DISCLAIMER: Still not owning anything Gossip Girl related.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is my first GG fic but I hope this is not too OOC. Also, I'm Italian so you're warned! Ihih I'm working on getting a beta for the rest of the fic but I really wanted to publish this first two chapters before the season finale was aired.

A huge thank you to all the people who took the time to review last chapter: I really appreciate it! I agree with all of you saying it's really a shame they'll go with the cliché. Honestly, I haven't seen the promos for the season finale cause I didn't want to get my ideas mixed with what's really going to happen in the show. I've been thinking about this fic since the end of last week episode and decided to just sit down and write it. I really hope you'll enjoy it and won't be too disappointed if it doesn't meet your expectations.

I'm sorry for dragging this out, but I need to add one last thing to Chiara: come ti capisco! Anche io sono abituata a leggere tutto in inglese! Speriamo che gli autori vedano presto la luce!

BLAIR

Blair realized something wasn't right the moment she saw it was Thorpe on the roof with her. She didn't know why, but she knew this wasn't going to end well. If all the classics she loved taught her something, it was that a man stepping out of the shadows he'd been hiding into is never a good omen.

She quickly went through her options: she hadn't told anybody about the phone call from a police officer asking her to come to this place ASAP because Chuck was threatening to jump off the roof. She'd only told Serena's cousin she was going to meet Chuck, but she didn't tell her where. Because frankly, she didn't trust nor like the little Serena wannabe.

Nobody knew where she was other than the cab driver she had left waiting for her downstairs, but let's face it: he was more than happy keeping the clock running while he waited for her to come back.

She realized she had two options: either try to get Thorpe to tell her what he wanted, in order to stall him and see if someone was coming at her rescue, or start screaming at the top of her lungs, hoping that was enough to scare him off.

She was still wondering about her best option when Thorpe made the choice for her: it looked like he really wanted her to know why he was doing this. He started talking, telling his story.

«You are here because of Chuck. His father took my wife from me,» he said, his voice calm with no trace of the craziness she could see in his eyes. « She was going to leave me for him and she would have taken Raina with her. I couldn't let that happen. I had to kill him, to get rid of him and keep my family together. But he didn't die in that fire, my wife did.»

That's when Blair knew this wasn't going to end well. This is when she started really thinking she might not leave this roof alive. This man killed his wife, she was sure he would not start growing a conscience just for little old her.

«It was awful but at least I still had Raina,» he kept explaining. «But now Chuck is taking her away from me, he told her it was my fault her mother died. She hates me now. My own daughter hates me and it's all his fault. He took away all I had left, the most important thing in my life. So now I'm going to do the same. I'm going to take you away from him.»

As he said this he pulled a gun from the pocket of his coat and trained it at her. She instinctively took a step away from him, getting a step closer to the railing. He smiled a twisted, ruthless and crazy smile. A smile she had sometimes seen on Chuck's face and knew for a fact that never led to good things.

«Go ahead, Miss Woldorf. Go to the railing, that's where we're heading anyway.»

«Mr Thorpe, I see you're upset, but you have to understand,» she tried to reason with him. «There's nothing between me and Chuck. That chapter of my life is long closed. I'm getting married, you see.»

She showed him her ring, knowing as she did so how foolish she'd look to an external observer.

«Not to Chuck,» she added. «To another man. A prince. Prince Louis Grimaldi of Monaco.»

Her situation was growing more and more ridiculous: she was trapped on a roof with a murderer who wanted to kill her and she was trying to hide behind her prince, who wasn't even there for her when he needed him the most. It looked like this princess had to face her evil witch all alone if she wanted to leave the tower she was being held, because her prince was nowhere to be seen.

«You may be getting married to another man, but you are the love of Chuck's life the way my wife was the love of mine. That is way he will feel exactly the way I felt, knowing it's his own actions that caused your death.»

«You will have to shoot me, then. Because there is no way I'm going to jump off this roof,» Blair said with a bravery she didn't feel. Not by a long shot.

They were at the railing now, Blair with her back against it and Thorpe between her and the door and the safety it represented. They heard a loud metallic noise, like something smashing heavily against something else. It was followed by another noise just like the first one. Thorpe turned around quickly, pointing his gun at the door.

Blair was stunned: someone was coming to rescue her! Flashes of the men in her life danced in front of her eyes and that's when she dared to hope that maybe, just maybe, this could end well.

And then was also when she realized that her rescuer was going to get shot the moment he opened the door. She ran towards the door as quickly as her heels would allow her, but she suddenly felt someone, Thorpe, pulling her back from her hair.

That's when she saw her savior: Dan.

A feeling of safety washed over her and she didn't care how irrational it was: Dan was there and she knew he would take care of it. That he would take care of her.

That's also when she felt the barrel of the gun against her right temple.

I know this is really short, but I didn't want this part to be too heavy with dialogue. Obviously I failed at that, cause there's a LOT of long dialogues, but it could have been WAY worse, believe me.

Please let me know what you think about this!