AN: So, I'm kinda gonna go over all the place with this fic. I want to make it last long since my fics normally only have a 10-12 chapter life limit. This chapter was hard to write since I had to take some lines out cause I didn't want people to cry lol. I also wanted to say that I'm opening a kind of fic challenge. You can PM me ideas you want and the ones with the best ideas will be turned into either fics or one-shots. Its kinda like a gift to all my faithful readers. I'll probably wind up doing once for each of you or putting ideas together so you will be credited for the idea. I'll write this message in the new update of every story. So each story will have the mention once. I forgot to mention this in a previous chapter, I'm writing this as if RL didn't have a kid and they were together when Dan went to college, so that means after 2x14 they would of stayed together even after the dreaded 2x17-2x18 crap. Read and Review =)



"I feel like I'm this outsider in our life, like our memories aren't worth living through a second time for you."

"That's not it Dan." Serena replied shaking her head.

"Then what is Serena. Huh? Why couldn't you just do this one thing for me? I have lost two years of my life." Dan sounded as if he was about to break down. He just couldn't hold it in anymore. He was pissed that he wasn't making progress fast enough. He just wished that night never happened. Like he could of had a do over and just stayed in that night.

"Is it....do you not love me anymore?" Dan began his sentence.

Serena began to cry. Dan wouldn't even let her get the words out of her mouth. He just shook his head and was cursing in his mind. How could the supposed love of his life have nothing to say to him. Dan only let on that he knew some of the bad things that happened, but he lied. He remember meeting Serena at the birthday party and how he was madly in love with her. He remembered their first date and how nervous he was. He remembered Georgina, or Sarah as she went by then. He tried to forget breaking up with Serena right before the wedding, but it seemed that memory haunted him. It was the stuff in between he was forgetting, the moments of how he fell in love with Serena all over again. He forgot about how they got back together over the summer and how Ms. Carr got in the way. Dan turned to rush out the apartment because he just couldn't breathe anymore. He grasped the door handle and with a tight pull the handle broke. They were stuck.

"What's wrong?"

"The damn lock came off."

"So call down to someone."

"Did you see anyone in the building when we came up? No!"

"Don't yell at me Dan."

"I just need to get out of here."

"This is just like the elevator all over again."

"What are you talking about."

"We had just gotten back together after Georgina, we were stuck in an elevator and we fought."

"The only thing I remember about Georgina is when we first broke up. When you thought you killed someone."

"Well, we got back together and we broke up in the elevator too."

"The difference is we're not together now." Dan felt the anger in his words. He knew what he said sounded harsh, but it had to be said.

He walked to the other side of the room, separating himself from Serena. She fell to the ground against the kitchen wall unit. The place wasn't furnished, so there was no place to really go throughout the house. Dan just stared at the blank walls while Serena cried in the corner. He stopped himself every time he legs begged him to go over there and console her. He felt he had to prove a point, a very stupid point, but to him it meant more.

"To answer your question before, of course I still love you. Serena said in between sobbing. "I love you so much it hurts. I watched you in the hospital bed, not remembering who I was and it broke my heart. To think that the guy who changed my life so much can't remember doing it. The fact that you can't remember any of the special moments we had kills me inside. I wish I could erase that night forever or have me being hit by that car. I'd rather switch places with you because I know you'd have me back in no time, rather than me running away."

"You never told me why you loved me."

"That speech wasn't good enough?" Serena laughed as she dried her eyes.

"No. I mean before. I told you I loved you and you begged me for reasons. You ran off to Blair and I never asked you to reciprocate reasons."

"You remember?"

"Yeah, I guess I do."

"Well then." Serena propped herself up. "Let's see. I love you because you put up with my whiny moods, and my weird outbursts. Because you just know what I'm thinking, and it drives me crazy. How you know when I want to be held and when I don't want to talk. And because even when you knew how messed up my life was you stuck through it. You just didn't care that I was damaged and shattered. You saw passed all that and accepted me. No one has ever done that before."

"Sounds like I really love you."

"You do."

Dan moved over closer to Serena. He glided his nose across her face. She tried to fight kissing him, in case all of this was just too much for him to handle. She leaned the side of her head against the bottom of the wall and looked at Dan. It was like they were seeing each other for the first time. Both new and untainted, like nothing bad ever happened. He began to kiss her neck and was lowering his lips towards her collarbone. She ran her fingers through his hair wanting him to just take her right there. He went to remove his jacket but Serena pulled away.

"Are you sure you want to do this? Last time we made out you begged me to take things slow."

"Positive. I want to be with my girlfriend."


AN: I know its short, but you'll have to deal with it hehe. Oh and don't worry Hannah, there will be a flashback fro the smut, I cut it off for a reason :P