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"Chuck!" A white blonde, woman squealed running to the bed and engulfing him in a hug.

"Hi." He said awkwardly, not returning the embrace and keeping his arms by his sides. He was a bit pissed off at whoever this woman may be as she just interrupted his time with Blair and he was about to say it. Three words, eight letters. It wasn't that he was ever scared about saying it, it was that he didn't know how she felt about him and he knew she deserved better. But now he knew she loved him and didn't want better he could.

When Eva felt Chuck not reacting to the hug she pulled away as Blair gave her an awkward wave.

"Blair what are you doing here?" She asked suddenly very defensive. As the brunette was about to answer another interrupted her.

"Blair was called as soon as I was admitted, she probably just wanted to take advantage of me in such a poor state, although," He smirked leering at her, "I wouldn't have minded, those PJ's leave way to much to the imagination, not that I would even have to imagine any more." He continued, completely unaware of how much worse he was making it. Eva looked to Blair to gage her reaction or get an explanation before storming out.

However Blair said the thing she was born to say, and with an eye-roll said: "You're heinous." Which earned her a glare from the former party and a smirk from the opposing.

"Chuck, what is going in?" Eva asked in a hurt voice, coupled with puppy dog eyes guaranteed to make any man melt but this man was in love with Blair Waldorf and her deep chocolate brown eyes were so much cuter than these boring blue ones.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" He asked in the politest tone he could muster so he could get her to leave.

"Chuck, what are you talking about, I'm Eva Coupeau, and I'm your girlfriend."

"Look. I know I'm amnesiac but is this some kind of joke? Why on earth would I date you when I could have Blair?" They were both rhetorical questions and while she understood he did not remember her, she did not understand why he would be so cruel to her. She knew the old Chuck was not a good person and said cruel things but she did not think he would find her so repulsive and treat her like a common whore.

With tears in her eyes, Eva ran out of the hospital at full speed not even stopping for any nurses to pass through.

"What was that about?" He asked with a bored eye-roll. It reminded Blair of his expression nearly two years ago when he said, "Now is that it? Or are you going to tell me you loved me again?" and "I don't want you anymore and I don't see why anyone else would."

She knew she shouldn't have felt it.

She knows she should have remained indifferent.

But she did feel it.

Her heart did go out to Eva, at the end of the day she was still quite innocent and it was hard for Chuck Bass to break someone as strong as Blair, imagine what it would do to such a chaste and innocent girl, falling in love for what seemed to be the first time.

Blair ran out of the hospital with a muttered "excuse me" and after Eva. Damn her newly found selflessness.

"Eva, Eva wait." Blair called running after her as lady like as possible and in the calmest voice she could muster. Something about this situation felt eerily familiar.

The blonde jerked as she turned around and Blair realised how much it looked like what happened with Emma a few years ago. Except Chuck was the cause instead of helping her. That was the main reason Blair had run after her, she knew what it felt like for Chuck Bass to break your heart.

Two words, eight letters:

It sucked.

A tearful "What do you want Blair?" snapped her out of her thoughts.

"For you to come back."

"Why you hate me aren't you glad that I'm going to be out of the picture now?"

"I know exactly how you're feeling." Blair said instead.

"I don't think anyone knows how I'm feeling." She insisted dramatically as if he'd just done the worst thing he had ever done. Like she didn't know about Jack and Jenny and Tuscany and the gossip girl blast. The truth is she didn't, not in the excruciating detail Blair did at least. Or in the way it truly affected her.

"Worthless, unimportant, and idiot, naïve, suicidal, but trust me that doesn't even help." Blair listed, sympathetically.

"That, Eva, is what its like for Chuck Bass to break your heart and it's a feeling I know only to well."

"I'm sorry. I never actually realized how much you did love him and how much he hurt you."

"He hurt me because he loved me."

"I-I don't understand."

"Once, I asked him why he kept doing it. He said it was because he loved me. He believed that I would be happier without him so he kept hurting me every time so I would never be forced in to unhappiness with him."

"Then why didn't you just get together for a while and then break up when he messed up again?"

"Because once we started something we knew it would either be forever or… it would be over forever, we didn't want that to happen so we played the game, until we both ended up losing."

"Why would he say something that cruel to me?" Eva asked half-hoping because he loved her, half-hoping she would never be in a relationship like Blair and Chuck.

Blair smiled.

"Because he loves me."

And that was the only real answer.