Author's Note: So here is the next chapter of Something Happens. I told you this would be Sookie's Wedding so here it is! Rory is walking down the lane with her father and who might she see; everyone's favorite New Yorker, but will she be able to handle seeing him?

Disclaimer: I do not own GG or it's dialogue.

It felt like a year had gone by when she was walking down the lane with her father. Christopher had a dopey look on his face that Rory recognized. Love. But she already knew he was in love with her mom, he had loved her forever. But it was finally all lining up right.

It had taken them forever but her parents finally seemed to be on the same page. They had clearly taken a step forward in their relationship and Rory couldn't be happier. She, like every other little girl, just wished for her parents to be together and happy. Finally, finally that wasn't seeming like an unreasonable wish.

Maybe things were starting to look up –her cast was gone and her dad was back in her life with a seemingly more permanent position. The most important thing however, was that her mother seemed truly happy. Rory knew nothing was official between the two of them or if it was it was a recent development but she liked to think that everything was finally on the right track.

"What exactly are your intentions?" Rory teased.

Christopher went wide eyed, playing along with her game. She liked having her dad around. She could joke with him in a different way than her mother. It was like taking a break from the intensity if only for a minute.

"Excuse me?"

"Your intentions, are they honorable?" she joked, knowing he was more than honorable when it came to her mother.

"Completely honorable." Rory didn't think she had ever heard him be more serious.

"Yeah? They'd better be, because I am currently living vicariously through mom's happiness so you can't go messing this up for both of us. And we take disappointment very poorly. There may or may not have been a 'Great TP-ing of 01' when Kenny Fisher said my new hair cut looked awful. Drastic measures will be taken."

"Well, I better follow through on this, huh?"

"It's really for the best."

Rory didn't think she would be able to tell her dad in words how much this meant to her. There had been far too many times when she was growing up that she had pictured her parents together. She had dreamed about them all being a happy family together. Granted this was later in life than she had hoped it would happen but it was still something.

She knew her mother was already putting her heart into the whole situation. It was like she had instantly been completely invested in the relationship. And Rory felt better about the Washington trip knowing her mother would have someone by her side. Although she was still going to fight Paris all the way on actually going on the trip.

From a more selfish side she just wanted someone in the house to be in a good relationship. As determined as she was not to think about Jess she found herself upset by her memories more often than she would like to admit. She wanted her mother happy so the older woman could force her happiness upon everyone she came across.

"Come here, you." Her dad said hugging her just as his phones started to ring. "It's probably work."

"On a Sunday?" Rory asked shocked by the assumption.

"Hey lady, I've got a lot of responsibility now, okay?"

"Okay." Rory said hardly believing it.

"Be right back."

He opened the phone greeting the person quietly and Rory could see the lines on his brow furrow as he listened to whatever his job had to say. He looked back at her quickly, seeming to grow more upset when he caught her eye, before he bolted away from their lane and off on his own path.

Rory turned to watch the direction her dad was walking away and could help but notice the figure standing by the lake. She knew he hadn't been invited to the wedding. Standing there in all his leather jacket glory was Jess. She hadn't even comprehended him being there before she started to move towards him.

He looked the same –not that she should have expected differently. Hardly any time had passed since she saw him last in New York but still it seemed like a lifetime ago to her. He looked out of place among the nature and Rory could understand his teasing about her not looking like a New York native because he certainly didn't look like a native of the Hallows.

"What are you doing here?" she called down the hill towards him, scared to move any closer.

"Hello to you, too." He joked taking a step as if he might move up the hill but he allowed her to walk down to his side.

"Sorry, hello."

Silence. What were they meant to say to each other? Rory had been desperately trying to forget everything since she left New York. It seemed easier to leave the complicated boy in the past rather than drag them both around.

"Hey, did you make it to the graduation?" he asked breaking the silence that was growing between them.

"What? Oh, oh yeah." Roy said thrown by his subject choice.

"You look nice."

"Thank you. It's a bride's maid dress." She could feel her mouth drying up, "Jess…"

"I moved back."

She should have expected the answer. He wouldn't just visit the Hallows for no reason and she was the only person he cared for in the Hallows besides possibly Luke.

"You moved back to Stars Hallow?"

Rory asked taking a step closer to him. She didn't know what he feet were doing. She tried to remind herself that she was still confused –tried to stop herself from moving any closer to him but she didn't seem to be in much control of her body.

"I moved back." He confirmed.

"This Stars Hallow, I mean we are talking about the same Stars Hallow? Why?" she finally settled on a question.

"You know all those stories you told me when I lived here really sell the place. Once I was gone long enough to forget what it's really like I almost thought it was a cool sounding place. I figured-"

"Jess," she didn't like his jokes –didn't have time for them, "why?"

"We never say goodbye."

It wasn't a past statement it was present and future. Rory let her jaw drop just a bit. Could he be insinuating that no matter what trouble or distance they may be about to face he wouldn't let her run away? Could she say the same?

Obviously he had spent their time apart figuring things out but she hadn't done the same. She'd avoiding her pro/con lists. She'd been so determined to avoid the subject of him all together no matter how much her mind and body fought her during the night.

"What do you mean?" was all she could think to ask.

"Rory, I don't want to say goodbye. I know we–"

But Rory would never hear what else he planned on saying. Before she knew what she was doing she had her lips on his. It was a strange feeling kissing him. This wasn't like any of the small stolen kisses they had shared when they were secretly meeting up –or even their more intense secret kisses. This was a heated session that she wished she never had to stop. This was the type of kiss that led to something else –something much more serious.

Jess was back, he was back… Back and making jokes about actually liking the town. And with him back that meant she would have to confront her mother about the Jess situation. With him back she'd have to admit what had been going on between them. If he came for her they couldn't keep hiding it. Dating Jess would be a whole different thing to confess to her mother than insinuating she liked him enough to visit New York. Then a thought hit her, what if he hadn't come for her? What if he came back because Luke was the better parenting option over his mother? He may not want to say goodbye to her but that didn't mean she was the reason he was there.

Her mind started racing and she could feel her heart beating heavily in her chest. Her mind was swirling from one thought to another. Jess was back… and with him about a million other issues that she would have to confront basically right away. There wasn't going to be some sort of grace period. Her mother would make her figure things out before the week was up. She needed to figure everything out right away.

Once she gained control of her senses she pulled away from the kiss. Jess was smiling, clearly glad that they had picked up a step or two further from where they left off. But his happiness was short lived. Rory couldn't think of what to say, or what to do. So in true Gilmore fashion she ran. Her mind on one thing –Washington.

"Oh my God! Oh my God!"

She continued muttering the words to herself as she ran up the hill back towards the wedding. She knew he wouldn't follow. He wouldn't risk running into a town wedding. No one knew he was back yet, Jess wasn't the type of person to make a scene over himself.

"Rory." He called after her.

"I'm so sorry!" She had yelled it loudly as she ran away. She needed him to be quiet. She needed to be the one to tell her mother about this. She didn't need the town gossips getting to everyone's minds before her.

"I have to go!" she called out once again as an afterthought.

"Rory, wait!"

"I'm so sorry, I'm late -the wedding and, and I'm late. And Paris will kill me, and my mother." she rambled as her brain traveled through subjects quicker than she could speak.

"What?" he yelled up the hill.

"I have to go to Washington." she turned on the spot and kept running, running away from the uncertainty, the questions, and running away from him.

Jess shrugged as he watched her disappear. It hadn't been quite the hello he had been expecting from her. But he figured they would talk. She would come by the diner and they would be able to have a discussion about things. They would figure out where they stood and everything would be okay. She would come by and explain what the hell she had been going on about. If he had to keep it a secret for a while he could do that. But he intended on having the best summer of his life, even if it was in Stars Hallow.

Rory took her place next to her mom grabbing the flowers out of her hand. Her mother didn't look so good. Although she was hardly a good judge at the moment. She needed time, she needed time to think everything through. Her whole life was changing at the drop of a hat. Her dad was going to actually be her dad, her mom was getting along her grandmother without fighting for a day, Luke was truly going to just be her mom's friend, and Jess was back.

It was all too much for her brain to think of in just one day.

"I think I'm going to Washington."

"Oh." Her mother paused letting the words sink in. "Okay."

"Jess is back." She said quietly knowing her mother deserved the confession after how much she had withheld in the past.

"Your dad left."

They stayed quiet for a moment both just standing at the beginning of the isle not moving. Rory knew not to push for more information about her dad and Lorelai was too shocked to push about Jess. They were trapped in their own worlds spiraling down their separate spirals of confusion and hurt.

Rory took the first step towards the isle. Her mother started up only seconds behind her. She would pack that night and be at Paris' in the morning. She would leave for Washington the first chance she got and spend the summer thinking everything through. By the time the trip was over she assumed she would have everything planned. It seemed like a good idea. Nobody needed to know, she could just disappear… yeah she could just disappear. Surely once summer was over her dad would be back and she would have some idea of what she wanted Jess to be to her without running away from him.

The fact that she had run away from him only seemed to hit her then. He'd kissed her back, kissed her with more passion than they had ever kissed before and she ran away. Clearly her brain was a mess. Maybe the trip to Washington really would do her a lot of good.

AN: So there it was! Fairly similar to canon. If it ever feels odd how slow things are changing or how little things are different just remember this story is basically going to follow the entire series so things will become much less canon as the story progresses.

UP NEXT: Rory is back from Washington thinking everything will be fine with Jess but when she finds him lip locked with a blonde what is she to do?