Serena
Dan slowly pulled away from Blair. "Blair, what are we doing?" he asked.
"I'm kissing you." She replied pulling his lips into hers again. She wrapped her arms around his neck to prevent him from pulling away this time.
"I get that." Dan said when she finally pulled away for air. "I'm just trying to figure out why."
Blair sighed as she let go of him and walked over to the sofa. She sat down and put her head in her hands and began to softly sob.
Dan sat down next to her and pulled her close again. "I can go to Miami alone if you need some time." He whispered.
"I'm fine." She said wiping away the tears.
"Blair, you are not fine."
"I can't stay here! You can't leave me here with Lily and Rufus and Jenny and Eric and Serena lying in a hospital bed! I can't do this anymore!" she said completely breaking down this time as she clutched onto him.
"Blair," Dan began but was interrupted by his phone vibrating in his pocket. He pulled it out and looked at Blair. "Give me a second, I need to take this." He said as he walked to a more private area of the penthouse.
When Dan returned he had a somber look on his face. "She's awake. Do you want to go see her?"
Blair didn't respond. Just grabbed her purse and headed towards the elevator as Dan followed.
Dan and Blair were the first to arrive and greeted Lily. "How is she?" Blair asked hugging Lily.
"She'll be okay." Lily smiled.
"Is there anything I can do? Get you some coffee?" Dan asked.
"I'm fine, thank you Daniel." Lily said. "Did you kids want to see her? She's awake."
Dan and Blair looked at each other. Despite the fact that nearly every Saturday night they were at the hospital waiting for Serena to wake up, neither of them had actually spoken to her in over a year.
That didn't mean they hadn't tried. They had unreturned calls and texts. They stopped bothering all together after awhile. They still remembered the last time they had seen her face to face.
Dan and Blair were at the office finalizing their next issue for their art magazine when Samantha, their receptionist came over the intercom.
"Um Mr. Humphrey…I have Serena Van der Woodsen here to see you. She claims to know both you and Ms. Waldorf." Samantha said with a hint of fear in her voice.
"Samantha, do you know why she's here? Can let you let her know we're busy and we'll get back to her?" Dan said as he scanned the magazine.
"She insists sir, she says it's urgent." Samantha said still sounding worried.
"Just let her up for five minutes." Blair said to Dan. "She's going to scare that poor girl." Referring to Samantha.
"We're almost finish Blair, this needs to be finalized by five." Dan reminded her glancing at his watch as he saw they only had two hours.
"Send her in, but tell her she needs to be quick." Blair said pressing the intercom button.
Dan glared at her.
"We'd still be arguing if it wasn't for me." Blair said nonchalantly. "She comes up for a few minutes, she's gone and low and behold we're done. On time and everything."
Dan groaned.
"What are you guys doing?" Serena asked as she walked in without knocking.
The second that Dan and Blair saw her they knew they had to get her out of there. She was high and that was a recipe for disaster at their place of business.
"Just working." Blair smiled as she grabbed her coat. "I think Dan can finish up right Humphrey?"
"Yes of course." Dan nodded knowing what Blair was up to.
"How about you and I get some lunch?" Blair asked Serena.
"I want to see what you guys do with your day." Serena said stoned out of her mind. "What's this?" she asked as she noticed the magazine on the table.
"It's just a rough copy of the next issue," Dan said grabbing the magazine before she could get to it.
"Aww, let me see." Serena droned trying to get it from Dan.
"Really, Serena now is not the time." He said trying to keep her away.
"Fine!" Serena said as she grabbed her purse and threw it at Dan. He ducked and the purse hit the glass wall instead. The wall began to shake and Dan just knew it was going to shatter. When it didn't he looked incredulously at Serena. Before he got the chance to say anything she said, "I never want to talk to either of you again!" She stomped out of their office causing quite the scene and true to her word she hadn't spoken to either of them since.
"I think we should." Dan said as he looked at Blair. "You need to tell her everything you told me tonight."
Blair nodded as she followed behind Dan into Serena's room.
"Hey." Blair said softly as she grabbed a hold of Dan's hand.
Serena looked up, but barely acknowledged their presence.
"How are you?" Blair asked.
"Please," Serena said. "Don't act like you care."
"We wouldn't be here if we didn't." Dan said.
"You weren't here all the other times." Serena added as she let a tear fall.
"We're always here Serena." Blair said letting go of Dan's hand and taking a seat on Serena's bed. "Every Saturday night, we drop everything and wait with your mom in the waiting room. Fearing the worst. Serena," Blair said beginning to let the tears flow, "you can't keep doing this. To yourself, to Lily, to Eric, to me."
"I'm not doing anything." Serena said as she diverted her eyes away from Blair. "So I party every once in awhile. It's not hurting anyone."
"It's hurting you." Dan said. "And Lily, and look at Blair." He said pausing as he watched the brunette wipe away her tears. "You can't keep doing this."
"You can't tell me what to do." Serena said.
"You're right," Dan replied, "I'm asking – no wait, begging you to get better."
"You turned your back on me years ago." Serena said. "You have no right to ask or beg for anything."
"No one has turned their back on you Serena. Every time you end up in here, we're all here. Hoping that one day you're going to figure it out, hoping that one day you'll wake up and see that this isn't the person that you're supposed to be." Blair said tearfully.
"You have no idea who I am." Serena said beginning to get angry.
"Really?" Dan asked matching her tone. "You didn't finish school, you don't have a job. Your friends are your drug dealers. Serena, if you don't get help, one day the people you need most aren't going to be there when you wake up."
"I don't need any of you. Not you guys, not my mom, I can do this on my own."
"Do what on your own?" Blair asked. "What exactly are you doing?"
"Why are you guys interrogating me? I didn't yell or question you guys when you chose each other over me!" Serena spat.
"Chose each other?" Blair asked.
"Every day you guys spent together. Every day!" Serena yelled.
"We're business partners." Dan said perplexed.
"How convenient." Serena rolled her eyes. "Well, don't you need to go do something about your business?"
"In fact," Dan said glancing at his watch, "we have a plane to catch in eight hours, but we care about you and we came here tonight."
"I can't keep doing this S." Blair said rejoining the conversation. "I need to know now, if you're going to continue your life like this, because if so, I won't be around the next time you wake up." She added as she began crying again.
Serena unable to take this any longer grabbed the first thing she could, her cup of ice and flung it at Blair. "I don't want you here!' she screamed.
"Then I won't be." Blair said as she grabbed her purse and walked out of the room.
Dan stood there staring at Serena. "I can't believe you," he whispered as he followed behind Blair.
The cab ride back to their building was mostly silent.
"Fuck her!" Blair said out of nowhere.
Dan eyed her and although it was a serious moment, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Seriously Humphrey? Why on earth are you laughing?"
"Because hearing you swear is so strange. You're the epitome of class. It just doesn't go together."
Blair looked at him with interest and then said, "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck."
The cab driver eyed them in the rearview mirror as Blair and Dan burst into laughter.
Dan smiled thankful of the tension that had released from their visit with Serena. He pulled Blair close to him and said, "Serena was right about one thing though."
Blair froze. "And what is that?"
"I would've chosen you over her."
A/N: So I guess I'm a stickler for cliffhangers. I wanted to get a lot of the Serena story out to avoid making this story completely about her. Thanks for reading, if any of you are of course. :D
