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Flirting With Danger – Chapter 12
"Chuck!" Blair smiled at him as he entered the bedroom.
"Blair, we need to talk." Chuck gazed at her. She was wearing a backless, black gown and in her left hand was a martini. "Wow...you're dressed up."
"We can talk later," she said sipping her drink and picking up an identical one from the bed-side table. "Here. Have a drink."
Chuck kept his cool and accepted the drink. "Drink!" Blair ordered, still smiling. So she's trying to kill me too, he thought to himself, recognising the malicious glint in her eyes. I'll bet she went to Henderson headquarters and Josef told her to get rid of me. Just like Donald told me to kill her.
He smirked. Well, this should be fun. Both of us trying to kill each other.
He pretended to drink the martini, that was no doubt laced with poison, and surveryed his surroundings. Blair had lit scented candles and placed them around the room. Had she not been trying to kill him...it would have been kind of romantic.
"So...where were you?" he asked Blair who was eying him in confusion. Why isn't the poison working?! It was supposed to have immediate effect!
"Bendels. I bought this dress," she twirled to show off the gown she was wearing. "Like it? It's Vera Wang."
"It's...nice," he said casually. It looked stunning on her and he was having a hard time keeping his eyes off her. She was trying to kill him and he was still attracted to her! Ignore her appearance, Bass. She's just another target.
"Just nice?" she inched closer to him.
Obviously he had figured out that the drink wasn't just a martini. Time for plan B - seduce and destroy.
She trailed her finger along his jaw and proceeded to unbutton his jacket.
"What are you doing, Blair?"
"Hm?" She threw his jacket on the bed and took him by the hand. "Just making up for what should have happened in the kitchen." She kissed him lightly on his lips, teasing him, and at the same time leading him to the bed.
She pushed him onto the bed forcefully and straddled him. Slowly, she lowered her lips to his, enjoying every minute of it. It would be the last time she would get to kiss Chuck Bass. Might as well make the most of it, right?
"So this is your plan to kill me?" Chuck smirked knowingly. "Seduce and destroy, huh? I should have known this was your back-up plan."
"What are you talking about? Why would I kill you?" Blair leaned forward to silence him with a kiss but he sat up, with Blair still on top if him.
"You think I don't know whats going on here?" he asked calmly, his eyes boring into hers. "You really think you could just get rid of me like that?"
Shit. Blair got off him and whipped out her gun from her ankle holster.
Training her gun at him, she smirked. "I'm sorry, Bass. There's no other way."
"You can't do it." He said simply, getting to his feet and staring at her steady hand which was holding the gun. "I know you won't."
"What makes you so sure? This isn't Victrola's. Remember that night Chuck?" Blair kept the gun aimed at him.
He nodded, "how could I forget? The night you broke up with Nathaniel. The night you danced for me at Victrola's. The night I took your virginity."
She remained expressionless, "also the night I proved you wrong. You said the same thing that night; 'I know you won't do it'."
"But you did," Chuck completed her sentence. "And you never looked more beautiful."
Blair ignored his compliment. "The point is...I won't hesitate to pull the trigger."
"Then why haven't you done it yet?" he smirked.
She took a deep breath and shot at him.
Click.
There were no bullets in her gun. "What the fuck!" she hissed, and made a move to get her other gun which was concealed under her floor-length dress.
Before she reach her spare gun however, Chuck had leaped off the bed and held a gun of his own. He grabbed her, with her back against his chest and held her close in his vice-like grip. She could feel the cold barrel of his gun on her bare back.
"Oh Blair, didn't you know? To kill someone, you actually need bullets," he murmured into her ear, still holding her tightly. "Too bad, I stole yours." She could almost hear the smirk in his voice.
"Let me guess...you went to your director and he told you to kill me. Just like I'm supposed to get rid of you," Blair kept her cool. "Why would both agencies want to lose their best agents?" she wondered out loud.
She's right. Chuck thought to himself, not loosening his grip on her. Suddenly, Chuck's phone rang from downstairs. He recognised the ringtone - it was the ringtone when someone of a higher level than the director was calling. Maybe I don't have to kill her after all.
He let Blair go, "you're in luck, Waldorf. I have to take this call." He shoved her into the bathroom and locked her in. "Now, you be a good girl and stay in there, okay?" he said in a patronizing manner.
"Basshole!" she shouted in frustration.
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"Hello?"
"Chuck Bass?"
"Yes, who is this?" Chuck couldn't recognise this deep voice.
"Henry Folger." Henry Folger was the man in charge of this branch of the CIA. In other words, the directors answered to him. Why is he calling me? Chuck wondered.
"Look, Mr Bass...I can't answer all your questions right now but please just answer mine, alright?"
"Of course," Chuck frowned. Folger sounded extremely frazzled.
"Has the director, Donald Dillon given you any peculiar instructions?" Henry Folger asked urgently.
"He asked me to kill my partner," Chuck replied. "I'd say that's pretty peculiar."
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"He thinks I can't get out of a locked bathroom?" Blair muttered to herself as she calmly stepped out of the bathroom where Chuck had locked her and smoothened her silk dress. "He isn't the only secret agent around here!" Blair silently made her way downstairs.
She knew he had come down to answer a call but the house was shrouded in silence. She took out her spare gun just in case. As she entered the kitchen, all the lights in the house went off.
"Chuck! Where the hell are you?" Blair yelled. "I know you here somewhere!" She paused. "Turn on the damn lights!"
"Chuck?" she asked quietly as she scanned the kitchen, her gun ready to shoot him. He wasn't in the kitchen either.
As she turned to leave, Chuck came up from behind and slammed her against the wall and harshly pressed his lips onto hers. Although she was in shock, she found herself returning the kiss. Her gun clattered to the floor as she ran her hands through his hair.
When she finally pulled away for some oxygen, Blair gasped, "Chuck! What the hell are you doing? You're supposed to kill me!"
He didn't reply and started kissing her again. Before she could get lost in his kiss, she pulled away again. "Tell me what's going on, Bass."
He sighed, "Donald and Josef wanted to get rid of us both. They're actually working with Devin and wanted this assignment to fail. They're being taken care of as we speak. Tomorrow, we're assignment-free."
He looked deep into her eyes, "can I kiss you now?"
Blair attacked his lips with her own. God, she had missed this so much. The feel of his lips on hers was pure bliss.
"I'm so glad I didn't kill you," she confessed breathlessly.
"I can't believe I locked you in a bathroom," he grinned wickedly and kissed her deeply.
Blair felt herself being lifted and wrapped her legs around his toned body. They still didn't stop kissing.
Once they were lying on the sofa in the living room, Blair began unbuttoning his shirt as he kissed her neck and collarbone, making her moan in pleasure.
"Chuck, that's enough foreplay," Blair groaned as his kisses made her heart flutter. But he showed no sign of slowing down. Oh God, how does he do it? How does he manage to make me feel this way?
"I hate you, Chuck Bass," she breathed when he continued to kiss her, making her want to explode. "Make love to me!" she begged.
"Well, if you insist," he smirked.
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