A/N: I very happy that everyone liked my first chapter, there were no flamers!!!! I think it's my best story so far and I'm very proud of it!! Here's the next chapter and I hope it lives up to the first one!!!! Thoughts are in italics as usual!! And don't forget to R&R because my loyal reviewers are amazing to me!!!!

Chapter 2: No Choices, Just Destiny

Rory never wanted to wake up. Waking up meant facing all the things she didn't want to face, seeing things she didn't want to see, and hearing things she will most defiantly did not want to hear. But she had no control over what her mind did as much as she had over life and death.

To her dismay she heard distant voices and her eyes fluttered open and shut. No, stay shut don't wake up, stay asleep. She tried coaxing her eyes back into the bleak oblivion, but failed.

Voices filled her ears and shadows of people haunted her eyes. Rory couldn't put the voices with the faces and the faces with the names. But once she was conscious for a couple of minutes everything started coming back to her, the gruff voice belonged to Luke the closet thing she had to a father, the tall boy with the soft spoken voice was to Rory's displeasure Dean, the slight laugh coming from her bedside was her mother's.

"Hey kiddo. You finally decided to wake up?" Lorelei said fluffing Rory's hair and smiling.

"How long has it been?" Rory couldn't help but ask grimly.

"About three days. The doctors said that the medication they gave you shouldn't have lasted that long though. It scared us." Lorelei said looking at Dean and Luke.

"Well maybe I didn't want to wake up." She told her mother.

Lorelei gave her a worried look. "Rory, are you okay?"

"Mom I just need to know he's okay." Tears welled up in her eyes.

Lorelei shook her head "He hasn't woken up yet. Not since the accident."

Dean interfered "Um…..Lorelei, can I….talk to her? Alone."

"Sure." She and Luke walked out discussing things quiet enough so Rory couldn't hear. The door shut with a loud clunk, like it was sealing her fate.

"I'm so happy your okay." Dean said sitting down on her bed next to her. He placed his hand on her bandaged one.

"Dean, I can't, this, us, me." Rory tried to find the right words to explain what she was feeling but it was hard.

"What are you talking about?" He looked confused.

"I don't know how to put it. It's hard for me to say this, but I can't do this anymore, us. It's Jess; I can't keep dragging your heart all over town. I've lost it, what I felt before, before-"

"Him." Dean finished for her. "Before he came everything was great! We loved each other, remember that? What happened to that Ror?" He sounded desperate.

Words poured out of Rory's mouth in a hurry, but Dean only heard a select few words something about obligation, not wanting to but doing it anyway, feelings of guilt, love and now despair.

He felt bad for her and didn't want to make it harder than it had to be. Dean got the point he wasn't stupid, so she could stop her rant of explanation.

"Rory-" He tried to cut in but she kept going.

"Dean, I'm sorry. For everything I don't want to be this person, this jerk that I can't help but be. I'm just so sorry." Tears were streaming down her face she tried to wipe them away with her arm quickly.

"Rory, its okay I get it there's something between you and Jess that just wasn't with us. I saw it, Luke and Lorelei saw it, for God sakes Rory the whole town saw it! It was about time you guys took the blind fold off." Dean said shaking his head standing up clearly upset.

But before walking out he kissed Rory's forehead and wiped her cheeks free of tears.

"Just don't forget, I'm always here for you." He said and walked out the door.

Rory was left in the large room all alone to think about what she had just done, and how badly it made her feel.

You know what? Maybe it would be better if I just didn't talk, 'cause every time I open my mouth something horrible comes out, a lot less people would get hurt if I just shut my trap. Rory promised herself never to talk again unless she really, really needed to.

Her roommate started into an intense fit of coughing from behind the curtain, Rory slammed her head into the pillow closing it around her ears to block out the noise and sobbed.

xxXXxxXXxx

In the dark room there were many large machines, but no roommate, the shades were closed and the atmosphere was grim. Rory sat on a chair next to the bed her good hand on top of his.

Beep. Click. Hiss.

That's all Rory had been hearing for the past hour and the shallow breaths coming from Jess.

Beep. Click. Hiss.

It was enough to drive anyone insane, but she was determined to stay until he woke up. Rory didn't care if it took forever, she would wait.

It had been a week since the accident and she had been home for about three days now. Everyone still treated her the same and she liked that, but somehow she felt different than everybody else, like something was setting her apart from them. Maybe it was the guilt, the bruises on her body, or what she had seen that night. What she had gone through would scar her forever not just physically but mentally as well. Rory decided all of those things put together were what was making her feel that way.

xxXXxxXXxx

Jess' eyes opened and closed, and opened again, but they stayed open this time. He looked around the foreign room with a confused face. Where am I? He thought. There was a girl sitting at his bed side who he didn't know, she was pretty with sparkling blue eyes Jess decided to ask her.

"Where am I?" Jess asked, his voice sounded hoarse but he could still talk.

The girl jumped at the sound of his voice and looked at him with a worried expression on her face.

"Jess! Thank God you're okay!" The girl said throwing her arms around him and kissing him on the cheek her expression changed from worry to joy in record time.

"Um…….not to be rude or anything but who are you?" Jess asked scrunching his eyebrows together and leaned back into the pillow trying to think of who this girl was, and how he could possibly know her.

A/N: Cliff-hanger, boy oh boy!!!!! Well, now you know he's not dead (not yet at least) tee hee!!! Please review because it makes me happy, and you want to make me happy don't you?