I don't own Gilmore girls.
Rory sat where she'd sat many times before, on the bed of her childhood and she watched the snowflakes kiss the ground and the frost hug the window panes. And she heard her mother upstairs humming the wedding march and she wondered. If she'd known then what she knew now would she change everything?
She was 29 years old. Her 30th birthday creeping ever faster upon her. And here she was after all these years finally getting ready for her mother's wedding to Luke Danes. She slide off her bed, the bed that at one time had been her baby sister GiGi's and then had been her soon to be step sister's April's before said girl went off to College at Harvard.
Harvard another If I knew now what I knew then question. Did Rory regret giving up Harvard and going to Yale? She sighed as she wrapped her arms around herself and walked to the window. Running her fingers over the frost she made a swirling pattern on the glass. Like she was five again. She tried to fight the chill that threatened to overtake her. She closed her eyes and thought about what her mother's wedding meant after all this time. Sure it meant Luke and Lorelai finally married, finally together but it also meant him. Jess was coming home or coming back and she wasn't sure she was ready to see him again. It had been so long. Seven years. Since that day she'd left him in the bookstore.
"Rory?" Her name floated through the door and she turned to see her mother standing there face flushed from the cold. "What are you doing hun?"
"Oh just thinking." Rory smiled hoping to hide the whirlwind of thoughts going on in her head.
"About what?"
"People, the past, things." Rory shrugged walking towards her mother. "So wedding count down stands at one week how are we feeling?" she tried to defuse the situation inside of herself.
"Good, Great. I think I may actually try on my dress tonight." Lorelai was practically bouncing and though Rory was happy for her mother a part of her wanted to shatter on the floor and cry for what she herself didn't have. She wanted to ask so badly when is he coming when will he be here. But she bit her tongue and held the question at bay.
"So ready for the bachelorette party?"
"ooh yeah can't wait but grandma is not invited this time and I think all phones should be taken away."
"Okay mom." Rory snorted.
"So when do everyone get here?" she tried to word it like she cared about everyone but Lorelai knew her daughter after all of these years.
"Do you mean when does he get here?"
"Yes." Rory sighed in defeat. "When does he get here?"
"Tonight I think he has to come in early to get fitted for his tux. He's staying over the diner." She wrapped her arms around her daughter's shoulders. "Are you going to be okay?"
"I don't have much of a choice do I?" Rory smiled tightly before sighing and sitting down on her bed. "I'll be fine. It's just going to be awkward for a little while since the last time I saw him I'm sure he probably hates me. And I wouldn't blame him."
"Oh sweets I'm sure he doesn't hate you and it's been years only a few short of a decade. He can't hold it against you forever."
"Maybe, maybe not." She shrugged. "But mom what I did it was crappy I tried to ues Jess knowing he loved me to make Logan Jealous and that's not okay."
"No that's not okay but people make mistakes Ror look at me and your father."
"I'd rather not even think about that." Rory snorted.
"Right anyway things happen and that isn't an excuse I'm just saying you and Jess will work it out. But please don't have sex at the wedding."
"Eww mom." Rory crinkled her nose."
"What I'm just saying." Lorelai smirked jumping up off the bed and pulling Rory up. "Now you lets go too Luke's I'm dying for some coffee."
"Didn't he leave a whole pot before he went in?" Rory asked as she shrugged into her coat.
"Yes but of course I've drank all of that."
"Of course you did." Rory smiled pulling her hair out of the collar of her coat. The Gilmore girls walked out in the January morning. The snow sparkling on the ground.
"So how is work?" Lorelai asked as her daughter walked beside her.
"Oh it's great I just got a big article to write It's exciting and living in New York is great of course the apartment Grandma and grandpa bought me after the trail doesn't hurt."
"I'm sure." Lorelai grabbed the door to Luke's and pulled it open holding it open for Rory then walking through herself. "Lukey I need coffee." Lorelai yelled across the diner.
"Hold your horse's woman and sit down you're going to block everyone else." Lorelai bounced over too the counter bending over the counter to kiss Luke before sitting down. Rory sat down next to her. "And what can I get you?" Luke asked looking over at his soon to be step daughter.
"Coffee and bacon please."
"Coming right up." He went to put their orders in and poured them coffee. The girls were enmused in their own conversation they didn't hear the door open or the bell jingle they didn't notice anything until they heard Miss. Patty coo
"Oh Jess so good to see you again just as handsome as ever I see." Rory turned in time too see Miss Patty wink and run out of the diner to spread the word that Stars Hollow bad boy was back in town.
Jess's eyes scanned over the diner his eyes briefly landed on Rory's. he quickly tore his eyes away. She'd been on his mind the whole time from Philadelphia too Stars Hollow. Her smile her eyes. Everything that was her. A part of him loved her still and a part of him was indifferent. Though that part was very small. Because it was still her face he saw when he closed his eyes. This Wedding would be a battle for him he knew that. Between his mother and Lorelai not even adding in the Rory issues he would be surprised if he didn't go crazy over the next week.
A/N so this story is Lit but we'll see pleanty of Javajunkie and Luke and Jess interactions.