Chuck and Blair had formulated a plan to get revenge on Nate the very night that Serena had come to them, and the next day they had put it into action. Chuck called his father and told him that they needed to have an emergency meeting. When Bart heard that it involved Blair, he told them to come down to his office immediately.
When they arrived, Chuck and Blair quietly entered the office and sat down. Blair was wide-eyed and looked frightened, while Chuck just remained extremely serious.
"Blair, what's been troubling you?" Bart asked, effectively ignoring his son.
Blair looked down at her hands before she responded, "Mr. Bass, I-, I've been having some trouble at some of your buildings."
"Oh?" Bart raised his eyebrows in concern.
Blair looked up at him with the hint of tears in her eyes, "There's this guy who has been following me, I think. He keeps showing up when I come over to hang out with Chuck or when we go to some of your clubs. I normally wouldn't say anything, but it-it's starting to scare me a little bit, and Chuck has been worried." She said, gesturing to the boy beside her, "He-, he said you could help."
"He was right to say that." Bart said authoritatively as he began to shuffle some of the papers on his desk, "I can file a report with the authorities. I'll give them a call right now if you want."
"No!" Blair interjected quickly as Chuck's eyes widened slightly with panic. This was not part of their plan, "No, that's okay, Mr. Bass. He hasn't really done anything yet to get the police involved. I just-, I was just hoping that maybe you could keep him from following me on your property. Is there any way you could do that?"
"For you Blair, of course I can. I wouldn't want you to be uncomfortable on any of my properties. I send the word out immediately, I just need a name."
"It's N-Nate. Nate Archibald." Blair said with just the right amount of fear in her voice as Chuck reached over and took her hand supportively.
"Nate Archibald." Bart muttered as he wrote the name down, "Alright. By the end of the day he won't be able to step foot in half of the establishments in this city."
"Thank you, Mr. Bass." Blair said with a grateful smile while Chuck nodded at his father in thanks.
…..
While Chuck and Blair were plotting against him, Nate continued to ignore Serena in the weeks following his blow-up. Whenever they would run into each other, Nate would simply glare at her before stepping around her and quickly exiting whatever room she was in.
It had only taken a few days for Nate to feel the effects of Chuck and Blair actions. He was no longer allowed in the building where Dan was recording his album and he couldn't go with him to meetings with his record label since he wasn't allowed in there either. Also, there were a few nights when he was unable to get into the clubs where Dan was performing or into the bars where they were going to in order to just hang out and relax.
On one particular night, Nate and Dan were trying to go out and get a drink after a long day working on the album. They had already gone to three different clubs and Nate had been turned away at all of them. He could not figure out why he kept getting rejected from so many different places and it was starting to frustrate him. In his anger, he yelled at the bouncer, asking him what was up with all the buildings in New York.
The bouncer merely laughed in his face, "Look man, don't get pissed at us. You ain't getting in anywhere. You've been blacklisted."
"What?"
"I don't know what you did to piss off the Bass kid, but he's made sure you're not allowed on any of his daddy's properties."
Nate's brow furrowed in confusion, "Chuck?"
"Yeah, Chuck Bass. If you want to survive in New York, you're gonna need to fix whatever it is you did; Bart Bass owns half of this city."
Nate and Dan left that club, and Nate was fuming; he couldn't believe all his troubles were because of Serena's immature friends. Luckily, at the fourth club they tried, Dan and Nate were finally able to get in (since it was not owned by Bart Bass).
Unfortunately for them, Chuck and Blair had just left a more expensive, Bass-owned establishment a few blocks away and had decided to take a short stroll to enjoy the warm weather and walk off some of the alcohol they had consumed. When they saw Nate and Dan entering the lower-class club, they decided it was the perfect opportunity to begin part two of their plan.
After Dan and Nate had been in the club for a little while, Chuck and Blair made their entrance. Nate was at the bar, flirting with a girl over drinks. He was so focused on the girl that he didn't notice as Chuck and Blair approached.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Nate Archibald." Blair said sarcastically.
Nate looked up and scowled, "Oh shit." He muttered under his breath as the girl he was with looked back and forth between him and the couple standing near them.
"I can't believe you're here, just drinking and hitting on girls like nothing ever happened." Blair said indignantly.
Nate looked at her in confusion, "What the hell are you talking about, Waldorf?"
Blair threw her head back laughed bitterly, "Of course, just do what you always do and play dumb; act like you have no idea what's going on. Pretend like we have absolutely no history."
"What? Are you high right now?" Nate asked, starting to get angry. The girl next to him was just watching; completely confused.
"No, Nathaniel, I am not high. I am talking about Serena, your daughter. You know, the one we had together that you haven't seen since she was born. Remember her?"
Nate's eyes narrowed as he tried to figure out what Blair was talking about, while the girl next to him gasped in shock.
Blair turned to the girl with a fake smile on her face, "Did he tell you about our daughter? Our daughter that he was so excited about until she was born and we found out her face was deformed. Did he tell you about that? About how he ran out as soon as we got the news, never to be heard from again?"
The girl's mouth was hanging open in shock, as she looked at Nate with disgust. Blair nodded, "I guess he just couldn't stand the thought of having an ugly daughter." She turned to Nate as the tears began to well up in her eyes, "Just so you know your daughter is doing just fine without you. You're going to regret not being there for her."
Blair lifted her chin defiantly even as she allowed a few tears to escape for effect. Without another word she turned and walked away from the couple. Chuck still stood there with his hands in his pockets, smirking darkly at Nate, "You didn't really think we were going to let you get away with what you did unscathed did you? We've only just begun. We're going to make sure you pay."
Chuck tilted his head in a slight nod before turning and following Blair out of the club.
The girl Nate had been talking with looked at him again in disgust before standing up and walking away. Nate wasn't sure what had just happened, but he had finally figured out what exactly was going on and he knew what he needed to do to fix it.
…..
After they confronted Nate, Blair and Chuck returned to Chuck's penthouse. They planned on spending the rest of their night out celebrating their success with Nate, but things quickly changed when Blair got a message from her parents.
Her father had texted her to let her know that he was not going to be able to attend her graduation in June. It was just the latest event that her father would be skipping for one reason or another and Blair was extremely upset.
"He just doesn't seem to care about me at all." Blair said after she read the message to Chuck. She was trying to stay strong, but she couldn't stop the tears from flowing. "It's like I'm not even a priority in his life. And my mom is the same way. I bet if she had an excuse she would skip graduation too."
Chuck sat her down on his bed and held her while she cried. He stroke her hair as he replied, "That's not true, Blair. Your parents care about you, even if they aren't always so good at showing it."
"Yeah, right." Blair snorted through her tears.
"Okay even if they don't care, at least they pretend to. My parents don't even try. And you'll have your grandparents at graduation; you know they love you. I'll have no one."
Blair pulled away from him slightly and wiped away some of her tears. Chuck was smirking, trying to appear indifferent, but Blair could see that he was really bothered by his parents' lack of interest. She stroked his cheek as she spoke softly, "You'll have me. I'll cheer for you."
Chuck stared at her for a moment. Their faces were so close and the tension in the room was palpable. Finally, he tore his gaze away before things became more awkward, and looked down before chuckling quietly, "Thanks, Waldorf." He said before looking at her again, "You're more like family to me then they have ever been anyway."
Blair bit her lip and smiled at him. She then buried her face in the crook of his neck and sighed against his skin, sending a shiver down his spine. "Can I just stay here with you tonight?"
"Sure, Waldorf," Chuck whispered against her hair as he held her tighter, "Whatever you want."
