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Chapter twenty three: Welcome Home

Tabitha sat in between Blair and Chuck in the back of the car. The traffic as always was busy, but Tabitha was keeping both her parents amused with stories about her day before the fall. Chuck stretched his arm over the back of the seat to rub Blair's shoulder. She smiled at him. Tabitha found something on Chuck's phone to keep her amused. He kissed her gently on the head and looked back to Blair, "you doing ok?"

"Yes," she nodded, "it's just been a hectic day, I never even got tell you about the meeting. It went really well."

"I never doubted it. Did they want to have the function at The Empire?"

"No" Blair smiled, "they booked four functions. One every month for the next four months, and they said there would probably be more."

Chuck squeezed Blair shoulder, "you are better at running a hotel them I am. I might have to fire you."

"Well that's not very nice. I just brought in a lot of money. Anyway I have working hard while you have been off skiving."

"Skiving," Chuck scoffed, "you think that's what I have been doing? " Chuck realized it was now time to tell Blair everything, or rather show her. He leaned forward to talk to the driver, "Patrick could you take us to East 68th Street please. Number two fifty."

Blair looked at Chuck, "where are we going?"

"You'll see." Chuck smirked, "it's what I wanted to show you this morning."

Blair looked confused, "you wanted to show me something? Sorry I guess with all the drama I totally forgot."

"It's ok. It's been a stressful couple of days. Maybe at the weekend we can go something fun. I think we both deserve a break."

"Breakfast in bed sounds good to me, and a movie."

"Bed sounds great", Chuck grinned, and winked at Blair

Blair rolled her eyes, "I don't think so, and you are a parent now. That is a luxury."

Chuck smiled as the town car pulled up outside the building, "on second thought I think we are going to be too busy this weekend."

"What? Why?" Blair asked as Chuck climbed out the car and helped Tabitha out, "what is this?"

Chuck picked Tabitha up and smiled, "well let's go and see."

Chuck took Blair's hand and led her into the door. She became even more confused when the doorman greeted Chuck by name. Chuck pulled her into the elevator and pressed the button for the top floor. She asked Chuck three times what was going on and three times he simply tool her to wait. Once they reached the floor Chuck got out and set Tabitha down. There was one door in front of them.

"Welcome home Blair", Chuck said as he opened it, "go and have a look Tabs, your bedroom in on the third floor."

"Can I paint it pink?" Tabitha asked

"Yes, you can."

Chuck smiled as Tabitha ran off to explore her new home. Chuck turned round to find Blair. She was still standing in the doorway, "are you ok? What's wrong?"

"You said welcome home. I don't understand what you mean?"

"I bought this for us to live in. I didn't want Tabitha to grow up in a hotel like I did. All I ever wanted was to have a home, somewhere my Dad would come home and not work in. I wanted him to ask me about my day. It's why I left dinner the other night. I got a viewing before it was even listed, I was scared somebody would put an offer in before me."

Blair walked over to the kitchen. She stood with her back to him as she ran her hand over the worktop. After a minute she turned back to Chuck and he saw she was crying, "If you don't like it, we can change it."

Blair looked startled, "that's not what I'm crying. I love it. I love everything, even the things I haven't seen yet."

"Then why are you crying?", Chuck asked as he walked over and wrapped his arms around her.

"Because Tabs and me have a home. Somewhere permanent. I loved the hotel, I really did but this is a home. We live here, I have a bedroom that isn't like five hundred others. " Blair sighed and wiped a tear from her eye, "I don't mean to sound ungrateful because I am so glad you gave us somewhere to live but…"

"But now you have a home." Chuck finished her sentence, "come on, you have so much more to see. We will start at the top. " Chuck took her hand and led her towards the stairs.

"It has three floors?", Blair asked as they started climbing the second set of stairs

"Yes, I thought the top floor could be the bedrooms, there are three. One for us, one for Tabs and a spare one. And then this floor is going to have a play room and a study."

Blair still couldn't believe she was going to live here. She continued to wipe the tears from her eyes. Once they got to the top Chuck opened double doors and led Blair into the master bedroom. She couldn't decide what to take in first, the fireplace, or the walk-in closet, the en-suite or the king sized bed. He had pictures of Audrey Hepburn on one of the walls, and on the other there were about a dozen photographs. There were photographs of Blair and Tabitha, Tabitha and Chuck, photographs of Blair in high school with Serena and one giant photograph of Blair and Tabitha in the middle.

"It's the only thing I had time to do, nothing else is decorated yet but I wanted to have some identity in the house"

Blair turned round to Chuck and wiped the tears from her eyes, "I love it, it's all I need. It's more than I need."

"Well I have another surprise for you," Chuck said taking Blair's hand, "come on."

Blair turned off the light in her bedroom as she left. She couldn't believe she had a bedroom. Chuck led her back down the stairs and into one of the rooms. As he turned on the lights Blair saw chalk over the floor in rectangle shapes.

"Did you kill some rectangle people to get this house," Blair joked.

"No, it's a plan of the room. That is where I thought the desk could go", he said pointing to one of the shapes, "that's the book shelf, the coffee table and the couch. This is your office."

Blair studied the floor plan for another minute, "I don't understand, I have an office at work."

"You don't work at the hotel anymore."

Blair spun round and stared at Chuck, "why, did I do something wrong? Is it because those people liked me, because that's stupid Chuck."

"No," Chuck laughed, "not at all. You are great at your job, but it's not enough for you. I have the money from my Dad's will sitting in the bank, I never knew what to do with it. I guess I wanted to make it mean something. When you told me about your Mom disowning you because of Tabitha I had an idea. I want you to take it and start a charity."

Chuck walked over and took Blair hand, "after everything with Carter, after you found out you pregnant, you felt you had nowhere to go. You ran away. I thought maybe you could start a charity to help girls like you. We will go and find you premises of course but this is so you can do some work here."

"You want me to start a charity?" Blair choked out.

"Yes, I think it would be the perfect job for you. You were always meant for greatness Blair, it just took some time for it to find you."

Blair didn't know what to say. She simply walked over and kissed Chuck. He wrapped his arms around her waist and smiled against her lips. After a few minutes Tabitha came in and interrupted them.

"Mom this place is incredible"

Blair pulled away from Chuck and turned round to face the child, "yep it is. Have you decided what color you want your room yet?"

"Pink of course."

Blair rolled her eyes, "I'm glad to see you have made a full recovery."

Tabitha nodded, "yes it's because the doctor give me magic beans to help."

"More like jumping beans," Blair muttered to herself, "right go and turn the lights off in your room. You need to get an early night, we have a lot of packing to do tomorrow."

Tabitha did as she was told, Blair watched her for a second and then took one last look around the room. She started to imagine what the room was going to look like after she had decorated it. She started to make a mental list of where everything was going to go. She had butterflies in her stomach, she couldn't remember the last time she had butterflies in her stomach. Chuck kissed her on the head, "I need to run a quick errand, I will take Tabitha with me. Will you be ok here on your own?"

"I will be more than ok. I live here now." Blair grinned, "actually I am going to go back to the suite and start packing. I'm so excited."

Chuck laughed as he headed for the door, "remember to breath Blair".

"I finally can," Blair muttered to herself.