When Serena's phone beeped and saw the message from Gossip Girl, she gasped.

"What's up?" Dan asked her.

"What? Oh erm, nothing, nothing's wrong." Serena gabbled. "Ok let's continue, I still don't get this."

Dan looked at her curiously. "Serena we've been over this five times already and you got it straight away so let's put this away and you can tell me what's bothering you."

Serena smiled weakly. "It's nothing. Don't worry about it." she said as Dan switched his phone on. "What are you doing that for?" Knowing full well that he'll receive the picture from Gossip Girl just like everyone else. Right on cue his phone beeped and Dan just stared at it, blank. Serena wasn't sure how he was going to react and didn't want to stay to find out. She stood up and just legged it out of there. She ran out of his room and out of the loft, despite Dan calling her back. She got back to the city in record time and made her way to Chuck's suit. She ran up to the door and started banging on the door, regardless of the time and the people behind all the other doors.

"Ah Serena, to what do I owe this pleasure?" Chuck said as he opened the door to the fuming blonde.

Without saying a word, her right hand came swinging his way and landed straight on the side of Chuck's face.

He put his hand up to his red cheek. "Okay, I won't lie, that did hurt – a lot. Are you going to tell me why you did that?"

"Oh I don't know, why don't we check Gossip Girl and find out!" she yelled at him.

Chuck looked at her like she was mad. "Why would they know?"

Serena gave him a look that said you-had-best-cooperate-unless-you-want-a-black-eye. She stepped up to him raised her hand but instead of hitting him again she grabbed his phone. "I don't know but then how would they know about this!" she screamed at him, shoving the picture of the two of the on Gossip Girl.

"I have no idea how that got on that."

"This was meant to be secret, Chuck! No' one was meant to know about you and me and now the whole school knows! Including Dan!"

"Ah yes. Daniel Humphrey. How did he take it, knowing his girlfriend is screwing another guy?" Chuck asked, a little too coolly and with a hint of glee in his eyes, which went unnoticed by Serena.

"Firstly, I don't know because I left as soon as he saw it and secondly he's not my boyfriend but he will never will be now because he thinks I'm screwing you!" she shouted putting extra emphasis on the words screwing you.

"Well I'd hate to break it to you but you are screwing me, you have been screwing me since before you left for boarding school."

"That's not the point! The point is that no' one was meant to know about this. Oh and just so you know, I was going to end it with you today." She said with a smirk.

Chuck called her bluff. "Were you really? Well go on then, it's still today isn't it? There's nothing stopping you from ending it now."

Serena said nothing and looked down. She had considered ending it with Chuck but that was only when she thought she had a chance with Dan. Now he had seen that picture, she knew that no way was he going to want be with her. Who would want Chuck Bass's sloppy seconds?

"That's what I thought." Chuck said smugly and sat down on the couch, pulling her down with her. "So what if everyone knows anyway? Surely it means we can be more public without the worry of anyone catching us out."

Serena didn't know if she should be more stunned that he actually said that or frustrated that he actually said that. She jumped up from where she was sitting and said calmly, "Have you not listened to anything I've said Chuck? There's a reason why we had our arrangement secret. I DIDN'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW!" she said yelling the last sentence.

At this Chuck got annoyed, got up and walked over to Serena, backing her up against the wall. "I helped you out Serena. Remember why you came to me in the first place? If it wasn't for Georg-" he said but got interrupted as Serena shouted in his face. "Don't you dare say her name!" and tried to slap him again only this time Chuck was prepared and caught her by the wrist. When she tried with the other hand, Chuck did the same thing and held them above her head, against the wall and then kissed her on her lips. At the instant contact, Serena opened her mouth to let Chuck's tongue go exploring. It was only for a short time and when they came up for breath, Chuck said with a smirk "You really need to calm down. Actually, I'd rather you didn't – I like you when you get fired up like this." which was received by Serena trying to kick his shins but Chuck was too quick and spread his legs out the way which was stupid as Serena's foot came swing towards his manhood. Wincing, he quickly let go of her hands, which went straight to his injured friend. He collapsed on the floor in pain. "It's okay, I never wanted kids anyway." He managed to splutter out.

Serena sighed. "I'm sorry I had to hurt you Chuck but you gave me no choice." She stated and walked towards the door to leave.

"What? No ice? You make me infertile and don't even have the decency to get me ice?" Chuck said, stopping Serena in her tracks.

She walked over to the freezer to get some ice cubes. She got the palate, walked over and emptied it down his boxers. This caused Chucks face to widen and him to yelp out in pain. "Christ Serena! Not only can I not reproduce but I now have frostbite in some very interesting places!"

Serena looked at him rolling around and started to giggle. "I'm sorry, let me help you get them out." She walked over to Chuck whose hand was down his boxers picking out cubes of frozen water.

"Oh hell no! You're not coming anywhere near me!" he exclaimed.

Serena's eyes widened. "Wow, I never thought I'd hear you say that to me or any girl come to that," she teased.

"I know but there's a first time for everything." Chuck smiled at her.

Serena laughed as she sat down next to him. "I'm sorry for the way I reacted, I shouldn't have hurt you like that."

Chuck looked up at her and for the first time didn't feel the need or want to push her down and have sex with her all night like they usually did. Instead he just wanted to stay up all night and just talk to her and that wasn't because little Bass was incapable even though it did play a little part.

Serena looked in to his eyes and saw something she had never seen before. Usually when she looked in to his eyes, she saw lust and desire. This time was different, this was love and affection, something she wasn't used to from anyone, let alone Chuck Bass. She didn't even see it in Dan's eyes that afternoon. When she looked in to Dan's eyes, she could have been his sister for all he cared. At that moment, she realised that when he saw the picture, the blank expression meant that he really didn't care. Whilst this upset her, she found herself looking straight back at Chuck with the same look. What surprised her more was when he took her hand and kissed her gently and tenderly on the lips, something that never occurred between them before. When they pulled apart she smiled when she realised that unbelievably, her heart belonged to Chuck and not Dan. She smiled as Chuck gave her his hand to help her stand up and the smile didn't disappear as they made their way to the bedroom where they had slow, passionate sex that last hours, rather than the rushed, rough sex they usually had.

A/N: I wasn't actually intending on ending it this way but once I got typing it just sort of flowed. I was going to end it with them having sex but it was going to be completely different to how it turned out. Anyways, let me know what you think and please tell me if you think I made the wrong decision, I can take any criticism but as long as you tell me what I can do to make it better :)