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Author: katem-23

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Summary: Everyone including Lorelai holds Jess responsible for the accident where Rory broke her wrist, just as she was falling for him. But is there a way that she could show everyone just how wrong they were about Jess from the beginning.

Rating Pg-13 for now. It is liable to change.

Spoilers: Until "Teach Me Tonight" and possibly "Help Wanted" (I took some lines from the trailor off of the WB website) maybe parts of the rest of the season that I may throw in there, it's not very likely that I'm going to predict anything, and if I do, maybe the WB ill give me a job (.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of it (unfortunately) or any of the characters (damn it!) or any of the story lines (jeez, I'm pretty pathetic aren't I?"), they all belong to Amy Sherman-Palladino and the amazing people at the WB/

A/N; This is a R/J fic. I know that there are hundreds to thousands of people out there who could care less about Jess being with Rory because all they want is Tristan back on the show. I love Tristan, but that isn't what's going to happen in this story. My apologies, even if you are only reading it because there are no Trorys posted at the moment, please don't flame me just because you think that Jess should be with Paris and that Tristan should be with Rory. Thank you so much for your time. Oh, if you want to read a Trory, I'm writing one now, It's called 'Somewhere Out There' it's not actually just a Trory, I'm going to have more then one ending and it's going to be weird and exciting, but I'll need to write more before the story really forms into anything good. I've so far only written one chapter. Now, on with the story!

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chapter 1- Regrets

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She had been in her room for hours. Lorelai was beginning to worry. Chris had left the night before and Rory barely said anything before he left. Come to think of it he had been acting strange too. Every time she had mentioned Sherry…Oh well, that wasn't important. All that mattered now was her daughter, with a broken wrist. That boy, that stupid, stupid, inconsiderate hoodlum. What was he thinking? Driving Rory's car? Crashing it? Was he stupid. Of course, it wasn't 100% his fault, maybe only 99% his fault. The rest was Luke's. If he had never asked Rory for that favour, she would still be fine. But no, he had to ask, and now here she was, broken.

Lorelai walked up to Rory's bedroom door, and quietly knocked. It wasn't like her to not be up this late on a Saturday morning, usually they got up at 10 and then went to Luke's for breakfast. It was almost 1. What was she doing?

Lorelai knocked. There was no reply. She opened the door and saw a crumpled heap facing the opposite wall.

"Ror? Hun? Are you okay sweetie? How's your arm?"

There was no reply.

"Are you awake?"

A stifled sob came from underneath the heap of blankets. Then quietly and slowly Lorelai heard the words "Yes" spoken.

"So, is that yes to your name? You being okay? Your arm? Or you being awake?"

Another stifled cry, "I'm awake…and yes, I am Rory, although I don't feel like it."

"What about the answers to the rest of the questions?"

"No and Fine"

"Well, what's bothering you if it's not your arm?" Lorelai already knew the answer but she didn't want to seem uncaring.

"I think you know."

"Yeah, I do. You haven't had one cup of coffee all day and it's the afternoon already. Come on. I have a pot ready. We can talk."

"You don't want to hear what I have to say." Rory said sitting up. There were tears streaming down her face, and her eyes were red and puffy. It looked like she had been crying all night.

"Rory-"

"No! It's your fault! It wasn't Luke's fault. Luke may have sent him away, but I know someone must have said something to him for him to have done that. And I have a feeling it was you."

"Rory, I have a right to hate Jess. You're my daughter, and he could have killed you. When my daughter goes out and someone breaks her, I'm allowed to hate the guy that does it. It's over Rory, he's gone. I win."

"I can't believe you blame Jess for this. It wasn't his fault mom. It wasn't. He swerved to save the furry thing, and yes, he wrecked the car, but I was the one that told him to drive and I was the one who thought we should go out for ice cream. If you want to drive someone out of town, maybe it should be me."

"Rory, stop talking irrationally, Jess is not only a bad influence on himself, but even on you. He's causing stress in all parts of your life."

"Like what? My grades aren't failing, I haven't started doing drugs, nothing. How has he negatively influenced my life?"

"Okay, what about your relationship with Dean?"

"Dean? Jess, he's, he's, he's my friend mom, and a good one too. We can talk about things that Dean and I can't and don't."

"Oh, so you don't have any non-friendly feelings toward him at all?"

"I really don't want to talk about this now." Rory said getting out of bed and wiping her eyes

"Well, I do." Lorelai said bluntly, "and you have no choice in the matter, so you're just gonna have to sit back down and talk to me."

"No, I do have a choice, I can leave." Rory said walking out of the room, and grabbing a jacket.

"Oh, and where are you going to go? I'll just follow you, you know. You can't hide from me."

"Really?'

"Yes, really"

"Fine, I'm going to Luke's" and with that Rory slammed the door and walked quickly away from the house, still wearing her pajamas.

Lorelai collapsed on the floor.

"Why? Why is she like me?" she thought out loud. "Why does she have to like the bad guy? Always."



Across town (which we all know isn't very far) Rory was making her way up to Luke's Diner. When she opened the door, Luke looked up expectantly, as did everyone else in the entire diner. She walked up to the counter and sat down on a bar stool.

"Hi." Luke said sullenly

Rory took a deep breath and looked him in the eyes, trying her best not to burst into tears. "I, I, I'm so sorry Luke. It wasn't Jess' fault. He was helping me."

"I know."

"But, then why did you send him away?"

"I thought it was for the best. He's flunking out of school, you're his only real friend, and everyone just thinks he's trouble."

"But, he was getting better, he had almost quit smoking. And, he was getting help with the whole homework thing. It's just-"

"Rory, I know okay?" Luke said trying to comfort the shattered girl

"I didn't know that you cared so much about him."

"Neither did I." She said blankly

Luke walked away and came back with a mug and an entire pot of coffee.

"I'll be right back." He explained

"Okay."

After watching Luke and Rory talk for nearly a half hour Lorelai turned and walked away. He had never seen people this emotional before. Rory had cried more than once, and Luke looked like he was on the verge of tears multiple times. Lorelai had never even stopped to think about Luke. She had been so angry that night. She had never realized that Luke taking Jess in had actually added something to his life. And there she went taking him away. It was her fault that her daughter was upset. Jess had wrecked a car, and broken her daughter's wrist. But Lorelai had broken her daughter's heart.

And there was only one thing she could do to repair the pain she had caused.

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A/N; okay, this chapter was short, I know, I know. Please, please, please r/r. It will be so greatly appreciated, flame if you must but remember a girl can only take so much sh*t.