Gossip Girl - Stolen Hearts [D&S] #67: Because making love begins with the heart...

**Kaleiokalani** · 12-19-2007, 10:44 AM

W E L C O M E T O T H E 67 th
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 making love begins with the heart...

He was the outcast who disliked everything in her world.
She was the It-Girl trying to change.

Together, they are the S t o l e n H e a r t s,
the hottest, most mature teen couple on television.

{ May I remind you that this is your first real boyfriend, S. }
{Let me just say. For the record, I like you. Only you. }

{Dan's never liked a girl as he likes you. Really, I mean, come on!
He's at a masked ball! And I think he'd go basically anywhere with you.}

{ Serena and not so Lonely Boy clearly past courtship in the courtyard. }

{ You're everything that I could ever dream of.
You are my baby love, my baby love. You make the sun come up. }

{ D: You'd really go out with some guy you don't know?
S: Well, you can't be worse than the guys I do know. }

{ Can't believe the love of his life has returned. }

{ I just, I was just hoping that I would be the person that you would tell these things to, now. }

{ I've been watching your world from afar. I've been trying to be where you are. And I've been secretly falling apart.
Unseen to me, you're strange and you're beautiful. You'd be so perfect with me. But you just can't see. }

{S: Hey, you know, I hear the Ice Capades are coming to town.
D: Hmm...if you're there, so am I. }

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

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

**Kaleiokalani** · 12-19-2007, 10:45 AM

F a v e M o m e n t s

First Handhold

"So checking her out!"

First Kiss

Nose Graze

Masquarade Ball

Make Out Session

"Almost Doing it!"

In Bed & Naked

Guitar Hero

Thanksgiving Kiss

Hug & Kiss

Let Us Fly Away

By: Paul

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.

I c o n s

made by ale-la-pazza1(alessia)

made by mylu(sara)

A r t s

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

V i d e o s

Run - ninjastars134
Lovestoned - awff7
Apologize - genkichiba
Someone to Love - genkichiba
Chemicals React - genkichiba
Inside Your Heaven - Eliz
My Eyes - Natalia
No One - eolove14
Over My Head - Veritas724

L i n k s

LJ: Dan and Serena
LJ: Serena and Dan Shippers
LJ: Blake Lively
LJ: Penn Badgley

Relive the 50th!

Junk_Yard_Slut · 12-19-2007, 10:47 AM

Thanks Laura

Absolutely adore the title.

And somene should write a fic about the last episode. The lack of DS fanfiction is kind of depressing.

**Kaleiokalani** · 12-19-2007, 10:51 AM

Me too! Mich comes up with great titles for us

Mich · 12-19-2007, 11:08 AM

Laura--thanks so much for using my title.

Our next title could be:

Because DS made it a night to remember.

So we're still keeping with the same theme. And then we could return to Christmas or we could use the new titles I've come up that were inspired by the episode. I have a lot of them now.

We won't run out of titles for a while!

Mel--what would you want someone to write? The show's doing such a wonderful job with their relationship that I don't know anything we write fiction-wise can top what the show is already portraying in their relationship.

**Kaleiokalani** · 12-19-2007, 11:14 AM

Mich, your such the resident title guru

. So looking foward the episode inspired titles

Mich · 12-19-2007, 11:19 AM

Laura--I'm just so honored you gals like my titles. And I don't want anyone to feel like they can't come up with their own titles. I'd love to hear everyone's titles for the threads.

Diane--I sent you the 2nd PM. It has the spoiler-y goodness that you've been waiting for from the scene we've already talked about before. I hope you enjoy it.

mylu · 12-19-2007, 11:21 AM

thanks for the new thread

My DS moments problty won't come before maybe saturday.

xlennie · 12-19-2007, 11:22 AM

At first I didn't really like them, but they are really cute together!

Mich · 12-19-2007, 11:24 AM

I was wondering if you gals want to include all of GG's blogs about DS in our OP? We could do it by putting them on a web page and linking them to the OP. GG always writes such interesting and hilarious things about DS that I thought we should include them with all of our other wonderful tributes to DS in our OP. I'm happy to gather them up, and put it together. I'm sure I can find some empty web space somewhere.

mylu · 12-19-2007, 11:28 AM

sounds like a great ide...but we don't want our OP to be more then 2 pages. So let me known how you will do it

fabulousmary123 · 12-19-2007, 11:36 AM

I finally found the episode online! Can't wait for all the cuteness of D&S! So exited...

Off to watch the ep.

kindness is free · 12-19-2007, 11:39 AM

awesome we have a new thread

Thanks Kaleiokalani for starting it. Love the title Mich

I love that idea of adding in GG blog entries

Junk_Yard_Slut · 12-19-2007, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdlover (View Post)

Mel--what would you want someone to write? The show's doing such a wonderful job with their relationship that I don't know anything we write fiction-wise can top what the show is already portraying in their relationship.

You make a great point. I was more specifically talking about extensions of scenes already on the show. (More specifically of a certain scene last night

)

And I LOVE the idea of the GG blog stuff in the OP.

And you guys I noticed something -

The show has only filmed 13 episodes. Thus with the writers strike, that's all they can film. And those candids of Penn and Blake filming the picnic scene has them in their school uniform and Blake in a brown jacket. In the candids of them kissing in front f the school, the one with the longing look, it has them wearing the same things. And granted, one could argue that it's their school clothes. Despite Dan and everything else, Serena Van der Woodsen is Serena Van der Woodsen. We have yet to see her wear the same outfit twice (Well, jacket in this case) twice. Plus given their hairstyles and look. I think it's pretty safe to assume that both scenes take place in episode 13.

And I think it's going to be a VERY DS friendly episode. (As per usual, lol)

Mich · 12-19-2007, 11:46 AM

Sara--It wouldn't take up much space.

FabulousMary--hon, you can't post links to episodes that haven't aired. You'll need to edit that out of your post.

Thanks, sweetie. I'm glad you liked the title and the idea.


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