Author's note: It has been a very long time since I updated this but I am planning on finishing it up. I have an outline and some notes and stuff written down so hopefully there will be a new chapter up relatively soon!This is not a "real" update but I am revising the chapters I already have written and I'm changing a few things in some of them and a lot of things in others because I recently reread them and I was horrified by most of what I had written. So I am excited about writing this again and I hope people are still interested in reading it. Reviews are appreciated and anonymous ones are enabled in case you want to leave another one. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own the show. I own Libby and any other original characters that come along.

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Jess pulled into the familiar driveway and turned the key in the ignition to off. He wrapped his scarf around his neck while he looked at the light blue house with white shutters. It looked bigger and the paint looked new; it no longer looked crap-shack-y. He assumed that Luke and Lorelai had fixed it up after they got engaged and he made a mental note to tell Luke that it looked nice.

He stubbed out his cigarette and subconsciously put the pack of cigarettes into his coat pocket. He was a stress smoker and he hated it but it was oddly reassuring to have some on hand. He didn't even know why he was stressed; he was just visiting his uncle. He did have a strange feeling that this visit wasn't going to be completely normal but it was Stars Hollow, nothing was normal here. Grabbing his messenger bag, he got out of the car.

"Here goes nothing," he said to himself.

The last time he had seen his uncle was in Philadelphia when Luke had brought April to meet him. He hadn't seen Luke or even talked to him since then. Jess found that odd, because he had assumed that they would stay in contact, especially since he had paid Luke back and apologized for all the grief he had caused when he was a teenager. He had called a couple of times but Luke was always too busy to talk or wasn't at the diner and he didn't want to call Lorelai's. He knew that Luke and Lorelai had finally gotten married but he only knew because of Liz. He hadn't been invited to the wedding and if he was being completely honest with himself, that hurt his feelings. He was family and Luke was always going on about how family is important and you do things for them. Jess shook the thoughts out of his head and walked up the steps to the front door. He wasn't sure if anyone was home but he knocked anyway.

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Lorelai opened her eyes when she heard somebody knock on the door. She groaned and shut her eyes again. She was not awake enough to deal with anybody. The knocking continued and she sat up.

"Open the door!" she yelled.

"It's locked."

"Use your key!"

"Don't have one," the mystery person yelled back.

She reluctantly got up and walked over to the door.

"I hate you", she muttered. She unlocked the door and opened it up to discover Jess.

"What are you doing here", she said surprised.

Jess stared at her with one eyebrow raised, "You look like hell", he responded with his usual bluntness. She was wearing a pair of pajama pants and a hoodie and she looked like she hadn't gotten more than four hours of sleep in over a week. Lorelai narrowed her eyes at him and he backed away a few steps.

"What are you doing here?" she asked. "What do you want?"

"I don't want anything, I'm just visiting." he replied, confused by her tone.

"I'm serious Jess. What do you want," Lorelai asked staring him in the eye.

"I'm here to see Luke, that's my only reason. I'm in Hartford for the weekend and I thought I'd come see him." Jess responded honestly.

Lorelai sighed, "Luke is out of town. He's chaperoning some overnight field trip for April. He'll be back in the morning though. You can stay at the diner tonight if you don't want to drive back to Hartford, and unless you want Babette to tell everyone in town that you're back, I suggest you come inside." She opened the door wider and he stepped in the foyer.

"Thank you", he said taking off his scarf and coat, "It's like three degrees out."

Lorelai smirked. "It's the middle of winter in Connecticut," she replied. "What were you expecting?"

"I don't know. I must've forgotten how cold it gets here. I don't think it usually gets this cold Philly," Jess said, following Lorelai to the couch.

"New couch?" he asked.

She plopped down on it and sighed; shutting her eyes she answered his question. "Yeah, the old one sucked and we redid the house so we got new furniture too."

"House looks nice," he told her, sitting down also.

"Thank you. Now, tell me why you're here," Lorelai said, opening her eyes.

"I told you," Jess said, "I'm here to see Luke"

Lorelai moved so she was sitting up all the way and wiped the sleep from her eyes. "Come on Jess," she said, "Why are you really here? Do you need money? Is your car on the fritz again? Are you in town to see your mother? Are you here to see Ro-"

"Fifteen," he interrupted.

"What are you talking about," she questioned.

"Fifteen questions till we hit 20," he replied in his old smart ass manner.

"Why Jess? Why are you here to see Luke?" She said, ignoring his previous comment.

Jess sighed. "I wrote another book and it actually got picked up by a publishing house, not the one I work at. I'm in town for the weekend because I was up in New York going over the contract with my editor. I thought Luke might want to know so I decided to stop in Hartford instead of driving back to Philadelphia tonight. And surprise surprise, I actually wanted to see him; I haven't seen him or talked to him since April. I thought it would be nice to stop by. That is my only reason. I'd visit my mom too but I really don't want to see TJ; the last time I called he thought it was necessary to have a twenty minute conversation about tights."

Lorelai grimaced, "Well I can't blame you for avoiding them, he is weird. You can take your coat off. Stay a while."

They sat there in silence for a few minutes before Lorelai asked if he wanted anything to drink. He answered and she went to the kitchen and returned with two bottles of water and handed one to Jess.

"Thanks," he said, "Congratulations by the way; Liz told me you two finally got married. Took Luke long enough, he only pined after you for what, eleven years?" he said with a smile.

"So, you can smile after all," Lorelai said jokingly. "Can I see the new book?" she asked. "I read your other one, it was good. Very original. That's great news about your new book getting picked up. Maybe you'll become famous and they'll make a really shitty movie out of your book and you can go on world tours and make millions," she rambled on in traditional Gilmore fashion.

"I doubt it," Jess said back. "It's not that good of a book or that long and I don't think they're going to promote it a whole lot."

"Oh, well you never know. Maybe some book reviewer for The New York Times will read it and fall in love with it and then it will be on the best sellers list or Oprah will read it and choose it for her book club and then you'll be on TV!"

Jess nodded his head in disagreement and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I don't see any of that happening." He reached to the floor, picked up his bag and pulled out a copy of his book, "I have a few early copies though, you can have one, write a review for The Stars Hollow Gazette."

"Okay, but Kirk is the newest reviewer for The Gazette. He reviews books and movies and puts all of the reviews up on the town website. You should read his review for The Last Unicorn; he goes on for like five paragraphs about it would be physically impossible for horses to "magically sprout horns" and that's why the enchanted forest was running out of unicorns. He doesn't use a single contraction in the entire review. It is amazing."

"I think I'll pass."

"Your loss. It's still early." Lorelai said, looking at the clock, it was only eight. "Want to watch a movie?" "I bought Almost Famous a few weeks ago; I know you used to drive Rory crazy with it."

Jess smiled. "I'm always up to watch that. I'm surprised Rory let you buy that. She hates that movie." The sad look on Lorelai's face did not go unnoticed by Jess but he didn't say anything.

"Yeah well, she's not here so she doesn't get a say in what movies I buy," Lorelai said bitterly. "I don't get any say in what she does so why should she get a say in what movies I like."

"Did you two have a fight again or something?"

"Something like that. She moved. She lives in London now. She moved a month and a half ago and she told me three days before she left. Who the hell does that, Jess? Who tells their mother they are moving over three thousand miles away three days before they leave? " Lorelai said, staring down the hallway towards Rory's old room.

Jess glanced down the hall also. The door was opened a crack and he could see a light on. "I…I don't know who does that but it does not sound like Rory. Is she still with that dick from Yale?" he asked. Lorelai was in a weird mood and it was making him nervous.

"Yeah, she moved with him. Logan. He is a dick. He's not good for her but she's chosen to ignore that. She changed when she met him Jess, she really changed. You've changed too, but you've changed for the better, not Rory. I don't even know her anymore." Lorelai looked up at Jess with tears in her eyes and he gave her a sad smile.

They both stared at the blank television for a few minutes, both thinking about Rory, before a whimper interrupted their thoughts. Lorelai groaned but stayed where she was. The whimpering turned into crying and she stood up and walked to the kitchen. Jess awkwardly stayed seated on the couch and pretended to be looking for something in his bag. Lorelai finally came back in the room holding a baby and a bottle.

Jess looked up at her with a shocked look at his face. "I'm sorry, but Luke "Jam Hands" Danes procreated? Again?"

Lorelai sat back down and gave him the same sad smile she gave him before. "Don't look so shocked. Do you want to hold her?" She asked.

"Uhm, if I drop her, will you kill me?" He said jokingly.

Lorelai smiled, "No, I won't. And you're sitting down; I doubt you'll drop her." She held the baby out and Jess slowly took her into his arms. He looked down at the tiny baby wrapped in a pink blanket. She had a full head of dark brown hair and big blue-grey eyes.

"She's adorable," he told Lorelai. "Yeah, she is. Her name's Libby. It's short for Lorelai Elizabeth. I knew we needed to name her Lorelai to continue on the tradition but Luke came up with the Elizabeth part. He said it would be nice if the baby was named after her two grandmothers, although I am so not old enough to be a grandma," she paused and looked down at Jess. He was totally oblivious to what she had just said.

"It's kind of squicky if you think about it, especially since Luke and I are married now. But we weren't when she was conceived so that makes it better, at least in my opinion it does. Thankfully you're only step-cousins, no blood relation at all. She doesn't look at thing like Rory though or you for that matter. We went to Liz's once and she showed me a baby picture of you and damn, you were a fat baby. And that head! You grew into it though; I had a big head when I was little too. My mother used to tell me all the time. My first sentence was "big head want dolly". I actually burned all of my baby pictures once. Emily was so mad. God, I thought I was going to be grounded forever!"

She stopped talking and glanced up; Jess was staring at her with a bewildered look on his face.

"What did you say?"

"Really? You want me to repeat all of that?"

"The first part, cause I think I heard you wrong."

"Has Rory contacted you since she went and saw you in Philly?"

"No, none of you have. My mom's the only one I've talked to. Is there something going on that I need to know about?"

"I am going to kill Rory. Oh my God, I can't believe her!"

Jess took the bottle from Lorelai's hands and put it in Libby's mouth; she was getting more restless by the minute.

"Lorelai, what is going on? What did Rory do?"

Lorelai put her head in her hands and thought for a minute. "Okay, I'm just going to tell you straight up."

Jess looked at Lorelai and then at Libby. "Oh my God, no."

"I'm afraid so. Jess, meet Libby. Your daughter."