the LoVEChrome together. He turned sixteen the second week he was in my spare bedroom and he swore he was never going to be mapped. We made jokes and watched old movies where people fell in love the old-fashion way. I went on long rants about how one should fall in love the way Audrey did in Funny Face or my Fair Lady. Somehow, along the way he was my first, I think it was the only way he knew how to confront me. I like to think I brought him some confront. When summer came and he told me he was leaving, I was shocked and betrayed. I was angry with Cyrus for finding the loophole that gave him the money. He was going to see the world by backpacking around Europe. I never forgave him. He wrote me long emails for about six months telling me about his travels but I never responded. I ignored him. I had lost my friend and lover and I was feeling even more alone.

It was only in my freshman year of college did I finally respond to an email. He emailed me in October to tell me that he was in a spiritual journey in a Hindu monastery to find enlightenment and his true path. At first, I thought it was silly but it truly did help him. His guru was encouraging him to hind peace with his father and he wanted my opinion. He begged me to call him and I did. We spent hours on the phone and he apologized for leaving me the way he did but he wanted to thank me for saving his life. I encouraged him to speak to his father. Ultimately he did and Bart actually took months off to join his son in a path to renew their relationship. After their spiritual cleanse Chuck enrolled at Cambridge for his undergrad. He received two masters from Oxford and only returned to the city a week ago for Nate's engagement. Over the years, we had kept in touch only on Facebook. I have not seen him since he left my spare bedroom or spoken to him since that long conversation when he was in India. Nate and Chuck renewed contact after Chuck left India. When Nate spent his junior year aboard in England, they instantly became best friend again. Serena and Nate vacationed in Europe every year with him. I was nervous to see Chuck after all these years. There was something about him that was special to me maybe because of the time we spent together that was hidden from everyone. But I was nervous and unprepared for this. I held my breath when he walked into the room until he arrived at the table.

We stood to greet him. He hugged Serena and Nate and made his way over to me. As far as I knew Serena and Nate had no idea of our past so when Chuck came to greet me I am sure they were surprised when he grabbed me hugged me tight to him. He kissed the crown of my head as he laughed.

"Blair, you look even more delectable than I remember," he said as he pulled away from me and looked at me again. He laughed again as he pulled me into his arms again and I hugged him right back just as tight. It had been years but I felt good with him. His carefree smile was new for me, I have never seen him like this. It was infectious.

When we finally sat down, I was to two confused faces. "Why are you so happy to see each other?" Serena bluntly asked. I blushed and looked to Chuck to answer. Serena raised up in response to my glance and I looked at me with a fierce gaze. But this was Chuck's tale to tell. So bit my lip and looked to him again. He was smiling at me when he grabbed my hand.

"Seriously you ask how Blair is doing from time to time but I thought it was just politeness," Nate admitted.

Kissing my hands, he said, "She saved my life." He looked back to them, "Blair actually found me on the street or a bench in Central Park I cannot remember. I was high as a kite on smack I think and she nursed me back to health. She saved me. It would have been towards the end of your junior year I think. I left to travel after that and she was the one who encouraged me to speak to my father when I joined Guru Sathya. She guides me in my darkness. But we haven't seen each other in what nine years or spoken in six or seven years really," he said.

I smiled at the fact that he remembered how long it had been. "Yea. Chuck is making seem like I was saint. I was not when he left to travel. To be fair I was kind of treating him like a doll that I locked up in my room or something back then," I confessed and the looks on their faces were filled with sadness. "Sorry we never told you. But we just thought it would be best for Chuck at the time," I tried to explained.

"Seriously I was irritable and never wanted to hang out. I would just stay in the guest room and Blair would only release me for her sexual pleasure," the smirk on his face made it clear he was joking and I was happy that he still made sexual joke. He would not be the same without the sexual jokes.

"Still lecherous I see," I nudged his shoulder.

"Always Waldorf."

"Oh my god, you two would be perfect together. Chuck you never got mapped right?" Serena asked her happy self. She was always eager for me to find my soulmate. It was a question I asked myself for years and I was dying to know.

"No Chuck got tested way back when he was fifteen," Nate jumped in. "His dad thought it would help him straighten out his life if he knew he had a soulmate out there or something. He paid big bucks to go against the regulations but it was done, right man?" federal laws restricted mapping to those under the age of sixteen. Religious thought it would cause a rise in teen pregnancies or something.

Instantly my heart dropped to the ground. I looked at Chuck to see if he would deny it. But the uncomfortable look on his face told me all I needed to know. He was mapped out when he was fifteen, which meant that he lied to me. He lied to me when he told me he would never do it and when he listened to me complain about Serena. Suddenly all the secrets and conversation we shared felt like lies. Foolish lies he told a foolish girl. A part of me wanted to run away and cry. But it was not the first time my heart was broken over a lost love. In the nine years, since I have been mapped out four boyfriends were contacted with their true love match while we were together, and I even encourage a longtime boyfriend, Dan to get on the payment plan to be mapped. He did and we broke up the next day. So it was the first time I was heartbroken. I stood in my seat, faked a smile, and encouraged everyone to talk about the engagement party.

We were laying down in the spare bedroom cuddling close together sharing mint ice cream. It was only the first of Chuck's good days. His cravings for whatever he was addicted to were diminishing and his anger was lessening. On days with mild irritation, sugar helped his moods. I had just finished a rant about the LoVEChrome so I needed the sugar too.

"You know you could join the free love movement. I could see it now. You will take control of the movement and organize them so fast that they might actually have political power," he joked as he twirled a piece of my hair. I was plastered to his side. One of his hands were wrapped under me and around my waist while the other played with my hair. I altered feeding myself the ice cream and then him.

"That does not sound like a bad idea Bass," I chuckled.

"But the moment you found your match you would go running to him," he teased as he playfully pulled on a hair.

"No. I am over with the LoVEChrome. I want to fall in love with someone randomly. This whole thing ruins the whole point of falling in love. You know. I want to be sweep off my feet like in Roman Holiday. I just want the courting, the flowers, the dates, the getting to know you before I marry you thing. Forget being a science experiment," I went off on my rant. It felt good to confess that to someone. My cheeks redden as I realized that I confessed that to Chuck Bass of all people.

"Courting?" he raised eyebrow in jest and I rolled my eyes. "I will join your movement Blair. You make a passionate argument. I will never get mapped," he told me.

"Never?" I asked even though I thought he was mocking me.

"It isn't worth it. I do not need to be told when to fall in love. I think I would know when I know," the volume in his voice dipped and had to look away from him. He was a guest in my house and I did not want to do something with him that would injure his recovery process.

Three days later on Chuck's sixteen birthday rather than be mapped he promised me again to never be mapped out. So instead that was the first night we had sex. He told me he wished to find his true love the way I described. He said he wanted to fall in love, the right way. Chuck Bass was a romantic, who knew.


Right now I am going to keep this in Blair's POV and end each chapter with a flashback to those three months when Blair fall in love with Chuck. Keep in mind the only thing that is really AU about this fic the LoVEChrome process everything else is just like the 'real' world. Like Gossip Girl is still around but it is more of a gossip rag site that UESiiders are posted about on. The major change in this world is really just that soulmates are determined through genetic mapping. Yes, this is not possible but fun. Falling in love in a world where no one does anymore, whats more romantic then that? There are features of the LoVECHrome that have not been posted in this chapter that I will describe about in the next. But any questions would be appreciated as I flush out the idea thoroughly.

This will be a multi-fic about ten chapters.

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