"What about her? Is she ok?" I asked, completely freaked out.

"Yeah, she says there's someone she wants you to meet. She's going to be coming over here in a few minutes." Just as he said that, the elevator opened. It was V.

"Hey! Why did you randomly disappear last year?" I asked her the second the doors opened.

"Um, Jenny? Can I talk to you alone?"

"Yeah, sure, let's go in my old room."

As we sat on the bed and closed the door, she started talking. "Before I say anything, you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone. I'll tell them when I feel like it, if that ever happens."

"I promise, but what's bad enough to leave town? You're not like Serena, being there with a guy when he died, and then taking your best friend's boyfriend's virginity. What did you do?"

"What I did was worse, if that's even possible. I left because I got-" She cut herself off and stuck her face in her hands.

"You got what? You can tell me."

"I'm a mom now Jenny." Vanessa admitted, choking on the words.

"Wait, Vanessa, you got pregnant? How is that worse than what Serena did?"

"What did I do?" Serena asked, barging into the room.

"Were you eavesdropping? This is a private conversation Serena!" I blurted out.

"No, I was coming in here to find a necklace when I heard my name. You don't have to get all pissy about it, drama queen."

"I'm not a fucking drama queen." I stated.

"Whatever. I'm leaving now." She said, going to the door.

"So, you got pregnant. Tell me about it."

"Well, I found out I was pregnant, so I left. And it's worse than what Serena did because I never told anyone. Not my parents, not my sister, no one."

"Not even the father? Wait, who is the father? You weren't dating anyone that I knew of."

"I wasn't dating him. Hell, I wasn't even friends with him. It was a few time thing, and it was stupid."

"Will you tell me who it is?" I hopefully asked her.

"I'm sorry Jenny, but I can't tell anyone. You should meet my daughter. She looks like him."

"How old is she? What's her name?"

"She's 5 months old. Her name is Alison. She's with her babysitter in the park right now. Want to go meet her?"

"Yeah, let's go." I said, as we left the apartment.

14 minutes later...

"She's so sweet V, but it's weird. She looks a lot like a certain Bass we know." I admitted, knowing it was bogus. Vanessa would never sleep with Chuck.

"Yeah. I know. He's her daddy." Vanessa said quietly. WHAT?

I dropped my phone on the ground in shock. I stood there, bewildered from what I'd just heard. No. This was not happening. My friend had a baby with the same guy that I was going to have a baby with. No. Just fucking no. I felt the tears in my eyes starting to well up. I sat- ok fell, onto the ground and cried.

"Jenny! Are you ok?" Vanessa exclaimed, bending down to me with Alison. All I could do was furiously shake my head, messing up my hair.

I felt paralyzed. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, I couldn't move, and I sure as hell couldn't talk. Just then, Alison started crying. That was the last thing I remembered when I woke up.

I woke up right as an ambulance was pulling up to where I was. Vanessa was sitting next to me, breastfeeding Alison.

"J, you're awake."

"What the fuck just happened? Why is the- that here?" I asked weakly, pointing at the ambulance, not able to remember its name.

"I don't know, but you randomly started crying and you fell down and then blacked out. So I called 911." She explained.

"Jenny! Vanessa! Is she ok?" My dad yelled from a distance.

"What's going on?" I asked Vanessa again.

"Jenny, it's ok. They're gonna take you to the hospital to run some tests and see if they can figure out what happened." Eric explained to me gently. It wasn't until he was done saying his sentence that I realized his hands were on my waist.

"Eric? You're here?" I questioned him, totally confused.

"Yeah, I'm here." He responded, caringly. Completely unsure of what I was doing, I leaned over in his arms and let him kiss me. At that moment, I knew there was something between us, something more than friendship.

I could barely hear my dad ask Lily, "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

"I'm sorry, we need to get her into the truck!" One of the paramedics told Eric.

"I'll go with you, Jenny, don't worry." Eric assured me as the put me into the truck.

27 minutes later...

I woke up in a room with a bunch of people. Wait, this was a hospital. Who was sick? Oh yeah I was. But I wasn't sick, so why was I here? Then I remembered everything. The baby. Chuck's baby. My baby.

"Is my baby ok?" I asked, extremely scared.

"What baby?" Vanessa whispered to Rufus.

"Honey, your baby is fine, luckily. The doctors did and ultrasound while you were asleep." Lily told me.

"What happened to me earlier?"

"The doctors think it was a serious anxiety attack. However, they can't put you on medication until they are sure, and when they're sure, they'll have to get a special one that is safe for pregnant women."

"Hello, Jenny. I hope you don't mind if I ask you a few questions." A male doctor said as he came into the room I was in.

"Yeah, go ahead."

"What do you remember of your trip to the park?"

"I was with Vanessa, and I met Alison. Then she mentioned someone and I just snapped."

"Do you remember falling down?"

"I think so, like my knees just forgot how to work."

"Is that all that you remember?"

"I remember a little of waking up, when Eric kissed me but the rest is a little blurry."

"Alright, that's all I need to know at the moment." The doctor said as he left the room.

The next morning...

"Jenny, now that you're doing better, and out of the emergency room, would you like to tell me about your baby?" My dad asked me.

"I was going to tell you-" He cut me off.

"When?"

"Soon. I had just told Lily when we were walking and then I got home and Vanessa was there and she wanted to talk to me and then she wanted me to meet her baby girl and then when she told me who Alison's father was is when the thing happened. I didn't have a chance to tell you." I explained.

"Do you know why you had the anxiety attack? What about that baby's father made you feel that way?"

"It's just that he isn't helping with her and it made me mad. Its not a big deal."

"You wound up in the hospital! It was a big deal."

"I wound up there because Vanessa called 911! It's not my fault! If only you understood!" I shouted, stomping out of the room.

"Um, Jenny, can I talk to you for a few minutes?" Eric asked as I stomped out.

"Fine, what?"

"What happened with us yesterday? Is there something more than friendship here?"

"I don't fucking know. I was scared and you were comforting. Sort of like that night I got pregnant only you weren't the one there first."

"When are you just going to admit it? You feel something for me, but you're afraid to admit because you think it'll ruin our friendship."

Then I just crumbled inside and a tear fell down my face. "You're right." I admitted, talking through the tears as he pulled me into a hug.

"You should know I don't like seeing you cry. How about I make you stop?" Eric suggested, kissing me hard and rubbing my back.

We continued like that for a few minutes, sinking down onto the couch, with me leaned against the pillow on the arm with him almost laying on me. Somehow my dad knew just the right time to ruin the moment and walked into the living room right as Eric put his hand on my thigh.

"Do I even want to know what you two are doing?" My dad asked us.

"Not really." Eric replied to him.

"Well, I'm going to go get coffee. You kids better behave while I'm gone."

"Bye." Eric and I said in unison. After he was gone, we continued what we started, only again we got interrupted, but this time it was Serena coming down the stairs. What was that on her stomach? Wait, that was her stomach!

"Oh my god." Eric said, stunned.

"You saw nothing." Serena said, holding a blanket in front of her stomach. "I thought no one was home."

"Is that what you were going to tell us last night before your announcement party got canceled?"

"Yeah."

"It's Dan's isn't it?" Asked Eric.

"Yes but you can't tell anyone anything? Got it?"

"Yeah, but how far along are you?"

"I'm 23 weeks. I'm going to go change now." She told us.

"That was awkward." I said after she was out of sight. "Now, since we keep getting interrupted, let's just go for a walk instead."

"Great idea."


If you didn't already figure it out, in this story, Vanessa left around season 2, a little after she and Chuck slept together when they tried to make Blair and Nate jealous. And yeah, Serena's pregnant too. I'll have another chapter up as soon as possible!