yes, i know i havnt updated in a while but i really wanted to get this right since it is the last chapter! now, im not sure how i feel about the very end of this chapter, it may be a little cliche but hey, thats what this chapter is called anyway! i hope you all like it and i hope it lives up to your expectations! oh and for a heads up, so what chuck says towards the end about not having sex for a bit, this means he did not sleep with vanessa! just so you all know and it makes sense!

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CHAPTER 9:

"CLICHÉ"

Chuck sat in the waiting area with his head in his hands. What was he gonna say to her? Should he not have let Serena go in first?

Suddenly, Chuck heard the squeal of a door opening and looked up. There Serena stood, with her hands folded across her chest as if to make her warmer. She smiled and said, "Your turn."

Chuck then got up and slowly made his way to the door, shutting it once completely in the room. When Chuck turned around to look at Blair, he was completely awestruck. Even in a hospital gown and hooked up o an IV, she was still absolutely gorgeous. "Hey," he said timidly.

Blair sat up. "Hey," she replied in the same shy tone. He walked over and sat in the same seat that Serena had just sat in moments ago.

"You feeling better?"

"Yah, just a little light headed but even that's goIng away."

"Great. That's great."

"Yah...great." It was, they had to admit, really awkward. Neither one wanted to be the one to bring it up. Both just wanted to live with the big elephant in the room. Yet, part of them just wanted to get it over with.

Chuck finally decided to be the first to take the leap and start the conversation. He looked at her, completely heartbroken. "Why?"

Blair didn't even have to ask what he meant. What he was asking about. It was way too obvious to play dumb about. Jack. "Chuck, you obviously can't figure that out?"

He looked at her blankly. How on earth would I know why you slept with my effing uncle?!

Blair, looking down at her fiddling fingers, didn't bother to wait for a spoken reply. "You'd left. After I'd told you that I loved you." Her eyes started to water.

"I came to your room."

"You still left. And I was sad. Depressed even." she looked up at him, "I went to a New Years party. Dorota made me go, just to get out and have contact with other human beings. It was being hosted by one of those big society people our parents are friends with. I headed straight for the open bar and that's when Jack-"

Chuck cringed at the sound of Jack's name. It made him want to vomit.

"He," Blair corrected, "approached. We had a little discussion, if you can even call it that, about how he hadn't seen me since I was little. I had a couple more drinks and a shot or two. The we started talking about you. He listened, comforted me. And by then I was wasted and thinking of you, not knowing where you were, made me extremely lonely. Not a good mix, drunk and lonely. One thing led to another and we...we, slept together."

Even though Chuck had sat there listening quietly, that did not, by any means, mean that Chuck was calm or happy. Yah, Blair may have been under the influence of alcohol whilst in bed with his poor excuse of an uncle. But that does not mean he's ok with it now. "So, what your saying is that this was all my fault? I brought this on myself?"

"I never said that."

"It sure as hell was implied."

"It may have played a small part but I never blamed you."

"Nor should you. Its not my fault you told me you loved me. Not my fault you have no morals, got drunk, then jumped into bed with the first man to compliment you like some slut." Chuck froze. He never meant to call her a slut. He could see her eyes water as she laid back and stared at the ceiling pattern. "I'm sorry. I never meant to call you that. Sort of...slipped out."

"You wouldn't have said it, let alone think it, if you didn't feel that it was some what true." Blair stated, still staring at the ceiling.

"I don't feel-"

"You realize that you're such a hypocrite? You know that, right?" she interrupted. Now she finally looked at him. "You parade your little whores around. Sleep with a different woman every night. All while claiming to want me back. Claiming it'll be different this time. You say I have no morals. You're one to talk because you're the poster boy for no morals. So, don't you DARE come in here, with me in an effing hospital bed, and call me a slut you disgusting man-whore pig!"

Chuck sat there stunned. If it were anyone else telling him that, he probably would have punched them. But since it was Blair, it just hurt. The only woman he had ever loved thought he was a pig. "Blair, I'm-"

"Just leave."

"Blair-"

"I'm not in the mood to hear you voice right now so please just get out." Blair crossed her arms and turned her menacing glare to the other side of the room.

Chuck got up and strolled to the door. When his fingertips touched the handle, it seemed his whole life, up until now, with Blair flashed before his eyes. When she danced for him at Victrola. The amazing sex afterward. The butterflies. Sex again at her birthday party. Everything with Nate. Marcus. Deciding to wait. Telling him she loved him. The reading of Bart's will and all the chaos along with it. Blair's meltdown. Realizing he did, too, love her. And now, discovering just hours ago that she slept with his uncle and her laying in a hospital bed. Chuck felt as if if he walked out of this hospital room, he'd be walking away from a life with her. Blair. The woman he loves.

He turned away from the door and walked to the foot of the bed. "No."

Blair's eyebrows raised. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me. No. I'm not walking away again. You may have slept with Jack, but I can't just walk away from you."

Blair sat there. Glare gone. Eyebrows no longer raised. Just listening.

"Yes, I may have been a man-whore. Yes, I may be a pig. But," Chuck walked over to the head of the bed and took Blair's right hand. "as cliché as this may sound, I'm a pig that is completely in love with you."

Blair pressed her lips together to try and hide her smile. It wasn't working. "You love me?"

Chuck, too, smiled. "Completely."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure?"

He leaned forward so his nose was touching hers. "Absolutely positive."

Chuck then kissed her. At first it was sweet and romantic. But then, the kiss deepened to such an extent that Chuck was halfway on the bed with Blair.

Blair was the first to pull back. They laughed. "But can you say it twice?"

He kissed her again. "I love you." he whispered. Chuck continued to kiss her and state his love for her when Serena walked in.

Serena jumped back a little in surprise, fully expecting awkward silence instead of Chuck practically on top of Blair during a make out session. "I see that you two have...worked everything out. Am I wrong?"

Blair playfully rolled her eyes. Chuck continued to kiss Blair and just waved lazily at Serena, signaling her to leave. Serena, taking the hint, tiptoed back to the waiting room and shut the door quietly.

Blair stopped kissing him for a moment, as if remembering something. "Is it just me or did you say earlier that you were a man-whore?"

"Yah, I haven't had sex for a couple months."

Blair's eyes widened. "A couple months?!"

"Not since your big meltdown after that Age of Innocence play the school put on. So, once you get out of this wretched place, you better fully expect to not see the light of day for a bit." Chuck gave her a playful smile.

"But, why?"

"I decided that if I'm going to get you back, I'm going to get you back for real. Even if I haven't really shown it." Chuck then gave her his signature smirk.

Blair sighed and stared up at Chuck as she pushed a lock of his hair behind his left ear. "I love you, Chuck Bass."

"I love you too Blair." As he kissed her, he remembered the fury for his uncle. He thought of what he'd do about Jack but then just decided to forget about it for right now. This moment should be spent thinking about Blair. Besides, he could always beat him up tomorrow.

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so, i hope you enjoyed the whole story! i may or may not write a prologue one-shot about what happened between Jack and Blair on New Years. Thank you all for your comments and for taking the time to read my first story and i hope you read my future stories! Til next time!