Hi Everyone- I'm back! I haven't written for AGES! I'm only in the sixth season, so I might not be all up to date. This story takes place in about the second season, "Nick and Nora" to be exact. Please review! They will make me update faster…..
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Brianne
Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls, I do however own Danielle, please ask permission to use her. I do not own 'More Love' by the Dixie Chicks. Thanks!
Dedicated to: All of my wonderful reviewers!
"Jess, Jess, Jess Mariano!" A 15-year-old girl hurried down the busy New York street chasing after a tall young man, immersed in a book.
"What is it, Dani?!?!" Jess snapped. As she continued to chase him, he whirled around and yelled, "What is it Danielle?!"
As she grabbed his arm and made him stop in his tracks, she yelled "Why did you just walk away from me like that?"
"Gee," Jess said in his signature drawl, "Could be because I found you kissing my former best friend!"
"Oh my God!" Dani shrieked. "You are still hung up on that!"
"Well, you'd probably be hung up on it too, if you knew that your mom hated you and was sending you and your sister to live with your uncle in some little no-name town, the next freaking day!" Jess said, yanking his arm out of her grasp and walking quickly away from her.
"What the…?!" Dani trailed off as Jess stalked away from her, then after a minute resuming her chase, "Was someone going to tell me? Am I supposed to just get on a bus with my brother and just sit on it until you get off?"
"Well then why don't you ask Liz?" Jess broke into a run.
Dani groaned and whirled around, walking home.
"Liz?" Dani called, pushing open the door to their apartment.
"In here, honey!" Liz called from the kitchen, her choice of words making Dani gag.
"Where's Jess?" Dani asked, glancing around the apartment.
"He's out with some of his friends." Liz said, waving a hand dismissively.
Dani leaned on the counter, making her mom look in her eyes. "So, Mother," She said, her voice raising with every word, "When were you going to tell me that you are freaking shipping me and Jess to Stars Hollow to live with our uncle that we haven't seen in two freaking years! I'm not going, I like it here, two hours ago I was kissing Jess's old best friend!"
Liz sighed, turning away from her daughter. "Dani, it's not that I don't love you," At this Dani scoffed. "Seriously, I know I've been a bit wrapped up in whatever boyfriend or husband that I had at that point."
"A bit!" Dani shrieked, losing her cool completely. "Liz, the other day you called me 'Kim' after an old boyfriend you had years ago. I'd call that a little more than 'a bit'." She stalked out, calling, "You can send us to Stars Hollow, but we're still your kids. You can't just dump us on someone else." Slamming the apartment door, she sank to her knees, letting the tears overcome her. A few minutes or even a few hours later, she felt a hand on her back.
"Come on Kris." Jess's voice came out of the darkness, using his special nickname for her. "Let's get you inside. Liz's new 'boyfriend', Paul will be coming over soon, and I'm not leaving you to him." Wrapping his arm around her shoulder he led her inside.
The next morning at 7, Dani stretched and as she stepped off her bed, she stepped on something soft and covered in blankets. When the lump yelped, she shrieked and tumbled backward onto her bed, legs in the air, something popping along the way. She tore off the blankets revealing a sheepish Jess. "What are you doing in here?" She cried. "You have your own room, now go be a big boy and go sleep there."
He scrambled up at the mention of going to his room. "I'm not sleeping by myself with," He paused then hissed, "Paul, is out there, I'm not going out there with him."
"Well good, because if Paul's here, then there is no way I am letting you leave." She pretended to hide behind him, pushing him forward as he purposely shoved her backwards. "Not fair!" Dani whined, "I've been up for ten minutes and magical forces have already made me fall backwards twice!"
Jess smirked, "Either that or you're so clumsy that YOU fell backwards twice."
Dani pouted. "You're mean."
Jess grinned. "And yet you love me anyway." As he sat on the bed, Dani leaned against him.
"Who said?" She murmured sleepily, closing her eyes. She shifted her position against him, "Today is our last day in New York."
"What should we do?" Jess asked, still sitting there.
"Let's hit all the bookstores and record stores and then egg some houses." Dani suggested. "Oh crap, when do we leave?"
"Our bus leaves at 1." Jess responded, sliding her off him and moving to sit against the wall.
"Then I guess we'll leave out egging the houses. Man, that sounded fun!" Dani complained. "I want chocolate." She said randomly as her stomach growled in agreement. "Let's go!" She pulled Jess to his feet and dragged him to the kitchen. She shoved Jess in a chair and started pulling out a bowl from the mess of plastic plates that was their cabinet. Pulling open the fridge she groaned. "Why do we only have chocolate syrup?" She asked the sky, pulling the bottle out. As she dumped it onto a bowl and grabbed a spoon, Paul walked into the kitchen.
Jess immediately tensed, noting how Paul watched his pretty sister with interest. Jess grew even more uncomfortable as he realized what his sister was wearing, a tight fitting olive green tank top that matched her eyes and black sweatpants that were hugging in all the right places for Paul to ogle his sister. Jess stood up quickly, knocking over his chair, grabbing Dani's arm and pulling her back to her room.
"Jess!" Dani cried after he had shut the door and locked it. "What are you doing?"
Jess was breathing heavily and there was an unnamed fire in his eyes. "That freak that Mom dragged home is trouble; I want you to stay away from him."
"Of course, that will be so hard, considering that we're leaving this afternoon and won't be coming back. I don't think there's anything to worry about anyway. He seems like a nice guy. You're just being paranoid. Now, get out, I'm getting dressed." Dani half-snapped, her limits being tested, she was tired, and feeling ganged up on, being shipped to Stars Hollow and all.
"Well too bad, I'm your older brother; I know what's best for you." Jess snapped.
"Don't kid yourself," Dani said sarcastically. "You may be two years older, but I can take care of myself."
9 in the morning found Danielle Mariano dressed and packed, looking around at her room; Dani sighed and got up, picking up her guitar. While her brother dug rock, Dani was more partial to soft country, doing covers of songs, with her eclectic New York country band. They were always amazed at how she acted when Jess was around, her brother tended to bring out the slight punk in her. Dani laughed as she thought of the perfect song to describe her mood.
"I'm
so close to you baby We
got to meet in the middle
But I'm so far away
there's a silence
between us
And there's so much to say
you're my strength,
you're my weakness
you're my faith, you're my doubt
To work this thing out
More love,
I can hear our hearts crying
More love, I know that's all we
need
More love, to flow in between us
To take us and hold us
and lift us above
If there's ever an answer
It's more
love
We're afraid to be idle
So we fill up the days
We
run on the treadmill
Keep slaving' away 'til there's no time for
talking
About trouble in mind
And the doors are all
closed
Between your heart and mine
More love, I can hear
our hearts crying
More love, I know that's all we need
More
love, to flow in between us
To take us and hold us and lift us
above
If there's ever an answer
It's more love
Just look
out around us
People fighting their wars
They think they'll be
happy
When they've settled their scores
Let's lay down our
weapons
That hold us apart
Be still for just a minute
Try to
open our hearts
More love, I can hear our hearts crying
More
love, I know that's all we need
More love, to flow in between
us
To take us and hold us and lift us above
If there's ever an
answer
It's more love
I can hear our hearts crying
More
love, I know that's all we need
More love, to flow in between
us
To take us and hold us and lift us above
If there's ever an
answer
It's more love"
Dani frowned. It almost described her and Jess, but it had this incest sound to it, she and Jess were close, they were brother and sister, but would never, ever like the other like that. She shuddered at the thought. Gross. Her band has a gig at one of the clubs in two weeks. She ran over to her purse and grabbed her cell phone. Dialing her band on three-way, when they answered, her response was, "Guys, we need to talk."
"Kristin Danielle Mariano, it's 9:30 in the morning." Sara groaned, laying her head on one of her drums.
"I know that, but I kind of have some big news. " Dani shifted uncomfortably. "I'm, um, moving to Stars Hollow. My mom is shipping me and Jess to live with our uncle. Jess and I are fighting."
The band stared at her. "Very funny, Dani." Emily, one of their guitarists, broke the silence with a grin. "I was fooled."
"This isn't a joke!" Dani cried. "Don't you get that? My single, deadbeat mother is sending me to Stars Hollow; because she can't freaking take care of us herself! I haven't seen my uncle in a year, and even then it was a brief glance and now I'm expected to live with him!" She blinked away the tears that had gathered in her eyes. "I'm sorry." She said, not really knowing what she was apologizing for.
"Oh My God." Rebecca, the last member of their group and their violinist, stepped forward and gave Dani a hug. "I'm so sorry." The other two clustered around and joined in the hug.
"I don't want to break up." Dani cried.
"We sort of have to. But we'll text and call and run up huge cell phone bills and we'll applaud you when you're rich and famous, singing on American Idol." Emily suggested, making Dani laugh.
"You better. I'll be back for our last gig." Dani said turning to go. "Call me." Were her last words to the three girls.
At 1 that afternoon, Dani and Jess were sitting next to each other on the bus station bench with Liz beside Jess and Paul beside Dani, his arm draped across her waist. Dani didn't notice, she was staring into space, furious at her mother, picking at her black 'Heaven is for Wimps' T-Shirt, displaying an edge of her that fury or her brother could bring out, in this case it was fury. As their bus pulled up, Dani stood up abruptly, not-so-accidentally knocking into Jess, swinging her backpack onto her back. "Bye, Liz." Dani snapped, turning away from her mother.
Liz gently turned her daughter to face her, "I don't want you to hate me." She spoke quietly, as if afraid that she would hurt Dani.
"It's a little too late." Dani said harshly. Paul then enveloped her in a hug, putting his hands a little too low for Jess's comfort.
"Let's go." Jess snapped, pushing Dani onto the bus in front of him.
"Be good." Liz called, knowing full well that her son would cause all the trouble he could.
Dani sat on the bus next to Jess. "Now do you believe me?" He asked.
"About what, Paul?" Dani asked, when Jess nodded, she scoffed. "He's a nice guy; you're just being super paranoid."
"Whatever." Jess groaned, staring out the window taking comfort in the fact that his sister would see Paul for a long time, or so he thought.
A/N: Was this fast enough for you guys? This will NOT be incest; Dani and Jess just have a very unique relationship, and I don't want it portrayed as something more. If you have any suggestions for the story, or for songs that you think describe relationships or people in the story, let me know!
Please review, and I will try to update soon!!
Thanks!
Brianne