"Does Gossip Girl ever sleep?" Blair asked they were all sitting at the breakfast table, phones in hand. "The caption is 'Could it be that she has finally chosen?' and the clothes you two are wearing in the picture looks an awful lot like the what you were wearing last night, did you use a self-timer and send a picture to Gossip Girl?"
"B, where do you come up with your theories?" Serena asked her friend, she was picking at the fruit on her plate.
"Stop teasing what I come up with when I haven't thought about it and eat, don't play," she replied.
"We didn't take the picture, someone else was out there," Nate said taking a sip of his coffee.
"Do you think any of the staff took the picture?" Chuck asked.
"Doubtful, unless the older generation are now Gossip Girl spies? Grandfather's youngest staff members are like in their thirties, I don't think the staff is responsible," Nate said.
"Then one of her spies followed us here?" Blair asked. "Seriously this all feels like a thriller of some kind."
"Well it freaked me out," Serena said shivering.
"You couldn't have been that freaked out sis," Chuck said breaking stealing a few grapes from Blair's plate.
"Only she was, I got the blast and immediately searched the area and there was no-one around, pretty nerve-wrecking stuff when you're out there all alone," Nate said, smiling at Blair trying to swat Chucks hands away from her food.
"Yes Nathaniel explain this to me again, why were the two of you out there all alone?" Chuck asked popping a grape into his mouth.
Serena blushed, "Friends are allowed to be places all alone sometimes," Nate told him and Chuck smirked.
"Of course they are," Blair said nodding as she sipped her coffee.
"I don't know about you but I don't like the way she said that," Serena told Nate who nodded in agreement.
"We are only getting back into the city next week correct?" Blair asked and Serena nodded. "Good because I have a plan to get, well your revenge on the wannabe Charlie's angels."
"Do I want to know what you're planning?" Serena asked.
"No, Chuck and I have this covered," Blair said. "You and Nate will know when you are needed."
"I feel used, do you feel used?" Serena asked leaning over to whisper to Nate.
"I can hear you," Blair said.
"I feel used but I told you, we'd never make it in this world without them, we'd never think of what she's thinking of right now," Nate whispered back to Serena and nodding his head at Blair who rolled her eyes. "That reminds me, you said something last night about your mother saying something about something," Nate said louder confusing himself and his best friends.
"Oh yeah I forgot about that," Serena said when she got what he was trying to say. "At the hospital my mom told me she was paying Juliet to keep her mouth shut while we were screaming at each other it didn't click then but maybe it has something to do with my drugging. Juliet's basically been blackmailing my mother."
"Damn that bitch is crazier than I thought," Blair said.
"I want to know why she's blackmailing your mother, why does Lily want her to keep quiet?" Chuck asked.
"Well something happened at boarding school just before I could come back," Serena said.
"Who did you sleep with?" Blair asked and Serena looked at her incredulously.
"I didn't sleep with anyone B but one of my teachers did try coming onto me, I honestly don't know how Juliet could know about that," Serena said.
"What happened to the teacher?" Nate asked slowly controlling his rage.
"Well I wasn't the first girl this happened to," she said. "So I was able to create a case and put this guy in jail before he attacked someone else."
"Give me a name Serena," Chuck said dangerously, pulling his phone out.
"Mr. Donovan he taught at Knightly, the boarding school I was at for a few years before I went there, I don't actually know his first name," she said.
"Should be enough, excuse me," Chuck said walking out the room with his phone already at his ear.
"You said he tried to some onto you, what happened?" Blair asked when Chuck came back and sat next to her.
"Well he was my English teacher and he had some really interesting views on the work we were doing and in boarding school I was kind of a nerd," Serena said.
"You, a nerd?" Nate asked.
"Don't sound so shocked, after everything that happened with you and then Pete I had to stop being the drunk party girl, I was too afraid of what else I could do in that state," Serena said. "I kept my distance from people, tried not to get in anyone's way and drew as little attention to myself as possible but I was the new girl starting in the middle of the semester so it was hard not to be involved in the talk of the school for a while."
"So what you're saying is that you were basically Humphrey, only attractive," Blair said.
"Something like that," Serena said hesitantly. "Anyway Mr. Donovan assumed my interest in the work was also an interest in him."
"Conceited if you ask me," Blair said.
"Oh he was, he called me in one day to discuss my essay I didn't think much of it so I went and we were alone in the classroom. He told me he'd noticed me and he looked at my records from Constance, needless to say he assumed I was still the upper east side's party girl, he tried coming onto me and I pushed him away."
"Did he hurt you?" Nate asked in a strangled voice, his fists balling up under the table.
"No he didn't, one of the guys from my class left his book in the cupboard and walked in at the right time, he saw what happened and he pulled me out of there," Serena said noticing Nate's hands. "Nate, its ok nothing happened, he didn't hurt me."
"Yeah but he could have," he said eyes burning into hers, gently she took his hands into hers.
"He didn't, the school and my mother handled it quickly and quietly so no court, no tabloids, just a letter saying the teacher has moved out of the city to explain him leaving," Serena said. "About a month after that I got the news that Erik tried to commit suicide and I came back."
"Nathaniel calm down, you'll have your revenge when we get this guy," Chuck said watching his friend. "I heard everything, trust me I want to kill him for trying to touch my sister as well but now isn't the time to be angry."
"Just find him and let me do the rest," Nate in a low voice standing up and walking outside.
"Who knew Archibald had it in him to be that scary," Blair said then she noticed Serena stand. "S don't, you know it will just make it all worse if you go after him, let him cool down."
"She's right, you just told him someone tried to rape you Serena. Nathaniel is the calm one but he will do anything to protect you and you know he always did, he's going to blame himself for not being there to keep this from happening," Chuck said. "He needs time to work through that."
"I can't let him blame himself for this, I have to go after him," Serena said ignoring Blair's calls she ran outside in search of Nate.
She finds him where she did the day before in the treehouse, standing against the railing and staring into the trees.
"Nate," she asks cautiously as she walks up to him and stands next to him leaning her head on his shoulder, feels his breathing return to normal. "It happened a long time ago, there was nothing anyone could've done thankfully David was there."
"Yeah but I wasn't," he said dropping his head to look at the ground. "Why didn't you tell us what happened before?"
"It wasn't something I ever wanted to think or talk about again," she said turning and moving in front of him to put her hands on his shoulders.
"I wish you would've told us this before," he says. "I'm sorry for storming out back there but the thought of anyone touching you when you didn't want them to just make's me so angry."
Serena smiled as she pulled him in for a hug, breathing him in, "Just promise me you won't do anything without the three of us."
"I promise that if he ever tries to come near you again I will kill him," he said wrapping his arms tightly around her waist.
"Nate let it go, the guy's locked up, he has been for a long time now. Maybe it's just coincidence that Juliet knows," she whispered against his shirt.
"Do you really believe that S."
"I don't know but you can't get so worked up about this," she said pulling away enough to take his face in her hands.
"It's you Serena, if anything has to happen to you," he starts and she kisses him with more passion then from the night before, needs to get it through to him that everything is ok.
"I know and I love you for it but you need to calm down," she whispers when they pull apart then she notices the confused but pleased look on his face. "This time it was you that needed the distracting."
"You are very distracting," he said smiling down at her, trying not to put too much thought into the fact that she just said she loved him no matter what context it was used in.
"I know," she said laughing. "Have you calmed down yet?"
"I think I need another kiss before I tell you that," he said wiggling his eyebrows and she laughed at him.
Serena leans in and kisses his cheek before punching his arm lightly, "Nice try Archibald, let's go see if Chuck found out anymore."
"Do you want me to calm down or do you want me to listen to what he's found out about that guy and get worked up again?"
"Nate, he didn't get the chance to hurt me, there isn't a reason for you to get worked up again, please come with me," she said holding her hand out so he could take it as she led them back inside.
Nate frowned but took her hand anyway, he knew that there was enough reason for him to get worked up but he also knew that if she needed him to be there when Chuck told them what his PI found then he wasn't going to turn her down.
A/N hey guys hope you had an awesome Valentines day and that your week is going well, I've got about 2000 words just for you in chapter 9 hehehe the next chapter is the one I'm really excited about it's the longest one I've written so far and my favorite so hopefully I get time to edit and post it soon so look out for that one
Hope you guys enjoyed this Chapter though, I had to get into the whole Nate protectiveness thing because he is the knight and shining armour and I need more Serenate kisses in my life so I put them in yours as well!
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