A/N: This is my first Lit fic. It may be cliché, but it has its exceptional things just out of my twisted mind.

Dedication: To my lovely beta, Rave, I love you girl, you are just wonderful! To my girlfriends Lena (just because I found you) and Sassy (because we share our Milo love). And Heather my 2nd Beta.

Pairing: Literati

Spoilers: everything on the show until now, before season 5, happened; and a couple of things in Season 5...

Rating: R (just to free my imagination) but PG for now...

Disclaimer: I just can't own anything! I'm too far away from hollywood!

Feedback: yes please, let me tell you what do you think!

Summary: Because sharing your life makes it so much better. The difficult part is to learn how to share, and how to get there.

Always in my mind

Chapert 2.- Common Ground

She was walking around when she noticed a lovely looking place, "Dodger's Cafe - Books and Coffee." It was in a corner, painted Irish dark green with big windows. From the outside it seemed quiet and peaceful.

Rory immediately felt intrigued by it. So she went inside. The atmosphere was incredible, it smelled like coffee beans and old books, humid pages, vintage ink and lightly smoky. Hard cover first edition books decorated all the walls in beautiful dark wood bookshelves and little wooden tables with comfy couches invited one to stay for hours and enjoy. The music choice was vintage rock music, strong, hard but not loudly played. She felt at home right away, and couldn't wait to bring Lorelai over some day when she came to visit her. She took a seat at one of the tables by a window, to see people walk by the street. The couch was comfortable, and soft, just like a couch should be, for you to stay in it and enjoy a big cup of coffee and a big thick book.

Immediately after she positioned herself in her table, a young girl, came and introduce herself as Jenny, her waitress. She was in her early twenties. She was thin and bubbly, with green eyes and short light brown hair. She seemed nice and smart. She definitely gave her a pretty good first impression, Rory thought while Jenny explained the "mechanisms" of the Café to her. She gave her a book, recommendation of the month, to read but not to take home, she pointed, the book was The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Rory had never heard about it, but Jenny said that it was a great love story, with angst and happiness just like life. And after that she gave her the menu.

The menu was a piece of art on its own. It appeared to be a book, an old used hard cover book. When you opened it you found the name of the cafe as the title, Dodger as the author and inside you had lots of coffee and eating options. Rory felt attracted to the idea, she was falling in love more and more with this place as she lived through what Jenny called the "Dodger's Coffee Experience".

Rory felt weird about some options though, she felt like she knew some things, or that she got the why's of the names. Rory didn't know what to order, she was debating between the "G-Force" Coffee option because it said "only for Java Addicted, black, industrial strength", or the"R-way, her way, the right way, strong, full of body and aroma." She stuck with the R-way, it seemed her kind of coffee, and indeed it was, it looked like the owner of this place knew her, knew everything about her. Food options had book names: Man and the sea, was a sea food salad, Oliver twist, was a Mediterranean green salad with olives and lemon dressing, food to go was called On the Road food. The menu was full of lyrics to Distillers songs and other Rock Bands songs, like The Clash...

But still looking at the menu, she started to get suspicious, "Dodger's drink – stolen beers" was something she could related to, or the notes in the margin of the book, or in the menu, or maybe it was the food options, or the "Look Healthy food, not your choice".

Or maybe it was that this was HIS city. She had never received any news of him in the past years, after that night at her dorm, when she said NO! To him and broke both of their hearts. She knew Luke talked to him from time to time, and came to visit sometimes, but she couldn't bring herself to ask about him, to talk to Luke or Lorelai about him. But she wanted to know, but never dared to search for him, to contact him.

And now she suddenly felt like she was back in his life, he was invading her thoughts, like she couldn't stop thinking how much he would love this place. It was a vivid reflection of what she knew about him. But that was years ago, maybe he was a completely different person now. Or maybe he wasn't even in the City anymore. Jess was a free spirit, that she knew for sure, so she guessed he was travelling around the world, living like Kerouac, or Hemingway, a life full of experiences and passions.