The Scandal
Recap: "What do you want Chuck?"
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Bella's curiosity gets the best of her when she hears shouting from the other room. She presses her ear against the door, listening, while deflecting questions from her younger sister.
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"How dare you show up after you promised you would give up your parental rights!" Blair screams.
"I lied, okay?" Chuck yelled back.
"You what?" she shrieks.
"I paid off our lawyers to produce fake documents so I wouldn't upset you and I would still get to be her father…when it counts."
"How dare you!" Blair yells as she lunges for Chuck's neck.
He grabs her and hugs her tight to his body.
"I still love you, Blair, and I miss you and our daughter."
Tear streaked, Blair hiccups, "You gave up your right when you left for Tokyo. You left us behind."
"You didn't want to come with me."
"We were starting a FAMILY!!!"
"Your still my wife."
"Did you fake that too?"
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During a lull in the shouting match, Bella whispers that she'll be right back and disappears to the living room.
"Mom?" Bella calls out. "What's going on?"
"Go back into the bedroom Bella!"
"Why are you hugging that man?"
"Go back into the bedroom!" Blair snaps at her daughter.
"But…"
Chuck makes a sympathetic face, "I'm sorry" face at her and tells Blair, "Maybe you should tell her?"
"NO!"
Bella, desperate to know the secret, asks, "Does it involve me and Audrey?"
"Does it involve Audrey and I?" Blair corrects her as she sighs exasperatedly.
"Yes," says Chuck before Blair could cover his mouth with her hand.
"Then I think we both have the right to know, right mom?"
"Fine," she relents, "Go get your sister."
She says this all the while glaring at Chuck.
"You had no right," she says with her eyes.
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"Look what I found!" Audrey jumps up and down as she flings Bella letters.
"What?"
"Letters!" Audrey says excitedly, "I found them in mom's sweater drawer."
"Put them back!" she tells her until she gets a glimpse at the names. "Give them here."
"But…you said."
"NOW!"
"What is going on?" Blair asks as her and Chuck enters the room.
"I found letters mommy. In your drawer," Audrey exclaims as she hands them over.
"Oh my god," Blair groans.
"Oh my…god," echoes Bella as she giggles.
Blair sees the missing letter in Bella's hand and lunges towards her daughter for it. Bella sideswipes her and continues to read; this time, out loud.
"I know I haven't been a very good father to Bella," Bella says out loud, "Now, that's an understatement. Try non-existent."
"But I miss your naked body…"
"Bella!" scolds Blair.
"Now it's getting good!" Bella giggles. "Love Chuck."
"Shit…" sighs Blair.
"You're my father," she stares incredulously at Chuck, this stranger.
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"Uh huh…I've missed you, baby." Chuck steps forward to hug his new found daughter, until she takes a step back.
"Do you think what you just said makes a difference?" Bella hisses. "Do you think that showing up eighteen years late you can make everything better? You broke mom's heart. You broke my heart. Where have you been all my life, if you didn't want to be here?"
Chuck's face softens and he replies quietly, "I've always wanted to be here with you. Didn't your mom ever tell you about the letter?"
"What letter?" Bella and Blair ask simultaneously.
"The letter. The letter that stated I was coming home because I missed you too much. I didn't want to mess up as a father."
"I never got it," whispers Blair.
"Well…" Chuck moves in for a hug, "that's okay."
Blair steps back. "How is that okay?"
"You could have been there for my girls?" Blair says angrily.
"Girls?" Chuck chokes. "As in more than one?"
"Obviously," Blair says sarcastically, as she rolls her eyes. "Bella and Audrey."
"Audrey…can't be…" he stutters staring at the little girl. He melts as she begins to cry. "I'm sorry sweetie."
Blair angrily pulls him into her walk in closet. "How dare you come into my house, disrupt my family and then tell my daughter that you aren't her father. But I guess that's typical coming from you. So I guess when I got that cryptic call from the sperm bank, that wasn't about you?"
"What sperm bank?" Chuck asks.
"The one that left me in the custody of a Mr. Basses sperm! I thought you were trying to make me feel guilty for not leaving with you! Who else would leave me in charge of unidentified sperm?"
"My uncle," Chuck says solemnly.
"Your uncle," Blair says equally somber.
Suddenly, everything sinks in. "Ew!" she starts screaming.
"Your uncle was inside of me for nine months…Nine fucking months!!!" she shrieks, hysterically.
Then, all of a sudden, he starts to laugh.
"Oh my god! My daughter is half-sisters with her cousin!"
"Gross," Blair shudders. "Gross!"
Blair starts convulsing. Chuck wraps his arms around her tight. "We won't tell. I promise. She's mine, okay? She'll always be mine."
