Rory arrived in Philadelphia with a whole new attitude on this brisk fall morning. She had been working extremely hard the last few months. She'd been doing alright at her new job, but she was still trying to get the hang of things. Now that she was back in her area of the country, at least, she was feeling a little bit better. She was pacing back and forth across her hotel room. Every few steps she would stop and look at the circled address in her phone book. She wanted to go, but didn't know if she should. She didn't even know if she would be wanted. After extensive thought and, of course, a pro-con list, she decided she would head out, and if she got there, then great. If she didn't, that was ok too.

About 20 minutes later, Rory was standing outside of the door to Truncheon Books. She couldn't go in, but she had come this far, she couldn't just got back. She was reaching for the handle when she heard footsteps coming up behind her.

"Rory? Is that you?" She turned around and there was Jess. He was just like he always. Mysteriously handsome and beautiful, he grinned as he said her name.

"Jess!" She walked forward to greet him. "How are you?"

"I'm great, still working here obviously," he pointed towards the building. "But what about you? What are you doing here?" He was shifting a little, with a little bit of darty-eye, Rory could tell he was a little nervous. She was too, they hadn't seen each other in over a year.

"I'm working as a journalist for this interne-"

"I know, Luke told me," Rory was assuming that Luke had volunteered the information, and that Jess hadn't asked. "I mean what are you doing here, at Truncheon? "

"Well, I came to see you. I haven't seen anyone I've known since I left, and I guessed I just kind of, I don't know, missed you a little." The last part of her sentence was mumbled slightly, Rory was embarrassed that she had missed him as much as she had, not that he would ever know how much he had broken her heart or how much she still missed him.

"What was that?"

"Jess, come on," Rory pleaded.

"You missed me, did you?" Rory knew without a doubt what was coming next, It was the traditional Danes family mono-syllable. "Huh," he continued, she was right.

"What, you didn't miss me at all?"

"Nope, I completely forgot about you," she knew he was joking, but she couldn't help but feel a pang in her chest. "Aww, don't worry about that. I could never forget you. You're like the Alamo or something." A smile instantly flew to Rory's face.

"Well it's great to be compared to a tragic battle. Especially one that our country lost," She replied sarcastically. It was now that she realized how cold it was. She had a coat, but they were outside in the fall and she involuntary shivered a tad bit.

"You know what I mean. So, were you planning on just standing out here all night or something?" He had apparently seen her shiver.

"Oh, I don't know. I didn't even know if I was going to come for sure until I got here. So then I was just standing outside the door when you walked u-"

"Do you want to come in?"

"Umm, sure. Yeah, that would be great."

A few states over, in Stars Hallow, Lorelei and Luke were walking back to the diner after a town meeting. Kirk had just publically proposed to Lulu during the meeting. It had been a sweet proposal, one knee and flowers. Everything was going fine until Kirk tripped over an extension cord and dropped the ring, but it was Kirk, so something like that was bound to happen. As Luke and Lorelei were walking silently, hand in hand, Lorelei was thinking about their past proposal, both wondering when they would get there again, if they would ever get there again. She looked over at Luke and smiled to herself "We'll get there this time," she thought. They had only been back together for four months, but it seemed like a whole other lifetime.

"You're awfully quiet tonight, something on your mind?" she asked him as they were entering the diner. He had been unusually stoic since Kirk's proposal; she assumed it was because he was thinking the same thing she was.

"It's nothing, I'm just distracted, that's all," He replied after a short pause. "Do we have anything planned for tomorrow night?"

"No I don't think so."

"Cause I was thinking that maybe we could go somewhere for dinner or something. We haven't done that in a while." He was sounding nervous, but Lorelei was thrilled to do something, anything. Her social life had slowed down so much since Rory left.

"Yeah, that would be great! I can't wait." Her smile was practically audible, the oblivious Luke could even tell.

"It would be, wouldn't it," he leaned in and kissed her sweetly. "Let's go upstairs,"

"But what about my pie," he chuckled. "You know how I love pie," she said as she was walking towards the staircase and then twirled around the wall to head upstairs.