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Here's another update for you. I was pretty stuck with the first few scenes, but I couldn't make it any better, so here they are)
Chuck was sitting in the living room of the Waldorf's penthouse, reading a newspaper, waiting for Blair to take her to a dinner.
"Chuck, I'm ready"
He looked up at her and smiled. Not crookedly, as he usually did, but happily. His facial muscles, not used to smiling so much, were already aching, but he didn't care.
"God, you look gorgeous!" he breathed out, dazzled by her beauty.
"Let's go, I am starving" she chuckled and went straight to the elevator.
They were having a dinner in Blair's favorite restaurant, one of the fanciest in New York. The meal was nearly over and they were having desserts when Chuck decided that it was time to start the conversation he had been planning for more then a year. He took a huge sip of his scotch, inhaled deeply and looked straight into Blair's beautiful eyes. He noticed a curious sparkle in her fantastic hazelnut eyes, her gracious long eyelashes going down as she interrupted their eye contact to take a strawberry from his plate.
"Blair, I love you" he said sincerely, not in the casual way he said those words a million times every day, not with a playful smirk, not in a state of sexual exaltation, but meaning real love. "I love you so much I cannot imagine my life without you. I know I've hurt you too many times, and I apologize sincerely for everything that I've done. I'd really like to make up for my every mistake, because my only desire is to see you happy. I don't want you to think that I'm doing this because of our baby".
Blair started to understand what he was getting at and smiled to her thoughts. He kept looking straight into her eyes, speaking slowly and meaningfully. She smiled and when he saw her shining smile he knew that he had made a right decision. She was shining with him and that made him the happiest man in the Universe.
"I'm doing this because I love you more then I've ever loved anyone, in fact I've never loved anyone but you, and I've been dreaming to do this for more then a year now".
He knelt down and and took a small jewelry box out of his pocket. He opened it slowly and Blair saw the ring. The ring he wanted to give her last May, at the Empire State Building. The ring he got shot for and the ring she gave him back the previous autumn in Paris. It was the most beautiful ring she had ever seen, probably the most beautiful one in the world.
"Blair Cornelia Waldorf, I promise to love you forever and I want to spend my whole life with you. Will you marry me?" he breathed out, scared to death she would refuse and utterly happy to say the words to her at the same time.
"Yes" she cried. "Yes, yes, yes, yes" she knelt down too to kiss him, tears of joy and happiness falling down her cheeks. She started to kiss him passionately, not being able to express her overwhelming love. She just hoped that her lips and tongue and arms would make clear what her voice refused to say.
He kissed and hugged her, enjoying the fascinating feeling of holding her in his arms, inhaling her sweet scent. He started to unbutton her shirt, but then she suddenly moved back and said softly:
"Chuck, we're in a public place, a restaurant actually, we can't make out right here"
"Oh, God! Why didn't I propose to you in the limo?" he said, chuckling darkly and raising to his feet.
"Don't you want to get on the ring?" Chuck asked, smiling. "I considered buying a new one for you, but I couldn't find anything more beautiful, and I thought that it's nice the ring has it's history"
"God, it's so beautiful, Chuck" Blair said, putting the ring on. "The most beautiful peace of jewelry I've ever seen" she grinned widely, bursting with happiness.
When the following evening Chuck and Blair entered the Waldorf's penthouse, Blair was more then just nervous. She dreaded to think what her mother would say when she finally knew their 'little' secret. Chuck could feel it. So he wrapped his arm around her waist and whispered:
"We'll be fine, I promise. I'll help you with her"
Four pairs of curious eyes watched Chuck and Blair entering the living room together. Apparently the parents didn't read Gossip Girl nor gutter press and were totally unaware of what happened between Blair and Louis.
"Eleanor, Cyrus, Lily, Rufus, good evening" Chuck started the conversation.
"Hey, kids" was the only response he got, it was Rufus who dared to speak to him.
"Blair, I don't think you are supposed to go around like this, when you are engaged to Louis" Lily said softly, inviting Blair and Chuck to explain the situation.
"Well, Louis and I broke up the day before yesterday, you know" Blair said in a casual tone, not daring to look into her mother's eyes.
"How comes, young lady? Was he bad at you? And I can still see the ring on your finger" Eleanor asked crossly, but not furiously yet.
"No, but we had another reason. And the ring isn't Louis'. It's Chuck's" Blair said as calmly as she could, trying to ignore her mother. She felt Chuck squeezing her had he was now holding, and that gave her some force.
All the four parents gasped with surprise, and three of them smiled.
"Congratulations!" Cyrus said, smiling.
"Finally!" Lily cried. "You are such a great couple"
"That's cool, kids! Congratulations!" Rufus winked at Blair.
"Wait a second, Blair" Eleanor said with a deep frown "Don't you think it's just slightly impolite to break up with one guy and get engaged with another in only two days? Besides, what reason did you have?" She was now clearly furious, looking at Chuck angrily, as if wishing he just wouldn't exist and mess up her daughter's marriage.
"Mom, the thing is...I am...I am.."Blair said weakly, too afraid to finish the sentence.
"We are having a baby" Chuck finished for her, smiling to the news.
"Wha..What?" Eleanor cried loudly, getting up to confront the silly smiling couple.
"You got knocked up? At the age of 19? Out of wedlock? You are, of course, aborting, don't you?" she kept yelling at Blair and Chuck.
"No, she isn't" Chuck said firmly, wrapping his hand around Blair's shoulders to support her.
"No way! There is no way my daughter is having a baby now!" Eleanor shouted, completely frustrated.
"Eleanor, calm down, please, we'll figure it out" Lily tried, getting up too.
"No we won't! That's just ridiculous, she will abort"
"Love, please, don't. Everything will be fine" Cyrus tried this time, rubbing her back gently.
"Don't you tell me what to do! I don't need a whore as a daughter!" Eleanor went from loud to extremely loud now.
Chuck couldn't restrain his anger any more.
"Don't you dare talking to her like this! She is you daughter, and the baby is a product of true love! We are keeping it, and there is nothing to discuss. Don't ever call her like this again!" he felt an urge to smash her face, to hit her with something, but knew he couldn't let Blair go even for a second because half of her weight was on his arm and he didn't even need to look at her to know that she felt sick.
"I don't care what you say! Either she aborts right now or never sets foot in this house again. I don't need a harlot here!" Eleanor bawled.
"Fine by me, goodbye the-woman-who-used-to-be-my-mother" Blair said quietly but really angrily and turned around.
She made a step towards the elevator, and Chuck followed her. They made another two or three steps and Blair whispered, hoping the others wouldn't hear her:
"Chuck, take me out of here now, please!" plea clear in her voice.
He just hugged her tightly hoping to give her his support, hoping she would lean on him and, nearly carrying her, went as fast as he could.
She gasped for air as soon as the elevator's doors closed, bursting in angry tears.
By the pale look on her face Chuck could tell what she needed.
"Bathroom?" he suggested in a worried voice.
"No, let's just go home" she whispered, hot tears running down her cheeks.
"It'll be fine, Blair, she acts like a bitch but she'll come to her senses" Chuck tried to comfort her, leading her out of elevator and towards his limo.
"She is a bitch" she said quietly and felt nausea hit her at the thought of her mother. "You were right, bathroom" she added quickly, feeling sicker with every second.
"It's right here, come on. You'll feel better soon, I promise" he entered ladies' toilet without hesitation, knowing that nothing could separate him from Blair at that particular moment.
Luckily the bathroom was empty as they rushed towards the nearest sink. They reached it, Blair knelt down and threw up loudly, her whole body shivering. Chuck was there by her side, rubbing her and holding her hair back. She relaxed a few seconds after she vomited.
"Feeling any better?"
"Yes, physically" she said, weeping bitterly, leaning on Chuck.
He felt very uncomfortable sitting like that, supporting all of Blair's weight, his back ached badly, but he didn't move. He just held her, letting her cry everything out and hoping she would feel better.
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