AN: Hello people! Ok so I'm new to Gilmore Girls fanfics, but I have read a bunch of them! And I love love love Literati, so yeah I had this sudden urge to write them happy, and with a family. I wanted to get this out before the revival so that way I wouldn't have pesky canon in the way. Most of these will be like in the same story line, but occasionally I'll do some in like an AU or they aren't related. So yeah I hope you enjoy.

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Sick Days

She had him wrapped around her little finger from the moment she was born. When he held his daughter for the first time, he was a goner and would never be able to return. He had refused to let her leave his arms after she had been brought to them no matter how much the doctor tried to persuade him. It took him months to let his wife move their perfect little girl from their room to the finished nursery. He didn't want to be parted because he loved this new family they had built. That's why Rory hadn't been surprised to have slept through the night even though their precious baby had been sick.

She had rolled over and noticed the lack of warmth from the side of the bed her husband usually occupied. However, while most women would have feared, Rory Gilmore-Mariano smiled slightly to herself, and pulled her body to the sitting position. She knew that Jess was with their sweet, precious baby who had gotten a bug from her four year old uncle and two year old aunt. Rory realized that Jess wouldn't go back to their room anytime soon, so she headed to him in the nursery.

Her hand had barely grasped the handle of the door when she heard her husband humming "Oh Miss Believer" to the sick six month old. She peeked into the room and saw Jess rocking the baby in his arms. He sat as close to the humidifier as possible, and had Jessica laying across his chest wrapped in a blanket. He noticed his wife enter and smiled up at her as she leaned against the changing table.

"I just got her down." He told her a glimmer in his eyes. When they had realized baby Jessica had a cold, it had taken all of Rory's might to get Jess to leave the house to go to work. He had been incredibly reluctant, and told Rory to call him every hour to update him on their daughter's health. Once he returned from Truncheon II, he had not let Jessica leave his sight. That made bedtime extremely hard.

Rory swiftly took the baby from his arms, and the look he gave her made it almost impossible to really put the baby in her crib. He didn't move from the rocking chair, and his wife scoffed almost too loudly when he grabbed a blanket and pillow to sleep in the wooden thing. "You'll get a crick in your neck." She said while moving to sit in his lap.

"I'm not leaving her. She's never been sick like this before." Jess wrapped his arms around the woman he loved. Said woman nodded her head thinking to the hours of crying she had endured from the baby's stuffy nose and fever. She had been reluctant to tell her husband that JJ had thrown up, actually throw up not the normal spit up after a feeding. Rory reluctantly stood and looked towards the door.

"I'm gonna go get some sleep, you should come too. Bring the baby, we'll both be with her." She whispered as Jess reached into the crib. He nodded, and she grabbed the humidifier. They headed back to their room, and while Rory actually got some sleep, the same could not be said for the doting father. He spent the whole night watching JJ, making sure she was perfectly fine.

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Jess chuckled as he watched Jessica flop back down onto her bed. He had heard his poor daughter go back and forth between the bathroom and her room for the entire night. She had finally been able to get some sleep around five that morning, and now at ten she did not have enough energy for anything.

The 16 year old's body sprawled over her bed in the oddest angle that didn't look in the least bit comfortable, but somehow was to Jessica Mariano. Her hair was pulled back in a loose bun, and her covers were half on half off. Her face kept trying to burrow deeper into her pillow that was shielding her from the light coming from the large window in her room.

The blue eyed girl reached for her phone that was, for some strange reason, under her pillow. She groaned noticing the time, and opened her texts to reply back to all of her friends who had been worried that she was gone from school. "Hi, Daddy." She said, meaning she had noticed Jess trying to lurk in the nonexistent shadows. The man stepped farther into the room, holding a plate of toast and a can of ginger ale.

"Good morning, Princess." He handed her the easy food. She grunted as she opened the ginger ale and took a long sip. Jess had suppress another chuckle as his daughter reminded her of him growing up. "How's the fever doing? This morning Lori had me take her temp four times to try and get out school." He referenced Jessica's rambunctious younger sister, Lorelai, who was very theatrical and against all aspects of school.

"I never want to move again. Can I have Ibuprofen?" She held her hand out waiting for the pain relievers. Jess nodded and handed her the two tablets. She thanked him, and slowly tried to stand so she could go downstairs to watch TV. Jess followed closely behind, and they were both greeted with the sight of Rory sitting with her computer working on her latest article on the couch with her coffee ever present.

"Good morning, Baby." She cooed to her oldest daughter. JJ grunted and flopped down next to her mother and cuddled up next to her. Jess smirked and looked to his wife.

"Thanks, Babe." He sarcastically responded to the comment not directed at him. Rory rolled her eyes and smiled while squeezing her daughter. She had tried to get Jess to head to work that morning, but like usual when either one of the girls was sick, he stayed by their bedside and was there at their beck and call. He too followed suit and sat down next to Rory and JJ.

The three of them sat together on the couch watching random episodes of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and The Office. Eventually, Jessica dozed off while her parents continued to watch TV despite their daughter's misfortune. "I told you she would be fine. And if you keep sitting like that, you'll get a crick in your neck." Rory told Jess. He smiled at her and at their sleeping daughter.

"You told me that 16 years ago, and I was fine. I'll be fine again. And JJ is not fine, she's sick. She's sleeping with us tonight." He told her. Rory smiled, and before she could say anything else, her phone started ringing. Jess watched as her originally relaxed features turned into a slight frown. She hung up the phone with a thank you, and turned to her husband.

"Looks like Lori is sleeping with us tonight too. School just called, she's got was Jessica has." The dark haired man sighed and got up to go pick up his younger daughter from school. It was bad enough taking care of JJ when she was sick, but overdramatic Lori was another, annoying story.