The Small Moments That Led to Chuck and Blair (5/?)
Title: The Small Moments That Led to Chuck and Blair
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Pairing: Chuck/Blair
Words: +/- 1800
Rating: PG
Summary: A series of memories from Chuck and Blair's childhood that leads up to the biggest moment of their lives.
Note: GG still isn't mine and thank you Dawn for the beta.
Banner by issa_bell
Chapter 5: Snuggie, Diaper Genie, and The Magic Rock
Blair being pregnant was never a problem. She found out quickly when she started feeling sick. She had been taking care of herself and Chuck looked after her, so she went to the doctor when she had the feeling that she was "going to explode". The doctor had to correct her; she was not going to explode, she was going to have a baby. Her reaction to the news was calm...until she got on the phone with Serena. Then she was in hysterics. Before anyone had time to digest the news, it was posted in Gossip Girl's blog.
Spotted: One of our well-known Upper East Siders is on Baby Bump Watch! Her initials are the same as Baby Bump...and this time, it's for real. Enjoy yourselves while you can, New York City. Baby Bass is going to take over in nine months.
Chuck didn't find out from Blair or Gossip Girl about the pregnancy. Instead, it was Carter Baizen who dropped the news. He had entered Chuck's office somehow and offered his congratulations. Chuck fumed the whole time Carter was making his way around the room, talking about how nice pictures would look in it. School pictures. Prom pictures. Family pictures. It didn't take very long for Chuck to get what he was hinting at.
"She told you and not me?" he demanded.
"Relax. I'm sure you'd learn soon. Think about it, Bass. You're going to be a father. It's big news." Carter smirked. "You spent your whole life driving around in your limo, making love to women in it, and taking...your wife's virginity, if I remember." Chuck's eyes flashed angrily as Carter quickly added. "She told me about it during our little fling. Well, now you're going to be using that limo to drive to baseball practices and piano recitals and ballet lessons..."
"No son of mine is taking ballet lessons!"
"You don't know what it is yet, Bass. Anyway, congratulations on the new arrival."
At home, Blair was ready with the news. All of New York knew that she was expecting. It was a mix of excitement, fear, and regrets rolled in one. Serena seemed to be the most excited out of everyone. It gave her an excuse to check out all the latest baby outfits and items needed. She had bought several tapes on pregnancy and parenthood. She got Jenny to make baby quilts and pillows and all kinds of tiny little booties, which Chuck hated. There were already two million stuffed animals in the baby's room, including a stuffed dolphin that sang lullabies. They were ready with diapers, nannies, and strollers to take the baby out, but deep down, neither one was prepared.
Serena always brought something new for the child. In addition to the horrible mustard-colored outfit, she had something called a Snuggie. It was bright blue and stitched on the back of it was the following: PROUD TO BE A BASS. It was even more embarrassing than the baby outfit. What made Serena think these were good ideas?
"You put it on the front to carry the baby around in," she explained, showing Blair how to wear it. "In case you get tired of carrying it or using the stroller. It's so comfortable that the baby won't have to be anywhere else! You and Chuck take turns wearing this!"
Chuck got a quick vision of him wearing the Snuggie. "I'm not going to be seen in public wearing that!"
"Oh, but you'll wear it in the house? That is so sweet of you," Blair murmured. Damn, he hadn't thought about the indoors. Before he could protest this, Blair turned her attention back to Serena. "I'm so glad you're taking care of all of this. No one else is reliable. I told Dorota to get something and she came back with diapers but not the Diaper Genie." At this, she began to sob. "I love the Diaper Genie!"
There it was. If Blair wasn't raging and crazy, she was emotional about ridiculous things. Now was definitely one of those times. Serena looked up helplessly at Chuck, wishing she could do something. But it was best to let Blair cry out her emotions. The last time anyone got involved, Blair's rage returned and she threw her shoes at Dan Humphrey. Not that Chuck was sorry to see Humphrey getting yelled at, but he did not want to be in the same place.
"I love the Snuggie!" Blair sobbed.
"I'm so glad you do, B," Serena murmured, still looking at Chuck. She was obviously thinking what he was thinking; they might not have been related by blood, but their thoughts remained the same. Neither could believe that all the years spent together led to this.
It wasn't like the magic rock.
~ ~ ~
Age Eight, In the..."Wilderness"
"Okay!" Serena dropped a giant rock in front of everyone. She stood in front of the fireplace and looked at the three people before her. Nate, Chuck, and Blair waited with their stuffed animals for the rules to this game. "It's time to play Magic Rock!"
"What's Magic Rock?" Nate asked. It was the first thing he said since they had been dropped off at this 'campsite'. Of course, the 'campsite' was really the Waldorf's house. No one was going to real camp anytime soon so they were going to pretend. Of the three, Nate was the most scared. He clutched the stuffed panda bear that he had brought along. It didn't matter that they weren't really in the woods. He was still away from his family. So the idea of a 'magic rock' now intrigued him.
"We tell stories using the Magic Rock," Serena explained. "Whoever has the rock in their hands, tells a part of the story. They don't stop until they give the rock to someone else."
"What kind of stories?" Blair asked.
"We just make them up. Like...okay, I'll show you. I'm going to start because I have the magic rock." Serena took it. "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Snow White. And she lived with her father and evil..." She handed the rock to Chuck. "Now it's Chuck's turn to tell the rest of the story until he gives the rock to someone else. Got it?"
"No. Because I already know the story about Snow White! I had to play Sneezy, remember?" Chuck grumbled, still remembering the horrors of their first grade class play. Aside from an itchy costume and not getting to kiss Snow White aka Blair Waldorf (Nate got the role of the Prince), Bart Bass had come to town for this wonderful occasion. While he never told Chuck exactly what he thought of the performance, he had taken plenty of videos of Chuck's scenes. Apparently, he watched them over and over again.
"Make up a story, Chuck!" Serena snapped. "You have the magic rock!"
"Fine." Chuck rolled his eyes and turned to his stuffed purple frog, Howard. Howard seemed to be the only person not into this magic rock mess, but Howard couldn't say a thing about it. He was too busy staring at Arnold, Nate's stuffed panda. "Once upon a time, there was a magic...stock market!"
"What?!" Blair explained. "Stock markets aren't magic! Daddy said so!"
"I have the magic rock so I'm telling the story!" Chuck shot back.
"He has a point, B," Serena added.
Still, Chuck wanted to change it. "Okay, once upon a time, there was a magic hotel. It was also a dangerous hotel. Because in it...there were headless ghosts that howled!"
"How can a ghost if it's headless? It doesn't have a mouth!" Blair explained.
"Excuse me, I have the magic rock," Chuck reminded her. "Anyway, people were scared to go in it because it was haunted. Until one day..." He handed the rock to Blair. "Okay, now you finish it."
Blair frowned but took the magic rock from him. "One day, they realized that ghosts couldn't howl if they were headless. So they thought it was something else. The people in the hotel looked in all the rooms and saw nothing. Except there was one room that no one went into. It was..." She handed the rock to Serena.
"Room 11!" Serena exclaimed. "No one that went in room 11 ever came back out alive! All that came out of it was..."
"DEAD BODIES!" Chuck stole the magic rock from her. "And aliens! And a bunch of zombie clowns that ate your brains while you slept!"
"Ew, no!" Blair griped, taking the rock from him. "Really, what came out of the room was the cleaning lady...but she was not an ordinary cleaning lady, she was..."
"A ZOMBIE!" Chuck took the rock from her.
"You guys, share that rock!" Serena took it from Chuck. "So the zombie cleaning lady was the one responsible for killing people. She ate their brains while they slept and lived with aliens in the attic. That's also where she hid the dead bodies. But no one ever suspected a thing because..."
"She was a headless ghost too!" Chuck took the rock. "A headless zombie ghost who lived with aliens and dead bodies in an attic and ate people's brains! She also liked to steal teeth from the Tooth Fairy!"
"There is no such thing as Tooth Fairy!" Blair pointed out. "Just like there's no such thing as Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, or Communism!"
"This is a story! Any story can have...Communism in it! Plus I have the magic rock! I'm telling it now!"
"Well, not anymore!" Blair took it from him. "Unfortunately for the evil cleaning lady, the ghost catchers came and caught her and saved all the people that was she was eating..."
"How can they save someone that she's eating? They're already dead!"
"You guys!" Serena kept pleading despite no one listening. When that didn't work, she took the rock away. "The hotel was no longer haunted and there were no more dead people and aliens and everyone lived happily ever after! The end!"
There was a good moment of silence between them. Blair glared at Chuck while he shot glares back at her. It became too much. The two of them started laughing at the idiocy of their magic rock story. Then Serena joined in. Finally, Nate started to laugh though he wasn't sure why. Their scary story turned out to be a comedy that had all four in stitches on the carpet.
"That was the worst story ever!" Blair exclaimed. "Headless ghosts, zombies, aliens...how did that end happily ever after?"
"I don't know but it was great. Let's do it again!" Chuck added. "Let's do it right this time!"
"Okay!" Serena sat up and took the rock. It was time for another round of Magic Rock. "But before we do it again, is there anything we need to do first?"
Nate raised his hand. "Can someone pass me the rock? I wanna to tell a story too."
TBC...
~ ~ ~
Note: I was going to do one of the other stories but then I got stuck in a hospital's gift shop and the baby section. I think it's the headbands that did me in ;)
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Pairing: Chuck/Blair
Words: +/- 1800
Rating: PG
Summary: A series of memories from Chuck and Blair's childhood that leads up to the biggest moment of their lives.
Note: GG still isn't mine and thank you Dawn for the beta.
Banner by issa_bell
Chapter 5: Snuggie, Diaper Genie, and The Magic Rock
Blair being pregnant was never a problem. She found out quickly when she started feeling sick. She had been taking care of herself and Chuck looked after her, so she went to the doctor when she had the feeling that she was "going to explode". The doctor had to correct her; she was not going to explode, she was going to have a baby. Her reaction to the news was calm...until she got on the phone with Serena. Then she was in hysterics. Before anyone had time to digest the news, it was posted in Gossip Girl's blog.
Spotted: One of our well-known Upper East Siders is on Baby Bump Watch! Her initials are the same as Baby Bump...and this time, it's for real. Enjoy yourselves while you can, New York City. Baby Bass is going to take over in nine months.
Chuck didn't find out from Blair or Gossip Girl about the pregnancy. Instead, it was Carter Baizen who dropped the news. He had entered Chuck's office somehow and offered his congratulations. Chuck fumed the whole time Carter was making his way around the room, talking about how nice pictures would look in it. School pictures. Prom pictures. Family pictures. It didn't take very long for Chuck to get what he was hinting at.
"She told you and not me?" he demanded.
"Relax. I'm sure you'd learn soon. Think about it, Bass. You're going to be a father. It's big news." Carter smirked. "You spent your whole life driving around in your limo, making love to women in it, and taking...your wife's virginity, if I remember." Chuck's eyes flashed angrily as Carter quickly added. "She told me about it during our little fling. Well, now you're going to be using that limo to drive to baseball practices and piano recitals and ballet lessons..."
"No son of mine is taking ballet lessons!"
"You don't know what it is yet, Bass. Anyway, congratulations on the new arrival."
At home, Blair was ready with the news. All of New York knew that she was expecting. It was a mix of excitement, fear, and regrets rolled in one. Serena seemed to be the most excited out of everyone. It gave her an excuse to check out all the latest baby outfits and items needed. She had bought several tapes on pregnancy and parenthood. She got Jenny to make baby quilts and pillows and all kinds of tiny little booties, which Chuck hated. There were already two million stuffed animals in the baby's room, including a stuffed dolphin that sang lullabies. They were ready with diapers, nannies, and strollers to take the baby out, but deep down, neither one was prepared.
Serena always brought something new for the child. In addition to the horrible mustard-colored outfit, she had something called a Snuggie. It was bright blue and stitched on the back of it was the following: PROUD TO BE A BASS. It was even more embarrassing than the baby outfit. What made Serena think these were good ideas?
"You put it on the front to carry the baby around in," she explained, showing Blair how to wear it. "In case you get tired of carrying it or using the stroller. It's so comfortable that the baby won't have to be anywhere else! You and Chuck take turns wearing this!"
Chuck got a quick vision of him wearing the Snuggie. "I'm not going to be seen in public wearing that!"
"Oh, but you'll wear it in the house? That is so sweet of you," Blair murmured. Damn, he hadn't thought about the indoors. Before he could protest this, Blair turned her attention back to Serena. "I'm so glad you're taking care of all of this. No one else is reliable. I told Dorota to get something and she came back with diapers but not the Diaper Genie." At this, she began to sob. "I love the Diaper Genie!"
There it was. If Blair wasn't raging and crazy, she was emotional about ridiculous things. Now was definitely one of those times. Serena looked up helplessly at Chuck, wishing she could do something. But it was best to let Blair cry out her emotions. The last time anyone got involved, Blair's rage returned and she threw her shoes at Dan Humphrey. Not that Chuck was sorry to see Humphrey getting yelled at, but he did not want to be in the same place.
"I love the Snuggie!" Blair sobbed.
"I'm so glad you do, B," Serena murmured, still looking at Chuck. She was obviously thinking what he was thinking; they might not have been related by blood, but their thoughts remained the same. Neither could believe that all the years spent together led to this.
It wasn't like the magic rock.
~ ~ ~
Age Eight, In the..."Wilderness"
"Okay!" Serena dropped a giant rock in front of everyone. She stood in front of the fireplace and looked at the three people before her. Nate, Chuck, and Blair waited with their stuffed animals for the rules to this game. "It's time to play Magic Rock!"
"What's Magic Rock?" Nate asked. It was the first thing he said since they had been dropped off at this 'campsite'. Of course, the 'campsite' was really the Waldorf's house. No one was going to real camp anytime soon so they were going to pretend. Of the three, Nate was the most scared. He clutched the stuffed panda bear that he had brought along. It didn't matter that they weren't really in the woods. He was still away from his family. So the idea of a 'magic rock' now intrigued him.
"We tell stories using the Magic Rock," Serena explained. "Whoever has the rock in their hands, tells a part of the story. They don't stop until they give the rock to someone else."
"What kind of stories?" Blair asked.
"We just make them up. Like...okay, I'll show you. I'm going to start because I have the magic rock." Serena took it. "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Snow White. And she lived with her father and evil..." She handed the rock to Chuck. "Now it's Chuck's turn to tell the rest of the story until he gives the rock to someone else. Got it?"
"No. Because I already know the story about Snow White! I had to play Sneezy, remember?" Chuck grumbled, still remembering the horrors of their first grade class play. Aside from an itchy costume and not getting to kiss Snow White aka Blair Waldorf (Nate got the role of the Prince), Bart Bass had come to town for this wonderful occasion. While he never told Chuck exactly what he thought of the performance, he had taken plenty of videos of Chuck's scenes. Apparently, he watched them over and over again.
"Make up a story, Chuck!" Serena snapped. "You have the magic rock!"
"Fine." Chuck rolled his eyes and turned to his stuffed purple frog, Howard. Howard seemed to be the only person not into this magic rock mess, but Howard couldn't say a thing about it. He was too busy staring at Arnold, Nate's stuffed panda. "Once upon a time, there was a magic...stock market!"
"What?!" Blair explained. "Stock markets aren't magic! Daddy said so!"
"I have the magic rock so I'm telling the story!" Chuck shot back.
"He has a point, B," Serena added.
Still, Chuck wanted to change it. "Okay, once upon a time, there was a magic hotel. It was also a dangerous hotel. Because in it...there were headless ghosts that howled!"
"How can a ghost if it's headless? It doesn't have a mouth!" Blair explained.
"Excuse me, I have the magic rock," Chuck reminded her. "Anyway, people were scared to go in it because it was haunted. Until one day..." He handed the rock to Blair. "Okay, now you finish it."
Blair frowned but took the magic rock from him. "One day, they realized that ghosts couldn't howl if they were headless. So they thought it was something else. The people in the hotel looked in all the rooms and saw nothing. Except there was one room that no one went into. It was..." She handed the rock to Serena.
"Room 11!" Serena exclaimed. "No one that went in room 11 ever came back out alive! All that came out of it was..."
"DEAD BODIES!" Chuck stole the magic rock from her. "And aliens! And a bunch of zombie clowns that ate your brains while you slept!"
"Ew, no!" Blair griped, taking the rock from him. "Really, what came out of the room was the cleaning lady...but she was not an ordinary cleaning lady, she was..."
"A ZOMBIE!" Chuck took the rock from her.
"You guys, share that rock!" Serena took it from Chuck. "So the zombie cleaning lady was the one responsible for killing people. She ate their brains while they slept and lived with aliens in the attic. That's also where she hid the dead bodies. But no one ever suspected a thing because..."
"She was a headless ghost too!" Chuck took the rock. "A headless zombie ghost who lived with aliens and dead bodies in an attic and ate people's brains! She also liked to steal teeth from the Tooth Fairy!"
"There is no such thing as Tooth Fairy!" Blair pointed out. "Just like there's no such thing as Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, or Communism!"
"This is a story! Any story can have...Communism in it! Plus I have the magic rock! I'm telling it now!"
"Well, not anymore!" Blair took it from him. "Unfortunately for the evil cleaning lady, the ghost catchers came and caught her and saved all the people that was she was eating..."
"How can they save someone that she's eating? They're already dead!"
"You guys!" Serena kept pleading despite no one listening. When that didn't work, she took the rock away. "The hotel was no longer haunted and there were no more dead people and aliens and everyone lived happily ever after! The end!"
There was a good moment of silence between them. Blair glared at Chuck while he shot glares back at her. It became too much. The two of them started laughing at the idiocy of their magic rock story. Then Serena joined in. Finally, Nate started to laugh though he wasn't sure why. Their scary story turned out to be a comedy that had all four in stitches on the carpet.
"That was the worst story ever!" Blair exclaimed. "Headless ghosts, zombies, aliens...how did that end happily ever after?"
"I don't know but it was great. Let's do it again!" Chuck added. "Let's do it right this time!"
"Okay!" Serena sat up and took the rock. It was time for another round of Magic Rock. "But before we do it again, is there anything we need to do first?"
Nate raised his hand. "Can someone pass me the rock? I wanna to tell a story too."
TBC...
~ ~ ~
Note: I was going to do one of the other stories but then I got stuck in a hospital's gift shop and the baby section. I think it's the headbands that did me in ;)