Title: Bass Family Brood
Chapter 2: Naïve
Author: Ellibells
Summary: Post season 3; Bass brood growing up which is based upon my original fic Mr Chuck and Mrs Blair Bass. Chair are married with a full brood of children including Teddy and Evie who are original characters from my Mr Chuck and Mrs Blair Bass: Part 2. Bass Brood central with NJBC… Fluffy, humour, protective Daddy's, fluff, more babies and pure Bass family fun! "And where do you think you are going dressed like that, Evie Grace Bass?"
A/N: I am UBER happy with the reviews I got from the first chapter! BIG HUGE KISSES and LOVE for all your kind words! I am doubly happy to present you with the next chapter! I am aiming to develop each characters personalities one chapter at a time and this chapter is central to Mia and Evie especially so I really hope you enjoy and I promise that next chapter I will introduce the rest of the children, promise! Please do enjoy and review because I love to know what you all think!
In addition, I will try my hardest to update Mr Chuck and Mrs Blair Part 2 in the next few days! Mwah!
Disclaimer: I do not own Gossip Girl unfortunately! But I do own Ed Westwick…true fact! ;)
"As soon as Ben asks you to Cotillion, you have to text me!" Mia insisted as she plopped down on Evie's bed, watching as her best friend contemplated what she was going to wear for her date as she rifled through the plentiful supply of dresses in her overly large wardrobe.
"M, I am not gunna interrupt my date just to text you! That's rude…I'll excuse myself to the bathroom and do it!" Evie teased as she turned to see her best friend laughing lightly.
"Thoughts?" Evie asked as she held up an elegant, floral, mid-length Waldorf Original, stepping out of her wardrobe.
"Hhmm…is tonight a floral event? I think not. I'd go for something more….what's the word…?" Mia pondered in faux anticipation as Evie held her index finger up before disappearing back into her wardrobe.
"Exquisite?" Evie announced with excitement as she skipped back into her bedroom holding up the perfect dress, leaving little to be desired.
"Ah yes! The epitome of Haute Couture…the LBD!" Mia announced in an overly posh accent as she jumped up from her sitting position, flailing her arms in the air for extra emphasis.
"Pourquoi oui! Ooh La! La! Mon Cher!" Evie added, pulling the dress to her frame as she spun around, a flurry of brown curls following.
All of a sudden, Evie froze in her path and glanced at the clock on her nightstand, swallowing nervously she turned back to Mia who was idiotically still jumping in her own little world.
"Whoa! Dizzy!" Mia said with a tumble as she dropped to her knees of the bed before flopping completely onto her stomach.
"Shit! What's that face for? Just seen a ghost?" Mia frowned at the irregularity of Evie's facial expression as she stood still in the middle of her floor.
"Ben will be here in less than an hour and I am nowhere near ready!" Evie panicked as she ran towards her full length mirror, examining the damage to her bangs.
"Oh please! You could leave this house wearing a bin bag and Ben would still be dribbling over you! And anyway, didn't I hear your Mom say once that you should always leave a man waiting for a few minutes at least…?"
"Flattery will get you nowhere. And although that statement maybe true, I still have loads to do! What if he doesn't even ask me to Cotillion and all the effort I have been plying into this relationship was for nothing? I can't have that on my conscience!" Evie questioned dramatically as she ventured into her bathroom to refresh her makeup.
"Firstly, what relationship? You have been leading him on for months waiting for him to ask you out on a date and when he finally does, you actually think he is about to pass up the opportunity to go to Cotillion with Evie Bass? I think you need professional help!"
"Nurse! Nurse!" Mia added as she jumped back onto her knees, echoing her voice with her hands.
"Shush! I think you're the one who needs help, Honey…" Evie shot cheekily from the bathroom.
"Are you nervous?"
"I don't think so…I mean, I've been out with Ben before unofficially and I don't think I have anything to be nervous about…" Evie admitted honestly as she reappeared from the bathroom, a new woman, makeup flawlessly done and not a lock out of place.
"So I heard Zach has been giving Ben a few pointers for the evening…" Mia spoke casually as she watched Evie's reaction.
Clenching her teeth, Evie maintained her cool exterior before answering her best friend's statement.
"And what pointers could those possibly be? How to be a man-whore? Perfecting heinous and obnoxious in just a few simple, vulgar sentences?" Evie asked sarcastically with raised eyebrows.
"He isn't that bad! You used to be civil, what happened?"
"He is an infuriating, disgusting specimen of a man. I don't know why we ever associated with him." Evie protested as she begun stripping to just her slip before stepping into her LBD, back turned to Mia as a gesture for her to zip her up.
Her face dropped as quickly as she had turned around. She certainly wasn't in the mood to think about him right now. After all, tonight was a new beginning, possibly the beginning of something wonderful and she'd be crazy if she let anyone, especially Zach Baizen ruin her calling.
"Maybe because his family runs in the same circles as ours and we've been friends with him since preschool…?" Mia reminded as she zipped the dress, witnessing the material cling perfectly to Evie's body almost immediately.
"Minor details. Now, how do I look?" Evie turned, smiled widely as she inspected herself in the mirror once again, satisfied with her choice of attire for the evening.
"Do you even need my approval? You look stunning in anything", Mia responded reluctantly, not wanting to grow Evie's ego any further.
"Of course I do! I defo wouldn't let you leave the house if I thought you looked horrideous, I need your opinion, anything less would be bias." She stated bluntly as she awaited her response.
"You look amazing. Ben will love it", Mia confirmed without fault as she stood from the bed and walked towards where Evie was.
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As if on cue, there was a knock at the door and Blair stepped inside, a cautious smile plastered across her features.
"Oh, Sweetie…you look beautiful! I wonder who you got those gorgeous looks from?..." Blair complimented as she walked towards the two girls, holding Evie's hands in hers as she took in her daughter's appearance.
"I wonder? Maybe the orphanage has details of my parental background?..." Evie teased lightly as Blair shook her head a little, relishing in the fact that her eldest daughter certainly had inherited her sense of humour from her father.
"I can assure you, Evelyn Bass that your features came straight from my womb…. I have photographic evidence if you're so inclined?"
"I'd rather not spoil my appetite for the evening…a newborn covered in gunk is hardly appropriate before my date." Evie conclude as she made a final application of lip gloss before the addition of her favourite Caresse d'orchidées par Cartier necklace and matching earrings to complete her outfit.
"Mia, your car is waiting by the way. You Mother wants you home for dinner, a special occasion apparently?..." Blair notified her goddaughter sweetly, knowing exactly what occasion was waiting for her.
"Ooh, okay. I better get home then. E, have a great night and remember to text me!" Mia excused herself in a hurry, not bothering to question Blair further as she gave the pair a hug before disappearing out of the door.
"Bye, M!" Evie shouted after her just as she disappeared.
Noticing her daughter had now put together her outfit flawlessly, Blair turned her attention back to her daughter.
"Turn for me!"
"Perfection. But before you go, your Father would like to speak with you in private…he's in his office." Blair informed with a warm smile as she corrected one of her daughter's curls, letting it drop naturally against her chest.
"Is he angry?..." She asked nervously.
"Not at all, he just wants a little chat; don't leave him waiting too long", Blair suggested finally as she attempted to leave the room, only to be stopped by her Evie's call.
"Mom, Why doesn't Daddy trust me?"
"Of course he trusts you. He just doesn't trust other people…you're his little Princess and he will do anything to keep it that way. I know you think your Father is overbearing but trust me when I say that he loves you more than you know and he has your best interests at heart. He knows what it's like to have a broken heart and to break one and the last thing he wants is to allow someone to cause his little girl pain." Blair explained the best she could, knowing she didn't have to say much as Evie, like the rest of her siblings were made aware of her and Chuck's past errors.
"I'm not his baby anymore, Penny is…" Evie tried to protest as she knew where this was going, but she let it nonetheless.
"You were his first baby girl and will always be. Just because you're grown up doesn't mean it makes it any easier letting you go…your Father and I know what boys your age are like, some are only interesting in one thing…"
"Ben's not like that, I mean, I've grown up with him and I would never be pressured into anything I didn't want to do."
"And we trust that, but we also know what it's like to get lost in the heat of the moment and do things we regret later." She assured with confidence, thinking back to all the mistakes she and Chuck had made in the past before the finally got to where they are now.
Evie knew exactly what had transpired between her Mother and Father when they were younger while Blair was infatuated with Nate but she never fully understood why their path got so ruptured along the way.
"How did you know Daddy was the one?..." Evie inquired softly.
Blair smiled warmly at the question. Of course she could have told her daughter it was love at first sight and their first kiss confirmed everything but Blair knew Evie that wasn't blind the facts of her parents' youth, she would have been naïve to tell her daughter anything but the truth.
"I'd be lying if I said it was the first time we kissed or the first time we were together but it wasn't like that. At Grandma Lily's wedding, you're Father made a speech and it was only then when I even entertained certain emotions I had been blocking out. It wasn't until we were supposed to go to Tuscany together for the summer and he left me waiting like a fool while he had five minutes of fun with an interior designer that I realised I missed him more than I should've…I couldn't stop thinking about him and for a long time I was in denial…"
"What did you do?..." Evie asked reluctantly knowing what had happened in vague terms from Gossip Girl posts but wanting so much more, needing it.
"When I got to the Hamptons, he was there waiting for me when I got of the jitney, flowers in hand but I did what I do best…kicked him while he was down and forced myself and others into thinking that I was happy with a man I had nothing in common with." Blair cringed inwardly at the memory but carried on anyway.
"All you need to know is that me and you Father fought for a long time, we played games and in the end, the only people we hurt were ourselves. We don't want that for you, heartache is a terrible thing but at the same time, I would stupid to think it wasn't part of anyone's life… in all honesty, I think everyone needs to experience it in order to know what's real and what's not."
"I know this is only your first date and it is very unlikely your love life will be as complicated as mine and your Father's was but if you ever need to confide in someone and that person isn't Mia, I'm always here…"
"Thank you, Mom…for the honesty…" Evie told Blair as got wrapped into Blair's arms for the second time that day.
"You're lucky you have a Father who will do anything to protect you...not a lot of people have that luxury. So when you talk to him, think about what I've said…" Blair concluded, softly kissing her daughter's cheek, leaving Evie to compose herself before she saw her Father.
A/N: Tadah! How do you think that went? Did you like the personalities I have going? Please tell me what you think and if there is a certain direction you want me to go with any character because I would be happy to hear your thoughts. BIG smiles, kisses and hugs for reading and reviewing? :D