Howdy, all. My first attempt at treading the waters of the Gossip Girl fandom.

This one takes place at the very end of Episode Seven of the TV series. Sexual content and stuff. Isn't that lovely?

In the back of the limousine, Chuck and Blair move faster and faster as time passes. Swept up in heat and pain, Blair doesn't think about what she's doing.

Insides hollowed out, with love and happiness and Nate stripped away, she doesn't care anymore.

Still I am pulled under.

More and more clothing falls off around them, and his lips flow over her bare skin like water. She breathes heavily and tries not to scream.

I'm drowning in the memory.

She's heard people call this "making love," and she wants to laugh. It's not about love for her; it's about filling up the empty spaces with something almost as good. It's about what you can't have and what you get instead.

It's about swimming frantically and staying afloat, so that the agony doesn't pull you under the water.

So save me.

His hands linger on all the places of her body, stroking softly. She pulls his face to hers and kisses him greedily, lapping him up, craving as if starved.

Lift me up and never let me go.

By the way, the title comes from the song "Hero" by…some artist whose name I don't remember and am too lazy to look up. It has nothing to do with the series, but I thought it was a nice phrase.

Well, I've had fun. Hopefully I'll write some more stuff for this fandom sometime soon. Fare-thee-well!