A/N: This is my first GG ff. I am starting off from I Can't Get Started in Season 2, Jess and Rory's First kiss episode. This is just my take on how take on how things would have gone from there.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls. I do not own Jess Mariano. Amy Sherman-Palladino is a genius, and we should all worship her.
BG: Jess and Rory were becoming friends and Luke had convinced Rory to tutor Jess so he wouldn't have to repeat the 11th grade. She agreed (because Rory can't turn anyone down) and attempted to help him. After going out for an ice cream, Jess swerved off the road to avoid hitting a small animal, crashing Rory's car. Jess left town afterwards, leaving a very confused, and broken armed Rory.
Chapter One- Just Wanted To
Maury had been playing the piano, catering to a drunken Babette's need for back-up music. Dean was hiding in a coat closet in the Inn, as Patti was wildly running around asking for "that pretty tall one, with the good hair". Christopher was walking down a pathway, talking to a very disheveled Sherry, and Lorelai was giggling over martinis with her mother. Suki was dressed in a beautiful white floral dress, in the kitchen as always, fretting about the daffodils on her wedding cake.
It was Suki's wedding day, and the entire town was at the inn, some inebriated, and some running from the inebriated. Lorelai had told Emily that she and Christopher were back together. At the same time, Chris had taken Rory down the little path behind the inn, discussing her family getting back together. After Rory reiterated that Chris had to be serious about this relationship, his phone rang and he headed towards the bridge to answer.
As her father drifted off into the distance, an unexpected guest was revealed. In a small field behind the path, Jess Mariano stood with his hands tucked away in his tired leather jacket. Smirking at Rory, he knew she would come to question him.
"She's gorgeous. The way her tiny thin legs scurry under that blue dress. She looked absolutely stunning, just for this wedding. This wedding that she's probably at with Dean." Jess continued to think, finally remembering that Rory wasn't his girl, that she didn't love him. All of a sudden, coming here didn't sound like such a good idea.
"What are you doing here?" Rory managed to spit out, stuttering.
"Hello to you too" Jess continued his smug attitude. He had always been wonderful at using his attitude to cover up his real feelings.
"Is everything ok?" What was Rory supposed to say? He had disappeared in the middle of the night, and all of a sudden he was back in Stars Hollow, the place he hated most?
"You look nice" He stated the obvious, while also avoiding her questions. He wasn't okay. He was falling for the giant boy scout's girlfriend.
"Thank you." She blushed, trying to hide her embarrassment. Jess was so mean and closed off from other people, but he was so sweet to her.
"What are you doing here?" Rory was flabbergasted and was trying to get out of the girly feelings taking over her. Jess had complemented her and now she couldn't seem to use her muscles.
"I moved back." Jess said, using that cool boy monosyllabic response of his.
"What?" She couldn't think of anything else to say. He had hated this town so much, hated everyone in it, and he chose to come back?
"I moved back" he took a page out of Rory's book, repeating his replies to run away from the real answer.
"But…what?...why?" little miss complete oxford dictionary couldn't come up with her own words over one syllable now.
"Just wanted to." Jess pushed the subject off, not really wanting to discuss the reasons he had to come back. The reasons he ran away from New York City, the freest place on the Eastern Seaboard.
Rory stared blankly for some five seconds before lunging at his face. Hands grasping at his torso, pulling him into the kiss. She's so into him and the way he feels, before Jess can even react. His lips are so soft, she never would have expected that. Jess was a tough boy, and tough boys have rough lips, right? He finally realized what was happening and raised his hands to her face. Rory's skin was perfect and Jess felt terrible rubbing his callused hands all over her.
Jess slid his hands down to Rory's thin waist in milliseconds, but to them it felt as slow and memorable as any kiss. While Jess let his large hands take over her the small of her back, she pushed her hands higher up his back, gaining control and pulling him dangerously close to her. He could feel her quickened pulse throughout her body, and it perfectly matched his. He felt like everything was perfect, a small perfect moment.
As soon as it had begun, it was over. Rory used her leverage to push herself away from Jess. It had all been so tempting, so intense, so wrong. But it felt right, it all fit together. No, this couldn't feel good, being with Jess was wrong. For goodness' sake she was at this wedding with Dean. Dean, her boyfriend!
"Oh my god. Oh my god." She kept muttering to herself. There were no words that could fix this, no words that could express everything she was feeling.
"Rory…" it slipped from Jess' lips. It was half question and half plea. He wanted her, he needed her. But he knew what they had done, and how terrible she must feel. He had to be there for her.
"Don't say a word!" Her words were urgent, but in somewhat hushed tones. It was demand, or a question, it was pure begging. She sounded like a sad puppy, a puppy who knew he wasn't supposed to chew the shoes, but they just tasted so good!
"Ok" Jess didn't know how to comfort her and not hurt himself at this point.
"I have to go." She spat out, convincing herself it was true.
She began to turn around, running back towards the wedding, her family, and her boyfriend. As she ran back to the inn, she swung her head back at Jess.
"Oh, welcome home!" and she said those words as if they hadn't kissed, as if he had just walked back into Luke's Diner.
Jess stood in the same place as Rory ran to the path, stayed there while she walked back up the path, and still couldn't leave. He kissed Rory Gilmore, the girl he'd been longing for since he got to the asylum they called Stars Hollow. Even better was that she kissed him, meaning she wanted him. His smile continued to grow from his smirk to a beaming smile from ear to ear. But suddenly he remembered how upset she had looked. No matter how much she had wanted to kiss Jess, she was hurting on the inside. She had hurt Dean, and Rory didn't hurt anyone. Now all of these feelings were whirring around through Jess's body, a strange surge of energy.
He walked a few feet behind him and came to the bay of the lake. Kicking off his boots and removing his James Dean leather jacket, Jess laid himself out of the shore and dipped his feet in the cold water. He rolled his pants up to his knees, letting his legs slip into the water. The lake had been his sanctuary in Stars Hollow. After Luke had pushed him in, he found out that the water melted his troubles out of his head. They never disappeared completely, but while he was is the cold pure water, Jess was free.
Rory sprinted all the way up the path and over the bridge, hoping that the wind in her hair and the sharp breeze on her face would take it all off of her mind. As she approached the top of the hill, she saw her mother waiting to walk down the aisle. They had a wedding to be in. Lorelai looked puffy-eyed and somber, and Rory instinctly thought of something to cheer her, or at least take her mind off of whatever was ruining her good make up.
"I think I'm going to Washington." She spit out, remembering one normal thing that had happened today.
"Good" was all Lorelai had the strength to reply.
They walked down the hill in blue dresses, down towards the rest of the wedding. As Rory looked at the priest and all of the guests, she laid eyes on Dean. Her boyfriend, her Prince as Paris insisted on calling him. Rory went through with the wedding, tearing up during Suki and Jackson's vows. She spent the whole night dancing with her friends and neighbors from Star's Hollow. But that night, all Rory could dream about were wedding bells and grooms in kilts. She was in the white dress in her dream, but Dean was not wearing the groom's kilt.
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She blocked out Lorelai's pointless ranting and looked all around the festival for him. By the time her eyes had found him, all that could pass through her head was the annoying tune of "Those lazy hazy crazy days of summer. Those days of soda, and pretzels, and beer".
