A Leap Of Faith

Summary: What if Rory had taken Jess back we he'd come to Yale. I know its probably been done a thousand times, but hey.
Disclamer: I don't really get the point of these because obviously if you owned anything to do with Gilmore Girls you would not be here on writing them you would be out there in Hollywood getting them ready for next season :) So i own nothing.

Chapter 1 - What if i let you in...

Rory slowly opened her blue eyes, they fluttered resisting the harsh morning light. She suddenly became very aware of her naked state and the hand wrapped around her waist. Her mind flashed back to last night.

"Argh Jess why do you do this to me" Rory was torn, she wanted Jess but her logic told her it wouldn't work, he would just leave again.

"Rory…I love you" he pleaded, his eyes so sad. Her heart begun to break at the sight of him like that. Jess watched her, he saw her was considering it, internally fighting with herself. Well he wasn't going to give her a chance to talk herself out of it, he moved closer to her, his eyes intently focused on her blue ones.

Rory watched as he came closer, she knew he was going to kiss her, but her body wouldn't move, didn't want to move, didn't want to not feel his lips against hers.

He tilted his head, as his lips sweetly captured hers, and in that moment she was gone. Everything around her melted and all she knew was Jess was here and he was kissing her and that's all she needed.

She turned her head to look at the sleeping boy next to her, his dark hair wild, but his face showing compassion. She stroked his chest, her fingers entwining in his little chest hair. A warm happy feeling flowed over her as she watched his sleeping. Jess slowly opened his eyes and smiled at the girl looking down at him, even when he had imaged coming to see her, imagined she had actually said yes, he had never imagined it would feel this wonderful to be with her again.

"Hey" she said

"Hey" he replied, tucking a piece of her hair behind her ear.

"Jess" she said slowly

"Yeah"

She looked down before turning to face him again.

"You know I can't go to New York right?" she asked nervously.

Jess's mind faulted, he had forgotten all about that. He had asked her to come to New York with him, he had known she wouldn't go with him, but he'd wanted to try, wanted to see her again.

He slowly nodded his head, suddenly feeling sad again. They had had this perfect night and reality was flooding back to them.

"So what are we going to do" she asked, she was scared. Scared they was no solution and that he would leave and she would be left feeling alone all again.

He pulled her down towards him, her head rested on his chest.

"We'll figure it out" he said, kissing her softly on her head.

She so wanted to believe him.

"Is Luke looking at me differently" Lorelai asked her daughter as they sat in the diner that morning.

"Huh" Rory asked, her mind had been preoccupied thinking about Jess. He said he had to go and sort something out in New York and that he'd be back soon, but their relationship still hung in the balance, and this not knowing what was going on was killing her.

"Rory, is Luke looking at me differently?" Her mother asked desperately

"Differently then when?" she asked confused

"Differently than before" her mother said, as though it was plain as day.

'Before when?" Rory asked, still confused.

"Rory!"

"How on earth can you be frustrated with me right now!"

"Fine. Come here." Lorelai pulled Rory off her chair and out the door of the diner.

Luke watched as the Lorelai pulled Rory out the diner, what was going on with them he had no idea, thought he usually had no idea what they were on about. He was pulled out his thoughts as the diner phone rang. He turned and picked up the phone to answer it.

"Lukes" he said automatically, resting the phone on his shoulder.

"Hey Luke it's Jess" Jess said slowly, from a payphone in New York. Luke stood up straight at the sound of his nephew , holding the phone tight.

"Jess? Are you alright? Is everything ok?" Luke asked panicked.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, I was just wondering…" Jess paused for a minute, if he wanted to be with Rory, he would just have to swallow his pride and ask Luke,

"I was wondering if I could stay with you…just for a little bit" This was the last thing Luke had expected to hear, he thought maybe Jess had needed money, not that Jess would have asked, but he had not expected that.

"Um yeah sure" Luke replied, still slightly confused.

"Thanks, I should be there later today" Jess said relieved
"Ok, I'm going to be out tonight, the opening of Lorelai's Inn, but you know where the key is"

"Oh yeah ok, Cya…and Luke…"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks"

"Welcome, bye"

Both diner men hung up the phone, both sighing, both for different reasons. Jess at the thought of going back to Stars Hollow and grateful that Luke was letting him stay, and Luke at the thought of Jess coming back and wondering why he was coming back at all.

He picked up the coffee mug and walked back around the counter as Rory and Lorelai re-entered the diner. Lorelai looked frazzled and Rory looked confused.

"Everything alright?" Luke asked Lorelai

"Yeah everything's fine.." Lorelai said before tripping and falling onto their table spilling the contents onto the floor. Luke looked at her sceptically.

"I'll get a mop" he said, walking back behind the counter.

"Well that was a little weird" said Rory, trying not to laugh.

Rory walked into the Inn, leaving her mother to welcome the Dragonfly Inns first guests, and friends. Tom had really stuck to the 'Just In Time' method of working, the doors for the rooms arriving minutes before the guests. Rory stoped when she saw Dean at the end of the corridor, their eyes caught for a moment before Dean turned back to his work, obviously avoiding Rory. Everyone, and most especially Rory knew that Dean hated Jess and vis-versa, she didn't feel like dealing with Deans crap about Jess, so she turned and headed the front desk. She had to focus on the opening of the Inn, forget Jess.

But she couldn't. As well as thinking about how their relationship was going to work, she was thinking about how in the world she was going to tell her mother. First of all tell her mother that she was back with Jess, Jess the guy who had left her twice. Secondly, the fact that she had lost her virginity, she had slept with Jess. She was glad it was Jess it had happened with, but she had promised her mum that she would talk to her about it first, and she didn't. Well she wasn't exactly about to stop kissing Jess and pick up her phone and call her mum.

Rory snapped out her thoughts as her mother lead the first guests into the entranceway.

Stars Hollow, here he was again, no one had forced him, he was here because….well because of her. He felt very out of place driving through the small town, the familiar sights, the gazebo, the bookstore…Gypsies garage. That places reminding him of his first kiss with Rory. He slowed down as he neared the diner, pulling up outside the familiar building, the place he had for a time called home.

He walked up the stairs to the apartment, or really his grandfather's old office. He slid the key in the lock and turned the handle, the door opening easily, he slipped inside. The room hadn't changed one bit, it had the same feel, the same smell, and he suddenly felt like he had been transported back a few years. He sighed and dropped his bag onto his bed.

It was dark as Rory walked back towards her house, in all the rush her mother had forgotten to have CD's on hand encase the guest wanted to listen to some music. At least it wasn't cold, she thought to herself, as the warm summer air surrounded her.

'Ring Ring' she stoped and pulled her cell phone out of her pocket, looking at the caller id she frowned, the name 'Lukes' flashed on her screen, but she had seen Luke 10 minutes ago at the Inn, confused she flipped her phone open.

"Hello" she asked cautiously

"Hey" she heard a familiar voice say

"Jess?" she asked

"Yeah"

"Why are you calling from Luke's?" she asked confused, starting to walk towards her house again

"Cuz I stole his phone" Jess answered sarcastically. Rory rolled her eyes, she should have expected such a response from Jess.

"I'm calling from Luke's phone, because …I'm at Lukes" Rory stoped walking

"You are at Luke's? Your in Stars Hollow?" she asked, not believing him.

"Unless you know any other Lukes. Where are you?" he asked, desperately wanting to see her.

"I'm on my way home, I have to get some CD's for my mum…" she thought for a minute.

"Jess…do you want to come over? I mean just …for a bit" she asked, slowly starting to walk again.

"I'll be there soon" he replied and Rory heard the phone go silent. She continued to walk home, glad to be seeing Jess again, but wondering what he was doing back in Stars Hollow so soon.

"Rory!" Lorelai called as she entered the Gilmore house later that evening.

"Oh, my god, your missing everything" Lorelai said exasperatedly. At no reply from her daughter Lorelai walked towards Rory's room. She stoped dead when she saw a half dressed Jess standing next to Rory who was frantically trying to pull her cardigan on.

"Um" Lorelai was lost for words, which was kind of a big thing for her.

Jess and Rory both froze as they heard Lorelai presence; they turned and saw her standing stunned outside the door of Rory's room. Rory looked down at her feet, feeling very ashamed. Jess grabbed his top pulling it on before grabbing his shoes and jacket and headed towards the door. He nodded politely at Lorelai before quickly exiting the Gilmore house. The door slammed behind Jess and Lorelai walked a little further towards her daughter.

"Rory?" Lorelai asked, looking at her intently. Rory reluctantly raised her head, her eyes meeting her mothers blue ones.

"What was Jess doing here?" she asked, almost not wanting to know the answer.

"He…" Rory faulted she didn't know what to say, how to explain the situation. So she said the only thing she knew for sure.

"He loves me, and I love him" she said simply. Lorelai had not expected that answer.

Rory sighed and sunk onto the end of her bed.

"He came to my dorm last night and he told me he loved me and that he wanted me to go to New York with him and of corse I said I can't go, I mean I've got school and everything, and then he kissed me and….and we…" Rory nodded suggestively, her eyes focused on the bottom on her dresser. Lorelai's eyes widen slightly as this, but she stood still not saying anything.

"And then he called me when I was on my way here, and he said he was back in Stars Hollow" she raised her eyes to look at her mother, scared at the expression she would find.

"He said he's staying in Stars Hollow, for good this time" she said, as she watched as her mother tried to absorb all the information.

"And I know I said I was going to talk to you before I …and yeah but it happened so fast and he was…you know nice…" she said looking down at the ground.

Lorelai spoke for the first time since discovering the couple.

"Were you safe?" Lorelai asked, her emotion unrecognisable

Rory faulted at this, remembering back to the other night

"Yes" she said calmly, lying straight through her teeth. Things with her and Jess had happened so quickly, and well so un expectantly that they hadn't used protection. Lorelai turned and walked back into the kitchen.

"Mum?" Rory asked tentatively, following her out of her room.

"Um I've got to get back to the Inn, need…need band aids" she said, walking back towards the living room. Rory stood still as her mother fetched the band-aids and exited the house without another word.

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