075: Fic
Title: All for Believing (1/1)
Fandom/Pairing: Gossip Girl | Dan/Blair (mentions of Dan/Serena)
Spoilers: 1x04 “Bad News Blair”
Word Count: ~525
Rating: G
Notes: I blame Tahereh Mafi. Ignite Me gave me such a book hangover that I desperately needed the solace and distraction that apparently only nostalgically binge-watching Gossip Girl could provide. Then lo and behold, this happened.
Summary: Maybe someone should tell Lonely Boy there’s a fine line between fascination and infatuation. XOXO, Gossip Girl.
Of course he goes for Serena. The blonde, her vibrant smile radiating the allure of sunsets in far-off beaches. Serena is a force of nature, a hurricane of flawlessly conditioned locks and grab-life-by-the-balls mentality.
Dan is captivated by Serena. He always has been. He loves the idea of her. He is drawn to her energy, seduced by her smile. He enjoys himself with her, plain and simple (and hey, it doesn’t hurt that she keeps pushing him, with her not-talks and not-a-dates, and it’s cute, it’s refreshing, it’s flat-out awesome, okay, because he doesn’t have to hem and haw and pretend he can make the right words come out of his mouth as easily as they come out on paper).
But sometimes. Sometimes he doesn’t understand himself and he wants to turn away and look at Blair just for a moment. The other one, the brown-eyed girl, the one fate tends to ignore, defaulting to the bouncing beam of sunshine often found at her right side.
While Blair is beautiful, she is also unattainable, with her perfect boyfriend, her ice queen mentality, the sheer amount of High School Society power she wields in one hand while getting a $200 manicure on the other.
He’s even among the ones she puts effort into pushing away with her Medusa-glares and her words sharper than glass. The ones she deems unworthy of her precious time. The ones who learn not to touch her with a 39-and-a-half-foot-pole if they want to escape with their dignity intact.
And yet.
Maybe she’s nothing but 95 pounds of girly evil, but there’s something something in her big doe eyes sometimes. When she came crashing down the stairs after her fight with Serena and pushed past him, he could see the shadows. He could see just a little bit beyond her cracked façade, and he wanted a better look. He tracked her down, paused, braced himself for a barrage of barbed insults, but she put forth only a token effort. So he sat down and he opened his mouth - because hi, have you met him - and for once he got it right. He helped. (At least he’s pretty sure, and he didn’t make things worse or have his head bitten off, so he’ll take it, thank you very much.)
They’re not meant to be or anything. Not like him and Serena. He’s just a little bit intrigued.
So he stays with Serena, because why wouldn’t he? He likes her, she likes him. It’s kind of like a dream, like a book he would write if he could ever muster the courage to attempt to write anything longer than a bedtime story. Beauty and the Beast, except she’s the one with the castle.
Him and Blair? That’d be a tale for the masochists, for the crazies, for the ones who like to think they can change fate. And Dan might be a dreamer but he’s a fairly pragmatic one.
His love story is with Serena. It’s obvious.
(But Dan Humphrey is a writer at heart and can pretend if he wants, but he loves nothing if not a good plot twist.)
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Fandom/Pairing: Gossip Girl | Dan/Blair (mentions of Dan/Serena)
Spoilers: 1x04 “Bad News Blair”
Word Count: ~525
Rating: G
Notes: I blame Tahereh Mafi. Ignite Me gave me such a book hangover that I desperately needed the solace and distraction that apparently only nostalgically binge-watching Gossip Girl could provide. Then lo and behold, this happened.
Summary: Maybe someone should tell Lonely Boy there’s a fine line between fascination and infatuation. XOXO, Gossip Girl.
Of course he goes for Serena. The blonde, her vibrant smile radiating the allure of sunsets in far-off beaches. Serena is a force of nature, a hurricane of flawlessly conditioned locks and grab-life-by-the-balls mentality.
Dan is captivated by Serena. He always has been. He loves the idea of her. He is drawn to her energy, seduced by her smile. He enjoys himself with her, plain and simple (and hey, it doesn’t hurt that she keeps pushing him, with her not-talks and not-a-dates, and it’s cute, it’s refreshing, it’s flat-out awesome, okay, because he doesn’t have to hem and haw and pretend he can make the right words come out of his mouth as easily as they come out on paper).
But sometimes. Sometimes he doesn’t understand himself and he wants to turn away and look at Blair just for a moment. The other one, the brown-eyed girl, the one fate tends to ignore, defaulting to the bouncing beam of sunshine often found at her right side.
While Blair is beautiful, she is also unattainable, with her perfect boyfriend, her ice queen mentality, the sheer amount of High School Society power she wields in one hand while getting a $200 manicure on the other.
He’s even among the ones she puts effort into pushing away with her Medusa-glares and her words sharper than glass. The ones she deems unworthy of her precious time. The ones who learn not to touch her with a 39-and-a-half-foot-pole if they want to escape with their dignity intact.
And yet.
Maybe she’s nothing but 95 pounds of girly evil, but there’s something something in her big doe eyes sometimes. When she came crashing down the stairs after her fight with Serena and pushed past him, he could see the shadows. He could see just a little bit beyond her cracked façade, and he wanted a better look. He tracked her down, paused, braced himself for a barrage of barbed insults, but she put forth only a token effort. So he sat down and he opened his mouth - because hi, have you met him - and for once he got it right. He helped. (At least he’s pretty sure, and he didn’t make things worse or have his head bitten off, so he’ll take it, thank you very much.)
They’re not meant to be or anything. Not like him and Serena. He’s just a little bit intrigued.
So he stays with Serena, because why wouldn’t he? He likes her, she likes him. It’s kind of like a dream, like a book he would write if he could ever muster the courage to attempt to write anything longer than a bedtime story. Beauty and the Beast, except she’s the one with the castle.
Him and Blair? That’d be a tale for the masochists, for the crazies, for the ones who like to think they can change fate. And Dan might be a dreamer but he’s a fairly pragmatic one.
His love story is with Serena. It’s obvious.
(But Dan Humphrey is a writer at heart and can pretend if he wants, but he loves nothing if not a good plot twist.)
+ fiddlings, 2014
+ Comments are always welcome.
+ JOIN or WATCH properfalse.