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missmara13Title: Friends & Other Strangers (Chapter Four ~ Do You Want My Love)
Author: Mara
Fandoms: The OC/Gilmore Girls/One Tree Hill
Rating: R
Warnings: Language, Sex in later chapters.
Summary: Four college students try to map out the way to deal with their lives as things become ever more complicated and intertwined.
Notes: Will be Ryan/Brooke and Jess/Summer. Assume everything up until the Series finale of GG, Season 4 finale of OTH, and the Series Finale of The OC (Minus the final montage) to be true for these. Add this one to the list of my many stories where Ryan is a talented artist (of realistic, not comic-style images...) but doesn't tell anyone really because he doesn't want the attention. Chapter title is after the song by Coco Lee.
Chapter Four ~ Do You Want My Love
Ryan went to the airport as soon as he got out of class, and sat down to wait, a sketch book out to pass the time, and found himself sketching Brooke as she'd looked last night, standing beside her car with the street light illuminating her from behind and giving her an almost angelic glow as she smiled at him. He shook his head and flipped the pad shut as he heard the arrival announcement for Summer's flight and head closer to the gate so he'd see her as soon as she got off the plane, and laughed when she spotted him and ran forward to throw her arms around his neck.
"I missed you so much, Chino!" Summer cried as he lifted her off the floor to spin her around. "I like saving the world, but I miss my friends so much."
"I missed you, too, Summer," Ryan replied, setting her down and kissing her forehead. "You got any other bags?" he asked as he crouched down to greet Pancakes, who was, if he hopping around in her carrier was any indication, eager to get to the apartment and see her son.
"Yeah, a couple," Summer replied. "And some big news, too."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah," Summer said, taking a deep breath and letting it out.
"Everything okay?"
"Yes and no," Summer said. "See... I did something kind of stupid..."
"So does everyone," Ryan replied.
"I quit GEORGE," Summer said. "I'm so tired of the moving around all the time, and while I like saving the world... I miss you more. You're like my best friend now, Chino."
"I'm a little surprised, but... you know I'm gonna support you no matter what," Ryan said.
"Even if it means I'm hoping I can crash at your place for a couple weeks until I find my own place here in town? I already applied and got accepted to Berkeley for next fall, and I want to do this, but..."
"I've gotta ask Jess, but I'm sure he'll be fine with it," Ryan said. "You can have my room, I'll crash on the couch."
"You don't have to do that," Summer protested. "I was sleeping on a bus for two years, remember? A couch will be heaven."
"I'm a gentleman to the end, Sum," Ryan reminded her. "You can have my room."
"Thanks."
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Ryan and Summer had the couch pulled out and were laying on their backs, laughing, when Jess got home from his last class. "Geeze, hot girl from last night wasn't enough?" Jess joked when he saw them.
"Jess, meet Summer Roberts. Sum, meet Jess Mariano," Ryan said.
"First of all," Summer said, sitting up. "The idea of me and Chino is just gross and wrong..."
"Hey!" Ryan protested, laughing.
"You kiss me on the top of the head like you do to Kaitlin," Summer replied. "I'm the third of your non-related sisters."
"True," Ryan said, sitting back again.
"And second of all, please tell me I was right about kinkiness last night, because even if the girl wasn't hot, I could get into kinkiness involving you," she said to Jess.
"Sorry, no kinkiness," Jess said. "Though I'm pretty sure Ryan made out with Brooke when he walked her to her car. Since he was gone ten minutes."
"How hot?" Summer asked. "Because I flat out refuse to take your room if it's going to interfere with you getting laid, Chino. You need it."
"You know, I like this girl more every second," Jess said. "I keep telling him that if he'd just go find a girl and get laid, he'd loosen up!"
"He was always in a better mood when he was getting some," Summer agreed, laughing as Ryan groaned and covered his head with a pillow. "Hey, um, Jess? Ryan said we needed to clear it with you, but... I'm moving to Berkeley, and I was hoping I could crash here until I find my own place."
"I'm giving her my room as long as you don't mind her staying," Ryan said.
"I don't have a problem with it," Jess said. "Ah, but you gotta read this immediately," he added, passing her the yellow covered booklet from one of the shelves and ignoring how Ryan burst out laughing. "He's already read it," Jess said, grinning.
"You'll love it," Ryan said.
Summer took the booklet and read the title. "Zeke gets an STD..." she read, a grin forming on her face as she opened it up to start reading, giggling as she read about how Zeke was a man-whore who slept with his brother's girlfriend, and promptly discovered he had Genital Herpes. "Oh my God..." she said, falling over backwards as she laughed.
"What until you get to the part about..."
"Shriveled!" Summer crowed, laughing harder. "You, Mr. Mariano, are my hero!" she said.
"Thank you, I try," Jess said, grinning. "Now don't we need to get going? Isn't Brooke meeting as at O'Malley's at 7? It's half hour drive in this traffic..."
"It's already 6:00!" Summer protested. "I need to shower and change..."
"Why?" Jess asked. "You look fine..."
"My last shower was in a cheap ass motel room with no water pressure, and a dozen people in the main room talking strategy and disapproving of me for travelling in a plane that emits noxious gases," Summer said. "I wanted to relax and soak, but now I have 25 minutes to get showered and dressed for clubbing, so shut up and move."
"Better do what she says," Ryan said, nodding. "Or she'll stab you with a fork tonight."
"You both need to change, too," Summer said.
"We do?" Ryan said, looking down at his clothes.
"We're going clubbing, Chino," Summer said. "You boys have to look hot or I'll ashamed to be seen with you."
"Be afraid and do as she says?" Jess asked.
"Pretty much, yeah," Ryan agreed, pushing himself up.
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"So how hot is this girl we're meeting?" Summer asked as they got out of Jess' car.
"Really hot," Jess said. "And she thinks Ryan's funny, which I think is pretty conclusive proof that..."
"She likes him," Summer agreed. "Because I love him like a brother, but he is the least funny person I've ever met."
"I can be funny," Ryan said.
"Sure you can," Summer said, patting his shoulder.
"I can!"
"No contradictions here," Summer replied, covering her mouth as a snicker snuck out.
"I hate you," Ryan said.
"Love you, too, Ry."
Ryan rolled his eyes, then smiled as he spotted Brooke sitting outside the pub they were meeting at. "Hey, you made it," he said.
"Cute guy invited me, how could I say no?" Brooke replied. "You must be Summer?" she added.
"Nice to meet you," Summer replied. "Brooke, right?"
"Right," Brooke said.
"Let's go eat, ladies," Jess said. "Because I'm starving."
"You're always starving," Ryan said, rolling his eyes as he led the way inside.
"I'm a growing boy," Jess protested, laughing.
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"I swear, it's true!" Summer said a little later as the four sat around a table. "Chino can convey whole sentences with a single look!" She pointed at him. "See! See!"
"Not just anyone can look both that amused and that annoyed all at once," Jess agreed, laughing.
"Somebody explain the 'Chino' nickname to me, please?" Brooke asked.
"I grew up in Chino before I moved to Newport," Ryan explained. "My first big Newport Party, Summer... well..."
"I was drunk off my ass, 'accidentally' spilled beer all over the front of his suit and then tried to wipe it dry," Summer said, laughing.
"That you remember? You couldn't even remember that Seth and I were at that party, but now you remember that?" Ryan asked.
"I was copping a feel on a hot guy, of course I remember it," Summer said. "Now go on, explain."
"Okay, anyway, Seth comes out while she's flirting and groping, and he flips out and tells everyone that I'm not the cousin from Boston, I'm a car thief from Chino. And Summer looks at me with this pure disgust and says 'Chino? Ew!' It just stuck after that. For a while during our senior year of high school and the year after that, she called me 'Atwood', but... it went back to Chino after a while."
"Because this guy is way to unique for the last name thing I do with everybody," Summer said, reaching over to squeeze Ryan's arm. "Which means that until I think of something better, you two are Mariano and Davis to me."
"I can live with that," Jess said, nodding. "To nicknames."
"I've been called much worse," Brooke said. "My ex-best friend vandalized my senior prom dress so that under a black light it said in big white letters 'whore'."
Summer winced sympathetically. "Ooh... cold."
"That would be part of the 'ex-best friend' thing," Brooke agreed. "Okay, so far I've heard funny Ryan stories, and a funny Ryan and Summer story, and you guys know about the 'whore' prom dress, but I think we need a funny Jess story."
"Funny or embarrassing?" Jess countered.
"And/or," Brooke replied. "Come on, there's gotta be something..."
"Well, there are a lot of 'mocking my Uncle Luke' moments," Jess said, nodding. "Alright, there was this one time, when I drew a chalk outline of a dead body on the sidewalk in front of the grocery story..." Jess began with a fond grin.
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"They are so cute, and I like her," Summer said a little later as she and Jess found themselves standing at the bar, watching Ryan and Brooke dance. Or more accurately, watching Ryan stand in place while Brooke danced around him, making him laugh. "I don't think he's laughed like that since..."
"Before the stalker slut slept with the man whore?" Jess supplied. "I remember him mentioning how much he was looking forward to seeing them both. Then next time I see him he's all depressed and told me about catching them."
"They suck," Summer said in agreement. "But Chino really deserves to be happy. I mean, just from his e-mails and the phone calls, I know it killed him when Julie had the miscarriage..."
"He was a mess," Jess agreed. "I'd known him a couple weeks, we were getting to be friends, and then... then he disappeared for a week and came back with a black eye and busted lip..."
"What?" Summer asked.
"You didn't know about him getting in the fight with his father?" Jess asked. "Don't tell him I told you, he'll kill me. But yeah, he did. I think he probably had a couple bruised ribs, too. He told me what had happened, and that he'd spent the week with Julie and Kaitlin, trying to comfort them, and when Frank showed up he'd decked the guy, then gotten his ass kicked until Kaitlin called the cops."
"God," Summer said, sighing.
"What's up?" Ryan asked as he walked over. "Are you two brooding?" he asked, looking between them. "I thought that was my gig?"
"We're stealing it, you're not allowed to brood tonight," Summer replied, smiling.
"Go dance, both of you," Ryan ordered.
Jess snorted. "I don't dance," he said.
"That's what Ryan said once upon a time," Summer said. "Before Cotillion."
"Cotillion?" Jess asked, snickering.
"Shut up, both of you," Ryan said warningly, though he was laughing. "And go dance. If my two best friends aren't having fun, nether will I."
"What do you say, Mariano? Wanna dance?" Summer asked. "I wouldn't mind being seen dancing with a hotty-hot-hot guy on my first outing in Berkeley."
"And I know better than to turn down a girl who suffers rage blackouts," Jess replied, letting her drag him towards the dance floor.
To Be Continued...
I need to make a Jess/Summer icon... or a Ryan/Brooke/Jess/Summer icon... maybe make an animated icon of the four of them... lol
Author: Mara
Fandoms: The OC/Gilmore Girls/One Tree Hill
Rating: R
Warnings: Language, Sex in later chapters.
Summary: Four college students try to map out the way to deal with their lives as things become ever more complicated and intertwined.
Notes: Will be Ryan/Brooke and Jess/Summer. Assume everything up until the Series finale of GG, Season 4 finale of OTH, and the Series Finale of The OC (Minus the final montage) to be true for these. Add this one to the list of my many stories where Ryan is a talented artist (of realistic, not comic-style images...) but doesn't tell anyone really because he doesn't want the attention. Chapter title is after the song by Coco Lee.
Chapter Four ~ Do You Want My Love
Ryan went to the airport as soon as he got out of class, and sat down to wait, a sketch book out to pass the time, and found himself sketching Brooke as she'd looked last night, standing beside her car with the street light illuminating her from behind and giving her an almost angelic glow as she smiled at him. He shook his head and flipped the pad shut as he heard the arrival announcement for Summer's flight and head closer to the gate so he'd see her as soon as she got off the plane, and laughed when she spotted him and ran forward to throw her arms around his neck.
"I missed you so much, Chino!" Summer cried as he lifted her off the floor to spin her around. "I like saving the world, but I miss my friends so much."
"I missed you, too, Summer," Ryan replied, setting her down and kissing her forehead. "You got any other bags?" he asked as he crouched down to greet Pancakes, who was, if he hopping around in her carrier was any indication, eager to get to the apartment and see her son.
"Yeah, a couple," Summer replied. "And some big news, too."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah," Summer said, taking a deep breath and letting it out.
"Everything okay?"
"Yes and no," Summer said. "See... I did something kind of stupid..."
"So does everyone," Ryan replied.
"I quit GEORGE," Summer said. "I'm so tired of the moving around all the time, and while I like saving the world... I miss you more. You're like my best friend now, Chino."
"I'm a little surprised, but... you know I'm gonna support you no matter what," Ryan said.
"Even if it means I'm hoping I can crash at your place for a couple weeks until I find my own place here in town? I already applied and got accepted to Berkeley for next fall, and I want to do this, but..."
"I've gotta ask Jess, but I'm sure he'll be fine with it," Ryan said. "You can have my room, I'll crash on the couch."
"You don't have to do that," Summer protested. "I was sleeping on a bus for two years, remember? A couch will be heaven."
"I'm a gentleman to the end, Sum," Ryan reminded her. "You can have my room."
"Thanks."
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Ryan and Summer had the couch pulled out and were laying on their backs, laughing, when Jess got home from his last class. "Geeze, hot girl from last night wasn't enough?" Jess joked when he saw them.
"Jess, meet Summer Roberts. Sum, meet Jess Mariano," Ryan said.
"First of all," Summer said, sitting up. "The idea of me and Chino is just gross and wrong..."
"Hey!" Ryan protested, laughing.
"You kiss me on the top of the head like you do to Kaitlin," Summer replied. "I'm the third of your non-related sisters."
"True," Ryan said, sitting back again.
"And second of all, please tell me I was right about kinkiness last night, because even if the girl wasn't hot, I could get into kinkiness involving you," she said to Jess.
"Sorry, no kinkiness," Jess said. "Though I'm pretty sure Ryan made out with Brooke when he walked her to her car. Since he was gone ten minutes."
"How hot?" Summer asked. "Because I flat out refuse to take your room if it's going to interfere with you getting laid, Chino. You need it."
"You know, I like this girl more every second," Jess said. "I keep telling him that if he'd just go find a girl and get laid, he'd loosen up!"
"He was always in a better mood when he was getting some," Summer agreed, laughing as Ryan groaned and covered his head with a pillow. "Hey, um, Jess? Ryan said we needed to clear it with you, but... I'm moving to Berkeley, and I was hoping I could crash here until I find my own place."
"I'm giving her my room as long as you don't mind her staying," Ryan said.
"I don't have a problem with it," Jess said. "Ah, but you gotta read this immediately," he added, passing her the yellow covered booklet from one of the shelves and ignoring how Ryan burst out laughing. "He's already read it," Jess said, grinning.
"You'll love it," Ryan said.
Summer took the booklet and read the title. "Zeke gets an STD..." she read, a grin forming on her face as she opened it up to start reading, giggling as she read about how Zeke was a man-whore who slept with his brother's girlfriend, and promptly discovered he had Genital Herpes. "Oh my God..." she said, falling over backwards as she laughed.
"What until you get to the part about..."
"Shriveled!" Summer crowed, laughing harder. "You, Mr. Mariano, are my hero!" she said.
"Thank you, I try," Jess said, grinning. "Now don't we need to get going? Isn't Brooke meeting as at O'Malley's at 7? It's half hour drive in this traffic..."
"It's already 6:00!" Summer protested. "I need to shower and change..."
"Why?" Jess asked. "You look fine..."
"My last shower was in a cheap ass motel room with no water pressure, and a dozen people in the main room talking strategy and disapproving of me for travelling in a plane that emits noxious gases," Summer said. "I wanted to relax and soak, but now I have 25 minutes to get showered and dressed for clubbing, so shut up and move."
"Better do what she says," Ryan said, nodding. "Or she'll stab you with a fork tonight."
"You both need to change, too," Summer said.
"We do?" Ryan said, looking down at his clothes.
"We're going clubbing, Chino," Summer said. "You boys have to look hot or I'll ashamed to be seen with you."
"Be afraid and do as she says?" Jess asked.
"Pretty much, yeah," Ryan agreed, pushing himself up.
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"So how hot is this girl we're meeting?" Summer asked as they got out of Jess' car.
"Really hot," Jess said. "And she thinks Ryan's funny, which I think is pretty conclusive proof that..."
"She likes him," Summer agreed. "Because I love him like a brother, but he is the least funny person I've ever met."
"I can be funny," Ryan said.
"Sure you can," Summer said, patting his shoulder.
"I can!"
"No contradictions here," Summer replied, covering her mouth as a snicker snuck out.
"I hate you," Ryan said.
"Love you, too, Ry."
Ryan rolled his eyes, then smiled as he spotted Brooke sitting outside the pub they were meeting at. "Hey, you made it," he said.
"Cute guy invited me, how could I say no?" Brooke replied. "You must be Summer?" she added.
"Nice to meet you," Summer replied. "Brooke, right?"
"Right," Brooke said.
"Let's go eat, ladies," Jess said. "Because I'm starving."
"You're always starving," Ryan said, rolling his eyes as he led the way inside.
"I'm a growing boy," Jess protested, laughing.
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"I swear, it's true!" Summer said a little later as the four sat around a table. "Chino can convey whole sentences with a single look!" She pointed at him. "See! See!"
"Not just anyone can look both that amused and that annoyed all at once," Jess agreed, laughing.
"Somebody explain the 'Chino' nickname to me, please?" Brooke asked.
"I grew up in Chino before I moved to Newport," Ryan explained. "My first big Newport Party, Summer... well..."
"I was drunk off my ass, 'accidentally' spilled beer all over the front of his suit and then tried to wipe it dry," Summer said, laughing.
"That you remember? You couldn't even remember that Seth and I were at that party, but now you remember that?" Ryan asked.
"I was copping a feel on a hot guy, of course I remember it," Summer said. "Now go on, explain."
"Okay, anyway, Seth comes out while she's flirting and groping, and he flips out and tells everyone that I'm not the cousin from Boston, I'm a car thief from Chino. And Summer looks at me with this pure disgust and says 'Chino? Ew!' It just stuck after that. For a while during our senior year of high school and the year after that, she called me 'Atwood', but... it went back to Chino after a while."
"Because this guy is way to unique for the last name thing I do with everybody," Summer said, reaching over to squeeze Ryan's arm. "Which means that until I think of something better, you two are Mariano and Davis to me."
"I can live with that," Jess said, nodding. "To nicknames."
"I've been called much worse," Brooke said. "My ex-best friend vandalized my senior prom dress so that under a black light it said in big white letters 'whore'."
Summer winced sympathetically. "Ooh... cold."
"That would be part of the 'ex-best friend' thing," Brooke agreed. "Okay, so far I've heard funny Ryan stories, and a funny Ryan and Summer story, and you guys know about the 'whore' prom dress, but I think we need a funny Jess story."
"Funny or embarrassing?" Jess countered.
"And/or," Brooke replied. "Come on, there's gotta be something..."
"Well, there are a lot of 'mocking my Uncle Luke' moments," Jess said, nodding. "Alright, there was this one time, when I drew a chalk outline of a dead body on the sidewalk in front of the grocery story..." Jess began with a fond grin.
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"They are so cute, and I like her," Summer said a little later as she and Jess found themselves standing at the bar, watching Ryan and Brooke dance. Or more accurately, watching Ryan stand in place while Brooke danced around him, making him laugh. "I don't think he's laughed like that since..."
"Before the stalker slut slept with the man whore?" Jess supplied. "I remember him mentioning how much he was looking forward to seeing them both. Then next time I see him he's all depressed and told me about catching them."
"They suck," Summer said in agreement. "But Chino really deserves to be happy. I mean, just from his e-mails and the phone calls, I know it killed him when Julie had the miscarriage..."
"He was a mess," Jess agreed. "I'd known him a couple weeks, we were getting to be friends, and then... then he disappeared for a week and came back with a black eye and busted lip..."
"What?" Summer asked.
"You didn't know about him getting in the fight with his father?" Jess asked. "Don't tell him I told you, he'll kill me. But yeah, he did. I think he probably had a couple bruised ribs, too. He told me what had happened, and that he'd spent the week with Julie and Kaitlin, trying to comfort them, and when Frank showed up he'd decked the guy, then gotten his ass kicked until Kaitlin called the cops."
"God," Summer said, sighing.
"What's up?" Ryan asked as he walked over. "Are you two brooding?" he asked, looking between them. "I thought that was my gig?"
"We're stealing it, you're not allowed to brood tonight," Summer replied, smiling.
"Go dance, both of you," Ryan ordered.
Jess snorted. "I don't dance," he said.
"That's what Ryan said once upon a time," Summer said. "Before Cotillion."
"Cotillion?" Jess asked, snickering.
"Shut up, both of you," Ryan said warningly, though he was laughing. "And go dance. If my two best friends aren't having fun, nether will I."
"What do you say, Mariano? Wanna dance?" Summer asked. "I wouldn't mind being seen dancing with a hotty-hot-hot guy on my first outing in Berkeley."
"And I know better than to turn down a girl who suffers rage blackouts," Jess replied, letting her drag him towards the dance floor.
To Be Continued...
I need to make a Jess/Summer icon... or a Ryan/Brooke/Jess/Summer icon... maybe make an animated icon of the four of them... lol
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Date: 2007-08-15 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-15 08:02 am (UTC)Loved the Jess-Summer-Brooke-Ryan banter. These people are so much fun together!
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Date: 2007-08-15 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-15 03:25 pm (UTC)and I totally love the pariings!
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Date: 2007-08-15 05:26 pm (UTC)You, Mr. Mariano, are my hero - oh, you have no shame!!!!
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Date: 2007-08-15 07:03 pm (UTC)loving it!!
Date: 2007-08-21 05:05 am (UTC)LOVE TEH STORY!!......first off, I LOVE JESS.........I mean, I love all teh characters on GG (with exception of Dean..lol. Though Jared rocks...)...
BUT I REALLY LOVE JESS!!! (though i'm not a j/rORY shipper....andN i love Luke too!!!!....they make me laugh.
Summer & Ryan rock...and Brooke's cool, I like all teh characters on OTH.
I REALLY LOVE x-OVERS LIKE THIS CAUSE IT ALLOWS FOR UC COUPLES....ONES U CAN ONLY FIND IN FANFIC.
AND I WISH MORE PEOPLE APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY FOR VARIETY & OPTIONS FANFIC ALLOWS.......
The Ryan/Brooke & Jess/Summer pairings are awesome...U MUST UD SOON!!.
AND U SHOULD CONTINUE TO DO TONS MORE FICS LIKE THIS & FIND PLACES TO POST THEM (other than teh LJ..like fanfiction.net or something...)