Here it is, and I'm very, very sorry it took me forever. Be happy it's long and that I posted it right after my 'Unexpected Result'
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The next day Luke had started planning the garage renovation. After all was planned and designed he had dragged Jess to get all that was needed for working, they had left the decorating to Rory and Lorelai. A week had passed and the 'new' room was almost done.
Luke was only working the diner at lunch rush so would have time to renovate the garage, and so he could ignore Dean whenever he came in. Rory and Jess could be seen all over town whenever he wasn't helping Luke in the garage, so for that past week Rory had barely seen Lane and she hadn't seen Dean at all.
"Ok, now careful because if you fall it'll be hard for you to get back up" Lorelai told Will, Rory laughed. They were in Lorelai's room and she had just dressed up Will like a pumpkin, one with green sweat pants.
"Mom, Luke is gonna freak" Rory said between laughs.
"Well it's his own fault for not decorating the diner" Lorelai defended.
"Rory! Have you seen my…" Jess trailed off when he saw Will. "Oh God" he started to laugh.
"You like?" Lorelai asked like a little kid and made Will turn so Jess could see the whole costume.
"Sure, it's very…umm… round and… orange" he couldn't find the right words to explain.
"Good because that's what you want in your pumpkin: round orange-ness" Lorelai teased.
"Mommy?" Will said and wiggled his little arms that pocked out from the costume.
"Aw how cute" Rory cooed.
ouTSiDe THe DiNeR
Lorelai and Rory were waiting for the perfect moment to go inside with Will dressed like that. Luckily for them Luke was arguing with Taylor at the moment.
"Oh! Now is our chance!" Lorelai screeched. She opened the door and walked inside, Will was right behind her, and Rory was right behind Will. Luke didn't see them come in.
"Why won't you decorate!" Taylor said exasperated.
"Ok, honey, go with daddy. Your sister and your mommy are gonna be right outside" Lorelai crotched down to be eye leveled with Will. "Go, go" she turned him around and patted his pumpkin touchy.
"You're cruel" Rory mumbled as she was being pushed outside, once outside they plastered their noses to the window. Luke and Taylor kept arguing.
"Daddy?" Will asked from Taylor's side of the counter. Luke didn't hear him over the argument.
"I swear to God if you take out those little dolls one more time…" Luke threatened as he pushed the little figures at Taylor.
"Daddy?" Will said more loudly.
"Just put some orange around the diner" Taylor insisted.
"Daddy!"
"Looks like you wont have to decorate, after all" Taylor teased since he was the one who had a view on Will.
"What?" Luke was confused, he rounded the corner. "Oh God" was the first thing to come out his mouth once he saw his son.
"Nice pumpkin" Taylor tasseled Will's hair before leaving. Luke eyed Will from head to toe, he picked Will up and sat him on the counter.
"Will, who dressed you today?" Will looked at his father with a weird look on his face, his eyes drifted behind Luke and saw Lorelai and Rory looking in from outside, he waved and smiled. Luke saw the cutesy smile Will had, reserved only for his mommy, and he turned. Lorelai let out a little yelp and turned away from the window, so did Rory.
"Mommy" Will said as he pointed to the window.
"So, she did this to you huh?" Luke turned to look at Will, he frowned and let his little head dropped to his right side. "Don't be cute" Luke mumbled, Will smiled. Luke grabbed Will and carried him outside. "Hey!" Luke barked as soon as he stepped outside the diner.
"Bye" Rory said and left.
"Chicken!" Lorelai yelled after Rory. "Hey honey" Lorelai turned to look at Luke.
"What's this?"
"Why Luke, I never thought you'd deny your own son" Lorelai faked hurt, Luke gave her a glare.
"You're not funny. Why is my son dressed like a pumpkin?"
"Oh now he is your son" Lorelai mocked.
"Lorelai…"
"Because he looks cute, right baby?" she asked Will in a baby voice, he laughed.
"Don't edge her on" Luke told Will who gave Luke a weird look.
"You do know that he got that look from you, right?" Lorelai teased Luke; he gave Lorelai the same look Will had given him. "Told you" Lorelai said between laughs.
"Go get him changed into something else" he passed Will to Lorelai.
"Can't…" she handed Will back. "Jess is waiting for me at the house"
"So take him with you and change him" he handed Will back to her.
"But I can't take him shopping with me…" she handed Will back. "We are buying things for Jess' room, it's boring for Will"
"I don't want him looking like that" he handed Will back. Will was laughing because of all the passing back and forth.
"Then you go and change him" she handed Will to Luke. "Bye honey" Lorelai gave Luke a quick kiss, she kissed Will's forehead and then she was gone.
"I can't leave, Scott is sick! Lorelai? Lorelai!" but she was already gone. "Stop laughing" Luke told Will.
THe CRaP-SHaCK
"Jess! C'mon lets go before your crazy Uncle gets here!" Lorelai said entering the house.
"I'm thinking he didn't take the pumpkin well?" Jess said not taking his eyes from the book he was reading.
"Well you are very smart. Get your nose out that book and let's go! Geez you're just like Rory" Lorelai said and took Jess' book away.
"Hey! That's mine!" Jess stood up from the couch and followed her.
"I'll give it back to you once you get in the car" Lorelai ran outside to Luke's truck.
"You act like your four you know?" Jess said annoyed.
"Yes I know" Lorelai said proudly. Once Jess sat and closed the trucks door he extended his arm towards Lorelai. "Fine, here" she handed Jess the book back. "Baby" she mumbled.
"Takes one to know one" Jess mumbled back.
THe DiNeR
"You're so cute" Miss Patty told Will, he was jumping and moving his little arms in the center of the diner.
"Hi" he said brightly with a little hand wave.
"Aw look at that. He hears the word cute and automatically assumes it's him" Babette told Patty.
"He gets that from Lorelai" Luke said annoyed when he came to take their orders.
"Daddy!" Will said and hugged Luke's leg and turned up to look and Luke with a big smile.
"Aw, male bonding" Miss Patty said.
"More like pumpkin bonding" Gypsy said from another table.
"Geez!" Luke said. "Leave it to your mother to not put anything under that costume, leaving me no choice but to have you dressed like a pumpkin all day" Luke grumbled as he lifted Will and took him to the kitchen with him.
LuKe'S TRuCK
"So where do you want to go first?" Lorelai asked Jess.
"Don't care" Jess grumbled not taking his eyes off of the book he was reading.
"Jess we are shopping for you here, so take your eyes away from that book and answer me or I'll throw the book out the window"
"Change gear" Jess mumbled, again, without taking his eye off of the book.
"Hey, who's driving here?"
"You're gonna burst the motor"
"That's it!" she took Jess' book from him.
"Hey!"
"Focus or the book will get it" she opened the window.
"I'm a camera, now what do you want?" he crossed his arms.
"Where do we go first?" she said slowly.
"I don't care" he said emphasizing each word.
"Fine, I'll decide everything then. I'm thinking floral wallpapers" Lorelai said in a pondering voice.
"Ok, ok. Let's go… get the bed first" Jess said.
"Good, let's go"
"Now can I get my book?" he extended his hand towards her.
"Do I really need to change gears?"
"Yes…" after the car made a weird noise. "Up, you should change the gear to a higher number" he explained like if she was a little kid.
"Just for that, no book" she sat on it.
"Aw gross! You have to buy me a new one now" Jess scoffed, and Lorelai smiled.
THe DiNeR
"Well, you have your mother's appetite" Miss Patty said. Will was sitting with her and Babette, they were giving him breakfast. Well, actually, he was eating their bacon.
"I bet your daddy is very happy with that" Babette told him, he turned and smiled. "You've got your mommy's sense of humor also, huh?"
"Thank God" Miss Patty said. "Luke, more bacon please!"
"Bacon?" Luke's head pocked from the kitchen's entrance.
"Yeah since your son ate all of ours, honey" Babette answered for Patty.
"What?" he stepped out of the kitchen. "Will!" and he turned with a piece of bacon in his hand and half of it stuffed into his mouth.
"Let him be" Miss Patty said and pocked the little pumpkin costume, Will giggled.
a FuRNiTuRe SToRe
"Aw this is perfect" Lorelai showed a bunk bed to Jess.
"Umm, no" Jess rolled his eyes.
"Not for you, for Will" she said in a duh tone.
"He has a bed already"
"Yeah but…"
"Focus"
"Fine" Lorelai sighed and waved goodbye to the bed.
LuKe'S oFFiCe
"Damn it!" Luke grumbled searching furiously through the diaper bag. He had taken the costume off, and the pants just to find that Lorelai hadn't put any diapers in the bag. Will stood up on the couch they had there and began to jump. "Will no!" Luke left the diaper bag alone and went over to get Will redressed so they could go over to Doose's to get more diapers because it was closer than the house.
ouTSiDe LuKe'S
"What the hell is that?" Luke wondered out loud holding onto Will's hand. You could see the market was having a big carnival theme blowout thing.
"Taylor is promoting his new mouth wash" Kirk told Luke, he was passing by with a big cotton candy.
"Mouth wash?" Luke asked not believing Kirk.
"Yes. And I have to say he went all out this time" he took a bite of his cotton candy.
"He's doing all this for mouth wash?" still not believing.
"Yeah, he figured people would come and see what all the commotion was about and then they'd buy some mouth wash" Kirk explain.
"How did he get that idea, Kirk?" Luke looked amused.
"I might have had something to do with that" Kirk admitted.
"You don't say"
"You should take little William there. Get him a cotton candy cone, or a corn dog, or even better some: mouth wash"
"No mouth wash, Kirk" Luke said and began walking over to the market.
"At least let the clown make him a cute balloon" Kirk followed Luke.
"There's a clown?" Luke asked amused.
"Of course there is. A carnival is not a carnival without a clown, Luke"
"Apparently" Luke mumbled.
"Well, I better get going. Mother said to be home for lunch or I wasn't going to be allowed to watch Conan" Kirk said worriedly.
"Then you better hurry home, Kirk" Luke said holding back a laugh man I bet Will is gonna move out before Kirk does Luke thought.
FuRNiTuRe SToRe
"Luke would be good for this job" Lorelai said while some guys loaded the pick up bed with the mattress and the furniture set that went with it.
"Geez, can you stop ogling them for a second?"
"Maybe" Lorelai cocked her head to the side to get a better view.
"Gross. Could you at least give me my book back so I have a distraction?"
"Nope, we need to go buy you some more stuff" by this time the guy's were done and closing the trucks back door thingy.
"What stuff? I don't use much stuff?"
"How bout new clothes?"
"Don't need em' I do, however, need a new copy of that book you sat on" Jess said annoyed.
"I'll buy that book" one of the guys butted in.
"Geez" Jess said grossed out.
"Hmm how much?" Lorelai said 'flirting'.
"Well…" the guy started.
"It's my book, and it's not for sale" Jess said annoyed. The guy turned to look at Lorelai.
"Sorry buddy" Lorelai said with a shrug.
"Yeah buddy" Jess added.
"C'mon, Jess, be nice" Lorelai said and walked over to the drivers door.
"I think you're nice enough for both of us" Jess jumped in the passenger side.
"Oh don't be so cranky, what happened to you? You used to be such a happy little boy" she leaned over and pinched his cheek.
"Pinching" Jess swatted her arm away.
"Fine. Here, read until we get to the mall" she handed the book back.
"We're gonna go to the mall and leave all this stuff in the back unattended?"
"Well yeah, why?"
"They'll steal it" Jess stated.
"Ok then, we won't go to the mall. How bout those little stores downtown? Nobody would steal all that crap downtown, it's to busy down there. C'mon you know you wanna" Lorelai pocked his ribs.
"Fine" Jess turned to look out the window to hide his smile.
"C'mon turn around. I won't tell anyone you smiled"
"Tsk" he said still looking out the window.
"Jesse" she cooed. "You used to smile all the time. C'mon"
"Don't call me that" he turned to look at her but was not smiling anymore.
"Sorry" Lorelai said and turned, she was about to turn the car on. "I will see that smile again" Lorelai threatened.
STaR'S HoLLoW
Rory was going to have a girl's day with Lane; they were going to hang out at the Crap-Shack. Rory had been at Lane's helping her with inventory so she would finish faster and they could hang out sooner. They had finished and now Lane was going over to get a few things over at the beauty shop and was going to rent a movie. Rory was in charge of buying food supplies so she was now on her was to Doose's, that was fifteen minutes ago.
Doose's MaRKeT
Luke and Will had just entered the Market, it was filled with carnival stuff, and the only thing missing was an elephant. Will had just noticed that if he pushed one side of his costume down then the opposite side would pop out, that made him laugh so he wasn't paying much attention to his surroundings.
"Jesus, Taylor, isn't it a health violation to have so much useless stuff crammed in here?" Luke asked Taylor who was at the check out near the entrance.
"Not according to my last reading of the health code booklet, which was the night before last" he responded proudly.
"How the hell am I supposed to walk over to the diaper section?" Luke asked rather loudly, Will's head popped up to look at his Dad and his surroundings. Will started to smile at the pretty colors and corky music.
"No need for that language, there's a minor present" Taylor scoffed. "One of the bag boys could bring them" Taylor offered.
"I guess so" Luke said doubting.
TeN MiNuTeS aGo
"Wow, it's crazy here today huh?" Rory asked Dean who was in charge of the cotton candy machine.
"Yeah" was all Dean said.
"I haven't seen you around lately, did you leave town or something?" Rory was being nice and ignoring his monosyllabic answer.
"No, you've just been too busy" Dean said dryly.
"Well yeah, a little bit. With school stuff and my cousin moving in with us…"
"Your cousin?" Dean asked feeling stupid.
"Yeah, Jess, he had this big thing with his Mom and Luke got fed up with that and told him that he could move here if he wanted" Rory said the gist, no need to go to in depth with family issues.
"Jess, huh?" he was feeling worse
"Yeah, maybe you've seen him around. He always has a book with him and a black leather jacket" that was the easiest description she could give.
"I've seen him" Dean whispered.
"Really? Well say 'Hi' to him if you want, he looks dangerous but he's not, he's actually pretty cool" she said with a smile.
"Yeah, I'll give that a try"
"When did you see him? Because he's supposed to be working in the garage on his free time and if he isn't Luke is going to hang him"
"Oh, well, I saw him walking around town with you so if Luke kills him he's going after you too for entertaining him"
"Oh, in that case let's not tell him"
"Fine by me. Your Dad scares me a little" Dean confessed.
"He's harmless, promise" she lifted her left hand like if she was on trial.
"That would be much more reassuring if you did it with your right hand" Dean said amused.
"Oh! Sorry…" she switched hands. "There, better?"
"Yeah" he said with a smile. "You want some cotton?" he pointed to the machine. This is when Luke and Will walked into Doose's.
"Umm sure" she smiled.
LuKe aND TaYLoR
"Fine here" Luke handed the little piece of paper where he had written the specification for the diaper kind to Taylor, who handed it to a bag boy, who ran over to look for the item.
Will was smiling and bouncing in place…that was until his eyes spotted something lurking by the corner door. He immediately froze, hands on his sides, his breathing stopped for a second then it began quickly, his eyes were wide opened, his mouth slightly opened, and the color slightly draining from his face.
"Luke?" Taylor asked, he had seen Will reaction.
"What Taylor?" Luke asked annoyed, Taylor just pointed down to where Will was still in shock.
"Will?" Luke went down on one knee "Will" he said more forcefully, he stood and looked around, and that's when he spotted Rory.
RoRY aND DeaN
"Ok, pick an arm" he grabbed two different sizes of cones, big and small, and placed them behind his back.
"I have to pick one?" she whined.
"Yeah, let's let destiny decide if you get a big one or a small one" he said with a smile.
"Ok, destiny is telling me that in this hand you have…" she pointed with her hand and took a step closer; Dean cut her of by kissing her. Nothing fancy just a little peck, Rory's first peck. The Market was crowded but the only person who they wished never saw them, did in fact see them. "Thank you" Rory said once the pecking stopped then she ran to the corner door, she bumped into the clown that was standing there said a quick 'sorry' and ran. The clown watched her go then turned around, he saw Will and smiled at him. That scared Will out of his shock and he began to cry loudly, that woke Luke up from his 'killing Dean dream' and he turned to Will, picked him up, paid for the diapers that had just arrived at the counter and he was out of there.
DoWNToWN HaRTFoRD
"Do I even want to know what you bought there?" Jess said eyeing the bag Lorelai had in her hand as she left one particular store. Jess had been in the truck waiting for ten minutes, he bought what he had to buy so he was done for now.
"Hmm…" she looks down at the bag. "I'm guessing, no" Lorelai smirked and tossed the bag in the back of their seat.
"Aw gross. Can we go home now?" Jess asked throwing one of the books he had bought, as he waited for Lorelai, into the stores bag.
"You went into the bookstore, didn't you?" she eyed him.
"Nope" he turned and smirked.
"Can I have my card back?"
"You mean Luke's card?"
"Same difference"
"I think it's safer with me" he smirked again.
"You know, I'm starting to hate that smirk" she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Good to know" he kept smirking.
"Here…" she tossed the keys a Jess. "You drive" she started to scoot over to where Jess was still sitting.
"Why? And move over to your side" he nudged her.
"I don't feel like driving back hearing 'change gears' over a thousand times again. Now move" she pushed him and he crashed against the door.
"Hey watch it!" he pushed back. "And I wouldn't have to say that, if you changed gears when you were supposed to" and he pushed her again.
"That's why you are driving" she pushed him and smiled.
"Stop that" he nudged her.
"Or what?" she narrowed her eyes and pocked his arm repeatedly.
"Lorelai…"
"Oo you sound like Luke" she pocked harder, the smirk he had been showing earlier turned more into a smile. "Would you look at that!" she pocked harder to see if he'd smile more.
"Fine I'll drive, geez!" he opened the door and got out before Lorelai could see his smile, she saw it and told him so when he got back in.
LuKe'S oFFiCe
"Will what's wrong?" they had been back for a solid five minutes and Will hadn't stopped crying, Luke was carrying and rubbing his pumpkin back. "Did the clown freak you?" every time Luke talked Will cried harder. "Do you want to go home?"
"Mommy!" he cried.
"Mommy is not here, Will. She is with your cousin Jess because…"
"Mommy" Will sobbed, he was starting to get tired of crying.
"You're getting sleepy huh?" Luke kept rubbing his pumpkin back.
"Mommy" Will whined, tears still rolling down his cheeks.
"I still need to change your diaper" Luke reminded Will but he only snuggled deeper onto his father's shoulder.
THe CRaP-SHaCK
Lane was sitting on the couch flipping the channels when the front door opened. Lane turned to see who it was, and Rory just ran into the living room.
"Where's the food?" Lane asked confused.
"I just got kissed" Rory said a little shocked.
"What?"
"Right now…in the market…kissed" Rory couldn't form proper sentences.
"Really?" Lane asked and Rory nodded. "Well? How was it?"
LuKe'S TRuCK
"Why are we here?" Lorelai asked when she noticed they had stopped at a KFC's parking lot.
"I got hungry" Jess shrugged. "Plus I'm driving which means I get to pick where we eat" he smirked.
"But, won't the stuff in the back get stolen?"
"Well, if you're really worried about that you can stay here" he said and he got off the truck.
"Heck no! I'm hungry too" she got out and they both walked inside.
THe CRaP-SHaCK
"So you just ran?" Lane asked just to make sure.
"I said thank you" Rory defended herself.
"Well, that was very polite" Lane teased. "So you landed the new kid"
"I didn't 'land' anything, I don't work at an airport. And technically Jess is the new kid" Rory scoffed.
"Gee, relax. You're acting like you didn't like it. You did like it right?"
"Yes, I liked it" Rory tried to hide her smile but Lane saw it.
"Aw, I'm jealous"
a TaBLe aT KFC'S
"So what's with you guys?" Jess asked out of the blue.
"What?" Lorelai didn't know what he meant.
"Why aren't you married yet? You've guys have been together since… well forever, why haven't you tied to knot yet?"
"I…" Lorelai looked down to her plate a little ashamed and really not expecting this from Jess.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked"
"No, it's ok!" Lorelai quickly said. Jess hardly ever talked, she was not going to be responsible for him clamming up even more. "It's just. You can't get married if no one asks you to" Lorelai said softly.
"Wait, so, Luke has never asked?"
"Twice"
"So he has but you've said no?" Jess wanted to clear things a little.
"The time was not right, Jess"
"The time? What…"
"The first time he asked was when he found out about Will. I don't want to get married just because I'm pregnant" Lorelai cleared that one out.
"Understandable. And the second time?"
"The day Will was born" Lorelai hesitated a bit before telling him.
"And again you said no?"
"Same excuse. You shouldn't marry someone just because you had their kid"
"I think you're just making up excuses" Jess simply said before eating his chicken.
"Not true" she whispered. "I'd say yes in a heartbeat if he asked me now" she didn't know why she had just told Jess that but it felt good to finally tell someone.
THe CRaP-SHaCK
"Drop it already" Rory said annoyed.
"But I like hearing the story" Lane whined, she had been asking Rory to tell her the kiss story again and again.
"I'm thinking that at thins point you know the story better than I do"
"Probably" Lane smiled, her watch went off. "Damn"
"It's time huh?"
"Yeah, I have to go" they both got up from the couch. "Mama Kim is waiting"
"This was fun, well, most of it"
"Hey!" Lane said offended.
"Well you wouldn't stop asking the same questions" Rory defended herself as they walked to the door.
"What can I say; I'm living vicariously through you"
"Wow, how vicariously" Rory teased.
"Hey you're getting more action than me"
"True" Rory said with a nod.
"Call me if something new happens" Lane practically begged.
"Promise, now go or Mrs. Kim will ground you. Again" Rory pushed Lane out the door.
"Fine, bye" and with that Rory was left alone to ponder.
THe DiNeR
Luke was making rounds and taking orders with a half sleeping Will in his arMrs. Every time Luke laid Will down to sleep he would wake up and began crying again. Even as he was being carried. After a while that he'd been sleeping, Will would wake up a little scared.
"Damn Taylor" Luke grumbled as he changed Will from his, now dead, left arm to his right.
"I thought you didn't like pumpkins, Luke" Andrew said.
"Shut up" Luke growled and lifted Will a little higher.
"Is that how you answer Will also?" Andrew asked.
"I swear to God, Andrew, if you…" Luke trailed of when he saw his truck stop in front of the diner and Lorelai got off, then it drove off. "Finally" Luke mumbled when Lorelai stepped foot in the diner. "Caesar I'm taking five, again, cover me!"
"Sure boss!" Caesar called back from the kitchen.
"You…" he pointed at Lorelai. "…we need to talk" and he walked behind the curtain, Lorelai didn't follow. "Now" he pocked his head back into the diner and barked softly so he wouldn't wake Will up, again. This time Lorelai did follow.
"What's wrong?" she asked as soon as the door closed behind her.
"One: never dress Will like a vegetable again. Two: if you ignore one and dress him like a vegetable again pack him more clothes so I can change him. Three: don't forget to pack diapers next time. Four: Rory was kissing the bagboy in front of the cotton candy machine. Five: apparently he's petrified of clowns. Six: don't let Jess drive the truck again, if you don't know how to drive a stick I'll teach ya. And seven: I really hate Andrew" Luke drew in a deep breath after that.
"Wow, ranting Luke that's… wait! Rory was kissing the bagboy?" that fact had just registered into Lorelai's brain.
"Yes"
"Who told you?"
"I saw it"
"And what did you do?" Lorelai said in a panic voice, she didn't know if it was because she feared Luke's reaction or the fact that Rory was kissing boys in the middle of the market.
"Nothing!"
"Really?" not the reaction she was expecting Luke to have.
"I couldn't do anything! Will was panicking because of the clown at Doose's" Luke said exasperated.
"There's a clown at Doose's?"
"There's a whole freaking carnival over there" Luke gestured with his hand but did it fast because his arms were really tired of carrying Will around all day.
"Really?" Lorelai perked up and Luke nodded with an annoyed face on. "Why?"
"Taylor is promoting new mouth wash" Luke simply stated.
"Mouth wash?"
"Yeah, don't ask cuz it was Kirk's idea"
"Make's sense now" Lorelai smiled. "Why are you still carrying him?" she pointed at the orange blob that was Will.
"Every time I put him down, he cries" Luke stated tiredly.
"Are your arms killing you?" he nodded. "Thought so" she smirked.
"Sadist" he mumbled.
"Mommy?" Will's head rose and he whined out the 'mommy'.
"I'm here baby" Lorelai said and took Will from Luke who rubbed his biceps. "Cry baby" Lorelai mumbled.
"I heard that" he kept rubbing.
"Mommy?" Will asked pouting and whining.
"Hey, hey, I'm here. What do you say we go home and change you out of that thing, and we have a warm bubble bath to relax you?"
"Sure lets go" Luke said.
"Funny" Lorelai said sarcastically. "C'mon let's go home" she told Will. "Say 'bye bye' to Daddy" Lorelai told him and Will did a little wave goodbye. "Don't stay here too late, ok?" she asked then kissed Luke goodbye and left.
THe CRaP-SHaCK
Jess and Rory were in her room. Rory had dragged him in there and closed the door as soon as he stepped foot in the house. Jess was half lying half sitting on Rory's bed and she was walking, not pacing according to her, around the bed.
"So tomorrow is your first day at Stars Hollow High, huh?" Rory broke the silence.
"Yes" he gave Rory a weird look.
"Well, good luck. It's a great school"
"I doubt it. I'm only going cuz Luke is making me"
"You can hang with Lane"
"I don't think Mrs. Kim would approve of that, after all I'm a boy with boy parts" Jess said highly amused.
"Well then, in that case… you should look for Dean"
"Dean? Who's Dean?" Jess was now interested in the conversation; it was the first time Rory mentioned a boy.
"He's just. A guy"
"I figured that. Since I don't know a lot of girls named Dean" Jess teased. "So, please, elaborate on the whole Dean thing" he sat up on the bed. Lorelai walked through the front door.
"He goes to Stars Hollow High…"
"I figured that since you told me to look him up"
"… and is the bag boy at Doose's…"
"Oh, please tell me it's the tall one and not the nerdy one" Jess mocked.
"Yes, he's the tall one" Rory picked up a pillow and threw it at him. Lorelai was standing behind the closed door How is Jess making us all open up to him today? Lorelai wondered.
"And you like him" Jess stated.
"Kinda"
"And he likes you?"
"Kinda"
"Aw our Rory is all grown up. She likes a boy now, I'm about to cry here" Jess laughed. He noticed that Rory kept a little quiet. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"He…kinda kissed me… today"
"You have got to stop saying kinda it's very annoying. Wait, he kissed you!" the protective Jess emerged, Rory nodded. "Where?"
"In front of the cotton candy machine" Rory said softly.
"What?" Jess asked with a light chuckle. Outside Lorelai was confused.
"Oh! You mean 'where on my body'?"
"Please don't put it like that" Jess begged.
"Yeah please" Lorelai mumbled from behind the door.
"Fine" she said with a slight smile. She drew in a breath then added. "On the mouth"
"Ok, that's about as much as we can take right now huh?" Lorelai asked Will, he smiled. "Let's go" with that Lorelai took Will upstairs.
uPSTaiRS
"Ok, pumpkin let's make you a bath" Lorelai bounced into Will's room to get some clothes for after the bath. "Do you feel like jeans or sweat pant?" she turned to Will, he cocked his head and gave her a weird look. "Sweat pants it is" she grabbed the clothes and then went over to her room. She sat Will on the bed. "I'm just gonna change my shirt because you like to splash around and this is silk" she changed and took off her heals. "C'mon" she grabbed Will's stuff and walked over to the bathroom, Will followed her, she turn on the water in the bathtub.
"Mommy" he mumbled and pointed to the bubble bath mixer thingy.
"Sure, bring it here" he walked closer to Lorelai and handed her the mix. She placed it on the edge of the tub and pulled Will closer to her by his orange suit. "Let's take this icky costume off" she made an 'ew' sound, and unzipped it.
"Bye bye" he waved at the costume as it flew to the other end of the bathroom.
"Well aren't you the cutest kid ever" she pinched his cheek, and there were still trails of tears there. "Aw your daddy made you cry huh?" she whipped his cheeks and then messed his hair. "You know kid, shirtless and green pants really work for you" she grabbed his arms and held them extended to his sides and jiggled them, he laughed. "Just you wait until you get your daddy's arms, the girl are gonna go crazy" she stopped the jiggling and took his pants off. "Damn it, Luke" Lorelai said harshly when she took off Will's diaper and saw a rash. "How hard is it for your daddy to change your diaper when needed?" she asked Will. "Where did we put that cream?" she looked around the bathroom and found nothing.
"Mommy" he said annoyed and looked over at the bathtub.
"Oh yeah. But first kiss the mommy" she pointed to herself. Luke gave her a kiss then she sat him in the half filled tub, he looked a little sad. "The bubbles!" she grabbed the mix and threw a little into the water, Will started splashing and laughing as soon as the bubbles appeared. "Rory!"
"Mom!" Rory answered back a little confused since she never heard Lorelai walk in.
"Yeah, could you come up here a sec!" Lorelai said with a little laugh in her voice. A few seconds later Rory walked into the bathroom.
"Oh! It's splashing time apparently"
"Yeah, because we were stinky" Lorelai said in a baby voice and Will splashed some more.
"Good idea, Mom, edge him more into splashing" Rory shield herself from the bubbly water flying everywhere. "Luke is going to Kill you when he comes home"
"All contraire my friend. I'll kill Luke when he gets home"
"Just for the fun of it, or do you actually have a reason?" Rory said smiling as she watched Will play around.
"Oh there's a reason. Will has a rash on his touchy because of Luke, and now you have to go to the market because we're out of cream" when Rory heard the word market she instantly froze. "Rory?" Lorelai turned to look at her.
"Yeah?" she snapped out of it.
"Market, cream, your brother's touchy; do these things ring a bell?"
"Oh right! Yeah… umm…Jess, he was going to the market so I'll tell him to bring back some… yeah, I'll tell Jess" Rory stammered.
"Are you ok?" Lorelai asked really amused.
"Umm yeah. I'll go tell him now" Rory left the bathroom.
"Come back here after, please" Lorelai called after Rory.
DoWNSTaiRS
"Jess! Jess!" Rory ran from the stairs to her room where Jess was.
"What?" he asked calmly when Rory entered the room.
"You have to go to Doose's"
"Why?" that got his attention.
"Because Luke gave Will a rash" Rory said and Jess laughed. "What's so funny?"
"You're kidding right?" he was still laughing.
"No, so now my Mom needs the cream thingy, and Doose's sells the cream thingy but I can't go to Doose's, so you have to go for me. Also you have to buy more stuff…"
"What stuff?"
"I don't know, just stuff"
"And why?"
"Because I told my Mom you were already going so I wouldn't have to go and she wouldn't ask why I wasn't going" she explained fast, she was in panic mode.
"And why don't you want to go?"
"Because of Dean!" Rory said exasperated and Jess laughed. "It's not funny" she whined.
"You do know you have to tell her. You can't avoid the market forever"
"I know" she said quietly.
"The longer you take, the harder it'll be"
"Don't talk like that" she said in an annoyed voice. "And go get going" she grabbed his hand and pulled him off the bed.
"Why Rory, I don't think Dean would approve of this" he pointed to their hands.
"Shut up and bring junk food also"
"Why?"
"Because after I tell Lorelai, you and I are watching Willy Wonka" she threatened.
"Do I have a say in this?" they were near the door.
"No, so leave" she opened the door and pushed him out.
"Fine"
"Don't forget the cream" and with that she closed the door.
uPSTaiRS
"Head back baby, like this" Lorelai tilted her head back, Will did the same and she washed his hair.
"Mom!" Rory asked tentative once Jess was gone.
"Bathroom!" Lorelai called back, Rory walked with determination up the steps.
"You'll start look like a raisin if you stay in there to long" Rory said walking into the bathroom.
"Ignore her, your fine" Lorelai pinched his cheek. Silence ruled the bathroom, well except for the splashing and giggling coming from Will.
"Umm, Mom?" Rory took a step closer and kneeled next to her.
"Yeah?" she turned to look at Rory.
"There's something I have to tell you" Rory said after taking a deep breath.
"You kissed Doose's bagboy" Lorelai stated and turned her attention back to Will. Rory's mouth fell open.
"How…?" was the only thing Rory managed to say.
"Luke told me" Lorelai said with a shrug.
"Luke? How did he…how did he…how did he?"
"How did he know?" Lorelai asked amused at Rory's lose of words. Rory nodded. "He saw you" Rory's mouth opened wider. "Honey, breath" Lorelai said laughing a little.
"He saw?"
"Yeah. I forgot to put diapers in Will's bag so he went to buy some, that's when he saw you kissing the bagboy" Lorelai explained.
"Oh my God" Rory whispered. "I bet he was mad, was he mad?"
"Mad like crazy or mad like angry?" Lorelai was enjoying this way too much.
"Either"
"Nope, neither actually. Well not that I know of, he didn't say"
"He's mad" Rory stated.
DooSe'S MaRKeT
The mouth wash carnival was still on full throttle. Jess shook his head and made his way through the crowded aisles. He decided to get Will's stuff first otherwise he'd forget, once that was done he went on a junk food hunt. Dean who was not on bagboy duty saw Jess walk out of the baby aisle and then kept his eyes on him until he came up to pay. Once the cashier saw Jess' items, she asked.
"Lorelai sent you?"
"Rory actually" Jess said. "Although the cream is for Will" he clarified and the cashier laughed.
"Yeah, that was different" she finished scanning the iteMrs. Dean was bagging them and Jess was waiting.
"You're Jess right?" Dean asked.
"That's what I've been called all my life" Jess replied and then looked at Dean. "You're the guy aren't you?"
"What guy?"
"Dean, you're Dean"
"Yeah, I'm Dean. How did you know?" Dean kept bagging Jess' items; the cashier looked at them amused.
"Besides the name tag?" Jess pointed to the tag on Dean's apron. "Rory's mentioned you"
"She has?" Dean let the tag joke pass and smiled.
"Yeah. Personally I thought you were the other bagboy, good thing I saw my error otherwise tomorrow would've been awkward"
"Why would it be awkward?" Dean was done bagging.
"Since I'm going to Stars Hollow High now Rory said I should look you up, since Mrs. Kim would damn me for all eternity if she saw me hanging around Lane"
"Huh?"
"Never mind" Jess said annoyed that Dean couldn't follow fast banter, he grabbed the bags and left.
"Here" the cashier handed Dean the cream Jess had forgotten. "Or Lorelai will kill him and then come after you" Dean left Doose's
"Jess!" Dean yelled after him when he spotted his leather back.
"What?" Jess stopped and turned.
"You forgot this" Dean handed the cream.
"Thanks otherwise Lorelai would've killed me, then she'd come after you" Jess said and Dean smiled remembering what the cashier had said. "Although she might want to kill you once she finds out about today" Jess smirked.
"Rory told you, huh?"
"Yeah"
"Think her Mom is gonna come hunt me down?" Dean asked almost wincing.
"Lorelai? Nah, she's cool. Luke however, I would be afraid of Luke" Jess said.
"Rory said not to fear Luke"
"Yeah well, she's the 'daddy's girl' of course she'd say that" Jess lifted his eyebrows to make a point.
"Great" Dean mumbled. Silence. "I have to go back or Taylor will never let me go"
"Sure. Hey! What time do you get off?" Jess didn't know why he'd asked that.
"Like in an hour, why?"
"Well, Rory just made my buy all this crap…" he lifted the bags filled with junk food. "…cuz she's making me watch Willy Wonka with her and I just thought you might like to come" Jess told Dean.
"Umm… sure, I mean if it isn't some time of bonding…"
"No, trust me, Rory and I had bonded enough" Jess quickly said. Don't I know it thought Dean.
"Then sure" Dean said a little unsure.
"Don't worry, Luke is working tonight"
"Ok, I'll be there once I'm off here" Dean said hiding his smile.
"I'll tell Rory" Jess said and walked off. Dean stood there for a few seconds just smiling before he returned to work.
THe CRaP-SHaCK
Lorelai and Rory talked in the bathroom floor while they waited for Jess. Rory told Lorelai the whole story from beginning to end and then she told some parts again when Lorelai requested them.
"Damn that kid, he better hurry up" Lorelai said already tired of being in the bathroom. "My poor boy looks like he's ninety something, he's all wrinkly" she pouted, Rory laughed.
"I'm back!" Jess yelled upstairs before he even closed the front door.
"About time!" Lorelai yelled back. She pulled the chain thingy and all the water went down the drain. She grabbed a big towel and picked up Will. "Bring his clothes, please?" Lorelai told Rory, she followed Lorelai to Will's room and a second later Jess walked in with the cream in his hands.
"Here" he handed the cream to Lorelai who was drying off Will.
"Thank you, cousin Jess" Lorelai said in a baby voice she used when she implied that Will was talking.
"Yeah whatever…" he said then turned to Rory.
"Crank" Lorelai whispered so only Will could hear her.
"Can I talk to you? downstairs" he asked Rory.
"Umm, sure" Rory said and they walked out of Will's room and downstairs to the living room where all the Doose's bags came to rest. "What's up?"
"Guess what I did?" he asked hiding a smirk.
"What?" she got giddy just by looking at him.
"I asked Dean to come watch a movie tonight and he said yes, he'll be here after his shift ends" silence, Rory's face froze. "You're welcome"
"You did what!" Rory finally stepped out of it. Upstairs Lorelai heard Rory's outburst, she hurried up with Will.
"Geez, what's your problem?"
"Tell me you did not just invite Dean over to watch a movie"
"Sorry but I was taught never to lie"
"Jess! How? When? Why? That's the most important one, why!" Rory was panicking.
"Because you like him and he was there and he saved me from being killed" Jess rambled.
"Jess! This is not funny!"
"No ones laughing"
"This wasn't supposed to be a date!"
"It isn't!" Jess assured her.
"Of course it isn't! Not with my Mommy, my brother and my cousin here!"
"See, there's nothing to worry about. Just look at it as hanging out"
"We've never hung out before! And the first time we do is gonna be with my Mommy, my brother and my cousin! That's not right!"
"Stop saying my Mommy, my brother and my cousin like that, it's sounds like a cheap movie" Jess said.
"Jess!" Rory yelled exasperated. Just then Lorelai came downstairs carrying Will, she placed him in the playpen before approaching the two teens.
"What's going on here?" Lorelai looked between Rory and Jess. Silence. "Fine be that way. Jess?"
"He invited Dean over tonight to watch a movie with us!" Rory burst before Jess had a chance to say anything.
"You didn't" Lorelai turned to Jess.
"You know who Dean is?" Jess asked Lorelai.
"Now is not the time, Jess!" Rory said.
"Right, because he'll be here in less than an hour" Jess acknowledged.
"What!" both Lorelai and Rory said.
"Wow, that was almost like a Freaky Friday" Jess said amused.
"An hour? Less than an hour?" Rory began to hyperventilate.
"Honey, relax. You go get ready, your idiot cousin and I are gonna clean up a little" Lorelai patted Rory's back before slightly pushing her towards her room.
"That also sounded like a cheap movie" Jess smirked.
"So not the time for that" Lorelai shot him a death glare.
"Noted" he said serious and they began to clear up, cuz the Gilmore's don't clean.
After they had placed all the junk food in individual bowl on top of the coffee table, and had the living room looking somewhat decent, that's when Lorelai snapped.
"Why did you do that?" she asked and slapped Jess' shoulder.
"Geez! I thought I was doing her a favor" Jess said truthfully.
"Really?"
"Yeah, she like's this guy and apparently he likes her also. Rory is too shy to do something about it and by the looks of it Dean works to slow…"
"Yeah I know, he's packed some of my bags" Lorelai butted in.
"I just thought they needed a little push"
"That was nice of you"
"Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with me" Jess said.
"Stupid. But nice"
"Thanks" he chuckled.
"Mom!" came Rory's desperate cry from her room.
"You yelled?" Lorelai said as she entered Rory's room. "Whoa" it looked like if Rory's closet had exploded.
"I know! I have nothing to wear" Rory said defeated and let herself fall backwards onto the bed.
"You know Luke would have a fit if he heard you say that right now" Lorelai teased.
"Mom" Rory whined.
"Sorry, right, no time for jokes" Lorelai put on her game face on and looked through Rory's wardrobe. "Here" she handed Rory some matching clothes.
"How did you do that?" Rory was amazed.
"Do what hon?"
"Make this into an outfit? It's been there looking at me and it never crossed my mind to wear it"
"Practice" was all Lorelai said. "Why don't you go get dressed and I'll hide this stuff under your bed"
"It's filled with books there" Rory stood up.
"Ok then, I'll shove it back in the closet. Go get ready kid" Lorelai smiled.
"Thanks Mom" Rory kissed Lorelai's cheek then left the room. Lorelai sighed and stuffed everything into the closet; she tidied up the bed then left the room.
"Hair down!" Lorelai yelled at the bathroom's door before walking over to the living room where Jess and Will were sitting on the couch watching TV. "You'll behave tonight, you hear me?" Lorelai said.
"Who are you talking to there?" Jess turned and asked.
"Both of you" Lorelai said before lifting Will, taking a seat and sitting him on her lap. "Gah! You're all sticky" she told Will.
"Behold the power of sugar" Jess told Lorelai.
"Jess, he was squeaky clean a few minutes ago" Lorelai whined.
"It didn't seem fair to eat candy in front of him and not give him any" Jess defended. "Besides you're gonna dress him up for Dean"
"What? Oh my God! I have to change him and my shirt!" Lorelai stood and ran upstairs.
"You sound just like Rory now!" Jess yelled up the stairs with an amused grin on.
"Shut up cuz it's all your fault!" Lorelai yelled back. Jess smirked, popped a mini marshmallow into his mouth and kept watching TV. "Here…" a while later Lorelai hurried down the steps and handed Jess a clean Will "…and no more candy" she ran back upstairs.
"You do know its Rory's date not yours, right?" Jess asked.
"It's not a date!" both Rory and Lorelai answered back.
"I feel sorry for you, kid" he told Will.
A WHiLe LaTeR
Lorelai was playing with Will, Rory and Jess were on the couch watching TV. Rory wasn't paying attention though, her thoughts were on how it had been a little over an hour since Jess first said he had invited Dean and he wasn't there yet.
"Relax" Jess said. Will's laughter was heard, he began to run around the living room. "He'll be here"
"I know" Rory said. "But what if he changed his mind? What if he doesn't like me anymore?" Rory began to rant. Will kept running around, Lorelai kept an eye on him.
"How is that relaxing?"
"I could come up with more questions, then you'll see that I am currently very relaxed" Rory said.
"Mommy" Will pointed out the window.
"Honey, leave the squirrels alone" Lorelai called after Will.
"Ok then you are relaxed" Jess said once he noticed how paranoid Rory could get.
"Mommy!" Will tapped the window.
"Leave the window alone" Lorelai said but Will ignored her and kept tapping, after a few more taps he began to waved. "Ok, come on" Lorelai walked over to where Will was. "Oh no" Lorelai mumbled when she saw Dean trapped by Babette. "Umm Jess?" Lorelai said when she picked Will up.
"What?" Jess didn't turn his eye from the TV.
"Could you come here please?"
"Why?"
"Jess…" she said sternly, he sighed and walked over to her.
"What?"
"There, go, save, hurry!" Lorelai pointed outside, Jess just laughed. "Now!"
"Fine, fine, I'm going" Jess laughed all the way outside.
"Mom, where did Jess go?" Rory stood and walked over to Lorelai. "Oh no"
"That's what I said" Lorelai smiled.
"Mom!"
"Breath honey, Jess went over there to save Dean"
"Oh that's better" Rory said sarcastically.
"Come on, let's go sit, you don't want Dean to walk in and see you plastered to the window now do you?" Lorelai guided Rory back over to the couch.
A little later Jess and Dean walked into the house, Rory took a deep breath.
"Over there is the couch and on it is Rory, she's always there" Jess said pointing before he walked off to the kitchen.
"Jess!" Lorelai said when she heard what he had told Dean. "Sorry about that, Dean" Lorelai stood up from the couch and walked over to where he was standing.
"It's ok" Dean said, he had his hands jammed into his pockets.
"Hey why don't you go keep my two offspring's company while I go choke Jess" Lorelai offered with a smile before walking to the kitchen yelling "Jess!"
"Hey" Dean said shyly standing next to the couch.
"Sorry about Babette, she's always like that" Rory quickly said.
"Hi" Will said bright with a small wave, Dean smiled.
"I think he likes you" Rory told him.
"Must be in your genes" Dean kept smiling, Rory smiled also.
"Well, aren't you cocky" Rory said after a little silence.
"Owy" Will pointed a Twizler.
"Owy?" Dean asked amused, Rory handed Will a Twizler.
"He can't say 'Rory' so that's the closest thing to it" Rory said a little shyly.
"It's cute" he took a seat.
HaLF aN HouR LaTeR
They had all just started watching the movie. Rory, Jess and Dean were sitting on the floor with their backs on the couch because Will decided to jump on the couch or sit down and scream all through the movie. Lorelai was getting more drinks.
"Stop it" Jess mumbled. "I said stop it" there were giggles heard. "I mean it" Will hit Jess' head again. "Will!"
"Jess, why did you do that?" Rory turned and opened her arms so she could hug Will when she saw he was about to cry. Rory pulled Will down on her lap and kept hugging him, Jess said nothing.
"Here" Dean gave Will a Cheeto and Will smiled. The phone rang.
"I'll get that!" Lorelai called from the kitchen as she ran over to the phone. "Hello?" she said brightly.
"Please don't be mad" Luke immediately said.
"What did you do?" she walked back into the kitchen.
"Well, since Caesar covered a lot for me today… I gave him the night off…"
"Luke" Lorelai whined.
"I'm sorry. It's just that Scott is sick and every time I over work Caesar he calls sick the next day, and I really can't afford that tomorrow"
"Hire more people"
"No"
"Ask Pete for help then"
"I don't need help. I used to handle the diner by myself at first, and then Caesar helped me out. It's ok with just the two of us" Luke insisted.
"When was the last time you had a day off?" Lorelai dared.
"I don't need a day off"
"You said you'd be home early" Lorelai whined.
"No. You asked me to be home early" Luke stated.
"Fine, whatever…" Lorelai said in a sad tone. She knew she could break him. "Stay and close up"
"Lorelai…" Luke said exasperated.
"Sorry, I'd like to stay and chat but I'm taking care of Will. Bye"
"Love you" Luke said.
"You too" with that Lorelai hung up. Luke knew he was in trouble when she didn't say the word 'love', he sighed and decided that closing up early wouldn't kill him.
a WHiLe LaTeR
Will had gone over to where Jess was. Jess smirked and leaned over to Will's ear.
"Cluck cluck" Jess whispered, Will's eyes sparkled and he ran off towards Rory's room.
"Honey, what are you doing?" Lorelai asked as Will ran past her, she was walking over to the living room with popcorn and drinks. He ignored his Mom and disappeared into Rory's room. "Crazy! Just like his father"
"I don't think he got the crazy from Luke, Mom" Rory said with a smile.
"Evil child" Lorelai told her. Just then little footsteps were heard, they turned and saw Will carrying Cornel Clunkers. The Cornel was bigger than Will.
"Oh my God" Rory whispered.
"Nice chicken" Dean laughed, then they all began.
"Oh no" Lorelai said as she heard the x'terra pulling up.
"What's wrong?" Rory asked.
"Nothing, I'll just… I'll be right back" and with that Lorelai was gone.
"Is it just me, or is Lorelai becoming more flaky?" Jess wondered out loud, Rory smiled and playfully smacked him.
ouTSiDe
"What are you doing here?" Lorelai ran to the car just as Luke was getting off.
"Are chemically unbalanced?" Luke chuckled.
"Not that I know off" Lorelai said blocking his way.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, why'd you ask?" she smiled.
"Because you were giving me a hard time because I wasn't home, now that I'm here you won't let me in. so what's going on?" he crossed his arms and stared at her.
"Rory, Jess and Dean…" she whispered the Dean part. "…are in there watching a movie"
"Rory, Jess and who?"
"…"
"Lorelai" he said in a 'no bull' tone of voice.
"Dean" she said quietly.
"Dean?" he asked and Lorelai nodded. "Dean as in the boy who's been bugging me, Dean?" she nodded again. "The one who kissed Rory today?"
"Yes, him!" Lorelai said annoyed.
"Why is he here?"
"Because Jess invited him over to watch a movie"
"Jess invited him?" Lorelai nodded. "Why would Jess do that?"
"He thought he was helping them…" Lorelai began.
"To do what?" Luke interrupted her.
"Get together, or something"
"I'll kill him" Luke stated.
"Jess or Dean?"
"Both" Luke moved aside Lorelai to get to the house.
"Jess thought he was helping, and Dean is a nice kid give him a chance"
"He is an annoying kid" Luke corrected her.
"Whatever" Lorelai dismissed him and started to walk to the door with him. "Oh! I just remembered something"
"What?" he turned to look at her and she just smacked him. "Hey! What was that for?"
"Will has a rash because someone didn't change the diaper"
"Oh" was all Luke said and with that they walked inside.
iNSiDe
Will was doing the Oompa Loompa dance Lorelai always did when watching Willy Wonka, the rest were laughing.
"Daddy!" Will said once he did a little turn-flippy thing, then ran over to Luke and hugged his leg.
"Who taught you that?" Luke looked down at Will.
"Mommy!" Will said happily.
"Thought so" Luke shot Lorelai a glare. "Hungry?" Luke asked Will and he smiled. "C'mon then" he walked to the kitchen. Rory shot Lorelai a look asking what was up with Luke and Lorelai shrugged.
"Hey" Lorelai walked over to the kitchen. "You ok?" she asked Luke.
"Yeah why?" he turned to look at her.
"You just walked straight to the kitchen and skillfully avoided the living room"
"I'm just easing in to the idea of Dean"
"Well ease faster" Lorelai gave him a look before leaving the kitchen.
"What do you think of Dean?" he asked Will who just smiled. "Fine, let's go" they walked over to the living room. "Hey I'm making real food here, who wants?" he generally asked. Only Jess and Dean accepted.
ouTSiDe LaTeR THaT NiGHT
"This wasn't that bad" Dean said. He and Rory were leaning their elbows against the banister.
"You were expecting it to be bad?" Rory lifted her eyebrow.
"Not bad, just… well…weird?"
"Relax, I know what you mean" Rory smiled.
"Your Mom is really cool, and different" he added.
"I'm sorry Luke cornered you" Rory said wincing.
"Nah, don't worry about it. He just wanted to make sure there would be no more PDA's like today's'"
"Just that?" Rory gave him a pointed look.
"Amongst other things" Dean smiled. "Don't worry, you were right, he's not that scary"
"Glad you think that…" Rory smiled shyly and looked down. "Otherwise the whole helping them out tomorrow would be very weird" Dean lifted her chin and kissed her again.
iNSiDe
Will was now in bed happily asleep, Lorelai was changing into her Pj's, Luke was walking around cleaning up stuff, and Jess was reading on the couch. His room was going to be ready until the next night. Luke was in the kitchen putting away the few stuff that was reusable, Lorelai walked into the kitchen.
"Thank you" she whispered as she hugged him.
"Why?" he hugged her back.
"You were nice to Dean" she kissed him.
"Yeah, well, Rory likes him" he kissed her.
"If you hurry up down here, I'll thank you more properly" she winked.
"Tease" he kissed her, and then she was gone. Just as Lorelai reached the stairs Rory ran inside.
"Jess!" Rory yelled.
"What?" he was freaked.
"Thanks" she said softly and hugged him oddly since he was sitting on the couch.
"Sure" he hugged back, Lorelai smiled and walked back up.
The next day was Monday, Jess' first day. After school Rory went to the inn to pick up Will and bring him back to the house with her. Jess went to the diner and then he and Luke left for the house to unload the truck. A while later Dean showed up to help them with the heavier stuff, he had promised to go the night before. After the guys had unloaded and built Lorelai came home with Chinese food for all. That was the first night Jess slept in his new room.
That night after they had all gone to sleep, Lorelai crept out of bed and went out to the truck. She grabbed the bag she had tossed behind the seat and hurried back inside. She went to the living room and quietly she got the contents of the 'Fascinations' bag out. She opened the box and began to blow up what was inside. After a long time and feeling a little light headed she walked over to Jess' door and peeped in to make sure he was asleep, he was. She quietly sneaked in and placed the inflatable object by the foot of his bed.
THe NeXT MoRNiNG
Luke was in the kitchen making breakfast, Lorelai was taking a shower, Rory had gone upstairs to get Will, Jess was still asleep. When Jess woke up he nearly had a heart attack. Lorelai, Rory, Will, and Luke were now in the kitchen when Jess walked out of his room a little pissed off.
"What the hell is this" he lifted the life size inflatable clown with one arm.
"Oh my God" Rory said laughing.
"Well, some people get their kids inflatable blondes I got you and inflatable clown" Lorelai said smugly.
"People don't get their kids inflatable anything!" Jess said annoyed.
"I can't stop laughing" Rory said. Will began to cry loudly.
"Jess take that to your room" Luke said.
"What's wrong with him?" Jess pointed to Will with the clown, that only made Will scream harder.
"He's afraid of clowns" Luke stated.
"Aw, I'm sorry baby I didn't know" Lorelai went over to sooth Will.
"You're getting rid of this later" Jess told Lorelai before walking back to his room.
"You sure you don't want to keep it?" Lorelai suggested before laughing hysterically.
"Take it away!" Jess answered from his room.
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