Fic: Come Away With Me (1/6)
Author: Gardenia1786 (Chloe)
Rating: PG
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Summery: Just a little (well, I think it'll be little... short... whatever) fic to the song "Come Away With Me" by Norah Jones.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters (even though I wish I did), and the song isn't mine either. It was written and sung by Norah Jones. I'm not talented enough to come up with something like that ;-)
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Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song
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"I can't take it anymore!" Jessie said as she slammed her locker shut. "First my parents, and now this! That was the fourth rude comment I've received today, and it's only second period! FOURTH!"
"Jess, calm down. Lets go outside." Grace said, pulling her arm out the front door of the school and out to a tree, which she leaned against.
"I happen to know for a fact that the last girl was after Katie before you. I also happen to know that the rest of the student body is cool with it, or they really don't care. It is the 21st century after all. Chill out, relax a bit." Grace patted her on the back.
"Just give it a couple of days, it'll all blow over." Jessie looked at her with tears in her eyes.
"But what about my parents? That's not going to just 'blow over'." A far away look came in her eyes.
"Why can't they just be like Henry and Lily? They were both pretty cool about it. But..." She paused, focusing her gaze on something in the distance.
"But...?" Grace urged her to go on.
"But I'm not their child." Grace nodded solemnly.
"You should have seen the look on my mother's face when I told her about Katie and I. I've never seen so many emotions cross someone's face at once before." Jessie furrowed her brow, still focusing on an object in the distance, trying to suppress her tears.
"Anger, hurt, pain... I could tell she wondered what she could have done differently. But what really hurt me...." She paused again, the tears threatening to spill over.
"Was the look of rejection in her eyes. The anger and rejection... I don't know, it just tore me up inside." Jessie's voice cracked, and a single tear fell. She refocused her gaze on Grace.
"It's... it's like she didn't love me anymore." The floodgates opened, and the tears began to fall down Jessie's face. Grace pulled her into a hug to comfort her.
"Shhh, it's ok... it'll all be ok. Really, it will." She just held Jessie, trying to comfort her as much as she could. All of a sudden she felt Jessie's body stiffen and she pulled away. All the color had drained out of Jessie's face and her eyes were wide with fear. Grace became worried.
"What is it? What's wrong, Jess?"
"What... what if, what if they won't let me see Katie anymore?"
"Did I hear someone very beautiful mention my name?" Came a familiar and VERY welcome voice from behind Jessie, who immediately spun around and pulled Katie into a very tight hug.
"Wow, Billie, I missed you..." She started, but sensed immediately that something was wrong.
"Jess, are you alright?" She felt her girlfriend shake her head against her shoulder.
"What's wrong? What happened?" When Jessie didn't respond because of the tears, she turned to Grace, who gave her a full rundown of what was going on. She explained the run in Jessie had with her family the night before, and all of the rude comments that people had thrown her way. The color drained out of Katie's face as well as she rubbed Jessie's back.
"Oh my..." was all she could think to say. She went into a bit of a daze, and Grace found this the most opportune moment to slip away. As soon as Grace walked away, Katie snapped out of it and returned her focus to the crying girl in her arms, who she loved so very much.
"Jess... I'm so sorry. So very sorry." She whispered into Jessie's ear. Jessie pulled back enough so she could look Katie in the eye.
"For what?" She asked, barely audible, as she wiped the tears from her eyes. Katie adverted her eyes, nodding to the surrounding.
"This... all of this. Everything. Here, your parents... all of it. It's my fault... if it wasn't for me..." Jessie put three fingers on Katie's lips to silence her.
"Don't be. It's not your fault. You didn't know this was going to happen, especially..." Her voice cracked, "with my parents. No one knew." She looked down for a moment, then back up at Katie, smiling through the tears.
"But whatever happens, don't ever be sorry. Because you are the best thing that's ever happened to me. And I mean that." A tear fell from Katie's eye as she leaned down and covered Jessie's lips with her own.
"Thank you. You don't know how much that means to me. And you're the best thing that's happened to me too. I... I love you." Jessie stood there for a moment, stunned. When she recovered, she leaned up and kissed Katie.
"I love you too." Katie smiled, and Jessie just stared at her with a blissed out look, momentarily forgetting all of her problems (hey, her girlfriend just told her she loved her for the first time... you'd be a little blissed out too...).
A frown crossed Katie's features as she remembered what they were discussing before.
"So what are we going to do?"
Jessie looked down at the ground. She had a plan, but she knew it wouldn't work... or would it? She snapped her attention back to Katie.
It was worth a try....
"Come away with me." She simply stated.
"What?"
"Come away with me. Tonight."
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TBC....