Serena groaned as her phone rang, waking her up from her deep sleep, she blindly reached forward and grabbed it from her nightstand cracking one eye open to touch the screen to answer the call.

"'lo?" Serena mumbled into the phone through a yawn, her eyes slipping shut again and the fuzziness in her brain from her sleep threatening to take over when Blair's voice comes through the speaker.

"Serena, are you still asleep?" Blair asks obviously not expecting the blond to be asleep at this hour.

"Yes," Serena says, frowning when the sleep starts slipping away from her. "My time, your time, not the same."

"S, I know where you are, I'm not ignorant to the time," Blair says and Serena can picture her rolling her eyes, she rolls over and stretches her arm out to touch Dan but he's already out of bed. Serena's frown gets deeper as she sits up and looks around the room for her husband. "S are you listening to me?"

"What?" Serena asked shaking her head and wincing when she realized Blair was talking and she wasn't listening.

"I wanted to know if you were having a good time," Blair says blowing out a breath obviously exhausted at trying to talk to her half asleep best friend.

"I'm sorry B, I'm still getting up," Serena apologizes, yawning and leaning her head back against the headboard. "Is there something you wanted?"

"Am I disturbing you?" Blair asks and Serena can hear the 'I don't care, you will make time for me' tone in her voice. "Because I haven't spoken to you in over a week and I just wanted to know if my best friend was still alive."

"I'm alive, we're coming back home tomorrow, yey," Serena says through another yawn.

"You could put more effort into sounding excited," Blair said dryly and Serena giggled.

"Where's Henry?" Serena asked happily and Blair sighed.

"He's out with Chuck, apparently mommy wasn't cool enough to go on this outing," Blair said obviously disappointed that her son left her out of his plans.

"Aw B, I'm sure he's just planning something special for you," Serena said biting her lip. "He likes surprises."

"I know but it still hurts," Blair said sighing overdramatically. "When you get back to New York I demand that you come straight to the penthouse."

"You demand it?" Serena asked amusedly. "B you can't just demand that we come to your place, I know for a fact that Dan will want to go straight home and we'll be tired from the flight…"

"Oh Serena, you sound like you've slept enough on this holiday," Blair said and Serena rolled her eyes.

"Honeymoon," she corrected

"Whatever," Blair said. "You should be rested enough to come here because I have things to discuss with you, none of which concerns Humphrey so he can go to your … loft if he wants," Blair said reluctantly, then added the next part in a happier voice. "Henry is really excited to see you, he misses you."

"B you know I can't say no now," Serena whined. "You promised you wouldn't pull the Henry card."

"I'm not pulling any cards," Blair said smugly knowing she had Serena now. "I'm just letting you know how much your godson missed you."

"I miss him too," Serena said with a smile, thinking of the four year old always brought a smile to her face.

"So you'll come straight to us tomorrow?" Blair asked and Serena could hear in Blair's voice how much she wanted this.

"Yeah B of course I'll be there," Serena said, if Blair really wanted her to be there how could she say no. "Is there any particular reason you need me there so badly?"

"Can't a girl just want to spend the afternoon with her best friend who she hasn't seen in a few weeks," Blair said and Serena giggled.

"I've barely been gone two weeks B," Serena said and Blair sighed.

"Just be here tomorrow and make sure you're awake," Blair told her. "Bye S."

"Bye B," Serena said cutting the call and groaning, she placed her phone back on the table and covered her head with a pillow. She was drifting off to sleep again when she thought of something, where was Dan?

She reluctantly pulled the covers off her and got off the bed, stretching and walking over to her window, it wasn't too early in the morning but it definitely wasn't as late as Blair made it sound. Serena smiled and opened the door to her balcony, dialing Dan's number and frowning when it went straight to voicemail.

She sat down heavily on one of the chairs outside and closed her eyes again, she really shouldn't be this tired, but she's sitting on the warm cushion of the outside chair and the sun feels so good on her skin that she finds it impossible not to close her eyes and enjoy it. She's actually dreading going back to New York now, it was late winter there meaning that the sun she's experiencing in her paradise will just be a dream when she gets back.

"Hey sleepy," Dan says, his voice breaking through the quiet of the morning and she smiles as she listens to him take a seat on the chair opposite her and sigh. "When did you wake up?"

"Blair woke me up a few minutes ago, I think," Serena said cracking an eye open to see her husband watching her. "Where did you disappear to?"

"Alessandra called me, she's excited about one of the idea's I pitched," Dan said giddily rubbing his hands together. "Which of course means she wants anything I've written immediately."

"Does this mean I can't persuade you to stay here a little longer?" Serena asked sitting up, Dan laughed and shook his head no. "It's fine, Blair has demanded my presence at her house when we arrive."

"Demanded?" Dan asked and Serena laughed and nodded. "I thought that was normal Blair talk?"

"Nah she's all mad that Henry left her at home so he could spend the day with Chuck," Serena said walking over so she could sit on Dan's lap and wrap her arms around his neck. "So she's going to be a little more demanding until her baby tells her that mommy is better than daddy," Serena said giggling at how often that happened.

"Well that is tomorrow's problem," Dan said leaning down to brush his lips against hers. "We still have one more day here before we have to deal with anything New York again."

Serena smiled and kissed him, she wished New York was as far away from her mind as it should be, but there were things, people, that she just couldn't stop thinking about. Serena pushed all the thoughts as far back into her mind as she could, today was the final day of her honeymoon and she was going to enjoy it without any troubles if it killed her.

Serena walked into Blair and Chuck's home feeling refreshed and happy, Dan shuffled in behind her, he was not the biggest fan of the Bass brood but they were her family which meant that they were now his family too.

"Blair," Serena called holding Dan's hand and pulling him with her to the next room, they had their luggage taken back to their apartment where their housekeeper would sort it all out. "Chuck, Henry?"

"Where is everyone?" Dan asked looking around the quiet house. "Maybe they aren't here, we should go," he said turning back toward the door and Serena grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

"They're here Dan, Blair told me she'd be here when I got here," Serena told him smiling when she heard little footsteps running toward the stairs. "Henry's coming."

"Aunty S, you're back," Henry called as he ran down the stairs. Serena walked to the bottom of the stairs so she could grab him when he jumped from the bottom step into her waiting arms. "I missed you."

"I missed you more," Serena said hugging him tightly and kissing his cheek loudly. "What did you do without me for two whole weeks?"

"I stayed with Uncle Nate and we built the train set he bought me," Henry said, his eyes shining with excitement. "It was so big and he said he won't break it up so it's gonna stay on his floor forever."

"Wow really?" Serena asked over exaggerating the shock on her face for the child and Henry nodded squirming so he could be set down. "Where's mom and dad?"

"They're upstairs in their room, mommy wasn't feeling well," Henry said pulling on Serena's hands so she could bend down to his level. "Do you want me to call them?"

"Could you do that for me please?" she asked and Henry nodded again, accepting another kiss on the cheek from his aunt before scampering back upstairs to call his parents.

"I don't get how this co-parenting thing works," Dan said from the other end of the room and Serena stood up again smoothing down her dress.

"What co-parenting thing?" she asked confused as she walked toward him and sat on one of the chairs next to him.

"With Henry, it's like he has four parents and shared between you," Dan said and Serena frowned, what in the world was he going on about. "You and Nate treat him like you would your own child he spends almost every other weekend with either one of you, it's almost as if he's a child of divorce."

"He's the baby of the family Dan, he's the first baby born in our circle since Erik of course we're going to treat him like we can't get enough of him," Serena said incredulously. "What did you expect?"

"It's just that he spends as much or maybe even more time with his godparents than he does with his actual parents," Dan said and Serena rolled her eyes, she just want to go back to the week before were the weather was perfect and they agreed on everything and the judgment in his voice didn't grind on her nerves no matter what he said.

She was going to respond when she heard Blair and Chuck's voices float down to her from the top of the stairs and a ball of energy flew right into her lap. Serena laughed and tickled the little boy, keeping her arms tight around him before turning to Dan and sticking her tongue out at him, she was too happy to be upset with his disapproval at how close she was to Henry, she knew they'd probably discuss it again but there was a bigger chance of it being pushed under the rug with the rest of their problems and disagreements.

"Henry, what have I told you about running in the house," Blair scolded lightly. "You could have gotten hurt."

"Hey sis," Chuck said stepping forward to hug his sister, picking his son up as well so the two girls could hug. "Humphrey."

"Chuck," Dan said holding his hand up as a greeting, Serena sighed it had been forever since they met Dan, five years since the Gossip Girl announcement and a few weeks since their wedding and still he and Chuck act as if they were strangers.

"S, you're glowing," Blair said beaming at her best friend and sitting down next to her on the couch.

"The sun was amazing, I could just lay in it forever," Serena said with a sigh thinking back to her honeymoon balcony and the warn sun that was forever streaming into her room. "Henry said you were sick, what's wrong?"

"Nothing serious," Blair said brushing it off and looking over at her husband who smiled at her and nodded. "We have some news for you."

"Sounds exciting," Serena said looking from Blair to Chuck who were both smiling wide, Henry was on his father's lap playing with his tie because this topic did not interest him. "Well tell me already."

"I'm pregnant," Blair said and Serena screamed loudly causing Henry to block his ears and stare at his aunt like she was losing her mind. "Serena, my ears."

"I'm sorry but this is amazing," Serena said and Blair laughed because Serena literally had tears in her eyes. "Hi little baby."

"You do know that it can't hear you," Blair said as Serena patted and spoke to her flat stomach and Henry giggled at her.

"Baby Bass number 2, I can't wait," Serena said ignoring Blair and squealing again but a little softer this time.

"Now you sound like Nate," Chuck said and Serena's head snapped to him and her smile dropped before she realized where she was and it was back on in a second.

"What do you mean?" Serena asked and even Dan leaned forward in his chair, leaning his elbows on his knees to hear what Chuck had to say.

"He said the exact same thing when I told him," Chuck said smirking, he and Serena stared at each other knowingly for a beat, before Serena frowned and looked at Blair.

"How dare he find out before me?" she asked pouting and glaring at her best friends, Blair laughed and shook her head.

"He couldn't be here for this family meeting," Blair said and Dan rolled his eyes. "And I, well Chuck had to tell him face to face."

"Where is … Nate?" Serena asked swallowing before she said his name, it was fine listening to anyone else saying his name or saying 'him' but she herself needed a moment before saying his name out aloud. She didn't feel anything for him anymore, she knew she didn't, she couldn't but after the last time they slept together things just haven't been the same. When she saw him she felt guilty, she felt like she led him on and destroyed him and she hated that feeling, she hated being responsible for Nate's pain again.

She knew she didn't deserve someone like him in her life when he answered her call on her wedding day and calmed her down just by speaking, granted he thought it was Chuck calling when he answered but he didn't hang up when she spoke. She knows she needed him there, the feeling of wanting him to be next to her right at that moment was so overwhelming that she could have cried when she finally heard his voice. She needed to know that he was ok and that he wasn't going to hate her for marrying another man and as crazy as it sounds she wanted him to give her away.

"Nate is in LA, do you remember Diana Payne?" Blair asked and Serena furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.

"Cougar, hot and hiding Bart, Dianna Payne?" Serena asked and Blair laughed and nodded.

"One and the same," Chuck said and Henry stared at his aunt as if gaging her reaction. "She has a business proposal that he went up to discuss."

"Really?" Dan asked before his wife could question her best friends as to exactly why Nate would even consider going into business with that woman after all the drama with the spectator years ago. "I find it hard to believe that Nate would meet with Diana Payne, actually I don't believe it, there has to be another reason for him not being here now."

Serena didn't miss the flash of his eyes toward her as he completed his sentence but before she could say anything Blair spoke up. "You aren't qualified to say what Nate would or wouldn't do, you've barely spoken to him in the past three years," she snapped staring him down. "He'll be back in New York by the end of this week, unfortunately he refuses to listen to me and take a month of to relax."

"He just wants to meet her to say that he's meeting her," Chuck said talking to Dan but looking straight at Serena, hoping that he eased her worry for Nate. "Formalities and such."

Serena nodded as she looked back at Chuck to say she understood and then looked back to Blair giving her a huge smile, "So are we hoping for a girl this time?"

A/N : Hey guys thank you soooooo much for the reviews on the first chapter and I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well

My exams officially end this week and I am soooo excited you have no idea, I have all these math theorems and formulas in my head and I just want them gone! The good thing about studying is that it makes you procrastinate and you think of the best things when you're not supposed to lol I know a lot of things seem like gold to me but you guys are probably like what is wrong with this chick hahaha

I thought I should explain that DS are married and have to be somewhat happy otherwise its just stupid and unbelievable, I will break down their marriage though, nothing will make me happier **evil laugh**

I love that you guys love Henry, he's absolutely perfect I love him and he's a major part of this story along with CB as always

Please review and let me know what you think

Until Next Time (^^,)