My first New Year's present for y'all - stay tuned for the second!
Implacable
Three times you deny your lover; three times you deny yourself.
First, you're scared but determined, lips still swollen, thighs still saddlesore. A clean start for a clean break, you think. Too bad that it's far too late, far too far gone - too bad that in the act of consummation you ended the old world and began the new, bathing its glory in a fierce baptism of blood and fire.
Happy birthday, princess.
Second, you're too daunted by defeat to keep going, too afraid of loss to step back. The touch on your coat sizzles and scalds, so you draw back your hem from the mud and walk on. Too bad the connection has already been established; too bad you still pursue the hunt, even as you run from the hunter.
Blue line means negative.
Third, your pride is suffering far too much for you to fight any longer, though the end would be in sight if you just had a little faith. So you lie still, and you lie through your clenched teeth. Too bad there's no way of escaping; too bad that you're one and the same, now, one flesh in the blood rite of bondage through passion.
You will never have me.
Yes you will.
Fin.
If you couldn't tell, this is three of the times Blair pulls away from Chuck to save her face. The first is in 1x08, the second in 1x13, and the third in 2x07.