AN: And now, number three. This is the end, but don't expect me to stop there. I always always always have Jess and Rory on the brain, so, believe me when I tell you that there will most likely be more Lit in my future.

Also, I thin you should listen to these three songs. Just a suggestuion though.

For such a long time, the only thing he had wanted, was to get his life on track and be happy. Be a part of a real family.

He got his wish, after most people his age were going off and making their own way in the world, leaving they're families, he got his.

His mother got her act together, finally, and his uncle was happy too, with his little family.

Jess knew that there was one last thing he needed to make the picture in his mind complete.

Or rather, not a what, but a who.

Rory was the last piece of the puzzle that he needed, and after a time, they were together. They took it slow, eased into things in a way they hadn't done the first time around, much like Luke and Lorelai did on they're third try.

It seemed to work.

Things went so well in fact that they were close, (oh so incredibly close) to making it down the ailse.

That's when Rory changed her mind.

Jess had been so stunned at first, there was no room for any other emotions. No anger, no greif, nothing, but shock.

He realised later, after the anger had subsided, that he should not have been surprised.

Rory was careful, a methodical thinker. She rarely did anything irrational. And so he knew that she would have had a good reason.

He just didn't want to hear it.

The second he recovered from his stupper, he too made a choice.

None of it mattered.

He didn't need to continue being the responsible guy people had come to depend on. Because that guy had simply been an illusion.

Jess Mariano had no reasons to stay on the straight and narrow. There was nothing depending on him.

And he was free.

He could breathe.

He had thought she was what he wanted, what he needed. But as it turned out, that wasn't true at all.

He had it right at sixteen. All he had ever needed was himself.

Rory was all he had wanted for years. He tried to work out a way that he could make himself worthy, but now he knew, there was nothing he could do.

She was just not right.

He was free and of the illusions and that was the way he was going to stay.

AN2: That's it. Now I'm done, for today anyway. I'd liove to know what you thought. Thanks.