Rory is a successful businesswoman in her mid twenties with no time, or skill, for relationships. Jess is a good looking guy who is willing to spend a night pleasing a woman as long as she pays for it. What happens when they meet? AU Lit

Sometimes you'll see two hands pressed hard together, thumbs intertwined, clenching firmly. And it's hard to tell if they're bound in a love hold or if they're arm wrestling. And what tells one from the other is... faith? CHAPTER 24.

A somewhat different history...just how different, I don't know yet.

Two words: Arranged Marriage.

When Rory finds life isn't working out the way she planned, a trip back to her high school years gives her the opportunity to make some changes. But will all the changes really be for the best?

Rory's working in Boston, living with a new friend. It's three years after the seventh season ended and someone from her past has shown up... yet again.

She doesn't know what will be worse to her mom – potentially sleeping with your boyfriend at a party or running off with him to New York City in the middle of the night.

Jess stops in to pick up something left in Stars Hollow. Rory stops to crash in her old bed for a night. Neither is expecting company, but they find it nonetheless.

He painted her in words feeling as if at this very moment in time it were the only thing he could do, the only way worth spending his time. AU Literati set during Rory's years at Yale. small mentions of LukexLorelai

A backstory to "Third Time's The Charm" by Lady-Of-Victory-Rising. AU post-finale Lit - Jess never came to live in Stars Hollow and never met the Gilmores but Rory now needs some help to get accomodated in Philadelphia when she comes for an internship.

"I don't...I don't know what to say." She sighed, some of the anger dissipating from her eyes once again. "Then don't, Rory. Just forget it! It's just words, all of this." Companion piece to Contradiction. Takes place early Season 3

Rory Gilmore is the new girl in Stars Hollow. And she has all the guys attention. Including best friends Dean Forrester and Jess Mariano. Will she become between the two? And who will she choose?

Getting over her had never been easy, although he's finally beginning to learn that it probably never will be. And even though she tells herself that all she wants is for him to be happy, she still can't let the idea of "them" go just yet. Lit, AU.

A series of looks at moments we were robbed of in Season Three. A look at Rory and Jess being Rory and Jess. Complete!

Future Lit. Rory's trying to get a foot in the door in the journalism world, and she's dragging Jess along with her against his will. If past performance is any indicator, he wants to avoid any contact with her professional or otherwise. COMPLETE!

"At least stay in touch, Jess. Don't just fall off the edge of the earth again. I can be here for you." Her proposition is crazy, but it's tempting, and maybe, just maybe, it's better than nothing. Lit, season 4/5 AU, starting from Nag Hammadi. Oneshot.

It's been a long time since they've seen each other, but those old feelings always come back...no matter how hard they fight it. Literati. Rating is now higher. Chapter 16 now up!

Alice Gilmore-Huntzburger's bookshelf had always played host to a collection of books by Jess Mariano.

Post-finale. Jess and Rory run into each other in an unexpected place. Emotional mayhem ensues :P

For once there were no external obstacles standing between them. The internal ones, however, were there, deeply settled. A story of bringing them down. Lit attempt at post-finale friendship.

She wanted the selfish part of her to be as determined as the part of her that loved him beyond reason. Literati oneshot set during 4x21

Jess leaves for California to deal with past demons. Rory's determined not to care, he's determined to stay away, yet somehow, neither of them can really pull it off.

You and me alone in Modern Classics, are we in one of your fantasies Gilmore?"

Lorelai has to go out of town shortly after Rory broke her arm- who will help her if not the town's most hated bad boy? And what exactly is he planning on helping her with?

The only way he found to make sense of their story and his life, was to write. The only way she could make sense of the world was to read. Words are weapons, words are shields. We are the subsect. Lit futurefic. NEW - CHAPTER 5 IS UP! Sorry for the wait..

AU, Literati, Futurefic. Jess comes back to Stars Hollow with a kid in tow. Will the town be able to deal with it? What happens when your past comes back to bite you... Some humor, some angst, lot of the Hollow... FINAL CHAPTER IS UP! Coming soon, sequel!

Rory and Jess run into each other, two years after she graduates college. They've grown up, but have they moved on?

It was like staring down the barrel of a gun or over the edge of some great height. The expanse is so broad yet totally singular; a cliff, a bullet, a face. Books and wit would never write the ending for her. Future Fic, Literati

Literati, post LMHYBRO. What if Rory walked out on Logan the same time Jess realized he had to have her? Don’t accuse me of having it easy when it comes to you. I drove so many more miles and did so much less because of you.

Two years after the finale,It's the weekend of Lorelai and Luke's wedding/ Rory attends and when she arrives back home she realizes that Jess is going to be there. Its the first time she's seen him since she left him alone in the bookstore, knowing that s

Post S7. Rory fully settled in the campaign finds out Jess wrote a book of their earlier relationship. In order for Rory to move on with her future she must now face her past. This is my first Literati fic, so hopefully i'll do them justice.LL implied RR

Lit, post 6.08. Dipping his head lower, he whispered to her in what she now knew to be his most secretive voice, husky and heavy and choked and always a little insecure. “I’m really glad you’re here.”

“And MTV sends reporters to Bahrain?” Jess and Rory in NYC. loosely based on the movie of the same title.

Literati. Change is inescapable. One week. Seven days. A relationship comes together. Timing sequel.

LIT. Set amidst a background of JJ, a bit in the near future. Because some things aren't to be denied. ONE-SHOT, complete.

Literati. He thought apologizing was supposed to make things easier. Neither one of them expected this. Complete.

Completed 9.12.04. What if Rory and Jess had destroyed the snowman in "Bracebridge Dinner"? What if everything had been different? What if Season 2 had gone my way? Lit and JJ

LIT completed. 'He let himself believe she was looking for him for about a half a heartbeat, but pushed the thought away as he slipped back into his hiding place, lest she look far enough back to see his form in the shadows.'

Literati. 'Beautiful. She called him beautiful.' -- The after effects as Jess feels it.