Disclaimer: Does it look or sound like I own GG? Come on! I would speak much more eloquently!! :D
Rory was sitting here in her office with Ryan for the last two hours. And she was still finding it hard to focus because of how he was looking at her. He was cute and all and Lorelai adored him, probably wanted him for herself, but she didn't like him. At least not in that way. So when the knock came on her office she jumped at the chance to get it. Sarah was there and she didn't look happy.
"What's this I hear about you and Jess in the coffee room?" Sarah asks after leading her down the hall.
"What? Nothing." She quickly responds, expecting the rumors. "I met him in there and asked him to leave; Angela caught him being his usual perverted self and took it as something else." She adds. Sarah looks at her skeptically. "Really. Nothing happened."
Sarah sighs. "Fine. If you say so." She looks at Rory curiously as the latter looks down at her shoes. "Is there something you're not telling me?"
Rory shrugs and sighs. "Jess is, Jess-Jess."
Sarah looks confused. "What? Jess-Jess?" She ponders. "Oh. Jess-Jess?" She asks again as realization hits her. "Your Jess?"
"Well, not anymore," Rory flushes. "But, yea."
"Seriously?" Rory nods. "Well, that explains all the bickering and odd behavior between you two." She adds as an afterthought. "And there's nothing going on between you two?"
"No."
"Okay." She says after awhile. She changes the subject. "How's the assignment coming?"
Rory breathes a sigh of relief. "It's coming along good. Fine." She shrugs. "Ryan keeps staring at me." She confides in her.
Sarah laughs. "He stares at anything in a skirt." She tries to reassure her.
"Well its making me uncomfortable."
"Some words of advice?" She starts off down the hall. "Finish the piece."
Rory smiles and walks back in her office to find Ryan going through her stuff. "What are you doing?" It comes out harsher than she expected.
"I was just—"
She cuts him off. "Okay, that's it, we'll finish this some other time."
He smiles. "Scared of the attraction between us?" He looks her over.
"There is no attraction between us!" She throws her hands up.
"You can deny it all you want," He's moving towards her. "But I can see it in your eyes…"
"What? The disgust?" She's past frustrated and moving on to perturbed.
"The lust." His hands are stealthily moving on the wall beside her. "You want me, just like I want you." He's reaching for her cheek and she's reaching for the door knob behind her. In her haste to get out she stumbles through the threshold.
"You're such a pervert!"
In a second, a hand is at her waist steadying her. "You okay?" Its Jess. She doesn't even have to turn around. His hand always fit perfectly at her lower back. She barely shakes her head when Ryan exits. She steps back and Jess' hold automatically tightens on her waist.
"In the end, I always get what I want." He tells her before backing away and walking down the hall.
"You sure?" Jess asks her again. She nods and realizes Jess' hand is still at her waist. He must've realized it too because he moves it. Rory clears her throat and tucks her hair behind her ear. "I should go," Jess starts. "I have to run this by Roy and get it to print." He tells her unnecessarily.
"You're done?"
He smirks. "Why does that surprise you?"
"It doesn't." She responds quickly. "I mean, it does, but…" She trails off, shrugging. Truthfully, she had expected him to span out his time with Shelly.
He nods, not understanding at all. "I see you're having some…difficulties." He searches for the right word and comes up with the wrong one.
Rory laughs. "I guess you could call it that."
"Yea, sorry about that."
Rory looks up startled. It wasn't his fault. "It's not your fault." If anything it was hers. It was her fault she ended up working with Ryan.
"I feel responsible." He admits. "If I wasn't such a jackass then maybe you'd want to work with me."
Rory doesn't what to say. "That's not the reason…"
He looks at her skeptically. "It's not?"
"…I mean, I don't think you're a jackass. Not anymore." She rectifies.
"Its good to hear that." He says in her ear.
"Jess!" Hepburn calls down the hall.
He walks off down the hall leaving her speechless.
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