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A/N: Hey guys! I'm going to try to make these short and sweet. After this one. I need an opinion. But first I want to say, distoredstar I believe you were trying to say, in a nice way, that I crapped out on the last chapter. Yep. It was four am and I crapped out. Sorry. I'll make it up to you guys. I promise. Thanks all of you. Current mood: Hyper! No coffee. Irrelevant.
So, I have updated my bio. :-D I'm not depressed as much anymore! But there is a point to this. If you guys could take a few minutes and go read my summaries for stories I want to work on and tell me what you think I should pick, I'd be grateful for like life. I'm going to give you the jest of them here because I want to know what you want from me next. Oh, yeah, I will be finishing all my other stories too, I promise.
Leigh Mariano: AU. Jess has lived in Stars Hollow with his Uncle Luke since he was a baby. He grew up knowing Rory and being friends with her. Of course, that didn't stop him from being Jess. He now has a 3 month old daughter. Problem is, he hasn't seen her in two weeks, seeing as he's in a coma. Twist. It was Rory's abusive boyfriend and father of her unborn child, a man from Chicago, who shot Jess. Now, Rory is taking care of Jess's daughter and waiting for her one true love to come back to her. Rory's POV
The Truth Between Tristan and Dean: A quick, one shot slash. My first and probably only slash fic. Dean met Tristan the year before he moved to Stars Hollow when Tristan was in Chicago visiting an aunt. We get a glimpse of Tristan's crappy home life. How did Dean make him feel better? And now why do they hate each other so much? Dean's POV
Romeo and Juliet: Gilmore style: Dark Literati. I'm warning you right now, it will be strong R for violence, swearing, and graphic sex. Rory like you've never seen her before. It's no secret Jess will do almost anything for Rory. Including killing her jealous boyfriend. When Luke and Lorelai decide to keep the two lovebirds apart as Stars Hollow starts to be suspicious of a certain "Nice, little, hoodlum" what will happen? Can they keep true love apart? And to what extremes will Rory go to to be with Jess? NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. Will take place directly after A-Tisket, A-Tasket. Nothing after that show has happened.
So, please, pick one. And I'm sorry about the crappy chapter. This one will be better. More action, Luke dressed up. Jess almost naked. Oh, and Tristan and Dean are in this chapter, very little but here. Okay, so blue button, you know the drill. Please pick a story for me to do after this one is over, I like working on multiples. Hehe, okay, I'll let you move on to the actual chapter now. BTW, no more long A/Ns.
~*~*~*~*Chapter 8*~*~*~*~
"I cannot believe I let you talk me into this." Luke said standing in Lorelai's living room, dressed up.
"Well, Rory was right. We've got to tell them sometime." Lorelai said.
"We have to?"
"No, we could run off, change our names. Oh! We could go to Mexico! I could be Mercedes and you could be Raul!"
"Okay, we'll tell them. Go see if they're ready, we need to work out a game plan."
"A game plan? We need a game plan to talk to my parents?"
"I am not going in there without some idea of how this is going to work. Go."
"Fine, fine, Raul. I'll go check our hijos pequinas."
"Been a long time since you took Spanish hasn't it?"
She stuck her tongue out. "Pues de suka. Ha! That's Russian! Figure that one out SeƱor!"
She turned around and walked towards her daughter's door. Luke thought for a moment, scanning his very slight knowledge of Russian.
"Hey!" He called when he figured out that she had called him a nut sack.
Lorelai giggled and opened her daughter's door.
"Whoa, sorry!" She closed the door again.
Moments later Rory came out to a still red faced Lorelai. "You wanted?"
"Wow, I see why you like him. He has nice...."
"Yes, he does..."
"And a nice....."
"Yep."
"And a...whoa."
"Okay, Mom, stop now. What did you want?"
"Invigorating having a guy standing there naked, while you're completely clothed. Gives you a sense of power. And Jess, ha, having power over Jess would be fun."
"Lorelai, I can hear you, you know." Jess said from behind the door.
Lorelai giggled. "Are you decent?"
"I don't see how it matters anymore. But I'm covered."
"Okay, Raul! He's covered! Come on, game plan, let's go."
"Game plan?" Rory asked walking back into her room.
"Yeah, it seems Lukey won't go without a game plan."
" I think I liked Raul better." Luke said stepping into Rory's room. His eyes widened when he saw Jess in just his boxers. "I thought you said he was covered."
"He is, more so than when I last saw him."
"Shoulda knocked." Was all Jess had to say for himself as he pulled on a pair of black dress pants.
"I still cannot believe you talked me into this." Luke said.
"Hey, I got to go, you got to go." Jess said.
"So, said game plan. It is what exactly." Rory asked before applying a layer of pink lipstick.
"Who goes first?" Luke asked.
"Who goes first what?" Lorelai asked.
"Telling your parents. Do they go first, or do we go first? I'm all for them going for first and we're just there for moral support." Luke said.
"So, you go first," Jess said. "You're not getting out of this."
"Damn Luke, they've figured us out."
"Smart kids."
"The smartest," Rory commented.
"Didn't send her to Chilton for nothing." Lorelai said.
"And she's going to Yale." Luke said, falling into the rhythm without noticing.
"Oh, not to mention Princeton and Harvard too." Lorelai said.
"Yep. She's smart alright. Has to be with a mother like you."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"What was calling me a nut sack supposed to mean?"
"You called him a nut sack?" Jess asked amused.
"A little." Lorelai pouted.
Jess ran his gel covered hands through his hair once more.
"Okay, ready." He said, wiping his hands on a wet nap. "Oh, I need to pick up more hair gel."
"Yeah, I need to pick up mascara and make-up remover." Rory said.
"We'll stop on the way to Mom's," Lorelai said.
"Why can't they just get it when they go get the junk food?" Luke asked.
"Because, that's a junk food run, not a cosmetics run. If you get cosmetics on a junk food run then it is no longer a junk food run." Lorelai explained.
"Oh, right. I forgot. You're insane." Luke said.
"That's why you love me."
"Yeah, unfortunately it is."
Jess and Rory smiled at each other.
Later at a 24 hour Mini-Mart in Hartford
"I don't see why you couldn't just let me get your hair gel." Rory said.
"I like a certain kind. If I get the wrong kind it won't stand right." Jess replied.
"Then why wouldn't you get my mascara and make-up remover?"
"That's girl stuff. You get it."
"Thanks. Love you too."
"Yep."
They walked into the cosmetics aisle in a comfortable silence. Rory went over to look at the mascara while Jess went further down to look at hair gel. Neither realized when someone else joined them in the aisle.
"Well. Hi, Mary." The other person said.
Rory looked up. "Tristan?"
"Bingo."
"So, whatcha been up to, Mary."
"A lot actually. And I see you still haven't learned my name."
"Mary, Mary. Must we been so hostile."
"What are you doing here Tristan?"
"Mom needed non-Acetone remover. Got me out of the house."
"You're getting remover? Didn't seem like the 'I-do-things-for-my-mom' kid of person to me."
"I'm not. This is special."
In reality he had to get out of the house. His parents were fighting, again.
"Mmmm."
"Guess who I ran into earlier."
"Who?"
"Paris Gellar. I hear you guys have been very chummy. Also heard she had a boyfriend. Had being the word."
"No Tristan. Don't do it."
"Mary, whatever could you mean."
"You don't know what happened there. Don't go after her."
"After her. Well, I never thought about that. But since you mention it..."
"Tristan, don't..."
Jess looked up from the bottle he was reading after hearing Rory's agitated voice.
"Mary, don't worry. There's no harm in giving an old friend a call. She's always had a thing for me, you know."
"Tristan...."
Jess decided to step in since this guy was obviously annoying Rory. He grabbed a random bottle and walked over to her.
"Everything okay?" He asked.
"Peachy." Tristan said. "And you are?"
"Tristan, this is Jess Mariano, my fiance, Jess this is Tristan DuGrey. He went to Chilton." She said with clenched teeth.
"Hi Jess. What happened to farm boy?"
"Dean and I broke up. Obviously."
Tristan picked up a bottle with green liquid in it. "This should do."
"Right."
"Bye Mary, bye Jess. Oh Mary, I'll have Paris say hello."
"Goodbye Tristan."
"Bye, Ru Paul." Jess said.
"If only." Tristan called back.
"You ready," Jess asked.
"Yeah." She reached out and grabbed a tube of mascara and a jar of make-up remover. "Let's go."
A few minutes later in the Jeep
"It's pink." Jess groaned.
"Haha, you got pink gel." Rory said.
Outside the Gilmore Mansion
"I don't want to do this." Lorelai said.
"Come on, Mom." Rory said.
"Come on, Lorelai." Luke coaxed.
"No. It's not to late. We can turn around and go to Mexico."
"I'm up for going to Mexico." Jess said unhelpfully.
"We are not going to Mexico." Luke said.
"Mom, you do this every time. It's not going to be that bad." Rory said.
"I do not do this every time."
"Yes, you do."
"Well, it's usually that bad."
"Is not."
"Is too."
Suddenly the front door opened.
"Are you going to stand out there all night?" Emily asked, annoyed.
"We were thinking about. Mom." Lorelai said.
"I thought we were going Mexico," Jess whispered to Luke.
"We are not going to Mexico." Luke whispered. "Ever."
"Noted." Jess said back.
"Grandma! Hi!" Rory hugged her grandmother.
"Hello, Rory. And they must be..."
"Oh, Grandma, this is Jess Mariano and his uncle Luke Danes. I believe you have already met."
"Oh yes. The James Dean want-to-be and the diner man. Hello again."
"Hi." Jess said.
"Hi." Luke said.
"Excuse their monosyllablicy." Lorelai said.
"Why hello girls." Richard said as they entered the living room.
Rory hugged Richard. "Hi Grandpa."
"Hi, dad."
"And your friends?"
"Oh Dad, this is Luke Danes, you remember him from Rory's graduation? And Jess Mariano. I don't think you've ever met."
"No, we haven't. Nice to meet you." He held out his hand to Jess.
Jess shook it. "Nice to meet you, sir."
Rory and Lorelai smiled at each other. Jess said sir. Emily gave them both disapproving looks and the straightened up and become serious.
"Nice to see you again, Luke." Richard said shaking his hand.
"Nice to see you again, too."
"Do you want anything to drink?" Richard asked.
"Soda, please." Rory said.
"Soda." Jess mimicked.
"White wine," Lorelai requested."
"Mineral water's fine," Luke said.
"Alright, coming up."
"Sit." Emily said and they all sat.
Rory cleared her throat and gave Jess a look.
"Oh, right. Um, Mrs. Gilmore. I feel that I should apologize for my behavior the first time we met. My only excuse is that I had just been attacked....." He trailed off and bent his head. "Attacked by a swan. It's no excuse for my being a jerk to you and Rory and I'm sorry."
"You were attacked by a swan?" Lorelai asked, amused.
"Yeah. And afterwards he drug me out in a boat to find it. He wanted to attack it with the baster. I think he said he was going to do some beaking of his own. It was a scary swan." Luke said.
"Need I tell them that I wanted to take the ladle but you told me I should take the baster. That the ladle was new. And you went willingly. You even asked if you should swim around underwater breathing through a straw."
"You couldn't have thought I was serious."
"It's so hard to tell with you."
"You, Lucas Danes, condoned harming an animal?" Lorelai asked.
"No, I just said that he couldn't take the ladle."
"You condoned it. No wonder I'm a bad kid. I try to be a good kid but I can't. Not with these influences."
"Jess...."
"Yes, Uncle Luke?"
All four Gilmores were holding in laughter.
"Our influences huh," Rory said. "What about the outline on the sidewalk gag?"
"That was just funny." Jess said.
"Babette's gnome?"
"Okay, bad judgment."
"The fancy snowman."
"You deserved to win."
He looked at Rory and they fell into a silence.
"Luke stole my car."
"I did not!"
"Yes you did."
"I hid it. There's a difference."
"Okay, why did you hide his car." Emily asked.
"Taking his side." Jess murmured.
"He wasn't going to school. He was working instead of going to class."
"Aha! So you did hide it!"
"You didn't give me a choice."
Jess gave him a death glare and they once again fell into a silence.
"So," Richard cleared his throat. "What have you been up to lately Luke?"
"Balancing my time between work and Lorelai. Not easy when Lorelai wants to monopolize the time of everyone around her."
"I do not."
"Yes you do, Lorelai." Emily said.
"They are taking his said," Lorelai said to Jess.
"I know." He said. "They're ganging up on us."
"Mean."
"I agree."
"Why are you spending so much time with Lorelai?" Richard asked.
"Um. We've kind of been seeing each other." Lorelai said.
"Really, what happened to, what's her name, Nicole?" Richard asked.
Lorelai and Luke gave each other funny looks then looked at Richard.
"Rory tells me things."
"Oh. We broke up." Luke said.
"Ah." Richard replied.
"Well, I think that is just great. Luke and Lorelai that is. Don't you Richard?"
"Oh yes, yes. Splendid."
"Dinner is ready." A maid said.
"Oh, right. Let's go eat."
They all walked in and sat down to eat.
"You know, we aren't the only ones with splendid news." Lorelai said, kicking her daughter under the table.
"What? Oh, right." She sighed loudly and smiled at Jess. "Jess and I are getting married. We're engaged."
Silence.
"Did you hear? Mom? Dad?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes. Yes. But why?" Emily said.
"Um. We love each other." Jess offered.
"Yes, but..." Emily began.
"Well, this is wonderful news. Have you decided what to do about your living arrangements?" Richard asked.
"I thought we could get an apartment in New Haven. If Rory wanted to she could still live in her dorm, but the apartment would give us sometime to ourselves." Jess said.
"Oh, that is wonderful." Richard said.
"Yes. Wonderful." Emily said. "I see you have no ring."
"It was a little unexpected. I haven't gotten her one yet." Jess said.
"Yes. I see." Emily said.
After dinner
"Jess, come with me please." Emily said.
"Um, alright." He said and followed her.
She walked through the large house and into a large bedroom.
"Stay there," she said and walked into a large walk-in closet.
Moments later she came back out, holding a small velvet box. She handed it to Jess.
"This was my mothers. I would like you to have it." She said to Jess.
"Thank you. I appreciate this." He said opening the box.
The ring was beautiful. It was a yellow gold band with a diamond in the center, it was framed by small pearls, two on both sides.
"Thank you." He said again.
"Nothing but the best for my granddaughter. You take care of her."
"I will."
"Rory." Jess motioned for her to come over by the doorway with him.
"What was that all about?"
He pulled the velvet box out of his pocket.
"A gift from your grandmother to me, and now I want to give it to you." He pulled the ring out and slipped it on her finger.
"It's beautiful."
"Not as beautiful as the woman wearing it." He kissed her. "I love you."
"I love you, too." She kissed him again.
Later in Stars Hollow
Lorelai pulled the Jeep up by Doose's.
"We'll go get the movies, you get the junk food." Lorelai said.
Luke gave Rory and Jess a helpless look.
"Alright. Meet you at Luke's in fifteen for coffee." Rory said.
They all got out and went their separate ways. Rory and Jess walked into Doose's Market and was greeted by Taylor.
"Why hel....." He stopped.
"Why Hell to you too Taylor." Jess remarked.
"You."
"Oh, great. Here we go."
"Oh, I thought you left."
"I did."
"You should've stayed gone."
"Probably."
"Hey." Rory said.
"Sorry. I came back."
"I don't want you in here." Taylor said.
"Come on, Taylor. I'm not going to steal anything."
"Movie night. I need him to help me shop because I don't know Luke eats." Rory said nodding.
"Fine. But I'm keeping my eye on you."
"Thank you." Jess let out a long suffering sigh. "He doesn't like me." He said to Rory.
"Nope. Do you care?"
"Not really. You?"
"Not in the least."
"Good, we agree then."
"I stole corn starch from here once."
"You did?"
"Yeah. He still hasn't let me live it down."
"Sounds like Taylor."
"Cookies."
"What?"
"You get cookies, I'll get candy. We'll meet at the popcorn. Then we'll look for Luke food."
"Alright."
Rory grabbed a basket and walked over to the candy aisle and Jess walked over to the cookie aisle where he saw Dean stocking shelves.
"Oh shit." He muttered.
He walked over and reached for a bag of oatmeal cookies.
"Is it true?" Dean asked.
"Is what true?" Jess responded.
"Are you and Rory getting married?"
"Maybe."
"Jess."
"Yeah. Why?"
"Just asking. That was fast."
"Kettle. Pot. Black. Point taken?"
"Yeah."
"Good."
He reached for a bag of Oreos.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you."
"What?"
"Unless you want to have a half an hour debate about Oreos I wouldn't get those were I you. Here." He reached over and got a bag of Chips Ahoy, his wedding ring sparkling in the florescent light. "These are safer, and they like them."
"Thanks." Jess took the cookies from Dean and grabbed a third bag of cookies. Would three be enough? He grabbed another bag of cookies just in case.
"Smart man. Congratulations."
"Thanks." He found himself saying again. "You too."
"Thanks." Dean said.
Jess walked over to where Rory was waiting.
"What was that about?"
"Warned me against the Oreos."
"Ah. He saved you half and hour."
"So I'm told."
"How many did you get?"
"Four bags. I was going to stop at three, but better safe than sorry right?"
"Smart man. That's why I'm marrying you."
"And I thought it was because you love me."
"Well, that's part of it."
"Let's go, Luke food."
1:53 am
Lorelai had rented Willy Wonka and A Walk to Remember and Luke had agreed to the Matrix as well. After watching all three movies Luke and Lorelai and Jess and Rory all went to their rooms. That was an hour ago. Rory had been asleep about ten minutes when she heard the phone ring.
Lorelai walked into the bedroom with the phone.
"Honey, wake up." She whispered to her daughter.
"Ugh."
"Rory."
"Ugh."
"Rory, the house is on fire."
"Ah. What! I'm up! Save the coffee!" She looked at her mother. "What?"
"Phone."
"Okay."
Lorelai handed her the phone.
"Hello."
"Hello. I'm sorry did I wake you up? Because I really need to talk to someone. I'm going nuts over here." Lane said on the other line.
"Yeah, it's 1:53 in the morning. I was trying to sleep. Hold on okay?"
"Okay."
Rory tried to slide out of bed without waking Jess whose arm was tightly wrapped around her.
"Who is that?" He asked surprising her. She looked over to see him looking at her.
"Lane. Let me go. Go back to sleep."
"Okay. Tell her hey. I love you."
"Alright. I love you, too."
She slid out of Jess' arms and found her robe. She walked into the living and sat on the couch.
"Okay." She told Lane.
"Who was that?"
"Oh yeah, Jess is back. He says hey."
"He's there with you, while you were trying to sleep?"
"Yep."
"Rory?"
"We're getting married!"
"Oh my God, Rory! When did this happen? When did he get back? Tell me everything!"
"Okay, okay. Hold on."
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