Getting There

A/N: God! I hate school! I haven't got time to breathe these days! I know it's been a while since I updated and I have stuff going on every day after school and on weekends now so I took my laptop to school to try get this done during my free lessons and a lot of energy and several packets of BBQ Snacks I got it done. It surprises me so much faster I work with food! Lol! =D So anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter, I really loved writing this I think my writing love is returning! This one is mostly full of Dan, Chuck and Blair- The best three in my opinion! =D Love. Thank you xoxox

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Rating: T

Copyright: I own Nothing, Apart from my original characters.

Story Type: Multi Chapter

Published: 19th of September, 2009

Main Character: Blair Waldorf

Characters: Chuck Bass, Dan Humphrey, Nate Archibald, Serena Van der Woodsen & Vanessa Abrams (Others will be included)

Summary: Inspired by the movie 'Little Miss Sunshine'. The NJBC have graduated high school and Serena persuaded the gang to take a road trip since they are all being separated next year by going to different collages. They all go and have a few bumps along the way. Which makes them realise who their real friends are.

More Details: Blair and Chuck did happen but after 1x18 nothing happened. Chuck left Blair and then that's how that kinda ended. They are kind of avoiding talking about their relationship and are kind of back like they were in the start of season 1. Serena and Nate did happen. Nate still has feelings for Serena even though he's not aware of it. Nate is dating Vanessa. Dan and Serena are still together.

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Chapter 11: Tag along why don't you?


“Wasn't this awkward enough?”
Blair chuckled.
“I need to talk to you”
Those last words he spoke, he sounded so serious. Blair's eyes grew as did her curiosity what could they possibly have to talk about now?
“Why?”
She asked in a very suspicious tone, had she done something wrong? Or was it just another pointless “talk”. He stared at her for a while trying to guess what she was thinking, without any luck he responded.
“I just do”
Blair sighed.
“Okay but promise me it's not going to be awkward, this is really an odd situation we've got going here”
“It's only awkward if we want it to be”
“Okay so we agreed on that, no awkwardness”
Blair grinned.
“Agreed”
He nodded.
“So where do you want to go?”
Blair smiled before being rudely interrupted.
“Finally I managed to escape from Serena”
Dan fumbled out of the elevator and ran over to them.
“Joy”
Chuck grinned sarcastically.
“Can I come with?”
Dan beamed with a pathetic smile.
“No”
Chuck snapped sensing that Dan without even knowing it was going to ruin his first chance in days of having a proper speak with Blair.
“Ohh why not? You know you guys are really going up on my list of favourite people you know apart from Vanessa you're my favourite on this trip. Wow I like Chuck Bass more than I like my own girlfriend right now, there's a sentence I never thought I'd say”
Blair covered her mouth with her palm trying to hold the laugher from balling out.
“Humphrey go to bed you're drunk”
Chuck pushed him away. He'd had enough of Dan Humphrey for one night.
“No! Serena's camped outside my door let me come with you”
Dan begged.
“Oh for God sake!!”
Chuck muttered as Blair looked at him willing him to let Dan tag along. He shook his head as Blair grinned back.
“Come on then”
Chuck finally gave in and let Blair win. Blair smiled over at Dan as he jumped up and down like a giddy child. The words, “A”, “Three” and “Crowd” popped straight into Chuck's mind. Great. He, Dan and Blair would have just a lovely time.
        Within the next hour things had taken a turn for the worse, for Chuck at least. He tried to get Blair alone but every chance he got Dan kept interrupting with some random subject or wanting more drinks poured down his throat or moaning about Serena. At the beginning when Dan found out Chuck actually felt a little sorry for him after all Dan hadn't done anything wrong, it was all Serena and Nate so he'd had patience with him earlier in the evening but by now his patience was wearing thin, but while leaving one bar for another Chuck managed to get rid of Dan and get some time alone with Blair, for about two seconds.
“Blair I need to talk to you”
“Okay go ahead”
She paused while trying to find Dan, she knew Serena would be mad at her if they lost him in Los Vegas.
“Now?”
He began to get cold feet.
“You said”
She finally stopped flicking her head around looking for Dan and paused gazing at him.
“Phew!! I thought I'd lost you best friends!”
Dan was way in over his head. He thought Chuck and Blair were his best friends, well considering everything they weren't far off, but they were hardly best friends. Chuck clenched his fist ready to knock Dan out until Blair caught his fist and pushed him away, giggling as she did. Dan gingerly stepped away and lead them to their next stop.
As soon as they arrived Dan got straight into the party spirt and got straight out on the dance floor, Blair hid herself at the bar the humiliation of being linked to the dancing Dan was too much.
“So what did you want to talk about?”
Blair remembered that question he had been asking her all night but the timing hadn't been great.
“It'll wait”
Chuck rolled his eyes and just thought he better give up for the night, he could talk to Blair tomorrow. It was hardly the right time. In a club, noisy, crowded and with Dan Humphrey on the dance floor. Not the surroundings he had pictured.
By the time he had thought about this Blair had left him to try and pull Dan off from the table he had climbed onto.
“Dan! Get off the table”
she pulled on his hand trying to get him down.
“Shut up Blair! I'm having fun here”
He ignored her and just continued to kind of dance.
“No you're not! Go back to the hotel go talk to Serena”
Blair yelled up at him.
“I don't want to talk to her”
He finally stopped dancing and jumped off the table.
“Dan you have too! You have to sort this out”
She tried her best to reason with him, but Dan just was not interested, he rolled his eyes and walked away. “Dan?!”
“No I don't Blair!! I don't ever want to talk to her again”
He actually yelled and didn't seem happy and giddy like he had the entire night. He was actually showing how he felt.
“Don't you think you're overreacting a tiny bit”
She murmured hoping he wouldn't hear.
“What?! Overreacting?!!!”
“Okay never mind”
“Can you get me a drink? I'm out of money”
“No! You've had enough as it is”
“No! I want more”
Dan walked towards the bar ready to order more drinks.
“Chuck a little help please”
Chuck said as Blair sighed in annoyance.
“Dan!!”
Chuck yelled. For the first time Chuck hadn't called him Humphrey. He only did it for Blair, he actually had noticed how Blair and Dan had grown closer over the past few days, they'd actually become friends so he thought he ought to make an effort with Dan where Blair was concerned.
        A while later Blair had finally knocked some sense into Dan and had convinced him to return back to the hotel with herself and Chuck, and she thought he might be in a better condition to talk. How wrong could she be?
“Where's Chuck?”
Dan muttered as he finished the last drop of beer in his bottle.
“He's getting us a car back to the hotel”
“What?! What about the par-tay”
“You've had enough”
She sighed and couldn't even be bothered to yell at him anymore. Dan sat next to her for a few minutes as they both gazed into space.
“Chuck told me he loves you”
He chuckled and smiled.
“What?”
He mouth dropped open.
“What?”
Dan snapped back.
“What did you say now?”
Blair shook him a few times to try and get him to talk some sense.
“Oh I said Chuck loves me he told you...” Blair frowned in confusion as Dan raised his eyebrows and thought for a second. “Wait no that's wrong”
“Dan!!”
“Chuck loves Blair”
He smiled quiet proud of himself for getting the right words out even if it quiet a childish way of putting things.
“He does?”
“Yes! Yes! YES!” He yelled as high as his voice would go. “... and I still love Serena.” He finally admitted.
“Chuck loves me?”
Blair was still trying to get something into her mind she really already knew but was afraid to believe it.
“I think we both lose here”
“We doesn't have to, he just has to tell me”
They pondered in their dilemmas.
“It's lose for me”
Dan huffed.
“Only if you don't forgive Serena”
“But she kissed Nate”
“I know but look on the bright side, it could have been a lot worse”
Blair tried to convince him to give Serena another chance. “If you love Serena then don't waste time, I know that more than most. I wasted so much time not telling Chuck don't do the same. She made a mistake, she's only human Dan.”
She wondered why was she even trying, he wasn't going to remember a word she had said but it may have made more of a difference than she had thought. Those words stuck in Dan's mind all the way back to the hotel until he eventually fell asleep in the car and Chuck and Blair had to carry him into the hotel. Only to be greeted with a very stressed out Serena.
“Dan! Oh my God! Chuck!!! What have you done now?”
She screamed and ran over to them.
“Hey!! Don't blame Chuck he just invited himself along, we tried to stop him drinking so don't blame Chuck for him being this way if it's anyone's fault it's yours”
Blair stood straight to Chuck's defence before he had a chance to defend himself.
“Blair?”
Chuck said and seemed surprised to have her defend him like that, and to Serena of all people.
“Sorry just get your facts right first”
“Sorry. Can you help me get him upstairs?”
Serena muttered, ashamed of her assumptions.
“Of course we will”
Blair agreed as she and Serena held onto Dan and tried to get him upstairs.
        Serena decided to stay with Dan that night just in case he decided to go walk about and go missing again but she probably wasn't going to be the first face he wanted to see if he did wake up but he was just going to have to deal with Serena sometime, they were going to have to talk some time but for tonight Serena just hoped Dan slept peacefully.
        So the night was ending with how Chuck hoped it would begin, only he and Blair. He had his chance, only the second thoughts and cold feet made a reappearance.
“Is Serena staying with him?”
Chuck thought of something to get another something off his mind.
“Yeah...” Blair answered. Nothing else to say on the matter. They both stood silently and awkwardly. The 'no awkwardness' rule was broken then. “Well we should get to bed”
“Really?”
Chuck grinned with a suggestive tone.
“Separate beds. See you haven't lost any of your Bass charm”
She smiled back and got walking down the hall to their rooms which stood opposite eachother on the hall floor.
“Well here we are”
“Yeah...” It was now or maybe never. “...Goodnight.” The latter it was then.
“Goodnight”
Blair smiled and walked away, quiet disappointed.
“Blair...”
He called out after her.
“Yes?”
She braced herself for what he might or might not say, she thought better not get her hopes up.
“You... You were great tonight looking after Dan and all that stuff with Serena”
“Thanks”
She smiled with gratitude but with a hint of disappointment as she would now until he would tell her. Because now she knew the truth everytime she was with Chuck all she would think is “Is he going to tell me?” and not knowing was torture. She was hoping he would call her name again but this time he would actually say the words, but he didn't and next thing she knew she had gotten changed for bed and was sitting there alone. When she thought of what she had told Dan,
“don't waste time, I know that more than most.”
Why was she waiting for Chuck to make the next move? If she was going to do that she would be waiting forever he was much to stubborn if he was going to say anything she was going to have to make him. She got out of bed and marched over the hall and didn't care if she woke him and knocked on his door but after the third knock she realized how stupid she was being and tried to make it back to her room before Chuck got to the door. She failed.
“Blair?”
“Hi”
“Hi?”
She took a few steps closer to him. “Dan told me something tonight and I just wanted to...”
Before she knew what she was saying he grabbed her arm and pulled her into his chest and done what he had wanted to do all night. Kiss her. He didn't stop for the next minute but Blair pulled away for a second of breath.“Chuck?”
“What?”
“What did you want to tell me earlier?”
Blair panted, struggling for breath as he continued to press his lips into hers.
“Oh... Can't it wait?”
He avoided the subject as he began to tear at her nightgown.
“No... Tell me...”
She stopped him and stepped away.
“Can't we do this after?”
He grinned.
“No. Dan told me what you said to him”
Chuck stood still, no emotion just shock.
“Humphrey?! He doesn't know what he's talking about, you saw the state he was in tonight”
Chuck laughed jokingly trying to convince Blair that Dan was just mumbling.
“Yeah but I know he wouldn't lie” Blair yelled at him. “Fine!! You be like that!”
Blair stamped her feet down on the ground as Chuck avoided eye contact with her. She expected an answer back but she didn't get one. She sighed, very annoyed and angry and upset all at the same time and just stormed out of his room, which trigged something to go off in Chuck's mind. If he didn't say something he was going to lose her.
“Blair wait...”
She didn't stop, she was muttering, talking to herself as he chased after her to the end of his door. “Blair stop!!”
She slammed her door in his face and broke down on the other side. The tears flew down her cheeks and Chuck heard every single one. He stood on the other side of the door and somehow he had the courage, that he was lacking a few minutes earlier.
“I love you Blair!”
Maybe it was easier not face to face.


TO BE CONTINUED...

A/N: So the next update will be around the same time being posted and we're nearly done now anyway so I can start on my new fanfic. I got a name for it and I love it- so when I'm done be on the look out- I'm gonna start writing it in school so I can have it up as soon as I finish this fic. It's called- The Devil wears Headbands. Anyway thanks for reading and please do comment =D Thank you xoxo