April 2020
Nate
Nate sat bewildered in the middle of the empty house that the SWAT team had surrounded for the past five hours. Nate was pissed, he was misled. And if one thing was for sure, Nate Archibald did not like to be misled.
Just then his phone buzzed. He opened his phone only to read, get a new disguise you are going back to Manhattan.
Jenny
Jenny sat quietly at the kitchen table observing her quadruplets eating their food. Soon after she learned about Nate's disappearance, she also learned that she was pregnant. It was ironic how both she and Nate wanted four children, and how it only took one pregnancy to achieve that. She was grateful that it only took that one pregnancy to accomplish that goal, because if she couldn't have children with Nate she didn't want children with anyone.
She sighed, today her children's fifth birthday, and just like every year Aunt Blair and Aunt Serena were coming by to take them shopping, well Guinevere and Odette anyways. Chuck and Dan were taking Nathaniel Jr. and Dimitri sailing, after all that is what Nate had loved best, and what he would have done with them if he was still alive.
Jenny looked around the house, it was an expense, that was for sure; sure her and Nate had bought it together but her fashion industry was a global sensation so she could afford it on her own. Not that Chuck and Blair, and her parents, and Dan and Serena hadn't offered, it's just that it was hers and Nate's, they had designed this house for them to live in for the rest of their lives, and she was going to pay the bill by herself.
Nate
"What?" Nate asked the phone blankly, like the phone had all his answers, which in a way it did.
He had learned better than to ask questions, he just did, so he got up, and called information for the nearest airport. And just like that Nate went from a recluse to being thrown into his forgotten past, ready or not.
Serena
"Can you believe they are five already?" Blair asked Serena on their way to Jenny's.
Serena shook her head, she couldn't. She remembered when the quads were born. They were supposed to be twins, but the other two were hiding behind them. She smiled as she remembered Dan's reaction to so may babies at once, he had almost passed out.
But Jenny was beaming, after the labor was over, staring down at the four little miracles that her and Nate had created. Serena couldn't help but cry at the love that shone in Jenny's eyes and reflected in the quads as they looked at her for the first time. Serena vowed then and there that she would be a part of their lives forever, because she too had the knowledge of knowing how treacherous growing up without a father could and most likely would be.
Chuck
Chuck and Dan were off preparing the sailing extravaganza for Nate Jr. and Dimitri. Chuck looked at his best friend bewildered as he was entertained with a worthless trinket; the only things that are entertaining are those of value. Chuck shook his head, if Blair was here she would have agreed, Chuck thought.
Chuck studied Dan closely after all wasn't it not long ago that they couldn't stand each other? He remembered how Nate's death had brought them together, and then of course the birth of the quads had brought them closer. Chuck often wondered if the meaning in Nate's death was that he and Humphrey could bond, but he always quickly dismissed it as he stared over at lonely boy, and realized just what an embarrassment he was to the Upper East Side.
Chuck sighed and shook his head and then he laughed a little as Dan had managed to get himself tangled in the telephone chord, again. As Chuck walked over to where Dan was helplessly trapped, Chuck looked at him hopelessly and sighed, "what would you do without me, Humphrey?"
Nate
Nate examined his surroundings, he shouldn't be suspicious but after growing up in the Upper East Side, he knew he had every right too. He took a minute to exhale before continuing on his journey.
He began to walk again, when a reflection caught his eye, he turned around and stared at himself in the Barney's shop window. Who was that person? He had no clue, all he knew was that it wasn't him; with a black wig and brown colored contact lenses, he didn't even recognize himself, which in this world was nothing unusual.
As Nate started to turn away, a wisp of brown hair caught his attention.