AN: Gilmore Girls/ Heroes crossover. After Jess leaves for California, Rory Gilmore never sees or hears from him. Jess spent some time in California but when he returns to his hometown, New York, he counts on his best friend to help him change his identity. He becomes Peter Petrelli, making it near impossible for someone looking for 'Jess Mariano' to find him. He starts to have these realistic dreams, feeling that he was meant to do something extraordinary…
Chapter 1:
I think I can Fly…
I was standing on the edge, looking down into the alley beneath me. It was at least ten stories. My head was pounding in my chest as I outstretched my arms and closed my eyes. I shuffled my feet nervously. I took a step forward off of the building and began to fall. I closed my eyes tight and thought about her. I wasn't falling anymore. I opened my eyes to discover that I was hovering. I took a sharp intake of breath before I lost all concentration and began falling again. The ground was getting closer and then…
I sat straight up in my bed and looked blankly around my apartment. It was a dream… I had been having these weird dreams a lot lately. They seemed so real; sometimes I was falling, sometimes I was flying. That's impossible though…people can't fly. I glanced over at the green numbers of my alarm clock. It was a quarter to six and I knew I wasn't going to get anymore sleep. I swung my legs over the side of my bed and sat still for a moment, staring at my feet. Suddenly and without warning, he could see her face in his mind. It had been almost a year since he had seen her…talked to her. She was the only one that would understand what was going on inside him. She was the only one who understood his heart…
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Rory Gilmore woke up with a start. She had dreamt of him again. She stared at the clock; it wasn't even six yet. In her dream, he was in New York, jumping of a building. She hoped that he was okay. He had left for California nearly a year ago. She hadn't heard from him since the one phone call that might not have even been him. Since then, she had been having weird dreams of him. They always ended with him falling to his death. To her they were nightmares. She had loved him so much but that all seemed so long ago. Maybe her dreams were telling her something. Maybe he needed her.
She smiled at the thought that he might need her. She thought of where he might be. Her dreams all took place in New York. Maybe that's where he was. He closed her eyes tight and let sleep overtake her body.
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I walked down the streets of New York. Everywhere I went seemed all too familiar. That's when I saw it…the building from my dreams. I broke out into a run trying to get there faster. Maybe I had been dreaming the future all this time. Maybe I was supposed to jump off that building. I had tried to talk to Nathan Petrelli but he didn't believe me. I had met Nathan years ago when I was young. When I returned to New York, Nathan helped me. He helped me escape my past. I lost Jess Mariano, the guy that I was. Nathan helped me become Peter Petrelli. We lied to the world and said that I was his younger brother. I needed to get away from being Jess Mariano and Nathan was the only one willing to help.
When I reached the top of the building, I looked over the edge. The ally was there, just like in my dream. The New York skyline stretched out in front of me. So this was it. I'd step off this building and either fall or fly. I would fall to my death or I would discover that I'm not who I thought I was. I stood at the edge and outstretched my arms and shut my eyes tight. I shuffled my feet nervously. I suddenly felt selfish. If I die, then Rory will have never known how I felt. I was about to step off the ledge until I heard Nathan Petrelli, he was standing beneath me in the alley.
"What are you doing, Pete?" Nathan asked concerned. I scoffed. It was amazing how he had known me almost my whole life as Jess but able to call me by my fake name so easily.
"You didn't hear anything I said earlier today, did you?" I yelled back down to him. He looked worried, almost scared.
"What that bit about how you can fly? Yeah I did. I'm gonna pretend for both our sakes that you didn't say anything like that!" Nathan yelled back up at me. It was clear to me that he had no idea what to do.
"It's my turn to be somebody now, Nathan!" I spoke evenly and closed my eyes. I outstretched my arms like I had in my dreams and I stepped off the ledge. I noticed all too quickly that I was falling, not flying…