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Chapter 10

Chuck and Blair were lying on Eric's bed, completely silent. Chuck was lost in thought, still trying to figure out how to get them out of this nightmare.

"We're trapped in our own minds," he said quietly. "It should be easy to get out. Who would have thought that our minds would be our biggest enemy?"

"Maybe the real world is even scarier than this world right now," Blair speculated. "And this is a defense mechanism."

"What could be worse than being trapped and in a coma, with the possibility of dying at any given moment?"

"You could be alone, on top of all that," Blair pointed out. "Maybe you couldn't deal with the loss of me, so you just shut down so you could be with me. That doesn't really explain how I got you here, though."

"That's not it," Chuck insisted, sitting up. "Why are you so adamant about this? Do you want it to be true?"

"It's just no use to keep trying to get out when I can't."

Chuck didn't have an answer to that. Blair was never going to listen to him on this. She had already decided what she thought about it.

"Why don't we call their bluff?" Chuck suggested. "If we acknowledge that everything's fake and only an illusion, if we say it is, then it will disappear, right?"

Blair sighed. "Haven't you ever had a dream where you know you're dreaming?" she asked.

"No."

"Once you realize it's a dream, things only get worse. The other people in your dream will try to convince you more and more that it's a dream, and it can get dangerous. And you have to remember that dreams can be crazy, but your brain still likes to have a certain amount of logic in things. What would happen in real life if you ran around shouting that everything was an illusion? At best, Lily will blame it on the medication, and at worst, she'll think we're crazy and have us locked up. And if this really is a nightmare, then the nightmare Lily could get scary and attack us."

"But maybe that wouldn't be so bad! If we die here, maybe we'll wake up in the real world!"

"No. When you die in a dream, you die in real life. People say that all the time."

"That doesn't mean it's true," Chuck insisted.

"We need to keep pretending like nothing is wrong for this to work."

"For what to work?"

"For the whole keeping us safe and together thing to work," Blair said. "Anything else will put us in danger."

Chuck closed his eyes. Maybe she was right.

"Why don't we try sleeping, then?" he suggested after a moment. "Maybe we'll wake up in the real world."

"That might work if we were sleeping in the real world, but we're not," Blair said. "And anyways, I already tried to sleep. It doesn't work."

"What do you mean, it doesn't work?"

"I can't fall asleep. I don't get tired. Try it."

Chuck did so, but found, after half an hour of silence, that she was right. Under normal circumstances, he would have thought that he just wasn't tired, but these were not normal circumstances. Besides, he trusted Blair. She was all he had, and he loved her. If he couldn't trust Blair, especially in this strange new world, he couldn't trust anyone or anything. He had to trust her. But did that mean trusting her when she said she was dead?

"You're not going to die, Blair," Chuck broke the silence by whispering. Blair didn't answer.

Chuck and Blair had been through a lot together. He had come close to losing her many times, most of them through some fault of his. He had sold Blair for a hotel, abandoned her on a vacation they were supposed to take together, punched out a glass window above her, slept with others when he was in love with her, almost been too late in rescuing her from a maniac who wanted to kill her, and had come close to losing her by almost losing his own life a few times, but he had never been as terrified of losing her as he was now.

AN: Ok, so I forgot to say this last chapter but I just want to let you guys know that I don't agree with Blair's actions in the last chapter. I don't think Blair deserves bad things for what she's done and I don't agree with her line of reasoning…she shouldn't have cheated on Louis, maybe, but she loves Chuck and staying with Louis is even more unfair to both of them. So if Blair's reasoning sounded a little ridiculous, it's not because it's what I believe, it's just because she feels guilty and she's desperate and wants to do whatever she can to save Chuck.

There's a new episode tomorrow but I'm going to continue to update the story if there's still interest in it. There are 9 more chapters to go and I might try to post another today and one or two tomorrow. But I don't know if there's still a ton of interest in it…let me know if you still want to read after seeing what really happens on the show.

Thank you so much to my reviewers from last chapter(ElodieBCA, Vanessa, RauhlPrincess, and Immortalrunes), you guys are the best!