AN: So I just realised that I had in fact written a follow up chapter to this story and just came across it in my files! Haven't really read over it so it might be a little rough, but I'm posting anyways! Enjoy and thanks for your reviews!
Things weren't immediately better after that. They watched Sunset Boulevard that night before Blair excused herself and returned home. They didn't see each other at all in the following weeks.
Dan finally unpacked all of his boxes back into his Brooklyn loft and started writing again. It took many sleepless nights and long walks along the East River before any inspiration struck him again. The real kick in his writing happened when Serena finally called him after weeks of not speaking. They chatted amicably and agreed that not talking was stupid, they were important parts of each others lives and that would never change. It was a sudden weight off of his shoulders to know that not everything had to change, that they could both be happy apart.
Blair got used to the life of a recent divorcee with a child. Chuck agreed to see Henry every other weekend seeing as how he was usually so busy anyway. She spent these weekends visiting art galleries, curled up in her bed with a book or making last minute adjustments to her newest line. She found that she didn't miss Chuck the way she thought she would. She was missing something though.
It wasn't till about a month later that she ran into Dan again. There was an interesting art event at the Park Avenue Armory and she should've guessed that he'd be there on opening night, his father did have connections to the art world after all. But as it turned out, he was invited on his own merit, seemed that being a new literary genius had its perks. They wound up sitting silently next to one another on one of the swings, they swung higher and higher, watching the white curtains billow in front of them. When they finally got off the swing she still felt as though she was up in the air, soaring. They lay down underneath the billowing curtain and she didn't even complain about her clothes getting mussed from laying on a floor that countless others had walked on.
It was Dan that finally started a conversation. He asked about Henry, about her new line about Jenny and how she raved about working with her. Blair asked about the buzz behind his newest book and eventually they went back to their old jokes about their literary taste, their opinions about the art they were currently viewing. After hours of just lying on the floor laughing and talking like the old friends they were Dan got up and held his hand out to her. He asked her out for dinner but she had made plans with Eleanor. She kissed him on the cheek goodbye and walked away.
That night she called him and they watched Roman Holiday together.
Their friendship progressed in the way it had before. Sure it was years later, but they still coincidentally ran into one another at a museum, or theater. Slowly the chance meetings became planned. Mostly they were on weekends that Blair was alone and lonely, but now and again Henry would come along. His rambunctious little kid mind got bored quickly, so they'd end up eating out somewhere or once Dan even took them to the Children's Zoo.
Even without Gossip Girl, word travelled quickly. The week following their excursion together, Blair got an angry drunken phone call from her ex husband. She understood where the anger came from to an extent, but Dan was her friend and he was good for Henry so she didn't give a shit that Chuck may not have approved. She told him as much over the phone and soon after he arrived at their home and confronted her. They had amazing angry sex and for a moment things seemed to have resumed their usual route. Chuck came over for dinners, sometimes went out on museum excursions but it eventually turned back into much of the same. Blair couldn't let this cycle happen again, she had Henry to think about now. So they talked and he left for the Empire permanently. Serena wasn't around anymore, so this time Blair cried to Dan about her failed marriage, finally taking the time to grieve her lost epic love.
They continued to see one another as friends. Blair ignored news of Chuck's most recent conquests and eventually she stopped caring all together. She found herself finally happy and content with her work, with Henry, with Dan. Chuck got engaged to some young socialite and Blair was happy for him. Serena married an up and coming Hollywood director and Dan flew out to attend the wedding.
It took them two years before they decided to get married. It took them that long to realize that they had been dating in the first place. During the first year of their dates, the two continued to pretend they were only friends hanging out. During the second year they slept together every now and then, but they were just casual hookups. It took them two years to realize that they hadn't been seeing anyone else and that neither of them wanted to be dating anyone else. So one night as Dan polished up his most recent novel and Blair put together a task list for the following day at the office, they decided it was about time they married.
Blair finally wore her dream gown, in her dream church, surrounded by the people she most loved in the world. She didn't imagine that her son would be the ring-bearer, that she'd be so happy to see Chuck in the pews with his new bride, that Jenny would be one of her bridesmaids. Her husband was most definitely not the perfect man that she'd imagined. But she wouldn't have it any other way.
Also this is the art event they went to:armoryonpark {.} org /photo_gallery/slideshow/ann_hamilton
