Title: A Few More Fights, With a Few Less Tights.
Spoilers: everything through episode 4 x 21, Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
Pairings: I'm a lit, so you figure it out.
Rating: PG-13 just to be on the safe side
Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls or any of the other characters, I do however plan to rectify the horrible situation the writers made out of the season 4 finale by changing things before they go wrong. I hope you enjoy, feedback is much appreciated. Also this is my first fic, so if it's horrible let me know.
Summary: An alteration to 4.21 episode can make all the difference in the world.
(Introduction)
[The door to the building opens and Jess walks in.]
RORY: What are you doing here?
JESS: I need to talk to you.
DEAN: Jess...
JESS: I need to talk to you.
DEAN: What's going on?
RORY: What are you doing here?
JESS: Rory, please.
DEAN: Rory?
RORY: [to Dean] Go -- go home.
DEAN: No.
RORY: Yes, go. You should go. [Dean leaves.] Why won't you leave me alone? You won't go away.
JESS: Rory.
RORY: What do you want?
JESS: I don't know. I just wanted to see you, talk to you. I just...
RORY: What?
JESS: Come with me.
RORY: What?
JESS: Come with me.
RORY: Where?
JESS: I don't know...away!
RORY: Are you crazy?
JESS: Probably. Do it. Come with me. Don't think about it.
RORY: I can't do that. [opens the door and walks into her room]
JESS: You don't think you can do it but you can. You can do whatever you want.
RORY: It's not what I want.
JESS: It is. I know you.
RORY: You don't know me!
JESS: Look, we'll go to New York. We'll work, we'll live together, we'll be together. It's what I want. It's what you want, too.
RORY: No!
JESS: I want to be with you, but not here. Not this place, not Stars Hollow. We have to start new.
RORY: There's nothing to start!
JESS: You're packed. Your stuff is all in boxes. It's perfect. You're ready. And I'm ready. I'm ready for this. You can count on me now. I know you couldn't count on me before, but you can now. You can.
RORY: No!
JESS: Look, you know we're supposed to be together. I knew it the first time I saw you two years ago, and you know it, too. I know you do.
RORY: No, no, no, no, no!
JESS: Don't say "no" just to make me stop talking or make me go away. Only say "no" if you really don't want to be with me.
RORY: No!
[Jess backs away and leaves. Rory sits down on a box and puts her head in her hands.] (Chapter 1) Jess walks back to the parking lot in a blur, "No." he mutters over and over again. "No, she said no." he feels numb. 'How can she say no?' he thinks to himself. He opens up the car door and sees the self-help book Luke gave him on the seat. "Stupid book." Jess picks it up and throws it into the parking lot hitting a car a few rows over, the lights start flashing and the horn is beeping. "DAMMIT!" he yells at no one in particular and gets in the car and slams the door. He puts his head on the steering wheel, trying to get himself under control, he wants to put his fist through a wall, "she said no." he says once more quietly to himself. He pulls his head up and hits it against the back of the seat. "Fine," he feels his throat tighten a bit and bites his lip, and puts the key in the ignition and tries to start the car. It makes a squealing noise and the engine turns over once and then goes dead. He tries the key again, and nothing happens. "Shit!" he slams his hands against the steering wheel and gets out of the car and opens the hood. Black smoke comes from under the hood. He blows out a breath and kicks the tire. 'What a perfect night,' he thinks bitterly as he sits down next to the car leaning against the tire he just kicked and resting his elbows on his knees he puts his face in his hands.
Rory finally gets up from her seat on one of the boxes after about ten minutes. She lets out a loud sigh, 'why did I tell him no,' she thinks sadly. 'How could I tell him no, didn't I love him, don't I love him,' her mind was racing and she felt a tear slip down her cheek. She brushed it away quickly, "I can't love someone who leaves without saying good-bye and then just shows up eight months later and says I love you" she said out loud trying to convince herself. In a bit of a panic she began to search frantically for her car keys, wallet, and cell phone. She finally finds her phone and picks it up and starts dialing her home number, but stops on the fourth number. "No," she said firmly clicking end on the phone, "then I'll have to stay here until mom comes to get me and I can't stay here any longer. I have to leave get away from here, from this place." She says frantically to herself. She grabs her purse stuffs her phone and wallet into it and heads outside barely remembering to lock the dorm door behind her. She opens up the door that Jess had walked in through and some more tears fall. She bites her bottom lip and wipes them away with the back of her hand. She begins walking into the parking lot and hears a car alarm going off. "Idiots!" Rory says out loud thinking that it must be one of Graham's buddies probably setting off car alarms for the hell of it. She takes a step into the parking lot and sees Jess's old dilapidated car still sitting there, but no sign of Jess. She stiffens and glances around for any sign of him. 'I'm not sure if I'll still say no if he asks again,' she thinks sadly as she takes a deep breath and stands still in the parking lot trying to decide whether to go back inside or to continue going to her car. After standing for what seems like an eternity she realizes she can't go back inside, she needs to go home to comfort and security, but then the thought of him, in Stars Hollow, the bridge, the diner, the books, begins to make her feel a bit crazy. 'Everything reminds me of him,' she realized. With her jaw quivering slightly she began to walk toward her car. She was halfway there when she realized Jess was sitting slumped next to his car.
"What are you still doing here?" she yells at him, her voice cracks a little. Jess looks up at her slightly bewildered, for a minute he looks crushed, which he quickly replaces with anger.
"Well if it's any consolation I don't want to be here." He yells back.
"So then go." Rory feels her eyes begin to sting, 'don't cry in front of him' she tells herself.
"I can't." he says pathetically staring down at his shoes.
"Well why not?" she is beginning to lose it. 'Walk away, Rory, walk away.' She tells herself but she can't manage to get her feet to move.
"Car won't start," he mumbles, he peers up at her through his hair, trying to tell if she is upset because he is still there or if she is upset because she didn't really want to say no.
"Oh," Rory replies dumbfounded. "So, what, you tried to steal a car?" she asks once again honing in on the car alarm going off.
"Oh so now I'm a car thief." He yells at her. "I guess I'm probably also a drug dealer and a male prostitute too."
"I didn't mean," Rory says flustered realizing what she said, she hadn't meant it but hadn't known what to say, "the car alarm, the beeping, and the lights, and the idiots, I just, I was," she realizes she is rambling, "I just...I didn't mean it." She finishes lamely.
"Sure, that's what you said, twice," Jess said bitterly. He leaned his head back against the car and closed his eyes, "Just go, Rory."
Rory started to walk away but then stopped. "How are you going to get home?" she asked concerned.
"Huh," Jess said feeling incredibly sarcastic, "maybe a lonely trucker will take pity on me."
"Jess," Rory said firmly, "how are you going to get home?"
"Why should you care?" he asked looking straight into her eyes, "you told me to go."
Rory bit her lip and wrinkled her forehead. She knelt down next to him, "Jess," she said softly. He turned his head away from her, seeing her was going to make his wall crumple.
"You said no," he practically growled, "you said that we didn't have anything left, that there was nothing, and that I should go, well I can't go," he turned to her he noticed his hands were trembling, "so you should go, get as far away as you can, that's what you want."
Rory felt the hot tears run down her cheek, her voice trembled and her breath was ragged. She stared into his brown eyes, and felt herself begin to melt. "I don't know...I don't know..." she was sobbing by now, "I just, I loved you, and..." she swallowed hard, and bit her lip, trying to stop a sob from escaping, "how do I know you wouldn't go again. I can't be near you, I can't stand for you to break my heart again." She screamed at him.
Jess looked at her he felt frozen, he couldn't move he couldn't speak, 'I wonder if this is what she felt like that night' he thought darkly thinking of the night he came back and told her he loved her. He realized that she said 'loved and not love' and took a breath and stared at her. "Go," he managed, and turned his head away from her.
Rory found composure from somewhere. "I don't know what I want," she said quietly, more to herself than to him, then she steadied herself, "No." She dug around in her purse and found her cell phone and practically threw it at him, "call someone to get you," she commanded as she stood back up and straightened her clothes, and wiped her face with her hands.
Jess stared at her blankly.
"Call someone," she said again.
Jess picked up the phone and examined it, and then flipped it open, dialed a number the phone rang a few times and no one answered. He clicked it closed and tried to hand it to her. She stepped back like it was a snake.
"Jeez," Jess said glaring at her from where he sat, "take the damn phone and go."
"What about you?" she asked again
"I'll be fine," he paused, "once you go."
Rory looked hurt, and swallowed again. "I'm..." she stopped herself from apologizing, suddenly she was feeling very angry at him. "Dammit Jess, you leave without so much as a word, come back and tell me you love me, then disappear again and tonight you come back and tell me to go away with you." She was hysterical, yelling and crying at the same time. "You say to go away to New York or wherever, not my home, no where near my friends, or my mom, or my school, you expect me to give up my entire life for you. Everyone who loves me and has supported me, just for you, you want me to leave when I have no idea if I'm going to wake up one morning and you aren't going to be there because you suddenly decide that it's time for you to leave again. I can't do that, and if you really love me like you said than you wouldn't expect me to give up everything I love." she swallowed and no longer feeling like she could stand slumped down to the ground against a car parked next to Jess's.
"You're right." Jess said quietly, he felt small and ashamed, and lost all at the same time. He felt his eyes sting and shut them for a moment to collect himself. He was a man, he wasn't going to cry.
Rory was amazed to hear him say she was right. Since when did Jess Mariano agree with anything she said. She sniffled quietly and watched him sit there leaning against the car with his eyes closed his hair had grown some and was flopping slightly because of the light breeze. Rory watched him, waiting for him to open his eyes, she wanted to see him, see into his soul, see if what he said he really felt, but he didn't open his eyes he just sat there quietly listening to the car alarm still going off. He could feel her eyes on him but he couldn't look at her, seeing her made him see how she rejected him. Suddenly the phone in Jess's hands started buzzing, making him jump and throw the phone down.
"Jeez," he said feeling his heart race from the phone scaring him. He watched Rory reach for it and pick it up, she flipped it open.
"Hello?" she asked still sniffing.
"You've just won the million dollar Publisher's Clearinghouse," Lorelai chimed into the phone.
"Hi mom," Rory said glumly.
"What's wrong mini-me?" Lorelai asked, turning down her cheerfulness just a little to see what was bothering Rory.
"Nah..nothing," Rory said lamely, she eyed Jess who had gotten up and walked toward the car that was still flashing it's lights and beeping. "I think I'm getting a cold or something." She lied
"Right," Lorelai said figuring she'd find out eventually, "well you missed all the excitement in the Hollow. Liz, got married and Luke had to make hundreds of turkey legs, and there was..." Lorelai stopped, "Rory, sweetie, are you listening?"
"Huh, oh yeah, turkey legs," Rory said absentmindedly "um mom, I'm kinda getting ready to come home, can you wait til you see me?" she asked.
"Sure, drive safe." Lorelai sounded disappointed. "I'll keep the lights on outside for you."
"Okay, bye." Rory said clicking the phone closed. The car alarm had stopped. Rory saw Jess holding a large paperback book in his hand and walking away from the car.
He walked back to his car, keeping the book out of her sight and throwing it into the car.
"It stopped," she said wanting to talk to him more but feeling like they were out of things to say.
"Huh," Jess said absentmindedly as he went back to the front of his car and looked under the hood.
"How'd you make it stop?" she asked standing up and trying to peer into the car from where she stood.
"There was a book on it," he said, his voice was devoid of emotion.
"Oh," Rory paused, "why was there a book on the car?"
"I um, dropped it." Jess said indifferently. He was fiddling with a belt under the hood. He readjusted it and then closed the hood and got into his car. He rolled down his window and tried to start the car, this time the engine caught and the car grumbled and idled. "Bye Rory," he said not looking at her, his voice still dead. He put the car into drive and pulled out of the Yale parking lot and onto the main road and out of her sight.
"Bye Jess," she said to the empty space where he had been. Tears were falling freely now as Rory walked to her car got in and pulled out of the parking lot just as Jess had. Things were feeling final, as if it was the end and that Jess was out of her life for good. She felt empty suddenly, had he been right? Was being with him the one thing that she wanted? She turned on the radio to some Dido song, she quickly turned off the radio. Dido was too depressing to listen to, and she didn't have the energy to scan through the stations. 'Bye Rory' the words were echoing through her head. She past the first street light and was about a half mile from the highway entrance when she saw the ugly brown car parked on the side of the road, plumes of dark smoke coming out of the hood. Rory pulled off onto the shoulder behind the car. She got out and walked toward his door. 'Do you believe in fate?' she was thinking of a philosophy discussion that they had in class a few weeks back.
She approached his window. Jess was leaning into the back seat looking for something. She knocked on his window and he hit his head on the roof of the car. He turned to her, "I thought you were leaving." He said, but she didn't hear him because his window was rolled up. He rolled down the window. "What?"
Rory bit her lip nervously she reached for the door handle and opened his door. "We're not done. So come with me." She said, almost as cryptically as he had when he showed up earlier at her dorm. Jess began to open his mouth to protest but she put her fingers to her lips.
"If you want to have a chance in hell then I suggest you work on proving your worth it." she was tired of being the one to sit back and let him come and go out of her life. It was her life and she was going to take control.
"Ok." Jess said as he grabbed his backpack that Lorelai had been snooping in earlier that day and stuffed the self-help book into it and followed Rory to her car.
A/N: I'm having some odd spacing problems at the moment, so sorry for the big block of very confusing text at the beginning of the story. If you know how to fix that let me know! Oh and thanks for reading, if you feel like reviewing then I will kindly read your critique's and criticisms and if not then I hope you enjoyed the story and didn't think it was too boring.
Spoilers: everything through episode 4 x 21, Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
Pairings: I'm a lit, so you figure it out.
Rating: PG-13 just to be on the safe side
Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls or any of the other characters, I do however plan to rectify the horrible situation the writers made out of the season 4 finale by changing things before they go wrong. I hope you enjoy, feedback is much appreciated. Also this is my first fic, so if it's horrible let me know.
Summary: An alteration to 4.21 episode can make all the difference in the world.
(Introduction)
[The door to the building opens and Jess walks in.]
RORY: What are you doing here?
JESS: I need to talk to you.
DEAN: Jess...
JESS: I need to talk to you.
DEAN: What's going on?
RORY: What are you doing here?
JESS: Rory, please.
DEAN: Rory?
RORY: [to Dean] Go -- go home.
DEAN: No.
RORY: Yes, go. You should go. [Dean leaves.] Why won't you leave me alone? You won't go away.
JESS: Rory.
RORY: What do you want?
JESS: I don't know. I just wanted to see you, talk to you. I just...
RORY: What?
JESS: Come with me.
RORY: What?
JESS: Come with me.
RORY: Where?
JESS: I don't know...away!
RORY: Are you crazy?
JESS: Probably. Do it. Come with me. Don't think about it.
RORY: I can't do that. [opens the door and walks into her room]
JESS: You don't think you can do it but you can. You can do whatever you want.
RORY: It's not what I want.
JESS: It is. I know you.
RORY: You don't know me!
JESS: Look, we'll go to New York. We'll work, we'll live together, we'll be together. It's what I want. It's what you want, too.
RORY: No!
JESS: I want to be with you, but not here. Not this place, not Stars Hollow. We have to start new.
RORY: There's nothing to start!
JESS: You're packed. Your stuff is all in boxes. It's perfect. You're ready. And I'm ready. I'm ready for this. You can count on me now. I know you couldn't count on me before, but you can now. You can.
RORY: No!
JESS: Look, you know we're supposed to be together. I knew it the first time I saw you two years ago, and you know it, too. I know you do.
RORY: No, no, no, no, no!
JESS: Don't say "no" just to make me stop talking or make me go away. Only say "no" if you really don't want to be with me.
RORY: No!
[Jess backs away and leaves. Rory sits down on a box and puts her head in her hands.] (Chapter 1) Jess walks back to the parking lot in a blur, "No." he mutters over and over again. "No, she said no." he feels numb. 'How can she say no?' he thinks to himself. He opens up the car door and sees the self-help book Luke gave him on the seat. "Stupid book." Jess picks it up and throws it into the parking lot hitting a car a few rows over, the lights start flashing and the horn is beeping. "DAMMIT!" he yells at no one in particular and gets in the car and slams the door. He puts his head on the steering wheel, trying to get himself under control, he wants to put his fist through a wall, "she said no." he says once more quietly to himself. He pulls his head up and hits it against the back of the seat. "Fine," he feels his throat tighten a bit and bites his lip, and puts the key in the ignition and tries to start the car. It makes a squealing noise and the engine turns over once and then goes dead. He tries the key again, and nothing happens. "Shit!" he slams his hands against the steering wheel and gets out of the car and opens the hood. Black smoke comes from under the hood. He blows out a breath and kicks the tire. 'What a perfect night,' he thinks bitterly as he sits down next to the car leaning against the tire he just kicked and resting his elbows on his knees he puts his face in his hands.
Rory finally gets up from her seat on one of the boxes after about ten minutes. She lets out a loud sigh, 'why did I tell him no,' she thinks sadly. 'How could I tell him no, didn't I love him, don't I love him,' her mind was racing and she felt a tear slip down her cheek. She brushed it away quickly, "I can't love someone who leaves without saying good-bye and then just shows up eight months later and says I love you" she said out loud trying to convince herself. In a bit of a panic she began to search frantically for her car keys, wallet, and cell phone. She finally finds her phone and picks it up and starts dialing her home number, but stops on the fourth number. "No," she said firmly clicking end on the phone, "then I'll have to stay here until mom comes to get me and I can't stay here any longer. I have to leave get away from here, from this place." She says frantically to herself. She grabs her purse stuffs her phone and wallet into it and heads outside barely remembering to lock the dorm door behind her. She opens up the door that Jess had walked in through and some more tears fall. She bites her bottom lip and wipes them away with the back of her hand. She begins walking into the parking lot and hears a car alarm going off. "Idiots!" Rory says out loud thinking that it must be one of Graham's buddies probably setting off car alarms for the hell of it. She takes a step into the parking lot and sees Jess's old dilapidated car still sitting there, but no sign of Jess. She stiffens and glances around for any sign of him. 'I'm not sure if I'll still say no if he asks again,' she thinks sadly as she takes a deep breath and stands still in the parking lot trying to decide whether to go back inside or to continue going to her car. After standing for what seems like an eternity she realizes she can't go back inside, she needs to go home to comfort and security, but then the thought of him, in Stars Hollow, the bridge, the diner, the books, begins to make her feel a bit crazy. 'Everything reminds me of him,' she realized. With her jaw quivering slightly she began to walk toward her car. She was halfway there when she realized Jess was sitting slumped next to his car.
"What are you still doing here?" she yells at him, her voice cracks a little. Jess looks up at her slightly bewildered, for a minute he looks crushed, which he quickly replaces with anger.
"Well if it's any consolation I don't want to be here." He yells back.
"So then go." Rory feels her eyes begin to sting, 'don't cry in front of him' she tells herself.
"I can't." he says pathetically staring down at his shoes.
"Well why not?" she is beginning to lose it. 'Walk away, Rory, walk away.' She tells herself but she can't manage to get her feet to move.
"Car won't start," he mumbles, he peers up at her through his hair, trying to tell if she is upset because he is still there or if she is upset because she didn't really want to say no.
"Oh," Rory replies dumbfounded. "So, what, you tried to steal a car?" she asks once again honing in on the car alarm going off.
"Oh so now I'm a car thief." He yells at her. "I guess I'm probably also a drug dealer and a male prostitute too."
"I didn't mean," Rory says flustered realizing what she said, she hadn't meant it but hadn't known what to say, "the car alarm, the beeping, and the lights, and the idiots, I just, I was," she realizes she is rambling, "I just...I didn't mean it." She finishes lamely.
"Sure, that's what you said, twice," Jess said bitterly. He leaned his head back against the car and closed his eyes, "Just go, Rory."
Rory started to walk away but then stopped. "How are you going to get home?" she asked concerned.
"Huh," Jess said feeling incredibly sarcastic, "maybe a lonely trucker will take pity on me."
"Jess," Rory said firmly, "how are you going to get home?"
"Why should you care?" he asked looking straight into her eyes, "you told me to go."
Rory bit her lip and wrinkled her forehead. She knelt down next to him, "Jess," she said softly. He turned his head away from her, seeing her was going to make his wall crumple.
"You said no," he practically growled, "you said that we didn't have anything left, that there was nothing, and that I should go, well I can't go," he turned to her he noticed his hands were trembling, "so you should go, get as far away as you can, that's what you want."
Rory felt the hot tears run down her cheek, her voice trembled and her breath was ragged. She stared into his brown eyes, and felt herself begin to melt. "I don't know...I don't know..." she was sobbing by now, "I just, I loved you, and..." she swallowed hard, and bit her lip, trying to stop a sob from escaping, "how do I know you wouldn't go again. I can't be near you, I can't stand for you to break my heart again." She screamed at him.
Jess looked at her he felt frozen, he couldn't move he couldn't speak, 'I wonder if this is what she felt like that night' he thought darkly thinking of the night he came back and told her he loved her. He realized that she said 'loved and not love' and took a breath and stared at her. "Go," he managed, and turned his head away from her.
Rory found composure from somewhere. "I don't know what I want," she said quietly, more to herself than to him, then she steadied herself, "No." She dug around in her purse and found her cell phone and practically threw it at him, "call someone to get you," she commanded as she stood back up and straightened her clothes, and wiped her face with her hands.
Jess stared at her blankly.
"Call someone," she said again.
Jess picked up the phone and examined it, and then flipped it open, dialed a number the phone rang a few times and no one answered. He clicked it closed and tried to hand it to her. She stepped back like it was a snake.
"Jeez," Jess said glaring at her from where he sat, "take the damn phone and go."
"What about you?" she asked again
"I'll be fine," he paused, "once you go."
Rory looked hurt, and swallowed again. "I'm..." she stopped herself from apologizing, suddenly she was feeling very angry at him. "Dammit Jess, you leave without so much as a word, come back and tell me you love me, then disappear again and tonight you come back and tell me to go away with you." She was hysterical, yelling and crying at the same time. "You say to go away to New York or wherever, not my home, no where near my friends, or my mom, or my school, you expect me to give up my entire life for you. Everyone who loves me and has supported me, just for you, you want me to leave when I have no idea if I'm going to wake up one morning and you aren't going to be there because you suddenly decide that it's time for you to leave again. I can't do that, and if you really love me like you said than you wouldn't expect me to give up everything I love." she swallowed and no longer feeling like she could stand slumped down to the ground against a car parked next to Jess's.
"You're right." Jess said quietly, he felt small and ashamed, and lost all at the same time. He felt his eyes sting and shut them for a moment to collect himself. He was a man, he wasn't going to cry.
Rory was amazed to hear him say she was right. Since when did Jess Mariano agree with anything she said. She sniffled quietly and watched him sit there leaning against the car with his eyes closed his hair had grown some and was flopping slightly because of the light breeze. Rory watched him, waiting for him to open his eyes, she wanted to see him, see into his soul, see if what he said he really felt, but he didn't open his eyes he just sat there quietly listening to the car alarm still going off. He could feel her eyes on him but he couldn't look at her, seeing her made him see how she rejected him. Suddenly the phone in Jess's hands started buzzing, making him jump and throw the phone down.
"Jeez," he said feeling his heart race from the phone scaring him. He watched Rory reach for it and pick it up, she flipped it open.
"Hello?" she asked still sniffing.
"You've just won the million dollar Publisher's Clearinghouse," Lorelai chimed into the phone.
"Hi mom," Rory said glumly.
"What's wrong mini-me?" Lorelai asked, turning down her cheerfulness just a little to see what was bothering Rory.
"Nah..nothing," Rory said lamely, she eyed Jess who had gotten up and walked toward the car that was still flashing it's lights and beeping. "I think I'm getting a cold or something." She lied
"Right," Lorelai said figuring she'd find out eventually, "well you missed all the excitement in the Hollow. Liz, got married and Luke had to make hundreds of turkey legs, and there was..." Lorelai stopped, "Rory, sweetie, are you listening?"
"Huh, oh yeah, turkey legs," Rory said absentmindedly "um mom, I'm kinda getting ready to come home, can you wait til you see me?" she asked.
"Sure, drive safe." Lorelai sounded disappointed. "I'll keep the lights on outside for you."
"Okay, bye." Rory said clicking the phone closed. The car alarm had stopped. Rory saw Jess holding a large paperback book in his hand and walking away from the car.
He walked back to his car, keeping the book out of her sight and throwing it into the car.
"It stopped," she said wanting to talk to him more but feeling like they were out of things to say.
"Huh," Jess said absentmindedly as he went back to the front of his car and looked under the hood.
"How'd you make it stop?" she asked standing up and trying to peer into the car from where she stood.
"There was a book on it," he said, his voice was devoid of emotion.
"Oh," Rory paused, "why was there a book on the car?"
"I um, dropped it." Jess said indifferently. He was fiddling with a belt under the hood. He readjusted it and then closed the hood and got into his car. He rolled down his window and tried to start the car, this time the engine caught and the car grumbled and idled. "Bye Rory," he said not looking at her, his voice still dead. He put the car into drive and pulled out of the Yale parking lot and onto the main road and out of her sight.
"Bye Jess," she said to the empty space where he had been. Tears were falling freely now as Rory walked to her car got in and pulled out of the parking lot just as Jess had. Things were feeling final, as if it was the end and that Jess was out of her life for good. She felt empty suddenly, had he been right? Was being with him the one thing that she wanted? She turned on the radio to some Dido song, she quickly turned off the radio. Dido was too depressing to listen to, and she didn't have the energy to scan through the stations. 'Bye Rory' the words were echoing through her head. She past the first street light and was about a half mile from the highway entrance when she saw the ugly brown car parked on the side of the road, plumes of dark smoke coming out of the hood. Rory pulled off onto the shoulder behind the car. She got out and walked toward his door. 'Do you believe in fate?' she was thinking of a philosophy discussion that they had in class a few weeks back.
She approached his window. Jess was leaning into the back seat looking for something. She knocked on his window and he hit his head on the roof of the car. He turned to her, "I thought you were leaving." He said, but she didn't hear him because his window was rolled up. He rolled down the window. "What?"
Rory bit her lip nervously she reached for the door handle and opened his door. "We're not done. So come with me." She said, almost as cryptically as he had when he showed up earlier at her dorm. Jess began to open his mouth to protest but she put her fingers to her lips.
"If you want to have a chance in hell then I suggest you work on proving your worth it." she was tired of being the one to sit back and let him come and go out of her life. It was her life and she was going to take control.
"Ok." Jess said as he grabbed his backpack that Lorelai had been snooping in earlier that day and stuffed the self-help book into it and followed Rory to her car.
A/N: I'm having some odd spacing problems at the moment, so sorry for the big block of very confusing text at the beginning of the story. If you know how to fix that let me know! Oh and thanks for reading, if you feel like reviewing then I will kindly read your critique's and criticisms and if not then I hope you enjoyed the story and didn't think it was too boring.