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Chuck looked over at the alarm clock on his bedside table, the time 1:46 reminding him that he should be asleep. After the news he had gotten today Chuck was having a lot of trouble sleeping, unlike Blair who was sleeping soundly beside him. He carefully removed his arm from around Blair's waist so he wouldn't disturb her and climbed out of bed, before making his way into the living room, shutting the bedroom door gently behind him. As he was walking by the couch, a voice suddenly called out, "Chuck."

Chuck jumped, then breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Nate sitting on the couch. "Geez Nate, are you trying to give me a heart attack?" he asked, sitting down beside his friend.

"Sorry," Nate retorted. "What are you doing up?"

"Can't sleep," he replied bluntly. "You?"

"The same," he nodded. "I didn't get a chance to ask you, what happened with Blair?" Chuck paused, not knowing what to say. He didn't want to lie to Nate, but he didn't want to share the news with other people before Blair wanted him to. Nate looked at him quizzically, "Well..."

"I- I can't say," Chuck said.

"Why not?"

"Because I don't think Blair wants me to tell people yet."

"So this is big news?" Nate asked, starting to become concerned.

"Very big news," he nodded.

"Come on Chuck, I'm your best friend," he persisted. "I'm not going to tell anyone, and I won't tell Blair that you told me, I promise."

Chuck sighed, "Nate."

"You look pretty stressed out about whatever it is, so maybe it would help to talk to someone about it."

Nate was right. It would be good to talk to his friend about how completely terrified he was of becoming a father. "Fine," Chuck gave in. "But you can't tell anyone."

"Okay."

Chuck suddenly felt nervous. He hadn't spoken about this with anyone besides Blair, and telling someone else was making it even more real. "Blair is-" he started, looking down at his hands, "Blair is pregnant."

Nate's jaw physically dropped open, "Oh my God."

"I know."

"This is huge."

"I know!" Chuck repeated, starting to get a little annoyed.

"I can't believe this is happening," Nate commented. "What happened to 'Chuck Bass handles his business'?"

"I do."

"Well obviously not very well-"

"Nate, just shut up! I don't need this crap from you right now," Chuck snapped.

"You're right, I'm sorry," he replied, feeling guilty. "I'm just really shocked."

"Yeah, well so am I."

"But come on, this is still great news," Nate pointed out. "I mean you're having a kid Chuck, that's supposed to be one of the best experiences of your life."

Chuck couldn't help but smile, "I guess it is." Both men suddenly heard Chuck's bedroom door open. Blair stepped out and walked towards them sleepily.

"Why are you guys up, it's 2am," she groaned, sitting down in an armchair across from Chuck and Nate.

"We couldn't sleep," Chuck explained, trying not to act suspicious.

Nate on the other hand was not doing such a good job of not acting suspicious. Blair noticed that he was looking at her differently, and was occassionally glancing down to her stomach. Chuck, she thought in annoyance. She glared at her boyfriend, "You told him, didn't you?"

"Told him what?" Chuck asked innocently.

"Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about," she said. "I can't believe you told him."

"Well he was going to find out sometime," he argued, dropping the innocent act altogether.

"We agreed that we weren't going to tell people until after we went to the doctor," Blair said in annoyance.

"I got it out of him," Nate confessed. "So if you have to blame someone, blame me."

Blair looked at the two men and rolled her eyes. She took a deep breath, "You know what? I am not going to let this bother me. Whenever I get mad or upset it upsets the baby, which I definitely don't want to do." Blair took another deep breath, "See? I am completely calm." Nate and Chuck looked at each other, trying not to laugh. Blair was not going to be able to stay calm and not get angry for the next 9 months.

"On a more serious note," Nate began, receiving a glare from Blair who quickly replaced it with a forced smile, "I'm really happy for you guys, I think you're going to be great parents."

Blair and Chuck both smiled at each other. "Thanks Nate," Chuck replied.

"Yeah, that's really sweet of you," Blair added. "But you know, this is big news for you and Serena too."

"Why?"

"Well this baby is going to be your godchild," Chuck explained, thinking back to the conversation he and Blair had earlier about who would be their impending child's godparents.

"Are you serious?" Nate smiled.

"Come on who else would we choose? Dan and Vanessa?" Chuck scoffed, thinking of his adopted step-brother and his girlfriend.

Nate chose to ignore that comment and replied, "This is so great, I can't wait to tell Serena."

"No! Don't tell her!" Blair exclaimed. "We want to tell her ourselves."

"Well you better do it fast because I'm not going to be able to keep this from her for very long," he replied, standing up from the couch. "I'm going to bed, goodnight."

"You better not be going to call Serena," Blair warned.

"Of course not, it's 2am," he said. "I'll call her in the morning."

"That is so not funny," she called out, as Nate made his way back to his bedroom.

"What happened to staying calm?" Chuck smirked.

Blair sighed, "He was pissing me off." She then got up from the arm chair and sat down beside her boyfriend.

"Hey," he smiled, putting his arm around her.

"Hi," she replied simply. "Well that's one person down."

"And another million to go," Chuck exhaggerated. "Personally, I'm looking forward to telling your mother."

Blair groaned, "Oh God, she's going to kill me. But not before lecturing us about the importance of her first child being born in wedlock."

"What?"

"Oh yeah, she's going to try to force us to get married," she told him. She saw the worried look on her boyfriend's face and added, "Don't worry Bass, I'm not going to listen to her."

"Are we even ready for that?"

"I don't know Chuck," Blair replied. She paused for a moment before adding, "This baby is already a really big change, and I think we can only handle one of those at a time."

"You're right," he nodded. "We'll just get through having this baby first, then we can talk about getting married."

"Wow," Blair remarked. Chuck looked at her in confusion. "It's just, you're talking about marriage. I didn't think I'd see the day that Chuck Bass contemplated getting married."

"Well," he began, looking away from her as he always did when admitting his feelings, "it takes a special person to make me even consider spending the rest of my life with them."

Blair smiled, putting her hand to his cheek so she could move Chuck's face so that he was looking at her, "I love you," she said softly.

"I love you too."

The next morning, Chuck and Blair were taking a cab to the doctors office. They left the limo at home so they could get there and back without being recognized. If Gossip Girl found out about this pregnancy, the whole of the Upper East Side would know in a matter of minutes and Blair wasn't going to take that chance. She looked out the window of the cab, adjusting her head scarf and glasses that she had put on as a disguise.

"Blair, is this really necessary?" Chuck asked, referring to his own dark sunglasses and baseball cap that Blair had made him wear under sufferance.

"Yes," she replied, grabbing the cap from Chuck's hand and putting it on his head.

"It's giving me hat hair," he complained.

Blair rolled her eyes, "Oh poor baby, have a cry." Chuck sighed. "Look, do you want Gossip Girl finding out about this? Do you want our family and friends finding out that way? Don't you want to see the look on Eleanor's face when we tell her that her first grandchild is going to be born out of wedlock?"

"That would be amusing," he agreed, smirking at the thought.

"Well that can be your motivation for putting up with this whole charade," she said, just as the taxi pulled up at their destination. Chuck took out his wallet and paid the driver, then he and Blair got out of the car. Blair looked around suspiciously, before walking briskly into the building where the doctor's office was located.

"Blair, slow down," Chuck said, picking up his pace to keep up with her. She finally stopped in front of the elevator and Chuck caught up, grabbing her hand both for support and so she wouldn't make a run for it again.

"You're so unfit," Blair commented. "I'm in heels and you still couldn't keep up."

"Well I wasn't aware that going to the doctors would be a marathon," he retorted as the elevator doors opened. "If I knew, I would have been training." They stepped inside the elevator.

"The faster we get in and out of here, the less chance there is of someone recognizing us," Blair explained, leaning over to press the button of the floor they wanted as the elevator doors shut.

"Can't we at least enjoy this experience?" Chuck asked. "This is going to be the first time we see our child Blair."

Blair was caught off-guard by that statement, she hadn't even thought of that. "Oh my God," she said, horrified at her actions. "I was so busy planning how to get in and out of here unseen that I didn't even think about how important today is." She looked at her boyfriend in horror, "This baby isn't even born yet and I'm already a terrible mother!"

"No you're not," he replied, squeezing her hand for moral support. "The reason why you wanted to be so secretive about this is because you want to protect the baby from public scrutiny. You wanted to give him or her the best start possible which includes not being made a spectacle of by Gossip Girl."

"I guess so," she replied softly. At that moment, the elevator doors opened at their floor.

"But right now you need to forget about all of that," Chuck continued. "Just think about us and the baby, that's all that matters."

Blair smiled as they walked out of the elevator hand-in-hand. She kissed him on the cheek as they walked and whispered, "Thank you."

20 minutes later, Blair was sitting on an examination bed waiting nervously, while Chuck stood beside her feeling just as nervous. They had decided to remove their disguises in the waiting room when people started giving them weird looks. They were both relieved when the doctor arrived. "Hello, I'm Dr Roberts," she smiled warmly. "You must be Blair," she said, shaking her hand.

Blair smiled, already feeling a little calmer, "Yes, it's so nice to meet you. This is my boyfriend Chuck."

"Yes of course," she replied, shaking Chuck's hand. "How are you?"

"Honestly, I'm a little nervous," he said. "We're both pretty nervous actually."

"There's no need to be nervous, Blair is in good hands," Dr Roberts' replied. "Don't worry, I'll talk you both through everything. Today, we're simply going to do an ultrasound so we can check how far along you are Blair."

"Okay," she nodded.

"I'm going to need you to lie back and pull your shirt up a little," the doctor directed, turning away to turn on the ultrasound machine. Blair laid back and pulled up her top, just waiting for Chuck to make an inappropriate comment. When she didn't hear anything, she looked over at him, surprised to see him looking very serious and worried.

"Are you okay?" Blair asked.

"I'm fine," he replied, taking her hand. "I should asking you that question."

Dr Roberts turned back to them, "Are we ready?" Blair nodded with a smile. "Okay, I'm going to put this gel on your stomach. It will help us see the baby better." Blair shivered as the gel touched her stomach and the doctor added, "Sorry, it's a little cold."

Blair watched the screen in anticipation as the image began to appear. Dr Roberts started looking at the image. Chuck breathed deeply, alternating his gaze between his feet and Blair, refusing to look up at the screen. The doctor smiled and pointed to the screen, "That's your baby."

"Oh my God," Blair breathed, shocked by what she was seeing.

"If you look closely, you'll see something flickering," she continued. "That's the baby's heartbeat."

"Wow," Blair said, unable to look away from the screen. She was completely mesmorized by the image of her and Chuck's child that she was currently seeing. Blair managed to look away for a moment, and looked over to her boyfriend, only to realise that he wasn't looking at the screen. "Chuck, why aren't you looking?" she asked.

"I just need to know that everything's okay first," he explained.

"Oh sweetie, everything's fine," she said, surprised at the word that had come out of her mouth, she never was one for cute pet names. "You need to look at this Chuck, this is our child."

Chuck took a deep breath before looking up at the screen. From the moment he saw the tiny baby, he was speechless. He couldn't believe that something so little and perfect had come from himself and Blair. Blair felt her eyes fill with tears at the touching image. She had only ever seen Chuck look that way at her, so to see him look at their baby like that was amazing.

Chuck sighed happily, "That's our baby," he said softly, leaning down to kiss his girlfriend on the forehead.

"It's perfect," Blair commented, wiping away the tears that had begun to run down her cheeks.

"I would say that you're about 7 weeks along," Dr Roberts said gently, not wanting to interrupt such a special moment.

"And everything looks good, everything looks normal?" Chuck asked.

She nodded, "Everything's exactly how it should be. Blair's healthy so I don't see any reason why this pregnancy shouldn't progress perfectly." She removed the instrument from Blair's stomach and wiped away the gel. "Why don't I go print a picture for you to take home?"

"That would be great," Blair smiled.

"Thank you," Chuck added. Dr Roberts nodded, before leaving the room. He looked back down at his girfriend, before leaning down and hugging her. "I love you so much."

"I love you too," she said, returning the hug. "Why didn't you tell me that you were so afraid of something going wrong today?" Blair asked, pulling back from the hug slightly so she was looking at him.

"You had your own concerns to worry about," he explained, "you didn't need mine too."

"That's ridiculous," she replied. "From now on, you tell me when something's worrying you and we can talk about it." Chuck looked at her. "Okay?" she asked.

"Okay," he agreed.

In the next chapter, Blair and Chuck will tell the rest of their friends their news. Oh by the way, I don't know if anyone noticed but the part where Blair and Chuck come out of the elevator and Blair says thank you was meant to be similar to the Chuck and Blair scene from 3x12. Anyway, remember to review!