A/N: This takes place right where I left off in the last chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own it.

Rory arrived at the cramped building. Ellie was right, it was pretty hard to miss. She paid the Taxi driver and walked to the door. It took her a couple of seconds to work up her nerve, but she finally entered.

She approached a scruffy man at the front desk.

"I'm looking for Jess Mariano." Rory stated politely. The man looked down at a book really quick and stated.

"Third door on the right."

"Thank you." Rory left the desk and knocked on the door. When she heard a muffled 'huh' she entered. "Hi."

"Hi. This is a surprise. How did you know where I work?

"I ran into Ellie at the record store and she told me."

"Oh okay." There was a silence and Jess broke it. "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to talk to you. Not fight with you, talk to you."

"I'm kind of working. Can we talk another time?"

"Yeah, of course. I'll just give you the number to my hotel room." Rory got out a pen and wrote the number on his hand. "You can put it on paper later."

"Okay. I'll call you."

"You will?"

"Yeah."

"Okay… Then I guess I'll talk to you then."

"Yes you will."

Rory got up and left. Still not what she was hoping for, but he did say he would call her. And it seemed like he meant it.

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That night Jess came home to an extremely upset Ellie. He could tell because she was power cleaning, and she always cleaned when she was upset or angry.

"What's wrong?" Jess asked cautiously.

"Nothing." Ellie responded coldly and moved to the dishes. She pulled up her sleeves and as she reached for a dirty plate Jess saw a flash of red on her wrist. He shot up out of his seat at the kitchen table and grabbed Ellie's wrist forcefully causing her to drop the plate in the sink. "Ow."

"What the fuck, Ellie?" Jess was staring at a recently cut wrist. Ellie quickly pulled her wrist back and continued cleaning that plate. Jess turned off the sink and turned Ellie towards him, holding her by the shoulders.

"Jess, let me go." Ellie let out slowly.

"No. You're going to tell me what's going on. You promised me you wouldn't do that again." Jess was looking into Ellie adverted eyes when she turned them to his eyes.

"Yeah, well I broke my promise."

"Why?"

"Because!" Ellie screamed pulling out of Jess' grasp. "You don't talk anymore! You've been so distant since Rory came and I can't get you to talk to me! You don't love me as much as you love her, I can tell! I love you, I gave you my heart! But now I feel empty because you didn't have yours in the first place to give to me! Rory has yours and you have mine and I'm stuck here with nothing!" Ellie now had tears flowing down both of her cheeks and was struggling to keep standing.

"Ellie…" Jess started in a soft tone.

"No." Ellie interrupted him forcefully. "I'm going to Veronica's tonight. You need to figure this out. I can't be here with you right now. I can't be here with you and… her." Ellie walked over to the couch, grabbed her already-packed duffle bag and swung it over her shoulder.

"Ellie, don't do this." Jess stepped towards her but she stepped back.

"Call me when you've made up your mind. I love you."

Jess watched Ellie's tear stained face look at him, turn and leave.

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A few minutes after Ellie left Jess stood there staring at the closed door. Then he looked at his hand, grabbed the phone, and dialed the number of Rory's hotel room.

"Hello?" Her voice rang through the phone.

Jess couldn't say anything. Maybe Ellie was right, but he needed to think about this before he spoke to Rory. He hung up.

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A/N: I know short. And I know you all want to kill me for making it so short, but it was really a good place to end this chapter. This fan fiction won't be long. Only like 1-3 chapters left. I know. Sad… And I feel bad for Ellie. It's sad. Makes you wanna cry for her. :'(… Okay well, Review! Now! Please?