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Author's Note: Finally, B appears. This takes place simultaneously as Ch2&3/the date. Tiny chapter. Don't complain, please. At least your getting something. And, as always, for Juliette.

"This cannot be happening!" Serena screamed into her cell before Blair could say hello.

The brunette sighed. "What now?"

Serena flopped onto her bed. "They're having a baby!"

"Who, Angelina and Brad? I can't believe it either. It's too soon," the other girl voiced sarcastically. "Or are they adopting again?"

"No!" Serena shouted. "My mom and Bart!"

"They're adopting? Please tell me it's a baby dog."

"What? Blair!" she whined. "This is serious!"

"And I seriously don't know what you're talking about."

Serena sighed. "Ugh. Can you just come over? Now!" Then she hung up because it was not a question.

Blair entered the apartment 20 minutes later. As she headed toward the stairs, she passed the family area where both Chuck and Eric sat talking.

They looked up and Blair stopped walking. The silence was deafening.

"Hey, Blair!" Eric tried to break the tension.

"Hey, Eric." She faced him with a sad smile.

"Hey-"

But Blair cut Chuck off. "So, Serena's freak out. Seriously?"

Eric nodded and shrugged. "It looks like it. I saw the sonogram, too."

"The two most fucked up, abandoning parents are about to have another kid."

Eric unconsciously rubbed his wrist. Both brunettes saw the action.

"Sorry," Blair whispered.

Eric shrugged again. "Maybe things will be different this time? Bart's good for mom and she's good for him."

Chuck made to protest, but Eric rolled his eyes.

"You've said so yourself before."

"I must have been drunk," Chuck mumbled.

Blair laughed.

Chuck immediately returned his gaze to her and she accidently looked him in the eye.

After a beat, she quickly turned away and backed up. "Um, I have to go…meet S. She's going crazy," and she quickly headed up the stairs to her best friend's room.

Closing the door, she leaned against it and let out a deep breath.

Serena looked up from the bed. "Blair?"

The brunette jumped.

Serena raised an eyebrow and with a smirk teased, "Chuck?"

"No!" she answered too fast.

"Right…" she dragged out.

"Aren't we supposed to discuss your demons?"

"Ugh!" she groaned and Blair hopped onto the bed.

"They're…reproducing…together!"

"I know, gross. Who wants to think of Lily and Bart Bass having sex?"

"Ew! Visual!" she took a pillow and smacked her best friend.

"Sorry!" she laughed. "But we'll be in college soon after it's born."

"True, but what happens when they divorce?"

"Maybe they won't."

Serena gave her a look. "Um, have you met my mother? And it's Bart Bass. How long until some 20-something crosses his line of vision?"

Blair's eyes darkened and she stiffened.

Serena noticed and immediately hugged her best friend.

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"No, it's fine. You're right."

"I don't want to be right," she whispered, unsure if she meant Chuck or Bart, and then realized she wanted both faithful.

The blond and the brunette lie in each others' embrace and fell asleep, deep in thought.

.tbc.