An Old Secret
A/N: Rory and Jess have been together two years. Jimmy never came, Jess graduated, Rory goes to Yale and Jess goes to Hartford Community College. He still lives with Luke above the diner and Rory lives at the dorms but comes home nearly every night. Rory doesn't know very much about a very special person in Jess' life and when she finally meets this person and learns more about this person how will she react? Read to find out. I do not own any of these characters they belong to Amy and David and the WB.
Chapter One: Missing Link
I stepped off the bus I had been riding for nearly four days straight. I needed to find Jess and ask him for help. As I watched the bus pull away, I caught sight of a black haired boy, about two years older than myself cleaning tables at a diner across the street, but before I could think anymore about him he turned around and walked out of sight. At least I'm pretty sure it was a diner, except I didn't know which sign to believe. The place was either called Luke's or William's Hardware, it really didn't matter what I called it, it was a diner.
Good, I'm hungry! My mind screamed as I stepped off the curb, green sea bag slung over one shoulder and the other arm in a sling.
As I walked through the door of the diner the bell above the door chimed and the only person that looked up was……..
Chapter Two: The Arm
"Lilian Grace!" My Uncle Luke yelled as he ran around the counter and threw his arms around me I a hug.
"Hey Uncle Luke…And actually everybody calls me Racy." I said as I dropped the bag and pushed the jean jacket off my shoulders only to have him pull the jacket back up on my shoulders.
"Jess get out here!" Luke bellowed as I sat down on a stool at the bar.
"Lilian please put the jacket back on before you give every male within a twenty mile radius a heart attack." Luke sternly said as I once again pushed the jacket off to reveal a red mesh, long sleeve shirt with only a black lace bra under it. That was the easiest thing to wear considering I needed to keep my arm in a sling. I was also wearing a pair of low cut, tight hip hugger jeans and a pair of black leather riding boots.
"Hey Luke we're all out of….." Jess stopped talking as he stared wide-eyed and mouth open at me across the counter as he walked out of the back room.
"Nice to see you too... Big brother." I said as he came around to the front of the counter and helped me down from the stool. He held me out at arms length so he could examine how much I had grown in the three years since he had seen me. He slowly turned me around and as my back was to him I heard him take a sharp breath in, telling me that he had noticed the four inked parts of my body. Then just as Uncle Luke had done, he pulled me into a huge hug, only when I took a sharp, bitter breath in did he even ask about the arm.
"Angel-Eyes...What happened?" He was the only person that I let call me Angel-Eyes or any other name like my first name Lily.
"Um... I'm good how about you? Girlfriend? Wait I forgot you wrote about her in one of your letters right? Her name was Rory right?" I asked as I tried to avoid the topic of the arm. It was a long story, one I really didn't want to share with the only person that truly loved one. Yeah how am I suppose to tell my brother that my ex-boyfriend pushed me down a flight of stairs; dislocating my left shoulder and breaking my wrist in two places. Oh yeah he'd just love that.
"Lily please tell me what happened and don't leave anything out. And yes her name is Rory and she should be in soon so you can finally meet her." I just looked at him like he had three heads.
"Fine, but can we go somewhere where people aren't looking at me like I'm from Planet Nut?" I asked as a very pretty brunette came bouncing into the diner demanding coffee. Something I believe was mentioned about dying if she didn't get her exile of life.
"Ms. Gilmore… Err I mean, Lorelai. I'd like you to meet my younger sister Lilian Grace." I flinched when he said my name, and since when did my jackass of a brother start calling...Oh my god, Lorelai. It was all making sense. He was still trying to win the complete trust of his girlfriend's mother.
"Ma'am, are you Rory Gilmore's mother?"
"Yes and Lilian it's nice to meet you, we've actually heard a lot about you, but Jess if I don't get any coffee I'm not going to be able to finish that thought."
"Lorelai that stuff is going to kill you one day." Luke said as he came walking out of the kitchen carrying an arm load of food.
"But at least I'll die a very happy person." She said matter-of-factly.
"Actually Uncle Luke, a cup of coffee dose sound kind of good." I said as Lorelai and I sat down while Jess walked behind the counter to pour us our coffee.
Chapter Three: The Other Half
Just as I was finishing my second cup of coffee and Lorelai her fifth the bell above the door sounded. Now in a two hours amount of time I had come to officially hate the sound of bells. I had just realized that if I didn't look up then more people wouldn't be bothering to know who in the hell I was.
"COFFEE NOW!" Came the sweet voice of whom I guessed to Rory. When I did turn around to face the voice I knew right away that it was indeed Rory Gilmore, my brother's girlfriend. She looked just like her mother whom I had come to enjoy her company and loved to watch her flirt with my uncle and yet both were both completely stubborn as hell to it.
"JESSSSSSS. Coffee. Please! Paris need I say more." She yelled into the kitchen. I got up from my position at the bar, walked behind the bar, picked up a coffee mug, the coffee pot and poured her a cup of the freshly brewed exterior of life.
"Who are you?" She asked as politely as possible.
"Racy. But Uncle Luke and Jess might call me by Lilian or Lily. I'm Jess' younger sister. That must make you Rory, the other half?" I said as I set the cup down and walked back around the counter and sat down next to her.
"Well I got to tell you that it is very nice to finally meet Jess' sister we have actually heard a lot about you. It will be a joy to have you in Stars Hallow." She said as Jess emerged from the kitchen, with my food.
"God Jess where the hell did I go wrong with you?" I asked as he set the plate of food in front of me.
"What are you talking about?"
"She's so polite. I'm sorry. Rory I'm only joking." I said as I looked around the diner to notice that more than half the people in there where looking at me funny.
"Upstairs now!" Jess yelled as I smiled my catshire grin at him.
"I've only been here two and half hours and you are already yelling at me. A new record." I said as I slide off the stool and walked behind him up the stairs to the apartment.
Chapter Four: The Whole Story
"What the hell was that about down there?" He asked as I set my bag inside the door.
"Just being me big brother. You would have known if you had decided to come out to Los Angeles like I asked you to do. But no you were too busy to even see your sister let alone call her. You know maybe I'll tell you what happened to my arm. My ex-boyfriend Dean; he pushed me down a flight of stairs in our apartment complex. There satisfied you got your frigin' answer!" I yelled. I am pretty sure that everybody downstairs heard the whole thing; which meant that Uncle Luke would be up momentarily to make sure that everybody was okay. I ran past him, down the stairs and out the door before anybody could ask me what was going on.
I knew Jess would follow me out the door. I just didn't know where I was going.
"Jess where are you…going?" Uncle Luke only got the first part of the question out before the diner door slammed shut.
Ten minutes later I was found on the bridge with my feet hanging over the edge and tears streaming down my face. I couldn't believe I had just told my brother everything, he wasn't suppose to find out. Not until I knew I was safe. See there is one little detail that I forgot to mention. Dean didn't take the break up very well and he came after me. How am I supposed to protect everybody when I'm not sure if it's safe for me to see my brother? I heard footsteps pounding down the bridge as I pondered the questions I dreaded to ask Jess.
"Okay so now that we have that out of our systems. Would you care to explain to me why Dean pushed you down the stairs and why you ran away from me when you told me?" He asked as he sat down next to me and took my hand in his.
"Dean pushed me down the stairs because I told him I wanted to break up with him and he didn't take that very well. I ran away because I'm not safe and if Dean knew that I had told you and well I guess the town that he did that then he would hurt me some more. I ran because I didn't want you to think that I couldn't handle myself." I said as I whipped away a few tears still on my face. "Jess, please take care of me?" I asked in a whisper. I felt so childish asking for help, I never asked for help from anybody, let alone for a problem I knew I could handle.
"Angel-Eyes what happened to the strong independent little sister I know? Of course I'll take care of you. This whole damn town will have your back, and if Dean tries to get within twenty miles of you and this town, he'll have pitchforks for eyes." He said as he laughed, I hadn't seen him laugh in ages. "Angel, I will never forget when Lorelai promised to put pitchforks in my eyes if I hurt Rory. God, that was ages ago. Look at me, now I have the whole town behind me and us. Don't worry once they get use to the idea of other one of us New York kids running around here they will protect you with everything they have." I started to laugh, my brother had gone soft on me.
"Jess when did you turn soft?" I asked as I got a shocked expression on his face.
"You tell anybody and you will have more then a broken wrist. Come on let's get back to the diner you have some apologizing to do." He said as he helped me stand up and slung his arm around my shoulders.
Ten minutes later we were back at the diner with all apologies out of the way and explanations through. Luke had closed the diner once he saw Jess and I run out the door, he knew that trouble was a brewing when that happened.
Chapter Five: Last Person Everybody Expected to See
A couple of days had past since the explosion of explanations and everybody was doing fine, and I was actually working at the diner with Luke and Jess.
Ring…Ring…Ring…
"Racy can you get that my arms are full." Came the voice of Uncle Luke.
"Hello, Luke's Diner what can I get you today?" I asked politely even though every word tasted sour coming from my mouth.
"Well sweetness you can come home." I hung up the phone before I even could get a sentence out.
"Uncle Luke I'm taking my break." I yelled into the kitchen and ran upstairs to find Jess. As I entered the apartment I had forgotten that Rory was up there as well so what I walked in on was a sight that her mother would not be very happy with.
"Jesus!" I said as I walked in to find Jess and Rory on the couch horizontal, making out to save their lives.
"What's wrong Lil?" Jess asked as Rory fixed and buttoned the two top buttons of her shirt. "You look like you've seen a ghost."
"He called." Was all I could get out before I collapsed. My knees gave out on me, without any fair warning. Jess was no longer sitting next to Rory but lifting me to the couch.
"Angel-Eyes who called?" He asked as Rory looked on with concern in her eyes.
"Dean." I whispered as if he could hear me.
"Oh I'm gonna kill him!" He screamed and marched down the stairs to the kitchen to find Uncle Luke.
"Racy, who is Dean?" Rory asked as politely as she always was. She knew that a question to any member of the Danes family like that was probably a don't ask, but she didn't know me very well.
"He is my ex-boyfriend. He pushed my down a flight of stairs in our apartment complex. That is why I have the damn sling." I answered leaving out the details; she was too pure to hear what it was like to live with an abusive boyfriend.
"Oh." Was her only reply.
Jess picked that exact moment to reenter the apartment, with Luke in tow.
"Diner is closed. Now what is this about Dean calling? Please tell me it's not the same Dean you dated Rory?" Luke rambled questions off left and right.
"It can't be the same one." Rory said a little scared that maybe she didn't know her ex-boyfriend very well after all. "What's his last name?"
"Dean Forrester." I bluntly said and watched as the color drained from all three of their faces.
"It can't be. I mean he was so nice to me." Rory said as she fell onto the couch raking her brain for any particular moments that would have been bad, had she stayed with him. " When did you start dating him and where did you meet him?" She though questions at me like I was doing an interview for a magazine.
"About three years ago, and I met him in Chicago. Why?" I asked afraid that I might have been dating her boyfriend the same time she was.
"Was it in April?" Oh no I thought. This was not looking good for either of us.
"Yeah, he was in town visiting a relative when I met him why?"
"Damnit. He lied to me then. I was still going out with him then. That was the time when Jess and I crashed my car."
"Rory I'm sorry he said that he was single and that he was visiting, but that he liked me a lot. Geeze I feel like a complete idiot all the nice guys are always the scumbags." I said as I looked at Rory.
"Don't worry he played both of us for fools."
"I'm gonna kill him if he steps foot in this town again." Both Luke and Jess said as I stood up and reached for the phone. "What are you doing?" Luke asked me as I dialed an all but too familiar number.
"Telling him where he can find me." I said as I told everybody to be quite.
"Now hanging up on me was not the smartest thing you have ever done." I heard the deadpan voice of Dean through the phone.
"You want me, you have to come and get me." I said as I heard him laugh.
"I'm not playing catch the mouse with you. Either you come home or you find another way to support yourself." He said as I heard a muffled voice saying that someone had tracked the number. Perfect I thought he bought it. Hook line and sinker. I hung up the phone with a smug expression on my face.
"What is going on? What did you just do?" I turned around and faced three faces of surprised looks.
"I just gave him exactly what he wanted. Except what he doesn't know is that I am related to you and that I know Rory. So when he shows up in town in a couple of days, he'll be in for one hell of a surprise. Besides, he'll never know what hit him, after I have him arrested for abuse and kidnapping." I said as I sat down next to Rory and leaned against the back of the couch.
"But how the hell are you going to pull that off? Wait I don't even want to know." Uncle Luke said as he turned around and went back down to the diner to re-open.
"Lilian what is the plan?" Jess asked knowing in the back of his mind what the plan already was.
Chapter Six: The Plan
Four days had passed since I had talked to Dean but the whole town now knew what was going on, and they were all in on the plan. Well everybody except Taylor, but we weren't going to tell him. Dean was going down I just had to watch for every bus that stopped at the Stars Hollow bus stop.
"Is he here yet?" Lorelai asked as she walked in the diner. After Rory and I had figured out who Dean was we had filled Lorelai in on all the details of the plan. My arm was now out of the sling and my wrist out of the brace, so I was ready. This was one fight Dean was going to loose.
"Nope, but it won't be long." I said as I walked into the kitchen to get an order, when out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of the man of the hour walking up the steps to the diner. I picked up my cell phone dialed speed dial two and walked back out of the kitchen to face the maker himself. Speed dial two was Luke.
"Hello Lorelai. How are you?" I heard him say. Come on Lorelai stay clam was all I think about. Just then I saw Jess walk up behind him and behind the counter. Everything was going to the plan.
"Well, if it isn't bag boy himself. How's life treating you these days?" This was a little weird and I could tell that Jess was not liking the taste of those words. I could even taste them and I was still in the kitchen. I decided that this was the right time to show my face.
"Hey big bro, I was thinking about catching a movie want to join me?" I asked as I walked right up to Jess smiling like the devil himself wasn't standing in front of me.
"Big bro. What the hell?" Dean said as he took a couple of steps backwards, right into the waiting arms of Uncle Luke.
"Did I forget to mention that I had an older brother and an Uncle that lived in Stars Hollow? Because I could have sworn that I told you. Oh wait, you know what? I remember when I told you. The same night you pushed me DOWN THE STAIRS! You son of Bitch you didn't actually think that I was going to come back to you after what you did!" I was starting to yell and for the first time I felt safe yelling. Uncle Luke had a firm grip on Dean's shoulders and I walked right up to him and punched him hard in the middle of chest. "Oh and by the way DEAN," his name a lone felt like venom coming out of my mouth. "Rory also knows that you cheated on her when you were still dating. Rory is one of the smartest women I know and I am so honored to call her a friend. So help me God you lay another hand on me or on her I will have this whole damn town on you." I said as I watched his face drain of color, at the mention of Rory's name. Just in time I thought as in walked the women of conversation.
"Rory. Come on Rory talk to me." Dean pleaded with her. The funny part about the whole plan was that Rory had completely forgotten that she didn't have to be there to witness the serious amount of pain that I was going to put Dean through.
"You want me to talk to you? You must have lost your mind the week you were in Chicago, because the last thing I remember you telling me before you left was that you loved me. Well guess what Dean, I saw the bruises, and I saw the sling, so I know what you did to Racy. So if you think that I am going to try and help you, you have another thing coming." Rory said as she walked up to him and slapped him across the face. This was no sissy little girl slap either this was, leave the outline of a handprint on the face kind of slap.
"Leave this town and never come back." Uncle Luke said as I punched him again in the stomach. He doubled over in pain only to have Jess punch him as well.
"Fine. But listen to this Lilian Grace Danes, I will have you back, and when I do I will make you pay for this." He said as he tried but failed to leave.
"You will never have me back. By the way you want to know why people started calling me Racy? Well, it started the day you first hit me. Yeah you remember now don't you. The wrong clothes the see through shirts, and short skirts. That was because I knew I shouldn't have stayed with you. I went out had a little fun that night. All the while, while you were cheating on me I was cheating on you. Leave and never show your face within a fifty mile radius of Stars Hollow or so help me God you will wish you were dead." I said as I pushed him out the door and down the stairs.
