Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except for Lori

(A/N! IMPORTANT!! Rory still went to Yale, but she never went on the campaign trail. Luke and Lorelai are still engaged, Luke knows about April and told Lorelai, set after the seventh season)

Watching the road pass by him, he started to think back to when he was younger. Back to the time when he had every fool in that town out for his head, with Lorelai as their leader, as he returned that same town.

Still unable to believe he was back there, again and knowing she would be there. It was her mother's wedding; of course he would to run into her, seeing as it is inevitable.

He had grown up, and so had Rory, he was I his late twenties and he still felt something for his high school sweetheart, it was crazy.

Every time he asked himself why he still had feeling for her, he would think about her eyes. Such a deep, endless blue, he thought he could drowned in them; thinking it was okay, knowing she would save him.

Jess hadn't seen her sense when? Nine years ago maybe? When he told her he loved her? She didn't respond, well if you count running away from him after he said it responding, then yah, she did that.

He noticed something different about her, but it was probably that she was going to collage, getting experienced. He still cringed when he thought of her with another man.

Slowing down as he reached the town and its twelve mile per hour speed limit, he looked around. Nothing much had changed; same crazy people, same crazy town.

He couldn't help but notice some of the looks the mental town's folk were giving him. Jess knew it would be weird, him returning. He was sure the Star's Hollow Gazette was already working on which mug shot they wanted to use for the front page, spreading the news of his arrival. But couldn't they stare at him behind his back, so he didn't have to watch.

Shaking these thoughts of his head, he pulled up the diner and parked the car. Opening the door and stepping out, he looking into the diner window he saw a girl around the age of ten taking orders. 'That must be Luke's kid', Jess thought, walking in.

Watching the kid move behind the counter, he walked up and took a seat on a stool.

"Can I get you something?" she asked.

"Huh? No thanks could you just tell me where Luke is?" Jess asked not calling him her dad, just incase it wasn't Luke's kid, April? Right wasn't her name? Luke told him on the phone, but he hadn't paid attention.

"Umm… your going to have to wait a minute, he just stepped out." Said the girl.

"Oh, okay, thanks." He said smiling at her, then turned to face the diner.

He didn't know why but he felt like he knew this kid or something, it was strange.

"Hay, kid, is your name April?" Jess asked, looking back at her.

"What? No, that's Luke's daughter, she's not here either. Does Luke owe you money or something?"

"No why?"

"Just because, your asking a lot of questions for someone I've never seen around here, and I've lived her my whole life." The girl told him, her blue eyes twinkling.

Blue.

The last him he had seen eyes like that they had belonged to…her.

"Hay who are your-" he was about to ask who the girls parents were, but just them Luke came in.

"Hay Luke." The girl behind Jess said.

"Hay Lori, what are you doing here?" Luke asked, referring to Jess.

"You told me to come and that's the welcome I get? I'm touched Uncle Luke."

"Uncle? Wait your related to him?" Lori asked.

"Yah I'm his-" The man in plaid cut Jess off.

"Jess, I think you should go upstairs. Now." Luke ordered.

"Why" Jess asked

"Because I said so." he scolded him.

"Yes sir." Jess said, smirking.

"Hay, Lori, can you handle thing down here? I got to talk to him." Said the Luke, pointing up the stairs.

"Sure thing Uncle Luke." Lori said smiling

Luke went up the stairs where Jess had disappeared and opened the door to the small apartment.

"Okay, who was that?" Jess asked, skipping to the question he had been wonder sense she said she wasn't Luke's kid.

"No one." Luke answered.

"What you aren't going to tell me? Is she like and escaped convict or something?" Jess asked his uncle.

"No and I don't want you talking to her." He said

"What?" the younger one of the two said.

"You heard me, you're not deaf, and although one could argue the way you blast that music." Luke said.

"Yah, yah, why can't I talk to that kid again, I must have missed it." Jess said sarcastically.

"Because I said so, and stay away from her while you're here too." He told his nephew.

"Who?" Jess stated.

"You know who I mean." Luke said.

"Yah, I hear yah." Jess said flopping down on his old bed, thinking of Rory and that magical night they had, all those years ago.