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Rory/Jess - You Say That I Treat You Like a Book on a Shelf

Okay, I think this song actually makes Jess sound like a bit more of a jerk than he was, but it fits pretty well with how he thinks of himself. My own personal headcanon regarding this one (doubt I’ll make a fic out of it, but it might be a decent one-shot…what do you guys think?) is that this is actually Jess singing. Seem OOC yet? At some point after writing his book, but before it being published, he is in a coffeehouse where there’s an open mike and a bunch of up-and-coming writers, musicians and artists that are spit-balling ideas regarding publishing and collaboration (the night when the dream of Truncheon is conceived). At some point in the evening, tired and emotionally if not physically tipsy on longing, frustration, and Irish coffee, when a couple of the musicians start fiddling around with some guitar/percussion riffs, having no idea what force took possession of his body, Jess leaned over to one of the microphones and started ad libbing lyrics and the musicians just went with it. When it was over, he really had no desire to ever duplicate the experience, though it was a strange rush, but his way of weaving words together and the reference to “this book” caught both Matt and Chris’ attention, which, in a roundabout way, led to their friendship and the eventual publication of The Subsect, as well as the opening of Truncheon Books.

(Having been in a rock band, as well as being a writer/lyricist, those moments do actually happen once in a blue moon.)