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Several months went by during which Jess barely saw Rory. She had of course been horrified when she found out that her mom was dead and had actually spent a brief period of time in a psychiatric ward on suicide watch.

Jess had been pretty upset too but he had given her the space she needed. They hadn't officially broken up but they also hadn't talked about their relationship. When he did see her she just needed him to be her friend. Unfortunately Dean was there too, but Jess didn't want to kill anyone else close to her for a while, at least until she was a little more mentally stable.

The entire town had been completely shocked but it had eventually been determined that Luke had gone crazy, killed Lorelai with his hammer and then gone home and killed himself. Jess was considered lucky because he hadn't been there. If he had been, who knows, maybe Luke would have killed him too.

Rory was recovering slowly. She was young and strong and she was beginning to realize that her life couldn't just stop because her mom had been brutally murdered. She had taken a leave of absence from Yale but now that summer was approaching she had told them that she would be attending in the Fall.

Jess had kept himself sane in the interim by taking over the diner and Luke's apartment, which had been left to him in Luke's will. He decided to keep the diner open and running because hell, it was a much better job than Wal-Mart and he actually liked the upstairs apartment. He had trouble of his own getting over Luke's death and dealing every day with missing him, but death was something he was quickly getting used to.

And of course even when Rory didn't want him around he still watched her, to make sure she was okay and to make sure that Dean kept his stupid hands to himself.

It took a long time but he spent more and more time with Rory, slowly getting back to normal conversation. She was a quieter, sadder Rory than she had been, having lost so much in such a short period of time. She kept both houses, but never entered the house in Stars Hollow where her mom had met her untimely end. Jess was frustrated by that because it meant that he had to drive all the way to Hartford to see her or even to watch her for a few minutes on breaks from work.

But things were virtually back to normal between them now. They were back to being a couple, occasionally even having sex, and being together as much as possible.

Jess cleaned the counter of the diner, without paying much attention until a blond walked into the diner and sat by the counter.

"Could I get a menu?" she asked.

Jess handed her one and went back to his cleaning. She looked familiar. Probably they had gone to high school together.

She looked for a while and then finally ordered pancakes.

He called to Ceasar to make them when Dean walked in. Jess glared at him a little. The girl glanced back at Dean and blushed a little.

She saw Jess looking at her. "I like him." she whispered confidingly to Jess.

He looked at her in disgust. "Do I know you?" he asked.

"I'm Lindsay. We went to high school together." She said, looking a little hurt.

Jess tried to picture the face with that name. In high school he had only had eyes for one petite brunette. Everyone else was a blur.

"Oh Lindsay, hi." he said. "Sorry I've been preoccupied lately."

She nodded sympathetically. "Yeah I know. It's a shame about Luke."

He swallowed hard to push back tears as he nodded.

"So you like Dean?" he asked, whispering to her.

She blushed. "Yeah." she said, looking down shyly.

That's it. Thought Jess. She has to die just for having such bad taste. And because she obviously thinks that we are friends.

"Hey, want to see something upstairs?" he asked. Jess no longer had to try very hard to kill people. It almost seemed like they were asking for it.

"Sure. What?" she asked innocently.

"Come on, I'll show you." he said, grabbing her hand as he led her up the stairs into his apartment.

She looked around, wonderingly. "What am I supposed to be looking at?" she asked.

Jess grabbed her from behind, holding a hand over her mouth. She was so startled that she didn't even struggle against him as he stuffed a shirt in her mouth. He then grabbed a pair of handcuffs that he had picked up a while ago and slipped them on her wrists. Now she was struggling and he heard someone coming up the stairs!

Jess panicked and rolled her quickly into a blanket, stuffing her into the closet.

He was just in time, there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" he called.

"It's me, Rory." he heard.

Jess smiled as he opened the door, giving her a hug.

"I have a little while before I have to drive back to school so I thought that I would come see you."

"I'm glad you did." he said, leaning in to kiss her.

She smiled back at him, so cute he couldn't resist wrapping his arms around her and deepening the kiss.

She moaned a little into his mouth and he was glad that their time apart had in no way diminished her attraction to him.

"Jess aren't you working?" she whispered as if she hoped he wouldn't hear.

"Ceasar can cover it. I'm my own boss, remember." he said, pulling her towards the couch.

They collapsed onto it, tangled together, until Jess suddenly started a little. The closet door was slightly but visibly shaking.

There was only one thing that Jess could think to do. He had to get Rory in a state to where she wouldn't even notice a tornado, much less the closet door. It shook a little more. He had to be fast. So without the normal preamble Jess reached down and pulled up her skirt, his hand finding her inner thighs. She gasped a little as he grabbed them firmly, and ran his hands up towards her panties. She gave him a tiny smile. "Well someone is in a hurry today." she commented.

He pressed his lips against hers, feeling his hand pressing against an already wet spot on her panties. He slipped them aside and began to rub her, gently, as he kissed her neck and jawline. Rory lay somewhat passively, allowing him to do what he liked with her body. But there was no time to take off her top, as much as he would have liked to. He had to get her satisfied and out of here fast. He slowly moved off her, repositioning her on the couch so that her legs hung off the side. He felt too panicked about Lindsay in the closet to be able to think much about his own arousal. His kisses grazed her inner thighs as he slowly worked his way to the center, giving her little kisses first that then got more passionate as he pressed his mouth to her. Rory moaned louder, arching her back a little to meet his mouth.

Jess continued concentrating on her clit, his tongue flicking across it, trying to bring her to an orgasm. It was strange that this was the most overtly sexual they had been together, the most raw animal passion they had shared and she would probably never know the real reason. There was no tenderness this time, just a single-minded focus on giving her pleasure, stemming from sickening fear that she would discover his secret. Rory was getting louder, trying to stifle her screams with a cushion so that the customers downstairs wouldn't hear her.

Finally Jess could feel her trembling beneath him and knew that she was close. He intensified his efforts, at the last moment thrusting two fingers inside her to heighten the experience. She finally relaxed beneath him, still shaking as she sat up a little, looking dizzy.

"Jess wow!" she said breathlessly. He smiled back at her, wiping his lips on his sleeve as she leaned in to kiss him.

"What about you?" she asked, looking at the bulge in his pants.

"I can wait." he assured her. "You should get some breakfast before you go."

She gave him a hug. "Trust me, I'll be back tonight and we can finish."

He steered her a little towards the door. "Have Ceasar make you something, anything you want on the house. I have to finish up something here. If I don't see you before you have to drive back to school then I'll see you later tonight, okay?"

"Okay. Dean's down there so I'll have breakfast with him." she said.

Jess exploded in anger. After all he had done for her, all the murders and spending months barely seeing each other and she wanted to eat with Dean! "Oh so you are going to eat with Dean?"

"Dean is my friend! You knew we were friends when we started dating." she exclaimed.

"Yeah well I don't want you hanging out with him!" he insisted.

"You can't tell me who my friends are!" she yelled back at him, the tenderness from a moment before gone.

"Like hell I can't!"

Annoyed, Rory opened the door to walk downstairs when Jess stormed after her, trying to grab her arm. But instead he lost his balance and the grab turned into an accidental shove. Rory tried to grab the railing but she had completely lost her balance and fell down the stairs.

Jess watched horrified as she landed awkwardly on her arm. He felt a sound that he knew all too well was a bone breaking.

Rory gasped in pain. Jess ran downstairs, gathering her up as gently as he could. Her arm was definitely broken. Babbling apologies he rushed her out to the car in front of the staring eyes of every customer in the diner.

Speeding as fast as he could, talking to her the entire time to keep her calm he rushed her to the emergency room.

They took her from him as soon as he got there and Jess was left, sitting in a waiting room chair with his head in his hands, feeling sick.

When he was finally allowed to see her he went into the room. She was awake but looked in pain.

He started apologizing again immediately. She smiled a little at him.

"I know it was an accident." she whispered.

"Rory it was, you know I would never hurt you. And you can be friends with whoever you want, I just got jealous for a moment." Jess carefully held her other hand between his. "You can hang out with Dean for as long as he is around." he couldn't help adding. Dean was getting to be a rather large thorn in his side, plus he was sick of looking at him, with his big dumb eyes and stupid floppy hair and freakishly long legs. But that was a plan for another time. Right now he was completely focused on Rory.

She drifted to sleep not to long afterwards, and he stayed by her side, watching her with remorse.

Rory lay sleeping in the bed, her face white and pinched. Jess could barely look at her, he felt so guilty for having hurt her. He had insisted on staying by her side, no matter what, and refused to leave the hospital. So now in the dead of the night he looked around the silent room and the small girl on the bed, asleep and in pain.

He snuck out of the hospital room and through the halls, tears stinging his eyes. He had done it, he had really hurt Rory. Jess berated himself, how could he do that to someone so precious, someone he loved so much. Filled with self-loathing, Jess got in his car and just started driving, trying to escape the overwhelming guilt he was feeling.

He tried to get away from the feeling, wondering if he deserved to die for hurting her. "But it was an accident. And then who will protect her?" Jess wondered aloud. Finally he realized that there was only one thing he could do. He would have to be punished, but he needed to be alive. I'll have to kill someone really important to me, he thought finally. Someone I can't even imagine life without. "Mom." he said simply to the quiet of the car. Sobs heaving in his chest Jess realized that that was the only way he could punish himself for hurting her. He was going to have to live without his mom. They hadn't always been on good terms but she had been the only consistent thing when he was growing up. And now that Luke was dead there really wasn't anyone else for him to lose. And Luke had been a selfless killing, but it had still given him unbearable pain to do.

"I have to kill her." he said softly, trying to steel his resolve. This was going to be the hardest thing he would ever have to do, but he couldn't just hurt Rory and not be punished. And he determined to make it the most gruesome death so far, so that he would really pay for what he had done to Rory.