A/N: I was asked to continue this story so I am going to write a few more chapters before
the end. Thanks for reading and thanks very much to hasapi for liking my story!!!





It took Rory a second to speak. Her mouth opened and her eyes focused on Jess. He was
sitting next to her, holding her hand.

"What's going on?"

The lights in the room were too bright, Rory closed her eyes.

"You got in a car accident. You've been out of it for two days."

Rory opened her eyes, staring at Jess. He stared back, searching intently for some kind of
understanding.

"Oh."

Jess laughed, surprised by the manner in which she said the syllable; like it was an every
day event.

"You had us scared."

His voice shook, and he felt a lump in his throat. Rory squeezed his hand reassuringly,
and looked in his eyes. They sat that way for a moment, staring at each other, before Jess
looked away.

"I better go get your mom. She's been worried sick."

Rory nodded, and Jess stood up, reluctantly letting go of Rory's hand, and wandered out
to the waiting room to find Lorelai.

When he found her, she was stretched out across three of the most uncomfortable looking
chairs and looked to be asleep. Jess shook her shoulder a little.

"Lorelai?"

Lorelai groaned, and opened her eyes. She sat up slowly and focused on Jess.

"Yeah?"

"Rory woke up."

Lorelai's eyes got wide, and she gasped. She took off down the hallway, towards Rory's
room, almost going into the wrong room, and ran to Rory.

"Hey, kid. Feeling better?"

Rory smiled.

"A little sore. I'm okay though."

Rory glanced at Jess, who was leaning against the doorway, watching as Lorelai
embraced her daughter.

"I love you so much, sweetie. You scared us a lot."

Rory coughed, signaling that it was time for Lorelai to let go.

"That's what Jess was just telling me."

Lorelai turned to look at Jess, he had a smile on his face that was so undeniably cute that
Lorelai couldn't help but wave him over.

"Come on, Jess, come be part of our love-fest."

He smiled a little, and walked over to the bed, sitting on the opposite side of Rory.
Through the experience of nearly losing her daughter, Lorelai had gotten to know Jess,
and her opinions about him had changed. She knew he loved Rory, and felt happy and
safe to know that.


I know this chapter is short, sorry!!! More to come; next chapter Rory gets to go home, Dean and Jess have a confrontation, and LOVE on the L/L front!!!