`*~ These Are Days ~*`

Author: Genevah

Rating: R

Pairing: Rory/Jess

Disclaimer: I claim to own nothing.

Summary: Tweaked 'Teach Me Tonight' to my own likings. *Warning. Insane amounts of fluff o'nutters in this story… please read with caution* Oh… and it's definitely a Literati, anything else would be uncivilized!

A/N: I've revised some chapters… just makes me feel better. They're subtle changes, mostly in the writing, not necessarily changing the storyline.

Rory stirred in her sleep, relishing in the comfortable warmth surrounding her. She expected to open her eyes to the rays of the morning sun, but she was mistaken, she opened her eyes to nothing but darkness. There was something heavy on her stomach. She reached down to feel what it was, almost losing her fingers in a thick head of hair that started to move under her touch.

"What the…," Rory whispered still half asleep.

"Mmm," a sleepy moan came from the thick head of hair.

Her confusion lessened as things became clear to her. She remembered Jess reading to her… they must have fallen asleep…

"Oh my god!" She quickly sat up, the thick head of hair now on her lap.

"What. What's goin' on?" The talking head asked, still not fully conscious of the situation, still half-asleep. Even attempting to go back to sleep.

She looked over at her alarm clock, the bright red light screaming at her it's 3:38 A.M.

"Oh my god… Jess." She shook his shoulder trying to make him wake up. "We fell asleep… crap…" She gave him a funny panicked look, "you have to go." She moved from underneath him, standing up over him, leaving him a little less warm.

Rory grew frantic as scenarios played in her head of her mother killing Jess. She practically had to drag him off the bed. Why the hell wasn't he moving?

"Rory… calm down." He said coolly still trying to wake up and assess the situation all at the same time.

"You. Need to leave. Like five hours ago." She said hysterically motioning him towards the window.

"Rory… hold on a second." He didn't know why he was stalling. He was still recovering from the fact that he was sleeping with Rory. It was kinda nice to think about.

"Jess… do you not understand what bodily harm my mom can inflict upon you if she catches you in here," she warned.

Finally he came to his senses, "Right. I'm out." He replied, hurriedly moving towards the window. She followed.

"Shhh… not so loud," Rory scolded quietly when he bumped into the chair on his way to the window making in a loud screech on the wooden floor. They stood frozen for a moment, hearts racing, not exactly knowing what they were waiting for.

"Go go go," Rory ordered.

Jess opened the window and slid out like a pro. Rory was a bit impressed. "Goodbye Rory," he smirked.

"Bye Jess." She smiled and watched him leave.

She wondered why her mother hadn't checked up on them. It wasn't like her not to make sure Jess had left. She went to see what was up. As she walked out her bedroom she noticed a light coming from the living room. The television was on and Lorelai was asleep on the couch. Relieved, Rory turned the television off, pulled a quilt over her mom and went back to her room. She changed into her cake pajamas and lay down on her bed. She tried to fall asleep, but her thoughts were on Jess. She remembered listening to the sound his voice when he read to her. It was rather soothing.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Her heart skipped a beat, half-hoping and half-knowing it was Jess. She quickly got up and headed towards the window and carefully slid it open.

"Jess?" She said trying to calm her voice, not wanting to sound too eager. "Did you forget something?"

He bent down to meet her face through the open window, gesturing that he wanted to come in again.

"Do you have a death wish or something?" She joked. "Cuz I'm sure that can be arranged if my mom catches you in here."

"Just can't stay away." He said giving a flirtatious smirk. He looked at her bedtime attire. "Nice pjs."

"Jess… what is it?" She said impatiently. She didn't have time for this. Her mom could wake up at any moment.

"Forgot somethin'," he replied, already making his way inside her room.

"Wha… Jess are you crazy?"

"Relax. Your mom's asleep."

"How do you know?"

"I saw through the window."

"Jess…"

"Geeze Rory, you must love my name because you've said it like four times in the last two minutes," he teased.

She smacked him lightly on his shoulder. "Shut up."

He searched around her room and found what he was looking for on the floor next to her bed. It was a slim paper back book. He stuffed it in his back pocket.

"You came all the way back here, just to get that… you know… I could've given it to you tomorrow."

"Couldn't sleep, needed something to read."

"But you have so many other books at Luke's."

"I wanted to finish this one." In all honesty, he just wanted to see her one more time.

"Oh."

"Ok." He said heading towards the open window. She unintentionally followed closely.

He turned around and found her to be only a few inches away. They stared at each other. There was no awkwardness about it. He brought his hand close to the side of her face, tucking a piece of her hair that had fallen loosely around her face behind her ear, and then idly his finger tips lightly stroked the side of her cheek. Even through the night's darkness, he could see those sensational blue eyes staring up at him, seemingly begging him to do something. What that something was he didn't know.

Realizing what he was doing, he pulled away. He swiftly maneuvered his way out the window, looked back and nodded at her, and made his way down the porch steps.

She watched him until she could no longer see his silhouette. "Hookay." She said to no one. "That was… what the hell was that?"