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Howl - Chapter 4

Last time on Gilmore Girls:

"I'll let you know, Jess…" she replied, as she started to walk away.

RPOV

She walked away, picking up the pace as she got further away and clutching her bag against her body without looking back; so, he wouldn't see the fear on her face. To her relief, she arrived at the speech site just on time, but everything after that was just a blur. After the speech, she returned to her hotel room, and began pacing back and forth, trying to make a decision. Lorelai would not be happy about this, but she needed her help. She took a few more paces, a deep breath, and dialed.

"Hi, Loin-fruit. Find any cute security guys for me yet? Lorelai answered, followed by what sounded like an exasperated growl in the background.

"You really ought to make sure it is me, before you come off sounding like Liza Minnelli." "If I am Liza Minnelli, then you're Elizabeth Taylor." Rory rolled her eyes, and attempted to shift the conversation to where she needed it to be before she lost her nerve. "Mom," she squeaked out in a needing voice.

Lorelai immediately went into concern mom mode and asked, "What's wrong, Sweetie?"

Rory took a loud deep breath, and started to explain. "I know I never told you about the time that Logan and Jess met, or how I kissed Jess in Philadelphia."

"You what?" she responded in surprise, but before she commenced yelling, she stopped. Rory needed her.

Rory explained everything she had missed, which was followed with silence as Lorelai attempted to process it all.

"You never really got over him, did you?" Lorelai eventually commented.

"I don't think so."

"Rory, I know from Luke, that he's different than he use to be, but that doesn't mean I like him. I know he was the one that got you back to Yale and to your life, and all that good Friday night special stuff, but he has never seen you in pain like I had to."

"What should I do?"

"I can't tell you that, but no matter what you can talk to me, my little prodigal daughter."

"I know, thank you."

"Come home soon… mommy misses you, and Luke won't let me have the good caffeinated stuff."

"Why..? He always gives you the good stuff…"

"Well you'll just have to come home and find out, won't ya?"

"So, you mean you are pregnant..."

"How'd you know?"

"I heard that apple you eating while we were talking. While others have super hearing of sea creatures, I have healthy food hearing."

"That you do…"

"Bye, Mommie Dearest."

"Bye, Christina." With that comment, the phone clicked off. She went back to pacing. She knew Lane would give her the same answers, but just more music references than pop culture ones. At that point her hands had begun to shake as she picked her phone up to dial.

JPOV

He was reading. That is what he does when he is nervous. Okay… scratch that… he wasn't reading. He was flipping pages and practically wringing the book in his hands as he watched the phone.

"Jess," came his other roommate, Chris, "a watched phone doesn't boil." Jess threw his book at his head, since he wasn't reading it anyway. "Such blasphemy," responded Chris as he dodged the paperback. Jess reached for another book nearby and threatened without words to do the same thing again. "Fine, fine… I will leave you to your phone watching, eesh."

Just as Jess stopped paying attention to the phone to deal with Chris' banter, the phone rang.

"Hello," he answered.

"Hi, Jess."

"How was work?" he asked.

"It was good," she replied with a smile in her voice.

"I'm glad you called," he replied remembering the first time he said that.

"Yeah."

"So, I am assuming you are taking me up on my offer then?"

"Yes, Jess." Jess couldn't help but smile. "Do you want me to pick you up, or meet here?"

"There is fine. I will be there in about ten minutes."

"Okay."

When Rory arrived, Jess was by the door and ready to go.

"Where are was going?" she inquired.

"It is a surprise, but you'll like it, I promise." She pouted in response, but conceded to letting Jess take her hand lead the way. As they walked in the cool, early evening summer air, they were silent, and only the plit-plat of their shoes against the traffic could be heard. Even though they both wanted to be there, the tension was nearly visible.

After a few blocks of stolen glances, Jess stopped at a nearly hidden entrance with an old fashion pub sign hung above it with the letters, CBR.

"CBR?"

"Chris, Matt, and I couldn't decide what to name it, so we finally caved to the idea of naming it Cedar Bar Redux, but that sound so lame; so, it became CBR, and we've made it game for people to make up what the letters can stand for. The best one each week gets a beer," he explained as they walking through the door and he pointed to a large chalkboard on the wall.

The chalkboard read:

Co-Bain Rules

Cullen Bella Rules

Christ Been Reborn

Can Beer Reappear?

Rory laughed so hard, and then beamed with pride. "You have accomplished so much, Jess. I knew you could." He gave a crooked smile in return and found table to settle down at. The food and drink came quickly as Rory observed her surrounding and watched the band rehearsed some Clash, Bon Jovi, and Poison.

After the band had settled down and Jess and Rory had a bit to eat and drink, Jess face Rory and with the most serious expression, spoke; "So, the million dollar question is, why did you call?" She did not expect him to ask that question so bluntly and without warning.

"Because, I enjoyed catching up with you earlier, today," she answered, coyly, knowing what he really meant.

"No, I mean, why did you called the first time, last night?"

A/N: I tried to be quick about this one, obviously that was a fail, but I'll try not to lag so much on the next one.

On the side note, due the wonderful and diverse responses I received regarding the last question I put up (go see my reviews), I would like to keeping doing questions. So, this chapter's question is, what do you think Rory and Jess would think about Nirvana?

Thank you all for the wonderful reviews. I try to thank everyone personally, but if some reason I missed you, I still thank you.

Let me know what you guys think. Reviews = Love. Constructive Criticism is always welcomed, but no flaming. This is my desired form of reality.

Last side note:
One of the reviews I got said I was making Jess a bit OOC, and I feel that way a bit, too; however, I would like to mention I wanted to set him up being much more mature and the kind of man that Rory needed and now wants. So, not to ruin too many surprises… keep this in mind, Jess will not disappoint. There will be drama (the Gilmore kind of course…) so, hopefully this type of anticipation will help some of you all stick around while I set things up and get the plot up and going.