MWT 3

"Rise and Shine sleeping beauty" Nate singsonged as he walked into the suite. The room smelt of cigarettes, alcohol and what Nate was now experienced enough to recognise as sex.

"Nathaniel not quite the sight I expected to wake up to" Chuck stirred on the bed, sitting up and letting the silk sheets pool around his waist "How did you get in here?"

"Your um friends let me in on their way out" he coughed noting the absence of his best friends trademark pyjamas and he quickly turned around to give his best friend some privacy. whilst he waited for Chuck to get dressed his mind drifted back to the last time he had seen those infamous striped jammies, it was two days after Bart's wedding he had come to the suite to sleep guessing the Chuck would be at Blair's only to find his best friend and his ex girlfriend curled up in bed with matching pyjamas on and the menu screen of Charade playing on the plasma screen.

"Oh yes Justine and Jaynie, god bless twins" Chuck smiled as he padded his way from the bed to the shower not bothering to cover himself up.

"I almost forgot about your thing about twins." Nate shouted through the open door of the bathroom as he heard the spray of the shower begin.

"Twice as nice." came Chuck's throaty reply wafting through the steam with the accompanied by the distinctive scent of his $400 shower gel.

"So I've heard" Nate muttered shaking his head and settling himself on the sofa to think about how to include more twins in his own life whilst he waited for Chuck to emerge from the bathroom.

Finally Chuck stepped back into the room, one of the hotels always fluffy and always white towels wrapped around his waist. "Anyway what can I do you for Nathaniel, I have an appointment in about an hour and I don't think that she would appreciate me arriving like this. "

"I just came over to make sure you are OK, I mean you got pretty wasted after Blair went off with that Donny guy." Nate asked concern evident in his voice, Blair had disappeared onto the dance floor with Donny and Chuck had started doing shots. By the time Blair and Donny were on their second dance Chuck was ordering bottles of Patron and by the time they came back to the booth were Nate, Serena and Jonas were waiting after 3 dances Chuck had gone home with no less than three Cheerleaders from Atlanta on a bachelorette weekend in New York.

"Why wouldn't I be OK?" he asked irritated as he roughly flicked through the hangers in his wardrobe looking for a button down shirt "Blair Waldorf finally giving in to type, it was only ever a matter of time."

"I'm just glad you finally listened to my advice" Nate stated as he watched Chuck button up his shirt

"Your advice?" He looked up briefly from his mother of pearl buttons and gave his best friend a confused look.

"About leaving Blair alone, I mean I spoke to Serena this morning and apparently Blair and Donny went out on Friday and Saturday." he explained idly picking at some of night last abandoned room service.

"Yeah I am sure they are love's young dream" Chuck drawled "The barman and the heiress to a billion dollar fortune. I think I saw this once on an episode of CSI: Miami"

"A barman who went to Cambridge and is studying at Columbia Business School," Nate quipped before he could stop himself. He and Serena had fallen into a habit of spending hours on the phone each night and every second that she was telling him about Donny's many qualities was a second she was not listing Jonas'

"Nathaniel remind me to get the concierge to send flowers to your dearly departed Balls!" Chuck joked although his smile didn't seem to reach his eyes. he walked over to his liquor cabinet and poured two drinks "Women gossip, Men drink now if you are not going to join me for some of Scotland's finest please allow me to get ready for my appointment."

"Your appointment hey" Nate smiled his trademark grin and gave his best friend a wink that almost felt like a punch in the stomach as the memories of the last wink came flooding back to him.

Chuck shook away the feeling "Yeah I am meeting a gorgeous brunette, she she looks like that sublime beauty Minka Kelly but younger, hotter and much more adventurous in bed." he joked avoiding his best friend's eyes.

"Sounds amazing" Nate swooned the only thing better than Minka Kelly was Minka Kelly, Megan Fox and Sophia Bush in lots of lots of mud; he definitely needed to get back to Brunettes, and he would... just as soon as he could stop thinking about Serena.

"She is and she isn't one to be kept waiting." Chuck smirked his eyes pointing Nate in the direction of the door.

Nate pulled the door open before turning around and asking his best friend one last time to be sure "Are you sure you are OK about Blair"

"Blair who?" he replied with a look that said one thing "I'm Chuck Bass"