IMPORTANT: For anyone who doesn't know the id is one of Freud's psychological structures (the id, the ego, and the super ego) it is the part of the unconscious that is regulated by the pleasure principle and focuses on immediate gratification and ones internal desires (i.e. id).

Sorry it took so long for this one. I love you guys.

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. This one isn't really M but it is a pretty high T lol.

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Chuck laid on the chaise lounge holding Blair as she slept. He couldn't believe that there were back in this place again. He had sworn to himself that he would never go there ever again; but, that was before. Before he knew what Marcus had done to her. He couldn't believe some of the things that he had said to her over the past month; especially tonight. She had been trying to protect him and Chuck was hating her. He had purposefully embarrassed her in front of everyone that mattered to her.

Now as he looked over her he could see bruises. The one on her arm was huge and he had seen him do that to her, but even then he had no clue how badly he was treating her. Chuck saw bruises on her upper arms, with clearly defined fingerprints, a large one on her shoulder, and some on her ankles and legs. What had Marcus been doing to her? Chuck wanted to kill him. He wanted to go find him and kill him for doing this to Blair. But he couldn't, Chuck knew that he would never be able to get away with killing Marcus so he was just going to have to beat him at his own game. If he could find something substantial on Marcus then it would be over. He would get his sources working on that as soon as he could but Chuck really wanted to be the one to bring the guy down, for Blair.

He didn't want to have to wake her up but he knew that she had been sleeping for close to an hour and she needed to get home before Marcus. So very gently Chuck did what he always use to do when he needed to wake her up, he stroked her back. It was funny, most girls, that put them to sleep but not Blair, no, that was the easiest way to wake Blair up without really disturbing her. So he did it and sure enough within a minute Blair had opened her eyes.

Blair smiled. Only Chuck knew that rubbing her back would wake her up. No one else had ever figured that out. Sure it relaxed her like everyone else when she was awake but in all honesty it was her favorite thing to awaken to. As she looked into Chuck's eyes she could see so much compassion it was making her head spin.

"I love you Blair," Chuck whispered. As he looked directly into the eyes of the girl that he thought he had lost for forever.

"You know," Blair said, beginning the prop herself up, "I never thought that I would get to hear you say those words from you again and you can't know how good it is to hear you say them. And for the record, I love you too."

"In that case, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you," Chuck grinned a happy smile and Blair giggled playfully, "Are you tired of them yet?"

"No, never" Blair said, suddenly serious again. "Chuck, I will never be tired of hearing you say those three words to me."

"You don't have to worry then Blair," Chuck said, serious now as well. "I'm never going to stop. Never again am I ever going to let you get away from me. No matter what. Blair, I feel like I should say again how sorry I am for how I've been acting. You were trying to protect me and I was treating you like total shit. Especially what happened tonight. I was a jerk."

"Chuck please don't apologize anymore. Yeah it hurt, but I didn't care what anyone else thought about us to begin with us. I was just worried about Marcus but when I'm with you I don't worry about anything."

"Doesn't change the fact that I'm sorry. I didn't mean the things that I was saying, I just wanted to hurt you like you had hurt me." With that Chuck pulled her to him and held her.

After sometime, Blair spoke, "I can't believe we leave the Hamptons tomorrow, this summer has been one of the worst, and best," at best she looked at Chuck, "of my life. But school starts back next Monday."

"I know" Chuck said as he kissed her forehead. "But things will be easier. You have me now, and I am going to protect you. Plus, Marcus won't be living in the same house as you anymore, he will have to work times in to see you. While I will see you every day at school and be with you anytime he isn't. There will be more ways for us to sneak around." Chuck was trying every way he knew how to reassure her.

"Yeah, but going back to school means we only have a little over two months left to fix this." Blair didn't even realize what she had said until she felt Chuck freeze up.

"Four months" Chuck said in an alarmed voice, "What happened to the May wedding?" Chuck asked as he abruptly sat up.

Blair looked down. She had forgotten that he didn't know. "I asked Marcus to move up the wedding." Chuck looked confused, "I . . .it . . . This, us, not being with you was just too hard. I thought it would be easier on both of us if I got out faster. The wedding is the day before my birthday and we are leaving the next day."

Chuck's mind started racing. Blair's birthday, he only had until November 17th to stop Marcus, he thought that he had more time. Much more time. This was going to be difficult. Then he looked at Blair, "Wait, do you remember what happened last November 16?"

Blair was confused, Chuck's mood had changed so much in the past five minutes, serious, happy, somber, determined, confused, thoughtful, and now he seemed excited again. What would he be excited about in their situation.

He could tell Blair wasn't going to figure it out so he answered for her. "A limo pulled up at my club right at 12 on November 16 and I opened the door to find you when I was expecting Nate."

As soon as Chuck said that, Blair's eyes widened. OMG that was the night she had lost her virginity. To Chuck.

When Blair's face broke into a huge smile, he knew that he had finally done something right tonight. That was going to be his goal he decided. He didn't want Blair to think about that crap with Marcus, he was going to take her away from all of that every chance he got. She had been bearing that burden for too long, she should have never been dealing with it at all. Especially by herself. Chuck was going to take care of it. He was going to take care of her. If only he had a plan.

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"Nate, I need to talk to you." Serena said once she finally found him. Nate was dancing with some older woman and normally Serena had the good graces not to interrupt but it was important. She had to tell Nate how she felt.

"Sure Serena, wait just one moment while I finish my dance with my grandmother." As the song finished up he turned toward Serena. "Serena meet my grandmother, Gloria Vanderbilt. Grandmamma this is Serena Van der Woodsen, my date tonight."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Vanderbilt." Serena said taking the woman's hand a quickly exchanging niceties before dragging Nate away.

"Serena, what's wrong with you tonight? You've been all over the place." Nate said smiling. He didn't know what it was about Serena but this last month with her had been so amazing. She made him laugh. He was never this happy around anyone else. Overall he was just so glad that she had asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend because he knew now that it would have been a huge mistake to have gone after Vanessa. Vanessa was just a phase, something different, Serena was the one, other than Blair, Serena was the only girl that he had ever seen a future with. He had been meaning to tell her all night that he wanted to make the relationship real but he hadn't had the chance.

"Well, it's just all of this crazy drama with Blair and Chuck and Marcus, and Blair being engaged and not wanting to be and Chuck loves her and she loves Chuck and well it's just been a hectic couple of days." Serena was out of breath by the time she had finished and she still hadn't told Nate what she needed to say. She had made a mistake asking Nate to pretend to be her boyfriend. It hadn't helped her get Dan back, if anything it had pushed him further away. Sure this past month with Nate had been fun but they were just friends and helping Chuck and Blair tonight had made her realize that no matter what you should be with the one you love. Sure she loved Nate but not that way. Plus, Dan was here tonight, with some girl who wasn't Vanessa and she couldn't help but feel that this was her chance.

"Wow, you have been busy tonight" Nate said taking her hand. "So what is it you wanted so much to talk to me about, because when you're done, I've got something to tell you too."

"I just wanted to say that well I realized tonight in helping Chuck and Blair that being with the one you love is important" Serena said looking up at Nate's face. He looked so understanding.

"Of course it is Serena. That's kind of what I wanted to talk to you about too." Nate couldn't help but think that maybe Serena felt the same way about him that he felt about her. She had realized how right this way too.

"I'm glad you feel that way because well I think what we did, pretending to be a couple was well it was wrong."

Wait, had she just said that pretending to be a couple was wrong. That wasn't how he felt at all. "Really because well I kind of felt like maybe it was right. That maybe us being together is what was meant to be all along." Nate said genuinely shocked.

"Nate" Serena said almost pleadingly. "You know that I'm in love with Dan and we would never work. Not really."

"It seemed to me like we were working just fine Serena. I think I'm in love with you." Nate exhaled. He had been holding that in for a long time and regardless of what Serena was going to do he needed to say it.

"I'm sorry, Nate. I feel like we are back where we were this time a year ago and I'm sorry. I should have never asked what I did of you and right now I really need to go find Dan." Serena excused herself and hurried off.

"Serena," Nate called after her. "Serena . . .wait" But she wasn't listening. That hadn't gone as planned. That hadn't gone as he intended at all. He was angry. Nate downed his drink before returning to the bar and downing a couple more. Maybe Chuck was right, maybe women were all bad. Why try to find love when it was always biting you in the ass. At that point he grabbed a young blonde walking by and pulled her into a kiss and when she responded he led her up to one of the upstairs rooms. He was drunk and didn't even look at her face, that was Chuck's philosophy after all.

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"Dan," Serena yelled across the room. "DAN, wait a minute," Serena was desperate. She had to tell him how she felt.

"Serena?" Dan asked finally turning around and finding her in the crowd. He dismissed the girl he was with, he had just used her to get into the party, he was really only here to keep an eye on Jenny. He was surprised that Serena was talking to him. They hadn't spoken more than cordial hellos since that day on the beach and he thought that she and Nate were together. But here she was, alone, looking for him. "What's going on?"

"Dan," Serena said, out of breath for the third time this evening. "I have to tell you something and you probably aren't going to like what I say at first but I think that maybe you will once we talk. I mean at least I have to try."

"Okay," Dan said a little confused. "Go ahead."

"Nate and I were never together. We were pretending because I had heard that you and Vanessa were together and I wanted you to be happy but I didn't want to be alone. So we've been pretending, but I heard that you and Vanessa broke up and I thought that I should tell you that I can't get over you and well, I'm still in love with you." Serena said about a mile a minute before looking down. She thought Dan would probably yell, or walk away, what she didn't expect was what he actually did do.

Dan couldn't help it, he laughed. He laughed so hard that he almost fell over.

"Dan, I don't appreciate being laughed at." Serena said a little distraught.

Dan held up his hand to signal her to stop and struggled to speak. "No . . . It's just . . . So funny. You see, Vanessa and I, we were pretending because we thought that you and Nate were together that day on the beach. I told Vanessa today that we had to stop letting people think we were together and she went back to New York with some artsy guy she met at the beach. So I guess what I am trying to say is that I can't get over you either." Dan said, softening his voice and moving closer to Serena.

At this Serena's face broke into a huge smile and she flung her arms around Dan's neck hugging him tightly. Before he pulled her back and kissed her.

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When she was grabbed by a nearby guy, her first thought was to struggle, then he kissed her and it was kind of amazing and his taste was strangely familiar. At that point she realized that she was kissing Nate Archibald and it was incredible. So when he started pulling her upstairs she didn't resist. She couldn't help but think that maybe Nate could finally see her as a woman and not just a kid. When they ended up in bed, she simply didn't question things, she was too into the moment. Jenny had no idea until the next morning that Nate didn't even realize it was her.

Looks like tonight is a night for make ups and subsequent hookups, can't help but wonder what's controlling these Upper East Sidders this lovely evening. Normally they are so ettiquete oriented but it seems that they have let their ids take total control. Which always makes for some great gossip. :) But some of them should be more careful, like Little J, always take precautions when getting involved or didn't you learn from B last spring.

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AN: Sorry guys I know it wasn't as much Chuck and Blair as usually but I have to get the rest of the story back and running so that I can integrate all of it later. Hugs and Kisses, and as always please review :)