Ok I'm SOOO sorry this has taken so long to post! My sleeping schedule is still messed up and life itself has gotten in the way as well. Posting this now means I am losing my chapter ahead strategy, but you have all waited long enough! I have yet to finish chapter 5, but I have just been so uninspired lately, not to mention the scene I am working on is awkward for me to write (I guess you will know what scene that is) so I have been stuck on it because I really don't want it to end up being horrible. Ch. 5 is longer though and I'm not done it yet so it will only get longer.

Anyways, Ch. 4 is more of a little tease if you will and is to start to line things up for the rest of the story. I hope you like it and sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes ahead of time! Ch. 5 preview/teaser at the end!

Comments/feedback are appreciated! Thanks.

Chapter 4 - I Want Your Love

Blair could hardly believe that she and Dan had already been dating for nearly eight months. The cool night of their high school reunion had changed everything. When she fell in to a thousand pieces it was Dan who was there to help piece her back together again, and she loved him for that. It sometimes scared her at how fast and deeply in love she had fallen for him, however, that fear she kept to herself, as well as the fact that she loved him. The very last thing she wanted to do was to scare him off. It was a given that Dan wasn't Chuck when it came to love and commitment, but it still wasn't a risk Blair thought she was ready to take. She didn't know if her heart could stand to be broken again.

"Blair?" she heard Dan's voice echo through the spacious apartment. Shit! He's already here! Blair looked in the mirror of her master suit bathroom and gave herself one last thorough look over. She applied a little more gloss over her red lipstick.

"Perfect." She praised herself while putting away her lip gloss.

"My thoughts exactly." Came his familiar voice from the doorway. She loved being complimented, but she loved it most coming from Dan because she knew he really meant it. As he approached her, she gave him a once over.

"You're not to bad yourself." She smiled at him, while her stomach seemed to start to flutter. Yep she was love sick alright, and she had it bad. Dan walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"So you ready to go?" he smiled down at her.

"I will be right after this." She gave him her best flirtatious smile. His heart skipped a beat.

"Right after what?" she kissed him. It started out innocent enough, but quickly turned heated and urgent. Blair slid her hands up his chest and neck until her fingers were tangled in his hair. She could feel the heat between their bodies rising and Dan's arms tightened around her as she pressed her body to his. Their breath mingled and Dan moved to run his lips along the side of her neck where he placed soft kisses. Her skin was left tingling under his lips and a moan escaped her throat.

Need rushed over Dan as he tasted her. Her mouth tasted of strawberries and her skin like fresh peaches. He had completely lost his train of thought until he heard her hushed moan. At an attempt to try and regain control of himself he started to pull away from her.

"Where do you think you're going?" she tugged at his shirt collar and drew him back into a kiss.

"Blair, we have to stop." He tried to reason between kisses.

"Come on Humphrey, take a walk on the wild side. I dare you." She playfully bit his lower lip. God she wasn't making this easy.

"Blair, we can't."

Unlocking her arms from around his neck, she looked back into the mirror. Great. Now she had to re-apply her lipstick and gloss and what did she get out of it? Nothing, except getting hot and frustrated. Why does Dan always have to do this just when things are starting to get interesting?! Oh wait she knew why. She turned to look at him.

"You really do know how to frustrate a girl." She was only partially joking. He moved towards her and reached out to take her hands in his. Her skin immediately started tingling under his touch. She looked up at his face and found him looking directly into her eyes. She loved it when he looked at her with that expression. With such adoration? Love?

"Blair, you know I want our first time together to be special. Sex is-"

"-meaningful like art." She finished for him. "So you've already told me."

"Yes it is, and I realize that back in college I sort of strayed from that way of thinking, however, it didn't take long for me to see what a mistake that was," he moved his hands up Blair's arms causing a shiver to run through her body "and I refuse to make that same mistake with you. You're far to special for that."

Her heart did a little jump. Damn him! He made it impossible to be mad with him. Of course she understood wanting it to be special, but he didn't make it easy for her, and it had nearly been eight months since they started dating!How long was a girl suppose to wait?!She smiled to herself. Maybe it was time to get a little payback. "You always know just what to say," she was smiling.

"It's a gift."

Blair's smile turned a little devilish. "but you seem to have forgotten who your dealing with." She moved to him, her lips coming within an inch of his. "I'm Blair Waldorf." she purred, then pressed her lower body to his. Dan's breath caught.

"You're the devil." He managed, voice a little unsteady, but still laced with affection. Blair laughed.

"That too." She patted his cheek and then walked out the door to go grab the loaf of bread. "You coming?" he could almost hear the smile in her voice. He had to give it to her, she was good.

"Yea." He took a steadying breath and went to meet her at the door.

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As they walked through Central Park hand in hand, Dan couldn't help but wonder if maybe he was pushing Blair's patients. Hell, he was pushing his own patients. They had been dating each other for months now so he could understand Blair's frustration, but he didn't want to rush things. He wanted everything to be perfect because he knew Blair deserved nothing less. Unfortunately, it just never felt like the right time. Something was off. Missing? Putting his thoughts aside he asked Blair "So what are we doing with the bread?"

"We are going to feed the ducks. I've only done it since high school."

"High school? Really?" Dan was a little surprised. They stopped in front of a little pond.

"Is that so hard to believe?"

"Of the mature, adult Blair Waldorf? No. Of the high school -take no prisoners- Blair Waldorf? Yea, yea it kind of is." He smiled. She playfully nudged him with her shoulder.

"Well, then I guess you didn't know me very well back then." She threw a piece of bread to the ducks.

"I think that's a given," he took a slice of the bread, and he too started throwing pieces to the ducks, "because if I had I would have fallen in love with you years ago." Blair froze. Crap, did he really just say he loved her out loud?! Its not that he didn't want to, he had wanted to tell her for awhile now, but he was afraid he might spook her. Well now that it was out there he couldn't unsay it, so he decided to lay it all out there. He turned to her and gently took hold of her shoulders, trying to make eye contact. He could feel her starting to tremble under his light grip. She wouldn't look up at him. He tried anyways. "Because I do Blair. I love you." She looked up at him then and her eyes seemed to sparkle.

And there is was. Those three words she desperately wanted to her from him. She couldn't stop smiling or the fluttering in her stomach, and leaned into him, placing a soft kiss on his lips. "I love you too," she kissed him again "very much." Dan wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a warm embrace. Blair rested her head on his shoulder and snuggled into his arms, and despite the cold they just stood there in each others arms. He didn't let go of her, and she didn't want him too.

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Ch. 5 Preview/Teaser - (unfinished as of yet and unedited…so it may be slightly altered)

He didn't have to be told twice. He kissed her lips tenderly, and she coaxed him to deepen the kiss; her tongue meeting his stroke for stroke. Wrapping his arms around her, he slid a hand partially under the back of her blouse and gently pressed the small of her back; bringing her closer to him. Without breaking the kiss, Blair blindly started unbuttoning his shirt and ran her splayed hands over his pecks, where one of them came to rest over Dan's heart and her other hand crept up to rest along the back of his neck.