Happy Holidays upper-east sider's! Tonight's the night we're all looking forward to, the Bass bash, you know I'll be

there, will you? The thought on my mind, will this year's bash even compare to last years?

"Chuck! Wake up! The maids have to make that bed!"

Blair whipped a cushion at her husband angrily. She had a clipboard in her hands, a pencil behind her ear, it was noon, and the

Christmas Eve party started at nine, what was he pulling, still in bed?! She tapped her new black stilettos impatiently.

"Hmhnnn…"

He sat up and ruffled his hair sexily like he always did in the morning. I love it when he does that. She had half a mind drop her

clipboard, and make passionate love to him right now. But the party had to be organized, so she pushed her lust aside.

Meanwhile, Chuck got out of bed, zombyish. He walked into the bathroom, and before going in to the shower he stuck his head

out of the door and gave Blair a naughty look,

"Come and join me?"

She smiled, but played hard to get.

"No, I'd rather not. Hurry up, I need help making sure this party goes smoothly."

He ran after her in his boxers, grabbed Blair's thighs and kissed her passionately; she placed her hands on his bare skin, and

fought not to give in to her attraction. Finally pulling away, he gave her his bad boy smile and whispered into her hear, sending

shivers down her spine.

"Morning."

He turned and strode the bathroom. He knew she wanted him. That was enough to make him the happiest man in the world.


Serena leaned against the bar, and caught the bartender's attention with her fingers.

"Just a water please."

Blair came and leaned next to her. The bartender handed Serena her drink. She turned her attention to Blair.

"Did you invite him?"

"Yep. He's over there."

She nodded her head to the corner of the room that was ravishingly decorated, tinsel, mistletoe, and lights hanging everywhere.

There were four Christmas trees, decorated simply, and the furniture in the suite had been replaced with a huge bar, and the DJ's

table. Two of the corners of the room had chairs and couches for people to sit on.

"Good."

Serena smiled.

"You know you're a good person Blair, you really are. Forgiving him. It's just going to take Chuck a little longer. A lot of things

were said, even if they weren't meant."

"I know… It's just… Look at him, he' so lonely."

"He's got Jenny."

"Ya… I guess so."

Blair sighed, she looked at Nate who was leaning against the wall in the corner of the room. He was watching Jenny dance with

another guy. Serena had warned him that Dan didn't know, so he couldn't start dancing with her in the middle of the party, no

matter how bad he wanted to kiss her right now.

He took the drink in his hand, downed it and made his way to Jenny. Screw it. She saw him coming, and smiled. She excused

herself from the boy who was currently trying to hit on her, and wrapped her arms around Nate's neck. She looked in to his eyes,

and hers sparkled with joy.

"I was wondering how long it would take you…"

She leaned her head against his shoulder, and he put his chin on her head. Over at the bar, Blair and Serena had sat down on the

stools, and were chatting away. Dan came up behind them and sat next to Serena.

"Hey. Have you seen my sister?"

"Ya, she was on the dance floor last time I saw her, dancing with Nate."

She hadn't thought before she spoke, Blair kicked her under the table.

"Ow."

She said as she turned to Blair, and Blair gave her a, keep your mouth shut before I slap you look. Luckily Dan didn't think

anything of it.

"I never understood why she was so nice to him, she knows what he did, the jackass."

Dan never liked Nate in the first place, but when he had betrayed his best friend, and completely used his ex-girlfriend to get his

dad out of jail, he immediately took Chuck side, and had actually been the one to give him his second black eye.

"Chuck!"

Nate ran after Chuck, trying desperately to get him to listen to him. It wasn't working because Chuck quickened his stride. He

had a cruel look on his face.

"Chuck, please!"

Chuck stopped abruptly. He turned quickly with anger in is eyes, to face Nate. He didn't want to make a scene in the middle of

Central Park, but he couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Oh, right. Chuck isn't capable of feeling. He's just used her and then dumped her in the trashcan. Oh, wait. You did that.

Oops."

He said mockingly. He took a step forward and looked straight in Nate's eyes. He didn't blink or flinch. He spoke sternly.

"I'm going to make this very clear, you and me were over. Done. If I never see you again, that's fine with me. What you did, it's

unacceptable, and it's unforgivable. Not just to me, but to her. Your nothing of a best friend, you don't even qualify as a human

being. Now get out of my face before I give you another black eye. Now."

Chuck walked off and left Nate standing there, hurt. Serena showed up and stood behind Nate, Dan followed Chuck. Nate was

hurt but he wasn't ready to give up just yet. He ran up in front of Chuck, and faced him.

"I'm not the only bad guy in the story, not the only traitor, like you call me. You slept with her twenty minutes after we broke up.

Instead if coming to see if I was ok, you were screwing my ex-girlfriend in the back of your limo. You can't tell me I'm a bad

friend. While I was trying to get over the fact that my Dad attempted suicide you where out buying her 30 thousand dollar

necklaces and trying to make her forget me. You're pissed at me for trying to save my dad, he's my dad, my family, I would do

anything for him and you know that! It's my fault your father hates you!"

Chuck step forward, and looked straight into Nate's eyes, the rage coming out of him was astronomical, he blew up. He punched

Nate right across the jaw, and Nate fell to the ground. He screamed at him so loud, the people in their apartments stuck their

heads out the windows.

"I tried to explain to you, that I was sorry, I tried to make you understand how I felt, that I wasn't just playing games, and you

punched me! You didn't even care! You knew I was in love with her, you knew! But you just had to get what you wanted and you

didn't care if I got hurt along the way! That's the difference between you and me. You would do anything for your family, but I

would do anything for you! You are my family. You were everything I had! I actually tried to convince myself that you loved her

more than I did, and that it was better off that way! I was ready to give up the girl I loved for you to be happy, I was ready to

give her to you! But I was wrong, you don't love her, you would rather be with mystery blonde from around the corner!"

He stopped to take a breather, it was snowing, and the wind was blowing, so he was quite sure only them four had heard the

entire content of what he said. He didn't want the entire population of New York talking about how bad boy Chuck was in love.

Serena fell to her knees next to Nate, she whispered to him.

"Just get out of here Nate, he'll come around."

She helped him get up. He clutched his left cheek, blood trickling down his chin. He spoke to her without whispering; he didn't

care if they heard him.

"I'm not going to take this Serena, what I did wasn't that bad, I was killing two birds with one stone, you knew he would hurt her

ten times more than I did, you didn't like them together either. The minute they started dating, she relapsed like ten times."

Chuck was standing their panting from screaming at Nate, Dan by his side. This time it was Dan who spoke up.

"Just get out of here man, leave while you still have a shred of dignity."

Nate glared at Dan. Who the hell does he think he is? He was so pissed off, he didn't even stop to think about what he was

saying, he stared at Chuck in the eyes. All in the same he was careful not to say Jenny, he didn't need Dan off at him too.

"It doesn't matter, that you figured me out, that you saw me with mystery blond, Blair is never going to believe you anyways. I've

got her wrapped around my finger like a red Christmas bow, so just move on to your next infatuation."

This time Dan was the one who couldn't take it anymore. He punched Nate square in the eye, and Nate fell back, but this time

there was no Serena to help him get back up again. She couldn't believe he had just said that.

She put her hand on Dan's shoulder, and motioned to Chuck.

"Let's get out of here."

Dan spoke again.

"In fact, I never understood why you are so nice to him."

Serena turned on her bar stool to Dan, and leaned in to give him a kiss. She grabbed his hand and led him through the crowd of

people on the dance floor, and out the door. The hallway was dark, but the minute Serena stuck her head out the door she could

make out Nate's and Jenny's figure making out in the hallway. She turned around quickly and pushed Dan back into the room.

He quirked an eyebrow at her as she tried to explain…

"I decided it would be, um, rude to ditch the party."

She tried to push him further threw the door so she could shut it behind her. But Dan had known Serena long enough to know

she was lying, he stuck his head out of the doorway and as she expected he freaked out.

"What the fuck!? Get off her!"

He pushed Serena out of the way and was about to pull Nate off Jenny, but Serena pulled him back.

"Dan! Come on just leave them alone."

"The hell I'm going to leave him alone with her, wait…"

He turned to face Serena, hurt in his eyes.

"You knew about this!?"

His hurt turned in to anger as he jabbed his finger at his sister who was fixing her skirt… She came up behind and tried to reason

with him.

"Danny…"

"No!"

He screamed at her and then looked at Serena.

"I can't believe this."

Nate joined the argument. He tried to protect Serena.

"Look man, Serena had nothing to do with-"

Dan cut him off, he punched him in the cheek, and Nate fell on his ass.

"God, I am so fed up of getting sucker punched by you!"

Nate got back up and punched Dan back, and in seconds they were rolling on the ground trying to fit another punch in. Serena

and Jenny stood there, with the other onlookers who had gathered around; Jenny had tears in her eyes. Chuck showed up with

his arm around Blair,

"What the hell is going on here?"

He spotted the two men on the ground and he left Blair, who was trying to get an explanation out of Serena, in the doorway. Just

as Dan was about to knock out Nate, Chuck pulled him off Nate, and gave him to another onlooker to hold him back. He stuck

out his hand to Nate, who took it, and helped him up. Nate straightened his cloths.

"Thanks."

"I still hate you. I just didn't want you ruining my party; so don't take this as me forgiving you. I don't know what you're doing

here, but just get out of my hotel before I'm the one dislocating you jaw."

Chuck gave Nate the cold shoulder, put his hand on Dan's shoulder and led him back into the suite. Everyone else followed but

Serena, Blair and Jenny, who stood there looking at Nate; tears in his eyes. He looked up at Jenny, who wasn't trying to hide her

tears any more; she gave him a kiss on the cheek, and went back into the party with Serena.

Blair stayed. He had that broken look on his face that used to make her croon over him, but not anymore, she never made the

same mistake twice. She gave him such a cold look; it would have frozen over hell, and then poured her drink on him. She turned

and walked into the suite, and shut the door behind her.

"What the hell was that for?"

She smirked and handed her empty margarita glass to Serena, who stood awestruck at her side. She couldn't believe Blair was

going to start such a scene, it was Christmas Eve, and they were at the annual Bass party, even though Chuck Bass had boarded

a flight to Paris an hour before. He was heartbroken, he had tried to convince her that Nate had been playing her the whole

time, to get his father out of jail, and to separate them, but she had sent him away.

"You have me wrapped around your finger like a Christmas bow right?"

Nate stood there, and he was actually sincere when he said it,

"I'm sorry."

Blair stood there with tears in eyes.

"Ya, well, sorry is not going to bring him back. He's your best friend. How could you? Not just to me, but to him? He's you best

friend."

By this time, Blair had tears streaming down her cheeks, she ran out the door and into the elevator, crying. She had ruined

everything, he had actually loved her, had wanted to be with her, and Nate had snapped his finger's and got her back. How

could she have been so stupid, so naïve, as to go after that fairytale, when Chuck was so much better than prince charming?

Spotted: N and D, fist fighting on the flour of the Palace hotel. C comes to the rescue, just to make it clear he has no

sympathy for N. Who were they fighting about, not B, for a change. They were fighting about lil' J. Seams it slipped her

mind to tell big bro about her trysts with Upper East Side hottie, N. Watch out J, if you want to be one of us, people are

going to talk, it's inevitable.


Thank you all for reading. I got some messages about the timeline and I just wanted to clear things up.

Chuck and Blair left around Christmas time, which would be like episode 1x11, 1x12.

They return the next year around 2x11, 2x12.

(BabyCakes13: They finished their 12th grade in France in order to get their diplomas from the schools back in New York. Their rich, they get away with crap like that. The entire plotline so far take's course over Christmas break, so when it ends Serena and Dan will return to Dartmouth. Nate took the year off for his family problems. Chuck and Blair also took the year off and are going to start at Brown in September of what would be Season 3.)