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Chapter 8: Honesty

Dan's head was spinning. All he could think of was Blair's lips and how she felt underneath him. The way her hands ran threw his hair, and how fantastic his name sounded as it left her lips in short gasps. Nothing had every felt this good.

Dan wasn't sure when he had started seeing Blair this way. There had been no exact moment or significant revelation. It had happened slowly over the past couple months. Being friends with Blair had showed him another side to her, one that he liked very much. Sure she could be crazy and extreme, and definitely scary at times, but underneath all the chaos was woman who enjoyed classic literature and actually read it. There was a woman who was addicted to the chocolate pastries at Starbucks. A woman who loved going to the theater and lived for the everyday life drama as well.

Dan remembered the first time he and Blair had formed somewhat of an emotional bond. She had come to him and asked him to help her track down Juliette, who had hurt, Serena, a person they both cared about. He thinks that's when the seed was planted, but he hadn't expected it to grow into this. He hadn't imagined for his heart to swell when she smiled at him or for her to be in his mind morning, noon, and night.

The fact was that ignoring his feelings for Blair had become a full time job, one that he was sick of. And when she had let him hold her as she fell apart he had felt his strength weaken, but then when she looked at him with those big brown eyes saying that with him was where she wanted to be, it was all he could not to jump her.

Being here with her now, holding her and kissing her, it was all he had ever secretly wanted in the past 3 months.

"Dan?" Blair asked in a whisper in between kisses. "Dan? It's past 8."

Dan groaned in protests and kissed down Blair's jaw before attacking her neck. She gasped and couldn't help but tilt her head to give him more access, while her hands grasped his hair.

"I don't want you to go yet." Dan whispered against her neck while his hand slid down her side, sending shivers through Blair. That made her forget why she was protesting. She grasped Dan's hair firmer and brought his lips to hers once again.

Blair couldn't believe it. Who would have thought that Humphrey would ever hold this kind of power over her? She glanced again at the clock again to see twenty minutes had flown by.

"Dan?" She found herself whispering again. Dan pulled back and sighed.

"I really don't want you to go." He protested again sitting up.

"Believe me. I don't either." She laughed sitting up with him.

"Then why do you have to?" He smiled as he reached over and tucked a loose strand of hair behind Blair's ear and grinned when he saw the shiver in her eyes.

"Because Dan, I promised Serena I would see her tonight, and she is expecting me."

Dan sighed and dropped his hand. The mention of Serena suddenly brought the reality of their situation to life. He looked up and saw Blair with a worried look on her face. He knew she was thinking the same.

"Dan? What are we doing? What is this?" Blair asked suddenly above a whisper. She was looking down to avoid his eyes. She didn't want him to see the fear in her eyes of what he might say.

"I don't know exactly." He started seeing Blair's shoulders drop slightly. "But I do know how I feel about you."

With that Blair looked up at him.

"And how do you feel?" She asked.

"Do you want the whole truth?" He asked meeting her eyes.

"Yes." She swallowed. "Please."

Dan paused and took a deep breath, looking at Blair as if studying her.

"I want to be with you. I know that we both are coming from difficult places in our lives, and that we are still healing, but I want to prove to you that you can feel strongly about someone else other than Chuck. I don't want him to be able to hurt you anymore."

Dan paused looking at Blair for a reaction. She looked like she was going to cry. He reached over and laced his hand through hers and continued.

"You are passionate, strong, and go after the things you believe in. You don't let anything get in your way. You make me think, and challenge me. I wish that I had just one ounce of your strength. You make me want to be a better person Blair."

Blair looked up at him in shock. Never had she ever thought anyone would say those words to her. She use to believe that she and Chuck were made for each other just because they were both evil and capable of horrible things. There was no way that she could bring out the good in anyone. She wasn't good at all.

"Dan…" she started, "I am not a good person. I live to be on top. I scheme and manipulate. How on earth would that make you want to be a better person?"

Dan smiled and shook his head.

"How can you say that? Do you remember our road trip?"

"How could I forget?" Blair rolled her eyes. "You stuck me in the tiniest, slowest car on earth that was not even equipped with a cd player or simple GPS."

Dan laughed at her memory of the event.

"You said something to me on the way back to the city that made me think. You asked me when the last time was that I had written anything and made me realize that I was spending all my energy on chasing Serena, when there were more important things to do."

Blair squinted trying to remember.

"Well I don't think I said it quite like that, but yes something to that degree." She smirked. Dan laughed but then lifted his hand to her face and brushed it against her cheek.

"Well however you said it, you made a positive difference in my life Blair. You are capable of positive things."

Blair felt the tears in the back of her eyes and looked down, but Dan reached and lifted her chin up to meet gaze.

"What I am saying Blair is that I don't know the exact date when the seed was planted. I can't remember when I started considering you a friend. Hell, I don't even know when I started to think of you romantically. I just know that right now I'm pretty sure I'm falling for you, and there is no one else I would rather be with."

At his words Blair felt an overwhelming surge of what she could only describe as love.

"Do you want the whole truth Humphrey?" She asked softly. He smiled.

"Yes very much."

She bent forward and brushed her lips against his cheek softly. This kiss was tender and filled with emotion.

"And what was that for?" He smirked. She grinned.

"That was for helping me with my paper."

Blair then kissed him again, this time on the other cheek, and then pulled away.

"That was for discovering my A. Bennett articles."

She kissed his nose.

"For helping me escape security." She winked.

Dan laughed softly as Blair then kissed his forehead.

"For holding me and comforting me when I was at my lowest."

She finally bent down to his lips and hovered there, leaning her forehead against his.

"For those reasons and so many more I want to be with you too." She whispered before leaning in and gently brushing her lips against Dan's. She pulled back and looked into his eyes. "I feel safe when I am with you, and that I can be myself. I never thought I would like an atmosphere without scheming but my dear Humphrey, you have proven me wrong."

They both laughed at that.

"But there is one issue that we need to discuss before we go any further with this." Blair started hesitantly. "Serena."

Dan took a deep breath and ran a hand down his face, falling into the couch.

"Yeah I agree."

"How do we tell her?" Blair asked worried.

"I think we should together." Dan sighed.

"Stronger in numbers." Blair smiled laying back and curling into Dan. "I like it."

Suddenly their phones went off. Blair sat up for her phone and opened to find two pictures. She gasped. One picture was of Serena looking upset and lonely at the duck pond in Central Park and the other was of her and Dan—only you could only see Dan's face and only Blair's back. The message below read. Oh no S, looks like we should rename you lonely girl as it seems our own lonely boy is not so lonely anymore.

"OH my GOD!" Blair yelled. "Do you think they know it's me?"

Dan was still starting at the text in shock.

"I don't think so. Gossip Girl would have exposed you if she knew. That would have been too good for her to pass up."

Blair nodded and tried to calm herself by taking deep breaths.

"Your right." She breathed. "I have to go. S looks so sad. I'm supposed to be meeting her there now!"

Blair shot up and started grabbing her jacket and purse, but Dan grabbed her around the waist stopping her.

"Blair…" He started.

"Dan I have to go." She said dropping her arms at her side slightly annoyed.

"I know but we are still telling her together right?" he asked worried.

Blair frowned.

"Yes we are, but do you care if we put a hold on that? Serena looks really upset right now and I just don't want to make her night worse."

Dan nodded in understanding as he walked with Blair to the loft front door. He knew that Serena could get pretty upset sometimes and no matter how bad he wanted everyone to know, he didn't want to hurt Serena either. Besides, she had basically pulled Blair and him together, whether or not it was intentional.

"Of course. I understand. Go to her." He smiled.

Blair looked relieved at his response and bent up to kiss him goodbye. Dan couldn't help it and deepened the kiss wrapping his arms around her. Blair moaned and stumbled back against the door almost dropping her purse. When he pulled away, they were both out of breath and flushed.

"And what was that for?" She gasped.

"Because I can. Because you are finally mine." He smirked.

The word 'mine' sent shivers through Blair. She wrapped him into a hug.

"And you are finally mine." She whispered into his ear.

And with that Blair disappeared behind the loft doors, leaving Dan's head spinning.

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