Forever is About to Start

Chapter 11 - The Brothers


He arrived at Lily's in no time and it seemed like the elevator never took so much time to reach the penthouse.

He stormed in the house and all eyes were on him.

"Where have you been? Why didn't you answer your phone?"

"Dad I am not in the mood, I was in the middle of something but I am here now" he said as his eyes flew in the room looking for her but she was nowhere to be seen

"I am happy you made it, Daniel" said Lily "Could you please get Serena? She is on her bedroom"

"Sure" he said relieved to know she was still there

He reached her bedroom door and softly knocked waiting for her response

"Eric, tell mom I am going" she said opening the door for Dan thinking it was her brother who usually was sent to get her

She had her back to him as she walked back to her bed and took something to wipe the tears of her face "I'll just splash some water on my face" she said sensing he hasn't come back to the living room

"I am sorry" he muttered loud enough for her to listen

She stopped wiping her face immediately and turned to look at him,the sight of her broken face was like a knife stabbing his heart especially because he knew he was the reason of her tears

"Not now, Dan, please leave me alone" she said walking to the door and showing him the way out of her bedroom

"Please, Serena, we need to talk, I couldn't think straight in front of you with the taste of your mouth still on my lips, listen to me" he pleaded reaching for her

"It seems like my mom has something really important to say, even Chuck is here, so if you don't mind I will splash some water on my face and meet everyone, can't you wait until tomorrow to make a fool of me again? It is not like you didn't do today already" she said avoiding his eyes and moving towards the bathroom

"I want you back" he blurted "I need you back in my life, I can't just keep breathing, I need to live and for this I need you with me" he said holding her arm. She stopped on her tracks but didn't say anything

"I was an idiot and then a jerk but I've finally seen what was so clear right in front of me, I can't live without you, Serena" he said

Her eyes lit up, she was expecting him to only apologize for his instincts to kiss her and she never thought he would really change his mind

"I can only ask you to forgive me, Serena, I am so sorry I hurt you but I want to make up for you for the rest of my live if you let me too" he said looking straight to her eyes

She wouldn't fight her heart, she had already taken all the pain she could handle and she wouldn't waste one more second before giving them a second chance

"I couldn't ask for more" she said and when they were about to kiss Chuck interrupted

"It seems like your mother really needs both of you there, sister, so you might let your make out session for later" he said smirking

"Nothing will break us apart again, I swear to you" Dan whispered squeezing her hand as they held hands and walked to the living room

Somehow their hands were unnoticed by Lily and Rufus that were tense about the news they were about to break.

"Bart and I really wanted us to be a family and before his death we decided we would make it legal as well. He has signed the papers to adopt Serena and Eric and today I finally signed the papers to adopt Charles" she said looking to her new son "I really care about you, Charles and I couldn't be happier for us to finally work it out and for you to understand that I never meant to hurt your father and that what happened was a horrible accident" she completed as Chuck looked both comforted and uncomfortable

Eric was the first one to hug Chuck and show his happiness. As Serena whispered a welcome to the family, again

"So Charles is moving in to live with us" Lily concluded

"That's not all we have to tell you guys" said Rufus

"Please don't tell you are getting married" said Eric clearly joking

"Not yet, but now you blew our next announcement next week" said Lily following her son's tone and then looking for Rufus for help, receiving his nod to go ahead

"I really don't know how to break it for you" Lily started and was interrupted by her boyfriend

"I'll take it from now" said Rufus squeezing her arm softly "Back when Lily and I dated, she got pregnant. I had no idea about it and as you can imagine Cece wasn't really happy about it" Rufus said, letting everyone speechless

"Anyway I gave birth to a boy that was given to adoption" Lily said staring down and the room remained silent for a few minutes. Everyone looked to the others but no one found a word to say, not to judge, not to support her. They were astonished.

After the thick silence Rufus finally broke it "Before Christmas I found out about the pregnancy and the adoption and that's why I cut Lily out of my life. I traveled to Chicago to find him but I was totally unsuccessful"

"But tonight, during the opera, we got a phone call, the parents finally accepted to talk to us. We are going to meet your brother" Lily said and Serena and Dan's hands immediately broke apart.

A shared sibling was more than they could handle in that moment

After a few minutes Dan was finally able to find his voice

"What did you just say?" he asked

"I know this is shocking and unexpected but we felt like we should share it with you, no more secrets" said Rufus, encouraging his girlfriend

"Mom, I can't believe you" was all Serena said

"Serena, please, I was too young and I really didn't have strength to fight Cece, you know how obstinate and hard she can be"

"So we share a brother?" asked Dan to his father and moving his hands to show Serena, Eric and Jenny

"His name is Scott and we are going to Chicago tomorrow to meet his parents and hopefully they will agree with us seeing him" Rufus announced

"And do you really expect him to just have his arms wide open to both of you?" Dan asked "Because dad, I am you son for almost 18 years and I am not taking this well, at all" he said looking to Serena but still unable to reach for her hand

"We know it won't be easy Daniel and we are not waiting for forgiveness just now. All we are asking is for a chance to know him but if he doesn't want to meet us we will back off for a while"

"For a while?" Serena asked "Do you think you can mess up with everyone's life and just give them a few days or weeks to accept it? Don't you see what you are doing is just selfish? You don't even know about the adoption and you are already making your plans as if the world should just fit to your wishes, guess what mom, sometimes it doesn't because sometimes you mess things up really bad and we can't just change our lives to fit your wishes" Serena said leaving to her bedroom

"I go talk to her but dad, Serena is right, you guys need to think about everybody else who is involved in this story and not only yourself. I know you are hurt because you found out you have a missed son but you could really just make it worse to everyone else, including you and Lily" he said before following Serena


"Serena, it is me, open the door please" he said after he knocked her door

"How are you?" he asked as soon as she opened it and let him in

"I don't know, I am just confused and angry" she said collapsing on her bed

There were a silence between them that lasted at least ten minutes but none of them knew how to break it. The situation was awkward enough without a sibling and now it looked a hundred times worse.

"They could say you and I are brother and sister, I don't care anymore Serena" he said after their long silence

"What we feel for each other is what matters and I know we feel anything but like siblings. We love each other like man and woman and I may have taken too much to make up my mind about it but now I am convinced that I can't be happy without you, as my girlfriend, I won't let it go, I still want to be with you Serena" he rambled reaching for her hand but she immediately slip it away from his touch

"Sorry Dan, but I can't have this conversation right now. Today was a long day and I felt we finally made it just to feel a few minutes later that we were as impossible to happen as never before. I am not ready to deal with a brother that my mom gave to adoption let alone share him with you. Please I need some time and space now" she said as a tear rolled from her face

"I am here for you, Serena, no matter what. If you need a friend, I'll be the friend you need, if you need a boyfriend, I'm more ready than ever to take the job." He said taking her hand again and kissing it

"Now if you need a brother, please, call Eric, even Chuck, because no matter how the world wants us to feel like brother and sister I can't imagine my body reacting to Jenny as it does for you" he said chucking

"Eww, this is gross Dan" she said playfully hitting his arm

"At least I could see your beautiful smile again" he said brushing the hair of her face

"Thank you" she murmured

After another moment of silence, when he kept holding her hand and stroking it, he spoke again

"So what will it be?" he asked

"How come from night to day I have so many brothers" she asked smirking

"I hope I am not part of the list" he said

"Even Chuck is my brother now" she said giggling and crying

"That's not a great addition if you ask me" he joked

"And still I feel like a need one of them with me" she said reassuming her serious tone

"One of your brothers?" he asked trying to follow her

"Yeah, it has always been only me and Eric and now there is Chuck, maybe this Scott boy and even you and Jenny"

"I'd appreciate if wasn't in this list, as I told you, I can't fantasize about my sister, it is just gross" he joked

"So maybe I should go to Chuck's bedroom and sleep with him because I don't want to sleep all by myself tonight" she said half joking, half serious

"I was never gladder to sleep with my sis than now" he joked again, getting himself comfortable on her bed

"Eww. That is just becoming grosser and grosser" she smirked

"I told you, I am here for you, no matter how you want me and I drop the comment for you to call Eric or Chuck if you need a brother" he said still joking about their situation, it was the best he could do now

"I always dreamed about a big family, a whole family that I never had since my dad left us. None of my mother's husbands filled it and every time, Eric and I felt more lonely than before and now Chuck is moving in, I have a missed brother and probably our parents will get married and we will be living in the same house, all of us, a big family, like in my dreams when I was little" she opened her heart

"You make it sounds like a good thing, I am confused, should I be happy or sad that we will be a big happy, crazy family?" he asked

"The problem is that every time I was closer for life be better somehow things got wrong and it was worse than before and I was alone, does Georgina rings a bell?"

"I am here now and I am not leaving, you won't lose me again"

"I am not sure if I can date my potential brother" she said serious

"Then for now I am happy to be the potential brother that won't let you feel alone"


Dan kissed her forehead and left to let his father know he would be with Serena for the night letting no room for discussions

When he came back she was already on her pajamas and had got some of her brother clothes for him to sleep comfortably

"They might be a bit tight but Chuck doesn't have any more clothes in the house" she said softly

"It is very nice, thanks" he said getting the clothes to change himself in the washroom across of her room

"It is not like I haven't seen it before" she said from behind of her comforter

"I don't want you to have erotic dreams about your brother" he joked

"Definitely not" she said getting her head also behind of the comforter as he changed himself

"You will never be alone again, S" he said climbing on her bed and stretching his arm for her to rest her head on his shoulder "I promise you"

"Thank you for being here"

"I don't belong anywhere else" he said kissing her forehead and she laid with her head on his chest and they spent some minutes comfortably on silence

"I hope this is the last night we play house, because I don't have any humor left to make jokes about my hot almost-maybe-who-knows-sister-very-very-hot"

"Shut up" she said as he reached to turn off the lights

That night they slept on each other arms and it was the best night of the last months. The awkward situation they were definitely made they feel uneasy around each other but if their love was meant to be, somehow they would get over it. At any point the jokes about their familiar status won't be able to keep them from facing the reality and deep inside both of them just hoped they could make it. Not as brother and sister but as boyfriend and girlfriend but tomorrow was still unknown land to the cozy sleeping lovers.


AN: I really don't remember where Scott and his family live, so in this fic is Chicago. I know reading the sibling talk might sound gross and weird but I meant this 'scene' to very light and definitely to keep the joking tone. They did a lemonade of what they had that night. Serena was afraid that once again her mother's actions would affect her and Eric as it did so many times before and now it wasn't only them but also Rufus, Jenny and especially Dan. Dan didn't want to put any thinking about it because he took weeks to make a decision over their parents relationship and if he thought about Scott now maybe he would turn back to his own stubborn self but he wasn't willing to be apart of Serena anymore. I won't give you the next chapter title because it would be a huge spoiler but I am already working on it. In fact I am trying to be in a roll and write as much as I can so I won't take too much time to update it.