A/N: This is my first fanfiction, and it is a AU Gossip Girl fic. I hope you like it, it's based mainly on the tv series in such a way that is mostly opposite it besides the sequence in which things happen. Does this mean I'm going to tell you who gets with who? Only if you request it nicely.

Chapter 1

A Welcome Home To Never Be Forgotten

Serena Van Der Woodsen had finally arrived at Grand Central and was as ready as she'd ever be to face the music that was Blair Waldorf's rage. She sighed and called someone who she could trust to bail her out of the fire if need be, even if he had to do it secretly.

She pressed a few buttons and there was a faint ringing heard and finally someone said hello, Serena only smiled and said, "Nathaniel."

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Blair was currently getting ready for her mother's party for some purpose or another, she believed her hair to be a frightful mess as she attempted to tame it. When her phone rang, it was an unfamiliar ring, so she just dismissed it as someone calling the wrong number. Her hair was her main concern.

When she was finally done she picked up her phone a few feet away, she examined the screen only to see, '1 Missed Call'. She sighed and opened the phone and there staring back in her face was the name she had tried to forget about all this time, 'Serena'.

She was anxious to find answers, why was she coming back and what did it mean for her? Only one person to call now, and it wasn't sweet dear Serena, she quickly dialed because she knew phones would soon be ringing allover the Upper East Side about this and she wanted his ear before it became attached to someone else's gossip.

"Chuck Bass, tell me why the hell Serena is calling me and why she can't seem to realize my lack of contact with her once she left was a sign I didn't much care for her sleeping with my boyfriend at the time, otherwise known as Nate!" Blair seemed to rant without taking one breath.

Chuck laughed scornfully and said, "Because this is the Upper East Side and Serena is made out of gossip. Now dear, what did you need from Mr. Charles Bass this evening?"

"I. Need. You. To. Find. Out. If. She. Called. Him. Ay-sap! What the hell, I can't believe I've waited all this time to not make it more official! I thought I had more time..." Blair worried her bottom lip as her thoughts trailed off. Nate was soon to be stolen, she was sure. He was the one who had been devastated after Serena left, which had been shortly after Blair being informed of their disloyalty.

"Well, I hate to inform you that I already know the answer to that question dear." Chuck said with sympathy in his voice.

Blair gasped loudly, "No way, she moves that quickly? So what, she came back to hook-up with him and then call me and tell me what I've been missing out on? Once more?"

"It might be well along those lines already, Nate texted me nearly an hour ago that she had called him.." Chuck trailed off as he watched the girl in his bed waiting impatiently for him. He rolled his eyes and looked away, he didn't mind if it was the second time it had happened since he had brought her into his room. He didn't know if that was really what Nate and Serena were going to do, but he knew it didn't matter. Blair Waldorf was livid and someone was going to pay for it, and soon.

Blair sighed heavily and went back to worrying her bottom lip before she let out a deep sigh and said quietly, "I have a proposition for you Mr. Charles Bass."

"And what would that be dear Miss. Waldorf?" Chuck asked sincerely.

"Be my ally, because this is about to turn into a full-fledged war." Blair said darkly.

"I'll gladly take the position, but now I must be off dear Waldorf, I will inform you if I get anymore information of the goings on in the east or west side." Chuck said as he watched the girl starting to get dressed to go.

"Fabulous Bass, simply fabulous." Blair smiled to herself as she hung up, satisfied with her appearance and ready to make her debut, Serena may have stolen Nate, but she didn't steal her dignity. She would make Serena pay, even if slander was the way. At the moment, it was what she had her heart set on, far from where it had been set earlier. She reminisced slightly and then tipped over a picture of her and Nate into the trash can waiting innocently below. "Oops." Was all Blair uttered as it made a cracking noise.

Meanwhile Bass was taking advantage of a very impatient young woman in his bed, hoping to teach her better manners by making her moan in ecstasy, don't bet your life on it Bass, you need years of good breeding to get proper manners for such things.

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Meanwhile Serena's lips were all but glued to a certain bronze skinned 'god' of St. Jude's Elite Private School, he often answered to the call 'Nate', or as in this case, a husky 'Nathaniel' from a certain blonde's perfect lips. She was on top of him and ready to continue what they had left hanging for nearly a year when Nate, suddenly struck by an epiphany, stopped.

"You know I'm still with Blair, yet you show up and call me and I answer to your beck and call exactly the way you expected." Nate sighed and looked at the floor, Serena moving from his lap to beside him on the couch in Nate's expansive room.

"I know I said I would try and let things work out for the best, but I couldn't forget you Nate, I mean I look back and think.. You weren't just with Blair, you were with me as well. How many times have you even looked at those photographs? All the ones with me and Blair and you behind the lens, a self-conscious Blair and a love-crazy Serena, for one Nate Archibald. I can't just keep putting miles and miles between us, eventually I was bound to return and things were going to escalate anyways."

Nate sighed, he had noticed the pictures, the ones of him and Blair, he wasn't looking at Blair like she had been looking at him, no, he was staring right into the camera, right into Serena's eyes through the camera itself.

Before they knew it the kisses continued while both of their phones rang incessantly downstairs on the kitchen tables in unison. Blair was alternating between their phones before she slammed her phone down and gave up. Then the rest of the upper east side took up the free lines for plenty of inquisitive voicemails.

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Blair was now downstairs, ready with blissful ignorance and a sorrowful look on her face, she was ready for the gossip and more. When she found out Nate and Serena were hiding in some alcove somewhere making out, she would be ready for the best performance of her life. Publicity was nothing without a deserving audience, and she was sure the Upper East side would enjoy this performance, much, much more than any stale old symphony.