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He nuzzled his nose on her back and she shivered in response. The sun had just risen but he didn't want to leave the bed yet, the sensation of his body pressed against hers was so comforting that he was afraid to let go.
He had to anyway. A long day was planned ahead of him, a meeting in the morning and a lunch at noon to debate a new manoeuvre regarding his company.
He let his hand slip away from her waist to sit down for a minute to recollect himself before jumping off bed.
Blair was fast to turn around and reach for his hand before he would go too far from her, a clear pout on her sleepy face as she pleaded him to stay for other five minutes.
He smiled sweetly but let go of her grip. "I really can't stay, Blair... I have a meeting in three hours."
She sighed loudly and her expression dropped. She didn't want to answer him, she didn't want to plea. She just nodded and he went away too soon to realize he forgot about something Blair clearly didn't.
She pushed her head back on her pillow and started watching the ceiling hoping she wouldn't drift off sleep again. She had to remind him something that was important for her but that he had probably put aside because of his work's duties.
Sure his job and company was important, there wasn't any doubt in that. But what about her, what about the baby they were going to have in less than nine months?
She was about to hit her third month and she had to do something before that. Her Doctor had suggested her and she wanted him to be there.
Once he got back in their bedroom to fix his tie and put his jacket on, she literally jumped sit on the big bed. He looked back because she had made a great noise. "Blair? Are you okay?" He was clearly confused. He thought she might had hit her head on the bed head or something.
Blair smiled bitterly and crossed her arms on her chest. "What day is today?" She asked with venom.
Chuck glanced at the watch on the wall and answered her. "It's the 28th. Why? Have I forgot something important?" His face was neutral, he really did seem lost. He was trying to remind something but it looked like he couldn't.
He remained still in his place while Blair looked like fuming. "No, Chuck. You didn't. I mistaken the days," she replied changing her expression radically. From an angry face now she looked fully of joy like a little girl on Christmas Day.
"I think I'm gonna go now." he winked and went for the door. "I have a meeting from ten to one. Call me only if it's important, okay?"
She nodded angrily as he exited the room and clenched her fists when she heard the loud sound of the elevator's bell.
He was gone now and she was left alone. He hadn't figured out what that day meant to her, or he pretended to. Chuck usually kept his agenda updated, but work was probably more important if he had forgot about her first ultrasound.
She couldn't drift to sleep again because the thought of it made her upset, so she decided to call Serena since she needed someone to vent to and Dorota wouldn't be there before eight.
Her friend answered after the third ring, and she was surprised to hear her voice calm and shrill as it was early night. She always had a strong voice before going out. "S?" She called on the other end as she brought the sheets over her chest.
"Are you okay, B?" She looked concerned. Blair didn't usually call at seven in the morning.
Blair sighed and looked down at her feet. "I have my first ultrasound today..." She started to say in a low voice.
"And...?" Serena pushed.
"I'm gonna be all alone in the room. No one is gonna enjoy this moment with me." She confessed as her eyes started to become glossy. She didn't want to cry though.
She could hear the change in Serena's tone. "What about Chuck? He's not coming anymore? B, don't tell me he left you. I'm gonna cut his..." Her voice trailed off.
"He has a meeting. His work is obviously more important than me!" She almost screamed.
She could hear her best friend take a long sigh on the other end. "Have you at least reminded him of the appointment? I'm sure he wouldn't go to work without saying anything about it" Serena tried to comfort her. She was really trying to ease her anger.
Blair didn't answer and wanted to find a better excuse to tell Serena, but she couldn't. Yeah, she had indeed not told Chuck about their visit to the Doctor on purpose because she wanted him to remember it. "Blair? Have you?" Serena asked again.
She shook her head and gave her an annoyed answer. "I haven't."
"Then call him now, go! Do you want him to be with you, right?" Serena asked again, but apparently Blair wasn't willing to answer her. She was too stubborn. "Right, Blair?"
Blair sighed loudly that it was sure her friend had listened her through the phone. "I will. I will." She said more trying to convince herself more than Serena.
….
The appointment with Blair's Doctor, her long time gynecologist, was at ten thirty. Blair had her usual hot shower to wake up up, although that day it wasn't a happy one. She was full of rage and anxious and she needed someone to calm her down.
Dorota reached her in the bathroom when she asked to. She dried her hair and helped her choosing the dress she believed was good for the meeting.
"Miss Blair, blue dress is perfect for you. The one with the large skirt." Dorota said from behind Blair while she was deciding between two or three outfits.
One was a plain vanilla shirt with a short, grey skirt while the other one was a really nice dress she had bought few days before that had this wide skirt so it would be good for when her belly would become bigger too. Blair looked at the two with attention as she picked up the blue dress like her maid suggested.
She kept talking about how a workaholic Chuck was and how a bad Father for their baby he would be if he kept forgetting their appointments with the Doctor. They said they wanted to be in this together, then why he was absent during that important day for their lives?
"Should I call him?" She asked with concern while her maid was randomly putting the other dresses Blair didn't choose back into the closet.
Dorota turned and firmly shook her head.
"Why Dorota? I want him. He needs to be there for our baby!" She complained.
"Mr Chuck is busy. Meeting with French people. He told me too, great deal." Dorota nodded to convince her. "There are other ultrasounds. Mr Chuck will come to next one."
"He better will."
"Do you want me to come? Or Mrs. Waldorf?"
Blair rolled her eyes in annoyance and abruptly stormed out of the room. She had the limo waiting for her on the curb and she couldn't miss a second. She didn't want to get more mad than she was, but it looked inevitable. Dorota was no help. She even proposed to call her Mother. What in the world.
Eleanor Waldorf was happy when she and Chuck dined with her and Cyrus and told her the good news, but she was more anxious than her when it come to pregnancy that she would only make the situation worse. She had already sent over her place few of her trusted Doctors to give her treatments that in her opinion a pregnant woman should have while she's expecting.
"I can't be eight months without working, mom" she informed Eleanor when she first suggested her. Her Mother wanted Blair to be at home and don't do anything of her duties.
"But it will be healthy for your baby, love. And took off those heels when you get home!" She had addressed her.
Blair couldn't help but smile awkwardly at Chuck and roll her eyes when her Mother wasn't watching, and Chuck was trying to hide the laughters every time.
He really didn't suggest her anything.
He just said that she could do what she wanted and that he knew she still wanted to work until she wanted to and felt to. He knew her too well to know that she would die of boredom if she would remain alone at home to rest. Blair Waldorf would never stay at the same place forever without moving a finger. She wasn't lazy and her work didn't require her to be always walking.
Blair checked her blackberry when the limo got her there. It was a quarter before the time she had to meet the gynecologist.
She checked herself in her pocket mirror and then exited the limo.
….
Once inside, she had to wait what she said it was the longest period of her life. She even compared to the months she had waited Chuck to tell her he loved her. It looked eternal and her tension wasn't helping her. It was so rude for her Doctor to make her wait, but it looked like an older woman that had the appointment at ten wasn't out of the room yet. Like her, other women were waiting on the expensive green chairs of the famous studio.
She tried not to look at them, but it wasn't in her nature. One of the girls looked so sleepy that she wanted to roll her eyes so much. She looked at least six month pregnant, and her belly was barely covered by a red shirt she recognized as Marc Jacobs. It was rumpled on the belly button and it looked so wrong in that really short skirt she was wearing. Her shoes were matching her shirt at least, as well as her bag.
She raised her head from the magazine she was reading and Blair almost had a heart attack.
"Oh my God. Blair Waldorf." The girl said with the tone of surprise. Blair was surprised as well to see her there. It was probably more than two years that they hadn't seen each other.
"I really didn't think next place I would see you would be here." She raised her eyebrow and blinked. "Last time you were attending Columbia with me."
Penelope laughed bitterly and tried to fix her shirt. She hadn't noticed that her shirt was out of place on her belly. She looked up fast to see that Blair was amusingly watching her. It somehow made her smile. She thought Penelope would be more thoughtful in dressing up. She had been after all one of her minions and her minions didn't dress with their lights off.
"You know, I maybe expected this." Blair continued.
Her old minion pursed her lips. "Well, you're here too. Don't tell me it's your monthly routine, Blair. If you were looking for the Psychiatrist it's on the Third floor." She paused for a while. "Or maybe yes. I believe why you're here. You've screwed up."
"Check your facts, Penelope." Blair said with a fierce tone as she played with her curls nonchalantly. "How months are you, five? Six? I didn't believe pregnant women get so acid when their bellies grow. I suppose I was wrong."
She crossed her legs as one more girl, the one before Penelope, got in the studio of the Doctor leaving them alone. She sighed in anxiety and bit her lip. How she wished she would be the next not to see Penelope's judgmental face in front of her anymore.
She hoped her ex minion wouldn't answer back, but she wasn't expecting her to and in fact Penelope spit back at her in a soar tone. "Keep denying, Blair. I can see your bump from this far... You're screwed up. And alone."
Blair glared at her and put one of her hands on her knee. The word alone reminded her that for that day she was, but she wouldn't be when she would come back home to Chuck. Still, she would be angry at him but that wasn't important where she was. Penelope didn't know that they baby's Father was at a meeting and forgot about her appointment.
She decided to lie. Her eyes wouldn't betray her. "Who makes you think I'm alone?" She brought her left hand on her chin. She was wearing the engagement ring Chuck had gave to her on Valentine's Day and she felt immensely powerful. She had proofs.
It was then that Penelope opened her mouth in bewildering. "Don't kid me. I remember that ring. You've always had it. I'm not stupid Blair."
Blair rolled her eyes and started to laugh. She casually turned when she saw Serena approaching them from the right. She looked fierce walking in the corridor, and Blair felt the adrenaline growing inside of her when she reached them.
"I can't believe you're here too, Penelope. Your belly is great." She commented.
"Serena, I see things haven't changed between you two despite the fact that Blair really envied you and wished you dead sometimes."
Serena took place next to Blair on a green comfortable chair. She crossed her legs and shook her head to adjust her hair on her shoulders. She and Blair exchanged a look and then she gave their old friend a hostile grin. "I can't believe you didn't recognize Henry Winston."
"What?" Penelope looked confused.
"How disrespectful of you. It was on every newspaper! She is engaged now."
Penelope looked a bit lost but she tried to look sure of herself. "I haven't been in New York since my degree at Columbia to pay attention to your pathetic lives. Who would take you anyway? Nobody would love to grab such a skinny ass."
Blair bit her lip and glared at Penelope with more hate than before. Serena took her hand and squeezed it lightly knowing that her friend would probably jump from her seat and punch her old minion in the face.
"For your information my dear Penelope, someone did. While you have nothing. Nobody. I bet you run away with some of your Father's associates and he impregnated you on some yacht in the Mediterranean Sea. So classy." Blair answered her bitterly.
Penelope looked beat then and for her luck the Doctor finally asked Blair to get in. They got in the studio without exchanging another look with their old friend.
….
The gynecologist had to write few papers before she could visit Blair, so she suggested her to undress and lie on the bed so that the nurse would prepare her for the ultrasound.
"Why did you come?" Blair told Serena with a low voice. She didn't want to sound mean with her friend. She was doing it for her after all, although she didn't ask her to.
Serena smiled and brushed Blair's knee. "Since Chuck wasn't coming... I wanted to be by your side. I didn't want you to be alone." Blair smiled awkwardly and reached for her best friend's hand. Serena smiled back and the Doctor approached them, finally.
"Is it the first time, huh? I believed Mr Bass would've been here. Should we wait for him?"
Blair and Serena looked at each other. Blair didn't know what to say. Nobody knew if Chuck would remember they had that appointment or not. She told the gynecologist to wait a minute and she checked her phone to see what time was.
Chuck told her he would've been in a meeting until one, it was almost eleven. Too early. He also said to call if there were any problems. She didn't want to, but she wanted him there.
"What?" The Doctor asked when started to look sad. Her expression was evident.
"No, actually... No. He's not coming." She tried to hide her disappointment. The Doctor just smiled at her and touched her belly to put the gel.
Blair tried so hard not to cry when the woman put the machine on her tummy and started to move slowly. It was a weird sensation, but also relaxing. She tried to find the right spot in her opinion or she was taking time. Was the Doctor waiting delusional for Chuck too?
Serena was sitting on a chair next to the bed Blair was lying. Her friend couldn't miss her happy face once a little sound came from the machine. It looked amazing, but still wasn't what Blair expected.
"I'm sorry, I was just checking. The woman before you almost broke it. She was expecting twins and the machine made weird noises while I was passing it on her belly." She laughed.
Blair smiled a bit. The affirmation didn't make her laugh at all, maybe it tensed her.
The Doctor removed the sensor off her belly and called the nurse. "Take the new one from the office next to this soon. This one looks broken, okay." The nurse nodded and swiftly went out of the room leaving them three alone.
"I'm sorry Miss Waldorf, but it's better if we change the monitor and the machine or the analysis could be wrong. Angela will be here soon. Meanwhile you can tell me something about your pregnancy? How is it going?"
Blair bit her lip before answering. "I just... Have some morning sickness and I can't sleep when I have to, but besides that I'm fine."
"Are you anxious right now?"
She looked at her hands then. She was folding and unfolding them on her lap and she kept biting her lip as she wanted the blood to flow. "I'm not."
The woman nodded. "Yeah I can see it. It's his fault, right?"
"No!"
"Don't lie, Miss Waldorf. I've known many women who weren't here with their partner. I was one of them too." She explained.
"You're not my therapist. It's not your business." Blair looked away towards the window then. She didn't want to answer the question. The Doctor wasn't paid to ask her personal things. She spotted Serena with the angle of her eye. Her best friend was looking at her with sadness. She reached for her hand and tightened the grip. Blair squeezed in response.
The Doctor didn't dare to ask more and while they were waiting for Angela to come back it had passed more than ten minutes. It was then that they heard the door.
The trio turned to the dark door and Blair couldn't be more surprised. "Chuck." He looked tired as if he had been running and Blair frowned with worry. "Why are you... Here?"
He was holding his head while he tried to gather some air. He looked at the Doctor and she and Serena exchanged a glance. They nodded and whispered that they would give them five minutes to talk, then they would start the visit.
Blair and Chuck were left alone as the door was closed. She looked down, unable to look at him in the eyes. She knew he had to attend a meeting, but she also wanted him to explain why he was there, if he had really remembered or it was a fluke.
He took her hand in his and she shoved it away. She turned to the window and pretended to ignore him. "Look, I'm sorry" He said out of breath as he walked closer to the bed.
"Why are you here?" She just repeated. She was still watching outside.
He sighed trying to find the right words. "I remembered while I was explaining why French people should join my company. I had the alarm on my phone. I know I'm a dick."
Blair turned then and the last words made her smile. "Yes you are. You forgot about the first ultrasound. I freaked out."
Chuck frowned and tried to take her hand. She didn't oppose resistance this time, although her grip was a bit loosened. He leaned in and cupped her cheek in his other hand and then he gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "Don't freak, Blair. I'm not leaving you. I won't leave you." He remained not so much distant from her mouth.
She was looking him deep into his eyes. A larger smile formed on her face and this time she moved forward to kiss him. "You better won't. You don't want to pay money and money of alimonies for your child, right?"
He laughed at her words, then steadied himself on the little portion of space left next to her.
"I won't forget it next time. I shouldn't had forgot it in the first place."
It was then that the Doctor and the nurse got in the room again. The nurse had the new machine and carried it next to Blair. She substituted the old one with the new.
"I'm sorry I had to change the machine, but the other one didn't work well. I can see it helped taking time since Mr. Bass succeeded in joining us" the Doctor said gleefully with a smile as she put more gel on Blair's belly. "Now you won't hear much until I check this, but if we're lucky and the baby is in a good position we could even see if it's a boy or a girl."
"Could we?" Blair asked with curiosity.
"You passed the twelfth week, so yes we could. It depends if the baby is in the right position to check the sex. You know, sometimes babies are put weird in your belly that you can't figure out." She started to pass the machine on Blair's belly then. She did it slowly and this made Blair shiver every once in a while because the gel was really cold.
It passed a good minute until they could hear a beat.
"What was that? Is it okay?" Blair asked with anxiety as she tightened her grip on Chuck's hand. He squeezed back to reassure her.
"It's just the baby's heartbeat" the Doctor explained. "Here it is." She pointed to the screen of the machine with a little pointer.
Blair wasn't sure where to look until she saw a little ball on the top right of the screen. She could distinct a little body under it, and she understood her baby was now with his or her head towards Blair's. It was such a new and exciting thing to see that she couldn't believe it.
She looked at Chuck and he was still looking. He looked in awe and touched the screen almost as if he didn't believe either that the image on the screen would be their son or daughter.
The Doctor came closer to the screen and set few parameters as the beat kept echoing from the machine. Blair was smiling like a little girl when the woman announced that they would probably be able to know the sex as the baby was in a way the Doctor could see.
"What it is, then?"
"I can't see it completely but it looks like a boy." She commented. "It's eighty percent a boy. From here, look." She pointed to the screen and they saw what did she mean.
They both turned their heads to check. They couldn't see much but the woman was the expert, they just wanted to know what color of dresses and how the room of their baby would be.
Blair and Chuck exchanged looks and they smiled at each other. The Doctor showed them more of the baby because he looked like he couldn't stay still in Blair's belly and they heard the heartbeat too. It wasn't really steady but it was due to the fact that the heart had formed three weeks before and it needed to grow more and become stronger.
….
About twenty minutes later they were done. The Doctor printed the baby pictures for them and told them to come next month for another check. The baby looked alright and they shouldn't have to worry about anything. Whatever thing could happen to Blair, that could she either feel sick or something they could call the Doctor any moment, but she said to be relaxed in the first place because that was a basic thing to do.
Blair fixed her dress hand she and Chuck walked hand in hand through the door. He then loosened his grip to put his hand on her hip so that they would walk closely. He kissed her cheek as they moved towards the exit. Serena looked nowhere in sight, she might had gone home. Blair was grateful so that she would be alone with Chuck. She would tell Serena the news later. She was too busy cuddling in Chuck's embrace that she almost didn't notice that they had got out of the building in no time. Chuck helped her getting into the limo and then they took off to reach their home.
They reached the elevator and pressed the button for the penthouse. While climbing up, Chuck started to kiss her deep and even more deep. She didn't back off, but she wondered why he looked so hungry of her that morning.
She let him kiss her and touch her everywhere wondering where this thing was headed. The last time they had sex was two days before, it wasn't that an old time. Blair pushed him back as the got into the foyer.
"What?" He asked clearly disappointed.
Blair sighed and looked down. "I don't want to do it here. Dorota is around."
Chuck let the hand that was placed on her hip fall down and then he wandered around the house looking for Dorota. He even called her on her phone. She had finished to do the laundry earlier than usual so she went home before lunch.
Blair felt relieved then and since they didn't have any other maid at their penthouse she decided to purposely throw herself on Chuck and lead him to the living room and she started to remove his clothes one after another in less than five minutes.
He did the same with hers and she looked pleased when they finally reached the couch so that he could easily thrust into her more than he could have done on the floor that to be honest was pretty cold these times.
He trusted inside of her several times and it echoed in the whole house that she had to stop one time because she was amazed by how the noises invaded the various rooms.
After few hours they were still lying there on the couch. His suit jacket barely covered their bodies as they were asleep. Her head was on his chest and he was sleeping silently. His left arm was behind her back as he was gripping her in a hug.
It looked like the perfect day for them. They had found out the sex of their baby and now they were asleep after comforting sex. What they didn't expect was someone coming to visit.
The bell of the elevator rang and a shiny Serena got out. She wasn't alone this time and she regretted taking her boyfriend with her that time. She wanted to know from Blair and let her know that she had made a decision about her life.
"Blair" she called once inside. The foyer where Chuck and Blair were sleeping was at the end of the corridor and Serena and her guest decided to see if they were at home. "They have to be home or otherwise the elevator wouldn't open." Serena explained.
She reached the living room and the vision was clear to her when she saw shoes and clothes scattered on the ground around the little table in front of the first couch of the room. She just needed to follow the trail to arrive to Chuck and Blair lying asleep on the couch.
Blair heard the footsteps and she rubbed her eyes multiple times after she acknowledged Serena's presence. "Chuck. Chuck! Wake up." She tried to shake him without showing too much of her naked body. "Serena is here. She isn't alone." She faked a smile to her friend.
Chuck himself had to rub his eyes for a while until he looked conscious and not still in the world of dreams. He turned his head and noticed their guests. "You could have called." He complained, but Serena just shrugged her shoulders.
"I didn't believe I would've found you... In these conditions, that is." She tried to justify herself as she and her guest approached the couch.
"Why did you bring... Him anyway. We were celebrating." Blair tried to move the focus on another topic.
Serena glanced at her side. Her guest was particularly out of place. "Tell her! Or I'll do it." She encouraged him with a grin.
"I'm sorry I invaded your privacy but, Chuck I can see your ass from here and it's not nice." He informed him with sarcasm as Chuck tried to cover his legs and not uncover Blair. "Me and Serena are together now. She wanted me to tell you to see well, huh... If you're okay."
"And if you're not I don't care." Serena said bumping her boyfriend's arm.
"Don't tell me you came this far from your Brooklyn loft to tell us you're together. We already knew. Lily spilled the beans when we were having dinner at your house, sis." Chuck said.
"And...?" Serena looked like she wanted to hear more.
"And what, Serena? Do you want us to approve of your being Dan Humphrey's girlfriend. If he makes you happy we're happy too. We couldn't be more happy." Blair grinned.
"Congratulations, anyway!" Serena jumped like a little girl.
"Wait, wait. What's happening if I may?" Dan asked. He looked lost.
"You're going to be an uncle, Humphrey. Not sure my son will like you though."
Chuck and Dan exchanged a look and then they all started to giggle lightly. It wasn't like Chuck and Dan hated each other, they just made fun of the other sometimes. Chuck bet ten bucks that Dan and Serena would marry someday, and he would become his brother in law, but at that point it didn't matter anymore.
He and Blair would marry in few months and a baby was on the way. There was nothing more they could want from life and it wouldn't be a Dan Humphrey to stop them.
"Funny, Chuck. Now we can go I think" Serena added. "You've got business to handle guys. Take care." She said before taking Dan's hand and go out of their house.
Chuck and Blair sighed loudly when they were left alone.
"Thank God I suggested you to cover us before we fell asleep or I would've been ashamed. You clearly didn't want Humphrey to check my ass, right?"
"More than your ass" he said as his hand fell from her hips to her bare back, "I was worried he could have seen your boobs. They've grown up so much since two months ago." He winked.
"It's normal, silly. They will become bigger in few months."
"True." He smirked while he was caressing her back. "It's good. We will baptize another of the furniture of our house by then. Deal?"
She smiled and kissed him lightly. "Sure. Let's just not leave the elevator open to anyone. I don't want other people to invade our private moments, the moments that will be of our baby. We need to create our family first and then they can enter our lives."
His hand went on her cheek and he caressed her. Her skin looked so soft and smelt so good. "I will remember it next time. I swear. But now can we just eat something? I'm starving."
He jumped off the couch naked and went out of the room.
"Chuck. Where are you going? Someone else could come." Blair addressed him.
Chuck turned just before he had to go right for the kitchen. She was excited to see his arousal still there, as if he never stopped being turned on by her.
"I'm going to secure the elevator. It's going to be you, me and our baby tonight, and I don't want any Dan Humphrey to visit us. And I hate clothes today so it's better if you go closing the windows too if you don't want the people of the building next to this to see you."
He disappeared into the corridor then, and Blair put his jacket on to go doing what he asked her. She then reached him. He was sitting on a chair eating a bowl of what looked like cereals. He suggested her to come where he was and she fixed herself on his leg. He removed his jacket from her and she shivered at first, but it wasn't for the cold. She placed her head in the crook of his neck and he secured his hand on her belly. He started caressing it while eating as she stole few of the cereals from the bowl.
"You know, Chuck... I believe you're really going to be a good Father."
"What makes you believe this?" He asked with curiosity.
"I saw it at the Hospital. The way you were looking at the monitor... You were in love."
He turned to her and their faces were few inches apart. "Do you really believe that?"
"I do."
"Then I will be." He agreed, and then he wildly kissed her. There wasn't anything that he needed to know more than she believed in him. He would be a good Father.