Two Years Later
Chuck stepped out onto his terrace taking in the thick New York air. A woman stepped out behind him and wrapped her arms around him.
"Charles, come back to bed."
Chuck smiled for a brief second. He had married Anastasia Waters ten months ago, and they were still in their honeymoon stage. It had been almost a year since the petite brunette sized hole in his heart had been made. Blair had never come back to New York since the night of his club opening. His P.I. looked all over the globe for her, but it seemed as if she had disappeared off the face of the planet. He slowly thought about her less and less each day until about nine months ago he met Ana. She was beautiful, sophisticated and eventually healed his broken heart. He found himself able to let her in and break down the wall around his heart he had put up since Blair left.
"Ana, come on," He wrapped an arm around her slim waist and led them back inside. Little did he know that as he was closing his eyes, someone else was opening theirs for the first time in a year.
Blair blinked open her eyes and found herself in a strange hospital bed. She looked around for someone when a nurse walked into the room.
The nurse gasped and ran to get a doctor. She and another woman walked in a few seconds later.
"Ms., are you alright?" the doctor asked. "Can you tell me your name?"
Blair sat there for a few seconds until she found her voice. "I'm Blair Waldorf. Where am I?"
The doctor had the nurse exit the room and scramble to a phone.
"I'm Dr. Patricia Wells. You're in a hospital just outside of Paris. You've been in a deep coma for almost a year. We're notifying your family right now."
Blair nodded slowly. She was slowly trying to comprehend her situation. "My father lives in France. Call him." The doctor simply nodded and left. A nurse came in a few moments later to bring Blair food and to check her vitals. After a few hours the door opened to reveal a distressed Harold and an overjoyed Ramon.
Harold rushed over to the bedside and gave her a tight hug. "Oh Blair I've been so worried about you. We didn't know what you wanted to do about the baby or anything. It's been awful." Harold rambled.
"Baby?" Blair pulled back from the embrace and stared at him in confusion. "What baby?"
Harold furrowed his eyes brows. "They didn't tell you?" He turned around at the doctor.
"We thought it would be best if we didn't overload her with too much information at once," Dr. Wells answered. "Ms. Waldorf, at the time of your accident you were about a month pregnant. The accident mostly cause trauma to your head though so it sent you straight into a coma and did not affect you child. She was born four months ago. Your father has been taking care of her since then."
"Blair- bear, we didn't know what you wanted to name her so… we were hoping you could decide now instead of us calling her Baby all the time."
Blair scrunched up her nose in distaste. She didn't want her daughter to be named after the star in Dirty Dancing. "Holly Rose Waldorf," she finally decided.
Harold nodded. "Holly, it'll suit her," he smiled. "Wait until you meet her Blair-bear. She's perfection; of course I expected nothing else from you. Ramon went to go get her from the nanny. They came along and were in the lounge." As soon as he finished explaining Ramon walked in carrying a light pink bundle.
Blair's heart fluttered as she held her daughter for the first time. "You're right, she's perfect." Holly had Blair's defined features but Chuck's distinctive eyes. There was no doubt that Holly would bring great joy to her life. "Daddy, I need you to do me a favor."
Harold looked up, "Of course darling, what?"
"As soon as I'm fit to travel I need to get a plane ticket to go to New York. I think it's time I go home." Blair looked down at her daughter and smiled. "It's time we both go home."
Although she had originally planned to go back to New York as soon possible, she couldn't because her doctors wanted to make sure she was okay, so they kept her there for about nine months. Blair had a hard time transitioning into motherhood and surprisingly Carter Baizen was an amazingly helpful person. He had stuck around the entire she was in a coma and helped her father's when Holly was born. He and Blair had grown quite close over the year and eventually began dating. He had really changed while she had been in a coma. Carter managed to repay his debts completely and cleaned up his act. She completely trusted him not only with her heart but with Holly too. Finally they gave her the green light on leaving the country, so Blair began to make plans.
Unfortunately this caused not so little problem with Carter. Blair insisted that Carter stay in France for a while until she was settled in New York. He took it as if she didn't want Chuck knowing they were together. Honestly Blair wanted to move on, but she needed to know if Chuck still was harboring feelings for her when she saw him. It wasn't fair to Carter at all, but she needed to know. She and Carter finally decided taking a break for a while would be the best for the two of them, so shortly after they celebrated Holly's first birthday Blair finished making her plans to leave.
Blair was finishing packing up her things to have them shipped to Eleanor's later that week. Eleanor was ecstatic when she found out Blair was awake. She requested that both she and Holly come visit her as soon as they could.
Harold waked in to find Blair gazing down at Holly as she slept, something she did often. "Are you all set? Today's going to be a big day."
Blair looked up, "Yes, everything's ready. I'll be sure to call you when we land." She picked Holly up and carried her to the car. As soon as she was settled Blair turned to her father and Ramon. "Thank you so much for taking care of her. I love you both so much." She gave them both big hugs before wiping away her tears and getting into the car. She gave them once last wave as she and Holly drove off to the airport.
As Blair got out of the car and Cedric helped them with her bags she checked her phone. She had one message from her father.
Harold: I called some old friends to join you on your flight back.
Blair looked up for a familiar face. Then she saw whom her father had been talking about. She hadn't seen Serena and Nate for almost three months. She had reconnected with them once she felt settled into her new life. They promised not to tell Chuck and didn't offer up any news about Chuck either.
"B!" she shouted. Serena's face brightened as she and Nate head toward Blair and Holly. They embraced tightly but were careful to not crush Holly. "I'm so happy to see you." Serena withdrew from the hug. She looked at Holly who was in Blair's arms. "Oh B, she's gotten even more beautiful. Can I hold her?" Serena bit her lip pleadingly.
Blair laughed, "Of course." She carefully handed Holly over to Serena. "Well Archibald? What are you waiting for? An invitation, get over here!" They too embraced. "Now, let's get going. We don't want to miss the flight." The three of them and Holly went inside the airport to check in. Once they had boarded to plane Blair caught them up with everything new in her life while they did the same. The three carefully avoided all talk of Chuck as per usual.
