Hey guys.
I'm so so so sorry that I haven't updated more/earlier. But real life keeps me so busy (I just finished college and am now looking for a job. And thanks to the financial crisis it's so hard to get a job. The search takes a lot of time and energy, believe me) and so I just didn't had time to update. Another point: When I started it, it was so much easier bc C/B had those unbelievable chemistry on the show. But they lost that somehow (IMO) Your thoughts on that? Who is missing the old C&B action, too?
Please review!
Serena and Nate were back from the trip to the pharmacy. Now everybody was in front of their bathroom upstairs. Serena was still in the bath. She shushed Nate out just minutes ago to take the test. And as for the others: Well, they were them. They wanted to know what was going on so they'll decided to get the result first hand. Curiosity isn't a crime, right? Was one of Chuck and Blair's favorite line.
When Serena opened the door, her face was emotionless.
"Oh no." Nate sighed.
Chuck's mouth corners went up until he was smiling like the purple cat from Alice at Wonderland.
"Chuck! Stop enjoying this." Blair hissed to her boyfriend. "Serena, tell us." she demanded loudly.
"I'm not pregnant." Serena returned.
"THANK GOD!" Nate yelled as he jumped up and clenched his fist in victory pose. Chuck and Eric laughed at him before the boys fell in a fun chat about the recent event. They even made jokes about it and Nate swore that he'd never let it come so far again.
Serena still stood there like frozen. Blair walked over to her. Knowing exactly how she felt right now because she had this feeling just a while ago when she was the one who took the test.
"You okay?" Blair whispered and Serena nodded.
"I just…you know…" Serena tried to explain herself but Blair cut her off. "I know, Serena. I know."
The girls hugged for a moment and then turned around to their bedrooms to get dressed. Chuck saw the little chat between the girls and decided to get to the bottom of it. So he followed Blair in the bedroom.
"Everything okay?" Chuck asked gentle.
"Go back playing the caveman, Charles." she snapped back.
"What's the problem Blair? What exactly did I do know?" Chuck got impatient.
Blair threw the clothes she just picked up back on the bed. "Chuck, have you really not one sentimental bone in your corpse?"
He lifted an eyebrow as response.
"Beside this one." Blair rolled her eyes.
"No. Now explain it to me, please." he commanded.
Blair sighed and sat down on the bed. "Well, I know exactly how she feels. When I took that test a while ago…" he clenched his jaw and she lowered her glare "…well, when it was negative I was happy yes. But a bit disappointed too. I know how weird this sounds but at the very moment you think you could be pregnant you start to planning everything in your head. If you want to or not. I guess it's something in a woman's DNA that told you to."
Chuck was a bit taken back by this statement. But he wasn't willing to believe this easily.
"Plan everything, huh?" he asked.
"Yes." she replied and nodded.
"What name would you have given the kid?" he tried to test this statement.
"Audrey for a girl, Matthew for a boy." she answered without hesitate.
Chuck's eyes widened. She really had thought about this already. Blair recognized the panic expression on his face.
"Don't worry, Bass. The shock was bigger than the joy of a possibly being pregnant." Blair assured him.
He calmed a bit and nodded. She rose from the bed and started to get ready for the job.
"You know, if you really want them, we can have this little Audrey and little Matthew one day." Chuck stated as he watched her for a while.
"I know." Blair smiled at him.
"You know as 'I believe in you when you tell me we're going to have kids' or as in 'I know we will because I will trick you one day and make you a father without asking'." Chuck asked a tiny bit worried. He wanted it to sound like a joke but both of them knew it better.
Blair smirked. "We'll see."
"Blair! This is serious!" Chuck replied.
"I know. But now I've to go shower." Blair announced.
"I'm coming with you." Chuck said nonchalant.
Blair chuckled. "Oh if you must."
When Nate opened the door of their bedroom, Serena sat on the bed with her back towards him. Nate grinned like goofy and he couldn't help it. He was truly happy that he wasn't going to be a father now.
"Hey Beautiful. Everything alright?" Nate asked.
No answer. Serena didn't even move. So he walked around the bed and sat beside her. Her face was emotionless when he searched her eyes.
"What is it? Shouldn't you be happy?" Nate asked concerned.
"I am, Nate. I am happy that I won't have a child to care for because today you showed me your true colors. I couldn't count on you if I were and that damn hurts." Serena explained slowly as her eyes watered up.
"What are you talking about? Of course I would have been supportive. But give me one reason I shouldn't be happy that we won't have a baby yet!" Nate snapped back.
"There is none! But don't avoid the topic. We've a trust problem." Serena shouted back.
"No YOU create a trust problem as an excuse for something else. But I know what you're playing Serena. You're exactly like your mother. Every time someone gets too close to you, you push him away. You're afraid that I could break your heart just like Dan did. But I'm nothing like Dan, Serena. And we waited for this, for us, for years. Always afraid we could hurt someone else's feelings. But that doesn't count anymore, Serena. Blair is happy with Chuck. You and Dan broke up because either you or he were able to put enough energy in that relationship to build it up. Now let's just stop fighting and let me love you. I know it sounds cheesy but you need to let me love you and stop pushing me away because I'll always come back." Nate said as he pulled her to her feet.
Serena eyed him for a long moment before she nodded and smiled.
"Good." Nate said before he kissed her passionate.
Blair eyed Chuck carefully as she finished her make-up and he stood next to her in front of the mirror while shaving.
"See anything you like, Waldorf?" Chuck smirked.
"Absolutely." Blair returned coquettish.
"Minx." Chuck smiled.
"Only with you, Bass. You contaminate me." Blair challenged him.
"Yeah. That I did. Because you asked for a way to break out of your golden cage. Don't try to deny it." Chuck threw down her gauntlet.
"The cage wasn't all bad." Blair pouted.
"You wouldn't go back if it'd save your life." Chuck smirked.
Blair thought about it. He was right. Damn, how she hated it when he was right!
"Well you're right. I wouldn't go back to that. But not because of the obligations or boundaries that came with being Blair Waldorf." Blair said.
"Really?" Chuck lifted an eyebrow at her. "What else keeps you then from turning back in that locked little bird?"
"You." Blair answered sincere. "I wouldn't turn back time if that meant I would lose only one second with you. It took me long enough to realize that but you're the best thing that ever happened to me."
Chuck's eyes starred intensively in her eyes in the mirror. After a moment of silence.
"I love you, Blair. Always have, always will."
"I know. I love you too, Chuck."
Two hours later in the inlay.
"So, ready everyone?" Eric asked the four of them. The NJBC in front of him didn't look to excited about all of this.
Nate and Chuck were clothed in suits, just like Eric and just like their boss requested it. Serena on the other hand was dressed in a cocktail dress and Blair wore one of the dancing dresses she had to borrow.
"Okay, let's go." Eric encouraged them before he shooed them along the way. 'Sometimes I feel like a circus trainer' he thought.
The five arrived just in time. And José hadn't been lying. The bar was crowded, mostly with mid-age tourists. So Serena, Eric and Nate had to do quite a lot behind the bar.
Chuck and Blair warmed up in the back office for their show. As a shadow watched them as Chuck did some push-ups while Blair stretched her legs. Isabella just shook her heads at this Americans.
"Ready Waldorf?" Chuck teased her.
"Screw you!" Blair hissed in return.
"Nope. Not yet. We've a job to do first." Chuck chuckled in return and Blair sighed before she excused herself to the restrooms.
Isabella took her chance and sneaked in the room.
"How can you possible love her?" she asked Chuck.
Chuck jerked forward before turning around. "Damn it, kid. Do you want me to die on a heart attack?" he asked in disbelief.
"No. But I want you to explain." Isa lifted an eyebrow at him.
"What's there to explain. " Chuck returned nonchalant. "Look, I told you that I love her. She's the one for me and honestly, I can't explain. Love is nothing rational. It's just the weirdest, oddest and simply greatest feeling in the world. And for the record, your father won't be happy to find out you still chasing me. And I rather have you not do that too."
Isabella nodded angrily. The next moment, someone opened the door. It was Blair. She crinkled her nose when she saw Isabella but forced herself to smile.
"Who thought that the dress would really fit?" Isa commented her appearance dry before she left the couple alone.
"What was that about?" Blair asked Chuck.
"I told her why I never want to be with someone but you." Chuck said before he kissed Blair slightly on the lips. "Let's go and give them a show they'll never forget."
And so they did. José made some space on the dance floor for them. But after the second song, the people got off from the dance floor without being asked to. Chuck and Blair did a great job and their dance performance was a huge success.
With every turn, move, lunge the audience got more fascinated with those two. When they finished the first part of their show on that evening after five songs, the people screamed for more. Blair blushed at the overwhelming applause and Chuck just grinned. Even Serena, Nate and Eric clapped their hands for a moment.
The evening turned out to be one of the best the five ever had. José told them a thousand times that he had made the sales volume of his live that evening. All thanks to them.
When they arrived at the house, no one was really in the mood to celebrate long. They were too exhausted from the day's events.
The next day.
"Bass, wake up! We have to visit that tailor. I want my dresses!" Blair yelled at Chuck the next morning.
"Stop yelling, Waldorf! It's morning. We've all day to pick them up." Chuck defended himself.
"But I want them now!" Blair pouted.
"Fine!" Chuck hissed angrily before he got up and dressed himself.
"So. I made the dresses as requested. With one exception. I'm really sorry but the white silk was too good to be wasted for a dancing dress." the older woman explained.
"What's that supposed to mean? What did you do with it instead?" Blair asked confused.
"I made this." the woman said as she went in the back room and came back with a beautiful white summer dress. It was long, with a free back and had a sweetheart neckline which was decorated with shiny little stones. It looked stunning.
"It almost looks like a…." Blair started.
"….wedding dress. Yes indeed." Chuck added totally taken back.
"I overheard your conversation yesterday. It took me all night to do it but for the very high payment you did, it was worth it. Do you like it?" the tailor woman asked.
Blair nodded happily and Chuck smirked at her.
When Chuck and Blair arrived at the house, a black car from the airport carservice stood in front of the house. When they went in, no other than Lily Bass stood in the hallway. Her faces was an emotionless mask. Serena, Eric and Nate sat on the kitchen table with very serious faces.
"Lily, what are you doing here?" Chuck asked in disbelief.
"Oh Charles, I've to deliver bad news. Bart has been in an accident."