A/N: Sorry it takes me so long to update guys! I will update on 'Betrayed By Love' and 'Love Is In the Heir' either later today or tomorrow. Enjoy!

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Rory enters the house and looks around for Lorelai. "Mom?" She takes off her jacket and drapes it over the coat rack. "Mom!?" She walks to the kitchen and back before noticing Lorelai sitting on the couch. "You'll never guess what happened at work today. I was talking to Sarah, as I'm walking back through the hall—" She notices Lorelai isn't saying anything. "Mom?" Lorelai looks up at her and right away she notices something is wrong. "What's wrong?" Lorelai doesn't respond and Rory takes another step forward when she notices the First Response next to Lorelai and she stops in her tracks.

Lorelai takes note of her reaction. "Is there something you wanna tell me?"

"No!" She starts quickly. "I mean, it's not what it looks like. I just—" She doesn't know how to explain.

"You just what?" Lor waits expectantly.

"I wasn't sure…I wanted to be sure…"

"And…?" Rory doesn't respond. Lorelai shakes her head. "You're pregnant."

"No!" Beat. "I'm not."

"What about the other day in Luke's? I mean you were gonna eat salad. From Kirk."

"That was nothing. I was just—"

"You weren't curious and it's not nothing!" Rory sighs and folds her arms looking at her shoes. "You're pregnant. For Jess." She spits out bitterly. "I knew this would happen!"

"You're overreacting. I haven't even taken the test yet." Rory reasons.

Lorelai shakes her head. "You're pregnant."

Rory throws her hands up. "Please stop saying that!"

"I can't stop saying it because it's true!"

"You don't know that."

"And you don't know that you're not." She sighs and puts her head in her hands. Rory looks at her and looks around the room before grabbing her jacket off the coat rack and exiting the house.

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Lorelai exits the elevator and enters the Times looking around the reception.

"Hi, can I help you?" The secretary asks her.

"I don't think so." She barely spares her a glance before walking around the hallway. She stops looking around before spotting Jess walking with an elder man. "Jess!"

Jess looks up from the papers in his hand and sighs openly upon seeing Lorelai. He says something to the other guy, who nods and heads back in the opposite direction, before walking in Lorelai's direction. He doesn't stop when he walks past her he continues walking until he reaches his office and opens the door. "What can I do for you, ma'am?"

Lorelai doesn't look at all amused. "You know why I'm here."

Jess pulls out his chair and sits before looking up confused then turning to shuffle through a calendar on his desk. "I'm sorry, did we have an appointment?"

Lorelai ignores him. "You think this will help win Rory back?" Jess stops flipping through the calendar and watches her. "Some kind of sick plan?"

Jess smirks. "Actually, no. This might surprise you, but this wasn't my idea. Rory asked me to." He's referring to the firelight festival. She isn't.

Lorelai looks horrified. "For once in your life, be serious Jess."

"Why don't you think I'm serious?" He answers his own question. "Because it's not like her? Believe me I was just as shocked as you are." Pause. Lorelai tries to gather her thoughts and tries to shake the mental image of Rory asking Jess to impregnate her. "She was in here the other day asking me. She said it was for this weekend."

"What?!" Jess looks at her confused. "What are you talking about?"

"What are you talking about?" He sits up in his chair.

"Rory!" She waits for him to respond. He waits. "She missed her period!"

Jess' smirk fades. "Rory's pregnant?"

Lorelai stops. "You didn't know?" Jess doesn't respond. Lorelai sighs and quickly exits the office.

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Rory exits the kitchen of The Dragonfly and heads behind the counter.

Michel looks at her. "Why are you here?"

"I thought I'd help out today."

"Well, go help out somewhere else." He tells her bitterly.

"No, why should I?" Rory looks at him curiously.

"Because, I was here first."

"Uh huh." Beat. "I'm not going anywhere, Michel. You can take it up with mom since she was the one who sent me out here."

Michel storms towards the kitchen. "Lorelai!"

Rory smiles and watches after him, before flipping through the appointment book.

"What does a guy have to do to get some help around here?"

Rory looks up and notices Jess. "Jess, hi."

"Hi." He smirks.

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