I am soooo sorry for the wait on this chapter. I have been at work for days on end!!
But here it is, and I think this might be my favourite chapter. :)
If you are wondering about Summer Kind Of Wonderful it should be back in action next week
Losing My Mind, Losing My Heart
Chuck was holding the map and staring at it "Okay so we are now…"
"Officially lost" Blair said under her breath.
Chuck smiled at her "Yep you're right" he replied pulling her towards him via her waist.
Blair giggled as she looked up at him "Oh well" she whispered as she kissed him harshly on the lips.
The pair had made up after Blair had dragged him away from Nate.
Flashback
Chuck crossed his arms and stared at Blair who was standing nervously in front him. "What do you want to talk about?" he asked his tone terse.
"I'm sorry okay" Blair muttered not looking him in the eye.
Chuck rolled his eyes "Oh I really felt like you meant that" he said.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have blamed you" she whispered.
Chuck used his hand to pull Blair's face up by her chin so that she was looking at him. "No you shouldn't" he said quietly.
Blair wasn't sure what he expected her to do next so she just stood there "But I think I can let it go, I get why you were upset" he said running his thumb down her cheek.
"How long do you think Serena will be mad at me?" Blair asked him entwining their hands together.
"Well you can't offer her sex so that she'll forgive you, so it could be a while" he said chuckling slightly.
Blair shoved him in the chest "Shut up" she said laughing.
"She'll forgive you; you forgave her for having sex with your boyfriend. So she owes you this one" He pointed out.
Blair tilted her head to the sight thoughtfully "Mm I guess so" she said quietly.
"Don't worry it'll be fine" He reassured her kissing her on the tip of her nose lightly causing her to smile.
"You're pretty good at this boyfriend kind of thing" Blair said and Chuck smiled.
"I'm trying really hard" he said, Blair nodded.
"Well its paying off" Blair told him, kissing him.
"Will it pay off later?" he asked his eyebrow rising out of habit.
"Maybe" Blair whispered smiling at him and winking. "Come one we better get back to camp" she said softly dragging him along.
End of Flashback
Chuck pulled away from her "As fun as this is Blair, we are going to have to find a way of getting back to the campsite. Or we will die" he said grabbing her by her sides.
Blair let out a squeal "Don't say that Chuck" she said feeling a little bit scared.
He wrapped his arms around her waist from behind her "I'll protect you" he whispered into her ear and kissing her earlobe gently.
Blair grinned "I would love to see that" she replied mocking him.
"You doubt me Waldorf?" Chuck asked her.
"No, I just don't see you as the protective type" she said.
"Well when a bear is mauling your face, I'll just watch shall I" he replied.
Blair laughed "I don't think you could take on a bear" Blair informed him.
"I could take on you and that's basically the same right?" he asked chuckling slightly.
Blair smacked "Oh ha ha, if you want me to ever have sex with you again you might won't to treat me better" Blair said.
"I didn't mean it" he said kissing the side of her head softly.
"Good, let me see the map, I bet I can get us out of here" she said grabbing it and turning it round. "You had this upside down you know"
Chuck looked at her "Um of course I knew" he replied smirking at her.
Blair shook her head; men really were awful with directions.
***
Jenny was currently tapping her foot on the mud that she standing on and she sighed. She couldn't believe that she had been so stupid, 'oh he likes you blah blah blah' she thought mimicking Blair's voice in her head. Yeh right, only if you don't get back together him before hand.
Jenny's tapping pace quickened and Nate looked at her "Are you okay?" he asked her he had noticed that she had been acting really weird since they had left earlier.
"I'm superb thanks" she replied dryly sticking her thumbs up.
Nate breathed "Okay then" he muttered. "I think we have to go this way to find the next clue" he explained pointing in the direction of some massive trees, which happened to look exactly like all the other trees.
"Fine whatever" Jenny mumbled storming off ahead of him she was so pissed that she didn't even care that she was walking around in the woods.
"Are you mad at me or something Jenny?" he asked her as he caught up with her.
"Nope. Why would I be mad I'm just Little Jenny Humphrey I only have one setting happy, happy, happy" she barked in reply.
Nate felt his mouth want to smile then she was really cute when she got all angry like this but he didn't let it she might kill him if he smiled.
"Ouch" he heard her shout slightly ahead of him.
"Are you okay?" he asked jogging over.
Jenny shook her head; she was on the ground clutching her ankle. Her big blue eyes were brimming with tears as she sat there.
"What happened?" He asked sitting himself down next to her and looking at her leg.
"I tripped on a log or something" Jenny replied quietly her voice shaky.
Nate rubbed her back gently "Hey don't worry you'll be fine, it just looks like a bad sprain" he reassured her.
Jenny bit her lip and nodded "Um okay" she mumbled trying not to cry.
"Do you want to see if you can walk?" he asked her sweetly and she nodded. He placed his shoulder under her arm to support as she struggled to get up.
"Ow, ah," she moaned in pain. "It hurts too much" she groaned tear falling down her cheek.
Nate smiled at her sympathetically "That's okay, I have an idea" he told her "We are going to sit on that big log over there, and I'm going to carry you" he informed her.
Jenny looked at him "Um" but before she finished her sentence he had already placed one of his arms under her knees and the other under her arms as he hoisted her up off of the ground.
"It's a good thing you are skinny" he said grinning at her.
Jenny laughed "I guess it is" she replied laughing a little bit.
Nate gently placed her on the log and made sure that her ankle was elevated from the ground. He sat down next to her "Are you feeling any better?" he asked her.
"Um kind of, I really wish I had some chocolate though" Jenny replied absentmindedly.
Nate smiled "Well then you are in luck" he replied as he pulled a mars bar from his pocket.
Jenny looked at him "You brought chocolate with you?" she asked him.
"You never know when you might need a mars bar" he replied handing it to her.
"Well thank you" she said opening it and taking a bite from it "I'm definitely feeling better now" she told him smiling.
Nate chuckled "Good, glad to be of service"
They looked at each for a second in silence until Jenny looked down at her lap thoughtfully.
"Jenny there's something that I wanted to talk to you about" Nate started to say, now seemed like as good a time as any at least she definitely wouldn't be able to run away from him.
Jenny looked at him, great here it came "Is it about you and Blair?" she asked him awaiting his reply.
He looked at her confused "What do you mean about me and Blair?" he asked her not really sure where she got that from.
Jenny sighed so she was going to have to say it "Are you two getting back together or something earlier it seemed like…"
Nate looked at her "No why would you think that?" he asked her shocked.
"It just seemed like you were having an intense conversation earlier" Jenny explained staring at him.
"We were, but it wasn't about me and Blair, because there isn't a me and Blair anymore, it was actually about you" Nate told her.
Jenny opened and shut her mouth a couple of times "Oh" she whispered, her mind blank. "What about me?" she asked him quietly.
Nate looked at his feet "About how much I like you" he replied inaudibly.
Jenny's eyes widened "You like me. You like me. You like me" she said repeating it over and over.
"Yes" he stated.
"Oh" Jenny breathed as she continued to stare at him.
"Is that all you're going to say?" he asked her as he looked up at her.
"Um" Jenny said her head buzzing there were a lot of things that she wanted to say, that she could say but she didn't know what to say or how to say it.
"Wow, this is embarrassing" Nate said shifting uncomfortably where he was sitting.
"I like you too" Jenny whispered so quiet that he wouldn't have heard her if he hadn't been listening so intently.
Nate looked at her face she was smiling gently at him, and her cheeks were tearstained. He leant forward and pushed a loose strand of her long blonde hair out of her eyes and he captured her lips with his.
It was nothing like the kiss they had shared at the masquerade ball this time they both knew exactly what they were doing his mouth had been wanting to kiss her ever since then. To do it properly, to kiss Jenny and not someone he hadn't known and thought was someone else. Jenny responded to the kiss be leaning closer to him, her hands fiddling with the short hairs that were on the nape of his neck, his tongue suddenly entered her mouth and she felt her stomach clench as he did this. He allowed their tongues to meet in some kind of silent battle and then he slowly pulled back and pecked her on the lips.
Jenny's head was fuzzy and she couldn't make her mouth speak her breathing was slightly heavier then usual as he looked at her smiling that heart stopping smile.
"I feel like I've been waiting to kiss you for a really long time" he murmured his hand finding hers as he threaded his fingers through hers.
"Well I'm glad you finally did" Jenny told him smiling at him.
"Oh really" he said kissing her lips again more softly this time.
"Yeh it really took my mind of my leg" she said grinning at him.
"That's all I'm good for a distraction?" he asked her.
"Well you are very distracting Nate Archibald" she replied winking.
"Well so are you Jenny Humphrey" he replied capturing her lips once more.
***
Chuck and Blair were still officially lost, and there was practically no hope for them finding their way back. Someone was going to have to send a search party.
Blair was wandering around whilst Chuck sat down on the ground flicking at the mud around him.
"This is so boring, we haven't even found any of the clues yet" Blair moaned as she looked down at Chuck who was ignoring her.
"Who cares? I just want to get out of here" he mumbled.
"Why is big bad Chuck scared of the woods? She asked him sardonically.
He rolled his eyes "No, I just really need to pee actually" he told her.
Blair wrinkled her nose "Mm thank you for sharing that with me" she muttered under her breath. "Why are we on this trip in the middle of winter anyway? I am freezing here" she grumbled.
"Run some laps it'll warm you up" Chuck suggested.
Blair shot him a look "You are kidding right?" she asked him disbelieving.
Chuck shrugged "No" he replied.
"SHH!" Blair said waving her hand at him. "I can hear voices" she said quietly.
"Did someone forget to take their medication today?" he asked standing up.
Blair rolled her eyes "Listen!" she commanded.
"Oh I hear them, they are coming from over here" Chuck said as he started walking motioning for her to follow him.
They walked through some bushes "Chuck will you hold my hand? This is kind of creepy" Blair asked and without speaking Chuck to her hand.
They edged further into the woods until they came to a clearing where the voices were a lot clearer.
"Look I'm scissors and that beats paper, you can't just start cheating" they heard a male voice say.
"But I'm injured I should get to win every time" a girls voice argued.
"Well that's not how rock, paper, scissors works is it?"
Chuck and Blair came out and saw Jenny and Nate sat on a log deep in a very odd debate.
Nate looked up at them.
"Hey, thank God, we thought we might die out here" Jenny said to them as she smiled at them.
Chuck dropped Blair's hand "Actually I didn't think that, Jenny did" Nate told them and Jenny smacked his head lightly.
"Shut up" she told him.
"What are you two doing?" Blair asked as she stared at them Jenny's leg was resting on Nate's lap and they were both sat on a log.
"I sprained my ankle, so we had to sit down" Jenny explained, she didn't include the part about them making out, it didn't seem necessary.
"Oh are you okay?" Blair asked as she moved closer Jenny who nodded in response.
"Yeh I'm fine really" she said.
"Do you have any idea where we are?" Chuck asked from where he was standing right on the edge of the clearing.
Nate and Jenny looked at each other "Not really" they replied.
"Great so now we are all lost together" Chuck moaned as if it were there fault.
Jenny gave him a tight lipped smile "Ooh yeh because you are really someone I want to be lost in the woods with" she replied sarcastically.
Nate squeezed her leg gently, he of course understood why Jenny didn't like his best friend Chuck had almost sexually assaulted her.
Chuck looked at her "Right fair enough this is probably worse for you, but hey at least you have a useful partner" Chuck said.
Blair narrowed her eyes at him "What is that supposed to mean?" she asked him her hand on her hip.
"Well you are the reason we are lost in the first place" he informed her.
"You were the one that couldn't read the map" she shouted.
"That's because you wouldn't stop talking" he responded.
Blair breathed out slowly, annoyed, "Can I talk to you by that tree for a moment?" Blair asked pointing to a tree further away from Nate and Jenny.
"Sure, as long you don't get us lost from here to there, it's about a metre away can you handle that?" he asked her following her to the tree.
Jenny looked at Nate "Those two are acting really strange" Jenny pondered out loud.
Nate shrugged "They are always like that with each other" he told her.
"What is all this about Chuck?" Blair asked in an angry whisper.
"Its not about anything, I am trying to keep up appearances" he explained "We wouldn't want Nate or Jenny catching on. That's if cabbage patch hasn't already told her" Chuck said.
Blair opened her mouth and then closed it again "Oh I see" she said quietly, it wasn't actually a bad idea and she really did love arguing with Chuck.
"Takes you a while to catch on doesn't it Waldorf?" he asked patting her head condescendingly.
Blair pushed his arm away from her "Oh shut it Bass" she replied, stomping on his foot.
"What was that for?" he asked her wincing.
"Just keeping up appearances" she whispered winking at him as she went back over to Nate and Jenny.
TBC
YAY, NJ loving, I loved writing it. I hope you enjoy reading it.
R & R :)