Disclaimer: I think we have established that I don't own Gossip Girl

"So, tell me everything." Dan said, sitting on Serena's bed side at the hospital.

"Ok. Remember Jenny's grad ball last year?" Serena asked.

"Yes, I do."

"And that night-"

"I understand how the reproductive systems work, Serena. I mean the rest of it. How did you end up in France with your father? You don't even talk to your father!"
"No, but my Mom does. When she needs to. Anyway, I found out I was pregnant a few days after the ball. I'd felt weird and so I took a test and it was positive. I took about 10 more and they were all positive too. I thought I'd hidden them well but apparently not, because my Mom found them."
"Oh shit." Dan said.

"Yeah, and she knew it was me, because I had you. Jenny didn't have a boyfriend and she thought she couldn't have done it. So she made me take another one with her in the room and when it was positive she grabbed an already packed suitcase out of her room and we both went into a taxi."

"Did you have no idea to ring me then, or text me?"
"Dan, when you find out that you're pregnant and that your very powerful mother has found out, then you can talk to me about doing the right thing."

"Sorry, carry on." he grabbed her hand tighter to show her he still loved her.

"Right, so I hear her on the phone saying things like 'I have no choice' and 'this can't happen here' and I didn't know who she was on the phone too but after about 10 minutes she hung up the phone and told me that I was going to live with my father until the baby was born. Right then I went to call you but she took my phone off me and told me that it'd only hurt you if I told you. At the time I thought she was right; obviously she wasn't."
"Yeah, no shit." Dan was pissed, not at Serena, not even at the stupid paramedic, but at Lily. "So when you got there, what did he do?"
"Nothing, well, he treated me like a princess. It was good, spending time with him. I'm just sad you weren't there. And that you missed the birth."

"Me too." Dan sighed, he wanted a cig so badly, but still he stayed with Serena, "where is my boy then?"

Serena smiled when he said 'my boy' and replied, "Eric's got her at the apartment."

"Your Mom's appartment?" Dan questioned.

"No, my apartment. Well, yeah, my apartment."
"You've got your own apartment?" Dan was shocked, there was too much news at one time.

"Yeah, my Dad paid for it. He thought that it was a bad idea moving in with Mother right away. Or even at all." Serena expained, exhausted from everything that'd been happening in the past few days, "I want him to know I'm his Mom, not her. He's our child and she is not going to control everything that happens to him."
"Well, I'm glad to hear that." Dan said, "and you say he doesn't have a name yet?"
"No, I wanted you to choose it. With me?"

"Yeah!" Dan was excited, "you're going to think I'm barmy here but I've had a name chosen since I was little. For a boy, for my son."
"Oh yeah? What is it, baby?"
"Benjamin."

"Benjamin," Serena repeated, "I love it."