So here's the next chapter, updated much sooner as promised. For those of you reading the story I am switching it over to TV shows next time I update. :) Anyways, I hope you like it and as always please read and review.

One warning though, I have seen a lot of spoilers and while I'm not working off of those some of them may appear in my story because they fit too perfectly not to. But from here on out I am pretty sure my story differs enough that I am on my own.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gossip Girl or its characters

Rated: T mostly for language

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Chuck was floating on air. Everything was going to be fine. He and Blair were really going to go for this and he wasn't scared anymore. Sure somewhere inside he was still insecure, who wouldn't be with his history, but he trusted Blair. She knew him and he knew her and nothing was going to pull them apart again. He refused to let it. Chuck didn't think he had ever been this happy and he knew that everyone could see it on his face by Nate's reaction when Nate opened the door to his house.

Why Mr. Bass, you look quite happy. Could this have to do with a certain beautiful brunette?

"Chuck, dude, I take it things with Blair are fixed." Nate said with a huge grin. He was happy for Chuck and by the look on Chuck's face Chuck was finally happy himself.

"Why Nathaniel, for once you're being quite perceptive." Chuck said with a look of mock shock.

Nate shoved Chuck playfully and acting offended "Hey, that's was harsh."

But Chuck knew Nate understood he was just messing around by the smile on his face and Chuck continued on in the house. "Since you apparently can already tell how things are going for me, what's up with you. I know I wasn't here for you during the mess with Punky Bruster because of my own drama, so tell me Nathaniel what can I do for you?" Chuck said as he sat down on the couch.

There was his best friend. Chuck was always there for him. "Chuck how could I begrudge you for that! You are always listening to me complain about some girl or another and you are always the person I come to with my problems. The switch of roles should probably happen more often." Nate said as he plopped down next to Chuck on the couch. "But, since you asked . . . "

At this Chuck chuckled. "I knew there had to be something." Chuck said smirking.

Nate just shook his head, "You know me too well Chuck." At this point Nate continued to relay the entire Vanessa, Serena, Dan episode from earlier that day.

"This one's simple man." Chuck had helped Nathaniel work through plenty of messes in the past. In his opinion this one was relatively simply. "Who do you want Blair, Vanessa, or Serena but for your safety you better not say Blair cause then we would have a problem." Chuck added the last bit with a smirk.

"No worries man, I assure you Blair and I were done. Even if you too weren't together, there is too much water under that particular bridge; plus Blair and I are finally friends again and its nice. As for the rest, Serena clearly doesn't want a relationship with me. She is still hung up over Dan and apparently so is Vanessa." Nate said as he dropped his head into his hands.

"Nathaniel, if you want something are you really going to let Humpty Dumpty stand in your way? Really, I thought I taught you better than that. If you want Serena this is the perfect opportunity to show her, she isn't attached to Humpty and you can show her how much better the two of you are together. Or if it is Punky Bruster who you want, I highly doubt she is already back in love with Humphrey when just yesterday she was all over you. So think about it, decide which woman it is that makes you smile just by thinking about her and go for it. Get your girl."

"Chuck, that has to be the sappiest thing that I have ever heard you say. But thanks." Nate said, smiling for the first time since the beach today. He knew which girl it was that made him feel that way and he was going to show her just how he felt.

"What can I say, I'm a man in love." Chuck said with quite possible the biggest grin he had ever shown.

Spotted: C and N having a heart to heart over the women in their life and both finishing with smiles. Who's the lucky girls gentlemen. I think I speak for all of Manhattan and the Hamptons in saying I wish it were me.

Xoxo

Gossip Girl

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Blair's heart was pounding in her chest as she walked down the staircase to the romantic dinner Marcus had set up. Not because she was nervous, because she wasn't. Sure she felt bad about breaking up with Marcus, he was a gentlemen and an all around nice guy, and she hadn't treated him well; but her heart was pounding because she was excited. This felt right. For the first time in her life, she was completely certain that she was doing the right thing. She was in love with Chuck and she wanted to be with him. Plus, Marcus deserved to be with someone who could love him the way she loved Chuck.

"You look lovely tonight Blair." Marcus said in the most Prince Charming like voice he could muster.

"Thank you Marcus." They carried on with dinner for a while before Blair couldn't wait any longer. "Marcus there's something I want to talk to you about."

"Really? Go ahead darling." Marcus said, still keeping his voice perfectly calm. "Well, actually wait a second, you weren't planning on breaking up with me were you? Because I think you'll reconsider."

Blair had heard Marcus's voice change as he spoke. By the end there was almost a hatred in it. And the look on his face, was terrifying. She suddenly had an awful feeling in the pit of her stomach. "What? What are you talking about Marcus." Blair stuttered.

"Don't play dumb Blair it doesn't suit you." Marcus spat as he handed her the gift bag. Blair cautiously opened the bag and the disc case as Marcus continued. "On that disc you'll find a tape of your and Chuck's escapades from this afternoon and you can break it if you want I have several copies. Don't look so surprised darling. Did you really think I was that stupid? By the look on your face I would say that you did indeed. Well well, what an ego bruiser. No, you little slut, I knew all along what was going on with you and Charles."

"Please, don't use this tape. I'm sorry for hurting you really, I felt awful but I have to follow my heart." Blair was terrified. She had never seen this side of Marcus and it scared her.

"You silly little girl. Originally, I didn't give a shit. But I've decided that you are worth my time. You see, you are exactly the kind of woman I want beside me and I am determined to have you."

"I don't care," Blair said shaking her head, "show the tape to the world if you want to, it won't make me be with someone like you."

"I'm sorry you said that Blair. Well in any case, I came prepared for that answer." Marcus said as he pulled a folder from a bag he had at his feet. "You see in this folder is evidence that your Chuck Bass was using his club Victrola to run a prostitution ring and a minor slave trade in which he arranged for a sell of one of his dancers to the highest bidder. Complete with witnesses willing to testify in a court of law."

"Let me see that." Blair said as she jerked the folder out of Marcus's hand and attempted to read it in her own shaking hands. "There's no way any of this is true." Blair said, certain of her answer.

"Of course not." Marcus said with a shrug. "But you know Chuck's reputation, and with as many witnesses as I have paid to set it up, he would certainly be put away for a very long time for it. I'm a very powerful man Blair and you would do well to learn not to cross me. Now you have a choice. Either, your Chuck Bass goes away for a very long time or you do what I want."

Blair was having trouble processing all of this. It couldn't be happening. She couldn't lose Chuck and as realization sank in she realized that either way she already had. Could she do it though? Could she sacrifice her own happiness to keep Chuck safe? When Blair looked into her heart she knew she had to. "Okay, you win, what do you want?" Blair said utterly defeated. But of all the things that ran through her head of what Marcus was going to ask, what happened next was something that she had never considered.

Marcus got down on one knee and opened a little black box with held a huge diamond ring. But the unusual thing was the malevolent look on his face and the venom in his voice. "Marry me."

Sometimes when you are playing poker, you think you have a great hand and you don't do much to hide it, maybe you have three Aces. So you bet all in, but sometimes when you do that, the player next to you turns a Royal Flush and you lose everything. Better luck next time B, and in the mean time maybe M could teach you a thing or two about having a good poker face because from what we hear he's the master.

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AN: Yeah I know that it's short and a little unrealistic but I have an exam tomorrow and I was itching to get this part up. I love you guys :)