Part Six: How on earth?

"I take it that you two know each other?" Paris asked archly. Jess shot his girlfriend a glare. "Yes we do. Jess and I knew each other in New York. His mother was my father's secretary." Jen explained to her friends. "If that's what you want to call it." Jess said cynically. Jack's eyebrows rose sharply. "Oh, You mean-" Jen cut him off sharply. "Yes, that one." Jen said sternly. Jack shut up quite quickly. "So, you're the famous or should I say infamous Jess." Audrey said changing the subject. "Yes, what's Paris been saying about me?" Jess asked smiling teasingly at Paris. "What makes you think that I've said anything about you?" His girlfriend asked with twinkles in her eyes. Jess smiled down on her. "I just know." "How sweet." Joey commented. Jess smiled at her. "Oh, Rory wanted me to ask you guys all back to our place as she wanted to meet Paris's other friends so she could take a picture of all of you so she could prove to her mother that Paris could make friends with out her forcing her to." Jess said laughing. Paris giggled with him, then seeing the confused faces smiled. "You have to meet her and her mother together the understand fully." Paris explained. The rest all nodded unconvinced, but decided to take up the offer. So they all took taxis Jess's home. "Tris? Rory? Charlie? Anyone home?" Jess called out. Charlie bounded down the hall to greet them. He came to a grinding halt when he saw whom it was. Jess and Paris had never seen the man go that pale before. "Charlie?" Came the chorus of voices. Charlie smiled weakly. "Hi guys. Uh, I'd better go check on Tris and Rory, they got into a tiff half an hour ago and I need to make sure they haven't killed any body yet. I'll talk to you guys later. Jess, the take away menu is by the phone. Everyone else has chosen their selection, you and everyone else needs to choose what they want. Call up later and uh, Lorelai called and said for you and not Rory to call back as it was urgent and if you didn't," Charlie pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket as he backed towards the stairs. "If you didn't call, the voodoo curses would be set up, Miss Patty would get her way with you and she had Luke reading up on castration methods." He quirked his eyebrow and head up the stairs. "Sorry, my aunt is a bit cuckoo." Jess apologised to his guests. He turned to hear steps. "That's my mother you're talking about." Rory said, suddenly taking in all the people. "Oh hello there. Nice to uh, I can't really finish this sentence off." She looked to Jess and Paris for help. "Rory, this is my good friend Audrey, her boyfriend Pacey, their friends Joey, Dawson, Jack and Jen." Paris introduced. "Guys, this is Rory, Jess's step cousin and a good friend of mine from high school." "Hello," Rory smiled shyly. Tristan smirked at her. "This is Tristan Du Grey, a close family friend and Charlie's cousin. They're both sharing the house with me and Charlie." Jess introduced. Tristan smiled charmingly at them all. "Hello, it's nice to meet all of you. Excuse my cousin's lack of manners, his side of the family never had them." Tristan smirked as his cousin came down. He received a punch on the shoulder. "Think again Dristan. It was your side that, if I remember correctly, got kicked out of Queen Elizabeth's dinner party in Kensington palace last year." Charlie said, his smirk the exact copy of Tristan's. Tristan opened his mouth to retort when the phone rang. Rory answered it. Her eyes widened in shock and she hung up abruptly. "Mom's in hospital. We have to go." She said as she headed to the front door, grabbing her coat. "They're having difficulty with the triplets.