"What does this mean for us?" Carter asked, softly.

"There is no us." Serena answered sharply, "I'm with Dan, I love Dan." Though she wouldn't admit it or even think it, she was trying to convince herself more than him.

"No. You don't." Carter replied looking her in way that she couldn't look away, "If you loved Dan, you'd be on a plane out of here."

Serena pulled her arms out of his grasp, trying to put some distance between them.

"You don't know me, Carter." She said firmly, "You think that just because we were together for one week, you have control over me….but you don't."

"Whether you're ready to face the music or not, Serena van der Woodsen, you belong to me, because the only things you run from are the things that have you completely." He replied stepping closer to her as she stood in the living room of her suite.

"People don't belong to other people. And I've changed, Carter. I'm not the girl on the island anymore." She said, lightly as he walked closer to her.

His hand had moved slowly and softly to her shoulders.

"That is where you are wrong, you are the same girl only softer, more vulnerable." Carter was leaning in close to her again, "You've had me in your grasp since I saw you in that small local bar." He cut off his words and her thoughts as his mouth softly pressed against her's.

"You scare me." Serena confessed in a whisper so soft that he almost didn't hear her, when they pulled away.

"How?" He asked confused.

"Because I don't know what to do next." She whispered, her voice cracking.

"If you run, I promise I'll be on the next plane after you." Carter commented seriously.

"Why now? Why did you choose now to come back in my live? Why couldn't you have come when I left?" Serena's tone was border lining pleading as the words fell from her mouth, "Carter, you don't know half of what I feel and if you wanted it to works so badly why didn't you come sooner?"

"Would you have let me?" He asked making note of the wetness forming in her eyes.

"I waited in the small Santorini airport for five hours." She sighed, "I was hoping you'd come in, demanding to be on a plane that would take you where I went, but after five hours of just sitting there, I knew that you didn't want us to be serious."

"I was on the ferry." Carter replied, as one fat teardrop rolled down her cheek. "I didn't think you'd go to the local airport."

Serena's bottom lip was trembling as she tried to stay calm, "So you did come after me?"

"I tried." Carter said, "But I couldn't bring myself to get on the plane...I was hoping you'd come back. I mean you know what they say."

"Oh, Carter, you didn't love me."Serena said, her forehead crinkling.

"You don't know-" Carter started.

Serena's mouth dropped before she interjected, "You didn't love me, right?"

A/N: Okay...I totally apoligize that this was so SHORT...I want to choke myself for writing so little but I had to go with my sis to wash her car...more fun than it sounds and while I was out I discovered that I WOULD LOVE IF YOU GUYS REVIEWED...

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