I apologize in advance, because this chapter feels all over the place to me. It's an in-betweener that I wrote while having a headache, but I thought some of the things brought up in this chapter should be addressed even though they don't involve Chuck or Blair. I promise the next chapter will be more entertaining.

Glad to find fellow GwtW fans among my readers! It's just a personal opinion, but I don't think all of the GG/GwtW parallels are a coincidence… ;) Dorota is totally Mammy. And, I'm glad to hear people understood what I was trying to say last chapter, regarding Blair's feelings for Chuck and Nate!

Okay, on to the chapter.

"Blair…"

Serena's voice woke her up. It was mid-afternoon, two days after the wedding. Blair raised herself up on her left arm and squinted at Serena who stood in the doorway.

"S?" she mumbled sleepily.

"Blair can I talk to you?" Serena asked, her voice trembling.

"Sure" Blair said, hiding a yawn behind her hand. "Sorry, I'm just a little tired. But we can talk."

Serena looked absolutely desolate as she walked inside and sat down on the divan in the corner. Blair frowned and sat up. Serena had been sporting this look the days before the wedding, but that was because of Georgina Sparks. Now that problem had been taken care of, so why the long face?

"S? Has something happened?"

"Dan and I broke up."

Blair looked down and nodded slightly. She had actually thought Dan would cling to Serena and make sure to keep her but at the same time she wasn't all that surprised. There had been a lot of problems in that relationship recently.

"When?" she asked.

"At the wedding."

"Wow. Most people get all romantic and sappy when they're at a wedding. I guess it takes a Brooklyn boy to throw his relationship away at one."

"Blair."

"Sorry."

"It wasn't Dan's decision, it was the both of us together."

"Well you made the right one."

"No B, I…" Serena sighed, then hid her face in her hands and began to cry. "I don't need your judging him right now, okay? I need you to be my friend."

"S I'm sorry" Blair said gently. "I mean it though. You made the right decision and that is a good thing. And you know I'm right. If you didn't agree you wouldn't have decided to end the relationship to begin with."

"Then why do I feel like absolute hell?"

"Because something you cared about is over" Blair said. "Trust me S, I know that feeling. I lost Nate, remember?"

"It's not the same."

"You're right. I didn't get a say. You at least got to make the decision."

"It just doesn't make sense that two people who love each other can't work things out" Serena complained. "Shouldn't love be all we need?"

"John Lennon used to think so, until he found out the hard way that you also need a non-ruptured aorta."

Serena groaned. Blair studied her silently, trying to find the right thing to say. In her mind this was the best thing that had ever happened to Serena. But she knew far too well from own experience how painful it was to lose a relationship you cared about, and couldn't bring herself to not acknowledge that losing Dan Humphrey really hurt her best friend.

"What did you guys say, S?" she asked. "You must have talked at length before actually ending it."

"Well, we…" She paused and remembered the detail she hadn't wanted to think about. "Actually Blair, it was Dan who broke up with me. I told him I was willing to forgive him for sleeping with Georgina-"

"He slept with Georgina?" Blair exclaimed.

"No, I mean sort of, I mean…"

"Oh God" Blair said, looking nauseous. "Serena why would you forgive him for something like that?"

"You forgave Nate…" Serena said, twirling her hands in her lap. "In a way what he did was a lot worse. True Georgina is Georgina and she has done a lot of horrible things to me, but at least it wasn't with my best friend."

"It's still different. Nate and I go back to kindergarten. You and Dan only have a few months of history."

"Isn't betrayal of that much history worse than kind of sleeping with someone else when we're broken up?"

"Except you weren't broken up."

"Dan told me he was done earlier that morning, remember?"

"Okay, forget about all of that for a second…" Blair said, holding up her hands. "I don't get why Dan breaks up with you if he sunk to Guinness Book of Records levels of low by banging Georgina Sparks and you forgave him."

"He says he can't accept the secrecy and-"

"He can't accept you" Blair said. "That has been the problem from the start. Dan is horribly insecure because he knows he's at the bottom of the social value food chain and you are at the top, so he convinces himself that you are not better, you are morally evil, which makes him a good person ergo better than you."

"B I lied to his face about Georgina."

"For a good reason! If Dan hadn't held a black belt in being judgmental then maybe you might have been able to open up to him."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore" Serena said. "I'm going to the Hamptons with Mom and Eric once Mom gets back and hopefully with some distance I will feel a bit better."

"Sounds like running away to me."

"No I'm not running B, I just… It's over. If I can't be Dan's girlfriend anymore then I don't think I can be around him. At least not right now. Besides, I've spent half my summers in the Hamptons. It's not running away, it's… keeping tradition."

"If you say so" Blair shrugged.

"Everything has been so horrible these past few days, I think some sun and a nice, sandy beach would do me a world of good."

"I hope so. You deserve some happiness after a year with Dan."

"Blair please, the wound is really fresh, try not to jab your verbal sword into it."

"Why didn't you tell me all of this at the wedding if that's when you broke up?" Blair wondered.

"I… guess it's the same as with you and Nate" Serena said. "I didn't want to tell you at first because telling you would make it real. Besides I couldn't find you at first and then I saw you dancing with Chuck and I didn't want to interrupt. What happened to you after that? I didn't see you again all evening."

Blair looked away and hoped she wasn't blushing. She had gone with Chuck to his suite and had spent the night having sex. Definitely something Serena didn't need to know about. Chuck was her dirty little secret once again.

"I went to lie down" she settled for.

"Aw B" Serena said. "I hope Chuck helped you get to a room with a nice comfy bed. It's the least he can do."

"He did" Blair said evasively.

"Honestly, you're dealing with weight gain, nausea and all kinds of other discomforts while he just glides through life without a care in the world" Serena went on, apparently taking some of her hurt out on her absent stepbrother. "He should help you out with whatever discomforts you may have."

"He actually does" Blair said, avoiding Serena's eyes.

"Good. I hope he got you everything you needed before you went to sleep. Seeing his smug smirk at the breakfast table every morning makes me seriously annoyed that you are going through all this stuff and he doesn't get any of it."

"He's not that awful a stepbrother, is he?" Blair asked with the hint of a smile.

"I just can't believe I'm related to Chuck Bass" Serena sighed.

"At least you're only related through your mother's marriage" Blair pointed out. "Yours truly might have her first child sullied by his DNA. If I were you S I would consider myself blessed that your first child won't be sullied by Dan's."

With a sigh Serena threw herself down on the bed next to Blair. She felt completely miserable but at least she wasn't as bad off as Blair. She grabbed a pillow and hugged it tight, wondering how everything had gotten so screwed up.

"At least Georgie is no longer in town" she sighed.

"And we all rejoiced" Blair said.

She leaned back so that she was lying next to Serena. They both stared up at the ceiling and sighed.

"I'm going to miss you if you go to the Hamptons" Blair said.

"Won't you be going to France to see your father?"

"Trust me, I really wanted to. I miss Daddy. Unfortunately your new stepfather has banned me from all intercontinental travel now that I'm in my third trimester. It almost makes me want to sneak away to France anyway and have the baby there just to spite him."

"B that would be awesome" Serena giggled.

"He is sort of right though" Blair sighed. "I have doctor's appointments I shouldn't miss."

"Less than three months to go…" Serena mused. "I can't really fathom it."

"Neither can I."

"And neither can Chuck and Nate. Three months from now you'll at least find out for sure who the father is."

"True" Blair nodded.

Serena kept on talking but Blair wasn't listening anymore. Her mind had drifted off to the two possible fathers, wondering what they were currently up to. She knew Nate was involved with some new drama with the Captain. Chuck was probably busy smoking pot, or something else highly unsuited for a parent. Her mind lingered on him for a second but then she angrily made herself stop thinking of him and go back to thinking about Nate.

Chuck cast a quick look through the window to make sure Nate was there. He had little intention of stepping inside a shabby pizza parlor if the person he was looking for wasn't even there. But in agreement with his intel, there Nate was, looking morose over a half-eaten pizza.

Chuck stepped inside and walked over, wondering to himself why anyone chose to eat at a place like this. It looked dirty and smelled greasy. Normally Chuck wouldn't be caught dead in such a parlor and it amazed him that his best friend had sunk to such a low in the few months that had passed since Blair's pregnancy was revealed.

"Nate" he said when he reached the table.

Nate looked up, quite startled to see Chuck there. He quickly regained his composure and the surprised look turned into a highly sullen one.

"What do you want?" he snarled. "Unless something happened with Blair and the baby then leave."

"I spotted you across the room and thought we could talk."

Nate snorted.

"Since when do you hang out in pizza parlors in this part of town? You followed me here or had someone report where I was."

Ignoring Nate's hostile look and tone Chuck pulled out a chair and sat down opposite him.

"Hey, I said leave, not sit."

"I heard your father left" Chuck said matter-of-factly.

"I heard it was none of your business."

"Come on Nate…" Chuck said. "This is your dad we're talking about. You've confided in me about the problems with him a hundred times. Let me help."

"Yeah, like I let you help with Blair" Nate said. "Except wait, that ended with you having gotten her pregnant behind my back."

"You're afraid I'm going to get the Captain pregnant too?" Chuck asked dryly.

"I'm afraid you're going to ruin everything in my life. You've been quite hell-bent on it so far" Nate whined.

"You keep acting like I slept with Blair out of spite" Chuck said. "It wasn't like that. And I never had sex with her while the two of you were together."

"Oh pardon me, I forgot, you waited for all of fifty minutes before defiling her."

Chuck sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Look man, I never intended to hurt you. If Blair wasn't pregnant we would have forgotten about this by now."

Nate snorted. Of course Chuck would take that stance. Blair didn't matter at all to him, she had just been another notch on his bedpost, and if it wasn't for the possibility of Chuck being Blair's baby's father Chuck would have moved on completely from the whole thing. Never mind the fact that he had taken Blair's virginity, which had been something very special to Blair. Chuck's whole attitude rubbed Nate the wrong way.

"Too bad you can't forget" he said. "Unless of course the baby is mine, in which case I assume you will have forgotten you ever even knew Blair before the first diaper change."

Chuck made a face at the thought of the baby being Nate's and almost responded with a poisonous remark about how Nate sure hadn't been there by Blair's side through this pregnancy, but managed to hold his tongue. He wasn't there to argue about Blair.

"Forget about Blair for a second" he said.

"Unlike you Chuck I prefer to not denounce my former sex partners' existence."

"You know what I mean" Chuck groaned. "Let's not talk about Blair right now. Let's talk about the Captain instead."

"What about him?"

"Why don't you tell me? Rumor has it he's fled the country."

"If he has then that is my problem" Nate said. "Stay out of it."

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Chuck asked. "Financially? Maybe send one of my PIs to find out where he is?"

"I don't need your pocket money to support my mother and me and I don't need your sleuths to tell me where my father is" Nate spat out.

"Come on man, you and I have been best friends forever" Chuck said. "This stuff with your dad, it's serious business. Why not put the squabbling aside? I want to help if there's any way I can."

"Serious business" Nate echoed. "Unlike my ex-girlfriend giving birth to a child in August. Unlike one of us being a father."

"That's not-"

"I'd rather handle anything that happens with my father alone, thank you very much" Nate interrupted him, rising from his chair. "Or getting help from some of my real friends."

Chuck grabbed his arm as he tried to pass by.

"I am your friend" he objected. "Nate what possible egotistic reason would I have for offering my help?"

"You always have an egotistical reason."

"Friendship going back to childhood and you can't forgive the one mistake I've made during that time?"

"You've made more mistakes than anyone I know combined" Nate argued. "This time however you betrayed me. Forgive me if I'm not too willing to forgive that. You don't even get the seriousness of Blair's situation."

"And you do?" Chuck had to ask. "You don't even know half of what I've done for her these past months. Meanwhile I don't recall running into you all that often at parenting class."

"No your father made sure of that."

"So Bart Bass is the one who decides who should show responsibility or not, and if he says the kid is mine that means you no longer have any obligations? It's likely mine, not definitely. Nate let me help you. Regardless of who is the father of Blair's child, we were talking about your father."

"We're done talking about that. Leave me alone Chuck."

Nate tanked his arm free and stormed off. Chuck watched him go and slumped dejectedly in his chair. He had hoped Nate would set aside his anger, which Chuck at times found irrational, and realize that one mistake didn't mean Chuck could no longer be his friend. Obviously that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. Nate was dead set on hating Chuck's guts.

Outside Nate walked briskly towards the subway, full of anger. His anger towards Chuck wasn't merely caused by the knowledge that his best friend had slept with his ex-girlfriend. A lot of it stemmed from Nate thinking Chuck was too arrogant and careless regarding the whole situation. It didn't seem like Chuck realized the seriousness of the situation and that Blair was just something to have fun with and the baby would be her problem. If it was one thing that angered Nate right now it was fathers running away from their children. He didn't realize he might possibly be one of those himself.

I will try my best to update again soon, with something more interesting, less Serena and Nate =) I hope this was still somewhat entertaining though. Review and let me know!