A/N- Hi everyone! Though I have read pretty much every Literati story over the course of the last year and continue to do so ad nauseum…, this is MY very first story! In case you couldn't tell, I am so excited and hope that you will like the story that I created. I would just like to thank Mira - Jade's fall from the want of you and breakfastclubjedi's Rebels and Princesses for my inspiration. If you haven't read these yet I highly recommend that you do. (Claps hands) Now I present to you…. Destiny Fulfilled!
During the brief time that Jess Mariano was innocent, he read a book about angels. For a while, this was his hope; a world where being a good person meant that he would be able to live the best life anyone would ever have. However, as he got older, Jess lost his innocence and began to know better. You could be a saint and still be punished. You could be a good boy and still have a mother that barely cared at all.
As a seventeen year old, Jess brought chaos and change wherever he went. It began when his own mother couldn't understand and control him enough, so she sent him to her home town, to her brother, and to the beginning of his future. That future was a blue-eyed literature lover named Rory Gilmore.
Rory Gilmore was the designated "Princess" of Star's Hollow. She had the "perfect" grades, the "perfect" school, the "perfect" boyfriend, the "perfect" relationship with her mother, the "perfect" best friend… well I think you get the point. Everything just seemed "perfect"… until Jess Mariano came to town.
These two were almost instantly friends… or friendly… or friendish… whatever the correct term was. However, this started to put a damper on Rory's "perfect" life. Sure, her grades didn't really suffer, and Chilton- her school - was just as hellish as ever, but her boyfriend Dean was getting extremely jealous and possessive. Her mom Lorelai didn't exactly like Jess either, and her best friend, Lane, just barely tolerated Jess. The only people on Jess' side were Rory and Jess' uncle, Luke Danes - Rory's coffee supplier and father figure. Everything was coming to a peak of tension until Rory kissed Jess.
But wouldn't that just be way too easy? Oh no, they did not just begin to hold hands and skip through fields of daisies celebrating their happily ever after. Rory was scared to leave the life she knew behind for a bad boy from New York who almost everyone hated, so she went on an optional student council summer trip to Washington D.C.
The first time Rory saw Jess after the kiss was when he was making out with a blond bimbo, named Shane, pressed up against a tree. This obviously meant that Jess was over Rory, so Rory made the safe decision and stayed with Dean. The first time they talked, Rory discovered that Jess was mad at her for not contacting him at all for the summer and Rory was mad at Jess for seemingly getting over her the first chance he got. They continued to fight and make each other jealous with their significant other until it all came to a boil at the Stars Hollow Dance Marathon.
At the dance marathon, Dean watched Rory get more and more flustered and jealous, as she watched Jess and Shane together. Dean finally decided that enough was enough when Rory went on a gigantic rant about the subject of her desires, Jess. Dean broke up with Rory publicly, and she and Jess got together that night after Jess broke up with Shane.
For a while, the couple was happy. Sure there were little bumps in the road, but really none that couldn't be predicted and avoided. However, everything crumbled right around high school graduation. Jess discovered he couldn't graduate because he skipped too many days, which led to Jess not having a home with Luke anymore and not being able to take Rory to prom. All this obviously put him in a bad mood the night him and Rory went to a keg party. This party resulted in Jess pressuring Rory for sex in a final attempt to please her in the only way he knew how, and sowed the seeds for a fight between Jess and Dean. Jess' less than perfect evening was capped off by meeting his father for the first time, who after listening together to a David Bowie song for about two minutes, walked out of his life again. Sounds fun no?
Not for Jess. In the end he decided to leave Stars Hollow so he could get to know his father, contemplate his future, and try not to hurt Rory and Luke any further. When he was younger, Jess developed a habit of sneaking out – back then it was because he wanted to avoid having to make excuses about where he was going – by this time it was because he hated all farewells, and so he put this old habit to use.
Jess and Rory continued to be in each other's lives though. From a year after Jess' departure- "I love you"- to his "Come away with me!" to "This isn't you!" to "It is what it is… you… me" there was always something in their way- her hurt, boyfriends, naivety, and stubbornness; his spontaneity, hurt, and pride. But that didn't stop them from changing each other for the better, influencing choices both bad and good, and hurting each other the worse. What better sign of true love? They just didn't want to see it… and that's where our story begins.
AN- WARNING- Do not fret! This is just a prologue that I wished to do. Kind of like a "Previously on Gilmore Girls"… There will be many more chapters soon!