A/N: So I haven’t had much time to write thanks to the new school year, but this chapter was quite a dozy, the longest one yet. And I’m not really sure how I did so I hope you enjoy.
Plus for those of you asking about the darling future NJBC and when they’ll be back. The answer is that in the next chapter they’ll show up again. And cause I kind of write these based on what pops into my mind and there’s really no plan, if you have any suggestions then please let me know.
THANK YOU FOR READING!!!! AND PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!
It had been 2 hours since the nurse brought Lily into Eric’s room. Telling her how they’d stitched up his wrists and how lucky it was that Blair came when she did, otherwise he would’ve lost too much blood.
Blair hadn’t moved since she’d gotten to the hospital. Sitting in the waiting room she couldn’t tear her eyes away from herself. The blood on her shoes, knees, shirt, and covering her arms.
“Blair,” the rough, but somehow still soft voice broke her out of her trance. She could tell he’d been drinking, his hair was messed up and there was a slight glaze over his eyes.
“Chuck. You came?” she asked, trying to seem unaffected, but it was hard to miss the way her voice cracked at the end. Immediately he sat down next to her, and when her eyes went back down to her blood soaked hands he stood up.
“Come on,” he gestured for her to get up.
“What?” she snapped, looking confused.
Without thinking he grabbed her wrists and pulled her up and into the bathroom. Blair was still too shaken up to put up much of a fight, but when he turned on the water and started washing off the blood she asked, “What are you doing?”
“Helping you,” he answered immediately, looking up at her with a now much more sober look.
After they had finished wiping off as much blood as possible they walked out into the waiting room to find Nate standing against the wall.
“Nate!” Blair called out as she ran into his arms and he gave her a comforting hug, as Chuck looked away. He was saved when Lily came walking down the hall. “Have any of you seen Serena? She needs to be here,” she got out through her tears.
Chuck and Blair both shook their heads but Nate answered, “She’ll come back soon.”
Lily nodded before hurrying back to the room. As soon as she was gone Blair and Chuck zoned in on Nate.
“How do you know that?” She snapped. When he didn’t answer she continued. “What do you know, Nate Archibald?”
“It might’ve been mentioned last weekend…” he trailed off.
“Continue, Nathaniel,” Chuck ordered.
“They said that she left town after…” he glanced at Blair before mumbling. “… to think about stuff. And they said that this is why she came back.”
“She knew?” Blair responded. “She knew this would happen and she still left?” she was practically yelling now.
“She had a lot of stuff going on and she needed time to work everything out!” Nate started yelling back.
Blair didn’t say anything as she quietly put up her mask again and headed down the hallway. Leaving a very worried Chuck and Nate behind, they both awkwardly stared at each other before sitting down.
*******
Blair knocked softly on the door before walking in. “Hey Eric. Where’d your mom go?” she said softly.
“Off to make arrangements about where I’m going to be moved to probably,” Eric whispered back, still tired from the lack of blood.
“Well that’s Lily and the Van der Woodsen name for you.”
Eric laughed harshly, “Oh I know.”
“Listen Eric. I know that you must be having a hard time, but just know that I’m here for you.”
Eric looked up from the bed. “I think that might be the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.”
“Well I may not act like it all the time, but you are like a brother to me. Plus if I listen to your problems you get to listen to mine too,” she laughed, attempting to lighten the mood, beaming when she saw Eric break into a smile.
“Oh, this ought to be good,” he answered.
They descended into a comfortable silence, the only sound was the beep of Eric’s heart monitor. Blair spoke a minute later, “What would you think if I was with Chuck?”
Eric practically choked on air as he started gaping back at Blair, expecting her to start laughing and say this was a joke or something, but she looked serious, a little embarrassed but still serious. “Umm…. I… Are you two together?” he decided to say.
“No! I’m with Nate!” she said loudly. “I was just… ugh! Never mind,” she practically yelled as she stopped talking. After a few minutes of trying to avoid Eric’s wondering eyes she stood up. “I’m going to go now Eric, but I’ll come visit you soon.” She gave him a wide smile before walking out of the room, talking to neither Chuck nor Nate as she left the hospital.
*************
It was now Thursday. Serena had yet to come home and Blair was ignoring both Chuck and Nate. She had spent every day after school with Eric, the two of them had become very close, talking about everything, although Eric was smart and never mentioned the Chuck comment again.
She had just finished visiting Eric as she walked out of the room and bumped into Chuck. “What are you doing here?” she asked.
“Well, the same thing as you, I assume. I’m visiting Eric,” he said with a large smirk on his face.
“But… why?” she stuttered, trying not to make eye contact with him.
“If I do recall, he’s going to be part of my new family soon. And what kind of brother would I be if I didn’t come see him.”
“How come I’ve never seen you here then?” she accused, now looking up to meet his eyes, finding that she couldn’t look away.
“I assumed that you didn’t want to see me,” he then paused while he shamelessly looked her up and down. “Do you?” He asked softly, his eyes burning into her skin.
Before Blair could speak both of their phones went off. They both quickly opened them up, reading the newest Gossip Girl blast.
Spotted: S at Grand Central, bags in hand. Is our bad girl, back for good? Why has she returned?
She slowly looked up at Chuck who was still looking at his phone. When he looked up she stated, “I have to go home. I have a paper to write.” And without looking back she ran out of the hospital.
************
Blair had spent the entire morning trying to think through what was going to happen and what she should do. And as she walked through the courtyard at school she had it all decided. As she walked towards Serena, the blonde turned and immediately open seeing her ran away. This is gonna be harder then I thought, she huffed as she headed to class.
As Serena tried to get away from Blair she inadvertently bumped into Nate. Shit, she thought as he started talking. “Serena you’re back,” the hope evident in his words and his face.
“Yeah, I am.” She said trying to keep a hard face. When Nate reached out to hold her hand though she pulled back. “Nate, don’t.”
“But before you left… I thought…”
“I didn’t come back for you. You’re Blair’s boyfriend,” she tried to reason with him.
“But I’m not always going to be. That isn’t how everything’s supposed to go.”
“Maybe. But it’s how it is now,” she stated firmly as she walked away, tears clouding her eyes as she hurried away. Bumping into someone, her bag spilling across the floor.
“Oh, I’m sorry…” she heard the guy apologize. She didn’t say anything and barely registered the sweet boys face as she gathered her stuff and left. Not noticing that the boy was calling after her, as she had left her phone.
*********
“Nate!” Blair called out during lunch. Neither of them showing much enthusiasm as they turned to each other, but Blair pasted on a smile nonetheless. “I was thinking that we should go out to dinner tonight. Or maybe a club.”
“Umm… don’t you think…” Nate started but stopped when Blair held up her hand.
“It’s to talk about everything. Despite what you might think I have thought about stuff a lot. Which is why I think we should invite Serena and Chuck along. You take care of getting Chuck there and I’ll bring Serena,” she quickly walked off, ignoring Nate’s surprised expression.
“Hey Chuck,” Nate said hesitantly as he had finally found him leaning against one of the courtyard walls, smoking. Why am I even doing this, he thought as he lit up, leaning right next to him.
“Blair wants to go out tonight,” Nate mentioned casually.
“And you are mentioning this to me why?” Chuck drawled out angrily.
“She wants you to come,” Chuck quickly turned his head at this piece of news.
“She what?”
“Yeah. Serena too. Apparently she wants all four of us to talk.”
“Sounds more like she has a plan,” Chuck stated as he stared back out across the courtyard. “But it sounds interesting. I’m in.” And with that he put out his light and walked off.
***********
This better work, Blair thought as she pulled out her phone, leaving Serena a message about her plans for this evening.
Dan Humphrey was walking down the hall when he felt the girls phone buzz in his pocket. One New Voicemail. I can’t believe I’m doing this, he thought as he walked up to her in the courtyard after school.
“Um… excuse me? You dropped your phone earlier. You have a new message, but I didn’t see who it was or listen to it or anything,” he rambled, silently cursing him for acting so idiotic.
“Oh my god! You found it! Thank you so much!” She beamed as she grabbed her phone from his hand. Then she looked up at him as if she expected something. Then he caught on.
“Oh, sorry, I’m Dan Humphrey. It’s um… really nice to meet you.”
Serena seemed to pause, and her smile flickered as she heard his name. But soon she was beginning to walk about with a final. “I’m Serena Van der Woodsen. Nice to meet you too! And thanks Dan! I’ll see you around!”
**********
This is it, Blair thought as she sat alone at Butter. The other three seats at the table were empty. They better show up. The first person she noticed by the splash of blond hair moving across the room. When she reached the table Blair stood and gave her a hug.
“Serena! It’s so good to see you! I didn’t see you all day! Here come sit next to me,” Blair beamed, Serena’s initial hesitation vanished as her drink arrived and Blair only seemed happy to see her.
“…And his name was Dan Humphrey! Remember last weekend when they mentioned the Humphreys! Well apparently I’m going to date him, but then he’s my stepbrother. So now I don’t know if I should date him or like be friends with him,” Serena rambled on. They’d been talking for the past half hour about this and that. The boys had still yet to show up.
“Well it’s not going to be incest for a couple of years. So if you think he’s cute you should go for it,” Blair said as she sipped her cocktail. Freezing as she saw the two guys walking towards their table.
“Sorry we took so long,” Nate said as he gave Blair a quick kiss on the cheek and sat down next to Chuck. “So, what did you bring us all here for, Blair?”
“I told you, to talk,” Blair smiled back at him. And with that she continued talking as though this whole night wasn’t awkward at all. Then after a few minutes, she paused. “I think we should play a game. Who’s up for ‘I Never’?” She beamed. When no one else said anything she took it as a confirmation and continued. “Nate how about you go first.”
Nate continued staring at Serena as he had been doing most of the night, thinking things through. He seemed to make a decision as he silently mouthed, ‘Sorry’, to Serena. “I’ve never cheated on my girlfriend or boyfriend.” And he took a large sip of his drink.
Blair froze as everyone else at the table turned to look at her. “I’m sorry Blair,” Serena said quietly.
Blair was still staring at her plate, but she looked up, a blank expression on her face. “I don’t know why I thought it’d be different this time. Get out,” she screamed at Nate and he quickly stood up and ran out of the now packed club.
“Blair,” Serena whispered again.
“I said get out, Serena. Leave,” she said forcefully, glaring at Serena as she left the restaurant. Her gaze then fell to her plate.
“Do you want me to leave too,” Chuck said after a long pause.
“No,” she whispered, then she looked up at him and stated. “But I do want a drink.”
Chuck smirked, “Coming right up.”
**********
“Why do you think I go to NYU? Oh no, what if I fail my SAT’s!” Blair gasped.
“Please, you’re the smartest kid in the class. Whatever it was Yale was stupid for turning you down,” he started at her.
Blair found herself leaning towards him as she whispered, “I think you’re going to make an amazing CEO.”
He grinned, “Really?”
Blair nodded, leaning forward to place a soft kiss on his lips. A minute later they both pulled back. Without saying a word Chuck stood up, pulling Blair with him, and walked with her out of the club and into his limo.
When they got in Chuck quickly looked Blair in the eye and stated, “Listen, I don’t want to be your rebound. So I know that you haven’t thought about us, but if…”
Blair cut him off, “Haven’t thought about us? Of course I have! Every single day…”
“And?” Blair responded by crashing her lips against his.
As Chuck eventually pulled Blair onto his lap he got out between kisses. “You sure?” Blair responded by kissing him and beginning to work on the buttons of his shirt.
Plus for those of you asking about the darling future NJBC and when they’ll be back. The answer is that in the next chapter they’ll show up again. And cause I kind of write these based on what pops into my mind and there’s really no plan, if you have any suggestions then please let me know.
THANK YOU FOR READING!!!! AND PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!
It had been 2 hours since the nurse brought Lily into Eric’s room. Telling her how they’d stitched up his wrists and how lucky it was that Blair came when she did, otherwise he would’ve lost too much blood.
Blair hadn’t moved since she’d gotten to the hospital. Sitting in the waiting room she couldn’t tear her eyes away from herself. The blood on her shoes, knees, shirt, and covering her arms.
“Blair,” the rough, but somehow still soft voice broke her out of her trance. She could tell he’d been drinking, his hair was messed up and there was a slight glaze over his eyes.
“Chuck. You came?” she asked, trying to seem unaffected, but it was hard to miss the way her voice cracked at the end. Immediately he sat down next to her, and when her eyes went back down to her blood soaked hands he stood up.
“Come on,” he gestured for her to get up.
“What?” she snapped, looking confused.
Without thinking he grabbed her wrists and pulled her up and into the bathroom. Blair was still too shaken up to put up much of a fight, but when he turned on the water and started washing off the blood she asked, “What are you doing?”
“Helping you,” he answered immediately, looking up at her with a now much more sober look.
After they had finished wiping off as much blood as possible they walked out into the waiting room to find Nate standing against the wall.
“Nate!” Blair called out as she ran into his arms and he gave her a comforting hug, as Chuck looked away. He was saved when Lily came walking down the hall. “Have any of you seen Serena? She needs to be here,” she got out through her tears.
Chuck and Blair both shook their heads but Nate answered, “She’ll come back soon.”
Lily nodded before hurrying back to the room. As soon as she was gone Blair and Chuck zoned in on Nate.
“How do you know that?” She snapped. When he didn’t answer she continued. “What do you know, Nate Archibald?”
“It might’ve been mentioned last weekend…” he trailed off.
“Continue, Nathaniel,” Chuck ordered.
“They said that she left town after…” he glanced at Blair before mumbling. “… to think about stuff. And they said that this is why she came back.”
“She knew?” Blair responded. “She knew this would happen and she still left?” she was practically yelling now.
“She had a lot of stuff going on and she needed time to work everything out!” Nate started yelling back.
Blair didn’t say anything as she quietly put up her mask again and headed down the hallway. Leaving a very worried Chuck and Nate behind, they both awkwardly stared at each other before sitting down.
*******
Blair knocked softly on the door before walking in. “Hey Eric. Where’d your mom go?” she said softly.
“Off to make arrangements about where I’m going to be moved to probably,” Eric whispered back, still tired from the lack of blood.
“Well that’s Lily and the Van der Woodsen name for you.”
Eric laughed harshly, “Oh I know.”
“Listen Eric. I know that you must be having a hard time, but just know that I’m here for you.”
Eric looked up from the bed. “I think that might be the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.”
“Well I may not act like it all the time, but you are like a brother to me. Plus if I listen to your problems you get to listen to mine too,” she laughed, attempting to lighten the mood, beaming when she saw Eric break into a smile.
“Oh, this ought to be good,” he answered.
They descended into a comfortable silence, the only sound was the beep of Eric’s heart monitor. Blair spoke a minute later, “What would you think if I was with Chuck?”
Eric practically choked on air as he started gaping back at Blair, expecting her to start laughing and say this was a joke or something, but she looked serious, a little embarrassed but still serious. “Umm…. I… Are you two together?” he decided to say.
“No! I’m with Nate!” she said loudly. “I was just… ugh! Never mind,” she practically yelled as she stopped talking. After a few minutes of trying to avoid Eric’s wondering eyes she stood up. “I’m going to go now Eric, but I’ll come visit you soon.” She gave him a wide smile before walking out of the room, talking to neither Chuck nor Nate as she left the hospital.
*************
It was now Thursday. Serena had yet to come home and Blair was ignoring both Chuck and Nate. She had spent every day after school with Eric, the two of them had become very close, talking about everything, although Eric was smart and never mentioned the Chuck comment again.
She had just finished visiting Eric as she walked out of the room and bumped into Chuck. “What are you doing here?” she asked.
“Well, the same thing as you, I assume. I’m visiting Eric,” he said with a large smirk on his face.
“But… why?” she stuttered, trying not to make eye contact with him.
“If I do recall, he’s going to be part of my new family soon. And what kind of brother would I be if I didn’t come see him.”
“How come I’ve never seen you here then?” she accused, now looking up to meet his eyes, finding that she couldn’t look away.
“I assumed that you didn’t want to see me,” he then paused while he shamelessly looked her up and down. “Do you?” He asked softly, his eyes burning into her skin.
Before Blair could speak both of their phones went off. They both quickly opened them up, reading the newest Gossip Girl blast.
Spotted: S at Grand Central, bags in hand. Is our bad girl, back for good? Why has she returned?
She slowly looked up at Chuck who was still looking at his phone. When he looked up she stated, “I have to go home. I have a paper to write.” And without looking back she ran out of the hospital.
************
Blair had spent the entire morning trying to think through what was going to happen and what she should do. And as she walked through the courtyard at school she had it all decided. As she walked towards Serena, the blonde turned and immediately open seeing her ran away. This is gonna be harder then I thought, she huffed as she headed to class.
As Serena tried to get away from Blair she inadvertently bumped into Nate. Shit, she thought as he started talking. “Serena you’re back,” the hope evident in his words and his face.
“Yeah, I am.” She said trying to keep a hard face. When Nate reached out to hold her hand though she pulled back. “Nate, don’t.”
“But before you left… I thought…”
“I didn’t come back for you. You’re Blair’s boyfriend,” she tried to reason with him.
“But I’m not always going to be. That isn’t how everything’s supposed to go.”
“Maybe. But it’s how it is now,” she stated firmly as she walked away, tears clouding her eyes as she hurried away. Bumping into someone, her bag spilling across the floor.
“Oh, I’m sorry…” she heard the guy apologize. She didn’t say anything and barely registered the sweet boys face as she gathered her stuff and left. Not noticing that the boy was calling after her, as she had left her phone.
*********
“Nate!” Blair called out during lunch. Neither of them showing much enthusiasm as they turned to each other, but Blair pasted on a smile nonetheless. “I was thinking that we should go out to dinner tonight. Or maybe a club.”
“Umm… don’t you think…” Nate started but stopped when Blair held up her hand.
“It’s to talk about everything. Despite what you might think I have thought about stuff a lot. Which is why I think we should invite Serena and Chuck along. You take care of getting Chuck there and I’ll bring Serena,” she quickly walked off, ignoring Nate’s surprised expression.
“Hey Chuck,” Nate said hesitantly as he had finally found him leaning against one of the courtyard walls, smoking. Why am I even doing this, he thought as he lit up, leaning right next to him.
“Blair wants to go out tonight,” Nate mentioned casually.
“And you are mentioning this to me why?” Chuck drawled out angrily.
“She wants you to come,” Chuck quickly turned his head at this piece of news.
“She what?”
“Yeah. Serena too. Apparently she wants all four of us to talk.”
“Sounds more like she has a plan,” Chuck stated as he stared back out across the courtyard. “But it sounds interesting. I’m in.” And with that he put out his light and walked off.
***********
This better work, Blair thought as she pulled out her phone, leaving Serena a message about her plans for this evening.
Dan Humphrey was walking down the hall when he felt the girls phone buzz in his pocket. One New Voicemail. I can’t believe I’m doing this, he thought as he walked up to her in the courtyard after school.
“Um… excuse me? You dropped your phone earlier. You have a new message, but I didn’t see who it was or listen to it or anything,” he rambled, silently cursing him for acting so idiotic.
“Oh my god! You found it! Thank you so much!” She beamed as she grabbed her phone from his hand. Then she looked up at him as if she expected something. Then he caught on.
“Oh, sorry, I’m Dan Humphrey. It’s um… really nice to meet you.”
Serena seemed to pause, and her smile flickered as she heard his name. But soon she was beginning to walk about with a final. “I’m Serena Van der Woodsen. Nice to meet you too! And thanks Dan! I’ll see you around!”
**********
This is it, Blair thought as she sat alone at Butter. The other three seats at the table were empty. They better show up. The first person she noticed by the splash of blond hair moving across the room. When she reached the table Blair stood and gave her a hug.
“Serena! It’s so good to see you! I didn’t see you all day! Here come sit next to me,” Blair beamed, Serena’s initial hesitation vanished as her drink arrived and Blair only seemed happy to see her.
“…And his name was Dan Humphrey! Remember last weekend when they mentioned the Humphreys! Well apparently I’m going to date him, but then he’s my stepbrother. So now I don’t know if I should date him or like be friends with him,” Serena rambled on. They’d been talking for the past half hour about this and that. The boys had still yet to show up.
“Well it’s not going to be incest for a couple of years. So if you think he’s cute you should go for it,” Blair said as she sipped her cocktail. Freezing as she saw the two guys walking towards their table.
“Sorry we took so long,” Nate said as he gave Blair a quick kiss on the cheek and sat down next to Chuck. “So, what did you bring us all here for, Blair?”
“I told you, to talk,” Blair smiled back at him. And with that she continued talking as though this whole night wasn’t awkward at all. Then after a few minutes, she paused. “I think we should play a game. Who’s up for ‘I Never’?” She beamed. When no one else said anything she took it as a confirmation and continued. “Nate how about you go first.”
Nate continued staring at Serena as he had been doing most of the night, thinking things through. He seemed to make a decision as he silently mouthed, ‘Sorry’, to Serena. “I’ve never cheated on my girlfriend or boyfriend.” And he took a large sip of his drink.
Blair froze as everyone else at the table turned to look at her. “I’m sorry Blair,” Serena said quietly.
Blair was still staring at her plate, but she looked up, a blank expression on her face. “I don’t know why I thought it’d be different this time. Get out,” she screamed at Nate and he quickly stood up and ran out of the now packed club.
“Blair,” Serena whispered again.
“I said get out, Serena. Leave,” she said forcefully, glaring at Serena as she left the restaurant. Her gaze then fell to her plate.
“Do you want me to leave too,” Chuck said after a long pause.
“No,” she whispered, then she looked up at him and stated. “But I do want a drink.”
Chuck smirked, “Coming right up.”
**********
“Why do you think I go to NYU? Oh no, what if I fail my SAT’s!” Blair gasped.
“Please, you’re the smartest kid in the class. Whatever it was Yale was stupid for turning you down,” he started at her.
Blair found herself leaning towards him as she whispered, “I think you’re going to make an amazing CEO.”
He grinned, “Really?”
Blair nodded, leaning forward to place a soft kiss on his lips. A minute later they both pulled back. Without saying a word Chuck stood up, pulling Blair with him, and walked with her out of the club and into his limo.
When they got in Chuck quickly looked Blair in the eye and stated, “Listen, I don’t want to be your rebound. So I know that you haven’t thought about us, but if…”
Blair cut him off, “Haven’t thought about us? Of course I have! Every single day…”
“And?” Blair responded by crashing her lips against his.
As Chuck eventually pulled Blair onto his lap he got out between kisses. “You sure?” Blair responded by kissing him and beginning to work on the buttons of his shirt.
