A/N: I drove you guys crazy with the ending of chapter 5, didn't I? The reviews were amazing, don't stop! I was going to start writing this right after I posted chapter 5, but I had complete writer's block. I also don't want to write anyone in a bad way even though it's inevitable. I made a Rory/Jess music video. Please go see and you can review it here. dlwainwright(dot)iweb(dot)bsu(dot)edu(slash)dl(dot)html. The music is Ben Lee – Gamble Everything for Love. EDIT: You might need to update codecs to see the video. This makes me sad because most people are probably too lazy to do so. It is pretty cool, at least I think so (and I'm entitled to since I am the maker). I apologize if it doesn't work but in any case, go download (or better yet, buy!) Ben Lee's album "Awake is the New Sleep". Do it!

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, I steal!

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Jess looked up at Rory, who appeared very shell-shocked. She wasn't moving or talking and she was barely even breathing. The only movement she did was to turn back and forth between him and the other guy, who Jess assumed had to be Logan. Jess couldn't help thinking that if he was the other guy in the situation, someone would probably be bleeding. But that was the old Jess. "Rory," he said and she slowly turned back to face him. She looked down into his eyes and he could see she was scared.

"Don't you say anything," Logan spat at Jess. He turned to Rory, "Get off of him." The anger was filling his eyes, and Jess became very protective of Rory. He didn't know if Logan had ever hit her, but there was no way he was going to let it happen.

Jess pried his fingers apart from hers and wrapped his arms around her back, Logan just staring in bewilderment. He stood up slowly and Rory's legs were limp on his sides.

"What do you think you're doing?" Logan asked and finally walked around to the other side of the couch.

Jess laid Rory down on the couch, she looked like she had turned to jelly. "Stay away from her, this is between you and me." He put one hand out to keep Logan far enough away from him and then started walking. Logan backed up until they were on the other side of the couch again, near the door.

Jess knew he was testing Logan's patience, but Logan moved where he led him. They were positioned so that Rory couldn't see them, even if she woke up from her comatose state.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Logan yelled at Jess. "Why the fuck do you think you should protect Rory? She's MY girlfriend!"

"I'm Jess and if you knew Rory at all, you would know who I am!" Jess's patience was quickly fleeting. "I love her and I can treat her better than you ever could!"

"You don't even know me," Logan said and shoved Jess, ignoring his still outreached arm. "You don't know what's good for her." He shoved Jess again.

"I know exactly what is good for her, and trust me," Jess said and looked down at Logan's hands which had grasped his shirt collar. "You do NOT want to be doing that."

"Oh yeah? What are you going to do about it?" Logan pushed Jess up against Paris' door. "Or are you a pacifist."

He said pacifist like it was an insult, "I'm just past my fighting years, I'm not 15 anymore." Jess just let Logan rough-handle him. He obviously knew nothing about Rory. If she was around them right now, she's be yelling at Logan and praising Jess. This was the best way of any to prove that he'd changed. "I'm not going to say that I'm not going to take Rory away. She deserves more than you. I'm going to be with her, and the more you fight me, the more you hurt me, the more she's going to want to be with me."

"Well if I'm going to lose her anyways," Logan said and took his hands off Jess's collar, "I better go out in style."

This guy got into Yale? Thank God for money, right? Jess wanted to shake his head at the stupidity of Logan's statement but he was incapacitated by a blow to the cheek. His face stung but he didn't fall to the ground. He was too strong to let Logan do this to him. Jess got a knee to the groin and fell.

After a kick to the stomach, Jess could see Logan walk towards the couch. His vision was blurred by the involuntary tears and he wanted nothing more than to be by Rory. He could hear Logan yelling and couldn't tell if Rory was saying anything. Jess focused all his attention trying to figure out what they were saying before he passed out from the pain.

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Rory heard her phone ringing in her bag near the door. She opened her eyes and was thankful to not see Logan standing over her still. She had laid there on the couch for what seemed like an eternity, staring at Logan. He had yelled at her and shook her and she didn't react at all. She hadn't really reacted to anything since Logan first came into the room.

Her phone kept ringing, she needed to get up and answer it. Rory didn't know how much time had passed since Logan left. She hadn't seen Jess either. She couldn't hear anything. She needed to move.

Answer the phone. Check on Jess. Just get up, she thought. Her phone stopped ringing by the time she managed to move her arms. Rory grasped the back of the couch and propped herself up. Her body was deadweight. When she looked over to her bag that had started ringing again, she saw Jess. He was passed out on the floor in front of Paris' door. He was literally passed out, not just in shock.

Rory's heart raced and her body sprung into motion. She checked to make sure he was still breathing and went to answer her phone. She didn't even look at the caller id before answering. "Oh my god," she said, seeing the bruise on Jess's face.

"Honey, what's wrong?" Lorelai said on the other end. "Rory?"

"Mom? Mom!"

"Rory, baby, what's wrong, say something!"

"Jess is unconscious. His face is bruised and he's all curled up. What am I supposed to do Mom?" Rory's mind was running a mile a minute. She couldn't think clearly.

"Is he breathing?"

"Of course he's breathing! Do you think I'd be here if he wasn't breathing?"

"Honey, lay him down somewhere. Get him off of the floor. Keep him on his side and be gentle with him," Lorelai advised her daughter.

"Should I take him to the hospital?" Rory hated hospitals but she had to take care of him.

"Is he bleeding?"

"No, he's just bruised. There's no blood anywhere."

"Get him on the couch or your bed or somewhere. Wherever you think he'd be the most comfortable. He'll wake up soon, I promise sweety."

"Mom?" Rory said right before hanging up, "I'm scared."

"I know."

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Jess woke up to excruciating pain. It was dark and he couldn't tell where he was. He could only remember bits and pieces from the fight that had rendered him unconscious. He was protecting Rory, being the bigger man. Now he felt like the weaker man. His face was throbbing, his groin painfully numb, and his stomach felt like someone had hit him with a bag of bricks. The pain in his stomach was made worse by the arm that was draped around him, until he realized who the arm belonged to.

"Rory," he asked quietly. "Are you awake?"

"Jess?" Rory pulled him tighter to her and he grunted with pain. "I'm so sorry!" She took her arm off him and kept it to herself.

"No," he said stubbornly. "Don't let go." She tentatively put her arm back around him. "I'd rather be in pain than to not be touching you."

"Jess?"

"Rory?"

"Why'd you come back?"

"You."

"Just me?"

"Just you."

Ok people, I know the last section was really small…but after sitting here for an hour with Rory's question, I just couldn't figure out where to go. I'm guessing it's going to get fluffier from here on. Probably naughty fluff from the way my mind's going. Go to my music video (link above). Tell me what you want to see, and I can pretty much assure you it'll be there. (Wow, another long A/N…I'll shut up now.)