Where Blair doesn't watch Breakfast at Tiffany's.
"You have your own room here, you know?" Bruce's question made her turn to see him on the doorframe, with only his pyjamas' pants, a towel around his neck and wet hair. Obscenely handsome, to be fair.
"I always sleep in this bed" She clearly forcing her gaze back to the screen and ignore the body of Adonis. Blair had never felt drawn to sculptural bodies before: Nate had always been the athletic type without becoming Calvin Klein model, it had no case to mention Chuck, but Bruce… she was not surprised because, after all, he was the man behind the Bat... but still, Bruce was the David himself. "But if you go to sleep, I will go to the other room". She says taking the remote control and the box of macarons. It was a good excuse to get out and avoid shaky ground; she did not need to think of men and fewer who had just lost the love of his life. No matter how perfect was Bruce Wayne.
"No… stay... What are you going to watch?" Bruce asked approaching the bed while Blair saw him limp. In any other circumstances, Blair will be pretty excited to have a man like him in the same bed, but see his physical injury only reminds her the enormous of emotional baggage that consumes Bruce.
"You must go to check that leg". Blair orders because it did not like to see him like that, because Bruce uses physical pain to mask emotional pain. Just like she used to use the porcelain cup...
It is not necessary. He answers indifferent voice while sitting in bed like her, only Bruce puts less pillows against the headboard of the huge double bed. Confident that Bruce Wayne is the only person who can ignore the demands of the queen without her being offended.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" responds by passing the film special edition box and putting French macaroons in the middle of the bed, trying to ignore the proximity of the body of Bruce; although there is considerable space in their midst Blair can still feel the heat radiating Bruce Wayne. It is the first time they are in that bed together.
"Haven't you watched it a million times already?" Bruce questions while he is taking his shirt and puts it, which is such a shame, but Blair appreciates, she didn't want to ogle him.
"I need to distract myself". She shrugs by way of explanation returning her gaze to the credits of the film. This day is not about Bruce and his melancholy. This day Blair had fled to Gotham for something specific that Chuck made. Again.
Why Chuck believed that give a place to Little J in Parsons, would redeem him? As Blair conferred, Jenny Humphrey won what she sought. Yet, Chuck was doing things to hurt her again. He did not realize that bring back Little J to Manhattan was a constant reminder of what he had done? It was as if he did it deliberately.
Her first impulse was to attack back, sabotaging the happy couple while she worked for sinking a Little J in the Hudson; because that was what they did: to declare war and then say that they loved each other... but she was so tired to fight for him, to wait for him... so she did what she knew was going to hurt him more: indifference.
But if she was sincere with herself, Blair made sure that Gossip Girl gets a picture of her taking the train heading to Gotham. If Chuck wanted to play, she would play, but not directly. Bruce Wayne was enough to put jealous the egocentric's man in the world.
Blair can feel his eyes on her because haven't made effort to hide her hurt look, she does not even try, she's so tired of pretending. However, Bruce says nothing and watches Audrey staring at the windows of Tiffany and so does she. She quickly plunged into the lovely Holly Golightly, deliberately ignoring the man beside her and the intense look he devotes while she repeating quietly the lines "If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!"
And just when Holly lies on Paul ensuring that they are just friends, she finally gives to the urge to look over her shoulder ... because the situation feels terribly familiar... because she and Bruce are not only friends, but neither are lovers and are far from want to be, both are too broken.
If he were anyone else, Blair will feel absolutely offended by the fact that that person fall asleep during one of the most important films in the history of cine, but he is Bruce, who just lost the love of his life and the only reason to go on just a couple of weeks ago. He certainly was dealing the situation better than she would have done if Chuck had died on the streets of Prague trying to keep the ring with which he was going to propose her on the top of the Empire State.
It is the first time she see him like that, so serene and so calm... He deserved it after all the chaos that had been the last few weeks, and then she wonders how it was that exactly became one of the few people who have the privilege to see Bruce Wayne like this…
The sound of Moon River in the voice of Audrey made her gaze go back to the screen, but immediately return it to see Bruce… We're after the same rainbow's end, waiting, round the bend…
Bruce was right, she had seen too many times Breakfast at Tiffany's... she was going to enjoy the new view that was to her side.
