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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part III

And over here was another section of tables and chairs, still close to the food so no one accidentally starved while trying to avoid the masses.

[OCD is up! This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here.]

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Blair was still in her best school hostess mode. There would be plenty of time for destroying the newbies who didn't please her later on, when no adults were watching.

Cimorene noticed the hostess from the party earlier in the year and smiled over at her.

Blair nodded back, recognizing her as well.

"Enjoying this lovely day of many new students invading?" Cimorene asked, with a twitch of a smile.

"Always a pleasure meeting new people," Blair said. Granted sometimes her pleasure was learning how to torment them but hey, not like she was lying.

"Anyone you know arrive?" Cimorene asked politely. And hey, it could happen.

"I don't think so," Blair said. Of course the day was young.

Eric had gotten up from the shade of the tree to gather some more food when he saw her.

"... Blair?"

This would be Blair boggling in return. Though it was Blair so any outward sign of this amounted to a twitch of her eyebrows before she quickly repressed any and all emotions and gave the appearance of someone who couldn't be thrown no matter how hard someone pushed her.

"Eric," she said, simply. Her eyes darted to either side of him. "Is your sister with you?"

Amazingly she managed to suppress the tone of voice which would have silently added the part about Eric's sister being a back-stabbing whore.

Yes, that was Blair's assessment even without knowing about S and Nate. Finding out was not going to go well for her.

"No, thank God," Eric said. "I haven't seen her since she went away to school." He shrugged. "Or heard from her, really. But you're here! I didn't know you'd come here."

Okay, now? Definitely not coming out at this school. There was no way he wanted that getting back to the UES and Gossip Girl.

Blair noticed two pieces of information in Eric's statement. 1) Gossip Girl didn't have spies that reached down to Fandom. 2) Eric didn't want Serena here either.

Blair instantly looked sympathetic. "Thank God? What happened? What did she do?"

"Same thing she did to you," Eric muttered. If only he knew. "Left without saying anything. I think the only reason I knew she was leaving before she was gone was because I lived in the same house. She definitely didn't say anything to me."

It was... maybe a little obvious how much he'd been hurt by that. He may be adept at hiding his depression, but the rest of his emotions, he wore on his sleeve.

It was possibly sad how quickly Blair swooped in on this piece of information. But such actions were how Blair herself managed to survive.

"If I had known, I would have told you," Blair said at once. "After all, we're practically family."

Eric smiled, maybe the first truly genuine smile all day. "Thanks," he said. "I appreciate it."

He sighed, reaching over to one of the tables and grabbing a slice of kiwi. "So is this place really as weird as everyone's saying?" he asked. He believed -- how could he not, there was a unicorn wandering around -- but he still didn't really believe.

"Yes," Blair replied. She was more than happy to encourage Eric to be taken under her wing. "There's magic and people who aren't people. The island moved all summer. It used to be located off of the coast of Virginia."

"You mean the school was on an island off the coast of Virginia?" Eric frowned. "The website didn't say anything about that."

"It was when I got here." Blair gave him a dubious look. "Do you think I would willingly go to Baltimore?"

"So what made them decide to move from Virginia to Maryland?" Eric asked, ignoring the question for the moment. "Was there a problem with the old island?"

"This is the old island," Blair said. "It moved."

May as well rip the bandage off early. It wouldn't do Eric any good to be in denial about it.

Eric just stared at Blair for a moment, before closing his eyes and repeating his mantra for the day: "There is a unicorn. I can believe anything. There is a unicorn. I can believe anything."

"Are you sure," he asked, after taking a deep breath, "that they're not giving us all some kind of drugs? In the food or water, or something?"

"Adjusting my Wellbutrin did nothing," Blair assured him. Much as that kind of confirmation could be assuring.

Eric just sighed. "I was afraid you'd say something like that."

He looked around at all the students. "So, do you like it here?" he asked.

"Hard as it is to believe," Blair said, being surprisingly honest since Eric did, at least, understand why it would be hard to believe. "I got to throw a party in Antartica." She felt that would more than cover the various reasons why she liked the island. Then, reminded, she said, "I'm throwing an end of summer party soon. You're invited, of course."

Granted normally there wasn't the 'of course' for Eric since Blair's parties tended to be a bit too mature for even a van der Woodsen child. But Blair was happy to make changes now that Serena was gone and Eric didn't like her either.

"In Antarctica?" Eric asked. "That's... I'm sad I missed that. It must have been cold, though?"

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