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Rory and Jess didn't talk the entire way back to Rory's apartment, or when Jess unzipped her dress and pulled her feet free from her shoes, or when he put her in a warm shower and washed her hair but the steady flow of silent tears streamed down her cheeks. Finally Jess ushered her towards her bed and laid her down. He dragged off his suit and crept under the covers, pulling her towards him.

"Rory," He coaxed her gently, "Baby, I need you to talk to me. Please." She buried her head closer to his chest and he could feel the tears licking his chest. "C'mon, please." He began to beg her, his worry increasing by the second. Still she remained silent. He made to move from beneath her with a sigh. "Ok, I'm going to call Lorelai." Suddenly Rory sat up; her eyes tear filled eyes wide with fear.

"No!" She pleaded with him, "Don't call my mum."

"Well you won't talk to me so I don't really know what else to do. The silence strike would be impressive considering it's you but I'm too worried."

"I'm afraid if I tell you, you will never look at me the same. I am afraid you will stop loving me." She told him, a sob taking over the last few words.

"Rory, I could never stop loving you. Ever! Please you need to talk to me." Rory stared into his eyes and let out a huge sigh.

"Promise you won't leave me?" She asked him.

"Cross my heart and hope to die." He said watching her frown.

"Yuck, I hate that saying." She told him.

"Huh, fancy that, so does Luke." He told her, smirking. "C'mon Rory, you need to tell me. Something is up. Enough for you to punch him and what was that stuff that you threw at him?"

"That… That was… That was a medical bracelet and a medical report. More specifically it was my medical bracelet and medical report."

"Why would you throw that to him?" Jess asked her, confused.

"My first week on the campaign bus, I was sick. Really, really sick. I thought it was just motion sickness, you know?" She asked him before continuing before he could answer. "So anyway, when we hit Ohio I went to a clinic there, to see if I could get something for it. So they ran all these tests and took my blood and… well… it wasn't motion sickness. I was 6 weeks pregnant Jess." She told him. Jess opened his mouth to say something but no words come out. He was shocked. Rory, his Rory, had been pregnant. Only six months before she had been pregnant. And now she wasn't? Jess knew he hadn't graduated from a fancy school like Yale, or even a non-fancy high school like Stars Hollow, but he knew babies didn't take a week to cook.

"Did you tell him?" He asked her, his brain and mouth finally understanding each other again.

"I rang him, left a few messages but he never called me back. Anyway, I had decided if he wasn't going to call me back that made my decision easy, it's not like I wanted to be tied to him forever, I already knew I didn't love him. I had looked up the number and booked in to a reputable clinic in Ohio that could sort out the situation for me. The night before I was due to go in I started getting these really funny cramps. Then I started bleeding so I headed to the hospital there. They did more tests and they took more blood. Turned out I didn't need that appointment after all. They sent me home, or back to the crappy hotel we were staying in, and told me there was not much more to do. It was an early miscarriage and they told me it would just go away."

"Did it? Just go away?" Jess asked her, reaching out to hold her hand.

"Physically, yes. The doctors hadn't really prepared me for that. I mean it's not like I could see anything really but I felt it. I could pin point the exact moment that it was gone. But emotionally? No, I think about it every day. How alone I was, how scared I was. I wasn't even planning on keeping it, but losing it like that, it broke something inside of me. I felt like I had failed. Isn't that so stupid? I felt like I was a failure for losing a baby I had no intention of keeping. I blamed myself and my body." She finished, her tears keeping up a constant stream.

"Rory, it's not your fault. These things happen. It's not your body." He told her. He was overcome with his feelings. He was so incredibly sad for Rory, having to go through all that alone. He was so angry at Logan. Stupid jerk had put her through enough, and then he gets her pregnant and can't even take responsibility and answer a damn call. Rory was sobbing hard now.

"It… is… me though." She told him between sobs.

"What do you mean?" He asked her feeling confused again.

"I had tests afterwards and they told me… they said… they…" She was sobbing incredibly hard now, gulping for air. "They told me… that… I…I can never… I will never be able … to carry a baby." She finished, looking up at him. Her eyes pleading with him to understand. He felt his heart break for her and all the realizations hit him at once. Rory could not have children, their future together would not include children, and he would never watch her body change and grow with a life they created. Everything Jess had never been sure he even wanted had been stripped from him in those few words. He pulled Rory closer into his body.

"Baby, I am so sorry." He whispered into her hair.

"It's so stupid. I mean it's not like I ever dreamed about having kids, and I know that not having Logan's child was for the best, but it's like this life I never thought I wanted has been completely taken away from me and now it's all I can think about." They sat in silence until Rory finally released a sigh and finally released what she had been holding onto for months.

Logan sat back in his penthouse apartment, paid for by daddy dearest. He stared down at the medical bracelet in his hand. He had left the guys at the function room, they had offered to come with him but he wasn't sure what he was going to discover when he opened this letter and he felt pretty certain that he needed to read it alone. He took a deep breath and opened the folded paper. He noticed the heading, from a hospital in Ohio, the same logo as on the bracelet. He began to read the medical notes for one Lorelai Leigh Gilmore. As the words began to sink in his head began to buzz and he felt the room begin to spin. Pregnant? Miscarriage? This couldn't be. Logan took one last look before the contents of his stomach came to resurface.

Rory nestled closer into Jess. Her tears had subsided hours earlier and they had just talked. While the night had been emotional for them it was good to be getting everything out in the open.

"So you never even told your mum?" Jess asked her.

"I told no one." She answered him

"Why?"

"I was afraid. I didn't want to bother anyone. I was embarrassed. I don't know. A lot of reasons I guess." She told him.

"I understand. I am just so angry that you were alone. I swear if you hadn't already I would go and find Logan and punch him." Jess told her.

"God that felt good." She said, chuckling lightly.

"It looked good." He told her. "So you really would have gone through with your appointment?" He asked her.

"I honestly don't know. If I knew then what I know now maybe not. But then again maybe yes, to save me the heartache later on. Besides it was for the best. I am grateful not to be tied to Logan forever. Plus it gave me the wake up call I needed. I knew what I wanted and realized life was too short not to try and get it. That's when I told my mum about you. So I guess it has worked out for the best." She leant her face up to kiss his mouth softly.

"Rory," he said looking down at her, "I love you. Nothing will ever change that and I want to be here for ever. What ever happens ok?" He watched as the tears returned to her eyes and she smiled up at him.

"I love you too." She told him. He leant down and kissed her softly on the mouth, holding face close to his. Before Rory was able to deepen the kiss her phone chimed alerting her to an incoming message. She read the message and released another large sigh.

"What is it?" Jess asked her. She handed her mobile to him to read, replying shortly.

"Logan."

Can we talk, please?

"What are you going to do?" he asked her softly.

"I probably owe him an explanation after that." She told Jess. She looked up at him and he could see the hesitation in her eyes. He knew she was reluctant to rehash all the details to him but he could see something else. Then it dawned on him. Rory was asking for his opinion, his permission in a way. She was asking him to understand that she owed Logan this and she was asking him to be ok with it. Jess tried not to sound too nice.

"Yeah, it probably will be for the best." He told her. Rory nodded at him, her silent thanks for his empathy, and sent Logan a return text with and time and place to meet.