He approached her at the bar. Of course, Serena would be at the bar. In his hotel.
He had heard of her bad girl gone good act. It was all over Gossip Girl; attention fell all over this new and shining Serena just as much as it had the wild one. He'd heard how boarding school had 'reformed' her. Guilty conscience, much?
She gave him a look of disgust. Like she had a right to.
She rolled her eyes and pouted when he came on to her. Brushing him off. Like she had too much class for that? Like he respected her too much not to?
Not any more.
What Serena didn't realise was that he was quite serious.
She kept coming across self-righteous, even as she swallowed the martinis she'd supposedly stopped drinking.
It pissed him off.
She'd get it, eventually, though; she'd lost the right to anyone's respect. To his. To Blair's. It should've been to Nate's, too, but poor Nate was still infatuated.
He offered to get her food from the kitchen, and she reluctantly agreed, acting like she was doing him a big favour.
Only because I'm hungry.
There he'd come on to her properly, not holding any of it back, because she didn't deserve it - she was no longer any friend of his. She'd been outraged, forcing him off, and he'd let the poison leak out with pleasure; let her know he knew.
She looked at him with guilt and fear, and tried to insist that she'd changed since then (so easy for her, wasn't it?) so he forced himself on her back.
She kicked him, hard, and ran from the kitchen.
He could've gone after her, but he was sick of the sight of her.
He'd got what he wanted, anyway; seen the fear in her eyes.
Someone needed to show Serena van der Woodsen that you couldn't float through life expecting nothing to catch up with you.
Chuck may have been soulless. But loyalty meant everything to him. Nate, Blair (and, once, Serena) meant everything to him; in all honesty, the four of them had been his family.
Before the stupid girl had wrecked it all in that selfish drunken fuck. And drunk wasn't an excuse, because Serena was always drunk. She could've slept with anyone. Well, she did.
She didn't have to sleep with her best friend's boyfriend.
She'd crossed a line this time.
And because of that, Chuck stopped seeing the girl he'd despaired of and loved like his own sister. She'd been gone for a year, and if she could conveniently forget what she'd done, then he could forget that he'd used to like her. Instead, she was just another stupid slut. A hot body that deserved to be used and thrown away.
Violated.
Like she'd done to the four of them and their friendship.
A/N So I wasn't sure about this, because obviously I don't condone attempted rape, and (just to make it clear) I don't think it's justified in any situation.
And I really didn't like Chuck in this scene.
But I figured there had to have been a change in his attitude, since Chuck and Serena never hooked up before (considering they slept with everyone else) - because they were friends. So it seemed to me like Chuck lost whatever respect he had for her after the Shepherd wedding.
Anyway, please read and review :) even if it's horrible.