How I picture nick and jess’ love confession in the evelator scene in s6 finale went:
once Nick enters the elevator he turns to Jess and says: “jess please don’t go. I don’t know if you heard me but in love with you”
Jess: “Nick, I’m in love with you too”
Nick didn’t have a chance to process what jess just told him because the next thing he notices is that they’re kissing. A kiss filled with unsaid words as they pour all the years of yearning and repressed feelings into it.
Once they pull away for air nicks asks “then why are you even leaving? why weren’t you answering my calls?”
“Because I couldn’t do it anymore it was so hard to be around you seeing you with someone else I had to be away” she’s still breathless from their kiss and overwhelmed by his confession she feels like she might pass out.
“But then I broke up with raegan! you knew that”
“Yeah and that’s why I came back at first to tell you how I feel. but then I heard what you said about pepperwood and Jessica night and I thought you were talking about us...and yes i was there but I lied to you because I panicked I just couldn’t see you”
Nick never hated himself more than he does right now. He can’t believe he caused her so much pain. He just didn’t know she was still in love with him...
“Jess...What i said about pepperwood and jessica night was because I really believed you didn’t want to be with me, i thought I screwed it up...but then I found out form Schmidt that you’re leaving and I realized just how much I need you how much I love you”
Before jess gets a chance to respon, they get interrupted by Winston and Aly asking if jess is still planning on leaving jess turns to nick and says “there’s no reason for me to leave anymore I’m staying”
Nick grins at her and her heart melts.
“Okay then let’s go unload the truck” Aly huffs in frustration
They start unloading the truck and once they’re back at the apartment they start putting Jess’ stuff back in her room then Cece calls Jess and Jess tells her that her and nick talked and that she’s staying. She hangs up as Nick puts down the last box “all done!” then he moves closer to her and notices her notes “what are these?”
Jess realizes she’s still holding the notes “oh these...I wrote down what I wanted to tell you earlier ...I had so much to say... I needed to write them down in case I get nervous and forget to speak” she laughs slightly
she nods “yeah but like it’s kind of all over the place and some are actually supposed to be sung”
“so you wrote a song for me?” He smiles at her which makes her want to kiss him again she can’t believe how she managed to hold back her attraction and love for him for years.
“Jess?” Nicks snaps her out of her thoughts
“Huh?? Oh yeah the songs....well they’re just words...in a form of a song ...I guess yeah I wrote you a song.”
He sits down on the floor and she sits next to him he starts reading which then he realizes how it’s all over the place and how it doesn’t even seem like it’s a song and smiles up at her “as much as i would love to read these i do want to hear it from you. but not just what’s on the notes”
“what do you want to hear?”
“what made you realize you‘re still in love with me?”
“When I thought Sam was going to propose to me...”
“Sam was going to propose??” Now that changed his mood completely he looked terrified probably thinking how he’d feel if she said yes ...it would wreck him.
“No he wasn’t going to I just thought he was...then suddenly it hit me that I don’t see myself marrying him because he’s not the one I want to be with because my heart already belongs to you”
He feels overwhelmed with her revelation still trying to process that she still loves him and chose him over Sam but then he remembers how even after Sam she still dated Robby.
“but then you still dated Robby”
“Yeah because you were still with Raegan and clearly happy with her and it was just so hard for me to see you guys together especially after you came back from Illinois, it was so hard to be around you. I was so desperate to move on and Robby was there, and he wanted me. so I thought maybe that’s a sign...but obviously it didn’t work”
“Because you were cousins” he made the turtle face that she adores so much because it’s a Nick Miller thing and she adores every weird thing he does because it’s “him”
“Even if we weren’t related, I was already planning on ending it, at that point I just knew trying to move on from you was pointless”
He still can’t process how she’s been in love with him all this time and he never once realized it, “But you were really helping me with Raegan. you really made me believe you moved on”
“I just really wanted to see you happy even if it meant breaking my heart but then I just couldn’t take it. that’s why I left. It’s why I was ignoring your calls, I needed to distance myself. I know it was selfish but I just couldn’t -“
“selfish?? you were being the most selfless person ever!! and if I had just known that you still had feelings for me, I would’ve never even dated Raegan or anyone. But I just couldn’t even dare to hope that the most amazing person in the world would want someone like me”
“I’m definitely not the most amazing pers-“
Then they start kissing again and it grows more passionate as they grow more desperate for each other. he lifts her up and takes her to his room. They finally make love to each other after years of yearning to do it again years of holding back but they don’t have to anymore. Never again. This time they’re all in. All the way.
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