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Ggxxlover: thank you I am glad you liked it. Hehe yeah I kind of feel her either and it's great that you liked the names I chose. Okay the flashbacks will come but first Chuck will meet his daughter, I promise! But I guess he has to tell her a lot and then… time for flashbacks xD

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Anna: Thank you. Oh I am sorry that it took me so long to update but I'm ill and I have had some family problems… just know that I'm sorry. Oh yeah CV were disgusting. I can't stand them together.

No, I'm sorry Blair is really dead, though "secretly kidnapped and held brainwashed by evil Georgina" sounds like fun. Hehe ;)

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Chapter dedication: This chapter is for two lovely people.

cRiMsOnGoDdEsS01 because she suggested the great name Damien. He'll take action in the next chapter so watch out for him.

and because she helped me out with the names and even looked some up for me, thank you so much!

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Chapter 8

"Smug", Serena sighed in delight when she got off the plan.

"Yeah, smug! " Audrey cheered sarcastically.

"Oh god, I missed New York", Serena claimed as she watched the people rushing through the airport.

"Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it - New York, New York
These vagabond shoes, are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it - New York, New York"

"Serena stop it, everyone is starring at you!" Audrey hissed.

"That's because I am beautiful, more than that I look ravishing today even after the eight hours flight", Serena joked in a kind of singsong.

"I wanna wake up in a city, that doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill - top of the heap", she continued to sing.

"Oh come on, Audrey."

"No, you're too sentimental today."

"And you're such a spoilsport, come on lets have some fun, you're in New York for the very first time, you have to be excited, everyone is excited when they come to New York."

"These little town blues, are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it - in old New York, Audrey please do it for me!"

Audrey sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Fine if it means that much to you", she complained.

"If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere

It's up to you – New York, New York", she sang low.

"Louder!" Serena screamed.

"This is embarrassing!"

"No it isn't, it's fun. Go on and louder please."

"New York, New York
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
And find I'm a number one top of the list, king of the hill
A number one", first her voice was low but then she became surer and surer and her voice rose up.

The people turned around, starred and pointed at her.

"Yeah! You see everyone here loves your voice!"

"Well they love yours either."

"These little town blues, are melting away
I'm gonna make a brand new start of it - in old New York
And if I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere"they finished their song under laughter.

"Okay, you were right, everyone is gazing at us, but you know how much I love attention…"

"Oh, shut up! You have had enough attention, can we please goooo!"

"Sure. I'll call for a cab."

"That won't be necessary", a voice right behind them said.

Serena's and Audrey's eyes wined synchronically. Then they turned around.

"Eric!" Serena squealed, rushed to him and slung her arms around his neck.

"It's so good to see you, I missed you so much!"

He held her a few centimeters away from him, looked at her and embraced her tightly.

"Well, I wasn't the one who's been hiding in France. Why have you been hiding yourself anyway, you're even more beautiful than in High School. Every man on the Upper East Side will be in love with you at the end of Mom's party. Well except me of course", he joked.

"She's used to it!" Audrey said.

"I guess so", he laughed.

He turned around and focused her for the first time. He had had only eyes for Serena, which was understandable after all she was his sister and he didn't see her for six months, he missed her terribly. She was his family; of course he had Chuck, Bart and Lily. But Serena always had understood him, she had been there for him through the hard times, when their Mom had gotten divorced the 11th time or when he had tried to take his own life, she had been there she had understood, she hadn't judged but she had noticed what he was up to. She had read him like an open book and he had read her, they had been more than syllables, they had been a kind of soul mates. He was sure they still were.

But now he focused on the girl next to his sister.

And he knew who she was; he just had to look at her curly hair, the ruby lips, the hazel eyes and the classic smirk. He noticed the way she dressed, he noticed the headband, he noticed the Peep toes she wore and he noticed the way she glared at him, as she owned the world. He noticed all of that and so he asked Serena the one question he hadn't asked her in a while because every time he had asked her that question, she had looked away and he had sensed her mood swing. From happy to sad, from hyper to depressed but it was time to ask it again, even though he knew that she would have tears in her eyes again, he just had to ask.

"How's Blair?"

Blair… his other sister, they were not connected by blood but he loved her somehow. She was a bitch, she was truly was but she was nice to the people she cared about and if someone threatened one of those people, she was willing to do anything to stop them.

They grew up together; she had been there most of the time because of Serena but when they had been depressed because they had had to live in a hotel suit again, just because their mansion had been renovated again and again, then she had invited them to sleepovers, sometimes they had lived with her about a months, which had been when Blair's parents had been in France or on some business trip. She was the one he had called when Serena had come home completely drunk; she was the one he had called when their Mom wanted to move in with some ass they couldn't stand, she was the one who always found a way out of it.

Their families had been messed up, each in their own way, and with those families they had needed each other, more than anything else, and even though they hadn't admitted it, they had always known it had been true.

"You'll know soon", Serena whispered. It was time, she couldn't hide herself anymore, she couldn't keep pretending that everything was okay, all the mistakes she mad, the wrong paths she took, everything would catch up with her as soon as she'd enter her mother's house, as soon as she'd see him again and as soon as she'd be a part of the Upper East Side again.

Though she'd always been a part of the Upper East Side, a part of Manhattan, in France she hadn't felt that way, it was different there, and the people accepted her without asking any questions. They say the European hospitality is great, they're wrong. It's more than that, the people are so very kind and welcoming, she hadn't had to prove herself, she hadn't had to explain why she raised a child that wasn't hers, no one had really cared about her past, what had been important was the presence.

But now that she was back in the U.S.A. people would ask questions, they'd want to know what she's been doing within the last few years, they'd wanted to know everything about her love life and her feelings about Blair's death and towards her daughter, they'd ask if she saw Blair in Audrey, they would ask everything she never wanted to answer.

But they wouldn't ask that because they really cared about, they'd ask those questions because they longed for the newest gossip, they wanted to talk about her problems, so they didn't have to talk about her own. Self-deception is easy.

"And who are you?" Eric asked the girl.

"My name is Audrey", she mumbled shy, she only used her first name, but she knew he kind of knew who she was. She saw that his eyes had wined when he looked at her the first time; she noticed the glimmer of cognition when she smiled at him.

He had noticed that she was the perfect mix of two people he loved and she wouldn't do anything to confirm his thoughts, at least not yet.

"It's nice to meet you, Audrey", he said politely.

"It's nice to meet you, too", she responded as graceful as she could. And the most useful Audrey had inherited from her mother was her grace, well besides her beauty.

"So you are accompanying my sister on her trip home? He asked.

Audrey laughed.

"Well, ironically it's just the opposite; your sister is accompanying me. And it's my trip home."

"Oh so you're from New York, that's strange, you know I never saw you before…"

"Maybe it's not that strange, New York has a huge population, I bet you don't know that woman, either", Audrey corrected him and pointed at some random stranger.

"No, I don't know her", Eric laughed. "Way to prove a point."

"Thanks", Audrey smiled genuinely at him. "But you were sort of right, you couldn't have met me before, I've never been to New York or America before… but my parents were both from here, so I guess you could call me American."

"So what exactly are you doing here? You can't tell me you came all the way from France because you're suddenly wondering where your parents grow up and you didn't even bring them with you…"

"Yeah, well, you know… "

"Eric! Stop it. You're not the Spanish Inquisition; at least you weren't when we met the last time!" Serena interrupted him.

"Okay, okay but you can not resent me that I want to know something about your lovely friend", he chuckled.

"Oh I sure she doesn't", Audrey smirked, "But she's mad that she isn't the center of your attention, right S?"

Serena stuck her tongue out at Audrey, but Audrey didn't care, she just rolled her eyes.

"Are you really sure, that I haven't met you before? You seem quite familiar…" Eric said and stared at her.

"No, I am 100% sure, that we haven't met each other before", she replied her voice still stable.

"Maybe you just dreamed about her", Serena joked.

Eric's facial expression was hilarious and Audrey couldn't help herself anymore, she threw her head back and laughed relieved.

She liked Eric, he was nice and the way Serena and he worked together was new for Audrey, she was an only child, joking with a sister or a brother was simply new to her.

But it was a good feeling and though she never felt it before, it was kind of familiar. Just as if you have in your very skin, as if it's a natural gene and all you have to do is find it, but when you finally found it won't let go of you anymore, because you need this feeling just as much as it needs you.

Or maybe it needs you even more than you need it.

It wouldn't exist without you; without the person who's feeling it… but then who'd you be without this feeling? Would you ever learn of your faults? Would you ever grow up?

"Serena!" her mom was out of the door before the limo stopped in front of the Palace Hotel.

A tall figure, dressed in a custom made Armani suit followed her.

"MOM!" Serena squealed.

"Oh Serena, it's been way too long", Lily whispered under tears and embraced her tightly.

"I know Mom; but I am back now and you won't get rid of me so soon", she wiped away Lily's tears, "Oh Mom, you're so prone to tears."

"I know…" Lily tried to smile. "But how can you blame me, with a daughter that's been hiding in France for reasons she refused to tell me and only called every few weeks."

"I'm so sorry Mom but as I said, I am back now!"

Serena took her Mom's hand and smiled at her. "You okay now?"

"I am."

"That's great, because I want you to meet my friend."

She pointed over her shoulder.

"Mom, that's Audrey", she gripped Audrey's right hand with her own free one and pulled her next to her. "Audrey, that's my beautiful Mom, Lillian Bass but I guess you can call her Lily, everyone does it."

"It's nice to meet you Mrs. Bass", Audrey said shyly.

It was hard for her to say the name Bass. She hadn't thought that it would be that difficult… well she had expected it to be difficult but in another kind of way… she had thought it would be difficult when she'd stand in front of HIM, but now that she stood in front of all those old friends of her mother's and now that she knew that they all knew her father and that they'd shortly know who's child she was, it all was too much for her. Her head was spinning, she felt like she was about to fade and she was busy fighting the tears that were about to stream down her cheeks. She didn't even listen properly to the things Serena said, she just stared at the two middle-aged people.

"As Serena said, it's Lily." Lily told her but she noticed that the girl was staring at someone else.

She turned around and saw the person of Audrey's interest.

"Oh, that's my husband, Bart Bass." Lily introduced Audrey to her husband.

"It's nice to meet you Audrey, are you here for a little shopping trip? I don't want to be rude but you seem quit familiar, have we met before?"

Audrey shook her grandfather's hand, she forced her hand to stop shaking and for once it did what she said but inside she was finished.

"No… I don't think we met before", unlike her hand her voice did not what she said.

"It's her first time in New York", Eric helped her out.

Audrey's lips formed a "thank you" in her savior's direction.

"Mom, don't you think that Serena and Audrey must be tired?" he asked his mother.

"Of course you're right, god I'm such a bad host."
"Mom", Serena chuckled "You're not and you know that."

"You're right!" Lily smiled.

"I always am."

"Was she always like that?" Audrey wanted to know.

"Yes", Eric, Bart and Lily said synchronically.

TBC

Okay she didn't meet the whole family but at least she met some of them...

Oh and I decided to name the girl Brooke I know that name wasn't on the list but I got another suggestion and I like it... do you mind?

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