Title: Christmas Loves

Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls. Don't sue me.

WARNING! Spoilers alert! Everything from Season Three MAY or MAY NOT be talked about in this chapter! HOWEVER, a lot from Tuesday the fifth's episode (Take the Deviled Eggs) will be talked about, and so there will be a LOT of spoilers in this episod. Don't say I didn't warn you! ~~

Rory walked threw the halls on Chilton. She made her way to her locker wanting to get to the meeting of the school paper early so she could touch up her story. She opened her locker and began to shove books into it. She was about to close her locker door when she heard it:

"Hey, Mary, miss me much?" Rory's heart stopped. It couldn't be... could it? She turned slowly around and saw him standing there. Tristen himself! Back from military school.

"Tristen?" Rory asked in shock. Tristen only smiled and nodded. "When did you... how did you... what?"

Tristen smirked at her. Wow she was hot! Even more so then the last time he saw her. "It's nice to see, you too, Mary." Rory frowned and placed her hands on her hips.

"My name, for the a millionth time, is Rory!" She said, closing her locker and beginning to walk down the hall. Tristen followed her.

"So, you still with your boyfriend?" He asked.

"Yes, and happily so." Rory said. Tristen nodded.

"That's good..." He gazed at his feet. "Look, I really missed you why I was away." This made Rory stop and look at him. "I never got the changes to tell you that I really like you... a lot!" Rory was telling herself this was a dream and that she had to wake up. But she didn't wake up. "I was kind of hoping that maybe we could go see a movie sometime... you know... like a date or something..." Rory looked at her feet. How could Tristen be asking this when he knew about Dean? "But, that might make your boyfriend a little mad..." Tristen added. "So... I guess I'll just see you around then."

Rory nodded. "Bye... Tristen..." He nodded and walked away. "Welcome back, by the way!" She called. He waved without turning around. Rory let out a big sigh. Boy, she had missed him. She hadn't noticed how much until her had come back. She shook it off and walked threw the doors to the paper room... little did she know that at the same time. Someone else was making there way back into another Gilmore's heart...

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Lorelai stood at the front desk filling things out on a piece of paper. She didn't even look up when someone stepped threw the doors. She did, however, look up when a shadow came across the paper she was writing on. "May I help you--" she started to say then stopped when she looked up and saw Luke standing there. "Oh, hey, Luke." She said, smiling. "What's going on?"

"Well, uh..." Luke ran a hand over the back of his head. "I was just wondering if I could ask you something." He said, with a little half smile.

"Shoot!" Lorelai said, returning her eyes to the paper.

"Well, I was wondering if you wanted to go see The Pretenders with me on Friday night down in Hartford." That made Lorelai's head snap up.

"You mean... like a date?" She asked, almost blushing.

"Well, yeah..." Luke looked at his feet. Lorelai couldn't help but smile. She shook her head.

"Yeah, I'd love to, Luke." She said, a little bit happier then before.

"Great!" Luke said, smiling now. "Umm... I'll pick you up at six then?"

"I can't wait." Lorelai said.

"See you then... or before or... whatever." He smiled and walked out the door leaving Lorelai's heart beating fast!

~~

Jess and Katie sat up in Jess' room. The radio was blasting a punk rock song to which Katie was singing along to. They both were reading books. Katie was reading The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. Jess was reading The Shinning by Stephen King. Katie looked up from her book and looked at Jess.

"JESS!" She wined. "Can we please go do something else? This is all we ever do!"

"What, I thought you like to read." Jess said without looking up from his book. Katie rolled her eyes.

"I DO like to read but it's Friday, can't we go... I don't know, to the movies or something? Red Dragon is playing and we both know that will be cool!"

"Don't you have a test to study for?" Jess asked.

"UGH! You never will here a word I say will you?" Katie snapped. Jess didn't answer mostly just to tease her. Katie smirked as an evil idea came to her head. "Fine then. I guess I'll just go find another guy and have my way with him." Jess' head jerked up.

"What did you say?!" He asked with wide eyes.

Katie laughed. "At last you take your eyes off that book! Come on, let's go do something!" She pulled playfully on his arm.

"All right." He and, placing the book mark in the book. "Let's go."

"YAY!" Katie said as she pounced off the bed and grabbed her coat. "Come on, if we hurry we can still make it to the four o'clock showing."

They ran down the stairs and threw the diner door. They walked towered the theater, holding hands even though neither off them noticed they where doing this. Katie stopped and let go of Jess' hand. She placed her hands on her head and moaned as if in pain.

"Katie?" Jess asked, placing a hand on her arm. "Are you OK?" Katie shook her head and looked at Jess and smiled.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said. "Come on, I don't want to be late." Jess nodded and they went on walking. Jess couldn't help but wonder if she was telling the truth or not. Something was telling him she wasn't.

They turned a corner and Katie stopped as Jess walked over to his car. "Jess...?" Katie gasped as she walked over to the car and ran a hand over it.

"Do you like it?" Jess asked. "I bought it last night."

"This is fucking awesome! Jess!" She ran over and hugged him. Jess smiled and hugged back. "Oh my word!" She smiled, as she looked it over. "Wow! I bet it has a great sound system!"

"Well, I was going to wait for you to try that part out." Jess said. Katie smiled even wider.

"Does it have a name yet?" Katie asked, sitting on top of the hood.

"A name?" Jess asked, sitting next to her.

"Oh, yeah," Katie said, draping an arm around his neck in a business kind of way. "Every car has to have a name. Like Jackson's..."

"What's Jackson's car's name?" Jess asked, laughing at the sound of Jackson naming his car because it really sounded like something he would do.

"Alice!" Katie said, smirking. Jess laugh out load. "No, really, we need a name for her." Katie patted the car lovingly.

"What makes you so sure it's a her?"

"Well, no guy can name his car with a guys name. It sounds really wrong!" Katie thought for a moment. "Kiki?"

"No way am I naming my car Kiki." Jess almost yelled. Katie laughed. "Emily?" Jess asked.

Katie shook her head. "No it sounds to much like a ex-girlfriend. What about... Sakuya?"

"No, way to Tenchi in Tokyo to me." Jess said, nodding with Katie. "What about Ryoko?"

"Way to Tenchi Muyo! How about... Janie?"

"Oh, like Janie's got a gun type thing?"

"Totally! We could go around blasting Aerosmith really load and tell people we have to because it goes with your car!" Katie went into a fit of laughter. "Oh, I got a great name!"

"I thought we made up our minds it was Jamie?" Jess said.

"Well, what about Tori Amos? Kind of music oriented but also a girls name so not to weird."

"Nah, I think we might get into trouble if Miss Amos cam to town one day."

"So, Janie it is!" Katie said, putting her hands in the air. Jess laughed. "JESS' CAR IS NAMED JANIE!" She yelled.

"HERE YE, HERE YE, MY CAR IS NAMED JANIE!" Jess yelled, too.

"ALL OTHER FORMS OF ADDRESS TOWERED THIS CAR--"

"WILL BE PUNISHED BY--"

"CHERRY BOMBS!" Katie finished, laughing out load. Jess was laughing, too. Funny how much of that he had been doing as of late.

"Come, on, we'll be late for Red Dragon." Jess said, hopping off the car.

"It's to late." Katie said, jumping off the car herself. "That decree made us a full ten minutes late and therefor we have more then likely missed the whole plot line. Wanna go drive around Hartford for kicks?" She asked.

"Might as well," Jess said, going around "Janie" to open Katie's door for her. "I have the day off at both my jobs."

Katie got in the car. Jess rolled over the hood and got in his door. "I was going to ask how the whole Wall-Mart thing was working for ya." Katie said as Jess started the car.

"It's going." Jess said. "So, you want to turn on the radio and see how it works." He tapped the dashboard a little before driving off.

"You bet I do!" Katie opened her bag and grabbed a CD. "And look, I brought Aeromsith!" Jess laughed as Katie popped in the CD and put Janie's got a gun on.

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"MOM!" Rory ran inside the house, dropping her book bag on the floor. "MOM, COME OUT COME OUT WHERE EVER YOU ARE!" She ran into the living room, no Lorelai. She walked in to the kitchen, still no Lorelai. "MOM? ARE YOU HERE?" She ran up the stairs and looked in vain for her mother. She sighed as she walked back down the steps. She went over the answering massing where a "1" was blinking. She pressed play.

"Hi, you've reached the Gilmore's leave a message and we'll get back to you- owe! My finger! Damn it!" Rory shook her head at the "leave a message" message on their massing.

"Hey, Rory, it's your darling mother." Rory looked over up from the magazine she had picked up. "Hey, I'm going to be home later. I'll bring back ice cream and Pizza so DON'T GO ANYWHERE! I have MAJOR news that you need to here ASAP you got that, sister? Don't go anywhere unless it's on tour with U2, in which case, tell them to come pick be up at the Inn so I can come, too. Love and Peace. DON'T GO ANYWHERE! See ya later!"

Rory shook her head as she picked up her backpack and walked into her room to work on her homework.

She was just sitting there, working on her Algebra when the phone rang. She picked it up; thinking it was her mom. "Gilmore home, Rory speaking." She said, cheerfully.

"Rory?" Much to her surprise, Katie's voice came on the line. "Hey, what's going on?"

"Umm... not much." Rory replied. "Is there something you wanted, Katie?"

"Well, now that you mention it, yes, yes there is." Katie said. "I'm in a record store in Hartford and I need to know something."

"What are you doing in Hartford?"

"Well, Jess had the day off and we where bored so we just kind of went here to Hartford to see what there was to see."

"How did you get there? The busses don't go there on Saturdays."

"We took Janie." Katie said as though it was something Rory should have known in the first place.

"Janie?" Rory asked.

"Jess' car."

"Oh! He named it Janie? As in she's Got a gun?" Rory asked.

"Correct." Katie said. "Now Rory, I don't know if you knew this or not, but Jess' birthday is next Saturday."

"I did not know that." Rory said.

"Yeah, well, it is. And I need a gift for him. So here is what I need to ask you. Do you think I could get you to hide something for me? Jess is over at my house a lot and so I can't really risk him finding it. Would mind doing that?"

"No, I won't mind." Rory said. "What are you getting him?"

"A Pretenders CD and a Stained poster/CD."

"Sounds cool." Rory said. "You can bring it by my house tonight if you want to."

"Ok, cool, I'll call you if we get back at an early time. See ya, Rory, and thanks a ton."

"Oh, don't think about it. It's no big deal."

"Well, thanks again and I'll see you later. Bye."

"Bye." Rory hung up the phone and sat on her bed. Jess' birthday? He never told her when his birthday was. Though she wasn't really amazed that he hadn't told her. She knew she had been kind of a jerk to him lately. Maybe a nice birthday gift would patch things up with them. She put the thought aside and went back to her work.

"Rory?!" Lorelai yelled as she ran into the house an hour or so later. "RORY GET OUT HERE!"

"Mom?" Rory came out of her room. "Mom what's wrong?" Lorelai ran up to her and gave her a big hug. "Uhh... mom...?"

"Oh, Rory!" Lorelai said, with a large smile. "You'll never guess what happened!"

"Mary Tylor Moore wants you to have all of her money?" Rory asked.

"That would be nice, but no! LUKE ASKED ME OUT ON A DATE!"

"REALLY?!" Lorelai and Rory began to dance around. "That's so great! When did he ask?"

"Earlier today at the Inn!" Lorelai gave a little yell of happiness. "Oh I can't believe this! I never thought Luke, of all people, would get the nerve to ask me out! Oh this is so very awesome!"

"When are you going out on this date?" Rory asked as she and Lorelai sat down on at the kitchen table.

"Friday, we are going to go see a concert! It's going to be great!" Lorelai smiled.

"Oh, did you know that Jess' birthday id next Saturday?" Rory asked, as she pored her and Lorelai a cup of coffee.

"No, how'd you find that out?" Lorelai asked, drowning down a cup of coffee.

"Katie called me from Hartford and asked if I could hid his gift here so he wouldn't find it." Rory looked down into her cup. "They make a really cute pare, don't they? I mean, boyfriend girlfriend type of pare."

"Yeah, they do." Lorelai said. "But what about this whole Jess having a car thing? What do you make of that?"

"I haven't a clue! But Katie told me he named it Janie."

"Janie's got a gun!" Lorelai sang. Rory shook her head.

"Come on, we are going to go get movies." Rory said, getting up.

"What did her daddy do? What did he put you threw?" Lorelai kept singing.

"You keep singing and Miss Patty is going to h ere about you and Luke."

"Demon child!" Lorelai said she and Rory walked out the door.

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