Believe
Disclaimer- I don't own Gilmore Girls or Dashboard Confessional's Carry this Picture or Carve Your heart Out of Yourself, both of which were the inspiration for this story.
Jess's POV'I was so lost, but now I believe' that line in that song just played in his mind over and over again. He had always believed in her. He was going to have her stand in the middle of the street and he was going to drive straight at her screaming in a foreign language, to get practice at being an overseas correspondent, they never got around to doing it though, even though they were just joking about it.
He had always believed she was going to be an overseas correspondent, and here she was like seven years later, on TV reporting about something or another, he wasn't really paying attention. He was just so happy for her, she did what she always wanted to do, but he was sad as well because he didn't get to help her achieve her dreams.
Rory's POV'To wish that she had never dreamt at all' the line in that song just kept repeating itself over and over again in her mind. While she was standing in some foreign country, wondering why she ever wanted to be an overseas correspondent in the first place.
She was remembering when he promised her that he would drive straight at her screaming in a foreign language, so she could practice being an overseas correspondent, they didn't get around to it, his dad came looking for him and she couldn't let him pass up an opportunity to get to know his dad, just because they were dating, so they broke up and he moved to California with his dad. He called her once and said that he really liked it out there, so he was at least going to stay until his dad kicked him out. While he was getting to know his dad, she was finishing at Yale and training to be an overseas correspondent. Now she had achieved her dream, but what about him.
She finished reporting on whatever she was reporting about, she was to consumed with her thoughts, she was just reading what they were telling her to read. She went back to her hotel and promptly fell asleep dreaming about Jess and what could've happened if he had stayed.