** Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Gilmore Girls. If I were that all powerful then Jess would be staying put! So, in summation... Please don't sue me!**

"So now what?" Sighed Jess, sitting on the bed.

"We go home." Said Lorelai.

Rory and Jess looked at one another. Rory had tears in her eyes.

"What about Jess." She said as a tear made it's way down her cheek.

"Well…" Luke sighed and looked at them. "I'll call Liz and have her come back to Stars Hollow… and we'll talk."

"It won't do any good." Sighed Jess.

"Neither will that attitude." Said Lorelai gently, pulling Rory to her and hugging her again.

Rory continued to cry. Lorelai reached into her purse and pulled out a tissue.

"Stop with the waterworks, we'll figure this out." She said softly, handing the tissue to Rory.

Jess frowned at the piece of paper that fell from Lorelai's bag when she pulled out the tissue.

"Uh…" He reached down and picked it up. "You dropped this."

Lorelai gasped when she realized it was her ultrasound picture.

"Thanks!" She said, giving him a huge grin and snatching it back quickly.

"What was that?" Frowned Rory, as she reached out to take it from Lorelai.

"Nothing… postcard!" She said, holding it away from Rory.

"Mom!" Rory sighed, looking Lorelai in the eyes.

"We're going to have to tell them sometime." Said Luke with a shrug.

"Fine, you tell them." Said Lorelai nervously.

Rory and Jess both looked at Luke expectantly, waiting for him to tell them whatever it was Lorelai was so nervous about.

"Well, Rory, your mother and I… we're…" He started uncertainly.

"Pregnant. We're pregnant." Said Lorelai.

Luke frowned at her and then smiled.

"I thought you wanted me to tell them."

"I did. But you were taking all day about it." She smiled.

"Wait… hold on." Rory shook her head and looked back and forth between Luke and Lorelai. "Mom… you're… having a baby?" She said, a smile creeping onto her lips.

"No. Not this second. But in 7 months or so… yeah." Lorelai nodded. "Are you… ok with this?"

"Of course!" Rory laughed, hugging Lorelai. "Lemme see!" She said, reaching out for the ultrasound picture.

Jess moved closer to Rory so he could see.

"Aww… there's its little head!" Rory smiled, pointing it out to Jess. "It's like a mini person."

"That's what I said!" Grinned Lorelai.

"It's true, she did say that." Smiled Luke.

"Congratulations." Jess said. "I know that's a stupid thing to say… but I'm no good with the gushy mushy "look at it's teeny tiny toes" stuff." He blushed slightly.

"Thank you." Smiled Lorelai.

The cloud that had been hanging over them seemed to lift with the news of Lorelai's pregnancy. The ultrasound picture seemed to bring some kind of relief to everyone.

But as the news sank in, the clouds reformed and they all remembered why they were sitting in a hotel room in Louisiana.

*****

Luke took the keys from Lorelai and opened the front door of the house.

"Ugh… home." She sighed, heaving her bag over the threshold.

"Give me that, you're not to carry any anything ever." Said Luke, taking her bag from her.

"Ever?" Asked Jess, his eyebrows raised.

"Well… for 7 months anyway. And then she'll be too busy carrying the baby to carry anything else." He smiled.

"You're going to carry the baby sometimes." She said, patting his stomach with the back of her hand as she walked past him.

"Not if you want it's head and the floor to stay as far away from each other as possible." He sighed.

Lorelai rolled her eyes and flopped on the couch.

"You're going to be a great dad." She insisted.

"Yeah, as long as there's no jam in the house." He muttered.

"Jam?" Frowned Rory.

"Yeah, they get it on their hands and there's stickiness and…" He looked at her confused expression. "I'll explain later." He said, waving the subject away with his hand.

Jess picked up Rory's bag and looked at her.

"Do you want me to put this…?" He started.

"Sure." She nodded quietly as they made their way to her room.

"No climbing out of the window you two!" Lorelai shouted from the living room. She was laying on the couch with one foot propped up on the arm of the couch, the other on the coffee table and her arm draped across her forehead dramatically.

Rory and Jess didn't respond.

"I guess I'll… call Liz." Sighed Luke, walking over and picking up the phone.

Rory shut her bedroom door and Jess dropped her bag on the floor. She looked around. Her room looked the same as it had the night she left. Her sheets were still ruffled from where she had been sleeping. The note she had written to Lorelai lay open on the bed.

"So… here we are again." Sighed Jess, turning to face her.

She nodded, still taking in her surroundings.

"Are you ok?" He asked gently.

"Not really." She said, her voice shaking slightly.

He sighed and looked at the floor.

"Do you… um…" He looked up at her finally. "What happened to you..."

"Jess…" She started, shaking her head slowly.

"Do you blame me? I mean… do you even want to be around me anymore?" He asked, trying to fight the tears he felt gathering.

"God no, I don't blame you!" She said, her eyes wide. "Why would you think that?"

"Because you've barely been able to talk to me or look at me since it happened." He said, his voice was laced with pain.

"I'm sorry. I didn't realize." She said quietly, looking away for a moment. "I just… haven't felt like myself."

"I understand that. I really do." He said, walking over to her. "Just like I'm going to understand if you want to be alone."

"Alone?" She frowned looking him in the eyes.

"I can go back to New York. I don't want to. But if you want me to…"

"Jess!" She cried, tears coming to her eyes.

"I don't know what you want anymore. Last week, I know that the only thing either of us wanted was to be together. But now…" He sighed. "It's ok if you need to be by yourself for a while." He said sincerely.

Rory shook her head in disbelief. She didn't know what to do to convince him that nothing had changed. That deep down she wanted to be with him more than anything, whether that was apparent on the surface or not.

She stepped forward and kissed him passionately. He pulled her closer, kissing her back. He gave a small cry of relief, having her in his arms again, feeling everything she was feeling all in one kiss.