Charlotte

justin/alex picspam

silverponies — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:47:19 GMT

BECAUSE I CAN OKAY!! AND IT'S OVER NOW AND I DIDN'T WATCH THE FINALE BUT I HEARD IT WAS TERRIBLE AND I AM FEELING PARTICULARLY NOSTALGIC TODAY

CLICK FOR A MESS OF CAPS AND 4AM THOUGHTS ON THIS

Disenchanted Evening

Justin: How do you know I didn't forget my locker combination and then use
magic to remember it?
Alex: Because you made up a locker combination song.

(AND THEN THEY SING THE LOCKER COMBINATION SONG TOGETHER <3)

You Can't Always Get What You Carpet

Justin: Yep, you did better than me.
Alex: Why are you winking at me?
Justin: You're ruining it.

(Idk this is just dumb. I put it in here, deal)

Justin's Little Sister

Alex: I grew up with him. He may be dorky and annoying but he's fun and
gullible to play pranks on and he's my brother, I need him back.

(I.e Alex loves her brother a lot speech, v 1.0.)

Fairy Tale

Zeke: Oh Tink, did you drink the medicine to save me?
Alex: Uh yeah.
Justin: With feeling!
Alex: ...with feeling.

(Idk this scene isn't really relevant I just wanted to include it cause Alex looks cute here.)

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie

Alex: Admit it, it's not a bad idea. It's just a simple levitation spell.
Justin: Yes, yes you're brilliant. Focus!
Alex: Why do you always get so mad everytime I do something right?
Justin: Because it's like you don't even try. You don't even think about it.
Alex: Not thinking works for me.
Justin: Exactly, it's not fair. I know everything there is to know about
magic and you just come along and- and you do it. Which is why I have
to study all the time. Usually I'm all 'family wizard, how could it not be
me?' and then you come along and you so something like this.
Alex: Trust me you're not going to lose, you'll be the family wizard.
Justin: Do you even want it?
Alex: I don't know! I don't think I do.
Justin: Why? I know why I do: I'd be nothing if I wasn't a wizard. Magic
is the one thing that I'm really, really good at.
Alex: Ugh please you're good at everything. Justin's so perfect, why
can't you be more like Justin?
Justin: Who says that?
Alex: Besides you? Everyone. Mom and dad.
Justin: Well they wouldn't say that if I wasn't so- perfect.
Alex: You know that's not true, they love you regardless.
Justin: You know that goes both ways.

(God this scene is so deliciously angsty and so underrated tbh because everyone always talks about the campfire scene BUT THIS MAKES ME SAD TOO BECAUSE JUSTIN IS SO INSECURE AND JUST WANTS TO BE LIKE ALEX OKAY AND THEY JUST WANT TO BE EACH OTHER AND IT IS SO DUMB AND)

Justin: You warm enough?
Alex: Justin what if we don't get the stone in time and we can't save
everyone?
Justin: Don't worry about it, we will.
Alex: How do you know that?
Justin: Because it's you and I. How can we not? You know, I think
this is the longest you've ever gone - wait - this is the longest you've
ever gone without making fun of me.
Alex: I knew there was something I was supposed to do. Where
do you want me to start? I can-
Justin: No, no I actually kind of like this. Let's try this.

(I cannot even talk about the subtext in this scene)

Alex: No. No, no, no Justin. Please, please you can't leave me here,
please remember. I'm Alex, I'm your little sister. I taunt you and I
tease you and I make your life miserable but you love me anyway.
You're everything that I've ever wanted to be. I'm jealous of how- how
smart you are and how kind and how nice. Please don't leave me here.

(OBVIOUSLY SELENA'S ACTING IN THIS IS IDK OF A HIGHER STANDARD THAN USUAL AND I JUST WENT BACK AND WATCHED THIS SCENE ON YOUTUBE IN REALLY LQ AND IT STILL MADE ME TEARY

AND REMEMBER DAVID PULLING SELENA ASIDE AND SAYING SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF 'JUST IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF WE WEREN'T FRIENDS' TO MAKE HER CRY UGH)

Doll House

Alex: Thank you Justin, I will pay you back the money.
Justin: No you won't.
Alex: I know but the thank you was real. Wait, where are you
going? This is the part where we fight it out until I win.
Justin: I lost $400, you already won.
Alex: No! I won because I wanted to fix this on my own. But I
couldn't until you made me. And now I'm a better wizard for it.
Justin: No, it was my money! I fixed it.
Alex: But it was my idea. This isn't about the money, the point
is that it's all better now. So you can say you're welcome.
Justin: For what? I'm out $400.
Alex: There you go, there's the fight I was looking for! Don't you
feel better?
Justin: Hm, fine.
Alex: Ow Justin you're hurting me.
Justin: Yeah I do feel better now, thank you.

(CUTE BANTER. Also inappropriate sibling hugs.)

Wizards vs. Werewolves

Justin: Are you alright?
Alex: No. Are you?
Justin: No.
Alex: He loved me.
Justin: I found her. Then I lost her again.
Alex: Promise me we'll find normal people?
Justin: We're not normal people.

(I like to this this was the writers giving us Justin/Alex the best way they could in a really understated (messed up obvi because they are siblings word) way because they always seemed kind of idk ~not unsupportive of it so!)

Dad's Buggin' Out

Alex: Okay yeah I don't need to know when it is because I'm busy.
Justin: Ooh no because I checked your calendar and you've got no
plans for the next 30 years.
Alex: Ha, I don't have a calendar.
Justin: Ha, people who don't have calendars also don't have plans!
Alex: Yeah sometimes he wins.

(ENDING ON THIS BECAUSE MORE CUTE BANTER)

bright lights: a caroline forbes fanmix

silverponies — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:51:18 GMT

a caroline forbes fan mix

anthems for a seventeen year old girl | broken social scene

park that car, drop that phone

sleep on the floor, dream about me

used to be one of the rotten ones

and I liked you for that

now you’re all gone, got your makeup on

and you’re not coming back

october | broken bells

through the give and take you had to learn

how to cross the coals and not get burned

but you’re really just a little girl

playing in the park until the sun goes down

sometimes you want to rise

one did it’s our desire

no doubt you think you braided your own hair

so you’re all grown up

this love (will be your downfall) | ellie goulding

oh I don’t like the way I never listen to myself

i feel like I’m on fire

I’m too shy to cry for help

oh I don’t think you know me much at all

this heart will never be yours

you lost me | sleigh bells

face down in the dirt

in your mini-skirt

teeth touch the tracks

yeah I got your back

oh I got your back

I don’t want you to see me this way

radio | lana del rey

now my life is sweet like cinnamon

like a fucking dream I’m living in

baby love me cause I’m playing on the radio

(how do you like me now?)

ugh also sry all the songs are like singular and i didn't zip it btw

I'm such a girl!; a Louis Tomlinson picspam

silverponies — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:14:33 GMT

Louis Tomlinson Picspam

{A self portrait.}

{aka why Louis is my fav for enemeriad because she still doesn't understand}

This is kind of a mess and like the worst picspam ever but w/e

Louis wears stripes. A lot

And suspenders

Sometimes he looks like this

Because he's kind of known as the crazy one of the group

A lot of the time he looks like this though

Which is very much appreciated

He wears really cute sweaters that I kind of want to own myself

Baby!Louis

Sometimes he makes really dumb, cute faces

Louis w/ glasses is like my favorite thing ever. You have no idea.

"I'm massively broody around babies! I've got four younger sisters but I just love babies!!!!!!"
{I took the liberty of adding a few extra exclamation marks to stress this point.}
Also he is really really cute with his sisters.

He just loves his band members so much!!1

But Harry is his fav

I just wanted to include these idk

TYFYT

five favorite blair waldorf scenes, s1 {a picspam}

silverponies — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:43:18 GMT

1.03 | poison ivy

Serena: "You're here for another catfight?... What's that?"
Blair: "A letter. I wrote it to you when you were away at boarding school. I never sent it. 'Dear Serena, my world is falling apart and you're the only one who would understand. My father left my mother for a 31-year old model. A male model. I feel like screaming because I don't have anyone to talk to. You're gone, my dad's gone, Nate's acting weird. Where are you? Why don't you call? Why did you leave without saying goodbye? You're supposed to be my best friend. I miss you so much. Love, Blair.'"
Serena: "Why didn't you send it? I would've..."
Blair: "You would've what? You knew, Serena. And you didn't even call."

1.04 | bad news blair

Blair: "Who dare interrupt the van der Woodsen as she teaches?!"
Dan: "Dan... Humphrey."
Blair: "Sorry the number you dialed is no longer in service."
Serena: "Stop it, who is it?"
Blair: "I'm doing you a favor."
Dan: "Look, I can hear you. Can I please just talk to Serena?"
Blair: "Apparently you can, Cabbage Patch."

1.06 | the handmaidens tale

Blair: "Are you jealous?"
Jenny: "Of you and Nate? No!"
Blair: "Do you think because you talked to him once in the hall that you might have a shot?"
Jenny: "Blair, it's nothing like that."
Blair: "Then tell me what is it like?"
Jenny: "I don't wanna hurt you."
Blair: "How could you hurt me?"
Jenny: "Yesterday wasn't the first time I talked to Nate. At the ball, he told me he wasn't over Serena."
Blair: "Why would he tell you that?"
Jenny: "Because I was wearing her mask. And he thought I was her. He kissed me.
Blair: "That's enough."
Jenny: "Blair, I didn't want you to find out."
Blair: "You're dismissed, Jenny. For good."

1.10 | seventeen candles

Blair: "I'm not in the mood, Chuck. It's pretty much the worst birthday ever."
Chuck: "Maybe it can be salvaged."
Blair: "What's that, our sex tape?.. It's the Erickson Beamon necklace. No, I couldn't."
Chuck: "Yes, you can. Something this beautiful deserves to be seen on someone worthy of it's beauty."

1.11 | roman holiday

Harold: "May I come in? Our flight leaves in a few hours and I wanted to say goodbye. Forgive me, Blair. I should have told you I was bringing Roman.I knew that having him here would be hard for you but I love you so much and I love Roman and I was hoping if we were all thrown together that... something... perfect would happen and that you would love him, too."
Blair: "I was going to convince you to move back to New York but... you bought a vineyard... in France... with Roman. There's no room for me in your life anymore."
Harold: "Sweetheart, there's always room for you. No matter where I am, no matter who i'm with."

built you a home in my heart

silverponies — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:53:13 GMT

Title: built you a home in my heart
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Pairing/Characters: Blair, Serena, Dan
Rating: PG
Length: 848
Summary: Blair Waldorf still dreams of going to Yale on her worst days.
AN: So I haven't really watched the show since s3 and only kind of have an idea of what's going on. This is probably a gigantic mess.

"Want to start over, want to be winning
Way out of sync from the beginning."
- Slow Show; The National

Blair Waldorf still dreams of going to Yale on her worst days.

It’s her darkest thoughts slipping through the cracks, there as an ever-present reminder that she’s not good enough, not smart enough, didn’t try hard enough (overandoverand…).

It’s getting easier to shake it off, though. She has other things now, things that matter more: a fiancé; her unborn child.

(Blair tries her hardest to overlook the fact that in her wickedest moments, she still thinks she’d change anything, give up everything, for one more chance to go back and change it all.)

She doesn’t get married in November.

Louis never shows up at the altar; she finds out later there was some girl back home and there was history and he could never really leave her behind. She thinks briefly of Chuck when she hears, because it could’ve just as easily been her but it wasn’t and she thinks that might be growth. She shakes it off because that’s what she does now and she’s getting good at it (better).

It doesn’t hurt as much as it should.
Her mother flails around her, wailing loudly because ‘what on earth is she supposed to do now, her very own daughter pregnant out of wedlock and now single?’ and Blair does her best to calm her and cries on Serena’s shoulder at the end of the day because it still hurts more than she can bear.

She finds an apartment on the Lower West Side with Serena and for the first time in her life she’s glad to be away from all of the drama. Serena takes her to birthing classes and doctor’s appointments and brings her iced tea when she gets too big and it’s too hot to move. They design the nursery together when they find out it’s going to be a girl and go through baby names together and child-proof the apartment and the whole time Blair can’t stop laughing and laughing. They sleep in the same four-poster bed Blair had dismantled and brought to the apartment that was in her childhood bedroom and at night they whisper to each other across the darkness and clasp each other’s hands for reassurance because everything feels like it’s so much bigger than them now, like the world that stood at their feet’s been swept out from under them. Serena strokes Blair’s hair when she tells her she’s worried she won’t be a good mother, whispers back that she knows for a fact Blair’s going to be wonderful at it like everything she does and Blair doesn’t feel half as lonely as she used to.

Serena’s the one there, holding her hand when she gives birth to her daughter, tiny and crying and pink.
“Celia.” Blair whispers as the baby’s placed in her arms for the first time, salty tears dripping onto the blanket wrapped around her.
Serena reaches over to clasp Blair’s other hand and Blair looks up at her and then back to Celia, all three of them crying and thinks she wouldn’t want anyone else in the world by her side right now.

Serena stays after Celia's born, takes her home from the hospital and helps out with the changing and the formula and all of it. It's hard work, harder than Blair would've imagined and she almost wants to tell Serena it's okay if she wants to leave, she would understand, but honestly, she's too scared of what might happen if she did.
Dan comes to visit sometimes too, coos over Celia and takes her on walks in Central Park with Serena and spends more time at their apartment than Blair would probably deem normal. After a few weeks of pointed glances between them she catches from the corner of her eye, and running into Dan at 3am to find him coaxing Celia back to sleep when she thought he'd gone home already, Blair snaps and asks them what the deal is. Serena caves and tells her they're back together, says sorry she didn’t tell her sooner, it was just with the baby and everything.., and Blair just laughs and hugs them both and jokes that they better make sure they don’t screw it up this time.

“She’s going to be a writer, I can see it already.” Dan teases one night as they’re in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Serena’s in the living room with Celia, talking to her in French because her nanny used to do it with her and she swears it makes babies smarter.
Blair puts on an expression of faux-outrage and tells him no daughter of hers would strive to have such a miserable and unfulfilling career. She leans over to nudge his arm lightly though and when he looks up at her he’s grinning.
“Whatever she does,” Dan tells her, quieter this time, “she’s going to be wonderful.”
Blair looks down at her hands resting lightly on the countertop, soft smile playing on her lips, “I know.”

On her worst days, Blair still dreams of going to Yale. It’s getting easier to shake it off now.

so you can see (drabble)

silverponies — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:54:44 GMT

Title: so you can see
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Jesse/Rachel
Rating: PG
Length: 361
Summary: She thinks she loves him. (She knows she loves him.)
AN: I wrote this ages ago but didn't have time/ forgot to upload it here 'til now. Set around the end of s1. Title comes from The xx's Shelter.

He looks at her like (as clichéd as it is) she’s the only girl in the world and everyone wants to make it so damn hard for them to be together:

‘He’s using you’; ‘you’ll only get you heart broken’

The words reverberate around in her head ‘til she can’t think because they’re drowning everything else out.
When she’s with Jesse everything stops and all she sees and feels and knows is him.
They’re like one and the same; two peas in a pod; they just get each other and it’s more than what she had with Puck or Finn or anyone really because for the first time in her life she feels like someone completely and utterly understands.

She thinks she loves him.

(She knows she loves him.)

+

When he leaves after their fight she wants to die because she can’t do it without him.

“Can’t do what sweetie?” Her dad asks.
“Anything.”

She waits and she prays to God pretty, pretty please she’llneveraskforanythingagain just please let Jesse forgive her.

When he comes back two weeks later, telling her everything she ever needed to hear all along she runs to him and hugs him tight so tight because she doesn’t want to lose him again (can’t). Tells herself she knew all along he was coming back; tells him that, tells anyone who’ll listen.
She knew it. (Of course she did.)

They have sex exactly six days after he comes back to Mckinley.
He stretches his arms, pulls her into him when it’s over (he’s so warm against her and everything feels like fire). She can feel his eyes on her and she looks up
“Hey.” He whispers, and brushes the hair out of her eyes.

(It’s everything she ever hoped and wanted and needed it to be.)

+

He breaks her heart in the end (just like she didn’t know he would).
“I’m sorry, Rachel.” It feels sincere.
(It is sincere; he loves you, loved you. It’s all part of the game, Rachel.)
She doesn’t cry; she’ll never cry.

Not for someone who never existed in the first place.

solace my game and run me through

silverponies — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:01:56 GMT

Title: solace my game and run me through
Fandom: Vampire Diaries
Pairing: Jeremy/Caroline
Rating: PG
Length: 1,361
Summary: Caroline sleeps at the Gilbert house after Elena dies, cooking Jeremy meals and keeping him occupied and once, late at night when she runs into him outside the bathroom, letting him cry on her lap on the sofa, combing his hair with her fingers until he falls asleep.
AN: Title comes from the song The Wolves (Act I and II) - Bon Iver. I haven't written fic in ages and idk I guess I just finally finished something. It's probably terrible but huh, what can you do. This was originally meant to be Stefan/Caroline but it kind of got away from me.

Elena dies in the end.

Really, it shouldn’t come as a surprise and yet they fall apart anyway because as much as they anticipated it they never really thought it could happen.
Elena. Dead. Caroline doesn’t let herself cry when she hears because watching everyone else fall apart around her is enough.

Alaric’s long gone- couldn’t stay in Mystic Falls for much longer after Jenna died and so she sleeps at the Gilbert house after Elena dies, cooking Jeremy meals and keeping him occupied and once, late at night when she runs into him outside the bathroom, letting him cry on her lap on the sofa, combing his hair with her fingers until he falls asleep. She doesn’t cry for Elena- not yet, but she cries for the brother Elena left behind, who has nobody left, who at 17 has already lost everything he’d ever known.
On more than one occasion she thinks about turning him- he has nobody else anyway, and they could run away together. Feed on animals and live peacefully and forget their life in Mystic Falls. She entertains this idea more than she’d care to admit, what stops her however, is the look Jeremy gets in his eyes when he sees Bonnie- like there’s hope for a future even through all of this.

-

“Why are you here?” Jeremy asks her one evening about two months after, leaning against the counter as she chops carrots. He says it softly looking down at the ground, like he’s sincerely curious.

‘Because,’ she stops chopping, turns around to face him and waits til he looks up at her, ‘you don’t have anybody else.’ It comes out firmly, like she needs him to understand. He doesn’t say anything, just keeps staring at her, so she adds half-jokingly as she turns back around ‘and because you need me’.

It’s three full minutes before he replies (she’s counting).
She doesn’t tell him it’s because she needs him, too.

-

Weeks pass, and slowly they develop a kind of routine. Jeremy doesn’t go back to school and there’s nobody there to make him. Caroline figures it’s insignificant considering, so she says nothing. They make dinner together on the nights when he’s not with Bonnie and she’s not back at the mansion checking up on Stefan and she’s surprised to learn he’s actually a really great cook.

“Yeah I uh, used to help my dad in the kitchen when I was younger.” He tells her quietly when they’re crumbing chicken one night.

She nudges his arm affectionately and he turns to smile at her. His brown eyes are dark and warm and something inside her twists in this stupid small way and Caroline squashes the feeling down hard and tells herself she’s being stupid.
Sometimes they stay up until the early hours of the morning watching stupid 90’s romcoms like ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and even though Jeremy whines playfully about her ‘horrible taste in movies’ he always stays and watches them to the end, even when she can see he’s struggling to keep his eyes open.

(They never talk about Elena or Tyler or everyone that’s left or been left behind.)

-

It happens late one night when he gets home from hanging out with Matt at The Grill. She wakes up as she hears him trying to tiptoe down the hall and she can tell by his heavy, sluggish footsteps that he’s drunk. Caroline’s already swinging her legs over the bed to go and help him when she hears him stumble and fall right outside her door, and she’s there in a flash, yanking the door open and crouching down to see if he’s okay. To her surprise he’s giggling when she leans over him and she pushes his hair back from his forehead to check his temperature.

“Jer,” she says tentatively, “are you okay?”

“Caaaroline,” he slurs, “Caroline the vaaampire.”

“Jeremy, come on.” she coaxes calmly, ignoring his drunken rambling as she reaches for his arm to help him up.

“No!” He yells, pulling his arm away suddenly and Caroline recoils quickly, blinking. “No!” he repeats. “I don’t need any help, okay Caroline. I don’t need your help.”

Jeremy pushes himself up slowly and stumbles to lean against the railing. He hangs his head and doesn’t look at her and Caroline just stands watching him quietly, pressing her hands together. They both stand in silence for a long while and Caroline’s about to turn and go back into her room and forget the whole thing when Jeremy asks “Why are you even here Care?” He mutters it so quietly Caroline thinks she probably wouldn’t even hear it if she didn’t have her heightened senses. She shuffles over slowly to where he’s standing next to the bannister and scratches at the chipping polish on her fingernails.

“Jer,” she starts nervously, reaching up to stroke his arm lightly.

“No, Caroline.” He says louder now, leaning away from her touch. “Don’t give me this bullshit about having to look after me anymore, it’s been months, Care, and I’m not saying that all of this stuff has passed but I can look after myself by now at least. I know you’re not here to look after me anymore so what are you doing?”

He looks up at her now, dark eyes searching hers and she wants to cry suddenly like everything that’s happened in the last few months is finally hitting her.
And then before she can even answer he’s leaning down and kissing her, tongue sliding warm and heavy against hers, lips scraping against her teeth. His hand comes up to cup his face, thumb grazing against her cheek and she pulls back suddenly, almost yelping. He stares at her, blinking quickly almost like he’s not sure what just happened and she looks away, biting her lip.

“I- Jeremy..” she stutters. She won’t look at him.

“Yeah,” he half sighs, shifting his feet and Caroline swears she can almost hear defeat in his tone. There’s a pause before she hears a muttered “Night, Caroline.” and feels him trying to saunter around her to his bedroom. She stops him on a whim as he brushes past her though, grasping his hand and swiveling him toward her before leaning up to press her lips to his mouth. (And Bonnie and Matt and Elena and every single goddamn person in this town, she thinks, but she can’t anymore, she can’t.)

He’s quick to return the kiss, pushing her back against the railing so she can feel the pattern on the wood press into her back, grasping her waist tight and she leans up just as forcefully, licking into his mouth and running her fingers through his hair, scratching at the nape of his neck. When he pulls back finally, he looks down at her again and she hates, hates, hates, that he’s looking at her like that, really looking at her and this was never going to work from the start.

-

She goes back to the Salvatore mansion that night after Jeremy’s fallen asleep, tells Stefan they’re leaving and that’s that. He doesn’t argue with her, doesn’t care where they go anymore, just swills the last of his scotch and nods once. Caroline thinks he might be even more lost that she is and that’s a whole hell of a lot.
She doesn’t leave a note for Jeremy, tells herself he’s strong enough to cope on his own now, and he still has Bonnie after all.

(She can’t get too attached. Not to humans, not anymore. These are the things she knows now.)

She doesn’t compel him. This is important, she likes to think, because she knows about Vicki and about Anna and she can’t let him go through that again. Not Jeremy (her Jeremy, she thinks quietly to herself sometimes, because she’s always been a possessive thing and for those few minutes, he was).

-

She and Stefan leave just as dawn is breaking, sun spilling over the horizon and haloing the tallest trees. She turns just once to catch a glimpse of Mystic Falls through the foggy rear window of the car and she thinks one last time of home.

it's not just me, i tell you, it's the both of us

silverponies — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:55:32 GMT

Title: It's not just me, I tell you it's the both of us.
Author: silverponies
Fandom: Disney RPF
Pairing: David/Selena, minor Joe/Demi, a teensy bit of Nick/Miley, Demi/Selena friendship
Word Count: 2909
Rating: PG-13
Summary: I'm entirely not sure how to explain this so i'll just say: a bunch of events leading up to Selena's eighteenth birthday party that probably didn't/probably never will happen. Oh, and David and Selena get together, too.

It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us.

He’s pretty sure he’s got a little crush on her the day he meets her.
She’s all smiles and laughs and the way her nose crinkles slightly when she smiles makes him just want to take a picture of her and put it on his wall (he does, three months later).
But, you know, she’s fourteen, so it’s a kind of platonic crush, like the way you think your little sister’s friend is kind of hot (except she would be playing his real sister).

-

They’ve both worked with Disney before; he’d done a few episodes of Raven when he was way younger, and she‘d worked on the Suite Life (back when they weren’t on that ridiculous boat), so she knows what the drill is. It doesn’t stop him from trying to look out for her, though. He’s practically her older brother now, so it’s his job.
It gets to the point where she actually has to tell him that ’she’s almost fifteen, and she can take care of herself’, though she says it with a laugh, like she doesn’t really mean it.
Like that could stop him.

-

He has to admit, he’s slightly nervous about if the show’s going to get picked up or not. He can tell she is too though, so he pretends like everything’s fine. “Don’t worry Sel, of course we’re going to get picked up for a season,” he comforts, “how could we not when you’re working on the show?” he smiles, like it’s a joke (and it half-is).
She thinks how he’s always slipping random compliments into their conversation, and it takes her mind off things for a little bit.

-

In the end, they end up getting picked up for a first season, and a second, too, and the whole cast couldn’t be happier. At the season one wrap party, Todd gives a toast to the show, something generic about pursuing your dreams, David doesn’t really pay attention; he’s too busy playing footsie with Selena under the table.

-

He kind of misses her a lot when they’re not filming any more. Despite the age gap (or maybe because of), they ended up spending most of the time they weren’t filming, in each other’s dressing rooms, hanging out and listening to music, and generally becoming really good friends. She’d tell him all about Demi and schoolwork and how she really, really hoped she’d get to release an album of her own someday. He listened, and told her about his family and his nonno and that he wanted like anything, to produce movies someday.
So that’s his excuse for texting her slightly more than he probably should, but she’s only so happy to reply and it helps fill the void between seasons.
He never thought he be one to actually want to go back to work, but it turns out Selena’s turned him into just that person.

-

For her sixteenth birthday, she has an awesome party which, of course, almost every Disney actor is invited to, but she spends the majority of the night with him (as well as Demi), which he’s sort of psyched about.
He pulls her into the cloak room at some point during the night, just so he can ’wish her a happy birthday in private where it’s not so loud’. She thanks him sincerely and kisses him on the cheek. She has this massive grin on her face like she’s so happy, she could burst and that’s kind of how he feels right now. They linger in the closet for a little while after that, not really talking but just enjoying each other’s company.
When they finally walk out (un-noticed, thank God) Selena tells him it’s the best birthday she’s ever had and he has to agree with her on that one.

-

They spend less time together that year. Between spending time with Lucy and her whole thing with Nick , they barely have time to themselves let alone for friends. Any free time she gets, she spends with Demi anyway, which is fair because they are best friends, and now that she’s touring with the Jonas Brothers and making movies of her own, Selena doesn’t get to see her all that much anymore.
One afternoon, while he’s chilling out in his dressing room, using his iPhone to tweet about the rehearsal they had that morning, she walks in suddenly, and he can tell she’s been crying.
Without saying a word, she walks over to join him on the couch and he instantly puts down his phone to ask her what’s wrong.
“It’s just-this whole thing with Nick and…” her eyes avoid his “I don’t even know what’s going on between us anymore, I’m so confused.” This sets her off again and she begins to whimper quietly. David leans over and pulls her in for a hug, wrapping her in his arms.
“Hey, Sel shh, it’s going to be okay.” He comforts her, stroking her hair slightly. “Want me to go beat him up for you?”
She laughs at this, and he’s glad he can cheer her up a little. “No thanks, I think it’s probably better if you don’t.”
The way she looked when he walked into his dressing room though, and he really, really wants to.

-

When they film the Wizards movie, it’s not like anything he’s ever done before. It’s foreign and exotic and completely awesome. It’s kind of been his dream to make a movie overseas and now that he gets to, it’s better than he could’ve imagined.
He thinks part of that could be Selena’s fault.
It almost feels like they’re an actual family. From the cameramen to the producers to the cast, it feels like one big familial gathering, and it’s nice to be that close to people.
He and Selena spend a lot of time together in Puerto Rico (but they really do need to make sure they’ve got all their lines down-pat).
When he gets sick, she visits him in his hotel room and brings him soup and old movies (that they watch together til the early hours of the morning).

-

He invites her to his housewarming party (because he couldn’t imagine it without her), despite the fact he doesn’t really invite any of the other Disney kids, and the party consists basically of him, Selena, and about 50 of his drinking buddies.
He gets so caught with the shenanigans his friends are dragging him into, he almost forgets about Selena, when he catches her sitting on the sofa with a few of his friends’ (kind of slutty) girlfriends, and looking like she just doesn’t want to be there.
He thinks for a second that maybe it was a bad idea to invite her, but then remembers, nothing to do with Selena could ever be a bad idea.
So he ditches his friends and walks over to her, taking her hand and pulling her outside to the little terrace over-looking the city. “I’m sorry, I guess I thought when I invited my friends and-”
“David,” she smiles. “It’s fine, seriously. This is your housewarming party. Go have fun with your friends.”
He looks at her doubtfully. There was no way she was having fun with those girls, and he isn’t going to leave her alone again. “What if I don’t want to go have fun with my friends?” He asks, “What if I want to stay out her and have fun with you?”
“David,” she giggles. He grins and they spent the rest of the night laying on the deckchairs and picking out the stars.

-

He’s not sure how to comfort her when she and Demi stop being friends. He’s not entirely sure of all the details, but he thinks they have, considering they never see or speak to each other, and Selena’s always wandering around the set, depressed.
He catches her, once or twice, just gazing at the pictures of her and Demi in her dressing room, and checking her twitter updates obsessively.
He’s never been good at dealing with girl problems though, so he stays back, making sure to give her time to grieve.
That doesn’t stop him from warning the entire cast (and crew) that if they do anything to hurt her, they’ll be infinitely sorry. Afterwards, David Deluise claps him on the back, and half-jokingly congratulates him on what a good big brother he’s become.
The thing is, and he’s not sure when it really started (or stopped), but he doesn’t feel so much like her big brother anymore. It kind of feels like more than that, and he’s not sure what to do about it.

-

For Selena’s eighteenth birthday, she throws another big party. He’s surprised when he learns of it, because Selena’s not really a big party person, but she tells him “It’s her eighteenth, and she only lives once.” which is true.
Five minutes after he finds out about the party, he formulates a plan, and he knows he says he never gets in the middle of girl stuff, but this time, he thinks it’s important.
So he calls Joe Jonas.
“Hey, Joe, what’s up man?”
“Oh, hey dude, what’s going on? Calling to ask if I’ll whoop your ass at paintball again? I’m only so happy to, my friend.”
“No, uh, I’m actually calling to talk about Demi.”
“Oh?” Joe replies, and somehow, even through the phone, David can hear him lighting up at the mention of her name, and he wonders how there isn’t something going on between those two, already.
“Demi and Selena.” He clarifies.
“Oh.”

-

The party’s raging when he gets there, and it’s only thirty minutes in. As soon as he gets in, he scans the room, searching for Joe. He’s standing over by the drinks bar (non-alcoholic, of course), with Demi who’s looking like she’s in the most uncomfortable situation ever and like she wants to crawl behind the couch and hide. Luckily Selena hasn’t noticed her yet (which is a good thing because she might kick her out, which would be completely detrimental to the plan). He can see Joe whispering in her ear, trying to calm her and resting his arm on her waist. They’re looking more like a couple than what he’s pretty sure is Nick and Miley making out in the corner, trying to be subtle (and epically failing). He’s really confused about what the deal is between them. He figures it’s something like ‘we tell the public we’re not together but whenever we see each other we totally make out’.
Finally he spies Selena, running around trying to greet guests and direct gift traffic and make sure the snack bowls are filled up. She looks up as he’s watching her and beams at him. He’s not sure how long they’re standing there, just grinning at each other from across the room, but she quickly gets distracted by a guest and he realises he should go tell Demi to wait outside now.

-

He’s kind of scared that the plan will fail, or that Selena will hate him forever when she finds out what he’s done, but he has to do it, really. They’ve known each other since they were seven and best friends don’t just…stop being best friends. No matter what; he knows that for sure.
Finally he catches up with Selena.
“Hey, birthday girl! How are you?”
“David!” She squeals, and jumps into his arms. The hug lasts for longer than it probably should but they’re both feeling too hyper-active to care.
“Hey Sel?” He asks, when they finally break apart, and he’s running through all the ways that this plan could go wrong right now, but it’s too late for that and he has to do this. “I need to talk to you.”
“Okay, what’s up?” She asks, giving him her full attention.
“No, I mean, in private. Could you meet me out in the back garden in five?”
“Okay.” She says slowly, curious smirk on her face.
He realises how what he just said, could be misconstrued as meaning something more than it does, and how, in any other circumstance, it probably might, but it’s too late to worry about that. All he has to do now, is sit back, and watch it all unfold.

-

He’s standing near Joe, now and they’re watching Selena as she excuses herself from some guests and gets ready to walk outside. David’s feeling really glad Demi agreed to do this, and he’s can’t understand why, if Demi’s so eager to be friends again, and by the way Selena practically bursts into tears whenever anyone mentions her name, they even stopped being friends in the first place.
Quickly, they follow her as she heads outside and wait until she gets to the door. Quickly, they speed up and stick their heads outside.
“Demi? What are you doing here?” Selena asks, and David’s feeling worried because she sounds kind of mad. Quickly, Joe interrupts.
“Guys, we can’t stand it that you aren’t friends any more, and we know you guys miss each other so we’re locking you outside until you girls figure it out.” And he’s looking at Demi like he’s trying to telepathically convey to her that it’s all going to be okay, because she’s looking like she might throw up right now.
“And we’re not letting you back in until you do.” David adds, and when he catches sight of Selena, she’s just staring at him, like she wants to kill him. Or maybe kiss him, he can’t decide. And then it’s too late because Joe’s slamming the door and all they can do now is wait.

-

They wait and they wait and David watches the guests as they begin to become restless and wonder where the hostess is.
He can see Joe worrying his fingernails sitting slumped against the door next to him.
“Do you think they’re going to be okay?” He asks distractedly.
“I hope so.” David replies and he really does but he’s just not sure.
When they’re almost positive they can’t wait any longer, the girls finally emerge. They both look like they’ve been crying and they’re holding hands when they walk back in.
Demi speaks first: “We’ve agreed to work on it, is that okay with you?” She asks, laughing through her tears.
Selena can’t speak through her sobs , but she’s looking like a girl who just re-befriended their best friend.
Demi and Selena turn, grabbing each other in a hug and looking like they might never want to let go. In that instant, Joe and David know they’ve done the right thing.
After a minute, Joe takes Demi’s hand gently and leads her away. She’s gazing up at him with so much love that David’s really, really not sure how they’re not together yet.
Finally, he turns to Selena, who’s looking up at him with an expression on her face that he’s not sure he’s ever seen before. She’s still crying slightly, but her face breaks into a smile.
“I really hate you, you know that?” She tells him.
‘Yeah.” David replies. “I know.”
“Thank you.” She says quietly, pulling his hands into hers. As fate would have it, at that moment, the music switches to slow. Some really tacky slow-dance song that was probably played at every high-school prom during the 80’s. Somehow, it fits the moment though.
“May I have this dance?” He asks her, and she smiles as she accepts.
“You may.”
He leads her onto the dance floor, slipping his arms around her waist.
“So how long have you had this planned?” She asks him, smirking and acting purposefully nonchalant.
“Pretty much as soon as I heard about your party, I called Joe.” He admits.
She giggles at this, and she’s not sure if it’s the alcohol someone slipped in the punch, or just tonight, but she’s feeling really light all of a sudden.
‘Really, David, thank you.”
He just smiles modestly and tightens his grip ever-so-slightly on her hips. She lays her head onto his shoulder, and they stay swaying like that until the end of the song.
When it finishes, they reluctantly separate, and she looks up at him again. He’s looking at her like he’s never seen a girl before and she knows what he’s feeling because she’s feeling exactly the same way.
So slowly, incredibly slowly, she leans up to capture his lips with hers, and she’s been scared to do this for the past three years but tonight, she just feels like she’s invincible. Everything rushes through her head at the same time; It’s like fireworks and explosions and sunsets and mini love hearts floating in the air above them.
When she pulls away, he looks stunned, like he can’t quite believe what’s just happened.
“What was that for?” He asks quietly.
“Just making sure you know how grateful I am.” She replies.
“Selena I-I-” And he’s stuttering so much he can’t even form words. Instead he decides the best way to express what he’s feeling is to pull her in for another kiss.
So he does.
When they separate again, she tells him.
“You know what David?”
“Yeah?” He asks.
“I change my mind.”
“About what?”
“This is the best birthday I’ve ever had.” She states.
And once again, he has to agree with her.