A/N: I'm sorry these updates have been taking longer than I want them too. Things have been busy! Anyway this chapter is a lot longer than the others! You have been warned. I hope you like it. Flashbacks are in italics.

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Chapter 25: Exit Blair and Nate. Part 2

Blair walked straight over to Dan, who was standing with Serena, Nate and Vanessa. She reached them in a matter of moments.

'Blair, how's Chuck?' Nate asked immediately. She hadn't really told him what had happened.

'Fine, you know how he is,' she waved her hands dismissively and Nate scrunched his eyebrows and folded his arms. Blair sighed. 'Really, he'll be fine. I'll explain later. Right now, I need to drag Dan away.' She stated seriously.

'Blair, we just got back-' Dan started.

'You don't have a choice in this, Humphrey.' she stated seriously. 'Jenny called me.' Dan shrugged and then he and Blair entered into a staring match.

'Then you know that there is nothing to discuss.' Blair stepped a bit closer to him and everyone was watching the two of them. She scoffed.

'Please, that won't work on me-' she started and this time Vanessa interrupted.

'Blair…' Vanessa stepped forward and faced her. Blair folded her arms and glared at her. Vanessa stepped back. She shook her head. 'Never mind.' She was about to walk away when suddenly Serena halted her.

'Don't forget we have the scavenger hunt tomorrow night,' Serena paused and looked at all of them. 'All of you… don't forget.' she then eyed Dan and Blair. 'Dan, you'll find me after you and Blair talk?' she had no idea what was going on between the two of them or why Jenny had called Blair. Dan stepped to her side.

'No, I'll walk you back to your room.' Dan took Serena's hand and looked at Blair. 'I'll find you later.' With that Serena and Dan left. Vanessa then stared at Blair again, she then turned to Nate gave him a small kiss on his cheek and also swiftly left. Blair stood there irritated that Dan had just left like that. Nate walked forward and linked his arm with hers. They began walking before Blair even realized she was walking.

'So, Waldorf, what's going on?' Blair looked up at Nate. She suddenly felt over protective of him. She sighed and knew she couldn't say anything yet. So she began to tell him, about what happened with Chuck.

Chuck entered the library and searched for Blair. He found her at a table, in a corner, away from everyone else. He sat down opposite her. She looked up at him and smiled. Chuck could tell that smile wasn't genuine though.

'What's wrong?' he asked her concerned. She shook her head.

'This assignment is just irritating me.'

'So come out to the club?' Chuck took her hand and intertwined their fingers.

'I can't, it has to be in tomorrow you know this.' she smiled at him once more. Chuck had tried everything to get her to go to the club "Unknown" tonight- he was meeting up with a few random people (that Blair didn't know) which could possibly help him save "Midnight" from being closed. He sighed.

'I don't have to go. We could go back to your room and I'll stay with you while you finish the assignment.' Chuck said seriously.

'No, go have fun tonight. Anyway, we have that scavenger hunt thing tomorrow with everyone and then hopefully the party after.' she gave him a small wink. 'We'll have fun tomorrow.' she then leaned across the table and gave him a small kiss. She ran her hands through his hair. 'Now go, have fun!' Chuck gave a small laugh and looked at her. He could still tell she wasn't completely ok.

'You're sure there isn't anything wrong?' he asked her once more and she nodded. He stared at her for a few moments before finally leaving.

Serena stopped outside of Nate's room excitedly. She was meeting up with him first. They were driving together to the first meeting area of the Scavenger Hunt where instructions would be given to all of them. They would be meeting up with the rest of the group there. She knocked and a moment later Nate opened the door. She jumped up and down when she saw him and gave him a hug. He laughed, returned the hug and then stepped out his room, closing the door behind him. She linked her arm through his.

'I take it you're excited for this?' Nate asked her seriously.

'Come on, Archibald. This has fun written all over it. And considering the intensity that is dripping off everyone these days, we need fun. Plus the party is supposed to be epic.'

'We have to get through the hunt first before we can get to the party…' he trailed off when he saw the excited look on Serena's face. He laughed. 'You're right, this should be fun.'

'That's the spirit!'

'Only for you, Van der Woodsen.'

They arrived at the area and got out the car, laughing at something Nate had just said. They then proceeded to scan the area for their friends and finally spotted Chuck and Blair sitting at a tree. Chuck was leaning against the tree and Blair was leaning against him. They walked over to them. Serena noticed that Blair looked stunned to see her and Nate.

'Where's Dan?' Blair asked her seriously.

'His with Vanessa. They had some project they needed to sort out, so they said they'd meet us here.' Serena explained and looked up at the sky. The scavenger hunt started in the late afternoon but she knew it would be dark soon enough. Nate and Serena then sat down opposite Blair and Chuck.

'How was last night?' Nate asked Chuck.

'It was a good party.' Chuck replied. They all continued talking about random things for a further ten minutes, until Vanessa and Dan showed up. They reached the group and smiled at everyone. Dan went and sat down next to Serena. Blair eyed him for a moment but said nothing. Serena noticed the tension in the group had increased substantially when Dan and Vanessa had arrived. She didn't know what was going on, and realized that the only people who did were Dan, Vanessa and Blair. Serena took a deep breath, she was determined to have a good night and she would worry about this later. She figured there was some sort of friendship issue going on between the three of them. She stood up and looked at everyone.

'Come on,' she motioned behind her. 'Let's go get our rules and the first clue.' She smiled at everyone and they all stood up.

One and half hours later they were on their fifth clue and having a really good time. The rules were simple, figure out the clue and then head over to where the clue led them. At that specific location there would be some task they needed to carry out and take a photo as proof of completion of the task. Sometimes they all had to do the task, and sometimes they had people at those stations that picked certain people from the group to carry out the task. They were currently waiting on Nate who had to go into a store and had to purchase a specific list of items. He came out looking red and Blair, Serena and Vanessa immediately burst out laughing. For this task the girls had to pick one guy to do it and they picked Nate. They had seen what the list had consisted of and knew out of all the guys Nate or Dan would not have been happy with it. They had settled on Nate because Dan had completed an earlier task by himself.

'The check out girl laughed the whole time she was wringing up the items,' he said and the girls laughed more. The boys went to look at what he had gotten and laughed when they saw the items.

'You're not done,' Blair managed to say and looked seriously at Nate. She took out the camera (Serena had brought along. When she signed them up they told her she would need one) and held it up and smiled at him, 'you have to pose with those items and,' she paused and took out the clue again, 'apparently each pose has to be different.' She grinned at him and Nate shook his head.

'You're all enjoying this way too much!' he grumpily added but couldn't help but give a small laugh. Just then Serena laughed and walked over to him, she placed a hand on his arm.

'Don't worry, Nate, we'll each take turns posing with you. I'll go first.' Nate produced a bottle of whipped cream, a box of condoms, a sex toy, chocolate sauce and a blind fold that came with a pair of handcuffs. Everyone took a turn and posed with Nate and the pictures were hilarious but great. Once they had documented this they got given their next clue and headed off to their next destination. It was in walking distance from where they were. Blair felt an arm wrap around her waist and she felt someone pull her back a bit. She smiled up at Chuck who placed a small kiss on her neck.

'You know, we could steal those items Archibald bought.' Blair laughed and smacked his arm. The two continued walking and bantering. All the while Serena and Vanessa walked together and Dan and Nate walked together a bit behind them. Serena turned to Vanessa.

'Hey, is everything ok with you, Dan and Blair?' she asked her. Even though she didn't want to spoil the night with anything serious, she thought she would just ask and leave it at that for the night. Vanessa contemplated Serena and then turned and looked at Dan. Her mind went back to the previous night.

Vanessa and Dan we're sitting in his room. It was late now and Jenny was getting ready to go to bed. They weren't tired yet. Vanessa moved and picked up a pillow and threw it at Dan. He laughed.

'You always did hate that pillow.' He stated. Vanessa suddenly looked around his room and went quiet. She then looked back at Dan.

'This room has a lot of history,' she said and went to sit down next to Dan. He nodded.

'It's seen the best and worst of us.' Dan looked at her and she looked at him and smiled.

'Nostalgia is a funny thing,' Vanessa said softly and moved closer to him. Dan nodded not sure what was happening and not sure if he wanted to stop it. 'We had our first kiss, first fight in this room. Hell we became friends in this room.' He didn't say anything but felt Vanessa's hand move to his. They both went quiet and the atmosphere in the room had changed. They hadn't broken eye contact. It seemed as though Vanessa was moving closer when suddenly Dan's room door flew open. Jenny stood in the doorway taking in the scene. She looked angry.

'I just came to say good night,' she said breaking the silence. She glared at Vanessa. 'Vanessa, isn't Nate fetching you guys early tomorrow morning?' Jenny said coldly. Vanessa stood up and looked at the siblings.

'He is,' she paused and looked at Dan. 'I should go?' she asked it more as question than a statement. Dan considered her for a moment and nodded. Vanessa's eyes trailed to the ground.

'Goodnight.' And with that she left.

Vanessa returned to the present moment and stared at Serena. She gave her a small smile.

'Serena-' she began but was interrupted by Chuck.

'The bar is over here.' He called out to the group. Serena looked at Vanessa questionably, who just shook her head and shrugged. Vanessa decided that tonight probably wasn't the best night to get into anything. Serena let it go. She was excited for the next task which turned out to be karaoke. They all had to sing and they all did a shot as well. The task was fun and effortless. They couldn't pick their song and that was the catch. They ended up singing a rather strange song they hadn't heard before. But the crowd loved them. Certain members of the group would dance while others sung and then they would swap. They completed the task quickly. A random guy in the bar had taken photos of them. They all did one more shot and moved on.

'Three more task guys and then we find out where the party is!' Serena exclaimed and then looped her arms with Blair's. The girls went walking ahead laughing about something. Chuck moved over to Archibald's side.

'This was a good idea,' Chuck said and took in his friends look. 'So what's wrong with you?' Nate looked at him and sighed. They had been friends for so long that it was impossible to lie to him.

'I don't know,' Nate said seriously and Chuck raised his eyebrows. 'Something happened. Blair wanted to talk to Dan and Vanessa has been acting weird. Has Blair said anything?' Chuck shook his head.

'Archibald, put it out your mind. Let's just have fun tonight.' Nate nodded and then his eyes landed on Serena and Blair. He laughed. 'It's impossible not to have fun with those two around.' Nate added and motioned his head towards Serena and Blair.

'Don't I know it!' Chuck laughed.

Dan looked at Vanessa who was playing with her hair. She looked at him.

'Dan,' she tentatively said. 'I want us to try again.' She put a hand up to stop him from talking. 'There was something between us the other night and you know it.' She then walked ahead before Dan could say anything. Dan was momentarily stunned. He then shook his head and walked ahead to catch up with Serena and Blair. They arrived at their next destination. The next task was ironically a drinking game. There was a guy stationed there. He picked Chuck, Serena and Nate to do this task. The three laughed when they found out which drinking game it was. They then informed the others that they were rather skilled at this game and had played it many times. Blair watched with interest and laughed as the three of them played the game. Dan and Vanessa only mildly paid attention to the task, they kept glancing at each other. Blair clapped when the three had successfully won the game. She took a photo of them and walked over. She high-fived Serena and Nate and kissed Chuck who immediately prolonged the kiss.

'Hey! None of that!' Serena replied and broke them apart. They all laughed and moved on. It took them a bit longer to find out where the next clue led to. Eventually they arrived at a pool area. They walked over to a table, where a guy was sitting at. He grinned at them.

'Dudes! Well done! This is the second to last task and if you complete this one and the next you're on to an epic party, Dudes! But before that I need all of your phones. Just a pre-caution.' he sounded high and they all laughed. They all handed him their phones, except Chuck who hadn't brought his with him. They were used to handing over their phones. They had to do it at nearly every task.

'What do we have to do?' Serena asked and grinned. They guy looked at them and took them all in.

'Not "we",' he paused and pointed at Blair. This was one of the tasks where they picked who completed it. 'You!' Blair nodded and moved forward.

'Ok, so what do I have to do?' she asked and the guy looked at her.

'Jump in the pool, get the bottle of champagne that's at the bottom of it and task completed. Fully clothed by the way.' He added the last part when Blair looked like she was about to take her jacket off.

'Oh come on!' She said. 'This took effort,' she said to the guy while motioning at herself. Nate laughed and looked at Chuck- smirks appeared across their faces. Chuck then walked over to Blair and wrapped his arms around her. He began pulling her to the pool.

'Chuck! What are you doing?'

'Just helping you out.'

'No! Come on!' She tried to get out of his grip. But Chuck simply just picked her up. Everyone else was laughing.

'Go Chuck!' Serena, Nate and Dan all yelled out. Chuck was at the edge of the pool and Blair was now laughing. He was about to throw her in. She shook her head.

'If I go, you're coming with.' Chuck laughed and shook his head. What he didn't expect was that when he threw Blair into the pool, she grabbed a hold of his shirt and took him with her. They emerged and Chuck stared at her and then splashed her. She laughed and swam to him, he pulled her closer and she gave him a small kiss. The others (including the other guy in charge of the task) were laughing. Serena looked at them all and then at the guy. She handed him the camera. 'Do you mind taking more photos?' she asked him.

'Nah!'

'Thanks!' and with that Serena ran and jumped into the pool. Blair, Chuck and Serena laughed.

'Wait! I still have to get that bottle of Champagne.' Blair reached under the water and first took her shoes off and threw them out. As she did this, Nate jumped into the pool. Serena swam over to him and dunked him.

'Come on Humprhey! Man up!' Blair yelled and Dan grinned at her and then ran and jumped over her and into the pool.

'Yes! Well done! ' Blair yelled out and Dan then splashed Blair. She laughed, splashed him and then went under water and began looking for the bottle. When she emerged Vanessa was also in the pool. She smiled and looked at the image before her. They were all laughing and all looked happy. She went under water once more and this time emerged with the bottle of champagne. She swam back over to them.

'Task complete!" she called out and they all cheered. She then popped open the bottle of champagne. She took a sip and handed the bottle over to Serena who then also passed it on.

'That was awesome!' They heard the guy say a few minutes later. 'Task complete!' They spent a few more minutes in the pool swimming drinking and having fun. They then got out the pool. Dripping wet. Nate held out his hand when he was out the pool, and helped Serena out. She smiled at him and held on to his hand a little longer than she should have. She was so glad he was there. She had missed having fun with him- with them all- like they were having fun tonight. She was the last out the pool. The guy handed the next clue to Blair and the camera.

'Don't worry, she took a picture of you being thrown into the pool,' he had motioned towards Serena 'and I took a few more photos.'

'Thanks.' Blair said to him and opened the clue. They all tried to dry off a bit- without much success. 'This clue is easy but a bit of a walk.' she said to the others. She read the clue out loud and they all knew where to go. Blair walked over to Chuck, he kissed her forehead.

'You look cold.' he said.

'I wonder why,' she said and they both laughed.

'Come here.' he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and they began walking away with the rest of the group. Blair noticed Dan walking alone ahead of them. She looked up at Chuck.

'I'll be back.' he nodded and watched her walk over to Dan. Blair looked to her left and saw Nate and Serena laughing and holding the bottle of champagne. Vanessa was with them but had stayed back surprisingly to walk with Chuck. She caught up with Dan and the two walked quietly together for a bit.

'Having fun?' she asked him after awhile. He nodded.

'Yeah. I am. You?'

'Yep. So tell me Humphrey, why do you look like your contemplating the meaning of life?' Dan gave a small laugh. He decided it might be good to get what was on his mind off his chest.

'Look, I'm going to tell you what happened quickly,' he glanced at the others they were a safe distance away and they still had some distance to cover before they reached their next task. He began to tell her what happened the previous night. What Dan and Blair weren't paying attention to, was Nate. Who had left Serena with Chuck and Vanessa, and was walking towards them, to tell them that they weren't walking in the right direction and to pay attention. However when he reached them he heard Dan's closing comment.

'…and that's when Vanessa told me she wants us to try again.' Nate paused for a moment and took in what he had heard.

'What?' he suddenly said to them. A bit too loudly, he had caught the attention of the others who were now walking towards them. 'Did you just say Vanessa told you she wants you two to try again?' he asked shocked.

'Nate-' Blair tried to get his attention. But he ignored her and posed the question towards Dan again.

'We'll talk about this later,' Dan said seriously.

'No we won't.' Nate firmly said.

'What's going on?' It was Serena who asked the question. Nate turned towards her.

'Ask Dan or better yet, let me ask the girl I'm supposed to be dating.' He turned towards Vanessa.

'Nate, I don't know what you're talking about.' Vanessa said confused.

'Did you tell Dan you wanted you two to try again?' Nate shot at Vanessa. Who was stunned at the question and remained silent.

'What?' This time it was Serena who asked the question. Vanessa looked at Nate and then Serena.

'Listen, I'm sorry, I'm just confused, that almost kiss brought back some unresolved feelings-' Vanessa began but was interrupted by Serena.

'Did you say almost kiss?' Serena's voice was rising.

'Of course.' Nate mumbled out and shook his head. Serena looked towards Dan.

'You almost kissed her? When?' she asked Dan seriously.

'Serena-' Dan began.

'WHEN?' she yelled out, giving them all a bit of a fright. Dan sighed.

'The last night, after the party when Jenny, Vanessa and I went back to my place-' Serena held up a hand. Things were starting to make sense. Why Jenny had been funny with Dan and Vanessa the morning they were leaving. Why she would call Blair. She shook her head.

'Serena,' Dan took a step closer to her. 'Nothing happened. Jenny walked in.'

'And would nothing have happened if she hadn't walked in?' Serena asked Dan and silence just met her question.

'You have to understand, we have a lot of history.' Vanessa was the one to speak out.

'You're supposed to be dating Nate!' Serena yelled out at her.

'Is it true, do you want to try again with Dan?' This time Nate asked Vanessa the question harshly. She stared at him and said nothing and he knew that meant yes.

'Like I said we have a lot of history-' she began once more.

'So do Serena and I! And there hasn't been an almost kiss between us!' Nate shot at Vanessa.

'Yet!' Vanessa was getting angry. 'I see the way you look at her Nate, and I see the way she looks at you!'

'NO! You don't get to turn this around and make this about Nate and me!' Serena said harshly and stepped away from Dan. Chaos then broke out and the four began to argue.

'Calm down, guys!' Blair and Chuck had yelled out trying to stop the fight but they all ignored them.

'Nothing happened!'

'But do you want something TO?'

'I don't know!'

'Well that's just great!'

'It's complicated!'

'NO! it's not!' They all continued arguing. Blair looked once again at them and tried to get them to stop- her attempt failed once more.

'You should know about complicated!'

'What are you saying?' It was with this last statement, when suddenly everyone's phone went off. They all went quiet and took out their phones, except Chuck who didn't have his. It was a Gossip Girl blast. They all read it and suddenly, the tension in the air increased. Serena, Nate, Dan and Vanessa all turned to look at Blair. She was still staring at her phone. She then looked up from her phone and looked at Chuck. He in turn looked at her, taking in her expression. She looked hurt and angry. He was confused and suddenly felt everyone staring at him. Blair scoffed and shook her head. Everyone turned to look back at her. She wiped a tear away that had fallen. She took a step back from the group and then turned and began to walk away.

'Blair!' Chuck yelled out and took a step forward but Dan stepped in front of him. Chuck was beyond confused.

'Blair!' This time it wasn't Chuck who called out her name, but Nate he began to follow her. 'Wait!'

'Nate, we need to sort-' Vanessa quickly said.

'It's over.' Nate looked over his shoulder and said those two words quickly to her. She looked taken aback but didn't say anything. Nate then looked at Chuck and shook his head. He then quickly ran and caught up to Blair. Chuck was still being blocked by Dan but he could still see Nate and Blair walking away. He saw Nate wrap an arm around her shoulders and when he saw her look at him, he could see she was more than upset.

'What just happened?' Chuck harshly asked and looked at Serena. She stepped forward and handed him her phone. He looked at the Gossip Girl blast and every nerve in his body froze when he read the blast and saw the picture. He looked back up and at the other three. The night had just turned into a disaster for all of them.

A/N: Ok. Next update should be on Sunday! Also this story has about 5-6 chapters left. I will be re-reading this chapter again, so if there are errors, sorry! Also I did warn you all that there would be tons of drama till the end of the story and this is just the beginning. Hope you liked it. Please review! They make writing so much easier when you know people are enjoying the story. So review!