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*Now a three-part story*
At some point later on, as he’s fooling around on his laptop and eating leftover takeout, Nick Googles the distance between New Orleans and Los Angeles. He tells himself it’s just a random thing he’s curious about, or that he’s looking this up because he misses Winston and Schmidt and Jess, the three of them, all equally.
(Nick Miller is shit at lying to other people. He’s pretty good at lying to himself.)
Set after the S5 finale. Nick is in New Orleans with Reagan and in denial about his intense and lingering feelings for Jess — until a series of events happens that he can’t ignore. Jess, in LA, embarks on what she's calling her Summer of Eventually Discerning The Right Nick-Related Next Steps; things don't go exactly as planned. A three-part, alternating-POV story in which Nick and Jess fumble their way back towards each other over the course of one summer filled with realizations, recollections, a sex dream or two — and then, at last, a reunion. Canon-adjacent and then divergent. To borrow a description from Ol' Nick Miller, things get “disgustingly sexual.”