Family Portrait

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So Upper East Siders the dog days of summer as slowly coming to a close but that doesn't mean things are still heating up. As people are beginning to arrive back home after their summer retreats congratulations is in order for one of our young couples. It seems that Damian Spinelli (or did he change it to Humphrey or van der Woodsen I'm dieing to know) has tied the knot with his baby mama turned fiancé. So, did the grooms parents catch the bouquet or is there another couple waiting in the wings to be the next one to say their I do's...so long as love continues to be in the air I'll continue to explore who is with who.

You know you love me

XOXO

Gossip Girl

Victrola-

Even though Spinelli and Chuck had been away the club had been in full swing which was why Spinelli was sitting now at the club looking over at the numbers from the past few weeks as Maxie was sitting on the piano bench looking on at him with a grin on her face.

"I love this...us," she spoke as he looked over to her.

She had an ethereal glow about her and there were moments when he would reach out to pinch himself thinking that this was only a dream and he wasn't married to the girl of his dreams.

"I love us too," he spoke kissing her cheek before heading next to her on the bench and tinkering with the keys.

"I can't believe the loft is ours as of today."

Spinelli grinned as Maxie began to nip his neck with her lips.

Yep, things were perfect, perfectly perfect.

"Get a room you two," Chuck's voice suddenly rang out as he looked up to see his brother slash partner standing beside him with his own girl, Blair by his side.

"Why, so you and Blair can have this room."

Chuck raised his eyebrow intrigued as he mentally thought of taking Blair on the piano when his brother and sister and law had gone there own way.

"No...Well maybe but...don't you have work to do."

Spinelli nodded standing up and heading behind the bar to grab the clipboard of work he had been working on.

"I've already done it," Spinelli said handing the clipboard to the younger man.

Chuck grinned his grin at him before looking down and smiling at Spinelli's job well done.

"So, I hear your finally moving to Brooklyn today."

Maxie smiled as even though that wasn't her dream home just the notion of being with her husband and soon her baby as well all under one roof made her warm and fuzzy inside, sure that could have also just been hormones but she really didn't care. She was on the top of the world and didn't want to ever fall off.

It was then Spinelli's cell rang and he looked down at his cell phone to see a familiar number that he hadn't seen in a while.

"I should take this."

Maxie nodded as she began to chat with Chuck and Blair about the renovations that had been preformed at the loft while Spinelli has stepped outside to talk.

"You got MARRIED," Milo Giambetti had exclaimed on the other end.

"Yes, it was totally impromptu, Maxie set it up."

He heard Milo chuckle thinking of Maxie's fragile state.

"Maxie set it up...wow it must have been something."

"It was..."

He then began to explain about the magical ceremony on the beach at sunset.

"I think Maximista's ambush was perfect in the long run because I kind of wanted to get married before our daughter was born."

"So it's a girl."

"Crap, the jackal has let loose lips slip."

"What do you mean?"

"If Maxie finds out I leaked the sex to someone my naming privileges will be revoked," Spinelli paused before continuing, "she wants it to be a surprise."

"Good luck with that."

--

van der Woodsen home

Lily and Rufus were stealing a moment together curled up in the master bedroom acting like their teenagers as they looked into one another's eyes.

"So, it's the big day huh," Lilly said, "your loft officially becomes our son's."

Rufus nodded thinking of when he entered the loft just the other day and took a look around. The place was a picture out of a posh homes magazine and was barely recognizable as the place where he practically raised Dan and Jenny.

Rufus nodded as he gently kissed her neck before caressing her bare skin with his hands.

"it's been their place ever since I moved in here with you," was all he simply said about that subject before he opened his mouth again to speak. "I thought of a timeframe for out wedding."

Lilly's eyes lit up at this.

"You have Rufus."

"Christmas."

"Christmas," she repeated.

"I figure our grand baby will be a few months old and the kids will all be home from school."

"And I'm sure our daughter in law wants to show off her child to her own family and spend the holidays with them."

Rufus nodded thinking that this was probably true as Maxie hadn't been back to Port Charles since she had came to town late January.

"Well then if you can wait that long Lills what about when the kids are on Spring Break."

She was always told patience was a virtue and since she waited years to finally be with Rufus, the love of her life so what was a few months more.

"The spring sounds lovely Rufus," she spoke thinking in her head of all the different options she'd have in springtime.

--

Victrola-

Spinelli had gotten off the phone as Spinelli had re-entered the club.

"Yes," he heard Blair exclaim, "we'd love too."

"you guys would love to what," Spinelli questioned the couple as Chuck smiled.

"Your Maximista here asked Blair and me to be your baby's godparents."

Spinelli raised his eyebrow as though they had talked about it numerous times he had been under the impression that Nate and Lulu were going to be the baby's god father and mother respectively and so she was ultimately surprised.

"You did."

Maxie looked at him and flashed a guilty smile.

"I hope you don't mind."

Spinelli shook his head.

"I forgive you; anyway it would be an honor if the two of you were the godparents to out progeny."

Maxie smiled glad he approved of her choice before she noticed he clock hanging on the wall.

"We should get going Spinelli if we want to make the most of our first night in our new place."

Spinelli grinned widely knowing what the glimmer in her blue eyes meant.

"I'll see you two later," he spoke as the newlyweds left the club and Chuck soon true to his fantasies of earlier began to passionately make out with Blair and soon they were making love on top of the piano.

--

Brooklyn Loft-

"Are you sure they won't mind," Winifred spoke as they were lying on the couch of Spinelli and Maxie's new place, "I mean do they even know you still have a key."

Dan smiled.

"I am Damian's brother and well, until I head off to collage and you vacate Vanessa's and move into that sweet loft you found they are out neighbors and so..."

"You thought you'd or rather we'd play welcome wagon."

Dan nodded as he gently kissed Winifred's neck.

The two of them were defiantly getting closer now as the days slowly began to grow shorter and they both know that although they had slim to no past relationships that this was probably it unless Dan fell for some hot TA or Winifred ran off with some hottie Starbucks barista.

Moments past when soon Spinelli and Maxie had completed their journey from the night club to the loft and opened the door.

"I promise when you have your baby we will do this right," he said as they entered the loft and she flashed him a puzzled look. "I mean that I'll properly carry you over the threshold like I technically should have done when we entered my moms place after the actual wedding night."

She smiled as she made a comment to him about how they were a far cry from traditional but that was what made them even more special.

Soon their lips crashed into one another as Dan and Winifred entered the room to see the happy couple.

"Welcome home," Dan said now embarrassed that he decided to crash his old home to surprise his older brother.

Pulling back Spinelli smiled at his brother and mouthed a 'hi' to him before bursting out laughing as he counted his blessings and got ready to settle down for the first night in his new bed.

--

TBC