A/N: Okay sorry for the delay on this chapter. It took me three days to even type because my dumbness didn't write a whole section of it so I had to go back and figure out that scene. So if it seems a little blah I am so sorry the rest of the chapter was written over a year ago.
Disclaimer: I own Darcy. That is all.
Looking For Jack.
Darcy walked out of the bedroom and spotted Chuck still going through Diana's planner.
"Still no luck?" she said kissing his cheek.
"You know the women. Any clues?" he asked.
"Only that she's crazy" she chuckled "I know that she wasn't around much when Austin and I were kids. She would appear here and there. His family never really talked about her"
"Thank you anyways" he smiled "What are your plans today?"
"I thought maybe I could get to know my new sister a little better. So I invited Lola over."
She sat down next to him as Nate walked in hanging up his phone.
"Was that Diana?" Chuck asked.
"Yeah. Looking for her book."
"And?" Darcy asked.
"I took lessons from a great actress. I played it clueless"
"Good because if she is going to lie to us and pretend to be my real mother. I see no reason why we shouldn't return the favor." Chuck said.
"I think I bought us a day or two. Any luck?"
"Still stuck"
"It's all a jumble of numbers and letters"
"Any idea what you're looking for?"
"Some link to Jack"
"His secretary still hasn't heard from him"
"She thinks he found love in Phuket"
"Jack? The only women in his life are hookers" Darcy said "He has to be in town"
Darcy grabbed the planner from Chuck and started looking through it.
"Then we need to find him" Chuck said.
"Yeah, well, unless you wanna watch "A Beautiful Mind" again, I think we're gonna need to hire a professional- you know, someone from the military or even a serial killer. It takes a special level of crazy to go that far to hide your secrets." Nate said
"Told you she was crazy" Darcy said still looking at it and an idea hit her "Blair"
"What?" Both guys said.
"Take this planner to Blair"
"Why can't you?" Nate asked.
"I have plans with my sister"
"Serena?"
"Lola"
"I have plans with Lola"Nate replied as Lola walked in.
"I'm gonna get dressed. Let you two sort out this" Chuck said kissing Darcy's cheek.
"What did I miss?" Lola said.
"Nate and I just both thought we had plans with you"
"Oh my god Darcy. I'm so sorry I forgot" Lola said.
"It's no problem at all. I'll just help Bass out with this…or go see our sister"
"Your sister. She said she doesn't want anything to do with me" Lola said "She said to leave her family alone and that includes you"
"No. You're my sister too. Serena has no say who is in my life. We're Blood"
"Speaking of Serena" Lola said turning to Nate.
"I'll leave you two together doing whatever it is you're doing" Darcy replied as Chuck walked out.
"So is this all figured out"
"Yes" Darcy said grabbing the journal from Chuck "Now let's go talk to Blair"
They got in the limo. Chuck pulled up Gossip Girl and found that Blair was at the Met.
"So which one of us is gonna convince her?" Darcy asked him.
"Which one of us do you want to convince her?" Chuck replied.
They pulled up in front of the Met and got out. Blair standing there.
"Chuck I don't have time for any of your nonsense. I have a very busy day planned."
"We have this book that we need cracked. I thought…" Darcy said then glanced at Chuck then back to Blair. "…we thought you could possibly help us"
"It was all Ellis" Chuck said
"Please Blair."
Blair looked at her phone then back to them.
"It's your lucky day" Blair replied then they all got in the Limo.
They got to Blair's house and Blair went up to her room while Darcy and Chuck sat in the living room.
"I love you" Chuck said to her and Darcy turned to him.
"I know" she smiled "I you"
Moments later Blair came down the stairs saying things in a British accent.
"Why are we doing accents?" Darcy asked. "What does that have to do with the book?"
"If you want to think like Diana Payne, you have to become Diana Payne"
"I guess that works" Chuck said turning to Darcy. "Planner?"
Darcy pulled it out of her bag and handed it to Blair. She looked through it.
"Well it's not classic Caesar"
"Oh"
"You can tell that by just looking at it"
"What is that?" Chuck asked looking at a device Blair was holding.
"It's a cipher slide" Darcy said.
"Don't you have one?" Blair asked. Chuck looked at both girls as if they were crazy. "There was a brief period in the third grade where I suspected my mother was reading my diary."
"Oh. Ellis?" he asked looking at his girlfriend.
"I wanted to be a spy when I was 8."
"This is a vigenre code" Blair said. "It's not unbreakable, but it can take a long time. Especially without software"
"We don't have a long time" Chuck said.
"What about the Calendar. Is there any way you can use that to break it?" Darcy asked.
"Um probably" Blair said flipping through it. "Look there"
Darcy looked over at what she was looking at.
"What?" Chuck said.
"On the first Saturday of every month at 9pm there is an appointment made up of 14 or 15 letters and they're each different but you crack those and you crack the rest"
Darcy looked at Chuck.
"I guess we need to talk to Nate?" she said.
"Why?" Blair asked.
"Well if my memory serves me right, Nate was dating her for a few of those Saturdays"
"It's worth a shot" Chuck said then turned to Blair "Thank you Blair"
"Yes, thank you" Darcy said standing up. Blair handed the book to her. "Let's go"
"I'm coming with" Blair said. Darcy and Chuck looked at each other.
"Okay" they said.
They got back to The Empire and Nate, Lola and Serena all were in the living room.
"Figure anything out?" Nate asked.
"We may have a lead" Darcy said. "All thanks to Blair but…"
"…Unfortunately the entire clue trail hangs by the flimsiest of threads Nate's long term memory." Blair continued as her phone rang. "Give me one moment"
She walked away.
"What does she mean by that?" Nate asked.
"You dated Diana"
"So"
"Nate. You spent more time with her than anyone else."
"There had to be something unusual she did those Saturdays" Chuck said as Blair came back in.
"Besides you of course" Blair replied.
"Guys I'm looking" Nate said browsing his phone. Lola reading over his shoulder.
"Gym. Gym. Bangs trimmed. Gym. Movie night. Gym"
"Oh Har Har." Nate said "Look Diana and I barely spent anytime outside the office. We never really went on real dates. We just…"
"Okay I think that's my excuse to leave" Serena said getting up. "I promise I'll keep looking till I find the little black key to Diana's book"
Serena left the room.
"Okay we have tried this the easy way" Blair said "Darcy's where is the book?"
Darcy looked in her bag that she had set on the coffee table.
"Um it's gone."
"Serena!" Lola said and they all ran that way.
Lola grabbed the doors and stopped them from shutting
"S., I can't believe you'd go behind our backs like this. And why are you protecting Diana? "Blair asked
"Diana told me if I got her book back, then she would give me Gossip Girl's real phone number. I finally have a chance to see who she really is, and that's more important to me than helping Nate kick Diana out of "The Spectator."
"More important than me finding my father?" Chuck asked
"What?" Serena said
"Diana lied to me, she's not my mother. And I think she's covering for my father- well, my real father Jack."
"Oh, Chuck, I'm so sorry. I didn't know."
"This book is the only chance we have of tracking Jack down." Darcy said.
"Well, what can I do?"
"Be with us, not against us."
"You have me, 100%."
"Great. Let's get rid of this bitch once and for all." Blair said
They made a plan. Lola left and Blair made a call. Now they were all waiting for the plan to unfold. Darcy could tell Chuck was getting impatient.
"She's late." Chuck said. Darcy moved over and hinted him to come sit down. "We should call"
"Well, maybe Diana just missed her appointment." Serena said
"Or Lola couldn't bribe the girl she knows at the spa." Nate replied.
"You guys should just trust me and stop dithering. I sent in a seasoned professional." Blair said and then they heard Dorota say something "She's in."
They heard Diana muffle something.
"Treatment about to begin. Just relax. First, I do exfoliation with Japanese sea salt body scrub."
"Excellent choice." Chuck said sitting down next to Darcy.
"Then wild mint foot rub." Dorota said
"I still don't know how you're gonna massage the code out of her." Nate asked
"Watch and learn Archibald" Blair said as Diana muffle something else
"I know. Why you miss last appointment? My boss want to charge you…Spa have very strict cancellation policy…" dorota said answering the muffled Diana "First Saturday last month….England? Italy? France?"
"Portugal" they heard Diana yell.
"What do we know about Portugal?"
"They speak Portuguese?" Serena and Darcy said.
"They play pretty good football." Nate said
"They don't." Chuck said
"Hey, who was that tutor you had in, like, the sixth grade?"
"Mariana Costa. She was from Lisbon. I spent our lessons trying to get under her Saia. Needless to say, I succeeded." Chuck said
"Did you now?" Darcy said.
"What if all these letters are just different international phone numbers? The code for that night was "K-L-L." Blair said ignoring what they were all saying
"Which is "5-5-5" on the keypad, and we all know from watching movies that's fake." Nate replied.
"Completely fake." Darcy said.
"If she had been using a numeric key, it could be decoded as "0-0-1," then "3-5-1."" Blair said.
"That's the country code for Portugal." Chuck said "Some childhood memories never fade."
"B., did you just do it? "
"Got it! Thanks, Dorota." Blair said and hung up the phone "Okay, now if I'm right- and we all know I am- then this is tonight's number."
"Yeah, but who does it call?" Nate asked
"There's only one way to find out." Chuck said grabbing the phone from Blair.
"How can I help you?" the voice said
"Yes, I'm interested in the event tonight."
"Yes, how many?" it asked. Blair, Nate and Darcy all had their hand up slightly.
"Four"
"Four it is. Will I need to send a car?"
"No, the address will be fine."
"The Vardin house in Briarcliff Manor. See you at 9:00." It said and Chuck hung up.
"Does anybody have any idea what we're about to get ourselves into?" Blair asked
"Not a clue, but hopefully, Jack will be there." Chuck said standing up.
"Yeah, and maybe someone that can tell us who Diana Payne really is." Nate said walking away
"I'm gonna get Arthur to pull the car around." Chuck said kissing Darcy. Chuck and Nate walked away.
about Diana's book? This is my only chance to find out who Gossip Girl really is." Serena said.
"Bass made a copy already."
"Well, I don't know why you're suddenly so interested in that sad little shut-in, but here you go. We don't need it anymore." Blair said.
"Thank you." Serena said and left.
They arrived at the place the book led them to. Chuck put in the code.
"How did you?" Darcy asked.
"Remember that house we looked at together. Senior year."
"That was a good house."
"Gentlemen's Club" Chuck said. "Jack's here. We just have to find him"
"How do you know?" Blair asked.
"Are you kidding? This has Jack written all over it" Darcy said commenting on all the half dressed women.
"Hi, I'm Josephine" one of the women said to Chuck "You look like you could use a friend."
"He has one" Blair said before Darcy could even comment. Darcy and Nate looked at each other.
"Then why don't I show you the bedrooms" the girl said. Chuck looked back at Darcy.
"They'd really like that" Darcy said. Chuck shook his head at her and she shrugged then mouthed 'act'. The girl guided them away and she turned to Nate.
"Are you seriously letting that happen?" he asked.
"I'm adult. I've grown up. I trust Bass."
"Let's go find Diana" he said guiding her back through. They ran into Serena and Lola. "What are you two doing here?"
"And dressed as waitress?" Darcy asked noticing their outfits.
"The bouncer at the door asked if we were India's girls" Lola said.
"So we just went with it and then he pointed us toward the dressing room and told us to change. But full disclosure, we actually GPSed Gossip Girl's phone and it led us here" Serena said.
"Who's India?" Nate asked.
"I don't know the Madame?"
"Find India, Find Diana?" Darcy said.
"Darcy's on to something" Lola said.
"Or we just find Gossip Girl and have her tell us Diana's secret."
"As much as I'm liking this sister bonding moment, I'm here to find Jack. So I'll catch up to you guys later." Darcy said.
"We got this" Nate replied and Darcy took off. She went off to meet with Chuck but was having no luck finding him. She opened the door hoping that maybe he was in there but instead his dad, Bart Bass, stood there.
"Bart" she said and someone pushed her to the side as security came in. She found herself back at the Limo. Blair started walking up to it as well.
"Hey" Blair said.
"Where's Bass?"
"I lost him. We split up so maybe he's still inside"
"Did he find Jack?"
"I'm not sure. I um found someone else" Blair said.
"Bart?"
"You saw him too?"
"Just for a second before I was pushed to the side." Darcy said as Chuck walked up.
"Hey" he said and kissed Darcy.
"Did you find Jack?" she asked grabbing both his hands.
"He told me he wasn't"
"Chuck you need to go back inside" Blair said and Darcy nodded.
"What's going on?" Chuck asked.
"Trust us" Darcy said kissing him.
"You should go with him"
"Blair" Darcy said "I don't think that's a good idea"
"No, whatever it is I need you by my side Ellis." Chuck said. "Please"
She kissed each one of his hands in hers then kissed him.
"Okay fine I'll go. But Arthur is taking Blair home. I'm sure Dan is worried about you"
They headed back inside. Darcy held on to Chuck's hand tight scared about his reaction.
"What are you two hiding?" Chuck asked "I know it's big because you two never team up."
"Bass"
"Ellis" he said stopping. She looked at the door behind him.
"Open the door" she said.
They opened the door. Bart stood there
"Dad" he said.
"Oh my God"
A/N: I hope you enjoyed. For those that are worried about where I am going with this story I have a plan. Yes this chapter and part of next chapter are like the show. Season 6 will have some cannon story line but there will be something big for Darcy.