I'm back again with yet another R/J story b/c I don't believe in there
being any other kind of GG story except maybe a L/L occasionally. Anyway
It's set in the future Jess and Rory are already together so it'll be light
on the angst this time I know my last story was dripping with it, I know
you people had to hold buckets up to your screens reading it so I'm
lightening the load. Anyway I've been reading a lot of really good literati
stories recently and was moved to try and write something a little more
serious and mature so let's see if I can do it, here we go:
*Connecticut (undisclosed area at least an hour out of Stars Hollow)
Fall: 6pmish
Outside it is Raining, cars fly past a small brick apartment building, their windshield wipers synchronized with the heavy raindrops. Inside the building it is warm, its hallways dimly lit with yellow lights. This particular building is an unofficial safe haven for newly wed couples and single parents. It is quaint and picturesque compared to the chrome office building and high-rise apartments that surround its classic structure.
A strong and proud building its only flaw are the thin walls that let everyone know when the honeymoon's over and the baby has colic. A rare night tonight, the halls are quiet except for sound a single phone ringing coming from the 6th apartment on the right, a click is heard as the answering machine comes on and the voice of Lorelai Gilmore escalates through the small black machine.
"....Well I guess Cunningham's are out bowling again it's just the sad old hag mother calling again and---
"Don't hang up, don't hang up don't hang up!" Rory Gilmore-Marino shreaks as she rushes toward the phone.
"..Hanging up now-"
"Mom!" Rory exclaims.
"Oh, so you are home just screening calls so you don't have to talk to your lonely old pathetic mother drone on about her lonely lonely life." Lorelai says dramatically.
"Mom." Rory says curtly. "What can I do for you?" Rory asks sweetly.
"Did we not just go through this, did I night overemphasize the word lonely enough?"
"Where's Luke?"
"At the Diner." Lorelai huffs.
"You are so codependent."
"Tell me something I don't know sister." Lorelai says with defeat. "So what were you doing that left you unable to answer the phone promptly?" Lorelai questions, her solemn tone turning sly.
Rory groans "I was making dinner for Jess if you must know." She answers defensively.
"Well aren't we Suzy Homemaker."
"Yes we are." Rory delights.
"Um yea but can't you um not cook?"
"Hey! Jess bought me a book and everything and I've been trying really hard." Rory crosses her arms for vindication forgetting that her mother was not standing directly in front of her.
"OK sweets I believe you." Lorelai replies soothingly. "So whatcha making?
"Spaghetti with meat sauce and broccoli."
"Ewww you're going to eat vegetables?!"
"No, those are for Jess...you know how he is, "Death can not be prolonged with pizza for breakfast and corn dogs and chili fries for dinner"
"Yeah, he definitely could give Tony Robbins a run for his money."
Rory giggles.
"So where is the substitute today?"
"Ah you can't call him that anymore."
"Wait! He quit the biz and got a real job!"
"Nope but "professor" Abraham had another "episode" so they gave Jes his position."
"So he got a pay raise?!"
"Not yet, because he's a mid season replacement, but they said that come next September his salary could go up by a few k." Rory squeals.
Lorelai laughs out loud, "I don't think I'll ever get used to that man teaching junior high students. He barely spoke in multi-syllables the first 2 years we knew him."
Rory sighs, "He's come along way hasn't he."
"So what about you, how's NBC's local news reporter doing?"
"Quite well, one of my pieces may actually make it on the air Sunday night."
"Yay!" Lorelai says excitedly clapping her hands.
Rory begins to speak but is cut off by the signal four buzz warning erupting from intercom.
"Oh!" Rory exclaims. "Speaking of one of my pieces..my man is home." Rory grins once again forgetting that her mother couldn't see her face.
"That's my cue catch ya later alligator, love ya babe have fun..." Lorelai's voice trails off as Rory hangs up the phone and rushes towards the door.
It swings open as she reaches the counter to the right of it.
The thin muscular mass of Jess Marino is now stretched across the door way, hos hands grasping the ends of each side.
"God I missed you." He says affectionately leaning forward.
Rory walks towards him wrapping her arms around his slender neck while he rests his arms around her petite frame.
"Rough day?"
"What can I say it's hard being a sexual object." Jess raises an eyebrow at his wife.
"Not again, who was it? I bet it was that Murphy girl I swear if it was that 12 year old's getting an ass kicking."
"Harsh words from such a pretty Lady." Jess says brushing Rory cheek with his soft lips.
"Mm that's nice."
"What's that smell?" Jess says taking a step back. "Hey what are you---is that an apron around your waist?" He smirks at Rory who is shyly rubbing her ankles together.
"I made you dinner." She grins.
Jess walks towards her, this time resting his chin on Rory's shoulder, kissing her neck tenderly.
Rory pushes his head down and away from her.
"Don't you want to even try my spaghetti?"
Jess gives her a knowing glance, "Did you follow all of the instructions..straight from the book?"
Rory looks down at her feet, running her finger awkwardly through her messy hair, "Well I might have improvised a little."
Jess nods making a sad attempt to quiet his laughter.
"Come on, those directions sounded so bland I thought I needed to spice it up a little bit." Rory says a pout playing on her lips.
Seizing his opportunity Jess dives in lovingly biting her bottom lip.
"Ow." Rory moans and she pulls Jess's chest into hers.
Jess stumbles towards her, playing with the buttons of her burgundy sweater. Rory heaves herself forward pulling Jess face up to hers, "What about dinner, aren't you hungry?"
"Oh yea." He says enthused, "We'll call the pizza place...the one 40 minutes away, have it delivered that way we pass the 30 minute mark and the pizza's free.
"Oo free pizza, you really know how to rile me up."
"Let's make the call." Jess says moving backwards taking Rory with him, refusing to release the collar of her sweater from his left hand.
Rory leans her head back removing the hair from her face.
"Hi, pizza..pepperoni with peppers..38 Keaton Blvd. Yep, yep yeah, bye."
Jess drops the phone, purposely letting it fall to the floor and off of the hook.
Leaning towards Rory again he raises an eyebrow at her and smirks, "So we have forty minutes....what can we do to fill the void?"
"Gosh, I don't know Rory replies taking hold of Jess belt buckle how about we go inside and figure something out?"
*An hour later.
Jess is seated on the living room floor a slice of pizza in his hand.
Rory enters dressed in one of Jess' old band shirts and blue socks.
"I can't believe you did that." She giggles at Jess as he pulls her down to the floor an hands her a garlic knot.
"I'm sure it happens all the time."
Rory gives him a stern look.
"It goes with the territory." He muses.
"I still say we're going to have to find a new place to get free pizza, that guy's probably already quit the last thing a 16 year old boy wants to see is a 25 year old man in his tightie whities."
Jess laughs out loud. "Come here." He says motioning for Rory to move closer to him.
Rory sighs happily.
"It's October 20th."
"Almost a year." Jess smiles at the thought and rubs Rory's hair gently.
"..in 15 more days."
"We should do a count down."
"Yeah! And each day do something to celebrate its coming." Rory giggles.
"I love you." Jess whispers, his lips close to Rory's ear.
In response she takes hold of his face cupping it in her hands, "Who'd ever thought....us married, for an entire year."
"Hey Lady, once we hit day 15 it's not over you can't start sleeping with NBC execs or anything." Jess pretends to be offended.
"Wouldn't want to." His wife says simply. "They all have beer bellies anyway."
"Yeah they're too busy making 10 million a year they don't have time to go to the gym like us lowly public school teachers." Jess takes another bite of his pizza.
Rory puts hers down and leas her head against Jess' chest, her eyes close involuntarily as Jess' arms wrap around her.
"I'm that good huh, spent after 45 minutes?"
"Mhmm" Rory breathes as she drifts off to sleep.
*A week later
*4:30 Saturday
Rory enters the apartment quietly placing her Styrofoam coffee cup on the counter. Jess looks up from the kitchen table where he s reading the newspaper.
"8 more days." He smiles faintly at her.
"Woo Hoo" Rory says unenthusiastically.
"Glad you're excited." Jess says opening his arms to her.
Rory lands in his lap with a small sound, "Long day." She says letting her head fall back.
"Lot of those lately."
"For both of us." Rory replies kissing Jess' chin.
"Mmmm, your mother called."
"Yea...Luke finally gave in and bought her that basset hound she named it Duke."
"Are you surprised?"
"No." Rory replies standing up. "Going to call her."
"Ok." He replies, "High Fidelity tonight?"
"Uhh actually I need to laugh...and not that John Cusack mushy satire laughter either, I need funny I don't need to think about." Rory says uneasily.
"Empire Records it is..that was my second choice" Jess says with ease.
Rory grins.
*20 minutes later
"What's that noise in the background?" Rory asks her mother.
"Luke making me chocolate chip pancakes."
"For dinner I thought he was against breakfast food after 11am."
"He is but he know not to mess with me around this time of the month if you know what I mean." Lorelai says boldly.
"Well its about time I mean after the time he made you cry over burning your grilled cheese and peanut butter sandwich."
"Yea.." Lorelai says happily.
"Oo! Speaking of which that reminds me I got to pick up my stuff this week."
"See I am useful."
"Sure are.." Rory trails off as her mind wanders stealing a quick glance at Jess her heart begins to beat rapidly and her throat goes dry. "Hold on a sec, mom." Rory motions to Jess. He looks at her quizzically. "Planner please." She mouths.
Jess gets up from the couch and grabs Rory's day planner and delicately hands it to her.
Rory snatches it from him and begins to flip through its pages violently. Jess gives her a concerned look, as her eyes grow wider. Rory notices Jess standing over her but ignores him.
"Ror-you there?"
Rory flips the planner over and begins to go through the pages again this time searching the pages more carefully, Warily Jess touches the back of her hand, Rory swats at him trying to maintain a grip on the planner while her hands begin to shake furiously.
The color in Rory's cheeks finally disappears as her planner falls to the ground.
Mechanically she picks up the phone again, "Mom, I'll have to call you back." Rory says her voice on stable.
"By-" Lorelai says as the phone clicks off.
Jess gets down on his knees so he is now eye level with his wife who is shaking uncontrollably in her chair her eyes glazed over and her feet coiling towards her chest.
"Ror, what's going on you're freaking me out." He stumbles on his words.
"I don't believe it." Rory says quietly pushing Jess back and getting up from her seat.
"What?"
*5 minutes later.
"Oh God." Jess says rushing his fingers through his unkempt hair.
Rory is pacing back and forth as Jess lies motionless on the cold wooden floor. "My sentiments exactly." Rory's voice is high pitched and unsteady.
"I thought we used-"
"We did."
"Aren't you on---"
"That's affirmative."
"We never discussed this." Jess says standing up.
"No, we didn't"
"We promised ourselves we'd never be those people who stay up every night picking out kids names and fantasizing their future professions."
"I know."
"We had a five year plan."
"We did." Rory nods. "This wasn't in the plan." Rory sniffle as tears form in her eyes.
"No it wasn't..but we don't know for sure yet." Jess says reassuringly. "We should probably go get one of those test things."
"Y-yeah." Rory says stopping in front of the couch and grasping it's arm. "Oh I s-suddenly can't feel my legs."
"Here, sit down", Jess leads her to the couch. "I'll go run to the store..are you going to be ok here?"
"Yeah, just, Jess just hurry..please." Rory says wincing, her face turned towards the window.
Jess gives her a soft glance and kisses her forehead before turning towards the door.
"I'll be right back...I promise"
*Ok so that's it for now, It's midnight and I have class at 8 so I need sleep, ok I know this subject's been dealt with but I really wanted to try it out myself please read and review let me know if i'm doing ok b/c if I'm not I won't bother continuing.
*Connecticut (undisclosed area at least an hour out of Stars Hollow)
Fall: 6pmish
Outside it is Raining, cars fly past a small brick apartment building, their windshield wipers synchronized with the heavy raindrops. Inside the building it is warm, its hallways dimly lit with yellow lights. This particular building is an unofficial safe haven for newly wed couples and single parents. It is quaint and picturesque compared to the chrome office building and high-rise apartments that surround its classic structure.
A strong and proud building its only flaw are the thin walls that let everyone know when the honeymoon's over and the baby has colic. A rare night tonight, the halls are quiet except for sound a single phone ringing coming from the 6th apartment on the right, a click is heard as the answering machine comes on and the voice of Lorelai Gilmore escalates through the small black machine.
"....Well I guess Cunningham's are out bowling again it's just the sad old hag mother calling again and---
"Don't hang up, don't hang up don't hang up!" Rory Gilmore-Marino shreaks as she rushes toward the phone.
"..Hanging up now-"
"Mom!" Rory exclaims.
"Oh, so you are home just screening calls so you don't have to talk to your lonely old pathetic mother drone on about her lonely lonely life." Lorelai says dramatically.
"Mom." Rory says curtly. "What can I do for you?" Rory asks sweetly.
"Did we not just go through this, did I night overemphasize the word lonely enough?"
"Where's Luke?"
"At the Diner." Lorelai huffs.
"You are so codependent."
"Tell me something I don't know sister." Lorelai says with defeat. "So what were you doing that left you unable to answer the phone promptly?" Lorelai questions, her solemn tone turning sly.
Rory groans "I was making dinner for Jess if you must know." She answers defensively.
"Well aren't we Suzy Homemaker."
"Yes we are." Rory delights.
"Um yea but can't you um not cook?"
"Hey! Jess bought me a book and everything and I've been trying really hard." Rory crosses her arms for vindication forgetting that her mother was not standing directly in front of her.
"OK sweets I believe you." Lorelai replies soothingly. "So whatcha making?
"Spaghetti with meat sauce and broccoli."
"Ewww you're going to eat vegetables?!"
"No, those are for Jess...you know how he is, "Death can not be prolonged with pizza for breakfast and corn dogs and chili fries for dinner"
"Yeah, he definitely could give Tony Robbins a run for his money."
Rory giggles.
"So where is the substitute today?"
"Ah you can't call him that anymore."
"Wait! He quit the biz and got a real job!"
"Nope but "professor" Abraham had another "episode" so they gave Jes his position."
"So he got a pay raise?!"
"Not yet, because he's a mid season replacement, but they said that come next September his salary could go up by a few k." Rory squeals.
Lorelai laughs out loud, "I don't think I'll ever get used to that man teaching junior high students. He barely spoke in multi-syllables the first 2 years we knew him."
Rory sighs, "He's come along way hasn't he."
"So what about you, how's NBC's local news reporter doing?"
"Quite well, one of my pieces may actually make it on the air Sunday night."
"Yay!" Lorelai says excitedly clapping her hands.
Rory begins to speak but is cut off by the signal four buzz warning erupting from intercom.
"Oh!" Rory exclaims. "Speaking of one of my pieces..my man is home." Rory grins once again forgetting that her mother couldn't see her face.
"That's my cue catch ya later alligator, love ya babe have fun..." Lorelai's voice trails off as Rory hangs up the phone and rushes towards the door.
It swings open as she reaches the counter to the right of it.
The thin muscular mass of Jess Marino is now stretched across the door way, hos hands grasping the ends of each side.
"God I missed you." He says affectionately leaning forward.
Rory walks towards him wrapping her arms around his slender neck while he rests his arms around her petite frame.
"Rough day?"
"What can I say it's hard being a sexual object." Jess raises an eyebrow at his wife.
"Not again, who was it? I bet it was that Murphy girl I swear if it was that 12 year old's getting an ass kicking."
"Harsh words from such a pretty Lady." Jess says brushing Rory cheek with his soft lips.
"Mm that's nice."
"What's that smell?" Jess says taking a step back. "Hey what are you---is that an apron around your waist?" He smirks at Rory who is shyly rubbing her ankles together.
"I made you dinner." She grins.
Jess walks towards her, this time resting his chin on Rory's shoulder, kissing her neck tenderly.
Rory pushes his head down and away from her.
"Don't you want to even try my spaghetti?"
Jess gives her a knowing glance, "Did you follow all of the instructions..straight from the book?"
Rory looks down at her feet, running her finger awkwardly through her messy hair, "Well I might have improvised a little."
Jess nods making a sad attempt to quiet his laughter.
"Come on, those directions sounded so bland I thought I needed to spice it up a little bit." Rory says a pout playing on her lips.
Seizing his opportunity Jess dives in lovingly biting her bottom lip.
"Ow." Rory moans and she pulls Jess's chest into hers.
Jess stumbles towards her, playing with the buttons of her burgundy sweater. Rory heaves herself forward pulling Jess face up to hers, "What about dinner, aren't you hungry?"
"Oh yea." He says enthused, "We'll call the pizza place...the one 40 minutes away, have it delivered that way we pass the 30 minute mark and the pizza's free.
"Oo free pizza, you really know how to rile me up."
"Let's make the call." Jess says moving backwards taking Rory with him, refusing to release the collar of her sweater from his left hand.
Rory leans her head back removing the hair from her face.
"Hi, pizza..pepperoni with peppers..38 Keaton Blvd. Yep, yep yeah, bye."
Jess drops the phone, purposely letting it fall to the floor and off of the hook.
Leaning towards Rory again he raises an eyebrow at her and smirks, "So we have forty minutes....what can we do to fill the void?"
"Gosh, I don't know Rory replies taking hold of Jess belt buckle how about we go inside and figure something out?"
*An hour later.
Jess is seated on the living room floor a slice of pizza in his hand.
Rory enters dressed in one of Jess' old band shirts and blue socks.
"I can't believe you did that." She giggles at Jess as he pulls her down to the floor an hands her a garlic knot.
"I'm sure it happens all the time."
Rory gives him a stern look.
"It goes with the territory." He muses.
"I still say we're going to have to find a new place to get free pizza, that guy's probably already quit the last thing a 16 year old boy wants to see is a 25 year old man in his tightie whities."
Jess laughs out loud. "Come here." He says motioning for Rory to move closer to him.
Rory sighs happily.
"It's October 20th."
"Almost a year." Jess smiles at the thought and rubs Rory's hair gently.
"..in 15 more days."
"We should do a count down."
"Yeah! And each day do something to celebrate its coming." Rory giggles.
"I love you." Jess whispers, his lips close to Rory's ear.
In response she takes hold of his face cupping it in her hands, "Who'd ever thought....us married, for an entire year."
"Hey Lady, once we hit day 15 it's not over you can't start sleeping with NBC execs or anything." Jess pretends to be offended.
"Wouldn't want to." His wife says simply. "They all have beer bellies anyway."
"Yeah they're too busy making 10 million a year they don't have time to go to the gym like us lowly public school teachers." Jess takes another bite of his pizza.
Rory puts hers down and leas her head against Jess' chest, her eyes close involuntarily as Jess' arms wrap around her.
"I'm that good huh, spent after 45 minutes?"
"Mhmm" Rory breathes as she drifts off to sleep.
*A week later
*4:30 Saturday
Rory enters the apartment quietly placing her Styrofoam coffee cup on the counter. Jess looks up from the kitchen table where he s reading the newspaper.
"8 more days." He smiles faintly at her.
"Woo Hoo" Rory says unenthusiastically.
"Glad you're excited." Jess says opening his arms to her.
Rory lands in his lap with a small sound, "Long day." She says letting her head fall back.
"Lot of those lately."
"For both of us." Rory replies kissing Jess' chin.
"Mmmm, your mother called."
"Yea...Luke finally gave in and bought her that basset hound she named it Duke."
"Are you surprised?"
"No." Rory replies standing up. "Going to call her."
"Ok." He replies, "High Fidelity tonight?"
"Uhh actually I need to laugh...and not that John Cusack mushy satire laughter either, I need funny I don't need to think about." Rory says uneasily.
"Empire Records it is..that was my second choice" Jess says with ease.
Rory grins.
*20 minutes later
"What's that noise in the background?" Rory asks her mother.
"Luke making me chocolate chip pancakes."
"For dinner I thought he was against breakfast food after 11am."
"He is but he know not to mess with me around this time of the month if you know what I mean." Lorelai says boldly.
"Well its about time I mean after the time he made you cry over burning your grilled cheese and peanut butter sandwich."
"Yea.." Lorelai says happily.
"Oo! Speaking of which that reminds me I got to pick up my stuff this week."
"See I am useful."
"Sure are.." Rory trails off as her mind wanders stealing a quick glance at Jess her heart begins to beat rapidly and her throat goes dry. "Hold on a sec, mom." Rory motions to Jess. He looks at her quizzically. "Planner please." She mouths.
Jess gets up from the couch and grabs Rory's day planner and delicately hands it to her.
Rory snatches it from him and begins to flip through its pages violently. Jess gives her a concerned look, as her eyes grow wider. Rory notices Jess standing over her but ignores him.
"Ror-you there?"
Rory flips the planner over and begins to go through the pages again this time searching the pages more carefully, Warily Jess touches the back of her hand, Rory swats at him trying to maintain a grip on the planner while her hands begin to shake furiously.
The color in Rory's cheeks finally disappears as her planner falls to the ground.
Mechanically she picks up the phone again, "Mom, I'll have to call you back." Rory says her voice on stable.
"By-" Lorelai says as the phone clicks off.
Jess gets down on his knees so he is now eye level with his wife who is shaking uncontrollably in her chair her eyes glazed over and her feet coiling towards her chest.
"Ror, what's going on you're freaking me out." He stumbles on his words.
"I don't believe it." Rory says quietly pushing Jess back and getting up from her seat.
"What?"
*5 minutes later.
"Oh God." Jess says rushing his fingers through his unkempt hair.
Rory is pacing back and forth as Jess lies motionless on the cold wooden floor. "My sentiments exactly." Rory's voice is high pitched and unsteady.
"I thought we used-"
"We did."
"Aren't you on---"
"That's affirmative."
"We never discussed this." Jess says standing up.
"No, we didn't"
"We promised ourselves we'd never be those people who stay up every night picking out kids names and fantasizing their future professions."
"I know."
"We had a five year plan."
"We did." Rory nods. "This wasn't in the plan." Rory sniffle as tears form in her eyes.
"No it wasn't..but we don't know for sure yet." Jess says reassuringly. "We should probably go get one of those test things."
"Y-yeah." Rory says stopping in front of the couch and grasping it's arm. "Oh I s-suddenly can't feel my legs."
"Here, sit down", Jess leads her to the couch. "I'll go run to the store..are you going to be ok here?"
"Yeah, just, Jess just hurry..please." Rory says wincing, her face turned towards the window.
Jess gives her a soft glance and kisses her forehead before turning towards the door.
"I'll be right back...I promise"
*Ok so that's it for now, It's midnight and I have class at 8 so I need sleep, ok I know this subject's been dealt with but I really wanted to try it out myself please read and review let me know if i'm doing ok b/c if I'm not I won't bother continuing.