A/N: A quick update which you will hopefully like. Thank you for the reviews, I am completely overwhelmed by the positive response to this. You all great. Yhank you again and enjoy this.
And the results are in!
He took a deep breath and lifted his hand, looking at the test. She watched him as a smile appeared on his lips.
"So?"
"Pregnant."
"You're serious?"
Instead of answering, Jess just showed her the test with the word clearly appearing in the small window.
"Oh my God!" She squealed excitedly before wrapping her arms quickly around his neck, making Jess take a step back, trying to keep his balance. She crushed her mouth to his and he just wrapped his free hand around her waist, pulling her as close to him as he could. "I love you!" She managed to whisper between kisses, both of them smiling madly. When she finally pulled back, she took the test from his hand, checking it again.
"I…really can't believe this is really happening. We have to move. And buy a crib and clothes and I need more books because I know next to nothing about babies and pregnancy and things and how am I going to tell grandma and grandpa and God, there are a million things we have to do!" She rambled quickly, making him smile even harder.
"Breathe."
"No time for breathing." Rory shook her head.
"Yes, there is." He wrapped his arm around her waist, kissing her temple. "Now let's go sit down and then you can obsess all you want."
"Why do I have to sit down?"
"Because I said so. Someone needs to remind you to take it easy."
"I will take it easy once we figure all those things out." She smiled and he just looked at her, cocking an eyebrow. "Fine…" She walked to the couch, with Jess following closely. "See…I'm sitting down."
"Good." He smirked again, sitting down next to her.
"Can we go to the bookstore tomorrow?"
"Sure."
"And can I buy all the books I want?"
"Yep."
She hugged him again, running her hands through his hair. "I love you."
"So you keep saying." He smirked when she finally let go.
"You have to be nice to me! I'm pregnant!" She stuck out her tongue, making him chuckle.
"Oh, grown-up. Definitely ready to be someone's mother."
Instead of replying, she just looked at him, grinning madly as his words sunk in. "I'm going to be someone's mom." He just picked her up, cradling her in his arms as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Yes and soon you'll be too fat for me to do this." Jess chuckled, pulling her as close to him as he could.
"Hey! Pregnant, not fat!" She pointed out again, kissing his cheek. He put her down, her legs still sprawled over his.
"You're going to use this as much as you can, aren't you?"
"I get to. If I have to deal with all the nasty things, I get to make you do whatever I want. If it's one thing I learned from mom…" She stopped in the middle of her sentence. "Mom! I have to call her!"
"Inform her she's going to be a grandmother? Can I teach the kid to call her "granny" and ask her to bake and knit?"
"I like having you alive, thank you." Rory grinned, picking up her phone from the table. She pushed the speed dial button, waiting for Lorelai to pick up.
"Heya, kid. So?"
"What's that noise? Where are you?"
"In the car. Now stop stalling!"
"Where are you going?"
"Um…" Lorelai hesitated.
"Mom…?"
"I know I should have given you time to do this by yourselves and Luke told me I should but I am your mother and I need to know if I'm going to be a grandmother or not and you weren't calling!"
"So…you're coming here? Tonight?"
"Yeah." Lorelai dragged the word, hoping her daughter won't get mad at her.
"Ok. We'll just wait until you get here then."
"You…you are evil!"
"I learned everything I know from you."
"Demon child! Female Damien!"
"See you soon, mom." Rory smiled again, pushing the red button on her phone. "Mom's coming over."
"I heard." Jess smirked, kissing her shoulder.
"Do you mind?"
"Not really." In the years that he and Rory had been together, his relationship with Lorelai had gotten better. They started with a truce, trying to keep everyone calm and happy and slowly had progressed to a bizarre sort of friendship. Not that either one of them would ever admit that.
"Jess?"
"Yeah?"
"Can we not tell a lot of people yet? I don't think I could deal with that if…something goes wrong." She bit her lip, looking at him and he cupped her face in his hand.
"Nothing will go wrong." He leaned over and kissed her softly.
"You don't know that."
"Nope. But worrying about it won't do you any good."
"And…if something does go wrong, you won't hate me for it, will you?" She bit her lip again, lowering her eyes.
"Come here." He hugged her close to him, kissing the top of her head. "If you ever as much as think that again, I will kick your butt all the way to China."
She smiled, lifting her head and kissing his cheek. "Ok."
"As for telling people, you get to this however you want to. I'm just the innocent bystander holding the ice cream." He smirked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Mm…ice cream."
"Hungry?"
"Starving. I haven't eaten since breakfast."
"That's because every time your personal chef came to ask if you were hungry, you were asleep."
"And what's your excuse right now?" She grinned.
"None. Take away or sending me to slave over the stove again?" He smirked, making her giggle.
"Hard. I think I'll go for the second one."
"Fine." Jess sighed dramatically, getting up and taking her hand, making her stand up as well. "I'm not leaving you alone here. You'd be surrounded by lists by the time dinner was done."
"Can I make lists while you cook? Just a couple, I promise?"
"What are my chances of winning if I say no?"
"None."
"Fine. But if I see a pro/con list over what college the kid will go to, I'm taking the notebook away!"
"I suppose that's fair." She kissed him quickly and they both walked to the kitchen.
A couple of hours and dinner later, they were back in the living room, with Jess looking over the lists Rory had written.
"I really don't think baby proofing the house as soon as we move in is a must. Finding a house first is."
"But we won't have time later!"
"I may not be a baby expert, but I don't think they move around that much at first. So if we add 6 months to whatever will be left after we move, we're kind of looking at a year. At least. There's no time to baby proof the house in a year? Are we moving in a palace and you forgot to inform me?"
"Oh, forgive me for being worried about the safety of our kid."
"Rory…" He tried to reason with her and she calmed down, smiling.
"I'll agree to wait if you agree that we start looking for a new place on Monday."
"I was never disagreeing with that point but if it will make you feel better, fine, we'll start looking for a new place on Monday."
"Thank you." She kissed him softly, resting her head on his shoulder. "This is going to work out."
He kissed the top of her head while he ran his hand over her leg. "Of course it will."
"Are you just saying that to make me stop making lists?"
"And because we have no other choice. It's not like we can close our eyes and make it go away. But mostly because it really will work out. Somehow."
"What if the kid hates us?"
"Then we'll lock him or her in the basement until it likes us again."
"Jess!" She slapped his hand playfully. "Don't be silly, we don't have a basement." She grinned looking at him and he chuckled.
"We'll put that on the list of things to look for in our new place."
"At least an attic." She smiled again, trying to stifle a yawn.
"Tired again?"
"Yeah."
"Go to sleep then."
"I can't. Mom's coming over."
"I know. But you can get some sleep and I get to make her wait until the morning."
"Remember the whole 'I prefer you alive' thing? Still applies."
"I'll build a pillow fort to keep her out." He chuckled again.
"But I'm the childish one here." She stuck her tongue out again.
"Hey, I never claimed…" He was cut off by the doorbell ringing furiously. "I think that's Lorelai."
"Most likely." Rory smiled, getting off the couch and walking to the door. She opened it to find her mother standing on the other side, getting ready to ring again.
"I need to know."
"You kind of made that clear by coming here in the middle of the night, mom."
Lorelai walked in the room, seeing Jess still sitting on the couch.
"You! Tell me!" She looked at him and he stood up.
"I don't know, Rory…should we tell her?" Jess smirked, looking at his girlfriend and she just smiled back at him.
"I suppose we could…at some point." She dragged the last words.
"You are evil!" Lorelai pointed her finger at Jess. "And you're rubbing off on my kid! I refuse to accept that this is my influence. Now one of you better tell me before I go crazy and decide to kill a certain punk who may have impregnated my daughter. Out of wedlock, I might add."
Rory took the couple of steps separating her from her mother and stood in front of her, taking a deep breath.
"It's positive."
Lorelai just looked at her, trying to process the information. "Wait…so you mean that…?"
"Yep. I'm pregnant."
"Yay!" Lorelai yelped excitedly, hugging her daughter. "Kid, I'm so happy…" She pulled back and looked between Rory and Jess. "Are we all happy about this?"
Rory looked at her boyfriend, smiling. "Definitely happy about this."
"Then I can tell you just how happy I am for you." She hugged Rory again, then looked at Jess, who was watching them. "Both of you. This is fantastic news."
"You really mean that?" Rory asked.
"Yeah." Lorelai beamed and pulled back, wiping her eyes quickly. She took the few steps separating her from Jess and smiled. "You're not escaping a hug so stand still. Congratulations, Jess." She wrapped her arms quickly around him and pulled back just as fast. "That was…odd."
"Can we never do that again?"
"Good Lord, yes!" She sighed, relieved, then looked at him again. "Now run to the kitchen and make us some coffee. I need to convince you that you must name your child Bono, and I need to do it tonight."
