What do we talk about when we're not talking about love

Damon was happy to be out having drinks with Blair. It meant that they could really catch up without much time constraints and well it meant he could spend some time with her and he couldn't complain about that.

He ordered their drinks over at the bar before looking at her, "So fill me in. Tell me about all the things I've missed since I've been gone."

"Not much, really. My mom got married to this guy, Cyrus. I hated him at first but not anymore. He's wonderful and he makes my mom happy." she said, smiling as she thought of her step father. "Dorota got pregnant and got married too to Vanya, can you believe it?" she grinned. "Serena's still the same. New guy every other month. Dan Humphrey and I are friends now." she said, pausing to look at Damon. "And Chuck and I have been on and off for awhile, but we're trying to get past that and have a more mature relationship now."

"Wow," Damon said looking at her with wide eyes before taking a sip of his drink, "I did miss a lot. I'll have to like send Dorota a late happy getting pregnant and having a baby present or something." Damon laughed a little before continuing, "Serena. I miss her. Chuck, eh. Your relationship with Chuck, eh. This Cyrus guy, am I going to get to meet him? I know I'm a little late but I still have to make sure he's good enough for your mom."

Damon and his family had been pretty close to the Waldorfs and well if Damon wasn't with Chuck he was usually with Blair so it was no surprise that he would be close with her parents.

"You should come by the penthouse one of these days." she said, laughing. "I'm sure everyone at home would be delighted to see you. Dorota's baby is the most adorable thing. Serena's staying at my place too. Plus, my mom and I would love for you to meet Cyrus. I warn you though, he's quite the hugger."

"I'm not a hugger," Damon said looking at her. He really wasn't. Sure he might have hugged Blair but that was probably as far as his hugging went.

"But I guess I can make an exception since he is family and all," Damon teased. "But yeah I'll come by The Empire. It'd be nice to see everyone again."

"So tell me about what you did when you were gone. Where did you go and who did you meet?" she asked, smiling. "With your good looks, you can't tell me that you didn't meet anyone." she said, as her thoughts drifted to the girl with him in his iphone's wallpaper

Damon smiled a bit shrugging a little, "All of the place really. Stayed with some family members for a while outside of the city. I mean sure I met some people, made some friends. Elena," he said pointing at her since he was giving her crap about that picture, "she's a nice girl. I mean sure okay, maybe something happened, but at the end of the day we decided we were better off being friends."

''She put up that picture on my phone not me, she said that having a picture of a guitar wasn't much of a turn on for girls"

Blair felt nervous, she was afraid to ask what she wanted. Blair Waldorf was never afraid. She felt a pang of jealousy when Damon mentioned that something happened with him and Elena. She shook it off, reminding herself that she was happy with Chuck

"What you had with her was it passion?"

Damon looked up into her eyes and answered: "No, it was not passion. I only fell in love once in my life"

Damon took another sip of his drink before setting the glass back down on the table, "But other than that I've just been on my own. I mean you live on the Upper East Side where your whole life is planned out for you and I didn't want that. I didn't want to get out of high school and go into business I just…didn't. So…I took some time to think about what I wanted. I don't think I'm any closer to the answer but getting out of the city for a while was something I needed."

. "So for now, you're helping out with your dad's business?" she asked, taking a sip in her drink. "I know how hard it can be, trying to figure out what you want. I had the same problem only a few months ago… but you'll figure it out sooner or later." she said, smiling at him. "Things just tend to fall into place when you least expect it."

Damon took in a breath as he nodded, "Yeah my dad has a few business deals he wants to put in place and….he has a sneak attack for Bass Industries."

Blair placed her drink down as she looked at Damon, alarmed. "You're going up against Bass Industries?" she said, her tone worried. This was not good at all. "I don't understand."

"My father is," Damon corrected her, "I'm just being a good son by helping." Damon sighed as he ran his fingers through his hair, "It's not something that I want to do Blair it's something that I have to do."

Blair looked away from him. "You don't have to." she muttered. She was sure this was going to end badly between Damon and Chuck. She knew she was going to get caught in between this whole mess whether or not she wanted it. Blair knew she couldn't ask Damon to just ditch his father to save Chuck. Not that he would do that anyway. He wasn't exactly Chuck's biggest fan

"Yeah I do," Damon said quietly looking at Blair before looking away from her. He knew this would cause issues but his hands were tied. Blood was thicker than water and he couldn't just turn his back on his father because Blair wanted him to.

Blair looked at him silently as she finished her drink and ordered another one. She knew it was pointless to argue but that didn't make her any less worried. They stayed quiet for awhile, and Blair noticed that Damon seemed distant and in deep thought. Fifteen minutes later, Blair held her third drink in hand as she looked over to him. "We can talk about it, or we can dance." she said, "Take your pick"

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