I don't own Gilmore girls
"Hello." Rory Groaned as she glanced at the alarm clock on her bedside table. The red numbers numbing her as she red three am.
"Rory." Her mothers voice could be heard coming through the phone.
"Mom, what is it what's wrong?"
"Rory I…." Lorelai trailed off. "I don't know how to tell you this it's your grandfather he's… He's in the hospital another heart attack it doesn't look good kid you need to come home."
Rory could hear the tears in her mother's voice. Clutching the phone tightly Rory sat frozen in her bed in her perfect Philadelphia apartment her eyes squeezed together tightly not wanting to believe what she'd just heard.
"Rory Ror are you there?" Lorelai's faint voice floated at her.
"Yeah." Rory took a deep breath trying to will the burning tears from her eyes and clear the lump in her throat. "I'll be there when I can I promise." She didn't even say goodbye as she hung up the phone. She looked around her apartment it wasn't that big but it suited her needs. Slowly she got out of bed afraid she'd tumble to the floor on her shaking legs. She pulled clothes haphazardly out of her closet and shoved them into a duffle bag. She threw her hair into a ponytail and threw her coat over her white nightgown slipping shoes onto her bare feet. Grabbing her keys and the bag her phone and her laptop she made her way out of the apartment locking the door behind her she made her way down the stairs careful not to fall and out to the rainy Philadelphia landscape sliding into her car. She sat there in the pale moonlight her hands shaking on the wheel her legs bouncing and the bile raising in her throat. Her slightly damp hair curling around her face.
She took a deep breath and tried to put the key in the ignition but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Tears were now running down her face she felt like she was going to suffocate. She opened the car door and practically flung herself out of her car taking deep breaths of the cold November air. She closed her eyes tightly as she sat on cool sidewalk pavement. She opened her eyes and looked down the deserted street and the dark apartment windows surrounding her and she knew she couldn't drive and she knew she couldn't stay there and the rain was coming down and as she pushed herself up her feet started to carry her, toward a place she never thought she'd go to again a place she'd been avoiding since she'd moved to town six months ago. After landing the job right off of the campaign. Oh she'd passed it multiple times she'd almost went in but never got up the nerve now her feet were leading her there almost of their own volition.
Rain poured down around her as she pulled her now wet coat closer around her and walked the city blocks her hands held firmly on the can of mace attached to her key chain. She tried to stay in the glare of the city lights as she walked towards her destination not even fully conscious that that is where she was going until she finally reached it and looked at the dark windows and the sign above her head that read. Truncheon books. She pushed her wet hair out of her face before she walked up to the door. She just hoped Jess still lived here she grabbed her phone and went to hit his number in her phone book but she stopped herself. she wasn't sure she could do that. She couldn't go to the hospital and see her grandfather on the edge of life and she couldn't hit that button and reconnect to the only boy that had ever truly shattered her heart. She didn't know where she could go right now. She couldn't go forward or back she was stuck.
Jess Mariano had been sleeping peacefully when the shrill ring of his phone had jolted him awake. "Hello." He answered groggily.
"Oh Jess good you answered I need a favor."
"Luke." Jess was bewildered. "You know it's three thirty in the morning right?'
"Yes but I need a favor Lorelai's father is in the hospital now Lor called Rory but Lorelai's worried that Rory can't or won't make it here on her own if I give you her address will you please check on her or I'm sure you have her number stored in your phone it's the same as it's always been please call her." Luke pleaded with his nephew.
"Wait, Luke slow down." Jess sat up and flipped his light on. "What's going on Lorelai's father's in the hospital?"
"Yeah and I need you to check on Rory please."
"Ok Luke calm down I do have her number I'll try and call her okay do you want me to come to Hartford with her or by myself?"
"If you can come that would be great." Luke sighed in relief he knew that while Lorelai wasn't Jess's biggest fan she would feel better knowing Jess was watching out for Rory.
"Okay I'll be there when I can and don't worry Luke." With those words Jess hung up the phone and then dialed a number he never thought he would again listening to the ringing he held his breath wondering if she would answer.
Rory heard her phone ring dully and she glanced down at the screen. Her heart stopped when she saw Jess's name flash across the screen. "Hello." She answered her voice sounding weak even to her own ears.
"Rory hey it's Jess Luke called and told me about your grandpa do you need me to come with you to Hartford I told Luke I'd come anyway."
She swallowed and looked back at the sign. "Actually I'm standing outside your store right now.
"You're what?" Jess jumped out of bed and threw his shoes on rushing down the wooden stairs and quickly unlocking the door to the pouring rain. He stopped and stared at her. Phone in her hand rain drenching every inch of her and her big blue eyes looking at him with so much pain. He pulled her out of the cold damp night and into the store. He closed the door behind her and pulled her into his arms. He didn't care that she was sopping wet he didn't care that he hadn't seen her in years all he cared about was comforting her being there for her as she looked like she was going to fall apart.
"I'm coming with you no arguments." He whispered into her soaking hair. She only nodded against his now drenched shirt. They stood like that frozen together in the entrance of Truncheon.
A/N so this is the beginning of my new Lit story. What do you think? I promise Rory and Jess will be together it will be HEA but the journey it takes to get them there won't always be the easiest. So if you want to see more please drop a review.
