Chapter 7

It has been 5 years since Sam ran away from Dean and his father and 5 years since Dean had left his father to go look for him.

Sam, now Dean, was in a bit of a predicament. He had gotten married to a lovely girl named Lindsey and part of the reason for this was because Rory, now his ex, had broken his heart and started dating Jess (the massive asshole who loves himself and thinks he's so cool).

Dean still loved Rory. Rory still loved Dean. But they both wouldn't tell each other.

It was late in the evening and Dean was at the arcade as usual, Lindsey and her mom didn't like him being in the house when they cleaned up. He had played every single game in the arcade, he had gotten every high score and the employee that worked at the desk even offered him a job there one time so that tells you how much time he spends there.

Whilst playing one of his favourite games, he heard the bell above the door ring indicating that someone had entered. That someone was Luke.

Whilst having a conversation, Dean got distracted because he saw Rory getting out of her car across the street; he quickly ripped his gaze away from her and focused on finishing the conversation hoping Luke didn't notice.

After that he had been trying to find extra jobs; 1. To get more money for his life with Lindsey (which was crap by the way) and 2. To try and get Rory out of his mind.

Tom (a contractor for construction) rang Dean about a job, he of course accepted but after Tom told him where it was he hesitated.

So he did what he thought was right, he dialled the number that was embedded into his brain.

Rory Gilmore. He had gotten the job at her mother's Inn and asked if that was okay. Thankfully she had said that was fine and he called Tom back and told him he would take it.

That job led to many encounters with the youngest Gilmore girl, also many with the other Gilmore girl too but that was expected. One encounter was when Rory was trying to find her mother and she looked pretty upset about it and when he had taken her outside to talk about it she had broken down into hysterics.

He comforted her and told her everything would be okay. He felt his heart swell when she fell into him. He was so in love with her, he was going to hell for the thoughts that were swirling around his head at that moment so he adjusted himself on the bench they were on and carried on hugging her.

Also when they almost kissed when Dean was trying to carry a door into the Inn.

That evening Rory went home to collect some CD's for The Dragonfly Inn. She heard a knock at the backdoor and went to answer it.

She opened to it to find Dean, he sighed, "Hey!" He had a slight smile on his face.

"How'd you know I was here?" Rory asked with an awkward look on her face.

"You're mom said she sent you on an errand." Dean said breathlessly, taking Rory's beauty in.

"Ah, you went right to the source." Rory says with a slight laugh.

Dean chuckled, thinking 'This girl is the definition of perfect'.

He motioned to inside and asked, "Can I?-"

Cutting him off Rory says, "Sure." Moving to the side away from the door. "Thanks. Dean said quietly, walking into the Gilmore residence.

Rory quickly moved to shut the door before moving towards her bedroom where she was searching through CD's. "I'm just trying to find some CD's for The Dragonfly."

"I hear, Uh, Taylor's a big hip hop fan." Dean says trying to lift the awkwardness that was in the air.

Rory, catching on with this, replies, "Oh, he hops with the hippest of 'em." Dean chuckles lightly following Rory into her room.

Once again, with a chuckle Dean says, " Your room looks the same."

"Yeah, I tried that whole French Revival thing but...didn't really work for me." Rory said whilst picking up a stack of CD's and placing them in a box.

Dean looks at Rory with love in his eyes; Rory turns to look at him feeling his gaze on her.

Dean quickly smiles, "So um is it weird? Being back at home? After being away for a while?"

"No, feels completely normal." Rory responds, awkwardly moving the CD's around to look somewhat busy so she didn't have to look at Dean's handsome face.

"So um..." Dean starts but interrupts himself with a breathy laugh and looking down. "Today." They had had a near kiss earlier on; Tom interrupted them though before anything happened.

Rory, understanding what Dean meant, responds. "Yes, today." Rory was looking down during this because she didn't want to do something she regretted.

"An interesting...day." Dean said, getting closer to Rory.

"I'd authorise a case study if I could." She nodded placing the remaining CD's away on her beside table.

"Y-you know I-I-I could be wrong but somehow I had a feeling that maybe if Tom hadn't of come in when he did-" Rory cut Dean off immediately, "Dean..."

"Yeah?" Dean says hoping for something good. "Lindsey."

"It's not working with Lindsey...I can't make it work, I've tried." Dean shakes his head multiple times trying to get it through to Rory.

"Are you sure? Because I've heard that the first two years of marriage are the hardest." Rory tries to say in the nicest way possible.

"We're not happy, she's not happy and I can't make her happy." Dean says slowly, trying again to get through to Rory.

"I can't imagine that." Rory looks down, thinking back to all the times he had made her happy.

"It was a mistake, and I know that now, from the very beginning it wasn't-" Dean stopped himself before he said what he was going to say. "Wasn't what?" A curious Rory asks.

"It wasn't..." Dean sighed and stretched his neck, thinking of how to word it.

Rory asks, she already knew what he was going to say but she just looked down as if she was thinking. "Maybe, you could um, go see a counsellor or-" Dean cuts her off a little with a chuckle. "Or go away together."

"No it's just...it's over." Dean gets closer to Rory, "We both feel it I know we both feel it."

"You and Lindsey?" Rory asks to make sure this is going to work.

"Yeah, me and..." Dean pauses and looks around unsure, "...Lindsey."

"You both feel it's over." Rory says mostly reassuring herself of this than asking him.

"I tried, we tried." Dean says getting closer to Rory if that was even possible in that moment.

"Well if it's over I, well I'm sorry." Rory avoids looking into his eyes, afraid something might happen if she did.

"You are?" Dean looks into Rory's eyes trying to see what she was feeling in this exact moment.

"I'm sorry you're not happy." Rory says, slightly lying.

"I'll be happy ag-again." Dean says breathlessly, again moving slightly closer to Rory. "Things happen..." Dean places his hands on Rory's arms and looks into her eyes, "for a reason, right?" He leans closer into Rory, leaning down slowly to see if she would back away.

But she didn't, she leaned into him too, "Right."

He holds her arm and moves some hair out of her face, both of their breathing got heavier. "I can't believe this is... th-that we're..." Both leaning closer and closer before Dean breaks the distance. "I can."

They meet each other's lips, Rory having to lean up to reach Dean's and dean having to lean down to meet Rory's, they start to speed up their kissing and start to move towards Rory's single bed, falling on top of it; Dean on top of Rory. Rory was running her hands through the massive amounts of hair on Dean's head, tugging on it causing Dean to grunt in pleasure.

I think we all know what happened after that.

A/N: I'm going to put this story on Archive Of Your Own as soon as I've got an account, I've requested an invite and it said I should receive one on the 10th of May :)