20 Facts Fic (Georgie Jones)
Strolling along in my 20 Facts series, I've got Georgie now.
ETA: I forgot to thank my wonderful beta, scoob2222!
~When she hears the story of her parents, their great love, Maxie being sick, how she was conceived and born, Georgie is dumbstruck at how such a Hollywood-style fairy tale produced plain, ordinary Georgianna Jones.
~She doesn’t regret a single day of loving Dillon. Even if she never feels that way again, she knows what it’s like to give her whole heart to someone, and it’s beautiful.
~Every day, she regrets not allowing herself to love Diego.
~It breaks her heart to see her sister hate their father so much. Georgie can’t remember him at all, and it’s hard to hate someone she doesn’t know. Besides- they got Mac, the best dad in the world.
~When they’re both on break at the hospital, Georgie and Robin will go down to the cafeteria and have a cup of coffee and some gossip. The really juicy conversations they have in French. Sometimes Georgie is jealous of the adventurous life her cousin has lived- it’s all been so glamorous and romantic. But when she thinks of the heartache Robin had to go through to get there, Georgie doesn’t know if it’s worth it.
~She’ll admit it- she was jealous when Lulu got pregnant. Having a baby with Dillon was part of the perfect future she had imagined for herself. To see someone else going through it, even under the worst of circumstances, felt violating.
~Georgie is almost always jealous of Maxie. Her whole life, she’s wished she could just charge into something, anything she wanted without worrying about the consequences. But then, Georgie has always had Maxie to worry about, so she’s always worried about the consequences.
~It’s almost uncanny how much Logan Hayes reminds her of Diego. That mocking glint of danger in his eyes and that sweet hint of vulnerability around his mouth- Georgie can’t help but be drawn to him. She feels it from his side, too- that raw want she got from Diego and never felt with Dillon. But she also knows what she threw away with Diego- she doesn’t deserve a second chance. That’s why she stays away from Lulu’s man- even though revenge would be sweet.
~Georgie was the biggest daddy’s girl ever when she was little. She would scream and cry if she wasn’t in Mac’s arms and would fall asleep on his chest every night. In fact, until she was four, she thought ‘Mac’ meant father like ‘Mommy’ meant mother.
~When she hears the story of her parents and their super-deluxe Hollywood-style fairy tale, she knows that love doesn’t stand a chance. If Felicia and Frisco Jones couldn’t make it, no one can. And if Frisco and Felicia Jones couldn’t make it, she should have known that she and Dillon never would. Her parents love was the truest thing she’d ever known- even Mac had said so. And everything about Dillon was fantasy and make-believe.
~When she breaks up with Dillon, she feels like her heart is literally ripped out of her chest. Not heartbroken- heartless, empty. She thinks she’ll never feel whole again, but somehow, she starts to get better and then one day, she is. It’s a relief to know that first loves don’t last forever, she thinks to herself. And one day in late November, long after she’s put everything that reminds her of Dillon in a box and pushed it to the back of her closet, she finds Robin fingering a cameo ring and crying. And when Georgie pulls her older sister, her hero, into her arms and hugs her tight, Robin just sobs into her shoulder, “Stone.” And Georgie knows that first or last, some loves are forever- and she’s glad she hasn’t gotten that far yet.
~Years after all the Dillon drama, when she rekindles her friendship with Lulu, they are awake one night after a few bottles of wine, and Lulu blearily asks her what kind of kisser Diego was. And Georgie thinks back to that hot summer day in the boathouse, with his slick, strong body sliding over her, and she gets lost in her memory. “Once in a lifetime,” is her answer.
~On Friday nights when she’s not working, Georgie hangs out at Lucas’s apartment at PCU. Guy will make them cosmos and Stoli Doli’s, and sure enough, after two, Lucas will turn to her and slur, “I can’t believe you used to have a crush on me! We’re fucking cousins!”
“Like you should talk!” Guy will squeal, as he tops off Georgie’s glass. “You had a crush on her sister- and you’re gay!” It’s so good to laugh about all this now- it feels like a hundred years ago.
~Dillon asked her once how Georgie could love Maxie so unconditionally when she was such a loose cannon, and almost always seemed to make Georgie’s life more difficult. Georgie just shrugged. “She’s my sister.” And she left it at that. There was too much to explain, and he would never understand that she loved Maxie because she was fearless and brave always put Georgie’s happiness ahead of her own, and when Dillon broke Georgie’s heart into a million pieces, Maxie was the one to pick them up again.
~Georgie has dreams. She wants to go to Paris like Robin, she wants to fly off the handle and do whatever pleases her like Maxie, she wants to be someone the world will remember, like Dillon. But then she thinks of leaving Mac all alone, just like her mother did, just like Uncle Robert did...even like Robin did, and Georgie just can’t leave him. She knows what it’s like to be someone’s second choice, and she has to let Mac know that he’s her first.
~She hopes Maxie knows just how much she loves her. That Maxie got all the brave, strong, wonderful things about their parents and it will really be the only way Georgie will ever get a chance to know them. If Maxie could just stop hurting herself, she would see that. But more than that, Georgie knows that Maxie is the only person who has always supported her one hundred per cent- even if she wasn’t doing the right thing, and everything Georgie knows about loyalty, she learned from her big sister.
~It’s hard as November rolls around, and Georgie tries to remember the very last time she actually saw Diego, talked with him, saw him smile. She can’t remember, and that may be what she regrets most of all.
~When Georgie takes Robin’s room when Robin moves to Paris, she finds an old journal in the back of her closet. She flips open a page out of curiosity and an old picture of Robin and Stone at the first Nurses Ball falls out. Even though she knows it’s not exactly right, she sits right down on the floor and starts reading from the beginning. But she stops short when she comes to the page where Robin talks about seeing her for the first time after she was born. ...she is the sweetest, most perfect thing, Georgie. In the true sense of the word: awesome. Maybe God doesn't do such a bad job after all. Underneath that page, Robin tucked a picture of her holding a newborn Georgie, with Maxie sitting on Mac’s lap and leaning into the picture to kiss the top of Georgie’s head. And Georgie knows that no matter what, because of three people in the world, she will never, ever be alone.
~Georgie finally meets her father when she’s twenty-one. She’s visiting her mother in Texas, and Felicia had finally gotten ahold of Frisco to ‘surprise’ Georgie. She vaguely recognizes him from his pictures. Without thinking, Georgie throws herself into his arms and sobs like the child he never knew. He can’t stay long- it’s taken twenty-one years, and then Georgie only has an hour with him. When Frisco is gone, Felicia turns to Georgie with tears in her eyes, and says, “Thank you honey. It’s been my dream for your father to see you some day.”
~When Georgie finally does make it to Paris- Mac insisted that she go- she does find her fairy tale romance. With the very last person she, or anyone else, would have ever expected. And as Mac walks her down the aisle, Georgie looks over her family. Her mom and her father are sitting next to Maxie, who’s buried the hatchet with Frisco, just for today. Robin is sitting next to her husband, with their beautiful little girl asleep in her arms, and Robin mouths, I’m so proud of you, to her. When it’s finally time for Mac to let her go, Georgie wipes a tear from his eye and smiles, “Please don’t cry, Daddy. All of my dreams have finally come true.”
ETA: I forgot to thank my wonderful beta, scoob2222!
~When she hears the story of her parents, their great love, Maxie being sick, how she was conceived and born, Georgie is dumbstruck at how such a Hollywood-style fairy tale produced plain, ordinary Georgianna Jones.
~She doesn’t regret a single day of loving Dillon. Even if she never feels that way again, she knows what it’s like to give her whole heart to someone, and it’s beautiful.
~Every day, she regrets not allowing herself to love Diego.
~It breaks her heart to see her sister hate their father so much. Georgie can’t remember him at all, and it’s hard to hate someone she doesn’t know. Besides- they got Mac, the best dad in the world.
~When they’re both on break at the hospital, Georgie and Robin will go down to the cafeteria and have a cup of coffee and some gossip. The really juicy conversations they have in French. Sometimes Georgie is jealous of the adventurous life her cousin has lived- it’s all been so glamorous and romantic. But when she thinks of the heartache Robin had to go through to get there, Georgie doesn’t know if it’s worth it.
~She’ll admit it- she was jealous when Lulu got pregnant. Having a baby with Dillon was part of the perfect future she had imagined for herself. To see someone else going through it, even under the worst of circumstances, felt violating.
~Georgie is almost always jealous of Maxie. Her whole life, she’s wished she could just charge into something, anything she wanted without worrying about the consequences. But then, Georgie has always had Maxie to worry about, so she’s always worried about the consequences.
~It’s almost uncanny how much Logan Hayes reminds her of Diego. That mocking glint of danger in his eyes and that sweet hint of vulnerability around his mouth- Georgie can’t help but be drawn to him. She feels it from his side, too- that raw want she got from Diego and never felt with Dillon. But she also knows what she threw away with Diego- she doesn’t deserve a second chance. That’s why she stays away from Lulu’s man- even though revenge would be sweet.
~Georgie was the biggest daddy’s girl ever when she was little. She would scream and cry if she wasn’t in Mac’s arms and would fall asleep on his chest every night. In fact, until she was four, she thought ‘Mac’ meant father like ‘Mommy’ meant mother.
~When she hears the story of her parents and their super-deluxe Hollywood-style fairy tale, she knows that love doesn’t stand a chance. If Felicia and Frisco Jones couldn’t make it, no one can. And if Frisco and Felicia Jones couldn’t make it, she should have known that she and Dillon never would. Her parents love was the truest thing she’d ever known- even Mac had said so. And everything about Dillon was fantasy and make-believe.
~When she breaks up with Dillon, she feels like her heart is literally ripped out of her chest. Not heartbroken- heartless, empty. She thinks she’ll never feel whole again, but somehow, she starts to get better and then one day, she is. It’s a relief to know that first loves don’t last forever, she thinks to herself. And one day in late November, long after she’s put everything that reminds her of Dillon in a box and pushed it to the back of her closet, she finds Robin fingering a cameo ring and crying. And when Georgie pulls her older sister, her hero, into her arms and hugs her tight, Robin just sobs into her shoulder, “Stone.” And Georgie knows that first or last, some loves are forever- and she’s glad she hasn’t gotten that far yet.
~Years after all the Dillon drama, when she rekindles her friendship with Lulu, they are awake one night after a few bottles of wine, and Lulu blearily asks her what kind of kisser Diego was. And Georgie thinks back to that hot summer day in the boathouse, with his slick, strong body sliding over her, and she gets lost in her memory. “Once in a lifetime,” is her answer.
~On Friday nights when she’s not working, Georgie hangs out at Lucas’s apartment at PCU. Guy will make them cosmos and Stoli Doli’s, and sure enough, after two, Lucas will turn to her and slur, “I can’t believe you used to have a crush on me! We’re fucking cousins!”
“Like you should talk!” Guy will squeal, as he tops off Georgie’s glass. “You had a crush on her sister- and you’re gay!” It’s so good to laugh about all this now- it feels like a hundred years ago.
~Dillon asked her once how Georgie could love Maxie so unconditionally when she was such a loose cannon, and almost always seemed to make Georgie’s life more difficult. Georgie just shrugged. “She’s my sister.” And she left it at that. There was too much to explain, and he would never understand that she loved Maxie because she was fearless and brave always put Georgie’s happiness ahead of her own, and when Dillon broke Georgie’s heart into a million pieces, Maxie was the one to pick them up again.
~Georgie has dreams. She wants to go to Paris like Robin, she wants to fly off the handle and do whatever pleases her like Maxie, she wants to be someone the world will remember, like Dillon. But then she thinks of leaving Mac all alone, just like her mother did, just like Uncle Robert did...even like Robin did, and Georgie just can’t leave him. She knows what it’s like to be someone’s second choice, and she has to let Mac know that he’s her first.
~She hopes Maxie knows just how much she loves her. That Maxie got all the brave, strong, wonderful things about their parents and it will really be the only way Georgie will ever get a chance to know them. If Maxie could just stop hurting herself, she would see that. But more than that, Georgie knows that Maxie is the only person who has always supported her one hundred per cent- even if she wasn’t doing the right thing, and everything Georgie knows about loyalty, she learned from her big sister.
~It’s hard as November rolls around, and Georgie tries to remember the very last time she actually saw Diego, talked with him, saw him smile. She can’t remember, and that may be what she regrets most of all.
~When Georgie takes Robin’s room when Robin moves to Paris, she finds an old journal in the back of her closet. She flips open a page out of curiosity and an old picture of Robin and Stone at the first Nurses Ball falls out. Even though she knows it’s not exactly right, she sits right down on the floor and starts reading from the beginning. But she stops short when she comes to the page where Robin talks about seeing her for the first time after she was born. ...she is the sweetest, most perfect thing, Georgie. In the true sense of the word: awesome. Maybe God doesn't do such a bad job after all. Underneath that page, Robin tucked a picture of her holding a newborn Georgie, with Maxie sitting on Mac’s lap and leaning into the picture to kiss the top of Georgie’s head. And Georgie knows that no matter what, because of three people in the world, she will never, ever be alone.
~Georgie finally meets her father when she’s twenty-one. She’s visiting her mother in Texas, and Felicia had finally gotten ahold of Frisco to ‘surprise’ Georgie. She vaguely recognizes him from his pictures. Without thinking, Georgie throws herself into his arms and sobs like the child he never knew. He can’t stay long- it’s taken twenty-one years, and then Georgie only has an hour with him. When Frisco is gone, Felicia turns to Georgie with tears in her eyes, and says, “Thank you honey. It’s been my dream for your father to see you some day.”
~When Georgie finally does make it to Paris- Mac insisted that she go- she does find her fairy tale romance. With the very last person she, or anyone else, would have ever expected. And as Mac walks her down the aisle, Georgie looks over her family. Her mom and her father are sitting next to Maxie, who’s buried the hatchet with Frisco, just for today. Robin is sitting next to her husband, with their beautiful little girl asleep in her arms, and Robin mouths, I’m so proud of you, to her. When it’s finally time for Mac to let her go, Georgie wipes a tear from his eye and smiles, “Please don’t cry, Daddy. All of my dreams have finally come true.”