Rating: PG-13 for references to adult concepts and language (didn't that
sound professional!) mainly towards the end when Jess is speaking.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls if you thought I did, you have problems.
Summary: Summary: What if Jess hadn't been able to go to California, what if there was something holding him back. (Literati) NEW EXCITING CHAPTER, IT IS NOT FILLER.
Author's Note: Hey guys, I'm really sorry that I haven't updated as soon as I had hoped, but I was a little preoccupied with a few major things, including watching the real show, cause Jess is back! Anyway, I hope you all like this and I will be sure not to make this fic not LIT, because I ONLY do lit. This chapter was super fun and hard to write so please enjoy and review.
Dedication: This one is for X-identaty and coffeechick87. X-identaty gave me the marvelous idea for the end of this chapter. And coffeechick87 was the comedic relief with Miss Patty's costume. I love you guys and everyone else; please review and I'll dedicated to you too!
Chapter 7:Finally Out of the Margins
"Here, ye, here ye," Taylor called out to the crowd of Star's Hollow residents. He was dressed as King Henry II, and Gypsy, looking bored half to death, was dressed in a crinkled Eleanor of Aquitaine costume. "The time for voting has now begun! Please make your way over to the voting booth to vote for your favorite couple before two o' clock when we will count the ballots and declare a winner!"
There were a few joyous shouts from the crowd, but not enough to convince an outside onlooker that they were at all excited.
Jess and Rory walked over to Kirk and Lorelai who were in full costume, mostly made by Kirk's mother. "Nice spandex, lover boy," Lorelai teased Jess.
"This was your daughters idea," he grumbled, looking down at his costume. It consisted of a decorated blue and red vest with puffy sleeves over a tight blue shirt, and puffy little red shorts over blue tights.
"You bet it was," laughed Rory, who was dressed in a beautiful light pink flowing dress with gold trim. Her hair was pulled back in a low braid tied together with a tiny gold ribbon. "You look quite lovely, Miss Capulet," Lorelai complemented.
"As do you," replied Rory looking at the gold beaded headpiece on Lorelai's head.
"How do I look?" Kirk asked putting emphasis on the word I.
"You look good too Kirk, I especially like that color on you."
"Thank you, that was mother's idea," he said looking down at his red wine colored ensemble.
They we're abruptly interrupted by Miss Patty, who had a tight grip of poor Luke's wrist. He was dressed in a pair of tight jeans and leatherjacket with his hair all big and gelled back. Rory assumed that he was trying to copy Ben Affleck in Gigli. He finally caught up with her, and his breath. "You look very nice, Miss Patty," smiled Lorelai, trying not to laugh. Miss Patty was dressed in the famous "green dress" with the plunging what could be called neckline, but really was nowhere near her neck, that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Oscar's one year. Jess winced and Rory pinched his hand, to make him stop, although, Rory agreed that Miss Patty should have chosen a less revealing outfit of J.Lo's.
"Why thank you, sugar, you look quite wonderful yourself," Miss Patty beamed to Lorelai, "Oh, and you two look as cute as can be! What a perfect match you make" she said; now speaking to Rory and Jess. Rory smiled, although that was the overstatement of the year.
"Thanks, Patty, we couldn't have been able to do it without you," Rory smiled.
"Yeah," added Jess, only glancing quickly up at Miss Patty's face, being sure to avoid seeing too much, and then back down to his blue leather boots.
"We better go vote," Rory said, and tugged on Jess's arm to make him come with her.
"Thanks."
"No problem," she smiled looking into his deep chocolate eyes, then quickly snapping out of her trace she said, "Who do you think we should vote for?'
"I say your mom and Kirk, I think that Luke would kick me out of the apartment if we voted for him and Miss Patty."
"Yeah that wouldn't be good, so mom and Kirk it is, let's go get it over with," she said, grabbing Jess's hand and intertwining her fingers between his.
"Okay."
Rory could tell that Jess was nervous to be around her for so long. She was still angry with him, but something about him just made her stay around. She hated that she didn't know anything about why he was back. She hated that she couldn't read him like the many books he had filled with his thoughts. They knew more than see did. They could read beneath the scratched out words. She felt that that was the only way he had ever really opened up to her. In the margins of books.
"You done yet," he called, waiting outside the voting curtain.
"Uh huh," she said, pulling back the curtain, flashing Jess a flirtatious smile, "Wanna go check out the feast?" asked Rory symbolizing air quotes around the word feast with her fingers.
"Sure." The two walked over to a long white table covered in food from every era. There was everything, and of course it was all cooked beautifully by Suki.
"My, my, you two look absolutely great," greeted an incredibly bubbly Suki, who was dressed in a long brown wig and a black dress.
"So do you, Suki, and the food is amazing too, but if you don't mind me asking, who are you today?"
"Oh, that's okay, sweetie, it's because my partner isn't with me. Oh, Ashton!" she called.
"What?" called a stumbling Dean who obviously hadn't shaved in a few days and was dressed in a pin-stripped suit and trucker hat to look like Ashton Kutcher to Suki's Demi Moore.
"Now, you get it?" Suki asked.
"You bet, hey Dean."
"Hey, Rory, Jess," Dean said, nodding to Jess.
"Mmm," Jess acknowledged Dean with a grunt.
"We'll see you guys," Rory said, tugging Jess away as to not cause another version of the result of Kyle's party.
Jess and Rory walked around for a little while. They soon bumped into Babette who was dressed in a fairy costume.
"Mmm, mmm, mmm," squealed Babette, "Aren't we looking scrumptious today?"
Jess winced at this, fifty plus year old women checking him out was not his favorite thing to think about.
"Hi Babette," Rory smiled, trying to be polite.
"Jackson, get over here!" sure enough Jackson appeared in a more masculine version of Babette's apparel.
"Let me guess, Titania and Oberon of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, right?" Jess smirked.
"You bet, doll, say, how'd you know that?"
"I guess I do a bit of reading here and there," he smirked.
"Well it was nice to see you guys," Jackson said, "let's go try some food cooked by my lovely wife, who I am being very faithful to. I love her very much and this means nothing, nothing at all. You all are my eye witnesses!"
"We know Jackson, Suki doesn't mind, she's here with Dean too, Jackson!" Babette said following and calling after Jackson.
"Now," Taylor called standing in the gazebo with Gypsy, looking even more bored, "if you would all turn your attention to me I would be able to announce the King and Queen of the festival."
The crowd didn't move. "Listen up people, we are picking the people who are finally going to get me off of this awful stage. If you don't listen up I will have to start throwing things, starting with Taylor! And nobody wants to me knocked to the ground by Taylor in tights!" Gypsy screamed into the megaphone with her thick Spanish accent. That got everyone's attention right away.
"Okay, people. I'm now going to announce the King and Queen of the festival," Taylor called again, "Your elected King and Queen are Rory and Jess as Romeo and Juliet." The crowd clapped wildly. Rory immediately thought that her mother had something to do with this, but when she got on stage the look on her horrified mother's face automatically dismissed that idea from her head. She was mortified. She never thought that they would win. They were probably the most unlikely couple, because they were the only ones who had any history. They were the only ones that had any problems. They hadn't prepared a speech, so Rory figured that she would just start off in some direction and Jess would wrap up whatever she had started, he was good at ending things.
"Um," she started, "First of all, we would both like to thank you all for voting for us. This is a huge surprise, and honor, and since we didn't expect it, we don't have a speech prepared. Um, we really shouldn't be up here, I mean, you see, well um, uh, um." She paused and looked at Jess who had the most puzzled look on his face. "Well, you see we really aren't anything like Romeo and Juliet. We aren't open with each other we don't do anything like that. We don't recite poetic love poems to each other, because he doesn't do stuff like that. And, I know this guy would never kill himself for me. I mean, he left me without saying goodbye twice and I don't even know why he's back because he won't tell me! What do you think about that? Maybe its just because he's in trouble with some little bald guy in a suit that has big body guards and owes them money. How should I know? I mean really do you think that is worthy of being treated like royalty?"
"God, Rory," Jess grabbed the microphone out of her hand and gave her the most hurt look she had ever seen. "Why, do you have to be like this? You want to know why I'm back, so I'll tell you, okay? I'm back because I have nowhere else to go. I went out to California to find my dad, because he I never got a chance to know him. I don't know what it's like to have a parent that loves me, so I thought I would see if I had one. My mom gave me away, because she cared more about getting drunk, high and laid than she did about me. But guess what? He didn't want me either!" Jess screamed staring Rory right in the deep sky blue eyes. He continued, "He had started a new life without me. He left me, Rory. Now he has a girlfriend and an eight-year-old girl to look after. He owns a hot dog stand down in Venice Beach! He wanted his new life, so much that he told me to leave. He couldn't afford me. He told me to go back to wherever I came from and leave him alone forever. He told me that he didn't care whatever the hell happened to me, as long as I didn't ever bother him again. I could have gone back to New York and live with my mom and whatever drug-addicted scum bag she's now sleeping with, but I decided to come here. Do you know why? It's because here is the only place where there are people that care about me like I care about them. I've got Luke who has been the world to me and the closest thing to a father I will ever have, and I hope I still have you." He paused and Rory saw that he was on the verge of tears, "And you know what? I probably would die for you, because, Rory Gilmore, I love you. I've always loved you. I'm sorry I didn't graduate. I'm sorry I couldn't take you to prom. I'm sorry for every second you have ever doubted my love for you. Every ounce of pain I have caused you. I'm sorry I left you without saying goodbye. But good-byes are really hard for me, Rory. I've never really had to say that to many to people I actually care about. To me, good-byes mean that I'll never see that person again. So I felt like if there was no closure, there would still be hope. I hate the fact that I had to keep this from you, but you live in a community where the whole town loves you. I mean, come on, this is why we are even standing up here. I've had tons of shit to deal with and you probably haven't even heard of half of the stuff I have been through. I can't change what I have done, but I can change what will happen in the future. So, Rory Gilmore, never, ever tell me that I don't love you. Because I do," Jess said, took a long deep breath and looked at the astonished audience who had their mouths and eyes wide open, and then back at Rory, and said a little more quietly "I just wish that you felt the same." And with that Jess stormed off the stage and ran into Luke's, slamming the door behind him.
Rory ran off the stage after Jess. She bolted up the stairs to catch up with Jess. She tugged at the doorknob to Luke's. "Jess! Jess! Please!" she called. But it was no use, the door was locked. Rory turned around and leaned against the door. She slid down it, landing in a pink and gold heap on Luke's doorstep. She put her head in her hands and cried.
*I hope you guys liked this. Please tell me what you think. Remember all will be well for Rory and Jess, but there are quite a few surprises up me sleeve, so stay tuned. I love you all and please review so that I will have ideas for me next chapter because I have a feeling that if I don't get reviews, the next chapter will take a while to update. Until next time, Carie
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls if you thought I did, you have problems.
Summary: Summary: What if Jess hadn't been able to go to California, what if there was something holding him back. (Literati) NEW EXCITING CHAPTER, IT IS NOT FILLER.
Author's Note: Hey guys, I'm really sorry that I haven't updated as soon as I had hoped, but I was a little preoccupied with a few major things, including watching the real show, cause Jess is back! Anyway, I hope you all like this and I will be sure not to make this fic not LIT, because I ONLY do lit. This chapter was super fun and hard to write so please enjoy and review.
Dedication: This one is for X-identaty and coffeechick87. X-identaty gave me the marvelous idea for the end of this chapter. And coffeechick87 was the comedic relief with Miss Patty's costume. I love you guys and everyone else; please review and I'll dedicated to you too!
Chapter 7:Finally Out of the Margins
"Here, ye, here ye," Taylor called out to the crowd of Star's Hollow residents. He was dressed as King Henry II, and Gypsy, looking bored half to death, was dressed in a crinkled Eleanor of Aquitaine costume. "The time for voting has now begun! Please make your way over to the voting booth to vote for your favorite couple before two o' clock when we will count the ballots and declare a winner!"
There were a few joyous shouts from the crowd, but not enough to convince an outside onlooker that they were at all excited.
Jess and Rory walked over to Kirk and Lorelai who were in full costume, mostly made by Kirk's mother. "Nice spandex, lover boy," Lorelai teased Jess.
"This was your daughters idea," he grumbled, looking down at his costume. It consisted of a decorated blue and red vest with puffy sleeves over a tight blue shirt, and puffy little red shorts over blue tights.
"You bet it was," laughed Rory, who was dressed in a beautiful light pink flowing dress with gold trim. Her hair was pulled back in a low braid tied together with a tiny gold ribbon. "You look quite lovely, Miss Capulet," Lorelai complemented.
"As do you," replied Rory looking at the gold beaded headpiece on Lorelai's head.
"How do I look?" Kirk asked putting emphasis on the word I.
"You look good too Kirk, I especially like that color on you."
"Thank you, that was mother's idea," he said looking down at his red wine colored ensemble.
They we're abruptly interrupted by Miss Patty, who had a tight grip of poor Luke's wrist. He was dressed in a pair of tight jeans and leatherjacket with his hair all big and gelled back. Rory assumed that he was trying to copy Ben Affleck in Gigli. He finally caught up with her, and his breath. "You look very nice, Miss Patty," smiled Lorelai, trying not to laugh. Miss Patty was dressed in the famous "green dress" with the plunging what could be called neckline, but really was nowhere near her neck, that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Oscar's one year. Jess winced and Rory pinched his hand, to make him stop, although, Rory agreed that Miss Patty should have chosen a less revealing outfit of J.Lo's.
"Why thank you, sugar, you look quite wonderful yourself," Miss Patty beamed to Lorelai, "Oh, and you two look as cute as can be! What a perfect match you make" she said; now speaking to Rory and Jess. Rory smiled, although that was the overstatement of the year.
"Thanks, Patty, we couldn't have been able to do it without you," Rory smiled.
"Yeah," added Jess, only glancing quickly up at Miss Patty's face, being sure to avoid seeing too much, and then back down to his blue leather boots.
"We better go vote," Rory said, and tugged on Jess's arm to make him come with her.
"Thanks."
"No problem," she smiled looking into his deep chocolate eyes, then quickly snapping out of her trace she said, "Who do you think we should vote for?'
"I say your mom and Kirk, I think that Luke would kick me out of the apartment if we voted for him and Miss Patty."
"Yeah that wouldn't be good, so mom and Kirk it is, let's go get it over with," she said, grabbing Jess's hand and intertwining her fingers between his.
"Okay."
Rory could tell that Jess was nervous to be around her for so long. She was still angry with him, but something about him just made her stay around. She hated that she didn't know anything about why he was back. She hated that she couldn't read him like the many books he had filled with his thoughts. They knew more than see did. They could read beneath the scratched out words. She felt that that was the only way he had ever really opened up to her. In the margins of books.
"You done yet," he called, waiting outside the voting curtain.
"Uh huh," she said, pulling back the curtain, flashing Jess a flirtatious smile, "Wanna go check out the feast?" asked Rory symbolizing air quotes around the word feast with her fingers.
"Sure." The two walked over to a long white table covered in food from every era. There was everything, and of course it was all cooked beautifully by Suki.
"My, my, you two look absolutely great," greeted an incredibly bubbly Suki, who was dressed in a long brown wig and a black dress.
"So do you, Suki, and the food is amazing too, but if you don't mind me asking, who are you today?"
"Oh, that's okay, sweetie, it's because my partner isn't with me. Oh, Ashton!" she called.
"What?" called a stumbling Dean who obviously hadn't shaved in a few days and was dressed in a pin-stripped suit and trucker hat to look like Ashton Kutcher to Suki's Demi Moore.
"Now, you get it?" Suki asked.
"You bet, hey Dean."
"Hey, Rory, Jess," Dean said, nodding to Jess.
"Mmm," Jess acknowledged Dean with a grunt.
"We'll see you guys," Rory said, tugging Jess away as to not cause another version of the result of Kyle's party.
Jess and Rory walked around for a little while. They soon bumped into Babette who was dressed in a fairy costume.
"Mmm, mmm, mmm," squealed Babette, "Aren't we looking scrumptious today?"
Jess winced at this, fifty plus year old women checking him out was not his favorite thing to think about.
"Hi Babette," Rory smiled, trying to be polite.
"Jackson, get over here!" sure enough Jackson appeared in a more masculine version of Babette's apparel.
"Let me guess, Titania and Oberon of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, right?" Jess smirked.
"You bet, doll, say, how'd you know that?"
"I guess I do a bit of reading here and there," he smirked.
"Well it was nice to see you guys," Jackson said, "let's go try some food cooked by my lovely wife, who I am being very faithful to. I love her very much and this means nothing, nothing at all. You all are my eye witnesses!"
"We know Jackson, Suki doesn't mind, she's here with Dean too, Jackson!" Babette said following and calling after Jackson.
"Now," Taylor called standing in the gazebo with Gypsy, looking even more bored, "if you would all turn your attention to me I would be able to announce the King and Queen of the festival."
The crowd didn't move. "Listen up people, we are picking the people who are finally going to get me off of this awful stage. If you don't listen up I will have to start throwing things, starting with Taylor! And nobody wants to me knocked to the ground by Taylor in tights!" Gypsy screamed into the megaphone with her thick Spanish accent. That got everyone's attention right away.
"Okay, people. I'm now going to announce the King and Queen of the festival," Taylor called again, "Your elected King and Queen are Rory and Jess as Romeo and Juliet." The crowd clapped wildly. Rory immediately thought that her mother had something to do with this, but when she got on stage the look on her horrified mother's face automatically dismissed that idea from her head. She was mortified. She never thought that they would win. They were probably the most unlikely couple, because they were the only ones who had any history. They were the only ones that had any problems. They hadn't prepared a speech, so Rory figured that she would just start off in some direction and Jess would wrap up whatever she had started, he was good at ending things.
"Um," she started, "First of all, we would both like to thank you all for voting for us. This is a huge surprise, and honor, and since we didn't expect it, we don't have a speech prepared. Um, we really shouldn't be up here, I mean, you see, well um, uh, um." She paused and looked at Jess who had the most puzzled look on his face. "Well, you see we really aren't anything like Romeo and Juliet. We aren't open with each other we don't do anything like that. We don't recite poetic love poems to each other, because he doesn't do stuff like that. And, I know this guy would never kill himself for me. I mean, he left me without saying goodbye twice and I don't even know why he's back because he won't tell me! What do you think about that? Maybe its just because he's in trouble with some little bald guy in a suit that has big body guards and owes them money. How should I know? I mean really do you think that is worthy of being treated like royalty?"
"God, Rory," Jess grabbed the microphone out of her hand and gave her the most hurt look she had ever seen. "Why, do you have to be like this? You want to know why I'm back, so I'll tell you, okay? I'm back because I have nowhere else to go. I went out to California to find my dad, because he I never got a chance to know him. I don't know what it's like to have a parent that loves me, so I thought I would see if I had one. My mom gave me away, because she cared more about getting drunk, high and laid than she did about me. But guess what? He didn't want me either!" Jess screamed staring Rory right in the deep sky blue eyes. He continued, "He had started a new life without me. He left me, Rory. Now he has a girlfriend and an eight-year-old girl to look after. He owns a hot dog stand down in Venice Beach! He wanted his new life, so much that he told me to leave. He couldn't afford me. He told me to go back to wherever I came from and leave him alone forever. He told me that he didn't care whatever the hell happened to me, as long as I didn't ever bother him again. I could have gone back to New York and live with my mom and whatever drug-addicted scum bag she's now sleeping with, but I decided to come here. Do you know why? It's because here is the only place where there are people that care about me like I care about them. I've got Luke who has been the world to me and the closest thing to a father I will ever have, and I hope I still have you." He paused and Rory saw that he was on the verge of tears, "And you know what? I probably would die for you, because, Rory Gilmore, I love you. I've always loved you. I'm sorry I didn't graduate. I'm sorry I couldn't take you to prom. I'm sorry for every second you have ever doubted my love for you. Every ounce of pain I have caused you. I'm sorry I left you without saying goodbye. But good-byes are really hard for me, Rory. I've never really had to say that to many to people I actually care about. To me, good-byes mean that I'll never see that person again. So I felt like if there was no closure, there would still be hope. I hate the fact that I had to keep this from you, but you live in a community where the whole town loves you. I mean, come on, this is why we are even standing up here. I've had tons of shit to deal with and you probably haven't even heard of half of the stuff I have been through. I can't change what I have done, but I can change what will happen in the future. So, Rory Gilmore, never, ever tell me that I don't love you. Because I do," Jess said, took a long deep breath and looked at the astonished audience who had their mouths and eyes wide open, and then back at Rory, and said a little more quietly "I just wish that you felt the same." And with that Jess stormed off the stage and ran into Luke's, slamming the door behind him.
Rory ran off the stage after Jess. She bolted up the stairs to catch up with Jess. She tugged at the doorknob to Luke's. "Jess! Jess! Please!" she called. But it was no use, the door was locked. Rory turned around and leaned against the door. She slid down it, landing in a pink and gold heap on Luke's doorstep. She put her head in her hands and cried.
*I hope you guys liked this. Please tell me what you think. Remember all will be well for Rory and Jess, but there are quite a few surprises up me sleeve, so stay tuned. I love you all and please review so that I will have ideas for me next chapter because I have a feeling that if I don't get reviews, the next chapter will take a while to update. Until next time, Carie