A/N: I actually wrote a chapter for this fic yay! In reality I was trying to write a chapter for on of my other ongoing fics but I found writing this one a lot easier hope you guys enjoy.

Fairy Tales

When Serena was younger she (as all girls her age do) dreamt of having a prince charming. Unlike Blair's her prince wasn't just a combination of all the characteristics of the Disney princes. No hers was a combination of the very few good men she had seen when she was young. As she grew up and realized just exactly what the men in the UES were up to, her prince shattered.

"Serena?" A bleary eyed Rufus opened the door. Serena had hightailed it back to Brooklyn after her outing with Nate, in order to surprise Rufus with a night… of fun.

"Hi, Rufus. Did I wake you up?" She asked sheepishly taking in his appearance, of a T-shirt and loose sleeping pants.

"Yeah, not really…. Wasn't sleeping all that well." He admitted finally looking at her and seeing her short dress that clung to all her curves perfectly. A strange thought of Nate running his hands over the silk ran through his mind, before he focused on her face again.

"I was thinking we could…. Oh … I don't know, resume what we had started earlier." She had walked inside closing the door behind her and began to pull on his arm to lead him to the couch.

"Oh really?" He asked surprised at his luck, but not wanting to ruin a thing.

"Yes." She had successfully pulled him over to the couch and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Well your wish is my command." He said before attacking her mouth. She moaned in delight and wrapped one leg around his hip.

"Room." She gasped as his hand was traveling her hip.

"What?" He asked backtracking his movements. Sure they did a lot of groping and a lot of other things he really shouldn't do with a seventeen year old, yet they had never gone that far and he wasn't sure if they should.

"Room. Rufus your room, take me there now." There was no pleading no begging just a simple command and he couldn't help but do as he was told.

"Are you sure?" He asked her once they had landed on his bed.

"Yes." She breathed into his ear before kissing him lightly. That was all the reassurance he needed.

He didn't snore. That was one of the thoughts that hazily ran through her mind in the morning as she was wrapped in his sheets while he still slept. She knew that it was wrong to compare Dan and Rufus, but this one little thought couldn't help but enter her mind. Dan snored, Rufus did not.

"Are you a covert stalker?" Rufus teased with one eye opened. Serena lightly blushed having been caught staring.

"Only when it comes to you." She smirked and began to kiss his neck and jaw before reaching his mouth.

"You don't regret it… do you?" He asked hesitantly as she pulled away. Seeing the insecurity in his eyes she just giggled and straddled him.

"Not one bit." She replied before attacking his mouth.

"So what do you think?" Rufus asked her as she sat reading a magazine on top of the desk at the gallery.

"Think about…" She prompted as she pulled her eyes away from the miniskirt that would look much better on her than on the model of the magazine.

"Going away for the weekend?" Rufus asked as he walked up towards the desk and placed both arms on the desk with Serena in between, succeeding in trapping her. Serena giggled and wrapped her arms and legs around him.

"Oh, oh where." She asked excited, "remember Hamptons are out."

"I know… there's this small bead and breakfast that close but not quite within the Hamptons far away enough for privacy but close to the beach. "

"Well how can a girl refuse that offer." Which is how they ended in a bed and breakfast by the beach, the one where they were mistaken for newlyweds during check in, they didn't bother correcting the girl.

"At least they didn't think you were my father." She said as they lay nude in bed; sheets pushed off to the side preferring to go without with the sweltering heat that permeated their room. Her laughed chimed throughout the room as he became disgruntled with her comment. "Oh come on Rufus it was a joke." She began to trail hot open mouth kisses down his chest. "Lighten up." She loved to be blasé about the issues that made up their relationship.

"I guess you're right." He hated how much power she had over him, but once her lips attached to his it didn't seem to bad.

"Dan and Jenny come home next week." She was-as always- sitting on the receptionist desk instead of on the chair going through a catalogue of art coming up in an auction.

"Yeah weird Blair is coming back then too." Despite the fact that she had heard rumors of Blair being back weeks ago her best friend denied it whole heartedly saying she was skipping the end of summer week at Hamptons that was their ritual and staying to shop some more in France.

"Anything good?" He asked looking over her shoulder at the catalogue. Her blonde hair tickled his cheek, so he pulled away knowing he had to stay focused. He needed answers, he needed to know what was going to happen after the summer was over, what exactly they were, was he just a fling? He hated sounding like a girl but the uncertainty was driving him insane.

"Not really I'm not sure anything really suites the gallery." She flipped the catalogue close in frustration. "I swear buying the art is worse then trying to sell it." He smiled at her, she had become so good with this business a natural really.

"Don't worry having a spot empty on the wall for a couple of days won't hurt us." Us the word he had been using constantly, it just felt right with them.

"You're right." She got off the desk and began to rifle through the mail that had arrived earlier. "So I was thinking since school is starting up I can't be here all day but I could still come by after school. That would still be ok right." Even though she used a noncommittal tone, he couldn't help but grin. She was worried about their future too.

"That would be great." He wrapped an arm around her waist and buried his head in the crook of her neck. He felt her relax and lean into him.

"Good."

"Chili?" She asked holding up a meat packet, she was wearing only his shirt and was scavenging through his fridge.

"You know me, it's for…" He was hesitant it was their last day together did he want to ruin it by bringing up what was to come?

"Tomorrow welcome home dinner for Jenny and Dan." She was so nonchalant as if it didn't matter as if she was happy for him.

"Yep." He was wary, was she sullen and trying to hide it?

"That's great I know how much you miss them." She put the meat packet back and found the fresh strawberries she had stored there.

"I do." It was true he loved being a father and even though he was happy with Serena he still missed his children.

"So waffle time?" She was radiant and then he knew she really was happy for him. He walked up to her and wrapped her up in his arms.

"I love you." They had never said it, but it just felt so right he had to say it. He worries as Serena bites her lip, wondering if maybe he just made a dumb ass of himself and has ruined everything. But then she's smiling and everything makes sense again.

"I love you too." Then she's kissing him and he knows even if New York shuns him for his feelings as long as he has Serena everything will be fine.

Serena will be the first to admit Rufus is not perfect, sure he doesn't snore but there are other things that annoy her. He isn't a civilized person until at least one cup of coffee in the morning, has way too many eighties clothes in his closet, and sometimes views the world in white and black; but the imperfections just make her love him more. He's not Prince Charming, he doesn't embody a little girls fantasy but he is Serena's happily ever after of that she's sure.

A/N: So if anyone is actually reading this I would love some feed back so review please!