So, as promised an update AND a bit more C/B and S/N.
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As soon as they drove off their cells started to ring. Eleanor, Lily and Anne tried to call them until all phones were off. Bart didn't even try. Lily glared at him.
"Don't you care about your son, Bart?" Lily asked angrily.
"I do. Much more than you know. But I know my son, he needs some space now – but to be sure, I'll cancel all his credit cards. And you three should do the same. If they run out of money, they'll come back." Bart assumed.
"Bart's right. Without money, they'll give in." Anne said and Eleanor nodded. Only Lily won't believe that this would work so easy this time.
A man rushed in the room, looking for someone. Bart recognized it and gave the man a small wave.
"Mr. Bass." the man said as he stopped in front of them. The man was about thirty years, wore a dark blue suit with a matching yellow tie.
"Lily, Eleanor, Anne – this is my banker, Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith – this is my wife Lily Bass, Mrs. Waldorf and Mrs. Archibald."
The man nodded. "Mr. Bass, I did what you told me but I've inform you about something. That's why I needed to speak to you in person and I'm really sorry to interrupt the wedding party." Mr. Smith explained.
"Oh, there's not much party left." Lily said angrily.
"Okay. Mr. Bass you asked me to cancel Charles' credit cards. That I did. But I thought you should know what he did earlier this morning with them."
"Spell it." Bart commanded.
"He bought two Mercedes Benz for nearly 200.000 $ and withdrawed another 100.000$ cash."
Anne, Lily and Bart were shocked.
"Seems, they won't run out of money so fast." Eleanor spat.
"But, as usual, Charles didn't think straight. The cars need license plates, don't they? I'll call my PI. Shouldn't be too hard to find them." Bart said.
Blair sat in the car and hadn't said a word since they drove off. She just stared out of the window. Chuck looked over to her every few seconds but he didn't dare to start talking. She'd forgive him and he didn't want to tempt fate. But after some time of driving he needed her to call Serena in the other car.
"Blair, would you please open the glove box and took the cell that's in there. You need to call Serena and Nate, please."
Blair looked at him and nodded. She took the phone and dialed a number.
"No, no. They have a new cell to. I bet they turned off their phones, too, after the parental calling attack. The number should be saved in the address book."
Blair nodded again and scrolled down in the address book. There it was. Car # 2. She called and Chuck watched in the driving mirror how Serena started to search for the ring tone. Finally she found it and answered the phone.
"Hey B." Serena said happily.
"Hey S. Chuck said he need me to call you." Blair said bored.
"Why?" Serena asked confused.
"Why, Bass?" Blair said.
"Hands-free talking, please."
Blair frowned but did as she told.
"Listen, sis. I need to talk to Nate. So hands-free talking please."
"Here you go." they heard Serena say.
"What is it, man?" Nate didn't sound angry or mad but happy. Chuck was confused, Blair angry.
"Nathaniel, we need to change the license plates. Let's take the next exit, okay?"
"Yeah, man. The signs says that's Porterville. Let's take a tour to Porterville!" Nate said jokingly and Chuck and Blair heard Serena and Eric laugh.
"Okay, see you there." Chuck said and hung up.
Chuck eyed Blair carefully. She didn't look at him.
"Do you want to listen some music, Blair?" Chuck asked gentle.
"No." She said in a stern tone.
"Do you want to talk?" he asked even more soft.
"Not at all." she spat.
"FINE! You know what, you can move to Nate's car soon. I'm sorry I bothered you!" he shot back.
"Chuck." She whispered. "Please, let's not fight." She sounded hurt. He didn't know what he could have done.
"Blair, please tell me what I've done. I thought we're on a good way by now." he whispered back.
"It's not about us." she took his right hand and he was totally surprised by this nice gesture. "It's about what we left. I finally did it. I cut the lines that bound me to my selfish, careless mother. But, somehow, I'm not as happy about it as I should be."
"Blair, you deserve better and you know it. Don't feel sorry for her. There's a reason nobody stays in her life for too long."
"Yeah. But she's still my mother."
"Told you: You. Deserve. Better."
"Chuck, I wrote something in my letter about you." she admitted.
"Oh, what could that be?" he asked curious.
"I'll tell you another day. See, we're nearly there." Blair pointed at the exit sign.
"Serena! Stop torturing us with your stupid CD. I swear, if I have to listen to it once again, I'll jump right out of the window." Eric claimed.
"The CD isn't stupid! I like that music! It's cool!" Serena defended.
"Yeah, in the 90's. Spice girls, really?!"
"Oh shut up. You like them , too, don't you Nate?" Serena asked teasingly.
Oh no. Please don't, Eric thought. It'd be hard enough to handle Chuck and Blair but Chuck and Blair AND Serena and Nate. No, please, dear Lord, don't do that to me.
"Look, there are Blair and Chuck." Eric pointed at the car that had stopped on the curb.
The three got out of the car.
"Why do we have to change the license plates, man?" Nate asked Chuck. Blair rolled her eyes and turned around. Eric shook his head in disbelief but Serena looked as clueless as Nate.
"Nathaniel, how many years do you know my father now? Do you want to get caught, not even 100 miles away from the city?"
6 hours later, Chuck turned the music from the radio off.
"Blair, we need to call the other car. We've to stay somewhere tonight."
Blair looked at him and nodded. She was still in his car. He offered her to pass the rest of the way today with Nate, Serena and Eric but she refused. Chuck felt happy and guilty about it in the same time.
"Hey S. Chuck said we should search for a place to rest tonight."
"Hey B. One minute…..Nate says we're in St. Louis soon."
"Chuck, Nate says we're nearly in St. Louis. Do you wanna search a motel there?" Chuck nodded.
"Okay, take the first exit of St. Louis. See you guys there."
Twenty minutes later they stood in front of a little, old motel.
"Okay, let's get rooms." Chuck suggested.
He opened the door and held it open for Blair and Serena. After the check in, the five left the caretaker's office and walked to the cars.
"So, we've got a two bed-room and a three bed-room. I'll say the girls get the two bed-room and we're taking the other one?" Chuck asked and all of them nodded.
"There's something else. I bet, Bart has already send his PI. So I got us these." he took five passports out of his jacket and distributed them.
Serena opened her's first. "CHUCK BASS! You've got to be kidding me!" A smirk on Chuck's face told them, that he got to choose the names. "Chasey Lane? Really, that's low even for you!" Serena yelled but Chuck, Blair and Eric started laughing. Only Nate tried to stop himself from laughing and to glare at Chuck but he couldn't.
"Let's see what I've got." Eric said. "Oh, wow. Robin Grayson. I didn't know, you're such a big batman fan." Eric smiled and shook his head.
"Okay, and I am ….wow, Rickey Henderson. That's not too bad, I guess." Nate admitted. He walked to Chuck and for a second Chuck thought Nate want to shake hands. But before Chuck could react, Nate grabbed his passport.
"Let's see, what Mr. Bass named himself…..Clyde Barrow. Wow, how very mid-western." Nate chuckled.
"Guess, that makes me your Bonnie?" Blair asked and lifted an eyebrow. "There's better no name you know from your little home collection in it, Bass." she snapped. But as soon as she opened it, her face felt completely.
"What is it, B?" Serena asked confused. Eric and Nate looked at her concerned.
"Misty Miller." Blair said in a soft tone.
"Who's that? Never heard of her!" Serena said. But Blair didn't care about the three other people there, she walked to Chuck, throw her arms around him and hugged him tight. Chuck hesitant for a second, but finally put his arms around her and returned the hug.
Serena exchanged curious looks but Eric knew who the woman was. "It's his mother's birth name." he explained. "Oh!" Serena and Nate were truly surprised about this lovely gesture.
Blair pulled back and her eyes found Chuck's. "Thank you." she whispered.
"For you? Anytime, sweetie." Chuck whispered in return. Blair smiled. Suddenly a loud noise disturbed the sweet scene. Chuck and Blair turned around and saw a big dent in one of the car doors and a Nate that limped away as fast as he could. Serena and Eric looked in shock at the car.
"Nate!" Blair shouted and ran after him.
Chuck watched it and his jaw clenched. He turned around and crossed the street to the little bar on the opposite site of the street.
Blair caught up with Nate.
"Nate, stop!" Blair said.
"Why Blair? To watch another episode of Chuck-and-Blair-getting-horny? I'm done with you two. So done." Nate spat.
"Please, Nate. Please. Just stop it. I don't know why you even so angry. You told me that night before my birthday you didn't love me. We're dated more than eight years but you always leeched on to Serena, my best friend. No, that I finally found someone that loves me the way I love him, you won't let me have that?" Blair asked with tears in her eyes.
"If you didn't noticed, Chuck was my best friend. And he doesn't love you. We both know that you just another conquest. But if you want to play one of his whores, you're free to do that."
Before Nate knew what he just said, Blair slapped him across the face.
"I hate you, Nate Archibald!" Blair ran away.
Serena and Eric watched the scene. "Looks, like this trip isn't so much fun." Eric said.
Serena nodded as response.
Chuck sat on the counter as Blair stepped in the bar. He gave her as small side glance.
"Chuck…" Blair said soft. She'd been crying. Her red, puffy eyes were the best proof for it.
"Blair, you should go." Chuck said.
"Why?" Blair cried.
"Because, if you stay, I'm going to say something we both regret tomorrow. I need some time to swallow the fact that you made a run to dear Nathaniel again." he explained softly.
"That's not what it was about. Chuck, we need each other right now. We're on the run and we need to be a team."
Chuck just chuckled. But it wasn't a happy chuckle, it was bitter.
Blair laid a paper sheet next to him and rose.
"What's this?" Chuck asked confused.
"Read it." she said as she left the bar. Chuck took another sip of his scotch before he took the paper. It was a letter, a copy of the letter she'd gave her mother. Chuck read it. And then a second, a third, a hundred time more.
She is in love with Chuck Bass. In love! In love with Chuck Bass. I'm Chuck Bass. So she's in love with me. Not Nate. Blair's in love with Chuck who's me. Blair Waldorf is in love with me! His thoughts ran through his head high speed.
"Nate?" Serena asked gentle. Nate sat on a bench next to the empty pool of the motel. She took the seat next to him.
"Hey." Nate said sad.
"Are you okay?"
"To be honest: I'm not sure. When did things got so messed up, Serena?" he asked confused.
"I dunno. But there's no way back." Serena replied.
"I know. Tell me, how can I be jealous if I don't even love her?"
"You did and you do love her. Just not like that. You're always very protective, Nate. And we both know, that you can't be mad with them forever! Give them a chance!"
Nate thought about it. "Well, I haven't the choice, have I?"
"Nope. Let's go!" Serena commanded. When they arrived at the motel, Chuck was on his way back, as well.
Nate spotted him. Chuck seemed to be confused.
"Chuck. Everything okay?" Serena asked.
"Not yet. Nate, man. Listen and don't interrupt, please. I know you're mad, I know you're hurt but I'm in love with Blair and she's in love with me." Chuck explained shortly.
Nate's and Serena's faces fall immediately. They never heard Chuck use the word "Love": It took a while for Nate muster the power to say. "Okay man, but don't hurt her or I'll hurt you!"
Chuck nodded and put forth his hand to shake Nate's.
"Let's find Blair and Eric." Serena suggested and the boys followed her to the rooms.
In the meantime in New York, The Palace
The guests of the wedding were gone, just Anne and Eleanor were still there. They waited for Bart's PI to arrive.
"Mike!" Bart said as he spotted the man.
"Mr. Bass, Ladies." he nodded.
"Mike, what did you find out?" Bart asked impatiently.
"Well, sir. Your son bought not just the cars this morning. He also bought a bunch faked license plates and five faked passports."
"Go on. What's the point?"
"I also know that they took the highway to Pennsylvania. The license plates were copies of actually used ones. That means, we can't claim them stolen because then, innocent people would get arrested and there would be a lot of questions. "
"What about the cars?"
"Nothing special. Totally normal cars off the rack. They sold about 50.000 similar cars last month in the US."
Bart nodded angrily. It seemed that Chuck thought two steps ahead. He has underestimated him. "Do you have the names of the faked passports?"
"Not yet. The police arrested the guy who sold them."
"What? Why?" Lily asked confused.
"Seems that he sold another faked ID today. To this Capitan guy that's always in the news." Mike explained and Anne blushed. Eleanor frowned and so did Bart. Lily took Anne's hand to comfort her.
"How long do you need to get the information?" Bart asked in a stern tone.
"A day, maybe two." Mike said honest.
"Too long, with that bunch of money and the wit they have…They could be in Europe or Asia by tomorrow. Look for another way to make sure, they won't be able to leave the country. Am I understood?" Bart commanded.
"Yes, sir. I'll try." Mike said and disappeared.
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