Are We All We Are

by GarconSolitaire

Manhattan, 2011: It's been four years since Brooke Davis left Tree Hill to pursue her dreams of becoming a leading fashion designer. Despite initially creating Clothes Over Bros as a way to mend her broken heart, Brooke has finally found happiness with Ryan Atwood. With their relationship becoming more serious, however, have the two of them really gotten over their first loves?

1. Summary

In this alternate universe, Are We All We Are, a group of strangers will come together to form a close bond during their many misadventures in Manhattan.

The year is 2011; four years ago, Brooke Davis left Tree Hill, North Carolina, to pursue her dreams of becoming a fashion designer. With her company, Clothes Over Bro's, continuously growing steadily to become a household name across the United States and Canada, the twenty-year-old Brooke found herself at odds with her demanding career and with her mother. In her attempts to mend her broken heart after her break-up with acclaimed novelist Lucas Scott, Brooke inadvertently alienated herself from Manhattan society and the world, for that matter.

All of that changed, however, when Manhattan newcomer Ryan Atwood quite literally ran into Brooke while going for a jog in Central Park. Despite her initial refusal to accept Ryan's offer for a new coffee, seeing as how he had caused her to spill her Starbucks latte all over her sketches for C/B's new line, Brooke eventually caved and agreed to have coffee with the handsome stranger. That was over a year ago, and Brooke and Ryan have recently decided to move in together; but have these two really gotten over their first loves? Has Brooke truly let go of Lucas, and has Ryan finally come to terms with the death of Marissa Cooper?

Meanwhile, NYU sophomores Blair Waldorf and Dan Humphrey have both applied for internships at the C/B fashion magazine B. Davis. The two former friends, er…acquaintances, are now in a competition to keep their spots and to prove to their new boss which of them deserves it more. With Blair's best friend and Dan's former flame, Serena van der Woodsen, having transferred to Brown over the break, it seemed as though the two would never cross paths again; fate, however, has shown it has other plans in store for these two. Perhaps their fighting and bickering is an excuse for something more?

Other characters set to appear as series regulars are Nate Archibald, Anna Stern, Rachel Gatina, and Eric van der Woodsen, while guest appearances will include Chuck Bass, Vanessa Abrams, Taylor Townsend, Seth Cohen, and Juliet Sharp.