Season 5 Serena van der Woodsen

at start of season 5, serena has been working in los angeles assistant film producer while spending time bonding nate , chuck. struggles please boss, marshall, boss, jane, grants promotion after completing difficult task marshall not. runs charlie , convinces move new york her.

when dan brings serena, nate, blair, chuck, rufus , lily , reveals them wrote book life , of parts in it, serena offended when portrays self-centered, promiscuous party-girl , more upset when blair tells s s been. after revelation, stops speaking dan. cannot last, however, when boss, jane, requires serena movie rights dan s book. agrees saying trusts , genuinely gives him word protect him , work. when serena s boss tries distort dan s character , real life image in movie, kills deal in order protect him, when dan finds out, accuses of killing movie in fear of portrayal of own image. heartbroken @ unjust accusation, reveals him how real reason killing movie protect him alone, , walks away.

after being fired jane, serena hired nate s boss, diana payne, start blog based on life in order take down gossip girl. later, nate , serena discover list of sources gossip girl, silver bullet in diana s campaign against gossip girl. struggle on whether or not use , decide damaging release. list leaked anyway , 2 accuse each other before blair discovers louis leaked gossip girl s list of sources. charlie encourages serena start dating in order motivate her blog , begins dating guy named max met on street, not knowing max charlie s ex-boyfriend. diana arranges max meet serena @ opening of chuck s premiere of sleep no more in order make max has stood up. serena forgives max standing up, , 2 begin dating.

charlie finds out 2 dating , convinces slow down relationship. serena s aunt carol returns , serena overhears argument between 2 carol forcing charlie live under name ivy dickens . serena makes connection between max , charlie when remembers max s ex-girlfriend s name ivy. demands truth charlie , max. ivy charlie , carol manage convince serena , family max lying , serena tells max leave before calls police.

as serena , lily prepare charlie debut new york society, dan tells serena going tell blair how feels her. in order make dan see blair s happy ending louis, sends louis humphrey loft. when finds dan blair , chuck later, realizes gave desire blair blair s own happiness chuck , realizes blair still in love chuck. later night, after charlie s debutante party, serena receives call nate blair , chuck have been in accident. causes serena declare war on gossip girl, using nate s power @ spectator, , dan.

with gossip girl gone, serena finds gossip girl s tipsters have begun sending blasts via blog. nate encourages use blasts productively, serena reluctant become next gossip girl. meanwhile, serena concerned blair s well-being , confronts @ nate s new year s eve party blair tells accident god s way of telling , chuck not meant , made promise god if chuck lived, marry louis , dan has been going church since. in order cover blair, serena pretends has rekindled romance dan. romance becomes focus of soon-to-be-launched blog causes problems dan, while dan thinks romance fake, serena shown have genuine feelings dan again.

serena humiliated @ press premiere of new blog, being photographed holding tablet shows site not found. upset, told time wasn t right blog, discovers nate had shut down favour gossip girl. in return, gossip girl him find out truth blair , chuck s car accident. serena doesn t agree nate s suspicions trippp responsible, , confronts latter on @ waldorf residence. revealed set-up brought nate, serena , nate s grandfather way tripp admit behind accident thinking nate going in car instead.

following this, serena finds out blair arrested @ own bachelorette party, , rushes aide. blair tells s alright, , since s going go through wedding, serena doesn t have pretend dan anymore. serena, however, decides keep truth dan little while longer.

on blair s wedding day, serena tries convince blair not marry louis. blair goes through wedding anyway, after gossip girl launches video of blair professing true feelings chuck. after vows said, serena, dan , nate confront georgina , blames each of them in vague manner before leaving. when blair goes missing after wedding, serena , chuck search her, , find in motel in queens dan, upsets serena still has feelings him. when georgina arrives, serena revealed have georgina s video camera used record blair s confession , takes fall video.

following this, blair , serena in yet rut, forgive each other , serena unknowingly set on blind date dan, after told him feelings , rejected her. @ party later, , georgina find dan , blair kissing, causes rift between , blair. after grandmother s death , shocking news of will, serena starts vendetta against ivy (who received major part of cece s estate), trying win family fortunes. in surprising turn of events, gets package former gossip girl, georgina sparks, containing computer , means necessary become next gossip girl. serena accepts.

after losing reins gossip girl , unintentional role in exposing blair s diary upper east side, serena attempts deceive blair having sex dan. plan works dan realize has happened. serena once again tells dan loves him dan tells not feel her. depressed serena last seen leaving city 1 of damien dalgaard s drug dealers, flashback days before returned upper east side in season one.