Title: A place to call home - Speaking from the heart (2/3)
Name: Linn
E-mail: linnrothen@hotmail.com
Website: www.geocities.com/roryjess2002
Rating: G
Category: Romance/Angst
Paring: R/J
Spoilers: Teach me tonight, everything after that never happened.
Summary: Rory sends Jess a letter where she explains her love for him.
What will Jess do?
Its in Jess POV, but one part of the fanfic is Rorys POV.
Authors Note: English is not my first language.
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Jess POV
A man who had been sitting in the seat infront of me woke me up,
telling me that we where in Hartford.
I had been dreaming a wonderful dream about Rory and me.
I looked at my watch and saw that the time was twelve o'clock. I grabbed my things
and stepped of the bus.
It was lunchtime, which meant Rory had lunch now.
And she went to school in Hartford. I started to walk towards Chilton and
then I saw her, my angel. She was sitting all alone on a bench, reading a book.
I just stood there watching her and taking in all of her beauty.
After awhile of reading she stood up and walked back into the schoolbuilding and
I turned around and stepped on the bus to Stars Hollow.
Stars Hollow was just the same as it was when I first left.
People looked at me with big eyes and whispered.
When I was about to enter the diner I saw that the sign said closed.
I fished up the key from my pocket that I remembered forgetting to give Luke before I went back to New York.
The diner hadn't changed a bit. Even the broken toaster stood on its right place on the counter.
I walked behind the drapes and up the stairs. My things was packed in movingboxes now,
but I guess Luke never had the time to send them. I threw my things on the floor and
started to search through the boxes, looking for my CD's.
After awhile of searching I found every one of them. I put Nirvana in the stereo and turned the volume up.
Now people would notice that I was back for good.
I took my copy of The Fountainhead and I lay down on my bed.
A smile crept upon my face as I remembered the reason why I had this book in my hands.
I had made a promise, a promise to Rory. I had promised her to read this book if she would read Hemingway.
And I guess it didn't strike me until now.
It's going to be hard to talk to her again, after reading the letter from her.
The days in New York have been so hard not to think of her. Every little thing I do seems to remind me of her.
When I feel the smell of coffee I think of her, when I read a book I think of her and even when I just walk alone I think of her.
She's always on my mind.
Every she does seems to affect me, even if it's just walking through the door to the diner every day.
I notice the little things about her, the way she sighs loud when she's bored.
Or the way she looks at her feet when she's nervous.
Before I didn't know what love was, but Rory had a way of showing me what it was.
I talk directly from my heart, it's not my brain that's talking.
Ten minutes later I hear someone coming up the stairs. I think it's Luke and it is.
I sit up and he turns off the music.
"Hi Luke" I say.
"What are you doing here?" Luke says in chock.
"I'm moving back."
"What? Why?"
"Just wanted to."
"You want to move back, here, to Stars Hollow?"
"Yeah."
"It doesn't have anything to do with a person that begins with an R does it?"
"No."
I can tell by the look on his face that he doesn't believe me.
"Okay, you work in the diner tomorrow morning at eight."
He turns around and heads for the door and when he reaches it he says:
"And by the way Jess, she broke up with Dean yesterday and I KNOW it was because of you."
Then he leaves.
Tomorrow I have to see her, because she's going to come to Luke's.
She will know the reason why I'm back. Because of her.
It's strange how I, Jess Mariano can fall so hard for a girl like Rory.
So naive, so innocent and so much beauty.
I rose from my bed and I put the book in my pocket. I walked out of apartment and down the stairs.
When I enter the diner, the place is packed with people. Even Ms Patty and Babette are there.
I head for the door and Luke asks me where I'm going. I tell him that I'm going out and then I leave.
After awhile of walking around in the town I'm sitting on the bridge.
Here is where Rory and I spend a whole day together, having our little pickninck.
That was the day when I opened up to her.
We talked about everything, I told her about my life and she told me about hers.
It was perfect, even when we said good-bye. That was when I found her bracelet.
The bracelet Dean had given to her. I thought off running after her,
but then on second thought it felt nice having something that was hers.
So I didn't. I had her bracelet in my pocket every day,
but then two weeks after I took it she finally realized that she had lost it.
I could really see in her eyes that the stupid bracelet really meant something to her so I put it in her room.
And she found it. She was happy again. Her happiness is my happiness.
But this bridge reminds me of something bad to, not only happy times.
The reason why I was sent back to New York. The accident.
I remember sitting here after I had looked sure that Rory got to a hospital.
I still hit myself mentally for hurting her. She shouldn't have given the keys to me.
But it happened, I can't change that.
Someone who's moving fast on the bridge interrupts my thoughts.
I look up and a fist hits me on my left eye. I fall backwards and I see Dean standing over me.
"You stole her from me! She broke up with ME, because of YOU!!" He say pointing at me.
I push him away and I stand up quickly, ready to defend myself. I knew this day would come,
now or some other day. I start walking towards him and he backs.
"What? I don't know what you're talking about?" I say.
Who am I kidding? I do know what he's talking about.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Rory broke up with me because she thought that we have been drifting apart and
I know that's bullshit!"
"Maybe you don't know her that well."
By remark Dean gets even more and more angry than he alreday are.
"And you think you do?"
"You're her boyfriend, no ex-boyfriend and I'm her friend, that's a big diffrence in knowing her.
When you and Rory were together you just kissed.
But when I'm with her we have real conversations about books and music.
After what she have told me you never had anything incommon.
I'm not surprised that she broke up with you.
Ever since I came to Stars Hollow you have been watching her all the time,
afraid that I would take her away from you."
"And now you have."
"No, I haven't. You have lost her. Her life don't revolve around you all the time."
"You're wrong. You're back because of Rory aren't you?!"
When I don't answer Dean starts to push me around.
"I'm not going to fight you Dean."
"Answer the question then.
Even if I don't get an answer from you I know one thing."
"What's that?"
"If you and Rory will get together you will just try to get inside her pants! That's a true fact!"
That's when I snap. I punch him at the nose and I push him in the lake.
"Don't think you know me Dean.
I came back to Stars Hollow because Rory asked me to!
You don't deserve her and you will NEVER get her back." I say and I start walking back to the diner.
I pass by Ms. Patty and Babette on the street and they understand what has happened.
When I enter the diner I see her. She's sitting by the counter, with her back against me.
Luke is standing behind the counter but looks up when he hears bell over the door jingle.
I walk behind the counter and I catch Rorys shocked look.
"Luke can I get some ice?"
"Sure, hold on a sec." He says and runs to fetch some ice in the kitchen.
He returns a second later with ice in a plasticbag and place it on my eye.
"Ow!! It hurts!!"
"It's known to do that when you put ice on a black eye."
"Yeah, I think I will manage now." I say and I walk up to the apartment.
Rory POV
He's back. I asked him to come back to me and he did.
I know where he got the black eye. From Dean,
it can't be from anyone else than Dean.
I look up and I see Luke standing infront of me.
"He came back today. I told him about you breaking up with Dean." He says and gives me another refill.
I smile at him and he smiles back.
My eyes wander to the stairs that leads up to the apartment, up to Jess.
Suddenly my mom enters the diner and sits down beside me.
"Is it true?" She says and looks at me like a child asking its mother for candy.
"What?"
"Is it true that Jess is back in town? And is it true that Dean and him fought?"
"Yes and yes."
"Where's Jess? Have you talked to him yet?"
(AN: Lorelai knows about the letter and she has excepted the fact that Rory is in love with Jess.)
"He's upstairs, in the apartment and NO I haven't talked to him yet."
"What?! What are you waiting for? He's right upstairs, not in New York anymore. Go and talk to the guy."
"But..."
"No buts, go!"
I know arguing with my own mother is useless and I know she's right.
I rise from my place by the counter; I walk behind the drapes and starts climbing the stairs.
To be continued....
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Name: Linn
E-mail: linnrothen@hotmail.com
Website: www.geocities.com/roryjess2002
Rating: G
Category: Romance/Angst
Paring: R/J
Spoilers: Teach me tonight, everything after that never happened.
Summary: Rory sends Jess a letter where she explains her love for him.
What will Jess do?
Its in Jess POV, but one part of the fanfic is Rorys POV.
Authors Note: English is not my first language.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jess POV
A man who had been sitting in the seat infront of me woke me up,
telling me that we where in Hartford.
I had been dreaming a wonderful dream about Rory and me.
I looked at my watch and saw that the time was twelve o'clock. I grabbed my things
and stepped of the bus.
It was lunchtime, which meant Rory had lunch now.
And she went to school in Hartford. I started to walk towards Chilton and
then I saw her, my angel. She was sitting all alone on a bench, reading a book.
I just stood there watching her and taking in all of her beauty.
After awhile of reading she stood up and walked back into the schoolbuilding and
I turned around and stepped on the bus to Stars Hollow.
Stars Hollow was just the same as it was when I first left.
People looked at me with big eyes and whispered.
When I was about to enter the diner I saw that the sign said closed.
I fished up the key from my pocket that I remembered forgetting to give Luke before I went back to New York.
The diner hadn't changed a bit. Even the broken toaster stood on its right place on the counter.
I walked behind the drapes and up the stairs. My things was packed in movingboxes now,
but I guess Luke never had the time to send them. I threw my things on the floor and
started to search through the boxes, looking for my CD's.
After awhile of searching I found every one of them. I put Nirvana in the stereo and turned the volume up.
Now people would notice that I was back for good.
I took my copy of The Fountainhead and I lay down on my bed.
A smile crept upon my face as I remembered the reason why I had this book in my hands.
I had made a promise, a promise to Rory. I had promised her to read this book if she would read Hemingway.
And I guess it didn't strike me until now.
It's going to be hard to talk to her again, after reading the letter from her.
The days in New York have been so hard not to think of her. Every little thing I do seems to remind me of her.
When I feel the smell of coffee I think of her, when I read a book I think of her and even when I just walk alone I think of her.
She's always on my mind.
Every she does seems to affect me, even if it's just walking through the door to the diner every day.
I notice the little things about her, the way she sighs loud when she's bored.
Or the way she looks at her feet when she's nervous.
Before I didn't know what love was, but Rory had a way of showing me what it was.
I talk directly from my heart, it's not my brain that's talking.
Ten minutes later I hear someone coming up the stairs. I think it's Luke and it is.
I sit up and he turns off the music.
"Hi Luke" I say.
"What are you doing here?" Luke says in chock.
"I'm moving back."
"What? Why?"
"Just wanted to."
"You want to move back, here, to Stars Hollow?"
"Yeah."
"It doesn't have anything to do with a person that begins with an R does it?"
"No."
I can tell by the look on his face that he doesn't believe me.
"Okay, you work in the diner tomorrow morning at eight."
He turns around and heads for the door and when he reaches it he says:
"And by the way Jess, she broke up with Dean yesterday and I KNOW it was because of you."
Then he leaves.
Tomorrow I have to see her, because she's going to come to Luke's.
She will know the reason why I'm back. Because of her.
It's strange how I, Jess Mariano can fall so hard for a girl like Rory.
So naive, so innocent and so much beauty.
I rose from my bed and I put the book in my pocket. I walked out of apartment and down the stairs.
When I enter the diner, the place is packed with people. Even Ms Patty and Babette are there.
I head for the door and Luke asks me where I'm going. I tell him that I'm going out and then I leave.
After awhile of walking around in the town I'm sitting on the bridge.
Here is where Rory and I spend a whole day together, having our little pickninck.
That was the day when I opened up to her.
We talked about everything, I told her about my life and she told me about hers.
It was perfect, even when we said good-bye. That was when I found her bracelet.
The bracelet Dean had given to her. I thought off running after her,
but then on second thought it felt nice having something that was hers.
So I didn't. I had her bracelet in my pocket every day,
but then two weeks after I took it she finally realized that she had lost it.
I could really see in her eyes that the stupid bracelet really meant something to her so I put it in her room.
And she found it. She was happy again. Her happiness is my happiness.
But this bridge reminds me of something bad to, not only happy times.
The reason why I was sent back to New York. The accident.
I remember sitting here after I had looked sure that Rory got to a hospital.
I still hit myself mentally for hurting her. She shouldn't have given the keys to me.
But it happened, I can't change that.
Someone who's moving fast on the bridge interrupts my thoughts.
I look up and a fist hits me on my left eye. I fall backwards and I see Dean standing over me.
"You stole her from me! She broke up with ME, because of YOU!!" He say pointing at me.
I push him away and I stand up quickly, ready to defend myself. I knew this day would come,
now or some other day. I start walking towards him and he backs.
"What? I don't know what you're talking about?" I say.
Who am I kidding? I do know what he's talking about.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Rory broke up with me because she thought that we have been drifting apart and
I know that's bullshit!"
"Maybe you don't know her that well."
By remark Dean gets even more and more angry than he alreday are.
"And you think you do?"
"You're her boyfriend, no ex-boyfriend and I'm her friend, that's a big diffrence in knowing her.
When you and Rory were together you just kissed.
But when I'm with her we have real conversations about books and music.
After what she have told me you never had anything incommon.
I'm not surprised that she broke up with you.
Ever since I came to Stars Hollow you have been watching her all the time,
afraid that I would take her away from you."
"And now you have."
"No, I haven't. You have lost her. Her life don't revolve around you all the time."
"You're wrong. You're back because of Rory aren't you?!"
When I don't answer Dean starts to push me around.
"I'm not going to fight you Dean."
"Answer the question then.
Even if I don't get an answer from you I know one thing."
"What's that?"
"If you and Rory will get together you will just try to get inside her pants! That's a true fact!"
That's when I snap. I punch him at the nose and I push him in the lake.
"Don't think you know me Dean.
I came back to Stars Hollow because Rory asked me to!
You don't deserve her and you will NEVER get her back." I say and I start walking back to the diner.
I pass by Ms. Patty and Babette on the street and they understand what has happened.
When I enter the diner I see her. She's sitting by the counter, with her back against me.
Luke is standing behind the counter but looks up when he hears bell over the door jingle.
I walk behind the counter and I catch Rorys shocked look.
"Luke can I get some ice?"
"Sure, hold on a sec." He says and runs to fetch some ice in the kitchen.
He returns a second later with ice in a plasticbag and place it on my eye.
"Ow!! It hurts!!"
"It's known to do that when you put ice on a black eye."
"Yeah, I think I will manage now." I say and I walk up to the apartment.
Rory POV
He's back. I asked him to come back to me and he did.
I know where he got the black eye. From Dean,
it can't be from anyone else than Dean.
I look up and I see Luke standing infront of me.
"He came back today. I told him about you breaking up with Dean." He says and gives me another refill.
I smile at him and he smiles back.
My eyes wander to the stairs that leads up to the apartment, up to Jess.
Suddenly my mom enters the diner and sits down beside me.
"Is it true?" She says and looks at me like a child asking its mother for candy.
"What?"
"Is it true that Jess is back in town? And is it true that Dean and him fought?"
"Yes and yes."
"Where's Jess? Have you talked to him yet?"
(AN: Lorelai knows about the letter and she has excepted the fact that Rory is in love with Jess.)
"He's upstairs, in the apartment and NO I haven't talked to him yet."
"What?! What are you waiting for? He's right upstairs, not in New York anymore. Go and talk to the guy."
"But..."
"No buts, go!"
I know arguing with my own mother is useless and I know she's right.
I rise from my place by the counter; I walk behind the drapes and starts climbing the stairs.
To be continued....
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