Disclaimer: Still own basically nothing. I only own half of the De Burke
Elegance. The elegance part came from the pen I was writing with. Umm. I
own the pool. This is my dream pool by the way.
Rating: Pg: 13 I MADE THE MARK! I feel proud. I would like to thank my mom for letting me rent M 15 movies, the Cruel Intentions cast, my school...
Pairing: Jess and Rory sitting in a tree (or should I say bridge) K-I-S-S-I- N-G, ugh, you know the rest!!
A/N: Please forgive me!!! I know it took me a while for this chapter but I had writer's block, time block, computer block and school block. I'll stop whining now. Okay, now I'm not offended when I say this, but it's kinda hard to show that when I can't talk to you. My grammar isn't the best I know, my primary school told us how to form a sentence and left it like that. I'm probably better at Japanese grammar than English. But this said, sometimes I won't use proper grammar if someone is talking, I try to keep the characters real as possible and people don't generally use the proper way to talk all the time. The Aussies are famous for shortening basically everything as my mum keeps telling me every time I say can-neen. (canteen) Any way THANK YOU for all the kind reviews and praise. Heh Heh, I got almost double the amount of reviews I usually do. Although I'm not sure whether that was because of the Jess thing or you really liked the story. Personally I'm happy with both. LOL! Please keep the support up; the headaches are all worth it after I get the reviews.
-To Shadowcat, what can I say. Wow. I'm getting the slightest impression that you like Jess. You sure you're not a Narco? Okay sorry that was uncalled for. Please forgive me, I totally understand the obsession!! I read some fic, which said there was a life size poster of him. Damn. I want it but my parents would absolutely slaughter me if I printed it off. Ahhh..
-Sickyoungchick, cool name by the way. Any way I live just above you, but not where the politicians and the Big Banana are. That was my attempt at being cryptic. Ah well. Thanks for recommending the story, jeez, it's brilliant, but bloody hell, I had to reading something a little less taxing after reading it, the characters kinda scared me. Believe me, I would love you to review whenever you feel like writing. Even if you just wanna vent. Except if you decide to convert and actually decide to like Dean and then I might draw the line. Okay, then enjoy the chapter!!!!!
Hiding for the Peace "Even a fool who holdeth his peace is counted as wise" -Bible Jess and Rory both slept extremely well after all that had happened. Each was filled with contentment and dreamt about the indescribable. In the morning both woke up to find their minders already awake and dressed. Lorelai had made coffee for them and was now reading a fashion mag. Rory was so shocked she called hardly speak, "Mom, now seriously are you on drugs?"
Lorelai grinned, "Yeah well you got me, but only the ones that make you dopey and give you the munchies."
Rory checked her watch, "Why the hell are you up at 11:30 when you didn't even come back till after 11 at night. Come to think of it, what did you do last night?"
Lorelai looked mischievously, "Well.."
"Lorelai was taken away by some nice people, that I would really like to thank for the moments of peace and then kill for letting her go." Luke walked into the room, behind him was a sleepy looking Jess whose hair was messed up and him pyjamas all rumpled. He sent a secret smile to Rory who discretely smiled back. Jess sat on the end of her bed, close but not too close.
"Who were you taken by?" Rory asked, returning back to the subject.
"The cops," Lorelai giggled, "and then they made me phone Luke, who had to pay a whole lot of money to get me out. Luke begged to keep me there but they kept insisting that I leave. Don't know why, the officers bum I slapped seemed to be happy."
"What did you do?" Rory was enjoying the tale.
"Umm.. I went swimming in the fountain out the front of the hotel. Apparently these people aren't into the Japanese public bathing system."
"The scary part is, she wasn't even drunk," Luke added, "What did you two do, we didn't see you dancing?"
"Ahh., I didn't want to dance so I watched Willy Wonka again," Rory skirted around the details, luckily for her, the parents didn't detect anything.
"Jess where did you go?" Luke pushed.
"Well I heard there was a great strip club down town, so I decided to check it out. Worth the money too."
"Jess," Luke said warningly.
"I just went out okay. Just out," he replied throwing his hands up in frustration.
"Fine then. Lorelai and I thought we could and when I mean we thought, I mean we are; gunna go out today and explore the sights and unfortunately shop. Al-to-get-her," Luke said, stressing the last word.
"Yes sir," Lorelai saluted him, "Now get out so Rory can get changed, " she shooed them out the door.
"So you and Jess made up it seems."
"Yup."
"What was the fight about any way? You never told me." Lorelai stared at her daughter.
"Oh. I said something I shouldn't have. We're good now," Rory answered. Seeing that Rory didn't want to continue the conversation, Lorelai left it for another time.
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They were now shopping at the mall. Luke and Jess were dragged to every store that didn't include a satanic sign on the door.
"Luke, remember when I said I hated you?" Jess dead panned to his Uncle.
"Yeah."
"That hate is tripling with every place we visit."
"Hey you liked the historical places right. Oh I give up, I'm starting to hate myself," Luke looked at the two girls who were squealing at a fluffy purple elephant.
Jess spotted a bookstore 'thank you'. "Rory, you wanna look in the bookstore?"
Rory ran to it, not waiting for everyone else. Jess smiled and took off after her, Lorelai and Luke tagged behind.
Jess went up behind Rory's back and was about to kiss her when he heard Luke and Lorelai. Annoyed he picked up a book and started reading it. Rory gave him an apologetic look and all he could think about was how good she tasted. The familiar feeling of need coursed through his veins, he struggled for control over his body.
"This sucks," he whined to her.
"I know," she sighed and they went back to the books.
After half-a-hour, Lorelai got impatient, "Come on! This is what libraries were invented for. Rory there's a swimmers shop over here." Rory reluctantly followed her mother. She found a bikini that she really liked, but didn't know if it was for her. It was kinda skimpier than for what she was used to. Lorelai caught her looking at is. "Ooo, look Rory's got a bikini. Heh heh! So you going to buy it?"
Rory looked wistfully at it, "I don't know, I mean I don't go swimming that often and it costs heaps and what if I get skin cancer from to much exposure and what if I look stupid in it and."
"Calm down, jeez I'll pay, you need swimmers any way, think about it, what are you going to wear when I take you to the nude beaches, your not really going naked and honey anything would look great on you, except Pokka-dots. Eww, stupid people who invented those. Ugh, I think the unfounded hate stems from a bad experience with chicken pox." Lorelai led Rory to the cashier and payed for it so she couldn't say any more.
"Thanks mom," she said quietly.
"That's why I brought you into this world. Ugh! It's 6:30 already, I need food. Oh my gosh!! I mentioned food before coffee! This is bad. I must be starved. The blood sugar levels must be so low they have taken over my coffee genes. Okay Luke. Need Luke. Luke equals food. Oh no, I did it again. I'm going crazy!" Lorelai looked shocked.
"No actually I'm pretty sure that you going crazy happened a loooong time ago. Where were you two? I'm hungry?" Luke walked up behind them.
Lorelai forgot about her dilemma and remembered about Rory, "Rory got her first bikini!" she squealed.
Jess smirked but refrained himself from saying one of the millions of comments that went through his mind when he saw Rory go deep red.
"Well congratulations, lets get dinner," Luke marched over to the closest café. It was packed so they had to sit in a corner booth. Jess and Rory were pressed side by side, the memory of the night before resurfacing. Fortunately for them, Lorelai was more interesting in her proximity to Luke. The dinner finished and the teenagers were relieved to get out of there, Jess had to check himself, not to run his hand up her thigh that was innocently exposed.
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By the time they got home it was 8:30, much to Rory's dismay Lorelai made her go with her to the gym to look at the guys and laugh at people exercising. "Why people exercise is insane, and at this hour is totally beyond me, but it's funny," Lorelai took Rory away.
They finally made it to their room it was 10pm, after the gym closed they went to Starbucks for coffee and cake. Rory said goodnight to her mom and went to her room. She was contemplating sneaking into Jess' room, but she found a note under her pillow. 'Hey, your mom's insane, meet me at the pool at 12. Bring your swimmers.' Rory felt mixed emotions about the note, for most though, it was excitement. It was under lined with trepdatation that she couldn't ignore but was willing to conquer if she could be with him.
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Two hours later, she changed into her new swimmers, studying herself in the mirror. 'Ugh, get going Gilmore." Slipping quietly down to the pool, she saw him standing there, a smirk set firmly apon his face.
"How did you get in?" she asked him.
He shrugged, "I've been picking locks as soon as I could walk." Jess took off his shirt, leaving him with only dark blue board shorts on.
Rory didn't completely know whether he meant to be seductive, but what her mind could process, was that he was really hot. His body was lean, the muscles defined, but not over blown. Her breath caught in her throat. He was amused at her staring, he walked over into the pool, diving in smoothly; not a splash was made. Jess turned to her, "aren't you coming in?" he grinned an invitation.
Slowly she took her skirt off and then her top. She felt really vulnerable, with this amount of skin showing and Jess kept staring intently at her. Flicking the elastic, she let her hair fall past her shoulders. Rory walked into the crystal blue water, this pool was huge and the glass walls were covered in greenery. There was a waterfall at one end, surrounded by rocks and little angel statues that spurted water. Rory noticed none of this though; all she saw was Jess lazily floating in the water, waiting for her. She could feel her hands ache to touch him, she was falling hard and she knew it. What troubled her was how Jess felt, was it as strong a feeling for him? She could easily tell he felt at least something, but did he just think of her as a passing fling, he could have anyone he wanted, so why her? She was now fully in the cool water, it was just above her shoulders. Taking a breath, she ducked under. Coming up she found herself face to face with Jess, "Hey."
"Hello," she said weakly. He leaned into kiss her but she gently pushed him away. Curiousness flickered in his eyes; he cocked his head to the side, "Something wrong?"
"No,..Yeah, not really, oh hell. Jess I want.need to know what you feel?" she said desperately.
A look of surprise came across of his face, "you really don't know?" She shook her head, biting her lip.
He sighed and gathered his thoughts, "I like you...a lot... More than that I think it's to early to say.. I've never felt like this before, my other girlfriends,... well we didn't do much more than one thing." His voice changed, "I think this is more than what you and Dean had. I don't want to compare,..but it's hard."
A shiver ran up Rory's spine at the sound of his voice; not because of fear, but anticipation.
Jess walked closer, sending rippled through the water. Rory backed up until she hit the edge of the pool, he kept coming closer. For the second time in two days, they were in this position. Leaning in towards her he spoke huskily, "You're beautiful, something I shouldn't have, but for some unspoken reason I do." His voice cracked on the end of his sentence and he pulled her towards him. Rory's head went cloudy; every part of her was burning. He ducked in and started the kiss. Rory put her arms around his neck, clinging to him as if she might drown. The fiery heat intensified; the skin to skin contact was inflaming the uncontrollable need for him. Jess picked up her hips and she responded by wrapping her legs around his waist.
"Do you have any idea the agony I've been in all day, not being able to touch you." He feverishly kissed and suckled her neck, down toward her clavicle. Rory unwittingly moaned quietly from the pleasure, making Jess shudder. Rory arched her back, letting him venture where he wanted. A loud noise cut through the room. They stopped and listened, both recognised it, "Oh damn, it's my mom. What if she knows... Jess." Rory whispered panickly.
Jess cut here off, "Rory, come on." Pulling her out the pool, he grabbed their clothes and towels and led her to the sauna. Quietly they closed the door and watched through the window. Luke and Lorelai came into sight. They both stripped to their swimmers and dived in; frequent calls for Lorelai to be quiet were ignored even when told she couldn't have coffee for a week.
"Please tell me this isn't real," Rory urged Jess.
"Now see I would but then what we just did wouldn't be and that's bad," he smirked at her. She blushed again and realised she was cold. The water and Jess kept her warm but now neither were touching her. Breaking her gaze from the window she reached up to hug Jess. The skin contact started the need again; the fleeting thought that her mom might walk in was extinguished when she hungrily kissed him. Her hands ran up and down his bare chest, the heat from him melded with her's. Jess tangled his hand in her hair and the other pressed the small of her back. Rory could barely control anything; every part of her was responding to the kiss and to his body; she could feel his arousal and it increased this insatiable need for him.
Breathing heavily Rory spoke on his mouth, "We gotta stop."
He groaned softly, "I know."
Disintangeling themselves, they tried to regain control. After putting on their clothes they sat on the benches not quite touching.
"I think we should talk," she said seriously to him.
Jess nodded slightly, not smirking because he knew how important this was to her. "Oh jeez, Luke and Lorelai are out there. The irony," he sighed.
"Maybe it's like a fate thing, I mean it does give us no excuse to talk and that we do... A really bad thing would be if they decided to get all hot and steamy in the sauna... Oh damn stop me," Rory smacked her head and stared up at his handsome features. She looked at his neck, it was easier than his face. Taking a breath she gathered her thoughts and wits, nervously fiddling with her clothes, Rory reminded herself why she was asking this.
"You.. have done.... it before, haven't you," it was a statement more than a question. He nodded.
"And you're, um.. fairly.. um.. experienced right."
Again he nodded, an ashamed look crossed his face, it turned to urgency, "but I promised never to push you and I always keep my promises." He searched her eyes.
"Shh... it's okay," Rory took a breath, "you know I'm not ready.. yet. But. ugh, I don't know how to describe what you make me feel. It's like... I can't think when you touch me... You and I, we've gone further in two days than Dean and I went in a year," she added quietly, playing with his hair.
Jess' eyes went wide, "So he never slipped the tongue?"
Rory laughed and blushed at his comic expression, "such and eloquent way to describe it, and no, you claim first for that."
She moved closer to him; Jess brought his arms around her, nursing her, keeping her safe from the world. Rory spoke softly again, "Jess... I want you to be the first again." Not knowing how to respond; Jess hugged her tighter and kissed her hair, trying to show her what he felt. They didn't speak, until they heard the voices fade away. Slowly and unwillingly they walked back to their rooms; the relationship changed slightly. Each had grown, not separately but together. They kissed again; full of affection and then eventually stopped. In their beds, they went to sleep, happily but not with out the feeling of a new gap in them, one that only the other could fill.
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Late the next morning, they were in the car driving back to Stars Hollow. Everyone said goodbye to Daniel and Lorelai tried to steal basically anything that wasn't cemented down. After much persuading, she finally let go of the idea that she couldn't take the toilet seat.
"But it's pretty; look at the glitter and the little fishy's, they want me to sit on them," she whined.
"Lorelai," Luke said sternly.
Lorelai pouted at him, a strange glint was in her eyes that Jess caught. He raised his eyebrow but let it pass.
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In the car, they shared around the two baskets of fruit and two baskets of chocolate. As the receptionist promised, Jess and Rory were compensated by the hotel; in their minds they both thanked the lift for stalling, the precious moments still fresh memories.
"What did you do when the power went out? Ooo! Did you try to climb out the top? I saw that on James Bond!" Lorelai asked them.
Knowing Rory couldn't lie to save herself, Jess answered, "Well after 'I Spy' got boring, we started talking about what you two were doing. I had my money on skinny-dipping. Apparently I was pretty close," Jess smirked at them.
"Yeah, what did happen? I wanna know if I get ten bucks," Rory followed Jess' lead and switched the spotlight.
"We did nothing that you need to know about," Luke huffed haughtily.
"Mmm, me and Rory had wild sex too," Jess nodded knowingly.
"Jess!" Rory hit him, half-laughing; half pleading in her head that Lorelai didn't read into the comment.
"Say anything like that again and you'll never talk to Rory as long as I love coffee," Lorelai threatened semi-jokingly.
The trip was fairly quiet from then on, Jess and Rory read while Luke drove and Lorelai kept eating. Jess passed Rory his book, ignoring the look on her face and snatched her's. She opened it and a pencil slipped out; in the margin of the book, Jess had written, 'What are the bets they're sleeping together?' Rory smiled, she replied, '1:1 and if they're not, they will be soon.'
This method of conversation continued until they arrived home weary and sore from not moving. The last note Jess wrote, kept Rory from falling straight to sleep. The untidy scrawl read 'Meet me at the bridge when you can, I'll be waiting.' Rory caught his eyes to show she understood.
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Lorelai and Rory got home and dumped their stuff on the floor.
"Coffee and then bed," Lorelai headed straight for the kitchen. Unbeknown to her, a photo fell out of her bag. Rory picked it up and started giggling; her mom and Luke (who didn't look to pleased) were poking their heads through a big wooden board that had a picture of a married couple with their heads cut off.
"Mom, you never told me that you and Luke got married," Rory grinned at her mother.
Lorelai turned round, "Yeah well it was a surprise you know, I was thinking of sending it to your grandmother on her birthday," she said sheepishly. "You know what's weird, you and Jess would be step cousins, and like they would live here and eww.."
"Hmm, you and I are gunna talk tomorrow and you get to tell me what you and Luke got up too," Rory sipped her coffee.
" Oh, we did nothing. We are the King and Queen of nothing, nothing can rival us!"
"Yeah, yeah, I gunna go to be. Night mom," Rory yawned and went into her room.
"Night sweets, no boys in your room with out giving me one."
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Rory went into her room, but didn't get changed, causiouly she climbed out her window. While she was walking to the bridge, she mulled over the day. Her mom and Luke. That would be cool. Funny, but nice, Luke was always like the father she never had and she knew her mom loved him. Jess, he was Luke's nephew, if her mom and Luke got married, she'd be dating her step- cousin. Rory panicked what if Jess didn't want to continue the relationship if they were related. Desperate to see him, Rory broke into a run.
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Again he was reading by a small light and again his smile turned to a frown when he saw her expression. "It's like déjà vu all over again. Please tell me you're not going to accuse me of stealing my clothes, cuz I did pay for these. Well actually I stole the button but that's all."
Rory started speaking, and to his bewilderment, looked like she was nearly on the verge of tears "Jess, this won't end if mom and Luke start dating and get married right? You'll still want to be my boyfriend. And the cousins' thing doesn't matter to you. Because I couldn't take it if we broke up and..,"
"Whoa, Rory come here," Jess hugged her tightly, then gently he held her face in his palms and spoke soothingly to her, "Hey, what brought this on? Listen, I've wanted this since the first time I time I laid my eyes on you, nothing will change that and even if they get married, I don't care. We're not blood related so it's okay. I'm not going to leave you." Seeing the panicked expression fade, he kissed her, it was slow and sweet; killing the troubled thoughts that Rory had.
"I'm sorry," she sighed, "I just don't want to lose you."
"Umm. I'm the one who's waited for months, the only way you're getting away from me, is if you turn to pop music or become a turtle and I'd prefer the latter."
"Are you saying that you wouldn't like me if I was a turtle. That's not very nice. You could put me in a tank. Ooo, or I could be one of those little mini turtles and then you could put me in you're pocket and take me around the world. I would be portable and useful to bite people at the same time. Hmm, maybe you could become a turtle too and you can keep me company, we could be the first turtle couple..."
Jess interrupted her ramble with a kiss. When he pulled away, Rory felt so contented, that she nearly fell asleep on his shoulder. "Of course, if we were turtles, you couldn't kiss me like that," she murmured.
Jess held her for awhile and then realised the time. "Come on, I'll walk you home, you're mum probably will turn me into some sort of animal if she finds you aren't in bed. Did you use the window?"
Rory nodded, they walked hand in hand, until they finally reached the window. Jess helped her in. "G'night Rory, sweet dreams I hope." She smiled and pulled him in for a kiss, "Night Dodger."
And Jess walked home, the blissful couple unaware of the prying eyes that would spread the news of this arrangement before the mornings papers were read and breakfasts eaten.
~ ~*~ ~ A/N: Me again, you sick of me yet? Sorry bout that. Okay, when I wrote this chapter it was acctualy two chapters but then I read it again and I hated it. Yuck Jess was way too sickly, he was plain out of character and dare I say it, Dean like. Shudder. So why am I telling you this, I want some suggestions where I could take the story. On the show I don't think Lorelai would be to bad with the relationship but the way I've written her I think she'd be against it. Ugh! So any thought are appreciated. Oh yeah, I'm hearing a lot about an almost kiss under a sprinkler, where Jess looks really hot. Hmmm. When doesn't Jess look hot? One thing, are the spoilers bad news or are they good, I'm getting up the nerve to read them. Thoughts on that are welcome too. SO PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!!! Hugs and Kisses~ ~*~ ~ PS I'm gunna write a bio really soon, so if you want to delve deeper into my insanity please read it. LOL
Rating: Pg: 13 I MADE THE MARK! I feel proud. I would like to thank my mom for letting me rent M 15 movies, the Cruel Intentions cast, my school...
Pairing: Jess and Rory sitting in a tree (or should I say bridge) K-I-S-S-I- N-G, ugh, you know the rest!!
A/N: Please forgive me!!! I know it took me a while for this chapter but I had writer's block, time block, computer block and school block. I'll stop whining now. Okay, now I'm not offended when I say this, but it's kinda hard to show that when I can't talk to you. My grammar isn't the best I know, my primary school told us how to form a sentence and left it like that. I'm probably better at Japanese grammar than English. But this said, sometimes I won't use proper grammar if someone is talking, I try to keep the characters real as possible and people don't generally use the proper way to talk all the time. The Aussies are famous for shortening basically everything as my mum keeps telling me every time I say can-neen. (canteen) Any way THANK YOU for all the kind reviews and praise. Heh Heh, I got almost double the amount of reviews I usually do. Although I'm not sure whether that was because of the Jess thing or you really liked the story. Personally I'm happy with both. LOL! Please keep the support up; the headaches are all worth it after I get the reviews.
-To Shadowcat, what can I say. Wow. I'm getting the slightest impression that you like Jess. You sure you're not a Narco? Okay sorry that was uncalled for. Please forgive me, I totally understand the obsession!! I read some fic, which said there was a life size poster of him. Damn. I want it but my parents would absolutely slaughter me if I printed it off. Ahhh..
-Sickyoungchick, cool name by the way. Any way I live just above you, but not where the politicians and the Big Banana are. That was my attempt at being cryptic. Ah well. Thanks for recommending the story, jeez, it's brilliant, but bloody hell, I had to reading something a little less taxing after reading it, the characters kinda scared me. Believe me, I would love you to review whenever you feel like writing. Even if you just wanna vent. Except if you decide to convert and actually decide to like Dean and then I might draw the line. Okay, then enjoy the chapter!!!!!
Hiding for the Peace "Even a fool who holdeth his peace is counted as wise" -Bible Jess and Rory both slept extremely well after all that had happened. Each was filled with contentment and dreamt about the indescribable. In the morning both woke up to find their minders already awake and dressed. Lorelai had made coffee for them and was now reading a fashion mag. Rory was so shocked she called hardly speak, "Mom, now seriously are you on drugs?"
Lorelai grinned, "Yeah well you got me, but only the ones that make you dopey and give you the munchies."
Rory checked her watch, "Why the hell are you up at 11:30 when you didn't even come back till after 11 at night. Come to think of it, what did you do last night?"
Lorelai looked mischievously, "Well.."
"Lorelai was taken away by some nice people, that I would really like to thank for the moments of peace and then kill for letting her go." Luke walked into the room, behind him was a sleepy looking Jess whose hair was messed up and him pyjamas all rumpled. He sent a secret smile to Rory who discretely smiled back. Jess sat on the end of her bed, close but not too close.
"Who were you taken by?" Rory asked, returning back to the subject.
"The cops," Lorelai giggled, "and then they made me phone Luke, who had to pay a whole lot of money to get me out. Luke begged to keep me there but they kept insisting that I leave. Don't know why, the officers bum I slapped seemed to be happy."
"What did you do?" Rory was enjoying the tale.
"Umm.. I went swimming in the fountain out the front of the hotel. Apparently these people aren't into the Japanese public bathing system."
"The scary part is, she wasn't even drunk," Luke added, "What did you two do, we didn't see you dancing?"
"Ahh., I didn't want to dance so I watched Willy Wonka again," Rory skirted around the details, luckily for her, the parents didn't detect anything.
"Jess where did you go?" Luke pushed.
"Well I heard there was a great strip club down town, so I decided to check it out. Worth the money too."
"Jess," Luke said warningly.
"I just went out okay. Just out," he replied throwing his hands up in frustration.
"Fine then. Lorelai and I thought we could and when I mean we thought, I mean we are; gunna go out today and explore the sights and unfortunately shop. Al-to-get-her," Luke said, stressing the last word.
"Yes sir," Lorelai saluted him, "Now get out so Rory can get changed, " she shooed them out the door.
"So you and Jess made up it seems."
"Yup."
"What was the fight about any way? You never told me." Lorelai stared at her daughter.
"Oh. I said something I shouldn't have. We're good now," Rory answered. Seeing that Rory didn't want to continue the conversation, Lorelai left it for another time.
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They were now shopping at the mall. Luke and Jess were dragged to every store that didn't include a satanic sign on the door.
"Luke, remember when I said I hated you?" Jess dead panned to his Uncle.
"Yeah."
"That hate is tripling with every place we visit."
"Hey you liked the historical places right. Oh I give up, I'm starting to hate myself," Luke looked at the two girls who were squealing at a fluffy purple elephant.
Jess spotted a bookstore 'thank you'. "Rory, you wanna look in the bookstore?"
Rory ran to it, not waiting for everyone else. Jess smiled and took off after her, Lorelai and Luke tagged behind.
Jess went up behind Rory's back and was about to kiss her when he heard Luke and Lorelai. Annoyed he picked up a book and started reading it. Rory gave him an apologetic look and all he could think about was how good she tasted. The familiar feeling of need coursed through his veins, he struggled for control over his body.
"This sucks," he whined to her.
"I know," she sighed and they went back to the books.
After half-a-hour, Lorelai got impatient, "Come on! This is what libraries were invented for. Rory there's a swimmers shop over here." Rory reluctantly followed her mother. She found a bikini that she really liked, but didn't know if it was for her. It was kinda skimpier than for what she was used to. Lorelai caught her looking at is. "Ooo, look Rory's got a bikini. Heh heh! So you going to buy it?"
Rory looked wistfully at it, "I don't know, I mean I don't go swimming that often and it costs heaps and what if I get skin cancer from to much exposure and what if I look stupid in it and."
"Calm down, jeez I'll pay, you need swimmers any way, think about it, what are you going to wear when I take you to the nude beaches, your not really going naked and honey anything would look great on you, except Pokka-dots. Eww, stupid people who invented those. Ugh, I think the unfounded hate stems from a bad experience with chicken pox." Lorelai led Rory to the cashier and payed for it so she couldn't say any more.
"Thanks mom," she said quietly.
"That's why I brought you into this world. Ugh! It's 6:30 already, I need food. Oh my gosh!! I mentioned food before coffee! This is bad. I must be starved. The blood sugar levels must be so low they have taken over my coffee genes. Okay Luke. Need Luke. Luke equals food. Oh no, I did it again. I'm going crazy!" Lorelai looked shocked.
"No actually I'm pretty sure that you going crazy happened a loooong time ago. Where were you two? I'm hungry?" Luke walked up behind them.
Lorelai forgot about her dilemma and remembered about Rory, "Rory got her first bikini!" she squealed.
Jess smirked but refrained himself from saying one of the millions of comments that went through his mind when he saw Rory go deep red.
"Well congratulations, lets get dinner," Luke marched over to the closest café. It was packed so they had to sit in a corner booth. Jess and Rory were pressed side by side, the memory of the night before resurfacing. Fortunately for them, Lorelai was more interesting in her proximity to Luke. The dinner finished and the teenagers were relieved to get out of there, Jess had to check himself, not to run his hand up her thigh that was innocently exposed.
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By the time they got home it was 8:30, much to Rory's dismay Lorelai made her go with her to the gym to look at the guys and laugh at people exercising. "Why people exercise is insane, and at this hour is totally beyond me, but it's funny," Lorelai took Rory away.
They finally made it to their room it was 10pm, after the gym closed they went to Starbucks for coffee and cake. Rory said goodnight to her mom and went to her room. She was contemplating sneaking into Jess' room, but she found a note under her pillow. 'Hey, your mom's insane, meet me at the pool at 12. Bring your swimmers.' Rory felt mixed emotions about the note, for most though, it was excitement. It was under lined with trepdatation that she couldn't ignore but was willing to conquer if she could be with him.
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Two hours later, she changed into her new swimmers, studying herself in the mirror. 'Ugh, get going Gilmore." Slipping quietly down to the pool, she saw him standing there, a smirk set firmly apon his face.
"How did you get in?" she asked him.
He shrugged, "I've been picking locks as soon as I could walk." Jess took off his shirt, leaving him with only dark blue board shorts on.
Rory didn't completely know whether he meant to be seductive, but what her mind could process, was that he was really hot. His body was lean, the muscles defined, but not over blown. Her breath caught in her throat. He was amused at her staring, he walked over into the pool, diving in smoothly; not a splash was made. Jess turned to her, "aren't you coming in?" he grinned an invitation.
Slowly she took her skirt off and then her top. She felt really vulnerable, with this amount of skin showing and Jess kept staring intently at her. Flicking the elastic, she let her hair fall past her shoulders. Rory walked into the crystal blue water, this pool was huge and the glass walls were covered in greenery. There was a waterfall at one end, surrounded by rocks and little angel statues that spurted water. Rory noticed none of this though; all she saw was Jess lazily floating in the water, waiting for her. She could feel her hands ache to touch him, she was falling hard and she knew it. What troubled her was how Jess felt, was it as strong a feeling for him? She could easily tell he felt at least something, but did he just think of her as a passing fling, he could have anyone he wanted, so why her? She was now fully in the cool water, it was just above her shoulders. Taking a breath, she ducked under. Coming up she found herself face to face with Jess, "Hey."
"Hello," she said weakly. He leaned into kiss her but she gently pushed him away. Curiousness flickered in his eyes; he cocked his head to the side, "Something wrong?"
"No,..Yeah, not really, oh hell. Jess I want.need to know what you feel?" she said desperately.
A look of surprise came across of his face, "you really don't know?" She shook her head, biting her lip.
He sighed and gathered his thoughts, "I like you...a lot... More than that I think it's to early to say.. I've never felt like this before, my other girlfriends,... well we didn't do much more than one thing." His voice changed, "I think this is more than what you and Dean had. I don't want to compare,..but it's hard."
A shiver ran up Rory's spine at the sound of his voice; not because of fear, but anticipation.
Jess walked closer, sending rippled through the water. Rory backed up until she hit the edge of the pool, he kept coming closer. For the second time in two days, they were in this position. Leaning in towards her he spoke huskily, "You're beautiful, something I shouldn't have, but for some unspoken reason I do." His voice cracked on the end of his sentence and he pulled her towards him. Rory's head went cloudy; every part of her was burning. He ducked in and started the kiss. Rory put her arms around his neck, clinging to him as if she might drown. The fiery heat intensified; the skin to skin contact was inflaming the uncontrollable need for him. Jess picked up her hips and she responded by wrapping her legs around his waist.
"Do you have any idea the agony I've been in all day, not being able to touch you." He feverishly kissed and suckled her neck, down toward her clavicle. Rory unwittingly moaned quietly from the pleasure, making Jess shudder. Rory arched her back, letting him venture where he wanted. A loud noise cut through the room. They stopped and listened, both recognised it, "Oh damn, it's my mom. What if she knows... Jess." Rory whispered panickly.
Jess cut here off, "Rory, come on." Pulling her out the pool, he grabbed their clothes and towels and led her to the sauna. Quietly they closed the door and watched through the window. Luke and Lorelai came into sight. They both stripped to their swimmers and dived in; frequent calls for Lorelai to be quiet were ignored even when told she couldn't have coffee for a week.
"Please tell me this isn't real," Rory urged Jess.
"Now see I would but then what we just did wouldn't be and that's bad," he smirked at her. She blushed again and realised she was cold. The water and Jess kept her warm but now neither were touching her. Breaking her gaze from the window she reached up to hug Jess. The skin contact started the need again; the fleeting thought that her mom might walk in was extinguished when she hungrily kissed him. Her hands ran up and down his bare chest, the heat from him melded with her's. Jess tangled his hand in her hair and the other pressed the small of her back. Rory could barely control anything; every part of her was responding to the kiss and to his body; she could feel his arousal and it increased this insatiable need for him.
Breathing heavily Rory spoke on his mouth, "We gotta stop."
He groaned softly, "I know."
Disintangeling themselves, they tried to regain control. After putting on their clothes they sat on the benches not quite touching.
"I think we should talk," she said seriously to him.
Jess nodded slightly, not smirking because he knew how important this was to her. "Oh jeez, Luke and Lorelai are out there. The irony," he sighed.
"Maybe it's like a fate thing, I mean it does give us no excuse to talk and that we do... A really bad thing would be if they decided to get all hot and steamy in the sauna... Oh damn stop me," Rory smacked her head and stared up at his handsome features. She looked at his neck, it was easier than his face. Taking a breath she gathered her thoughts and wits, nervously fiddling with her clothes, Rory reminded herself why she was asking this.
"You.. have done.... it before, haven't you," it was a statement more than a question. He nodded.
"And you're, um.. fairly.. um.. experienced right."
Again he nodded, an ashamed look crossed his face, it turned to urgency, "but I promised never to push you and I always keep my promises." He searched her eyes.
"Shh... it's okay," Rory took a breath, "you know I'm not ready.. yet. But. ugh, I don't know how to describe what you make me feel. It's like... I can't think when you touch me... You and I, we've gone further in two days than Dean and I went in a year," she added quietly, playing with his hair.
Jess' eyes went wide, "So he never slipped the tongue?"
Rory laughed and blushed at his comic expression, "such and eloquent way to describe it, and no, you claim first for that."
She moved closer to him; Jess brought his arms around her, nursing her, keeping her safe from the world. Rory spoke softly again, "Jess... I want you to be the first again." Not knowing how to respond; Jess hugged her tighter and kissed her hair, trying to show her what he felt. They didn't speak, until they heard the voices fade away. Slowly and unwillingly they walked back to their rooms; the relationship changed slightly. Each had grown, not separately but together. They kissed again; full of affection and then eventually stopped. In their beds, they went to sleep, happily but not with out the feeling of a new gap in them, one that only the other could fill.
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Late the next morning, they were in the car driving back to Stars Hollow. Everyone said goodbye to Daniel and Lorelai tried to steal basically anything that wasn't cemented down. After much persuading, she finally let go of the idea that she couldn't take the toilet seat.
"But it's pretty; look at the glitter and the little fishy's, they want me to sit on them," she whined.
"Lorelai," Luke said sternly.
Lorelai pouted at him, a strange glint was in her eyes that Jess caught. He raised his eyebrow but let it pass.
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In the car, they shared around the two baskets of fruit and two baskets of chocolate. As the receptionist promised, Jess and Rory were compensated by the hotel; in their minds they both thanked the lift for stalling, the precious moments still fresh memories.
"What did you do when the power went out? Ooo! Did you try to climb out the top? I saw that on James Bond!" Lorelai asked them.
Knowing Rory couldn't lie to save herself, Jess answered, "Well after 'I Spy' got boring, we started talking about what you two were doing. I had my money on skinny-dipping. Apparently I was pretty close," Jess smirked at them.
"Yeah, what did happen? I wanna know if I get ten bucks," Rory followed Jess' lead and switched the spotlight.
"We did nothing that you need to know about," Luke huffed haughtily.
"Mmm, me and Rory had wild sex too," Jess nodded knowingly.
"Jess!" Rory hit him, half-laughing; half pleading in her head that Lorelai didn't read into the comment.
"Say anything like that again and you'll never talk to Rory as long as I love coffee," Lorelai threatened semi-jokingly.
The trip was fairly quiet from then on, Jess and Rory read while Luke drove and Lorelai kept eating. Jess passed Rory his book, ignoring the look on her face and snatched her's. She opened it and a pencil slipped out; in the margin of the book, Jess had written, 'What are the bets they're sleeping together?' Rory smiled, she replied, '1:1 and if they're not, they will be soon.'
This method of conversation continued until they arrived home weary and sore from not moving. The last note Jess wrote, kept Rory from falling straight to sleep. The untidy scrawl read 'Meet me at the bridge when you can, I'll be waiting.' Rory caught his eyes to show she understood.
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Lorelai and Rory got home and dumped their stuff on the floor.
"Coffee and then bed," Lorelai headed straight for the kitchen. Unbeknown to her, a photo fell out of her bag. Rory picked it up and started giggling; her mom and Luke (who didn't look to pleased) were poking their heads through a big wooden board that had a picture of a married couple with their heads cut off.
"Mom, you never told me that you and Luke got married," Rory grinned at her mother.
Lorelai turned round, "Yeah well it was a surprise you know, I was thinking of sending it to your grandmother on her birthday," she said sheepishly. "You know what's weird, you and Jess would be step cousins, and like they would live here and eww.."
"Hmm, you and I are gunna talk tomorrow and you get to tell me what you and Luke got up too," Rory sipped her coffee.
" Oh, we did nothing. We are the King and Queen of nothing, nothing can rival us!"
"Yeah, yeah, I gunna go to be. Night mom," Rory yawned and went into her room.
"Night sweets, no boys in your room with out giving me one."
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Rory went into her room, but didn't get changed, causiouly she climbed out her window. While she was walking to the bridge, she mulled over the day. Her mom and Luke. That would be cool. Funny, but nice, Luke was always like the father she never had and she knew her mom loved him. Jess, he was Luke's nephew, if her mom and Luke got married, she'd be dating her step- cousin. Rory panicked what if Jess didn't want to continue the relationship if they were related. Desperate to see him, Rory broke into a run.
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Again he was reading by a small light and again his smile turned to a frown when he saw her expression. "It's like déjà vu all over again. Please tell me you're not going to accuse me of stealing my clothes, cuz I did pay for these. Well actually I stole the button but that's all."
Rory started speaking, and to his bewilderment, looked like she was nearly on the verge of tears "Jess, this won't end if mom and Luke start dating and get married right? You'll still want to be my boyfriend. And the cousins' thing doesn't matter to you. Because I couldn't take it if we broke up and..,"
"Whoa, Rory come here," Jess hugged her tightly, then gently he held her face in his palms and spoke soothingly to her, "Hey, what brought this on? Listen, I've wanted this since the first time I time I laid my eyes on you, nothing will change that and even if they get married, I don't care. We're not blood related so it's okay. I'm not going to leave you." Seeing the panicked expression fade, he kissed her, it was slow and sweet; killing the troubled thoughts that Rory had.
"I'm sorry," she sighed, "I just don't want to lose you."
"Umm. I'm the one who's waited for months, the only way you're getting away from me, is if you turn to pop music or become a turtle and I'd prefer the latter."
"Are you saying that you wouldn't like me if I was a turtle. That's not very nice. You could put me in a tank. Ooo, or I could be one of those little mini turtles and then you could put me in you're pocket and take me around the world. I would be portable and useful to bite people at the same time. Hmm, maybe you could become a turtle too and you can keep me company, we could be the first turtle couple..."
Jess interrupted her ramble with a kiss. When he pulled away, Rory felt so contented, that she nearly fell asleep on his shoulder. "Of course, if we were turtles, you couldn't kiss me like that," she murmured.
Jess held her for awhile and then realised the time. "Come on, I'll walk you home, you're mum probably will turn me into some sort of animal if she finds you aren't in bed. Did you use the window?"
Rory nodded, they walked hand in hand, until they finally reached the window. Jess helped her in. "G'night Rory, sweet dreams I hope." She smiled and pulled him in for a kiss, "Night Dodger."
And Jess walked home, the blissful couple unaware of the prying eyes that would spread the news of this arrangement before the mornings papers were read and breakfasts eaten.
~ ~*~ ~ A/N: Me again, you sick of me yet? Sorry bout that. Okay, when I wrote this chapter it was acctualy two chapters but then I read it again and I hated it. Yuck Jess was way too sickly, he was plain out of character and dare I say it, Dean like. Shudder. So why am I telling you this, I want some suggestions where I could take the story. On the show I don't think Lorelai would be to bad with the relationship but the way I've written her I think she'd be against it. Ugh! So any thought are appreciated. Oh yeah, I'm hearing a lot about an almost kiss under a sprinkler, where Jess looks really hot. Hmmm. When doesn't Jess look hot? One thing, are the spoilers bad news or are they good, I'm getting up the nerve to read them. Thoughts on that are welcome too. SO PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!!! Hugs and Kisses~ ~*~ ~ PS I'm gunna write a bio really soon, so if you want to delve deeper into my insanity please read it. LOL