Hey there.
This is my very first New Girl fanfiction, so I have no idea how this is turning out. I had this idea and just needed to write it down. I hope you guys will enjoy this story, so please tell me in a short review what you think about it. Tell me what I can do better.
And I'm so sorry for any mistakes I made. I'm German and my English isn't perfect, but I'm trying. (And I watched xfactor while writing it.)Be gentle.
I don't own New Girl.
Now read and enjoy :) and please leave a short review at the end. Thank you.
Love, Jess
It was almost five am when Jess heard the front door open. She stood in the kitchen making herself a cup of tea because she couldn't sleep.
"Morning Nick, you're late." She called happily, knowing it was Nick who was coming home from a late shift at the bar.
"Why are you up already?" Nick asked, walking to the fridge and getting himself a beer.
"I had a nightmare and couldn't sleep anymore. I was a little freaked out. So I got up and made myself a cup of tea." Jess explained without taking her eyes off of her cup. Suddenly a hand was on her shoulder.
"You alright?" Nick asked her when he felt his roommate flinch under his hand. "Sorry." He slowly drew his hand back, before Jess' smaller hand stopped him.
"You scared me. That's all. I wasn't expecting you to comfort me like this, but it's nice." Jess finally turned around and looked Nick in the eyes before taking a shocked breath in. "Oh my – Nick what happened to your face?" Jess carefully extended her hand to touch the bruise around Nicks left eye. Dried blood was smeared under his nose and his lip was split. "Did you get in a boxing match?"
"Nah, no boxing match, but I think you could call it a bar fight."
"Nick, you're the bartender. You shouldn't get into bar fights. Only the drunken idiots do this. And then you're supposed to break them apart."
"I know. But sometimes I can't help it. I get really mad and then I go and punch people."
Jess knew Nick wasn't telling the truth and there was more to the story than Nick let on. "Fine! Then don't tell me!" Jess didn't know why she suddenly was so angry, so she stormed into her room.
"Jess-" Nick called after her, but the door closed with a loud thud. Nick just shook his head, went to the fridge and got himself a new beer and some frozen vegetables to press against his aching ribs before sitting down on the couch carefully. After only a minute, Nick heard Jess' door open again before she appeared in his field of view.
"I forgot my tea." She said in a small voice and went to pick up her cup.
"Jess." Nick started again. "I'm-"
"It's fine Nick. You don't need to tell me what happened, just don't lie to me." She slowly went over to him and sat down beside Nick. They sat in silence for a while and just when Jess thought she could fall asleep again, feeling save with Nick around, he started talking in a low voice his anger shining through.
"There was this guy. He was trying to force himself on this girl. She didn't appear to be older than seventeen."
Nick was wiping down a table when he saw a guy getting closer to a woman. She politely told him to go away, but the guy didn't listen to her. He got closer to her and put his hand on her leg.
"Get away from me." The woman said and tried to back off a little.
"C'mon sweetheart, you know you want this." The man slurred, obviously drunk. The man grabbed her face and forced a kiss on the young woman.
Something inside Nick snapped.
"Hey! Didn't you hear her? She told you to back off!" Nick growled and dragged the man away from the girl by his collar.
"Buddy, she wants this. Let go off me!"
"First of all, I'm not your buddy, secondly I think it's time for you to go home." Nick said, dragging the guy out by his arm.
"I tried to get this guy away from her and told him to back off. I dragged him out of the bar and then he started to get violent." Nick continued to explain to Jess.
"Get your hands off of me, you loser!" The guy yelled and shook Nick's hand off, before pushing him away.
Barely containing his rage Nick turned around to get back into the bar. Suddenly he felt strong hands pushing him sideways against a wall.
"Don't you dare just to walk away from me!" He screamed and threw himself at Nick, throwing punch after punch at Nick.
"He hit me a few times before I was able strike back. When the guy realized he couldn't win in his drunken state he backed off."
"That was very sweet of you." Jess said when Nick finished.
"What? Punching this drunken guy?"
"No, you idiot. Helping this girl. How is she, by the way?"
"I don't know. She was gone when I came back."
"Oh, so you don't even know the name of the girl you saved?" Nick just shook his head. "But I don't see why you didn't want to tell me."
"I didn't want to tell you because it would make me some guy in shining armor in your eyes." Nick told Jess, clutching his beer tightly in his hands.
"That makes no sense! I know that you are a good guy. You pretend not to care, but you do. You are somebody's hero now. You can't deny it. Hero, you're a hero, a hero." Jess started singing.
"I'm not a hero Jess. Stop saying that. Heroes help people… I couldn't help her." Nick whispered.
"What are you talking about, Nick? You saved that girl. Think about what this guy would have done to her if you didn't come to her rescue. That guy would have raped her. No, wait, don't think about it. It's horrible to think about something like this. Anyway, you saved her Nick. Nothing happened to her, because of you."
Nick was clutching the beer bottle so tight Jess thought it would break any second now. "Hey, Nick, are you alright? You look a little pale. Maybe you should go see a doctor?"
"I'm fine, Jess. I just need to get some rest. I'll go to bed now… But maybe you could call your doctor friend and ask her if she could get me some of those pills again?"
"Yeah, I'll call Sadie... Oh come on Nick, I can see something's bothering you. Talk to me."
"Please, I just want to get some sleep now." He put his empty beer bottle down and slowly stood up, walking towards his room.
"Good night, Nick." Jess called after him.
"Night Jess."