I Love You

Masquerade Masquerade

Disclaimer: I only own Darcy, all other characters unless otherwise noted belong to someone else. 

Darcy sat on Blair's bed with Serena. Serena had convinced her to spend the night at Blair's with her. She was more surprised that Blair even wanted her there. Now they were sitting on the bed chatting. After her night with Austin a week prior she needed girl time and if that meant Blair Waldorf then she would live with it.

"Kati told me about custom corsets, crowns and wigs were involved" Serna said to Blair.

"Wigs?" Darcy asked. She was use to parties with wigs in Hollywood but she never expected the Upper East Side to have parties with wigs.

"It's a masquerade. The idea is to conceal your identity" Blair said.

"That's every day for me" Darcy commented.

"But I do have something special planned for Nate tonight" Blair said ignoring Darcy "It's a scavenger hunt. Nate starts the night with a clue which leads him to a lady in waiting, who gives him a clue to the..."

"Wait you have lady's now?" Serena asked.

"If he finds me before midnight when the mask comes off he can claim his prize."

"Which is?"

Blair raises her eyebrows at Serena.

"Oh right" Serena commented with a smile.

"Wait what?" Darcy asked.

"Me" Blair said a little snotty.

"Oh" Darcy replied.

"I just figured that after everything that's happened or not happened I should find some way to make it special"

"That's romantic" Darcy said.

"Darc is right Blair." Serena said then got silent. "Look if you don't want me to come tonight. I totally understand."

"What no I want you to come. Both of you. In fact I was hoping that you could both be one of my ladies. S would you give Nate the last clue?"

"Are you sure you want me to?"

"Tonight is all about starting over. I trust you and him"

"Then I'll be honored to serve you my queen."

"I'm in" Darcy said not about to say the same thing Serena did. That was her role back home so calling someone else queen or your highness was definitely not something she was gonna do.

"You're bring Dan right?" Blair asked Serena.

"Dan would never go somewhere he had to wear a mask and a tux."

"He likes you. He would wear a mask, a tux and one of my mother's dresses if it meant that he could go out with you."

"Are you worried he has a date?" Darcy asked.

"He's Dan Humphrey. Unlikely"

"Blair."

"What? Just call him" Blair said handing her the phone. Serena sighed and grabbed the phone dialing the number.

"So I am gonna head out, buy a dress for this thing."

"And a mask" Blair said.

"Actually I have a mask" Darcy said thinking about a mask her mother had given her.

Darcy got back to her room and went straight to her closet. At the top was a box that had a lot of her memorabilia from her and her mother's movies. She grabbed the red mask off the top and stared at it. She worshiped this mask. She remembered when her mother wore it on a movie. She had always wished to wear it one day and now tonight was the time. She went through all her dresses hoping to find the dress she knew would match it. She found it and laid it across her bed. She was getting ready to decide how she should put her hair when she heard a knock on the door.