A/N: This time, I updated soon! I was soo inspired by this last episode! Chair will be endgame, I'm so sure! I want a Chair wedding, baby Bass running (and ruling!) all over the UES! I also want Dan to go away, from B AND S! Poor S, she can be a bitch but she's so miserable... Anyway, I hope you will enjoy this chapter, another one might come soon if I still have inspiration :) (I dare say I will, GG ended with Chair, TVD ended on a promise of Delena and HIMYM ended on the Barney/Robin wedding :), so I'm more than happy!)
Upper East Side, Manhattan
"Of course, Serena. I'll handle them – all. Don't worry about us, you already have enough to worry about." Lily said on the phone. "I will call them, too. We will be expecting you at the airport tomorrow. Take care." She hung up, closed her eyes and sighed. Rufus was in another room, reading some old book. Blake and Emily were in Serena's old room, playing with her old clothes. They were still so young and still so old. She didn't know how she could break the news to her husband and even worse, how could she tell the poor children?
"Rufus?" she asked as she entered the living room. "There is something I need to tell you." Rufus raised his head from the book and looked up at her. When he saw her face, he knew she was going to tell him some bad news – he never expected what she was about to say.
Paris
"How is she?" Blair asked as soon as she walked in the room.
"She's been crying all night." Raina said. "Nate is with her, he didn't leave her side since the news broke in. His presence seems to soothe her a bit, but I think she needs you."
Blair nodded and thanked Raina before heading to Serena's room. They were staying at Eleanor and Cyrus'. Blair had had to go to sleep late last night, she dozed off, Serena in her arms, and Chuck had had to carry her to her room.
"S? It's me, B. How are you dealing with the news?" Blair said as she entered the room and then sat next to Serena and Nate, all cuddled up. "It's okay if you want to take a break and sleep a bit. I'm taking care of her."
Nate glanced at Serena's poor body wrapped up in his arms in a fetal position. It was so obvious he didn't want to leave her but he needed to rest to be strong enough to support her. He didn't say a word to Blair, he stood up carefully enough not to disturb Serena and kissed her forehead. He left like that, leaving the still so fragile Blair to handle her best friend at her worst.
"It's going to be okay, S." Blair said as she took Nate's place. Blair had been a bit shaken up by the news of Dan's murder. Yes, Dan had been savagely murdered in the dawning streets of Paris for some money and his engagement ring. Nobody heard him scream, he died silently, lonely. His assassin seemed to hate him pretty hard, why did he stab him so many times? The police was working on it, but the damaged was already done and the poor blond woman was destroyed. She had loved Dan so much, he had hurt her so bad when he first refused to be with her because he was in love with Blair – couldn't he have seen how out he was? Blair never was made to walk the streets of Brooklyn. She was a freaking socialite, a Queen of Hearts and Scheme and most of all, her hearts had been torn between an Emperor and a prince. They had never been meant for each other and he died knowing it, facing it for the first time of his life.
"Why him, B? Why now? We're all together, happiness was eventually coming back into our lives – why now? How will Blake and Emily survive and grow up without a father?" Serena sobbed. Blair caressed her hair, trying to soothe her best friend. She had missed her so much, she wished she could share her newly found joy. She had a grown-up daughter and one day, she would be known as Mrs Bass. But now wasn't a time for wedding and birth, it was a time for funeral and black dresses.
"Do you think we will let you down? We won't. We're the Non-Judging Breakfast Club. Chuck will teach them to be carefully with boys, they are all bad intentioned and Nate will show them he's wrong because Bad Boys can turn out to be perfect." Blair told her softly. Serena's wet and red eyes stared at her. It was good to have Blair by her side, but she wanted Nate's arms back. She remembered her horrible hangovers, every time she was too drunk to walk, he had always helped her out, carried out to her bed or to the bathroom. His arms were a safe place for her.
"I've missed you, B. I sometimes wish Dan had never landed eyes upon your face, I would have kept him all to myself that way. Vanessa never were a threat to me – you were. He loved you, you know. He never stopped, I think I was his second best choice and the only way to stay close enough to you to get you if you ever divorced Louis. Yesterday was too much to take in for him, that's why he went out for a walk." Serena told her, wiping away a few tears. "I don't blame you. I only blame myself for being such a fool and love him – and now, he's gone forever and I'm on my own." She buried her hair in Blair's prominent collarbone, breathing the soft scent of Chanel n°5.
"S, I'm so sorry. I never meant for him to fall for me. Dan was a good friend to me but that was all, I never was ambiguous about our relationship. I'm so sorry. I wish he had not gone out that night, I never knew the streets of Paris were so dangerous... I'm sorry." Blair didn't know what to say. She never thought he would fall for her. She only had eyes for Louis and Chuck – well, mostly Chuck.
"Do you want me to go, to leave you alone? I would understand." Blair murmured. Serena parted with her best friend and looked up at her.
"Could you call Nate back, please? I don't know how he does this, but he calms me down." Serena lied, she knew why he calmed her down. He had become her closest friend after Blair's departure to Monaco. Chuck had been slowly falling since that day and Nate was her only remaining sane friend. They talked almost every week – about their work, their marriage, their kids, their lives and their two best friends moving closer to the edge of the cliff.
"I will. Someday, it'll stop hurting, I can tell you. You will move on from your life, you will meet someone else and you will be happy, I can assure you that." Blair comforted her.
"Did you stop hurting from the loss of your baby? I mean, before yesterday." Serena asked her, her voice a bit cracked up.
"No. But losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to someone. You can't imagine it until you've been through it." Blair said, almost coldly. She kissed Serena on the cheek and left the room, looking for Nate.
My dear UES, we today are mourning our lonely dead boy. Please wear black - but wear it S style. XOXO, Gossip Girl.
Paris, two hours later.
"Are you okay, Blair?" Chuck asked her. "What Serena told you must have shaken you up. I wished it didn't go that way. This week was supposed to be about us finding each other again, being happy with our daughter, Cornelia."
"I know. I share your feeling, but I'm fine. You should worry about Serena, she's the one who's lost her husband." Blair told him. He grabbed her hand and squeezed it. They were alone in the living room, everyone was asleep upstairs. They could not close even an eye.
"And Raina might kill her if she doesn't release Nate. There was always a spark between those two and I can't figure out why she chose Dan and he chose that bitchy girl." Chuck spat out. He didn't like Raina, he never did. She reminded him too much of Blair and not in a good way. Where Blair was a person, she wasn't.
"You can't explain what one's heart feels." she said. She wearing a purple silk nightgown and a smooth velvet matched robe over it and even that covered, she was shivering of cold. Chuck looked down and noticed she was bare feet, as always. Blair was either perched on stilettos or bare feet. He grabbed a plaid laying on the couch and leaned to wrap her feet up into it. A bit startled, she backed off a little her feet and then, understanding, she let him do as he wanted. She smiled at him.
"Thanks. I know I should wear slippers but since it has been out of fashion, I can't find any that would fit." she confessed, almost blushing. Blair was a little girl when she was around Chuck, she didn't want to appear vain or unworthy of his love and his fight for her, only because she knew she wouldn't survive it if he left her.
"It wouldn't be you if you started wearing some granny slippers just to be warm. Blair Waldorf is a it-girl, you shouldn't be blushing." How could he truly win her back? They loved each other – they never stopped – but were they still in love? It had been so many years of pain they didn't know how to be happy anymore. Who was that man in front of her? Who was that woman? They had changed, life had hurt them and stabbed them in the back, they were not the old Chuck and Blair. She had had a son with another man and they had found out they had a daughter in common – a nineteen year-old daughter who would soon be the next UES it-girl.
"You know I still feel the same way as many years ago, Chuck. I don't think we should get back together so soon, though. I'm not ready to face the world about our relationship or even the UES. I want to go back with you all and Henry. He's in Monaco for now but I will fight tooth and nails to make sure he lives with me." she said.
"And I will help you do so." he put a hand on her bare thigh, only to show her some support but it had another effect on both of them. Electricity. Fire. Storm raging in their heads. Butterflies fluttering in their stomachs. It was it, all over again. He wanted to possess her so bad, to feel her bare body under his – and she was craving for the same.
But they wouldn't give in. Not now, not so soon, not without a bit of a fight. He came to Paris to win her back, not to take her for granted. She wanted to go back to Manhattan to push away all the girls that were gravitating around him like preys, to reconquer her place in their empire. No, they wouldn't give in, for now. The wait would be worth it and when they do it, they would shake the Empire to its foundations, bring it to ashes thanks to the boiling lust restrained for too many years and they would surely hear their screams and moans to Monaco – Chuck will make sure of that.
So, what do you think? I don't want Blair and Chuck to go back together so soon... It would be a mistake I guess. I want to have fun with them first! :) Anyway, I KILLED DAN HUMPHREY! And I'm happy about it :) I hope he won't survive season 6...
See you soon,
Nyah-Cullen.
