There is so much angst in this story, so I added a lot comedy to this chapter. Enjoy!
It was the day after Chuck and Blair fought about Dan. The kids were dropped off at school and Chuck was at the office. Blair decided it was time for her to confront Dan.
She made her way to loft so she could tell him exactly how she felt.
"Blair," Dan greeted with a smile and invited her in.
Blair said nothing as she went inside.
Once the door was closed, Blair turned around and slapped Dan across the face, "How could you?"
Dan grabbed his stinging cheek, "How could I what?"
"How could you tell Chuck that I said that he beats me up," Blair folded her arms and glared.
"I didn't tell him that. I told him some things in anger after he punched me!" Dan defended himself.
"Well, I told you that he wouldn't be okay with you at our house,"she sighed and closed her eyes for a second.
"Blair, we're friends," he said.
"No we are not," stated Blair, "Chuck is my husband. You tried to come between us and break-up our family. He has been so hurt by everything. The shooting, my amnesia, and then by you, and I am not going to hurt him anymore. I love him too much," Blair stood firm.
"Blair..." Dan reached out and tried to caress her cheek.
"Don't touch me!" She back away. "What I don't understand is why you did this. I never paid that much attention you in high school, but I always knew you held yourself high, with honor. That is why I let it go when Serena went out with you. What happened to you?"
"Serena dumped me, okay!" Dan admitted.
"So you want me to replace her?" Blair questioned.
Dan remained silent.
"You know what Dan, I don't know what you have to do to get over that and move on, but I suggest you do it soon. It's to late for me, I am already married. It's too late for Serena, she is engaged to be married." Blair said sternly.
When Dan continued to remain silent, she got really upset, "Cat got your tongue Dan? I don't even care, nor do I have time for this. Do not call me, do not come to my home, do not ever speak to me again!" Blair exclaimed and then stomped out of the loft, leaving Dan alone with his thoughts.
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Chuck and Blair lied in their bed silently. There was a good three feet of space between them. The couple had barely spoken two words to each other after their fight the previous night.
Although she had told Dan she didn't want to have anything to do with him, Blair was still angry with her husband because of his attitude. She hated when he got controlling. She would have just agreed to not see Dan again if he had asked her nicely; but no, he had to be domineering about it. He had to accuse her of "seeing" Dan behind his back.
Chuck lay in bed quietly and stiff as a board. He could not stand this fight with his wife. He just wanted to hold her and apologize, but he couldn't just yet. He was happy that she told Humphrey off, but he couldn't believe that she forgave him so quickly after what he did when she was in the hospital. How could Blair forgive him after he tried to destroy their family?
Blair turned over in bed, and in the process accidentally took their covers with her. Chuck watched as all of the covers left his body and took it the wrong way. He yanked the covers back roughly, and completely flipped Blair over in the process.
"What are you doing?" Blair hissed for she had just been tossed and turned.
"You are stealing all of the blankets! I get cold too, you know!" Chuck then yanked their covers as hard and he could and turned over so his back was to Blair.
She was stealing now, was she? In a fit of anger, Blair pulled their blankets back as hard as she could. Before she knew it, she and Chuck were in a tug-of-war, over their bed coverings.
"Learn to share! You're so selfish," Chuck shouted.
"You're a big baby! Crying when you can't have your way. Our 4 and 5 year-old children are more mature than you!" Blair shouted back. Then she reached behind her and grabbed a pillow. She started hitting Chuck over the head with it.
Chuck blocked her pillow at first but, then took it out of her hands, "Gimme that!" he said as he threw the pillow to the floor. As he roughly pulled the pillow from her tight grasp, Chuck pulled Blair forward and she landed on top of him.
Skin to skin contact fueled their anger in a way, but changed it to the heat of passion.
Chuck clamped his hands around Blair's upper arms and then flipped their position so he was on top of her. Then he took their blankets, put them over their heads and sort of wrapped them in a cocoon. He plopped his body down on his wife and kissed her as hard as he could.
Blair didn't fight it, in fact, she encouraged it. She placed a hand on the back of his neck and gently started massaging it. She ran her other hand threw his hair and softly massaged his scalp with her finger tips.
"Come on, Chuck! You're so possessive, make me yours!" Blair ordered as she groped his bottom through his silk pajamas.
"You're so damn selfish! Can't you take me for a change?" Chuck hissed and forcefully pulled open her button down night shirt. This action caused the buttons to fly all over the place, some hitting Chuck in the face.
He made the strangest face that Blair had ever seen. She couldn't help but burst out laughing, "I love you, Baby." Blair held his face in both hands.
"I love you too." Chuck vowed. "I don't want to fight anymore."
"Me either," Blair said in agreement. She rested her arms around his neck. They were silent for awhile, just loving each other. Blair was the first to break the silence, "I wanna do it."
Chuck cracked-up at her choice of words, "Such a romantic, Mrs. Bass."
"Oh, shut-up. You want to do it too!" said Blair, wanting to get the make-up sex show on the road.
"That's my girl," Chuck smirked and resumed their previous make-out.
In a quick and restless fashion, garments melted away and blankets were thrown to the floor. Chuck turned their bodies and swung Blair up so she could get in the cowgirl position.
"Best make-up sex ever!" Chuck shouted as Blair began to ride him.
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Adele awoke in her sleep with tears streaming down her face. She quickly climbed out of her pumpkin carriage bed and ran out of her room. She went down the hall and into her brother's room.
"Ethan, wake-up!" She nudged her bother awake.
"What do you want?" Ethan hissed after being woken from peaceful slumber.
"I had a bad dream," Adele confessed in a small voice.
"So?" Ethan complained.
Water began to collect in the corners of Adele's eyes. She was on the verge of tears, and when Ethan saw this, he softened.
"Come on," He sighed and scooted over for his sister.
Adele climbed into his bed, "I had a dream that Mommy got sick again, but never came back."
"That will never happen. Daddy won't let it happen," Ethan shrugged off his sister's words, but deep inside held same fear.
"Last time she was sick, she was gone from us for such along time," Adele explained her feelings.
"You know what? We are going to get to the bottom of this right this minute!" Ethan announced.
"How?" asked his sister, and watched with wide eyes as he jumped out of his bed and onto the floor.
"We are going to wake-up Mommy and Daddy, and make them promise to never leave us. Even if they get sick, they have to stay home with us! Come on!" The very determined boy held out his hand and waited for his sister to take it. Once Adele was holding his hand, the kids marched down the hall to their parents bedroom.
"They must be awake still," Ethan said as noticed the light was peeking through the cracks of their parents bedroom door. He opened the door quietly and walked in, pulling his sister with him. No one could prepare them for what they saw next. The children were greeted by their parent's naked bodies and loud moans.
Blair was still riding Chuck in the cowgirl position. Chuck had his legs apart and bent, his hand were planted under Blair's arms as he gently caressed her nipples with the pads of this thumbs. Blair's small hands were firmly planted on Chuck's chest for the support as moved her hips back and forth.
From the kids point-of-view, they could see their father's shins and the mother's bare bottom staring them in the face. Adele and Ethan looked at each other in both confusion and disgust.
"Mommy?" Adele said in a small voice.
"What are you guys doing?" Ethan followed suit.
Chuck and Blair instantly snapped out of the euphoric trance that they were both in, they stared at each other, wide eyed. Then they slow turned their heads and saw both of their children looking at them strangely.
"AAAHHH! COVER YOUR EYES! COVER YOUR EYES!"
They didn't listen exactly, they just got the hell out of their parent's bedroom. They both ran straight back to Ethan's bedroom and hid under the covers.
The completely embarrassed and frazzled parents jumped out of bed and began scrambling around. Blair threw their sheets and blankets back on the bed and picked up their clothes from the floor. Chuck found their matching purple robes and tossed one to Blair as he haphazardly put his on.
"Oh my gosh, Chuck!" Blair whined. "What are we going to do?" Blair put her robe on and wrapped it tightly around her.
"Maybe they didn't see anything," Chuck reasoned.
"THEY SAW EVERYTHING!"
"Okay...okay. I can fix this. We can fix this," The completely humiliated father began to pace around his room.
"How exactly do you plan to fix this? They are too young for the birds and the bees. Even if they weren't, my babies just saw me riding you as if I were completing in the Kentucky Derby!" Blair crossed her arms, and shook her head.
"At least they saw us making love. Would you rather them see us making hate?" Chuck questioned.
"At this point, yes I would," The agitated mother shouted.
"Either way, we still need to tell them something."
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The two small children were sitting on Ethan's bed with a blanket over their heads. From the outside, it looked like a small tent. They were trying to contemplate what they had just seen.
"What do you think they were doing?" Adele asked her older brother.
"I don't know. I don't think I want to know," Ethan told his sister with complete sincerity. "You know, Mommy just mooned us. I wonder if she is going to have to sit in a time-out. When me and Ryan mooned the teacher, we had to sit in a time-out."
"Ethan?" Chuck called as he entered his son's room. While holding Blair's hand, he came into the room and removed the blanket that was covering the kids' heads.
Blair bit her bottom lip in embarrassment, and avoided eye contact with her own children.
"Come on, Fries. Let's go out into the living room and talk," said Chuck.
The children nodded and ran went out into the living room as fast as they could. Chuck and Blair slowly followed behind.
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Chuck had the family sit at the dining table so they could all face each other and talk rationally.
"So..." Chuck began, "You kids came into our bedroom and you saw us um...doing...um...stuff."
"Yeah! We saw Mommy's butt!" Ethan shouted
"Yeah, Mommy, you stuck your butt at us!" Adele joined in.
"Oh, God!" Blair put her head down on the table.
"Daddy, are you going to make Mommy sit in a time-out for mooning?" Ethan asked.
"Well, I might spank her later," Chuck laughed at the idea.
"CHUCK!"
"I'm sorry, Honey. No, I'm not going to make Mommy in sit in a time-out," The father explained to his son.
"That's not fair! You made me sit in a time-out for mooning!" Ethan complained.
"Yes, Son, I did. You did it on purpose to be naughty. Mommy didn't do it on purpose. She might have been a little naughty..."
"Chuck! Really?" Blair warned and shot him a death glare.
"Mommy, why did you stick your butt at us?" Adele asked.
"I didn't..." Blair started to say but was interrupted by her son.
"Yes huh! You stuck your butt right at us! We saw your butt!" Ethan yelled and pointed at Blair.
Blair hid her face in her hands.
"No more talking about Mommy's butt!" Chuck exclaimed sternly to both of his children.
"Well, if you weren't trying to moon us, then what were you doing?" Adele asked innocently.
The adults stayed quit for a good 60 seconds.
"Chuck, explain to the children what we were doing," Blair sat back in her chair and crossed her arms.
"Okay, we were...um... doing stuff. Just stuff that only Mommy and Daddy do," Chuck attempted to explain.
"Do other mommies and daddies do that?" asked Adele.
"If they're lucky," Chuck muttered under his breath. "Yes they do. They could not be parents if they didn't."
"I am a Mommy to all of my dolls, do I have to do that?" The little girl inquired.
"NO!" Chuck shouted louder than he wanted to.
"Only grown up mommies and daddies do that," Blair interjected.
"So, you have to be grown-up?" Ethan asked.
"Yes, and you have to be married," Blair finalized.
"I wanna do it now!" Adele complained. She was a mommy to all of her dolls. It made perfect sense to her that she should be able to do mommy stuff.
"Well you aren't doing it until you're 30! With any luck, I'll be dead by then," Chuck huffed and crossed his arms.
Blair scoffed and rolled her eyes, "What Daddy means, is that only grown up mommies and daddies, who are married, can do that. So you can't do it until you are grown up and married."
"You have to be grown-up and married to moon someone? Is that why I had to sit in a time-out?" asked Ethan.
"Yes, that is exactly right," Blair lied just to get of the topic of mooning.
"What you kids witnessed, was very private. So you cannot talk about it to anyone, except for Mommy and me," Chuck explained.
"Why is it so private?" Ethan inquired.
"Because it is," said Chuck.
"It is so private, that we need to talk about some ground rules. You have to always knock before going into Mommy and Daddy's bedroom. We can't show our stuff toanyone, even you." Blair told both of her kids.
"We are your kids! How come we can't see your stuff? That's not fair!" Adele complained and crossed her arms.
"No, Honey. You don't want to see our stuff. We are protecting you by not letting you see it," Chuck told his little girl.
"It's protecting us to not let us watch you do your stuff?" Ethan questioned.
"Yes, if we let you watch, that would be icky and disgusting," Blair explained.
"If anybody, I mean anybody, ever asks you to watch them doing stuff, You tell me right away. That is not okay to let anyone watch, especially a child," Chuck instructed both of the children.
The kids seemed content with that and nodded.
"Can we watch cartoons?" asked Ethan.
"I think we should all go back to bed," his father answered.
"I wanna watch cartoons!" the little boy insisted.
"Maybe this cartoon watching thing is not a bad idea. It might take their minds off my backside," Blair cut in.
Chuck nodded in agreement, "Alright, we can go back to our bedroom and watch a movie."
"If we go to our bedroom, I will have to change the sheets," Blair casually reminded her husband of what just happened.
Chuck shivered and thought of it, "Good point. We'll go to the guest bedroom. I think 101 Dalmatians is still in the Blu-Ray from when they watched it with your mother."
"Sounds good to me," said Blair as the family of four left the kitchen table and piled into the guest bedroom.
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A few days later, Blair and Serena were shopping at Saks. They had been shopping all day, and each carried a multitude of colorful bags.
"You broke off your engagement with Carter? I thought you said he was the one," Blair was completely alarmed when Serena confessed that was not getting married and moved back in with Lily and Bart.
Serena scoffed and shook her head, "I thought so too, then I found him in bed with the neighbor's dog walker, Bambi. I should have known she was a tramp. Who, besides a porn star or a hooker, is named Bambi?"
"How about that baby deer that lost his mommy?" Blair joked.
"Ha, Ha," Serena was not amused.
"I'm sorry, S. Sure, be angry with the whore, but save your venom for Carter. He's a jerk!" the brunette woman took the arm of her blonde best friend as they walked. "You know, maybe you should give Dan a call, he might surprise you."
Serena let out a dry laugh, "Maybe."
Blair and Serena continued to walk and shop and make fun of Carter Baizen and that tramp, Bambi. Blair called for the limo to come around so the two women could put their bags inside. After their hands were free, they decided to sit down in a coffee shop for awhile.
The two best friends sat on the soft, leather sofa that was next to a warm fireplace. They sipped their coffees and continued to talk. When Serena finally asked Blair about the kids, Blair flinched.
"Is their something wrong with the babies? Is someone hurt? You tell me who did it, and I will take care of the situation," Serena vowed as horrifying scenarios went through her mind.
"They're fine... they walked in on me and Chuck," Blair shuddered.
"Doing what?" Serena questioned.
"What do you think?" Blair said in disbelief. How could her best friend be so dense?
Serena's jaw dropped, but curved into a wide smile. She stifled a small giggle, "Oh, B, maybe they didn't see anything."
"The saw my bare ass!" Blair yelled, but then lowered her voice. "The lights were on, and I was in the cowgirl position. We were completely naked with our bed covers on the floor."
Serena's eyes bulged from her head and she started to laugh heavily. She laughed so hard that tears came from here eyes and her stomach began to hurt. She started to hyperventilate as she tried to regain her composure.
"What did they do when they saw you?" she finally asked.
"They yelled at me for mooning them. I have never been so mortified in my life," Blair sipped her coffee and then shuddered again.
"Oh, B. It's not the end of the world. They will get over it," Serena reached her hand out and began to rub Blair's arm up and down for support.
"They are already over it. It's me that can't get over it. I made Chuck put a deadbolt on our door. Yesterday, I couldn't get comfortable even though it was locked, and he put a chair in front," Blair closed her eyes. She was still so embarrassed.
"How did Chuck get over it so quickly?" Serena inquired.
"They didn't see his private parts, just my ass!"
Serena began laughing hysterically again.
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Blair and Chuck were relaxing in their hot tub with glasses wine. Blair sipped her wine as Chuck started kissing his way up her neck. When she felt his hand reach for the tie to her bikini top, she slapped it quickly and moved away from him, "Watch it."
"Come on, Blair. The kids are with Lily and Bart for the night. They are not going to see us naked," Chuck insisted as he tried to get his wife to take off her top. "Come on, you know you want to, everyone is doing it," Chuck snarked and went for her top again. This time he was successful at removing it.
"Give it back!" Blair yelled and covered her breasts with her hands.
"It's just you and me, and it's our anniversary," Chuck threw the top aside and pulled Blair onto his lap. He began nibbling on the skin of her chest that her hands were not covering, "You taste so nice,"
Blair gave up and put her arms around his neck, giving full access to her breasts. She giggled as they tightened and became erect, "That feels so good, and our anniversary is not for another couple of months." Blair's voice became course.
"Today is not our wedding anniversary, it's our limo anniversary. Still one of the best days of my life," Chuck informed her.
"I'm glad I'm alive and that I remember it," Blair confessed and kissed his lips.
"Me too," Chuck agreed and kissed her back. "Blair, I'm sorry, I got so angry with you about Humphrey. I was hurt, but he isn't that important. Yesterday, when the kids walked in on us, yes it was embarrassing, but their reasoning of the situation was priceless. I would have preferred if they did not see us naked, but they make me laugh. Those things are important. Our family is important, because I love you all."
"I love you and our children so much," Blair caressed his cheek and pecked his lips. "I'm sorry that I hurt you. I don't want to hurt you for anything in the world. You are so precious to me."
They kissed sweetly after they shared their loving words with one another. After that, the just held each other as the planned to do forever.
The End.
That is the end of Married at 23. Thank you all so much for supporting me through this story! There is an epilogue coming up.