I own none of the dialogue. It's all from 'Teach me Tonight'.

Enjoy.

More Than Anyone

"I'm never going to college, why waste the time in high school? "

"And why aren't you going to college?"

"Please." He scoffs and you are shocked.

"What? Please what – why is it so crazy?"

Why is that crazy, you think. He's one of the smartest people you had met. He'd wipe the floor with most of the Chilton students. He's even impressed Paris. He'd impressed your new Lit. teacher. In a manner of speaking. You used a note from his copy of Shelly's 'Frankenstein in one of your assignments to argue a point. Mr Scott had been very impressed with 'your' insight. Not that you could ever tell him that. He'd never let you live it down.

Jess pulls you from your thoughts. His mother, Principle Mertin, your mom. So what, they disapprove and he lives up to it? He's stronger than that and you tell him as much. "You have to go to college."

"No, you have to go to college."

"But don't you have any plans?" He must do, no one reads that much with out making some sort of plans. Travel, career, family. Anything.

"Yes, I plan to get out of Stars Hollow."

"And go where?" Travel the country like Kerouac? Go back to New York? See Fez? No. "Wherever."

"And do what?" A teacher? Doctor? President? No. "Whatever."

"Wherever, whatever." You're frustrated now. He is capable of so much. And he doesn't seem to care. No one is that apathetic to the direction of their own life.

"I'll live where I live, I'll work when I need money, and I'll see where I end up." And you were wrong. How can he not care? He's too smart to drift.

"You could do more." And you mean it. And you know it. He's smarter than you, with your expectations of the Ives and foxholes. He could do so much more.

*

And he did. He did more. So much more than he ever would give himself credit for. And as you read 'The Subsect', curled up in a room that really isn't yours in your Grandmother's house, you realise he has done what you always suspected he could.

More than you.

I'm incredibly bold. I *still* haven't finished my uni assignment... but I got this in my head after watching Teach me Tonight. I thought Rory studying might inspire me to do the same, and I had to write it down. Review? Even if it's to tell me I shouldn't have bothered, and just wrote my essay.