Title: Restless souls - And then she smiled
Author: Jessica
Email: j_rothen@yahoo.se
Distribution: Wherever...just let me know where
Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
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Pairing: Rory/Jess
Disclaimer:I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS.
Summary: Rory has come to New York only to find Jess with another
girl. Will this be the end for them?
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English is not my first language so spelling/ grammar
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"I've been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I've been traveling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through."
(From "Someone like you" sung by: Van Morrison )


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Restless souls-
And then she smiled.
(4/4)
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I wanted to wrap my arms around her.
Never let go.
But I know that I wasn't allowed.
Not my place.
All I could do was smile.
"Rory, what are you doing here?"
She moved closer to me.
I wanted to reach out and touch her.
My hands ached to touch her.
But I kept my hands on my sides.
"We didn't finish our talk."
"I thought we did."
"No. I didn't get to explain."
Then she was behind me.
Anne.
"Jess?"
I ignored her and looked at Rory.
She backed away from me.
She looked from me to Anne and understood.
I reached for her but she slipped from my hand.
Her face changed in a second.
I could see pain in her eyes as our eyes met.
"Rory, please let me explain."
She shook her head.
"No, it's nothing..I made a mistake."
Then she turned around and ran away from me.
I just stood there screaming her name.

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I ran as fast as my legs could carry me.
I wanted to run as far away as possible from him.
I should have understood.
Should have listened.
To my mother.
To everyone.
Troublemaker.
But I wanted so desperately to believe what my heart was telling me.
That he was a good guy.
Someone that I could truly love.
Now I know better.
I was wrong.
So wrong in so many ways.
Dark clouds came in from the west and brought with it cold rain.
I didn't care.
Let it all come.

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All I could see was her face.
I dressed as fast as I could.
Wanted to catch her.
Anne was standing in the middle of my room.
Dressed in my t-shirt.
Looking wonderful.
She looked at me.
"Was that Rory?"
I nodded.
She understood.
She knew.
We had talked.
I had talked and she had listened.
She smiled at me.
Understanding.
Wishing me all the best.

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"Rory!"
His voice pierced through the sounds of the city.
I had run until my legs wouldn't carry me any longer.
My flight brought me to the heart of Central Park.
But somehow and in some way he found me.
I wanted to run once again.
But I knew that I had to face him eventually.
"Rory, please...stop!"
I turned around and looked at him.
We were standing in the middle of small footpath, somewhere in
the middle of the park.
He was standing just some meters from me.
Looking wonderful.
"I want to explain..."
"There's nothing to say..."
"Rory..."
"No. I understand, now. This was all just a game for you.."
"Don't say that."
"It's the truth. Isn't it?"
I wanted to hurt him as he had hurt me.
"No. Please, Rory...I made a mistake..."
"No..I was the one that made a mistake...I let myself trust you.."
"Please..."
He moved closer to me.
"You let me fall in love with you..Was it all just a part of the game?
The kiss, the phone-call. Everything?"
"No....Everything I said was the truth.."
"You are a really good actor.."
Tears filled his eyes as he looked at me.
"I love you."
"DON'T SAY THAT!!"
"It's the truth. She was no one...We talked..I had a lot to drink.."
"So..you just..."
I didn't want to think about that but pictures kept flashing by.
Hurting me.
Chasing me around.
Causing me to crumble.
"Rory..please.."
He reached for me.
I wanted so desperately to surrender and let myself drown in him.
I wanted to believe.
I needed to believe.
But all I could see was his betrayal.
"I guess you're off the hoock..It's not like we are boyfriend and
girlfriend..You don't have to explain..."
"You are the only one that I want."
"Stop saying that."
"It's the truth...I don't know what else I can do to prove that to
you. I love you, Rory."
"I don't believe you."
Pain flashed over his face and for a second I wanted to reach out
and take his hand in mine.
But I needed to be strong now.
I had to do this.
It was a matter of survival.
"Please, let me love you."
He was so close now.
His presence caused my heart to tremble in my chest.
I cursed my foolish heart.
LOVE ME! MAKE ME BELIEVE!
I killed those voices.
This was just a game to him.
All a game.
Playing games with my heart.
I'm saving myself.
I wanted to back away from him.
Run.
But I just stood there looking into his eyes.
Memories from days gone by pasted by and for a moment
I let myself remember.
"No.."
"Rory.."
The pain ripped at my soul.
I had believed his words.
Wanted to believe.
To love him.
I came to New York to open my heart.
To let him in.
Let him know how beautiful my world was when he was in it.
But he had ripped out my heart today.
Hurt me.
Crushed me.
"I guess you won this game...You have crushed me.."
Tears filled my eyes as I looked at him.
"Believe me...Please..I never meant to.."
"You broke my heart today...I came here to tell you...To let you know..
That I...."
I couldn't speak those words.
Those three little words.
I wouldn't give him the satisfaction.
But I could see in his eyes that he understand.
"I'm sorry...You have to forgive me.."
"No..I don't have to do anything.."
I turned to leave.
He grabbed my hand and made me look at him.
"Please, don't go."
"You don't get to have me!"
Tears marked his face as we stood there.
My last words stood like huge wall between us.
I could see pain in his eyes.
He let go of me.
I walked away from him.
And the rain kept falling.

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I stood there watching her leave.
I knew that there was nothing I could say.
Nothing I could do to make her stay.
I had failed.
I would have given up everything to have her.
Pay every prize.
But it's too late now.
I have lost.

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Two weeks later,
Stars Hollow
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I can't say that it has been easy.
When I got home from New York I told mum everything.
She yelled at me for running of but she also held me.
Let me cry against her shoulder.
She didn't say, "I told you so".
These days I'm feeling better.
It's getting easier to breathe.
I'm not missing him anymore.
I hardly ever think about him.
But it comes days when the memory of him come crawling back.
For a moment, for a single second, I dream of what if.
But then reality hits.
There will never be any us.
I have accepted that now.
I will move on and leave him to
my past.
Where he belongs.

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New York
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It took two weeks to nurse my heart back to life.
I had done it too myself.
The blame was on me.
Then it came the struggle to drive her out of my heart.
I tried.
I started to date again.
I threw myself into the work of erasing her from my memory.
Nights were spend looking for someone at the endless clubs
and bars I could get in to.
All I could find was loneliness.
I was back in my old habits.
Looking for thrills were I could find them.
I refused to miss her.
I didn't speak her name.
As the days turned into weeks I slowly but surely convinced myself
that I was over her.
Then he called and crushed all my defensives.
Luke.
He was calling to check up on me.
I wanted to ask.
Believe me.
But I couldn't.
I was too proud to speak those words.
He was the one that mentioned her.
Wondered what happened.
I lied and said nothing.
It was better that way.
He talked about the town.
I wanted to hang up.
Didn't want to care.
But I did.
I even found myself smiling.
Missing him.
Them.
Stars Hollow.
I sat a long time after he had said goodbye with the phone in my hand
thinking about the past.
And I even let myself think about her.
Rory.
Blue-eyed girl.
Her face.
Her hair.
The way she smiled.
The way she moved.
The way she felt in my arms.
Pain ripped at my heart as I let myself remember that day in the
park.
I had played it over and over again so many times in my head during
the past weeks that I could almost hear her voice.
I could see her face.
The way she looked standing outside my door just before...
She looked so happy then.
Eyes glowing.
Shining.
Then the pain when she understood.
Saw Anne.
She looked at me with so much hurt that my heart almost shattered
then and there.
I had lost her that day.
Just because I was too foolish not try.
To stand up and fight for her.
For my heart.
I had bowed out at the first sign of trouble.
But that has always been my thing:
to run at the first sign of trouble.
I'm no hero.
I have never been brave.
But I wanted to be someone in her eyes.
I wanted to fight for her.
I would not give her up.
Not yet.
I'm not ready to stop.
I'll win her.
Back to Stars Hollow.


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Luke's diner,
Stars Hollow,
the next day,
Midnight.

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I dressed in the moonlight.
Luke was sleeping.
He hadn't said much when I came back.
But he had smiled.
That was all that I needed.
He understood.
He could read it in my eyes.
Why I was back.
It was time to fight for her.


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I woke slowly.
Dreams woke me.
The first snow had started to fall.
It was dark outside.
The moon ruled the sky.
A knock on my window.
I sat up.
He was standing there.
Him.
The one I had tried to shut out of my heart.
Jess.
I opened the window.
He was dressed in jeans and a warm jacket.
His hair was longer.
"What are you doing here?"
"Can I come in?"
"No! You can't. It's almost one in the morning."
"Please..."
"Jess..."
"Rory."
He smiled.
I surrendered.
I stepped back and let him crawl through my window.
Then he was there.
I wasn't ready for him.
But I couldn't run now.
He stood there in the middle of my room.
"So why are you here, Jess? What about New York?"
"I came here to tell you that I will not give up."
"You came here in the middle of the night just to tell me that?"
"Yes....and this..."
He was fast.
He moved like the tiger he was.
I couldn't run.
His lips found mine.
He wrapped his arms around me and with a sigh I surrendered.
Then reality hit.
Hard.
I pushed him away from me.
My lips were swollen.
I could still taste him.
His eyes were wild and dark as he looked at me.
"You just can't come here and expect that things have changed between
us. Because it hasn't...I said everything that day in the park and
I stand behind that."
"You lie. You feel the same."
"No..."
"I can see it in your eyes. I can read you like an open book by now.
I know you.."
"No..."
He moved closer.
I backed away.
"You can say what you want. You can scream and hit me. But it won't
change my mind. I feel the same."
"You lie.."
"Why won't you believe me? I have done everything and I will do
anything to prove it to you."
"Stop this!"
"What do you want? Shall I scream? Because I would! I'm desperately and
madly in love with you, Rory Gilmore."
Tears filled my eyes as I looked at him.
I wanted to believe his words.
His wonderful words.
But fear had a hold of my heart.
I feared the power he had over me.
He could make me fall with just one touch.
I would love him.
Give him myself, totally.
Then he would go and I would be...
Dead.
He was so close now.
I could almost hear his heartbeat.
I pushed him away from me and said:
"You just can't come here and say something like that and believe
that everything is forgotten. That..."
"I know..All I'm asking is that you forgive me..."
I moved away from him.
I knew that if he would touch me again I would surely fall and
by then there were no way back.
"I don't know if I can do that."
"Please, Rory..I have never felt like this before...I was slowly
going mad when I didn't have you to talk to..To laugh with.."
He moved towards me.
"I'm scared."
"I know you are. Believe me, I'm scared also. I'm scared that I'm
going to do something stupid and mess everything up. But mostly
I'm scared that I will walk away from here not knowing that I
didn't do enough to convince you..."
"Oh, Jess...I want to believe you...But understand...You ripped
out my heart that day...I never thought you could hurt me so..You
called me and said all those things...And I was afraid...But I went
to New York to talk to you..To tell you..But then..."
"I'm so sorry for everything. I wish I could make it go away. But
I can't."
"I know."
He moved closer to me.
"I wish I could put my feeling into words. I wish I could say something,
anything to let you know how much I love you. Those three words feel
so simple, so worn-out."
He was standing before me now.
This boy.
Almost a man.
Jess.
This wild-child.
He had swept into my life in a time when I was discovering everything
about life.
He had moved my world.
In some way.
My heart trembled in my chest as he framed my face between his
warm hands and made me look at him.
"I can't promise you anything..But I know one thing and that is
that I love you..more than you will ever know."
He smiled at me and continued:
"God, you are so beautiful. And you don't know it. You are like this
angel and that heaven blessed me with......God, listen to me...I sound
like.."
He laughed.
I smiled at him.
I understood now.
I believed.
I let myself believe.
His eyes met mine.
I could see a love there.
A lasting love.
Believer.
He lowered his mouth to mine.
Giving me a taste of heaven.
Taking my breath away.
So soft.
So gentle.
He whispered his plead against my lips:
"Love me, love me, love me, love me."
Then he leaned his forehead against mine.
I surrendered.
It was time to stop fighting.
"I already do..."
In that moment I gave him my heart totally and completely.
And that night he gave me his in return.
We fell into each other.

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