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fembuckTitle: Tango in D Minor
Author: Janine
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Pairing: Serena/Blair
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don’t own them.
Summary: Blair and Serena’s relationship continues to grow. Sequel to Audrey Can Wait and Here We Go
Tango in D Minor - Parts 4-5
Tango in D Minor - Part 6
Tango in D Minor - Part 7
Tango in D Minor - Parts 8 & 9
Tango in D Minor - Part 10
Tango in D Minor - Part 11
Part Twelve
Blair flipped her hair, turning her head dramatically to the side to look at Isabel with a thoughtful expression on her face.
“So no matter what I tried I just couldn’t get mine as thick and dramatic as what I’d been seeing at Prada, Badgley Mischka, Christopher Kane and Louis Vuitton,” Blair said shaking her head a little. “But then it came to me, what I needed to do was expand my wing tips.”
“Cat-like or calligraphy style?” Isabel asked looking at Blair with an absolutely rapt expression on her face.
“That’s the beauty of it,” Blair said with a smile. “It doesn’t matter. Liner has a painterly shape this season, like the flick of a watercolour brush. Either way will look flirty, vintage and artful.”
The girls around her gasped and nodded. Excited voices chattered away around her for a few moments after that and Blair basked in her own wisdom.
It was good to be queen.
-
“Daniel,” Serena greeted with a smile as Dan sidled up beside her.
“Ms. Van der Woodsen,” Dan responded circling his hand in front of his body before bowing regally.
Serena laughed and knocked him in the shoulder.
“So, how are things going with your lady love?” Serena asked as they made their way through the iron gates that opened into Constance Billard and the
Dan smiled and blushed a little before shrugging his shoulders. “They’re … going,” Dan said halting before looking over at Serena and smiling self-consciously before shaking his head. “It’s strange, it’s an adjustment you know,” he continued when Serena smiled over at him and rested a hand on his shoulder. “We were best friends, and then she took off for a year and when she suddenly showed back up with no warning it was kind of like …”
Serena laughed airily causing Dan to look over at her.
“It’s just … I totally get it,” she grinning. Dan could have been describing things between her and Blair when she came back. “But it’s good strange right, like ‘nobody should be this happy without barbiturates’ strange. Or ‘I always loved talking to you about weird pretentious books and music that nobody else has ever heard about and now I also get to make-out with you’ strange, right?”
“Okay, first of all, I’m totally not agreeing with you on that last point,” Dan said pointing a finger at Serena. “Lots of people have heard of ‘The Crying of Lot 49’. Thomas Pynchon is like an American legend. And even you’ve heard of The Misshapes so you don’t get to insult my music,” Dan continued as Serena put up her hands in surrender. “But yes, it’s good strange. And the making-out part is definitely a keeper.”
“They are the Edie Sedgwick’s of the new millennium,” Serena said. Blair hated the Misshapes, but she liked their style and had been inspired more than a few times by them when making her own fashion choices. “Wait til you get to the ‘buying expensive gifts for her because she pouts and you’re weak’ part.”
“Not as fun?” Dan asked lifting an eyebrow. He figured for him it would be more tracking down obscure, vintage comics, LPs or lunch boxes but it was basically the same thing.
“Well, the getting rewarded for your thoughtfulness afterward isn’t bad,” Serena said looking over at him and grinning before facing forward again, a smile still on her lips.
“I think I’ve still got a way to go before I reap those particular benefits,” Dan said shaking his head. Now that he and Serena were firmly friends he didn’t find the idea of her and Blair together quite as titillating as he had in the past, but it was still a little titillating. In fact he suspected she knew that and was deliberately torturing him by dropping little hints about all of the fabulous sex they had that he would never see. “We don’t all have the infamous van der Woodsen charm.”
“There’s nothing wrong with the Humphrey charm,” Serena said sincerely turning to face him again, before she erupted into a big smile. “It even got you the girl this time.”
Dan placed his hand over his heart and made a face, before grinning at her as well.
“So are we still on for the Chocolate Show on the weekend?” Dan asked as they neared the spot where they normally parted ways. “Blair’s coming right? Van’s been waiting to meet her.”
Serena shook her head. “It’s horrible how much you’re anticipating them hating each other and providing amusement for us for the entire night. The Germans have a word for that you know,” Serena responded though she was smiling.
“Schadenfreude,” Dan replied, “'Pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'. It’s a word I believe Blair has an intimate knowledge of,” he continued pointedly.
“And this is where I say ‘adieu’,” Serena replied grinning walking backwards away from Dan before he could launch into another Blair rant. “And yes, we’re both in.”
Dan smirked as he turned towards the Nightengale-Bamford. It was going to be a fun Saturday.
-
Lunch…
Serena lounged on the large cement steps that led to the
Serena was watching a squirrel play with an acorn – or maybe it was a pebble she couldn’t be sure and the squirrel looked confused as well – while Blair talked about how she was able to examine the laser cut radzimir dresses at Fashion Week up close.
Serena had already heard the story a half dozen times and was deeply intimate with the details of it, like the foam material between the lining and sculpted look the radzmir gave the clothes so she let her mind drift just enjoying the sound of Blair’s voice as she watched the squirrel.
“Jesus, it’s freezing out here,” Blair exclaimed a few minutes later, drawing Serena’s eyes over to her.
“It is November,” Serena murmured smirking a little.
“Thank you, S,” Blair responded rolling her eyes. “That was extremely helpful,” she continued glaring at Serena peevishly.
Serena shrugged. She thought Blair was cute when she was peevish.
“Let’s go inside,” Blair declared, and without another word all of the girls around them gathered their things and stood up.
As they walked back towards the schools main doors, Blair began to talk about the mango lobster skewers that had been served. It just reminded Serena that she had only had time to eat half of her lunch on the steps and that she was still hungry.
“Serena, oh my god.”
Serena turned to the side as a body collapsed against her.
“Hey, Little … Jenny,” the older blonde said correcting herself as she looked down curiously at her brother’s girlfriend. “What’s up?”
“Have you seen this?” Jenny asked holding up her phone.
“Yeah, it’s your phone,” Serena responded her eyebrows scrunching together, trying to determine whether Jenny had gotten a new phone or not and if she was supposed to compliment her on the possibly new purchase.
“No, not the phone,” Jenny said finally having regain her breath a little bit. “The Gossip Girl update.”
Serena shook her head. “No, we always turn our phones off at lunch,” she replied. “Why?” she asked getting a sinking feeling in her gut.
The last time she had been mentioned in the column Gossip Girl had shown pictures of her alone at a bar with a drink in her hand and speculated for two paragraphs about why she had fallen off of the wagon (which she hadn’t!).
Nothing good came of Gossip Girl updates and Serena dreaded to think Gossip Girl could have written about her that could have made Jenny come looking for her.
Serena turned her head to the side to look around them when Jenny didn’t respond immediately and noticed that were quite a few people looking in her direction. More people than usual anyway and sighed.
“I’m still cold!” Blair called from a few paces a head. She and the others had stopped walking a few moments after Serena stopped to talk to Jenny.
Serena ignored the brunette for the moment and focused her attention on Jenny.
“Jenny,” Serena said softly.
“It’s about you and Blair,” Jenny said holding the phone out so that Serena could read the automatic web text message she had received along with rest of the school five minutes before.
Serena took the phone and looked down at the screen.
//The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Besties in Love? It certainly looks like it from where we’re sitting.
Spotted: S and B tucked away in a quiet little corner of Central P spending some quality time together.
Could this be the beginning of a beautiful Sapphic relationship?
Shakira tells us that her ‘hips don’t lie’, and I think that we can all agree that the ‘lips don’t lie’ either because there’s no misreading the nature of this particular lip-lock (pictured below).
(Click the link to see S and B wearing either other’s lips in streaming video)
Goodness girls, come up for air!
We here at Gossip Girl would like to be the first to congratulate the love birds!
S and B have always made us a little misty-eyed, so … here’s lookin’ at you kids!
XOXO Gossip Girl//
“S,” Blair said a slightly whiney quality to her voice as she walked over to Serena and linked her arm through the blonde’s. “Can’t you humor Little J inside?”
“Turn on your phone,” Serena said softly to Blair, her eyes still on Jenny’s.
“Wha …” Blair started to ask, the look on Serena’s face registering with her for the first time.
“Never mind,” Serena said turning to look at Blair. “Here,” she said passing Jenny’s phone over to the brunette.
Once Blair had a hold of it Serena looked around again to see that people were openly watching them now, and that the crowd had started to move in closer.
Blair handed the phone back over to Jenny a minute after receiving it from Serena, her eyes lifting to look around them as Serena was doing.
There was now a loose circle of girls around them.
Blair shifted her weight and glared at them.
She knew it was going to come to this eventually.
There were no secrets at prep school.
“Oh, whatever!” Blair declared in her most irritated tone of voice, rolling her eyes at everyone who dared make eye contact with her. “Like this is so shocking. Girls kissing girls, oh my god the sky is falling,” she continued slapping her hands to her cheeks and a faux horrified look on her face. “Admit it, you would all make out with her too!” she went on challengingly.
Serena looked over at Blair, and then back out at the crowd who seemed to be focused on her. She could see some of them exchanging glances, and others nodding their heads or shrugging as they looked at her.
It was almost flattering.
“This is stupid,” Blair declared petulantly, “and boring. I’m bored,” she went on still addressing the crowd before she turned her attention to Serena. “Come on, Bergdorf Goodman just got in the new Diane von Furstenberg dresses and you haven’t bought me anything in a while,” she continued grabbing Serena’s hand.
And with that Blair began to walk, dragging Serena behind her, the circle of girls that had formed around them parting as she approached to let herself and Serena through before it closed up again and the other students of Constance Billard gathered around closer together again.
The crowd of girls watched S and B’s retreat and then turned to observe each other, waiting to see how everyone else felt about what had just happened before saying anything themselves.
“So?” Kati asked no one in particular, her eyebrow lifting.
“They’re still the best looking, best dressed, richest girls at the school,” Isabel responded thoughtfully. She’d had time to think about S and B being together since Chuck had brought it up, and she didn’t think that she cared in any significant way.
There was a general murmur of agreement from those around her.
“If Serena’s dating Blair it means that our boyfriend’s are safe,” Leticia said her voice relatively quiet but still loud enough to carry in the silent courtyard.
Even more girls nodded at that. Serena van der Woodsen was to Constance Billard what Angelina Jolie was to the world: a constant source of anxiety for the girlfriend of any male who came within sight of her.
“Blair’s been less terrifying in the past two months,” another voice called from within the crowd.
Another round of nods; it was true, it really was. It was possible for some girls to pass Blair these days without feeling like they were going to throw up from fear. She wasn’t really nicer per say, but if you didn’t actively aggravate her she pretty much ignored you which was a nice change of pace from how she had been the previous year.
“They’re a really good looking couple,” Kati said thoughtfully, her head tilted up to the sky contemplatively. “I kind of like looking at them standing next to each other,” she continued slowly as if she was offering meaningful commentary.
Most of the girls in the crowd had to admit that was true.
“Okay then … whatever,” Isabel said already bored with the entire situation.
A few minutes later the circle had cleared and everyone went back to the parts of the courtyard they had been occupying before the Gossip Girl update.
-
Blair stopped walking so suddenly that Serena almost slammed into her back.
They were two blocks away from the school.
“Oh my god,” Blair said turning around to look at Serena, her eyes wide and little watery. “Did we just come out?”
Serena was silent for a second as she tried to process all that had happened in the last ten minutes.
“Uh … yeah,” Serena breathed out finally, her lips twitching in an approximation of a smile though she wasn’t really sure whether she was amused or terrified.
“Oh my god,” Blair repeated again.
She was shaking slightly.
Serena stepped closer to her and wrapped her arms around Blair holding her.
“We’re in the middle of the street,” Blair said struggling against the hold.
“I don’t think it matters anymore B,” Serena responded softly certain that she was actually smiling this time.
Blair pulled back and looked at her for a second, and then started to laugh as tears continued to leak out of her eyes.
Serena rubbed at the tear streaks with her thumb.
“Do I look like the slutty girl in a horror movie?” Blair asked sniffling a little bit, starting to get her tears under control.
“You look beautiful,” Serena said. Blair was a bit splotchy and red-faced, and other people might say she had looked better, but to Serena she looked just as beautiful as she ever did. “Look, no disgraced beauty queen raccoon eyes,” she continued showing Blair the absence of black smudges on the thumbs that had been wiping at her cheeks.
“Everyone knows,” Blair sighed a few seconds later, reaching for Serena’s hand. She wanted to walk into Serena’s body and let the blonde hold her, but she was still too sensitive for that in the middle of a sidewalk at
“Yeah,” Serena agreed sighing softly as they continued to walk again.
“What do you think is going to happen tomorrow?” Blair asked turning to look at Serena.
Serena bit her bottom lip as she met Blair’s gaze. She wished she could reassure her, but the truth was she had absolutely no idea how it would go over with their classmates. Gossip Girl seemed to be on their side - probably because she’d get more hits doing stories about them making out - but she had no idea how the general population would react.
“I don’t know,” Serena said softly silent for a moment before squaring her shoulders. “It doesn’t matter,” she decided a second later, squeezing Blair’s hand. “We’re young, pretty and rich. We can survive anything.”
“Maybe you can, you’re old money … nothing phases you people,” Blair responded shaking her head. “I’m liable to end up ODing in a puddle of my own vomit in a DJ booth.”
“So gross B, unbelievably gross,” Serena responded making a face. “Besides, you’re with me, so you’re old money now too. The best type of old money, in fact …”
“Shipping money,” Blair responded smirking, her mood lightening despite herself.
“Are you worried about your mother’s reaction?” Serena asked as they continued to walk.
She was fairly certain their parents didn’t read Gossip Girl – they would have gotten into far more trouble in the past if they did – but with news like this someone was sure to tell their parents and all of their parents knew each other.
Blair snorted. “She probably won’t realize until I’m thirty, and running an organic clothing store.”
Serena laughed. “Organic clothing store? Is that your big dream?”
“The lady gays like organic things,” Blair said sighing turning to look at Serena as if she were a simpleton. “I’m modifying the big picture to fit my new vag loving lifestyle.”
“I don’t think you have to start eating granola and wearing Birkenstocks because you like my girl parts,” Serena responded grinning, laughing as Blair swatted her in the arm. “Birkenstocks really are very comfortable, though.”
Blair glared at her.
“I’m serious, they are,” Serena insisted.
“You’re not allowed to go shopping by yourself anymore,” Blair declared facing forward and walking with purpose, much like her old self again.
“But none of the stores you shop at sell wife-beaters,” Serena responded, a mockingly complaining tone in her voice. “I mean, do you even know where to go to buy cargo pants?”
“I hate you,” Blair pouted before she started to smile a bit.
“No you don’t. You love me. You …”
“Please don’t sing it,” Blair interjected turning to look at Serena. “Don’t,” she warned seeing Serena’s lips part.
“You want to kiss me …” Serena began ignoring Blair.
“I mean it,” Blair said holding up her hand. “I totally will not put out all week if you sing that song.”
Serena stopped singing immediately and looked down. Blair meant it. She knew the brunette enjoyed sex as much as she did, but Blair had much more self control than she did. Blair could totally hold out for a week and be fine, whereas she’d be a jittery, masturbating mess.
“That’s so mean,” Serena muttered beginning to walk again.
“It’s not my fault you’re a nympho,” Blair responded linking her fingers with Serena’s.
“Actually it is,” Serena replied. “If you weren’t so sexy I wouldn’t want to rip your clothes off and have my way with you all the time.”
“True,” Blair said nodding sagely though she was smiling. “I guess we all have our crosses to bear,” she continued wisely. “Being super good-looking and tempting people into debauchery is mine.”
Serena laughed and hugged Blair quickly unable not to.
They’d be fine, she was sure of it. It might be uncomfortable for a while, but they’d pull through. They loved each other too much not to.
To be continued ...
