Note: Because I am very much looking forward to a major Serena/Blair fight in season 6 - not to be cruel, just because it would make for some great drama (and if spoilers, which I avoid, say that's not going to happen, don't tell me) - I went back to an earlier fight that I think never got enough play. (Just to be clear at the outset, I'm totally on Blair's side.) So Season 2 has happened as in canon, and this is New Haven Can Wait, beginning at the gathering at the dean's house. Only this time, Blair's plotting does not blow up in her face, as it usually does.


Trying to come up with an answer for the dean's parlor game?

You manipulated your way in here?

I get what I want Serena. Just like I'm going to win tonight. What's your answer? Oh, no, let me guess... Lauren Conrad.

Try George Sand.

Wait that's...

Your answer? Not anymore. If you're going to cheat your way in, then why should I play fair? Oh, and I heard that the dean asks his question in alphabetical order. So since V comes before W, looks like the answer's all mine.

Serena turned and walked across the room to greet the dean, who smiled broadly to see her and shook her hand. Blair could see the fawning start, as it always did, and looked back down toward the dish of answers. George Sand. Her perfect answer, gone, stolen, the same way her position, her minions, her mother's approval were stolen. And now apparently Chuck, because where else could this latest betrayal have come from? All because Serena was so frikkin' shiny that she blinded the entire world.

Well, if she wasn't going to let Blair hold her back anymore, then there's no reason for Blair to hold back either. She reached into the bowl, picked up Serena's entry and a pen, and then paused.

No, she decided. Screw the easy embarrassment - Serena would just coast through the way she managed to do at the Ivy Week Mixer, the way she always did, just because she was Serena. If she really wanted to win this time, Blair thought, she'd have to put it all on the line.

So she took a breath, wrote a single name, then tossed both her and Serena's entries in the bowl. One of them was going to lose spectacularly tonight. This time, she sent a silent plea, let it not be me.


I don't know how far this will go - the other characters will definitely come into it - but I'm going for a sliding doors motif. As in, this one thing changed, how does it affect all the other stuff that happened?