tampered | Log: Ongoing

Log: Ongoing

When; Sometime after Midnight - early Sunday morning
Rating; PG-13ish?
Characters; Rain

livingmyths and Chuck Bass

basstardchuck
Summary; What happens when the girl you wake up with is not exactly the girl you went to bed with?
Log;

Once midnight struck the curse was ended and the sleeping and well-satisfied Rain became her usual self again. This might just make for a strange morning after experience. For Chuck at least.

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Chuck stirred in his sleep. He felt a warm body beside his. Rain. He smiled without opening his eyes and pulled her closer. He placed a kiss on her skin. "Morning"

Rain was used to snuggling in bed with Mat, so she didn't think twice about it, just happily snuggled in closer with an inarticulate murmur.

"I hope you don't have to leave just yet," Chuck muttered and tried to remember if he had any coffee in this apartment.

"Leave?" Why would she leave her house first thing in the morning unless she had to work. And Mat would know she didn't work on -

Wait.

This wasn't her home. It wasn't her bed. And - she turned. It wasn't Mat.

She could feel the panic rising and pulled away, holding the covers close as she tried to figure out what had happened and how she'd gotten here.

And then she remembered it all. The curse. Being so forward. Oh, god, trying to seduce Tony and being so horrible to Romana. The dance, Chuck, the crazy wonderful sex, and now here she was, a little lost and confused and wondering how Chuck would respond to finding out who she really was.

"Good... good morning," she said shyly, still holding the sheets tightly around her.

Chuck blinked and looked at her, sheets wrapped tightly around her... Was she blushing?

"What's wrong?" he asked confused. He couldn't recall anything wrong, in fact the last night was pretty spectacular...

She blushed some more. "I... I'm not exactly who you think I am," she admitted.

Chuck smirked. "I don't think there's much I don't know about you after the last night..."

She blushed even more. "Except that I was cursed and I'm not usually - ever - like that. I'm not smart and I'm not brave and I... I would never just be so, so... forward, I guess."

Chuck raised his eyebrow. "Cursed?" Why did that sound familiar? Some he read somewhere...

Then it dawned on him. In the guide he got from Derek. It said something about weird things happening to people in the City. Curses.

But most importantly...

"You... wouldn't," he repeated after her and wondered how much of trouble was he in right now.

She shook her head. "Not like that. I'm way too shy and... and I'm not smart like that. Not at all. You liked her, but I'm not her."

He touched her arm, trying to reassure her.

"Hey, hey. Calm down," he tried and wondered how to tell a girl that he wasn't interested in her brains to begin with without insulting her. Or hurting her feeling and making her cry.

"And who knows, if I get to know you better, I might like you just as much," he said hopefully.

Rain looked over at him a little hopefully. "Really?"

Then her face fell and she shook her head. "Probably not. I'm too different. I can do the sex thing, but not as good as her. And I'm... my head doesn't always work right."

Perfect. Insane one at that. He knew it was too beautiful to be true.

"How about we get dressed? I'll make some coffee..." Please say yes, please say yes...

Rain nodded slowly. "Okay. Do you maybe have tea, though? Or water, I could just have water."

She slid out of bed, no modesty, and looked around to try and find all the pieces of her clothing.

"I don't really know if I have any tea," he admitted. He wasn't sure if there's any coffee, but he kept that to himself.

He put on his pants and went to the kitchen. He tried opening random cupboards hoping there was something he could make tea with...

"I'm sorry," she said quietly, coming in behind him in the dress she'd worn and barefoot. "I'm guessing you weren't cursed. I feel like I tricked you or something."

"It's okay," he said without paying much attention. "Weirder things had happened to me. I promise you I don't feel tricked at all."

He figured it was like going to bed with girl on crack and waking up to her sobered up... Only not so much...

"All right," she said quietly. "Um... I know you were expecting - I don't mind having sex again if you want. It was... it felt good. But I don't know as much as she does."

This was surreal. And Chuck couldn't believe he was about to turn down sex when offered.

"I'm not expecting anything," he said, finally finding something that smelled like it could be tea. "I never do."

"Really?" she said curiously, moving closer. "And you're not mad at me?"

He laughed. "Of course I'm not mad. No need to be."

He put the cup in front of her. "Here you go, though I dont know what it's worth.."

Rain smiled at him shyly. "Thank you."

She took a sip from the cup and looked around. "This is where you live? I can't live in places like this. I get too scared."

Chuck shrugged. "I woke up here and since the place seemed empty, I just decided to stay... Plus, I'm not a very good roommate"

He decided not to comment on that 'get too scared' part. He just got her comfortable, he didn't want to ruin that.

Rain nodded. "I mostly slept out in the woods when I was first here. Then sometimes I slept in the Library. That's where I work. But now I have a little house in the woods that some of my friends made me."

She looked wistful. "But I don't know if I'll ever be able to talk to some of them again after this curse."

He smiled.

"Why's that?"

She shook her head again, looking tiny and much younger than her 23 years. "I tried to, to seduce, I guess, a very good friend. Someone I should never ever ever have feelings like that for. And I was very rude to another friend who was trying to help. At least you, well... I promised you sex and you got that and you weren't expecting me to be any different."

He leaned against the kitchen counter. "So you're going to avoid them from now on? Don't they know about the curses?"

"Maybe?" Rain didn't have the best social skills for dealing with problems like this. Before the City she'd never even actually had friends. Except sort of the littler kids she'd tried to take care of in whatever city they'd happened to be in.

"They know about them. It's just... The way I feel is a secret - has to be a secret. And now maybe they know. I can try and pretend it was all a curse, but I'm not very good at lying."

Chuck felt as if he was talking with Eric, only with more emotional problems. But he could do it.

"Why lie? If they are your friends they should understand and accept you," he pointed out.

She shook her head, small and sad. "I just can't."

He put his hand on her arm, trying to reassure her.

"Then don't. If you need a place to stay, while you avoid them, you're welcome here. There's a spare room"

She smiled up at him. "You're very kind. But I couldn't stay here. I... I get too scared inside like that - especially at night. That's why I slept in the woods."

"I can stay in my house or in the woods. Oh... you should come see my house sometime."

"I'll see what I can do about that," he smiled. Maybe it wouldn't turn out to be so bad.

"You're being very nice to me," Rain said softly. "I wish I could be the person you thought I was for you."

Maybe you could be, later, Chuck thought and smiled.

"Don't worry about that. Let's forget about the curse and start new, mhm?"

"All right," she said easily. "If you want."

"There's no point in returning o the subject. Especially if it's uncomfortable for you."

"So, what do we do?" Rain asked curiously. "I... I've never done anything like this before. Do we re-introduce ourselves?"

Chuck laughed and extended his hand.

"Chuck Bass, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Rain giggled and shook his hand. "Hi, I'm Rain and it's nice to meet you too!"

"Can I walk you home, Rain?" he asked with a smile, offering her his arm.

Rain looked up at him curiously, then took his arm with a shy smile. "If you're sure you want to. I live way out in the woods."

"I'm told physical exercises are healthy for you. Might as well take a walk. See the City..." He said and led her to the door.

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