Bart Bass had flown yet again to Monaco. But not before sparking a warning on Dan to keep the cops off his back. Whitney had already covered all of his tracks from the Biro and re-tracked it on CIA, with Nate's help. Whitney was against it at first, saying that it will be dangerous for Dan to even associate with an agent, Nate's smooth talk changed her mind, at least for now. It was true, with Dan 'being' a CIA agent kept Bart shy away from even daring to touch him. Everything can be retraced back to Bart and if he killed one agent, another 10 will be flocking on him and Bart would never risk it. He had too many secrets to have 10 agents on him. The last time Dan counted, he had increased his guards to 30, but it was easy to notice the sudden new faces now and Dan was only counting time.

Petra himself had requested to see Dan and under the machines that kept him alive, Petra congratulated Dan for being precise. Petra always favored Dan and thought he was the best assassin the Biro ever had and the only one he thinks can challenge him. When Whitney brought him in, he was a child. But now according to Petra, he is the man who kills.

"Perseus," Petra forced himself to speak under the oxygen mask. "Come, child." Petra offered his hand.

Dan hesitated before going near Petra. He took the Hungarian born man's hand and looked at him. Petra is almost 90 and he was struggling to live. He wanted to cheat death; he was scared of death so much that he believed that the kills his organization did adds his life span. Ironic for such assassin. Petra held Dan's gaze like he always does, like he was some kind of gem.

"Perseus, you are a rare thing, such valuable diamond. Those blood suits you," Petra said this. He always does. Dan nodded in silence. "Perseus, when you have done your job, come and find me. I have more things to tell you."

Dan left his room, as always didn't get what Petra was trying to say. Petra always asked Dan to find him after he finished his job. Petra wanted to know how he killed them, so gave him the stories and he sees Petra's satisfied smile. Dan didn't really think much of Petra except that he was the boss. Petra Biro scares him at times, as if his stare could kill you.

Whitney noticed Dan coming out from Petra's room and Whitney sighed. Yet again, she regretted that she bring Dan to Petra.

"Looks like Perseus is getting another point," a coworker said. "Ah, I envy the guy, I mean I could kill 100 guys for Petra but Perseus would look even cooler killing a bug."

Whitney kept looking at Dan. Somehow this does not look good.

Dan was given the weekend off as Bart is not around town. Plus, he was already filing his memory on Bart's guards and he just needs a big event to take care of the killing. Dan was off to see Jenny in Hudson, where he took the subway. He sat down and had his hands in his pockets before he felt a paper in his hands. It was the cheque Blair gave him.

"I suppose that anyone who worked with Chuck Bass would be good in manipulation," Blair said, closing her purse. "That is only a deposit."

"I don't get it," Dan really didn't.

"I need you to make my father come forward," Blair said.

"What?"

"I don't know where he is, I even forget what he looked like. So I need you to make him come forward. Show himself that he's around, make himself say it. Say that he's my dad," Blair was determined that Dan somehow sees her walls melting away. In a way, maybe just maybe, Blair did miss her dad. "I am not going to see him unless he wants to see me. I'm going to let him choose."

"Do you want to see him?" Dan asked. He felt she does.

"It doesn't matter," Blair said as she went back to her boxes. "Tonight I'll be at Victrola. Make sure he knows what I'm doing."

It was hard enough that he did somehow arrived in Victrola right when Blair was starting to strip herself. He remembered vividly how sensual she was that night.

Dan arrived at Victrola, meaning to give back Blair's money because he wasn't around to babysit her and her father issues, he's there to kill her lover. Or sugar daddy. Chuck had texted him prior that Blair will be on the special performance, usually around 3 am and Dan had to make sure Bart was there. The fact that Chuck was still hiring him may be because Bart had one thing in my mind; Keep your enemies closer.

Dan walked inside, right around 3.12 am, and there was Blair, on the stage. He looked around at first to find Bart but he wasn't around. Only his son who can't keep his eyes off Blair stayed there. He felt like ripping Chuck's eyeballs for no apparent reasons. Dan heard a cheer, and there she was, slowly toying with her dress's zipper. It was a preppy dress, white lacy dress, one a noble man's daughter would wear and a peek of her flesh made his breathing uneven. Dan felt like his blood was pumping but no air was around him. He froze the moment Blair revealed her white milky skin.

He couldn't tear his eyes away as Blair discarded the dress, only in corsets and undergarments. Slowly she peeked interest by facing her back to the crowd and waved her hips slowly, sensually and affected all the men in the room, Dan especially. Her socks barely covered her skin but the see through thing worked more than bare and naked. Blair looked to the audience and slowly tucking her fingers around her low corsets and teased with her bosoms without revealing it. She was clearly enjoying the reaction. Dan couldn't help but feel his blood boiling with anxiety.

Then she made eye contact with him, somewhat curious of something. She sees the boy looking at her, but unlike the disgusting male population cheering at her, he was looking at her more than a mere lust, but deep fascination and stunned by her. Slowly she pulled herself down and smiled seductively with her red lips and she sees his eyes following her. She liked his attention for some reason. It was his eyes that expresses so well, like she was the beautiful one.

Dan couldn't help it as he slowly walked forward as she walked backwards towards the closed curtains. It was as if she was pulling him in. But his head got the clue when he sees Nate Archibald there; cluing him that Bart Bass was actually outside.

Nate had offered his help since he got the record on his grandfather. For some reason Dan didn't care about, Nate also wanted vengeance for his grandfather, despite of his gladness that his grandfather was dead.

"What happened yesterday?"Nate asked and Dan just sat quietly beside him in the subway. Nate, being the suspicious of Dan's behavior decided to tag along to Hudson, much to Dan's dismay. "You almost got him, it was an open tail right there and you decided to bail."

"He had someone to take the bullet for him," Dan said as he recollected yesterday's event.

Dan followed Nate to a secluded area and there he sees Bart Bass with his men. He was doing his usual trading but his eyes flew everywhere for cautions. Dan watched as Bart took a few documents for a read and then he realized Harold Waldorf was there. He just stood there beside Bart, doing nothing but watch. Then Bart whispered something to Harold and Harold immediately blocked Bart from the open tail Nate had told him.

He was there to take the bullet.

"That guy was just there, it was a coincidence. How would you know if he was there to take the bullet for Bass?" Nate sighed.

"I looked up on Tyler Manning, and he doesn't belong to any of Bass Industries' staff. It was listed that he was Bart's personal assistant. I read a few medical files, and two years ago, he was shot on the left shoulder in Japan," Dan said.

"So?"

"It was right when an assassin from the Biro was first given the task to kill him," Dan scrolled down on his phone and showed the face of the assassin that died. "This guy's neck was snapped 2 days after in a bar filled with assassins. Bart Bass was supposed to fly to Japan but he discarded his plans and sent Tyler Manning who dressed far too similar to Bart Bass. If I pull the bullet and it wasted on Tyler Manning, I'll lose my head in 2 days when Bart figured out I wasn't a cop in the first place."

"Why would someone play the role as a scapegoat?" Nate was confused.

"I don't know, but I have an idea about it," Dan murmured.

Whitney told him not to find more about Harold Waldorf but he did anyway. Turns out Harold lost his law practice around the time he disappeared. The Upper East Side didn't question because Eleanor declared her divorce and played the pitiful disposed wife with a daughter. But before the divorce, all Eleanor did was sewing some pieces for the Upper East Side women and to think that she suddenly grew big after the divorce was odd. Blair was admitted to all the fine schools when Harold and Eleanor themselves rejected the ideas of a private school in an interview before when they just got married. It was also weird that Eleanor and Harold seemed to be the couple who would not enter a divorce realm, but the fact they did didn't shock either. It was the reality in the Upper East Side.

"So you just going to hang around Hudson and be normal for today?" Nate asked. "That is boring."

"I'm going to do some research on Eleanor Waldorf," Dan said. "She's out there right."

"Eleanor Waldorf? The designer? She's around the Upper East Side last week," Nate said and Dan's eyes shot to him. "If you have forgotten, my last name is Archibald and my mom had this gathering last week, and there she was, with her weird looking husband, Cyrus Rose."

"Is she still around?" Dan asked.

"Well, they say she went to Rome but I can check it for you," Nate said as he took his phone out. "What does Eleanor Waldorf have to do with Bass anyway?"

"Nothing, she's just…" Blair's mom. Dan didn't know why he's looking through it.

"Well, one thing for sure, Bart's mistress or fiancé or whatever, didn't attend that day. I sure hope she did. It would be sight to see Blair and and Eleanor meet up," Nate said.

"You knew Blair was a Waldorf?" Dan asked.

"Of course I do. I mean everyone in the Upper East Side does. It's just that since Eleanor threw away the Waldorf Line, people in the Upper East Side neglected anything Waldorf related, and they shut Blair out from their world. She's been gone for only 3 years but people forgot about her when she came back, because it is the stereotype of the Upper East Side, people choose what they wanted to know," Nate said and it showed how he sees the ugly side of his own world.

"You remembered her though," Dan said.

"Well, I had a huge crush on Blair when we were in middle school. She was bright, and happy. Everyone kept looking at the blonde bombshell Serena, but I see Blair. I don't know, she just have this presence, this beauty about her. But I never get the chance to know her. I guess Serena took the bright girl to her grave," Nate said and Dan could only look at him. "When she came back, I didn't recognize her. She always had this mischievous look on her, but that was the only thing she had when she came back. It wasn't Blair Waldorf anymore, it was Blair, Bart's possession."

Dan looked down and sees himself in a small dilemma. Why was he so into everything Blair related?

They arrived in Hudson and Nate bids goodbye, as he runs into the nearest pub. "Perseus, if you have much more interesting stuff going on that is not good family life, call me."

Dan shook his head. He now know Nate will abandon the CIA if the Biro would accept hi.

Dan entered his grandmother's home and he smelled the good perfume of a roasted chicken. He walked slowly to the small laughter Jenny gives and there she was playing charades with the family, the family that Dan hated to be a part off. His cousin, Adam saw him and turned his smile into a frown. Jenny who saw that looked back, and in a minute Jenny threw her hands around Dan.

"You made it!" Jenny cheered. It was her 21st birthday and instead of his promise for a party, seems like Nana Simmons already did that. His grandmother, Nana could only stare at him from the kitchen, sighing. "Owh, we were playing charades! You should join us!"

"No, I's just here for a bit. I have to leave later," Dan said and he sees Jenny's puppy eyes. 'Jenny, I have to work."

"It is a Saturday, Danny. Come on! And it's my birthday!" Jenny pleaded. Dan could only smile at her.

"Let the guy work, we don't want the odd one out around here," Adam preached from behind and Jenny glared at him.

"Danny, it would mean so much for me if you stayed," Jenny smiled at him, holding his hands tight. "Okay?" She sees Dan nodding and she jumped in joy. It didn't please Adam one bit.

Dan left the ecstatic Jenny and went to the kitchen, where he finds his Nana cutting the roasted chicken. "Looks good."

"Why are you here, Daniel?" she asked, a simple question. "And don't dare say for Jenny because if it was for her, you'd never show up ever again."

"Come on, Alice, let it slide for once," Dan sighed as he took out the champagne he brings in. "I came in peace."

Alice looked at him and she was worried. "You come in here making it look like nothing had happened, but it did. Your job… it's… Your mother would be very disappointed."

"Well, where is she? Where the hell is she, Alice?" Dan asked, slightly raising his volume but he lowered it when he remembers Jenny is in the next room. "You know she abandoned us."

"She's still your mother," Alice said.

"Yet she disappointed me way before Rufus did," Dan decided to leave because he wasn't having any more argument. "You know when I said she abandoned us, it includes you."

Alice could only stare at her grandson as he exited the kitchen. She didn't realize she was holding her breath as she slowly let go. It was always like this. It feels like she needed to protect Jenny.

Dan rushed to the door, leaving because he couldn't stand being around people who didn't want him and Jenny saw him rushing out. "Danny! Where you going?" as she followed him outside.

"I'm sorry Jenny, I really need to work tonight," Dan apologized and before Jenny could speak, Dan walked away. Jenny could only stare at him leave.

Alice followed her outside and she sees yet again, her grandson had ran away. "Let him be, Jennifer."

"Nana, what did you do?" she asked. Alice was disbelieved with her tone.

"Jennifer, don't you dare use that tone with me. I am…"

"I asked you what did you do?!" Jenny looked at Alice and then she sees that the young girl was crying. "It's my birthday, can't you just let it go for once."

"Jennifer, you don't know how your brother is. He's a…" Alice needed to protect her.

Jenny immediately close her ears. "Stop! I'm not stupid Nana. I know my own brother, and if he has anything to tell me, he will tell me. I don't need you to protect me, Nana! I am old enough to take care of myself!"

Alice was left dumbfounded as she sees Jenny running into the house, up to her room. She just ruined her 21st birthday.

Dan strolled into bar where he found Nate chatting up with some brunette. He sees Dan and immediately dismissed her. "Hey, Perseus, how did party went?" Dan sat beside him on the bar and ordered Scotch. "I guess not well. Do you want to talk about it."

Dan looked at Nate. "You're only here because you want to tag along some fun stuff, Hercules, and I don't have any, so shut it."

"Okay," Nate smiled awkwardly. "Oh, by the way, since you're here, I have news on Eleanor Waldorf." Nate got him interested. "Now named Eleanor Rose, she is actually a successful business woman who sells many costume designs to opera houses around the world. She came back in a stride and my mom told me that people of the Upper East Side never felt that she left with shame. Her new husband Cyrus Rose is a very successful lawyer around Hollywood before they resided in Rome."

"So she just left her daughter alone in New York?" it wasn't new news, the parent leaving their children thing.

"No, she was actually fighting to get Blair to come with her," Nate said.

"What happened?" Dan was confused.

"Seems like something or rather someone had Blair trapped in New York," Nate said as he took out his small notebook. "Someone named Tyler Manning got the custody of an underage Blair. Surprise huh?"

Her own dad took her custody.

"I don't know how you did it punk, but bravo for linking Eleanor Waldorf to Tyler Manning," Nate tapped his back. It wasn't over, it was more confusing.

On the other hand, Tyler Manning or going by his real name, Harold Waldorf was watching closely as Bart Bass entertained Blair with a new set of diamonds, how she beamed at it and how she wrapped her arms around Bart.

"What have I done, Eleanor."

To Be Continued

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