A/N: It's been so long since my last post! I checked, it was in january - I'm so sorry guys! I was so disappointed by this season's episode, I couldn't get any inspiration out of it and my school didn't let me time to try to gather it. Anyway, I'm finding my inspiration in my new hatred toward Dan Humphrey and my faith in Chair. Please, writers of the show, make Chair the endgame - Blair has to come back to her senses! Well, I hope you'll enjoy this chapter :)
Paris
"I think Dan, Nate, Raina, Damon and I are going to leave you alone, you need to talk and we shouldn't be there." Serena told Blair once they arrived all in front of a small pub lost in Paris. "We'll talk later, B. We have some much to catch on!"
"You're right. But does she really have to stay? S, Chuck and me alone, having the talk.. I'm not sure I'm ready yet." Blair said, looking away.
"She does, B, and you need this as much as he does. Please, do something for you, once in two decades, it wouldn't hurt so much, right? We'll see you later." Serena hugged her and then walked away, waving at her. The others followed behind the tall blond while Chuck and Cornelia stayed there with Blair, feeling awkward.
"Stop staring at me that way." Blair spat out at Cornelia. Startled, she looked away but knew inside that she would have done the same in her place. Chuck held back a smile, his beloved Blair and her temper seemed not to have changed. "Let's go inside and get done with the talk." She said, pushing the door of the pub.
Chuck winked at Cornelia and they both followed Blair inside to a table she seemed to be accustomed to sit at and then all sat down. They ordered drinks and an awkward silence fell between them.
"So, Chuck, Serena told me you needed to talk to me and that she had to be here too." Blair obviously had a bad feeling about Cornelia. She felt like that girl could steal away all she once had and wanted back - her title of Queen, her fashion sixth sense, her wit, her reputation, her friends and, well, Chuck. She really didn't like her.
"First of all, I'm sorry, Blair. I should have come to you sooner, I shouldn't even have let you go, I should have known he wouldn't make you happy, that we were the only ones that were meant to be." He put his hand on hers and she winced. It was all rushing back to her, the butterflies, the head spinning, the chills, the ache in her chest and the burn on her skin left by his touch.
"You sacrificed us for me, for a happiness I thought I'd have with Louis. I used to be happy with him and he gave all I ever wanted, a child but I don't want to talk about all this in front of her. Tell me what you have to." She said. She didn't even looked at Cornelia, too absorbed in Chuck and not wanting to award her the privilege of her sight on her.
"I recently learned something, that nineteen years ago, you gave birth to a girl. Please, let me finish," Chuck said when he saw Blair was about to cut him off. "I know that baby was ours and I understand why you didn't tell me back then, I don't want to waste our time together blaming us one another. I don't how to say it, I think I'll just spit it out. Well, the girl sitting right here is French, her name is Cornelia and she was adopted nineteen years. Blair, our daughter didn't die that day."
Blair winced again and then slowly turned to face Cornelia who couldn't help but smiling. She raised a weak hand toward her face, almost shaking in apprehension, and touched her daughter's cheek. Cornelia put her hand on hers, feeling her mother's skin against hers for the first time.
"How.. ?" Was the only thing Blair managed to say. Chuck let her a few seconds to realize what was happening and then started to answer Blair's question by telling her the whole story, from the day she gave birth to Cornelia to the present day.
"I - I can't believe she did that." Blair stuttered, tears starting to stream down her cheeks. Her own mother did betray her and that hurt, that hurt so much she couldn't breathe. She could have had a chance at true happiness - for the last twenty years, she hadn't been able to truly be happy because of that pain in the back of her mind, the loss of that baby of her and Chuck. She had made a deal with Fate back then, she remembered. If the baby survived, if she was fine, she would go back to Chuck and leave Louis and Monaco behind. And she didn't.
"It's okay, Blair. We're finally reunited." When Chuck said that, Blair literally burst into tears and fell into his arms. He held her as close as possible, wanting to shield her, to soothe away the pain and dry her so beautiful brown eyes. He ran his fingers through her soft curls, then down her back. She was so thin, so fragile in her arms, she had lost so much weight, he thought he could have broken her by making a single wrong move.
"Why didn't you tell me? I would have come back.. I would have wanted to know if you were dying, Chuck. I would have wanted to at least say goodbye." Blair said between two sobs. "Thank you." She added to Cornelia. "Thank you for saving him, for looking for us and bringing us back together. You truly are a part of our family, I'm sorry for being rude earlier." Cornelia smiled at her and reached out to hug her. Blair took her long lost daughter in her arms, feeling her skin against hers, her flesh recognizing her sibling.
"You had every right to be angry. It's all forgiven, I'm so happy to have finally found you." Cornelia told them.
Spotted – The Queen, the Dark Knight and the New Girl reunited. I hear your WTFs, but FYI, I shall be yelling OMG to the news we're all expecting – and gossiping about. XOXO, Gossip Girl.
Somewhere else in Paris
"How do you think it is going?" Nate asked.
"It's going great, I'm sure. Blair and Chuck have been away from each other for far too long. Besides, Cornelia will be the center of Blair's attention, I can't wait to talk to Blair about all this!" Serena said, her eyes shining of joy. Dan was staring at her, with her best friend back, the old joyful Serena was back too. He hadn't seen her so happy since the birth of their last daughter. He was slightly smiling at the sight of the woman he loved, the woman who happened to be his soulmate, his first love and his last. Years ago, he had fallen for the small brunette, her best friend, but he came to understand he was no match to Blair Waldorf – he couldn't handle her, he could understand her, soothe her but he would never be able to light her fire and deal with the consequences, deal with the Devil inhabiting her body. The day of her wedding, Dan lost faith and when he turned his head away from the bride, he caught a glimpse at the stunning and still sad bridesmaid by her side. He danced with her that night, he talked to her and learned to know the woman she had become and then he understood she was the one for him.
"She is not back with Chuck yet, is she?" Raina asked.
"You really don't know them. They won't be together for at least a year, they'll scheme, manipulate, destroy, hate, love, talk, make out and one day, they'll decide it has to stop and Chuck will propose to her and she'll say yes." Serena laughed.
"Yeah, that's likely to happen, but I think Cornelia will push them to go a little bit faster." Nate said. "Jenny, I think you'll be Chuck and Blair's hero now."
"Well, if I hadn't been there that night, I'm not sure they would have split the way they did – Blair wouldn't have gone to Paris, met Louis and all. They might be happily married for twenty years if it wasn't for me." Jenny said.
"I don't think so. Chuck had to grow up and losing Blair was the only way for him to and Blair needed to make mistakes for once!" Serena exclaimed. "She wasn't so sure Chuck was made for her – they loved each other but she had doubts, what about marriage, children and all? She wasn't sure they were compatible in that way. Now she knows they are, she doesn't see a life without him and he doesn't either." Serena had noticed the way Dan looked at Blair that day and even though she loved her best friend, she still resented her a bit about what happened years ago, before the wedding and she was afraid her husband might have fallen back once again.
"Chuck surely had to grow up but as for Blair, I'm not sure. She's always seemed so sure of what she felt about everyone, but I guess you must be right after all, I don't see any other explanations." Dan said, running a hand through his gray hair. He didn't see Serena's dark glance, but Nate did and some kind of instinct raised up in him – why did he always have to be the knight in shining armor who wanted to help the damsel in distress?
"Anyway, they're together now, talking and I'm sure by the end of this year, we'll all be attending New York's greatest and biggest wedding." Raina concluded, feeling some tension in the room. She never liked Nate's friend, they were one of the reasons why she convinced him into not moving back to New York after their first kid's birth. He wanted Angie to be close to her grandparents and even though Raina was all for family bonding, she didn't want her to bond with the VDW-Humphrey girls. Too bad for her, Angie, Taylor, Blake and Emily were like brother and sisters.
"You're right." Dan said. "I'd go for a walk, anyone?" He got no answer – It-girls didn't go for a walk, he should have known that by now, high heels didn't allow them to wander around big cities. "Well, I guess I'm going to go on my own. Call me when they're back, please." And so he went out. Dan Humphrey, that damned lonely boy, never thought he'd fall again into Blair's trap. She was still so thin, but so beautiful, so magnificent! She was a true Queen of Hearts and even if he used to think he had gotten over her with Serena, he never actually did. He would die for her and as he watched the sun going down on the capital city, he almost wished he was. Paris was an amazing city, full of museum, café and you couldn't get bored there. It was a town for lovers, he should be holding hands with Serena, loving her, she was so perfect – but that was not enough for him. Blake and Emily made him happier than ever, but he wished they had Blair's brown curls and not Serena's blond ones. Lost in his thoughts and wandering unconsciously, Dan didn't see the person following him, nor the last ray of sun reflecting on the blade of his knife.
Haha! What's going to happen to Dan Dearest? And what about all the other characters, what are your guesses? I think I'm going to write a bit more about them, since I started to like a little bit more Nate and Serena in the show lately (is it because of Blair's stupidity and my newly hatred toward Dan? Yep, I think so.). Anyway, I'll try to write more soon! I missed writing so much! See ya ;)
Nyah-Cullen
