Apologies for taking forever to upload this chapter! Christmas and New Years is always busy and I've actually just been in NYC for a holiday (I'm from Australia). I did the Gossip Girl tour, I definitely recommend it if your visiting.

Anyway here is chapter 11 finally! I hope you guys enjoy reading it. Thanks for all your lovely reviews.

Chuck awoke to sunlight streaming through the large windows of the room he and Blair were in. He raised his arm to shield his eyes and glanced at the clock on the bedside table. 7:32am blinked back at him. He groaned, this was much too early for Chuck, especially when on a holiday but he hadn't really been able to sleep anyway. He looked over at Blair, sleeping beside him, her chocolate curls falling across her face. She had tossed and turned some of the night but surprisingly appeared to sleep better than he did. He slowly climbed out of the bed, careful not to wake her and crept into the bathroom. As he returned to the bedroom he saw her eyes slowly fluttering open.

"Morning sleepy head"

She smiled at him. "Morning" she said quietly.

"How did you sleep?"

"Ok, you?" she asked

"Same, just ok".

She scrunched up her face, worried that he had got no sleep because of her. Chuck noticed.

"Hey I got more sleep than I would have if you made me stay on that tiny chair" he said, trying to lighten the mood.

"Maybe if your body wasn't so big"

"It's not only my body that's big" Chuck said. He regretted it instantly. He was always saying disgusting comments around her and he knew she loved it but she had just been through hell the night before, couldn't he hold off being a sleaze for a few days at least.

He studied her face. She didn't look angry but she looked distant and he wondered if she had even heard him.

"Blair I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, I guess I'm just programmed to be permanently sleazy when I'm around you".

"You're programmed to be permanently sleazy around anything that has female anatomy" Blair retorted.

Chuck was happy to see she wasn't upset or offended by his comment.

"I'm hungry" she mumbled.

"Room service?" he asked and she nodded. He knew exactly what to order for her, he knew her inside-out. Blair had a shower whilst Chuck ordered for both of them. He checked his phone and saw more missed calls from Serena. He felt guilty but he had assured Serena, Blair was ok and safe.

"Pancakes, my favourite" Blair said excitedly like a 5-year old before carrying her plate onto the balcony. Chuck watched her.

"Are you coming" she asked.

They sat in the sun, enjoying their breakfast in silence. Blair had dressed in a flowery, summer dress which was a little to big for her small frame. One of the straps fell off her shoulder and Chuck could see a dark bruise forming. He clenched his fists at the thought of Adam holding her down with such force that he'd left bruises on her. Chuck knew he had to get Blair to talk to Serena but he was wary of bringing the subject of the night before up.

"Blair about last night"

Blair froze, her pancake-laden fork halfway to her mouth before she placed it back on the plate.

"I need to know what happened"

Blair picked up her serviette and patted her mouth delicately before turning away from Chuck and staring at the ocean which appeared to go on forever.

"Talk to me, please" Chuck pleaded with her.

"No" she said firmly.

"I need to know your ok"

"I am. As far as I'm concerned nothing happened. Just a night out with my friends". She continued eating her pancakes signalling the subject was closed.

Chuck realised Blair was going into defence mode, this was her way of coping when things were too much and she didn't want to deal with them. Just like she had, when they had first slept together or when her and Nate had broken up. He wasn't going to let her get away with it though. Everyone in their world bottled things up, including himself and he knew better than anyone the pain that could cause. So he took a deep breath and decided to take the hard approach.

"Blair when I came into that room last night your underwear was off and Adam was on top of you" Chuck said quietly, afraid of her response and afraid of hurting her by making her think about it again.

Blair froze. He could see her start to shake and he felt so guilty but he had gone this far.

"You can talk to me, I promise"

"No" she whispered.

He scooted closer to her. "I can see the bruise on your shoulder, I just need to know if there are other injuries".

Blair quickly covered her right shoulder, she could feel that bruise throbbing.

"Blair I meant your left shoulder" and she looked down to see the bruise forming on that shoulder also.

"Stop it" she yelled, anger and sadness in her voice. "Just stop"

As awful as it sounded he wanted her to break down and open up to him. If she didn't now, she may never, he knew her so well and she'd just sweep it under the rug and never give it another thought.

"I know you were scared and you still are but you can't pretend like this never happened".

"It never happened" she screamed, sending her plate flying. She got up and tried to walk out but he grabbed her wrist.

"No, stop" she said weakly, cowering from him and he realised that was probably what Adam did to her last night. He quickly let go.

"Leave me alone" she choked, running out the door. He quickly followed, not caring that he was dressed in only a robe but he saw the elevator doors closing.

He swore in the middle of the hallway, receiving some disapproving glares from the people waiting for the next elevator. He realised he had pushed her too far and now she had no one else to turn to, well no one else who knew about last night. He'd clean himself up and then find her and apologise and try another tactic. He just wanted to make sure he was looking out for her.

Blair had left her bag in the other room with her door key so she started banging on the door of the room her and Serena shared.

"I'm coming" Serena yelled, irritated.

She opened the door to see Blair standing there, her eyes watery.

"B, oh my god where have you been? I looked everywhere for you, so did Nate and Dan and we couldn't find you anywhere. I've been calling your phone all night and it just kept going to voicemail. Then Chuck finally picks up his phone after 100 calls and he got me worried but said you were ok. Are you ok?"

Blair only nodded before walking past Serena and over to her bed.

"Is that all you have to say Blair? You have had us worried sick all night".

"I'm sorry S" Blair said, sighing inwardly at the effort she would have to put in pretending, not that she wasn't used to it, pretending everything was fine was Blair's life. "I'm just so tired and embarrassed".

"Embarrassed, why?" Serena said, making herself comfy on Blair's bed.

"I got so drunk last night. I just wanted to have a good time and I guess I just went overboard. I blame it on my exceptional past ability to abstain from large amounts of alcohol. Obviously my body wasn't used to it and I was just making a fool of myself. Then Chuck found me emptying the contents of my stomach, which was all alcohol anyway. He didn't want to wake you or Nate up so he organised another suite just for the night so I wouldn't embarrass myself further".

Serena started laughing. "I can't believe I missed drunk Blair! We have all been waiting for her to make an appearance. Trust Chuck to be the one to witness it. I hope he didn't take advantage of you, we know what he is like with drunk girls" Serena laughed. Blair forced a smile.

"He actually behaved himself. It may have been the sight of me throwing up that put him off" Blair said, laughing with Serena.

Serena gave her a hug. "I'm just glad you're ok, I was really worried, I dragged Dan around looking for you half the night".

"S, haven't you noticed? He has put on a bit of weight lately, he needed the exercise, you and I did him a favour".

Serena laughed again. "Do you need a hangover burger, we can go grab some sun beds and sleep all day if you want?"

"Sounds like a plan" Blair answered, silently wishing she could just stay in the room. She had no idea what had happened to Adam or where he was and she suddenly wished Chuck was by her side if she was going to have to venture out of the room.

Serena and Blair soon made their way onto the top deck of the ship and found some sun beds near Nate and Dan.

"Oh my god she's alive" Nate said jokingly.

"Yes, you can all rest easy now" Blair said, smirking at Nate.

"Seriously we looked everywhere for you, where were you hiding" Dan asked.

"That's none of your business Humphrey" Blair said, feeling a slight pang of guilt that he had searched for her all night and now she was treating him poorly. But she had to keep up appearances and that meant treating Dan as she always did.

"She got drunk" Serena said giddily.

"Blair Waldorf, drunk? Never!" Nate said, teasing again but irritating Blair.

She stormed away to order a bottle of water.

"So we spent all night looking for and worrying about her only to find out she was having a good time with her friend alcohol?" Dan asked.

"Basically yeah" Nate replied.

"Hey guys, we should be happy that that's all it was, I was getting pretty worried there so it's a relief. I'm just disappointed I wasn't there to get drunk with her".

"I'm sure there will be other times Serena" Nate said, knowing what Blair's life was like at times.

Blair returned and everyone was silent.

"You can stop talking about me now".

"But it's so fun" Nate said, patting the chair next to his for Blair to sit down on.

She pulled her sunglasses over her eyes and lay down on the sun bed. She could hear the others talking but she blocked it out. Suddenly she could feel herself being lifted off her chair and she opened her eyes to find Nate and Serena carrying her toward the water.

"Stop" Blair shrieked, scared of getting her hair wet and damaging her Dior sunglasses.

Nate and Serena swung her once, then twice before throwing her into the pool.

They laughed as Blair glared at them from the pool, retrieving her sunglasses that were floating toward some cheap-looking-girl who would probably steal them.

"Was that necessary" she said icily before grabbing her stuff and walking away.

"Did anyone else see that?" Serena asked worriedly.

"What" Dan wondered innocently.

"If you're talking about those bruises, yes" Nate responded watching Blair walk away.

"So it wasn't just me".

"I didn't see anything but maybe she got a bruise when drunk. People always do that, battle wounds my Dad calls them" Dan said trying to be helpful.

"On both her shoulders, I don't think so" Serena muttered more to herself than to the boys.

"Did she have them before last night?" Nate asked Serena.

"No, I'm positive she didn't. She wore a strapless dress 2 nights ago, I remember because we spent awhile deciding what to wear. There were definitely no bruises or she wouldn't have chosen a strapless dress".

"Something's going on" Nate said, as if he were a genius for working that out.

"Maybe Chuck knows" Serena said, watching him approach them.

There you have it. Please R E V I E W!!! I have actually already written the next chapter so if I get lots of reviews I will upload quickly! I have a path of where this story is going but I also love your suggestions. Thank you for reading.