"Hey, Rory?"

Rory was shocked into silence by the sound of his voice, she missed talking to him.

"Rory, are you there?"

"Ah, yes. Hi, hello. Yes it's Rory. Jess?" Rory realised she was talking fast but couldn't help herself. She heard a light chuckle on the other end of the line.

"Yeah it's me, Luke gave me your number."

"I know, he asked me if he could give it to you while I was there yesterday."

"I didn't know you visited, how was the old Hollow?"

"Same as always, doesn't change any over the years."

"Not surprising, I don't get down as much as I'd like but it never changes much."

"I didn't know you visited at all, it makes sense I guess with Luke and your little sister there now."

"I try to every now and again, see Luke for a bit and Doula, she's getting bigger now but she's a great kid."

"You know, I've never seen you with a child, not even Doula, I can't imagine it." It was Rory who found herself chuckling at the image in her head now.

"Hey, I've never been against children, I'm actually pretty good with Doula." He tried to sound indignant but he found the turn the conversation had gone to be amusing too.

"I remember how you were with Clara at the Winter Carnival."

"That was years ago, and she was incredibly annoying." Jess rembered that day, he was just a young punk back then and Dean was getting on his last nerve as well as that little sister of his never shutting up.

"I suppose I'll let you off, I don't doubt that you're great with Doula."

"Next time I'm planning a visit, I'll let you know and you can meet her for yourself." Jess wasn't really sure what made him say those words, this conversation hadn't gone the way he wanted at all and suddenly he was inviting her to meet his little sister. Rory was clearly flustered by the invitation as well.

"Um, sure. Let me know and I suppose I'll see if I can make it down there."

The conversation had come to an awkward lull, neither wanting to stop talking but not knowing the next thing to say either.

"So, the address-"

"So, how have-"

"Sorry, you go first." Rory felt the blush go up her cheeks as they both tried to talk at once.

"No, ladies first, I insist." He could picture her blushing on the other end of the phone, he knew she needed the distraction of a conversation right away.

"I was just going to ask how you've been, how is it at Truncheon?" Rory realised when she said it that it was just an excuse to keep talking, and what he was saying was probably more important, likely what he had actually called to tell her.

"It's going well, Matt and Chris still getting at me to write another book, but I still love working there."

"That's great, are you thinking of writing another?"

"Thinking about it, the words haven't come yet though"

"I'm sure they will, you're a great writer, I'm already looking forward to reading another book by you." Rory heard the laugh clearly at that, he was always very humble when he came to his writing.

"You and your pom-poms, I'll be sure to let you know if I write another book."

"No pom-poms, and thank you"

"Anyway, I see your address had changed from your grandparents, I'm glad you got out of there." He had said it just to get the conversation away from him and his writing.

"Yeah, I moved out, I'm back at Yale now. All thanks to you really, and the conversation we had last time you were here."

"I know I was harsh but I'm glad I got through, glad you are back at school."

"Me too, was that why you asked for my address, to see if I'd left?" Jess chuckled again at the accusation.

"No, I asked so I could send you something, an invite to the open house at Truncheon."

"I'll let you know when it arrives then."

"Ok, I suppose I should get going, its getting late."

"Keep in touch, you have my number now, text or call."

"I will, I'll talk to you soon"

"Goodbye Jess"

"Goodbye Rory"

Jess sat on his bed looking at his phone after he hung up, he was glad you had sent the invite to her and called her. He'd almost forgotten how easy it was to talk to her, how conversation just flowed and topics kept coming to them. He'd missed that, he never met anyone else he could just talk to like that, now they were back in contact he didn't want to lose that again. He made his way onto his desk where his laptop sat, he found the words came to him then and disn't stop, he kept typing as the words flew through his mind. He was there into the early hours of the morning when finally his eyes were too tired to continue typing and he could see himself making mistakes, he wasn't sure if anything he wrote in the last hour was going to be worth keeping in the end. As he got up to go to his bed he realised he hadn't asked Rory about the blond dick at Yale, he wondered if they were still together. As he fell asleep his last thought were of Rory and how he looked forward to seeing her at the open house.

Rory stayed sat on her bed after the conversation with Jess, she knew she should get an early night as she had a busy day tomorrow of lectures and paper duties. She was restless as she lay there, as she looked aroufn the room, it was still bare as she hadn't received the rest of her stuff from Logans yet. She looked in the bags she brought back and found The Subsect was one of the books she had packe, she picked it up and began reading it. She had meant what she had told Jess, he was a wonderful writer and she loved reading his work, it was different from anything else she had read. She slowly fell asleep while ready, it drooping onto her chest as she dozed off, her last thoughts of the brown eyes and crooked smile she was looking forward to seeing.