Disclaimer: Nothing is mine and I do it for fun.
So I have finally accepted that my calling is, more than writing original plot lines, adapting existing works into the Dair story line with a bit of my own twist and I am fully embracing it now. I really hope you like this and that you guess which existing plot is my main inspiration. Remember, I don't have a beta so all mistakes are mine.
Blair Waldorf was born with the sun shining. She was pretty, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, which seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived her whole life whit very little to distress or irritate her.
Her mother always expected the worst; she had a successful fashion company but still thought the world was a bad place, especially for her little girl. And to no wonder, her husband had died when Blair was three years old and since then she had made her life mission to protect Blair from everything. Even if it meant that as much as Blair loved her, she sometimes resented her from it.
Since an early age Blair was always in the company of a motherly figure. If it wasn't her mother, who sometimes had to be absent because of work, it was Dorota. Who became a friend more than a maid. She and Blair were inseparable, often going for a walk and feeding the ducks at Central Park, particularly when Blair was feeling upset.
Still, Dorota thought Blair needed a friend, a real friend. A friend Blair's age. So one sunny day when both she and Blair were enjoying the sight of Central Park in a bench and a curly-haired boy about Blair's age approached them to ask if Blair wanted to play hide and seek with him, she didn't even hesitated. She encouraged Blair to go play with the little boy. And that was it.
When both went back to the Waldorf penthouse and the little girl talked enthusiastically about her new acquaintance, she knew Blair had found a new friend. And since that sunny afternoon, Dan Humphrey was Blair Waldorf's best friend.
"My husband was afraid that perhaps she was too young. But Eva always excels herself when she puts her mind on it. She always has done. Eva also tells me they are going to visit Côte d'Azur, isn't it wonderful?" A friend of Eleanor was telling both, Mrs. Waldorf and Blair, about her daughter Eva Coupeau, who studied in France, where Mrs. Coupeau, Eleanor's friend, was from.
"Shhh" Eleanor signals her friend. "Emma has barely been in Paris and only when I go with her, let alone Côte d'Azur where everyone is so… free-spirited. It's best the children don't know about that kind of lifestyle."
"Eleanor, Blair is hardly a child. You know, she and Eva are about the same age. Perhaps one day they should meet? They will make the best of friends, I am sure of it."
"Perhaps." said Blair.
"Anyway, what was I saying?" Anaïs Coupeau asked while she drank her tea, "Yes… Eva's letter is so well written. She really can do everything. I never hesitated that her education would be better in France. As much as I love New York, and I really do love it or I wouldn't be living here for more than ten years, France is still the place to educate your children. I never understood why you wouldn't send Blair to study abroad."
"Well…"
"And then, Eva informs me that they are teaching her to play the piano. What a wonderful skill for a young woman to posses!"
"I'm going to ask Daniel to teach me how to play the guitar. You know his father was a rockstar?" Both Anaïs Coupeau and her mother looked at her with confusion. This was the first time she really participated in the conversation that afternoon and even when her mother was accustomed to what surely was one of Blair's lost of tempers, she found it best for Blair to act properly in front of guests, specially to such dear guests as Anaïs Coupeau, who, even when sometimes irritated Eleanor herself, was one of her closest friends. "Rufus Humphrey, have you heard of him, Mrs. Coupeau?"
"Oh, I haven't but I'm sure Eva has. She is well informed in almost any matter." Anaïs responded her with a smile. "I am also positive she plays the guitar. I think she told me about it in one of her past letters. I tell you, that girl is something. Did I tell you she is halfway through her reading list of at least 70 titles of this year alone? "
"That is really impressive." Blair said with sarcasm.
"70!" Anaïs Coupeau emphasized.
When Blair was back in her room trying to read past the first pages of Rayuela by Julio Cortázar with little success, she heard a set of footsteps entering her alcove.
"I suppose you are here to discourage me of learning to play guitar?"
"Ah yes. I heard about that in my way up here. Your mother was not as excited by the idea as you so obviously are." A humored Dan Humphrey told Blair with a smile. "You know, you should be better with your mother's friends. She needs the distraction they provide, she works so hard and preoccupies so much."
"I know, I know. Dorota here has been telling me as much." Blair says mechanically. "But really, I do try. It's just; it is very difficult to be nice when Anaïs Coupeau only talks about Eva, who seems to write to her about eight times a week and between each letter seems to gain a handful of new skills. And not just that, but Anaïs seems to come here about every week to tell us about them. It's exhausting!"
"Miss Blair!" Dorota tells Blair and Dan just chuckles.
"Besides, my mother doesn't need her distractions so badly, I think her new husband is able to provide them."
"Her new husband?" Dan asked confused while he gave a furtive look to what Blair was reading. "Oh, Cyrus! He hardly qualifies as a new husband; they have been married for three years."
"Well, three years is not a long time; but whatever you say."
"Anyway, what are you exactly doing right now?"
"Can't you see?" Blair answered him in a stimulating manner. "I compiled a list of books to read. 71 titles so I will not be so uneducated compared to Eva Coupeau. See, I have already started, I can't waste any moment…"
"Rayuela? Very Impressive." Dan told her admiringly, "A very innovate and retrospective narrative."
"Of course you have already read it." Blair said while she tried to restart reading where she had left, which was still the first page.
"Have you told Mr. Dan about Miss Humphrey and Mr. Rose?" Dorota tried to encourage Blair into a new topic of conversation. Particularly one that would dissuade her from reading a book which bored her at the moment.
"Ah, yes. I'm sure Eva Coupeau is not remotely good at the things I do well. She may excel at words and music, but, people… their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations," Blair kept enlisting while she walked around her room, "There, I am the expert."
"Really?" Dan asked amused, "I don't image you could tell the rest of the world about their dreams and hopes? It would save us a lot of time."
"Not you, clearly." Blair stated impatiently, "You are so obviously skeptical to this whole romance idea I sometimes wonder if you are human at all; but, Aaron and Jenny, they sure are."
"Aaron and Jenny?" Dan questioned bewildered, "Surely not. They have not known each other that long."
"Surely yes!" Blair remarked excitedly, "It has been my wish and sole intend for the past six months now."
Dan noticed how Dorota rolled her eyes amusingly while she tried to distract herself by looking at the window.
"But they have been around each other several times and I haven't notice anything that hinted something else." Dan stated.
"Well, they just needed a little encouragement for their real feelings to float the surface. " Blair said in a proud manner, "It was simply necessary."
"If…" Dan started, "If they like each other enough to start dating it will be because they themselves wish it, not you. But I think there is nothing to it. You are mistaken."
"We will see."
Unsurprisingly, Blair was right. About a week after that autumn afternoon Aaron told the family that he was dating Jenny Humphrey and Blair's first thought was Dan's reaction to the news. He surely will not doubt her supernatural talent now.
"Lucky guess." Was the first thing Dan told her when she saw him after the news.
"There's nothing lucky about it." Blair smiled, "Just talent and intuition."
A year had passed since the news when Aaron and Jenny gathered Eleanor, Cyrus, Rufus, Lily, Dan, and Blair in the Waldorf penthouse to share with them the news that they were moving together.
"To London," Jenny announced happily.
"To London!" Eleanor exclaimed with distress, "You surely won't let this happen, Rufus?" Eleanor tried to gain some support from Dan and Jenny's father. With Dan and Blair being so close, Rufus and Eleanor were very familiar with each other; both families were close-knitted. "London is so far, they might as well move to the moon."
"Now, Eleanor." Rufus tried to calm her nerves, "If they have made this decision it's because they have thought this through and through."
"Yes we have, dad. We are so excited. London is one of the best cities in the world." Jenny said.
"We really think that by moving there it will help develop Jenny's fashion career and my artistic profile." Aaron added.
"Of course," Cyrus said, "You kids have our whole support. Don't they, Eleanor?" He asked his wife while linking her hand with his.
"I guess so." Eleanor stated.
When everyone leaved and Dan was the last to stay, Blair told him: "My work with them is evidently done. Who knows who will be next?"
The following day, when Blair and her mother, along with Cyrus where invited to brunch to Rufus and Lily's, who was also a close friend of Eleanor, penthouse; she noticed their doorman and made the decision he will be a great suitor for Dorota, he was good looking and seemed interesting enough.
"What is the name of you doorman, Humphrey?" Blair asked casually in a low voice to Dan in the middle of brunch.
"His name is Vanya, why do you ask?" Dan asked curiously.
"Oh never you mind. It has nothing to do with you."
"Tell me Blair," Dan pleaded, "Has it anything to do with your so call matchmaking?"
"As I have already said," Blair answered him with a mischievous smile, "Never you mind."
Blair was on a mission. A prospect of a new formed couple was on the horizon and she had match making to do. Her plan was simple: made Dorota and Vanya interact as much as possible. For that she made herself visit Lily Van Der Woodsen-Humphrey every day, bringing Dorota always with her.
"You are such a good person, Blair" Lily told her while they were talking over tea with the macaroons she brought her that evening, her latest excuse. Meanwhile, Dorota decided to stay at the lobby that day to talk with the fine doorman and Blair didn't dissuaded her, "Visiting the, let's say, not so young people every day. I wish Serena was the same in this aspect."
"Where is she by the way?" Blair asked curiously.
"She's at Los Angeles at the time," Blair said as she sipped her green tea which was a little bit too hot, "She's planning to make a long visit this Thanksgiving, perhaps even prolonging her stay until Christmas. I'm just glad we will have her at home."
"I haven't seen her in such a long time. But I can see she is clearly missed."
"Yes, she has been absent for many years now. But that is what was bound to happen when she decided she wanted to live with her father after the divorce. To think Dan and Jenny have only seen her one time, at my weeding, of course."
"Right, of course."
"Anyhow, let's change the subject to other exciting news." Lily told her, "I don't know if your mother has told you but we will have a new visitor this upcoming holiday season."
"Who is it?" Blair asked really curious this time.
"Well, Anne Archibald has told me that her son Nate is coming to visit her from D.C. "Lily told her excitingly, "Apparently he has been working with Anne's father, William Van Der Bilt, in a political campaign up close and personal and because of it has traveled the world to act as a representative of William and visit diplomats and such. Last she told me, he was on France, but apparently has settled in D.C. and wants to visit his dear mother for the holidays."
"Indeed exciting news." Blair said smiling to herself.
What are your opinions and guess? Please let me know if you like this idea and/or where this is going. Anyway, adapting this was very fun.
