Not Always What You Want
By Emily Carol
Ch. 1
Angeleyes' Place
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Disclaimer- Wish I owned Gilmore Girls, but I don't. I'm also only 13 so if you sue me I don't have that much money in the first place. I DO own Emma and Emily and some other characters.
Summary- Future Fic - Rory's life isn't always what she wanted. Jess's life isn't always what he wanted. In fact, not that many people's life is what they wanted. But Jess goes out in search of something he always wanted. To find he may never get it.
Rating- PG right now
Spoilers- Just that both Jess and Dean left Stars Hollow before Rory went to Yale and that Dean is marrying Lindsay (I think).
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Rory's dream when she was in high school was to be a foreign correspondent for some place like CNN. She graduated from Yale in the spring of 2007 and applied for a job at CNN and a few other places like it. They all turned her down.
So Rory went to a small community college and got another degree in business. She opened her own bookstore. Angeleyes' Place.
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Rory walked down the street. She arrived at a small building that was locked up. It was a quaint place. The letters above the door read 'Angeleyes' Place'. She sighed looking at those letters. Thinking of all the dream jobs that had turned her down and finally forced her to go back to college and then open up this place.
Don't get me wrong; Rory didn't hate Angeleyes' Place. It just wasn't her dream. Her dream had been to work someplace where she could travel a lot and do something that really mattered.
She worked the key into the lock and opened up the front door. She walked in and breathed in the smell of books. She went straight behind in counter and started her coffee machine. 'Mmm...' she thought to herself. 'Nothing like coffee at six o'clock in the morning.'
She wandered down the aisle of bookshelves stacked to the ceiling sipping her coffee. She walked to the classics section and pulled out a copy of Oliver Twist. She looked at it, remembering her 'Dodger'.
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Flashback
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Jess had just returned her copy of the book he'd 'borrowed' (more like stolen as Rory had accused him of doing.
"I put some notes in the margins for you," Jess said. "What?" Rory said flipping through the book. "You've read this before. " "About forty times," Jess admitted. "I thought you said you didn't read much," Rory said remembering what he'd told her at dinner yesterday. " Well, what is much?" Jess questioned. "Goodnight Rory." "Goodnight Dodger," Rory said. "Dodger?" "Figure it out," Rory told him. "Oliver Twist." Rory nodded and they both walked away.
*~-~*~-~*
End Of
Flashback
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Rory sighed sitting down on the floor in the middle of the aisle. Jess had moved away at the end of the following year, only recently after they'd finally started going out. Dean had left too, with his new wife Lindsay.
Rory leaned back against the bookshelf across from the one where she'd removed the copy of Oliver Twist and took a sip of her coffee.
The bell on the door rang as Emma entered the shop. "Rory?" Emma called. Emma was her best worker, the one who got there every morning not that much later than Rory.
Rory looked up to see Emma standing at the end of the aisle. Emma walked towards here and took the book out of Rory's hand. "Still thinking about him huh?" Emma asked. Emma had known all about Jess ever since Rory opened the place 2 years ago.
"I just can't get him out of my mind," Rory said. "Why did he have to leave? I wanted to get married to him and..." Rory trailed off.
"Oh I know," Emma said. "But you can't just keep moping about it. Go out there and find someone else. Enjoy the nightlife."
"What nightlife?" Rory said starting to laugh. Emma laughed too. They both knew that the nightlife in Warrenville, Illinois was very slim. As in there wasn't any. At all.
"Come on," Emma said helping Rory off the ground. "We need to get ready for the shipments to come in. I think Mrs. Cox's order might have finally come in and then she'll stop bugging us half to death everyday."
Rory smiled. From how Emma described her Mrs. Cox sounded old. It was just that Emma refused to call Mrs. Cox Emily like she told them too because Emma claimed that she'd pretty much stole her name because Emma was here 2 years before her. Emily was still in college for goodness sake, her last year in fact. But she'd married her boyfriend from junior high and high school just last year.
Emily was somewhat like herself, Rory always thought, at least the love of reading part. Emily was somewhat smart too, but she had a smarter friend so she never thought she was smart. Ever since Angeleyes' Place had opened Emily was there every time she was back from U of I visiting her family.
Rory heard the truck back up to the back door. She walked to the back of the shop to open up the door and talked with the supplier representative.
"Here's the list of new coming books out." he said handing her a piece of paper. Just call us and we'll send you the unedited copy to see if you want to sell it in your store."
"Mr. Jackson," Rory said. "If you don't mind me saying so, you need to spice up this routine a little. You tell me the same stuff every month when you come with for the unloading."
"I don't know what you're talking about Ms. Gilmore," Mr. Jackson said walked back to his car as the workers unloaded the rest of the truck."
"That's Rory!" She yelled after him smiling and walking into the storage room looking for the book Emily had requested so it'd be ready when she came in an hour.
Finding it she retreated with the list of books to the front desk. She looked down the list of authors to see if any of her favorite ones had new books coming out. Up through the Ls none of them did, but the first name under M was a new author, but yet one she recognized.
Mariano, Jess.
"Hey Rory?" Emma said to her. "You okay? You look like you've seen a ghost or something like that."
"Jess wrote a book," Rory said.
"Jess?" Emma asked. "Dodger Jess?"
"Yes," Rory said.
"Are you sure it's him?" Emma asked her.
"Yes I'm sure," Rory said. "How many other Jess Mariano's do you know?"
"Um," Emma said. "Come to think of it, I don't even know this one."
"You know what," Rory said. "It's nothing. It's not like he'll even want to come here for one of our author days, not like he'll even know that I own this place."
"Speaking of author days," Emma said. "We need to get the display up for Cate Satrogini's books. She's visiting today."
"Satrogini?" Rory said. "Is that the person who writes all those really awful books for teenagers?"
"They're not awful," Emma said. "At least not that awful."
"Remind me why we're having her again?" Rory asked.
"Because half the town is obsessed with her books," Emma said. "Plus we get money."
"Fine," Rory said. "Just let me call Mr. Jackson and tell him I want an unedited copy of Jess's book."
"Okay," Emma said. "I'll go track down where we hide all the really awful books for teenagers."
Rory was in such a hurry that she didn't even notice the title of Jess's book.
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A/N- I hope you guys enjoyed this.
By Emily Carol
Ch. 1
Angeleyes' Place
***
Disclaimer- Wish I owned Gilmore Girls, but I don't. I'm also only 13 so if you sue me I don't have that much money in the first place. I DO own Emma and Emily and some other characters.
Summary- Future Fic - Rory's life isn't always what she wanted. Jess's life isn't always what he wanted. In fact, not that many people's life is what they wanted. But Jess goes out in search of something he always wanted. To find he may never get it.
Rating- PG right now
Spoilers- Just that both Jess and Dean left Stars Hollow before Rory went to Yale and that Dean is marrying Lindsay (I think).
***
Rory's dream when she was in high school was to be a foreign correspondent for some place like CNN. She graduated from Yale in the spring of 2007 and applied for a job at CNN and a few other places like it. They all turned her down.
So Rory went to a small community college and got another degree in business. She opened her own bookstore. Angeleyes' Place.
***
Rory walked down the street. She arrived at a small building that was locked up. It was a quaint place. The letters above the door read 'Angeleyes' Place'. She sighed looking at those letters. Thinking of all the dream jobs that had turned her down and finally forced her to go back to college and then open up this place.
Don't get me wrong; Rory didn't hate Angeleyes' Place. It just wasn't her dream. Her dream had been to work someplace where she could travel a lot and do something that really mattered.
She worked the key into the lock and opened up the front door. She walked in and breathed in the smell of books. She went straight behind in counter and started her coffee machine. 'Mmm...' she thought to herself. 'Nothing like coffee at six o'clock in the morning.'
She wandered down the aisle of bookshelves stacked to the ceiling sipping her coffee. She walked to the classics section and pulled out a copy of Oliver Twist. She looked at it, remembering her 'Dodger'.
*~-~*~-~*
Flashback
*~-~*~-~*
Jess had just returned her copy of the book he'd 'borrowed' (more like stolen as Rory had accused him of doing.
"I put some notes in the margins for you," Jess said. "What?" Rory said flipping through the book. "You've read this before. " "About forty times," Jess admitted. "I thought you said you didn't read much," Rory said remembering what he'd told her at dinner yesterday. " Well, what is much?" Jess questioned. "Goodnight Rory." "Goodnight Dodger," Rory said. "Dodger?" "Figure it out," Rory told him. "Oliver Twist." Rory nodded and they both walked away.
*~-~*~-~*
End Of
Flashback
*~-~*~-~*
Rory sighed sitting down on the floor in the middle of the aisle. Jess had moved away at the end of the following year, only recently after they'd finally started going out. Dean had left too, with his new wife Lindsay.
Rory leaned back against the bookshelf across from the one where she'd removed the copy of Oliver Twist and took a sip of her coffee.
The bell on the door rang as Emma entered the shop. "Rory?" Emma called. Emma was her best worker, the one who got there every morning not that much later than Rory.
Rory looked up to see Emma standing at the end of the aisle. Emma walked towards here and took the book out of Rory's hand. "Still thinking about him huh?" Emma asked. Emma had known all about Jess ever since Rory opened the place 2 years ago.
"I just can't get him out of my mind," Rory said. "Why did he have to leave? I wanted to get married to him and..." Rory trailed off.
"Oh I know," Emma said. "But you can't just keep moping about it. Go out there and find someone else. Enjoy the nightlife."
"What nightlife?" Rory said starting to laugh. Emma laughed too. They both knew that the nightlife in Warrenville, Illinois was very slim. As in there wasn't any. At all.
"Come on," Emma said helping Rory off the ground. "We need to get ready for the shipments to come in. I think Mrs. Cox's order might have finally come in and then she'll stop bugging us half to death everyday."
Rory smiled. From how Emma described her Mrs. Cox sounded old. It was just that Emma refused to call Mrs. Cox Emily like she told them too because Emma claimed that she'd pretty much stole her name because Emma was here 2 years before her. Emily was still in college for goodness sake, her last year in fact. But she'd married her boyfriend from junior high and high school just last year.
Emily was somewhat like herself, Rory always thought, at least the love of reading part. Emily was somewhat smart too, but she had a smarter friend so she never thought she was smart. Ever since Angeleyes' Place had opened Emily was there every time she was back from U of I visiting her family.
Rory heard the truck back up to the back door. She walked to the back of the shop to open up the door and talked with the supplier representative.
"Here's the list of new coming books out." he said handing her a piece of paper. Just call us and we'll send you the unedited copy to see if you want to sell it in your store."
"Mr. Jackson," Rory said. "If you don't mind me saying so, you need to spice up this routine a little. You tell me the same stuff every month when you come with for the unloading."
"I don't know what you're talking about Ms. Gilmore," Mr. Jackson said walked back to his car as the workers unloaded the rest of the truck."
"That's Rory!" She yelled after him smiling and walking into the storage room looking for the book Emily had requested so it'd be ready when she came in an hour.
Finding it she retreated with the list of books to the front desk. She looked down the list of authors to see if any of her favorite ones had new books coming out. Up through the Ls none of them did, but the first name under M was a new author, but yet one she recognized.
Mariano, Jess.
"Hey Rory?" Emma said to her. "You okay? You look like you've seen a ghost or something like that."
"Jess wrote a book," Rory said.
"Jess?" Emma asked. "Dodger Jess?"
"Yes," Rory said.
"Are you sure it's him?" Emma asked her.
"Yes I'm sure," Rory said. "How many other Jess Mariano's do you know?"
"Um," Emma said. "Come to think of it, I don't even know this one."
"You know what," Rory said. "It's nothing. It's not like he'll even want to come here for one of our author days, not like he'll even know that I own this place."
"Speaking of author days," Emma said. "We need to get the display up for Cate Satrogini's books. She's visiting today."
"Satrogini?" Rory said. "Is that the person who writes all those really awful books for teenagers?"
"They're not awful," Emma said. "At least not that awful."
"Remind me why we're having her again?" Rory asked.
"Because half the town is obsessed with her books," Emma said. "Plus we get money."
"Fine," Rory said. "Just let me call Mr. Jackson and tell him I want an unedited copy of Jess's book."
"Okay," Emma said. "I'll go track down where we hide all the really awful books for teenagers."
Rory was in such a hurry that she didn't even notice the title of Jess's book.
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A/N- I hope you guys enjoyed this.