Chapter 7: The End
"…. And then, Luke and the Rebels lived happily ever after. The End," Rory concluded. She had not expected her four-year-old to want Star Wars as a bedtime story, but she did her best to make it work.
"Mama?"
"Yes, sweetheart?"
"Grandpa Luke is also named Luke. Does that make Grandpa Luke a Jedi?"
Rory laughed. "No, honey. Grandpa's too grumpy to be a Jedi."
Richard giggled before flopping back onto the pillows. "Good night, Mommy."
"All right, Munchkin. Good night." Rory kissed her son's forehead, after which she slipped out the door and turned off the light.
Downstairs, in a section of the sitting room that had been converted into an office space, Jess sat at his desk, focusing on his laptop. He sensed Rory's presence without even having to turn his head. "What story was it tonight?"
Rory smiled and kissed her husband's temple. "Ours."
"You flatter me. I could hear you trying and failing to do the Darth Vader voice."
Rory laughed. "Richy's become quite the fanatic. Besides, he can always read my book if he wants to learn more about his Mommy." Gilmore Girls, Rory's memoir about her life with her mother, had finally been completed and published the previous year. As promised, Jess wrote the Foreword as an assist to help his wife get her name out in the literary world. Rory's work had quickly climbed to the top of the Bestseller's List, raking in enough revenue to allow the youngest Gilmore and her family to move out of Maple Street and to a house of their own. As of right now, a producer had approached the budding writer with possibilities of converting the memoir into a TV show… Talks had yet to begin, and were expected to be ongoing.
For his part, Jess had published a modestly successful sequel to The Subsect, and a film adaptation of the first book had just started production; it had a release date for the following summer.
Neither Jess nor Rory had expected to become famous writers, though it had been a dream of theirs. And they certainly had not expected to end up together and married, with a child between them. But on the whole, life had turned out for the best – for everyone involved.
