Chuck was surprised at how he managed to get used to this communicative, almost friendly version of his father hanging around. It was sort of weird at first to hear all those compliments and apologies coming from his dad, but Bart had raised so many good points and told him about the little ways that he helped Chuck over the years that he didn't ( Read more... )

Chuck had been thinking about his father a lot lately, and not even in the way he usually thought about him. He had been focusing on the happier times he had with his father instead of the anger and resentment he tended to feel towards him. It was...nice, if a bit weird. He wished he could stop though, since it was just making him kind of miss the ( Read more... )

Chuck hadn't gotten much in the way of sleep last night (not that he was upset about that, thanks Shelley), so after he left her apartment he went back to his room and crawled right into bed. Well, first he showered and then put on pj's and then went to bed. He was too much of a neat freak to crawl into bed all gross like that ( Read more... )

Chuck had felt getting out of his room would have done some good for him. He was always careful about how he presented himself in public, and didn't really think that he'd have a breakdown where anybody could see. That theory went out the window when he was at Caritas for more scotch and very nearly got in an argument with his father in front of ( Read more... )

Thanks to the power of scotch and denial, Chuck had made it through Mother's Day, even if he didn't manage to get up the guts to call his stepmother. The day had definitely had it's share of emo due to the holiday and due to the fact that it marked that there were only seven days left until Chuck got his inheritance. He knew that from the outside ( Read more... )

Chuck could count on one hand how many times his stepmother had called him since she started dating his father, and it was never to catch up. Lily Bass wasn't the exactly the type to call for no reason, which was something Chuck liked about her. When she called that evening, however, Chuck could tell immediately that this wasn't the usual questions ( Read more... )

This time last year, Chuck had taken his father to Alexandria to convince him to put up money for Victrola, only to have his idea shot down. Now Chuck owned both Victrola and Caritas and both places were doing very well in their own right. His father thought he'd get bored with the whole bar idea and it turned out Chuck was more interested than ( Read more... )

Chuck had known this was a bad idea. Known it, accepted that and did it anyway. He figured it was either call his father on Father's Day and put himself through a lecture or ignore it and have his father bring it up sometime in the future when he needed to cite Chuck's irresponsibility (though, granted, he could have probably come up with much more ( Read more... )

After that radio broadcast Chuck stayed up for a little while plotting revenge against the squirrels before crashing a little bit before dawn. Evil was hard. It also didn't help that it seemed like he couldn't even lie to himself about the plan about selling them to hungry West Virginians actually working. He knew those people preferred to catch ( Read more... )

Awkward might be the word to describe the atmosphere in the van der Woodsen residence. Eric and Serena had learned only a few days before that their mother had been dating Bart Bass and now here they all were, under the same roof and doing their best to make polite conversation. Bart was trying and failing to start a conversation with Eric. Chuck ( Read more... )