New idea! Haha. I'm still working on Denial Never Felt So Good and How Could You Do That, but I thought of this and I just wanted to run with it. Its set in the summer and Blair is at the Hamptons; Marcus is going to be Blair's 'boyfriend' in the first few episodes of season two, so it does contain some spoilers.

Enjoy! R&R please (:

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Blair Waldorf doesn't really understand why she receives a package from Nate's town house while she's vacationing in the Hamptons for the summer, but when it comes, she doesn't hesitate in the least to open it.

She has to dismiss her latest crush/boyfriend beforehand though ('to get drinks' is her excuse), but once Marcus is gone, Blair is ripping through the paper to the object inside.

What she finds surprises even her, and Blair Waldorf is never surprised.

It's the green cashmere sweater she had given him god knows how long ago. After the shock goes away, Blair feels annoyance and confusion. Annoyance because she hates how eager he seems to get rid of the sweater and give it back to her when they break up, as if he can't stand the obvious truth that she loves/loved him. And confusion because she still doesn't understand why Nate doesn't seem to get the fact that the sweater was a gift, and in etiquette classes they said that you were never supposed to give back a gift.

Blair carefully takes the sweater out of the box and runs her dainty fingers along the smooth texture of the cashmere, even though she knows he's worn it a lot, it still feels brand new.

Once Blair looks around to make sure no one can see her in the living room from her yard, she pulls the sweater over her head and revels in the smell of Nate, which still hasn't gone away even though she'll bet her money on it that he's had it washed multiple times so it doesn't smell like him anymore and she won't think of him anymore than necessary.

She gets up from the floor with the intention to find a mirror somewhere in the downstairs of her three-story mansion, but becomes sidetracked when she sees a letter that must've fallen out of the sweater when she pulled it out of the box.

When she gets closer to the letter she sees that it's addressed to her, and the handwriting on the front makes it painfully obvious that the letter came from Nate.

Blair,

Here's your sweater, it never should have belonged to me. I know you're going to be pissed that I don't want it anymore, but I don't deserve it, so please, just keep it. I don't want it. It belongs with you. Take care, have a good summer.

Nate.

The letter pisses her off than the actual sweater being sent back to her, which she really doesn't need. But she guesses that this is Nate's idea of closure, and that fact alone bothers her more than either of her previous annoyances. And suddenly Blair is overcome with the sudden desire to start a fire in one of the many fireplaces in the mansion just to rip the sweater apart piece-by-piece and burn it just to get the satisfaction Nate must have gotten just by sending it back and writing the pathetic letter.

Just then, Blair hears foot steps coming from the direction of the kitchen and she suddenly remembers that she told Marcus to go make them refills of whatever drink they'd been drinking. It must be him. She tries to pull the sweater off her head as quickly as she can so she can hid it before he gets into the room, but he's to fast, and the sweater hole is too small to get off her head in just a second, so it's still half-way on her when he makes his way into the room.

"What's that, sweetheart?" Marcus asks in the adorable British accent Blair thinks she loves more than the actual person producing it.

"Oh, uh." She stutters, she has no idea what lie will sound normal enough for him to let it go. She's pretty sure that the truth: My ex-boyfriend sent the sweater that I gave him with my heart sewn in the sleeve back and I was just trying it on to see how it looked on me, won't fly with him.

"Did you get a present for me?" He asks. Marcus is completely full of himself, and in his mind, he's worthy of anything and everything; he'd think anything you happened to be holding was supposed to be a present for him if you didn't tell him otherwise.

Blair knows this because she constantly has to tell him otherwise, but instead of telling him the truth she thinks about how much more satisfying it would be if Nate happened to see Marcus strolling around town in the sweater that he didn't want. So she lies, but it works, because, of course, Marcus is full of himself.

"Oh, wow, thank you darling." He says, surprised, he's never had a fling where the girl actually got him a present, no matter how much he's bugged her about one. "But, you know, it is the middle of summer, there is no way I'm going to be able to wear this outside."

"What if it gets cold outside?" Blair asks in her most innocent voice. "You might get cold. Or in the city, if you ever came to visit, it gets pretty cold there, plus, I bet it looks so great on you, wouldn't you love to show it off to everyone?"

With that she knows she has him, Marcus is always up for anything involving parading around town making people envious of his good looks, all while pretending to be the greatest thing that ever happened to the world; it's his sole talent.

"Well..." He begins, trying to seem modest about 'showing off' (which Blair knows he's not). "If it would mean that much to you, I will gladly take this sweater and make sure everyone in the state of New York sees it and is jealous that they don't have a beautiful girlfriend who gives them lovely green cashmere sweaters."

Although the last part of what he's said hits Blair hard, she's overall glad that she didn't pick a sweet guy to have a fling with; this plan never would have worked.

"Try it on! Please? I want to see how it looks on you!" Blair squeals in her normal excited fashion, this is the only side of her Marcus has ever seen and she plans to keep it that way, he's just a summer fling anyway, and summer flings are all about having fun. (At least that's what it says in the Vogue and Glamour issues she's been reading non-stop all summer).

"If it makes you happy," he says as pulls the sweater on over the while polo he's been wearing all day.

Blair's never compared Marcus' size to Nate's, but with Nate's sweater on him, Blair can tell that Marcus is almost as scrawny as they come. The chest area of the sweater is much too big, and his chest doesn't even come close to filling out the allotted room, nor do his arms come close to filling out the sleeves, but she doesn't really care, in just a few short days Marcus will go back to England and he'll be taking the sweater with him, all she has to do is make him want it.

"Keep it, it looks good on you. It makes you look more buff." She tells him in her sweetest voice, the one that always makes her sound like she's tell the truth. Although the last part is a flat out lie; Blair can't help but want him to have it instead of keeping it herself.

"Uh, okay." Marcus says, looking doubtful.

"You know.." Blair begins in a sing-song voice. "There is a party tonight at some big lawyer's house. It would make me soooo happy if we went together and you wore your new sweater."

As soon as the word party is completely off of her lips Marcus makes the conscious decision to go, what better place to show off? Besides, Blair just said he looked buff, and even though he thinks he looks like a wimp in the sweater, he doesn't think that she'd have a reason to lie about it. Blair is pretty straight forward.

"Alright, you know I can't resist you when you plead with me like that." He says in his best hoity-toity voice. He can pull this off, he can go to a party wearing a five sizes too big sweater if she wants it, he's putty in her capable hands.

"Yay!" Blair squeals. She's been planning on going to the party ever since she heard about it, but now she's glad that she won't have to go alone, and even though Marcus looks scrawny in the sweater, she still thinks he looks good, and that's all that matters.

"Ladies first." Marcus says as he gestures to the foyer of the house so he and Blair can start walking over to the party.

"Thank you, sir." Blair replies while she gives him a flirtatious smile and a sexy wink.