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Jess woke up, and looked down at Rory who was shivering in her sleep. He sighed and nudged her slightly, "Rory." She made no sign of waking, so Jess nudged her again, "Rory…" he said in a sing song voice. Then he silently cursed himself for sounding like Lorelai.

Rory woke up, and looked at him, "What?" when she spoke her voice trembled. Jess suddenly felt bad, "You're cold, huh?"

Rory rolled her eyes, and scoffed, "No. I'm shivering because of the effect you have on me." She spat out sarcastically.

Jess sighed and sat up, "Well. I'm cold, too. So how about we go to Luke's. It's warm in there."

Rory sat up and laughed bitterly, "What? Do you think I am cuddling up to my jackass of an ex-boyfriend because I feel like taking a walk down memory lane… the diner is locked!"

Jess looked down guiltily, "Uh… Ror. There is a key on the top of the door."

Rory looked angry, angrier than she was before, she slapped him, "Why didn't you tell me?! We could have died of hypothermia! Are you insane?!"

Jess shrugs, and holds his face where she slapped, "I'm sorry, Rory, but I wanted to talk to you… I wanted to be near you."

Rory stares at him for a minute before opening her mouth to speak, "That is pathetic." She stated simply before getting out of the car and walking to the door.

Jess followed her and watched her struggle with the key and the doorknob. The door was always hard to get unlocked. There was a method, but Jess didn't want to bother Rory, so instead he just talks quietly, "I'm sorry, I just-"

Rory cuts him off, "Jess! We could've talked in here! And we wouldn't have froze to death! I would have let you in! Why didn't you just tell me?"

Jess sighs, "I wanted to prove to Luke that I didn't need him or his things to survive. Going in there would make him see that I need him, and he will take that as an opportunity to look down on me and think I still needed authority."

Rory shook her head, and wasn't even shocked, "Oh my gosh, Jess. If you really cared about me, you would have swallowed your pride, not been such a self-centered ass, and told me about the key. If you changed you would have showed Luke that you could take care of yourself and of me, by going into a warm shelter for the night. This just shows him you are just as stupid as you were when you were living with him."

Jess nods, understanding exactly what she means. She was right. He hated to admit it, but she was right. He sighed and looked back down at Rory's hand that was jiggling the doorknob back and forth. She finally jerked hard, giving up, "Ugh!" she let out an exasperated moan.

Jess moves her aside, and jerks the knob up once, then turns the key to the left twice, and to the right once, then unlocked the door, and walked in.

Rory walked in behind him slightly embarrassed, "You made it looks so easy."

Jess shrugs, and laughs slightly, "I've done it plenty of times."

Rory nods, and walks over to the stairs, "I'm really tired, Jess. I think I'm going to head on up to bed."

Jess nods, and follows her, "Yea.. I am too."

Rory walks up the stairs slowly, Jess following close behind. Each step she takes, she contemplates on whether to turn around and say something or just keep walking. Every time the stairs creak, with every step he takes makes Jess want to wrap his arms around Rory, and tell her how much he loves her. He knows he can't and that hurts him the most, because Rory isn't his anymore.

When Rory reaches the last few steps she hurries up them in a fast pace. Jess picks up the pace in his step, too. Once Rory reaches the door, she thinks he's still coming up. She turns around meeting his face, dangerously close to hers. Rory looks at his lips, then up into his eyes.

Jess looks directly into her eyes. He moves forward slightly, getting ready to kiss her. Right when he gets millimeters away from her lips she turns away and walks into the room.

Jess sighs, and curses himself for being so stupid. He walks in the room, and over to his side of the apartment.

Rory gets into Luke's bed, and Jess gets into his. Neither saying anything. Rory turns off the lights, and lies down. Jess does the same. After a few minutes of silence, Rory speaks, "Goodnight Jess."

Jess smiles, "Night. Or Morning." He drifts off to sleep, followed by Rory.

Jess walks over to Rory's bed, and leans down over her. Rory opens her eyes and stares up at him, "Jess?"

Jess smiles, and leans down to kiss her.

"Jess." She says again.

He stops and looks into her eyes, "Yea?"

Rory looses all self-control and kisses him. Hard.

He leans her down on the bed, not detaching his lips from hers. He reaches for her belt buckle. And she stops him abruptly, "Jess no."

Jess nods, and lets go of her, then kisses her again. Not pushing her into anything.

Rory eyes pop open quickly, and she sits up in bed, thinking about her dream. She looks over to Jess's bed. Then she stands up and walks over to him. She gets half way there and thinks about turning around and walking back to bed, but something tells her to keep moving. She walks over to his bed, and sits beside him softly, so softly so that she won't wake him.

Jess wakes up feeling little movement beside him. He turns over and looks up at Rory, "You ok?"

Rory nods, not saying anything because she can't trust her voice.

Jess furrows his brow, his eyes full of sleepiness and confusion, "Can't sleep?"

Rory shrugs, and just looks into his eyes fiercely. So many things she wants to say or do and yet she can't do anything. Maybe it's not that she can't. Maybe it's just that she won't.

Jess sighs, and sits up slightly, resting on his forearms, "Then why are you in my bed? Come on Rory. You can't run all hot and cold on me. One minute you're being the biggest bitch in the world, and the next you are looking at me as if I just said the most remarkable thing to you."

Rory sighed, and cleared her throat to speak, "I had a dream."

Jess lay back in his bed, "Rory everyone dreams. If it was bad I'm sorry, but it's not real. Most likely what you saw in your dream will never happen, ok?"

Rory thought about her dream, about her and Jess, it seemed so real, but he's right. It probably won't ever happen. Because she needs someone who she can not be afraid to love, and he needs someone who will let him live his life. Even though the thought of Jess being with anyone besides her kills her, "Yea… yea… I guess you're right."

Jess nods, smiling at her slightly, "Now… you can sleep in piece, right?"

Rory smiles at him, "Yea… I guess I can."

Jess pats the space beside him in bed, "You can sleep here, if you want."

Rory looks down at where is hand is, and then she shakes her head, "I think it will be best if I sleep in Luke's bed."

Jess sighs, "Come on, Rory, you can trust me now."

Rory shakes her head, "It's not that I don't trust you, Jess. I don't trust me around you."

Jess looked shocked, he thought she hated his guts, he just nodded, "Ok."

Rory smiles, "Ok." She stands up to go back to the other side of the room.

Jess watches her stand up, and waits for her to start moving towards Luke's bed; instead he sees her turning around. So he sits up, waiting t see her next move.

Rory sits back down on the bed, and turns to look at him. She musters up all of the courage she has and kisses him.

Surprised Jess kisses her back, and his hand moves up to her cheek. As if he were holding her in place so she wouldn't go anywhere. She moves to where she is on top of him not detaching her lips from his. They both knew they had things they needed to talk about, but right now this is all they wanted.

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