Summary: It's another fic about Jess coming to Stars Hollow with a kid. Luke and Lorelai are getting married and Luke has asked Jess to be the best man, what will Luke think of Jess's lookalike son, Christopher.
A/N: I'm not sure if i'm going to have Rory be the mother, but I probably will.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, not Gilmore Girls, not the characters, only Christopher.
"Come on dad, why do I have to go?!" Fourteen year old Christopher Mariano shouted at his dad. Normally, he would not speak to his dad in this manner nor would he raise his voice, but this was different. He found out he had to go to a 'half-mile, four-block, freakhole of a medical experiment,' as his dad had called it.
The elder Mariano sighed, "I'm not going alone, and I can't put off you meeting Luke any longer than I already have, he doesn't even know about you yet! If I wait any longer and he meets you or finds out about you in another way, you know who's he's going to be running after with a sharpened axe? Me! I've always played the cool dad, have I not? I always let you get out of family gatherings and I bail you out and stick up for you whenever you get in trouble, do I not? I've always gotten you everything you've ever wanted, I've dropped everything and have done everything in my power to give you better than what i had and if you want to know the truth, I had shit! I've never left you, or Hell, even contemplated the thought of leaving you in the dust like my father did! I have two jobs to uphold and I've never hurt you physically or put you down. Please feel free though to contradict me if I am wrong about any of these things!" Jess shouted at his son.
Silence. Complete silence.
What was there to say in Chris's defense? His father was right, he was being selfish.
But never, never in all the years Chris had been had his father yelled or even so much as directed an angry comment at him.Even when he did something bad or wrong, he just laughed and made a joke and bailed him out, not busting his ass about coming home late or doing something stupid with his friends, no matter what he was always there for him, a couple of times he even bailed out his friends too, promising not to call and tell their parents as long as they promised to not do such a stupid thing again, he also let Chris have some beer once in a while, especially on his birthday, under his supervison though, of course.
Chris looked down guiltily,"I know, I'm sorry dad, I don't want to get you into trouble with Luke or create any family fueds, I just don't want to run into..." He looked away, not finishing his statement.
"You mom." Jess finished for him softly, he too knew the pain of seeing a deadbeat parent."You know she loves you, she just wasn't ready to be a mom yet." Jess explained.
This made Chris's blood boil and made him angry at his father,"How the hell can you defend her?! After all the heartbreak she caused me, all the pain she caused you! And you still stick up for her! Why? She left us in the dust! She didn't even take a second look back, she didn't leave a note or call us just to let us know that she was okay! You stayed up night and day for 3 days waiting for her to call or come home because you were so worried about her! And then you finally realized that she left because she didn't love me! Because I wasn't enough!" Chris finished his tirade breathless, upset, his last two statement caused Jess's head to snap up.
"It wasn't you that she was unhappy with. It was me, she didn't love me, so she let. I'm not defending her or trying to justify what she did, she should have called, but she does love you, you have to trust me on that. She didn't wan to be like her father, who popped in and out of her life and cause havoc, she didn't want to get your hopes up like her father did to her. I don't want to be like one of those parents though, who use their kids like weapons against the other, or make you hate her."
"Too late." Chris muttered, his brown eyes flaring, taking the usual, optimistic gleam from them.
"Don't hate her, if anything hate me for making her feel the desire to leave." Jess said sadly.
Chris narrowed his eyes,"Hate you? Why should I hate you? And don't tell me because you didn't treat her right, because that's bullshit. I remember, even if you think I don't, I remember you always trying to do everything to make her happy, I remember that every time she looked at me it wasn't with the same love and affection that you treated me with, you tried hard to make her happy and she left anyways."
"Look, lets get off the subject, will you please come with me to Stars Hollow?" Jess pleaded.
Chris sighed,"Fine, but if we run into her, I can't promise youthat i'll be on my best behavior."
Jess sighed, "Fair enough, let's pack and then get a move on, pack light though, I don't intend on staying too long."
"Good." Chris muttered and went into his room to pack, Jess did the same.
'Stars Hollow won't know what hit 'em' Chris thought, bracing himself at the thought of running into his mother, hardening his heart.
