Gossip Girl - Stolen Hearts [D&S] #202: Because he's worried about her

Eliz18 · 04-28-2008, 06:09 PM

W E L C O M E T O T H E 2 0 2 t h
DAN HUMPHREY & SERENA VAN DER WOODSEN
A P P R E C I A T I O N T H R E A D
Because he's worried about her

T h e C o u p l e

Serena van der Woodsen - the typical bad girl gone good.
The Upper East Side's princess and It girl.
Classy, blonde, gorgeous, sassy, chic.

Dan Humphrey - the boy from the other side of the tracks.
The Brooklyn outcast and aspiring writer.
Witty, smart, romantic, caring, handsome, an all around good guy.

Together, they are the S t o l e n H e a r t s.
Best couple on television. Stable. Mature. Love. Hot.

October 8th, 2005

{Undeniable Perfection. The perfect couple.}
- Eliz

Dan: Umm, well I was accidentally invited to a birthday party. Where I met a girl.
She only spoke two sentences to me but I've never forgotten her.
Serena: Wait, your story is about me?

T h e A c t o r s

Blake Lively & Penn Badgley

Chemistry. Desire. Off-screen romance. Bingo. Dive bars.

For the record, I like you and only you.

I n t r o d u c t i o n s

Bye, Dave!

T h e W a v e

Was it that bad?

F i r s t D a t e

There's something vibrating in your pocket and I really hope it's your phone.

{True, Sexy, Meant-to-be, Timeless Love.}
- Diane

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

F i r s t K i s s

Serena needs to keep an eye on her heart.
We hear it may have been stolen by Lonely Boy.

F i r s t T i m e

Dan: Are we really gonna do this?
Serena: Yeah.

T h r e e L i t t l e W o r d s

Dan: There. that's why. Because I actually like it when you interrupt me, which is often, by the way.
I love you because you make no apologies about being exactly who you are... Beautiful, smart, sexy as hell.
Serena: Now you're embarrassing me.
Dan: That's another reason. You're completely unaware of your affect on me.
You're also completely unaware that you laugh like a 4 year old. Just like that.
And I love you because you can be with someone like me and still be best friends with someone like Blair.

I'll be your crying shoulder,
I'll be love's suicide,
I'll be better when I'm older,
I'll be the greatest fan of your life.

{Work-Amazingly-As-A-Couple.}
- Pat

Dan: This is, without question, the best Christmas ever.
Serena: Ever. In the history of Christmas.

Serena: What are you up to besides missing me?
Dan: Just wondering whether you were missing me.

{A couple like no other.}
- Jory

{Soulmates, Cute, Loved up.}
- Maxine

Well, let's try this. Why don't you tell me what's on your mind. Then it can be on our minds.
And our minds can worry about what's on your mind... together.

Serena: I hear the Ice Capades are coming to town.
Dan: If you're there, so am I.

F a n F a v o r i t e s

School Lies - 1 x 12.

{The ending of "School Lies".
Because in that moment I saw who and what Dan truly was and will always be for Serena.
He's her home, he's that person and place that makes her feel loved, wanted and safe.
Dan is to Serena what the Cohens were for Ryan Atwood.}
- Diane

The Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate - 1 x 13.

{The Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate.
The first time they both said 'I Love You' to each other, and Dan's reasons for why he loves Serena.}
- Jory

Hi, Society - 1 x 10.

{Episode 10 - Hi, Society.
When he carried her out of the debutant ball.
Just because it's a girl's dream for her prince charming to come and rescue her.}
- Maxine

{The kiss dip in 1x10!
I just loved it. I can't explain it.
It was just so perfect, the way there were no words,
the lighting, the filming, the colouring, everything just convinced me
they were end game.}
- Pat

Victor/Victrola - 1 x 07.

{Episode 7 - Victor/Victrola.
When they're lying on Dan's bed and she tells him that she's scared.}
- Eliz

Dare Devil - 1 x 05.

{Episode 5 - First Kiss (Dare Devil).
It shows just how crazy they are about each other
and that they wouldn't let the differences of where they came from change that.}
- Dana

Jenny: Come on Dan, Serena said hi to you at a ninth grade birthday party
and you've never forgotten it.
Dan: How could I? She was the only person who spoke to me.

{Dan and Serena are what love should be.}
- Shu

Lily: When I was your age, I would have been lucky to find a guy like you.
And I kind of did. But when it came down to it, I thought my mother knew who I was much better than I knew myself.
I'm not sure exactly who my daughter was, but I know who she has become since she met you.
She returns home every night at a reasonable hour, she doesn't drink, she doesn't do drugs.
I dont know if you're responsible for that, but I don't think it's a coincidence.
You belong with my daughter and I think everyone should know that.
Will you come with me?

Eliz18 · 04-28-2008, 06:12 PM

S e a s o n O n e

By: mylu

T h e i r S t o r y S o F a r . . .
By:Mich

In history, there have been many star-crossed lovers who defied all odds, struggled to break free from the binds that tied them to the emptiness and loneliness of their separate worlds, so they could fall in love and escape into a world of their own making and be together forever. Gossip Girl has its own pair of star-crossed young lovers—Serena van der Woodsen and Dan Humphrey--who come from different worlds, live by different rules, and are incomplete without the other. Our story unfolds in New York City, where Serena lives her privileged, wealthy, and glamorous life on the Upper East Side while Dan lives a simple, carefree life in Brooklyn.

Dan and Serena's whole relationship is built on the concept of serendipity, and how one brief moment in time can change your entire life forever. Separated by society, class, and birthrights, they meet by chance and fall in love by choice. They attend the same private school, but the first time Dan and Serena cross paths happens by accident (or fate depending on your outlook on life) at a birthday party for a fellow classmate. An outsider looking in, Dan assumes his invitation was either by accident or a cruel joke perpetuated to make him feel like a walking punch line, which is how he feels, as he stands there alone and out of place, wondering if he has a place amongst the elite, crème de la crème of upper crust society, and if by fate, the answer is revealed in the form of the glamorous, beautiful, quintessential, It-girl Serena van der Woodsen, who instantly captivates his heart.

Dan knows that Serena’s completely out of his league—that he’s neither popular nor rich enough to capture her attention--but his affections and intrigue of such an elusive beauty follow him through the next several years as he dreams about the perfect chance encounter with her that will allow him to sweep her off her feet and win a date with her. As if fate is answering his call once again, Dan gets his next chance encounter with Serena at the train station as Serena’s returning home from being away at boarding school for a year. Standing there, spellbound and mesmerized, watching the radiant Serena stroll by, Dan feels the uncontrollable pull to her once again, and the insatiable need to unravel the mystery surrounding who Serena truly is inside her soul. His mission leads him to consult the oracle of gossip and scandal in the form of the omniscient Gossip Girl, and as he scrolls through pages of information of Serena, his mind spins with ways to be within grasp of her.

While Dan is discovering her present, Serena’s escaping her past and planning for her future. What Dan doesn’t realize is that Serena is a tortured young woman with a hole in her heart caused by regrettable choices: a self-destructive past of parties, boys, inebriation, and loneliness. Serena left for reasons that are quite painful for her, and that secrets threatening to spill, like the secret of the betrayal of her best friend, Blair Waldorf, by sleeping with Blair’s boyfriend, Nate Archibald are forcing her to live in fear for the ones she loves. Serena believed exiling herself to boarding school was the only way to protect everyone from the type of girl she used to be, but having reformed her old behavior, she’s hoping for a second chance to make amends and become the type of girl capable of love and friendship.

Her re-introduction to her former life is difficult for her, and rife with awkwardness, resentment, and questions, which she is not ready to answer, especially from Blair, so Serena hides in plain sight. A target for gossip and a scrutiny, which is the case when Chuck Bass, former adversary and friend, accosts her with the truth of her indiscretion and then accosts her physically, causing Serena to run away once again from her past and run straight into what will be her future, Dan.

Dan looking for Serena collides with her in a force strong enough to bring them both to their knees. As if giving them one last chance, fate leaves behind Serena’s cell phone, and allows Dan to step into the role of Prince Charming returning Cinderella’s glass slipper. Standing at the front desk, Dan argues about the verity of being Prince Charming as Serena appears and for the first time they find themselves face to face, fate watching from above as the instant attraction to one another takes hold.

As the adage says: the course of true love never did run smooth, and that certainly is the case for Dan and Serena, as Serena’s mother, Lily, arrives and derails destiny once again to inquire whether Serena is attending a party catered by Blair, but Serena taking hold of her own destiny, answers that she has plans—with Dan. Startled and befuddled, Dan agrees and saves Serena by keeping up the subterfuge of a mythical date, but as soon as Lily disappears, Dan allows Serena to break their plans except Serena’s a woman with her own mind and decides to keep the date. She has become as intrigued by the mystery surrounding Dan Humphrey as he has been about her for the last several years.

Serena and Dan are able to get to know each other on their date, but are interrupted by the outside world, which begins the trend of the outside world butting in on their private time together. Dan and Serena forfeit the rest of their date to rescue Dan’s younger sister, Jenny, from the insidious clutches of Chuck Bass. After, driving home in a taxi, sitting side-by-side, staring at each other in wonder and mutual appreciation, the destination is clear: they’re headed straight for one another.

Unfortunately, Dan and Serena come from separate worlds and being from different worlds becomes a huge obstacle, considering that Serena's world is really everything that Dan admits he's either indifferent to or outright disapproves of, so drama ensues before they can find common ground again. They face many challenges—Serena’s past rearing its ugly head, Dan’s prejudices of her world, and especially the outside world expressing its disapproval. Every day, there is another person who wants to shake a finger at them, and gloat that their relationship will never work.

Serena’s world views Dan as a charity case or self-destructive whim to challenge her social breeding and test the boundaries of respectability. Dan’s world opines that Serena’s world of glitterati is too much for him to handle, and without a drop of blueblood to spare, that too much time spent engulfed in her world will destroy him. Dan questions this with his father, Rufus, who admits that his own foray into that lifestyle caused him to drown, which isn’t words of encouragement for Dan as he searches for a sign that Serena’s worth the effort. But if Dan’s looking for a sign then he should look no further than Serena, herself, because she’s certain they are worth the risk and refuses to give up without being given a fair chance. Her world doesn’t own her, and she makes her own choices, and her choice is Dan.

Serena coaxes him into asking her out another date, and her persistence pays off as Dan chances it once more. Of course, a lot is at stake with this date, and Dan succumbs to the pressures of making the evening perfect (forgetting the key element: himself) and instead adorably fails, but is given a reprieve from Serena, who reminds him once again, despite being from different worlds, she’s only wants him and the rest of the world be damned. Sealing with a kiss the promise of leaving the rest of the world behind to exist with only one another, they once again find common ground. They learn together, through trial and tribulation that no obstacle can keep them apart for long as Serena and Dan battle their families, friends, wealthy trappings of society, and the masquerade of their true feelings for each other.

After the masks have been lifted and the confusion is cleared, they admit they care about each other—only each other—and develop an unbreakable bond that makes it impossible for anyone to come between them. Deciding to wait to be intimate in a sexual way with one another, they unintentionally stumble into the most intimate exchange that can exist between man and woman—the bearing of their souls. The honesty they share in that moment assures Serena that her past may creep between them, but Dan’s strong enough to conquer her fears and rescue her from her doubts.

Dan might’ve jumped in with both feet when it came to choosing Serena, but Serena’s ready to jump in, too, even if it means going to war against Dan’s lifelong best friend, Vanessa, for position in his heart and life. In Serena’s eyes, they don’t need five-star restaurants, town cars, Ritz Carlton's, Aspen Chalets or the other trappings of wealth—all they need is each other, a candle light bedroom or smoky pool hall playing bad 80's music. And, if the world gets to be too much then they should be able to just jump on a Vespa, and go find a place that accepts true love without a designated price tag.

As the story stands now, the rest of the world can give it their best shot at keeping them apart because the gauntlet has been thrown down between Serena and Dan and the rest of the world as they fall in love and try to maintain that common ground. Dan and Serena will fight with everything they have for their happiness, which means in true fashion of love stories that they will always be victors and that their separate worlds will always collide into one.

T h e i r L o v e E x p r e s s e d I n . . .

A r t

By: Shu

I love that they can see who they are and still appreciate each other.
I love that Dan provides this sort of safe haven from the craziness that is the UES for Serena.
I also love that she sees all the greatness that Dan has to offer.
They are like two halves coming together to form a whole.
- Shu

1 0 0 x 1 0 0 B o x e s

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By: Eliz

Dan: You'll really go out with some guy you don't know?
Serena: Well, you can't be worse than the guys I do know.

V i d e o s

Come Home - Eliz
This Years Love - genkichiba
Run - ninjastars134
Lovestoned - awff7
My Eyes - Natalia
Over My Head - Veritas724
You had me from hello - mylu
Bleeding Love - lucaslovespeyton
Signal Fire - lublond
Mercy - Eliz
I Just Seen A Face - mylu
No Air - prettygrl05
A Day Without Rain - Joella
Man and Wife - Centerfinn

It's just...nobody's ever looked at me the way you just did.
In fact, I don't think they looked at me at all.

F i c t i o n s

Of Error, Of Significance - fated_addiction
We Were A Better House of Cards - fated_addiction
Modern English - fated_addiction
Arizona Stars - electrumqueen
Five Random Facts about Serena van der Woodsen - stealmy-kiss
Love Me Fully - genki
It's Okay- genki

Serena: Well, you're not six anymore, Dan. I just, I was just hoping that
I would be the person that you would tell these things to, now.
Dan: I want you to be that person, too. Really, I do.

N e w S c e n e s

P a s t A n i m a t i o n s
By: Paul

You look so good to me.

That's my girl!

L i n k s

Dan and Serena
Blake Lively LJ
Penn Badgley LJ

Eliz18 · 04-28-2008, 06:12 PM

that took forever and a half

satisfy the crave · 04-28-2008, 06:13 PM

Thanks for starting Eliz. But can change the # to 202? Because we did the 199.1 so we jump to 202.

Thanks!

beautifullybroken · 04-28-2008, 06:13 PM

Thanks for starting.

Eliz18 · 04-28-2008, 06:13 PM

Oh okay...

**Kaleiokalani** · 04-28-2008, 06:14 PM

Thanks for starting Eliz!

Eliz18 · 04-28-2008, 06:15 PM

I haven't started in forever but we were getting way over 300... so I thought it was about time.

Eliz18 · 04-28-2008, 06:17 PM

S looked horrible... you could really see how broken she was... and next episode its even more visible

D/S and FAB · 04-28-2008, 06:17 PM

Thanks for the new thread!

Tonight's ep was so good. Okay, maybe I do like angst but it was just so well done.

Plus, I love that even with the angst I saw the LOVE that DS have for each other!

And, I love how S looked at him when she opened that door, she was so happy and yet scared that he was there. Blake played that scene perfectly and so did Penn, when he said "please stop telling me you're okay because I know you are not" I just wanted him to kidnap S if he had to as long as she went with him. But, she didn't she told him that they would talk tomorrow.