The Kidnapping:
The kidnapping happened on a Wednesday when Blair was home from university and Dan was at the publishing office. Blair had just lied down for a nap, and as soon as she had fallen asleep a man awoke her. She jumped and screamed pulling at her lamp and throwing at the floor but there was no use. She fought as the men dragged her out of the apartment and out into a car on the street leaving a mass of rubble and broken bits of glasses, picture-frames, and other items in her wake, but it was to late, Blair was no longer in control and there was nothing she could do. She cried and fought in the car as the men tied her up until she became so exhausted she passed out.
When she awoke she was tied to a chair in a bare flat somewhere in France. She no longer heard the sounds of Paris outside her window but something quieter, perhaps she was being held in the country of some sorts!, nonetheless Blair was frightened and helpless. She screamed for help in every language that she knew but there was no use, and so instead she sat there in shackles for hours waiting. Finally she heard footsteps and a door unlock. She closed her eyes in fear and then opened them as she looked down and saw two feet right in front of her. She took a breath in and then breathed out and looked up to see the man who had orchestrated her capture, the man was none other than Jack Bass.
Reality:
Dan walked into the apartment carrying flowers for Blair and a bottle of wine for them to drink with dinner, he noticed some state of unkempt vases and even some rope left on the staircase as he walked up the stairs to their apartment, but thought very little of it, as he knew the children in the building loved to play. It was as he turned the corned of their level that he saw that their door was busted open. He dropped the bottle of wine on the ground and it shattered at his feet, as the flowers soon fell into the pool of liquid. He pushed through the door and ran already reaching for his cell phone. In the apartment he saw broken glass everywhere, and he knew his world had fallen into shambles. He let out a cry, "Blair!" he screamed but there was no answer. He opened every door, closet, and room he could think of but there was nothing. He automatically dialed the police and sobbed into the phone that Blair was missing. Hours later he was sitting on the staircase of the apartment complex, hands cradled in his head, tears down his face; he had just today realized what he had.
You Are My Favorite Pawn:
Blair sat in the chair and let out a scream as she felt Jack draw a finger creepily around her neck. It was then that she saw the blade in his other hands and she screamed for him to stop. He dragged the blade along her neck mimicking what his fingers had just done, but did not cut her, instead she felt a tug at her long brunette hair and the knife shear it in such a way that she sobbed in pain. Jack continued in this method until her hair was cut short into a bob, and then he walked over and kneeled in front of her, pulling her chin up so that she had to look him in the eyes. "This is just the start!" he said to her, as Blair gulped back tears.
Hours later Blair sat across from him at a table as he leaned over to feed her some soup. "What do you want from me Jack!" she screamed. "Don't you know?" Jack asked her shocked. "No, tell me please!" Blair sighed. Jack laughed and then smiled at her, "Ever since I laid eyes on you when I came to visit my dear nephew, well I've always wanted to have you as a play thing, I almost had you last Spring when you gave yourself to me, but for some reason it didn't seem fun. Well I guess, it's just you are my favorite pawn, and I felt an urge to play!" Jack looked at her smugly and dipped the spoon back in the soup so as to continue feeding Blair, but she spit the soup of the spoon back at him in disgust. "Someone will find me, and then you'll pay!" Blair screamed unsure of what her future held.
Paris:
Dan hadn't eaten in two days, and with the arrival of Darota, and Eleanor, he did not feel any better. He had called everyone the night it had happened and had kept vigil at the apartment every night since. Darota and Eleanor had arrived simultaneously and had done everything they could to get more information out of the police, but so far there were no leads and nothing could be done. Serena, Nate, and even Chuck were to arrive two days later, and Dan kept pacing the floor. "Calm down, Mr. Humphrey you need to eat something to keep your strength," Darota told him, trying to get him to rest so that he could continue on the next day, finally after four more hours of pacing Dan sat down to a plate of bread and cheese at the table. It was then that Eleanor joined him at the table. He had never seen a soft side of Eleanor before until now and it shocked him, much like the first time he saw a soft side of Blair. Eleanor placed her hand on Dan's hand and rubbed the top of it for a second. Dan looked up at her with tears in his eyes "I'm scared," he told her, "Me too" Blair's mother admitted. "I wish I had been here to do something, she has become my best friend, I don't know what . . . " but words failed him and Eleanor with tears in her eyes said to him: "I know, I know, she will be found, she will be safe, we will get her back, and when we do we must give her all of our love," With that Eleanor got up once again cold to the world and left the room.
When Serena, Nate, and Chuck arrived everyone sat in the living room of the small apartment and waited, it was then that Chuck received a text that would lead them to the light: "I heard you are in Paris, well, well, well, I'm glad my second favorite pawn has come to town," Chuck almost threw the phone as he read the text, but instead called the police. "I know who kidnapped Blair!" everyone stared at Chuck as they waited for him to continue, "Anyone want to take a guess," Chuck asked slyly. And all at once all three of them replied in unison: "Jack Bass."
A Take Down Takes Two Seconds:
While they had not made much progress in the city, Blair had made progress of her own, planning how to make a take down happen on her own. Everyday Jack went into town to attend to business and left her alone with one of the scary looking gruff men who he had paid to kidnap her in the first place. These men were worse than Jack and Blair felt her days were numbered if she kept in their company much longer, the way that they looked at her, and eyed her flesh, she felt unsafe, and frightened, and she could tell that while Jack would gladly have them watch her when he was out, she was to be no one's play thing but Jack Bass's while in captivity. Blair knew what she must do, but she had to take a huge risk doing it, and the risk she was taking was horrible but it was the only way.
When Jack went out to town on schedule Blair kept track of how long he was usually gone, so when she knew he would be back any minute she coyly made overtures toward the guard watching her. Her overtures were enough as the man lunged at Blair trying to take advantage of her. Blair endured some of his kisses but had to pull away, just as she heard Jack's car drive up she started to scream "No," but the man was so determined that he wouldn't stop. Luckily for Blair, Jack heard her screams and burst into the room, and pulled the man from her. (Luckily he hadn't gotten very far, he had managed to open a few buttons and rough her up, but nothing else). Jack pulled the man back and thrust him into the wall punching him repeatedly in the face, "Get out! And never come back," Jack yelled at him throwing him out of the building. Blair who was now crying half in disgust, fear, and the horrible realization of what she had just had to do knew that while her plan had worked, it could have gone very wrong and she would have had to deal with that as well. That night on the small cot Jack had given her to sleep on Blair cried herself to sleep knowing that now that it was just her and Jack her take down might be easier.
Paris:
Blair had now been missing for a week and Serena, Nate, and Chuck were all needed again in the states. Serena was needed for a film she was staring in, Nate was needed for midterms at school and Chuck was needed for some business venture he was trying to create in New York, and so Dan saw them all off with the promise to update them daily. At night, he endured nightmares that kept him awake and he instead lied in bed thinking back to the night when Blair had lied next to him during the blackout. He has pretended not to notice her slipping into his bed, but he had. He waited until she was asleep and then rolled over to glance at his dear friend asleep. Lying there next to her, not even touching her or lying too close he had never felt so at peace, and he fell asleep. When he awoke he had draped his arm across her waist and pulled her snug to his body. Blair sighed and he knew she would wake soon so he closed his eyes as if he was still asleep. Blair sighed as she rolled over, and looked at Dan his arm still holding her snug to him and breathed deeper. In a moment of weakness she had rubbed her nose across his neck causing him to shudder and she slipped out of his bed worried he would 'wake' and realize she had slept next to him. Little did she know that he had known the whole time, and had never slept better in Paris.
According to Plan:
Blair thanked her lucky stars that everything had gone according to plan, and that Jack had been forced to take her into town that day with him. She waited for him to make a mistake so she could get away but he had made none all afternoon, until he had let her go to the bathroom in the café of the small town. In the café bathroom Blair looked everywhere for something, anything to make her escape but there was nothing; until Blair had noticed that there was a pen someone had left in the restroom. Blair smiled and took the pen into the stall with her while she etched quietly on the wall where she was being held, how she had been kidnapped, and that someone needed to call the police to get her help. She returned from the bathroom scared and worried that Jack would go check, but he didn't and so she almost let out a sigh of relief when they left the café, now there was nothing left to do but wait.
Two days went by and nothing happened until she heard someone come up the road that night. Jack woke her up and held her against his body as he went and got his gun from another room. Holding her to him the gun pointed at her head, Blair thought, "This was not going according to plan," and then it happened. The police busted through the door and four officers stood there facing Blair and Jack in the living room. "I'll shoot her!" Jack yelled as the officers told him to put his weapon down, but he didn't and instead Blair heard the click of the gun and push violently away from him as the bullet shot out of the gun and into her chest. Blair screamed as she fell to the floor and heard other shots go off. Lying on the ground bleeding, Blair looked over at Jack he had been shot twice, once in the head and another in the chest. An officer ran over to Blair asking her if she was okay, and pulling her into their arms. The ambulance was on their way, but Blair said nothing, she looked over once more and saw Jack, he was dead, it was over, and everything had gone very, very wrong, this was not a fairytale, this was not a tale she had wanted at all. Her breath slowed as she looked up at the officer and closed her eyes.
