"Nathaniel," Chuck said when he saw Nate. "How lovely of you to grace us with your presence."
"What are you talking about," Nate asked laughing. "I graced you with my presence yesterday."
"You mean that 2 minute 'hi and bye'?" Blair asked smirking at him and Nate rolled his eyes. "Even Henry was confused with that."
"Where is he?" Nate asked hoping to just play with his godson and avoid his best friends.
"He's already asleep," Chuck said nodding his head toward the stairs.
"I've been trying to split my time between Summer and Lola," Nate said taking a breath as he offered up an explanation for his absentness. "I guess I forgot to give you guys equal time."
"I forgive you," Blair said like it was such an effort to and then gestured to the chair next to him. "Come, sit, tell us all about your love child."
Nate rolled his eyes at the amused looks on Chuck and Blair's faces but sat down anyway. "What do you want to know?"
"Seeing as you haven't told us anything at all," Blair said pointedly. "Everything."
"Have you spoken to Serena yet?" Chuck asked surprising Nate, he was expecting that question from Blair, asked a little more snidely. "Since she told you."
"Who cares about her?" Blair mumbled crossing her arms. "Rumour has it that you introduced the girl to Lola but you haven't introduced her to us yet, I'm hurt Nate."
"Who's rumour?" Nate asked and Blair raised an eyebrow because he was focusing on the wrong thing. "You've already been introduced to her."
"That was barely an introduction," Blair said waving him off. "God knows what horrible things Serena must have told her about me, at least I know if you introduce me to her, she'll have a positive view of me."
"Well sweetheart you were the one who spilled the big news to the child," Chuck said mocking her when he called her 'sweetheart' and Blair frowned.
"That was not my fault," Blair said shaking her head. "It's Serena's fault for not just being honest."
Nate and Chuck looked at each other over Blair's head and Chuck shrugged. "I have breakfast with her every morning, maybe you can come with us tomorrow," Nate offered.
"That was a horrible invitation," Blair scolded and Chuck bit his lip to hold in his laugh as his best friend cringed. "But I'll take it seeing as it's the best one I'm going to get."
"Just go with it," Chuck said smirking when Nate looked like he was about to protest.
"Tell us about her," Blair encouraged after glaring at Chuck for his comment. "I want to know what she's like, how do you feel now that you're a dad and to Serena's kid."
"Her name is Summer and it's pretty awesome," Nate said smiling and looking down at the ground, choosing to ignore Blair's comment and focus on his daughter. "She's like ... she's so much like me and then sometimes I look at her and it's like I'm talking to Serena, I can't really explain it."
"I thought you might want to wait a while before talking to her," Chuck said, he knew Nate called Erik the next morning to talk to Summer and ask her to go for breakfast with him, he spent half the night on the phone with Nate as he tried to figure out what just happened and when would be the best time to approach Summer.
"I know but then I figured, we lost so much time already," Nate said shrugging and Chuck nodded. "Why wait?"
"Maybe because she's 12 years old," Blair said, staring at Nate like he should know this. "And 12 year old girls need time when they find out who their long lost father is."
"Well she was angry at Serena and I guess she just really needed to get out of Lily's so it was a win-win for the both of us," Nate said wincing because he didn't actually think about the time she might need, he just assumed she'd be ok with it but it's not like he forced her, he asked Erik. "I'm glad I did, it was really awkward at first but she's such an easy person to talk to."
"Is she still angry with Serena?" Blair asked raising an eyebrow and hiding her smile at Nate's happiness.
"I don't know," he said and both Chuck and Blair sent him a pointed look. "We don't talk about Serena, she knows that I'm still pretty pissed at her and I think she wanted to stay angry at Serena for as long as I was but I told her not to be, I could see how much she needed to talk to her mother."
"Urg Nate, why are you so good," Blair said and Nate laughed.
"How did it go with her and Lola?" Chuck asked because he knew Blair wouldn't even though she wanted to know.
"I'm not sure," he said slowly. "She met Lola before at central park, remember?" he asked and they nodded, how could they forget, he was so excited to see Serena again he couldn't stop talking about it the whole night when he saw them. "Lola didn't exactly give off the best impression then but she was nice enough at breakfast this morning, Summer didn't seem to like her very much."
"She's got good instincts," Blair said nodding and Nate looked at her confused.
"Lola?" he asked.
"No, Summer," Blair said shaking her head. "Why would I say anything good about that emotional wreck of a girl that you're dating?"
Nate took a deep breath and blew it out very slowly, they've known Lola for 4 years and Nate had been dating her for about half that time by then but Blair still could not get used to her and spent every chance she could undermining her.
"Have you met her parents yet, Nathaniel?" Chuck asked, unlike Blair he listened to Nate when he spoke about his girlfriend and while he didn't think that relationship would last, he made an effort for Nate's sake.
"No, it's the first time they've come to New York," Nate says biting on his lip and furrowing his brows. "The only time she'll speak about them is to say that her mother is driving her crazy and she can't wait for her dad to get to town which was supposed to be today and then she'll change the subject when I bring up meeting them."
"There's something about her," Blair said softly, shaking her head again. "I think Summer gives you the perfect excuse to break up with Lola, she's your daughter and you have to focus on her and once she's completely comfortable with you then you can think about Lola."
Chuck laughed and Nate sighed, why did he talk to Blair about his troubles again?
"There is something that Lola said," Nate said uncomfortably and both Blair and Chuck looked over at him curiously as they waited for him to continue.
"What did she say?" Chuck prodded when Nate didn't continue right away.
"She said she thinks that I should have done a DNA test," Nate said and Blair looked even more repulsed by Lola than before and even Chuck shook his head. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Do you think that too?" Blair asked, the other thing about Lola that she hated was that she always tried to control Nate and plant silly thoughts like this one in his head.
"No, I had no doubt that Summer was mine and from the way Serena told me I don't think she has any doubt either," Nate said taking a breath. "But that was before Lola told me what she thought."
"Nate," Blair screamed reaching over to slap the back of his head. "If you're going to doubt that, doubt it yourself not because that woman doubts it, honestly if it wasn't your kid Serena would have gotten rid of it the moment she found out."
"Did you know?" Nate asked Blair before sliding his eyes over to Chuck.
"I suspected that she was yours but I couldn't be certain," Chuck said knowing that he put the pieces together when he saw the child the first time, he didn't say anything to Nate back then because he was an ass and he was excited to see how it was going to play out, after his father died and he got together with Blair, Summer became a distant memory until they showed up in New York.
"I knew when I met her, her age and her face gave it away but I couldn't just tell you and then be wrong," Blair said shrugging. "So I just gave Summer a little push to get Serena to tell you the truth."
"Why did she feel the need to hide this from me?" Nate asked burying his face in his hands only lifting it when he felt Blair rub his back as she came to sit next to him. "I wasn't completely hopeless back then."
"I think it had more to do with the fact that you were 15 years old than it had to do with you being a terrible father," Blair comforted and Nate smiled slightly.
"Don't tell me you're defending her," he said dramatically as he teased her, Blair rolled her eyes and Chuck smirked.
"I'm not defending her but she did try to make amends the other day," Blair said and Nate tilted his head curiously too look at her. "I bumped into her while she was shopping alone."
"What did you say?" Nate asked as Chuck looked on amused, both knowing that this was a big thing for Blair, her feelings for Serena changed every time she was brought up, sometimes it was hate sometimes it was sadness but they knew that as angry as Blair claimed to be, she just wanted her best friend back home.
"I told her I'll think of forgiving her when you do," Blair said lifting her chin up. "I think that's fair."
"Aw Blair," Nate said reaching over to hug her and Blair squeaked at the sudden contact. "I love you for that but I think you need your best friend."
"I do not need her, I haven't for years now," Blair said pushing out of his arms and both Chuck and Nate looked at her like they didn't believe her. "Don't look at me like that, I don't."
"Back to Summer," Chuck said when he noticed Blair's face change. "Do you think she would mind having us around imposing on your morning ritual?"
"I don't think she'll mind, I mean you guys are more important to me than my actual family," Nate said with a small shrug, he was trying to make them feel better, it was the truth. "As my daughter she's going to have to get used to you sometime."
"Trust Serena to name her daughter after a season," Blair said shaking her head and smiling at them and Nate chuckled.
"It was always our season," he reminded Blair, thinking about how much he loved those hot summer days with Serena on the beach or in the pool, while Chuck and Blair watched from the shade or their air conditioned room, they preferred the cooler weather.
"And Charlotte after 'The Charlotte', I assume?" Chuck asked with a smile as Nate nodded a little unsurely.
"Well you can't say she didn't include you at all, those names are all you, I don't even want to think about the disastrous names she might have picked if she had a boy," Blair said cringing at the thought.
"Nathaniel, did you tell your mother yet?" Chuck asked the thought just occurring to him and then laughed at the horrified look on Nate's face. "I'm going to take that as a no."
"Anne would be thrilled, she's been wanting a grandchild since you left school," Blair said smirking because as much as Anne wanted a grandchild, an almost teenage girl born out of wedlock when her son was 15 might kill her.
"I think I'm going to be disowned," Nate said paling and swallowing hard, if not by his mother than definitely his grandfather.
"Just think of it this way," Blair said as she sat back down next to him. "We've always been more important to you than your actual family."
"I hate it when you use my words against me," Nate said glaring at her and Blair laughed and looked up at Chuck who was smiling at them. "Do you think I'm going to be any good at this? Being a father, to a teenager?"
"I think you're going to be amazing," Blair said in a rare moment of absolute sincerity toward him and Nate nodded and looked up.
"And if you ever need help," Chuck said standing up straighter. "We have Dorota on speed-dial."
"Thanks bro," Nate said laughing at Chucks words but knowing full well what he meant underneath them. "I've got to run, I promised Lola I'd stop by on my way home and it's getting late."
"Remember we have a breakfast date tomorrow," Blair reminded him as he pulled his coat on and sprinted for the door with a quick 'Not tomorrow, I'll call you' as he left.
"What do you think?" Chuck said coming up behind Blair and resting his hands on her hips, drawing circles with his thumbs.
"I think they have a lot to work out," Blair said leaning back so she can nestle her head in the crook of his shoulder. "But ever since Serena left, I don't think I've ever seen Nate so happy, so complete, it's like he's been waiting for them and he didn't even know it."
A/N : I'm so sorry, I completely lost track of time and this story and writing it, I won't leave it unfinished I promise, I just have absolutely no idea how to get where I'm going and I don't want to post anything I don't like
In the past month I got distracted by reading, like I read the Divergent series and I think I was out off commission for a week after because if you are a fan of that series WTF! I both loved and hated it how it ended lol
I have also been reading the Throne of Glass series and if you haven't read those books and you like high fantasy and magic and stuff I recommend them
Anyway enough of my recommendations ...
This chapter is sort of just a look into Nate's thoughts and a little more of his relationship with the Chuck and Blair, just bits and pieces of all their thoughts on everything going on
I promise I will sort my life out as soon as I can lol and I will try and post more than once a month, if I don't manage to post before this year ends, Merry Christmas to all of you and Happy New Year and I hope that you guys have a fabulous festive season
Please let me know what you think, thank you for all your reviews and support
Until Next Time (^^,)